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Public Media, Public Education, and the Public Good: An Interview with Heather Chaplin (Part Two)/
Editor's note: This is my last post of 2009. See you in the new year. I am going to take some time off with my family.
Much of your discussion centers around the impact of public media on public education. How would you describe the ideal learning environment for the 21st century and what blocks us from achieving that ideal?
One could write a book on that topic! Well, one of the intriguing things about creating a more intimate relationship between public media and public education is that public media is in possession of a national treasure of historical materials. Part of NPL would be assisting public media in digitizing that material and retooling it for teachers to use while teaching.
So imagine a science class where the teacher can pull out a segment from Nova on the spot to illustrate the answer to a particular question asked by a student. Or using a bit of an interview from a Jim Leher interview to make a political point. The examples could go on for ever. And, unlike the archives of corporate-owned media, these arches belong to the American public. We paid for them and we should take advantage of them.
There are also real opportunities for public media to be involved teaching kids media skills. Imagine a local PBS station also being a hub where kids could take classes on video editing, or putting together sound pieces, or making videogames. Part of public media 2.0 calls for local stations to take a greater role in serving their local communities directly.
In terms of the classroom of the future in general, I see digital media as a huge opportunity. I don't believe, however, that digital media tools replace things like smaller teacher-to-student ratios. And I do worry, on some level, about having so much of our lives mediated by machines. I see these digital media tools being used when appropriate to enhance the teaching experience and not as a replacement for teacher to student contact. For example, the idea of using 3-D models of molecules to teach science: that's probably just a better and more effective way of teaching what a molecule is than giving a lecture on one. Therefore, since it's something we can do, we should. On the other hand, discussing a great novel is probably best done by teacher-student discussion. That should go away. It's a matter of understanding the technology now at our disposal and making good choices of when to use it.
What blocks us from achieving these goals? A lot of things. The public school system in this country is messed up almost beyond belief and on every level. Bush's push towards more standardization certainly didn't help - it meant teachers teaching kids to pass certain standardized tests, and not teaching them to be critical thinkers, to be genuinely literate in the sense of being able to create meaning. Our schools are wildly underfunded, and even when money is available, the resistance to change is staggering. I asked one former state school superintendent what she'd do to fix the public education system in this country and she - a mild-looking women in a tweed suit - said she'd blow the whole thing up and start from scratch.
What's so scary is how high the stakes are. Democracy requires an educated citizenry. Without that, you regress to mob rule. Part of being free is knowing how to use your mind.
You are calling for improvements in the broadband infrastructure to bring richer media content into schools but schools are also seeking to police the flow of content into the classroom, blocking off access to social networking and media sharing sites, for example. How might we resolve this tension between the desire to broaden and to regulate access to information in the 21st century classroom?
Another excellent question and I wish I had the answer. It is true that schools and teachers fear the Internet desperately. In part, I think people fear the lack of control the vastness of the Internet implies, I think they fear the new, and I think on some level they simply fear and distrust new technology. People tend to think the things they didn't grow up with are somehow bad.
To me, however, it's like we've built a high-way system, said hey! our whole world is now going to be based on this new highway system - but we're not going to teach anyone to drive. It's sheer lunacy.
I think schools need to learn to teach kids how to use the Internet, not hide them from it. The reasons for this are too numerous - and too well elucidated by you, Henry!, to even go into right here. As to some sort of solution, I can't help but think the answer is working with teachers and parents.
We need to educate people as to what 21st century literacy will require - because being literate in the 21st century is going to be very different from being literate in the 20th century. You simply will not be literate in the future if you don't know how to handle the Internet in a meaningful way. I teach journalism, and I do several classes where everybody brings in their lap top and we do experiments on Internet research, for example. But then that's at the college level and I have freedom over what I get to teach. Again, I can't say enough how high I think the stakes are.
Think of the kid growing up in a small rural town that doesn't even have Internet access. How is that kid going to manage as an adult competing against kids who've been using the Internet since they were toddlers? If the schools don't take this on, children in rural and poor areas will suffer the most and will be left behind even more than they already are.
You argue that concerns about "station by-pass" have sometimes placed public television at war with the new digital tools and participatory culture. Explain. How might we resolve this conflict?
Local public media stations are afraid for their existence. If everything is digital and handled via the Internet, and broadcast becomes a thing of the past, the question does arise of why they even exist. What is their purpose?
The answer to this lies in re-envisioning the role of the local station in its community. A lot of the public media community is starting to image the local station as a community hub, doing serious local journalism, creating forums and town-hall-style meetings, and providing resources for solving local problems. Also, as I mentioned above, taking a greater role in teaching youth to be media literate. The network of local stations is an infrastructure aimed at serving the public good already in place; we shouldn't waste it. But we do need to re-imagine it.
A decade ago, the push to respond to the digital divide led to the wiring of classrooms often without adequate pedagogical goals or professional development. We wired the classroom-now what? How do we avoid the replication of this same problem where the expansion of technical infrastructure outstrips the educational vision needed to use these tools towards meaningful pedagogy?
This is another great question and I feel woefully unqualified to answer it. It's so easy to say what ought to happen, and another thing entirely to actually make something happen.
I think you put your finger on it before when you asked about teachers' wanting to keep the Internet, social networking, etc. out of the classroom. Or Jim Gee talks very eloquently about classrooms very methodically making kids leave everything they're interested in at the door, thus essentially ensuring the kids will be uninterested in the classroom, and, most obviously, failing to take advantage of a kid's natural interests to facilitate learning. Or I love the example I've heard you give of your Moby-Dick project getting stymied because the word "dick" had been blocked by school administrators from Internet searches.
I totally agree with you that having fancy technology is of no use whatsoever if there's no vision of how to use it.
Part of what NPL advocates is also providing content for teachers to use in the classroom and a major push for teacher training when it comes to digital tools. But I know that's kind of a cop-out answer, because how do you actually implement these things? How do you inspire vast change in a system notoriously mired in bureaucracy and seriously allergic to change? This is one of those questions of the ages.
It's probably worth remembering that we are in a period of transition. In another ten years or so, the people signing on to become teachers will have grown up with digital technology and may feel more comfortable using it. In the meantime, I think an assault from all sides is necessary - pressing the Obama administration, which seems pretty savvy and progressive regarding digital technology, to get involved; working with parents to understand what's at stake in terms of their kids' education; educating teachers, etc
Educational games figure prominently in this report. This is not surprising given your previous work on games. Why might games be a particularly rich test case for the kind of expanded public media system you are describing?
Yes, I am very passionate about using games to teach and foster civic engagement. One example: right now simulations exist at all levels of the government for all kinds of things, from weather predictions, to budget issues, to military scenarios. Simulations can be incredibly powerful tools for learning how things work - why not take these simulations, which already exist and which we, as tax payers, financed, and turn them into games made available to the public to play with?
It would be cheap, could reach vast amounts of people quicly and easily, and could educate people about important things like how tax cuts or break will effect the economy, what the potential outcomes of military decisions might be, etc. In other words these could be powerful tools for fostering transparancy, which is key to a real democracy. We now have more data than we know what to do with.
Making games so that people can play with the data is one way to help people make sense of everything that is out there. Government data should be available to the public so that we can make informed decisions about what our government ought to be doing. Taking something that already exists- government-created simulations - and making them available as games to people seems a really obvious way to foster democracy.
I also think public media needs to begin funding games in the same way it funds educational television. The inspiration for the act of Congress that funded the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and created PBS and NPR in the first place was this idea that here was this new media - TV - and that we ought to be using it for more than just entertainment purposes. Well, that was 1967. It's more than 30 years later and there's a new new media on the block and that's the videogame. Why leave such a powerful tool in the hands of corporate entertainment companies? As a society we want it in our arsenal of tools to educate the next generation of Americans to be active and engaged participants in our democracy.
Heather Chaplin is a professor of journalism at The New School and author of the book, Smartbomb: The Quest for Art Entertainment and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution. She recently participated in a Ford Foundation grant looking at issues of the public interest in the next generation of the Internet. She also works with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting on issues of digital literacy and journalism. She has been interviewed for and cited in publications such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, Businessweek, and The Believer and has appeared on shows such as Talk of the Nation, and CBS Sunday Morning. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, GQ, Details, and Salon. She is a regular contributor on game culture for All Things Considered.


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28, 2014]
It is Feb. 12, 1865, President
Abraham Lincoln's birthday. Ground is being broken for the first
college to be named for the 16th president of the United States of
America — Lincoln University, later named Lincoln College.
Less than nine weeks pass ...
It is April 14, 1865. During the thrill of a lively play already
in process at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., President Lincoln
and his wife, Mary Todd, arrive, a little late. As the play
continues, suddenly shots ring out, pandemonium ensues, and after
several moments of chaos, all falls silent.
149 years pass ...
It is now April 2014. You are on the campus of Lincoln College,
not far from University Hall, which yet stands. You are on the
second floor of the newly redesigned Lincoln Heritage Museum.
And today, by means of the most sophisticated modern technology,
you have just experienced what it may have been like to actually be
standing in Ford's Theatre watching as those tragic events unfolded.
Furthermore, you will now continue your walk backward in time as an
active observer to experience in a manner as never before, some of
what may have been the pivotal moments in the life of Abraham
Lincoln Heritage Museum curator Ron Keller and assistant director
Anne Moseley worked in tandem with interpretive planning and exhibit
design experts from Taylor Studios of Rantoul. The work has been
expertly blended into a presentation that uses modern concepts in
lighting, audiovisual and video technologies to bring a sense of
presence to displays and scenes; Lincoln's life comes alive.
While you partake in one of the optional, timed experiential
walking tours, you may find yourself doing more than stepping into
the shoes of Abraham Lincoln. The series of exhibits and displays
use authentic and reproduced items of significance that are set into
real-life surround stages that are fully touchable and interactive —
intended to transport you into the days that Lincoln lived.
You are encouraged to touch the displays. Keller said, "We do
invite people to touch things, get into history and feel it."
Feel the impact of documents, maps, posters and relics grouped
and presented in life-sized displays. Strategically selected events
illuminate whence Lincoln's convictions, strengths and actions may
have come. And likely, you will be challenged to review your own
contributions in life.
You are presented pieces of Lincoln's earlier life that indicate
what may have given him the resolve necessary to lead a young
country through one of its most trying times; to unite, even grow,
as California knocked on its door; or to fail, splinter and dissolve
in dissension over the issue of slavery.
As you progress backward through time, you will gain a greater
sense of what may have gifted Lincoln to be the leader needed for a
country in what was surely its greatest struggle to unite as a
nation of one accord.
One of the exhibits includes reproduced slave posters, a map and
pictures of the working flatboat journey that young Lincoln took
down the Mississippi, where he would have seen slaves openly
marketed on the streets of New Orleans.
According to Keller, historical accuracy was a primary
consideration. "Every word you hear in the audios has been verified
as actual statements made by Abraham Lincoln or others," he said.
"We don't want to take any liberties with history. We want to tell
it like it was."
Carefully selected life-moments foreshadow decisions that led to
dynamic changes of our then less-than-century-old country. You will
journey backward through the personal moments and events that molded
the man who crafted words with such power that they are some of the
most noted in this country's history — speeches that kept a country
from coming apart. Documents, debates and speeches, such as his
Second Inaugural Address in the midst of the Civil War, stand out
yet today.
Like a good movie that pulls you in and makes you feel at one
with the main character, at some point you may find yourself walking
in Abraham Lincoln's shoes. Scenes are set using authentic or
replicated items of significance: a room of family portraits; a
walk-in Civil War commander's tent with lantern and maps; a
courtroom with pieces of evidence from the common cases Lincoln
argued; speeches; national decrees of freedom for the oppressed; the
hand-built coffin Lincoln made for his mother. You are looking and
thinking back over clarifying moments — the who, what and where —
that in combination with the character and qualities of Abraham
Lincoln may have been what destined him to his life extraordinaire.
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As you move from one scene to the next, backward through time,
you will feel Lincoln's personal losses and sorrows, see his
increasing strength of commitment and intent. Audibly, the cadence
of tock, tock, tock, tock steadily increases in volume. The measure
of time seeps into your awareness.
The calculated re-creation makes it as though you are walking
with Lincoln, you are Lincoln, reviewing his life from the time he
is shot to the time that he dies. As you take that walk with him,
the tick of a clock grows louder, imploring that you, like him,
might take stock of your own life and live with purpose and intent
to make a difference.
The new location in the Lincoln Center not only expands the
exhibit space fourfold but also adds storage space. Plans include
regularly changing displays on the main floor.
The climate-controlled space will not only help preserve the
priceless relics the museum owns, but also open the doors to
opportunities to host other traveling exhibits.
In review, Keller considered what design elements cost today and
the time that Taylor Studios spent coming back again and again to
make everything just right. He was very pleased by the results and
the costs. "We realize how good of a deal we really did get," he
About A. Lincoln
Being self-taught, Abraham Lincoln often made note of the
importance of education.
He frequently felt inferior in his presentations. Yet, Lincoln
penned some of the most powerful speeches and national decrees in
our country's history. Today, 149 years after his passing, he is
hailed as one of the most significant speakers and writers in
American history. Schoolchildren study and memorize works such as
his Emancipation Proclamation; he is known worldwide and often cited
and quoted by leaders still today.
Lincoln College President John Blackburn says that the college
embraces Abraham Lincoln's legacy.
"At Lincoln College we want every student to have an outstanding
college experience, and the Lincoln Heritage Museum will play a
vital role in that mission," said Blackburn. "We are excited to
showcase the museum's great treasures and stories and to connect
those things with our academic programs and campus life. The museum
will provide opportunities for students from many backgrounds to
shape their own success stories through Lincoln College."
A Lincoln College trustee, Susan Hoblit, whose ancestors often
hosted Lincoln at their rural homestead near Atlanta as he traveled
to Bloomington, coined the new phrase for the college and museum:
"Learn like Lincoln. Live like Lincoln."
A trip to the museum adds new perspective to the life and world
that Lincoln lived in. It is history to be experienced.
The museum is not only a treasure to the community in knowing A.
Lincoln better, but also will bring visitors to learn more of and to
experience Abraham Lincoln.
On campus, University Hall still stands and is in use today for
both classrooms and administrative offices.
The Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area, managed by the
Looking for Lincoln Heritage Coalition, is in central Illinois.
There are numerous historic sites throughout Logan County where
Lincoln traveled, practiced law and gave speeches.
The college, the town of Lincoln and the county of Logan offer
the most condensed opportunities to walk in the footsteps of a man
who lived with intention and greatness in helping all mankind.
The newly redesigned and expanded Lincoln Heritage Museum now
offers everyone the opportunity to come and experience the life of
Abraham Lincoln on a fresh and personal level.
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Information about the Bird Chipping Sparrow
In the winter, chipping sparrows are gregarious and form flocks, sometimes associating with other bird species. They mostly forage on the ground for seeds and other food items, as well as clambering on plants and trees, feeding on buds and small arthropods. In the west of their range they breed mainly in coniferous forests, but in the east, they choose woodland, farmland, parks and gardens. Breeding starts in late April and May and the nest is often built in a tree.The chipping sparrow (Spizella passerina) is a species of American sparrow, a passerine bird in the family Emberizidae. It is widespread, fairly tame, and common across most of its North American range. There are two subspecies, the eastern chipping sparrow and the western chipping sparrow. This bird is a partial migrant with northerly populations flying southwards in the fall to overwinter in Mexico and the southern United States, and flying northward again in spring. It molts twice a year. In its breeding plumage it has orangish-rust upper parts, gray head and underparts and a distinctive reddish cap. In non-breeding plumage, the cap is brown and the facial markings are less distinct. The song is a trill and the bird has a piercing flight call that can be heard while it is migrating at night.
Throughout the year, adults are gray below and an orangish-rust color above. Adults in alternate (breeding) plumage have a reddish cap, a nearly white supercilium, and a black trans-ocular line (running through the eye). Adults in basic (nonbreeding) plumage are less prominently marked, with a brownish cap, a dusky eyebrow, and a dark eye-line.
Juvenile chipping sparrows are prominently streaked below. Like non-breeding adults, they show a dark eye-line, extending both in front of and behind the eye. The brownish cap and dusky eyebrow are variable but generally obscure in juveniles.
The song is a trill that varies considerably among birds within any particular region. Two broad classes of variation in the song of the chipping sparrow are the fast trill and the slow trill. Individual elements in the fast trill are run together about twice as fast as in the slow trill; the fast trill sounds like a buzz or like someone snoring, whereas the slow trill sounds like rapid finger-tapping. Individual elements in the trill are very similar to a high pitch chi chi chi call.
The flight call of the chipping sparrow is heard year-round. Its flight call is piercing and pure-tone, lasting about 50 milliseconds. It starts out around 9kHz, then falls to 7kHz, then rises again to 9kHz. The flight call may be transliterated as see Chipping sparrows migrate by night, and their flight calls are a characteristic sound of the night sky in spring and fall in the United States. In the southern Rockies and eastern Great Plains, the chipping sparrow appears to be the most common nocturnal migrant, judged by the number of flight calls detected per hour. On typical nights in August in this region, chipping sparrows may be heard at a rate of 15 flight calls per hour. On better-than-average nights, chipping sparrows occur at a rate of 60 flight calls per hour, and on exceptional nights chipping sparrows' flight calls are heard more than 200 times per hour.
Chipping sparrows vary across their extensive North American range. There is minor geographic variation in appearance, and there is significant geographic variation in behavior. Ornithologists often divide the chipping sparrow into two major groups: the eastern chipping sparrow and the western chipping sparrow. However, there is additional plumage and behavioral variation within the western group.
At least two subspecies of chipping sparrows occur in western North America. The widespread Spizella passerina arizonae is associated with mountains and arid habitats of the western interior. A Pacific slope population constitutes subspecies S. p. stridula. Although these two races are both western, and are often lumped together as the western chipping sparrow, they do not necessarily form a single entity that stands apart from the eastern chipping sparrow (S. p. passerina).
The chipping sparrow is part of the family Emberizidae, and is not closely related to the Old World sparrows of the family Passeridae.
In eastern North America, chipping sparrows breed in woodlands, farmlands, and suburban and urban districts. In western North America, the chipping sparrow prefers conifer forests for breeding. The chipping sparrow is partially migratory, with almost all mid-latitude and high-latitude breeders withdrawing in winter to the southern United States and Mexico. On the wintering grounds and during migration, chipping sparrows are gregarious, forming tight flocks with other chipping sparrows or loose assemblages with other species such as eastern bluebirds and pine warblers.
Throughout the year, chipping sparrows forage on the ground, often in loose flocks. Their diet consists mainly of seeds and crumbs of mostly any food, especially those fallen on the ground. Chipping sparrows frequently forage directly from forbs and grasses, too. At any time of the year, especially, in spring, chipping sparrows may be seen in trees, even up in the canopy, where they forage on fresh buds and glean for arboreal arthropods.
Although they are wary, chipping sparrows often allow close approach. A quiet observer can often get to within 50-100ft (15-30m) of one or more chipping sparrows feeding on the ground. When spooked, chipping sparrows fly a short distance to the nearest tree or fencerow.
In early spring, the first migrants return from their wintering grounds in March, but the bulk of migrants arrives throughout April. Males set up territories right away, and their trilled songs make them conspicuous. Breeding begins as early as April, but again, most nesting activity occurs from late April to early May onwards.
Molt in the chipping sparrow follows the "Complex Alternate Strategy" as usual for American sparrows. It consequently has two molts per year as adults and three molts in their first year of life, also called their first plumage-cycle. The chipping sparrow's two adult molts occur in late summer and late winter.
Although this bird's original habitat was probably coniferous forest, especially the eastern subspecies has adapted well to the changes brought about by increased human population in its range.
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The Bear Scout program is for boys who have completed second grade (or are age 9). After earning the Bobcat badge, a boy may earn the Bear badge by completing 12 achievements in four different categories: God, Country, Family, and Self.
Often, den meeting activities enable the Bear Scouts to complete requirements toward an award or rank. The den leader can initial the requirement in the boys' handbooks, but it must also be signed by a parent or guardian to indicate the requirement has been completed. The Den Chief helps lead the meetings. The Denners and Assistant Den Leaders lead Opening and Closing flag ceremonies and help with setup and cleanup.
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- 3. Flag Ceremonies
- 4c. could be met by completing Cub Scout Communicating Pin requirement #5
- 5c. Explain what a wildlife conservation officer does. - See Wildlife Conservation Pin requirement #7
- 5d. Visit one of the following... - See Wildlife Conservation Pin requirement #1 & Cub Scout Outdoor Activity Award
- 5e. Endangered species - See Wildlife Conservation Belt Loop requirement #3
- 6g. Take part in a den or pack neighborhood clean-up project. - See Wildlife Conservation Pin requirement #9 & Cub Scout Outdoor Activity Award
- 8d. Trace your family...or talk to a grandparent... - See Heritages Belt Loop & Pin requirement #5
- 9. Cooking - See Cub Scout Outdoor Activity Award
- The Scouts BSA Handbook is the primary reference. See Cooking Skills for step-by-step instructions and lesson video links.
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- Completing Achievement 11 is the first requirement for earning the Emergency Preparedness Award at the Bear level
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- 12 Family Outdoor Adventure - See Cub Scout Outdoor Activity Award
- Your handbook is your primary reference. See Outdoor skills for step-by-step instructions and lesson video links.
- See also: Camping Merit Badge pamphlet - Hiking Skills - Hydration - Outdoor Gear - Tents - Water Purification - Weather Skills
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- 14a. Know the rules for bike safety...register - See Bicycling Belt Loop requirement #1 & Pin #6
- 14b. Learn to ride a bike... - See Bicycling Belt Loop requirement #3
- 14d. Change a tire on a bicycle... - See Bicycling Pin requirement #3
- 14f. Ride a bike for 1 mile... - See Bicycling Pin requirement #7 & Cub Scout Outdoor Activity Award
- 14g. Plan and take a family bike hike. - See Bicycling Pin requirement #7 & Cub Scout Outdoor Activity Award
- 15. GAMES, GAMES, GAMES! - See Cub Scout Outdoor Activity Award
- a. Outdoor games - See: Golf, Badminton, Softball, and Volleyball.
- b. Play two organized games with your den. - See: Cub Scout Sports
- c. Select a game that your den has never played... - See: Sports, Marbles, Chess, Language and Culture Pin requirement 3, etc.
- 16. BUILDING MUSCLES - See Cub Scout Outdoor Activity Award
- 16a. Stretching & exercises - Physical Fitness
- 17d. Use a computer - See Cub Scout Computers Belt Loop requirement #3 & Pin requirements 1 or 4
- 17e. Write a letter - See Cub Scout Computers Belt Loop requirement #3 & Pin requirement 6
- 18b. Write two letters to relatives or friends. - See Communicating Belt Loop requirement #2
- 18c. Keep a daily record of your activities for 2 weeks. - See Communicating Pin requirement #2
- 18f. Write a story about something you have done with your family. - See Communicating Pin requirement #1
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- 22. Tying it All Up
- 22a. Whipping and Fusing
- 22b. Square Knot - Bowline - Sheet Bend - Two Half Hitches - Slip Knot.
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Me and my roommate found this little quirk on Google, and it's gotten me a bit mad. Google has generally lived-up to their "do no evil" mantra, but if what we found was done on purpose, I have lost some respect for the company...
They appear to be filtering their auto-complete to avoid listing religions with negative adjectives. I will be listing some potentially offensive queries, but this is simply to make a point.
Let try three basic Google search result counts (unscientific):
"Stupid Christian" = 73,300,000 Results (without quotes) / 90,900 (with quotes)
"Stupid Muslim" = 36,500,000 (without quotes) / 66,300 (with quotes)
"Stupid Atheist" = 8,040,000 (without quotes) / 17,300 (with quotes)
These result counts seem to suggest that, according to Google, the internet considers Christians to be between 525-911% stupider than Atheists, and 137-200% stupider than Muslims. I could list more comparisons, but you guys probably know how to divide...
OK, now lets see how quickly Google auto-complete will suggest this entries. Remember, there are MILLIONS of more results for "Stupid Christian" and "Stupid Muslim" than "Stupid Atheist":
"Stupid Christian" = NEVER SUGGESTED (Typed all the way up to "Stupid Christia"
"Stupid Muslim" = NEVER SUGGESTED (Typed all the way up to "Stupid Musli"
"Stupid Atheist" = "Stupid At" (Already gives me "Stupid Atheist" as the 2nd suggestion, and "Stupid Atheist Quotes" -- 2,340,000 results -- as the 5th suggestion)
What gives Google? There are WAY more results for other (stupid) religions, but you won't even consider that that was what I was searching for, but "Stupid Atheist" is right along side "Stupid Athletes" (14,800,000 results).
I observed nearly the exact same trend when substituting "stupid" for:
"Evil" (with the exception of "Evil Christ", which is a German metal band)
"Violent" (according to Google, barely anyone is searching for "Violent Muslim"; go figure...)
However, there were a few terms that brought up religious terms with them:
"Blasphemous" ("Christian" and "Muslim" came up much quicker than "Atheist"; ironic!)
Is Google intentionally filtering their auto-complete to avoid offending the religious? Is religion untouchable? Is this blatant censorship? FROM GOOGLE?!
Maybe, but the auto-complete suggestions for "Christians/Muslims/Atheists Are"... suggests that people don't think too kindly of religion on the Internet...
Before I assume this is intentional censorship by Google, what do you guys think?
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I don't know if Google censors stuff like this, but if you start with the religion, the autocomplete works.
muslim vio get you to muslim violence (before that you get muslim videos), and the same works for christian vio...
But Google may still filter some of its autocomplete sentences. I wouldn't call it censoring though, because the content isn't blocked. Google is just not immediately directing you to it.
Found the page where all the words blacklisted in google autocomplete are listed, but it looks like that the list is a little dated, but if you still wanna have a look, here - http://www.2600.com/googleblacklist/
And I typed in christians are in google & got this -
So don't see any censoring going on.
I don't think so they seem to be pretty non-denominational. They often have speakers go to the google campus for talks and one of the speakers was Christopher Hitchens.
Think you're jumping to conclusions. Google search algorithms work on more than just basic count of search term. For example :
There are more factors at play here so better to hold off on leaping to the 'google's biased!' conclusion.


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Delft Institute of Applied mathematics, Delft University of Technology, seeks a full Professor in the field of Discrete Mathematics. A description of the position can be found here. The deadline for applications is January 15, 2019.
Daniel Dadush (CWI) has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant of 1.5 ME for his proposal 'Towards a Quantitative Theory of Integer Programming'. With this grant, Dadush aims to revolutionize the understanding of integer programming (IP), the most popular method used today for finding optimal solutions to real-world optimization problems.
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NEW YORK, N.Y., OCTOBER 17, 2007 - More capacity and fast transfer speeds are the chief benefits of the SanDisk Extreme® III 8-gigabyte (GB)1 SDHC™ (SD High-Capacity) flash memory card, which was introduced today by SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK). This and other imaging products from SanDisk will be displayed in Booth 1808 at PhotoPlus 2007 International Conference & Expo, which opens Thursday at Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College volleyball program and head coach Gretchen Krumdieck had a busy early signing period, adding Miller Howard among others for the upcoming inaugural season.
"Miller is going to be a great addition for the Bobcats," said Krumdieck. "She uses her shots wisely to terminate and is a strong blocking presence. I am very excited Miller will be wearing blue and green next year."
A native of Suwanee, Ga., Howard played volleyball at North Gwinnett High for head coach Vanessa Henry. She was selected Super Six and All-County First Team. Howard also played tennis for the Bulldogs.
Howard plans to major in physical therapy.
Georgia College added volleyball as its 11 varsity sport last fall, set to begin play in the NCAA Division II Peach Belt Conference (PBC) in fall 2013.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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This Lip Stain is called Rage. It looks rather scary in the tube but its the least scary shade in the collection:
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It was another chilly start to the day Wednesday with temps bottoming out in the mid-to-upper 40s, some of the coolest temperatures in South Florida in weeks.
Bright sunshine will lead temps up to 70 later Wednesday, but winds will gust in excess of 15 mph at times. Expect a couple of chilly nights ahead with temps dropping to the low-to-mid 50s through Friday morning.
High pressure will slide east and bring warmer temperatures to the region this Easter Sunday, with highs near 80.
It'll be even warmer early next week with a slight chance of showers. Expect highs in the low 80s.
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Direct from Broadway to Sangamon Auditorium, UIS, Monty Python's Spamalot is the official national tour of the Tony award-winning musical. Based on the classic 1975 film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the wackiness continues as King Arthur and his knights (and a few barely-clothed girls) journey for the Holy Grail on the stage. The musical comedy is a co-creation of the Grammy award-winning team Eric Idle (one of the original Pythons) and John Du Prez who wrote the music and lyrics. Tony award-winner Mike Nichols directs. For an electronic quest through the madness, visit www.montypythonsspamalot.com. Gluttons for punishment, go to pythonline.com/hq.
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How it Happened
Rhode Island (0-1) fell behind 14-0 early in the first quarter and was not able to recover as it opened the season with a 51-26 loss at Fordham.
Fordham (1-0) hit on several big plays, scoring on touchdown plays of 61, 49, 32, and 29 yards, and adding a 61-yard interception return for a defensive score. Quarterback Mike Nebrich threw four touchdown passes, connecting twice with Brian Wetzel and once with Sam Ajala.
Rhody scored three second half touchdowns, but was unable to cut the deficit to single digits at any point. The loss was the 14th straight for the Rams.
Inside the Box Score
- Running back Robbie Delgado set a career high with 113 rushing yards. His previous best was 27 yards against Bowling Green last season. He had 69 yards rushing for the season in 2012. Delgado also had a 28-yard touchdown run, the longest rush of his career. He is the first Rhode Island player to top 100 yards in a game since Steve Probst had 180 at Brown Oct. 1, 2011.
- Jordan Sebastian scored the first touchdown of his career on a 13-yard run in the third quarter. Sebastian rushed 15 times for a career-high 91 yards. His previous best was 88 yards at New Hampshire last season.
- Freshman wide receiver Andrew Matos started and caught a touchdown pass in his collegiate debut. Matos finished with four catches for 56 yards. Fellow wide receiver Robbie Jackson had a team-high seven catches for 49 yards.
- Jawaun Wynn had three kick returns for 62 yards, three catches for 20 yards, three rushes for 30 yards and a tackle on special teams.
- Linebacker Dave Zocco led the Rams with nine tackles, including a sack. Defensive linemen Shomari Watts and Wayne Seaton each added a sack.
- This was the earliest date Rhode Island has ever played. The Rams have played five previous games in August games, and are now 4-2.
- Defensive end James Timmins was ejected from the game in the first half for a helmet-to-helmet hit.
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- Rhode Island rushed for 268 yards as a team. It was the most by Rhody since it had 350 against Fordham in 2011.
- Rhode Island scored 13 points in the third quarter. In 2012, the Rams scored 10 points in the third quarter for the entire season.
- The 26 points scored were the most by the Rams since defeating Delaware, 38-34, on Oct. 22, 2011.
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Welcome to the land of mid-majorville. Here you can find information that will help fill out a bracket in March. There are also plenty of highlights that didn't get enough attention. We have it covered.
Mid-Major Player of the Week goes to…
Doug McDermott, Creighton: Realistically, this guy could win the award every week. He's a player of the year candidate for a reason. His stats tell one story, but his hustle and selflessness don't show up in the box score. On Saturday against an Akron team dad/coach Greg McDermott said he was "scared to death" of, the Bluejays took care of business behind Doug's 30 points on 10-for-15 shooting from the floor with six three-pointers.
Mid-Major Top 10 players:
1. Doug McDermott, Creighton: Averages 22.7 points, 6.7 rebounds, shoots 52% from three-point range.
2. C.J. McCollum, Lehigh: Nation's leading scorer at 24.9 points a game.
3. Nate Wolters, South Dakota State: Underrated point guard averaging 20.4 points, six rebounds, six assists.
4. Isaiah Canaan, Murray State: Senior do-everything point guard averaging 21.4 points, four rebounds, four assists a game.
5. Tony Mitchell, North Texas: NBA prospect averaging 14.2 points and 8.5 rebounds.
6. Mike Muscala, Bucknell: Overlooked big man averaging 18.8 points, 11.4 rebounds a game.
7. Jackie Carmichael, Illinois State: Second-best player in the Valley behind McDermott, averaging 16.2 points, 2.9 blocks.
8. D.J. Cooper, Ohio: Little engine point guard averaging 14.7 points with eyes in the back of his head (7.6 assists per game).
9. De'Mon Brooks, Davidson: Versatile forward averaging 15. 3 points, 6.2 rebounds.
10. Elias Harris, Gonzaga: Key figure on the best mid-major, averaging 16.6 points and eight rebounds.
Tweets that speak volume:
"New NCAA stat leaders out today, Mike Muscala 6th in rebounding, Muscala & duke's Mason Plumlee only 2 in DI averaging 18+pts/11+rebs."
-Bucknell Athletics (@BisonSports) on Monday
"UIC proved again its for real with a 64-55 win over Colorado St. Flames improved to 8-1. Forced 15 TOs & were 19-22 from line in win."
-ESPNChicago's Scott Powers (@ESPNChiPowers) on Saturday
"Top six in the Mountain West are now 40-3 with wins over Creighton, Colorado, UConn, UCLA, USC, Iowa State, Davison and Washington."
-Yahoo Sports' Jeff Eisenberg (@JeffEisenberg) last week
Mid-Major Top 10 teams:
Who's making noise?
Charlotte has gotten off to a sizzling start. When you're 9-0, you're either really good or you have a really soft schedule. We're still trying to figure out what the case is with Charlotte, which picked up a pretty clutch road win against Davidson last week. Well, we have another team to add to the Atlantic 10 contender list, which keeps getting bigger.
Belmont senior guard Ian Clark has always been a strong three-point marksman, shooting over 40% from behind the arc in his first three seasons. This season, he's shooting 58% from the land of three and he's making over four three-pointers a game. He was 9-for-11 from three in a loss to Northeastern and 7-for-11 in a win against Lipscomb.
Utah State's Danny Berger called it a "miracle" that he was back to watch his Utah State basketball teammates play days after collapsing on the court and being revived by an assistant trainer. Berger was released from a Salt Lake City area hospital Saturday and was back in Logan, flanked by the trainer credited with saving his life and a father who thought the worst upon receiving word of last Tuesday's life-threatening incident. Here's the story.
What you probably missed:
Buzzer beater! With Lafayette trailing by one point with time winding down on the clock, Bryce Scott shot-faked and drilled a game-winning three-pointer to give his team a 72-70 win against Sacred Heart on Sunday. Check out the footage that features too much dribbling and a no-look pass before Scott's heroics:
Fight! West Virginia held on to fend off Conference USA's Marshall for a 69-59 victory last Wednesday, but a fight took place late in the game when WVU's Juwan Staten and Marshall's Robert Goff got into it. Lots of technical fouls, lots of ejections. On video replay, it appears Goff intentionally kicked Staten in the groin. Needless to say, Staten was not pleased:
Embarrassment! And people thought Shaq and Dwight Howard were bad at free throws. In case you missed, Appalachian State 7-footer Brian Okam had quite possibly the most embarrassing/depressing/fantastic YouTube clip in NCAA basketball history in his team's game against Western Carolina when he air-balled a free throw. McKayla Maroney was not impressed. Nor were 4 million-plus YouTube watchers. USA TODAY Sports' Michael Katz chronicles The Worst Free Throw ever here.
Off the D-I landscape:
Dunk of the year! Jacksonville Community College's Daniel Skinner was robbed of the most ferocious, jaw-dropping dunk of the season when an official called a charge on this masterpiece:
It takes a lot to get a crowd to go hysterical off a turnover, and Skinner's liftoff from the free-throw line and subsequent posterizing of a Tyler Apaches player should earn him a ticket to a dunk contest of some importance. Some mid-major school needs to get this guy a D-I scholarship ASAP. He just Vince Carter'ed in junior college.
Tradition! Taylor University (Upland, Ind.), an NAIA, showcased once again one of the best traditions in basketball with its "Silent Night" showing that gained plenty of national attention last week. In short, the tradition involves lots of ridiculous costumes and then silence…until the 10th point. Then, it's mayhem. Here's our story.
10 Scores that matter:
-UNLV escaped with a 76-75 victory against California on Sunday off Quintrell Thomas' put-back (or alley-oop) off an air ball with 1.2 seconds left that gave the Runnin' Rebels their sixth consecutive win. While UNLV avoided a loss, a bigger loss could be forthcoming as all-conference forward Mike Moser suffered a dislocated elbow during the first half and was seen with his arm in a sling on the bench. Coach Dave Rice hasn't put a timetable on Moser's return or made it known if the injury could be season-ending.
-Middle Tennessee handed Mississippi its first loss of the season in a narrow 65-62 win on Saturday thanks to strong shooting down the stretch and clutch foul shooting. They also forced Ole Miss into 18 turnovers and limited the nation's second-highest scoring offense to 15 points below average.
-Near-upset of the week goes to Porter Moser's Loyola (Chicago) Ramblers, who took a 28-25 lead early in their game against Michigan State on Saturday and only trailed 32-30 at halftime before the Spartans took over in the second half to eventually cruise 73-61.
-New Mexico staved off Horizon League contender Valparaiso 65-52 on Saturday to stay perfect on the season and continue its strong non-conference slate precluding conference play in the Mountain West.
-BYU rallied from a second half double-digit deficit to pick up a 61-58 resume-building win against Utah on Saturday.
MID-MAJOR: Towson almost upsets Georgetown in dreadful shooting affair
MID-MAJOR: George Washington players notches 7 blocks
-Northern Iowa earned a tough road win with its 82-77 decision at George Mason on Saturday. After losing three in a row to top teams, it seems UNI is back on track.
-Illinois-Chicago won its seventh game in a row with a 64-55 win against Colorado State on Saturday to prove its worth as a serious Horizon League contender.
-Before Gonzaga's upset loss on its home floor against a superior Illinois team, the Bulldogs barely survived a test against Washington State with a 71-69 win on Wednesday after Kevin Pangos drove the length of the court and scored the game-winning bucket with two seconds left. Pangos was 0-for-10 before that shot.
-In a battle of unbeaten Colorado teams last Wednesday, Spencer Dinwiddie (cool name alert) scored a career-high 29 points to help Colorado fend off Colorado State 70-61.
-Boise State's near-upset of Michigan State and a huge upset against Creighton on the road drew headlines, but the team's 76-55 loss to Utah on Wednesday allows us not get too excited about this Mountain West team.
Biggest mid-major letdowns so far:
North Texas was a favorite to win the Sun Belt conference and Tony Lewis bypassed the NBA draft to help his college team make the NCAA tournament. After a 3-5 start, that's tough to imagine now. Losing to Creighton by 20 points is understandable, but losing to Division II Alabama-Huntsville is stunning. North Texas' recent 67-63 loss to Saint Louis was more respectable, but a loss is a loss.
Drexel is perhaps the most head scratching of all slow starts. When Missouri Valley contender Illinois State picked up an overtime road win in Philadelphia, it seemed like a great resume boost. Now that win means nothing. An experienced Dragons squad expected to run through the CAA has gotten off to a surprisingly bad 3-6 start. And the struggles began long before senior catalyst Chris Fouch suffered a season-ending injury. Bruiser Flint said earlier this season his team was failing to get stops. That hasn't changed as of late.
Can't-miss games this week:
-Wichita State at Tennessee, 7 p.m. ET
-Middle Tennessee at Belmont, 7 p.m. ET
-Indiana vs. Butler, 2 p.m. ET, CBS
-Iowa vs. Northern Iowa, 2:30 p.m. ET
-Louisville at Memphis, 2:30 p.m. ET, FSN
-Alabama at VCU, 4 p.m. ET
-Belmont at Kansas, 7 p.m. ET, ESPNU
-Kansas State at Gonzaga, 9 p.m. ET, ESPN2
-Creighton at California, 11 p.m. ET
-Eastern Kentucky at Illinois, 6 p.m. ET
-Western Kentucky at Murray State, 3 p.m. ET


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The Children Act
Novelist Ian McEwan adapts his own novel for the screen with the film version of "The Children Act," but somehow the emotional coherence of the novel has gone missing in the process.
The plot is (mostly) the same. Fiona Maye (Emma Thompson), a High Court Judge, finds that her personal and professional lives have slipped out of balance. She's spent a lot of time and energy taking on difficult and sometimes controversial cases, at the expense of her marriage to her American husband Jack (Stanley Tucci), a university lecturer. After nearly a year without sex, Jack has made up his mind that while he wants to stay married to Fiona, he also wants to have a sexual relationship with a younger woman outside of their marriage. To Jack, it seems like a workable solution: He'll remain emotionally faithful to Fiona, who seems to have lost all interest in sex and intimacy, while tending to his physical needs as a man.
Fiona, of course, sees things differently. Her instantaneous reaction is to tell Jack that if he proceeds - or if the affair has already commenced - he might as well pack up and get out. Though the affair has not started, Jack won't be swayed by her ultimatum: He packs his bags. He returns after a couple of days, but forgiveness might not be in the cards. Jack, sticking to his guns, reiterates his point: "I left this marriage for two days," he reminds Fiona (who, it must be said, spends an awful lot of time mooning over him when not actually in his presence, only to clam up with an impenetrable and angry silence when he's there). "You left it years ago."
Even as the relationship drama unfolds, Fiona's emotional life is roiled by a case in which a 17-year-old boy, Adam Henry (Fionn Whitehead), demands the right to die, if need be, in order to stick to his religious beliefs as a Jehovah's Witness and refuse blood transfusions that are a crucial part of his treatment for leukemia. Taking the highly unusual step of visiting the boy at his bedside, Fiona is impressed with his wit and warmth. Still, the law is the law; Adam might be a mere three months shy of his eighteenth birthday, but he's not there yet and as such he's still a minor and protected by "The Children Act," a law evidently designed to save young people from their parents, their faith communities, and themselves if it means preserving their lives.
Adam survives, but at a cost: Feeling both liberated from and bereft of his religion, he begins questioning everything. Unsure of whether he can trust his parents, he looks to Fiona for adult guidance - a role she cannot provide, though regrets about remaining childless seem to come swirling up. Adding to the confusion is the young man's emergent sexuality: He seems to confuse his hormonal urges with his need for parental care. His letters to Fiona take on a stalkerish tone, even as they remain plaintive, innocent, and sweet.
As happened with his own screen adaptation for "Chesil Beach," McEwan seems to have lost track of the emotional beats of the story. The film offers little context for Fiona's loss of interest in intimacy with Jack; we're left to think it's a natural consequence of aging and long-term marriage, which might be a valid notion but which plays a little too grimly and has the added effect of vaguely sexualizing Fiona's responses to Adam. Was this the intention? Is what we're seeing here the female version of a midlife crisis? The film takes pains to cast Fiona's unexpected bond with the boy in a maternal light, but only after throwing out the idea that there might be other forces at work that are less chaste in nature.
McEwan's novel explains Fiona's mindset, linking it to a highly charged and emotionally devastating case; that case is still in the film version, but placed in a different context, no longer serving as an explanation for Fiona's mental and emotional state so much as providing context for the demanding and draining nature of her job. A story that seems symmetrical and self-contained in literary form turns into something more raw and open-ended as a film, which would be fine if that felt like a deliberate outcome. But it doesn't, quite, and things don't come into visceral focus as one might wish. The result is moving, and perhaps even compelling, but not satisfying or tonally consistent.
Placed next to another film adapted from McEwan's work - the superb "Atonement," from 2007, which was adapted by playwright and screenwriter Christopher Hampton - both "Chesil Beach" and "The Children Act" serve as arguments for the wisdom of allowing the novelist to focus on writing books while others tend to the business of translating those books to cinema. Your honor, we rest our case.
The Children Act
InfoRuntime :: 105 mins
Release Date :: Sep 14, 2018
Language :: Silent
Country :: United Kingdom


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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea's ailing leader Kim Jong-il has named his youngest son as a military general, state media said early on Tuesday, marking the first stage of a dynastic succession.
It was the first time the 20-something Kim Jong-un had been mentioned by name in the North's media, and his appointment came just hours before the start of a rare ruling party meeting to elect its supreme leadership.
Kim Jong-il, 68, is believed to have suffered a stroke in 2008, but despite his declining health is not expected to go into retirement just yet, experts say. They say his son is too young and inexperienced to fully take the reins.
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State news agency KCNA said Kim had issued a directive bestowing military rank on six people including Jong-un, the leader's sister Kyong-hui and Choe Ryong-hae, who is considered a loyal aide of Kim and his family.
Kim Jong-il "indicated in the directive that he ... confers the military titles to members of the Korean People's Army with the firm belief they will complete their honorable mission and duty on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea," the report said.
Intelligence officials say the youngest son of the "Dear Leader" was identified last year as next in line to take power in a country which for years has been punished by international sanctions for trying to develop nuclear weapons.
"Kim Jong Un's promotion is the starting point for his formal succession to power," said Kim Yong-hyun, a North Korea expert at Seoul's Dongguk University.
He said the North's "songun," or "military first" policy — in which priority is given to the armed forces — will play an important role in establishing the succession.
The son is believed to have been born in 1983 or 1984 but little is known about him, even by intensely secretive North Korean standards, beyond the sketchy information that he went to school in Switzerland and has been his father's favorite.
Regional powers will be keeping close tabs on the Workers' Party conference, the biggest meeting of its kind for 30 years, for any signs of change which could have an impact on the destitute state's economic and foreign policies.
A South Korean newspaper reported Monday that the younger Kim was chosen as a military delegate to the conference. The party's central committee then put out internal propaganda proclaiming him to be Kim Jong Il's sole successor, the Chosun Ilbo newspaper said, citing a source in North Korea that it did not identify.
Washington said it was too early to tell how the country's leadership may be evolving or how other nations should respond.
"The United States is watching developments in North Korea carefully and we will be engaged with all of our partners in the Asia-Pacific region as we try to assess the meaning of what's transpiring there," Kurt Campbell, the top U.S. diplomat for the Asia-Pacific region, told reporters.
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Financial markets see the preferred outcome of the meeting as an approximate continuation of the current system. The biggest concern is any sign of collapse that could result in internal unrest, massive refugee flows and military exchanges.
China and Japan are the world's number two and three economies and, with South Korea, account for close to 20 percent of global economic output. Instability on the Korean peninsula could have grave implications for the global economy.
"Should the conference itself open the door for an orderly leadership change and in one way or another economic reform, we see a great deal of underlying, long-term economic benefit for a united Korean economy," said Goohoon Kwon, Korea economist and co-head of research at Goldman Sachs in Seoul.
At the last such party meeting three decades ago, Kim, then aged 38, embarked on the path to succeed his father Kim Il-sung, the state founder, by taking on a Workers' Party title.
'Striking' announcement
"It's striking that the big announcement coming out of a party conference is not a party position but a military position," said Marcus Noland, a North Korea expert at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington.
"This attests to the centrality of the military in governing North Korea today," he said, adding this followed the pattern of his father's succession.
By signaling the young Kim's rise, experts say North Korea is readying for a collective father-and-son leadership, which will cement the family's grip on power.
In the event Kim Jong-il died suddenly, his son, by then identified as figurehead leader, would be surrounded by close family confidants who have been appointed to senior positions in the Workers' Party and military in recent months.
Kim's appointment of his sister to a military role underlined his resolve to ensure a smooth transition, Noland said. "This is belt and suspenders, keeping it in the family to create another general in the family at the older generation to play some kind of regent role," he said.
His uncle, Jang Song-Thaek, was also promoted to a powerful military post earlier this year, and analysts say he is most likely to act as his principal regent until the young Kim can build his own power base.
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The party meeting takes place at a time of great hardship for the impoverished North as it tries to work around U.N. sanctions — adopted in 2006 and 2009 in response to Pyongyang's two nuclear tests — and justify its pledge to become a "powerful and prosperous" nation by 2012.
The North is hopelessly low in cash, and Kim's two visits to China this year were in part seen as bids for economic support. Exacerbating its problems, a botched currency reform last year triggered inflation and wiped out ordinary citizens' savings.
The meeting comes amid a flurry of diplomatic activity in the region after Pyongyang expressed readiness to return to nuclear disarmament talks, which have been in limbo since 2008 when the mercurial North walked out and said they were finished. China has hosted the on-again-off-again talks since they began in 2003.
The country's military has already thrown their support behind Kim Jong Un, according to a South Korean newspaper, which is seen as vital in a smooth power transition.
Separately, the United States and South Korea began military exercises Monday in waters off the Korean peninsula, weeks after they were delayed by a typhoon.
The drills, set to run through Friday, are being conducted in the Yellow Sea off the peninsula's west coast, where a South Korean naval warship sank in late March near the inter-Korean maritime border. Seoul and Washington blame Pyongyang for torpedoing the ship, though the North denies responsibility.
The exercises are the second in a series of joint maneuvers focusing on anti-submarine warfare tactics, techniques, and procedures, said Cmdr. Won Hyung-seok of the South Korean Defense Ministry.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.


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