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Training course "Iterative Linear Solvers and Parallelization" @ HLRS
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The focus is on iterative and parallel solvers, the parallel programming models MPI and OpenMP, and the parallel middleware PETSc. Thereby, different modern Krylov Subspace Methods (CG, GMRES, BiCGSTAB ...) as well as highly efficient preconditioning techniques are presented in the context of real life applications. Hands-on sessions (in C and Fortran) will allow users to immediately test and understand the basic constructs of iterative solvers, the Message Passing Interface (MPI) and the shared memory directives of OpenMP. This course is organized by HLRS, IAG, Uni. Kassel, and SFB/TRR30.


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That is what we are all about, us writers!
On Awfully Big Blog Adventure we talk about and write books so that children young and old can read them. There is nothing more unhappy than a book without anyone to read it. We all know that children have to learn the skill that is reading so that they can discover the joy of losing themselves in a book, the delight of living new experiences through the characters in their favourite books.
We writers like to think that all parents will encourage this by spending time reading to their children, many do and there are agencies like Bookstart and BookBug who deliver books into the hands of every new parent and child. But as children grow up things change and we all know that life is not always the way we would like it to be, so we need our schools not only to help children learn the skill of reading but to find joy and delight in a broad range of books, to help them to become enthusiastic readers.
We have heard about how public libraries are under threat of closure or cuts in John Dougherty's excellent but depressing post A Death in the Library but at a time like this we need to make sure we recognise how important our school libraries are, and encourage those excellent people the School Librarians.I visit a lot of schools and it is often an enthusiastic and hard working school librarian who will invite me to speak. They understand how an author visiting a school and speaking passionately about what they write can infect students with their enthusiasm and on occasion can be the trigger that switches some children on to reading. Finding the right book for the right child, the book that helps that child discover there is something in books for them, is something that can change lives.
Books that deal with difficult subjects in a fictional setting can provide an opportunity to experience emotions, to dip into the dangerous side of life in a safe way. Teenagers need to push against authority and against the rules but reading and taking that journey with characters they believe in, can allow them an opportunity to see what might happen if they tried this in real life - raising questions they might never have asked themselves about the consequences of their actions. Books can be powerful in changing ideas and raising discussions that might never otherwise come about.
Going to borrow books from the public library works for some children but there will always be those who will never go to the library, but they all go to school.
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Attorney General Lockyer Sends Refund Checks to California Consumers of Anti-Cancer Drug TaxolPatients Will Receive Total Of More Than $400,000 As Part Of Multi-State Settlement
June 1, 2004
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(SACRAMENTO) Attorney General Bill Lockyer today announced the distribution of $407,454 in refund checks to 701 California cancer patients who overpaid for the Bristol-Myers Squibb (Bristol) drug Taxol.
"These California consumers paid artificially-inflated prices for potentially life-saving treatment because Bristol abused the patent process, stifled competition and kept cheaper generic versions off the market," said Lockyer. "This kind of conduct by drug companies has contributed to exorbitant prescription prices that have caused so much anger and frustration among consumers. It cannot be tolerated, and we will continue to fight it to protect consumers' health and pocketbooks."
The payments sent today to 12,723 consumers nationwide are part of a $49.74 million settlement that resolves an antitrust lawsuit filed by states against Bristol. The signatories include Bristol, California, 45 other states, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands and Washington D.C.
The $49.74 million includes: $7.24 million in refunds for individual consumers who paid all or part of the costs to buy Taxol or its generic equivalent, paclitaxel, between January 1, 1999 and February 28, 2003; $37 million in restitution for government entities; and $5.5 million to administer the claims process and reimburse litigating states for their costs.
The $37 million for government entities includes $3.7 million for California. The money will be disbursed in the near future. In California, the $3.7 million will reimburse Taxol or paclitaxel expenditures by the Medi-Cal program, state institutions and the California Public Employees' Retirement System.
Paclitaxel the actual pharmaceutical ingredient in Taxol is used to treat ovarian, breast, lung and AIDS-related cancer. It was discovered by the National Cancer Institute, and developed and tested at taxpayer expense.
In 1992, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave Bristol exclusive rights to market Taxol for five years. In 1993, Bristol told a congressional committee that "near-term generic competition for Taxol is a certainty."
The states' antitrust complaint, however, alleged Bristol delayed market entry of a generic version of Taxol until 2000 by fraudulently securing and listing in the FDA's Orange Book patents that had no legal validity. When patents are listed in the Orange Book, manufacturers of generic drugs must certify to the FDA that their products will not infringe on any listed patent.
By securing an Orange Book listing through fraud, the complaint alleged, Bristol unlawfully prevented competitors from marketing generic versions of Taxol. Bristol's sales of Taxol have totaled more than $5.4 billion since 1998.
Aside from restitution, the settlement prohibits Bristol from filing a patent infringement claim related to Taxol, and from collecting royalties pursuant to a Taxol license, for 10 years. During the same period, the settlement bars Bristol from making fraudulent or baseless claims related to any patent, and from enforcing or seeking to enforce any patent it knows to be invalid. For the first five years of the settlement, Bristol must file annual compliance reports with the court.
The Taxol case is one of a series of actions taken by Lockyer and other Attorneys General against drug companies for market manipulation, patent abuse, price fixing and other unlawful conduct that has artificially inflated prices paid by consumers. Companies targeted by the enforcement actions include Bristol, Mylan Laboratories, Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Andryx.
Lockyer also is taking action against drug companies that defraud taxpayers. In January 2003, he sued Abbott Laboratories and Wyeth for allegedly cheating taxpayers out of millions of dollars by reporting false pricing data to the Medi-Cal program. Medi-Cal used the fraudulent data to pay the companies inflated prices for drugs. Lockyer is investigating similar conduct by other pharmaceutical firms.
Lockyer and other state Attorneys General also are investigating possible collusion by drug companies to limit the supply of pharmaceuticals to Canada. Additionally, Lockyer is investigating a 400 percent price increase for the AIDS drug Norvir.


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DistributionWatch Review: Linux-Mandrake 7.2
Discrepencies between boxed and ISO versions
November 1, 2000
There was a time in the not too distant past when I was searching for a Linux distribution to call my very own. I had just written several books about Red Hat, one about Corel Linux, and even contributed to a Slackware book. None of these really struck my fancy, because there always seemed to be something missing for me. As good as these distros were, there was always a rough feeling to them, as if all of the components were sort of jammed together to make a pretty package, but inside the package I could still hear gears that were not quite aligned grinding together.
When I got SuSE 7.0 on my doorstop, I found out that Linux distros could be chock-full of apps and utilities and still be hugely user-friendly. This week, I discovered that Linux-Mandrake 7.2 can just about join this elite category--provided you install it correctly.
But other problems may plague this boxed set release of Linux-Mandrake 7.2, because while owners of the download version are getting the latest version of software for free, retail purchasers will have to pay to get a version of Linux-Mandrake that is already slightly obsolete.
Too Smart For my Own Good: Installation
The download version of Linux-Mandrake 7.2 became available to the general public on October 28, and immediately the FTP mirror sites got deluged with file requests. Getting in that first day was a bit of a challenge. I already had the CDs that will go out in the boxed set in mid-November, so I installed those instead. This decision would later prove to be enlightening.
The version I tested was 7.2's PowerPack Deluxe, a seven-CD set that will retail for $69.95. On first look, this is a pretty good deal, considering that there are, all told, over 2300 apps ready to download on these discs alone. (Besides the ubiquitous StarOffice 5.2, Linux-Mandrake even tosses in IBM's ViaVoice voice recognition application.) The other retail version is the Complete version, with fewer commercial applications but retaining the same base functionality. This version retails at $29.95.
What MandrakeSoft failed to send me was the actual box, with the corresponding documentation. Attempts to get a handle on the included documentation were unsuccessful by the time this review was posted.
Installation of this distribution was done on a 5 Gb open partition of a 12 Gb drive. The machine has an AMD K6 processor and 96 Mb of RAM, well within the minimum requirements of this release.
According to the stats from MandrakeSoft, Linux-Mandrake needs at least a Pentium level processor, 32 Mb of RAM (64 for running X), and a minimum of 1.5 Gb hard drive to install--big for a minimum installation.
There are three installation paths you can choose in Linux-Mandrake installation program, DrakX: Recommended, Customized, and Expert. The Expert path, should you choose to take it, does warn you about the complexity of the installation using shadow passwords as an example of the technical level of this path. If you know about shadow passwords, the implication was, then you should be fine. I soon found out that this was not necessarily the case.
Users who are new to Linux-Mandrake, no matter how familiar with Linux in general, should think about taking the Recommended path. This is because there are a lot of proprietary features for Linux-Mandrake that are not turned on by default in the Expert path package selector. A big missing app was DrakConf, Mandrake's uberconfiguration tool. It, along with many of its component configuration utilities, was not installed by default during the Expert path; since I was new to Linux-Mandrake, I did not know I needed to select it.
Veteran Linux-Mandrake users should not have a problem with this because they are aware of the proprietary tools previous versions of Linux-Mandrake have used. But to take advantage of these tools you should either have a list of them handy and go hunting for them in the package list, or just install via the Recommended path and ratchet up your box later.
There is a drawback to this latter approach, too. Many of the configurations you can do manually during the Expert path are handled automatically during the Recommended paths. My network interface, an AMD PCI card, was recognized by the auto installation, but a glitch in the program made it refuse to load the module. I tried to back up and do it manually, as I'd done in the Expert path, to little avail. Fortunately, upon reboot, Kudzu kicked in and saw my network card and loaded the right module, as well as my sound card, which made me feel better. This was not the end of the hassles with the network card, but it helped.
The Recommended path also completely skipped the LILO configuration, which meant doing it later in the Mandrake boot configuration utility.
These were minor hiccups in the overall scheme of things, and I was pretty pleased with the Recommended and Customized paths' selection of packages, because it filled in some serious gaps I'd missed after the Expert path was completed.


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Eagles fans, folks. One promises to strip if DeSean Jackson wins the game; he's buck naked before Jackson hits the end zone. Another actually calls the return, and runs down the street topless.
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The most current technology we are offering is the Halo Wellness System. Always available is the groundbreaking technology of the Canfield Visia Complexion Analysis System, The Solitone 2500, LED Photo-therapy bed, Lumicell wave 4 cellulite treatment, along with our spa favorites of Far Infrared Sauna and the Euro Body Shaper.
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Levein wants a more confident display
Craig Levein wants his Scotland players to have "more swagger" about them going into Tuesday night's 2014 World Cup qualifier against Macedonia at Hampden Park.
The Scots drew a blank in their Group A opener against Serbia at the national stadium on Saturday and are under pressure to take all three points against a side who narrowly lost 1-0 in Croatia on Friday night. Levein was not unhappy with his team's performance or work-rate at the weekend but is looking for his men to show more confidence.
He said: "I keep saying to the players, we should have more swagger, we should be more confident and that is what we are aiming towards."
Levein added: "That is what we are trying to achieve, that's why we are sticking together and everyone is really tight.
"Every time you pull on a Scotland jersey there is a responsibility and I know I have a responsibility as a manager.
"But I think the fans do understand that every time we go out to represent Scotland we are doing our best. We are working as hard as we can and preparing as well as possible."
Meanwhile, Kenny Miller insists he will have no complaints if tasked with the lone striker role once again.
He said: "The role has become pretty familiar to me over the years, whether it be at club or international level.
"The manager is the one who will make the decision. He sets us up for games and 99 times out of 100, I feel he's got it right in the way we set up.
"He will play us in the way he feels is best for us to get the three points. If that's one up, it will be one up. If it's two up, it will be two up. We are happy with the way we play and if we can improve on what we did on Saturday, I think we will be okay."


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Slaying of Mexican singer again shines light on police corruption
A clean-cut former Bible salesman, Gibran David Martiz had a career on the rise. He'd become a finalist on Mexico's version of the NBC singing show "The Voice" and was preparing a new disc. He liked the punchy Latin music style known as reggaeton.
Then on Jan. 14, state police in Veracruz broke into his apartment in the city of Xalapa and led the 22-year-old away. His body was found Tuesday at the scene of a shootout.
What happened to Gibran Martiz is unknown, and it's fueled the concern of many Mexicans about police in Veracruz and in other states with high levels of kidnapping and violence. His killing came just days after Mexico's top security official lauded the Veracruz police as a "reliable and efficient" force worthy again of public trust.
President Enrique Pena Nieto has sought to build confidence in law enforcement and portray Mexico as a nation on the mend from runaway organized crime. But inconvenient events keep getting in the way. The death of Martiz is one example.
After a spike in killings in 2011 in Veracruz, a sprawling, steamy state on the Gulf of Mexico, the state and federal governments began throwing money at police reform, using U.S.-promoted and -financed techniques on police vetting that involved methods such as polygraph tests.
"One of the most shocking facts is that most of the police officers involved in kidnapping have gone through vetting," said Juan Salgado Ibarra, an expert on law enforcement issues at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics, a Mexico City institution. "It shows that the system is not working."
The father of Gibran Martiz, Efrain Martiz, said in a telephone interview that he was sure the police were involved in the snatching and death of his son.
"In every process of cleaning up the police, there are always some bad elements that remain behind as new people come in," he said.
On the day his son vanished, the father said, his son's two roommates were driving a silver sedan in the state capital of Xalapa when state police stopped them for having windows that were tinted more darkly than permitted. The police had them lead the officers to their apartment. It was there that the younger Martiz was detained, his father said.
Since father and son hold dual Mexican-Panamanian citizenship, the father sought the help of the Panamanian consul, who accompanied the father and his wife to the state prosecutor's office. They were initially told that the assailants must have been criminals using "cloned" vehicles and uniforms to appear as if they were police.
But the Martiz family used photos taken by neighbors to track down one police cruiser that had been snapped at the scene to a police compound.
His brother, Erick, took to Facebook to publicize what they found:
"This is the patrol unit and its number (20-1178) in which my brother Gibran Martiz was taken away, and we still know nothing," Erick Martiz posted.
The father went back to the chief state prosecutor with the information.
"There was little he could do but keep his mouth shut," Martiz said.
Added Panamanian consul Ruben Dario Campos: "He had no other alternative but to acknowledge that this was a possibility."
At a news conference earlier this week, Veracruz prosecutor Amadeo Flores Espinosa said seven public safety officials had been arrested in Martiz's death and had been charged with abuse of power, breach of duty and other charges.
He maintained, however, that assailants who later got into a shootout with state police south of Xalapa had killed Martiz. He didn't explain how Martiz had gotten out of the custody of the police and into the hands of the two gunmen.
The case is a matter of embarrassment to Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, the most powerful man, after Pena Nieto, in Mexico's government. Osorio Chong spoke at a ceremony Jan. 14 for graduating state-police recruits in Veracruz, saying the state's police force had become a model for "police transformation" three years after entire municipal police forces in the state had been dissolved amid evidence they'd been bought off by powerful crime gangs.
Efrain Martiz said it was "too early to sing victory" but that Veracruz officials were likely doing so to create "an image of a cleaned-up police" before the Ibero-American Summit of 22 heads of state that will be in Veracruz later this year.
Salgado, the law enforcement expert, said he thought that Osorio Chong, who controls a newly centralized federal security apparatus, had found dealing with the nation's rampant crime and corruption to be a monumental task.
"I think he's absolutely overwhelmed," Salgado said.
Even as the Martiz case has surged into the national spotlight, some obscure forces have sought to portray Martiz as a gangster, releasing photos of him holding an assault rifle and handguns.
The production company handling his career, Supernova, issued a statement earlier this week that said Martiz was using the guns – which it said were toys or fakes – for an upcoming but unfinished video, which it said it would release shortly to "put the lie to these anonymous photos that are trying to muddy the image of Gibran David Martiz."


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Ole Miss is the only school in the upper half of the SEC statistical rankings in every major offensive and defensive category. This week, the Rebels face one of their toughest tests on both sides of the ball in No. 8 Missouri.
The Tigers defense ranks second in the SEC and 14th nationally in rushing defense (111.9 ypg). Missouri has held opponents under 150 rushing yards in all but one game (Georgia), while the Ole Miss has been held under 150-yard mark four times this year, including each of their three losses.
"They're one of the best rushing defenses in the nation," head coach Hugh Freeze said. "It presents a challenge for us. We're not near as good offensively when we can't run the ball. It puts us a bit in a disadvantage in having to protect against a D-line like this, especially. There's a premium on being able to run it."
"The strength of their team is up front," offensive line coach Matt Luke said. "We know that, and that's probably going to be where the game is won and lost."
On the defensive line, senior defensive end Michael Sam leads the league and ranks sixth nationally with 10 sacks and also leads the league and ranks fifth nationally with 16 tackles for loss. On the other side, junior defensive end Kony Ealy, ranks fourth in the SEC with 6.5 sacks and leads the team with 13 quarterback hurries.
"They provide probably the biggest challenge we have had all year from top to bottom," Luke said. "They're good in every spot. It's not like they have one guy you can focus on. (Sam) has the most sacks, but the other ends provide their own challenges. One of them is faster; one of them is bigger, and they're two inside guys are good, so you can't slide your line a certain way and protect against one guy."
It's not only the personnel, but also their scheme and movement, which presents a great challenge for the Ole Miss offensive line, both in run blocking and pass protection.
"They do a good job of movement," Luke said. "They're never in the same place. They move about every snap. They're a moving front and don't let you double-team because they're constantly moving, twisting and mixing up the front and making it tough on you.
"Nothing is ever easy, and you always have to figure something out. You can't just do your assignment; it's always movement, so that's a unique challenge for us."
Jones, Wommack Prepare For Missouri Tall, Speedy Receivers
On Monday, junior cornerback Senquez Golson compared the Missouri group of receivers to playing against three or four Mike Evans from Texas A&M.
In the Oct. 12 meeting against Texas A&M, the Ole Miss defense, notably Golson, held Evans to a season-low 46 yards on four catches and without a touchdown, but Missouri presents a different challenge this week with all four of its starting receivers listed at 6-foot-2 or taller.
Sophomore Dorial Green-Beckham and senior L'Damian Washington (6-foot-2), who each have 500-plus receiving yards and nine touchdowns, are listed at 6-foot-6 and 6-foot-2, respectively. For the Rebels, Golson and sophomore cornerback Mike Hilton are listed at 5-foot-9 and 5-foot-8, respectively.
"Most of the time you have one guy who is 6-5 guy, but to have several like they have is unusual," cornerbacks coach Jason Jones said. "All three, they can run and catch the football. It's going to be a good challenge for us."
"We can't make them any taller," defensive coordinator Dave Wommack said. "There's nothing we can do about that. We have to go with what we got and work the fundamentals to try to challenge those guys."
Another cornerback in the mix for Ole Miss will be freshman Derrick Jones, who made his college debut at No. 1 Alabama and has started three games since then. At 6-foot-3, he can help the Rebel defense match up against Missouri's tall receivers.
"After recruiting, I hoped he was going to be a safety, but I'm glad to have him as a corner," Wommack said. "I didn't realize he had the kind of hips and speed that he has. A lot of times long guys like him struggle with change of direction, but he's got all those things. He will make a bunch of money someday."


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Describe the mission/purpose of your proposed gTLD
Full Legal Name
E-mail suffix
Gemeente Amsterdam
The mission of the proposed ".amsterdamʺ TLD is to provide the community, stakeholders of and visitors to the City of Amsterdam with a TLD that will be the new address of the ʺdigital cityʺ, reflecting their bond with the City and its values. The TLD will provide a virtual space in which digital communication and connections are stimulated and business can increasingly flourish: interest groups, institutions, communities, individuals and corporations are stimulated to adopt the new TLD as a valuable tool for business, communication or expression, but also as a means to express their connection to the City in the broadest sense of the word. The international brand awareness and recognizability and uniform spelling of the name of the City will contribute significantly to the adoption and use of this TLD.
The new ʺ.amsterdamʺ TLD aims to provide the stakeholders of the City of Amsterdam with an address that is both recognizable as having a link to the City, while being 'personal' as well. Being used as a part of Amsterdamʹs branding strategy, a geographic TLD like .amsterdam is expected to create and support the local identity for enterprises, institutions, and individuals and with the aim to result in a stronger sense of community. It is planned that Amsterdam's marketing strategy and the creation of a maximum branding value will be substantially supported by communication activities on domain names such as http:⁄⁄visit.amsterdam, to name but one example. The introduction and the 'maintenance' of the branding of the TLD will be supported by the City's Marketing department, which has invested significantly in the branding of the City over the past eight years. The Registry will be offering tools for the marketing of domain names in the ".amsterdam" TLD realm to third parties with the aim of maximizing a rapid recognizability of the TLD.
By actively using the City's own domain names as described above, but also highly stimulating (through marketing and agreements) the actual usage of the TLD, the Registry firmly believes the TLD will grow to be of high value to its registrants by means of actual public usage and search engine ranking.
The marketing strategy of the City of Amsterdam will be in line with the "I amsterdam" City Marketing strategy that already has a high recognizability in the City as it has been running for close to eight years now. Furthermore, the City aims to use the TLD for its services to the public. To that purpose a number of domain names will remain reserved for the exclusive use by the City of Amsterdam. Next to that a number of domain names will be reserved and issued in batches to parties with a specific interest in the entire batch of domain names in conjunction with the obligation for the registrant to actively use these domains in line with such specific interest. Thus, the Registry can –for a fairly limited but important range of domain names- guarantee valuable experiences for the public.
Examples of these 'batches' mentioned above would be "wonen.amsterdam","woningen.amsterdam","koopwoningen.amsterdam" and "huurwoningen.amsterdam". By offering these four domain names for sale as a 'batch', with the conditions of active use within a short period after purchase (to be determined) we can achieve rapid public availability of these strategic domain names. On top of that, by auctioning these batches, we create a level playing field allowing all interested parties to acquire those names (with the conditions mentioned being a part of the sale), while at the same time offering the new owner the strategic advantage of having acquired a coherent set of domain names, which can be considered to be of premium strategic value. The Registry also believes that this mechanism will prevent domain name squatting for these important domain names. Domain name squatting could otherwise have a very negative effect on the actual use of and the sentiments surrounding the new TLD.
The Registry anticipates that".amsterdam" will add to the current space more differentiation in the way that it provides registrants the opportunity to have a distinct new possibility to show⁄promote their brand, shop or business, identity or community via a TLD that is "not distant" in many ways. In terms of competition the Registry will provide a TLD that will add more consumer choice in a market dominated by the national ".nl" TLD. In terms of innovation the City of Amsterdam has traditionally been a national leader in providing IT Services to its citizens and will make all efforts so that the new TLD will reflect that ongoing innovation.
The Registryʹs vision is that as the internet has reached global coverage, the internet will enter the 'capillary system' of society, with a strong focus on local relevance. The TLD we apply for reflects that local relevance and should become the City's platform for business and communication for all of its stakeholders. The Registryʹs mission is to know the local (digital) needs and how the new TLD can facilitate both the commercial, functional and emotional aspects of bringing the new TLD to the City and its stakeholders
The Registryʹs strategy is to collaborate with acknowledged leaders in Internet technologies and service providers to expand Internet capacity in an orderly manner through new charter TLDs.
There are already nearly 5 million ".nl" domain names, and the Netherlands has the highest domain density (number of domains per capita) in the world with currently 0.39 domains per capita and has one of the most extensive internet infrastructures in the world. ".amsterdam" ,being the TLD for the capital city of the Netherlands clearly expects to profit from the extremely high interest in registering and using domains and in the internet as a whole.
The City of Amsterdam has registered:
-780.152 inhabitants
-72.000 enterprises
-18.000 enterprises with Amsterdam in their name
-400.000.nl domain names registered to addresses in the Amsterdam Region
-20.000 .nl domain names with Amsterdam in their name
-14.000 .nl domain names ending with "amsterdam"
-350 hotels
-150 neighborhoods
-5.000 streets
-7.000 shops
-100's of foundations and associations
These numbers reflect a clear indication of the quantitative potential for domain name registrations and use of the TLD at the same time. We are confident there's far greater potential than the numbers in our business plans – addresses can become domain names (like http:⁄⁄rokin14.amsterdam), which has the potential to multiply the number of domain names sold in the business plan by an order of magnitude.
The Registry has in total a wide target audience. At the end of the first year the Registry estimates a potential of 7.000 domain names. By organizing a sunrise, landrush and open registration that will follow, all efforts are made to maximize the amount of domain names being bought and used at the moment of the launch. During sunrise trade names and trademark holders can be the first to claim their domain name. This will generate a positive sentiment, by guaranteeing that rightful prospective owners will not need to take reactive and costly actions, but are guaranteed the ownership of a domain name in a well established, well branded and positively acknowledged TLD, tied to one of the best known cities in the world.
During landrush the Registry will start selling specific generic domain names that are likely to encounter a higher than average level of interest for purchase. This in order to prevent the domain names to fall into the hands of domain name squatters, limiting the actual use of these important domain names.
After that, the remaining domain names will be issued on a first come first serve basis.
The Registry projects that the number for registrations in the new .Amsterdam TLD would reach at the start 3.500 in 2013, climbing to 7.000 at the start of 2014 and 14.000 at the start of 2015
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E-mail suffix
Trixy Birch, LLC
Donuts Inc. is the parent applicant for this and multiple other TLDs. The company intends to increase competition and consumer choice at the top level. It will operate these carefully selected TLDs safely and securely in a shared resources business model. To achieve its objectives, Donuts has recruited seasoned executive management with proven track records of excellence in the industry. In addition to this business and operational experience, the Donuts team also has contributed broadly to industry policymaking and regulation, successfully launched TLDs, built industry-leading companies from the ground up, and brought innovation, value and choice to the domain name marketplace.
ICANN and the new TLD program share the following purposes:
1. to make sure that the Internet remains as safe, stable and secure as possible, while
2. helping to ensure there is a vibrant competitive marketplace to efficiently bring the benefits of the namespace to registrants and users alike.
ICANN harnesses the power of private enterprise to bring forth these public benefits. While pursuing its interests, Donuts helps ICANN accomplish its objectives by:
1. Significantly widening competition and choice in Internet identities with hundreds of new top-level domain choices;
2. Providing innovative, robust, and easy-to-use new services, names and tools for users, registrants, registrars, and registries while at the same time safeguarding the rights of others;
3. Designing, launching, and securely operating carefully selected TLDs in multiple languages and character sets; and
4. Providing a financially robust corporate umbrella under which its new TLDs will be protected and can thrive.
Donuts' financial resources are extensive. The company has raised more than US$100 million from a number of capital sources including multiple multi-billion dollar venture capital and private equity funds, a top-tier bank, and other well-capitalized investors. Should circumstances warrant, Donuts is prepared to raise additional funding from current or new investors. Donuts also has in place pre-funded, Continued Operations Instruments to protect future registrants. These resource commitments mean Donuts has the capability and intent to launch, expand and operate its TLDs in a secure manner, and to properly protect Internet users and rights-holders from potential abuse.
Donuts firmly believes a capable and skilled organization will operate multiple TLDs and benefit Internet users by:
1. Providing the operational and financial stability necessary for TLDs of all sizes, but particularly for those with smaller volume (which are more likely to succeed within a shared resources and shared services model);
2. Competing more powerfully against incumbent gTLDs; and
3. More thoroughly and uniformly executing consumer and rights holder protections.
This TLD is attractive and useful to end-users as it better facilitates search, self-expression, information sharing and the provision of legitimate goods and services. Along with the other TLDs in the Donuts family, this TLD will provide Internet users with opportunities for online identities and expression that do not currently exist. In doing so, the TLD will introduce significant consumer choice and competition to the Internet namespace – the very purpose of ICANN's new TLD program.
This TLD is a generic term and its second level names will be attractive to a variety of Internet users. Making this TLD available to a broad audience of registrants is consistent with the competition goals of the New TLD expansion program, and consistent with ICANN's objective of maximizing Internet participation. Donuts believes in an open Internet and, accordingly, we will encourage inclusiveness in the registration policies for this TLD. In order to avoid harm to legitimate registrants, Donuts will not artificially deny access, on the basis of identity alone (without legal cause), to a TLD that represents a generic form of activity and expression.
No entity, or group of entities, has exclusive rights to own or register second level names in this TLD. There are superior ways to minimize the potential abuse of second level names, and in this application Donuts will describe and commit to an extensive array of protections against abuse, including protections against the abuse of trademark rights.
We recognize some applicants seek to address harms by constraining access to the registration of second level names. However, we believe attempts to limit abuse by limiting registrant eligibility is unnecessarily restrictive and harms users by denying access to many legitimate registrants. Restrictions on second level domain eligibility would prevent law-abiding individuals and organizations from participating in a space to which they are legitimately connected, and would inhibit the sort of positive innovation we intend to see in this TLD. As detailed throughout this application, we have struck the correct balance between consumer and business safety, and open access to second level names.
By applying our array of protection mechanisms, Donuts will make this TLD a place for Internet users that is far safer than existing TLDs. Donuts will strive to operate this TLD with fewer incidences of fraud and abuse than occur in incumbent TLDs. In addition, Donuts commits to work toward a downward trend in such incidents.
Donuts has consulted with and evaluated the ideas of international law enforcement, consumer privacy advocacy organizations, intellectual property interests and other Internet industry groups to create a set of protections that far exceed those in existing TLDs, and bring to the Internet namespace nearly two dozen new rights and protection mechanisms to raise user safety and protection to a new level.
These include eight, innovative and forceful mechanisms and resources that far exceed the already powerful protections in the applicant guidebook. These are:
1. Periodic audit of WhoIs data for accuracy;
2. Remediation of inaccurate Whois data, including takedown, if warranted;
3. A new Domain Protected Marks List (DPML) product for trademark protection;
4. A new Claims Plus product for trademark protection;
5. Terms of use that prohibit illegal or abusive activity;
6. Limitations on domain proxy and privacy service;
7. Published policies and procedures that define abusive activity; and
8. Proper resourcing for all of the functions above.
They also include fourteen new measures that were developed specifically by ICANN for the new TLD process. These are:
1. Controls to ensure proper access to domain management functions;
2. 24⁄7⁄365 abuse point of contact at registry;
3. Procedures for handling complaints of illegal or abusive activity, including remediation and takedown processes;
4. Thick WhoIs;
5. Use of the Trademark Clearinghouse;
6. A Sunrise process;
7. A Trademark Claims process;
8. Adherence to the Uniform Rapid Suspension system;
9. Adherence to the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy;
10. Adherence to the Post Delegation Dispute Resolution Policy;
11. Detailed security policies and procedures;
12. Strong security controls for access, threat analysis and audit;
13. Implementation DNSSEC; and
14. Measures for the prevention of orphan glue records.
As a senior government authority has recently said, "a successful applicant is entrusted with operating a critical piece of global Internet infrastructure." Donuts' plan and intent is for this TLD to serve the international community by bringing new users online through opportunities for economic growth, increased productivity, the exchange of ideas and information and greater self-expression.


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Mark Manning is a believer in dreaming big, and Nebraska's head wrestling coach can't get a certain picture out of his mind this week. It's a mental image of Stephen Dwyer and Craig Brester on motorcycles, riding off into the sunset with NCAA national championship wrestling medals around their necks.
"They would definitely be riding off with their motorcycles instead of horses," Manning said with a laugh. "As much as this sport has engulfed their lives, they would deserve a finish like that. They're two of the hardest workers we've ever had in our program. They're humble guys with big hearts, great values and a tremendous work ethic. They give you their all, and that's all any coach can ever ask. They're class acts. Both epitomize what Nebraska wrestling is all about."
Manning describes Dwyer and Brester as tough guys who are willing to stay another half hour after the most grueling of practices. "They're old-school," Manning said. "Craig grew up on the farm. He's sorted hogs, so you know why he learned that what doesn't kill you will only make you stronger. Stephen grew up the hard way, too, and has earned everything he's gotten. They're throwbacks, real iron men."
Dwyer says he came to Lincoln looking up to and respecting Brester. "He doesn't expect anything to be given to him," Dwyer said. "I also learned at a very young age that talent wasn't going to get it done for me. I'm a decent athlete, but not god's gift to speed or strength. My gifts have always been mental attitude and work ethic, and that's never changed."
Dwyer arrived at Nebraska on scholarship, one year after Brester walked on. Now they've both reached the crossroads of their careers in Omaha, where sellout crowds at the Qwest Center will no doubt find some favor for two young Huskers who have invested their lives in pursuit of NCAA excellence.
Brester, the No. 2 seed at 197 pounds, is chasing his holy grail in the same weight class with Iowa State's top-ranked Jake Varner. Brester beat Varner a year ago for the Big 12 title in Lincoln, but lost to him in the NCAA championship match in St. Louis. "Since I've been here, my goal has been to win a national championship," Brester said. "That's a choice I made, and I'm ready to keep pursuing that goal with everything I have."
Former Walk-on Could Be Nation's Top Wrestler
Brester and Varner couldn't have taken more divergent paths to the top of their weight class. As a walk-on, Brester started his career at the bottom and worked his way to national prominence. Varner, considered the nation's No. 1 recruit in high school, walked across five-star ground all the way to Ames. He won his first national title after finishing second twice.
The reigning Big 12 champion, Dwyer is the No. 4 seed at 174 pounds. He has never finished higher than eighth at the Division I Championships. "It's always seemed like I come up short of my big goals," he said. "I've never won a national championship, but that's still my No. 1 goal."
For Brester, the distance between silver and gold medals has been a simple matter of riding time at least twice against Varner, a USA world team member who has won significant matches internationally."It's a mindset," Brester said. "A lot of little things go into a close decision."
For Dwyer, the distance is greater, but not the gap you might think. "It seems like I have something right in my fingers, but I've never been able to grab it and take it," he said. "I really want to break that habit in Omaha. I have the mindset to win. I feel like I can beat anybody."
By now, you understand the parallels for two tough-minded Huskers. "Craig and Stephen are not complainers. They're doers," Manning said, explaining why he wants his own versions of John Wayne to ride off into a golden Nebraska sunset on those bikes that help them process all the blood, sweat and tears they've left on a wrestling mat.
"It's definitely a stress release for both Craig and me," Dwyer said. "My mom's a nurse and she's not crazy about me riding a motorcycle, but Craig and I both enjoy just getting out during the off-season, jumping on our bikes and riding just about anywhere."
A 3.9 GPA in Mechanized Systems Management
Outside of wrestling, "Riding a motorcycle is what I enjoy most - it's a lot of fun," Brester said, admitting that he's moving up from his Honda cruiser to a Harley as a reward for his upcoming spring graduation and his 3.9 GPA in Mechanized Systems Management.
Dwyer will get his degree in December in Business Administration, so he's hoping he might become a graduate assistant in wrestling and pursue his master's degree at the same time he can watch his brother, 2010 NU recruit Matt Dwyer, compete as a freshman.
The future will have to wait until after these two Husker seniors exhaust their eligibility. Right now, they are consumed by what it will take to win a national title.
Both are seasoned enough to know that they can't look past any early match to win at the end. Still, if all goes according to plan, championship matches have to be part of their mindset and an inherent piece of their strategy.
Asked to share their 3-point strategies to win, here's what Brester thinks he has to do to climb the medal stand:
"To beat Varner, I have to take him down, and that's a lot easier said than done," Brester said with a chuckle before deciding that "taking him down is Point No. 1 and Point No. 2. That's what our match will come down to ... me being able to take him down. Point No. 3 is staying focused the whole match. At Iowa State, I slowed down and let him get a takedown at the end of the match. I didn't do the things our coaches have instilled in me."
Dwyer's Goal: Listen to His Coaches and Wrestle Smarter
Dwyer pleads guilty to the same offense. "For me, Point No. 1 has to be to wrestle smarter," he said. "I've made some bad strategic decisions that have cost me important matches. I don't want to repeat that process. Point No. 2 is to compete more relaxed. You can't break that barrier when you're too tight and want it too much. Point No. 3 is to rely on my coaches to keep me in the right positions to win. If I'm wrapped up in the match, and they tell me what I need to do strategically, then that's what I need to do."
Preparation and strategy, not motorcycles, are the biggest things that tie these seniors together this weekend. How else do you explain the mutually reinforcing Brester and Dwyer becoming Nebraska's first duo in nine years to hit the career 100-win club in the same season?
In yet another example of ironic timing, both poster-worthy seniors have younger brothers who won their own state high school wrestling championships last month. Cory Brester, a junior at Howells, won a state championship in Nebraska, and Matt Dwyer, a senior, won the Illinois state title at 215 pounds on the same day that Dwyer won historic match No. 100 as a Husker.
Stephen Dwyer and Craig Brester have sizable numbers of friends and family who bought tickets to watch their collegiate farewell in Omaha.
Brester, though, has a regional following that would probably rival any individual fan following in NCAA wrestling history. In mid-February, when he went to watch his brother at district competition in Stanton, Neb., the gym was packed, and Brester was introduced to the crowd before the finals. To no one's surprise, Howells' latest wrestling legend received a standing ovation.
"It was super cool," he said. "They announced my record and mentioned how I would represent Howells at the NCAA's in Omaha."
Brester remembers his dad telling him to think about all those fans who cheered for him in Stanton and how many of them are making the trip to Omaha.
A Hard-Core Group Supporting a Tough-Minded Wrestler
Howells brought 300 fans to the NU Coliseum for Brester's Hometown Husker Day, and he figures that same group plans to follow him in Omaha. But there will be many more, judging by the people who talked to him in Stanton.
Brester said fans from Winside, Randolph, Oakland-Craig, West Point, Scribner, Osmond, Elgin and Elkhorn Valley came up to him at the high school meet to tell him that they'd be in Omaha.
Yes, Nebraska high school wrestling fans have become savvy college wrestling fans, and there's a small army eager to see Brester complete his lifelong dream.
Brester, of course, grew up watching fellow Howells native Brad Vering become one of the best wrestlers in the world. "I was awestruck every time I went to the Coliseum to watch him," he recalled.
Now, it's his turn, not to mention his last chance on center stage in his home state.
Husker Nation will be there watching in person and following on TV and Huskers.com. "If I were in Mongolia I would be pumped up to watch this tournament," Manning said, adding that fortunately, the tournament "happens to be in Omaha."
Let's just hope that sometime soon, when the curtain goes down on two productive careers, Craig Brester and Stephen Dwyer can climb on their bikes for the ride of their lives - the perfect celebration for what would most certainly be the tournament of their lives.
Voices from Husker Nation
I don't ever remember following college wrestling very closely, but this article has convinced me to jump on my computer tonight while NCAA basketball is on the tube, so I can watch these two worthy Huskers battle their way to the finals. I will admit that today was the first time I ever checked NCAA wrestling results on the Internet. My compliments to the way you've packaged your coverage, allowing us to keep track of the action. Brian Anderson, Scottsdale, Arizona
I watched Stephen Dwyer and Craig Brester tonight in their NCAA semifinal matches on ESPNU. What courage, guts and determination they showed. Brester scores late to beat the nation's No. 3 wrestler, 1-0. Dwyer loses a heartbreaker, 3-2, to an unbeaten, top-ranked wrestler. No matter what happens Saturday, I think they deserve that memorable ride into the sunset. Husker Nation is proud of both graduating seniors. Like Mark Manning said, when you give your all, that's all any coach can ask. Just watching them compete, I could see why he called them tough guys with big hearts. Lonnie Irvine, Cheyenne, Wyoming


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So with a multitude of Canadian Roman Catholics being irked and upset at the gaffe (or sin, insult, heresy, scandal and/or sacrilege), all of this bodes ill for Harper's audience with the Pope, expected to take place over the next few days in Rome.
Today, Dimitri Soudas, Harper's chosen mouthpiece in the debacle, said that Harper ate the wafer within seconds and that all is well with the world. And surprise, surprise, he blamed the CBC for the whole affair saying that regardless of what the video shows, the cameras were not on the prime minister long enough. Read: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2009/07/08/harper-archbishop.html
Well, have another look at the video and see if you agree: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/08/stephen-harper-puts-commu_n_228023.html


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Jan Wawrzyniak
Continued Drawing
Ohne Titel (13025)
, 2013
charcoal on canvas on wood
2 parts, each 80 x 110 cm
Broken Drawing
, 2013
charcoal on paper, wooden frames, glass, wall
ca. 100 x 140 cm
New works by Jan Wawrzyniak (b. 1971, Leipzig) will be on view at Galerie m Bochum from 17 January to 5 April 2014.
Charcoal and canvas are the basic elements out of which the Berlin-based artist conjures nonrepresentational pictorial constructs consisting of white, gray and black lines and planes. The images draw the viewer in, inducing him to read spatial structures into the flat forms as intuition interacts with reason. The recent works expand Wawrzyniak's formal repertoire to include non-rectangular canvases, multipart installations and new materials: in his
Broken Drawings
, for example, the artist uses glazed wooden frames and paper, letting the drawings run across the various levels and onto the surrounding wall. He also cuts selected canvas fragments out of previously discarded pictures and then mounts them directly on the wall as Lost Drawings, which sometimes jut out into the room. Wawrzyniak's works cannot be readily classified under any specific artistic genre; nor do the lines, shapes and planes come together to form bodies or coherent spaces. Instead, painterly, graphic and lately also spatial, sculptural qualities meld to create pictorial objects that offer a rich visual experience.
At the nucleus of this show are two monumental triptychs made of polygonal, asymmetrical canvases. Diverse imagined spaces evolve from both the composition of planes on each individual canvas, as well as between the different picture elements in and beyond each work. A ceaseless perceptual process is set off in which planes tilt forward and deep spaces open up and close themselves off again.
In Wawrzyniak's
Broken Drawings
by contrast, the viewer is confronted with wooden frames, glass, lines and paper that are overlaid on multiple levels, some of them transparent — in this case the depth is therefore not only an illusion. Even so, the entirety of a work, which at first seems so clear-cut, continually eludes the gaze. No matter which element we choose to focus on, those on the other picture planes then drop out of view. The
Broken Drawings
moreover challenge in general the isolation and unity of the individual work of art, traditionally manifested in particular by its framing. Here, Wawrzyniak no longer conceives of the frame as a border marking off the work from the outside, but rather as a pictorial element that takes its place inside the work. The
Broken Drawings
thus deny us not only the spatial illusion of depth but also a clear boundary on the surface of the wall.
This aspect of continuous oscillation and precarious instability is more than a mere formal sleight of hand. Wawrzyniak's works tangibly demonstrate to what extent our perceptual faculties rely on stability and clarity. And this is what makes them so mesmerizing and haunting: the frustration of our longing for a stable and comprehensible world. In this sense, the works open the way not only for a contemplation of human perceptual mechanisms, but also for a reflection on our expectations, experiences and perplexity on all levels of life and society.


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Dave Watkins needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 215 designs submitted by 62 freelance designers.
We are an established studio that's growing. We've been home-office based for seven years, but now we're moving into an actual studio space! We're changing the name of the business and need a new logo for our new brand.
Narella Studio
We need a vector format logo for use on our website, business cards ... everything.
My photography style is very natural, meaning that I strive to capture natural images of people that illustrate, communicate, embody who that person is or what's happening in a moment. As opposed to highly posed, staged, and artificially lit portraits and wedding photography. Think natural, genuine, honest, beautiful. Check out http://www.davewatkinsphotography.com
Currently we're known as Dave Watkins Photography, but we're changing the name to Narella and rebranding completely. The name Narella will be something of an umbrella for our wedding, family portrait, and senior portrait sub-brands. We need to be able to add those names to the logo to individualize the Narella logo for each of the sub-brands. So "Narella | Weddings" or "Narella | Families" etc. I hope that makes sense.
We're trying to appeal to mid- to up-scale clients, so think Banana Republic, not Target, but also not Versace.
This may be a bit too abstract, but I want the logo, and especially the word "Narella" to have a subtle sense of flow to it, kind of the way the word rolls off your tongue and is very easy to say.
- The words "Narella" and "studio" but with studio much smaller. Narella should dominate the design.- Need versions for both light and dark backgrounds.- Natural and artful feeling- simple, simple, simple!- stick to neutral colors - black, gray, white, or brown shades- Please keep the background either white or black- double-super bonus points to highly adaptable designs - meaning can be adapted to different orientations or shapes if needed.- I want the logo, and especially the word "Narella" to have a subtle sense of flow to it
- Absolutely no cheesy clipart, such as a camera shutter- no wacky graphics- no wacky colors- No wacky fonts - keep the font simple- Avoid using the letter "N" as a separate graphical element
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Asian shares rose on Monday, boosted by a positive tone in U.S. equities last week, while the yen fell to a near seven-month low against the dollar on expectations a new government after next month's election in Japan may deliver more stimulus.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan <.MIAPJ0000PUS> was up 0.5 percent, recovering from a nine-week low marked on Friday.
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Australian shares rose 0.6 percent while South Korean shares <.KS11> opened 0.5 percent higher.
Japan's Nikkei average <.N225>, which bucked the broad Asian downtrend on Friday and surged 2.2 percent to a two-week closing high, opened up 1.3 percent.
"The market bullish sentiment will continue today," said Takashi Hiroki, chief strategist at Monex Inc, adding that sentiment had changed as trading volume hit an eight-month high on Friday and any short-term profit-taking would likely to be limited.
Speculation that the leader of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, which is expected to win the December 16 elections, will call for more stimulus including further aggressive easing by the Bank of Japan also undermined the yen.
The dollar hit a near seven-month high against the yen at 81.55 yen on Monday.
The BOJ begins a two-day policy meeting on Monday, with the bank not expected to take fresh policy steps.
Aside from the Japanese politics, market players will eye ongoing negotiations by U.S. policymakers to avoid a budget crisis and European officials' meeting on Tuesday to discuss aid for debt-stricken Greece.
Hope that U.S. politicians would find common ground to steer clear of the "fiscal cliff" boosted U.S. stocks on Friday. European shares sank to a 3-1/2-month closing low, for their worst week since the end of May, on persistent concerns over U.S. fiscal policy and the euro zone debt crisis.
U.S. Treasury yields fell to their lowest levels in over two months on Friday as skepticism over the U.S. budget talks drew some safe-haven bids.
On Friday, top lawmakers from both major U.S. political parties hinted at the possibility of a budget compromise that involves spending cuts and additional revenue, although they were short on details.
"The good news is the tone of Friday's White House meeting but the prospect of no agreement until at least mid-December fits our view that the two sides are starting negotiations from rather distant points," Sean Callow, senior currency strategist at Westpac bank in Sydney, said in a note.
"As such, there will be plenty of negative headlines in coming weeks that weigh on Treasury yields and boost USD, which is yet again trading like a safe haven even when the bad news is generated by the US."
The dollar eased 0.1 percent but remained near a two-month high of 81.455 hit on Friday against a basket of key currencies .
The euro inched up 0.1 percent to $1.2757, with traders eyeing whether euro zone finance ministers and International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Christine Lagarde would agree on how to make Greece's debt manageable.
"As the EU prepares a bundled aid package to avert a Greek default, headlines coming out of the meeting may fuel a relief rally in the euro, but we will maintain our bearish forecast for the single currency as the region faces a deepening recession," said David Song, currency analyst at DailyFX.
U.S. crude futures rose 0.8 percent to 87.65 a barrel. Oil prices rose on Friday as Israeli attacks on Gaza escalated conflict between Israel and Palestinians and stoked supply concerns.
(Additional reporting by Ian Chua in Sydney and Dominic Lau in Tokyo; Editing by Michael Perry)


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Recent events made me think about a particular chicken and egg problem: What comes first, political polarization or media polarization? And how much damage can media polarization do in a political system? The answer to the first question is probably: they're mutually reinforcing, but the media wouldn't be polarized if there wasn't a polarized audience to begin with. The answer to the second question is less obvious, but relevant to all political systems where the media can tip the scales toward one side or the other, or possibly one extreme or the other.
It is a commonplace by now that the fragmented media landscape in many countries, much amplified by online media, allows members of the audience to get exposed only to political content that they actually agree with. There is so much out there, you never really need to listen to the other side. In the recent Presidential elections in the United States, this led to a curious phenomenon. The media on the right, and also voters on the right that mainly focused on those media, were convinced that their candidate would win and were genuinely surprised when he didn't. The media on the left played the same trick on its audience. The media in the middle covered the election as if it was a close race, which it wasn't, in order not to scare part of their audience away. Overall, one had to turn to foreign media to lose some of the bias.
The media is going with their audience: if the audience is highly polarized and doesn't find common political ground, the media is likely to serve them by portraying politics in just that way. The "mainstream" media in the middle doesn't dare take sides in a polarized world for fear of losing a part of their audience. Economically, this probably makes sense. Politically, this may cause substantial damage.
Polarization is a significant problem in societies that are strongly divided along ideological, religious, or ethnic lines. The media, by serving the preferences of their audiences – but possibly not their needs – exacerbate conflict by confirming each side and rejecting compromise. Citizens then expect their politicians to be uncompromising themselves, voting (if they have a vote) those into office who reflect the uncompromising stance. Political culture, in turn, becomes a battlefield, far away from the ideal of a democratic public sphere.
This is not a problem limited to the United States. Radical and extremist media have caused damage all over the world. The role of talk radio in the 2007 post-election violence in Kenya is just one example. The question is: what to do?
The answer here again is not simple, but I would like to suggest an approach that may at least provide an attempt at balanced coverage of politics: public service broadcasting. In many countries, where public service broadcasting is not state-owned broadcasting, statutes and governance structures ensure a certain balance of representation in the coverage. While it's a challenge to establish a truly independent public media system, it's probably worth it, providing at least a little bit of a bulwark against a spiral of extremism between a polarized audience and their polarized media.
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Internet message boards are cauldrons of casual speech. They're often riddled with typos and grammatical errors: the one-word "alot," countless plurals formed with apostrophes as in "cappuccino's" and "luau's," the examples go on. (For the record, those should be "a lot," "cappuccinos" and "luaus.")
Normally, no one mentions these errors — even the message board users who obviously know better. So for a mistake to stand out in this sea of anonymous fast-typing and casual slip-ups, it has to be pretty bad. This one was: A user on a travel message board wrote that she was looking forward to "my husband and I's first trip."
Bad as that is, I wouldn't be mentioning it had I not noticed the user name of the person who posted it: EnglishTeacher702.
Now that's bad.
Of course, we can't know if she actually was an English teacher. But based on my years of talking to people about grammar, it seems likely. The English majors, English teachers and former English teachers who write to me often know a lot about Shakespeare and Austen and Chaucer. But most know very little about grammar, which is usually taught in linguistics departments, not English departments.
So when you combine the false confidence that comes from the title "English major" or "English teacher" with an utter lack of grammar training, it can lead to brazen errors like "my husband and I's first trip" where a more timid user might go for "my husband's and my first trip" or "my husband and my first trip."
If those "timid" choices sound better, it's because they are better. "I" is a subject pronoun. "I made lasagna." It can never be used as a possessor (more properly: a possessive determiner), as in "Bob loves I's lasagna."
So we can say with confidence that Englishteacher702's choice was wrong. But what's right? Well, that's not as easy to answer.
The major style guides contain only limited discussion on what they call "joint possessives" or "shared possessives." According to the Chicago Manual of Style, the Associated Press Stylebook, Words Into Type and Garner's Modern American Usage, when two or more people possess something jointly, only the last one gets a possessive marker — that is, an apostrophe and an "s." John and Mary's house. Pete and Sue's vacation. Mom and Dad's marriage.
But when the nouns possess things separately, each gets its own apostrophe and "s." John's and Mary's shoes. Pete's and Sue's jobs. Mom's and Dad's opinions.
Great stuff, right? Clear, simple, easy. But there's a problem. The style authorities don't tell you what to do when one of those names is swapped out for a pronoun form like my, his or your. Is it "John and my house"? Or "John's and my house"? They're not saying.
Usually, when a style guide fails to address a specific structure, you can assume that the broader rule applies. So you might guess that when you take "Mary's" out of "John and Mary's house" and replace it with the possessive "my," you would leave John alone: "John and my house."
That, according to a strict reading of the rules, might be correct. But I'm not buying it. Even when possession is shared, "John's and my house" sounds better to me than "John and my house."
I was curious whether it was just me. So I surveyed four editor friends. I made them choose between "This is my husband and my vacation" and "This is my husband's and my vacation." All four preferred "my husband's and my." And that's my (not I's) preference too.
JUNE CASAGRANDE is the author of "It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences." She can be reached at email@example.com.