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- Cash transfers to moms (vs household head) in Macedonia improves secondary school enrollment only for kids already expected to do well. (Armand)
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- The switch from English to Bahasa Malaysia as the language of instruction in Malaysia in 1970s improved schooling and wages (but not literacy) for some (del Carpio et al)
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- Rapid diagnostic tests for malaria, even after patients had bought medicine, dramatically improved compliance. A text msg the next day boosted compliance even more! (Modrek et al)
- Giving a transport subsidy to job seekers for up to 11 weeks in Ethiopia increases the likelihood of finding steady employment by more than a third! (Franklin)
- Vocational training in Turkey had small effects in the first year, but those dissipated by the end of 3 years. (Hirshleifer et al) – co-authored by our own David McKenzie
- Drug violence in Mexico is bad for labor market participation. (Calderón et al)
- Falling maize prices in Mexico meant more drugs and more violence (Dube et al)
- Poll observers in Ghana reduced fraud reduce over-voting at their stations but it gets displaced to unobserved stations (Asunka et al)
- Legal aid in rural Liberia improved satisfaction among plaintiffs, reduced bribes, and improved food security. Get me a quasi-lawyer! (Sandefur & Siddiqi)
- India's quotas for subsidized cereals improve intake across food groups! (Kaul)
- Rural roads in India increased adoption of agricultural technologies J but also led to school drop-outs to join the labor force L (Aggarwal)
- Mobile money in Uganda has dramatically increased consumption through remittance income. (Munyegera & Matsumoto)
- A one-time fertilizer subsidy in Mozambique leads to persistent impacts on fertilizer use as well as consumption (Carter et al)
- For a commitment savings product in the Philippines, the clients who were more sophisticated about their hyperbolic discounting just avoided the product. (Hofmann)
- Flexible microcredit design in Bangladesh did not result in higher default (as feared), and after the first year seems to increase consumption in the lean season. (Shonchoy & Kurosaki)
- Child sponsorship programs improve not only schooling outcomes, but also educational & vocational aspirations! (Glewwe et al)
- China's economic liberalization post-Mao doubles rate sex selection toward boys (Almond et al)
- Simons et al use temperature sensors to check for the Hawthorne effect in stove use (per my earlier post). (Big Hawthorne effect uncovered!)
- Dizon-Ross et al use undercover enumerators to hunt for corruption in bednet distribution in Kenya, Uganda, and Ghana. (Little corruption found: yay!)
Note on the word cloud: Someone could (or has) written a thesis on word choices in titles. Across these titles, "evidence" wins, followed by "rural," "India," "impact," "health," "experiment," and "experimental." (I used textalyser.net for the analysis, and WordItOut.com to generate the word cloud.)
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Hi David, thanks for your posting - since I am an ex-IFPRI researcher, this kind of stuff always is of interest to me.
I tried to access the Carter paper on fertilizer subsidy in Mozambique - however, link gives me paper about rural employment guarantee scheme in India! Would you please alert the IT guys and/or send me the Carter piece?
Many thanks and best wishes, Hans
For some reason the Berkeley website puts all the papers from one session into a single file - so scroll through the pdf that the link goes to and you should find the right paper.
Interesting word cloud. I didn't see the word "poverty" at all, so went to the main program to check. Apart from the keynote, where it is parenthetical, just one paper title out of 80 mentions "poverty". Probably it would be the same at other development conferences.
Perhaps the World Bank should come up with a new slogan, since "Working for a World Free of Poverty" seems passe going on the evidence from what the profession currently finds interesting.
Nice point. I think that you're right that other conferences would be similar (e.g., NEUDC 2013 had just 2 papers with poverty in the title). But I wouldn't trust title analysis as a sufficient indicator of interest within the profession. Many of the papers are focused on increasing incomes and reducing poverty, whether through education, health, fertilizer use, cash transfers, or other methods. None of the PacDev papers have development in the title, but just about all of them are about development on some level.
That said, this may suggest that relatively few papers are focused on measuring directly the impact of interventions on reducing poverty.
Hey Dave,
Modrek et al. links to wrong paper...
For some reason the Berkeley website puts all the papers from one session into a single file - so scroll through the pdf that the link goes to and you should find the right paper.
Thanks Dave, always good to get an overview like this. One quick observation from me; the prevalance of papers on research in Africa and South Asia. It seems like the reast of the World is being left out and the Pacific entirely ignored in a Pacific conference (which I gather is more a reference to the Pacific coast of the USA). Only working from this list though and haven't explored the conference website.
Thanks, Chris. You're right that Pacific means the West Coast (the analog to NEUDC's "Northeastern"). Your comment reminds me of Das et al's 2013 JDE paper "U.S. and Them: The Geography of Academic Research", which looks at how much economic research is published on different countries. They find, both globally and within regions, a stark positive correlation between GDP and research carried out (controlling for population). On average, there seems to be slightly less research on Africa than on East Asia & the Pacific together, but the East Asia average is pulled up by China, Indonesia, etc., so the Pacific may be not very well represented.
(Here's the ungated working paper of Das et al: http://www-wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2009/12/1….)


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So, nearly a year ago I dove head first into Arch, and have never looked back (first time posting on these forums though!). I did develop the requisite geeky pride in the distro, which has manifested itself lately in these bleach shirts:
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What is a 'Bleach T-Shirt' ? Is it kind of the opposite of a tie-dye? I the original color of the shirt the pattern, and then you bleach the background?
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There are a few different ways to make them---I printed out the stencil on freezer paper (wax on one side) and cut it out using a craft knife. You iron the stencil onto the shirt wax side down (so that it sticks to the cloth), and then spray the shirt with a 50/50 bleach/water solution. My younger brother gave me the idea---he says there is an entire sub-reddit devoted to stencils and techniques.
Edit: This is apparently where he got the idea
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This is a really cool idea. I've been looking for a way to make nerd themed t-shirts that don't require art skills. I'm gonna have to try this. Thanks.
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I saw it again, three moons past whilst strolling home at dusk.
The beast, so like a man, seemed more the beast; it curls my lips with disgust.
For no man wears his skin like a cloak; The thought of it makes me wonder
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It should not live. It should not live.
In recent years, Scable has grown to adulthood. It lives on the streets of the city, dressed as a man with a long coat, short-rimmed hat, gloves and boots - it covers much of its skin to hide its pockmarked features. Scable has a potent ability which allows him to survive; his birthright. Being of both life and death, Scable is something which shouldn't exist, and because of this it triggers something primal in the brain of all things living; because it shouldn't exist, it is treated like it doesn't. People find themselves unable to focus onto this plain-looking man - their eyes teeter in another direction, and if they are walking towards it, they will find their path unconsciously altering so as to not run into Scable. Using this trait, Scable has remained undetected. Until it needs to feed.
Things are moving, writhing in the dark. Things of claw and tooth and beak.
No solace is found in the day, for the sunlight to me is sickly; weak.
Where have all the people gone? I hardly see a soul alive.
And when I catch an hour of sleep The Watcher stands in my dreams. Waiting.
Scable is a predator and its favourite meat is human. Its survival trait is also the tool it uses to hunt. When Scable finds a potential victim, it will stalk it, unseen for some weeks. Then, once it learns where the victim lives, eats, sleeps and works, it will finally allow the victim to see him. Forcing somebody to truly observe him will cause a slow chain of events in the victims mind. At first, the victim will simply feel uncomfortable with the sight of the human-like creature. He will look just like any other person, except the sight of him simply feels... wrong. The victim will not be able to get the thought of it out of his or her mind and over the course of the next few weeks, their mind will begin to give in; it will start experiencing other things which should not be. whispers in the dark, claws dancing on the back of their neck, things just out of range of the senses. Light will seem less bright, even to the point where it will seem like night all the time, and it becomes harder to notice the normal things in life (such as other people around you). Paranoia grows steadily and if left unchecked will grow into full-blown insanity over a month or so. At this point, locked in his or her room with their mind shattered beyond repair, Scable will enter, and will begin eating it alive - the victim too insane to know whether or not he is truly being eaten or if it's all in their head.
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I am ever alone. All Alone. On this eternal night.
Watcher comes now. It comes to set me free
Of its curse of dark and emptiness and endless misery.
Scable has to remain near at all times and continue giving the victim glimpses of itself each day or two, otherwise the mind will repair itself. If the victim or their comrades happen to realize what is happening, they will have the chance to spot Scable and either kill it or at least scare it away; because once someone knows of its existence, they may be able to concentrate and focus enough to see it. Killing it would not be too difficult a task - while it does have the strength of the undead, it does not have any additional abilities which would aid it in direct confrontation. It does scare easily once it loses control of any situation however, so in most cases, Scable will run if it's threatened with death.
Scable can think for itself and it can feel - it has a rudimentary set of emotions that allow it to experience hatred, fear and lust. And while a bite or scratch from Scable will not transmit his undeath, there is one way that it can spread itself; Scable has been known to force itself on women, all its necessary 'equipment' does function. If Scable impregnates a woman, she will give birth to the same kind of abomination.
Additionally, Scable has a fear of pregnant women and Mothers, and will always flee from them. An unhappy remnant of his rejected childhood. Being in the proximity of these people will ward Scable away.
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How a Tiny Group of Activists Blocked a Giant New Plutonium Facility
In February, a tiny group of activists won a victory in the fight against nuclear proliferation. The citizen-led Los Alamos Study Group helped derail a $6 billion plutonium handling and processing center at Los Alamos National Laboratories.
The center was originally proposed in the 1990s, and the plans expanded greatly over the years, up from an initial budget of about $380 million. After years of monitoring the project, the group filed a federal lawsuit petitioning for greater environmental impact review of the proposed Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement building. Finally, President Obama dropped it from the federal budget in February. The project is on hold for at least five years while DOE officials review safety concerns and rising costs.
Plans for the facility were shrouded in mystery from the beginning. Initially, the Department of Energy claimed the center was needed to manufacture nuclear warhead cores, also known as "pits." Under the second Bush Administration, the explanation shifted, and DOE said the center would support the warhead replacement or modernization program.
Construction of the 270,000-square-foot building was set to begin when the Los Alamos Study Group filed suit in August 2010. The suit argued the project had outgrown the DOE's earlier environmental impact study. "Now they were talking about 100 times more concrete and 100,000 heavy truck trips," as well as bigger roads, more steel, more energy and water usage, and more air pollution," said Greg Mello, director of the Los Alamos Study Group.
Mello thought it was incongruous for Los Alamos to expand, when the United States has signed treaties to decrease the nuclear arsenal. "We need to move away from mutually assured destruction and build a more sustainable society," he said.
The Fukushima disaster has brought a powerful new demographic to Japan's anti-nuclear movement: mothers.
Presidential declarations and filmmakers' scare tactics get the attention—meanwhile, powerful grassroots movements build on 60 years of effort.
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If you live in Manhattan or elsewhere in New York and need to escape the crowds and concrete this weekend, grab a copy of Rebecca Dalzell's latest article in NY Magazine and head 3 hours north of the City on I-91 to quirky Brattleboro, Vermont.
Rebecca's done all the research for your last minute get-away, outlining the Where to Stay, Where to Eat and What to Do. She's even included some insider secrets on Southern Vermont's best swimming holes, antique stores and Farmer's markets.
If that's not enough to get you up here, I'll throw in a couple bonus ideas to whet your appetite:
- Breakfast of all natural super-cinnamon bagels and organic fair trade coffee from The Works Bakery Cafe
- Fresh noodle bowls and local strawberry rhubarb or pear pies for lunch at the Vietnamese Humble Kitchen
- Outdoor waterfront Happy Hour cocktails or local brews at The Marina, where locals hang out for the best sunsets in town.
So, what are you waiting for? Vermont's laid back, artsy town of Brattleboro is ready to welcome you for a weekend of unwinding in the foothills of the Green Mountains. Hurry up and get here so you can relax.
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Eric Schmidt posted the most fascinating story to Twitter this week, in which his family mourns the loss of their cat and its reappearance all in the same day.
Kitty, a 7-year-old pastel Calico, was missing from the family home in Indiana overnight and Dad had to tell everyone the bad news.
They found Kitty and had to bury her. Or did they really?
That's right, they buried the wrong cat, er um, rabbit.
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Guest artist Isabelle Demers will present the Donia Organ Recital at Hope College on Tuesday, March 1, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
"Les amis de l'Orgue" of QuébecCity has described Demers as "Daring and fresh," noting that her "mind-blowing Toccata confirmed her tremendous talent. With her idiomatic style and her solid technique, Isabelle Demers is an artist outside the norms, or dare I say, beyond any competition."
Demer began piano studies at age six and was admitted to the Montréal Conservatory of Music at age 11 in the fields of both piano and organ. After graduation in 2003, she studied on scholarship for a year in Paris at the École Normale de Paris-Alfred Cortot. She received her master's degree from The Juilliard School in New York, where she is currently completing doctoral studies with Paul Jacobs.
Isabelle Demers was a featured performer at the 2008 national convention of the American Guild of Organists in Minneapolis, and her performance was later broadcast to a national radio audience. She was also a featured artist at the 2009 national convention of the Royal Canadian College of Organists in Toronto, and at the 2010 national convention of the American Guild of Organists in Washington, D.C. She has been a prize-winner and finalist in several international performance competitions in the United States, Canada and Europe, and performs widely throughout the United States and Canada. She performed all seven of Max Reger's Chorale Fantasies in the 2008 Regerfest held at St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco.
In the spring of 2010 she released her first recording, which contains music by Bach, Prokofiev and Reger. She has three additional recordings in production.
She also tours with organist Daniel Sullivan as a two-organ duo.
The recital at Hope has been made possible through the generous support of the college's Tom Donia Memorial Organ Fund. The fund was created in 1990 by family and friends of Tom Donia, a 1971 Hope graduate who died in 1990. A director of communications for the American Red Cross, Donia had a life-long interest in music.
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Lately, I've been involved in discussions about funding strategies for software development projects. Typically, someone is trying to take a "fixed-everything" approach defining/fixing the price up front, defining the scope in detail up front, and defining/fixing the release date of or their project. Considering the overwhelming evidence against such an approach, and the easily observable (and negative) experiences that organizations have used it, I'm not only firmly against fixed-everything strategies I'm deeply concerned that people still adhere to this line of thought. In fact, as I've written here in Dr. Dobb's over the years (see links section at the end), I consider fixed-everything strategies to be unethical for IT professionals to engage in and grossly incompetent for business people to insist on. Not surprisingly, some people have an issue with this position.
The challenge in many organizations is that their IT governance processes insist upon a fixed everything, often mistakenly referred to as fixed-price, approach. This is particularly true for the procurement of IT solutions from external service providers; but it is also a common restriction on internally developed solutions. Organizations do this in a misguided belief that they will reduce their project risk with a fixed-everything approach not understanding that what they're really doing is dramatically increasing their risk. The IT project management community has preached for years that at least one of your project's scope, schedule, or cost must vary and that initial estimates should be given in large ranges that are tightened up as the project progresses. Without flexibility, you run the risk of:
- cost overruns on your project,
- missed project deadlines,
- a solution that fulfills the specification but doesn't really meet the needs of the stakeholders.
Worse yet, the overhead of governing a fixed-everything project can often be substantial, with management desperately trying to show progress via techniques such as Earned Value Management (EVM), function point tracking, and onerous change-prevention processes. Although the people making the decision to take a fixed-everything approach do so with the best of intentions namely, risk mitigation they don't understand the implications of the decision and often don't understand that they have significantly better options available to them.
Whenever I work with an organization that insists on a fixed-everything approach I try to dissuade them from doing so. First, I have a discussion with the IT staff around how well the strategy has actually been working for them. Sometimes there's a bit of denial. For example, I recently ran into a senior IT manager who claimed they provided estimates with an initial range of +/-20% and always delivered within that range only to discover later that a majority of projects needed to "reallocate" costs to other financial buckets to do so. Once I get people talking about actual projects, it becomes very clear very quickly that fixed-everything strategies aren't working well and never have.
Second, I ask to have an open and honest discussion with the senior executive stakeholders, this often includes the chief financial officer (CFO), and senior IT representatives in the same room together. One goal of this discussion is to explore the challenges around the fixed-everything approach and the bad behaviors that it promotes within IT project teams (my April 2011 article, Survey Shows Unethical Behavior Rampant Inside IT Development Teams, explored this bad behavior in detail). The interesting thing about such discussions is that the business stakeholders rarely put much faith in the promises made by their IT staff, while, at the same time, the IT staff are frustrated with the situation. Worse yet, because they never openly discussed the problem as a group, they didn't recognize the need to change. Third, I then ask to work through the various options of funding and governing IT projects in an attempt to come to agreement around a better approach than fixed everything. With a bit of education, and often with a lot of effort motivating all the key players to work through the issues, I can help organizations recognize the need to change the way that they fund and procure IT projects.
When I share this strategy, I'm often accused of not living in the real world. Take it from me, my world is just as real as yours. Granted, the above strategy seems to work for me only about one-third of the time. Clearly, there's room for improvement, but this success rate is infinitely better than that of the "real worlders" who do not even try to move away from fixed everything.
Having said that, what can you do if your "real world" doesn't allow you to move away from a fixed-everything strategy? Let's work through a scenario. A customer has approached its usual IT service providers with a detailed request for proposal (RFP) and has received five bids. One bid is very low, one bid is noticeably higher, and three bids are close to one another. Let's work through the likely implications.
Chances are pretty good that if you work with the low bidder that bad things will happen on this project. Granted, there is a small chance that the low bidder has exceptional staff who are experienced at building what you've asked for, have reusable frameworks that they can leverage, and are using some agile/lean/ubercool methodology that enables them to get the job done. But chances are exceptionally good that they've underbid because they intend to put you through a tight change management process in which you pay extra for every little change that you request. According to the December 2010 survey, 29% of development teams adopt such change-prevention practices. Worse yet, towards the end of the project when it's clear that they're in trouble they may try other strategies such as de-scoping (22%), compromising quality (15%), or extorting/requesting more money (10%). I suspect this isn't news to anyone who's been on the receiving end of a fixed-everything project, although it's shocking sometimes how some organizations forget these nasty lessons.
The middle bidders are likely in the right ballpark. The primary decision here is to choose one with the cultural fit for your organization, which is something you can judge based on your previous dealings with them (if any) or through a round of interviews.
Then, there's the highest bidder, who may in fact still be the best option for you. The high bidder might know something that you don't based on their deep experience building similar solutions or with previous experiences working with you. Smart customers have a conversation with the high bidders to explore why their bid was so much higher than everyone else's, and thereby reduce the overall risk of the project. Furthermore, if you've had positive dealings with them in the past, you may want to give them the opportunity to rework their bid.


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Days after American Airlines said it will file for bankruptcy, the airline has been hit with a lawsuit. Family members of a Miami man who died after he ate a meal on an American Airlines flight are suing the airliner and its caterer alleging the meal gave him food poisoning and ultimately killed him, CNN is reporting.
The wife and daughter of the late Othon Cortes of Miami are suing the airline and Sky Chefs for more than $1 million, alleging he ate food contaminated with bacteria during a flight from Barcelona, Spain, to New York.
The incident happened on May 18 after Cortes consumed an in-flight meal that allegedly contained chicken, according to a lawsuit filed last week in the U.S. District Court in Miami.
LSG Sky Chefs, the company that produces airline meals, is working to dismiss the case, CNN reports, because it says they did not cater Cortes' flight.
The International Business Times reports:
The lawsuit claimed Cortes was served chicken contaminated with Clostridium perfingens, a deadly bacteria. Cortes' wife Raquel said he felt sharp stomach pains and a "clear outward manifestation of severe physical illness" when landing in New York at John F. Kennedy International Airport for a layover.
… On their following flight from New York to Miami, Cortes reportedly felt nauseous and shortness of breath. After suffering a cardiac issue aboard the plane, the flight made an emergency landing in Norfolk, Va.
Cortes was pronounced dead as the plane landed.
The suit also accuses the airline of being negligent in allowing Cortes to board the flight in his condition.


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Collins Beach and Rosedale Beach boat ramps open with limited access now through Aug. 1
DOVER (July 9, 2013) – The DNREC Division of Fish and Wildlife announced additional details today regarding construction at the Collins Beach Boat Ramp near Smyrna and the Rosedale Beach boat ramp near Millsboro. Rather than being closed for up to multiple weeks as originally anticipated, both ramp locations will remain mostly open but with limited access. Construction may be completed before Aug. 1 as weather conditions permit.
From now through Aug. 1, boaters will have limited access to the Collins Beach ramp. "The ramp is open, but boaters should be prepared for active construction crews on site while we make repairs and improvements for public use," said DNREC Fisheries Administrator John Clark.
Boaters should plan to park their vehicles and trailers in the upper lot. The ramps will be inaccessible for one day during final paving, with that date to be announced during the construction process. Also, to allow drying and setting time for new concrete aprons on the boat ramps, the two ramps will be alternately closed for seven days each, with one ramp open for access during that stage of construction.
Boaters who regularly use the Collins Beach ramp for access to the upper Delaware Bay and Delaware River may opt to use the Woodland Beach Boat Ramp, located on Woodland Beach Road in Woodland Beach, or the Augustine Boat Ramp on Route 9 in Port Penn.
The Rosedale Beach Boat Ramp also will be open with limited access during construction, which is expected to be completed in about a week. The ramp and parking area will be inaccessible for one day during final paving, with that date to be announced during the construction process. Boaters who regularly use the Rosedale Beach ramp for access to the Indian River Bay may opt to use the Masseys Landing Boat Ramp, located on Long Neck Road in Long Neck.
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Quitting Smoking After Lung Cancer Diagnosis
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
What is the point to quitting smoking when I already have lung cancer? My family is on my case to quit, but it seems pointless.
Jared Weiss, MD, a Fellow in Hematology & Oncology at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, responds:
In the case of surgically curative disease, quitting decreases complication rates and improves wound healing. Further, quitting reduces the odds of getting a new smoking-related lung cancer or other cancer. Patients with a previous history of lung cancer are at elevated risk of additional cancers and this risk goes up further if they continue smoking.
I used to think that there was no point in quitting after a diagnosis of metastatic lung cancer. I saw my patients suffering from their cancer and figured that they had enough to deal with already. I figured that they should enjoy their cigarettes and not be bothered by quitting. My argument was one of quality of life. In observing and talking to patients, I've become less comfortable with the idea that quality of life really is better with ongoing smoking.
My lung cancer patients complain about shortness of breath and cough more than any other symptom. Although there is data, none of us need it to know that our patients feel much better from a pulmonary perspective without the cigarettes—we've seen it first hand. But there's also data out there showing that smoking can increase the clotting risk; clots in the leg and lung are a major source of morbidity and mortality for lung cancer patients and so this matters too. There's also data out there that patients who continue smoking have more pain than patients who stop. Finally, there's the cancer itself. Data was presented at the Word Lung Conference this summer showing that lung cancer can bear receptors for nicotine; if this is true, smoking may actually spur the cancer on.
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I am going to be presenting for my Fundamentals Of Speech class in a few weeks a presentation on how Linux can be a great alternative operating system for most students at my school. After I present, I am planning on giving away CDs of various Linux distros for them to try and see for themselves if they would like to use a Linux-based operating system. I want to come up with some that are able to fit on a CD, preferably, but a DVD would also work if needed. I have a large spindle of CDs but no DVDs, so spending $0 would be nice.
I was thinking about Ubuntu 12.04 and variants, but I don't know about other good distros for beginners. What do you all think?
- Linux Mint
- CinnArch
- Manjaro
- Mageia
i think ubuntu shall be deleted from your list. because its last version require dvd.
my sugestion = BlankOn. --> indonesian debian based distro that has alot of cute thing. (at least in its developer point of view)
just looking around.
I think that the least shocking of a change would be with Linux Mint. Its menu positioning kind of mimicks the windows environment. The last time I tried Ubuntu (11,04 I think), I kind of remember there being a cd and a dvd, where the dvd simply had all the non-free stuffs that is available as a download anyway while installing. This was a while ago, and I am not sure that it is how it is now... in fact andjeng says otherwise.
opensuse and/or mageia for desktop
system rescue cd which could be used to demonstrate that linux is perfect for specialized tasks like this
maybe other specialized distributions like the ones that provide anonymity out of the box
There shouldn't be any reason to learn more editor types than emacs or vi -- mg (1)
[You learn that sarcasm does not often work well in international forums. That is why we avoid it. -- ewaller (arch linux forum moderator)
Something KDE based. OpenSUSE maybe.
I would say it depends on your target audience. If they are adept at using computers, they wouldn't mind an Openbox based distro either. It also depends on what quality/feature you want to impress them with when they first use it. If speed, performance & customizability are important, then use a light desktop or WM. If look n feel and "cool factor" then use a DE like Gnome or KDE.
There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
Did anyone try scientific linux live CD?
I would certainly vote for that before Mint or fedora live CD.
Unix is user-friendly. It just isn't promiscuous about which users it's friendly with. - Steven King
I would recommend Mepis lInux. The newest release is DVD-sized but some of their older releases are on CD. A very polished looking live KDE desktop environment. If you're looking for eye-candy then Bohdi Linux is quite good. It combines enlightenment on an ubuntu base. That is available on a CD-size.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz
Any LXDE or Xfce distro will most likely still fit on a CD, and both DEs are a little bit like Windows XP (they have panels, start buttons, and desktop icons). Lubuntu. Xubuntu, Debian LXDE, WattOS, Bridge (Xfce or LXDE), Porteus LXDE. Lots of choices.
I'd pick a selection so there's something for everyone.
Ubuntu (consumer-friendly rather than just user-friendly, shows off the most innovative mainstream UI. 12.04 LTS if fitting on a CD matters.)
Archbang (nice preview to the more technical side without being scary)
OpenSuse KDE (Very professional, should appeal to Windows power users)
Puppy 5.4.1 (lightweight, focus on being useful as a live medium)
for my wife's and my mother-in-law's laptops I installed the OpenSUSE kde Tumbleweed. I enabled. ssh and vnc control. No worries for me, because it's a distribution so simple to upgrade... no admin intervention required in the lasts months.
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Did anyone try scientific linux live CD?
I would certainly vote for that before Mint or fedora live CD.
I used SL for 2 years , it was easier than Ubuntu , media codecs support, gnome 2, RHEL clone (rock solid)
I would recommend Xubuntu, XFCE is great.


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Tommie Louise Griffin, 74, of Shady Point died Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012, in Shady Point. Tommie was born October 28, 1938 in Bonham, Texas, to Joseph Saul and Bonnie (Marsh) Nowell. She was preceded in death by her siblings, Joyce Davis, Jim Nowell and Bill Nowell; nephew, Joseph Nowell; niece, Christy Nowell Rogers; grandson, Jason Markley; and Joseph Saul Nowell; her parents and stepfather, Jack Coltrane; numerous aunts and uncles. She was a beautician for 45 years.She is survived by her brother, Doug Nowell; children, Shauna and Tommy Caldwell, Eddie Griffin; Kitty and Elliot Gelles; grandchildren, Colin Caldwell, Evan Griffin, Lauren Griffin, Dr. Christopher Sudduth, wife Beka Sudduth and their son, Ethan; great-granddaughter, Michelle Markley Mills; great-grandson, Logan Markley; nieces, Leigh Nowell McCumber, Tracey Nowell Christianberry, Bonnie Davis Weeks, Julie Keeling and Sharon Hugle; nephews, Paul Davis, Stanley Davis, Thomas Davis, Jimmy Dale Nowell and Bill Nowell; brother-in-law, Paul Davis Sr., sisters-in-law Sue Nowell, Charlene Nowell and Donna Littlejohn; special friends, Donald and Peggy Caldwell, Mandi Stout, and Gov. Mary Fallin; the troopers of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol; the many beauticians and customers she befriended throughout her career.Services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, at Calvary Assembly of God in Poteau with the Rev. Lynn Bullard officiating. Burial will be in Dog Creek Cemetery. Pallbearers will be the LeFlore-Latimer County Detachment Troop "D." The family will visit with relatives and friends from 5-7 p.m. Wednesday at Evans and Miller Funeral Home. You may leave an online message at evansandmillerfuneralhomes.com.


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Members of the Red Hat Society enjoyed dinner, games, and refreshments on Feb. 6 in Abilene.
Joyce Cox and Dixie Kracke hosted the meeting. Others present were Ramona Gorakce, Anita Hummel, and Betty Schlesener of Hope; Alice Bell, Rose Mary Deines, Rhea Kolling, and Karolyn Schlesener of Herington; Ramona Beisel, Adeline Bernhardt, Dee Duggan, and Leona Kleiber.
The Saint John's Lutheran Women's Missionary League met Feb. 6 in the church basement to hear Pastor Clark Davis speak. Joyce Medley offered opening and closing devotions. Leona Kleiber hosted the meeting. Others present were Kathy Davis, Janet Bielefeld, Betty Mueller, Phyllis Mueller, Edna Backhus and Adeline Bernhardt.
Lucille Kerbs visited Leona Kleiber on Feb. 5. Terry and Cindy Vinduska were also recent visitors and helped her with some chores.
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Blame the ebb tide.
That's what did in Wednesday's America's Cup racing on San Francisco Bay. With a 3-knot ebb tide rushing out of the Golden Gate, the wind limit for racing was dropped from 23 knots to 20 knots. And that limit was triggered just 30 seconds before New Zealand and Oracle crossed the start line to begin Race 11 of the finals.
The postponement was particularly frustrating for Team Emirates New Zealand, which won the first race of the day and found itself just one win away from taking the Cup back to Auckland.
But now they'll have to wait until Thursday to get another chance at wresting the Cup from Larry Ellison's hands.
Now, we know we've been covering sailing for too long when we're typing the words "ebb tide." But in this case, the Bay's famous currents may have saved the U.S. syndicate from an embarrassing defeat before a big crowd. With water rushing out of the Gate, seemingly on the way to New Zealand, race organizers deemed the conditions too dangerous for the big 72-foot catamarans.
So, the bars and hotels of San Francisco will get another day of Kiwi tourists and Oracle will get one more chance to try and right their ship, so to speak. Conditions are expected to be a little less windy Thursday, with another strong day of currents, though. So, we'll see if they get the race in, or not.
The end result feels inevitable, though. Ebb tide, or not, it's New Zealand with all the wind in its sails.


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Nancy says:
Awesome cards! Love all those camera's!Danielle Vincent says:
Ohhhh my….I'm so excited about this fabulous new release! Everything I saw today from the DT was just awesome!
PS there are 3 of the links that are broken and you have to click on the HOME page of the designers to find their creations.
Blessings and thanks for a fun release hop!Elise S. says:
These cameras are super cute! I also love the mix of the fun patterned paper 🙂staceyscreativecorner says:
Such a great release Michelle!Migdalia Rodriguez says:
A super cute & fun release!! I love the cute camera!! Awesome cards! Great job!
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Wow! These stamps and papers are amazing!!Alta Olden says:
These are the cutest little camera stamps I've ever seen!…Say CHEESE!Kendra says:
LOVELY release!! Those cameras are so beautiful!! Love the paper too!Sukie says:
Adorable cards and papers! I love the fun way you colored the cute cameras, they look so trendy! Off to hop and check out the amazing DT projects!Anita Madden says:
A fabulous release and your cards are beautiful! Thanks for having me as a guest Michelle!Wahnita Hammond says:
Your cards are picture perfect! Love the new stamp set 🙂Lainey says:
I'm a beginner at stamping an this is such an exciting new release.. Oh my what could be created with this set !
Thank you for the chance to win!Dana Johnson says:
This is an amazing release!! I want it all. The cards were all beautiful!Sharon Wilcox says:
This is a stamp set you can use every season. Also, I love the soft colors.Monique Leslie says:
Oh love these….can't wait to see more!Debbie Kissel says:
Aren't the cameras ADORABLE! So many things you can make with them. Love the new paper too.Mitsyana Wright says:
WOW!! So many wonderful cards with one stamp set!! These are amazing, Michelle!!Gilda (McStamper) says:
Fantastic release. Love the cameras and your cute cards.Marty McGee says:
Love this stamp set.. Love the cards!JustYolie says:
Congratulations michelle!! Love everything in the new release!!Memoriesbymanda says:
Great new release. The new paper pads look cool. Thanks for the blog hop.Von Marie says:
Such a super cute release, and that paper..whoa!!Deborah Kaye says:
These cameras are fabulous! Great release!geezypeaseypapercrafting says:
Yes, Awesome release. Love it all!Shari Leonard says:
Cute Projects!! Adorable Cameras too! Thanks for the inspiration!Brandi R says:
Great cards! So fun and playful!! Love ♥Karen J says:
Amazing release and beautiful cards!!Debby says:
What a fun release. All the DT projects are spectacular.Rose Garcia says:
Awesome cards and a cute set!! 🙂Carey Nusbaum says:
I don't know you it is about camera stamps, but I am addicted to them! This stamp set is AWESOME! Thanks for the opportunity to win!Angeline choo says:
Oh the cameras are so cute! Loving the different variety. Off to hop! 🙂Jennifer carmichael says:
Love the cameras! Great projects.Nanette Costa says:
Great release! Thanks for the opportunity.Nanette Costa says:
This is a great release. Thanks for the opportunity.Arianna Barbara says:
Oh my!!! Such amazing release and beautiful cards!!!Marilyn says:
Beautiful cards!! Love the different camerasCheryl Stauffer says:
What fun cards and so versatile!Evelyn says:
I love the new paper, Michelle, and your cards look just fabulous!
EvelynLady Joyful (Charlotte E) says:
What a great release! I really love those cameras – I have several family members who enjoy photography so they'd be great for cards for them!Christina Stringfield says:
I have just discovered company! What great products you have! I never leave home without a camera so I love this set! I like the yellow, pink and black you used on your cards. Nice work!Christina Stringfield says:
I have just discovered company! What great products you have! I never leave home without a camera so I love this set! I like the yellow, pink and black you used on your cards. Nice work!Pam says:
Michelle congrats on a fantastic release! Your cards are adorable!Nadia Crafter says:
OOOh I love those papers! Fun stamp set as well. ThanksRosie says:
I absolutely love your projects! Cameras are my favs! Awesome new release!
Hugs,Paulette says:
Always love your cards!Lisascreativeniche says:
Oh how fun! Love the new cameras!BunnyD says:
Love camera icons! I use them in my scrapbooks lots. These are super!Teresa says:
I'm excited for the papers! And of course I love all your stamps so I'm anxious to get some new ones!Melissa Craig says:
Love the vintage cameras. These are so cute. That smile die is a must have.Joy says:
Love this stamp set…and the cards are so pretty.
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A widespread technology that allows people to connect with anyone, anywhere, has created concerns for corrections officials. The use of inexpensive, disposable cell phones has changed the age-old cat-and-mouse game of controlling whom inmates communicate with in the outside world and is creating serious problems for public safety officials.
In the 1990s, cellular phones were larger and heavier and had audio capabilities only. Today they are lightweight, can be thinner than a match- book, and can send both audio and data, including written messages and streaming video. Although these advances are welcome in society in general, they have had a negative impact on the law enforcement community, as criminals have taken advantage of cellular technology to conduct illegal activities.
In 2010, NIJ hosted a plenary session "Cell Phones in Prisons," which involved a discussion among Federal and State Corrections officials, the FCC and NTIA.
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The issue of cellular phone use by criminals, especially prison and jail inmates, gained national attention when a death row inmate used a cell phone to threaten a Texas senator. In Nevada, prison officials fired a dental assistant for helping an inmate get a cell phone to plan a successful escape. In New York, an inmate used a cell phone to orchestrate an attempted escape while on a medical transfer. In Tennessee, prison officials banned jars of peanut butter after learning that an inmate accused in the shooting death of a guard had used a jar to hide the cell phone he used to coordinate his escape. Prisoners have also used cell phones to harass and threaten their victims. In Texas, courts have convicted more than a dozen corrections officers in recent years for accepting bribes in exchange for cell phones or phone parts.
The number of contraband cell phones being confiscated is also noteworthy. For example, in California, correctional officers seized 1,331 cell phones in the first six months of 2008. Corrections officials in other states have also reported finding hundreds of cell phones.
Corrections officials have spent millions of dollars to outfit prisons and jails with metal detectors, but the detectors do little to stem the flow of cell phones from the outside. Some cell phone parts are made of plastic and go undetected.
Summary of Technological Approaches to Combating Contraband Cell Phone Use in PrisonsView the full table in NTIA report Contraband Cell Phones in Prisons, Possible Wireless Technology Solutions .
Blocking cell phone service involves using technologies to stop the transmission or reception of other radio signals. In some cases, blocking signals can be tuned to leave specific frequencies open, which would allow for communication among corrections personnel, or they can block almost all signals. The power of the blocking signal determines how large an area is affected. The area could be as small as a cell block or large enough to cover an entire prison. Blocking systems can cost as little as $1,000, but more powerful systems can cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Another technology allows for spoofing cell phone signals. Spoofing involves intercepting selected cell phone transmissions and preventing them from reaching the intended recipient. Spoofing uses sophisticated software and is possible without the active participation of the cell phone network providers. A drawback to selective blocking and spoofing is the potential for inmates to use approved cell phones that belong to staff members.
A report by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration — developed in collaboration with NIJ the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Bureau of Prisons — discusses the characteristics and capabilities of the various technologies and the potential interference effects that they may have on authorized radio services, including commercial wireless, public safety communications and 9-1-1 calls.
Technologies discussed in the report include:
The Communications Act of 1934 and the Telecommunications Act of 1996 prohibit the operation of cell-phone-jamming equipment by any person, including state and local officials. Specifically, Section 333 of the Communications Act prohibits willful or malicious interference with any licensed or authorized radio communications equipment or with radio equipment operated by the United States government. In addition, the Act prohibits the manufacture, importation, marketing, sale or operation of devices deliberately designed to jam or disrupt wireless communications.
Legislation in Congress titled the Safe Prisons Communications Act of 2009 would let prisons and jails use cell-phone-jamming technology.
Cell Phone Forensics in a Correctional Setting: Guidebook provides a brief, yet comprehensive and informative, overview of cell phone forensic technologies.
As they await legislative relief from the problem, corrections officials are using various technologies that detect and find cell phones. Both high-technology and low-technology approaches are being tested and used. Several agencies have installed sensors that detect and find cell phones when in use. One such device tested in a Pennsylvania prison signaled cell phone location to within four cells on two tiers. Some sensors can even detect cell phones that are turned off, but they only work when in close proximity to a phone, cost between $15,000 and $20,000, and require trained staff. Others use new detectors that can identify nonmetallic objects to conduct searches. For smaller facilities, the use of specially formulated paints and coatings that block radio frequency signals may help.
Some correctional institutions use specially trained dogs to sniff out hidden cell phones. These efforts have not been rigorously evaluated. Dog training can cost tens of thousands of dollars. Dogs must be close to the phone, and anecdotal evidence suggests that the phone must be left in the same place for a considerable time to be found.
Most of these solutions are expensive and labor intensive. Each would benefit from a thorough evaluation.
Back to: Corrections home.
[note 1] Contraband Cell Phones in Prisons: Possible Wireless Technology Solutions (pdf, 58 pages), National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), U.S. Department of Commerce, December 2010.
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