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If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth. —Sir Alan Herbert
What's on my mind lately.
I started this website mainly to show off the best of the mathematical images that I've made since 1997. (You can buy sculptures!)
I've accumulated the Web's biggest collection of links for sphere arrangement problems.
I also host Doctor Richard Klitzing's polytope pages.
I'm on Twitter, sometimes.
One friend went so far as to write: Anton is one of the most thoughtful, careful thinkers I know. One of the things I appreciate about him is the enormous depth of his knowledge.
I hope this site and my Wikipedia edits demonstrate better than average command of language. I've done legal word-processing (twelve years) and medical transcription (two years); I could be a proofreader or copyeditor.
My dabblings in mathematics might be good for something. Maybe you know what that would be. For a long time I had no clear idea what I'd like to do. Eventually I decided that my dream job would have something to do with creating beauty through applied mathematics; I might someday go back to school with that in mind.
If you know of an opening for someone like me, or have other ideas about jobs I might do or how to find them, or if you merely found something interesting on this site, do write to me!
I'd like to hear from anyone who remembers me from:
In 1994–5 I shared a cubicle with Sheila N. McNeil (possibly misspelled), until she moved to Twin Bridges, Montana. I meant to keep in touch but promptly lost her address.
What happened to Hansjoerg Walther? He was very active in political newsgroups in 1997–8; but hardly a peep since he returned to Germany after his year at Stanford.


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Have Tutor, Will Travel
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by Don Perman
The pressures of the year are building up and the entire family sorely needs to go away on a vacation. But the knowledge that son Johnny still needs some remedial help to stay on top of the schoolwork is eating at your conscience. What to do?
In the late 19 century, young men and women of means routinely went on vacation with their tutors; mixing leisure with learning was totally natural. It's as fine an idea today as it was then, provided Johnny is also given ample time to goof off with friends while on vacation. A hidden benefit: Johnny can learn there are ways of pleasantly melding hard work with fun.
Families seeking an afterschool education boost during the school year find their tutors in various ways. Educational agencies around the country, from national Princeton Review to local Latutors123, offer a wide variety of tutors, availability, and specialties, but word-of-mouth recommendations from families who have gone down this route before are always best. Also consider the past teachers whom Johnny liked in school. One New York City teacher we spoke to got two sisters as students when their father approached her at the final assembly and hired her for a summer reading project.
Tutors' rates are frequently on a sliding scale, depending on the subject, goals, and student's age. In New York, several tutors told Penta that rates can go from $40 to $150 an hour, depending on the subject. Frequently, it's for one or two sessions a week. Most are open to traveling with families, if their schedules, commitments to other students, and the fee can all be worked out. For intense, very critical tests, such as the SAT college exam, rates are as high as $350 an hour.
One route into tutoring is through the big national agencies. Among the best known is Kaplan. The firm's one-on-one classes are held at the client's family home. On the East Coast, a 12-hour package is $2,199 ($183 per hour) and a 20-hour one is $3,499 ($175 an hour). But how do you keep up those one-on-one sessions during the two-week break in Rome or Jackson Hole? Technology handles it: The sessions can continue with a Skype-like Adobe program that allows the student and tutor speak via video hookup.
Another tutoring titan, the Princeton Review, also offers personal sessions, online and in-person. According to a representative in the New York area, their packages range from $3,240 ($135 per hour) to $8,400 ($350 per hour) for 12 two-hour sessions, according to the teacher's experience level. The in-person sessions can be at the family's home or another convenient location.
The company can also arrange for tutors to travel with families, organized through the tutoring director of the family's local Princeton Review office (the agency has 60 local offices around the country.) Let's assume a family already has the $3,240 Princeton package in place and now wants to keep the tutoring going during a week of vacation travel. A company rep told us that the firm would charge all travel expenses plus eight hours a day at their basic rate of $135 an hour, or $7,560, for the week of vacation tutoring. When the family returned home, they would pick up their tutorial package where they left off. Exact terms of the travel assignment must be arranged in advance and could vary. Distance learning can be handled online as well, though it's not a full-video Skype-type program.
There are also smaller, regional agencies. Tutorbungalow services the East Coast. Among its tutors is Benjamin Spott, 25, with a B.S.. in biotechnology and a master's in engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. He eventually moved to New York to pursue foreign-exchange trading, but that didn't click for him. His path fell into place when he started tutoring in New York "and loved it," he says. "You build a relationship with the families and become a kind of big brother. I'm a people person. I like tutoring as a change of pace and experience." Prospective families ask him for references with past families, employers, and professors. Spott charges $80 to $100 an hour, usually one to three times a week, one or two hours at a time.
Travis Moyer, 30, is out on the West Coast. Moyer got a B.A. in biology from Duke University. He spent three years in Chicago teaching high-school science, before moving to Los Angeles for his wife's show-business job and to pursue an M.A. in education at Pepperdine. Moyer wanted to start tutoring at that point, for the flexibility in hours and decent pay, so he contacted online agencies. He's currently with agency Latutors123 and mostly tutors in high-school math and science. He has about 10 regular students, whom he sees from once a week to as-needed, usually for an hour at a time.
Moyer has been a tutor on the road with a family from Calgary, Canada. S. Robert Chad and his wife, Laurel, hired Moyer to tutor their daughter Kara, 17. This past spring the family did a stint in Palm Springs for Kara's passion—equestrian competition. Chad senior has a private energy company that produces mostly natural gas throughout Western Canada. The couple has two other children, Simpson, 27, and Bretton, 19, also an equestrian competitor.
Kara hopes to be on the Canadian Olympic team one day. So, while in Palm Springs for the training, the family contacted Moyer via his agency. Of course, tutoring someone privately in their home is quite up close and personal – for both the family and the tutor. "I met the mother and daughter for an interview," he recalls, "and then it was OK."
The educational goal for the daughter was an International Baccalaureate degree, which is a worldwide degree recognized globally by high-end international schools. Moyer drove to Palm Springs to spend Monday through Wednesday tutoring the young woman for six weeks. The family paid for his hotel and all expenses. He tutored Monday and Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and then 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesday.
The client was billed by the agency at Travis' usual rate of $60 an hour; the family paid for his entire time away from home. "I taught all the needed subjects," he recalls. "I became part of the family. I dined with them. I watched the [daughter's horse jumping] competitions. The interpersonal connection is something I love. I'm with them long-term, seeing the [student's] growth."
Laurel Chad corresponded with Barron's while traveling in Africa. She told Penta that Kara had an "excellent" series on the horse circuit while in Palm Springs, winning in several classes. The "pinnacle" was that Kara was invited to compete in a special competition at the end of circuit, against some professionals, world champions, and past Olympians.
But the tutoring paid off as well. Kara is now taking a so-called gap year before beginning at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, Calif., where she plans to study International Relations. During this gap year, she'll spend four months at Oxford University taking classes in international relations, while also bringing four of her horses to train on her off-days with a British gold-medal Olympic rider. The Chads have used tutors for such training periods before. Laurel Chad explained that her daughters have been competing during school since the third grade. "Their school has been very accommodating, and both Kara and her sister have understood that in order to continue their riding career, they had to keep up good grades at school and maintain a good education," she says.
"Our advice to other parents is to set the standard for your children at a young age and be consistent. Our daughters have always understood that competing in their sport and receiving the support to do so is a great privilege, thus they work hard at their studies and take their sport seriously." That's wise counsel from a family who has already traveled down the tutorial path.

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Fighting the 'Mom-Shell' Image: New Moms Struggle to Embrace Post-Baby Body
(NEW YORK) -- There is a new breed of mother on the playground.
Just weeks after giving birth, women dubbed "mom-shells," a hybrid of mommies and bombshells, are flaunting their post-baby bodies with skinny jeans and six-inch heels -- an image perpetuated by Hollywood. From Gwyneth Paltrow to Beyonce, celebrity moms have posed in glossy body-after-baby spreads.
Janice Min, the former editor of Us Weekly, says she helped create a celebrity culture of baby bumps with those spreads. Now, she says, those picture-perfect women have "infected our minds" so that "real" moms think they too have to look bodacious after childbirth.
"This crazy shift happened where suddenly it was cool to be pregnant and show off your body after you have the baby," she said. "That was a way for all these actresses to suddenly communicate to the world, 'I'm sexy, I'm still employable, and you want to be like me.'"
But not everyone can look like Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen shortly after childbirth.
"Gisele is a freak of nature," Min said. "These celebrities, a lot of them are just genetic aberrations."
Now there is a populist backlash. Alison Tate, a stay-at-home mom, had just given birth to her fourth child when she did something many women do every day: She resisted having a picture taken with her son at a birthday party because she said she knew she wouldn't like the way she looked.
"After I've had all my children, I felt like I had blown up like a balloon," she said. "It wasn't even a normal kind of being overweight. It's a deflated tire kind of being overweight. You can't fit into normal clothes right away. I felt dumpy, doubt-y, frustrated."
Tate had many reasons to be confident. She had an Ivy League education, she was happily married with four beautiful kids, but she still felt embarrassed by her body after giving birth. So she wrote a blog about the picture experience, and suddenly that moment became a movement.
Tate's website, "Mom Stays in the Picture," started a viral rallying cry and thousands of women submitted their own pictures, even if they didn't look their best.
"You're not looking at whether the mom is overweight, or did her hair, or did her makeup," Tate said. "All you see are moms and their kids, and all the love that are in those photos."
Tate said being a mom-shell is not what motherhood is all about.
"Our kids do not care what we look like," she said. "They only see their mother, and I just think that what women need to do is remember that. You don't ruin their pictures, you complete them."
Perhaps surprisingly, Janice Min can empathize. She too gave birth six months ago, to her third child, and said she also struggled when she saw herself in the mirror.
"It's sort of horrifying," she said. "Afterwards when the bump is gone, you're just kind of a fat lady, and it's really harsh."
Min's self-doubt helped inspire her to write a book called How to Look Hot in a Minivan, to reassure "real" moms that even starlets have a hard time living up to the Hollywood standard.
"We would have quotes from women saying, 'I cried, I work out so hard that I cry,' or, you know, 'I don't eat, I'm always hungry,' you know, crazy things that celebrities do," she said. "That at least puts a reality check on it. But Hollywood is fantasy and we have a hard time, at least when it comes to this area, of separating fantasy from reality because it's so personal for so many women."
In her book, Min shares what she learned about how the celebrities do it. Many famous women will wear a statement necklace, for instance, to draw the eye away from their figures.
"Motherhood and weight are the two most loaded issues for women ever," she said. "And so when you put those two together, it's like moths to the light, but it's also like kerosene to the fire, and women get really obsessed."
When Jessica Simpson battled with weight gain after having her daughter Maxwell, she turned to celebrity fitness trainer Harley Pasternak, who first helped Simpson fit into her Daisy Dukes. In fact, getting her body back has turned into a sponsored event, with her every move watched by her 5.7 million Twitter followers.
But Pasternak said the key to losing the baby weight for any new mom is lots of walking, not a personal trainer. He said women should not feel bad about not bouncing back to their pre-baby figures.
"I've never weighed a client," he said. "I would be upset at someone for not taking care of their health, because as a mom you're setting an example for your child."
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Did I tell you that San Pedro is port town?
As a rain storm is supposed to land this weekend, we're already having very windy days. When the roar of the surf gets gets louder, Cabrillo Beach Pier and Breakwater are the perfect place to watch them break. I joined a few like minded photogs who were already there capturing the high waves crashing against the breakwater. It is such an intense adrenaline rush capturing these insane waves crashing as the salty water splashes high in every direction. The clouds hanging just over the horizon added an exquisite texture in the background that would have been not as interesting otherwise. A Royal Princess cruise ship whose white body now soaked in the warm sunset lighting happened to sail across the frame after leaving the port. Did I tell you that San Pedro is a port town?
As if somebody set it on fire
My friends invited me for a sunset sail. I wasn't sure if we would get any good sunset, considering how hazy and overcast the west sky had been all day. But I certainly welcomed the opportunity. We met at the MDR marina where his boat was parked, and we were ready to go in less than 20 minutes. As leaving the marina and sailing out into the open ocean, we noticed that the thick layer of clouds that covered the sky was clearing up above the Santa Monica Mountains. As the sun appeared in the opening, everything turned gold. When the sun dropped behind the mountains, the sky that had been smeared in gold started glowing orange and then red. As if somebody set it on fire, the flames started spreading across the sky like crazy.
And there I stood frozen
The last stretch of the blazing sunset glow reached as far as my eyes could see. Everything that my eyes landed on turned red and pink. It was one of those sunsets burning so intense that you could almost feel the heat from it. So surreal that you could see the potent glow cast on yourself, as if it was an out of body experience. And there I stood, frozen and captivated by the ethereal colors.
Albeit storm was clearly brewing
Prior to this evening, my attempt to capture a sunset didn't pan out well a few days ago. The thick wall of a marine layer towered over the horizon, resulting in a spectacular sunset dud. Part of me wasn't sure how the sky would turn out to be this evening either, but when clouds gather in the sky, as many photographers do, I went. The gentle winds greeted me at the shore, albeit a storm was clearly brewing out in the ocean. The clouds kept rolling in. And soon the whole world started illuminating in orange and purple.
Embers of charcoal came to life
The clouds in the sky during day looked really promising. Although the clouds lingered, however, by the time when I got to the beach, a thick marine layer just stood over the horizon like a wall where the sun was dropping. Even after the sun was set, the thick grey layer grew paler. I thought to myself that it was another dud, just like so many duds that I had seen. Part of me just wanted to pack it up and leave. But I just didn't. And then something unexpected started happening. As if embers of charcoal came to life by freshly circulated air. The thick layer literally started glowing in orange. And then from orange to red. And then all the clouds started turning red, as if the large number of embers blown by the wind started kindling a fire. It was happening fast. The water turned red. And then in purple. I was so glad that I stayed put.
Wondered if red glow would last into night
The twilight descended quickly. But, still strewn with the flaming clouds, the brightly lit sky was not going to lose the colors any time soon. The tides were low, but the waves kept crashing violently at the rock bed below me. I wondered if the red glow would last into the night. As if a volcano erupted and the perpetual flow of lava were swirling into the ocean.
Awash in overflow of salt water
Again, it was one of those moments. I was indecisive. Did the sky look like if we were going to have a colorful sunset? Till I actually left for the beach and then even was on my way. And it wasn't clear… till the sun actually dropped right above the horizon. The clouds started glowing in orange, red and then purple. The ocean simply reflected whatever colors in the sky. The tides were coming in fast, and I hopped around the rocks to stay dry. But, eventually a big wave crashed hard and got my feet awash in the overflow of salt water.
Splashes started glowing in pink
Thanks to another rainstorm, a ton of clouds lingered in the sky. So, I headed to Flat Rock Point. The winds were blowing like crazy at the shore. For some reason though, instead of going straight down to the bottom as I always had, I took a stroll down toward the cove, 100 yards south of the point. This shallow bay had a tiny bedrock jutting out into the water, letting the powerful waves crash and splash all over it. The sky turned orange as the sun was dropping fast near the horizon. And the splashes started glowing in pink.
Crashing into this little concave
Don't know why I wanted to come back. Probably because the last sunset I witnessed here was so impressive. Or I just simply liked the rock formations here. The tides were low, which let me venture all the way out to the end of the rockbed, which was impossible last time. As the sun touched down the horizon, the orange glow grew intense. Loved how the waves were crashing into this little concave.
Couldn't tell where horizon was
The sky was literally on fire! While with my eyes transfixed at the burning stratosphere, I couldn't believe how intense it was getting by the minute. The ocean soon got completely imbued with the red and orange glow. I couldn't tell where the horizon was. I hiked above the sea of clouds at sunset numerous times. But this was the first time where I wondered if this was what flying above the clouds at sunset would be like.
Nothing to complain about
One of the advantages of having two cameras is that I could produce images twice as many in any given time! Ha! How simple is the concept! It only requires a strategic planning in setting up those two cameras where each can't be seen. The day after the rainstorm certainly presented a lot of clouds still lingering in the blue sky. The wind was still blowing strong, which resulted in high surfs. The clouds were traveling fast overhead. Literally, there was nothing to complain about. Except for the fine mists that I had to wipe off the lens nonstop.
Swirled in purple
I believe, if my memory serves me right, that the whole tip of the bedrock was overflown by the surge of water. I narrowly escaped a massive overflow of water, although my attempt to avoid it was eventually caught up in the end, and found another spot to capture the bedrock slowly submerging in the ebb and flow. The sky painted in orange and purple got intense. The clouds started smearing red. And the water swirled in purple.
God is solitude of man
Then, the blazing clouds spread across the sky like wildfire. Stood frozen at the end of the rock bed strewn with the puddles reflecting the gorgeous colors, I was slowly losing myself in this almost dreamlike state. So calm and tranquil although the sound of the perpetual low tides was deafening. Then, crept in Jean-Paul Sartre's quote. "God is absence. God is the solitude of man." Happy new year, everyone!
It was just deafening
It is always beautiful to witness the sun to touch down the horizon. Sometimes it is so bright, and the glow is so overwhelmingly awash that the sun evaporates into the air. This evening, however, it was just the sun simply dropping behind the horizon without much of fanfare from the clouds. Instead it was the waves that kept crashing at the shore and swallowed up any bit of sound that may ever been heard for the sun. It was just deafening.
Simply mirrored heavenly body
When the sky glows in orange and red like crazy, it is always a great idea to take advantage of that by capturing the reflection of it if water is nearby. Like embers of charcoal came to life, the parts of the thick marine layer that had completely blotted out the sun earlier suddenly radidated in yellow and orange. Torched by the sun and rekindled by the embers, the clouds caught flames in red. The water completely suffused with the gorgeous colors simply mirrored the heavenly body.
Ready to complete my 20%
As unpredictable a weather can be, it could be just hit or miss. But if you don't show up, you will never find out. Woody Allen said 80% of success was showing up. Not that I think you will succeed if you show up, but one thing is certain. No show means zero percent of success. The sky was slowly turning orange and the sea vigorously surged against the rockshore. And I was ready to complete my 20%.
Slowly rolling across sky
A rainstorm was brewing out in the ocean. Thankfully the winds at the shore were gentle. Besides shooting with my Canon, I set up my Sony A6500 to do timelapse, and this is one of the shots that I was awarded with. It has a timelapse app that lets you do it without physically being there to monitor exposures. Soon the whole world started glowing in orange and purple. I loved how these gorgeous clouds were slowly rolling across the sky.
I patiently waited
One of the seascapes I captured past January was this. To my disappointment, the sunset wasn't living up to how promising it appeared to be. But, then, that wasn't new. I decided to focus on splashes and swirling water instead. Soon, I was settled by this hole and crevice which got constantly submerged by the overflowing water. It was just a matter of snapping that right moment. I patiently waited.
Vividly smudged
Every sunset is pretty to look at. But it is true that a sunset with a fair amount of clouds lingering in the sky can be unforgettably beautiful. And the one at this evening proved just that. Loved how the clouds and the waves were vividly smudged with the vibrant orange glow. And it is what made all the waiting and patience worth while.
Drowned in moody tranquility
Sometimes the sky looks more dramatic once the sun is dropped below the horizon. And it was the case this evening. The clouds kept rolling in overhead. The tide was rising high. The relentless waves kept coming in, crashing hard against the bedrock and spraying the lens with fine mist. It was one of those moments when I was drowned in moody tranquility.
Thin, feathery Cirrus clouds decorated sun
When I stepped out the door, the thin layer of hazy clouds was deflecting the sunlight. I wondered if it would clear up. It had been a warm day. Since it was a weekday, the beach was scarce of beachgoers. Just a handful of people came and went, including a couple of guys appearing to be taking in-use photos of messenger bags or sort. Once they left, the view was cleared of people just in time for sunset. The sunset glow on the glistening rocks and water was quite exquisite. A few strands of thin, feathery Cirrus clouds decorated the sun. It was time to capture that wonderful moment.
Intense golden hour moments
Another rainstorm meant another opportunity to capture a ton of clouds lingering in the sky at sunset. And as has been the case for about a couple of months now, I brought both my Canon and Sony. Not only did I do timelapse with both cameras but also I was looking forward to seeing the batches of individual shots that the Sony produced, albeit JPEG. Obviously a different spot would bring a different perspective, probably 50 feet away from where my Canon was, but the intense golden hour moments leading up to the gorgeous sunset were quite something.
Like slowly dying ember
The flames were slowly expiring. But the orange and pink glow in the sky persisted like slowly dying ember. I had been thinking to capture the reflection of the sky in those small puddles and tubs of seawater. Soon, I found one that I liked, planted my tripod firmly at the foot of this tub as deep as my knees and composed the shot. Before the flames went out completely, I started pressing the remote shutter.


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A Crumbling Cultural Story
This is the twenty-eighth of a series of blogs based on excerpts adapted from the 2nd edition of Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth. I wrote Agenda to spur a national conversation on economic policy issues and options that are otherwise largely ignored. This blog series is intended to contribute to that conversation. —DK
Professional propagandists and advertisers use mass media and other instruments of cultural reproduction to control our minds and behavior, displacing authentic cultural stories with fabricated stories that support the interests of their clients. Most commonly, the goal is to get us to vote for a particular political candidate or buy a particular product. By recognizing the nature and function of culture in shaping our understanding of ourselves and our world, we can develop substantial immunity to these mind control techniques.
Culture is the system of beliefs, values, perceptions, and social relations that encodes the shared learning of a particular human group essential to individual survival and orderly social function. It serves as the interpretive lens through which the human brain processes the massive flow of data from our senses to distinguish the significant from the inconsequential, assign meaning, and shape our behavior: "This plant will kill you. That one is food."
The cultural lens reflects both the individual learning of personal experience and the shared learning of the tribe, as communicated through its framing cultural stories. These stories, which the tribe's storytellers traditionally passed from generation to generation, shape our collective identity and relationships. "This is who we are, what we value, and how we behave."
Stories That Light Up the Dark
The experiences of our ancestors offer us wisdom for surviving today's crises.
The processes by which culture shapes our perceptions and behavior occur mostly at an unconscious level. It rarely occurs to us to ask whether the reality we perceive through the lens of the culture within which we grew up is the "true" reality. We just take for granted that it is.
For five thousand years, successful imperial rulers have maintained their power in part by controlling the story tellers to communicate fabricated cultural stories that evoke fear, alienation, learned helplessness, and a sense dependence on a strong ruler for direction and protection.
This induces a cultural trance that suppresses our inherent human capacity for responsible self-direction, sharing, and cooperation. The falsified stories create an emotional bond between the ruled and their rulers while alienating the ruled from one another and the living Earth, eroding relations of mutual self-help, and reducing the ruled to a state of resigned dependence.
Corporate advertisers and PR propagandists have mastered and professionalized the arts of cultural manipulation. Their stories lead us to base our personal identity on the corporate logos we wear, the branded products we consume, the corporation for which we work, and the Wall Street-funded political party to which we belong. At a deeper level they secure our acquiescence to Wall Street rule with a story that goes something like this:
We humans are by nature aggressively individualistic and competitive and this is all to the good. Competition is a law of nature and the driver of progress and prosperity.
It is the civic duty of the individual to compete to maximize personal financial gain. The invisible hand of the unrestrained free market channels this competitive energy to maximize efficiency, drive innovation, and optimize the allocation of resources to grow the economy and thereby bring prosperity to all.
The public interest is nothing more than the aggregation of individual interests. Those who claim otherwise are socialists who would have government take from the productive to reward the lazy and irresponsible. They would limit our freedom and kill the engine of prosperity by taxing the wealthy and regulating the corporations that bear the risks of investing in the productive, job creating enterprises on which the prosperity of all depends. Since we are each the best judge of our self-interest, government regulation and taxes are an assault on individual freedom and distort society's priorities.
The market rewards us each in proportion to our productive contribution. Therefore, do not condemn the rich out of envy. Rather honor them for their contribution to creating a strong and prosperous America.
In our great nation, anyone can succeed who applies himself. Failure is a sign of incompetence or a flawed character.
We hear elements of this story so often they run through our heads as a constant refrain telling us that money is wealth, those who make money are creating wealth, and that we can grow the prosperity of all by freeing the wealthy from taxes and Wall Street corporations from regulation.
The financial crash of 2008 has so exposed the underlying fallacies of the fabricated story that millions of people have been shocked out of the trance. It is a moment of opportunity to penetrate the veil of illusion maintained by Wall Street's propaganda machine and spread public awareness of possibilities for a deep financial and economic restructuring to create the world of our shared human dream.
[Next: The Story of a New Economy]
It's time to talk honestly about collapse–no matter how others may respond.
David Korten on the foundations of a wholly different economy.
The Story of Stuff will take you on a provocative tour of our consumer-driven culture.


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Department of Computer Science
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Financial aid at Marquette is solely based upon the overall merit of the candidate. Generally, aid offered to first year students is in the form of teaching assistantships. Currently, we support 16 teaching assistants and 5 research assistants. These positions are open every year to both new and returning students. Because most of our teaching assistantships support our undergraduate mathematics courses, we typically select students with strong mathematics backgrounds. In selecting new teaching assistants, we examine GRE scores in addition to experience, letters of recommendations, and academic transcripts. For international applicants, we look for a TOEFL iBT score of 90 or higher, with at least a 20 in each area. We consider everyone who applies and meets our expectations regarding academic and English proficiency standards.
For the upcoming academic year, both the CS program admission and financial aid deadlines are January 15.
Assistantship Tuition Scholarship and Stipend
Merit-based full academic year teaching and research assistantships include both 18 semester hours tuition scholarship in addition to a ten-month stipend.
Teaching Assistants (TAs)
TAs function as classroom teachers, lab or quiz instructors, or instructional assistants, e.g., tutors, paper-graders, project helpers, etc. according to the needs of the Department and the qualifications and experience of the assistant. TAs are expected to work an average of 20 hours per week for the Department. Normally, first or second year TAs serve as quiz section instructors - exam/project helpers in a large lecture course like Calculus, Business Math, General Statistics or Introduction to Computer Science. In the third year, after gaining some teaching experience, an assistant may be assigned his/her own one or two sections of a multi-sectioned lower division course.
Research Assistants (RAs)
RAs assist the department in conducting research and are expected to perform research-related activity assigned by the faculty member(s) with whom they work. Typically, RAs are selected from the pool of returning students. RAs actual activities are outlined and supervised by the faculty person in charge of the particular research project. The work done by the RA must be directly associated with this research project.
A small number of CS students are supported by Schmitt or Raynor Fellowships, awarded in a competition within the Graduate School, or by other awards. A student who holds a fellowship generally has no teaching assignment, and is expected to devote full-time effort to study and research. The department also awards two or three Earl W. Swokowski Fellowships to doctoral candidates each summer, which provide stipends for full-time research for the three summer months and additional funds to support travel to attend conferences and professional meetings.
Financial Aid Deadlines
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Northampton, Mass. – It was a strong start to the 2011-12 season for the #22 MIT women's tennis team today as the Engineers swept past Smith College by a 9-0 score in NEWMAC Conference action. The Engineers dropped just one set during the match to the Pioneers in the first contest of the season for both squads.
In doubles actions MIT came up with a pair of quick points, getting 8-1 wins in both the No. 1 and No. 2 doubles matches. The duo of freshman Juana Becerra (Bucaramanga, Colombia) and freshman Vynnie Kong (Cupertino, Calif.) finished the doubles sweep for MIT with an 8-4 win at No. 3.
Sophomore Lauren Quisenberry (Corpus Christy, Texas) picked up the first singles win of the day for MIT with a 6-0, 6-1 win over Jordan Dubin at No. 1. Freshman Michelle Dutt (Gurnee, Ill.) was successful in her MIT singles debut, also dropping just one game at No. 2 with a 6-1, 6-0 win to cinch the match for the Engineers. At No. 4 Julia Hsu (Knoxville, Tenn.) took her match by the same score, while Kong scored a 6-2, 6-0 win at No. 5. Senior Anastasia Vishnevetsky (Orange, Conn.) won at No. by a 6-3, 6-3 score, while Becerra completed the sweep for the Engineers with a 6-1, 3-6, 10-1 victory over Eunice Zhao.
MIT will return to the court on Sept. 17 when it hosts Clark University in a NEWMAC Conference match at 1:00 p.m. Smith also returns to action on Sept. 17 when it travels to Wheaton College for a 1:00 p.m. contest.


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Sentinel-2 MSI Technical Guide
The Sentinel-2 Technical Guide provides an in-depth description of the mission's products and algorithms as well as details on the MultiSpectral Instrument (MSI) and its performance.
Before reading the Technical Guide, users are advised to read the Sentinel-2 User Guide for a high level description of available instrument modes and products.
The categories are:
Gives a description of the spectral bands, instrument design and detector configuration
Provides an overview of the Processing Levels (L0, L-1A, L1B, L-1C) generated by the Sentinel-2 Ground Segment, their access, and links to the generation of Level-2A date using the Sentinel-2 Toolbox
Calibration and Validation (Calval) are vital processes in the quality control of generated products, and ensure that the processed data is meaningful to scientific users.
The Coordinating Centre of the Mission Performance Centre (MPC-CC) provides a monthly status of the Sentinel-2 product quality via the dissemination of a Data Quality Report (DQR). The Report provides information on the monitoring and measurement of product performances against the proposed specification. It also documents observed anomalies and known issues, the list of defective pixels, and any processing chain improvements that lead to an increment of the Processing Baseline.
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NYSE may sell itself to rival exchange
Associated Press
NEW YORK -- Shares in the company that runs the New York Stock Exchange are surging amid reports that it is in talks to sell itself to a rival stock exchange.
The Wall Street Journal and CNBC are reporting that Atlanta-based IntercontinentalExchange Inc. is in talks to acquire NYSE Euronext Inc.
The reports published late Wednesday cite unnamed persons close to the discussions who say official word of a deal could emerge as early as Thursday.
NYSE declined to comment. IntercontinentalExchange did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.
NYSE's stock is up 21 percent in after-hours trading.
Last year, IntercontinentalExchange and Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. made a failed $11 billion bid to buy NYSE Euronext.
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DANBURY, CT (Apr. 21) — Western Connecticut pitcher Magen Dargon recorded a total of 18 strikeouts as Western Connecticut State University (25-13, 5-7) swept UMass Boston (16-18, 3-11) by the scores of 16-2 and 6-4 Saturday afternoon at Westside Field.
Despite the sweep, the Beacons still remain in the hunt for the sixth seed in the Little East Conference Tournament because Keene State swept UMass Dartmouth. With a Western Connecticut win tomorrow, the Beacons will lock-up their second consecutive trip to the conference tournament.
Senior third baseman Maria Nasta (Andover, Mass.) led the Beacons with three hits and two RBI on the day, while center fielder Natalia Bouyea (East Longmeadow, Mass.) added three hits and three runs for UMass Boston.
Jaci Goodwin (Melrose, Mass.) was the lone other Beacon to finish with more than a single hit, as she tallied two hits and a run on the day.
In game one, UMass Boston struggled to slow down the Warriors barrage in a five-inning mercy rule contest. The Warriors connected on six extra-base hits and 18 hits over four innings to earn the 16-2 win.
Bouyea paced UMass Boston with a 2-for-2 game and a run, while Samantha Hemstock (Northford, Conn.) added a double and a run.
On the circle, Kara Willis (Burrillville, R.I.) fell to 7-7 by allowing 16 runs, 15 earned over four innings against the high-power Warriors attack.
Dargon struck out the Beacons in order in the top of first inning and had five strikeouts through the first three innings. Western gave Dargon all the game-one run support she would need when the first three Colonial batters all scored. Senior Danielle Basciano was hit by a pitch to start the bottom of the first, and ended up scoring in all four plate appearances in game one. Amanda Rizzo and Jackie Zilnicki followed Basciano home in the first to give Western a 3-0 lead after one inning of play.
The Colonials scored single runs in the second and third innings to push the lead to 5-0, but the Beacons got on the board in the top of the fourth. Bouyea hit a one-out single and scored on a double by freshman Samantha Hemstock (Northford, Conn.). Sophomore Erika Vecchiet (Pequannick, NJ) followed with a sacrifice fly, cutting the Western margin to 5-2.
In the bottom of the fourth, Western exploded for 11 runs on 11 hits, sending 14 batters to the plate. Basciano hit a one-out single to start the rally and score the first run of the inning for the Colonials, and added a two-out home run in her second at-bat of the inning. In between, Western strung together six singles, a double and a walk, with the only out coming when Zilnicki was thrown out at home as she tried to score on a Dargon single.
UMass Boston got a lead-off walk from pinch-hitter Kelsey Svenson (Oxford, Conn.) in the fifth, but she was doubled off first base when the next Beacon batter, sophomore Toni Scola (Worcester, MA), hit a sharp liner to Rizzo at second base. Dargon got the final UMass Boston batter to strike out looking to secure the 16-2 win in game one for Western.
In game two, UMass Boston pieced together four runs and got a much stronger pitching performance but the Beacons couldn't solve Dargon.
Freshmen starter Michelle Zullo (Everett, Mass.) fell to 9-9 behind a six-inning performance allowing six runs, five earned on 13 hits. The freshmen also added five strikeouts.
Dargon was just too much though, as she recorded at least one strikeout in every inning, finishing with 12 for the game. Bouyea drew a lead-off walk in the top of the first inning for UMass Boston as the Beacons took their first lead of the afternoon, but like game one, Western's first three batters scored to give the Colonials a 3-1 lead after one.
Dargon recorded two strikeouts in the second, one in the third, and three more in the fourth, as she dominated the Beacon batters. Western added a run in the bottom of the third on three straight singles by Russo, sophomore Kylee Ruther and freshman Christine Bighinatti, tacked on one more in the fourth inning when Amanda Rizzo hit the first home run of her Western career over the fence in left field, and pushed the lead to 6-1 when Ruther hit a ball in the same spot in the fifth.
Dargon got the Beacon batters out in order in the top of the sixth, and in the bottom of the sixth Western was held scoreless as two of the three outs were the result of Western runners being thrown out while attempting to steal.
In the top of the seventh, freshman Lauren Perra (Taunton, MA) led off with a walk for UMass Boston and advanced to second on a one-out bunt-single by Goodwin. Bouyea loaded the bases for the Beacons with a single down the line in left field, and after another Dargon strikeout, Basta drove in one run for the visitors with a hard smash off the glove of Western third-baseman Nina Wojtkiewicz. With two out and the bases still loaded, and error by Rizzo at second base allowed two UMass Boston runs to score, but when the following batter grounded out to Basciano at short, Western held on for a 6-4 win and a sweep of the day's doubleheader.
UMass Boston will be back in action Sunday when they host Brandeis University on Senior Day at the UMass Boston Softball Field. The doubleheader will begin at noon.
(Information for this release provided by the Western Connecticut State University sports information department.)


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Scotland Rugby
Robinson resigns as Scotland coach
ESPN Staff
November 25, 2012
Andy Robinson watched his side lose to Tonga on Saturday © PA Photos
Comment by ESPNscrum's Graham Jenkins
Andy Robinson has resigned as Scotland head coach.
The Scottish Rugby Union confirmed Robinson's departure this morning, following the 21-15 loss to Tonga in Aberdeen on Saturday. Robinson had been under contract until after the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
Scotland have lost 10 of their last 13 matches, including elimination from the World Cup at the group phase for the first time. The Tonga defeat was the 19th in Robinson's 35 matches in charge and comes at the end of a calendar year which began with the Six Nations wooden spoon.
In a statement issued by the SRU, Robinson, who was appointed in June 2009, said: "It's been a privilege to be the head coach of Scotland and I'd like to thank the fans, players, coaches and staff for all their support over the years.
"I have thoroughly enjoyed working with the players and the coaches in the last few years. I believe I have left the team in a better position than when I took over and have great confidence in the players and the coaches for the future.
"I am very disappointed by our recent results but I have belief in the players to develop into a winning team."
Robinson's most recent wins were on the June tour to Australia, Fiji and Samoa, and his era ends following a 51-22 loss to New Zealand, a 21-10 reverse to South Africa and the Tonga debacle which leaves Scotland in 12th in the provisional International Rugby Board world rankings.
SRU chief executive Mark Dodson said: "Following the sequence of recent results during the EMC Autumn Tests a change in head coach is required to take the team forward and build towards the Rugby World Cup in 2015.
"I have passed on to Andy Scottish Rugby's thanks for his hard work and commitment during his term as national coach. Andy has overseen some fine results as Scotland head coach since he was appointed in June 2009 but the recent defeats have been very disappointing.
"Andy is an outstanding leader and a fine coach and we wish him well. I'd like to thank our fans for their great support during the Autumn Tests and look forward to welcoming them to Murrayfield for the home games against Italy, Ireland and Wales in the 2013 RBS 6 Nations."
The search for Robinson's successor will begin immediately, with assistant coach Scott Johnson a contender. Former South Africa and Italy coach Nick Mallett may also consider the role worth the challenge.
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Areas of Work
Themes of IFOR's Peace Work
At various International Councils the IFOR movement has elevated certain themes as main areas of concern for continued program development. Many branches and groups carry out local projects on these issues and the International Secretariat prioritizes these as areas of support and coordination. The Secretariat also identifies themes and areas of work are common among IFOR Members. The following areas represent areas of concern either elevated by the movement at an International Council, or represented as common themes or areas of work among branches.
Conscientious Objection
IFOR recognizes that the world's armies are composed of young people. We recognize the conditions of life including unemployment and militarization that impacts young people and young adults. IFOR seeks to provide young people with the skills and opportunities to become active peacemakers. This is done through nonviolence and leadership training and through internships with IFOR branches and groups, or with the International Secretariat.Learn More →
Climate Change
Humankind's relationship to the resources of our world has long been a theme interspersed throughout IFORs campaigns against war, militarization and violence. The unprecedented impact of human activity on the earth's climate has already had an impact on many communities and contributed to violent conflict. IFOR members recognize the relationship between the movements to change our relationship to the environment and IFOR's commitment to work toward a world without war. To this end, IFOR seeks opportunities for cooperation and mutual support in changing the destructive policies that result in global warming.Learn More →
Disarmament & Nuclear Disarmament
Since our founding, IFOR has opposed war and preparations for war. IFOR supports disarmament generally but recent crises have focused our efforts on Nuclear Disarmament in particular.
- Our representative to the United Nations in Vienna, Pete Haemmerle, represents IFOR in matters concerning the UN Office of Disarmament Affairs, as well as the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation.
- Our representatives to the United Nations in Geneva, Michel Monod, and Hans Ulrich Gerber, represent IFOR in matters concerning Disarmament in Geneva.
IFOR Branches and the International Secretariat participate in a number of coalition efforts to oppose Nuclear Weapons. IFOR often coordinates with and joins campaigns connected to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Abolition 2000, and Unfold Zero.Learn More →
Interfaith Cooperation
Religion has played a central role in fomenting conflict but can also be a source of inspiration and leadership for peace. IFOR has long valued the role that faith can and has played in movements for a more peaceful and just world. IFOR understands itself as an interfaith or multi-faith community. That identity is expressed differently in different contexts and is often an aspiration as well as a fact. Many branches within IFOR began among people of the same faith tradition, just as the global movement began and spread primarily among Christians. However, the global movement has long welcomed people of all faiths and recognizes that people can be motivated to live lives committed to nonviolence by convictions not identified with religion and not often described as faith.
IFOR members seek to expand their inclusion and cooperation with a diversity of traditions. IFOR members sponsor interfaith delegations to areas of conflict and publish material on nonviolence from different religious traditions. The IFOR community condemns violence against religious minorities and seeks to expand understandings of tolerance and cooperation within faith traditions.Learn More →
Nonviolence Education & Training
IFOR assists groups and individuals to find ways in which they can transform conflicts into positive and growth oriented interactions that involve dialogue and lead to reconciliation. This is done through various presentations and training programs, as well as through the creation of resource materials and contact with trainers and resource people.Learn More →
Ending Gender Based Violence
Gender Justice: In 2006 IFOR adopted a Gender Policy in which IFOR recognizes that there is a continuum of violence that must be confronted, from family violence in the private sphere to armed conflict in the public sphere. Unequal power relations between women and men are one root of violence, conflict and militarization, where women are often severely abused. Gender justice means that women and men can equally contribute to and benefit from peace building, non-violent conflict resolution and reconciliation. This gender policy recognizes that gender equality is an integral part of IFOR's fundamental values and is a core spiritual value. A transformation of the power relations between women and men is a prerequisite for a culture of peace and non-violence, and must be promoted throughout IFOR. Growing out of the commitments identified in 2006, The Women Peacemaker Program (WPP) was started as a program of IFOR that is now become an independent organization with a broad portfolio of work. WPP maintains close ties within the IFOR community.
The International Secretariat of IFOR interprets the movement's historic commitment to Gender Justice to include work to protect and defend those facing persecution due to sexual orientation and gender identity.
IFOR's work to end gender-based violence is represented at the United Nations in New York by Patricia Ackerman.Learn More →
Youth Empowerment
IFOR recognizes that the world's armies are composed of young people. We recognize the conditions of life including unemployment and militarization that impacts young people and young adults. IFOR seeks to provide young people with the skills and opportunities to become active peacemakers. This is done through nonviolence and leadership training and through internships with IFOR branches and groups, or with the International Secretariat.Learn More →


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Beautiful But Deadly
Beautiful But Deadly Letra
Ayo Stan, Dre laid the tracks, I'm laying the vocals
We need some guitar that ROCKS, know what I'm saying?
So um, let's do this
She's a rich girl, but not the ordinary
Extraordinary, a little too much to carry
Possessed by a demon on a mission
No man alive can refuse her proposition
\u003eFrom this fantasy, but to me she was more than
A bad dream, she was a nightmare for man
Took her sex appeal and she taunted
Twisted the brother until he did just what she wanted
Direguard the laws of the other man
Sacrificing the plight of the brother man
I'm not the type to let a woman make me weary
But to resist, he'd have to be a fairy
Nothing that a brother wouldn't want to indulge in
Drives a Porche and her purse is bulging
Her body in the form of a romantic medly
But be warned, she's beautiful but deadly
She's all about the bank roll, you can tell by the gold
Eyes deep enough to engulf your soul
She's like Medusa, but you won't turn to stone if you watch her
One fatal look is all it takes and she's got ya
On your knees and no more to spend
And you're still thinking how you want to see her again
It'll be difficult, but boy it ain't no joke
Saying nothing going on but her rent and a car note
You're wondering how in the hell
Little knowing you're the reason that she lives so well
Guessing so hard you'll submerge her attraction
But she go so many, son, you're a subtraction
Now you roll like you're crazy
Attitude is send down with being spacy
Never will I let this stupid bitch get ahead of me
I know the scoop, the bitch is beautiful but deadly
She'll keep you mystified like a swami
For you to slow her down, you'll need an army
Of a thousand strong brothers with a gun
But if they're careless, then they're done
She's an animal not to be taken lightly
Once she has a grip and squeezes tightly
You're in line for such a wonderful kiss
It'll cloud your site like the morning mist
No compassion, the minute after you're a slave
Breaking the law making sure she's paid
Yo, you oughta know the girl you see at every concert
She's in the back with the tightest dress looking the best
Know what I'm saying? You have to do like my man Cube
Tell the females that \"I Ain't the One\"
Cause if you don't, readily you're back doing it readily
It's all to keep up the pace with someone beautiful but deadly
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