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Aid Watch Rerun: The lure of starting from scratch
NOTE FROM THE EDITORS: Over the holidays, we'll be publishing reruns of some of our posts from the first 2 years of Aid Watch. This post originally ran on June 17, 2010. It is an acknowledged national characteristic that Americans believe in self-reinvention. One of our founding myths—inspired by the once unexplored and sparsely populated expanse of the North American continent—is the idea that you can head out of town, leave the encumbrances of the past behind, and start over in a new, unspoiled place.
What would happen if we brought this sensibility to development plans for poorer, more crowded nations? What if we already do?
The ingredients for Paul Romer's solution to global poverty include an unoccupied tract of land, a charter to lay out a new set of just and commerce-promoting rules, and two or more sovereign governments. Just as Hong Kong was created as an island of prosperity by the British in China (only voluntarily this time), poor countries would lease a piece of their land to a richer, benevolent government or group of governments that would agree to administer the new city according to the rules of the agreed-upon charter.
From a new article in Atlantic Monthly by Sebastian Mallaby, we learn that Madagascar might have become the first testing ground for Romer's charter cities idea—if not for a coup that ousted the Malagasy President in March 2009.
Madagascar's government was anxious to attract foreign investment, and it understood that a credibility deficit held it back…Faced with this obstacle, the Malagasy authorities were open to unconventional arrangements. To boost investment in agriculture, they were ready to lease a Connecticut-size tract of land to Daewoo, a South Korean corporation, for 99 years…Romer's proposal fit in with these adventurous ideas.…
Romer made his pitch for a charter city, and Ravalomanana responded that he wasn't sure one was enough; if Romer could identify two rich countries willing to play the role of government trustee, it might be better to launch two parallel experiments. The president and the professor agreed that the new hubs should be open to migrants from nearby countries as well as to locals. They rose to examine a map of Madagascar on the study wall. Ravalomanana suggested building the first city on the island's southwestern coast, which was largely uninhabited because of its dry heat. To Romer, the site sounded very much like the coastal locations that appeal most to the world's affluent as vacation spots.
Ravalomanana's government was toppled before any of these plans could go forward, in part as a result of violent protests over the perceived threat to national sovereignty represented by the Daewoo deal. As Mallaby points out, this failures suggests at least one flaw of the charter cities idea—that land ownership and sovereignty are explosive issues that may not be easily or peacefully negotiated away by leaders on behalf of their people. But Romer remains optimistic, and is talking to other African leaders, possibly ones with more staying power.
The charter cities idea appeals because it is bold. It promises a fresh start for people mired in the muck of old conflicts, inequality, and bad government. When Mallaby concludes "When African teenagers do their homework under streetlights, isn't Romer right to think the unthinkable?," he is arguing that while there may be legitimate concerns about the ethics or feasibility of the charter cities, those concerns are made irrelevant by the overwhelming gravity and scale of global poverty and inequality.
In other words, big, desperate problems call out for big, radical solutions. Solutions that sweep away the detritus of past failure, promise to replace it wholesale with something new and better, and perhaps even alter the boundaries of the world as we know it.
The discussion about rebuilding Haiti has been full of ideas about the earthquake as an opportunity to "start over," "reboot," "wipe the slate clean" and finally "get things right" (some stellar examples here). Two recent proposals brought the call for slate-cleaning back to Africa: We already blogged Professor Pierre Englebert's suggestion in the NYT for the international community to "move swiftly to derecognize the worst-performing African states" like Chad, the DRC, Equatorial Guinea and Sudan, and in Foreign Policy, G. Pascal Zachary submitted that "no initiative would do more for happiness, stability, and economic growth in Africa today than an energetic and enlightened redrawing" of Africa's colonial borders.
Call it the "let's just scrap this mess and start over" approach to development.
Unfortunately, in earthquake-devastated Haiti as in troubled central Africa, the promise of starting from scratch is an illusion. It has always been true that no matter where you go, you take yourself with you—culture, history, habits, attachments and animosities come along like a skin you can't shed. But these days there are fewer and fewer territories on our taxed and shrinking planet beyond the reach of someone's determined claim.
These ideas share an overly-optimistic belief in a neutral, benevolent international community and its power to peacefully oversee imposed changes. All are tone-deaf to the very real degree of nationalism that does exist in basically all countries by now, regardless of whether they were misbegotten colonial creations or not. They also violate sovereignty as conventionally defined, which may be good or bad but is sure to provoke a nationalist reaction.
Early development economists working at the hopeful dawn of colonial independence believed that they really were starting from scratch. The last fifty years have shown us that they weren't, and this has been—and remains—one of development's biggest blind spots.


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I'm a big fan of musical theater. (I was so excited Jessie Mueller won a Tony this year. She was wonderful.) I'm in awe of the performers who seem to sing, dance and act with equal aplomb. And then they go out and do it in front of a live audience. Every day. Twice on Wednesday and Saturday. Where do they find the endurance?
Well, baby, I've got news for you. You're about to star in your own show.
There is no denying the difficulty of grad school. You're taking classes in everything, even the stuff that might not be your cup of tea. Ideally, your clinical fellowship year is in an area you particularly enjoy and the everyday implementation of book learned skills will certainly give you many ah-ha moments. What can be difficult is the frequent observation, knowing, or maybe not knowing, that someone is on the other side of that two way mirror. There is a feeling of being constantly "on." Even paperwork remains a performance. I would drop into bed at night, completely spent.
I actually had two CFY experiences. The first was my dream job. I was a preschool therapist in a local school system and my job included home visits/evaluations, lessons within the preschool handicap classroom, individual pull-out therapy for many of those same kids, other children that came only for speech, and screenings–lots and lots of screenings. I'd been working at my school practicum the previous spring in the same location so I knew the staff, some of the kids and had a relationship with my supervisor.
Then life intervened. My husband and I married in early August which gave us time to honeymoon before the first day of school. But as the saying goes, "the best laid plans of mice and men…." Within the first month my husband was transferred to Atlanta, a five- to six-hour drive from where we were living, and needed to move immediately. I gave notice that I would leave at the Christmas holiday, started packing our wedding gifts and began to look for a new placement. (Yes, my husband left a couple months before I did. Not an auspicious start to married life, but we made it work.)
My second placement was equally as dreamy–outpatient rehab for a large children's hospital with lots of experienced therapists, including OT and PT, to learn from and watch. The experience I gained there truly shaped the clinician I am today. So much so, that if I were to give one bit of advice to a new therapist starting out it would be to work where you have lots of interaction with more experienced clinicians. I know you're sick of being watched, guided, and yearn to start doing your own thing, but…for me, it was the best possible thing that could have happened. (This is where I spent two years exhausted. I was finally starting to get my feet under me, doing some mentoring myself, and feeling less stressed by the whole process when, guess what, transferred again.)
I share this because I think we get so close to a situation we aren't seeing it anymore. My situation was unique, but these things come up for lots of reasons. Sometimes CFYs take place in more than one location or setting. There might be a short "pause" right in the middle. It's ok. Show close and new ones open. Break a leg!
Kim Lewis is a pediatric clinician in Greensboro, NC and blogs atActivityTailor.com. Attendance at the ASHA convention this fall qualified her for an ACE award (7.0+ CEUs in a 36 month period).


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As recently as 2007, the gravestone of Abraham Call (d. 1847) stood upright at Oak Grove Cemetery in Delaware, Ohio. I found it toppled over, perhaps a target of vandals. (Quite a few nearby markers were on the ground as well, as if vandals had ripped down several rows, pushing over markers as they went.)
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A super detailed early review of Jumper has gone up online: Hayden Christensen's character is a "douchebag," who uses his powers selfishly and avoids helping people. And he never has any redemption or becomes someone you'd want to ride an elevator with. He drags Rachel Bilson around Rome on her "dream vacation," ruins her trip for her and then bundles her on a plane home.
Then we meet Samuel L. Jackson's Paladin character, who's sworn to hunt down and kill "Jumpers" who can teleport, like Christensen. Apparently the main reason we're told for the Paladins' anti-Jumper campaign is because they think only God should be omnipresent.
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Tevez, 28, was disqualified from driving and ordered to pay a total in fines and costs of £1,540 at a hearing at Manchester Magistrates' Court.
The striker, who did not attend the hearing in person, pleaded guilty to two counts of failing to furnish information which relate to incidents in which his car was clocked speeding.
The court heard he received letters from the police in relation to the offences but he failed to respond because he did not recognise the word constabulary.
Tevez also admitted not having a proper UK driving licence, but denied he was driving when his car was caught speeding.
The footballer's solicitor, Gwyn Lewis, told the court: "He does understand the word 'police', but not more complicated words. The letters are written from Cheshire Constabulary and the word police doesn't appear on it anywhere."
He said that was also the case in relation to the speeding office in Morecambe, which was pursued by Lancashire Constabulary.
"The word constabulary is not one that is recognised internationally, but of course police is," Mr Lewis said.
"The correspondence was not dealt with properly and that has resulted in these offences."
When discussing the possibility of a fine, Mr Lewis told the bench: "He is a footballer and in that regard he is relatively well paid."
The court ordered that the disqualification period would start from November 26, last year, when an interim driving ban was imposed on the player.
Tevez, from Alderley Edge, Cheshire, mimicked driving a vehicle after he scored twice in his team's Premier League win at home to Aston Villa on November 17 last year.
Last November Lancaster magistrates imposed an interim ban on him after he failed to provide information when his car was clocked doing 39mph in a 30mph zone in Morecambe, Lancashire, on March 28 - the night he played for City's reserves against Morecambe Reserves.
The court heard he failed to respond to letters sent to him by police on April 3 and May 4.
Mr Lewis told the court his client accepted he did not provide identification - which carries six penalty points - and that under the totting up procedure he was now liable for disqualification.
The court heard that Tevez's Hummer vehicle was also clocked doing 66mph in a 50mph zone in Crewe, Cheshire, on May 8 and that he again failed to respond to letters from the police about it.
On November 15, last year, his Porsche Panamera was impounded in Manchester as he could not produce a full UK driving licence.
The car was seized under section 165 of the Road Traffic Act in a routine patrol near to the Britannia Airport Hotel.
Tess Kenyon, prosecuting, said police pulled the car over after they checked it on the police system and it was found that Tevez was listed as a provisional driving licence holder and he was not displaying L-plates.
He was spoken to at the side of the road with the aid of a Spanish interpreter, the court heard.
He was then summonsed for driving otherwise in accordance with a driving licence.
Three years ago - when he was playing for City's rivals Manchester United - his Bentley Continental GT Speed was impounded in similar circumstances.
The Bentley was removed by police near to junction six of the M60 in February 2009 after it was found he did not have a full UK driving licence.
As an Argentinian driving licence holder, Tevez, is permitted to drive in Britain for the first 12 months of his stay in the country but is then required to apply for a provisional licence and pass the UK driving theory and practical test.
Mr Lewis said the theory test will be problematic for his client as it is normally conducted in English.
The centre forward joined West Ham United in 2006 and then moved to Manchester United a season later. He signed for Manchester City in the summer of 2009.


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Given the band's original riot-grrl associations, its connection with the queer community, the political bent of its biggest single, "Standing In The Way Of Control," and frontwoman Beth Ditto's outspoken reputation, it's tempting to assign Gossip more depth than it really demands. A dance-punk act that's always put more emphasis on the "dance" side of the equation, Gossip has been moving steadily in the direction of European discos over the course of its last two albums, with Ditto's bluesy howl becoming more likely to accompany synths and 808s rather than Brace Paine's guitar or Hannah Blilie's drums. Though Rick Rubin seemed like an inspired choice to marry the band's competing hyphenates, 2009's Music For Men was an overly glossed affair that flirted with outright anonymity. Bringing in British producer Brian Higgins, who's produced for girl groups like Sugababes and Girls Aloud, for the new A Joyful Noise signals that Gossip has little interest in setting aside its dance-pop objective. (Or perhaps that's just Ditto, who released a heavily disco-influenced solo EP in 2011.)
But while Gossip prove themselves capable practitioners of disco-fraught anthems like Noise's "Move In The Right Direction" and "Get Lost"—Ditto in particular continues to inject more nuance into her bullhorn vocals with every record—the most compelling tracks on A Joyful Noise are the few that don't entirely conform to the template. The loping, grimy bassline of standout opener "Melody Emergency" or the funk-soul brass of "Horns" are welcome sonic intrusions into Noise's slightly homogenous sound, and the cinematic "Casualties Of War" proves the band still thrives at lower BPMs. But it's all sugar in varying degrees of sweetness, and even when Ditto lashes out at trust-fund gadabouts on "Get A Job"—a toothless descendent of 2003's "Lesson Learned"—it's through a wink and a smile that ensures no one gets hurt while dancing.


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Belton, TX – The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor football team put 28 points on the board before giving up a first down and the Cru poured it on from there, rolling to a 63-17 victory over Franklin College in an NCAA Division III National Championships Second Round game Saturday in Belton. UMHB improves to 12-0 and advances to the national quarterfinals with the victory. The loss ends the Grizzlies season at 9-3 overall.
The Cru defense forced a three-and-out on the opening possession and then drove 53 yards in eight plays before Darius Wilson scored on a one-yard plunge to make it 7-0 UMHB just 3:48 into the game. LiDarral Bailey hit Tyler Coker with a 32-yard scoring strike on the first play after a Cru interception to push the lead to 14-0 45 seconds later. Bailey would add touchdown passes of 25 yards to Keith Reineke and one yard to Coker to make it 28-0 UMHB at the end of the first quarter. Kamray Runnels added a 14-yard TD run and Elijah Hudson scored on a 14-yard run to stretch the Cru lead to 42-0. Cole Richards hit a 39-yard field goal to put the Grizzlies on the board with 2:19 left in the first half, but Dustin Frye took a swing pass from Jake Sims and raced 70 yards for another Cru touchdown to make it 49-3 at the half. Franklin would get two touchdown passes from Jonny West in the third quarter to cut it to 49-17. West found Kyle Linville with a 32-yard TD toss and added a three-yarder to Joey Pasquale on the final play of the third quarter. Hudson and Wilson both scored on one yard runs for UMHB in the fourth quarter to provide the final margin.
The Cru rolled up 563 yards of total offense with 282 on the ground and 281 through the air. UMHB held Franklin to 310 total yards, including 51 rushing yards and intercepted three passes. The Grizzlies managed just one first down and 30 yards of offense in the first quarter and Franklin had just three first downs and 97 yards of total offense at halftime.
Bailey finished 12-15 passing for 136 yards and three touchdowns and added three rushes for 34 more yards despite going to the bench midway through the second quarter. Sims hit 5-10 for 139 yards and a touchdown off the bench. Wilson led the Cru running game with 83 yards and two touchdowns on 15 carries and Geoff Myles caught five passes for 40 yards. Mike Maldonado had a team-high 11 tackles to lead the Cru defense and three different players recorded interceptions.
West was 26-43 for 259 yards and two touchdowns for Franklin, but he was intercepted twice and sacked three times. Linville caught 11 passes for 154 yards and a touchdown and Kyle Holzbog ran for 22 yards on five carries. Alex Van Cleave and Jordan Segner recorded 15 tackles apiece to lead Franklin.
UMHB will now face Wesley College in the NCAA Division III National Quarterfinals next Saturday. That game will most likely be played at Tiger Field in Belton, but the NCAA won't officially announce home sites until Sunday afternoon. The Cru and Wolverines will be meeting in the NCAA Quarterfinals for the fifth time. Wesley has ended UMHB's season in the Quarterfinals in each of the last two seasons. The Cru did knock off the Wolverines 32-25 in a regular season meeting between the two teams back in September.


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The bungalow is filled with art, eclectic finds and treasures from their trips to Provence and the South of France. Many of the art pieces, like the one above, are originals painted by Jeff, who majored in fine arts in college. The faux fireplace adds an architectural element and warmth to the living area.
Tara and Jeff's collections provides a look into the playfulness of the couple and also adds a bit of whimsy to the home's mood.
Near and dear to her heart, the dining room boasts some of Tara's most prized paintings from her father's collection. *More about Frankie the pup in a minute.
Every nook and cranny of this charming home spills over with surprises. Including the kitchen who touts this fabulous 1940's O'Keefe and Merritt stove. The vintage Dutch enamel chocolate advertisement was found at The Alameda Flea Market. Colorful McCoy pottery abounds throughout the home as well.
Above are just a few of Tara's beautifully pieces of jewelry. The majority of her line has vintage pieces incorporated into the designs; many of which she has procured from her travels. You can find out more about Tara's jewelry here.
A little snuggle time for Frankie with my beautiful and exotic friend...
A peek into the bathroom, not surprisingly, the coolness continues....
The tour ends with a view onto the tropical feeling patio where these two artists can unwind after a busy day. Kantha cloths draped casually over the lawn chairs add a pop of color.
Obviously, my suspicion that Tara and Jeff's home would be filled to the brim with heart and soul proved true. Aside from the fact that I love these two dearly, their cozy cottage left me yearning to pay them another visit soon.


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Sending files via bluetooth from your PC to Nokia Express is not difficult using gnome-obex-send. As long as your bluetooth device is recognized by Ubuntu then it can be done. I use regular cheap USB bluetooth. The brand is 'Le Taec', made in Taiwan.
Before we start, don't forget to turn on your Nokia Bluetooth.
Step 1. Configure your bluetooth device.
Open your Linux Terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal).
– Type 'sudo hciconfig -a hci0 up' to turn on your bluetooth device.
– Type 'hciconfig -a hci0' to check the USB status.
– Type 'hcitool scan' to search the available device around. As you see at the screen below, I found a device named 'Ida'. The information that we need is the id code.
– Copy the id code by select the code using your mouse cursor, press right mouse button then select 'copy' menu.
Step 2. Send the files.
Type the command with syntax below:
'sudo gnome-obex-send —dest device_id location+filename.'.
Now, you can start to send the files. Every id will be different for each Nokia handphone. Press 'Enter' to start the sending process.
Sending file is on progress.


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Big Island police have initiated a manslaughter case in connection with the death of an 82-year-old man at a care home in Kailua-Kona.
On August 13, Kona patrol officers responded to a care home on Haʻokuni Street to a report of an unresponsive 82-year-old resident. Fire/rescue personnel took the man to Kona Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:58 p.m. He was identified as Oscar Ramos.
Police initiated a coroner's inquest case.
An autopsy conducted August 15 determined that the cause of death was aspiration of food.
After consultation with Adult Protective Services, detectives focused on the level of care provided and a determination that the Department of Human Services revoked the caregiver's care home certification on September 24 because of this incident.
Detectives conferred with county prosecutors on November 1. After that meeting, they initiated a manslaughter investigation.
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Yes, it's a very elaborate ad for AC/DC's Iron Man 2 soundtrack, but this video in which the Great Keep of England's Rochester Castle is the backdrop for a display of architectural projection mapping is totally wicked.
At the behest of Sony Music, a company called Seeper utilized "the site of a thousand years of violent history" as the canvas for this deftly animated spot. While I'm not sure it makes me want to buy the IM2 soundtrack, I definitely want to see if Seeper does kids' birthday parties.


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Hey, Professor Wolff! Here's a story of a businessman, Joe Lueken, practicing Economic Democracy:
After 46 years, the 70-year-old owner of Lueken's Village Foods in Bemidji, Minn., wants to travel the world with his wife, Janice, and spend more time with his four sons, none of whom lives nearby. So on Jan. 1, Lueken will begin the gradual process of turning over operation of his two supermarkets — the other is in Wahpeton, N.D. — to his 400 employees through an employee stock ownership program, or ESOP.
"My employees are largely responsible for any success I've had, and they deserve to get some of the benefits of that," Lueken told the StarTribune of Minneapolis earlier this month. "You can't always take. You also have to give back."
Lueken has had offers from larger, independent chains and likely would've made more money selling the business to one of them, he said. However, the grocer thinks that giving employees the opportunity to run the business for themselves will be better not just for the workers but for the business, and for Bemidji, a city of 13,000 located about 200 miles northwest of Minneapolis.
More on Lueken's ESOP can be found here.
Now, for Doug Manchester, a business owner who doesn't practice Economic Democracy — and is destroying a once-proud paper:
It's been just about a year since developer and financier Douglas Manchester bought the San Diego Union-Tribune, the largest newspaper in the city. For some staffers and media observers, it's been the worst year in the paper's eight-decade history.
Manchester, a major Republican Party contributor, and U-T CEO John Lynch have overhauled the once-respected daily into what many consider a front for Manchester's "cheerleading" for business interests and right-wing politics.
"People are so embarrassed by the [newspaper] that they are dropping their subscriptions," says Don Bauder, who spent 30 years at the Union-Tribune from 1973 to 2003, which included stints as financial editor and columnist. "Around town it is an embarrassment."
A group headed by Manchester purchased the Union-Tribune in November 2011, just a few years after the paper won two Pulitzer prizes. He took over operations in January 2012 and immediately put his mark on the paper, changing the name to U-T San Diego to promote all of its news outlets beyond print, hiring Lynch, a longtime friend and local radio station owner, as his CEO, and placing a front-page editorial on the print edition that all but vowed to work for big business.
Such changes have come at a cost. David Carr of The New York Times, among the most respected media columnists in the country, wrote in June that the Union-Tribune "often seems like a brochure for [Manchester's] various interests." He added that any pretense of protecting news coverage from the new ownership's editorial views "was obliterated from the start."
The paper's decline has continued apace since Carr published his piece. In the run up to November's elections, the paper took its support for a Republican mayoral candidate to unusual lengths with front page editorials, while also disparaging President Obama via opinion pieces that featured vitriol usually confined to Internet fever swamps.
From its outlandish front page editorializing for a new football stadium and waterfront development (which would indirectly benefit Manchester's bank account) to its top executive's threatening email to a public official, the newspaper is considered by many staff and local media experts to have fallen into an ethical morass.
And that worry has grown worse in the past few months as Manchester bought the North County Times, a smaller daily in nearby Escondido, CA, which was considered a necessary rival to the Union-Tribune.
"The only way the paper will survive is if people trust it to give the news of their community," said Dean Nelson, director of journalism at nearby Point Loma Nazarene University, who also writes for The New York Times and The Boston Globe. "If people get the sense it is just whoring for the leadership's business enterprises, they are done.
People are dropping the paper in droves, and more apparently would except that the rag seems to go to great lengths to inflate its circulation totals.


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Dan Brown, author of "The DaVinci Code," "Angels & Demons," and "Inferno," gave the TODAY show's Matt Lauer a tour of his New Hampshire home, his "colorful, private world," complete with secret passages, and, as Lauer recalls, "surprises at every turn."
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The most notable thing about Brown's home can be found behind a large painting on one of the walls--push it and you enter Brown's office, where all the writing happens. Moving through the office you'll find the library, which Brown calls his "fortress of gratitude." It includes all of his books in over fifty languages. The library also has several secret passages that leak out to the rest of the home.
Every day after he writes he moves on to the piano, which he plays very well. "That's no chopsticks," Lauer said after listening. Brown admits that piano is "definitely one of (his) passions."


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U.S. - N. Korea using back channel amid talk of war - report
Opening Sequence
Trump: Syria crisis 'has nothing to do with us'
'Wrong setting': Dunn's parents reject Trump's offer
Ex-aide to Pompeo testifies in impeachment probe
UAW and GM reach tentative labor deal
Erdogan: Syria fight will end if Kurds withdraw
Mexican tech startups keep a low profile, fearing for safety
Bionic girl realizes her dream to ride her bike
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Best practice: Writing for different languages and regions
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text: "Davari has signed open letters and statements for political prisoners in the past year and is now paying the price," said CPJ Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator Mohamed Abdel Dayem. "Pinning an extra year of imprisonment on him for a case that has been dormant for five years is simply the latest example of a retaliatory policy."Davari, the editor-in-chief of the reformist news website Saham News as well as a trade unionist and teacher, was sentenced to an additional year in prison for his participation in teacher protests in 2006, according to the reformist news website Kaleme. He was arrested in 2009 after exposing horrific abuse at an Iranian prison and sentenced to five years in prison on anti-state charges. He has been tortured and severely pressured to make televised confessions implicating leaders within the reformist movement. In November 2010, CPJ honored Davari with its International Press Freedom Award.


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Each candidate in Tuesday night's gubernatorial debate had strong moments, but the debate turned Meg Whitman's way when education became the topic.
The moderator, Tom Brokaw, helped Whitman by asking the topic that framed the question her way. Is the California Teachers Assn., the 300,000-plus member union that is this state's political Goliath, a help or hindrance to education? Whitman has sought to define herself as an opponent of public employee unions such as CTA -- and to define her opponent Jerry Brown as their tool? The question went to Brown, who quickly found himself in a spot.
Brown couldn't criticize CTA too strongly--they have been strong backers of his campaign. But he couldn't suck up too much, since anyone with a passing acquaintance with how schools work knows that teachers' unions are, at best, a mixed blessing. Brown must have wished for a straightforward question about how he might improve the schools.
His answer was weak and defensive. He defended CTA for a bit and then rambled incoherently. Whitman, after a brief interlude responding to an earlier question, drew a sharp contrast. She called CTA "part of the problem" and education and then talked -- as Brown had failed to do -- about schools and kids. Advantage, Whitman. Brown tried to save the day by noting his role in founding two charter schools in Oakland. But Whitman looked stronger. And she was convincing as an opponent of teachers' unions, particularly CTA.
The question is whether picking a fight with CTA is smart strategy. The union has the power to create real trouble for a governor.


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Local, Near & Far Memory part 3 - Scheduling processes to SMT & Virtual Processors
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Before we look further in to memory affinity we need to recap on the scheduling of processes and process threads of a multi-threaded process to simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) processors like POWER7. POWER5 and POWER6 had two modes of SMT off (one thread) and on (two threads) - with SMT=on two processes run at the same time (in the same clock cycle) on the CPU-core but using the different logical units inside of the CPU-core (units like the integer maths (there is more than one), floating point maths (there is more than one), compare and branch, instruction fetch etc). With POWER7 we have off or SMT=2 and SMT=4. With SMT=4 we get four programs/processes (or four threads of execution) at the same time. This is a technique that boost performance when there are lots of processes and/or threads to run at the same time - which is fairly typical most larger server commercial workloads. But note:
Also note that as SMT increases the number of instructions executed by a single thread on the CPU-core goes down but then as we are running more threads the throughput goes up. This is a small trade-off - the response time of a single transaction may go up a little but then we have many more transactions actually on the CPU and so not waiting long periods (in CPU terms) to actually get our program on to the CPU-core.
This is summarised in the below graph:
Logical CPUs
In AIX, each Simultaneous Multi-Thread is called a logical CPU - the AIX kernel can allocate a process or process thread to a Logical CPU. For a lot of the time these are treated as a regular CPU - i.e. for reporting utilisation, the run queue and processes marked as currently running (executing) on a CPU.
Intelligent Threading
With the AIX versions that run on POWER7, we had a new feature that controls the SMT mode for each CPU-core individually - this means if there is not enough processes for the four or two SMT threads, AIX switches SMT to a lower number for efficiency. If there is only one process available to run on a CPU-core, AIX will after a very short period move the process to the first thread and go SMT=1 - so the SMT threads 2, 3 and 4 are not used. If there are just two processes then they will migrate to SMT threads 1 and 2 and we will see threads 3 and 4 unused. We will see this in the below worked example. Us sometimes cynical techies thought this "Intelligent Threading" was just marketing going into over-drive but it turns out there is real technology here and it is pretty good too as we can see it in action! AIX favours for performance:
Worked Example of Scheduling process threads to CPU threads
So when AIX comes to schedule processes or their threads to CPU-cores it does need to be aware of the SMT based Logical CPUs to make maximum use of the CPU-cores.
For an example, we have a virtual machine (LPAR) with entitlement of 1.5 (Uncapped) and a virtual processor count of 4 and AIX is set to SMT=4 on our POWER7 machine so each of these CPU-cores has four SMT threads. Just for the record this is Firmware 730 and AIX 7.1 TL01. As a diagram it would look like the below:
Four CPU-cores (in blue boxes) each with SMT=4 so that is 16 logical CPUs. Note some have a little use as AIX daemons run now and again.
So let us start a busy program that is single threaded to make life easy and we might get the below use:
AIX has allocated the process to the first CPU-core and the first SMT thread - in computer terms all the CPU's are equal so it could have chosen any but it does seem to go for the lower CPU numbers first - this is probably just the way the CPU-cores are ordered internally when it searches for the first free CPU-core - it will also be running on the first of the four SMT threads. If you are quick you might see it start elsewhere and get migrated - this is because (as far as I know) the fork() and exec() functions get the process started local to the process that created the program - this is normally the ksh that ran your program. If the program is short lived this makes sense.
Below we start a second program that uses roughly a whole CPU:
Here we see it went for the 2nd CPU-core and not the second SMT thread of the first CPU-core. Why is this? Well the virtual machines has a virtual processor count of 4 so it can spread out across 4 CPU-cores. If it had gone for the CPU-core1 2nd SMT thread the two processes would have been sharing the CPU-core. Remember that this means each processes would be running slightly slower and they occasionally clash in wanting to both use a particular internal unit. So this would not give us the best performance. We have plenty of CPU-cores available so AIX decides "why not use them for maximum performance and minimum transaction times?"
Here the first running program has been bumped to the second SMT thread on CPU-core1. What I think is happening here is that there are roughly 40 AIX daemons running on a regular copy of AIX. If a few of them get to run to do their regular checks or housework then AIX spots we have say three programs all running on the first SMT thread - it will let that happen for a very very short time thinking that it might be a very short lived mode as a process might stop. But then it thinks "OK lets go SMT=2 and use two SMT threads to concurrently run these programs as this is cheap - no cache misses as they all share the same L1, L2 and L3 caches.
If the daemons then quickly finish and go to sleep then as below AIX decides it is better to go SMT=1 so the single process can have all the CPU so we go back to the previous mode as below:
So lets keep adding more "spinning" programs as below:
And one more so we have four busy programs:
Now let us make a few observations:
Now let us complicate things by adding one more program below:
Here 5 programs will not fit neatly on four CPU-cores. So one CPU-core is changed to SMT=2 and runs two programs. You might have guessed this. So we add a sixth program and you get the below:
As you expect it now is running two CPU-cores in SMT=2. On these two CPU-cores the individual programs are running slightly slower as they are having to share the CPU-core internal units but they are making much more progress than if they were taking turns running on the processor.
Yes, you guessed it - all CPU-cores are now running SMT=2 and the programs are shared out across all 8 SMT threads.
Now let us make a few observations:
I am pretty sure that one caught you out - I was not expecting it either the first time :-)
There is no SMT=3 mode. SMT can be 1 (off), 2 and 4. So to run the extra program CPU-core 1 was put into SMT=4 and so two new SMT threads are available. AIX works out that it might as well use both and then puts CPU-core 2 in to SMT=1 as it no longer needs the other SMT thread. We have am interesting configuration here as the virtual machines is running SMT=1 and SMT=2 and SMT=4 on its various CPU-cores - all to maximise efficiency.
Adding one more program, see below:
Ok we understand that as CPU-core 2 has gone SMT=1 for the extra program.
Now lets jump to 16 programs:
Here all CPU-cores are SMT=4 and there is one program running on each of the 16 SMT thread (also called Logical CPUs).
Now let us make a few observations:
As we add more programs nothing much changes as we are at the SMT maximum. The run queue gets higher but the programs take turns on the CPU-core.
AIX will try to allocate the same CPU-core every time a program gets execution time - this helps as the memory cache for the program will already have cache lines from the previous time slot on the CPU. Of course, if we go below the 16 runnable programs AIX will migrate programs to other less used CPU-cores to make sure all CPUs are working hard.
The same happens but you can't see it if say lots of programs one a particular CPU-core stop but it sill has a number to run. AIX will migrate programs so each CPU-core has a similar number of programs to run so that some programs don;t suffer starvation due to being unlucky and on a CPU-core with a long list of programs to work though.
Advanced Points
1) Did you notice that with the 4 programs (processes), 8 programs and 16 programs - in all three cases, all four physical CPU-cores were 100% in use?
In our simple typical scenario example, we got to 100% four physical CPU-cores busy and then went 60% faster just by pushing the CPUs harder with more programs (processes).
This makes for some very interesting discussions about a machine running at 100% busy but still has plenty of headroom for lots more work!
It also causes confusion with the stats from performance tools. Particularly, the Utilisation stats of logical CPUs.
2) If you want to get the maximum out of you POWER7 virtual machine you need to plan to use SMT=4 and for that you need lots of programs simultaneously running. If you don't have enough runnable processes in your virtual machine then SMT=4 can't be used - we can't force a program to run if it is waiting for an external event!! You should be monitoring your run queue compared with the SMT threads available. In intensive workloads, perhaps the run queue should be twice or three times the SMT threads.
3) So what can you do to get to SMT=4?
4) I get many questions trying to compare POWER6 to POWER7 but we have to remember the two processors are very different and gain performance in different ways:
Monitoring both machines and then asking for explanations for the differences in the stats is largely pointless as they are getting their performance levels in very different ways.
5) I like to make a comparison it to comparing two cars
You find that car B has an engine RPM slightly higher while cruising at 100 MPH and you want an explanation?
Well the two cars are generating horse-power in completely different ways.
It is better to go back to the performance tuning fundamentals:


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Kevin92, you have way too much free time on your hands!
Student or Learner
Many people believe that to succeed in life, you must go to school, get a job, and work your butt off for the rest of your life, however I'm here to tell you that all of these people are completely wrong! In fact, if anybody ever says that to you, you should show them this essay instantly. Who are the people who really succeed in life you ask? The only people who really succeed in life are the ones who try their very best to screw up their lives. Making it nearly impossible to ever do something with your life, and reducing your brains functions to the equivalent of a potato. So, if you want to throw your life away, then you must fill your pool with jello, get shipped to Indonesia to sell camels, then start a grizzly bear wrestling federation, eliminating any chance of coming out of this without serious problems.
First, to successfully throw your life away, you must empty your pool, and fill it with jello. To successfully make this transformation, you must first drain your pool. Soon after, you should start cooking, seeing as you'll be needing a lot of jello! When you made enough jello, proceed to start filling the pool with jello. When you realize how much fun other people could be having swimming in your pool of jello, you should start letting people pay to swim. After a couple of drowning's, you will get shut down, and the people will sue you for everything you have. You'll now have a pool of jello, and no money. You assume the logical thing would be to eat the rest of the jello. That will help you get a kick start in throwing your life away, because you will develop a disease from eating all that moldy jello. The Canadian government will agree to ship you to Indonesia so you won't ever pass the disease on to anyone in Canada. Good work, you have now completed the first step on how to throw your life away, and are that much closer to being a total screw up.
Second, to complete step two in throwing your life away, you must begin selling Camels in your new home of Indonesia. The first thing you need to do before you start selling camels is start speaking only in French, so you have almost zero chance of your business earning any profit. After you confuse all your customers speaking in French, show them the ridiculously high prices at which you're selling your camels. Now in case these last two things didn't jeopardize your chances of selling, you'll have to run a contest where people pay $50 for a ticket, and the ticket that is drawn gets to have 5 camels free. When it comes time to draw the ticket, tell the big crowd that you're not actually going to give anything away. When they realize they've been scammed, they'll chase you to the edge of a forest. Good job, you've completed the second step, and you only have one more step to completely throw your life away.
Third, the last step to throw your life away is live in the forest, and start a grizzly bear wrestling federation. Using all your money you earned scamming all of your customers you must go and buy all the meat you can. The bears will smell the meat and come to you. Find the leader bear, and give him some meat to keep him busy. While he's eating the meat, you can have the other bears fight for the rest of the meat. Somewhere in there you're going to need to eat, so when supper rolls around make sure you fight one of the bears for some meat. It's only a matter of time before the meat you bought runs out, so when they finish it, you'll be next. Way to go, you just completed the three steps to completely throw your life away.
In conclusion, to completely throw your life away, you must fill your pool with jello, get shipped to Indonesia to sell camels, and then start a grizzly bear wrestling federation. You've come a long way, and traveled to the other side of the world. You finally succeeded in throwing your life away. Imagine what you can say to those people who thought you couldn't do anything with your life.
Last edited by kevin92; 12-Oct-2007 at 12:49.
Kevin92, you have way too much free time on your hands!
Could you repost it without the underlining?
Say drownings. (No apostrophe.)
Why would anybody in Indonesia want to buy a camel?


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Washington loses bid to avoid sending out failing school letters
Washington state won't get a pass this summer on telling parents that their kids attend failing schools, the federal government says.
The U.S. Department of Education has denied Washington's request to be exempted from that particular requirement of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
In April, Washington became the first state to lose its waiver from the federal law, meaning it will have to begin complying with the law's provisions starting this fall. The 2002 law says schools that don't meet federal achievement standards must notify parents that the schools are underperforming.
State Superintendent Randy Dorn said Monday that it is unclear right now exactly how many schools will have to send letters home to parents, but that it will be "a majority" of schools in Washington. State officials will know for sure after they review test results that will come out in August, he said.
In the letters to parents, underachieving schools that rely on federal Title I dollars must offer parents the opportunity to send their children to a different, nonfailing school — even if none is available, according to a memo from the U.S. Department of Education dated Friday. Many of those schools also will have to offer parents additional tutoring.
To pay for those services, school districts must set aside 20 percent of the Title I money they receive from the federal government, which amounts to about $40 million statewide.
The notifications to parents are supposed to go out at roughly the start of the school year.
Last month, Dorn's office asked the federal government to make an exception so Washington schools wouldn't have to send the letters out, arguing that offering parents school choice is "a moot point" since virtually no schools are meeting federal progress goals.
No Child Left Behind says that 100 percent of students must be passing state math and reading tests in 2014, a standard that schools across the country have been unable to meet.
But Assistant Education Secretary Deborah Delisle wrote that the letters still provide parents with "valuable information, such as ... what the school is doing to address problems of low achievement, and how parents can become involved in addressing academic issues."
Dorn said that having to send the letters is frustrating because he thinks Congress needs to update the No Child Left Behind law, and also because he had pushed for the Legislature to enact changes this year that would have preserved the state's waiver from the federal rules.
"It's a perfect example of government not working very well," Dorn said Monday.
Federal officials said they revoked the state's waiver because Washington doesn't require state test scores to play a role in teacher evaluations. School districts in Washington can rely solely on local tests to measure student growth, a standard the U.S. Department of Education has deemed unacceptable.
Several school district officials in South Sound predicted the letters offering school choice and tutoring might surprise parents who believe their children's schools are performing well.
"Families with children in even our most successful schools will likely now receive a letter saying their child's school is failing," said Rebecca Japhet, spokeswoman for the Olympia School District. "There's a real concern that this will send a confusing and inaccurate message to parents, students and the public."
University Place Superintendent Patti Banks said having to send the letters out will also be "demoralizing to parents and to staff."
"I don't think it does anything to advance parents' understanding of the achievement of their schools," Banks said Monday.
Dorn said he plans to reintroduce legislation next year that would change Washington's teacher and principal evaluation system and help the state reclaim its No Child Left Behind waiver.
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96 UIS Professors Publish Book on Teaching Gender and Sexuality
UIS faculty members Michael Murphy and Elizabeth Ribarsky published a book entitled Activities for Teaching Gender and Sexuality in the University Classroom. It is an interdisciplinary collection of activities devoted entirely to teaching about gender and sexuality. The book is designed to serve as a desk-reference for gender studies and sexual communication educators.
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PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): Pakistan's former all-rounder Abdul Razzaq has signed a contract with the Afghan Cricket League.
He will play for Amo Sharks in the Shpageeza Cricket League, a popular one-day event organised by the Afghanistan Cricket Board.
Renowned ex-Pakistani skipper Shahid Afridi had also tweeted earlier that he would be part of the Afghan Cricket League.
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The Oakland Raiders wasted no time getting business done with their top pick.
NFL Media's Albert Breer reported Thursday that linebacker Khalil Mack has signed a standard four-year contract with a fifth-year option and offset language, according to a source. The pact is fully guaranteed and worth $18,677,002, per Breer.
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Two Native American students from Portland State University won awards at the 2012 Oregon Indian Education Association (OIEA) Annual Conference at Grand Ronde, OR, on April 2 and 3.
The OIEA awards program is designed to motivate and recognize outstanding students and community members for high efforts to improve Indian education in Oregon. Each award recipient is nominated through letters of recommendation submitted by colleagues, students, and community members.
The PSU winners, Shilo George and Sky Hopinka, were chosen for their contributed time and effort on Indian education and their excellent academic standing during the past year. Both are full-time students and members of the United Indian Students in Higher Education at PSU.
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For the past two years, Shilo taught culture and arts at the Native American Youth and Family Center in Portland (NAYA). She played a critical role in coordinating and launching several outreach programs to encourage Native American students to attend college.
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Shilo is majoring in Artistic Practices, and minoring in Indigenous Nations Studies. She plans to attend graduate school become a secondary classroom teacher.
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Nathan Smith, defender from California, robbed Canada of its desire to compete and live on Sunday when he scored this incredible goal during extra time of the 2011 CONCACAF U-17 championship in Montego Bay, Jamaica. The goal broke the 450-minute shutout streak of Canadian keeper Maxime Crepeau, who still has a cool name. In the words of the guy calling the match, "This is not baAAAAAAAD!"
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One of the first things genealogists learn is to collect data at home, including birth certificates, baptismal records, obituaries, school records and funeral cards. In addition, it's critical to talk to older relatives about the family members they knew, and those they remember hearing about. As I mentioned in another column, one of my research breakthroughs was based on something I'd heard my grandmother say when I was very young.
When you're recording oral history, don't forget to write down tidbits that may have no bearing on your research, but are interesting views of a time gone by. For example, my mom recently told me that when she was a kid, the only people who wore tennis shoes to school were the very poor. Those kinds of cultural observations are difficult to find in books—so record them too, or else your descendants will never know that Nike didn't always rule the footwear world.
Oral histories can be as formal as scheduling an interview time and arriving with a list of prepared questions, a tape recorder or video camera. Or, they can be as off-the-cuff as the conversations I have with my mom and aunt about the family. The key, of course, is to enter the information into your genealogy software as soon as possible, and make copies to send other family members.
I don't know if it's post-9/11 fallout, but there's been quite a resurgence in the popularity of preserving oral histories. In fact, some local historical societies are actively soliciting people to come in and record their oral histories. AARP even has a free online course on how to record veterans' oral histories.
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President Barack Obama placed immigration enforcement squarely into the presidential race Friday when his administration announced that it would stop deporting illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children.
The major shift in immigration enforcement law was first announced by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
"Our nation's immigration laws must be enforced in a firm and sensible manner," Napolitano said. "But they are not designed to be blindly enforced without consideration given to individual circumstances in each case."
The move was immediately hailed by Latino groups and the League of United Latin American Citizens.
It drew a howl of protest from Republicans who have criticized Obama for relaxed enforcement of current immigration laws.
"President Obama's decision to grant amnesty to potentially millions of illegal immigrants is a breach of faith with the American people," said Rep. Lamar Smith, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee which oversees immigration laws.
"This huge policy shift has horrible consequences for unemployed Americans looking for jobs and violates President Obama's oath to the uphold the laws of this land," said Smith, R-San Antonio.
Changes to the law were also seen as a direct political jab at likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who opposes DREAM Act legislation that would grant citizenship or improved immigration status to illegal immigrants brought into the country as children.
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