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SURVEY OF COMPUTERS is a thorough introduction to
computers, including hardware and software concepts. Hands-on experience
using micro-computer hardware and software tools is included.
Elementary skills in using such computer tools as word processing,
spreadsheets, database managers, and programming will be developed as
time allows. Social issues involving computers will be discussed. (Communications Core) 3 credit hours
INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER SCIENCE serves three main
purposes: to develop in students an understanding of the algorithmic
formulation of methods for problem solving on a computer; to train
students to use at least one procedural computer language; and to
acquaint students with the basic properties of computers. (Communications Core) 3 credit hours
OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING serves two main
purposes: to develop in the students an understanding of the
object-oriented approaches to the algorithmic formulation of methods for
problem solving on the computer and to train students to use at least
one object oriented computer language. (Communications Core) 3 credit hoursPrerequisite: CSC 141 or knowledge of "C" programming language or instructor's permission
COMPUTERS AND INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY I enables the
student educator to master the knowledge and skills necessary to become
an intelligent user of computers in classrooms and laboratories. Course
topics include computer-aided instruction; Piaget's and Papert's
learning theories in relation to computers; word processing; electronic
gradebooks; databases; spreadsheets; telecommunications; Internet; and
an introduction to multimedia. This course is for those seeking teacher
licensure. Education majors only.3 credit hours
APPLIED OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING serves three
main purposes: to develop in the students an understanding of the
object-oriented approaches to the algorithmic formulation of methods for
problem solving on the computer; to train students to use at least one
object-oriented computer language and to prepare students for applied
object-oriented programming in their upper level courses. 3 credit hours
BIOINFORMATICS PROGRAMMING studies the use of
scripting languages and software tools for work in bioinformatics.
Emphasis will be on data manipulation, file input and output, FASTA
files, regular expressions and pattern matching, databases, and web
programming. Prerequisite: CSC 141, 144, 171 or 280 3 credit hours
BIOINFORMATICS ALGORITHMS studies the fundamental
algorithms used in bioinformatics. Attention will be paid to specific
algorithms (e.g. for measuring DNA similarity and for constructing
phylogenic trees), to algorithm design methods (e.g. exact vs. heuristic
methods, and dynamic programming) as well as to the computational costs
of the various algorithms (Big-O notation, and the difference between
polynomial and exponential time algorithms). Prerequisite: CSC 141, 144, 171 or 280 3 credit hours
ELEMENTARY COBOL AND STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING emphasizes structured programming and problem-solving using COBOL.Prerequisite: CSC 141 or equivalent 3 credit hours
ADVANCED COBOL AND FILE PROCESSING is a continuation
of the study of COBOL begun in CSC 232 and includes pseudo-code, table
handling, modular programming, documentation, and other related topics.
The techniques and concepts of structuring, sorting, and retrieving data
on bulk storage devices are also introduced.Prerequisite: CSC 232 3 credit hours
COMPUTERS AND INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY II further
prepares student educators for the effective use of computers and
technology in the classroom. Through this course, students will learn
the basic skills needed to evaluate, design, produce, and utilize
multimedia products in educational, organizational, and communications
environments.Prerequisite: CSC 155—Education majors only 3 credit hours
INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS examines the four
fundamental types of data organization (sequential, direct, indexed
sequential, and database management systems) and the corresponding
programming and design techniques. Security, privacy, data integrity,
and future trends are discussed.Prerequisite: CSC 141 or CSC 144 3 credit hours
STRUCTURED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS studies the system
development cycle with emphasis on techniques and tools, system
documentation, data flow diagrams, system testing, and implementation.
Students are expected to suggest, design, and implement a specific
application system.Prerequisite: CSC 171 3 credit hours
NUMERICAL COMPUTING introduces procedural
programming techniques using the programming language FORTRAN. Emphasis
is placed on the analysis and design of numerical algorithms, which are
useful in business and science. Other topics include file processing and
parallel processing.Co-requisite: MTH 161 3 credit hours
PROGRAMING LANGUAGES examines the basic concepts of
programming languages: programming language processors, elementary and
structured data types, subprograms, sequence control, data control,
storage management, syntax and translation, and programming
environments. The student will also study three different programming
languages and write a short project in each.Prerequisite: CSC 145 3 credit hours
GENETIC ALGORITHMS studies the use of simulated
evolution in computer science and biology. Primary emphasis will be on
the use of evolutionary and genetic algorithms as tools for solving
combinatorial optimization problems (including problems arising in
bioinformatics). Secondary emphasis will be placed on construction of
computer models designed to illuminate aspects of evolutionary theory
(e.g. the computer evolution of strategies for playing the prisoner's
dilemma as a model for the evolution of altruistic traits). Counts as a
bioinformatics elective. 3 credit hours
NUMBER THEORY AND CRYPTOGRAPHY covers the
fundamental algorithms used in both private key and public key
cryptography. Algorithms covered will include DES, AES, Diffie-Hellman,
and RSA. Traditional encryption methods such as Vigenere ciphers and
their cryptanalysis will be briefly described. The number theory needed
to understand primality testing and RSA encryption will be developed in
detail. Several programming projects aimed at implementing some of the
material will be given throughout the semester. Cross listed with MTH 330Prerequisites: CSC 141, 144, 171 or 280; and MTH 220 3 credit hours
JUNIOR SEMINAR is designed to teach computer science
and computer information science majors the skills necessary to learn
computer science on their own and communicate their knowledge to others
in oral and written form. All students will attend presentations made by
senior computer science students. Students will be required to write a
short, independently-researched paper and present it to the other
students in the junior seminar. 1 credit hour
NETWORKING/TELECOMMUNICATIONS introduces students to
the fundamentals of network and data communication technologies. Course
topics include telecommunication media and equipment; data transmission
and protocols; corporate, local, and wide area networks; intranets and
internets; and network software and management. An introduction to
electromagnetic concepts and principles is included to provide a
technical foundation for these concepts.Prerequisites: CSC 141 or 144 and junior standing 3 credit hours
ALGORITHM AND COMPLEXITY will introduce concepts of algorithm analysis, strategies, time and resource complexity and basic computability.Prerequisites: CSC 145 and MTH 220 3 credit hours
CURRENT TOPICS IN COMPUTER INFORMATION SCIENCE is a
seminar in information resource management covering such topics as
office automation, networks, distributed data processing, data
integrity, and decision support systems.Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor 3 credit hours
serves three main purposes: to develop in the students an understanding
of software patterns in an object-oriented framework; to teach the
students the 24 most common software patterns; and to train students to
use another object-oriented computer language. Prerequisite: CSC 144 3 credit hours
INTERNSHIP is a work-experience opportunity with the
purpose of expanding education by applying accumulated knowledge in
computer science/technology. The availability of internships is limited
to upper-level students, normally seniors with a 2.5 quality point
average. Students are approved individually by the academic department. A
contract can be obtained from the Career Services Office in Starvaggi
Hall. Internships count as general electives.Prerequisite: Computer Science Junior or Senior standing and permission of the department chair.Internships must be preapproved. 1-6 credit hours
HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE SYSTEMS surveys the
relationship between hardware architecture and both systems and
applications software. The influence of processor and storage system
architecture on software design is also studied.Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor 3 credit hours
OPERATING SYSTEMS considers the structure of
operating systems involving design, implementation, and maintenance.
Various types of mainframe, mini, and micro operating systems will be
discussed. Some systems programming will be considered.Prerequisite: CSC 404 3 credit hours
COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE WITH ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE is an
introduction to the architecture of the microprocessors and Assembly
Language. Concepts in digital logic, machine level of data, the assembly
level machine organization, memory system organization, interfacing and
functional organization are covered. Exercises in Assembly Programming
will illustrate some of these concepts.Prerequisites: CSC 145 and MTH 220 3 credit hours
SYSTEMS PROJECT gives students an opportunity to
plan and implement a significant project using previously obtained
analytic and programming skills. Students will be responsible for the
proposal, management, implementation, documentation, and communication
of the project. Departmental guidance will be available when necessary.Prerequisite: CSC 271 3 credit hours
explores artificial intelligence (AI) within the context of special
languages used in AI, such as LISP and PROLOG. Basic AI techniques
presented include those needed to understand and design simple expert
systems. As time permits, topics from the following areas may be
investigated: natural language processing, planning, machine learning,
neural networks, and various forms of reasoning.Prerequisite: CSC 145 and junior standing 3 credit hours
THEORY OF COMPUTING examines the underlying
mathematical models and theories that are the basis of the modern
computer. Topics include grammars, types of languages, types of
automata, computability, and complexity.Prerequisite: MTH 220 3 credit hours
SENIOR THESIS requires all computer science and
computer information science students to write a thesis on an approved
topic in computer science. Students must consult closely with a
departmental faculty member at each stage in the development of their
theses. The thesis will be presented to students in the Junior Seminar. 1 credit hour


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From a helicopter hovering at 1,200 feet, the city of Venice looks like a dusty labyrinth. Red tile rooftops crowd together in heaps. The canals that slice the city into micro-islands glow a milky green. Contrasting sharply with this ancient landscape is a futuristic fleet of nine enormous wing-sailed catamarans flitting across the waterfront just off St. Mark's Square. Their sharp, carbon-fiber minimalism crackles against Venice's faded elegance, like an iPhone clutched by the Queen of England.
The racing cats skate and jockey for position just upwind of the mega-yacht Musashi, a mother ship of sorts. Owned by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, the Musashi isn't quite as big as the World War II-era Japanese naval vessel of the same name, but at 288 feet she's as long as a city block. And, at five stories high, Musashi is actually taller than the seaside hotel she's docked in front of. Ellison's toy is half battleship, half wedding cake: layer upon layer of aluminum and glass baked in a gleaming white hull. From above we can see the retractable roof of a below-deck helipad, which doubles as a basketball court. Somewhere on board is the ultimate prize in sailboat racing: the 4-foot-tall, 33-pound, sterling-silver America's Cup trophy.
The America's Cup World Series is the circus Ellison has brought to town, and he himself is the ringmaster. It is a warm-up to the America's Cup match, the one-on-one winner-take-all main event. Ellison won the Cup in 2010, and as long as he holds the trophy, he controls the event and its future. The World Series is Ellison's particular stamp, designed to build excitement and anticipation for the finale. Here in Venice, the racecourse winds along the city's waterfront before crossing a checkered flag near the mouth of the Grand Canal. The Musashi has a front-row seat.
My seat is in the cameraman's helicopter: Ellison has chartered the chopper as part of his effort to make the World Series—and by extension, everything America's Cup—into exciting television. It takes an active imagination to see sailing as a spectator sport, but for a moment, at least, let's envision it. Think of the final races for the America's Cup as sailing's Super Bowl. The Louis Vuitton Cup, to be held in the San Francisco Bay in the summer of 2013, is the playoffs. By extension, then, what's happening here in Venice—and all around the globe as the World Series jumps from city to city—is analogous to a regular season. If Ellison's plan works as it should, the America's Cup will morph from billionaire status symbol into real money-making sport league. That is his vision.
The reality at this point is that his America's Cup has turned into something of an albatross. Every sailor knows the old saw about the true definition of a boat: a hole in the water into which one throws money. The only difference here is that Ellison has dug himself a billionaire-size hole. The World Series—indeed Ellison's whole reimagining of the America's Cup—is a Sea of Dreams: If you build it, they will come. The budget is confidential, but I'm told by Stephen Barclay, CEO of the America's Cup Event Authority, that it's "well in excess of $100 million." Yet so far, few from outside yachting are coming. And inside the yachting world, all anyone can talk about is the financial straits that Ellison's project is so obviously in. The evidence is everywhere: mass layoffs, radically foreshortened race schedules, and a slew of canceled plans.
Ellison's best hope for saving his listing ship now lies in the magic of television. If the World Series can draw a large audience, then the sponsorship money and advertising revenue should be enough to salvage the operation. Sailing doesn't have to be the next Nascar to make the World Series a success. It merely has to generate the level of domestic interest that, say, the Tour de France has now. Bicycle racing didn't resonate with American sports fans until relatively recently, but today it is a profitable sports niche. Why couldn't sailing follow a similar trajectory? Why couldn't it grow into a league sport with all the trappings: team franchises, professional athletes, die-hard fans, and the advertising, merchandise, and commercial tie-ins that keep everything solvent? The biggest obstacle, in Ellison's estimation, is that while most everyone knows how to ride a bike and drive a car, the rules of yacht racing remain obscure even to most boat owners.
That's where the helicopter comes in. Mounted next to a half-million-dollar remote-controlled HD camera is a GPS and an inertial navigation system so advanced that the US government regulates it like a weapon. Together these are technical keystones in an augmented-reality system for inserting course boundaries, start and finish lines, room-to-tack zones, and wind direction readouts directly into the live television feed transmitted from the helicopter. It's a system similar to the one that paints the first-down line onto the field during a broadcast of a football game, except generations more advanced. Called LiveLine, it has the power to "turn sailing into a comprehensible sport for the great unwashed," says 77-year-old yachtsman and writer Bob Fisher, the Cup's most venerable chronicler (and no relation to me). There are things Fisher hates about Ellison's new World Series. The adoption of auto racing's checkered flag at the finish line, for example: "Christ," he says, "that's nothing but kitsch." But he loves how the special effects have transformed the television experience. "If Joe Blow can't understand LiveLine," Fisher says in a clubby upper-crust British accent, "he'll never understand anything."
Whether this system succeeds or fails—really, whether Ellison's $100 million-plus gamble pays off—falls on the shoulders of one man: an inventor and engineer named Stan Honey.
There have always been geeks in sailing. In fact, a position is reserved on every sailing team—whether it's a race around the world or a sprint across a lake—for the team nerd: the navigator. As sailing has gotten more technical and more complicated, these geeks have become more and more important. They are not just there to plot a course anymore, they're being called on to plan every part of the strategy. And as it happens, Honey, the man Ellison tapped to make the America's Cup palatable to the masses, is one of the best navigators in sailing.
Honey has been somewhat famous in offshore sail racing since 1983, when Nolan Bushnell recruited him to kit out his new sailboat, Charley. Bushnell, who had sold Atari to Warner Communications, was young and flush with cash and had decided that he wanted to win the Transpac, a legendary biennial open-ocean race from Southern California to Honolulu. Honey's day job was at the Stanford Research Institute, where he had been designing over-the-horizon radar systems for the military. At Bushnell's request, Honey developed one of the first onboard computers in sailboat racing. The computer calculated the maximum speed in every possible condition and sounded an alarm if Charley wasn't sailing perfectly. SatNav, a precursor to modern GPS, was used to fix the boat's location twice a day, when government satellites passed overhead. The software had to be custom-written, much of the hardware was hand-built, and everything had to be fortified for marine use. "Stan is so smart that he can break walnuts with his brain, but he's also one of the nicest guys ever," Bushnell says, reminiscing. "You really get to know somebody after living with them for a week on a boat."
Thanks to Honey's gadgetry, Bushnell was first to Hawaii that year. But even more significant, he emerged with his next big business idea: Etak. "We literally sketched out the company on the chart table," Bushnell remembers, "an in-vehicle navigation system." Etak was the forerunner to today's ubiquitous nav systems such as Garmin and TomTom—except it was pre-GPS. It used a compass to determine direction, and sensors on the wheels to track where and how far the car had traveled. Bushnell was the wallet, Honey was a founder, and within six years Bushnell's initial $500,000 bet paid off at a 70-fold return when News Corp. acquired Etak for $35 million. At News Corp., Honey became CEO Rupert Murdoch's technical consigliere, just as the Internet was coming online and the computer and media worlds collided. "I ended up spending half my time explaining to Rupert what guys like Gates and Ellison were talking about," Honey says. "What is encryption? What is digital? What is compression? What are CDs? What do they want?"
In 1994, Fox Sports struck a deal with the NHL to televise hockey, and Fox wanted to find a way to increase viewership. Part of the problem with hockey on TV is that flying pucks move so quickly they are almost invisible to the at-home viewer. Honey proposed digitally inserting a blue glow around the puck that would lengthen into a contrail whenever it was moving faster than the eye could see. Murdoch signed off on the idea. A few years later, Honey left News Corp. with Murdoch's blessing and took the technology even further with his own startup called Sportvision. Honey invented the virtual first-down line for the NFL and strike-zone tracking for Major League Baseball (winning Emmys for both), as well as race car tracking for Nascar, shot tracking for the PGA tour, and many other sports special effects.
By 2010, Honey was wealthy enough that he could pursue sailing nearly full-time. In January of that year he was enlisted as the navigator on the Groupama 3, a lightweight trimaran going for the Jules Verne trophy—a nonstop, no-limits sailing race around the world. Somewhere off the coast of Brazil, Honey checked his email to find his wife had forwarded him an interview with a very confident Larry Ellison, who had just won the 2010 America's Cup. Ellison was laying out his strategy for attracting a bigger audience to sailing's most prestigious event. "When the NFL put in that yellow first-down line on the field, it gave the fan a little more insight," Ellison told his interviewer. "The guy who did the yellow line is named Stan Honey. I've sailed with him."
Honey won his trophy, but when he pulled into port he found himself back in the same position he was in 27 years before. A tech mogul with a fancy new yacht and massive ambitions needed him, the alpha navigator, to make a dream come true.
For Honey, it was an A-Team moment. He decided to pull together the very best people from his past for one last mission. Among others, he tapped Ken Milnes, who had helped him build the Transpac-winning race gadgetry for Bushnell, and Tim Heidemann, who had worked with him on the glowing blue puck for Murdoch. Both are sailors as well as accomplished engineers, and Honey wooed them with an offer they couldn't resist: "It's the sport we love. It's going to be really cool. And together we are going to change the world, again."
How to Televise Sailing
1. Helicopter
2. Race boat
3. virtual overlays
4. Command center
When Ellison won the Cup in 2010, he also won the right to run the next event his way. He wanted it, as BMW Oracle Racing CEO Russell Coutts famously put it, "to meet the expectations of the Facebook generation, not the Flintstones generation." That meant radical changes in a race celebrated for its links to yachting's grand traditions. The most obvious change was in the boats. Henceforth, instead of a wide range of vessels, all racers would use fast carbon-fiber catamarans of the same basic design called AC72s, employing powerful wing sails instead of traditional soft sails. This, Ellison reasoned, would make the races exciting. But he also wanted them to be accessible. By drafting Honey to create a top-notch augmented-reality system, the pieces seemed to be sliding into place.
Putting it all together would take time, though. For starters there was some concern that there were not enough sailors in the world experienced with wing sails to float a full fleet. And audiences needed to be attracted to the show. To fix both problems, Ellison created the America's Cup World Series as a run-up to the main event. These races would use the AC45, a scaled-down version of the AC72 (the numbers refer to the rough length of the boats in feet). The plan was to take the sailors barnstorming around the world with the AC45s, drumming up interest in the America's Cup while simultaneously giving potential crew members a chance to hone their wing-sail skills. This would also allow some time to fix up the waterfront back home in San Francisco.
Traditionally, the America's Cup has been managed by the winner's yacht club. But Ellison's grand scheme needed a more substantial operation. There were new rules to work out, a new fleet of boats to build, a new youthful image to promote, not to mention a whole new event—the World Series—with the scope and ambition of a watery Formula One. Ellison staffed up not one but two whole new organizations: There is America's Cup Race Management, charged with running the competitions, as well as America's Cup Event Authority, to market them.
Then the problems started. The first obstacle was political. A certain faction of San Franciscans was against holding the Cup in the bay from the moment it was announced on New Year's Eve 2010. In a press release, Ellison's Event Authority estimated that the event would bring $1.4 billion to the city. But soon Aaron Peskin, former president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and head of the local Democratic party machine, was suing to stop the event. Ostensibly, the reason was environmental: Peskin claimed that Ellison's proposed redevelopment of four decrepit waterfront piers into a race village and "pit row" posed an environmental hazard. Another explanation is that, in an era where appeals to the 99 percent draw crowds and votes, Ellison makes a fat target for a left-wing politico. A much-discussed article in the political newsletter CounterPunch at the time, titled "LET THEM EAT YACHTS," stated: "The America's Cup Event Authority is the vehicle through which the one percenters pocket financial rights to a large chunk of San Francisco's extremely lucrative waterfront." The argument about who exactly was exploiting whom was rendered moot two weeks after the piece was published, when Ellison's organization began scaling back its redevelopment plans. Eventually, what was going to be a $111 million joint waterfront improvement operation became $10 million to $20 million worth of fixes—to be paid for exclusively by the city.
Local columnists grumbled that Ellison had pulled his money out because he was frustrated by San Francisco politics. But in retrospect it is clear that he also needed the cash to satisfy an even tougher band of negotiators: American TV broadcasters. Even in an era when it seems like anything can get on TV, the America's Cup was having serious trouble. Multiple networks passed. Finally in March—well into the World Series' first season—NBC bit, agreeing to broadcast the top-billed events. Again, the statement from the America's Cup was triumphant. But then people noticed the terms of the deal: NBC didn't buy the rights to broadcast from Ellison, just the opposite. In essence, Ellison had purchased a giant block of airtime from NBC, making the Cup the sporting equivalent of an infomercial. Soon after, there were layoffs that reached all the way to the top of the America's Cup organization: the CEO of America's Cup Event Authority was pushed aside, and half of the staff was sacked. "We just weren't bringing in the money," the former chief communications officer, Stephanie Martin, confided to me.
By the spring, Ellison's grand plan to remake the America's Cup was looking a lot like hubris. It wasn't just the mass firings and downsizing of the San Francisco waterfront plans. Indeed, everything about the Cup had been scaled back. The World Series was originally billed as a near-monthly event; in reality it was operating at barely one event every two months. And what was originally envisioned as 15 teams fighting for the prize never materialized—the league is now hoping to have seven.
The news hasn't been all bad. Just before the World Series event in Venice, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences unexpectedly gave Honey and his team an Emmy for canned highlights that aired on NBC. "It's a real honor," Honey told me after he won, while ruing that he hadn't been able to attend the awards ceremony in New York. "There is too much to do setting up for Venice."
Even more important than the Emmy was the fact that full races were finally receiving airtime: Several European networks had agreed to televise the Venice race. It would be a critical tryout before Honey's system made its live debut on American TV. The next World Series races—in Rhode Island and San Francisco—would be shown on NBC.
The helicopter touches down on the northern tip of Lido di Venezia, the island that shelters the Venetian Lagoon from the Adriatic Sea. At the far end of the grass landing pad is what can be thought of as LiveLine central: a mobile command center spiky with antennas and snapped together Lego-like from 22 shipping containers. On the gravel out in front is Alan Trimble, one of Honey's engineer buddies from the early days of Sportvision. "Welcome to the starship Enterprise," Trimble says. Inside the containers are workshops, offices, studios, and control rooms of every description. Fifteen miles of cable weave the various rooms together to create a giant networked computer running a slab of code so strikingly sprung from Stan Honey's brain that the engineers have taken to calling it StanWare.
LiveLine is not just one thing but rather a greatest hits compilation of all of Sportvision's best special effects. On TV the boats have little contrails like the glowing hockey pucks. The software for the NFL's virtual yellow first-down line has been rewritten so that it can paint course boundaries on the surface of the water. From Nascar comes the method of showing which boat is which by flying virtual flags over each mast. It's not just a matter of porting these systems over. Getting the overlays to look right while everything is moving—floating, flying, sloshing around—requires a huge amount of reworking. Every marker, every boat, and every camera-copter must track itself with incredible precision and then beam that positional information back to this facility.
LiveLine, as it turns out, is not just a fancy computer graphics system. The new gear is quite literally game-changing. The same superprecise tracking technology that allows it to augment TV reality by painting course boundaries on the water also allows race officials to move those lines with the flick of a mouse. They've been experimenting with this all week, and in Trimble's estimation, as he scrutinizes the latest amendment to the official racecourse, they've finally gone too far.
Classically, sailing races begin with the boats heading into the wind. But neither an upwind start nor the occasionally used downwind start makes for particularly exciting TV. Boats travel fastest when moving across the wind—known as a reach in sailing. As part of its campaign to turn sailing into a spectator sport, the America's Cup race committee has been breaking with tradition and designing courses with a reaching start and a very short first leg. In some of the course designs for the World Series, the first turn is a mere 18 seconds from the start line, whereas in a typical old-school yacht race the first leg might take 10 minutes to sail.
The new racecourses make for Nascar-type action, with high-speed turns and fast overtaking, but create all sorts of problems for the sailors. The main one is that a reaching start is so fast, it is very difficult to time it correctly. Boats are supposed to get a run-up, then cross the line just as the official start is sounded. Left unpenalized, a gun-jumper is almost certainly going to win the race. Yet the traditional remedy—forcing offenders to circle back and restart—guarantees a loss on a fast course.
Again, it's LiveLine to the rescue, with a new kind of penalty. It's a virtual line that appears a set distance behind the boats that didn't jump the gun. The offending crew must retreat to this line—and quickly. The slower the craft responds, the farther back that line falls. Such a perfectly calibrated penalty wasn't possible before every boat was wirelessly tied to a tracking system.
What's giving Trimble fits, however, is that the race managers are having a little too much fun with the power that Honey has given them and seem to be unaware of its limits. It's the last race on the last day of racing in Venice, and the announcers in the broadcast booth are calling it Super Sunday because the competition is for triple points. Trying to squeeze as much excitement out of the event as possible, the race committee has come up with a radically heterodox course that hugs the edge of the city and forces all the boats into a hairpin turn near the mouth of the Grand Canal. It's clearly designed to give the crowds that are massing on the Venetian shore a close view of the action. But it's like no racecourse in the history of sailboat racing. LiveLine was designed to handle a specific type of course, not every possible combination of gates and rounding marks. "It's not necessarily the case that the software is ready," Trimble says. "It might work, but we've never tested it."
Tim Heidemann wants to run Fleet-o-Matic, a simulator that could test the novel course in software, but there is no time. He's in a gallows mood: "It's only live TV," he says.
"The software challenges that this course creates are really stupid," Trimble explains, pointing out a mark placed by the race committee to force the boats to sail close to shore. "For example, when do you round this mark?" he asks. In sailing, rounding a mark is an event, and it's defined precisely by the rules. But a mark that's just placed to herd boats closer to the shoreline? "When does a boat 'round a mark' that it's just sailing past?" he asks. "The answer is not in the racing rules of sailing." A human would be able to deal with the ambiguity, but it's anyone's guess whether LiveLine can. They are about to find out.
Before LiveLine came along, umpires would be on the water during a race, watching the action. Now, thanks to a LiveLine data viewer called UmpApp, the officials spend their days inside a windowless container, watching icons on a screen. Today those officials are Mike Martin, the head umpire, and his salty sidekick from Down Under, Roger Wood. As they talk, they both keep their gaze fixed on UmpApp. The software automatically polices the course boundaries and notifies them when a boat goes out of bounds or crosses the starting line before the gun. Still, it's a promotion. The umpires have gone from glorified line judges to playing a role in crafting an all-new game as they help the race committee figure out the new courses. "We've probably changed half the rules in the rule book," Martin says, seemingly unaware of the chaos that creates for Honey's team.
Fifteen minutes into the race, almost the entire fleet is sailing as a single pack toward the mark that was worrying Trimble—the one designed to force the sailors close to the crowds.
Mitch Booth, one of the TV announcers, calls the action from yet another container in the StanWare complex. "They're fully jammed up here," he says as seven of the nine competitors attempt to squeeze between the mark and the seawall: "It's a pileup!" The videofeed shows mobs of spectators running to get a better view. The audio is of the sailors on the boats screaming at each other to make way—every skipper is mic'd, and they can't turn them off.
Back in the LiveLine container, Trimble is freaking out. Although the system is proving smart enough to handle the odd course design, Trimble has discovered another limitation. "I can't show four marks at the same time," he says to anyone who is listening. "I can't do it, the system won't allow it."
The problem is that the course is packed with gate markers, but LiveLine can digitally insert only three at a time into the broadcast. In a normal racecourse, there's only ever one or two on the screen anyway—but this is no normal course.
"Just take one of the other gates away," LiveLine codesigner Milnes responds evenly.
"I am so screwed!" Trimble shouts.
It's not clear that anyone even notices the glitch. And it's the umpires who are truly screwed. They're a few containers over, and pandemonium erupts when they realize what their innovative new racecourse has wrought: a fleet-wide collision.
"Oh boy!" Wood says, his screen filling up with windows, one for each possible rule violation.
"They hit," Martin says, stating the obvious.
"Artemis was protected inside of the zone," Wood announces, calling out his observations for Martin to hear.
"Is somebody penalizing Korea?" Martin asks, seeing a penalty request sent from one of the skippers flash on his screen.
They hardly notice, because they're looking at UmpApp instead of the television feed, but a member of Team Korea has just fallen overboard while attempting to disentangle his boat from the rest.
"Team New Zealand starboard—China as well," Wood says, rattling off the boats with right of way. But there are so many overlapping right-of-way rules that it may not even be possible to make a fair call.
"Now everyone is protesting everyone," Martin says, increasingly exasperated.
First, second, and third places go to the French, American, and Swedish teams, respectively. But half the fleet wasn't able to finish the race at all due to the pileup at the mark. Emirates Team New Zealand, which had the inside lane during the crash (and thus is probably not to blame), limped across the line in last place. While sailing past the checkered flag, Dean Barker, the Kiwi skipper, looks into the onboard camera to talk directly to the TV audience. "Well, there's only one word for that," he declares. "That's just a joke—an absolute joke."
Ellison's grand plan, which has always been to democratize his sport, has so far handed him some big defeats. The first was at the hands of San Francisco's city government, the second at the hands of NBC. But with LiveLine, Ellison may have gotten even more than he hoped for. He ordered up a software package of crowd-pleasing bells and whistles. Honey gave him an operating system for an entire sport. For all the chaos that ensued in Venice, LiveLine was a success: The boats may have crashed, but the system didn't.
Huge pileups are a Nascar tradition, but they've never been part of sail racing before. Neither has a checkered flag. Traditionalists may complain, but these may be good for the America's Cup. Team Oracle's star skipper, Jimmy Spithill, recognizes the potential. "A lot of my mates are professional rugby players and race car drivers; they know what I do, but before LiveLine none of them could get through a race," he says. "They would just yawn and turn off the TV. Now they love it, because they can understand it." There's evidence that the general public will agree: The following race, in Newport, Rhode Island, earned a 0.9 Nielsen rating—beating out the same weekend's Tour de France coverage.
But for sailing to make it as a true spectator sport, Ellison must appeal to both a broad audience and the old hands at the yacht club. Multiboat pileups make for lousy racing but pretty good TV—and that is the bind that Ellison finds himself in today. He can dial up the carnage with crazy course designs worthy of pachinko. Or he can go classy and trust that yacht racing, newly comprehensible, will find a mass audience on its own.
No one, not even Stan Honey, knows where Ellison is going to take the America's Cup World Series when it gets to San Francisco. But Honey does know one thing for sure. "Our shit is on schedule and on budget," he says, to the sound of walnuts cracking between his frontal lobes, "and it works." If the new America's Cup does not find its way, it won't be the fault of the navigator.
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The "sharing economy" — the notion of collectively getting more use out of things by increasing the number of people who can use them — is nothing new.
People have been sharing tools for all of human history. Most people have even let a friend borrow a car before.
But as Le Web conference founder Loic Le Meur noted recently, the Internet, smartphones, and location-aware apps are letting people share like never before. You can hop on Airbnb and rent an empty townhouse in France for the weekend at a fraction of the price of booking with a travel agency.
Can't get a loan from a bank to start your business? You can create a Kickstarter and raise all the money you need from the people who'd be interested in your product in the first place.
It's amazing to see the ways people are coming up with to better take advantage of the web to collaborate on and share the things that we used to have to pay for ourselves.


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By Matt Murphy
State House News Service
BOSTON — Amazon.com Inc., the world's largest online retailer, will begin collecting Massachusetts sales taxes starting next fall under a new agreement with the state, according to the Patrick administration.
Small businesses have been pressuring Gov. Deval Patrick to reach a deal with Amazon over sales-tax collections in time for this holiday shopping season, but the agreement will not take effect until Nov. 1.
"We are thankful Amazon was willing to come to the table and we will continue our conversations with them about creating jobs here," Patrick said in a statement. "This agreement is a win for all sides, and I am pleased it promises to generate millions in long-term revenue for the commonwealth."
Amazon will also support Massachusetts in its effort to promote a national solution to the issue of online retailers collecting sales taxes on purchases. A number of states, including New Jersey, have reached similar agreements with Amazon.
Administration and Finance Secretary Jay Gonzalez said the Department of Revenue's best estimate for sales-tax collections in fiscal 2014 are in the low tens of millions, which will be factored into the state's revenue estimates.
"It's not going to solve all of our revenue problems, but it's going to help mitigate the erosion of sales-tax revenues," Gonzalez said.
Under federal law, online retailers do not have to collect and remit sales taxes from customers in states where the company does not have a physical presence.
Amazon purchased Kiva Systems, a North Reading-based robotics company, earlier this year. It also opened a research office in Cambridge, establishing what some officials suggested was the "brick-and-mortar" nexus necessary for the state to force the company to collect the taxes from online shoppers.
Those business interests, however, are unlike the distribution facilities directly related to Amazon's online retail operations that other states have used to force agreements, Gonzalez said.
Though some states struck direct agreements with Amazon to build new facilities or create jobs, Massachusetts officials said Amazon only committed to growing here in the future in its related business ventures. Gonzalez said through the negotiation process, state officials built a good relationship with Amazon and believe Amazon sees Massachusetts as a "growth area" and plans to "ramp up" its presence.
"We look forward to creating hundreds of high-tech jobs in Massachusetts and continuing to work with Gov. Patrick, state leaders, retailers and Congress to pass federal legislation permitting interstate sales tax collection," said Paul Misener, Amazon vice president of global public policy.
According to the Alliance for Main Street Fairness, Massachusetts has lost out on $600 million in sales-tax collections from ecommerce since 2007, including $132 million in fiscal 2012 and $116.8 million in 2011. The state has a "use-tax" provision in the tax code requiring residents to record and pay sales taxes on purchases made out-of-state or online, but enforcement has not been successful.
Though the agreement will pertain only to purchases on Amazon-owned sites, there is a hope that Congress will take notice and other online retailers may help exert pressure to get a federal legislative compromise passed.
"I think the hope is this would create some momentum," Gonzalez said. "Maybe we can convince some other retailers to voluntarily agree."
The Massachusetts Main Street Fairness Coalition, made up of retailers, local officials and labor unions, said it was "grateful" that its members would not have to go through another holiday sales season competing with Amazon and the built-in disparity in pricing due to the 6.25 percent sales tax.
"Although we would have preferred a level playing field this holiday season, we are grateful to Gov. Patrick for his tireless work on this issue," said Jon Hurst, president of the Retailers Association of Massachusetts. "Unfair sales-tax application is an antiquated policy that favors out-of-state businesses over local employers and it has to end."


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41st OLAB Program Underway• July 8, 2013 Share:
Sixty-four high school seniors from all across the country descended on the Wabash College campus Sunday, marking the 41st consecutive year of the Opportunities to Learn About Business Program. OLAB is the oldest, fastest, most entertaining, and best program of its kind in the United States.
OLAB Director Jim Amidon said that selecting students for this year's program was particularly tough, but that he was thrilled with the final results.
"We had far more applications for OLAB this year than at any point during my tenure as director," Amidon said. "As a result, we selected the most diverse OLAB student body in the 41-year history of the program — and it's the largest group in two decades."
Amidon said that the Internet has resulted in students from all over the country applying for the one-of-a-kind program. Students in OLAB this year come from Indiana, Texas, California, Illinois, Tennessee, Connecticut, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina and even Spain.
"It's terrific that we have 30 students from outside Indiana," said Amidon. "This program used to be limited to students from Indiana, but we're now internationally known and respected."
The OLAB schedule in 2013 is once again fast-paced and full of fun. "Labbies," as participants are known, started immediately with a workshop led by Wabash Rhetoric Professor Todd McDorman, before diving headlong into production led by OLAB Game-Master Greg Shaheen and Economics Professor Humberto "Bert" Barreto. Students will hear from a variety of guest speakers throughout the week — lecturing on all aspects of business, from business ethics to marketing.
By Tuesday, the students will split into 13 companies competing in the difficult consumer electronics market. Each team has to design, market, and sell handheld devices — and must differentiate from the competition in order to do so. Participants in OLAB will study effective group decision making, speech making, accounting, marketing, advertising, and they will even negotiate a labor agreement — or at least they'll try.
"It's a very full week," said Amidon. "We try to instill in the students from day one that they need to pay attention, get involved, have fun, and think both critically and creatively. Those are the keys to success and fun at OLAB."
The Goodrich Trust continues to be the anchoring sponsor of the OLAB program.
"I can't tell you how excited everyone associated with the OLAB program is about this year's group. From the diversity of the class to the wealth of experience our faculty and counselors bring to the program, this will be a great year," said Amidon.
Graduation is set for Saturday, July 13 at 2:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center.
This year's participants include: Carlton Anker of Carmel, IN; Nick Beeson of Carmel, IN; Adam Berman of San Antonio, TX; Laura Sistach Bosch of Barcelona, Spain; Kristin Bronson of Penn Valley, CA; Dana Cornish of Bolingbrook, IL; Baylee Crum of Frankfort, IN; Sam Cunningham of Lafayette, IN; Emily Dickey of Germantown, TN; Garrett Emerick of Crawfordsville, IN; Olivia Fiasconaro of Cheshire, CT; Thomas Gardner of Indianapolis, IN; Taylor George of Fishers, IN; Andrew Good of Indianapolis, IN; Marcelo González of San Juan, TX; Kevin Griffen of Brownsburg, IN; Luke Gunderman of Carmel, IN; Daniel Hamrin of Lexington, KY; Jack Harvey-Camillone of Chicago, IL; Lauren Hawkes of Hunting Valley, OH; Kelsey Helstrom of Noblesville, IN; Meredith Hess of Claremont, CA; Jacob Huff of Jasonville, IN; Jack Hughes of Franklin, IN; Cory Hutchison of Crawfordsville, IN; Lucy Johnston of Zionsville, IN; Shashwat Kala of Waterford, CT; Chelsea Klassa of Novi, MI; Megan Klassa of Novi, MI; Isaac Lamb of Pendleton, IN; Jenny Ly of Indianapolis, IN; Stephen Malburg of Columbus, IN; Isak Massman of Antioch, IL; Nicholas Medrano of Plantation, FL; Ryan Mensah of Evanston, IL; Anna Merino of Eads, TN; Nolan Morse of Crawfordsville, IN; Kevin Murphy of Elmwood Park, IL; Chineme Obiefune of Ellicott City, MD; Kevin O'Brien of Crawfordsville, IN; Matthew Paluszny of Carmel, IN; Caroline Payne of Carmel, IN; Luke Peduto of Indianapolis, IN; Spencer Price of Holland, MI; Ben Puckett of Sharpsville, IN; Brian Pulawski of Zionsville, IN; Brady Quackenbush of Fishers, IN; Michael Quiroz of Waukegan, IL; Parker Redelman of Carmel, IN; Emma Servies of Crawfordsville, IN; Scott Sharp of Davie, FL; Sarah Stackhouse of Riverview, FL; Daniel Straka of Munster, IN; Patrick Stratton of Crown Point, IN; Sam Surgalski of Traverse City, MI; Stephanie Timm of Indianapolis, IN; Michael Tornaritis of Edwardsville, IL; Kayla Turgeon of Durham, NC; Sara Vanderkolk of Columbus, IN; Christine Wang of Carmel, IN; Christopher White of Westfield, IN; Amy Wu of North Potomac, MD; Yosita Yeerong of San Diego, CA; and Sean Yuan of Houston, TX.


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Pancreatic Cancer
Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States and is responsible for an estimated 270,000 deaths worldwide each year (Ferlay 2010).
Multiple factors, including a complex and poorly understood pathophysiology and difficulty in early detection and diagnosis make successful treatment of pancreatic cancer extremely challenging. Pancreatic cancer is typically not detected until it has already reached a locally advanced or metastatic stage due to the relative lack of symptoms in early disease. Current standard of care comprises surgery if the tumor is contained within the pancreas, followed by adjuvant chemotherapy and possibly radiation. However, if the cancer has spread, conventional treatment is limited, and long-term survival rates remain very low.
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Academic Areas of Interest
I have several areas of research interest. The first is understanding the molecular control of development and function of a subclass of T lymphocytes called gamma delta T cells in Xenopus laevis (the African clawed frog). A second area of research interest is the identification of the signaling processes involved in the response of the flatworm, planaria, to light. We have evidence that histamine is a neurotransmitter involved in this response, and are evaluating the precise mechanisms by which histamine is required for this response. I am also studying regeneration using planaria as a model system for tissue regeneration. When planaria are cut into pieces, each piece regenerates an entire body including head and tail. I am interested in the role of the Wnt signaling pathway in regeneration, as well as the role of the innate immune response in these processes. Another area of interest is in the effects of stress and exercise on immune response.
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Spending time with my family, playing tennis, running, and reading
B.S. Biology, cum laude, Xavier University, Cincinnati, 1982 Ph.D., Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, 1988 Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1987-1990 Instructor, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 1990-1992 Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 1992-2001 Special Projects Director, Office of Research, Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 1998-2001
- B.S., Biology, cum laude, Xavier University (Cincinnati, OH), 1982
- Ph.D., Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, PA), 1988
- Post-doctoral fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1987-1990
- Ashley L. Lamb, Debra E. Hess, Sherie Edenborn, Elizabeth Ubinger, Andres E. Carrilloc, Pierette M. Appasamy. 2017. Elevated salivary IgA, decreased anxiety, and an altered oral microbiota are associated with active participation on an undergraduate athletic team. Physiology and Behavior. 169:169-177.
- Appasamy, P.M. 1999. Biological and Clinical Implications of Interleukin-7 and Lymphopiesis. Cytokines, Cellular and Molecular Therapy 5(1)25-39. (Invited chapter)
- Appasamy, P.M. 1997. "Interleukin-7 and Lymphopoiesis", in Cytokines in Health and Disease, second edition, D.G. Remick and J.S. Friedland, ed. (invited chapter), Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York. ch. 7 pp. 101-119.
- Appasamy, P.M. 1995. "Interleukin-7 and Lymphopoiesis: Biologic and Clinical Implication", in Cancer Treatment and Research, Kurzrock, R. and Talpaz, M., ed. (invited chapter) ch. 9 pp 235-260.
- Appasamy, P.M. 1993. Interleukin-7: Biology and Potential Clinical Applications. Cancer Investigation. 11(4)493-505 (invited article)
- Kitson, R.P., Appasamy, P.M., Nannmark, U., Albertsson, P., Gabauer, M.K., and Goldfarb, R.H. 1998. Matrix Metalloproteinases Produced by Rat IL-2-Activated NK Cells. J. Immunol. 160:4248-4253.
- Appasamy, P.M., Kenniston, T.W., and Amoscato, A.A. 1997. Requirement for Surface Aminopeptidase Activities during Development of CD8+ Fetal Thymocytes. Cell. Immunol. 177:1-8
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okay ddamon, here's the question:Which controller should I pick?-Thom
If you want a controller that can do all kinds of other things via the internet, I'd go with a PLM/EZBridge (The EZBridge uses a PLM)Also, if you want to connect via IP (ethernet), the EZBridge is the way to go..if you can connect with a COM port, PLM.if you need to connect with a USB port, PLC.
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Aaron, Thank you!I'm writing this all in Ruby... Can I define DeviceData in Ruby? currently, I read the Insteon ID using devicedata_[12], just as you suggest..now If I create a NEW device_data (without defining it in the template of course), will that device data replicate itself into the database?(just so I'm clear...)device_.childdevices_.each{|c| $children[device_.childdevices_[c.to_s.to_i].devdata_[12].chomp.lstrip.rstrip] contains my Insteon IDso if I do:device_.childdevices[c].devdata_[uniqueDeviceDataID] = valuetosave #The value I really want to save is the Database Delta byte.. this tells me if an insteon device's database has changedThanks again!Dan
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PALMER � There was no change in the outcome after a 6-hour recount of the ballots from the Nov. 5 casino referendum.
While the number of yes votes was one less than previously tallied, the result was the same with a count of 2,563 yes votes and 2,657 no votes.
That news, along with word that Mohegan Sun is negotiating to building a resort casino at Suffolk Downs in Revere, has casino supporters disappointed.
Mohegan Sun, some say, is tying up a parcel prime for casino development and some, including Jennifer Baruffaldi from Citizens for Jobs and Growth in Palmer, worried about what might happen if MGM is not given a license.
MGM Springfield was chosen by Mayor Domenic J. Sarno and his advisory committee but the company still faces tough scrutiny by the state before a gaming license could be issued and some are doubtful that will happen.
If MGM Springfield fails, Ms. Baruffaldi said, "That opens up Western Mass. again."
Town Administrator Charles Blanchard said with the second count upholding the failed vote, he will be back at work as usual. While there won't be a plethora of jobs coming to town with a resort casino, he is optimistic about the future of Palmer.
"Sherwood Industries got a grant for an industrial rail extension," Mr. Blanchard said, adding that other companies have added a handful of jobs, as well.
The tedious recount of votes cast earlier this month included a familiar central Massachusetts face: Madaline I. Daoust from Southbridge said she volunteered to help with the recount because she had experience in that area.
Ms. Daoust had to take part in a a 2010 recount which ended with a court-ordered "do-over." In the end Peter J. Durant, R-Spencer, prevailed over incumbent Geraldo Alicea, D-Charlton.
Ms. Daoust said she contacted Palmer Town Clerk Susan Coache and offered moral support.
"I never met her before today but we talked on the phone," Ms. Daoust said. "I think it's good to have someone to talk to."
The casino measure was initially defeated 2,657 to 2,564 in the Nov. 5 vote. The would-be casino developers and local residents who had been lobbying for the $1 billion gaming facility to be sited just off the Massachusetts Turnpike petitioned for a second count of the ballots.
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Vranov's location was first mentioned by Cosmas of Prague in 1100 as a border sentry castle (oppidum (et) castrum Wranou). It was built by Dukes of Bohemia for defending the south border of Moravia against raids from neighbouring Austrian March. Until 1323 the castle had remained in royal hands but in this year king John of Bohemia pawned Vranov to powerful Bohemian nobleman, viceroy Jindřich of Lipá.
The Czech Republic is a cool little landlocked country south of Germany and Poland, with a national addiction to pork and beer. Potatos, cabbage, and dumplings are close behind them, and they also have this great bar food called "utopenec." It means "a drowned man," it's pickled sausage with onions, perfect with some dark wheat bread and beer. The Czech bread is legendary, like a meal all by itself.Czechoslovakia first became a sovereign state in 1918 when it declared independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The state of Czechoslovakia lasted until the "Velvet Divorce" of 1993, which created Slovakia and the Czech Republic.It was occupied by Germany in WWII but escaped major damage, unlike most other European cities. The nation's capital, Prague, retains some of Europe's most beautiful Baroque architecture as well as one of the largest medieval castle complexes still standing. The President of the Czech Republic has his offices in the Prague Castle even today.There was a coup d'etat in 1948 and Czechoslovakia fell under Soviet rule. For fifty years Czechoslovakia was a Socialist state under the USSR, subject to censorship, forced atheism and even the arrest of jazz musicians!In 1989, communist police violently squashed a pro-democracy demonstration and pissed everybody off so bad that a revolution erupted over it, finally ending the Communist rule.The next twenty years saw rapid economic growth and westernization. Today in Prague you can eat at McDonald's or KFC, shop for snowboarding boots and go see a punk rock show.The Czech Republic took over the presidency of the European Union in January 2009. This instantly created lots of political drama because the President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, is a renowned Euroskeptic.We anxiously await the outcome of "President Klaus vs. the Lisbon Treaty", a world heavywieght fight sceduled for spring 2009.Text by Steve Smith.


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For Europe's Roma, discrimination and abuse remain the norm
In mid-October, French police interrupted a school fieldtrip to whisk away a 15-year-old girl. Her crime? Officially, the French government had just turned down the family's asylum request and decided it couldn't wait until the end of the school day to get her and her family out of the country.
Police escorted her off a bus filled with her classmates and she was quickly expelled to Kosovo, a country where she had never lived.
Many believe the bum's rush was really a reaction to the girl's ethnicity, Romani, or in the more common and derogatory word, Gypsy. Experts say that harsh treatment is all too common for members of one of the last ethnic groups in Europe for whom slurs and abuse remain widely acceptable.
A report by the charity group Oxfam recently described the Roma "as the most vulnerable and deprived ethnic group within Europe." It went on to say Romani are "disproportionately affected by poverty and discriminated against in employment, education, health care, administrative and other services" and that "they face considerable obstacles to the full enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms."
The story of Leonarda Dibrani's expulsion from France took a surprising turn. Hundreds of French students and supporters flooded the streets of Paris to demand that she be allowed to return in what many thought might mark a turning point in deeply negative views Europeans hold of their centuries-old neighbors.
But such hope disappeared within days when news outlets reported that a Greek Roma family might have abducted a blond girl who police found when they searched a Roma settlement north of Athens as part of a drugs and weapons investigation.
A Greek children's charity official quickly noted: "This case has reinforced our suspicions of Roma involvement in child trafficking. . . . Blond, blue-eyed children are clearly being targeted."
It was a stereotype that stretches back centuries. The Spanish author Cervantes in 1613 made child theft the theme of his story "The Little Gypsy Girl."
"The Italians gorged themselves on this story of a little blonde girl who they believe was snatched by evil Gypsies," said Rome-based human rights attorney Claudia Tavani. "This is despite the fact that, to this day, it has never once been proven that the Roma have had anything to do with kidnapping."
Tavani said the recent European economic crisis has increased discrimination, especially in struggling nations such as Greece and Italy. When times are tough, people want scapegoats, and the Roma, who are thought to have originated in northern India but have lived in Europe since the 1300s, are an easy target.
In Italy, the Roma are trotted out every time a government or a politician is in trouble, Tavani said. "Politicians see easy votes in vowing to rid Italy of these thieves, robbers and kidnappers," she said.
The demonization of the Roma is hardly limited to Italy.
In Slovakia, city governments build walls around Gypsy camps. In the Czech Republic, neo-Nazis lead protests against their presence. Famously tolerant Norway banned outdoor camping in Oslo to keep homeless Roma away.
In Romania, a right-wing political party recently offered cash to any Roma woman who would get sterilized. In France, Gilles Bourdouleix, a 53-year-old member of Parliament, this summer said of the Roma: "Maybe Hitler didn't kill enough of them."
Hitler's Germany killed between 250,000 and 500,000 Roma (and Sinti, another branch of the people known as Gypsies). The Holocaust hardly ended hatred toward the population in Germany.
Martin Korol, a center-left politician from Bremen, recently said, "Roma come from an archaic world. . . . The prospect that they will ever contribute to the national product or pension funds is zero."
Standing next to the year-old memorial to those killed by the Nazis, Romani Rose, chairman of the Central Council of Sinti and Roma in Germany, said the hatred remains widespread. It has been only 25 years since the official German dictionary definition of the term for all Roma and Sinti was "wandering criminals."
"Even after the Holocaust, our minority still encounters racism and discrimination," he said, noting that they are Europe's last hired, first fired. He said poor villagers come to Berlin and find only overcrowded apartments where unscrupulous landlords overcharge them for a mattress on the floor. "Such overpopulation leads to conflicts with the neighbors, and old prejudices come up again," he said.
A far-right political party recently capitalized on those prejudices with the slogan "Geld fur die Oma, nicht fur Sinti und Roma," or "Money for Grandma, not Gypsies."
Cordula Simon, the commissioner for Europe and International Affairs in the Berlin district of Neukoelln, is consumed with helping Roma immigrants. She recently wrote a paper on how her neighborhood is coping, and she believes it might be a blueprint for Europe.
"The Roma people, they live in mythology," she said. "Europeans see them as either happy dancers and fiddlers or as dangerous criminals. The reality is that they are just people, and in dealing with Roma immigrants there are many positive stories to tell. Too few are willing to listen, however."
The model is simple: Help out immigrants when they arrive, help their children get into school, help the adults find shelter and jobs. Don't create Roma ghettos, where when something goes wrong (and something goes wrong no matter who is living in an area) it won't be "the Roma" who are blamed.
She noted that there are thieves and organized beggars among the Roma, but the percentage is no higher than it is in other populations.
In a nation facing a demographic emergency, with too many aging adults who will soon need pensions and too few children to become workers and keep that pension system alive, the Roma should be seen as part of the solution, not the problem, she said.
Among the most positive aspects of recent Roma immigration, she said, is education. Teachers in her district have been approaching her, saying that after years of losing faith in the system they've been re-energized. Young Roma children, coming from desperately poor rural areas of Romania and Bulgaria, arrive in Berlin schools woefully behind. Many have never been to school before.
"But their energy level, their hunger to learn, is enormous," she said. "Teachers again and again are telling me they believe in education again."
It's moving to see to what extent Roma parents will sacrifice to give their children a better life, she said.
Mitek is a 37-year-old Roma immigrant from Bulgaria. He lost a job and found no prospects at home, so he left his wife and children behind and came to the new capital of Europe hoping for a better life. What he has found to this point isn't much, and he's too embarrassed by his circumstances to let his last name be published.
When Mitek isn't sweeping clean the patch of abandoned factory in central Berlin that he's called home for six months, he's either out scavenging plastic bottles for refunds or sitting and thinking about the good life that will come. And he still believes, even though his "home" is a scrap-wood hut inside an abandoned factory that he must defend every night from young hipsters who see the ruin as a place for wild parties and graffiti.
"My hope is still to find a job, and to bring my wife and children to live with me," he said while seated outside his hut. "It hasn't happened yet. But I have hope. My life will be better soon."
McClatchy special correspondent Claudia Himmelreich contributed to this story.


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To add to this question, we can't create any minifigure at all even if it's from official parts (such as a bruce banner fig, or for that matter tony stark not in iron man suit)?
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New Yorkers are already tired of the snow this season, but at the top of our Non-Sporting Group picks are a couple of snow white dogs we think they will love to see.
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Garden watchers still remember handler Scott Sommer's 2001 BIS win with Bichon Frise. Scott will be back with a Bichon this year, GCH CH Saks Hamelot Little Drummer Boy, currently the Number Three Dog All Breeds, with five BIS to his credit this year. Drummer Scott are sure to better their 2010 record of six BIS and 45 Non-Sporting Group wins. Drummer was bred by Sandra & Keith Hanson & Shirley & Richard Hamilton, and owned by Barbara Weidner, Laurie Darman, Kim Griffin, & Cecelia Ruggles.
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Last time handler Tim Brazier was in the BIS ring at the Garden it was with a black Standard Poodle. This year he will be showing a white, GCH CH Brighton Lakeridge Encore. Tim and Ally managed to shake up the blasé Poodle crowd by winning the Poodle Club of America's 2010 National Specialty from the classes. She went on to win 18 all breed BIS and 39 Non-Sporting Groups in limited showing, rarely getting far from her Pacific Northwest home. Ally was bred by L'Dyne Wicker Brennan &Debra Ferguson Jones and is owned by Toni & Martin Sosnoff.
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Champion Home Builders Inc., a North American leader in manufactured and modular homes, announced the purchase of Athens Park Homes, a manufacturer of U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) code and park model homes, located in Athens, Texas.
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Valley High School graduate, Ault 18-year-old die in car crash
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A former standout softball player from Valley High School and an 18-year-old from Ault died Friday from injuries sustained in an auto crash on icy roads in south Weld County on Thursday.
Lindsey Mockerman , 20, of Platteville was a passenger in a 2005 Mazda that lost control on a Weld County road between Platteville and Fort Lupton.
The Mazda was eastbound on Weld County Road 22 at about 9 a.m. Thursday morning when the driver, 18-year-old Tyler Comegys of Ault, lost control and spun into the westbound lane, according to Colorado State Trooper Josh Lewis.
The Mazda was struck in the passenger side by the front of a 2012 Ford pickup driven by James Jaramillo, 34, of Greeley. Jaramillo was not injured. Both Comegys and Mockerman were taken to North Colorado Medical Center with life-threatening injuries, and both died Friday.
A 2012 Valley graduate, Mockerman played outfield and second base for the Valley softball team that went on a 24-1 streak in its second year of back-to-back state titles in 2011 and 2012.
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"She was one of those kids who would do anything and everything for you," said Miles, who was at Mockerman's side at the hospital after he learned of the crash Friday morning. "She was so likeable."
Mockerman was homecoming queen her senior year because of her outgoing attitude and friendly personality, Miles said.
"If you just look at her Facebook page, there are comments like, 'I only met you once, Lindsey, and you were so friendly to me,' " he said. "She was just a great person. She had so much going for her in life. She liked horses, cared about her grades and just cared about people."
Miles said he and other coaches were communicating with the girls who had played with Mockerman to help them through this tough time.
"She was such a bright, young kid," he said. "She will be sorely missed."
Lewis said roads were snowpacked and icy and are considered a factor in the accident. It was not known if Mockerman or Comegys were wearing seat belts.
The two are the 33rd and 34th people to die on Weld roads this year, compared to 40 during the same time period last year.


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Using the airbrush was easy. The colors went on fairly even and, for the red stripes anyway, spraying the color was more effective than mixing red food coloring into fondant and cutting out the stripes. We used ribbon to "tape off" the stripes and then outlined them with a black food color marker.
Gavin's party was at the Olympic Fun Center in Hermitage, PA. It's similar to a Chuck E. Cheese because it has arcade games and a play area, but it also has a laser tag area, a roller rink and party rooms. The party rooms must have been painted in the late 80s or early 90s because they are all bright yellow, orange and green. It's a little wild as far as decor goes, but the colors made a fun, colorful backdrop for the cake.
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