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From OLPC
How will those societies that adopt the laptop be affected?
We acknowledge that the laptop will have an impact on social, economic, and political issues and that in some instances it may have a negative impact. We plan to work closely with our partner countries to monitor the impact, highlighting examples of best practice. We remain steadfast in our belief that learning is fundamental to positive change and that the laptop will afford opportunities for learning where they did not previously exist.
What are the pros and cons of OLPC?
The "pro" of one laptop per child is that to the degree that we are successful, more children will have an opportunity for learning. The worst case is that more children will have access to connected computers. The "cons" of OLPC seem to vary depending upon whom one asks. There are criticisms in the Wikipedia articles about the laptop and the mission.
What potential negative impacts do the project organizer's foresee?
As with any technology, there are opportunities for abuse; undoubtedly, some of the laptops will be stolen; some will never reach the children; some will be used for rote instruction; some won't be used at all. However, our experiences in virtually every pilot we have either studied or run over the past 40 years suggests that the impact of empowering children, their teachers, families, and communities with computers and communication has a net positive impact on learning, social cohesion, local economies, etc.
Governments and schools—a Western construct
Schools are nothing more than a Western construct that the developed world seems hellbent on imposing on the developing world even if the result is social destruction. Governments of all complections have a vested interest in exploiting this project. It seems to me that there is a desperate need to develop a new pedagogy involving non-traditional formal educational structures, possibly working with NGOs. Governments in developing countries will go the same way as many Western governments and impose a nationalized curriculum that will be delivered via these laptops.
- OLPC is not developing new schools to be delivered to these countries. We are developing laptop computers to be delivered to children. The laptops themselves will be a rich educational environment even in the absence of teachers. In addition, the philosophy that we follow is a constructionist educational philosophy that focuses on leading the child to discover knowledge for themselves. --Memracom 05:45, 13 January 2007 (EST)
Does OLPC not serve to widen the gap between the haves and have nots?
By not supporting any of the common technologies in the First World and forcing a unique paradigm of user interface and technology, how is it that these disadvantaged societies will become more "advantaged"? It seems that a proprietary system will only serve to make a greater distinction between the poor and the rich. --Ryan Cameron, Haberman Educational Foundation
- The OLPC laptop and its Sugar user interface are NOT proprietary systems. The technologies are open source and built on a tried and tested Linux kernel and operating system (which is seeing rapid growth of adoption in the First World). OLPC's use of free and open-source software will serve to ensure that children are free to shape their own futures: children are being given a computer where nothing is hidden from them, the internals of the operating system are there for them to inspect, learn from, and hopefully learn to improve. The Sugar UI only serves to simplify things for the children until they are ready to look further into the OS and see what makes it tick. These children will potentially have an understanding of computers that greatly exceeds the children using a proprietary paradigm of computing.
- Understanding sugar code was written to educate people like you on how you can get into the guts of an OLPC laptop. Any children who have an OLPC could potentially do exactly that, and learn a lot about computing at a very low level. OLPC volunteers will develop curriculum in all languages, in civic, sciences, and arts. This is an opportunity to diminish the divide. -Jeff
What are the costs of implementation/not implementing?
The costs of implementation are just those you'd expect: infrastructure, hardware, distribution, etc. I'm not sure what you're asking about "economic costs of not implementing"; the thesis is that economic benefits of education vastly outweigh the costs of the laptops themselves. National governments will pay, for the moment, though other schemes, such as one nation helping to pay for another's laptops, etc. are being explored as well. --Jacobolus 19:34, 17 February 2007 (EST)
This is a very to the point question that we should drill to the bottom, i.e. some spreadsheet where numbers can be filled out and it can be shown - calculated - what are the revenues-costs=benefits to the country. The starting concept is that poorly educated people will generate less revenues in taxes for the government than those same people having benefitted from a great education, well connected to the internet, having great access to data and knowledge, etc. Obviously such a population will be able to generate a lot quicker and easier and more additional value, set-up companies, etc. that will result on a certain moment in more revenues from taxes to the government on goods and services these people are using.
Let's say that an OLPC XO-XS + portable PhotoVoltaic Panel costs about 190€ (anno 2013). If we can demonstrate that an XO-XS deployment will generate in say 6-12-18 years time more than say 190 € in additional tax revenues, the OLPC deployment would have paid for itself, right?
We have a spreadsheet calculator to calculate how much to foresee for implementing an OLPC XO-XS deployment. As Jacobolus mentioned: where costs for infrastructure, hardware, distribution, etc. - I want to add training, electricity generation and consumption, etc. - can all be introduced there and figures come out in how that translates into costs per laptop or child. Enfin, the tool gives you several ball-mark figures that are indispensable for a serious discussion.
We are still looking to bring people from the right disciplines together to make a calculator to demonstrate what are the revenues - returns in additional tax revenues from implementing an OLPC XO-XS project. If you google around a bit, you will find e.g. publications based upon such calculators developed by teams but for the mobile phone sector. These are typical university level people in the economics departments, who are specialised in making such models / calculators. There is a consensus on the fork of additional revenues in taxes that bring mobile phone infrastructure deployments. So these calculators ask you to go look for country specific data, like number of people reached, average literacy of these groups that will be able to capture a gsm signal, purchasing power, access to micro-finance, male-female, adults-kids distributions, etc. and then when you input that data, you get ball mark figures to show to investors and the relevant ministers and president, but also IMF/Development Banks and similar, to get a loan. And that's what we need at OLPC: the better we can show that an olpc xo-xs implementation pays itself back within 7 years - average life-span of the XO's - the more helpful it will be to a minister of education U minister of finance U prime minister U president, to go to these IMF/Development Banks together with an OLPC delegation to obtain a loan. It becomes a financing issue then as it can be calculated / shown on a spreadsheet that the olpc xo-xs implementation will generate additional tax revenues with which the government can pay back the loan. All that it needs is a grace period for say 7 years. After all that's what a loan is for: give me a lump sum now, so I can build/buy/implement something now, that will start generating revenues, so that I can start paying back with an interest provided you give me some time to implement the machine/build the house/building etc. and I can actually start selling, generating revenues. And through some calculation: Revenues - costs = benefits, you can show - at least on paper already - that you can pay back the loan in so many years without any danger of going bankrupt meanwhile. At least you have a calculator - a model - with figures and data, a group of people can look at and base a discussion upon. It then becomes a discussion on : do you believe that parameter, what if you be a bit more conservative on that parameter, how does that influence the additional tax revenues generation and pay-back time. How certain are we about the data that's fed into the calculator. Does the uncertainty around the parameters and model balance the risk for the loan. Certain banks - like the IMF/Development Banks can allow loans to projects that are based upon models that are a bit less certain, private banks won't be allowed - according to their statutes - to give a loan to such project. So very to the point question. Where to go from here?
- Make a page on this wiki. Write to all the Universities - Economics Facultaties and propose the professors there to propose their students to collaborate in developing an Economic Model and Calculator capable of calculating what are the Additional Tax Revenues from an OLPC XO-XS deployment. List what universities you've contacted, who's responded, aks the olpc community to help you with the follow-up of all these emails, etc.
- Make a page on this wiki: we have to find these teams that have made these models on mobile phone implementations. Contact the federation of mobile phone companies. They're typically the ones that would order and have such studies and models/calculators developed.
- This is where we are at the moment. Please contact me to take up things to the next level. olpc is an open community project, so it needs you and your network to take things to the next level. --SvenAERTS 11:45, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
How will the social, economic, and political impacts be monitored?
We are helping the pilot countries to develop a wide range of metrics for measuring the impact of the project: everything from standardized test scores, to truancy rates, to economic development (Please see Our Mission#Metrics).
What role will these impacts play in shaping the project?
The project is not being implemented as an "open loop"; rather we expect to feed back into the project course corrections as we move forward. Will things happen the same in Brazil as in China? At the macro-level, probably not. But at the micro-level, we expect children to learn learning through independent and social interaction and exploration.
Should these impacts be studied before the laptops are released?
We have been studying the impact of technology (specifically access to computation) on learning for more than 40 years. While there is no way to truly know the specific impact of the OLPC laptops before they are in use, there have been lessons learned from numerous 1-to-1 computing projects around the world and there is every expectation that lessons learned in the early deployment will provide feedback as the project rolls out more widely.
OLPC potential to foster self-sustainable development
Rhythm of Hope is looking for opportunities to facilitate the fostering of self-sustainable development in Brazil, India and possibly Africa. Will OLPC consider providing training and collaborating on providing resources to set up remote "in other country" production shop in a slum ('favela' in Brazil) or poor rural community? This would provide jobs, which are as immediately important as (if not more so than) computers. --Phillip Wagner, founder and director of Rhythm of Hope in Brazil
- The jobs associated with assembly are few and menial. We'd rather work with you on a broader range of jobs, such as software and content development, support, etc.
How will family, community, and religious structures that have existed for generations be impacted?
There will be change; however, we are making every effort to make the laptop an instrument of change that is under local control, so that family and community dictate, to the extent possible, the character of that change. One specific change will be that children will be more empowered within their communities, since they will rapidly become expert users of computing and communications systems.
Social impact of completely computerizing small villages
Previous attempts at bringing small communities up to speed with the rest of the world have been disastrous on family, existing social norms and community ties. For example, some forays into taking previously entirely communal areas dependent on agriculture that were deemed "backward" through standard measures of yearly income and daily caloric intake were in fact highly successful and ideal with regard to satisfactions of personal, family and community life. Commercial transactions were introduced where previous common growing areas existed. Some crops were then discarded in favor of more profitable ones, traditional bartering disappeared, rituals surrounding the harvest and preparation of foods also were eliminated, the extended family dependence and home life virtually disappeared. Has ANYONE looked at this?
- I'm not sure about other groups, but presumably the individual ministries of education are investigating it in their pilot studies. They are the ones best able to assess the effects of the project on their culture, since they are the most familiar with their culture. They are also the ones paying for the laptops, so they have the most to lose if they do not consider both the educational and cultural effects of their decision. Of course, that will only detect problems on a small scale; it is quite impossible to predict what will happen with many years and many laptops. After all, we are still discovering weekly new social consequences—both good and bad—of the U.S. government's decision to research the Internet in the 1970's. —Joe 20:55, 4 June 2007 (EDT)
One laptop per family ?
With 3–5 children in a typical family in developing countries, wouldn't it be better to distribute the computers to a 3–5 times larger section of the country by limiting the distribution to one unit per family? Supply 100% of the school districts instead of 20–33%? One pupil should not sit the whole day in front of the computer, anyhow. Use by the brothers/sisters in the meantime would also be a safeguard against theft, e.g. when the other child is working on the family´s crop grounds. That would also be a small incentive against population increase, when parents with more children do not get more laptops for their families free of charge. Schools may decide to work with computers on alternating days with boys and girls, to avoid that always the boys pick the laptops. Sure, the distribution method is not the decision of OLPC organization but made by the governments. I suggest one laptop per family only as an interim solution as long as and where one laptop for every child in the whole country is too expensive. When kids (and their finger size) grow out of the original OLPCs, their smaller brethren may inherit the machines for their own. by Joa
How will the project affect relationships between generations or traditional social structures based on age?
Children have always been the earliest adopters of new and developing technology due to their ability to quickly learn and adapt to new stimulus and circumstances. Comparatively, adults are often more set in their ways and adapt to new technology less quickly. The older generations may be less likely to embrace and become part of the technological revolutions that are occurring in third world societies.
While the younger generations, who are affected by this project, become more computer literate and technologically developed in a modern sense, they will gain more social leverage within their society. The formative years of childhood and the education received during that time contribute to a holistic result. There will be a tremendous contrast between those who have been given a computer-based education and those who have not.
The children who have been introduced to computer-based learning through the OLPC will have more clout and compatibility with the developed world than their elders, which will affect the way that their community politics are conducted.
What are the potential consequences of reversing the social clout of children and elders in these societies?
Hopefully better treatment of children and more intergenerational respect.
How will the native languages in these countries be affected?
The primary impact that we can foresee is that these languages will become more usable on computers and computer networks. OLPC volunteers are creating fonts so that more languages are available for OLPC users. And this will drive an increase in digitized content in these native languages. However, the ultimate fate of every language depends on what the native speakers want to do with it. Over this we have no direct influence.
Will there be versions in Mandarin Chinese, Swahili, or other languages the children are likely to know?
The goal is for everything to be available in the local languages of the countries where the OLPCs will be distributed. This means that machines distributed in Thailand will fully support Thai. Machines in India will support the local languages of India (Please see OLPC keyboard layouts).
Although we hope many do, the children are not required to ever see the insides of the development environment, the OS, or the application source code. It is no harder to develop internationalized Python applications in Japanese than it is in English.
Background in pedagogy?
Do any of the OLPC designers have experience with teaching young children, especially ones in the third world?
- Please see the biography page on our website. Our senior advisor regarding learning is Seymour Papert, who is "widely known for focusing on the impact of new technologies on learning in general and in schools as learning organizations in particular." Another senior advisor is Alan Kay, who has dedicated his distinguished career "to children, learning, and advanced software development."
- The question was to try to find out to what extent unusual aspects of the system (Sugar, social chat-oriented software) were validated by experience teaching young children. From what I have seen of the OLPC staff backgrounds, they're generally university people, surely a very different demographic.
- Seymour Papert has been involved in elementary school classroom software for decades. See his book Mindstorms. Alan Kay managed the design of computers suitable for children at Xerox PARC in the 1970s. His Alto computer and Smalltalk software were the original GUI system that became the model for the Apple Macintosh, the X windowing system for UNIX, and Microsoft Windows. There are other educational software developers and classroom teachers in OLPC.
Support for Self-Learners
However, what about those children who cannot attend to schools and have no teachers, which is not uncommon in really poor 3rd world countries? I still cannot imagine how illiterate kids (probably having illiterate parents) teach themselves the usage of the OLPC laptop and moreover teach themselves basic reading, writing and math.
- The goal of the project is to create a laptop that is (financially) cheap enough to be massively distributed to children while being powerful enough to do enable them to engage in serious learning. While governments and NGOs will in large part decide how they will be deployed (as long as they are within keeping of our core principles, what content will be included (and/or developed), etc., we have a Learning Vision whereby children are both learners and teachers.
- Please refer to the Hole In The Wall Project as an example of children uses a computer for learning in the absence of teachers.
When the manufacturer was chosen, how much consideration was given to avoiding exploitative labor?
The computers will be manufactured in China by Quanta. Quanta, the world's largest manufacturer of laptops, follows fair trade practices.
This is almost certainly an abuse of the term "fair trade", which has a very specific meaning (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_trade). What evidence is there to support this claim? Is Quanta fair trade certified? Does some external auditor verify this claim or is it simple what Quanta's PR department says? Widespread abuses in producing electronics are well documented. It seems pretty ironic that a project supposedly designed to help those in poverty would not ensure and publicize that it was not exploiting the poor in the process of its manufacturing.
Have there been studies done monitoring the progress that these laptops are making?
Yes. The larger deployments e.g. in Uruguay, Peru, but also in Fiji are monitored and audited by independent organizations. A couple of conclusions:
- the monitoring and evaluation techniques used in the educational landscape to measure to what extend kids can read, write, do calculations, etc. are well established and can be applied in olpc xo-xs deployments. Just one conclusion from Peru where all kids aged 5 to 15 have an XO since 2010, is that they are in a span of 3 years, they are 5 months ahead in reading skills in comparison with kids that don't have the XO's.
- it is noted that new monitoring sets have to be developed, as the traditional monitoring and evaluation techniques don't capture data that is very relevant to Ministers of Education, Grant / Loan providers: e.g. does an olpc xo-xs deployment result in better and more entrepreneurs and revenues to the families so that the country gets more tax revenues that pay-back the olpx xo-xs deployment? Does an olpc xo-xs deployment make kids happier, do they feel safer, better prepared for the future, like they can better contribute to their families, do they have a better understanding of the world? Etc. Many of these questions or parameters are not queried for by the auditors.
- You can find reports from OLPC pilot studies here and here.
- Note: There are also studies of other, smaller-scale laptop deployments.
How many kids have been given the hardware, and for how long on average?
- We have put about 7000 units (A-Test, B1, B2, and B4) into the field over the past 18 months. About 50% of those units have gone to developers and 50% to various school trials: in Cambodia, Thailand, India, Rwanda, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, and the United States. Additional trials are being organized in Mexico, Argentina, Paraguay, Macedonia, Romania, and South Africa.
How many laptops have failed from abuse?
- We are not aware of any laptops failing from abuse.
How many laptops have failed from manufacturing and software defects?
- We don't have exact numbers, but the nature of alpha and beta testing is to identify problems. We've learned from our trials (and the developers) and have a better laptop as a result.
How many laptops have been stolen?
- We are not aware of any laptops being stolen.
Any other failures and losses?
- There are details of various failures in the bug tracking system and in the [Educators country trial reports] in the wiki.
Are here any articles showing these test and results of OLPC in its theory phase?
What test have been done to see if giving a child the laptop will increase their education and to what extent?
- There are trials in schools in Cambodia, Thailand, India, Rwanda, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Brazil, Uruguay, Peru, etc. Each of these trials is being run by a local organization, most often in conjunction with the ministry of education or a university department of education.
There is a further discussion of pedagogy and metrics on the Our Mission page. Some results from the field can be found in the [Educators country trial reports].
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I currently have 6 grape plants. I brought one a while back but it was really slow and then I brought two more bigger specimens and build a climbing trestle.
The climbing trestle was also placed to provide a bit of privacy. One thing to note about grapes is that they loose all of their leaves in the winter which makes it a rubbish privacy screen for all year use. The first grape plant can be seen against the smaller trellis to the side of the house.
Uploaded quite a few photos of the main grape plant which is going quite insane. Its really sprouting off at every angle it can and really looks like it will cover the house given time. Hopefully you can see from the photos how its trailing along the roof line as well as the bridge over to the old white metal post. I made the bridge out of rope but have noted that the rope will literally decay within 2 years from the sun.
Just got a new grape plant, it was reduced to $4 at Lowes. And then I got two more for $1.50 each from another Lowes. Thats 6 grape plants now!!
Currently look unimpressive in the winter. Still amazed how the two main ones have rocketed and the original wine is still a stunted unimpressive item. Its interesting really because if I hadnt have brought the two larger grape vines I might have just thought that grapes were not good for my garden. However, I am aware that the smaller one is a different species or rather that it is a grape that grows a solid tree like trunk as opposed to the other two which are more climby, like weeds. Whilst there trunks are quite thick, they are still tight and round. The stem of the small grape will be more flaky and solid, I think. However, that said, its going to take forever at this rate.
The grape plants are going amd and they have really taken hold of climbing over the house. One thing though and thats that there are no grapes. I did notice that on one of the stems the little metal tie that must have been used at some point to tie the vines together has become quite restrictive so i'll have to cut that off or something.
The grape plants have done quite well. I reinforced one of the support struts with a metal fence pole from Home Depot as the timber was rotting, will replace the other next. The grape has made a full crown but not much of a screen. Its also doing well climbimibg onto the house which im not so worried about, the more prolific the better. The best bit is looking at the stems which even though meters away from the base are already quite thick. I can remember watching the first shoots racing to the top, and now its truly consolidating the framework. I just hope it fills out some more to create a full dense screen.
OK year for the grape. Of course they had a tree crash down on them and I accidently cut a few bit vines but all in all its sort of covered the trestle. Hopwfully next year it will increase is density so you cant see through it which was one of the important considerations for me. No fruit as of yet and the leaves are looking ready to drop as they do in the winter which is a bit of a pain as the screen doesnt work them.
There was a bit of a disaster on the grape front in that the old orage tree fell on it, or very close to it, and that had a massive vine that totally covered the trellis so the August 2011 shot is a bit tainted. Im not as impressed with the grape as the coverage is not massivly dense however maybe next year it will thicken out?
The grape against the trellis is a slower grower I think. It was in the ground long before the too upright vines and yet its grown very little. Considering it has that whole trellis to itself its nothing to write home about. I think its more of a tree vine that grows a solid trunk and then produces grapes.


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Dilation Theory, Commutant Lifting and Semicrossed Products
We take a new look at dilation theory for nonself-adjoint operator algebras. Among the extremal (co)extensions of a representation, there is a special property of being fully extremal. This allows a refinement of some of the classical notions which are important when one moves away from standard examples. We show that many algebras including graph algebras and tensor algebras of C*-correspondences have the semi-Dirichlet property which collapses these notions and explains why they have a better dilation theory. This leads to variations of the notions of commutant lifting and Ando's theorem. This is applied to the study of semicrossed products by automorphisms, and endomorphisms which lift to the C*-envelope. In particular, we obtain several general theorems which allow one to conclude that semicrossed products of an operator algebra naturally imbed completely isometrically into the semicrossed product of its C*-envelope, and the C*-envelopes of these two algebras are the same.
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 47L55, 47L40, 46L05, 37B20
Keywords and Phrases: dilation, extremal coextension, semicrossed product, commutant lifting, Fuglede property, C*-envelopes, Ando's theorem
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Don't you love when explorer express its griefs in such a clear and helpful way?
I was putting the last touches to the new "Search place" code, and it was working beautifully in Firefox and in Explorer, when I faced a problem in Safari. The query to the database that retrieves the name of places that match the user search came back with the accents garbled!
Safari thought the received page, that I was retrieving with XMLHttpRequest behind the scenes, was encoded in ISO-8859-1 (or most probably, -15) when I was serving it in UTF-8.
Fair enough, I just have to put the header "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8" in the reply, and sure enough, Safari was now working like a charm.
But then, the search stopped working at all in Internet Explorer! I was getting a weird error in the status bar:
Explorer system error: -1072896658
This thing popped when I tried to access the responseText of the request object. After I googled a bit this error code, I found that it was due to the XMLHttpRequest control receiving a reply on an unknown encoding. Please guys, next time put a message like:
XMLHttpRequest requested document was in the unknown "utf8" encoding. See the list of accepted encodings.
It turns out the charset should be UTF-8, and not utf8. Fixed it, and now it is happily working on these 3 browsers.
Update: Attentive reader Johan Sundström pointed out that I was missing the "text/plain; charset=" part on the Content-Type. I should really double check my blog entries before posting them.


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Usage guide
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I apologize for my earlier post, but still cannot match up every name with the person, but I am pretty sure which one is Gordon Rankin, and I've seen Peter McGrath demonstrate before...this is all probably my limitation.
The Coup de Foudre Party
One of the unofficial highlights of this year's SSI was the by-invitation-only party given by Montreal dealer Coup de Foudre. The genial hosts were Jennifer Cytrynbaum (Store Manager) and Graeme Humfrey (Product Specialist, Store Owner, jazz guitarist, and a recording engineer of 20 years' experience). They had great food and drinks, and they did their utmost to make sure that everyone has a good time. The picture shows Jennifer in her element, along with Wilson's Peter McGrath (left), Wavelength's Gordon Rankin (center) and Graeme Humfrey (far right).
My confusion
Submitted by corrective_unco... on March 26, 2012 - 10:28pm
John, That's Kelly my wife,
Submitted by Gordon Rankin on April 11, 2012 - 3:32pm
That's Kelly my wife, wonderful party. Next year you should come along and we can hang out at Graeme's studio. You would not believe all the stuff in there. Along with the two 72" monitors there are at least 120 mono, stereo and other compressor, preamps, limiters, eq, 500 series, full rack stuff all tied into what I think is a 64 channel mixing console.
Lady with glasses identified
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Actually, the lady with the glasses is Barb, the party crasher. She's frequently spotted in photos of parties throughout the city, usually near the buffet.


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Story: The Ghost and Miss Weasley
Part: The Ghost and Miss Weasley
Rating: Young Teens
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The Ghost and Miss Weasley
A/N: The poor author is greatly indebted to her beta, The Daily Prophet, for immeasurable patience, time and expertise.
"Does he know about us then?" a voice whispered behind her.
With a small shriek, Ginny spun about and looked into the eyes that had so often mesmerized her. The charm of Cedric Diggory's eyes had been strong enough when they were only deep brown, but now the silver-flecked irises of the young ghost's eyes cast a far stronger spell. Most ghosts seemed quite entrenched in the everyday world, but Cedric's ghost was different. His eyes seemed to see something more.
"He? Who is he?" she gulped between questions.
"Who? Why Harry. I mean…well, I heard you had talked with him and…" Then he smiled, the same smile that in life had left half the girls in Hogwarts glazed-eyed when he walked by. Lavender once swore she had even seen Patty Parkinson give the tall Seeker an appreciative once-over when she thought no one was looking.
"You heard about that?" Why in Merlin's name did her voice stammer? "Where did you hear it?"
The silver smile was growing. "Well, you know how the Fat Friar loves a good story."
"I don't get it," Ginny sighed as she tugged her ponytail away from her sweaty neck. "Hasn't he enough to do checking the emergency hexes on the staircases? And ghost or no ghost, he is a monk. Don't they make a vow of silence or something like that? When is he not gossiping with the portraits?"
"Well actually, Ginny, he was on his way to Vigils when he heard this whispering and thought he should check. Twelve P.M., curfew and all that."
"I don't think that's what Moody meant by 'constant vigilance'! Your ear stuck to every keyhole in the castle."
Suddenly Cedric was laughing. The echo glided over the dark and empty Quidditch stands. It was more than magic when Cedric laughed. Until then Ginny could never describe it, but now the only word possible was miraculous. To stand on Hogwarts' empty Quidditch pitch in the twilight with Cedric's ghost and hear the air ripple with his laughter was a miracle that always swept away the frustrations of the day, all her anger and, yes, even her fears.
"Are you laughing at me?"
"No, not at all. I just remembered the time Jason Hasbee and I were in the empty Charms classroom discussing how to prank Fred and George. We had a running prank war going, you know. Suddenly the Friar's head popped through the keyhole. He began to remonstrate with us about the prank – 'all wrong, lads, all wrong' – but chuckled so hard while he repeated the plan step-by-step that we felt honor-bound to carry it through."
A red eyebrow lifted inquisitively.
"Remember Weasley Whompers?"
Ginny's eyes bulged. "You did that and they never knew? You know they outlined the entire prank, blast by blast? They would have ended the feud and absolved you completely if you had just told them how you did it!"
The smile changed to a smirk. "Well, all they had to do was ask Hermione. We just took a page from her book…. Books, I mean. Arithmancy has its advantages."
Cedric strode a few meters away and then turned to study her. That was one of the things she liked most about Cedric's ghost: He walked instead of floating around like the others. Somehow it made him less ghostlike. The list of questions she needed to ask him about Operation Black Hole was formidable, but she couldn't resist asking him to explain.
"Cedric, why is it you almost always walk while the other ghosts float along?"
"Do I?" In a low mutter he added, "Perhaps because of why I stayed."
Somewhere in the middle of her chest Ginny's breath caught. She burned to know why Cedric had not gone on. Hermione had described Harry's conservation with Sir Nicholas after Sirius's death, but somehow fear of what lay ahead didn't match Cedric. During the last two months of work on Siege Perilous, she had found him to be just so, well, so Gryffindorish.
"You want to know, don't you?" he asked, almost shyly.
Ginny could only nod her head.
"When I heard you had talked with Harry again, I knew the time had come to tell you. He must not know about me, at least not yet. He will be more focused if he remembers the dead body he brought back rather than this." Cedric swept his arm dismissively over his silver, transparent limbs. His strong right hand swished through his left arm as he closed the circle. "I agree with Lupin there. Do you?"
Cedric nodded. "It is also better for us. We want them to find Hogwarts standing when they return." His right fist pounded against his left hand and he hissed, "They will, by God, they will!" Ginny straightened her back in amazement, not knowing what surprised her most, his sudden outburst of emotion or the striking sound his fist made. He's a ghost….
"How much do you know about what happened when Harry and I disappeared from the maze?" The ghost began pacing back and forth, the way he did whenever they were hammering out logistics for an escape route.
"Harry told me a few things the day before Dumbledore's funeral. He…" Ginny hesitated. Should she tell him how Harry's eyes had brimmed over as he described watching Cedric fall, the look of surprise on the lifeless face? 'It's my fault Cedric died, Ginny, my fault.' "I think he wanted to prepare me for our separation. Why it had to be. I know how you died, how Harry's blood now runs in that monster's veins, the binding of brother wands and…"
Cedric halted and looked at her. "And?"
"Priori Incantatem…seeing his parents. Seeing you." For a moment Ginny felt as if she were the ghost. Cedric stared with such intensity at her, through her, that she almost turned around to see what he saw.
"Priori Incantatem, yes," he whispered, "perhaps that is why…"
"Cedric," Ginny began.
"I did not see most of what happened. That was the whole problem, wasn't it? I didn't see, I didn't think. I sat in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class listening to ersatz Moody's brilliant lessons on defense and attack. For a wizard worth his wand there is no such thing as a 'sudden' attack. Any change of venue means hitting the ground, wand drawn and a Sensato scouring your perimeter for magical beings. 'Hit the ground, wand drawn,' and I just stood there with my mouth open. Constant vigilance? If anyone is to blame for what happened in that graveyard it is me. Trained by one of Voldemort's best, and I did nothing."
The ghost shook his head and returned to pacing, his transparent limbs tensed with all the menace of a caged lion. "Death is so weird, Ginny. The first thing I remembered after the curse hit me was standing, looking at my body. There was a horrible scream, and then Harry screaming. Never had I heard anything like it. I tried to run towards the screaming, but I couldn't move. I couldn't even turn my head."
Ginny made no attempt to wipe her tears away. Her hands clamped together in the grip of one convinced they would fall off if she slackened ever so little. Harry had said nothing about screaming.
Cedric continued walking, his face turned upward. "My body faded and an arch with a veil slowly appeared where I had lain."
A small gasp escaped from Ginny.
"Yes, you saw it in the Ministry of Magic, but it was different there. Somehow, someone had fused a million gleaming stars into that arch. The veil blew in and out and then parted." Cedric's eyes closed but his stride did not falter in the least. "I knew I was supposed to make a decision. I was dead, no changing that, but there was this moment of choice, and yet it seemed there could be no choosing."
Abruptly the ghost halted and looked with utter amazement at Ginny. "It was so beautiful. I opened my lips to say yes, but Harry screamed again. His scream filled everything. It filled me; it filled my mouth. How could I go on and leave him, leave Hogwarts, leave the world in a spasm of screaming? I had seen my own body, but then I foresaw countless bodies filling the halls and rooms of Hogwarts. The Quidditch pitch was one large heap of corpses. All my friends…even Cho. I knew if Hogwarts was attacked, I had to be there. And I knew about ghosts. I turned away from the veil and asked to stay and fight. One thought possessed me, 'I want to defend Hogwarts from these fiends. Give me this or no freedom will mean a thing to me.'"
"Oh, Cedric," was all she could whisper.
Again he paced. "Somehow I understood that Harry had to bring my body back or else I would be bound to the graveyard. But I wasn't a ghost yet. No matter how much I wanted to, I couldn't float over to the Death Eaters and spook them long enough to help Harry. It was like being cast in cement, and I kept asking how I could get to Harry and help him, tell him about my body. Then Priori Incantatem began and…well, you know the rest. Here I am. But, Ginny, you asked about the walking. There are other things as well. Perhaps it is because of Priori Incantatem, experiencing that before becoming a ghost."
Ginny had never considered the possibility. She had never even tried to figure out why this ghost was different from the others. He just was.
"It doesn't matter," the ghost sighed. "But Harry must not know. The fewer who know about me the better. He paused, looked back towards the castle and whispered pensively, "Best if she doesn't know."
Ginny did not need to ask who he meant.
With the sudden start of a student rudely pulled from a cherished daydream, Cedric spun back to Ginny and smiled roguishly before he launched into an uncanny imitation of Lockhart. "No, no, Miss Weasley. At all costs we must protect Miss Moaning Myrtle from such information--that would only increase the distress of unrequited love."
A seizure of giggles grabbed Ginny, but she still managed to toss the thick roll of parchment labeled Room of Requirement at Cedric's head.
The Seeker's ghost caught the roll deftly in one hand.
Two days later Ginny managed for a few minutes to forget the war and a recent Dementor attack on a village in the eastern firths, to forget the ever-mounting pile of blank parchments waiting to be covered with essays. Even the almost perfectly suppressed fear that Harry, Ron and Hermione would never return disappeared as she strode downhill towards the Quidditch pitch. The sky was just too blue to believe that the Darkness could ever swallow the world, life too good: The blackbird singing outside their dormitory window, waking the sixth-year girls; Luna's face as she taught her how to sing to blackbirds in strange lyrics learned from her father-- "You were only waiting for this moment to arise"; Neville isolated at the far end of the table during breakfast because his recent experiment with Stinksap has been somewhat less than successful…or perhaps too successful.
Humming Luna's strange melody, Ginny quickened her pace. Yes, it was just a magnificent day, and oh, that tell-tale glint in Lupin's eyes yesterday, one that meant there might be a message from a certain black-haired...
Ginny glanced towards the Forbidden Forest and smashed against a wall of shock. A gigantic Norwegian Ridgeback dove from an incredible height, rolling over and over with a speed that turned him into a huge black blur. Merlin, that spinning dot of red is Charlie! He's going to crash!
Ginny broke into a run, yelling for help, when unbelievably, at the last second, Norbert broke the roll and trimmed the tops of a dozen pines before he shot back up into a low-hanging cloud. With her wand clutched against her thrashing heart, Ginny stood there, eyes clamped closed, and tried to stem the stream of phrases that young witches should not use. Behind her came the rush of running feet and then Seamus was panting at her side.
"Wicked! Dean, do you think Charlie would take us up just one time, one at a time?"
Ginny pried one eye open. The forest was still there. Charlie was still there, somewhere in that cloud, but her beautiful, blue-sky morning was shattered.
"Look, it's the Chinese Fireball's turn!" Neville whooped.
Unconsciously the four huddled together, necks craned upward, a stream of happy anxiety surging through them. Just before the dragon began its kamikaze dive, Ginny spotted the rider, her long, black, kinky hair waving madly. Angelina punched the air with her fist, filled the sky with a Sonorus-amplified "Hogwarts Forever!" and then began the blood-curdling barrel roll dive. Like Norbert, the Chinese Fireball pulled out of his Wronski Feint at the last perilous second and soared back into the cloud.
The small audience breathed a collective sigh of satisfaction and nervous relief. Then Ginny started to jog toward the Quidditch pitch. "Come on. We have to get to the briefing before the others arrive."
Neville was first to follow, and after a few reluctant steps, Dean and Seamus turned it into an all-out race. Standing before the small green tent erected outside the changing rooms, they lifted their wands to have their signatures verified before ducking under the flap. The flap zipped itself closed behind them, and their faces winched under the volume of Moody's roar: "Lupin, we always have an escape plan! Why isn't it here?"
Lupin's eyes rolled and he began a cautious explanation in the tone he reserved for the slower students. "Yes, Moody, we understand that, but this is an escape plan." He pointed energetically at a map pinned to one of the green canvas walls. "One of five evacuation routes for the third and fourth years if Death Eaters penetrate the wards. Am I correct in thinking that you want an escape plan from each escape plan?"
"Blast it, Lupin! Can't you see that using the Room of Requirement could be a dead-end? How do they get out if Death Eaters storm in requiring a torture chamber?"
Cedric, who stood behind Moody, winked at the four Gryffindors before stretching his arm through Moody's left shoulder to touch the map.
"Agh!" Moody leapt, drew his wand, and then groaned with realization when the ghost stepped up to the map. "That's my bad shoulder, Diggory. Muddled it right good, those Muggle Medics did when they pasted plastic into it. Have a mind, won't you?"
"So sorry, Professor." The smile appeared in all its silvery brilliance. "I keep forgetting about my condition. Forgive me my eagerness to help solve this dilemma." Ginny bit her bottom lip in an effort not to smile. Cedric and she had slaved on the logistics of turning the Room of Requirement into a copy of the Ministry of Magic's Atrium and thus enabling the evacuation of a large number of students at the same time. The ghost was more than a little proud of their plan for the 'Come and Go Room'.
Cedric dropped the smile and turned towards the diagram. "The Room of Requirement can be secured from within by using an enhancement of the spell cast on the entrance to Diagon Alley. Those seven bricks to the left of the door, when pushed in the correct order, create an impenetrability almost equal to the Fidelius Charm." Cedric rested a silver finger on the diagram, and a low whistle of appreciation from Dean was heard when seven silver bricks appeared, each numbered according to code.
Still rubbing his left arm, Moody peered suspiciously at Cedric. "How did you do that, lad? You can't use a wand. And how do you know about those bricks, if they will work? That spell is centuries old, and we no longer know who cast it or how."
"I have friends who can make enchanted maps to order, Professor, and Professor Lupin can give a better explanation of the history behind the Diagon Alley bricks."
Lupin cradled his chin, darkened by several days' stubble, in one hand and sniffed, "Your 'twin' would know all about this sort of map. It was 'Professor Moody' who borrowed the Marauder's Map from Harry. Am I right in guessing that this beauty is also the work of Fred and George?"
Cedric nodded slowly, while Lupin cast a warning glance at Ginny. She took her cue and tried to beam with family pride.
"As for the rest, I had better explain that later. Right now," Lupin waved his wand over one side of the tent which immediately became transparent, "I believe our Quidditch players are waiting to learn Operation Black Hole."
No one knew when it would come, or if it would come. Would they rush to the towers and rain curses on storming giants or cheer The Three soaring above them in triumph? Professor Flitwick never ceased to surprise Ginny. It was he who dubbed this mysterious event, this battle-in-the-
making: Siege Perilous. Yet he began every extra-credit dueling class with the same warning: They were not to develop a bunker mentality. Their task was survival, not the preservation of Hogwarts at all costs. Siege Perilous wasn't a "Last Stand" nor a wizard replay of the Light Brigade.
Everything possible was being done to secure Hogwarts. Everything possible, and sometimes the seemingly impossible, like flying the curved alley under the Quidditch stands at breakneck speed to navigate into a hidden tunnel. That was Operation Black Hole, a decoy-ambush maneuver or an escape path, depending on what the situation required. Because the maneuver demanded split-second timing under the cloak of Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder only the Quidditch teams were enlisted. Any Death Eater who dared to mount a broom and follow the students into the alley would miss the turn and end up meeting with one of Hargrid's cherished pets.
Ginny led the zooming Quidditch players into the alley. Her primary task was to activate the Darkness Powder. Her secondary goal was to emerge in one piece. "One, two, three, four,…turn!…five, six, seven, eight,…SHEOL!" She heard Ritchie Coote cry, "Claudis!" sealing the tunnel behind them, and tiny lights blinked on along the sides of the tunnel. Five minutes later she felt the burst of fresh air and sunlight.
"Well done, Miss Weasley," Professor Flitwick cried out as he rushed forward to begin directing the students who bulleted out after her.
For a few minutes Ginny just stood and watched the marvel at the end of the Quidditch pitch. Cedric had commandeered a Firebolt and was now soaring in and out of the hoops, using the middle one as a pivot for the Wronski Feint.
"He shouldn't be able to do that. It's a real, solid broomstick," she muttered.
At that precise moment the ghost looked up and raced towards her with a speed well beyond any known broomstick.
"Good evening, Miss Weasley." He bowed low and then rose up looking extremely pleased with himself. "Did you know that this very day Professor Flitwick has recommended you for an award for special services? He was quite impressed with our little operation."
"I want nothing, unless other names are also on it, beginning with yours, Cedric."
"That might cause confusion for future generations…."
She spun away from him, her hair flapping through his face. "What's the sense of it? There may very well be no cabinet to display it, no building to house it, no students to see it!"
"I'm sorry, Cedric. I can't stand it any longer!"
"It?" The ghost moved carefully around her and stood before her, arms folded. "Or maybe who? More precisely, Romilda Vane and her gossip club? The endless question marks placed on your every word and action, and all of it for one reason only: your relationship with Harry?" Cedric smiled slightly at the astonished face. "Don't look so surprised. I watched Cho go through that too, even more so, because of me."
Ginny closed her eyes and wondered why she had never considered that. Had jealousy made her that petty?
The ghost decided to go a step further. "How do you feel about being here, being 'left behind', while Ron and Hermione are with him? Can you accept the decision…?"
Her eyes flew open. "It was my decision as much as his, Ron's, my parents' or anyone else's. After stacking up all the right reasons for not going -- lack of experience, that I'm not of legal age, helping to defend Hogwarts, not wanting to drive Harry and Ron mad with worry about me, -- there was still one reason, one that outweighed them all, one that I couldn't, I couldn't tell. I cannot make that decision...." Ginny was almost shouting.
"Ginny," Cedric wrapped his translucent hands around hers, "Hush and listen. If you can't tell, then don't. If you can, well, I know all about decisions. All right?"
She looked at their hands and wondered vaguely why her hands weren't shivering from cold. "I could never…" Her hoarse whisper broke. "I could never, ever choose between Ron and Harry. Never."
"In battle. If a point came where I could save one only at the cost of the other…" Her shoulders began to shake. "I can't, I just can't. I saw the fear in their eyes. Ron's agony at the thought of having to choose between the two. Hermione in a panic about what she should do if it happened. Should I fly after Harry just to add another nightmare to his life? No one understands…."
"I do. Ron does. Hermione. Certainly Harry. Lupin. Even Mad-Eye knows."
"Choice is such mystery, Ginny." He leaned over until his forehead rested on hers. "We do the best we can and trust that one right choice will lead to another. What comes of the choice is often beyond our control. I have no guarantee that Hogwarts will be saved, that I won't be spending centuries sitting on a pile of rubble. At the deepest level, it doesn't matter. I made the choice I had to make when I heard Harry scream. I don't question it any more than I question the choice Sirius made to go on, even when the battle was still raging around Harry. Sirius' life was full of right choices, I trust that one too. Choice is a sacred thing. Don't second guess yourself."
Cedric straightened up. "It's getting dark, Ginny. Forget the pile of parchment. I'll talk to McGonagall about your homework. Get some sleep."
Ginny looked up, blinking back her tears. "Yes, I promise…I…I promise." Suddenly she leaned over, kissed his hand, then turned and ran.
Hours later Cedric was still resting in his favorite place, the center Quidditch hoop. Leaning there partially against the inner curve, partially against the cool autumn air, it seemed to catch the quintessence of his existence, for now at least. Nothing would get through that hoop as long as he was there. The ghost stared quizzically at Sirius. He could swear the star was winking at him. In all truth Cedric had never considered the possibility of Sirius not going on. Why did you do it, Sirius? You love Harry so much, why didn't you stay to help? That led to the bigger question: Dumbledore. He, too, chose to go on from that tower. Harry frozen behind the invisibility cloak, Snape revealed in all his horror. And you just went on, Headmaster? Why? You didn't even leave us Fawkes. What did they see that I didn't see?
Sirius winked again.
What! Cedric shot up above the stands, spinning with astonishment. Me. They saw me. And not just me, but Harry, Ron, Charlie, Hermione, all of us…and somehow they knew to go on. The ghost couldn't say how, but he understood: They knew the answer so they could go on, and he was part of that answer. Cedric summoned the Firebolt, and lying upon it, drifted slowly around the Quidditch pitch, round and round. No matter where he was Sirius winked at him, and unbelievably, he saw that the centaurs had missed the most important constellation of all. For there stretched across Orion, from Gemini to the River, was clearly a Phoenix with Sirius for its eye.
Sirius winked.
Cedric winked back and began to laugh.
The echo of his laughter drifted towards Gryffindor Tower, were Ginny stirred in her sleep, and hugging her pillow, smiled at a young, black-haired, green-eyed wizard soaring in triumph above the towers of Hogwarts.
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Three college seniors have created an innovative bike lock meant to provide more room on Taipei's congested sidewalks. Offugo (公共自行車停車磚) is an aluminum alloy plate that fits like a manhole cover into the ground and works by pinning a tire to a retractable spine. It doesn't look like much, but that's the main attraction.
"Think about YouBike, which uses a special rack on the sidewalk," said co-inventor Cin Siou-huei (秦秀惠) about Taipei City's bike rental system. "Take away the bike and that rack is still there, taking up space in a space-poor city."
"Our lock isn't a visual or literal block to pedestrians," she said. "Also, in the end it would be cheaper to switch to this system from the YouBike rack, since all you really need is the disc."
Last week, the disc was a big winner at the Young Designers' Exhibition (YODEX, 新一代設計展) in Taipei, where graduating college seniors from across Taiwan vied for a handful of medals. Offugo beat out 1,160 entries for the gold in Product Design (產品設計類) and a silver in the space solutions category (空間設計類), which received 320 entries.
Chou Jing-heng (周敬恆) took a gold medal in the space solutions category with Boundary into the Plan (邊界突入計畫), a scale model based on an abandoned oil drilling platform in the East China Sea. Chou has done major remodeling, which includes knocking out walls and adding a floor with a gambling casino and resort.
Chou even has a colorful story to go with it. The upstairs entertainment zone is for Chinese tourists and the downstairs chambers are for Taiwanese, who service the resort. The space encourages an economic interaction that could allow Taiwan to "elude domination" by its neighbor across the Strait, according to Chou, 22, who is a passionate observer of current events.
"Hypothetically, if Taiwan is taken over by China, at least we would still have this place. From here, we can slowly take back the island chains, so long as the Taiwanese spirit is there," he said.
Meanwhile, two students who took a silver medal in the visual communication design category also had tourists in mind, though they were thinking more in the present.
"In bookstores today you can find good guidebooks on Taiwan, but they introduce sites to visit and places to eat. There aren't many about daily perplexities that foreigners encounter," said Hazel Tsao (曹乃云).
Tsao and schoolmate Chen Hsiao-tzu (陳孝慈) won a silver medal for Taiwanese Manual, three books of advice customized for Japanese, American and Chinese visitors. For example, Japanese tourists are warned that tea sold at convenience stores are usually sweetened — "Teas in Japanese stores are not," Tsao said, citing her interviews with Japanese subjects — while guests from the US are advised that braziers are not garbage disposals. All the advice is presented together on the page, so that the Japanese reader can see all the questions of Americans and Chinese.
"At first, we thought about separating the manuals by language, but then we thought that if we combined all the information, each nationality can see how other people respond to Taiwan and the manuals can be a point of communion for first-time visitors," said Tsao.
Other YODEX winners included an origami set by Shu-Te University (樹德科技) — original foldable designs based on Toroko Gorge wildlife — which picked up a silver each from the product and visual communication categories. Some of this origami is quite a challenge and designers said they want to encourage parent-child interaction.


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Blackstar's ID: Series represents a truly groundbreaking achievement, combining unique innovations, an intuitive, traditional control set and the versatility of programmability. In the five years since its launch, Blackstar has been helping lead the way in the innovation of guitar amplification. The ID: Series represents the culmination of more than seven years technical research and development. The unique controls allow you to custom design your own sound, store it and then have the confidence that the amp will perform in a live environment.
Blackstar's True Valve Power offers six distinctly different power valve responses - EL84, 6V6, EL34, KT66, 6L6, KT88. When engaged, it delivers the response, dynamics, sag and break-up characteristics of a valve amp and uniquely delivers the same acoustic power output as an equivalent valve power amp. This means that for the first time ever, in an affordable series of amplifiers, these products deliver live without compromise - True Valve Power means loud as valve.
The Voice control has six different channels - Clean Warm, Clean Bright, Crunch, Super Crunch, OD 1, OD 2. When used together with Blackstar's patented ISF control you can get the exact tone you're thinking of. The effects section delivers studio quality modulation, delay and reverb effects simultaneously that you can store with your sound. Deep editing and storing of patches is simple using the supplied Blackstar GUI software. Patches can be shared, uploaded and downloaded via our online community. The USB connector also allows you to record your amp directly to your computer. An emulated output, MP3/line input and midi footswitching functionality complete the package.
By using the unique Voice control, patented ISF and patent-applied-for True Valve Power, these amplifiers allow unparalleled flexibility and ease of use, enabling you to in effect, design the sound in your head and deliver it live as loud as valve. Individuality is power.
- True Valve Power offers six distinctly different power valve responses - EL84, 6V6, EL34, KT66, 6L6, KT88
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- EQ with patented ISF: The patented ISF control works with the Bass and Treble controls to give you access to infinite new sound possibilities from the USA to the UK and everywhere in-between, allowing you to infinitely adjust the response of the tone control network between any of the traditional voicings
- Voices: The unique Voice control has six different channels - Clean Warm, Clean Bright, Crunch, Super Crunch, OD 1, OD 2, which when used together with Blackstar's patented ISF control, you can get the exact tone you're thinking of
- GUI Software: GUI for deep editing and storing of patches is simple using the supplied Blackstar GUI software. Patches can be shared, uploaded and downloaded via our online community. The USB connector also allows you to record your amp directly to your computer or to re-amp guitar tracks. The audio section allows you to play along to your MP3s, plus you can loop and time stretch sections for phrase training
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- MIDI input: This amp offers the ability to recall Patches via MIDI Program Change messages, and to dynamically modify Patch values via MIDI Control Change messages
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I am in Raleigh, North Carolina at the NGS Annual Conference and I am having a ball. Great classes so far, and I've got a huge "to do" list of research for when I get back home. Carole and I have such a good time at these conferences.
I thought I'd still post a lesson I learned many years ago, because I think it's something a lot of people don't think of. My grandmother, Pauline, attended Bennett College. She loved Bennett and talked about it all the time. Her father was a Methodist minister and Methodism shaped much of her life, so a Methodist College was completely in order. At some point years ago, I decided to write to Bennett to see if they had any of her records. They had everything! They wouldn't release her grades (I wasn't interested in those anyway) but they sent me her original application from 1931!
How cool is that? Another page listed her hobbies and extracurricular activities…I would have never guessed my grandmother played soccer. So if your ancestor went to college, write to the school to see if they still have any records left. This worked even better for my grandfather who attended a year at Howard…they sent me everything on him, and it was alot.
Want to know what my favorite part of the application was? A picture from her senior year, that of course no one in my family had ever seen:
WOW. I can almost see her walking across that campus, taking her classes, making friends.
Pauline was a teacher, and her first job out of Bennett was at the Boylan School in Jacksonville, Florida. Boylan was a Methodist (of course) private school for negro girls. I found a website called the Florida Memory Project and downloaded a brochure from the Boylan School just a few years before Pauline would have taught there. It had all sorts of details like what classes the girls would take, how much it cost, and what kinds of clothes they had to bring. That was a nice find. Of course the best thing for Pauline about it was that she met her husband at Boylan and spent much of the next 50+ plus years in Jacksonville. I hope you've enjoyed this example of just one more way to bring your family history to life!


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There is No Middle Income Trap
Concerns about the so-called "middle-income trap" have recently emerged among many middle-income countries, particularly after the term was coined in 2007 by two World Bank economists. Worried that they may become "trapped" at the middle-income level, these countries are seeking a set of policies that can help them achieve strong and sustained growth and eventually help them join the league of high-income countries.
In our recent paper, we try to shed some light on both issues. First, we do not find that countries are trapped at middle income. "Escapees" – countries that escaped the middle-income trap and obtained a per capita income higher than 50% of the U.S. level – tend to grow fast and consistently to high income, and do not stagnate at any point as a middle-income trap theory would suggest. In contrast, "non-escapees" tend to have low growth at all levels of income. In other words, while the existence of a middle income trap implies that growth rates systematically slow down as countries reach middle-income status, no such systematic slowdown is apparent in the data. Second, we provide some descriptive and econometric evidence for a different set of "fundamentals" that enable middle-income countries to grow faster than their peers. We find that faster transformation to industry, low inflation, stronger exports, and reduced inequality are associated with stronger growth.
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Brand-new mom Mariah Carey reportedly has plans to release a CD later this year, her husband, Nick Cannon, told the NY Daily News.
Carey reportedly worked on the album while she was still pregnant with twins Monroe and Moroccan.
"She's planning on having a record out this year," Cannon said. "She's been working away, and we have a studio in the crib, and the pregnancy has totally inspired her on so many different levels. You're definitely gonna see some new phenomenal music from Mariah."
Carey's last CD, 'Merry Christmas II You,' was released last year, and sold about 432,000 copies. She previously released 'Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel' in 2009.


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Notice to Members 03-14
NASD Announces Implementation of Web EFT and Amends Section 9 of Schedule A to the NASD By-Laws Establishing an Annual Subscription Charge for NASD Members That Use Web EFT
NASD announces the implementation of Web EFT, a new, secure Web-based electronic file transfer application that members can use to submit "batch filings," such as multiple Form U-4 and Form U-5 filings, in a single transaction to the Central Registration Depository (CRD®) or Investment Advisor Registration Depository (IARDSM) system; or to download member firm data and processing results from these systems. NASD has amended Section 9 of Schedule A to the NASD By-Laws (Section 9) to establish an annual subscription charge for NASD members that elect to use Web EFT, to submit/download registration-related data.
The rule change to amend Section 9 was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on February 11, 2003. Pursuant to Section 19(b)(3)(A) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and SEC Rule 19b-4(f)(1) thereunder, the rule change became immediately effective upon filing.
Questions concerning this Notice may be directed to NASD's Gateway Call Center at (301) 590-6500.


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Updates from CensuslandSunday, October 16th, 2011
It's been a while. But a Tweet from a former 2010 Census employee made me nostalgic for this project, so I figured that I'd provide some 2010 Census news for the MyTwoCensus Faithful. In the past month, the Census Bureau has released some interesting information about national home ownership rates, America's population growth by race (highlighting the growth of Hispanic and black populations), and estimates of the number of same-sex married couples. To the readers out there: Do you have any lingering questions about the 2010 Census? If so, I'm happy to put in some time to answer them.


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Micro Focus is hitting the application management dance floor to celebrate the arrival of its RUMBA 8.1 terminal emulation suite. This newly upgraded suite now includes Microsoft Office integration, a tile and zoom user interface, automatic historical data capture, FIPS-compliant security, and customizable developer tools.
The new version gives developers the ability to use custom tools to create new applications, as well as tap into the full functionality of existing business-critical applications running on the mainframe. By establishing new integration channels, Micro Focus is highlighting the fact that end users can now transfer data and transaction details within RUMBA to Microsoft Office applications. This functionality is said to enable the transfer of transaction information to other users, ensuring minimal business disruption while (in theory) improving customer satisfaction.
"As organizations look to reduce IT spending and increase operational efficiency, it's critical that they identify the low-cost and low-risk strategies that will extend the lifecycle of business-critical applications," said Archie Roboostoff, product marketing director at Micro Focus. "By reducing the complexity and increasing user productivity, RUMBA 8.1 enables businesses to leverage terminal emulation as a strategic resource in any modernization plan."
In addition to the Microsoft Office integration, RUMBA 8.1 also captures historical data and screens during the normal use of the product. The immediate availability of past information and screens should allow end users to be more efficient and share specific insights with multiple users within the organization. The company also points out that users can build issue-specific profiles or best practices to allow customer service teams to access background information on recurring queries.
RUMBA 8.1 also features the RUMBA Developer Edition, which is compatible with .NET and Visual Studio 2008 / 2010.
Micro Focus is also announcing the availability of Web-to-Host 6.1, a new version of the browser-based terminal emulator, which incorporates features from RUMBA 8.1 and provides support for double-byte character set (DBCS) systems to support additional languages, such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean.


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The attorney for Kenneth Reiss of Driftwood Lane in Springs appeared before the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals Tuesday evening. Having purchased in 2010 roughly two-thirds of an acre that looks out over Gardiner's Bay, Mr. Reiss has applied for a natural resources special permit to construct a 4,571-square-foot house, a swimming pool, a pool house, and an extensive patio within the setback zones for both tidal wetlands and the coastal bluff crest.
Several of Mr. Reiss's neighbors spoke out against the application. "I live across the street and I've been there for 45 years," Thomas Fahey said. "The question is, who owns the beach?" Mr. Fahey referred to the "Yom Kippur staircase incident," in which a prior owner of the property suddenly removed a staircase that had been used by residents for years to access the bay beach. Margaret Backman of Driftwood Lane also referred to the removal of the staircase in voicing opposition to Mr. Reiss's application.
Brian Frank, the chief environmental analyst for the Town Planning Department, reminded Z.B.A. members that in 2007 they approved a permit for a slightly smaller house that would have been 100 feet away from the dune crest, the minimum distance required by the town code, as opposed to the present application, which proposes a building 83.6 feet away. Mr. Frank said Mr. Reiss is seeking to decrease the setback "on an ephemeral basis," having to do with the difficulty of pinpointing the bay's mean high water mark, which determines the required setback from the beach.
Another of Mr. Reiss's neighbors pointed out that the proposed building is "a big house for a little piece of property." After reminding the audience that the size of the house was not the issue before the board, its chairman, Philip Gamble, proceeded to the next application. A.D.H.


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This location will be the premier baseball camp in the state of New York
San Rafael, CA (PRWEB) March 29, 2012
The Nike Big League Baseball Camp at SUNY Maritime is directed by John Carlesi. Carlesi has been leading instruction for past 13 years. He currently is the head baseball coach at Stuyvesant High School and is a former Division II player and coach at St. Leo College (Fla.)
"We are thrilled to have confirmed our 2012 dates at SUNY Maritime," states Mike de Surville, Vice President of US Sports Camps. "We look forward to the start of this camp and are confident that this location will be the premier summer baseball camp in New York."
Nike Baseball Camps provide focused, intensive training that is essential to improvement for all skill levels. Every facet of the game is covered with an emphasis on fundamentals to help players become valuable team members. At each location, campers are broken into groups with other players of similar age, abilities and goals. Each camp director does their best to advance players to the next level, keeping in consideration each camper's experience and desire to improve.
About US Sports Camps
US Sports Camps (USSC), headquartered in San Rafael, California, is America's largest summer sports camps network and the licensed operator of NIKE Sports Camps. The company has offered summer camps since 1975 with the same mission that defines it today: to shape a lifelong enjoyment of athletics through high quality sports education and skill enhancement.
Players, coaches, parents and others interested in the 2012 Nike Big League Baseball Camps can visit the website or call 1-800-645-3226.