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Watching the Clock for the End of the World
6:15 a.m.: Husband's alarm goes off. Obviously the world has not ended overnight. Decide to doze some more and see what happens.
6:45 a.m.: Still no end in sight. Guess I had best get up. If the world's not going to end, I have deadlines to meet. It's a bloody letdown, but what can you do?
7:00 a.m.: Tea! Thank the gods! Okay, now the world can end.
8:00 a.m.: Still here, and so are the deadlines. Writing film reviews. Texting my brother, whose birthday is today: "Hey bro, so you're turning 40. Don't take it too hard. It's not the end of the world. Or is it? Haha!"
9:00 a.m.: No reply from my brother. Surly bastard.
9:30 a.m.: Heading in to the office... through the cold, cold drizzle. I'm only needed for about an hour and a half but it's going to take that long to get there. If the world does end today it probably will be just as I arrive, soaked and shivering, and before I can get any work done. Typical.
10:00 a.m.: Riding on the bus. Had to wait longer than I expected for the bus to show up and while I stood huddled under the bus shelter I got into a conversation with a homeless guy.
ME: Say, you're not too worried about this "Mayan Apocalypse" thing, are you?
HOMELESS GUY: No, not too worried.
ME: So what will you be doing for Christmas?
HOMELESS GUY: I'm gonna try to get a hotel room.
ME: Here's my bus. Have a nice day.
HOMELESS GUY: You wouldn't have any spare cash, would you?
I gave him $5. Upon reflection, I should have given him a ten-spot. After all, if the last day of Earth's existence isn't a time for generosity, when is?
12:00 noon: Chatting with a colleague at work. He's bubbling over with enthusiasm for the whole Mayan calendar thing. His take is that the world won't end; rather, a massive shift in human consciousness is going to happen today.
"It might already have happened," he says, eyes shining. "If the balance is 51% negative and 49% positive, and then suddenly it flips to 51% positive and only 49% negative, we wouldn't even know it, but it's the start of something new. Something big! In the future they might look back on today as the start of a whole new era in human history!"
Sounds complicated. Can't we just vanish in a puff or something?
Actually, as far as universal annihilation goes, that's not a bad option. All it would take is a minor quantum shift in the basic energy level of the universe. Every bit of matter in the cosmos would simply evaporate. It's not very probable at any given moment in time, but the universe is already 14 billion years old. Even the most improbable things are bound to happen sooner or later...
I mention this to him. He looks kind of hurt. He looks like I've just harshed on his buzz. Sorry, dude!
1:15 p.m.: Shivering in the rain once again and waiting for the bus. Why is it that you have to wait twice as long as you expect and then two buses show up at the same time? What kind of deal is that?
Here's a thought. Instead of the traditional End of All Time doomsday, could we maybe go in for a Limited Duration version? You know, so that instead of the entire future being wiped out, we just lose a few months and skip ahead to spring? Is that an option?
1:42 p.m.: Riding on the bus once more. Some young guy without an umbrella sits next to me; he's drenched. A drop of water quivers at the tip of his nose. He's gonna catch cold at this rate. I happen to have a spare umbrella, a small retractable model, in my courier bag, so I offer him the larger one I've been carrying around. The wind has been battering this umbrella pretty good and it's a cheap make, so it's about to give out anyway, but it would probably last the rest of the afternoon with some care.
I make my offer. He eyes me uncertainly and edges away. "I'm already wet, but thanks anyway," he says.
If this really were the last day... and it's starting to look like it's not, because shouldn't something have happened by now? An earthquake? A supernova? A new celebrity sex tape?... Anyway, if this really were the last day, would people still be scared of each other? If we were facing the end of the world, would we panic and riot, or would we - I don't know - all have a big picnic? Break out the fois gras and the Veuve Cliquot? Offer a toast to the End of Days? Why not just be happy if you've got nothing to lose?
2:30 p.m.: Trudging home, I think up a Facebook witticism: "New boots upside: Warm and dry. New boots downside: Ouch! Damn! Ouch!" Decide to save it for later. In case there is a later. (They say you've got to have something to look forward to for optimal mental health, right?)
3:00 p.m.: Still no response from my brother. The git.
4:00 p.m.: This really is irritating. No end of the world. Now I have to get the shopping in and clean house.
7:00 p.m.: Meeting with my friend Clayton for a quick cup of coffee before we see a play. I don't drink coffee, so I order hot chocolate. Would I like whipped cream with that? Ordinarily I'd say no, but there's still a chance that the world is going to explode in a ball of fiery magma, so I say yes. What the hell, right?
10:00 p.m.: The play, "Two Gentlemen of Verona," was hilarious. Walking home, I reflect that if as asteroid or rogue planet suddenly appeared in the sky, rushing toward the Earth with lethal speed and glory, I'd be able to say I was leaving this vale of tears on a high note. Alas, nothing up there but wintery clouds. Bleah.
11:00 p.m.: The postman must really have been running late today, because he evidently came by only after I had left to get to the play. I haul packages upstairs to find my husband watching "The Philadelphia Experiment" on TV. Mad science run amuck!
One parcel is from my brother. Every year he sends the same thing: an assortment of huckleberry products. Huckleberry jam; huckleberry cookies; huckleberry honey. I open the box and find the contents coated in thick purple goo: A jar of huckleberry syrup has popped its lid and haemorrhaged all over everything. It's huckleberry apocalypse!
The world has not ended, but the Mayans, and my brother, have gotten the last laugh. Blackguards.
6:15 a.m.: Husband's alarm goes off. I've just been having a dream about swimming in a big pool of huckleberry syrup as my brother lounges nearby with an absurdly elaborate drink in his hand, a drink that sports an umbrella as big as the compact model I carry in my courier bag.
Well, fancy that, it's a new day.
On the other hand, December 21, 2012 was the end of the world in the very same way each and every day is the end of the world; it was the end of history so far. With a new dawn there is every day the chance to make new choices, try new things, let go of grudges and fears, regrets and limitations. The old world passeth away daily. A new world cometh and all is constantly renewed.
So what are we gonna do today? Offer a smile to a stranger? Drink some Veuve Cliquot? Avoid the Fiscal Cliff? The possibilities are endless.
I don't know about you all, but I have deadlines to meet.


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February 21, 2011
Some of the biggest players in technology have come together to form a group that aims to boost the use of cloud architectures in Asia, where adoption lags behind the U.S. and Europe.
The effort provides a window on some of the continuing issues affecting the evolution of cloud computing. And it shows some surprising barriers. Among them: Data sovereignty laws locking information inside a country's borders and a lack of definitions of quality that makes it difficult for marketers to advertise their specialties.
Eleven companies, primarily from the U.S. and western Europe, announced they were forming the Asia Cloud Computing Association to address regional issues and challenges to the adoption of cloud computing in Asia.
Bernie Trudel, cloud CTO for Cisco in Asia, who is currently vice chairman of the association, said in an interview: "The idea is to help define and catalyze the market and make sure we can remove any barriers to adoption." He said that interest in moving to the cloud in Asia "is really hot," but the infrastructure isn't ready yet. He said Asia is probably about three years behind North America and 18 months behind Europe in adopting cloud methodologies.
"The idea is to help define and catalyze the market and make sure we can remove any barriers to adoption."
Asia's fragmented regulatory framework presents one big challenge to growth of the market. For instance, some countries -- even tiny island nations -- require that citizens' personal information remain inside their national borders. That means that cloud storage providers can't maximize efficiency by providing regional cloud centers. And Sa s providers can't run applications remotely if they need to download data in order to analyze or change it. Indeed it could even hamper recovery in emergencies, because back-up data centers might be affected by the same weather or terrorism issues that shut down the main site.
Moreover, those regulations are "preventing some of the benefits of economies of scale," Trudel says. "We're trying to work with regulators and identify how they might loosen up some of their regulations in order to allow clouds to proliferate and local companies to benefit from cloud."
Trudel says that one of the Association's most important functions is to connect with international bodies like the Cloud Security Alliance. With the huge community of offshore IT service providers in India, the Philippines and elsewhere in Asia, "we want to make sure Asian concerns are in their minds when they're writing their standards," he says.
The immature state of the cloud market is reflected in the lack of standard definitions for cloud features. Trudel said that a working group in the association has been in touch with the international-standards body, NIST, about developing a cloud taxonomy. One thing Trudel would like to see is a definition of "a gold standard level for cloud." He notes that telecommunications companies define "carrier grade" as "five-nines availability," or 99.999% up time. Having a similar standard for cloud computing would give engineers something to shoot for and marketers something specific to promote.
Asia Cloud chairman Sundi Balu, who is chief information officer of satellite-and-undersea-cable operator Reach, said: "Cloud adoption in the Asia Pacific region has yet to reach its full potential. The regulatory landscape and varying market maturity levels have fragmented the adoption of cloud computing in the region."
Some of the world's largest technology companies, including Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., and Verizon Communications Inc. joined to form the group. Asian companies in the group include Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, known as Smart, as well as Hong Kong-based Reach.
There's no doubt that the Asia market for cloud will be huge. Telegeography Research estimates that global broadband Internet subscribers will climb to more than 700 million by 2013, with more than 300 million from Asia, compared to about 100 million in North America, and nearly 200 million in Europe. Broadband availability is closely linked to cloud computing because it makes it easy for users to store and access video, audio and applications in the cloud rather than running them on their own PCs.
The global market for cloud computing is growing at a compound annual rate of 28 percent, from $47 billion U.S. in 2008 to $126 billion U.S. dollars by 2012, according to industry estimates. The research firm IDC estimates cloud computing in Asia, outside of Japan, will expand 40 percent every year until 2014, from $1.3 billion U.S. dollars in 2010. Japan, currently the 2nd largest IT market globally, is expected to grow to $29.2 billion in 2015 according to Japan's Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry.
Suppliers are rushing to fulfill demand. In January, International Business Machines Corp. announced plans to build Asia's largest cloud computing center on the outskirts of Beijing. The multi-building campus will cover 6.2 million square feet.
Trudel said that the Association has big aspirations too. By the end of the year, he said. he hopes membership will double. In four years, he adds, it could be 400.
IBM estimate of worldwide cloud growth: http://www.ibm.com/news/ch/de/2010/07/21/b829272f44836g02.html

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Five-star Brighton smash Tykes
Ashley Barnes and Craig Mackail-Smith both scored braces in a thrilling game as Brighton thrashed Barnsley 5-1 in the Championship.
Last Updated: 25/08/12 5:15pm
The Seagulls had not found the net in their previous three matches this season, prompting manager Gus Poyet to step up his search for a new striker.
But his current frontline sent a message to the boss with Barnes opening and completing the scoring and Mackail-Smith grabbing his brace either side of half-time.
And on what was obviously the day to end goal droughts, Wayne Bridge scored his first league goal in nearly nine years as Brighton finally got their season up and running.
The 30-year-old defender, on loan with the Seagulls from Manchester City, struck a long-range effort as Poyet's side picked up their first win of the Championship campaign.
Former Brighton striker Craig Davies did pull one back from the penalty spot but the Tykes were well beaten and slipped to a second straight defeat.
The previously shot-shy hosts got off to the perfect start with a goal after only four minutes.
Barnsley goalkeeper David Gonzalez, who had a spell with the Seagulls last term, spilled Craig Noone's free-kick and Barnes was on hand to half-volley the ball into the net.
Eleven minutes later Bridge collected a pass from Liam Bridcutt and, as Barnsley back-tracked, the former England left-back crashed in a 25-yard drive which flew through a sea of bodies and low into the corner of the net.
It was Bridge's first league goal since he found the net for Chelsea against Portsmouth in December 2003.
Barnsley were thrown a lifeline after 34 minutes when Andrew Crofts brought down Jacob Mellis in the area and Davies converted the penalty, despite Tomasz Kuszczak getting a touch.
But three minutes later the hosts restored their two-goal cushion when Spanish full-back Bruno raided down the right.
His cross was missed by the unconvincing Gonzalez and Mackail-Smith was on hand to tap in at the far post.
Barnsley have not come from behind to win an away game since they beat Blackpool in December 2009, and their faint hopes of doing so disappeared three minutes after the interval.
John Stones was muscled off the ball by the diminutive Noone and his cross was headed on by Barnes for Mackail-Smith to tuck in his second.
And 10 minutes from time, substitute Kazenga LuaLua reached the byline and crossed for Barnes to fire his second and Brighton's fifth.


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mcphoto needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 117 designs submitted by 36 freelance designers.
Mark Cafiero's SNAPshops - workshops for point-and-shooters!
You can learn all about me at my blog: http://www.sixpeeps.com
I'm a professional wedding photographer (please see http://www.cafierophoto.com). I'm known for my professional work, but people also know me as an adventurer, traveler, outdoor sportsman, and my sometimes-juvenile sense of humor.
People are always intrigued by my point-and-shoot photography: how I get such awesome shots with my cheap-o point and shoot camera. So I am putting together a continuing series of hands-on photography field-trips. I'll be taking groups of 20 or so out on field trips to local attractions. We'll be taking photos and I'll be providing coaching and tips to better their photography.
I'm targeting 30-somethings. Lots of my target market are new parents, but I get a lot of older folks, too. Regardless, they are enthusiastic about life and want to capture it better with their cameras.
I love the "i" in my sixpeeps logo (http://www.sixpeeps.com) and am almost thinking it would be cool to use it as the "i" in my "Better Pics" logo. But I'd also like to see some without it.
I also love the professionalism of my professional logo (see http://www.cafierophoto.com), but that's maybe a tad too serious for this.
I would like the logo to be literally "Mark Cafiero's SNAPshops" with a tagline, "amaze yourself and others with your own point-and-shoot photography"
I'd like the "SNAP" to be the main attraction of this logo.
The "Mark Cafiero's" part should be the coolest scripty font that you can imagine.
The tagline should be very easy to read.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Traumatic Brain Injury
Well, I made it safely to Afghanistan. While here, I was contacted about helping to get the message out about TBI. Certainly we are suffering from our successes -- our improved body and vehicle armor has kept many from dying outright, but instead we now face increased numbers of TBI cases.
Here's some more information:
Traumatic Brain Injuries in the Military
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is becoming a common wound of modern warfare. It has even been coined the "signature wound" of the War on Terror. While TBI is becoming more prevalent in wartime activity, many service men and women continue to go undiagnosed. Institutions, like the US Department of Veterans Affairs, are working to make quick and accurate diagnoses in order to prescribe appropriate and effective treatment.
TBI is caused by forced trauma to the head, either by being shaken or hit. The severity of a TBI varies from case to case, but symptoms range from mild concussions to a debilitating state. The majority of TBI's acquired by military personnel are classified as mild traumatic brain injuries (MTBI). Initial symptoms of MTBI consist of loss of consciousness, disorientation, loss of memory, headache, and temporary loss of hearing and vision. They are often partnered with anxiety, irritability, difficulties processing information, limited concentration amongst other problems experienced down the road. While MTBI is most common amongst the men and women of the armed forces, more severe cases of TBI are happening much more frequently and often require the victim to attended specialty rehabilitative nursing centers, like CareMeridian.
The most common cause of a TBI in the military is due to blasts. There are three degrees of blast injuries where a TBI is common; Primary (due to blast itself), Secondary (due to objects being propelled by a blast) and Tertiary (due to a collision with a third party object). According to the Veterans Health Initiative, active male members of the military from the ages 18-24 are hospitalized with a TBI at a rate of 231 per 100,000 and females 150 per 100,000. Based on military force projections this would mean that 4,141 military personnel are hospitalized on average each year with a TBI, and these numbers often rise during wartimes.
The best prevention for veterans to avert the long-term effects of a brain injury is to recognize the symptoms of a TBI. Once the symptoms are identified an individual should take basic precautionary measures in order to begin the healing and recovery process until a more specific diagnosis can be made.
Service men and women give so much to protect this country and they deserve to come home to a happy and healthy life. Creating awareness about TBI will help ensure their long term health. By helping our veterans, their friends and their families recognize the early warning signs of a TBI, treatment can be sought as early as possible.


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Businesses are losing billions of dollars annually as a result of lost and stolen laptop computers, a new study shows.
Representatives from Intel, which sponsored "The Billion Dollar Laptop Study," and the Ponemon Institute, which conducted the study, announced their findings at a media event in San Francisco on Thursday.
The 329 organizations surveyed lost more than 86,000 laptops over the course of a year, the study found. Larry Ponemon, chairman and founder of the Ponemon Institute, said that based on these findings and a 2009 survey that put the average cost of lost laptop data at $49,246, the cost to these organizations came to more than $2.1 billion or $6.4 million per organization.
"A lot of organizations are incompetent at protecting information assets," said Ponemon.
Ponemon explained that the value of the lost hardware represented only a small portion of the estimated cost. Most of the cost is linked to the value of intellectual property on these laptops and the fees associated with data breaches and statutory notification requirements.
The study painted a grim picture about lost and stolen laptops. It found that laptops have a 5% to 10% chance of being lost or stolen over three years. Only 5% of lost laptops are ever recovered. Theft accounts for 25% of losses and likely theft for 15%. Sixty percent of lost laptops simply go missing, their fate unknown. Some lost laptops are believed to be stripped for parts.
Intel's interest in this topic can be explained by the fact that it offers anti-theft technology. The latest generation of this technology, Intel Anti-Theft Technology (Intel AT) 3.0, will debut in Intel's Core and Core vPro processor families during the first quarter of 2011. Intel AT provides the ability: to disable access to encrypted data; to prevent the PC from booting; to send customizable messages that display under conditions; to disable a PC after a certain number of login attempts; and to disable a PC when the user has not checked-in as required.
Version 3.0 adds the ability to send a remote 3G SMS message using special cellular hardware to disable the PC, before it can be booted.


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One more red and white quilt for Valentine's Day. This one was made a couple of years ago. I used the scraps from this one for the red and white table runner.
And one more for the road . . .
7 Comments
girlsmamaFebruary 12, 2009 at 11:03 pm
I'm coveting all your Valentines quilts! This is my favorite website for printables

http://www.dltk-cards.com/bingo/bingo1.asp
SherriFebruary 12, 2009 at 11:34 pm
Love the red and white heart quilt!
JackieFebruary 13, 2009 at 4:43 am
Love the newest red and white quilt! Happy Valentine's day! Enjoy bingo.
NedraFebruary 13, 2009 at 7:08 am
Both of your valentine quilts have turned out lovely!
LynnieFebruary 13, 2009 at 11:43 am
ps. The blog "Rays of Sunshine" linked on mine has more printables linked if you want to check it out.
SarahFebruary 18, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Those hearts are SO fun! Nice work!
tracyMarch 31, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Oh I love your cheery heart quilts!!!!


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Police charge six in party vandalism
Rensselaer County sheriff says more arrests are expected
Six ringleaders who helped organize a massive high-school party that left former NFL player Brian Holloway's home trashed have been arrested and were set to appear in town court Thursday evening, Rensselaer County Sheriff Jack Mahar said.
Mahar said the ring leaders had until 4 p.m. to turn themselves in at the Rensselaer County Jail.
The group was then set to be transported to Stephentown Town Court to be arraigned.
Those arrested are:
Seth Hawk, 19, of Grafton, who was charged with third-degree burglary and fourth-degree criminal mischief, both felonies; and endangering the welfare of a child and unlawfully dealing with a child, both misdemeanors, for allegedly organizing, advertising and providing alcohol for the party.
Juan Santana, 20, of Grafton, who was charged with misdemeanors of second-degree criminal trespass, endangering the welfare of a child and unlawfully dealing with a child for allegedly providing alcohol for the party.
Cody D. Blain, 21, of Berlin, who was charged with misdemeanors second-degree criminal trespass, endangering the welfare of a child and unlawfully dealing with a child for allegedly providing alcohol for the party.
Meghan Loiselle, 18, of Green Island, who was charged with felony fourth-degree grand larceny for allegedly stealing a granite eagle statue valued at more than $1,200, as well as second-degree criminal trespass.
Mackenzie Grogan, 17, of Cohoes, who was charged with fourth-degree felony grand larceny for allegedly stealing the statue, as well as second-degree criminal trespass.
Keely C. Sullivan, 18, of Troy, who was charged with fourth-degree felony grand larceny for allegedly stealing the statue, as well as second-degree criminal trespass.
Mahar said there would be subsequent arrests and that deputies and investigators must make contact with a couple of hundred people at the party before more arrests are made.
The arrests follow Holloway's submission of paperwork calling for charges against any of the hundreds who allegedly vandalized the home.
According to copies of the affidavits listed on Holloway's helpmesave300.com website, a larceny or criminal possession complaint was filed for a granite eagle statue allegedly stolen from the home and a trespass/burglary complaint was filed for the party being held without his permission.
Prior to the arrests Thursday, Holloway said he decided to file the paperwork because he had given the teens and their parents enough time to come forward and own up. He said that, had more than the handful of students come forward, he would have had a discussion about how the situation should be resolved without necessarily resorting to filing complaints.
"I gave them plenty of opportunities to come and speak with me," he said. "I even gave them the opportunity to get up here, bring all the parents and tell me how we should handle all this."
Holloway said it had come to the point that he needed to take a stand against those who didn't come forward. If he didn't, "then I would be just as guilty as the students and the parents that absolutely failed in stepping forward and being accountable," he said.
A mother of one of the teens at the party, who asked her name and her son's name not be used for fear of repercussions, said prior to the arrests that she wouldn't want to subject her son to the media circus that has been created by the incident by coming forward.
She also objected to suggestions that she hasn't disciplined her teen.
"I'll punish him as I see fit," she said. "I don't need to punish him as Brian Holloway sees fit."
Many of the teens named by Holloway on his website — he later took the names down — or visible in photos have been targeted for abuse by Internet vigilantes.
"He's a responsible kid," the mom said. "He's not a horrible, rotten teenage delinquent."
She said her son was at the party for 45 minutes before coming home and saw no vandalism or stealing.
The Aug. 31 party left Holloway's second home — he spends most of his time in Florida — with what he said is $20,000 in damage.
Holloway said he has more than "200 pieces of evidence to arrest all 300 of them" before saying "what I call evidence and what they (deputies) call evidence is probably two different things." He did not elaborate about the evidence.
He did not say what charges he would like to see lodged.
"It's really in their hands," Holloway said. "I'm not an officer."
The mom said she knows her son was in the wrong to be at the party, and she understands that he may face criminal trespassing charges.
"I don't think any parent could say that they were in the right by being there," she said. "But the direction this is going is completely out of control."
Kenneth C. Crowe II contributed


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JPMorgan expected to pay $2B for role in Madoff case
JPMorgan's settlement tab for the last 12 months could rise to $20 billion under expected agreements.
JPMorgan Chase is expected to pay approximately $2 billion in civil and criminal settlements as early as Tuesday to settle government suspicions that the global bank ignored signs of Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme.
The New York-based bank, where Madoff kept his main checking account for decades, will make the payments in agreements with the U.S. Attorney's office in New York, the Treasury Department and the Office of Comptroller of the Currency, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal reported.
The bulk of the expected financial settlement is expected to go toward helping repay the thousands of ordinary investors, celebrities, charities and others burned by the $17.3 billion fraud. Only about $11.9 billion of that total has been recovered to date.
The pending settlements are expected to include a deferred-prosecution agreement that would require JPMorgan to acknowledge the findings of federal investigations and beef up the bank's internal monitoring procedures.
The financial penalties would raise the bank's total tab for settling government investigations to $20 billion during the past 12 months.
Authorities aren't likely to single out any one person at the bank for blame. But federal regulations require banks to report suspicious activity by their account holders. A recent civil suit against JPMorgan revealed e-mails that raised red flags about Madoff, including a 2008 memo that the now-disgraced financier could be running a Ponzi scheme.
That memo was written shortly before Madoff's arrest and the scam's collapse in Dec. 2008. He pleaded guilty to fraud and other charges in March 2009 without standing trial. Madoff is now serving a 150-year prison term.
Five former Madoff employees are now on trial in Manhattan federal court on charges they knowingly participated in the fraud. They have pleaded not guilty and said they were hoodwinked by their ex-boss.
Richard Cassa, a former JPMorgan client relationship manager, testified in that case last month that he previously supervised Madoff's account but had little knowledge about the investment advisory business — the business division where it turned out the fraud was secretly centered. There were "probably tens of millions" of dollars in the account during his tenure, Cassa testified.
The expected settlements won't end JPMorgan's involvement in Madoff-related legal issues. Irving Picard, the court-appointed trustee trying to recover funds from the fraud for investors, filed a U.S. Supreme Court petition last year seeking authorization to pursue financial recovery from JPMorgan and several other banks, including London-based HSBC and Swiss giant UBS.
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hold a conference on Friday in which its justices will decide whether to accept the case. Only a handful of such petitions are typically accepted for full review.
However, the Madoff trustee still has several U.S. Bankruptcy Court actions pending against JPMorgan and other banks, collectively involving an estimated $4 billion in recovery claims.
Any agreement reached between JPMorgan and the Department of Justice "would be independent" of the trustee's claims against the bank, Amanda Remus, a spokeswoman for Picard, said Monday.


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Incorporating children into the fitness atmosphere at a club may encourage families to begin thinking of exercise as an activity that they can do together. Club owners may find that climbing walls, whether 3 feet high or 30 feet high, can be a great way to tie youth fitness to their club.
Garnet Moore, CEO of Brewer's Ledge, a Randolph, MA-based climbing wall manufacturer and supplier, says a climbing wall is a great way to introduce kids to fitness without making it seem like a chore.
"Climbing is a real fitness activity, much like a skateboard game or a jungle gym," Moore says. "Kids just naturally want to do it. It's mentally stimulating. You have to think about balance and body position."
John White, founder of TruFit, Albuquerque, NM, a manufacturer of rock climbing equipment, says kids are typically drawn to climbing walls because of the challenge they present.
"When you look at kids who climb, they're just having fun," White says. "The kids associate the challenge and reward system early on and get excited. They see that they can do something they couldn't do a week ago."
Robyn Raboutou, the program director of Boulder, CO-based ABC Kids, an athletic facility for youth, says climbing both attracts and benefits children.
"Kids are stimulated when doing an activity like this," Raboutou says. "There's development of the gross motor skills, so they're building important muscles in their hands and stimulating mental activity."
White says the key is to attract kids to a fitness activity that they can grow with, and if they start early, they will reap more benefits and become lifetime club members.
"I'm hoping we'll be able to create a movement toward lifetime sports," White says. "Climbing is mainstream, yet it's still considered an extreme sport. I think kids will pick up on that. They're working out harder than their parents in the group class. A lot of where we can take group fitness relies on children and how they respond to it, so incorporating them into these fitness trends is important."
Because climbing walls are labeled as an "extreme sport," some people may consider them unsafe for children, but climbing wall manufacturers spend a lot of time ensuring the safety of these products by installing specific safeguards, Moore says. The walls are subject to highstandard testing that rates its hardware, construction and design. Many climbing walls are built at different levels so that a child or an unfit adult can work his or her way up to a more challenging wall.
Club operators who assure members of the climbing walls' safety for their children can earn some additional revenue through their use, too. ABC Kids hosts climbing wall parties that run $25 per child with a minimum of seven children, which equals at least $175 per party. The party includes an hour and 15 minutes of playtime on the walls with planned activities supervised by instructors.
If the addition of a climbing wall is not in a club's budget, an alternative such as a slack line may serve the same purpose. Slack lines, which White describes as similar to a tightrope but lower to the ground, offer similar fitness benefits and can often be a gateway into climbing walls.
Raboutou says the main priority at ABC Kids is safety. With children as young as 2 years old participating in climbing activities, ABC Kids takes several precautions, such as considering the dimension of the wall to the size of the child, to ensure that the equipment is up to safety standards.
Adding a climbing wall to a facility may offer easy headway into youth fitness. White and Moore agree that prioritizing youth fitness is important.
"We just want everyone to be climbers," White says. "When you go to a climbing wall, there's a community that you become a part of. By using a climbing wall, you're teaching yourself how to develop lifelong fitness habits, and that's even more valuable than going to the gym or getting on the P90X."


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S/390: The Linux Dream Machine
Linux Everywhere: More than a Slogan
February 23, 2000
Let's play a word association game, shall we? The first word is "mainframe."
Many Linux enthusiasts were born and bred in an era of PCs that are already fast and getting faster, cheap and getting cheaper. When you can buy a two-way Alpha box for five thousand dollars or a high-end Intel for even less, even administrators of large-scale servers are reluctant to spend seven figures on Big Iron from Big Blue. Besides, there's that whole legacy thing going on--you know, COBOL and RPG and punch cards. So when you saw that word "mainframe," there's a good chance that some of the words that came to mind were: expensive, cumbersome, proprietary, obsolete, DINOSAUR.
You would be wrong on the first four words, but right about that last one: dinosaur. You were probably thinking of a lumbering, walnut-brained lummox like Brontosaurus, though. Wrong dinosaur. Instead, try Tyrannosaurus Rex. Mainframes today are like the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park: they're back, and they're pissed!
Wait a minute--T. Rex is not quite right, either. Let's say, a herd of forty thousand raptors. Later in this article, you will understand why.
Taking A New Look at Big Iron
I only got to play with VM, the "other" mainframe system, my last two years of college. VM stands for "Virtual Machine," as you might imagine. When I used it in college, I noticed that each user had the illusion of his or her own machine. You had your own virtual hardware of a mini-mainframe: card reader, card punch, console, printer, and disk drives. It was cute, I thought, kind of a nifty little way to make the mainframe approachable to new users.
It wasn't until a few years ago, working for a big company that has both VM and OS/390 systems, that I began to understand that VM is much more than a user-interface model. You see, when IBM says "Virtual Machine" they really mean it--all the way down to the bare metal! It turns out that IBM's System/390, or S/390, hardware (not to be confused with the OS/390 operating system) has specialized circuits (called PR/SM and SIE in IBM parlance) in the CPU to allow it to virtualize itself. If you're an assembly-language programmer in the Intel world, you may be familiar with the "Virtual 86" mode that is present in the 386 and later processors. V86 mode lets an Intel processor emulate the venerable 8086/88 chips that were used in the days of DOS and Windows 2.x. The S/390 doesn't just emulate a subset of itself, though, but rather the entire instruction set of the latest CPU.
That word emulate really doesn't apply, either. The S/390 actually virtualizes itself in hardware, meaning that applications run at full native speed except for a very, very few privileged instructions that are actually emulated by the operating system. Everything is virtualized, right down to the hardware I/O addresses and memory map. It's like having NT's HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) actually implemented in hardware. The VM operating system takes full advantage of this by literally giving each user session its own virtual machine, which has practically the same capabilities as the hardware itself. So when a user logs in and thinks they have their own computer, they practically do. The magic of virtualization is wrought by a program called CP, or Control Program, which underlies the operating system to manage the virtual hardware.
The virtual machines in VM are so good, in fact, that you can literally boot and run VM as a "guest" operating system underneath itself. Then you can boot another VM inside that one, and so on. They don't even have to be the same version or even the same operating system. I know a mainframe wizard who has booted a new (test) version of VM underneath a user session on his production VM system, then loaded a complete OS/390 into that virtual machine. When I asked him why he did it, he said, "Because I can!" With VM, though, this isn't just a stunt, but an everyday occurrence, used for testing new operating system versions and patches without stopping production even for a minute.


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Aboriginal Voter Turnout in Northern Saskatchewan
Research to date on Aboriginal electoral participation - and the participation of Métis and off-reserve First Nations in particular - remains quite limited, leaving those policy makers and groups seeking to increase Aboriginal voter turnout to make assumptions about Aboriginal voter turnout that may or may not be valid. Drawing on original quantitative survey data collected in northern Saskatchewan, the authors of this paper demonstrate that Aboriginal groups differ from each other in federal voter turnout; that the federal turnout differences between on-reserve First Nations and Métis peoples (but not on- and off-reserve First Nations) largely reflect socio-demographic differences; and that on-reserve First Nations are less likely to report federal voting than non-Aboriginal peoples, even after other variables are taken into account. The authors suggest that it is important to consider local context and history in addition to socio-demographic and "voting resource" variables in order to understand - and, potentially, to increase - Aboriginal federal turnout levels.
Aboriginal; political participation; voter turnout
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I really enjoyed reading Kiss Tomorrow Hello: Notes from the Midlife Underground by 25 Women Over Forty. These essays reflect the thoughts, life events and relationships of 25 excellent women writers reflecting on age, health, love, sex, and change.
The writers range in age from 40 to much older, and I found their experiences and perspectives fascinating. For example, Joyce Maynard, at 51, discusses what she discovered from her foray into Internet dating ("maybe an amazing relationship is something you painstakingly build, not something that hits you like a lightning bolt... viewing the process as a search more like a road trip to parts unknown."). Karen Karbo discloses details about her relationship with a man 16 years younger ("OWs [Older Women] have learned that guys...like sex, and they like it when their women like it, and that's about it. [Younger women] worry far too much about cellulite. Basically if you're naked and smiling, men are pretty happy.")
The essay that gripped me the hardest was "Tearing Up the Sheets: A Meditation on Middle-Age Sex" by Ellen Sussman. As I read it, I kept running to my husband to read him parts. For example,
My husband and I prefer to make love in the afternoon. In the evening, we're, well, tired. And we like energetic, tear-up-the-sheets kind of sex. So we steal away from our workand spend some time imitating porn stars. Then we take a long middle-age nap.
Boys come quickly. Men do not. Hallelujah.
I fumble with my jeans, pushing them down and off. I scramble to pull his T-shirt over his head -- wait, it's caught in his glasses -- and the shirt and glasses fall to the floor... He grunts when he turns toward me -- an old hip injury -- and I cringe when I lean into the cushion -- my damn back. And then we've got it right... When he enters me, he fills me. I pull him close, wanting all of him. I give him all of me.
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St. Paul Police Request Further Review Of Kicking
ST. PAUL (AP) - St. Paul police have asked Minneapolis prosecutors to review allegations of police brutality against two officers after a videotaped arrest shows one of them kicking a man.
The YouTube video shows St. Paul police Officer Jesse Zilge kicking 30-year-old Eric Hightower once in the chest while trying to arrest Hightower last August.
Another officer, Matthews Gorans, sprayed Mace into Hightower's face and right ear to help get him into a squad car.
Last year, Olmsted County prosecutor Jim Martinson reviewed the case for possible felony charges. He declined to file charges, saying there was "insufficient proof" the officers used unreasonable force.
The Minneapolis city attorney will review the incident for possible misdemeanor charges. Meanwhile, a police internal affairs investigation continues.
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The three high school pitchers the Padres took with the seventh, 33rd and 55th overall picks in the June draft visited Petco Park Monday.
"It's unbelievable that we could be here together like this," said left-hander Max Fried, the Padres first-round pick in the draft. Right-handers Zach Eflin and Walker Weickel went 33rd and 55th, respectively, in the supplemental compensation round between the first and second rounds.
"We're a pretty tight-knit group with a lot of common ground," continued Fried.
The three were teammates in the Arizona Rookie League and will report tomorrow to the Padres' year-round base in Peoria for the Arizona Instructional League.
"I'm anxious to get going again," said Weickel, among the last of the Padres 2012 draft picks to agree to terms.
The trio represents $6.2 million in bonuses with Fried getting $3 million, Weickel $2 million and Eflin $1.2 million.
Fried had a 3.57 earned run average over 17 2/3 innings in 10 appearances in the ARL. Weickel had a 4.50 ERA over 14 innings in nine appearances and Eflin, whose first professional experience was cut short by a bout of mononucleosis, had a 7.71 ERA in seven innings over four appearances.
"I was cleared to pitch again a month ago, but they decided I should take it easy since I hadn't had a break since last fall," said Eflin. "It's beautiful here. Everyone is talking about the weather, but compared to Florida and Arizona, this is a beautiful day."
Weickel and Eflin both graduated from Florida high schools in June. Fried went to high school in the Los Angeles area.
"The biggest change for me was the level of responsibility," said Weickel, 18. "It's all on your shoulders. This is the longest I've ever been away from home. It took some getting used to."
Triple-A team sold
The former minority owners of the Padres have reached an agreement to sell the Triple-A Tucson Padres to a group in El Paso.
The sale is pending formal approval from Minor League Baseball.
El Paso is planning to build a new ballpark with a scheduled opening for either 2014 or 2015, although the project hasn't officially been approved by El Paso officials. The T-Padres will remain in Tucson for at least the 2013 season with an option for 2014.
The sale includes an extension of the working agreement between the Padres and the new El Paso owners for the 2013 and 2014 seasons.
The only other piece of property the minority owners controlled, the Showley Candy Factory building, was transferred to the new ownership group through the sale of the Padres.
Simulating Street
Right-handed closer Huston Street threw all his pitches – from both the windup and the stretch – in a simulated game Monday afternoon, but didn't test his strained left calf muscle fielding bunts or covering first.
Padres manager Bud Black said that will come Wednesday in his second and possibly final simulated game.
"We'll make the decision on the off-day (Thursday) on what to do," Black said of Street's immediate future. "He threw the ball well today. (Pitching coach) Darren (Balsley) and I liked what we saw."
Headley by the numbers
A couple more numbers pertaining to National League RBI leader Chase Headley:
Headley's 102 RBI represents 18.3 percent of all the 556 runs scored by the Padres this season. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the only major league player driving in a higher percentage of his team's runs is Detroit's Miguel Cabrera at 18.7 percent.
Headley has accounted for 27.5 percent of all the runs scored by the Padres. The number is reached by adding his runs scored (78) to his RBI and subtracting his 27 homers. Headley has had a hand in 153 of the runs scored by the Padres. Since Petco Park opened in 2004, the only player with a higher percentage of runs accounted for was first baseman Adrian Gonzalez with 29.2 percent in 2008.
By the way, the only Padre in the franchise's first 42 seasons to lead the National League in RBI was Dave Winfield with 118 in 1979.
Brach a leader
Padres right-hander Brad Brach leads National League rookie pitchers with 58 appearances.
"I've been very happy with Brad's resilency," said Black. "He answers every bell when needed and is able to hold his stuff. It's been a great learning year in a lot of ways for Brad. He's pitched his best ball in the last month."
Fort Wayne advances
Right fielder Yeison Asencio went 3-for-5 with a homer, four RBI and three runs scored Monday night as Single-A Fort Wayne scored a 13-6 win at Eastlake, Ohio, to advance to the Midwest League championships.
Left fielder Kyle Gaedele had three doubles in four at-bats for three RBI and Travis Whitmore and Lee Orr both hit solo homers.
Fort Wayne opens the best three-of-5 title series at Grand Chute, Wis., on Wednesday.


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Sunderland were today working to thrash out the detail of their proposed swoops for Stephane Sessegnon and Sulley Muntari ahead of Monday's transfer deadline.
The Black Cats were attempting to secure a work permit for Ghana international Muntari after agreeing terms with Inter Milan over a loan deal.
They had still to finalise personal terms with the former Portsmouth midfielder, but remained confident of doing so.
Muntari does not currently meet the requirements of having played in 75 per cent of his country's competitive games in the last two years after falling out with former coach Milovan Rajevac.
However, Sunderland believe they have a strong case and are hopeful Muntari will be granted a work permit.
They remain confident too that they can strike a deal with Paris St Germain which would secure a permanent move for Sessegnon.
The Black Cats made their interest in the Benin international known several weeks ago and the player has indicated he is keen to move to the Stadium of Light.
However, there is disagreement at PSG over Sessegnon's future and Sunderland have left the ball in the French club's court as they await developments.
Manager Steve Bruce is keeping his fingers crossed as he attempts to make a double breakthrough.
He identified the pair as potential signings before Darren Bent's move to Aston Villa materialised, but sees Sessegnon as a possible solution to his search for back-up to record signing Asamoah Gyan.
An attacking midfielder by trade, Sessegnon has played off a frontman or in a wide role as part of a three-man attack, and Bruce is confident he can perform a similar task on Wearside.
The Sunderland boss has assessed a series of potential striking targets since Bent's departure, but insists he will not spend for spending's sake and has yet to find the value he requires to make a stop-gap signing.
Stoke boss Tony Pulis today claimed the Black Cats had tabled a bid for striker Ricardo Fuller, but sources in the north-east dismissed the suggestion as "nonsense".


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A publicly owned building deemed worthless three months ago by the Terrebonne Parish School Board has been appraised for more than $1.1 million, raising questions about the School Board's tactics in selling the surplus property.
A publicly owned building the Terrebonne Parish School Board deemed worthless three months ago has been appraised for more than $1.1 million, raising questions about the board's tactics in selling the surplus property.
The latest appraisal opens the door for any high bidder to eventually buy the building and its property. That includes New Orleans-based renovation company HRI Properties, which has held a lease option with the School Board since the initial, lesser appraisal this summer.
It is a complete departure from the School Board's original plan to put the downtown property at Grinage and Academy streets up for lease and for sale without the value of the building included. The property alone was initially valued at $882,000.
With both the land and the building counted, the site's estimated worth is about $1.9 million, according to Murphy Appraisal Services.
Superintendent Philip Martin told the lands committee June 18 that the building, which houses federal and special education offices for 80 employees, had a "negative value" and was a "liability."
Now, he thinks the opposite.
"We've come to the conclusion that an appraisal should include everything you intend to sell," he said Tuesday. "That includes every speck of dirt and every grain of sand."
Board Member Roosevelt Thomas said the new appraisal was presented to the lands committee at its Monday meeting. At that same meeting, members clarified the board's lease option agreement with HRI Properties, part of the Terrebonne Revitalization Co., to avoid any misconceptions about the deal.
"We just wanted to make it perfectly clear: If and when the property is sold, there's no way the (current) lease would impact the sale," Martin said. "We had attorneys make that clear. In the original agreement, another statement was added that says when and if it's sold, the lease goes away."
Martin said some people have been suspicious about the board's actions, which "mystifies" him.
In late July, the state Attorney General's Office received an anonymous phone call alleging the process for leasing and selling the property was not followed properly by the board, said Amanda Papillion Larkins, a spokeswoman for the agency.
Again in August, the office received a letter from School Board Member Brenda Leroux Babin asking the attorney general for an opinion regarding the lease option, said Steven Hartmann, another attorney general spokesman. Neither inquiry was acted upon, however, because any opinion request must be presented to the governing body in question, and to date, that has not happened.
The lease option, signed June 28 by Board President Roger DeHart, went before the board July 2 and was approved 7-2. Board members Debi Benoit and Babin voted against it.
At that meeting, Martin said the $1,000-a-month lease, which could be canceled at any time, was acting as a placeholder until the company could purchase the property. The company needed to have some type of hold on the property to apply for grant money for renovations, he said, prompting some board members to speak out.
"It's not this board's responsibility to enter into a lease agreement with a company just so they can get a grant," Babin said at the meeting. "This is a fake lease, basically. To me, that feels funny."
The desired $10 million Community Development Block Grant, federal money pooled from a 2008 disaster relief appropriation given to Terrebonne Parish, was designed to create affordable rental housing, said Parish Council Chairwoman Beryl Amedee.
HRI Properties submitted a proposal for the money, detailing plans to transform the school building into a 55-unit development called "Houma Arts Loft."
The concept was to develop "artist housing with a mix of studios, one-bedroom and two-bedroom units."
But the company failed to secure the grant, Amedee said. Instead, it became second in line for the money and will only receive it if the company that was awarded the grant loses it.
"As far as the plans for the old Houma Elementary, if people are still pursuing it, they could have found another funding source," Amedee said.
That remains unclear. Hal Fairbanks, HRI Properties vice president of acquisitions, couldn't be reached for comment Tuesday, and Martin said he was not aware of the company's future intentions.
Martin emphasized the School Board's goal to simply get the building off of its hands and its budget books. The timeline for the sale, however, is still being determined.
"It's still our intention to sell," Martin said. "But that building has been there since 1931. It will still be there next week, next month."


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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor tells her own story for young readers for the very first time!
As the first Latina Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor has inspired young people around the world to reach for their dreams. But what inspired her? For young Sonia, the answer was books! They were her mirrors, her maps, her friends, and her teachers. They helped her to connect with her family in New York and in Puerto Rico, to deal with her diabetes diagnosis, to cope with her father's death, to uncover the secrets of the world, and to dream of a future for herself in which anything was possible.
In Turning Pages, Justice Sotomayor shares that love of books with a new generation of readers, and inspires them to read and puzzle and dream for themselves. Accompanied by Lulu Delacre's vibrant art, this story of the Justice's life shows readers that the world is full of promise and possibility–all they need to do is turn the page.
(The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor)
Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States, was a young girl when she dared to dream big. Her dream? To become a lawyer and a judge.
As Justice Sotomayor explains, "When I was a child my family was poor and we knew no lawyers or judges and none lived in our neighborhood. I knew nothing about the Supreme Court and how much its work in reinterpreting the Constitution and the laws of the United States affected peoples' lives. You cannot dream of becoming something you don't even know about. That has been the most important lesson of my life. You have to learn to dream big dreams."
Sonia did not let the hardships of her background—which included growing up in the rough housing projects of New York City's South Bronx, dealing with juvenile diabetes, coping with parents who argued and fought personal demons, and worrying about money—stand in her way. Always, she believed in herself. Her determination, along with guidance from generous mentors and the unwavering love of her extended Puerto Rican family, propelled her ever forward.
James Fallows + Deborah Fallows on Our Towns at the 2018 National Book Festival
James Fallows and Deborah Fallow discuss Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America at the 2018 National Book Festival.
A vivid, surprising portrait of the civic and economic reinvention taking place in America, town by town and generally out of view of the national media. A realistically positive and provocative view of the country between its coasts.
For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have been traveling across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, they have met hundreds of civic leaders, workers, immigrants, educators, environmentalists, artists, public servants, librarians, business people, city planners, students, and entrepreneurs to take the pulse and understand the prospects of places that usually draw notice only after a disaster or during a political campaign.
The America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems—from economic dislocation to the opioid scourge—but itis also crafting solutions, with a practical-minded determination at dramatic odds with the bitter paralysis of national politics. At times of dysfunction on a national level, reform possibilities have often arisen from the local level. The Fallowses describe America in the middle of one of these creative waves. Their view of the country is as complex and contradictory as America itself, but it also reflects the energy, the generosity and compassion, the dreams, and the determination of many who are in the midst of making things better. Our Towns is the story of their journey—and an account of a country busy remaking itself.
Parable of Afrofuturism (Feat. The Storyscape) | Read Awakening
From the movie Black Panther to the music of Janelle Monae, Afrofuturism is on a lot of minds this year. Join host Dominique Taylor to explore the literary offerings of Afrofuturism with Rivers Solomon whose book, An Unkindness of Ghosts, you'll want to read.
Bad Women: a Panel on Writing
What does it means to be a bad woman? Watch Elena Nicolaou who is an entertainment writer at Refinery 29 host a panel consisting of authors: Georgia Clark (The Bucket List), Naima Coster (Halsey Street),Carola Lovering (Tell Me Lies) and Camille Perri (When Katie Met Cassidy) who discuss their flawed fictional heroines in a no-holds-barred literary event. Are women allowed to be more "unlikeable" in fiction or in life? How does it feel to write about women who don't behave or defy expectations?
Conversation with Author André Aciman
Best-selling author André Aciman discusses his critically acclaimed novel, "Call Me By Your Name." Set in Italy during the 1980s, the novel and film follow the coming-of-age love story of 17-year-old Elio and 24-year-old graduate student Oliver. Aciman discusses the success of the book and the movie, the possibility of a sequel and reaction from readers.
Keisha N. Blain: Set the World on Fire
Keisha N. Blain discusses her book, the first to examine how black nationalist women engaged in national and global politics in the mid twentieth century, with NYU professor Thomas J. Sugrue.
In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration to West Africa. In 1937, Celia Jane Allen traveled to Jim Crow Mississippi to organize rural black workers around black nationalist causes. In the late 1940s, from her home in Kingston, Jamaica, Amy Jacques Garvey launched an extensive letter-writing campaign to defend the Greater Liberia Bill, which would relocate 13 million black Americans to West Africa. Gordon, Allen, and Jacques Garvey—as well as Maymie De Mena, Ethel Collins, Amy Ashwood, and Ethel Waddell—are part of an overlooked and understudied group of black women who take center stage in Set the World on Fire.
Historians of the era generally portray the period between the Garvey movement of the 1920s and the Black Power movement of the 1960s as an era of declining black nationalist activism, but Keisha N. Blain reframes the Great Depression, World War II, and the early Cold War as significant eras of black nationalist—and particularly, black nationalist women's—ferment. In Chicago, Harlem, and the Mississippi Delta, from Britain to Jamaica, these women built alliances with people of color around the globe, agitating for the rights and liberation of black people in the United States and across the African diaspora. As pragmatic activists, they employed multiple protest strategies and tactics, combined numerous religious and political ideologies, and forged unlikely alliances in their struggles for freedom. Drawing on a variety of previously untapped sources, including newspapers, government records, songs, and poetry, Set the World on Fire highlights the flexibility, adaptability, and experimentation of black women leaders who demanded equal recognition and participation in global civil society.
Keisha N. Blain is an award-winning historian who writes on race, politics, and gender. She obtained a PhD in History from Princeton University and currently teaches history at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018) and co-editor of Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism and Racial Violence (University of Georgia Press, 2016). Her work has been published in several academic journals such as the Journal of Social History and Souls; and popular outlets including the Huffington Post, The Washington Post, and The Feminist Wire. She is the president of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) and senior editor of its popular blog, Black Perspectives.
Thomas J. Sugrue is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History, the founding Director of the Collaborative on Global Urbanism, and the Director of the Program in American Studies at New York University. The author of four books and editor of three others, he contributes to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the London Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Nation, and Salon. He is a frequent commentator on modern American history, politics, civil rights, and urban policy. Sugrue has given over 350 public lectures throughout the United States, as well as in Europe, South America, the Middle East, and Asia.
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Understanding French Army Uniforms
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Biological Sciences
Research Highlights
September 2010
From Predictions to Reality: Genomics Reveals Microbe's Metabolic Potential
Systems-level understanding of Shewanella metabolism directed toward biofuel production
Results: Knowing an organism's metabolism can give scientists essential insights into how the organism uses its resources. These insights can then enable them to tweak the metabolism to enhance the microbe's use of these resources in beneficial ways, such as to reduce contamination in soil or to produce biofuels or other desirable chemicals efficiently.
With the latter goal in mind, collaborators from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Burnham Institute for Medical Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Dartmouth College used computational and high-throughput experimental approaches to reconstruct the metabolic network of Shewanella oneidensis. This has enabled the team to develop a predictive understanding of the microbe's metabolism.
Why it Matters: For years, Shewanella has been of great interest to the Department of Energy because of its ability to reduce metals and radionuclides by extracellular electron transfer. This also makes the metabolically versatile organism an ideal candidate for use in microbial fuel cells. In 2002, the strain S. oneidensis MR-1 was among the first bacteria to have its genome completely sequenced, providing an initial glimpse into the untapped metabolic potential of the organism and laying a foundation for the studies to follow.
"To optimize the electron transfer process and carbon metabolism so that we can direct Shewanella metabolism toward biofuel production, we need to be able to understand and predict the cell's metabolism at a system level. Modeling the cell metabolism in silico—by computer simulation—is the key to achieving this," said Dr. Grigoriy Pinchuk, lead author of a paper that appeared in PLoS Computational Biology.
Metabolic network for interconversion of C1-compounds and biosynthesis/degradation of relevant amino acids in S. oneidensis MR-1. The network was constructed based on genome annotation. Double-headed arrows denote enzymes that were shown to be reversible.
"Shewanella cells obtain energy by oxidizing organic compounds and transferring electrons through a chain," Pinchuk added. "The cells use this energy for all kinds of functions including biosynthesis of new cell components. Optimal electron transport and carbon metabolism are important for the cell's well being. That's why genomic-scale modeling combined with experimental approaches is critical to obtain a deeper understanding of metabolism and refining the model so the final results better reflect the real world. Doing so will help us design processes by computer simulation and then implement them."
Shewanella is also an interesting candidate for biofuel production because of its ability to synthesize appreciable amounts of biofuel precursors such as lipids and fatty acids. Pinchuk said, "It seemed that if we could deeply understand the energetics and metabolism of Shewanella, we could harness this capability."
Methods: The research team built a genome-scale metabolic model and used it to analyze experimental data and predict cellular phenotypes. They compared predicted cellular biomass yields on different carbon sources in the presence of oxygen to experimental measurements. The results were used to refine metabolic fluxes for growth on lactate—a food and energy source for the bacterium. Analyses of S. oneidensis MR-1 metabolism revealed some of the reasons for a significant difference between experimental and predicted growth efficiency on lactate. The developed model provides a platform for a systematic assessment of Shewanella metabolism, which may be used for redesigning metabolic networks for chemical production.
What's Next: The scientists are continuing to further the understanding of metabolic pathways and their performance at the whole cell level, and even in mixed cultures, to lead to fast and efficient biofuels processing. In addition, Shewanella was recently shown by PNNL colleagues at the University of Minnesota to produce a polyolefinic hydrocarbon that would provide a more direct route to biodiesel (see references).
Acknowledgments: This research was supported by DOE's Office of Biological and Environmental Research under the Genomic Science Program. The team includes Grigoriy Pinchuk, Eric Hill, Oleg Geydebrekht, Bree Reed, Margie Romine, Allan Konopka, Alex Beliaev, and Jim Fredrickson from PNNL; Jessica De Ingeniis and Andrei Osterman, Burnham Institute for Medical Research; Jennifer Reed and Xiaolin Zhang, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and James Scott, Dartmouth.
References: Pinchuk GE, EA Hill, OV Geydebrekht, J De Ingeniis, X Zhang, A Osterman, JH Scott, SB Reed, MF Romine, A Konopka, AS Beliaev, JK Fredrickson, and JL Reed. 2010. "Constraint-Based Model of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 Metabolism: a Tool for Data Analysis and Hypothesis Generation." PLoS Computational Biology 6(6):e100082. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000822
Sukovich DJ, JL Seffernick, JE Richman, KA Hunt, JA Gralnick, and LP Wackett. 2010. "Structure, Function, and Insights into the Biosynthesis of a Head-to-Head Hydrocarbon in Shewanella oneidensis Strain MR-1." Applied Environmental Microbiology 76(12):3842-3849. doi:10.1128/AEM.00433-10


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"It is of course always best to be led by god, and have him personally whisper into your ear. Only, when it is the devil talking he will tell you he is god, for the devil is a crafty liar. So you never know who is talking to you." - Franz Bibfeldt
When I read this it really made me think, do Christians take this into consideration? It makes a lot of sense given all the claims about satan being a VERY crafty liar.....What do you guys think about this?
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It makes the voice infallible. Christian hears a voice, and thinking it is from god they listen to it. If it turns out to be right or good, it was god's divine word; praise be his name, if it turns out bad or wrong, then it was Satan and you need to ask for forgiveness OR god is teaching you a lesson. Rinse, Repeat. Either way, they see it how they want to see it. Scary ain't it?
The real question shouldn't be who is talking to them.
But why is someone who hears voices not on medication for their mental illness.
Its true, although I wonder if they are mistaking their own intuitions and mind for "the voice of god and satan" or if the majority of the population have serious mental illness >_< Either way... *shudder*
Well in theistic lingo, god never tempts, so any negative attributes (of-corse) can't be god, it's satan, and a true beleiver would know through prayer (god always provides a way).
If it is a moral question of human action, then that is relative to begin with, so any attrocious act can be justified...there's some good biblical morals....
When you talk to someone who believes faith is more important than facts, presenting him with facts is just presenting him with an opportunity to show his faith can endure disproof, which is why all of the discussions with Christians here serve the Christians more than the atheists. This place is like a feeding trough for Christians seeking to demonstrate their faithfulness.