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BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - Jan 23, 2013) - Quantopian, which is building the world's first browser-based algorithmic trading platform, today announced that it has emerged from beta to provide the tools, capabilities and support needed to create and optimize trading algorithms in an open and transparent environment. Quantopian makes it simple for anyone with a mind for finance to develop algorithms and reap the benefits of quantitative finance for themselves -- a feat that was previously rendered nearly impossible by the limitations of data access, trading infrastructure and arduous initial coding requirements. The company also revealed that it has received funding from Spark Capital and GETCO.
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Hey folks! This is just a reminder that Chuck is doing an event at Borders in Los Angeles on September 13th! Not to mention, he'll have Clark Gregg and Sam Rockwell with him! I had the chance to interview Clark Gregg in person on Tuesday, and he's a very awesome dude. You'll all want to get the chance to see him speak.
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I'll be honest: while I've been to hundreds of plays and concerts, I went to an orchestra performance for the first time this year. As a caretaker to an elderly family member, I found myself at the Bryn Athyn Orchestra's spring matinee performance. In my late 20s, I was certainly one of the youngest people in attendance.
The same was true of Broad Street Review's (an online magazine) Philadelphia Orchestra discussion panel at the University of the Arts' Hamilton Hall recently. I myself have never been to a Philadelphia Orchestra performance, but I was interested in the larger questions the evening promised, about an arts organization's continued viability in the modern world.
I'm no stranger to classical music, though my instrumental training was limited to a few squawky months on a plastic recorder in fourth grade. My brother took up the cornet for a few years, and his practice reverberated throughout the household.
During those years, my grandmother, a watercolor artist, gave me a VHS copy of Disney's "Fantasia" for Christmas. My dad called it Boring-Tasia, but I watched it over and over. To this day, "The Rite of Spring" or "Dance of the Hours" never fails to evoke a misty primordial world or ballet-dancing ostriches. Now I learn that it was the Philadelphia Orchestra which played many of the pieces in that classic film.
Today, Vivaldi, Mozart, Handel, Strauss, Bach, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky are my frequent companions — on my iPod, that is. In fact, I doubt I could write anything without them.
But why haven't my peers and I been to the Philadelphia Orchestra, especially when it so desperately needs a new generation of patrons? Broad Street Review brought seven panelists together to attempt some answers.
Clarence Faulcon, BSR contributor and former chairman of the Music Department at Morgan State University, unleashed a litany of public relations failures, including the orchestra's lack of outreach to local minority groups with a rich history in classical music. Despite obvious differences in profit margin, Faulcon urged orchestra marketers to look to the multicultural, multi-lateral campaigns of Philadelphia's most lucrative institutions: its sports teams.
Other questions of marketing included just how much of the onus for promotions should fall on the musicians themselves. Should they be out "on stump" in the community? Musicians have already played in the mall, streets and subway to little effect on ticket sales, insisted panelist Davyd Booth, a Philadelphia Orchestra violinist. One panel attendee countered that the orchestra's players have failed to create a social media presence, promoting their performances on Facebook, blogs or Twitter, an essential move to engage younger audiences.
It's an unfortunate irony, because our orchestra has been ahead of the pack as far as access through technology. As panelist Juliet Goodfriend, President of the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, pointed out, the Philadelphia Orchestra was the first to record performances on disk and to live-stream over the internet — though, due to lackluster marketing, few people know this.
Faulcon insisted that the orchestra must begin marketing beyond its own self-interest and pay more attention to social initiatives, like sports teams who have donned pink apparel for breast cancer awareness. "Painting it pink isn't going to help," Goodfriend replied sharply.
Many audience members agreed with her fundamental suggestion for maintaining orchestra attendance: support music in our schools. Market research has shown that the most consistent factor among today's orchestra-goers is that they played an instrument in school. No wonder orchestra attendance is declining all over the country, as music programs are among the first to be cut when schools face budget woes.
The question of youngsters applies to another thorny issue, especially for an artistically conservative orchestra like Philadelphia's. Should orchestras be reaching out to the next generation of ticket-buyers by performing contemporary works?
Nothing empties a concert hall faster than contemporary music, insisted Booth.
People who advocate the performance of living composers' music are a tiny but overly vocal segment of the audience. But others on the panel countered that many top orchestras do perform new music. This does risk alienating older audiences, but elderly ticket-buyers are not going to be around forever. Who will take their place, if orchestras do not reach out with new material now?
Booth was reluctant to agree on new music's merit, suggesting that all of the great classical music the world will ever know has already been written, with Richard Strauss being the last truly worthwhile major composer.
BSR contributor and audience member Jim Rutter disagreed, pointing out that contemporary classical music albums have sold millions of copies among young people — the full orchestral scores that accompany many wildly popular video games. Orchestras who deign to perform these modern composers' work pack their houses with a new generation of music-lovers.
As for myself, I think the assertion that there will never be another great classical composer is incredibly arrogant. Perhaps, being so young and still waiting for my chance to stun the world, it's my naiveté that leaves me so galled. But it seems to me that reflexive assumptions about the impossibility of unknown future greatness would be the death knell of any arts organization.
Bach, Vivaldi and Mozart, et al, have plenty of company on my iPod: they're joined by Hans Zimmer, Howard Shore, Yann Tiersen, John Williams and Philip Glass. I would certainly consider attending live performances of music by these and many more living composers.
Of course, the panel discussion would not have been complete without some hearty vilification of cantankerous critics: "corrosive", "poisonous" and "a destructive force" were just some of the phrases used to describe injustices at the hands of music writers. Some attendees bemoaned the role of the Inquirer in perpetuating bad criticism.
Whether or not the orchestra is financially, socially and artistically well-founded, panelist and critic Peter Burwasser declared that it is going to be saved, because the alternative is not an option.
At the end of the discussion, all I really know about it is that nothing brings me to a standstill in the train station — or brings a bill out of my purse — better than a good cellist parked by the platform stairs. I hope Burwasser is right.


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Everyone's probably got a story about a product that performed over and above all reasonable expectations. The winter boots in the front closet that will not leak or wear out (however much you'd like to shed yourself of what is clearly a lost decade's fashion in footwear).
Or your mother's washer, still dancing its noisy solo dance in a corner of the basement, long after it should have suffered the spin-cycle equivalent of a broken hip.
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Now, Apple has confirmed that its operating systems do actual slow down older phones — though the tech giant argues the change was made to benefit users, by helping to hold a charge longer in aging lithium ion batteries.
Apple may have a case: older lithium ion batteries do store less power as they age, and Apple did have issues with iPhones shutting down when peak power demands outstripped the ability of batteries to supply the necessary zap.
The problem, as with many things, is with transparency. Apple didn't seem to feel it was necessary to start talking about how it was slowing its phones down (ostensibly for your own good) until others demonstrated publicly that the processer slowdowns were occurring.
Apple's defence might be easier to believe if the slowdown had been sold that way up front, instead of being hidden from customers. It would have been better still if Apple had offered the slowdown to customers as a performance option.
It also might be easier to believe if it wasn't for the way Twitter blossoms with comments about older phones magically using up their batteries at an ever-greater speed every time Apple upgrades iPhone operating systems.
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Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State women's basketball improved to 22-0 on the season, 16-0 in the Skyline Conference with a 95-39 win this afternoon over Yeshiva University. The Maccabees dropped to 2-20, 0-17 in conference play.
Farmingdale State controlled the game from the start, taking a 52-16 lead into halftime. The Rams shot 48% from the field in the first half and held Yeshiva to 6-for-23 shooting. Farmingdale outscored the Maccabees 43-23 in the second half, keeping their perfect season in tact with the 95-39 Skyline Conference victory.
The Rams were led by freshman guard Jeanette Zubizarreta (Bay Shore, N.Y./Calhoun), who recorded a game-high 17 points, shooting 5-for-7 from three-point range. Senior guard Kimberly Blakney (Brooklyn, N.Y./Benjamin Banneker) had 13 points, six assists and five steals for Farmingdale State.
Senior center Lauren Kempin (Fairlawn, N.J./Frisch) had a team-high 11 points, four assists and blocked four shots for Yeshiva.
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As reported by the HallOfVeryGood, Chicago White Sox pitcher Chris Sale was recently forced to shave his beard by fledgling field manager Robin Ventura. Seeing this as a stark violation of Mr. Sale's civil liberties, your American Mustache Institute filed legal papers and sent the following correspondence to White Sox general manager Rick Hahn.
Mr. Hahn,
It has recently come to the attention of the American Mustache Institute that the field manager for the Chicago White Sox, Mr. Robin Ventura, is forcibly intimidating pitcher Chris Sale, among other players with decorated histories of striking out, to remove his preferred style of facial hair.
As Mr. Sale recently conveyed to the Chicago Sun-Times, "I got a call from the front office saying my beard was too scruffy and it had to go." You then, in turn, confirmed to the Times that, "the 'clean it up' order came" from manager Mr. Ventura, a clean-shaven mortal.
On one hand, we were bemused to learn there is a male character outside of the Batman series named "Robin." Secondarily, your beard-genocide-focused team policy has driven Mr. Sale to embrace a Mustached American lifestyle, which improves good looks by an estimated 38 percent according to AMI research and has been proven to enhance athletic performance by an estimated 63.7 percent.
However, Mr. Ventura's edict violates Mr. Sale's fundamental workplace rights and has contributed to a hostile work environment therein. The White Sox are not, of course, alone in this endeavor. A 2010 poll conducted for Bellingham, Washington-based Workplace Bullying Institute said that 37 percent of U.S. workers – some 54 million people – believe they have been subjected to a workplace "hostility."
But in your case, these discriminatory policies demanded by the apparently iron-fisted Mr. Ventura, previously best-known for attacking and then being physically embarrassed by 98-year-old Hall-of-Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan, are inexplicably extreme. In our eyes, they amount to what the Mustached American community believes to be a violation of your employees' ordained civil liberties.
Indeed, they are without question unacceptable to not only Beardist Americans, but people of Mustached American heritage, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and his 14 illegitimate children, as well as civil libertarians like Joseph Déjacque, Murray Rothbard, Pamela Anderson and others.
As a leading academic institution of freedom and handsomeness that is committed to protecting the rights of the sexually dynamic Mustached American community, it would be highly irresponsible to not express and judiciously press forward with our deep concerns for protecting of the fundamental rights guaranteed to individuals by law and social culture.
After all, as the esteemed Larry Martz wrote, "Civil libertarians tend to assume such tests must be an illegal invasion of privacy." And in many ways, he is correct.
In looking more broadly as the White Sox's misguided attempt to harness your employees God-given rights, perhaps the greatest shame – even more so than the fact you play in U.S. Cellular Field itself – is that during a season where Mr. Ventura has your organization actually flirting with a winning record and the White Sox are boasting one of the best young talents in baseball, your manager is preoccupied with restricting the growth, masculinity, devout handsomeness, earning potential, and the civil liberties of your employees. These discriminatory policies are clearly aimed at disallowing your players to experience their ordained heritage as sexually dynamic people of facial hair to the degree they wish. And our community disapproves greatly.
Pending final direction from legal counsel via the esteemed white-shoe firm of Ebony, Piscapo, Ivory & Murphy, we plan to file a request for a temporary or permanent injunction which we anticipate will ultimately lead to the estoppal or cessation of said beardist-genocidal activities in the court of Judge McKay Chauvin, Louisville Circuit Court, Division 8. We are requesting a bench trial and have already filed a motion for summary judgment.
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Anthony Jackson, Dave Coley lead Stony Brook to first NIT win
AMHERST, Mass. - The disappointment of a premature exit from the America East Tournament had faded by the time Stony Brook took the court against UMass in the first round of the NIT Wednesday night.
Stony Brook's Anthony Jackson made a three-pointer 15 seconds into the game, a sign of his imminent hot shooting and the team's desire to continue the best season in its history. The seventh-seeded Seawolves were dominant for stretches and held off multiple charges by the second-seeded Minutemen in a 71-58 win at the Mullins Center. It was Stony Brook's NCAA-best 13th road win of the season.
Stony Brook (25-7) advances to play at third-seeded Iowa at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday night (ESPNU). After recording the first postseason win in program history, the Seawolves are hoping to put an NIT run together to further erase the bitter taste of their 61-59 loss to Albany on March 10 in the America East semifinals.
"I was hurt bad. That's definitely not how I saw my senior year ending," senior forward Tommy Brenton said. "Once I saw that next game, that's when I really got my focus back."
The Seawolves got 20 points each from Jackson and backcourt mate Dave Coley. Jackson shot 4-for-5 on three-pointers and Coley was a menace defensively with five steals.
"I told guys we needed someone to step up and be big tonight," Stony Brook coach Steve Pikiell said. "Our backcourt having 40 points, they both stepped up."
Jameel Warney was a force inside with 16 points and Brenton extended his career with a typically well-rounded effort -- six points, seven assists, six rebounds and four steals.
UMass got 16 points from Freddie Riley, but foul trouble and a shoulder injury limited star point guard Chaz Williams to two points and five turnovers in 16 minutes.
UMass (21-12) pulled to within six points with seven minutes to go, but Jackson drilled a contested jumper from the right wing to fuel a 6-0 run that put Stony Brook ahead 63-51 with 4:33 left. The Minutemen never seriously threatened again.
Both teams got off to blistering starts and the score was tied at 17 after eight minutes. The Minutemen blinked first, going ice cold after building their lead to 25-21.
Stony led by 13 at halftime. But UMass opened the second half with an 8-2 run to close the gap to 40-33.
The Seawolves led 51-42 when Brenton made consecutive passes that had fans saying in disbelief, "Did you see that?" Brenton likely didn't, as both passes were no-looks to set up Warney for dunks.
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Architectural historian and historic preservation activist and consultant Dr. Samuel D. Gruber will receive the Jasena R. Foley Education Award from the Preservation Association of Central New York (PACNY) at this year's annual Historic Preservation Awards ceremony on May 22, 2014, to be held at the High Peaks Club of the State Tower Building in downtown Syracuse at 6:00 p.m.
In choosing Gruber for the award, PACNY recognizes his "ongoing, sustained leadership and contribution to education, promotion, and advocacy of historic preservation in Central New York over the last 20 years and [his] vocal and public support of effort to preserve vital elements of the region's built environment, as well as numerous efforts to educate and inform the public about our rich historic legacy."
Gruber has been active in community affairs since he moved to Syracuse in 1993 . He served for many years as a volunteer on the Preservation Association Board and as organization president, and also on many other civic and cultural committees. He was an early advocate for and an active participant in the creation of the Syracuse's Freedom Trail, celebrating the abolitionist mover and early Africa-American history of the city, and he has successfully advocated and helped negotiate the saving of many historic buildings in the region, including the Babcock-Shattuck house on the Eastside, which will also be recognized with an award. Last year, Gruber and colleague Bruce Harvey were engaged by the City to carry out a Cultural Resource Survey of the Washington Square area on the Northside, and this summer the pair will conduct a Religious Properties survey, also for the City.
"I am honored for my name to be included with so many distinguished and committed individuals who I admire and I have tried to emulate. Overall, the preservation ethic, and the practice of historic preservation is much improved since the time when I came to Syracuse, but there is much still to do. Education about the practical, historical, aesthetic, social and economic reasons for historic preservation projects needs to be constant." Gruber is a frequenht lecturer in the community and has led walking tours throughout Syracuse and nearby towns for many years. This spring, for the third time, he is offering four tours of different parts of the Westcott neighborhood, where he lives, organized by the Westcott Neighborhood Association.
Gruber has been a part-time faculty member at Syracuse University where he has taught courses in Jewish studies and art history since 1994. Professionally, he is a cultural heritage consultant advising on a wide variety of national and international projects, and assisting many organizations and government agencies. Gruber is internationally recognized as a leader in the movement to document, protect and preserve sites of significance to Jewish heritage worldwide. In addition to having written several books and scores of articles, Gruber writes popular blogs about both Central New York and Jewish monuments.
The Jasena R. Foley Award is named after the former Onondaga Town Historian, who was a pioneer of the local historic preservation movement. It is presented "to individuals or groups who educate, promote, engender or advocate a preservation ethic in central New York."
Since 1972, the Preservation Association of Central New York (PACNY) has presented annual historic preservation awards to recognize owners, builders, artisans, designers, educators and activists who work to renew the beauty and utility of some of the region's most distinctive architectural and notable historic sites. PACNY awards celebrate the success of preservation and its role in the economic, social, and cultural vitality of Central New York.


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The Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series of Hope College will feature poet Gregory Orr during the Fourth Annual Tom Andrews Memorial Reading on Thursday, Sept. 17, at 7 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Orr is the author of several books, including nine collections of poetry and a highly acclaimed collection of essays, "Poetry as Survival." His most recent volume, "How Beautiful the Beloved," contains short poems that are, according to "Publishers Weekly," "compact missives addressing in the most direct language possible many of humanity's most dire needs and fears." Much of Orr's early work is concerned with seminal events from his childhood, including a hunting accident when he was 12 in which he accidentally shot and killed his younger brother. He has received many awards and fellowships, including an Award in Literature from the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA Fellowships, and a Rockefeller Fellowship at the Institute for the Study of Culture and Violence.
He teaches at the University of Virginia, where he founded the MFA Program in Writing in 1975.
Every year one reading is done in honor of Tom Andrews (1961 - 2001), a 1984 Hope graduate who was born and grew up in West Virginia. Following Hope, he earned his M.F.A. at the University of Virginia. In his lifetime, Andrews published three books of poems and a memoir, "Codeine Diary," about his coming to terms with his hemophilia and his determined refusal to let it circumscribe his life. He also edited two collections of essays, "The Point Where All Things Meet: Essays on Charles Wright" and "On William Stafford: The Worth of Local Things." In 2002, Oberlin College Press published "Random Symmetries: The Collected Poems of Tom Andrews," a posthumous volume comprised of two previously published books of poetry, "The Brother's Country" and "The Hemophiliac's Motorcycle," and other works.
The Hope College Jazz Ensemble will precede the reading at the Knickerbocker with a 6:30 p.m. performance.
Additional information may be obtained online by visiting www.hope.edu/vws.
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At just 15 years and 123 days old, Tigerbelle Barbara Jones became the youngest woman to ever win a gold medal in track and field.
Jones, a native of Chicago, accomplished the feat before she came to TSU at the summer Olympics in 1952 in Helsinki, Finland. Jones teamed up with fellow Tigerbelle Mae Faggs, Janet Moreau and Catherine Hardy in the 4 x 100 meter relay.
At the 1955 Pan American Games, Jones won a gold medal in 100 meter dash as well as the 4 x 100 meter relay.
Following the Pan American Games, Jones enrolled at Tennessee State in 1957 to train under legendary track coach Ed Temple.
Jones missed the 1956 Olympics, but she came back to represent the U.S. in Rome, Italy in 1960. Jones ran the 4 x 100 meter again, but this time she was teamed with fellow Tigerbelles, Martha Hudson, Lucinda Williams and Olympic 100 and 200 meters champion, Wilma Rudolph.
The team was different than before, but the result was still the same as Jones and company won gold.
In 2011, Jones became the 25th TSU representative to be inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame.
Jones is also a member of the U.S. National Track and Field Hall of Fame and the International Track and Field Hall of Fame.
The 100 Moments of TSU Athletics presented by Taco Bell® highlights some of the greatest moments in honor of Tennessee State's centennial celebration. A new moment will be released each weekday for a total of 100. These moments were chosen by the TSU 100 Moments committee, which consists of alums from various departments. TSU has so many great moments, not all can be represented in these 100.
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Fox Garbles Economics To Claim European Austerity Proves Need For GOP Policies
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While reporting on budget negotiations, Fox News' Mike Emanuel suggested that Europe's experience with economic austerity measures supports Republicans' calls for more spending cuts and fewer tax increases. But economists agree that cutting government spending hurts weak economies, and a recent study found that moderate tax increases would have almost no effect on economic growth.
Fox Claims European Austerity Experience "Back[s] Up" GOP Calls For More Spending Cuts And Lower Taxes
Fox's Emanuel: "Some Experts" Say European Austerity Slowed Growth "Because It Relies Too Much On Taxation While Failing To Rein In" Government Spending. During the December 7 edition of Fox News' Special Report, Fox News correspondent Mike Emanuel discussed federal debt in a segment that compared the U.S. with Greece. Emanuel claimed that the effects of austerity measures in Europe support the Republican plan for avoiding the so-called fiscal cliff:
EMANUEL: Now, here, a leading Democrat is suggesting cutting spending too quickly is the real problem.
REID [video]: The European community now is concerned about all their austerity. There are many, many things you can do to reduce debt, but still have a stimulative aspect of the economy.
EMANUEL: Some experts, though, say Europe's austerity is a drag on the economic growth because it relies too much on taxation while failing to rein in the expansion of government. And that would seem to back up a Republican theme in this fiscal cliff argument. [Fox News, Special Report, 12/7/12]
Emanuel: That "Would Seem To Back Up A Republican Theme" That Taxes Should Stay Low On The Wealthy. After Emanuel referenced statements by "some experts," he claimed that they "back up a Republican theme" in ongoing budget talks. He then played a clip of Sen. John Thune (R-SD) arguing against allowing tax rates to increase on upper income brackets:
EMANUEL: Some experts, though, say Europe's austerity is a drag on the economic growth because it relies too much on taxation while failing to rein in the expansion of government. And that would seem to back up a Republican theme in this fiscal cliff argument.
THUNE [video clip]: If we raise taxes on the top two rates, which is about a million small businesses, who employ 25 percent of the workforce, that'll cost us over 700,000 jobs, reduce economic growth, lower take-home pay, all those sorts of things. So that's a bad scenario. [Fox News, Special Report, 12/7/12]
Read why higher tax rates on the wealthy would not hurt small businesses, cost us 700,000 jobs, or reduce economic growth.
But European Austerity Measures Were A Mix Of Spending Cuts And Tax Increases ...
U.K. Committed To "An Austerity Package" Of "Spending Cuts And Tax Increases." From a May 1 Al Jazeera op-ed by economist Dean Baker:
A little less than two years ago, the people of the United Kingdom made an implicit deal with the people of the United States. They installed a government that committed itself to an austerity package as the best way to deal with the ongoing effects of the recession.
Rather than trying to boost demand with increased spending or lower taxes, the Conservative-led coalition government committed itself to an agenda of spending cuts and tax increases. The argument was that the financial markets would be impressed by the UK's commitment to reducing its budget deficit. [Al Jazeera, 5/1/12]
Krugman: Britain's Austerity "Slash[ed] Spending." In a January 29 New York Times column, Nobel-prize winning economist Paul Krugman wrote that Britain's austerity plan was "supposed to be a showcase for 'expansionary austerity,' the notion that instead of increasing government spending to fight recessions, you should slash spending instead -- and that this would lead to faster economic growth." [New York Times, 1/29/12]
... Which Experts Agree Have Hurt European Economies
Dean Baker: United Kingdom Has "Given Us ... A Beautiful Example Of How Austerity Wrecks An Economy." In his Al Jazeera op-ed, Baker noted that, in the example of the United Kingdom, "It sure looks like the austerity critics won this one." From Al Jazeera:
We have now had almost two years to evaluate the effects of the UK's austerity policy, which is longer than most governments get to test the results of their policy experiments. After all, President Obama got his head handed to him in the November 2010 elections, which were just 20 months after the passage of his stimulus package.
It sure looks like the austerity critics won this one. While interest rates have remained low in the UK, this has been true of every wealthy country with its own currency, regardless of whether or not it was pursuing an austerity path.
The UK economy does not appear to have done any better in terms of the rest of the picture. If austerity boosted business leaders' animal spirits, it is not showing up in the data. Nearly every component of the private sector has contracted over the past two quarters with construction leading the way, falling at a 0.8 per cent annual rate in the fourth quarter of 2011 and a 12.0 per cent rate in the first quarter of this year.
But there are many people in positions of power who want to push austerity for reasons that have nothing to do with economic growth - and they are prepared to lie, cheat, and steal to advance this agenda. For this reason, however much we may sympathise with the people of the UK for their suffering, we should be thankful that they have given us such a beautiful example of how austerity wrecks an economy. [Al Jazeera, 5/1/12]
Krugman: European Economic Problems Are "A Failure ... Of The Austerity Doctrine." In his column, Krugman noted that "Britain is doing worse this time than it did during the Great Depression" and that "Italy is also doing worse than it did in the 1930s." Krugman attributed both of these situations to the "failure, in particular, of the austerity doctrine that has dominated elite policy discussion both in Europe and, to a large extent, in the United States for the past two years." From The New York Times:
Last week the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, a British think tank, released a startling chart comparing the current slump with past recessions and recoveries. It turns out that by one important measure -- changes in real G.D.P. since the recession began -- Britain is doing worse this time than it did during the Great Depression. Four years into the Depression, British G.D.P. had regained its previous peak; four years after the Great Recession began, Britain is nowhere close to regaining its lost ground.
Nor is Britain unique. Italy is also doing worse than it did in the 1930s -- and with Spain clearly headed for a double-dip recession, that makes three of Europe's big five economies members of the worse-than club. Yes, there are some caveats and complications. But this nonetheless represents a stunning failure of policy.
And it's a failure, in particular, of the austerity doctrine that has dominated elite policy discussion both in Europe and, to a large extent, in the United States for the past two years. [The New York Times, 1/29/12]
Nobel Economist Stiglitz: "More Austerity" In Europe Is "A Mutual Suicide Pact." A January 17 Telegraph article quoted Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz calling further austerity measures in Europe a "mutual suicide pact" and pointing out that "even though they see over and over again that austerity leads to collapse of the economy," European politicians are calling for "more austerity." From The Telegraph:
Imposing austerity measures as countries slow towards recession is a fundamentally flawed response, said Mr Stiglitz, who won the Nobel prize in 2001 for his work on how markets work inefficiently.
"The answer, even though they see over and over again that austerity leads to collapse of the economy, the answer over and over [from politicians] is more austerity," said Mr Stiglitz to the Asian Financial Forum, a gathering of over 2,000 finance professionals, businessmen and government officials in Hong Kong.
Mr Stiglitz pointed out that 700,000 public sector jobs had been cut in the United States in the past four years, removing demand from the system as unemployment spikes. The UK is set to lose a similar number by 2017.
Instead, Mr Stiglitz argued the best economic medicine is infrastructure spending, especially on transport and energy projects. He pointed to China as one country that had successfully combatted financial crises with stimulus packages. [The Telegraph, 1/17/12]
For more on how fiscal austerity hurt European economies, see here.
Experts Agree Spending Cuts Hurt A Weak Economy ...
Economist Menzie Chinn: "A Front Loaded Fiscal Contraction, Heavy On Spending Cuts" Would Make The "Current US Recovery Worse Than That Of The Great Depression." Comparing the U.S. economy to that of the United Kingdom, University of Wisconsin economist Menzie Chinn writes on the blog Econbrowser:
[W]e too can make the current US recovery worse than that of the Great Depression; just implement a front loaded fiscal contraction, heavy on spending cuts. Furthermore, in order to maximize the contractionary impact, harass the monetary authorities to tighten policy by inciting fears of high inflation (à la Rep. Paul Ryan), when year-on-year inflation as measured by the personal consumption expenditure deflator is 2.1%. [Econbrowser, 5/3/12]
Reich: "America's Jobs Deficit Continues To Be A Much Larger Problem Than The Budget Deficit." In a February 3 blog post, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich wrote:
When they're not blaming Obama for a bad economy, Republicans are decrying the federal budget deficit and demanding more cuts. But America's jobs deficit continues to be a much larger problem than the budget deficit.
In fact, we can't possibly achieve the growth needed to reduce the budget deficit as a proportion of the total economy unless far more people are employed. Workers are consumers, and consumer spending is 70 percent of economic activity. And cutting the budget means fewer workers, directly (as government continues to shed workers) and indirectly (as government contractors have to lay off workers) and therefore fewer consumers.
Yet deficit hawks continue to circle. [RobertReich.org, 2/3/12]
Wash. Post WonkBlog: IMF Study Found "A One Dollar Change In Government Spending Could Knock As Much As $1.80 In Output From The Economy." A post on the Washington Post Wonkblog noted that a recent International Monetary Fund study found that "budget cuts hurt growth a lot" and continued:
A new study (pdf) by the International Monetary Fund raises a further warning flag for fiscal cliff negotiators in the U.S. In what it bills as the first-ever study of its kind, the fund analyzed decades of data on the world's major industrialized countries to estimate how changes in government spending or revenue affect economic output.
The news isn't good. Given current circumstances, with a U.S. economy that is growing but still trying to make up lost ground from the 2008 crisis, a one dollar change in government spending could knock as much as $1.80 in output from the economy -- what fund researchers called a "statistically significant...and sizeable" outcome. [Wonkblog, The Washington Post, 12/5/12]
... While Fiscal Cliff's Tax Increases Would Have Little Effect On Growth
IMF Study Found That Automatic Tax Hikes Under Fiscal Cliff Would Have Negligible Effect On Growth. The Wonkblog post also stated:
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I decided to enter the DecoArt Winter Wonderland Challenge. Today is the last day for submissions. Looking at my piece, there a few more things I want to add, but time is not on my side. FYI, I made a similar canvas previously, decided to experiment a bit, and had to start from scratch. Ouch! Anyway, click on the image to enlarge and I will do my best to describe my process.
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Americana Gloss Enamels Stick-On Stencil "Mod"
Fluid Media Acrylics in Prussian Blue Hue, Payne's Grey, Titanium White, Colbalt-Teal Hue, Quinacridone Violet, Dioxazine Purple, Cerulean Blue, Yellow Oxide, Raw Sienna and Titan Buff.
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Dazzling Metallics in Ice Blue
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A Snowflake Stencil I made with my eClips cutting machine
An old gift card, credit card or business card
A Brayer (optional)
Paint brushes of various shapes and sizes
Fan brush to add splatters of paint
A Black Micron Pen
A White Paint Marker, fine tipped
A Canvas Board sized 8" x 10" or A4 size.
"Singing Zombie" digital stamp by Rick St. Dennis, reversed and printed with a laser printer.
- Although my canvas board was pre-primed, I applied another coat of DA Gesso.
- I applied DA white tinting base as well as Prussian Blue Hue, Colbalt-Teal Hue and Dioxazine Purple to my canvas board and spread it around with a plastic gift card. I kept repeating this process until I ended up with a look that I liked.
- I used White Gesso, Payne's Grey, and Quinacridone Violet along with a plastic gift card to make various hashes, marks and lines with the paint.
- I cut out a sample of my focal image, traced it onto the canvas, and coated the section with white gesso. I used 2 coats.
- When dry, I applied Media Matte Medium to the white image block and to my reversed image on printer paper and allowed to dry.
- Once dry, I applied a second coat of Media Matte Medium to both areas, applied my digitally stamped image (laser ink side down) and smoothed out the paper with a brayer, cleaning up any matte medium that may have oozed out. I let this dry overnight. No heat gun.
- The next morning I took a wet sponge and removed the paper off my canvas leaving a cool image transfer. Andy has a tutorial on this process here.
- I then painted my focal image (colours will be listed in step 11). The "rays" coming from the image were painted with White Tinting Base, Dioxazine Purple and Cerulean Blue. When dry, I covered my Singing Zombie with a mask and used a fan brush with various colours of the fluid acrylics to add a splatter effect.
- After various layers of paint, I went in with my Micron Pen to go over the lines of the image. This dried a bit shiny. I've since put a layer of Media Matte Medium over the image, but haven't had a chance to take a new picture yet.
- I used the DA Stencil "Mod" as well as my handmade snowflake stencil with Glistening Snow-Tex to add dimension, some shimmer, and to add to the winter feel.
- The Zombie skin consisted mostly of Tinting White base, Colbalt-Teal Hue, Prussian Blue Hue, Purple Cow and Wisteria. The wounds and mouth consisted of Titanium White, Antique Mauve and Quinacridone Violet. The dark areas had Payne's grey added. The teeth consisted of Titan Buff, Yellow Oxide and Raw Sienna as well as some highlights with my white marker. The hair consisted of various shades of grey using White mixing base with Payne's Grey. Dazzling Metallics in Ice Blue was used for the eyes.
Things I'd like to add:
- I think it would look cool to add some DA Crackle Glaze to the zombie skin and once dry, add some antiquing cream to the image. Cracked Zombie Skin would rock! Perhaps I'll give that a go later.
- I had thought about adding the words "Winter Wonderland" along with some music notes to the rays coming from the Zombie to give the appearance of him singing. I held off on this in fear of ruining my piece.
- I think I would have liked to grunge up the canvas a bit more, but sometimes less is more so I let it be.
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I have been extremely lucky to travel (for work) numerous times to the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas. You learn very quickly that the most appreciated gift you can bring back is a rum cake. These soft, rum-soaked cakes with a smattering of nuts are divine; to taste one is to forge a lifelong love affair. So you can imagine how pleased I was to come across this recipe which pretty closely matches the wonder of the cakes I used to bring back.
A good rum cake should give you the sweet flavour of rum but not burn your throat with raw alcohol. It should be juicy and sticky but not to the extent of, say, a rum baba. It should also be impossible to eat only one slice!
The secret to the cake is to pour over a glorious rum syrup when the cake is piping hot from the oven. It seeps into the cake and pools at the bottom of the tin (which is the top of the cake when turned out) and you get a sweet juiciness similar to the effect of a golden syrup steamed pudding.
Rum cakes are always made in Bundt-style tins. This pleases me as I have quite a few Bundt tins that I've never used. I picked this stunner of a tin and was delighted at how cleanly the cake turned out, showing all the crisp lines of the design. The capacity of the tin was 8 cups and I wouldn't have wanted to use anything smaller.
The only change I made to the recipe was regarding nuts. A proper rum cake should be made with pecans or walnuts. I used hazelnuts as the CCM (Caked Crusader's Ma) doesn't like with pecans or walnuts. It was just as delicious.
For the cake:
110g unsalted butter, melted
250ml milk
65ml rum (needs to be golden or dark rum)
2 eggs
315g plain flour
270g golden caster sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder (that's not a typo – it's a tablespoon)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
120g chopped mixed nuts (I used only hazelnuts but pecans, walnuts, or macadamias would work)
For the rum syrup:
125g unsalted butter
200g golden caster sugar
65ml water
125ml rum (golden or dark)
How to make:
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan oven 160°C/350°F/Gas mark 4.
- Grease a Bundt tin of 8 cup capacity. I used a cake release product although butter would also be good.
- Beat together the butter, milk, rum and eggs.
- Add the flour, sugar and baking powder and beat until well combined.
- Beat in the vanilla extract and chopped nuts.
- Pour into the prepared tin and bake for approximately 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. Mine took 45 minutes.
- Leave to cool on a wire rack.
- Straightaway, make the syrup: place the butter, sugar and water in a saucepan and bring to the boil.
- Stir in the rum.
- Pour over the hot cake, you may have to do this in stages giving the cake time to absorb the hot syrup.
- Leave the cake to cool completely in the tin before turning out onto a serving plate. The cake needs no accompaniment and should be eaten unadorned.
- Bask in glory at the wonderful thing you have made.
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BURLINGTON, Vt. – The Yale women's swimming and diving team had a remarkable win Saturday over the University of Vermont Catamounts. With six of their fastest swimmers in Ohio for the AT&T Short Course National Championships, the remaining Yale squad of 14 swimmers and three divers travelled to snowy Vermont to face a team nearly twice their size. The Bulldogs and Catamounts traded first place back and forth throughout the day, but in the end the Bulldogs won 125-118.
The tension could be felt in Vermont's Forbush Natatorium right from the onset. In the first race of the day, the 400-yard medley relay, the Yale team of Cynthia Tsay, Chelsea Dunlap, Allison West and Erica Kao took second to a Vermont squad suspected of a false start. The meet officials were unable to agree and ultimately Vermont got the 13 points for their first and third place finishes. The Catamounts enjoyed another win in the 1000-yard freestyle, but Yale's Courtney Randolph and captain Annie Killian were not far behind in second and third place.
In the 200 free, Cynthia Tsay touched first in a time of 1:54.60. Vermont's Kate Weaver led for the first 150 yards, but it was Tsay's 28.33 final split to Weaver's 29.47 that put Tsay out front and gave the Bulldogs their first win of the day. Junior Erica Kao quickly made that two wins in a very close 50-yard freestyle. Kao won in 25.19, while two swimmers from Vermont took second (25.32) and third place (25.57). The Catamounts finished first and third in the 400 IM, but Abigail Nunn, Angela Lee and Kristin Darwin earned points for Yale in second, fourth and fifth place, respectively.
The diving trio of Rachel Rosenberg, Paige Meneses and Christina Brasco proved indomitable, sweeping both the one-meter and three-meter events. Rosenberg, last year's three-meter Ivy Champion, won the one-meter with a score of 275.62, nearly 30 points more than teammate and one-meter NCAA Zone qualifier Meneses (247.05). Brasco was right in the thick of it with 243.75, while Vermont's top diver only posted a 222.58. The order was the same in the three-meter later in the day, Rosenberg again finishing first. Though the mere seven point spread that the Bulldogs won by made every event count, the win absolutely would not have been possible without the divers.
After the first diving break, Abigail Nunn had an impressive win in the 200 fly with a time of 2:09.29. It was another case of Vermont leading for the first 150 yards only to fade on the final stretch to make way for Yale. Cynthia Tsay then matched her first place finish in the 200 free with a huge win in the 100 free. Tsay touched in 52.81, with second place going to Vermont more than two seconds back at 55.01.
The Catamounts won the next two events, the 200-yard backstroke and the 500-yard freestyle. However, the Bulldogs had key second-place finishes in both and thus had a slight lead with two events to go. In the 200 breaststroke the freshman duo of Chelsea Dunlap and Angela Lee took second and third place, meaning the meet would come down to the final event, the 200-yard freestyle relay. The score at this point was 114-112 in favor of Yale, but with 11 points going to the first place relay team, it was winner take all.
Erica Kao swam the first leg, earning Yale a slight lead with at time of 25.13 to Vermont's 25.26. In the second leg Vermont's Abby Mundt posted a fast split (25.19), moving up on captain Annie Killian (25.92) to put the Bulldogs a half second back from the Catamount A squad. Gabrielle Bunney narrowed the gap for the Bulldogs with a 25.25 third leg, and by the time Michelle Huang dove in for the anchor leg, it was all over. Huang came home in 24.38 to give the Bulldogs a final time of 1:40.68, just ahead of Vermont in 1:40.73.
The final score was Yale 125, Vermont 118.
While the majority of the Bulldogs were on their way back from their win in Burlington, Robert J.H. Kiphuth Head Coach Cristina Teuscher was in Columbus, Ohio with six of the Bulldogs on the last day of competition at the AT&T Short Course National Championships.
The morning began with Molly Albrecht competing in the 200-yard breaststroke. Of the 67 swimmers in the prelims Albrecht's time of 1:59.19 put her in 26th place. She would go on to finish seventh in the C-level final with a time of 1:59.72. Athena Liao also made an appearance in a C final Saturday evening. Liao swam a 2:15.94 in the heats of the 200 breaststroke, finishing 22nd. She later finished third in the C final, coming back with a faster time of 2:15.23.
Yale had three swimmers in the 200-yard butterfly. Out of 77 swimmers total, Alexandra Forrester finished fourth in the heats (1:56.12), Hayes Hyde finished 14th (1:59.08) and Ileana Lucos finished 44th (2:03.10). Later in the day Hyde finished fifth in the B final in 1:59.70. Forrester finished sixth in the A final with a time of 1:55.51, just 0.19 seconds off her time from NCAA's in March of last year.
Closing out the weekend was the 400-yard freestyle relay, where Yale finished 11th in a time of 3:25.34. All told Yale had three C final appearances, four B final appearances and two A final appearances at Short Course Nationals.
Next up for the Bulldogs is a dual meet against Cornell on Jan. 8. The meet will be held in Ithaca, N.Y. at 10:00 a.m.
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Got brains?
Well, maybe, but nothing like what was in the noggin of Albert Einstein, whose brain was, not surprisingly, unlike those of most people, according to a new study led by Florida State University evolutionary anthropologist Dean Falk.
Einstein was a really smart guy who lived a while ago and discovered lots of important stuff, like, um, relativity.
Although the overall size and asymmetrical shape of Einsteins brain were normal, the prefrontal, somatosensory, primary motor, parietal, temporal and occipital cortices were extraordinary, says Falk.
Ill leave it up to you to Google all those big words.
The study, The Cerebral Cortex of Albert Einstein: A Description and Preliminary Analysis of Unpublished Photographs, was published Friday in the aptly-titled journal Brain.
Einsteins brain has an extraordinary prefrontal cortex, which may have contributed to ... some of his remarkable cognitive abilities, Falk says in the study.
After Einstein died in 1955, his brain was removed and photographed from several angles. Unfortunately, many of the photos of the brain were considered lost for more than 55 years.
However, 14 photographs of Einsteins brain recently were uncovered by the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Silver Spring, Md., as part of a donation from the estate of Dr. Thomas Harvey, the pathologist who took the photos.
After the photos were taken, the brain itself was cut into 240 separate blocks for analysis, most of which remain at the University Medical Centre in Princeton, N.J., where Einsteins brain was taken after he died.
The locations of some of Einsteins brain chunks are unknown, unfortunately.
So the photos of the full, predissected brain are a real find: Although it is beyond the scope of this article, we also hope that our identifications will be useful for workers interested in comparing Einsteins brain with preserved brains from other gifted individuals.
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I received my Ph.D. in Microbiology in 1986 from State University of New York at Buffalo. After post-doctoral work at Yale in the Departments of Cell Biology and Surgery, I joined the laboratory of Dr. James L. Boyer in Internal Medicine/Digestive Diseases in 1993. The emphasis of this lab is the study of mechanisms in bile formation and cholestasis. I have primarily studied animal models of liver injury, with an emphasis on membrane transporters. For the last ten years I have focused on characterization of the Organic Solute Transporter alpha-beta, a heteromeric transporter primarily responsible for the enterohepatic circulation of bile acids. In the past year I have begun a study of progenitor (stem) cells in human liver, using liver organoids to look at genetic changes in cholangiocytes from patients with cholestasis, especially Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis.
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Christopher James "Chris" Christie (born September 6, 1962) is the 55th and current Governor of New Jersey. Upon his election to the governorship in November 2009, Christie became the first Republican to win a statewide election in New Jersey in 12 years. Christie, an attorney, previously served as United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey.
Chris Christie was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Bill Christie and Sondra Grasso Christie. He was raised in Livingston, graduating from Livingston High School. Christie graduated from the University of Delaware with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science in 1984 and Seton Hall University School of Law with a Juris Doctor degree in 1987. Christie was admitted to the Bar of the State of New Jersey and the Bar of the United States District Court, District of New Jersey, in December 1987.
In 1986, Christie married Mary Pat Foster, a fellow student at the University of Delaware. After marriage they shared a one-room apartment in Summit, New Jersey. Mary Pat Christie pursued a career in investment banking, eventually working at the Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald. She left the firm in 2001 following the September 11th attacks, only recently returning to work part-time. They have four children, Andrew (born 1993), Sarah (born 1996), Patrick (born 2000), and Bridget (born 2003). Christie and his family reside in Mendham Township.