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A new appraisal of the Detroit Institute of Arts collection, including art not owned by the city, pegs the value at as much as $4.6 billion but estimates the top amount the artwork could bring in at just $1.1 billion to $1.8 billion.
And that's only if litigation or the threat of it doesn't prevent art from being sold to begin with.
Through their attorneys, the DIA and city of Detroit commissioned New York-based Artvest Partners in the spring to do the full valuation of the museum's collection.
Attorneys felt the full valuation would help move the bankruptcy proceedings forward, particularly during the hearings scheduled for Aug. 14, said DIA COO AnnMarie Erickson.
The report, which follows an earlier valuation by Christie's Appraisals Inc. of only DIA art purchased with city funds, said any number of factors could affect the potential sale price for art. Those range from a glut of art works in the market to the issue of whether there is clear title, Erickson said.
"You can't sell a work of art without holding clear title to it. If anyone is disputing your right to sell that art, it would end up in court," Erickson said.
"The report clearly outlines there will be massive litigation should a forced sale be ordered."
According to the report, an auction house will not accept an item for sale unless the seller can convey free and clear title. "Property with the prospect of pending or future litigation clouding title will not be acceptable for sale until such issues are cleared in the courts," Artvest said in the report.
And the threat of litigation is real, given that Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette has weighed in to say the art is held in trust and cannot be sold, and heirs of former donors as well as current ones would be likely to litigate to prevent a forced sale, Artvest said.
The DIA itself would also litigate a forced sale, Erickson said.
"We'll do whatever we need to do to protect the collection," she said.
The report cites Brandeis University's proposed sale of artwork at its Rose Museum in Massachusetts several years ago, an idea that spurred protests, litigation and the departure of the university's president. None of the art was sold.
"Rose Museum isn't entirely analogous, but it does speak to people coming in and protesting the sale of art and litigating it and prevailing in the end. They did not sell the collection," Erickson said.
More recently, the Delaware Art Museum in March decided to sell up to four pieces of its collection to repay $19.8 million in bond debt. One, "Isabella and the Pot of Basil" by William Holman Hunt (1827–1910), which had a low sales estimate of nearly $8.5 million, instead sold for $4.3 million in mid-June, according to the report.
"There's a certain feeling in the art world that buying works that were owned by a museum is not the thing to do, particularly those that are being sold outside of accepted museum practice."
DIA Director Graham Beal has told Crain's that it's acceptable for museums to sell artwork only with the intent of improving their collections.
The Artvest report exempted or discounted some works of art from the valuation, most notably the iconic Diego Rivera murals.
"While these are incredibly rare, historic and significant works of art, they are frescos applied directly to the walls, so they cannot be removed without cutting them off the wall and inflicting serious damage, and incurring significant cost," the report said.
"Additionally as they were recently designated a National Historic Landmark in April of this year, it is hard to imagine how such removal could done without serious backlash."
The report also assigned little to no value to some Modigliani paintings because of provenance issues, to some Old Masters paintings that might be reattributed to other artists and other works of art that have no comparable art sales to benchmark against within the last 70 to 100 years.
How does the DIA believe the report could impact the grand bargain?
"I hope the pensioners who have not yet voted will look at this report and understand with the grand bargain they have more than $816 million dedicated solely to them," Erickson said.
If they role the dice and go through years of litigation, they may end up with about the same amount or a little more and they'll have to split it with creditors, she said.


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NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - British bank Barclays Plc (BARC.L) breached a derivative agreement with a Black Diamond Capital Management unit and must return an estimated $297 million in collateral to the hedge fund, a divided New York state appeals court ruled on Thursday.
Barclays said on Friday it disagreed with the decision and was considering an appeal against it.
The Connecticut-based fund's BDC Finance LLC filed a lawsuit against Barclays in 2008, claiming it had defaulted on a $40 million collateral call made at the height of the financial crisis.
Barclays disagreed with that amount, asserting it owed only $5 million, which it remitted to Black Diamond two days after the call was made. Black Diamond then declared Barclays in default.
Last year, Justice Eileen Bransten in state Supreme Court in Manhattan dismissed a portion of Black Diamond's breach of contract claim while allowing the rest of the lawsuit to proceed. However, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, a mid-level appeals court, reversed that ruling in a 3-2 decision on Thursday.
The court found Barclays breached the contract both by not making the $5 million payment on time and by failing to follow the contract's procedures for disputing a collateral call, which required the bank to pay the full $40 million amount before disputing it.
"The evidence in the record undeniably shows that Barclays failed to pay the undisputed amount by the deadline, and establishes as a matter of law that Barclays did not comply with the (contract's) dispute resolution process," the three-judge majority wrote.
With Barclays in default, Black Diamond had the right to terminate the agreement and demand a return of its entire collateral, which the fund has estimated at $297 million, the court said.
Two judges, however, dissented from the court's opinion, arguing that there were questions of fact over whether Barclays disputed the $40 million call in a timely fashion.
"We are disappointed with and disagree with the court's decision. We are evaluating our options with respect to an appeal," a spokesman for Barclays said.
An appeal would be to New York's highest court, the Court of Appeals.
Craig Newman, a lawyer for Black Diamond, declined to comment.
Barclays Chief Executive Antony Jenkins is trying to repair the bank's image after a string of scandals, but is being dogged by legacy issues as his bank remains embroiled in several legal disputes or regulatory investigations.
It was the first bank to be fined for attempted manipulation of Libor interest rates, and Britain's financial regulator and fraud office are investigating the circumstances around a controversial fundraising from Qatari investors in 2008.
The bank is also fighting a $453 million fine imposed by U.S. energy regulator FERC in July, relating to power trading in the western United States from 2006 to 2008.
The Black Diamond deal was signed in 2005. The total return swap transferred the benefits and risks of an investment in a Barclays-held portfolio of corporate debt instruments to Black Diamond in exchange for financing fees paid to the bank.
The contract allowed each side to make collateral demands on the other based on changes to the value of the underlying loans.
The case is BDC Finance v. Barclays Bank, New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, No. 9906.
(The story corrects fifth paragraph to show that the lower court dismissed only a portion of Black Diamond's breach of contract claim.)
Reporting by Joseph Ax; Additional reporting by Steve Slater in London; Editing by Richard Chang and Mark Potter

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I tried to got my my TA's office hours today but someone hogged him for 45 minutes and I didn't get a chance to ask my question. Hopefully someone can shed some light on this for me. Note that this is a question about diagnosing people with a disease $P(D)$ is the probability the person has the disease.
Assume that for a randomly selected person, $P(D) = 0.2$, $P(\text{Positive test}\mid D) = 1$. $P(\text{Positive test}\mid\overline{D}) = 0.05$, so that the inexpensive test only gives false positive, and not false negative results.
Suppose that this inexpensive test costs $\$10$. If a person tests positive then they are also given a more expensive test costing $\$100$, which correctly identifies all persons with the disease. What is the expected cost per person if a population is tested for the disease using the inexpensive test followed, if necessary, by the expensive test?


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A mapping $f$ from $\mathbb R$ to $\mathbb R$ is called a choice function if, for any $x, y \ {\rm in}\ \mathbb R$, $f(x)-x \in\mathbb Q$ and $f(x)=f(y)$ whenever $x-y$ is rational.
My questions is: Is there a Lebesgue-measurable choice function?
Note: Here I use the equivalence relation for the construction of Vitali sets: x and y are in the same equivalence class iff x-y is rational. So choice functions pick up one element from each equivalence class as its representative value.


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Cate Blanchett: 'I thought my film career was over'
Actress CATE BLANCHETT was stunned when she learned WOODY ALLEN wanted her to star in BLUE JASMINE, because she was convinced her movie career was over after leaving Hollywood to concentrate on the theatre in her native Australia.
The Australian star is the hot favourite to land the Best Actress Oscar next month (Mar14) for her role in the film, but she admits she feared her Academy Award-winning days were over when she joined her husband Andrew Upton on the board of the Sydney Theatre Company Down Under.
Following her BAFTA Best Actress win in London on Sunday (16Feb14), Blanchett told the press, "It was incredibly unexpected, I've been working in the Sydney theatre with my husband for the last six years, and I thought I didn't have a film career to return to. Actress years are incredibly short, so it was a great surprise to get the call."
The actress and her playwright husband announced plans to step down as the artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company last year (13). The couple took over creative control of the ailing theatre group in 2009.


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Soon after, a discussion ensued, and, within minutes, Kapin started a new "event" on Twitter: She put forward the idea that women imitate an established Friday event, called #followfriday, in which Twitter users suggest other users folks should follow. The difference? This would happen on Wednesdays, under the hashtag #women2follow. And here are the results, which are changing moment by moment. Women and men are suggesting women worth following on Twitter.
Another top 10 list with one woman and 9 men. So irking. Hello we women in tech and social media experts do exist. Just look outside the box.
It remains to be seen how this will play out, but it's already a community-builder. It's a twist on what other women speakers have done--like create their own "speakers' bureau"-- in order to get visible in hopes of getting more women placed on conference program. If you're on Twitter, it's one more option to make you more visible as an available speaker. You can follow me on Twitter here.


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New Life Pet Adoption Center, Inc.
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There are many classic mistakes that people make when networking, for example directly or indirectly selling to people they meet.
Not that I would ever excuse you of selling when you are out networking. However, so many people treat networking as one big jolly conversation. Networking, without purpose or focus, is a massive waste of time AND money. If I know professional advisors, most of them can ill-afford to waste time.
Before you book your next networking event, keep this mnemonic in mind – it will help you achieve more at the event:
Follow up after the event
Introduce yourself with impact
Target specific people
Turn a social chat into a business conversation
Enter and breakout of groups
Find out who is attending the event, in advance – not at the event –and find out more about the other attendees. If you do your research right, you will know who you want to target for a conversation – plus have opinions and thoughts on relevant news and trends for your target audience . Most hosts, if asked, will send out an attendee list before the event.
Once at the event, make sure you introduce yourself with impact – that means a confident handshake – and talk about how you add value to your clients, rather than talking about what you do. For example, "I help my clients legally minimise the tax they pay", has far more impact than, "I'm an accountant".
Interestingly, this type of introduction already turns your conversation onto business matters. Are you wondering how? Well, after you have introduced yourself by the value you bring to your clients, the next question is normally, "so, how do you do that" and the conversation flows from there.
When you are out networking you are out to meet as many potential referrers as possible. If you linger with one or two, you potentially lose out on the opportunity of meeting three or four more potential referrers. Therefore, you must be prepared to break into and out of groups. The golden rules here are to always ask permission to enter or exit a group. If you want to encourage more people to enter a group, then always leave a gap facing into the room.
And finally, follow up. This means doing what you said you would do at the event. If someone has given you their business card, this means they have given you permission to contact them after the event – but not to send them your newsletter. I personally always drop anyone I met a brief e-mail saying how much I enjoyed meeting them.
Heather Townsend, The Efficiency Coach


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Seeing is believing when it comes to tracking errors
Andreas is an assistant professor at the University of Passau, Germany, where he works on Delta Debugging (a method to isolate failure causes automatically) and maintains and extends DDD. He can be contacted at http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/st/staff/zeller/.
Do you remember the movie Tron? A young computer genius becomes part of a computer game, walking through a world where every component lives and breathes, from the programs (represented by alter egos of their creators) to the individual bits (glowing green spheres that can say only "yes" or "no"), fighting against the evil Master Control Program (see http://www.tronmovie.com/).
When the movie came out in 1982, I had just started programming, and dreamt of a tool that would actually let me immerse myself into my computer's internal secret world, where I could see the data whirling around and capture all its interactions. So I got excited when a fellow at the university introduced me to debugging tools, which promised to "let me see what's going on in my program." Needless to say, I was disappointed. What he showed me was one of those command-line debuggers where you can enter some variable name and see its value. Useful, for sure, and versatile too, but I still dreamt of immersion and direct manipulation.
Since the days of Tron and command-line debuggers, the typical debugging tool has evolved. Of course, it comes with a GUI, shows the actual program text being executed (with breakpoints and backtraces), and you can click on anything with your mouse. Unfortunately, the data presentation has not evolved at all. For instance, Figure 1 shows a linked list as displayed by your favorite debugger. Do you notice anything special about it?
Actually, it is a circular list. How do you know? By reading and comparing the pointer values, which happen to be the same for list and list->next->next->next. (Now try this with a 100-element list.) The structure is much easier to capture in classical textbook notation, as in Figure 2.
Here comes the good news. Figure 2 is neither taken from a textbook nor drawn by a human. It actually is a snapshot of a running program, generated by a freely available debugger named "DDD" (available at http://www.gnu.org/software/ ddd/). What DDD does is visualize objects and references in a textbook style you select what you want to see and how you want to see it.
A Quick Tour of DDD
Figure 3 is the main DDD screen. At the center of all things is the source code. Following the usual standards for debugger GUIs, the current execution position is indicated by a green arrow; breakpoints are shown as stop signs.
You can navigate around the code using the Lookup toolbar button or the Open Source dialog from the File menu. Double clicking on a function name leads you to its definition. Using the Undo and Redo buttons, you can navigate to previous and later positions similar to your web browser.
You can set and edit breakpoints by double clicking in the white space to the left; to step through your program or to continue execution, use the floating command tool on the right. Command-line aficionados will find a debugger console at the bottom. If you need anything else, try the Help menu for detailed instructions.
Moving the mouse pointer on an active variable shows its value in a little pop-up screen. Snapshots of more complex values can be "printed" in the debugger console. To view a variable permanently, though, use the Display button. This creates a small permanent window (a display) which shows the variable name and value. These displays are updated every time the program changes its state.
To access a variable value, you must bring the program in a state where the variable is actually alive; that is, within the scope of the current execution position. Typically, you set a breakpoint within the function of interest, run the program, and display the function's variables.
To actually visualize data structures (that is, data as well as relationships), DDD lets you create new displays out of existing displays. For instance, if you have displayed a pointer variable list, you can dereference it and view the value it points to simply by double-clicking on the pointer value. This creates a new display *list, with an arrow pointing from list to *list. You can repeat this, say, with list->self, list->next, and the like, until you eventually see the entire list (Figure 4).
Each new display is automatically laid out in a fashion to support simple visualization of lists and trees. For instance, if an element already has a predecessor, its successor will be laid out in line with these two. You can always move elements around manually simply by dragging and dropping the displays. Also, DDD lets you scroll around, layout the structure, change values manually, or see them change while the program runs. An Undo/Redo capability even lets you redisplay previous and later states of the program, so that you can see how your data structure evolves.
Graph Structures
The drawback of DDD's simple visualization scheme is that since only one arrow can point to each display, the visualization is limited to tree structures. In the aforementioned example for instance, each X->self actually points to X, not another object. You can resolve this problem by activating alias recognition in the Data menu. With alias recognition enabled, DDD merges all displays with identical memory addresses into one; in this case, the displays X->self and X. This results in the view of Figure 2. Not only does every self pointer reference the object itself, it also turns out that this is a circular list. Compare Figure 2 and Figure 1, and you will find that a picture says more than a thousand words.
How does alias recognition work? For each display, DDD tracks its address in memory. (Try Data->Displays to see the address.) After each change to the displayed data, DDD verifies whether two or more displays have the same memory address. If this is the case, all displays of this group except one are suppressed and the arrows pointing towards them now point to the one remaining display. This one remaining display is actually the oldest of the group, that is, the first one to be reached and displayed by users.
Besides pointers, DDD can visualize arbitrary references between data. If, for instance, you create a new display a[0].data from display a, then DDD will annotate the arrow with [0].data. It will also memorize the operation such that you can apply it on b to obtain b[0].data and likewise. This is useful for languages and data structures without pointers. Alias recognition still applies here.
The luxury of textbook data representation comes at a price screen space. While it is still feasible to examine a 20-element list, there is no convenient way to view a 1000-element list in its entirety. The thousand pictures may be worth more than a million words, but even this is too much to comprehend at a single glance. Defensive programming, with several assertions, will help you bring the problem down to a size where it can be displayed and examined.
Screen space also gets scarce when displaying multiple variables at once. DDD provides a Cluster function which combines several displays into one list instead of having one display for each variable, you have one display showing all variables. A similar display can be created with Data->Local Variables to view all local variables in one display. A problem with GDB is that variables at different backtrace levels cannot be shown simultaneously; you have to walk up and down the backtrace to view the variables local to the selected frame.
Currently, DDD is being expanded to support custom views called "themes" a kind of filter that changes some particular aspect of the data rendering. For instance, you can have specific variables or values be displayed in a different color, at a different size, or not at all. This lets you focus on specific aspects of a data structure. According to the developers, this theme's feature will be extended such that even large linked lists will be displayed as a single entity. If you display each list element using only a few pixels, then you'll be able to examine very large data structures. The disadvantage is that every new theme will require a little bit of user-side programming, something the DDD developers have avoided so far.
If you are dealing with numerical data, DDD provides an alternate visualization method: plots. By means of the Plot button, DDD can display any array of numerical data in a separate plot window (Figure 5). This view is also updated each time the program stops.
DDD can plot one- and two-dimensional numerical arrays in two- or three-dimensional plots, respectively. Scalars (that is, simple numerical values) can also be plotted. This is useful when combining several clustered variables into one plot, such as an array and its iterator. DDD internally relies on the Gnuplot program to produce the plots and thus inherits some of its capabilities, such as various output options and formats.
If the array to be displayed is allocated dynamically, DDD must be told about the actual size. If you want to see, say, the first 50 elements of array a, you enter a[0] @ 50 as the value to be displayed. This "array slicing" syntax is inherited from GDB. As an alternative, you can also enter a[0..49]. (This is somewhat slower because every single value from a[0] to a[49] is individually queried from GDB.) Finally, it is possible to plot the history of a variable, that is, its value during the last program stops. To make this work, be sure to display the variable right from the program start, such that DDD can record its value.
The DDD plot facility does not replace a full-fledged data mining package like Sun's Prism debugger (http://docs.sun .com/; search for "Prism User's Guide"), which lets you view two-dimensional data as thresholds, surfaces, or vectors. Also, DDD unfortunately does not let you plug in your own visualizers. On the other hand, DDD's plots are straightforward to use and only one mouse click away.
Other Goodies
Besides the eye-catching visualization capabilities, DDD has some hidden treasures. One I find useful in practice is session management. You can save the entire state of the program (and DDD) to disk and resume investigation at a later time. All debugger settings are restored, as well as the memory and execution state of the program. This lets you abandon your debugging work in the evening and resume it in the morning, with a fresh mind. The only drawback is that you cannot resume execution of a restored program (the data is restored, but the external resources such as open files are not); it must be restarted. But this is a breeze because of course, the arguments are restored as well.
Another goody is the ability to move breakpoints and the execution position just by dragging and dropping. It frequently happens that I am off by one line when setting a breakpoint, so I can easily correct my mistake by moving the breakpoint to the correct position. (The Undo button would undo this mistake, too.)
A more arcane feature is the ability to move the execution arrow around. If you missed something during a function execution, you can move the execution arrow back to the function call and run through the function a second time. (Don't try this for free() or close(), or other functions with nonrepeatable side effects.) It is even possible to move the execution position from one function to another, but DDD requires your confirmation for this. Anyway, why would you want that?
Behind the Scenes
Technically speaking, DDD is not a stand-alone debugger, but only a front end to a command-line debugger typically, the GNU debugger (GDB). Actually, every user interaction eventually gets translated into a debugger command, and the debugger's reply is shown in the GUI. Some of this interaction takes place in the debugger console. For instance, Example 1(a) is the interaction that happens if you click on a button to set a breakpoint, say, in line 99 of source file foobar.c. The break command is automatically generated by DDD and sent to GDB. From GDB's reply, DDD extracts the breakpoint number, its address and location, and displays a stop sign at this location.
The good thing about this explicit interaction in the debugger console is that it maintains a command history and a command editor. You can easily search, repeat, and alter previous commands. In the long term, you will also learn most of the GDB commands (something that isn't easy for a beginner). And as an expert, you may even prefer to enter your commands right there or define your own commands.
But besides the interaction in the debugger console, much more communication takes place behind the scenes. If you invoke DDD using the verbose option, all interaction between GDB and DDD will be printed on standard output. If you dereference a displayed list to obtain *list, Example 1(b) is the interaction happening behind the scenes.
You see that besides the actual contents of *list (which will eventually be shown on the screen), DDD also inquires the current frame and the address of *list. The frame is required for saving and restoring sessions. When restoring a session and DDD fails to create *list (typically, because *list is not alive yet), DDD will postpone the creation of display *list until execution has reached the previously recorded frame. Later on, the address of *list is recorded for detecting aliases; that is, displayed with the same address which will then be merged.
Another example of what's going on behind the scenes is breakpoint management. Let's say you actually tried to move the execution arrow from one function to another. This is what's happening: First, DDD sets a temporary breakpoint (a breakpoint that will be deleted when reached) at the expected location; an info breakpoints command follows to verify whether the breakpoint has actually been set. This breakpoint is required because the GDB jump command (which actually moves the execution position) would otherwise immediately resume execution; see Example 2(a). The GDB confirmation question gets transformed into a confirmation dialog with the same wording, see Example 2(b), which I prefer to answer with a click on the No button. This results in DDD sending a no reply to GDB's query, followed by a delete command to delete the temporary breakpoint.
All of this interaction takes place without you ever typing a single command. In fact, if you use DDD with different command-line debuggers, you will find that the commands differ quite a lot, but DDD's user interface remains the same. On the other hand, you can always enter commands if you prefer, and even with your own user-defined commands, DDD will always reflect the current state in its windows.
Now for the weaknesses. Besides GDB, DDD supports DBX, JDB, XDB, WDB, the Perl debugger, and a variant of the Python debugger. Okay, this is a strength rather than a weakness, but if your debugger is not in that list, DDD will not work for you. Nor DDD for Microsoft and Borland compilers, either, because their debugging information is not understood by GDB.
The front-end nature of DDD makes it quite universal and versatile (one front end for all debuggers), but also imposes a couple of limits. For instance, DDD's knowledge about the debugged program is only at a lexical level. If some C++ variable is named a in the program text, but X::a in the symbol table, DDD cannot know this, and it's up to you to find this out. Likewise, DDD cannot display other sets of variables than those provided by the command-line debugger. That is, all local variables or all parameters can be displayed if the command-line debugger provides a command for doing so, but there is no menu from which to choose all live variables, for instance.
Another problem is that every bit of information must go through the command-line debugger. This makes the combination of DDD and the command-line debugger slower than a single debugger with an integrated GUI. On the other hand, if your command-line debugger crashes, DDD will live on and offer to let you restart it without losing breakpoints or other settings.
Also, every deficiency of the command-line debugger eventually becomes a problem in DDD. Although DDD works with JDB, Sun's Java debugger, JDB has not been very reliable in the past at least not on my Linux box. Your favorite Windows Java IDE is probably more stable. If you use GDB as command-line debugger, though, DDD is the GUI of choice.
Another weakness of DDD is the lack of user-side extensibility. If you expect something like Emacs, where every minor detail can be reprogrammed, you'll be disappointed. You cannot adapt DDD to another command-line debugger easily, nor is there an interface for adding alternate data rendering tools. (You can, however, integrate DDD wherever GDB fits in, such as in Emacs.) The GVD project (http://libre.act-europe.fr/gvd/) aims to overcome these deficiencies by providing a more modular architecture.
Finally, DDD is quite a memory hog. This is no surprise considering that your program, the command-line debugger, DDD, and the X server all compete for time and memory. If you have a Linux box with less than 32 MB of RAM, or a processor of less than 200 MHz, consider one of the lightweight alternatives such as letting GDB run within Emacs, or even running the command-line debugger standalone. Don't worry, DDD will teach you all the commands you need.
Getting DDD
All things considered, where do you get DDD? First, check the requirements. DDD wants a POSIX environment and an X server. Both requirements are trivial to fulfill on Linux and UNIX boxes, but to make DDD run under Windows is a major task. People do this, though, and they have been successful with the help of Red Hat's Cygwin package. (Search the archives in http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ for "DDD.")
The third thing that DDD requires is a Motif toolkit, or its clone, LessTif. Motif is normally part of your UNIX box, and LessTif can easily be installed on your Linux box (or your Windows box, if you have Cygwin). If you have all these prerequisites, you can either download the C++ source code or some ready-to-run executable via the project home page (http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/). For free, of course, since DDD is a GNU program. Normally, DDD should build and run right out of the box; if it doesn't, ask your local guru (or the DDD mailing list) for assistance.
Back to the Future
If a debugger is a tool that allows you to see what's going on in a program, then DDD is probably the tool that allows you to see the most. Obviously, this is still dull compared to a movie like Tron, or even to the marvels as produced by scientific visualization. But we are getting closer. If you want to take a look into the future, step by at Wim de Pauw's Jinsight project at IBM and gaze in wonder at the Java postmortem trace visualizations (http://www.research.ibm.com/jinsight/). If these beauties can be inspected dynamically during a program run, and if they can be combined with DDD-like data visualization, then we've come much closer to Tron-like immersion.
Of course, we'd need 3D visualization, and, of course, direct 3D manipulation. Eventually, I'll jump into my data suit, put on my 3D goggles, immerse myself into the running program, follow that data flow, grab it, and redirect it to the proper sink. But wait. Why can't I bend this pointer? Help! Overflow! I'm drowning!


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Intolerable Acts
From Conservapedia
The Intolerable Acts, called the Coercive Acts by Parliament, were four acts enacted by the British Parliament in 1774, in response to the Boston Tea Party. The Acts included the Boston Port Act, which closed the entire port of Boston, the Quartering Act, which made the colonists feed and shelter British troops, the Massachusetts Government Act, which made Massachusetts a Royal Colony without elections (but instead a governor appointed by the King), and the Administration of Justice Act. The laws were so disagreeable that the colonists called them the "Intolerable" Acts. Along with the Navigation Acts and Stamp Act, they contributed to the colonists' dissatisfaction with the British, leading to the American Revolution.


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Chargers linebacker Manti Te'o has learned plenty in the past year. When it comes to the NFL, he's learned plenty in the past week.
Through his first five training-camp practices with the Chargers, the second-round pick has begun to figure out that the "little things" make the difference between the pro game and the lower levels of the sport.
"The running backs have vision," Te'o said, via Tom Krasovic of U-T San Diego. "You tell the running back to run to the right, he'll run to the right, but if the hole is not there, he will bounce. You have your good running backs in college. Everybody here came from college. The best of the best is here."
Te'o learned that lesson when he thought he had running back Ryan Mathews tracked down in the backfield. Until Mathews unexpectedly cut and sped away from Te'o.
The former Notre Dame standout also has learned quickly from tight end Antonio Gates the difficulty of covering NFL-caliber wideouts.
"With a lot of guys, you can kind of tell what they're going to do," Te'o said. "With Gates, you can't. I think that's the biggest difference between college and the pros. In college, you can, for the lack of a better word, you can cheat a little, you can predict what people are going to do before they do it."
To help him react to what players on offense do, T'eo is 16 pounds lighter than his top weight in college. While that may make it harder for him to dish out and take physical poundings, the modern NFL places a much greater premium on linebackers covering receivers.
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At D & G By Garance Doré
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Great footage Garance! D & G is really pulling out all the stops for this coming fall, oh how I love them. I was hoping for a peek at Madonna, was she there? Love your behind the scenes shots as well as the show. Incredible color palette this year, something for everyone.
Wooly and wonderful, but that lacy dress was sensationally gorgeous!
italian voiceovers and detail shots, and the fluidity of a face past environment- wonderfully captured.
wow and the chiffon printed knit looks are amazing!
Great video by Garance! I adore this collection. xo
I love these types of videos. For some reason it inspires me to continue on in hopes that I'll one day be in that type of position where I can get some personal footage to share and inspire some young 20something. : )
I love this video. Thanks for posting it
Who killed the yetis? D&G did.
Russians conquer Courchavelle style
… and silk part was so snowy)) lol
The dangling toys on key chains as accessory is brilliant and a true testament to D & G's careful observation of the world around them…people SOO have little stuffed bears on their keys!
this collection is simple, chic,sophisticated…adorable.
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Thank you.. =)
whats the song in the video? GREAT tune…
Thank you so much for this inside video!
Have a fun weekend!
Those boot covers in the beginning were adorable!
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I like that pattern- very Norweigan.
The repeated punctuation of that flutey voice exclaiming "Oh, wow!" in an Italian accent just cracks me up. (And love LOVE the velvet blazer/vest combo we get a teensy glimpse of.)
Incredibly beautiful garment.
Those BOOTS!!!!!!!!!! I was just thinking about how I want to wear my sandals but I change my mind.
Intrigued/entertained by the latest post's they made me think of |Scot's comment the other week about how how the show's will eventually be streamed live on line. One might add that the show's will then be 'edited' by the likes of Garance taking the myth making inherent in style and fashion to a whole new level/format.
P.S.This clip I believe needs to be considered 'inter textually' with Scot's 'cinematic picture' of the guy in Milan. When you do that you can begin to imagine just where these two talented people can take the realm of representation and style.
Wonderfull! I liked a lot !
The song is Muse – Undisclosed Desires – been a HUGE fan of their's for a long, long time.
I believe the song is Undisclosed Desires by Muse. It's on their newest album The Resistance.
The Garance videos/photos feel very intimate. I feel like I'm backstage.
ANONYMOUS at 11:44, you are spot on!!!
That final footage of the white chiffon skirts on the "girls" is divine! Thank you, Garance.
The "Selbu-rose", used in many of these creations, was apparently invented by Marit Emstad (born 1841) from Selbu in Norway.She knitted her first mitten with the pattern all over when she was 16. I'm sure she would have been tickled pink by the way the Rose has found a new way (wave?) in fashion :-)
those dresses were nice!
but nothing we haven't seen before.
i personaly don't like D&G because most of there clothes looks very industrial(in a cheap way)
they take one theme and over do it.
This line was incredibly disconnected. the knitwear (which I found cheap looking) clashed magnificently with the chiffon long dresses and shirt pieces. It should have been either-or, but never the twain shall meet.
Fantastic film. Gives you a great feel for not just the runway, but the entire show itself.
Great work.
Hey, super loose socks have finally made their way over from Tokyo and morfed in the process!
wow an amazing video . not JUST the fashion it's so well filmed , that means art for me . especially the beginning was great with the sound of music getting louder , focusing on the bag ,the people before the show and stuff. ahh just great :)
La Roux! Want one of those negligee-type frocks for my wedding dress, gorgeous.
i really lovee this romantic , feminin looks
Wow! Love it! Kind of looks like "Chanel went to Scandinavia!" Love the fur boots! Great footage and music!
Love the clothes and even the purse dangles, but I simply can't get on board with the giant fur leg warmers/boot covers.
I agree with katyE and most of all I want those boots! Those beautiful, white flouncy unbelievably weightless looking dresses and the juxtaposition of the definite black weight of the bow. Dreamy! Also get so excited when I see footage that reflects the pace and anticiption of the event. Hooooooooooooo Eeeeeeeeee! It's enough to send you on a shopping frenzie!


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I fully accepted the fact that I was likely incorrect about the other definitions.daftbeaker wrote:Rather than accept you were wrong, you continue to bluster about 'rebutting' something you never did (because DavidH was agreeing with you).
I simply claimed that using an English dictionary for a foreign definition is like asking a junior arsonist for lessons on fire safety.daftbeaker wrote: You then, when Roy uses a dictionary definition to point out that protege is a FRENCH word think that because that definition is in an English dictionary it somehow invalidates where the word protege comes from.
Yep, but no need to rub it in.daftbeaker wrote:You are a weapons grade idiot.
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Justin Verlander reacts to Richard Sherman's postgame rant
Moments after Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman gave a very passionate, somewhat-crazed postgame interview, Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander tweeted his feelings about Sherman's outburst.
So Russell is a class act! Sherman on the other hand.... If he played baseball would get a high and tight fastball.
- Justin Verlander (@JustinVerlander) January 20, 2014
"High-and-tight fastball," when you're Justin Verlander, is the baseball equivalent of possibly having to get one's face surgically repaired.
Strong feelings from JV.
It's worth noting that Sherman's interview also turned Mets ace Matt Harvey against the Seahawks.
Wow. Decided to go with the broncos after that interview. Seriously dude??
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JSR 166 Snapshot Introduction.
 by Doug Lea
 To join a mailing list discussing this JSR, go to:  http://altair.cs.oswego.edu/mailman/listinfo/concurrency-interest .
  Disclaimer - This prototype is experimental code developed as part of JSR166 and made available to the developer community for use as-is. It is not a supported product. Use it at your own risk. The specification, language and implementation are subject to change as a result of your feedback. Because these features have not yet been approved for addition to the Java language, there is no schedule for their inclusion in a product.
 Package java.util.concurrent contains utility classes that are commonly useful in concurrent programming. Like package java.util, it includes a few small standardized extensible frameworks, as well as some classes that provide useful functionality and are otherwise tedious or difficult to implement. In this JSR, we have been conservative in selecting only those APIs and implementations that are useful enough to encourage nearly all concurrent programmers to use routinely. JSR 166 also includes a few changes and additions in packages outside of java.util.concurrent: java.lang, to address uncaught exceptions, and java.util to better integrate queues. The API covers:

 Queues
 Executors
 Locks
 Condition variables
 Atomic variables
 Timing
 Synchronizers
 Concurrent Collections
 Uncaught Exception Handlers
 The main rationale for JSR 166 is that threading primitives, such as synchronized blocks, Object.wait and Object.notify, are insufficient for many programming tasks. Currently, developers can use only the concurrency control constructs provided in the Java language itself. These are too low level for some applications, and are incomplete for others. As a result, application programmers are often forced to implement their own concurrency facilities, resulting in enormous duplication of effort creating facilities that are notoriously hard to get right and even harder to optimize. Offering a standard set of concurrency utilities will ease the task of writing a wide variety of multithreaded applications and generally improve the quality of the applications that use them.
 Here are brief descriptions and rationales of the main components. For details see the javadocs at http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/concurrent/index.html
Queues
 A basic (nonblocking) Queue interface that is compatatible with java.util.Collections will be introduced into java.util. Also, although it is at the borders of being in scope of JSR-166, java.util.LinkedList will be adapted to support Queue, and a new non-thread-safe java.util.HeapPriorityQueue will be added.
 Five implementations in java.util.concurrent support the extended BlockingQueue interface, that defines blocking versions of put and take: LinkedBlockingQueue, ArrayBlockingQueue, SynchronousQueue, PriorityBlockingQueue, and DelayQueue. Additionally, java.util.concurrent.LinkedQueue supplies an efficient thread-safe non-blocking queue.
 Since the target release is JDK1.5, and generics are slated to be in 1.5, Queues are parametrized on element type. (Also some others below.)
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 Executors provide a simple standardized interface for defining custom thread-like subsystems, including thread pools, asynch-IO, and lightweight task frameworks. Executors also standardize ways of calling threads that compute functions returning results, via Futures. This is supported in part by defining interface Callable, the argument/result analog of Runnable.
 While the Executor framework is intended to be extensible the most commonly used Executor will be ThreadExecutor, which can be configured to act as all sorts of thread pools, background threads, etc. The class is designed to be general enough to suffice for the vast majority of usages, even sophisticated ones, yet also includes methods and functionality that simplify routine usage.
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 The Lock interface supports locking disciplines that differ in semantics (reentrant, semaphore-based, etc), and that can be used in non-block-structured contexts including hand-over-hand and lock reordering algorithms. This flexibility comes at the price of more awkward syntax. Implementations include Semaphore, ReentrantMutex FIFOSemaphore, and CountDownLatch.
 The Locks class additionally supports trylock-designs using builtin locks without needing to use Lock classes. This requires adding new capabilities to builtin locks inside JVMs.
 A ReadWriteLock interface similarly defines locks that may be shared among readers but are exclusive to writers. For this release, only a single implementation, ReentrantReadWriteLock, is planned, since it covers all standard usage contexts. But programmers may create their own implementations to cover nonstandard requirements.
Conditions
 A Condition class provides the kinds of condition variables associated with monitors in other cocurrent languages, as well as pthreads condvars. Their support reduces the need for tricky and/or inefficient solutions to many classic concurrent problems. Conditions also address the annoying problem that Object.wait(msecs) does not return an indication of whether the wait timed out. This leads to error-prone code. Since this method is in class Object, the problem is basically unfixable.
 To avoid compatibility problems, the names of Condition methods need to be different than Object versions. The downside of this is that people can make the mistake of calling cond.notify instead of cond.signal. However, they will get IllegalMonitorState exceptions if they do, so they can detect the error if they ever run the code.
 The implementation requires VM magic to atomically suspend and release lock. But it is unlikely to be very challenging for JVM providers, since most layer Java monitors on top of posix condvars or similar low-level functionality anyway.
Atomic variables
 Classes AtomicInteger, AtomicLong, AtomicDouble, AtomicFloat, and AtomicReference provide simple scalar variables supporting compareAndSwap (CAS) and related atomic operations. These are desparately needed by those performing low-level concurrent system programming, but much less commonly useful in higher-level frameworks.
Timing
 Java has always supported sub-millisecond versions of several native time-out-based methods (such as Object.wait), but not methods to actually perform timing in finer-grained units. We address this by introducing class Clock, which provides multiple granularities for both accessing time and performing time-out based operations.
Synchronizers
 Five classes aid common special-purpose synchronization idioms. Semaphores and FifoSemaphores are classic concurrency tools. Latches are very simple yet very common objects useful for blocking until a single signal, event, or condition holds. CyclicBarriers are resettable multiway synchronization points very common in some styles of parallel programming. Exchangers allow two threads to exchange objects at a rendezvous point.
Concurrent Collections
 JSR 166 will supply a few Collection implementations designed for use in multithreaded contexts: ConcurrentHashTable, CopyOnWriteArrayList, and CopyOnWriteArraySet.
Uncaught Exception Handlers
 The java.lang.Thread class will be modified to allow per-thread installation of handlers for uncaught exceptions. Ths optionally disassociates these handlers from ThreadGroups, which has proven to be too inflexible in many multithreaded programs. (Note that the combination of features in JSR 166 make ThreadGroups even less likely to be used in most programs. Perhaps they will eventually be deprecated.)
 Additionally, ThreadLocals will now support a means to remove a ThreadLocals, which is needed in some thread-pool and worker-thread designs.
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CD-ice (resurrected) running Frog Feast
>> Friday, December 31, 2010
Pete Dabbs, the creator of of the first working CD-i Emulator and the developer of Rise of the Robots on CD-i, managed to finally track down some long forgotten CD-ice source code and after fighting with Visual Studio for a bit he got it building (and fixed a couple of problems it found along the way). Pete tried it with Frog Feast which to his surprise ran without any problems. Speed is wrong thanks to cheapo (free) screen capture software.. Pete: "I was digging around old hard drives and PCs a couple of days ago and came across some source code which after an hour or so struggle I got compiling with a new version of dev studio. Might be some useful stuff to help in Cdifan's current direction with the emulation.. Also shows those clever know it all folk on certain forums that it wasn't a one trick pony! After having a quick run through a few game ISOs I'd got I can say the compatibility isn't (wasn't) great although from what I remember from all the way back then there are only a couple of significant things stopping it running a lot more games.
The main one I've come across today (and remember fighting at the time) is all to do with the multi process stuff (loading a process from another one, running it and then Exiting, a lot of games did this type of stuff to play the bumper or their own intro anims). That might not be that hard to fix as looking at it with fresh eyes I can see some mistakes in how I handled stuff. There's also a couple of screen drawing problems eg Flashback runs great but tends to draw crap all over the screen outside of the game/movie area (probably should just be not displaying screen there and I'm ignoring an LCT instruction or something).
I'll probably have a play about with updating it myself first then decide what to do with it later. I might have a surprise on the game front for 2011, writing a new CD-i game has been on my "todo" list for a loooooong time and I've got a few ideas for what I'd like to do."
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That line 9 instruction is the only place where the description is explicit. So that settles the question very clearly.
For the SL trim it doesn't matter since you hit the $6000 ceiling either way, but it does matter for the S trim.
Nfuzzy wrote:Yeah, I forgot to include my 3500 NMAC cash on my form and it delayed my rebate and they ended up correcting the form for me to include that as a rebate when calculating my credit.
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Well today a song I wrote called 'The Cigarette Duet' has hit one million views on Youtube.
To blow my own trumpet, after I had finished writing it on the Roland E-20 I used to play in Teenwolf (a keyboard which for some inexplicable reason appears to have a large bitemark taken out of the 3rd A key) I decided it was a catchy and good pop song and was fairly convinced I'd written an indie hit. I began to suspect that I'd written an indie crossover hit when early on my parents leaked it to a number of Jehovah's Witnesses who gave them very positive feedback.
Turns out I was somewhat right.
Like a lot of independent artists everything I do is made on a shoestring budget, although not necessarily by choice.
However, as of today, the music video for 'The Cigarette Duet' has more views on Youtube than for instance, all of Six60's and The Midnight Youth's music videos, combined (two top 40 artists in New Zealand).
This is extremely encouraging. It is encouraging because in the music video I am wearing a swimsuit, which means people must generally agree that I look attractive and cute in my swimsuit / quirky wig.
Possibly even more encouraging though, is that this also indicates that the power of a good song can transcend limitations in funds and resources, and still go on to connect with people all over the world, and on this occasion surpassing the results of even the most structured and high budget marketing campaigns. (In Lana Del Rey's case the combination of these two things has proven to be phenomenal).
In a chinese whispers scenario, much of the online interest surrounding 'The Cigarette Duet' has been simply due to people from all walks of life passing links around via websites like facebook, tumblr and most certainly not myspace.
The slightly controversial subject material has probably helped too, sparking a number of intellectual debates via the comments section of Youtube.
Of course there has been support from the fingerboarding scene;
The Brony Scene;
a number of covers;
and copy cat videos.
If the resulting sales continue at their current trends, and one in every 15,000 viewers orders a Lil' Golden Book LP then I am very excited to be able to pay off most of the vinyl shipping costs in the next few months!
Of course there are other angles to examine. As an artist, I am aware of the danger of becoming pigeon holed as 'the hipster girl from the cigarette duo'. Perhaps it will be that not one percent of youtube viewers will care about my sophomoric album, which is going to be, naturally, a concept opera concerning our perception of each other on the internet.
However I could almost be happy to settle for these consequences having garnered the knowledge that even if people don't pay for a good song these days, they most certainly will listen to it.
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One Million Views - An Essay On Achieving Internet Hype in 2012
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- AnonymousJanuary 26, 2012 at 5:37 PM
Well done Chelsea, love the video, but for the record, I bought your album and very much enjoy it, it was well worth the money. I also really love caution repetitive.ReplyDelete
- Princess ChelseaJanuary 26, 2012 at 6:53 PM
bless you, i appreciate the support.ReplyDelete
Congratulations! I'm proud to have spread the word on this video when it was "only" in the 100,000 count.ReplyDelete
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With swift matador finesse, the Soccers taunted and dispatched the Bulls amid loud approval. Final score: 14-4.
If the Sockers' dominance continues to be a season-long trend, they could push the record beyond anyone's approach and be placed in perpetuity.
Even the local media gave the team attention it deserves, and because of it, long lines of the curious formed at the ticket windows.
The remarkable soccer team has surpassed other notable win streaks in history in various sports: the Sioux Falls Storm's previous record of 40 consecutive United Indoor Football victories between 2005-08, the Los Angeles Lakers' 33 straight wins, the Washington Kastles' 31 consecutive victories and the Salt Lake Trappers' 29 wins in a row.
To witness the frenzied support for each goal scored brought back a bygone arena era when the Sockers shared space with the talented minor league San Diego Gulls hockey team — a time when 9,000 spectators would jam the place. That was big sports news in the 1970s.
Fittingly, Juli Veee, a Hall of Fame Sockers player of the past, was called upon to handle the ceremonial kickoff.
The young season has been a one-sided operation for the home team thus far. In four games, the Sockers have outscored the opposition, 58-14, encountering little resistance to their continued attack, whether it's because they are just that superior or just that the league opponents lack sufficient manpower.
If it could be listed as one disappointment, the career-high eight goals scored against the Bulls by Kraig Chiles fell one short of tying the all-time record. Chiles netted a hat trick by halftime and he scored four goals in the fourth quarter, finishing with a league-leading 19 goals in four games.
Eduardo Velez added a hat trick with an assist as the Sockers jumped out to a 8-0 lead before conceding their first goal.
The outcome was a forgone conclusion by halftime with a 6-0 margin. With so much of an early lead, even the announcer had to goad the crowd to keep up the enthusiasm.
The Toros managed to put some points on the board in the second half, but goalkeepers Riley Swift and Chris Toth were too tough to get past.
The Sockers play next in Tacoma on Dec. 1 against the Stars.


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When it comes to weddings, we live on another planet, one apart from our everyday ideas of gender, marriage and family. You have women still wanting careers and success, yet their fantasy wedding is right out of the 1950s.
The sign on Deborah Abowitz's office door reads: "Mating and Marriage Is Closed." Abowitz, professor of sociology, is not opposed to mating and marriage. In fact, she's so fascinated by contemporary marriage rituals that she's taken on the subject as a major research project. It's just that her capstone course on the topic is so popular she has to turn away students.
Abowitz, whose previous research has included sociology of the Holocaust, trends in voting, and gender and poverty, first became interested in studying marriage when she became involved in the 16-month planning process of her youngest sister's wedding. "Coming of age in the '70s, I was used to people eloping or having a small wedding in the woods," she says. "I was amazed at the elaborateness of my sister's wedding — but as a sociologist, I couldn't help but be interested. I was pulled in by the sheer size and pageantry."
Through student surveys, Abowitz has found women tend more toward the rhetoric of romance, using words like "princess," "magical" and "Prince Charming." Men, on the other hand, are more pragmatic and talk about "commitment" and "tradition." She has also seen a cognitive dissonance between women's traditional wedding expectations and their actual modern career and relationship goals. "When it comes to weddings, we live on another planet, one apart from our everyday ideas of gender, marriage and family," Abowitz says. "You have women still wanting careers and success, yet their fantasy wedding is right out of the 1950s."
Abowitz's wedding research ties into her current interest in Generation Y, loosely defined as people born in the late 1970s through mid-1990s. "Gen Y is going to shape the culture wars in this country in the coming years," she said. "Their attitudes matter." Abowitz has studied everything from Gen Y's views on social inequality and the American Dream to their thoughts on whether money buys happiness to their beliefs about romance and emotional abuse in college dating relationships.
Underlying all of her work is the question of gender and inequality, an interest that she says is a product of coming of age in the late 1970s. "When I went to college, the fight for women's rights was ongoing, and the issues were personal," she said. Professors and classmates alike let her and her fellow female engineering students know they were not welcome in that major. A sociology elective gave her a new perspective. "Making sense of the social world, the good and the bad, being able to analyze social patterns, trends and institutions, is what I find endlessly intriguing about being a sociologist," she says.
In her avocational life, Abowitz has not let gender pressures limit her adventuresome spirit. While she is recovering from one knee replacement and looking forward to another, she spent her 20s and 30s riding in a glider plane, parasailing, bungee jumping, hiking a live lava flow and racing Hurricane Iniki to the Hawaiian shore in an 18-foot sloop. Skydiving and hang-gliding are still on her list. She says, "My colleagues might be surprised to know this about me."
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This dissatisfaction reflects a new direction in what consumers value in accessories. A few years ago, shoppers would stand in line forever to snag the latest "it" bag, shoe, or apparel just because of the hype, but the desire for the latest and greatest has significantly declined. As described by Robert Durke in a WWD article, there is now a sense of "consumer ennui towards fashion" as people seek practicality above a mark of status:
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Policies premised more on class-warfare than sound economics, are not going to get us out of this recession. They may actually delay recovery.
A case in point: the executive pay guidelines released by Treasury today. Though the new rules seem to apply, at this point, to only the few corporations that have received "exceptional assistance," such as AIG and Fannie Mae, they are clearly a template for more broadly applicable rules. It is worthwhile, then, to consider how they undermine incentives for performance and economic growth.
One particularly populist and dumb rule bans balloon severance payments to executives, known by the loaded term "golden parachutes." The ban applies to the top 10 executives of a corporation, and the next twenty-five will be limited to severance payments greater than one year's compensation.
The debate on golden parachutes has raged since the mid-1980s, with self-appointed "shareholder advocates," supported by union affiliates seeking to embarrass executives, claiming that they're nothing more than, well, golden parachutes–big and pointless payouts to executives on their way out the door.
While that may be the case in some instances, it's far from the whole story.
Economists have identified three virtues of golden parachutes that actually serve to boost shareholder value. First and probably most important, they reduce executives' natural resistance to takeovers. A top executive is a leader, and typically leaders don't like to give up their position at the top of the pecking order, especially when that position comes with prestige and perks. But sometimes a change in leadership, such as through a takeover, leaves a corporation and its shareholders better off. When a takeover is in the cards, shareholder and executive interests diverge: shareholders may stand to benefit but the executive may stand to lose his job and prestige. In this kind of situation, golden parachutes help to align the interests of executives with those of other corporate stakeholders, like shareholders and employees, by encouraging executives to make a deal, rather than doing everything possible to stay put, to the detriment of everyone else.
Second, golden parachutes encourage executives to put their talent on the market and invest in firm-specific human capital, especially in corporations and industries where changes in management are routine. A good manager can add a lot to a corporation's bottom line, but the most skilled managers are understandably wary of giving up their current positions or industries for new ones, where things may not work out for them. In this case, golden parachutes are a sort of insurance policy against both the risk that taking a new job may work out worse than other options at their disposal and the risk that focusing on company-specific matters won't translate into better career opportunities down the line. As a result, the market for executive talent is stronger, and executives are willing to delve more into the businesses that they run.
Third, in some industries, golden parachutes may actually be a preferred means of compensation from shareholders' point of view. Severance pay is, at core, just deferred compensation, so executives slated to receive higher severance pay should be willing to accept lower current compensation, in general. The costs of golden parachutes are reflected in firm's takeover prices–the bigger the parachutes, the higher the price. In this way, they shift compensation expenses from current shareholders to acquiring shareholders, boosting current shareholders returns. So in this very direct way, golden parachutes for executives can actually leave shareholders better off, too.
All this suggests that Treasury–surprise, surprise–got things exactly backwards when it placed greater limits on golden parachutes for top executives than lower-ranking executives. It's actually much more important, and more beneficial to shareholders and workers, to use large severance payments to give top executives the right incentives.
If the Treasury prevents this, however, expect the best corporate talent to be increasingly reluctant to work for corporations covered by the new rule, at exactly the time that such talent is needed most. And expect those who do take the reins to be more reluctant, if and when the time comes, to give them up, even when doing so is the best course of action. That means fewer consolidations–a strange outcome when the economy (as well as the government) is pushing many companies to partner up just to persevere.
A better solution is to give up government meddling in pay decisions as hopelessly impractical. Too bad, however, that the (largely) economically illiterate press is willing to give the President a pass–even praise–when he says things like "We're taking the air out of golden parachutes." It's a good soundbite, but terrible, counterproductive policy.


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By Dylan Vazzano, TTU Sports Information Coordinator
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. - After four straight on the road, the Tennessee Tech soccer team returns home to begin the team's final week of non-conference action of the 2013 campaign. TTU (1-6-0) locks up with UT Chattanooga Friday at 4 p.m. CDT, before jumping right back on the road for a Sunday tilt with East Tennessee State at 12 p.m. CDT to conclude non-conference play.
"This week means a lot for us," fourth-year head coach Daniel Brizard commented on the pair of matches. "Besides these past two games with Ball State and MTSU we have been in every match. By the time conference comes, which is the season that matters, we will have our stuff worked out."
Friday's match promises to be a special occasion, as it will be the first ever Tech soccer web stream on the OVC Digital Network. Produced by the Golden Eagle Sports Network, it was also be the first ever full-scale production, which will include play-by-play and color commentary, multiple cameras, instant replays, graphics, and an in-match interview.
"A lot of players' families have been requesting webstreams like this, because the reality is they can't make it to a lot of the matches," TTU Assistant Athletic Director for Sports Information and Broadcasting Rob Schabert said. "We are excited to be able to bring them a first-class production from top to bottom, and we know it will be something that they will be proud of and a broadcast they will enjoy."
Tech had just one match last week, a Sunday 3-0 defeat at the hands of Middle Tennessee. The Golden Eagles ran into a fast start by MTSU, as the Blue Raiders found the back of the net three times in the affair's first 25 minutes. The road swing is over though, and the prospects of playing at home are enticing for Brizard and the rest of the Golden Eagles.
"It's going to be nice, it's always nice to be at home," Brizard said. "Our players just have to get a chance to decompress coming from classes and get ready to play."
Friday's meeting will mark the 17th time that Chattanooga and Tech will square off, with the Mocs leading the all-time series 11-5-0. TTU did get the better of the Mocs in an early-season battle last year in Chattanooga, coming away with a 2-0 victory on Aug. 19. The Golden Eagles scored at the beginning of each half to earn the hard-fought win, with senior forward Ellie Iaciofano racking up a goal and an assist in the affair, and sophomore goalkeeper Jordan Brown notching her first career shutout.
Iacifoano currently leads the Golden Eagles with three goals and seven points, and Brown sits atop the Ohio Valley Conference and is fourth in the nation with 53 saves.
As far as this year's matchup is concerned, Brizard cites taking control early as a pivotal key for success. "It's vital that we start off at a good pace and that we dictate how we want to play," the fourth-year head coach said. "Can we look within ourselves to set the pace and dictate the game."
UT Chattanooga comes into Cookeville with a 3-3 overall record, outscoring its opponents 12-2 in the three wins, and being outscored 10-2 in the three losses.
Sunday's match with East Tennessee State will be the 12th all-time meeting with the two schools, and so far nothing has been decided with a series record of 4-4-3. The Buccaneers have the latest bragging rights with a 2-0 win last year in Tech's home opening match on Aug. 17. ETSU sophomore Sarah Zadrazil had a goal and an assist in the match. The midfielder from St. Gilgen, Austria currently leads the team with six goals and 12 points.
East Tennessee State has a 3-3-1 overall record, and will clash with Francis Marion University on Thursday.


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by Adam Figman | @afigman
SLAM: Tell us a little about your hometown.
James Johnson: Cheyenne, WY, is where I came up. I moved there from California. Cheyenne is a little town, little city, the capital of Wyoming.
SLAM: When did you move there?
JJ: It was about sixth grade. We did a little bit of moving around Cheyenne, but nowhere else in Wyoming—we stayed around the Cheyenne area. My father was an orphan, and that's where his foster parents raised him, so he felt it was a good place to raise his kids.
SLAM: You're the first NBA player to have come out of Wyoming since the 1960s. Do you feel a little added responsibility because of that?
JJ: I know there are a lot of kids up there now that play good basketball. It's really a small town, so that's really all there is to do—work on your game, whether it's basketball, football. Everybody just works on their game out there as much as they could. I felt like it was my job, like I had this opportunity, to let people know where I was from so maybe they can go get some scouts out there. We don't really get the respect that we deserve because we're a small town.
SLAM: Is it true you were more into fighting than basketball as a kid?
JJ: Yeah, my father was a martial artist. His foster parents had him sign up for karate, so when he got to martial arts he never let it go. He trained us as kids, and we grew up fighting.
SLAM: What kind of fighting?
JJ: Mixed Martial Arts, kick-boxing and Kenpo karate.
SLAM: You still got it?
JJ: Oh, I definitely still got it. You can't really lose it. You just sharpen up your tools a little bit—it's not like I'll forget anything I learned, but at the same time you still gotta work on everything, like anything else.
SLAM: Does anyone in your family still fight?
JJ: Yeah, my little brother just tried out for the Marines' fighting team, and he's already a captain of that. He just got put in the Marines—he finished boot camp, and he's on the fighting squad, so he's the only one fighting for us now.
SLAM: Do you see similarities between approaching fighting to approaching basketball games?
JJ: Of course. In fights you're gonna train as hard as you possibly can for that fight. Lucky for us, we have basketball games every day, every other day. You might not fight for a month, so you're training that whole month just for one fight, and it can end in 15 seconds or it can end in the last round. You've got the same mentality that you would if you want to win a fight and not get embarrassed in front of a lot of people.
SLAM: At what point were you introduced to basketball?
JJ: It was about eighth grade. I was playing football—I loved playing football—and it was either karate or football, that's all we did. At the end of that season, school was over, I was headed home and all my friends were headed to basketball practice. I never was one to play video games or anything like that, so I ended up joining it. I was no good. And then I worked hard from that summer on, and my freshman year, I made the varsity team.
SLAM: Were you a tall kid? What position were you at that point?
JJ: I was a guard. I was a 6-4 guard. I didn't really get my growth spurt until about 10th grade.
SLAM: Did you have any basketball mentors in high school?
JJ: Not really, it was just all heart. Not wanting to have anybody better than me. My father always tried to say, when I was growing up, that I'm fortunate to have martial arts so when I did end up getting tall, I had mobility and was able to move flexibly. I wasn't one of those tall, lanky kids that needed fundamentals or anything like that.
SLAM: Did you have a favorite player who you were always watching?
JJ: Yeah, actually, Cheyenne being only a highway from Denver, I kept up with 'Melo. Pretty much everyone who came through Denver, we watched them, when the uniforms were still dark blue with the gold on it [laughs]. That's when I was in high school and started watching basketball a bit. Then I fell in love with the game and played every day.
SLAM: At what point did you realize making the NBA was a possibility?
JJ: There was a lot of talk about it, but in a little town, nobody really knew what they were talking about. My junior year, that summer—sophomore into junior—that's when I got MVP at a Nike All-American Camp, and that's when I knew, first college and then the League was possible.
SLAM: Why'd you pick Wake Forest?
JJ: Those are the guys that gave me a chance when nobody was seeing me. I didn't get a real look nowhere because "all the kids from Wyoming…[aren't good]" and this and that. So I never got a positive evaluation. [Then-Wake Forest assistant Pat] Kelsey went to the University of Wyoming, so he knew there was a little bit of talent out there, looked into it, did his homework and started recruiting me—early. Before I had a letter from a junior college, I had the Wake Forest letter. After I got Top 100 Nike All-American MVP, that's when the letters started rolling in and when everybody found who I was and that I was for real. I wanted the people who had seen me first, who weren't going after kids that were ranked top 5, that were going outside the box for kids.
SLAM: Was there any notable place that you think was important for your development?
JJ: Yeah, I would definitely say when my older brothers would take me to the rec center with them, and they were always yelling: "Get stronger!" "What are you doing?!" "We're losing because of you!" You don't want to let your brothers down, and that's why I got good. Now it's the opposite, and I tell them the same thing when we go to the rec and play, like, We're losing 'cause of you!


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