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Big Blue Dons Big Data Gloves to Fight Fraud
Mar 21, 2014 6:37 AM PT
IBM on Thursday launched a set of software and consulting services to help fight fraud and financial crime.
The so-called smarter counterfraud initiative draws from more than 500 fraud consulting experts, 290 fraud-related research patents, and the US$24 billion IBM has invested in its Big Data and analytics software and services capabilities over the past nine years.
The software lets organizations aggregate data across multiple internal and external sources, including mobile, social and online, and apply analytics that continuously monitor the data for indicators of fraud. The analytics understand non-obvious relationships and co-occurrences between entities, among other things, leveraging IBM's work in artificial intelligence.
"The problem we're addressing is in many ways looked at from singular dimensions within the enterprise," Bob Griffin, vice president, IBM Counter Fraud Solutions, told the E-Commerce Times.
"People look, for example, at cyber as one area and transactional issues as another, and identity as another -- and historically, many of those silos didn't communicate with others," Griffin explained. "Sometimes when you see events in one silo they may be misrepresentations that distract you while the real attack comes from elsewhere."
The distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks launched against banks are a good example. IT focused on battling the DDoS attacks while the fraud was "coming in through the back door and picking your pocket," Griffin said.
Big Blue's Offering
IBM's Counter Fraud Management software includes analytics that understand non-obvious relationships, visualization technology to identify larger patterns of fraud, and machine learning to help prevent the recurrence of attacks.
"Everybody collects information in the enterprise space," Mike Jude, a program manager at Frost & Sullivan, told the E-Commerce Times. "The secret sauce IBM is offering is the analytics."
IBM also launched IBM Red Cell, a new counterfraud intelligence unit, on Thursday.
IBM's counterfraud services include evaluating a client's counterfraud capabilities and providing rapid prototyping; designing organizational constructs, operational governance and technology architecture to help detect fraud and respond and investigate exposures; and implementation of strategies and technologies to create and run customized counterfraud programs.
Big Blue also will offer a portfolio of customizable assets that use analytics to discover fraud, waste, abuse and errors in data-intensive industries and functions, focusing on medical, insurance claim, public tax and occupational fraud. These will be available in the cloud, enabled by IBM SoftLayer.
Everything Old Is New Again
The idea of using Big Data analytics has been around for awhile.
The Aberdeen Group discussed this in a 2012 report.
Hortonworks and Pactera held a webinar on how Big Data is revolutionizing fraud detection in financial services last fall.
The United States Postal Service has been using Big Data to fight fraud for years, relying on an architecture it began building in 2006 that processes data on about 530 million pieces of mail daily.
Making Things Practical
As of 2011, the typical organization was losing 5 percent of its revenue to fraud annually, according to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
By 2012, global credit, debit and prepaid card fraud losses totaled nearly $11.3 billion, according to the Nilson Report.
The problem is not that we don't have enough data, but that we have too much and can't focus on the critical information in a timely fashion, Frank Dickson, industry principal for network security at Frost & Sullivan, told the E-Commerce Times.
"Target was alerted there was a problem two weeks before they were breached but they didn't do anything because they had too much information," Dickson pointed out. "We don't need more alerts, we need to be actionable."
Big Data analytics makes information actionable, Dickson said. "That's what's going to distinguish the successful players in the market."


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When it comes to sportswriting, I tend to subscribe to George Plimpton's small-ball theory: The smaller the ball, the better the writing about the sport. This has a lot to do with my own biases (I'm a baseball fan, not much interest in basketball or football), but it also seems borne out by the literature. And yet, if Bill Simmons is right, the whole notion of a ball theory (small or large) might turn out to be moot.
"We're trying to fill a void, getting good writers to write about what they want," he says during a recent phone conversation about Grantland, the sports and pop culture website that ESPN launched last June with Simmons as editor. Among Grantland's contributors? Chuck Klosterman, Jane Leavy, Malcolm Gladwell, Colson Whitehead and Dave Eggers, who helped launched the site with an essay on Wrigley Field ("ragged and crumbling and lived-in," he calls the ancient ballpark, "beautiful in an almost accidental way") that deftly evokes why, when it comes to the Chicago Cubs, winning has long been a secondary pursuit.
Eggers is something of a shadow presence in the latest Grantland iteration: a print quarterly, the first installment of which has just been issued in collaboration with McSweeney's Books. His Wrigley piece is not included, but his sensibility is all over the design. A 300-plus page hardcover, bound in imitation pigskin, and full of essays, opinions, graphics and inserts (including a 67-page oral history of Frank DeFord's long-defunct sports daily, the National), it's a bit like an issue of McSweeney's for the sports geek in all of us.
"With the Net," Simmons explains, "things get lost. We thought it would be cool to see it in book form." The idea, he continues, is to use the quarterly to capture — and, in a sense, preserve — a particular period in the life of the site: the months leading up to each issue.
Thus, in Issue 1, we find a record of the first half year of Grantland — Simmons on the paradox of Lebron James (written between Games 4 and 5 of last year's NBA Finals), Anna Clark on Ty Cobb as a metaphor for Detroit, Whitehead from the World Series of Poker ("I have a good poker face," he begins, "because I am half-dead inside"). There are considerations of HBO and Amy Winehouse, as well as a long piece by Tom Bissell that uses L.A. Noire to frame an argument about video games as "one of the most important conceptual shifts between story and storyteller in a hundred years."
But there is more — and I don't just mean the one effort here that didn't first appear on the Grantland site: Simmons' re-worked take on the movie "Hoosiers," an expansion of an older piece from ESPN.com. No, it's that, in making the shift from Web to print, Simmons is also making a case for the staying power of the material, and by extension, of sports as a whole.
This is the conundrum faced by anyone who writes about what happens on the playing field: How to make it resonate beyond last night's score. Why is it important, what we feel about a particular game or athlete? What is the bigger angle, the bigger connection, the bigger point of view? I think of John Updike, whose 1960 New Yorker piece on Ted Williams' final game, "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu," frames the dynamic between player and fan as one of nearly mythic significance: "The affair between Boston and Ted Williams," he writes, "… falls into three stages, which may be termed Youth, Maturity, and Age; or Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis; or Jason, Achilles, and Nestor." Or Grantland Rice, the legendary sportswriter for whom Grantland is named, a stolid sentimentalist but one who helped create the conventions of the form.
For Grantland, then, the idea is to rethink those conventions, or disregard them altogether, while also opening the conversation to a new way of thinking about the games we play. That's why the Bissell piece is so illuminating — because it takes something we don't normally consider in such terms and re-shapes it, contextualizing it in a different way. If video games are now sports, or poker is, then the small-ball theory is not just outdated but irrelevant, a trope that has little to do with how we engage with the idea of sports now. And if sportswriting can blur into entertainment, isn't that a reflection of the larger culture, in which sports is entertainment, and has been at least since Harry Frazee's sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees helped finance his production of the musical "No, No Nanette"?
This, Simmons suggests, is the point precisely, that sports exist as part of a bigger world. As far as Grantland, he wants it to reflect that, to see what develops and move on from there. In addition to the quarterly, he's planning some additional enhancements — more pop culture and a podcast studio — but mostly he's intent on letting the project take its own pace. "It's better to be under the radar a bit," he says, although, as he acknowledges, "this is already bigger than I thought."

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Christoph Lüthard was professor of philosophy at the University of Bern, Switzerland, from 1618 and professor of theology from 1628 until his death. In high esteem for his work in training the pastors of Bern, he also merited praise for his contribution to the school system. On 4 January 1659 he was appointed to the newly organized Anabaptist Commission, and with his colleagues interviewed the "Anabaptists in the penitentiary." About this time Dutch intervention in behalf of the Mennonites was begun. Abraham Heidanus, professor of theology at the University of Leiden, and Hans Vlamingh, an Amsterdam merchant, wrote long letters to Lüthard (Müller, 173-79), advocating a free exercise of religion. In his reply Lüthard, as a member of the Anabaptist Commission, tried to present the condition of the Mennonites in a favorable light and to justify the attitude of the Bern theologians and the government.
"Bernische Pfarrer im 16.-19. Jahrhundert." Manuscript in the state archives of the canton of Bern.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon. 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: v. II, 702 f.
Müller, Ernst. Geschichte der Bernischen Täufer. Frauenfeld: Huber, 1895. Reprinted Nieuwkoop: B. de Graaf, 1972.
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posted on Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 10:21 am
I am using the knownclass option to estimate what is essentially a multiple groups CFA model and would like to compare the fit with a model where groups are ignored (fully constrained). Everything is working fine, but I am unsure how to compare the fit for the two models. I would like to use the DIC or Bayes Factor, but the former doesn't seem to be supported with mixture models, and I cannot find the posterior model probability for the latter. I was wondering if you had any suggestions. Thanks so much for any thoughts.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 2:16 pm
Some questions. What do you mean by "a model where groups are ignored"? You mean like analyzing boys and girls together? And why mixture and Bayes? Why not multigroup and ML with BIC?
Holmes Finch
posted on Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 5:14 pm
Thanks Bengt. I originally tried to fit the constrained and unconstrained models using ML, but couldn't get convergence, so I thought I would give the Bayesian approach a go. Both the fully constrained (Kenyan and American kids together) and separate groups analyses produce estimates, with nice looking trace plots for the parameters of interest. What I would like to do now is compare the fit of the models to see whether I have invariance or not.
Please let me know if you have more questions. Thanks.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 9:50 am
So you want to do a 2-group Bayes analysis and check invariance. Why not compare the PPP for the no-invariance and invariance models? It doesn't test the difference specifically, but should be helpful. New tools are coming for such multi-group Bayes comparisons.
But you should be able to get ML to converge if Bayes converges. At least by using SVALUES to take the Bayes ending values into the ML run as start values.
Holmes Finch
posted on Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 11:07 am
Thanks very much, Bengt. I will take a look at the PPP values for sure. I can try the SVALUES with ML approach as well. That might well help with convergence. I look forward to the multi-group Bayes stuff when it comes out.
an-tsu chen
posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2014 - 12:42 am
I think my question should be classified under this thread. When conducting Bayesian CFA with categorical variables, the Mplus result seems not to show BIC value, making me unable to use this index to do model comparison. Does that mean it is not appropriate to consider BIC when data are categorical? Moreover, to the best of knowledge, PP p-value could also be used to do model comparison with categorical data, even though it is a goodness-of-fit index. Is that correct?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2014 - 11:34 am
This is not yet available with categorical variables.
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The decade everybody seems to be drawing inspiration from lately is the seventies. And if there was one 70s icon who knew how to turn heads it was Farrah. With her girl-next-door charm and laid-back style, she won her status as one of America's sweethearts.
Farah was a simple girl, preferring blue jeans and button-downs over glitz and glam. Note the style of her jeans; high waisted bell bottoms. This is a style a lot of designers chose to use in their spring collections. I have a feeling we'll all be getting in touch with our inner Farrah this spring.
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Test your geocaching knowledge and sense of adventure inside a life-size maze. Explore the twists and turns of the GPS Adventures Maze Exhibit starting this May in Ohio. You can navigate the fun, interactive museum exhibit at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery in Dayton, Ohio May 25th through September 3rd. You will learn the inside story of GPS technology, unlock navigation history, and discover geocaching fun facts as you chart a course through the family-friendly maze. Those who log the maze even earn the unique GPS Adventures Maze Exhibit cache type icon.
Boonshoft Museum will host a meet and greet event for geocachers on May 25th from 10:30 am until noon. They'll be joined by Groundspeak CEO Jeremy Irish. The opening event is the perfect time for those on their way to the GeoWoodstock Mega-Event to visit the maze, which is only 200 miles away!
For future Maze locations, please visit www.gpsmaze.com.
With the flip of a proverbial switch, the idea of geocaching flickered to life 12 years ago. On May 2, 2000, at an order from the U.S. President, Selective Availability (the intentional degradation of the GPS signal available to civilians) was turned off. Civilian GPS devices instantly became 10 times more accurate. The original geocache was placed one day later. It was hidden in the U.S. state of Oregon on May 3, 2000.
In the geocaching community, we refer to the demise of Selective Availability as the "flipping of the great blue switch." Although there never was a literal switch, the results are undeniable. Geocaching spread around the globe. Now you can use Geocaching.com, or one of the Geocaching.com smartphone apps to embark on adventures to more than 1.7 million active geocaches hidden around the world. The geocaching community has ballooned from that original small group of GPS enthusiasts to more than five million people.
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Parking in Boston can be a grueling experience, but Christos Cassandras envisions a way to make it almost effortless: Have the city itself sense when spaces are opening up, and guide drivers to the most efficient spot. The engineering professor at Boston University and his students have already piloted a "smart parking" system in a garage at the school, which uses a smartphone app and software that finds the optimal spot for each driver and tells drivers exactly where to go. "Everybody wins," he says. "Less time wasted, less fuel consumed, less pollution."
Cassandras's scheme is just one step in the march toward what futurists and urban planners call the "smart city"—a wired, sensor-filled streetscape that uses cloud computing and sophisticated software to transform cities into intelligent machines that adapt to people's lives and steer behavior. Smart city advocates envision a future in which tech-savvy cities offer better civic services, move us faster through traffic, reduce waste and greenhouse gas emissions, and gather so much data that the complexities of urban life can be understood and smoothly managed.
The smart city has become a buzzword in urban planning and university engineering departments, and a topic of breathless coverage in science and business magazines. Although today the vision exists more in the realm of promise than reality, cities such as Boston have begun to invest time and chunks of their budget to laying the groundwork. At MIT, the Senseable Cities Lab is developing new technologies to gather and visualize city data, and a recent symposium at Boston University brought together leaders from the city government, IBM, and BU to discuss potential partnerships, including a possible smart-city incubator at the university.
But as political leaders, engineers, and environmentalists join the smart-city bandwagon, a growing chorus of thinkers from social sciences, architecture, urban
planning, and design are starting to sound a note of caution. Building a new, intelligent urban infrastructure could be every bit as momentous as building a water supply, or roads, or a subway system—setting development patterns for decades. Though they share enthusiasm for what a smart city could do, they also point out that smart-city programs could—with little public oversight—put us on track to a kind of urban future that not everyone thinks is ideal.
Behind the alluring vision, they argue, lurk a number of troubling questions. A city tracking its citizens, even for helpful reasons, encroaches on the personal liberty we count on in public spaces. The crucial software systems and networks that underlie city services will likely lie in private hands. And the more successful smart-city programs become, the more they risk diverting resources into the problems that can be solved with technology, rather than grappling with difficult issues that can't be easily fixed with an app.
"We've had a very good debate in the technology community and business community about the benefits, but very little assessment of the risks," says Anthony Townsend, an urban planning researcher at New York University and the Institute for the Future, who has spoken and written critically about smart cities.
Cities are focal points for human civilization, the places where people live, work, and create. And they may well be on the verge of new transformation, one that not only alters how they run but what their residents' lives are like. As they move forward, there's not just one inevitable path: Different ways of implementing technology could create very different cities, not all of them desirable places to live.
Today, smart-city programs tend to be limited and fairly granular, though people might be surprised to know exactly which parts of their cities are already sensing and analyzing information. Boston is wired with a system called ShotSpotter, which uses acoustic sensors to detect and pinpoint the location of gunshots. The MBTA has been building an extensive network of thousands of surveillance cameras throughout the subway system, monitored from an operations center, and has also installed sensors to detect biological weapons. Equipment on the Prudential Tower and other buildings tracks greenhouse gas emissions; analytical software even helps predict maintenance needs in parts of the sewer system.
Other cities are testing more extensive projects. A control room in Rio de Janeiro, created by IBM, allows city workers to monitor information from the sprawling metropolis to better manage public events and disasters. London's Greenwich peninsula is testing an "urban operating system" by a firm called Living PlanIT that offers a single platform for integrating services like water, traffic, energy, and street lighting across the city.
The ultimate vision is a city that is hyperefficient, easy to navigate, and free of waste—and which is constantly collecting data to help it handle emergencies, disasters, and crime. "The idea here is to improve the quality of life for citizens," says Dave Bartlett, vice president of industry solutions at IBM. As a city like Boston becomes more fully wired, the vision is to link its isolated systems to make them more powerful, merging functions like safety surveillance, traffic counting, and environmental monitoring into a shared stream of data that turns the city into almost an organism of its own.
But critics watching these developments—and listening to the dreams of its visionaries—see something else at work as well: a massive shift in urban priorities conducted largely out of the public eye. Many of them compare the networks being built today to the way cities were redesigned for car travel in the first half of the 20th century: As dirt roads were paved, then widened, then run through neighborhoods, and raised into overpasses, they remapped cities completely, for better and worse. Smart-city infrastructure like software, sensors, and networked systems may seem more ephemeral than a highway or a water supply, but its legacy will similarly shape how cities work for the next generation.
These critics are advocating not that cities shun technology, but that they foster a more open debate about how best to adopt it—and a public airing of the questions cities need to ask. One question is how deeply cities rely on private companies to set up and maintain the systems they run on. Smart-city projects rely on sophisticated infrastructure that municipal governments aren't capable of creating themselves, Townsend points out, arguing that the more they rely on software, the more cities are increasingly shunting important civic functions and information into private hands. In recent talks and in his upcoming book, "Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia," Townsend portrays companies as rushing to become the indispensable middlemen without which the city cannot function.
Cities can easily lose leverage to private companies their citizens rely on, as the persistent battles of political leaders against telecom companies over price increases show. And private-sector software can operate behind a veil: Townsend says that while cities have made lots of data freely available online, there's less concern about opening up the proprietary tools used to analyze that data—software that might help a city official decide who is eligible for services, or which neighborhoods are crime hotspots. "It's the algorithms in government that need to be brought out to the light of day, not the data," he says. "What I worry about are the de facto laws that are being coded in software without public scrutiny."
Networks and software could reshape city life as permanently as highways did.
Another concern is what will be done to protect the huge amount of data cities can gather about their citizens. The wealth of video at the Boston Marathon bombings, though it came from private cameras, showed how useful surveillance footage can be—and also how pervasive. Cameras, sensors, and tracking technologies like the Mass Pike's EZPass can reveal a great deal about your life: where you live and travel, what you buy, even what time you take a shower. Smart grid utility-metering systems, for instance, collect and transmit detailed energy consumption information, which help consumers understand and curb their energy use but can also reveal their habits. As such, they have come under fire for threatening privacy and civil liberties, and several states have adopted legislation governing what kind of data can be shared with third parties and how customers can opt out. In Massachusetts, automated license plate recognition technology used by police cruisers has raised concerns about authorities tracking the whereabouts of citizens. The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts has been pushing for a License Plate Privacy Act that would limit law enforcement's ability to retain and use the information.
On a broader scale, the debates over smart cities tend to reflect a larger battle over city planning, one that pits top-down measures from governments against grass-roots reshaping of urban life—control rooms versus the crowd. This split can be seen even within the smart-city movement itself, where two competing visions of smartness are emerging—the "urban operating system" approach in which a central brain solves the city's problems, versus a more self-organizing system in which technology gives citizens more control over public services, allowing them to gather data about crime in their neighborhoods or creating volunteer-based public services.
Adam Greenfield, an urban designer and author of the upcoming book "The City is Here for You to Use," has written on his blog Speedbird that the centralized model of the smart city is "disturbingly consonant with the exercise of authoritarianism." To him, it repeats many of the blunders of high-concept, 20th-century urban planning, when sections of cities were razed and refashioned. Townsend has argued for a decentralized approach, cities that are "less like a mainframe and more like the Web."
Dan Hill, an urban designer based in Italy who has written critically about smart cities, says that for him, "the real smart city is social media and smartphones and the things happening on the street at the level of citizens." But Hill admits that crowd-funding and social media have limits as cures for urban ills, and could deflect responsibility from government. "Can you make a light rail system that way? Can we make a hospital like that? Probably not," he says.
In Boston today, there are elements of both ideas. Bill Oates, Boston's chief information officer, who leads the city's technology initiatives, acknowledges that partnerships with private companies are crucial, since government isn't in a position to build sensors and networking software, any more than it can build its own subway cars or office buildings. Up to now, he says, none of Boston's projects have required letting a company control city data, though he is weighing policies on where to draw the line in the future. Even if the city builds closer partnerships with private firms, he says, there will be limits: "We have no intention of turning these things over to a company and saying, 'We need a smart city with your stuff.'"
He also points to an emphasis on citizen engagement, to keep Boston's programs grounded in what people want, and not just what City Hall decides. "Our theme has always been to connect with citizens in new ways," he says.
To that end, one of its key creations is the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics, a deliberate counterweight to the heavy-handed, control-room vision of urban technology. Its leaders, Nigel Jacob and Chris Osgood, have launched projects to connect citizens to city services and facilitated city pilot projects by start-ups and community groups. It has worked with Emerson College's Engagement Lab on a 3-D game designed to engage residents in Chinatown's master planning process, and on a game called Community PlanIt that allows people to learn about and contribute to community planning, which has been piloted in the Boston public schools, Quincy, and Detroit.
Townsend sees this office as a sign of a city already asking the right questions, calling it "the first smart-city effort that feels like it was designed by a political scientist and not an electrical engineer." It focuses on engaging citizens through means such as a scheme for turning people's cars into voluntary road monitors: A new app called Street Bump uses smartphone accelerometers to detect potholes in roads and send the information to the city, which could reduce the need for expensive road surveys.
Whether technology comes from citizens or the city, there's a philosophy built into the smart-city vision, one in which there's always a technological answer to a city's ills. "It's almost as if things can be boiled down to a simple equation: technology plus innovation equals urban sustainability," says Rob Kitchin, a geographer who directs the National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
The biggest human issues cities face—like persistent poverty, social injustice, or public education—aren't technological problems with single "best" answers that can be optimized by a system, Kitchin argues. They're fundamentally political questions about where our priorities lie. The more energy cities invest in running according to "smart" principles, he and others suggest, the easier it becomes to neglect the aspects of our problems that have no technological solution. Critics like Columbia's Laura Kergan have also pointed out that we will always measure what is cheap, convenient, technologically possible, and politically expedient to measure. Even the best-engineered control room will see only a slice of urban reality.
There's also a more fundamental—and slippery—question about what kind of life, exactly, smart cities create. How will it feel to live in smart cities? Kitchin has written about this question in his book "Code/Space," which explores how new technologies shape our day-to-day life in cities. He's now embarking on a project to study how software affects life in Dublin and Boston, both centers of innovation. "There's a way in which our lives get codified into the software," he says.
Kitchin points out that he lives in a building near Dublin with no light switches, just sensors; if the system shuts down or malfunctions, he's in the dark. Though we often think computing technologies as neutral, they reflect the values of their creators (in this case, energy efficiency over personal control). How much do we want our cities to think for us? Townsend criticizes the idea that we can "have our cake and eat it, too" by living an energy-intensive lifestyle while our buildings quietly reduce our energy use in the background. Perhaps there's an advantage to educating people to turn off their own lights, instead of asking buildings to do it for them.
Take that smart-parking system at BU. The convenience of hassle-free parking requires people to park only in the spot reserved for them by the system's software. But, modest as it may sound, the freedom to park where we want—to make our own small daily choices—helps give our lives meaning, and the challenges of city life may well be part of what makes urban existence so attractive.
The orderly, manageable city is a vision with enduring appeal, from Plato's Republic to Songdo, an entirely new smart city constructed near Seoul. But there's an equally compelling vision of the city as a chaotic and dynamic whirl of activity, an emergent system, an urban jungle at once hostile and full of possibility—a place to lose oneself. Hill points out that efficiency isn't the reason we like to live in cities, and it's not the reason we visit them. Tourists come to Boston for the bustling charm of the North End, not the sterile landscape of Government Center. In a city where everything can be sensed, measured, analyzed, and controlled, we risk losing the overlooked benefits of inconvenience. It's as if cities are one of the last wild places, and one that we're still trying to tame.Courtney Humphries is a freelance writer in Boston and the author of "Superdove: How the Pigeon Took Manhattan...And the World."


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Catalyst::Manual::Tutorial::BasicCRUD - Catalyst Tutorial - Part 3: Basic CRUD
This is Part 3 of 9 for the Catalyst tutorial.
Basic CRUD
This part of the tutorial builds on the fairly primitive application created in Part 2 to add basic support for Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) of
Book objects. Note that the 'list' function in Part 2 already implements the Read portion of CRUD (although Read normally refers to reading a single object; you could implement full read functionality using the techniques introduced below). This section will focus on the Create and Delete aspects of CRUD. More advanced capabilities, including full Update functionality, will be addressed in Part 8.
You can checkout the source code for this example from the catalyst subversion repository as per the instructions in Catalyst::Manual::Tutorial::Intro
Our initial attempt at object creation will utilize the "URL arguments" feature of Catalyst (we will employ the more common form-based submission in the sections that follow).
Include a Create Action in the Books Controller
lib/MyApp/Controller/Books.pm and enter the following method:
=head2 url_create
Create a book with the supplied title, rating, and author
sub url_create : Local {
# In addition to self & context, get the title, rating, &
# author_id args from the URL. Note that Catalyst automatically
# puts extra information after the "/<controller_name>/<action_name/"
# into @_
my ($self, $c, $title, $rating, $author_id) = @_;
# Call create() on the book model object. Pass the table
# columns/field values we want to set as hash values
my $book = $c->model('MyAppDB::Book')->create({
title => $title,
rating => $rating
# Add a record to the join table for this book, mapping to
# appropriate author
$book->add_to_book_authors({author_id => $author_id});
# Note: Above is a shortcut for this:
# $book->create_related('book_authors', {author_id => $author_id});
# Assign the Book object to the stash for display in the view
$c->stash->{book} = $book;
# This is a hack to disable XSUB processing in Data::Dumper
# (it's used in the view). This is a work-around for a bug in
# the interaction of some versions or Perl, Data::Dumper & DBIC.
# You won't need this if you aren't using Data::Dumper (or if
# you are running DBIC 0.06001 or greater), but adding it doesn't
# hurt anything either.
$Data::Dumper::Useperl = 1;
# Set the TT template to use
$c->stash->{template} = 'books/create_done.tt2';
Notice that Catalyst takes "extra slash-separated information" from the URL and passes it as arguments in
@_. The
url_create action then uses a simple call to the DBIC
create method to add the requested information to the database (with a separate call to
add_to_book_authors to update the join table). As do virtually all controller methods (at least the ones that directly handle user input), it then sets the template that should handle this request.
Include a Template for the
url_create Action:
root/src/books/create_done.tt2 and then enter:
[% # Use the TT Dumper plugin to Data::Dumper variables to the browser -%]
[% # Not a good idea for production use, though. :-) 'Indent=1' is -%]
[% # optional, but prevents "massive indenting" of deeply nested objects -%]
[% USE Dumper(Indent=1) -%]
[% # Set the page title. META can 'go back' and set values in templates -%]
[% # that have been processed 'before' this template (here it's for -%]
[% # root/lib/site/html and root/lib/site/header). Note that META on -%]
[% # simple strings (e.g., no variable interpolation). -%]
[% META title = 'Book Created' %]
[% # Output information about the record that was added. First title. -%]

Added book '[% book.title %]'
[% # Output the last name of the first author. This is complicated by an -%]
[% # issue in TT 2.15 where blessed hash objects are not handled right. -%]
[% # First, fetch 'book.authors' from the DB once. -%]
[% authors = book.authors %]
[% # Now use IF statements to test if 'authors.first' is "working". If so, -%]
[% # we use it. Otherwise we use a hack that seems to keep TT 2.15 happy. -%]
by '[% authors.first.last_name IF authors.first;
authors.list.first.value.last_name IF ! authors.first %]'
[% # Output the rating for the book that was added -%]
with a rating of [% book.rating %].

[% # Provide a link back to the list page -%]
[% # 'uri_for()' builds a full URI; e.g., 'http://localhost:3000/books/list' -%]

Return to list

[% # Try out the TT Dumper (for development only!) -%]
Dump of the 'book' variable:
[% Dumper.dump(book) %]
The TT
USE directive allows access to a variety of plugin modules (TT plugins, that is, not Catalyst plugins) to add extra functionality to the base TT capabilities. Here, the plugin allows Data::Dumper "pretty printing" of objects and variables. Other than that, the rest of the code should be familiar from the examples in Part 2.
IMPORTANT NOTE As mentioned earlier, the
MyApp::View::TT.pm view class created by TTSite redefines the name used to access the Catalyst context object in TT templates from the usual
c to
Try the
url_create Feature
If the application is still running from before, use
Ctrl-C to kill it. Then restart the server:
$ script/myapp_server.pl
Note that new path for
/books/url_create appears in the startup debug output.
TIP: You can use
script/myapp_server.pl -r to have the development server auto-detect changed files and reload itself (if your browser acts odd, you should also try throwing in a
-k). If you make changes to the TT templates only, you do not need to reload the development server (only changes to "compiled code" such as Controller and Model
.pm files require a reload).
Next, use your browser to enter the following URL:
Your browser should display " Added book 'TCPIP_Illustrated_Vol-2' by 'Stevens' with a rating of 5." along with a dump of the new book model object. You should also see the following DBIC debug messages displayed in the development server log messages:
INSERT INTO books (rating, title) VALUES (?, ?): `5', `TCPIP_Illustrated_Vol-2'
INSERT INTO book_authors (author_id, book_id) VALUES (?, ?): `4', `6'
SELECT author.id, author.first_name, author.last_name
FROM book_authors me JOIN authors author
ON ( author.id = me.author_id ) WHERE ( me.book_id = ? ): '6'
INSERT statements are obviously adding the book and linking it to the existing record for Richard Stevens. The
SELECT statement results from DBIC automatically fetching the book for the
If you then click the "Return to list" link, you should find that there are now six books shown (if necessary, Shift-Reload your browser at the
/books/list page).
Then add 2 more copies of the same book so that we have some extras for our delete logic that will be coming up soon. Enter the same URL above two more times (or refresh your browser twice if it still contains this URL):
You should be able to click "Return to list" and now see 3 copies of "TCP_Illustrated_Vol-2".
Although the
url_create action in the previous step does begin to reveal the power and flexibility of both Catalyst and DBIC, it's obviously not a very realistic example of how users should be expected to enter data. This section begins to address that concern.
Add Method to Display The Form
lib/MyApp/Controller/Books.pm and add the following method:
=head2 form_create
Display form to collect information for book to create
sub form_create : Local {
my ($self, $c) = @_;
# Set the TT template to use
$c->stash->{template} = 'books/form_create.tt2';
This action simply invokes a view containing a book creation form.
Add a Template for the Form
root/src/books/form_create.tt2 in your editor and enter:
[% META title = 'Manual Form Book Create' -%]
<form method="post" action="[% Catalyst.uri_for('form_create_do') %]">

Title:	<input type="text" name="title">

Rating:	<input type="text" name="rating">

Author ID:	<input type="text" name="author_id">

<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
Note that we have specified the target of the form data as
form_create_do, the method created in the section that follows.
Add a Method to Process Form Values and Update Database
lib/MyApp/Controller/Books.pm and add the following method to save the form information to the database:
=head2 form_create_do
Take information from form and add to database
sub form_create_do : Local {
my ($self, $c) = @_;
# Retrieve the values from the form
my $title = $c->request->params->{title} || 'N/A';
my $rating = $c->request->params->{rating} || 'N/A';
my $author_id = $c->request->params->{author_id} || '1';
# Create the book
my $book = $c->model('MyAppDB::Book')->create({
title => $title,
rating => $rating,
# Handle relationship with author
$book->add_to_book_authors({author_id => $author_id});
# Store new model object in stash
$c->stash->{book} = $book;
# Avoid Data::Dumper issue mentioned earlier
# You can probably omit this
$Data::Dumper::Useperl = 1;
# Set the TT template to use
$c->stash->{template} = 'books/create_done.tt2';
Test Out The Form
If the application is still running from before, use
Ctrl-C to kill it. Then restart the server:
$ script/myapp_server.pl
Point your browser to http://localhost:3000/books/form_create and enter "TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol 3" for the title, a rating of 5, and an author ID of 4. You should then be forwarded to the same
create_done.tt2 template seen in earlier examples. Finally, click "Return to list" to view the full list of books.
Note: Having the user enter the primary key ID for the author is obviously crude; we will address this concern with a drop-down list in Part 8.
Turning our attention to the delete portion of CRUD, this section illustrates some basic techniques that can be used to remove information from the database.
Include a Delete Link in the List
root/src/books/list.tt2 and update it to the following (two sections have changed: 1) the additional 'Links	' table header, and 2) the four lines for the Delete link near the bottom).
[% # This is a TT comment. The '-' at the end "chomps" the newline. You won't -%]
[% # see this "chomping" in your browser because HTML ignores blank lines, but -%]
[% # it WILL eliminate a blank line if you view the HTML source. It's purely -%]
[%- # optional, but both the beginning and the ending TT tags support chomping. -%]
[% # Provide a title to root/lib/site/header -%]
[% META title = 'Book List' -%]
[% # Display each book in a table row %]
[% FOREACH book IN books -%]
[% book.title %]
[% book.rating %]
[% # First initialize a TT variable to hold a list. Then use a TT FOREACH -%]
[% # loop in 'side effect notation' to load just the last names of the -%]
[% # authors into the list. Note that the 'push' TT vmethod does not -%]
[% # a value, so nothing will be printed here. But, if you have something -%]
[% # in TT that does return a method and you don't want it printed, you -%]
[% # can: 1) assign it to a bogus value, or 2) use the CALL keyword to -%]
[% # call it and discard the return value. -%]
[% tt_authors = [ ];
tt_authors.push(author.last_name) FOREACH author = book.authors %]
[% # Now use a TT 'virtual method' to display the author count in parens -%]
([% tt_authors.size %])
[% # Use another TT vmethod to join & print the names & comma separators -%]
[% tt_authors.join(', ') %]
[% # Add a link to delete a book %]
Delete
The additional code is obviously designed to add a new column to the right side of the table with a
Delete "button" (for simplicity, links will be used instead of full HTML buttons).
Add a Delete Action to the Controller
lib/MyApp/Controller/Books.pm in your editor and add the following method:
=head2 delete
Delete a book
sub delete : Local {
# $id = primary key of book to delete
my ($self, $c, $id) = @_;
# Search for the book and then delete it
$c->model('MyAppDB::Book')->search({id => $id})->delete_all;
# Set a status message to be displayed at the top of the view
$c->stash->{status_msg} = "Book deleted.";
# Forward to the list action/method in this controller
This method first deletes the book with the specified primary key ID. However, it also removes the corresponding entry from the
book_authors table. Note that
delete_all was used instead of
delete: whereas
delete_all also removes the join table entries in
delete does not (only use
delete_all if you really need the cascading deletes... otherwise you are wasting resources).
Then, rather than forwarding to a "delete done" page as we did with the earlier create example, it simply sets the
status_msg to display a notification to the user as the normal list view is rendered.
delete action uses the context
forward method to return the user to the book list. The
detach method could have also been used. Whereas
forward returns to the original action once it is completed,
detach does not return. Other than that, the two are equivalent.
Try the Delete Feature
If the application is still running from before, use
Ctrl-C to kill it. Then restart the server:
$ script/myapp_server.pl
Then point your browser to http://localhost:3000/books/list and click the "Delete" link next to the first "TCPIP_Illustrated_Vol-2". A green "Book deleted" status message should display at the top of the page, along with a list of the eight remaining books.
Fixing a Dangerous URL
Note the URL in your browser once you have performed the deletion in the prior step -- it is still referencing the delete action:
What if the user were to press reload with this URL still active? In this case the redundant delete is harmless, but in other cases this could clearly be extremely dangerous.
We can improve the logic by converting to a redirect. Unlike
$c->forward('list')) or
$c->detach('list')) that perform a server-side alteration in the flow of processing, a redirect is a client-side mechanism that causes the brower to issue an entirely new request. As a result, the URL in the browser is updated to match the destination of the redirection URL.
To convert the forward used in the previous section to a redirect, open
lib/MyApp/Controller/Books.pm and edit the existing
sub delete method to match:
=head2 delete
Delete a book
sub delete : Local {
# $id = primary key of book to delete
my ($self, $c, $id) = @_;
# Search for the book and then delete it
$c->model('MyAppDB::Book')->search({id => $id})->delete_all;
# Set a status message to be displayed at the top of the view
$c->stash->{status_msg} = "Book deleted.";
# Redirect the user back to the list page
Try the Delete and Redirect Logic
Restart the development server and point your browser to http://localhost:3000/books/list. Delete the first copy of "TCPIP_Illustrated_Vol-2", but notice that no green "Book deleted" status message is displayed. Because the stash is reset on every request (and a redirect involves a second request), the
status_msg is cleared before it can be displayed.
uri_for to Pass Query Parameters
There are several ways to pass information across a redirect. In general, the best option is to use the
flash technique that we will see in Part 4 of the tutorial; however, here we will pass the information via query parameters on the redirect itself. Open
lib/MyApp/Controller/Books.pm and update the existing
sub delete method to match the following:
=head2 delete
Delete a book
sub delete : Local {
# $id = primary key of book to delete
my ($self, $c, $id) = @_;
# Search for the book and then delete it
$c->model('MyAppDB::Book')->search({id => $id})->delete_all;
# Redirect the user back to the list page with status msg as an arg
{status_msg => "Book deleted."}));
This modification simply leverages the ability of
uri_for to include an arbitrary number of name/value pairs in a hash reference. Next, we need to update
root/lib/site/layout to handle
status_msg as a query parameter:

[% PROCESS site/header %]

[% status_msg || Catalyst.request.params.status_msg %]
[% error_msg %]
[% content %]

[% PROCESS site/footer %]

Try the Delete and Redirect With Query Param Logic
Restart the development server and point your browser to http://localhost:3000/books/list. Then delete the remaining copy of "TCPIP_Illustrated_Vol-2". The green "Book deleted" status message should return.
NOTE: Although this did present an opportunity to show a handy capability of
uri_for, it would be much better to use Catalyst's
flash feature in this situation. Although the technique here is less dangerous than leaving the delete URL in the client's browser, we have still exposed the status message to the user. With
flash, this message returns to its rightful place as a service-side mechanism (we will migrate this code to
flash in the next part of the tutorial).
Kennedy Clark,
Please report any errors, issues or suggestions to the author. The most recent version of the Catalyst Tutorial can be found at http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/Catalyst/trunk/Catalyst-Manual/lib/Catalyst/Manual/Tutorial/.
Copyright 2006, Kennedy Clark, under Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/).


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Brought this to cover the house. It was brought in April 2011.
First thing it did was die a it. Hopefully it will recover?
It actually gets the sun first thing in the morning so its ideal really, although it looses it after noon or there abouts so maybe thats what it doesnt like?.
Read somewhere that it likes Mesic environments? ie woodland floors? And in some environments is invasive. Not here its not, more like suicidal.
The first plant I brought died, but I brought another bigger one. You can see the difference in the photos. Hopefully this one will do better.


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Lima's rich history is concentrated in the historical centre of the city, known by the Limeños as Cercado de Lima. The architecture consists of an interesting collection of 16th-century basilicas, convents, houses and squares. This unique cultural heritage on the shores of the Rimac River has been awarded a prestigious UNESCO World heritage designation.
Francisco Pizarro founded his Ciudad de los Reyes, the 'City of Kings', in 1535. The name didn't really take but the city did become the centre of South America. For 3 centuries, Lima was the political, religious and economic capital of the New World and the home of the viceroy. Various authorities settled here, quickly followed by churches, convents, mansions, bridges and squares. These impressive samples of colonial architecture evoke a past era.
Part of Lima's historic centre is also referred to as 'Damero de Pizarro' ('Pizarro's checkerboard'). It earned this description because the streets have been laid out in a straight, regular grid pattern. The area is very compact and from the Plaza Mayor, the former Plaza de Armas, most monuments are within walking distance. Keep an eye out for the Casa de Aliaga, the oldest colonial house in the city and perhaps in all of South America, and also for the Palacio Torre Tagle, the current seat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
One of the most impressive attractions is the San Francisco monastery complex, which consists of 3 churches, 5 monasteries, a library and several crypts. A guide can take you on a 45-minute tour of the impressive buildings and the classic interior, decorated with frescoes, paintings, wood carvings, thousands of old, leather-bound books and a respectable art collection. The crypts, which until the beginning of the 19th century served as Lima's cemetery, are the highlight of the tour. More than 15,000 people have found their final resting place here.
As you stroll around the monuments of historic Lima, it is hard to miss the beautiful wooden balconies. Some famous examples include those on the façade of the Archbishop's Palace, and the balconies of the Casa de Pilatos, Casa del Oidor and Casa Negreiros. As the balconies are a characteristic part of colonial architecture, the city has encouraged its residents to adopt one. This will ensure that the balconies are properly maintained and preserved as a cultural and historic monument.
Even before the arrival of Francisco Pizarro, the settlement on the river was called Lima. Nobody knows for sure where the name came from. It may be derived from Aymara, a local language in which 'lima-limaq' means yellow flower. The origin could also lie in the Quechua word 'rimaq'. Rimaq means 'speaker' and the Spaniards pronounced the word as 'limaq'. Although Pizarro baptized the city with the promising name of Ciudad de los Reyes (City of Kings), people continued to call it Lima.


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Week of Mar. 9
The Awesomeness of God
When was the last time you stopped to reflect on the awesomeness of God? When did you last slow down to contemplate on how amazing our Creator is? In our skeptical and scientific world, it seems we have lost our childlike sense of wonder and awe. We fail to notice the daily miracles surrounding us.
Jesus warns us, "Anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it" (Mark 10:15). Jesus is telling us to call upon God with the wonder and amazement of a child. He calls us to believe in Him with the trusting nature of a child. He wants to see our excitement every time we seek His face.
What is it like to stand in wonder of God? It is recognizing His hand in every sunset, mountain, and star that we see. It is marveling at the miracle of a tiny life being formed in its mother's womb. It is reading a Scripture passage for the hundredth time and still finding new insight in its words.
There are so many qualities about God and so many things He has done for us that are awe-inspiring. In Psalm 139, we see David's praises for four of God's awesome characteristics: His knowledge, presence, power, and judgment.
When we think of God's omniscience, we often associate it with His knowledge of the big, eternal picture. Yet He also knows the very deepest corners of our hearts. Our Creator knows us inside and out—better than we know ourselves. He knows our hidden motivations. He knows what we're going to say even before we say it.
"O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord" (Psalms 139). When we think of how vast and how intricate and how intelligent God's knowledge is, we should be overwhelmed.
David also praises God for His omnipresence. "Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? … If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast" (Psalm 139:7, 9–10).
We cannot go anyplace where God is not already present—physically, mentally, emotionally, or spiritually. Even during our darkest days, we know that God is right there in the midst of our situation with us.
Our God is omnipotent, able to create life itself. "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well" (Psalm 139:13–14). How amazing is our God who designed everything from the tiniest cell in our bodies to the grandest star in the universe!
David concludes his psalm by acknowledging God's perfect judgment. God loves His children enough to purify and to refine their hearts. "Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting" (Psalm 139:23–24).
Have you lost your wonder and awe of God? Do you take the intricacies of His Creation for granted? Do you gloss over His words when reading the Bible? Stop today and praise God for His amazing nature. Thank Him for caring for you through His knowledge, presence, power, and judgment. Write below how He manifests each of these qualities in your life.
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Do you have a child? Are you a child? Have you been struck by any recent developments on the child-rearing front? Have you ever tried writing, say, an article about a television show in a coffee shop in Brooklyn? Mommies engage in competitive dandling. Poppa wears his Snugli like Run-DMC wore gold rope chains. Young Otto and little Ursula make frequent, occasionally successful, breaks for the door. A is for Alternadad. B is for Babble.com. C is for Cookie magazine.
Into this moment of maternity cults, daddy memoirs, and the narcissism of what Time's James Poniewozik, for one, terms "parenting-as-performance," now toddles Notes From the Underbelly (ABC, debuts Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET). It is a sitcom, occasionally sharp as an epidural needle, often dumb as a pea pod, sometimes half decent. (Variety, exercising sound judgment and questionable taste, has already quipped that the series is unlikely to make it beyond its first trimester.) Notes pits housewives against career gals and constrained fathers against liberated bachelors. It's about the loss of identity, the accrual of responsibilities, the social rivalries among friends, and—what's that in the Maclaren?—ah, yes, the baby. Coochie-coochie-coo.
The leads are Jennifer Westfeldt, best known as the star of Kissing Jessica Stein, and Peter Cambor, a newcomer soon to be known as the guy you call when you can't get Paul Rudd. Westfeldt plays Lauren, a blonde who, despite being in her early 30s, remains girlish in that fuzzy chick-lit way, with the shoe collection and the foregrounded indecisiveness. Cambor is Andrew, her husband, a cutie also in his early 30s, a planner but a bumbler, neurotic yet dudelike enough to plausibly anchor a beer commercial. They're pregnant!
Lauren's a guidance counselor at a Los Angeles private school serving the special needs of entitled twerps, and Andrew's a landscape architect, but let's cut to what really matters here: what they buy. The Mini Cooper, the yoga classes, the weekend getaway to a boutique hotel, the (dated) talk of pashmina and peasant skirts … It would be easier to sympathize with Andrew's second-episode fretting about the cost of raising a kid if he weren't airing his concerns in a kitchen bigger than Clair Huxtable's, or, indeed, Babbo's.
"Oh. My. Gosh. What if Marc Jacobs started making baby clothes?!" That's Lauren's friend Julie (Melanie Paxson), another mommy-to-be, a figure of derision on account of her unhealthy excitement and obnoxious good cheer. An alien being has taken hold of her from inside, and now she's a pod person. Julie's opposite number is Cooper (Rachael Harris), an unmarried divorce attorney. The character is very familiar—disposing of lovers with the gusto of Sex and the City's Samantha, downing drinks and spitting insults with the speed of Will & Grace's Karen Walker, and putting in the long hours of a standard workaholic—but Harris plays Cooper with a frosty slickness that makes her the most memorable part of this affair.
Here's a question to ask when, next week, Julie's baby arrives: Is it supposed to be satirical or cute that she names it after the Sephora-like perfume emporium where her water broke? A laugh about babies-as-lifestyle-accessories, or what? Notes From the Underbelly wants it both ways, to have an extravagant shower and mock it too. ABC—"No. 1 among upscale viewers"—continues to have the weirdest relationship with class, consumption, and status anxiety of any of the networks. New dramas like Brothers & Sisters and Men in Trees constitute what this column has called, and intends to keep calling, soap operas where the soap's a mandarin-lavender body wash. They look like shelter magazines and play like genteel psychodramas. Meanwhile, Ugly Betty valorizes a sweet, upwardly mobile girl from King of Queens territory, teases elites, and gets a W cover for the effort. And then a sitcom like this comes around—Big Day, about weddings, was another—trying to twit upscale pretensions even as it fondles them, which really doesn't leave a free hand with which to make a joke.


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IMF Survey vol.28, No. 17, August 1999
- Why resume lending? Russia's current economic policies are deserving of IMF support
- Camdessus expresses IMF's sympathy to the people of Turkey
- European Economic and Monetary Union Large asymmetric shocks could pose challenges in EMU's transition process
- HIPC IMF Executive Board reviews proposals to modify debt-relief initiative
- Debt initiative for the heavily indebted poor countries
- Report's director defines need for accountability, ownership of structural adjustment programs
- Available on the web
- Duisenberg to deliver Per Jacobsson lecture
- Selected IMF rates
- News briefs Benin Uganda
- Press release
- Recent publications
- Stand-By, EFF, and ESAF Arrangements as of July 31
- Institutionalized corruption Is corruption inbred in the "kleptocratic" state?
- Members' use of IMF credit (million SDRs)
Available on the web
- International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
- Published Date:
- January 1999


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By Keith Peters
Palo Alto Online Sports
Gunn High graduate Daniel Tirosh was only eight years old when he joined the Palo Alto Soccer Club's Blue 93 Panthers. Every year the team made steady progress, from being ranked among the top 50 in the nation to the top 10.
And now, to an even loftier status -- No. 1.
"It's been a long time coming," Tirosh, now 18, said of his boys' 18-U club team's latest ranking by gotsoccer.com. "It's very cool. We've just slowly moved up over the years. It's quite a journey."
The Blue 93 Panthers earned the nation's top spot in their division after capturing the Far West Region tournament title on June 26 in Boise, Idaho. That gave them enough points to vault them past defending national champ Alpharetta Ambush 93 Red of Georgia.
"The ranking is based on points, but we're tying to prove it on the field," Tirosh said. "We need to win the national championship to prove ourselves."
The Blue 93 Panthers will get that opportunity when it competes in the national tournament that runs July 27-31 in Phoenix, Ariz. The Panthers will be tested right away by No. 2-ranked Alpharetta Ambush 93 Red in the opening round.
"We kind of like that because our team gets up for the big games," Tirosh said. "We figure we have to play them sometime, so why not right away?"
Tirosh, who will head off to UC Santa Cruz in the fall, said the national tournament will be like ending a chapter in his life.
"The national championship game is kind of like the climax of my childhood," he said. "After the tournament, our family will be going on vacation (to Hawaii) and then I'll be going off to college. Hopefully, we can end this chapter with a national title."
Palo Alto, the Northern California champion, qualified for the national tourney by winning the Far West Region title by beating state champs from Hawaii, Nevada and Utah in addition to beating the Southern California champ twice. The second win over the SoCal team came on penalty kicks in the regional championship match. That provided Palo Alto with enough points to be No. 1.
"It's definitely pretty cool to see our name at the top because we've been stuck in the top five for a while," said recent Palo Alto grad Mark Raftrey. "But the ranking isn't everything because the system has to rank so many teams that it can't actually watch teams play and rank them based on how well they play. Also, we haven't played many teams from outside our region to compare ourselves to, so we can't call ourselves the best unless we win the national championship."
Palo Alto obviously is looking forward to doing that.
"Our coach (Rob Becerra) has always had two expectations before any game," said Gunn High senior Sam Hayward, one of only two current high school players on the team. "One, that we give 100 perfect effort and, two, that we win. We have all bought into our coach's system and it has worked to perfection.
"Before the regional final, our assistant coach B.J. Noble, who has helped us tremendously over the years, reminded us before that game that a leader is only as strong as the pack. To understand how our team operates, you could sort of compare us to a tightly knit mob, in that we know that the group's strength is far more important than any individual talent."
Hayward said the team had some extra motivation heading into the regional finale.
"We were all inspired to win at regionals, not only because we wanted that first-place prize, but because a few of our players had been injured recently and we all wanted them to play another game wearing a Palo Alto jersey."
The tourney title gave the Panthers a 33-2-3 record this season and a winning percentage of 86.8. Palo Alto has 21,187 points while the second-place Alpharetta Ambush 93 Red of Georgia has 20,054. Those are the only club teams in the nation, in the 18-U division, that have won over 71 percent of their matches.
The Panthers have scored 103 goals in 38 matches while allowing 22. The team has won four major tournaments since last August -- the Santa Clara Sporting Invitational, NorCal Cup, California North State Cup and the Regional IV championship. Palo Alto also was a finalist at the San Diego Surf College Cup.
"Basically the core of the team has been together since middle school and they play very well as a team, said John Raftrey, one of two team managers. "Nine different players scored at regionals; we don't really have a superstar."
Some of the players will be playing in college this fall: Riley Hanley (Mountain View) at St Mary's; Mackie Kelly (Mountain View) and Zac Hummel (Palo Alto) at UC Santa Cruz; Mark Raftrey (Palo Alto) at Pomona College; Grahame Fitz (Summit Prep) at University of Redlands; and Miguel Vazquez (Half Moon Bay) at Notre Dame du Namur. Jose Mendoza is already at UNLV and Fernando Salazar at Foothill.
Other team members include Trevor Assaf (Crystal Springs grad), Cameron McElfresh (current Gunn), Andrew Wohl (Gunn grad), Yatam Kasznik (Gunn grad), Juan Gamez (Mission, S.F., grad), Ian Leung (St. Francis grad), Even Coutre (St. Francis grad), A.J. Beloff (Carlmont grad) and Ricky Minno (Palo Alto grad).
"To be on this team for nine years, and to have most of our success come at the very end of our team's run, could not feel any sweeter," Hayward said. "Our motivation to improve has always been very high and, although we went through a real rough patch a few years back, we never had any doubt that we could one day be the best team in the country."
In addition to the talented coaches the team has had over the years, team managers John Raftrey and Gal Tirosh also have made a big contribution.
"John Raftrey and Gal Tirosh have always been there for the team and are really the two architects behind everything that we have accomplished," said Hayward. "Nothing would be possible today without these two masterminds working the strings behind the scenes."
The Panthers will spend the next few weeks training at the Cubberley Community Center while preparing for the national championships.
"All of us are proud to represent the City of Palo Alto, a city a lot of us have grown up in our whole life," Hayward said. "We have not always been the most athletic, the strongest, or the most technically skilled team but our commitment to one another has always been there. We all back one another up and, more importantly, believe in one another.
"Looking at most of our players you wouldn't expect us to ever reach this far," continued Hayward. "Lots of us were not recruited heavily and no one really stands out on the team as a superstar. But, combine our strengths, competitive attitudes, and desire to be the best, and you have one unstoppable team. To be No. 1 in the nation is a stellar feeling. But, it doesn't mean much at this point since we still have four games to go to prove to everyone that we deserve it."


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Theatre professor brings lessons from the Portland stage to campus
January 30, 2013
Though she joined the faculty only last fall, Assistant Professor of Theatre Rebecca Lingafelter is already an active player in the Portland theatre scene.
Cofounder of the Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (PETE), Lingafelter is currently performing in the group's first full-length production, titled R3. A cast of six reimagines Shakespeare's masterpiece Richard III through the perspectives of the play's female characters.
"Working professionally in Portland on projects such as R3 gives me an opportunity to test and refine the theories and practices that I am teaching in my classes at Lewis & Clark," Lingafelter said.
A review inthe Oregonian called the production "a thought-provoking, imaginative take on Shakespeare's play," but Lingafelter insists that even unsuccessful ventures can provide valuable educational opportunities.
"Theatre is an experiment-based endeavor," Lingafelter said. "I can bring the results straight from the stage and into my classes where I am able to introduce students to new ideas, [but] I am also able to bring in my failed experiments and talk to the students about the advantage of risking failure."
Lingafelter teaches classes in acting and directing. R3 closes February 3. Ticket information and a performance schedule are available on the PETE website.
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Just before New Year's Day, I posted a column questioning if the San Diego State Aztecs basketball team was 'for real.' Two months later, they've answered with an emphatic YES — even if few have noticed.
Part of the issue is that "The Mountain West Network" televises their games, so SDSU is never on ESPN or national TV, even when they played what was the game of the year last month in Provo against BYU. Kurt Allen covered that with a fantastic and thorough preview, the depth of which you won't find in any mainstream publication.
Heck, many people back east didn't even know who The Jimmer was until a few weeks ago, despite his averaging 22 per game last season (over 27 so far this campaign) and leading his team into the 2010 NCAA second round with a 37 point performance vs. Florida.
("Hey, c'mon, BYU is from Utah and the game was in Oklahoma…you expect me and the sheltered Connecticuters of ESPN to stay up late, do our jobs, and care?" is what I imagine talk show host Colin Cowherd musing. Again, this raises the question of how we bloggers, who have our own full time jobs, are able to cover stories better and more accurately than the mainstream media—whose ONLY job is to do this! But I digress…)
Thankfully, Saturday at 2pm EST, BYU visits SDSU's Viejas Arena on CBS in the Game of the Year in college basketball. Period. People back east might even learn about one of the best sophomores in the land, Kawhi Leonard. All he's done is lead the Aztecs to a 52-10 record since arriving on campus.
Most pertinently though, here on Presidents Day the new polls came out, and sadly, to no one's surprise, the #2 team in the RPI, with the fewest losses in the nation (ONE), was not number one, but rather number six in the AP poll! (People have noticed many other mishaps too)
That San Diego State loss, of course, was on the road to the #3 team in the RPI (ranked 7 today, but should also be higher), in a place that school hasn't lost since roughly when Brigham Young himself arrived in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake.
SDSU is 27-1, and plays in a very good conference that's better than the ACC, Pac 10 and SEC. The Aztecs also played a tough non conference schedule that, gasp, included numerous road games. (A foreign concept to many 'major' teams like Syracuse et al but normal to the likes of Butler, Xavier, Gonzaga and MWC squads.)
Duke, their two losses to bubble teams, and no truly impressive wins (#6 RPI, with the worst SOS (39) of any top 15 team), is naturally tops in the land again today. And by virtue of playing in a subpar conference again (that should only get two teams in), the Blue Devils should cruise to a number one seed in the NCAA tourney and easy draw ala 2010 when they won the title.
On that topic, a recent MSN/Fox Sports college hoops post named "ten teams that can win the title," and did not mention the Aztecs, nor BYU's Cougars. They did mention Villanova, Missouri and Washington, however!?
Ridiculous, though I'm sure author of the above piece, Jeff Goodman, — whose ballot today had SDSU 7th and BYU 9th! — didn't mention Michigan State, West Virginia or Butler last year at this time, and all three made final 4 — while Kansas, Kentucky and Syracuse did not.
Analyzing is one thing, but predictions, especially on college teams, are silly. That's why I don't gamble.
But haughty analysts like Goodman, Joe Lunardi, Clark Kellogg, Andy Katz, Stephen A. Smith, Duke alums Seth Davis and Jay Bilas, supercilious Syracuse beat writers, alongside the rest of the elites who condescendingly mocked mid-majors last March (picking the National Runner-Up Bulldogs to lose in the first round, for example), know very little; refuse to leave their coast; and therefore, I suppose the polls thankfully mean nothing other than "inconsequential noise" as someone put it today when rightly griping about Pitt.
But then again, the Committee likely has the same ignorance and biases, and what they believe does matter on March 13. The overused "Eyeball Test" cliché is a bad cop-out for journalistic irresponsibility.
I may live in the Midwest now, but it seems the sports media is and always will be biased against central and western teams. Any of the current top "BCS" teams would have two or more losses if they played in the 2010-2011 Mountain West Conference.


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Recap: No. 10 Wichita State beats Davidson 81-70
WICHITA, Kan. Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall spent much of the week trying to convince his unbeaten, 10th-ranked Shockers that Davidson was much better than the 4-8 record it was bringing into Sunday's game.
The Wildcats would be facing their fifth ranked opponent and played much of the season without leading scorer De'Mon Brooks.
So Marshall was adamant he did not care a bit about style points after Wichita State outlasted Davidson 81-70 behind Cleanthony Early's 24 points and 10 rebounds.
"Those guys aren't going to quit; you've got to beat them," he said. "That win will look a lot better later this season."
Ron Baker had 15 points to help Wichita State (13-0) extend the best start in school history. Darius Carter scored 13 points for the Shockers and Tekele Cotton added 10.
Tyler Kalinoski had 17 points for Davidson (4-9), while Tom Droney added 12 and Brooks scored 10.
As Marshall looked over the stat sheet, he saw similar shooting percentages. What stood out was Wichita State going 28 of 41 on free throws while Davidson was just 11 of 16. Three Wildcats fouled out.
"The difference in the game was we were able to drive it better," Marshall said. "That got us to the line. Forty-one free throws is a lot for us."
Wichita State shot 27 free throws in the second half, and many were with the Shockers trying to hang on to a slim lead.
The Wildcats used a 6-0 run in less than 90 seconds on two running jumpers by Droney and a basket by Chris Czerapowicz to cut Wichita State's lead to 45-44 with 15:34 remaining.
The Shockers stemmed the tide with a 9-2 run. Davidson shot 1 of 7 during the stretch, which was capped by a 3 by Early that made it 55-46 with 12:15 to play, the Shockers' biggest lead of the game to that point.
But the Wildcats stayed within striking distance thanks to 3-pointers. In the next 5 minutes, Kalinoski hit two 3s while Czerapowicz and Brian Sullivan each hit one.
Kalinoski's second 3-pointer in that span made the Wildcats 5 of 8 from beyond the arc in the half and cut the Shockers' lead to 65-60.
"It goes to show you that they're a really good team," Baker said. "They kept hitting shots and making plays to keep it close."
But Davidson went through another drought after that, not hitting a field goal for more than 5 minutes.
That allowed Wichita State to pull away behind key plays, like Early's soaring tip-in over two defenders and Fred VanVleet's 3-pointer after Davidson had cut the lead to four.
"Cle came out of nowhere on that tip-in," Marshall said. "That was a really athletic play."
By the time the Wildcats made another field goal, Jake Belford's 3-pointer with 1:33 remaining, Wichita State had already built a 75-64 lead with 1:44 left.
"I thought we really fought in quite an electric atmosphere," Davidson coach Bob McKillop said. "Each time we would get it close, they would make a big shot, like the 3 VanVleet hit. And they are superb on defense."
To that end, Wichita State stuck Cotton, its top defender, on Sullivan. After scoring 33 in Davidson's previous game at No. 19 North Carolina, Sullivan was 2 of 10 from the field and had eight points Sunday.
"I thought that was huge, Tekele doing what Tekele does on someone," Marshall said.
Wichita State had a significant advantage in points off turnovers, converting Davidson's 15 turnovers into 18 points. The Shockers had nine turnovers, which the Wildcats turned into seven points.
And after getting outrebounded by Davidson in the first half, the Shockers won the rebounding battle 24-17 in the second half.
"To hear at halftime we had been outrebounded was motivation for us," Early said. "That's something we pride ourselves in all the time."
The Shockers scored the first half's final five points, including a tip-in by Carter at the buzzer, for a 36-32 lead.