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What If Tim Berners-Lee Had Patented The Web?
from the it-would-be-quite-different dept
That sets up an interesting thought experiment. Where do you think the world would be today if the World Wide Web had been patented? Here are a few guesses:
- Rather than an open World Wide Web, most people would have remained on proprietary, walled gardens, like AOL, Compuserve, Prodigy and Delphi. While those might have eventually run afoul of the patents, since they were large companies or backed by large companies, those would have been the few willing to pay the licensing fee.
- The innovation level in terms of the web would have been drastically limited. Concepts like AJAX, real time info, etc. would not be present or would be in their infancy. The only companies "innovating" on these issues would be those few large players, and they wouldn't even think of the value of such things.
- No Google. Search would be dismal, and limited to only the proprietary system you were on.
- Most people's use of online services would be more about "consumption" than "communication." There would still be chat rooms and such, but there wouldn't be massive public communication developments like blogs and Twitter. There might be some social networking elements, but they would be very rudimentary within the walled garden.
- No iPhone. While some might see this as separate from the web, I disagree. I don't think we'd see quite the same interest or rise in smartphones without the web. Would we see limited proprietary "AOL phones?" Possibly, but with a fragmented market and not as much value, I doubt there's the necessary ecosystem to go as far as the iPhone.
- Open internet limited by lawsuit. There would still be an open internet, and things like gopher and Usenet would have grown and been able to do a little innovation. However, if gopher tried to expand to be more web like, we would have seen a legal fight that not only delayed innovation, but limited the arenas in which we innovated.


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I had another nightmare last night. I keep having them every week or so, and they come like a reminder I've put in my phone – alerting me of what I left behind and what I am trying to achieve, startling me out of my otherwise peaceful slumber.
Last night's choppy, static dream was so intense that I can still feel the tightness in my lungs as I tried to scream, but nothing came out. I can still feel my head spinning as the walls closed in around me and I collapsed into a heap of weak limbs on the bedroom floor, the sound of sirens clawing at my ears. That was when I woke up, my breath heavy, beads of sweat clinging to my hairline. I dragged myself out of bed and stumbled to the bathroom where I made wudhu with cold water, my eyes still laced with sleep, my movements slow with fatigue. After I finished the last step, washing my feet up to my ankles, I stared at my reflection, at the dark circles under my eyes, my lifeless skin, the water dripping down my face and my neck, leaving wet patches on my Snoopy nightshirt. I looked exactly as I felt – cold, lonely and miserable.
Heading back into my bedroom, I wrapped a scarf around my head, pulled on my dressing gown and stood on the prayer mat. It wasn't even time for Fajr, and the sky was still as black as it can be, considering all the lights in the city, so I prayed the optional night prayers instead. I prayed for Allah to ease my parents', pain, their heartache, their incomprehensible disappointment. I prayed for Allah to forgive my brother for his anger and frustration, to instill peace in his heart, patience in his mind. Then I prayed for Jayden, wherever he is; for Allah to accept his soul into the garden of eternal peace and happiness. I remained prostrated on the prayer mat until my legs began to feel stiff, until I couldn't feel my feet anymore, until my head and face felt heavy with all the blood that had settled there. My face soaked with tears, carpet marks imprinted on it, I eventually felt as if a tiny part of the weight I had been carrying had been lifted.
The phone wakes me up, hours later. Feeling groggy, my body aching, I slowly wrench my eyes open to find myself lying on the prayer mat, my scarf around my neck and my dressing gown over my body like a blanket.
"Hello?" I manage to croak, my throat dry, acutely aware that I sound disgusting first thing in the morning. When I was at college and at the pinnacle of my beanie hunting days, my then best friend, Farah, had been kind enough to advise me never to talk to any guys when I have just woken up.
"Trust me, Sugar," she told me, snorting down the phone at 7am. "You sound SO butters. Never talk to a guy like this. Not unless you want him to run a mile."
Farah had always been excruciatingly blunt. I feel a sharp pang as I remember all my wonderful (albeit a little crazy) friends that I've had to leave behind. I can't even remember the last time we spoke.
"Sabah al khair," Goldenboy replies, his voice smiling. I smile back, wondering if he too can feel my expressions through the phone.
"Sabah al nour," I reply geekily, trying my best to pronounce the guttural sounds properly. Arabic is definitely a beautiful language, but so damn hard to learn and even more difficult to enunciate accurately.
"Why are you smiling?" he asks, and I grin even more.
"Because you called," I say without thinking. The second I say it, I regret it. I'm supposed to be the cool, suave rude gyal from North London. Not a sickeningly adoring teenager from the suburbs.
"Because you woke me up, I meant," I hastily add, trying to redeem myself. "I forgot to set my alarm. So I'm happy I didn't oversleep."
"Well get ready. I'm coming to collect you," he says. "I'll be there in an hour."
"Where are we going?" I ask, panicking. I just woke up on the prayer mat for God's sake. Surely my religiosity had to extend beyond the morning after?
"It's a surprise. Just dress comfortably, okay? See you soon!" With that, he hangs up and I sit still for a moment. Last night, during my prayers, I finally felt a tiny glimmer of hope – hope for redemption from Allah, hope for peace in the afterlife. I can't destroy it all now, just for a bit of fun.
But you won't do anything bad, a voice whispers within. It's okay if you behave yourself, if you keep your barriers strong. Just be strong, be good, and it's okay.
And it's not just a bit of fun either. There's something about Goldenboy that's so compelling. I feel drawn to him, like two opposite magnets that can only give in to the inevitable and cling to each other.
Persuading myself that my relationship with him is legit and nothing like what happened with Jayden, I hop into the shower and begin getting ready. I throw on a pair of loose, frayed jeans, trainers and a yellow long sleeved cotton jersey top with a hood that just about covers my bum. As I tie a brown and mustard pashmina around my face, I tell myself that it's okay that my top is a tad too short because my jeans are baggy. I feel a bit guilty though. I hate it when hijabis don't dress like proper hijabis. You see them all the time in the UK and in Dubai, wearing skinny jeans that show off their thighs and bums, tight tops that leave no room for guessing bra sizes, and then flinging scarves on their heads, as if hijab is just about covering your hair, not about modesty, dignity or about hiding your physical beauty, saving it for one man only.
When I first moved to Dubai, I found Emirati girls' version of hijab really weird. In London, only ultra-religious girls wear the abaya, and it's usually a step they take once they've worn hijab for a while and want to cover themselves more. Over here though, you get a lot of women in abayas, but with transparent, floaty scarves perched precariously on huge beehives, perfectly blow-dried, highlighted fringes sticking out. Their eyes are usually exaggerated by thick, heavy kohl, they often have fuchsia pink or cherry red lips and mega high heels. Their Swarovski encrusted abayas sometimes float behind them, showing off tight skinny jeans, bling belts and occasionally, a glimpse of a tanned, toned sliver of stomach. They clutch obscenely expensive designer handbags in their manicured hands and you can continue smelling their strong perfume long after they've walked past you.
Some women don't even bother with a faux hijab over their carefully styled hair and just have it around their neck instead.
Although these women look rich and graceful from the back as they glide through the malls, from the front, most of them look like clowns with all that makeup caked on. It's as if their dad told them that they can only wear makeup once in their entire life, so they put as much of it as they could onto their faces. It took me a while to get used to it, as I felt as if they were taking the piss out of the concept of hijab, out of our religion. It also felt as if they were making a mockery out of Allah's commandments, which, being a newbie hijabi, I was still getting to grips with.
Now though, I get that the way they dress isn't a testimony of their faith. It's just a cultural obligation, nothing more. Of course, there are women who do adhere to it properly, and I guess those women are the ones who wear it for their Creator, who wear it because the Qur'an says: "And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what must ordinarily appear thereof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty…." Not because their fathers are worried that they will shame the community if they don't.
But I'm not exactly a good example of the modest Muslimah myself, so I can't judge. Look at me, getting ready to meet a guy (haraam), wearing clothes only just about fulfilling the hijab criteria if I stand up straight an don't bend down (haraam), spraying myself with half a bottle of Burberry Brit (haraam) and grabbing my iPod so we can sing to my tunes on the way to wherever it is that we're going to (haraam).
Excitement flutters in my stomach as I get into Goldenboy's black BMW M3, shaking hands with him and buckling up. The sun is bright, but the air is surprisingly fresh, cool enough to open the windows and drive along the motorway. I connect my iPod to the sound system and introduce him to Coldplay. I can't help but sing along to 'Yellow,' and I see him watching me from the corner of his eye, smiling as he leans back against the seat and controls the wheel with his left hand, his right elbow leaning comfortably on the arm rest. I don't know what it is about cute guys driving cute cars that does it for me. I guess it's the whole 'being in total control' thing.
Anyway, he's wearing aviators, white linen trousers and a dark blue Armani t-shirt, and I get the urge to touch his leg, to see if I can feel his skin through the thin linen (MAJOR HARAAM SUGAR. DON'T DO IT). Obviously I don't though. Instead, I take pictures of my reflection in the car's side mirror with his camera, trying to keep myself busy.
"You're so different from all the girls I know," he suddenly says, turning the volume down.
"Really? Why?" I ask nonchalantly, secretly pleased at the acknowledgement of my uniqueness.
"I don't know. You just are," he says quietly. "You seem so comfortable with yourself and you're so open. What you see is what you get. There are no secrets."
My face turns pink at his completely misjudged analysis of me, and I turn my face towards the window, so that he can't see how uncomfortable he has made me. I wish I was simple. I wish I had no secrets.
We continue driving down the motorway, leaving the glitz and glamour of Dubai behind us and join a much smaller dual carriageway. The desert is on either side of us and occasionally, there are a few dirty, dusty shops on the side of the road. This is the first time I'm venturing out of Dubai, and already I feel like I'm in another world. One that is actually real, not a mirage of all things new and shiny. As we get further away from the city, as the road gets emptier and the signs get stranger (with the occasional road sign on declaring 'Subhanallah' or 'Alhamdulillah' which I find really amusing), we see brown mountains in the distance.
"Welcome to Al Ain," Goldenboy declares. "These mountains are called Jebel Hafeet. I thought we could have lunch in the oasis. Do you like the surprise?"
"I love my surprise!" I exclaim, my eyes shining and a huge grin on my face.
As much as my relationship with Jayden was thrilling and exciting, it wasn't particularly romantic. He never actually took me anywhere different, not unless he wanted a quiet spot to make out with me, in which case he'd seek out various lonely parks and cemeteries (I know, how morbid). Neither of us had cars, we relied purely on our Oyster cards to get about and we didn't have much money either, so we couldn't go anywhere remotely exotic. Not unless you consider graveyards to be exotic. There was one hidden in Stoke Newington, just off the high street, that was actually quite peaceful. The grass was unkempt and there were loads of trees and overgrown foliage covering the headstones, providing lots of privacy. We went there a lot and sat around on the walls, talking, our heads resting on each other. I should have realised that any relationship that blossomed in a place rife with dead bodies was ill-fated.
The oasis is nestled amongst the towering, sandy coloured mountains, a luscious splash of green in otherwise arid landscape, and we choose a spot next to a little stream. Goldenboy has actually not only packed a fabulous picnic of Arabic bread, grilled chicken, roast potatoes, homous, baba ghanouj, fattoush and loads of fruit and drinks, but he has remembered to bring a blanket, cutlery and even a thermos of mint tea and a shisha. There are other families around us, barbecuing fragrant cubes of lamb, preparing salads and others sitting around drinking tea. Goldenboy strikes up a conversation with one family in Arabic, and the next thing I know, they've sent a whole loads of grilled goodies in our direction. I love the Arab hospitality, how they are so generous with their time, attention and material possessions. I can't imagine being invited to join in someone else's family picnic in Springfield Park. In fact, they'd probably nick our stuff while we weren't looking.
When the sun sets, we hear the adhaan in the distance and Goldenboy asks me if I want to pray behind him. I readily agree, and he stands in front of me and begins leading the prayer. His voice is sweet and melodic, and I feel a rush of emotion reach right to my soul as he recites various verses from the Qur'an. We finish praying, get the shisha ready and relax under the stars, smoking the fragrant double apple shisha and sipping on mint tea. I wish I could stay like this forever.
"I haven't seen this many stars for so long," I tell him, looking up at the surprisingly clear black sky. I lie down on my back and try to count them, encouraging Goldenboy to do the same. He seems to be taking the task quite seriously. Whereas I'm just trying to force my body to remain glued in the little (okay, big) patch of grass I've flattened. All I want to do is roll over and place my head on his chest and listen to his heart beat, to casually place my arm over his taut torso, to intertwine my legs in his. And then confide in him and tell him my secrets, my hopes, my fears. My story. I wonder how he would feel if he knew everything about me, if he would still want to be friends with me. Or if he would reject me, cast me from his life as some of my other friends did, if he would hold me in contempt and lose all respect for me.
I have had to learn the hard way that people you think love you unconditionally, actually only love the idea of you, and when you fall from grace in their eyes, they no longer want to know you. The idea they had has been shattered, and the real, you - the naked, vulnerable you - just simply isn't good enough. I came out here hoping for a fresh start with people who don't know my sordid past. I wonder how long I can keep it like that.
Goldenboy turns his body to face me, his expression thoughtful. My heart starts to pound and the metre between us suddenly feels like nothing. After all, he is close enough to touch. The possibilities between us are endless.
Despite the lack of a physical connection between us, I feel emotionally connected to him. The more we talk, the more I realise that it's not just about hormones. Of course, they're there, charging the atmosphere, but it's not as it was at the beginning of the day, when all I wanted to do was touch him. Now, all I want is to spend more and more time with him.
During our picnic, we talked about our families. He told me little anecdotes about his parents and the day trips they took when they were kids. I didn't tell him about the time our family was supposed to go to Whipsnade Wild Animal Park, and how the night before, my older sister and I excitedly packed a huge picnic lunch, how we sang songs all the way down the M1, only to get there and have my mum change her mind and decide she didn't want to suffer through the intense heat. And how we looked for an alternative, but the park we stumbled across was full of skinheads who snarled at us as we walked past, and how we ended up having our beautiful picnic in the car. In the Sainsbury's car park. No, I decided to leave out my weird family stories and listened to his instead. His upbringing in rural Syria was so different from my inner city London one, so unassuming and innocent compared to mine, that I found myself hanging onto his every word. I wished that I too had that kind of Enid Blyton childhood, full of adventure, wildlife and the kind of independence kids brought up in a safe environment are privy to.
I turn to face him, wondering what he's about to say, trying to plaster a reassuring look on my face so that he feels that he can open up and say anything.
"How many stars have you counted?" he asks. My heart plummets, and I force a smile on my face. I'm beginning to doubt that he has any feelings towards me at all. Maybe I'm like those saddos from that movie, 'He's Just Not That Into You,' who over-analyse every smile, touch, word until she believes that he is about to pop the question at any moment. When the reality is, he sees her as nothing more than a way to pass a few hours when there's nothing better to do.
What am I supposed to say? Sorry, I haven't actually been counting the stars. I've been wondering what our children would look like instead?
"Twenty three?" I answer instead.
"Is that all? I got thirty nine," he replies. I don't care, I think to myself. Feeling annoyed, I sit up abruptly.
"Yalla let's go," I say, already adopting dodgy Arabic phrases.
"Yes, it's getting late. By the time we get back to Dubai it'll be nearly eleven." I say prudishly, remembering the many times I snuck out of my house at 2am, drove my brother's car down to St John's Street and met Jayden in Tinseltown, a 24 hour halal version of an American style diner. No wonder I got caught.
He reluctantly gets up and looks at me, slightly confused, and begins to pack everything away. I want him to refuse, to tell me that he wants to stay out here a little longer, but he doesn't. Instead, he begins folding up the blanket and collecting our rubbish. I help him half-heartedly, feeling deflated. I should be happy that he respects me enough not to make a move, that whatever his reasons are, at least it's keeping me out of trouble. But I don't. I feel horribly unwanted instead. Loneliness really is a killer.
The drive back home starts off a little cold as I refuse to smile at Goldenboy and he is unsure as to what has provoked the off behavior from me. It doesn't take long for me to loosen up, and soon, I'm playing him all the Arabic music I have on my iPod. He is stunned that I know all the words to Nancy's 'Ah w Nos' and I sing my heart out, deciding that if all we're going to be is friends, I might as well have fun while I'm at it.
"Do you even understand what you're singing?" he asks, laughing.
"Nope! Don't have a clue," I reply with a shrug.
"You're crazy," he says affectionately and I warm up again. He joins me and we sing Abdel Kader, the infamous Algerian song by Cheb Khalid together, dancing around like kids. He seems a little bit embarrassed to begin with, but my lack of inhibitions wear down his barriers and soon we're messing around like old friends.
When we drive into Dubai, I am disappointed that our amazing day has already come to an end. I feel like I'm flying and I don't want to come back to Earth. I preferred being stuck on Cloud Nine. Why can't he ask me to stay out longer? Why can't he suggest going for coffee somewhere? The closer we get to JBR, the more resigned I feel. And suddenly, a vicious thought strikes me.
I look at Goldenboy's perfectly coordinated outfit, the immaculate hair, his neatly trimmed nails and think back to the amount of thought he put into this day out. He's clearly not interested in me. Could it be that it's not me that's the problem, but my gender?
"Are you gay?" I blurt out before I can control myself as we pull into my carpark.
"What?" His head snaps towards me, and there is a look of shock on his face. He pulls over and stops the car, his expression strange.
"S-sorry," I stammer nervously. Maybe he's not gay. Maybe he's actually a really dangerous guy who takes offense to questions about his sexuality. And who would be happy to put a big-mouthed girl in her place.
"What the hell. How can you ask that? I'm an ARAB guy. Do you know what it means to have someone ask you that?"
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean it in a bad way," I say weakly, not looking him in the eye.
"What did you mean then?" he answers sarcastically.
"It's actually a compliment," I backtrack stupidly. "It's because your clothes and your hair and everything is just so perfect. It's a bit gay."
"So you still think I'm gay?!" His voice is incredulous, but now, instead of feeling scared, I actually find it all quite funny.
"Yeah maybe," I say cheekily. "Is that why you don't have a girlfriend?"
"Sugar! Stop it! I'm not gay!"
"You sure?"
"One hundred percent sure?"
"You want me to prove it or what?"
"How can you prove it when it may be true?" By now, I'm laughing hysterically, finding his discomfort hilarious, the excitement and then disappointment of the day finally getting to my head. He really does need to lighten up a bit.
Suddenly, he leans forward, and before I can protest, he places his hand on my cheek and presses his warm lips against mine. For a second, I do absolutely nothing. I am in complete shock. My heart feels as if it has stopped. It is as if I am suspended in mid-air. And then, I soften, and melt against him. My lips part and I begin to kiss him back. I wrap my arms around his neck, my mind disappearing into the kiss. I stop thinking, I stop worrying. All I do is feel his heartbeat against my chest and I pull him even closer. His lips are sweet and he tastes like Pepsi and double apple shisha mixed together. I nibble on his lower lip and then his mouth begins to move more urgently. I'm gasping for air but I don't want him to stop, all I want is for time to stop, and to be suspended in this moment forever. But then, he slides his hand under my top and rests it on my bare back. The contact of his skin against mine, of his warm hand against my cool back, startles me and I pull away. I stare into his eyes, his eyelids sleepy with desire, and he stares back into mine. He is breathing heavily and so am I. It is all so right, but so wrong.
"I'm sorry. I can't." I whisper. I open the door and jump out of the car.
"Sugar, wait –" he calls out after me. But I don't stop. I run into the lift and when the doors close, I let out air from my lungs. My palms are sticky and my breath is still irregular.
This is exactly what I wanted and what I was supposed to be avoiding. This is the reason why my life is in complete shambles. But now it's started, can it stop?
I enter my bedroom and collapse onto my bed. My phone already begins to buzz and I stare down at Goldenboy's name on the screen. I turn it off, while he is still calling, and curl up into a ball.
That night, I dream of mountains and butterflies.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Chapter Twenty - Sugar Honey Iced Tea
I had another nightmare last night. I keep having them every week or so, and they come like a reminder I've put in my phone – alerting me of what I left behind and what I am trying to achieve, startling me out of my otherwise peaceful slumber.
21 comments:
- Media Junkie said...
I feel so sad for her...
- October 12, 2009 at 1:54 AM
OMG..this really was the BEST chapter ever!!! I know alot of people always say that after you've put up a chapter but i couldnt stop reading! can SO relate to Sugar and her situation..the imagery ur writing creates is amazing. brilliant! :) xx ps plz let sugar and goldenboy have a few more dates, they make a lovely couple! n bdw are we ever going to know his real name? thanks a million for the chapter, u made my day :D
- October 12, 2009 at 1:55 AM
- *~Ange~* said...
oohhh saucy! i like it.
- October 12, 2009 at 5:10 AM
- Ghost Writer said...
Thanks for your comments ladies! No, won't be telling you GB's real name. Have to maintain his privacy!
- October 12, 2009 at 11:52 AM
Wow what a wonderful read - thanks - cant wait for the next one -
- October 12, 2009 at 4:01 PM
- Danya A. said...
I actually held my breath throughout the entire last coupla paragraphs.
Excellent job, worth the wait, as usual :P
- October 12, 2009 at 4:59 PM
What more can I say - excellent!
- October 12, 2009 at 8:56 PM
- Vijay Eswaran said...
Wow, I am addicted to your stories..
Keep them coming.
The characters are so alive..:)
- October 13, 2009 at 10:55 AM
That WAS the best ever chapter.
It wasn't just about WHAT you wrote, but HOW you wrote it!
Well done girl xxx
- October 13, 2009 at 1:22 PM
wens the nxt 1 coming?.. cant wait!
- October 13, 2009 at 9:26 PM
wens the nxt 1 coming?.. cant wait!
- October 13, 2009 at 9:26 PM
Your blog is awesome !!!
But I really had to ask:
Is the character of 'Sugar' really based on your life ?
Also, I find it hard to believe, being an Emirati myself, that an emirati girl can be so westernized like 'Sugar' is.
- October 18, 2009 at 10:31 AM
is J. dead?
(Then I prayed for Jayden, wherever he is; for Allah to accept his soul into the garden of eternal peace and happiness.)
well is he?
- October 18, 2009 at 1:40 PM
- Ghost Writer said...
Thanks everyone...Ajlan, Sugar isn't Emirati.... And anon, you gotta hang in there to find out more about Jayden!
- October 23, 2009 at 6:54 AM
My god...!!
ps,can you add the refrence to the quranic ayyat you added. xx
- October 24, 2009 at 3:28 AM
- Eni said...
Speaking of Enid Blyton, I am glad to inform you that I have just published a book titled, The Famous Five:A Personal Anecdotage (www.bbotw.com).
Stephen Isabirye
- October 25, 2009 at 1:32 AM
- Nayamaus said...
loved this chapter!!!!!!
- October 30, 2009 at 4:00 AM
Hi... I just started reading this and now I'm hooked onto it...
but unfortunately I can't view the whole chapter... Can you please repost this chapter
- December 18, 2009 at 10:29 AM
the strong emotions you get from reading, the twist in the story, and the uncertinty of the developing events strongly pulls you to read more.
simply brilliant, I loved it.
- December 24, 2009 at 3:26 PM
- Mystery said...
Wow. This chapter is a real heart pacer. I'm suprised i didnt have a heart attack.
Keep up the great work.
P.S. Hope to see more chapters like this in the future!
- July 15, 2010 at 2:53 AM
I've just been introduced to your work and I have to say that it is excellent! I'm a guy fromSouth Africa and I've always wondered about Emirati life and you capture sense of it in a reader-pleasing way. Well Done, GhostWriter. :)
- August 29, 2010 at 1:08 AM

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The St. Louis Cardinals announced prior to tonight's series open against the Chicago Cubs that they have activated All-Star catcher Yadier Molina from the 15-day disabled list and optioned catcher Tony Cruz to Springfield (AA).
Molina, 32, suffered a torn ligament in his right thumb while sliding into third base on July 9 and was placed on the disabled list the next day. He underwent corrective surgery for the injury on July 11.
Molina was batting .287 with 7 HR's and 30 RBI in 83 games at the time of his injury and he was voted the starting National League All-Star catcher. Molina was 5-for-6 with three doubles and 2 RBI in a pair of games with Springfield (AA) during an injury rehabilitation stint this week.
The Cardinals also announced today that left-handed pitcher Marco Gonzales will be recalled from Memphis (AAA) and will be added to the team as its 26th man for tomorrow's day-night double-header. Gonzales is slated to start tomorrow's night game (7:15 p.m. CDT) against Chicago.
Gonzales, 22, the Cardinals number one draft selection (19th player overall) in 2013, has made three prior starts for the Cardinals this season, including his Major League debut on June 25 at Colorado.
Gonzales, who has pitched at four levels this season (A, AA, AAA, MLB), was 4-1 with a 3.35 ERA in eight starts (45.2 IP) for Memphis. His overall minor league totals this year include a 9-5 mark with a 2.43 ERA and he's walked just 27 in 122.0 IP while striking out 117. His last start came on August 24 vs. Fresno when he logged 6.0 scoreless innings while winning his 4th-straight decision dating back to July 22.


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penny lane wrote:J Colony from MM's show said something that
Gary Roberts is going to sleep/take the night to think
about trade to Pittsburgh.
No offense to G Roberts, but If I am R Shero
and he says that to me, I say , throwing you back
into the lake for others.
I agree with this. If he doesn't decide by, say, midnight, deal's off if I'm GM. There isn't enough time to let him screw around for 24 hours. And if he's taking that long, that tells me his heart isn't in it anyway. Move on to plan B.


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OpenStack Architecture
This page exists to document OpenStack configuration.
Note that the current approach is to use devstack, which is not a good way to learn OpenStack. So much of this document will be about doing a devstack-like configuration for Funtoo.
This document will split OpenStack configuration into each architectural component, describing configuration steps for each component separately.
SQL Database
A number of OpenStack services use a SQL back-end for storing various bits of data.
While DevStack uses MySQL for its SQL deployment, multiple database back-ends are actually supported thanks to SQLAlchemy being used behind the scenes, which is a re-targetable Python database API. Thus, it should be possible to use Postgres, etc, by simply using different connection strings. A list of SQLAlchemy connection types can be found on this SQLAlchemy documentation page.
Using a single root database user account for all services is not a good policy for production deployment. Ideally, each service should have its own restricted user account with only the ability to access its own database.
Let's look at how each service is configured in regards to SQL:
Here's how to set up a MySQL database back-end for nova and tell nova to initialize its database tables:
mysql> create database nova character set latin1; Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 sec) mysql> grant all privileges on nova.* to nova@localhost identified by 'foobar'; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Now set the following connection string in /etc/nova/nova.conf:
Note the use of the latin1 character set when we created the tables in MySQL. This is so the following command will not cause an error due to the default UTF-8 character set creating indexes that are too big for MySQL to handle:
# nova-manage db sync
2012-03-02 21:31:14 DEBUG nova.utils [-] backend <module 'nova.db.sqlalchemy.migration' from '/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/nova/db/sqlalchemy/migration.pyc'> from (pid=17779) __get_b
ackend /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/nova/utils.py:602
After running the command above, you should now have all the relevant database tables created:
xdev var # mysql -u root -p nova Enter password: Reading table information for completion of table and column names You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 16 Server version: 5.1.61-log Gentoo Linux mysql-5.1.61 Copyright (c) 2000, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. mysql> show tables; +-------------------------------------+ | Tables_in_nova | +-------------------------------------+ | agent_builds | | aggregate_hosts | | aggregate_metadata | | aggregates | | auth_tokens | | block_device_mapping | | bw_usage_cache | | certificates | | compute_nodes | | console_pools | ...
You have now validated that nova is connecting to your MySQL database correctly.
From glance.openstack.org:
The Glance project provides services for discovering, registering, and retrieving virtual machine images. Glance has a RESTful API that allows querying of VM image metadata as well as retrieval of the actual image.
Glance typically uses a MySQL database called glance, although the name is configurable in the connection string.
SQL connection settings might be stored in a glance configuration file located at /opt/stack/glance/etc/glance-registry.conf. In the devstack installation process, /opt/stack/glance contains a git checkout of the glance software.
The SQL connection configuration string might look something like this:
sql_connection = mysql://glance:email@example.com/glance
More info on glance configuration is available here.
Keystone, the OpenStack identity service, also uses SQL. etc/keystone.conf keystone install/git repo directory is used to store the SQL configuration:
sql_connection = %SQL_CONN%
As everything else, the SQL connection string uses SQLAlchemy syntax.
Quantum and Open VSwitch
Quantum is an incubated OpenStack project to provide "network connectivity as a service" between interface devices (e.g., vNICs) managed by other Openstack services (e.g., nova).
Open VSwitch is described as:
Open vSwitch is a production quality, multilayer virtual switch licensed under the open source Apache 2.0 license. It is designed to enable massive network automation through programmatic extension, while still supporting standard management interfaces and protocols (e.g. NetFlow, sFlow, SPAN, RSPAN, CLI, LACP, 802.1ag). In addition, it is designed to support distribution across multiple physical servers similar to VMware's vNetwork distributed vswitch or Cisco's Nexus 1000V.
There is an Open VSwitch Plug-in for OpenStack Quantum which can be set up by DevStack. This plug-in uses SQL storage. The SQLAlchemy connection string is stored in (relative to git/install root) etc/quantum/plugins/openvswitch/ovs_quantum_plugin.ini. Similarly to everything but nova, the SQL connection string is stored in sql_connection = format.
If the plugin is enabled, the following settings are added to nova.conf:
--libvirt_vif_type=ethernet --libvirt_vif_driver=nova.virt.libvirt.vif.LibvirtOpenVswitchDriver --linuxnet_interface_driver=nova.network.linux_net.LinuxOVSInterfaceDriver --quantum_use_dhcp
From the Melange site:
Melange is intended to provide network information services for use across OpenStack services. The initial focus will be on IP address management (IPAM) and address discovery (DHCP/dnsmasq) functionality. Melange is intended to be a standalone service with it's own API. However, the initial use case will be to decouple existing IP management and VM address discovery from Nova and support the existing Nova networking capabilities.
Melange also uses a sql_connection = string stored in its etc/melange/melange.conf (relative to install/git root).
RabbitMQ is a reliable messaging framework used by OpenStack. Currently, it looks like only nova uses it. Nova is configured to connect to rabbitmq by setting the following lines in /etc/nova/nova.conf:
--rabbit_host=$RABBIT_HOST --rabbit_password=$RABBIT_PASSWORD
Rabbit's password is configured using the following command, as root:
# rabbitmqctl change_password guest $RABBIT_PASSWORD
I am not yet completely sure how RabbitMQ fits into the OpenStack architecture. It may be that the supporting services expect it to be running locally, and that Nova compute nodes need to hook into a Nova instance, which would typically be running remotely. (Thus the ability for DevStack to target a remote RabbitMQ host.)
Virtualization Technology
DevStack defaults to configuring OpenStack to use libvirt with KVM, and will fall back to basic QEMU support if the kvm kernel module is not available. It also has support for using libvirt with LXC, in addition to using Xen Server directly (bypassing libvirt.)


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Foreign Markets Pick Up Slack From Storm
With many New York banks' foreign-exchange desks expected to be thinly staffed Monday as Hurricane Sandy bears down on the city, their colleagues in London and elsewhere are preparing for a larger work-load. Katie Martin reports on Markets Hub.
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Special Edition: America's Jobs Crisis
Aired April 4, 2010 - 15:00 ET
CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN HOST: Meaningful job gains for the first time in three years. Hello, everyone, I'm Christine Romans. Ali Velshi is off today. This is a special edition of YOUR MONEY: America's Jobs Crisis. One hundred sixty-two thousand jobs added in March; January revised from a loss to a gain. In the latest report, the unemployment rate shows it held steady at 9.7 percent. Still, this economy has a long way to go. 8.4 million jobs were shed during this recession. Even a positive report like this represents just a small step on the long road back to recovery. More trouble in 44 percent of Americans have been out of work now for six months or longer. That's our record. The plight of the unemployed is not going away. We're at least at a turning point perhaps though for this America job crises. Lakshman Ackuthan is managing director of Economic Cycle Research Institute. Chrystia Freeland is global editor at large with Reuters and Professor William Rogers is former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor. First, is this a turning point Bill? WILLIAM RODGERS, FMR. CHIEF ECONOMIST U.S. DEPT. OF LABOR: Where we are in the recovery is a good report today. I need to see a few more months before I can tell you whether we're at a turning point. However, the reason I say where we are half of these jobs that were created were by the census, which those jobs will end in May and the other half were temporary employment. That's a good sign, but again, where we are in recovery looks good. LAKSHMAN ACHUTHAN, MANAGING DIR., ECONOMIC CYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: I would say we definitely are. We are past a turning point. CHRYSTIA FREELAND, GLOBAL EDITOR, REUTERS: It is. This is a good moment. Right? This is significant. ACHUTHAN: More importantly, this is ... FREELAND: This is not the end of pain for everyone. ACHUTHAN: You're entering the virtuous stage of the business cycle. Where all that production, the sales in production that we had over the last couple of quarters are now forcing employers to stop firing and start hiring. As they do that, you see incomes start to be supported, which then feeds back into more sales and production. This feeds on itself and it's the reason why this is not a flash in the pan. This is something that is going to be sustained. This is a resilient recovery. The double dippers are missing right now from the discussion, you'll notice, because this is going to continue through 2010. ROMANS: Really missing? Aren't they missing? ACHUTHAN: Show me the double difference. ROMANS: I think ... RODGERS: They can come back very quickly. ACHUTHAN: They're missing. RODGERS: They can come back quickly as you see several months from now as the stimulus starts to wane, and that we see continued problems with state and local governments and we also continue to see sort of us having difficulty in the international arena. ROMANS: Can the economy stand on its own two feet? This is what Bill is talking about. Can the economy stand on its own two feet once we pull back all of the things that are helping it? ACHUTHAN: Absolutely, the answer is yes. And more importantly, this is not a simply -- this is not a stimulus driven recovery. I know a lot of people would like to argue that for one reason or another, but more importantly ... FREELAND: The government wants to say its stimulus driven so they can say, we did it. ACHUTHAN: Look, look, Washington would like to say, look, we did it. And the bears would like to say when it goes away, it's over. But they're both wrong. I think the fixation on Washington, the fixation on this you miss the forest for the trees. This is a cyclical driven recovery. That's why people are surprised by this. FREELAND: To a point. Yes, it is -- that's the point, Rick. You say resilient recovery and that sounds great. We all want the economy to be resilient. ROMANS: Right. FREELAND: The really difficult thing though is we are in a really deep hole. Christine was illustrating that really well with her charts. The question is, is this recovery going to be strong enough to dig us out of the hole and to add enough jobs. The answer is probably not. ROMANS: I want to look at the charts. Bill, this is sort of the lost decade. We're talking about the month of March. Then you look there at the end. 8.4 million jobs at the end of that last decade of up and down and up and down jobs growth. You're looking at 8.4 million jobs just in the last 27 months or so that were lost. That's -- OK. That's 27 months. Then you look over the past ten years. And something dramatic has been happening in this country. You have been just shedding jobs that have been remarkable. More than a million construction jobs lost. Trade and transportation, a million and a half jobs lost. Retail trade, 700 -- look at manufacturing in ten years. That bar -- and you've got millions of those people who are represented in that yellow line. You have to figure out how to come back into the economy. That's what we've been talking about here. The great recession and then there is a lost decade. But there have been jobs created and those jobs have been in health care, they've been in education, they've been in other industries that have done well. Let me look. Health care, 2.9 million, Government, 1.9 million approximately, education, leisure and hospitality, believe it or not 1.3 million over the past decade. Bill, how do you become one of those people in the lost decade, manufacturing job loss, and get yourself in one of those other categories where the jobs are being created? RODGERS: Well if you're one of my college students, it is about choosing different majors, different concentrations. It is also once you've graduated, going on to an advanced degree, looking at an MBA, looking at some other kind of master's degree where you're picking up new types of training. ROMANS: Keep talking. While you're talking we're going to show you how much money the median wage is for people depending on how much education we have. Keep going. RODGERS: One level still, education is your sort of best long- term hedge against joblessness. FREELAND: And now more than ever, actually. RODGERS: That's right. FREELAND: That is going greater. RODGERS: And then the more troubling or more challenging or the incumbent workers, those who are 30 something's, 40 something's and 50 something's where they have been a job for several decades, major job and they've been displaced because of these major structural changes and shifts. So that's where we begin training but then also providing communities with the resources where they can find what that next big thing is going to be and it's going to build their economy. FREELAND: I do think we tend to worry about the 50-year-old person who loses their job. There's one other group that I think social policy has to really focus on, which is the people who graduated from college, from high school are trying to get their first job into a weak economy. And studies actually show that the first job you get has a lifetime impact on your earnings. So the kids who are the children, the graduates of the recession, we have to really worry that that doesn't damage their prospects for the rest of their life and ... RODGERS: I followed young minorities who graduated in the early '80s, that recession, it took almost a decade before their relative earnings converged back to ... ACHUTHAN: The issue, the only way, we're talking 44 percent of the unemployed are long-term unemployed, over six months. There's construction workers, people who are associated with the bubble jobs, there is manufacturing jobs lost. You saw 8 million jobs over ten years you've lost. They're not getting those back. So what do you do with those displaced people? Also we are talking about the more mature workers. What is going to happen to them? They're being left behind by the recovery that is stronger than the last year recovery, 44 percent are long-term unemployed. They are being left behind by the recovery. That is happening right now. The only thing that I see that actually starts to address that problem is if you can get a long expansion. It's not about how strong it is. It's about how long it lasts. And I'm afraid on that ... FREELAND: Come on. ACHUTHAN: It's disruptive. Boom bust is very disruptive. It's much nicer for an economy to have ... FREELAND: Would you not be happy if there were 300,000 jobs added or 400,000 jobs added? ACHUTHAN: Likely. Unlikely. FREELAND: We're hardly in a -- we're hardly worried about a boom recovery. ROMANS: Final thought to Bill. RODGERS: Final thought is when we looked at the 1990s expansion ... ACHUTHAN: Ten year. RODGERS: What really helped out young, minority less educated men get their unemployment rates down was that long continued expansion, 4 1/2 percent, 5 percent, or not just 12 months but 24 months. FREELAND: Final thought for when people ... RODGERS: But the point, though, I think are we ready to stand on our own two feet would be a first sign will be this week we have about 220,000 people who are unemployed who stand to lose their benefits because the Senate did not -- one second -- did not extend benefits for them and over April is another million. So we'll see how those individuals will be able to fair. ROMANS: We have to leave it there. But a fantastic discussion and we'll come back to it again. Chrystia Freeland, Bill Rodgers, and Lakshman Achuthan thank you all to you. Next, explaining that gap in your resume. We're going to tell you how to over come it. And you flooded us with health care questions. Your specific questions about your case, we're going to have your answers. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) ROMANS: We know, of course, where the jobs are and where the job growth has been over the past decade. It's been in health care. It's an area that you continue to hear people say is incredibly important for retraining and focusing on education. I want to show you this from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This shows you; take a look at the far right of your screen, that big gray sphere. Registered nurses, the larger the sphere on this graphic the more jobs there are right now in that field and the higher up the scale of those jobs the more money they make. So look at the huge number of registered nurses right now. And then take a look over there. There's a green sphere, there is also another one that is -- looks like it's orange. There's another one -- take a look at these. Medical assistance, home health aides, personal care aides at the bottom of the income screen you're seeing a lot of growth and up the food chain you've got physical therapist, dental hygienists and pharmacists. That's where there are a lot of jobs right now. Let's look at the outlook for the next ten years. Those nurses are supposed to add another 591,000 nurses over the next decade, home health aides, 456,000, personal and home health aides, 375,000, all of the way down the list you're seeing expectations for big growth in health care jobs. But be careful, Ali and I have talked about this a lot. Be careful where you position yourself in health care because not all health care jobs pay the same. Those registered nursing jobs, median, 2008 wages, just over $62,000. That means half the nurses make more than that, half make less. Look at home health aides, huge growth there. That's a $20,000 a year job, probably not a lot of benefits and not a lot of job security. Home care aide is even less. Physicians and surgeons, all of the way up to $193,000 but you're going to have fewer of those jobs created. All of this incredibly important as you try and figure out how to get back into the labor market or if you are a parent or grandparents trying to position your own child or grandchild for how to find a job. Finding a job is hard enough but dealing with a lengthy gap on your resume can make the task even tougher. But you can overcome that gap on the resume. Career advisor Ellen Gordon Reeves is author of "Can I Wear my Nose ring to the Interview." Welcome to the program. I love the name of the book, "Can I Wear my Nose Ring to the Interview"? ELLEN GORDON REEVES, AUTHOR, "CAN I WEAR MY NOSE RING TO THE INTERVIEW:" I say, yes. Thanks for having me Christine. ROMANS: You're welcome. Maybe if you're going to get health care jobs, you shouldn't wear the nose ring, I'm not quite sure. REEVES: Yes, someone wasn't hired because they had a nose ring and she wouldn't take it out. They were concerned about patient contact. You have to be careful. ROMANS: Let's talk a little bit about the gap on the resume. We found out this week that 44 percent of the unemployed had been out of work for six months or longer. That means there are a lot of folks out there who have a large space on their resume with out a job in it. How do you attack that gap? REEVES: Sure. First of all you don't focus on the gap. Don't shine the spotlight on the gap for the employer. Also, the best thing about this bad economy is there's never been a better time to be unemployed. Unemployment is the national norm. Everyone is doing it. Welcome to the dark fraternity. It is the most Democratic thing about our nation right now. But people aren't thinking about it unless you shine the spotlight on that fact. ROMANS: So, look, don't think of this as a stigma because a lot of other people out there, too. Everyone knows somebody who lost their job simply because they were cutting 10 percent out of the department or ending a department not because of your work history. So don't lead your resume or your coverlet with a gap. I've been out of work six months and I'm looking for -- what do you lead it with? REEVES: Exactly. You focus on strengths and talents. So who would you hire? The first one comes in and says I was out of work for a year, I gave them the best 20 years of my life and now I have a kid and mortgage what do I do? Or someone who says I have had two decades of marketing experience, I raised sales by 20 percent, I think I could do this for you, I have a 99 percent customer satisfaction rate, I love your company, let's talk. No brainer. You fake it until you make it. ROMANS: And you say don't lead with the job, lead with the person. You want to hear, I know Susan Smith, and she thinks I would be great in this job. I think you will, too. REEVES: I always say start looking for a person; the right person will lead you to the right job. ROMANS: So what about most the people who lost their jobs and spending most of their time looking for the next job. What should you be doing right now while you are looking for the next job? REEVES: You have to stay in the game. Think about Olympic athletes. They don't leave the games, go home and do nothing until the next Olympics. You've got to be training all the time. You have to be building your skills, your knowledge base, you should be volunteering, and you should be taking courses at a public library, community center, and offer to teach courses, blogging whenever you can. Christine let's say you were an accountant and you were laid off a year ago but still helping your friends with their taxes. This is a resume entry. You've been an independent accounting consultant from 2009 to 2010, even if you just started yesterday. ROMANS: Five and a half -- 5.5 people looking for every available job opening in America. How do you think about yourself to put yourself ahead of those other people and get the job? REEVES: Sure. You have to realize that being laid off or unemployed does not change the experience that you've had. You're still the right person. But you take control of your resume. Don't lead with gaps. Don't have a column of dates that will highlight that issue. So you have to show the skills and talents that you have that will really make the sale for the employer. ROMANS: Everybody has got a gap. Talk about what you can do and what you can be and how you can help them. Ellen Gordon Reeves, the book is the wonderfully titled "Can I Wear my Nose Ring to the Interview." Thanks, Ellen. That big health care bill on Capitol Hill, it's not a bill anymore. It's the law of the land. And you still have questions, you have facebook messages, you have tweets. We're going to answer your questions next. Plus, Dow 11,000, up a thousand points in a month and half, but are you feeling it? (COMMERCIAL BREAK) ROMANS: You're asking, we're listening and answering. You've reached out to Ali and I on facebook, twitter and e-mail and you're all asking the same questions just in different ways. How will health care reform affect me and my situation? We've brought in our good friend Andrew Rubin to answer your questions. He's vice president of Clinical Affairs at NYU Langone Medical Center and he is the host of Sirius XM "Doctor Radio." All right. Let's get right to it. Stewart writes in and says, I own a company with fewer than 50 employees, my employees contribute a certain percentage to the cost of the premium but some don't participate. How will reform affect my company? Will my costs go up? Small business owners in the email said, they offer stuff but their employees are not interested. ANDREW RUBIN, NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER: Quick answer for Stewart. His costs are not going to go up and it may or may not affect him but if it does it is in a good way. This stuff is really complicated. Small businesses we think of is businesses with less and fewer people. There are credits and subsidies for small businesses with 25 or fewer people. The average wage of the employees making less than $50,000 a year. So depending on how many people Stewart has working for him, depending on how many people have insurance, he may be able to get a subsidy for up to 35 percent of his portion of the premium for his employees. ROMANS: So if he were to offer insurance he would get a subsidy from the government to help him make that happen. RUBIN: Correct. ROMANS: There's always a little wrinkles in it. But that is a fantastic starting point. Bill Shots says, can you tell us how health savings accounts will be affected? A question, I have one of these and I wonder how it will be affected. RUBIN: Big changes. Let's first make a distinction between a flexible spending account, which is employer sponsored and health savings account. ROMANS: I have a flexible spending account. RUBIN: There is changes to both. And the health savings accounts which are consumer driven based on high deductible insurance plans. First, in the short term, if you currently by aspirin and at the end of the year you scram to believe get over the counter drugs out of your flexible spending account, then you won't be able to do that with tax-free money. And then starting in 2013, flexible spending account limits will be lowered to $2500. ROMANS: Interesting. You'll see some changes there. This is from Barbara. My husband is retired from the navy. Will our dependent daughter keep her Tricare, their military insurance until age 26 also? She is 22 and due to lose her coverage in one year. Andrew, we talked about this last week. I was flooded with e- mails from people who have a child -- military people who have a child who is on Tricare and they are very concerned that their kid is not going to be able to stay on until 26. RUBIN: I got the same number of calls on my radio show. So quick is for people --let's answer her question first. Actually no, it doesn't apply. Tricare is the insurance through the Department of Defense for military. Only an act of Congress can change the benefit levels for their beneficiaries. This does not actually apply to them. But the flip side of that, the good news is, we've gotten an equal number of callers who were concerned about changing benefits for military veteran and active members. So there are no changes, so that's good. The bad news is if there was something good in the health care legislation that would have applied to them, it doesn't apply. ROMANS: Your 22-year-old daughter, when she turns 23, will lose her coverage under you. She will lose her coverage under you. What should she do then? Is she going to go out, if she's a student and doesn't have any income ... RUBIN: She can try and find insurance on her own, insurance for young students and college if they offer it and, quite frankly, health care insurance for young Americans, healthy Americans is really inexpensive? ROMANS: Let's talk about Rachel. Rachel, I am a 22-year-old college student, I live off of financial aid. What does this bill do for me? Same question, I guess. Just like Barbara's daughter. RUBIN: There are a lot of people in this category. In the short term, there's not a lot that we can do. There is not a lot health care reform is going to do for her. But in the longer term, she will be able to get healthcare insurance and because she doesn't have certain income levels she will be able to apply for subsidy and get her healthcare insurance with a subsidy. If she doesn't want health care insurance, she will have to pay a penalty. But if she doesn't make enough money that penalty won't apply. ROMANS: As we close to talk again about the military benefits. I had so much feedback. Suspicion from viewers who really were worried that their military benefits were going to change. They are not changing. I mean, the VA told me this, HHS told me this, everyone -- they are not changing. RUBIN: We were talking about this last summer. A lot of people thought about it. I came on then and said President Obama said we are not going to introduce any health care legislation that changes the benefits for the military. Some of the military people want some of the good stuff that's in this health care bill. Only Congress can change it. We'll see what happens. ROMANS: All right. Andrew Rubin, thank you so much. Next, why the market is up big time and why you don't necessarily feel the same. But the government is going to make it easy for your kid to borrow money for college, so should you keep saving? (COMMERCIAL BREAK) ROMANS: The Dow Jones Industrial average is up 67 percent since those horrible 12-year lows hit last March. That's real money if you saved up 10 grand in stocks a year ago, may be worth $16,700. And they're still making money in stocks. The Dow is up 10 percent since just February 8th this year, $10,000 investment into stocks just a little over a month and a half ago would be worth $11,000 today. So why is it that you aren't all feeling it? Maybe because you didn't have $10 grand to dump in stocks, right? Or the confidence in your job to part with that money you didn't have that either. Our CNN Opinion Research Poll shows a vast majority of Americans still think economic conditions in this country are poor, 78 percent of you. Are we at a turning point or not? Chyrstia Freeland is global editor at large for Reuters and Peter Morici is a professor at the University of Maryland School of Business. Let me ask you first, Peter. Welcome to the program. Is this the turning point, jobs are being created, stock market is going gang busters, are we looking ahead finally to what we've all been wait for? PETER MORICI, UNIV. OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: Well, the economy has been recovering now for about nine months. And today we saw that jobs are recovering. So we're heading up. Bottom line is 3 percent growth in the United States will give us a very strong stock market coupled with the strong growth in Asia although it doesn't give us a red hot jobs market. So we have this combination of stocks rising while unemployment stays at about its level. That should come down a bit as we go forward. FREELAND: Yes, I agree with Peter. I think it's a mistake to see the stock market as a proxy for the economy and even more as a proxy for what my own life is like. I think we're living in a little bit of a two speed world now where I think actually U.S. companies are doing really well. I think they responded to the recession in general, very, very strongly. You saw them doing smart things, cutting their inventories when they needed to. And you saw recessions can be great for companies because they can be an excuse for doing those things that you need to do that hard times force you to do. You can become more productive. They may be U.S. companies but they operate on a global scale. So they are able to take advantage of the real strength that we're starting to see in emerging markets. When it comes to you, the American citizen who is looking for a job, that doesn't necessarily translate, though. ROMANS: Peter, so in the stock market is not a proxy for the way I feel, the way the economy is going. It's a proxy for corporate profits and how companies are doing. Is there a case to be made that if corporate profits return, companies start to feel better, confidence returns because stock prices are up, they begin to hire? Is that something that eventually Main Street will feel? MORICI: Well American companies are in profits abroad. With the environment that we have in the United States with demand only growing slowly we can't expect that they're going to do a whole lot of hiring terribly fast here. So my feeling is that we're looking at a labor market where we add maybe 150,000 jobs a month, on average, maybe 200,000. At 150,000, we are likely to keep unemployment above 9 percent. That 200,000, it could slip down to 8 percent. But that wouldn't be until next year. The bottom line is, if the growth is in Asia, that's where companies like IBM or all the other rest that are going to invest their cash. We have to get demand growing in the United States, work down the trade deficit, and fix the community banks. If we want to see real jobs creations in the United States. ROMANS: What happens to the stock market in the interim? FREELAND: Peter is right. The other thing we have to be realistic about. I spoke to an analyst this week; he made a really good point that you have to be careful about equating company growth with jobs growth. And actually he said, look, as an analyst the thing that makes me the happiest of all is productivity growth and the labor force doesn't grow at all. That's excellent corporate performance. And it is. ROMANS: Not excellent for us. FREELAND: Us as consumers it's good, right, if it takes fewer people to build a car now than it did 25 years ago, that makes the car cheaper. So we do get it that way. But it does mean that you can have a Dow roaring ahead and people still having a hard time finding work. ROMANS: Just before we let you guys both go. Peter, does the Dow keep roaring ahead? Does it keep going like this? We keep looking at this rally and usually after a period like we've seen it takes a little longer to have this kind of a gain, 67 percent in a year is just phenomenal. Can that keep going? MORICI: Oh, absolutely. We may have an adjustment next week, next month, but I expect that to be temporary. As long as Asia's growing gang busters and we can stay on a steady growth path in the United States, let's say 3 percent a year. We're going to have a rising stock market. It would be better though if the U.S. economy was growing at 4 or 5 percent. As good as the current environment is for American companies a robust labor market adding jobs, more customers here, would be even better. We shouldn't make the mistake of thinking that just because a good Wall Street doesn't mean a good Main Street. We shouldn't make the mistake of thinking that a good Main Street wouldn't be great for Wall Street. It absolutely would be. ROMANS: Peter Morici, thank you so much. University of Maryland's School of Business. Also, Chrystia Freeland, editor at large for Reuters. Thank you both of you. Everything you know about saving for college, everything changed this week. You thought it was just health care reform no. How you borrow and pay off college just changed forever. What you must do today. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) ROMANS: It just got easier to borrow money for college. And for students enrolling in the year 2014 and after it will also be easier to pay off their student debt. At least that's the aim of new sweeping laws governing student loans. The president says, no one should go broke to get a college education. Here's how it works. Graduates with federal student loans won't have to pay more than 10 percent of their income on their student loan payments every month. After 20 years of paying their bills, their remaining student debt would be forgiven. Enter a public service, like become a nurse, public defender, teacher, your student loan could be wiped clean after ten years. Mark Kantrowitz is the publisher of a FinAid Website that provides free financial aid information and tools. He's also author of "Fast Web College Gold, The step by step guide to pay for college." Mark a lot of people this week are asking me if it just got easier for the kid to borrow the money and to pay it off why am I socking so much money away into a 529 savings plan every month. You say keep saving for college. Why? MARK KANTROWITZ, PUBLISHER, FINAID: Well, it's cheaper to save than to borrow. If you were to save $200 a month for ten years, you would accumulate about $34,400. If you were to borrow the same amount, you would be paying back $396, almost twice as much over the same ten- year period. ROMANS: What's the biggest most important change that you see in all this financial aid reform? Really how you think about paying for college when you graduate, it just changed, didn't it? KANTROWITZ: Instead of going to get a loan from a lender, you'll get your loans from the Federal Government through the college financial aid office. It's a much simpler and more streamline process. ROMANS: What are the advantages? Who is the most likely to benefit most from this? KANTROWITZ: Well, students will benefit through maintaining the maximum Pell Grant and increasing it over the next ten years. Students who are pursuing public service jobs will benefit from the public service home forgiveness and income-based repayment. And in general, it's -- it's a good bill. It could have been a lot better, but it is a good piece of legislation. ROMANS: There's more money for Pell Grants, there are more Pell Grants, and maybe 820,000 more over the next decade or something, the president has said. You think it could have been better. There are people on the right who say we shouldn't have the government involved taking over the student loan business. There are two kinds of completely different debates to be had there. But overall, this is something, you know, this is something you think that we need to do? KANTROWITZ: I think so. It's very hard to ignore the potential savings; $68 billion over 11 fiscal years is a lot of money that can be redirected to student aid and deficit reduction. ROMANS: Let me give you a question that a viewer -- several viewers have asked us this question but I want to read this question from a viewer who is concerned about how things might be changing and what it's going to mean for her. Will my children have to declare themselves independent from me in order to get a federal student loan or the maximum amount of federal student loan? If so, does this mean that they cannot benefit from the dependent status extension of age 26, on my health insurance policy? In other words, are these two upsides to the new health insurance reform law mutually exclusive? What do you think? KANTROWITZ: There's two different definitions of independent student status. There's one that applies to the health care legislation, whether you are claimed as a dependent on your income tax return and there is a completely different definition in the higher education act that controls your eligibility for student financial aid. In addition, students who are dependent or independent are eligible for the federal student loans. The main difference is that students who are independent are eligible for higher loan limits, $4,000 or $5,000 a year depending on the year in school. ROMANS: All right. Fantastic. Mark Kantrowitz we'll have you back and talk about it some more because everything has changed, folks, on how you save for college and how your kids will pay it off. Trying to make it easier for you. We'll be closely watching it and see how you can navigate this new system. OK. Something big has just been revealed. Some say it will change your life forever. Others say it's not worth the hype. We're going to tell you about it, tell you what it is, and get Richard Quest's take next. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) ROMANS: Time now to take look behind some of the headlines. Bringing in our good friend and regular on the program, Richard Quest host of CNNI's "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS." Good weekend, Richard. President Obama unveiling plans this week to open vast areas of U.S. coastal waters in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico to oil and natural gas drilling. The move may be pleasing to the energy industry but its generated serious heat from the administration's environmentalist supporters. Maybe this is why. Take a listen to President Obama on the campaign trail. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We will increase oil production here in the United States. Yes, we can drill more, but drilling is not a long-term solution to our problem. Not even close. (END VIDEO CLIP) ROMANS: Richard, what's the president trying to achieve here? RICHARD QUEST, CNN HOST, "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS:" The president's trying to achieve a dose of reality and realism and hats off to the man. Yes, he made certain pledges and he said certain things during a campaign, but campaigning and governing are two very different things. And as you listen to what the president said when he made that announcement, he put it bluntly. It was for America's economic security. It was a necessity. And while the president admitted that it was long-term goal to shift to renewables and other areas and energy sources, the real politic of it is that we use fossil fuels and that's not going to change any time soon. On my program during the week I had the president of Shell USA, Marvin Odom (ph) on the program and he put it bluntly, of course there's going to be a range of fuels in the future. But fossil fuels and discovering more is the priority today. ROMANS: And the president has always said, Richard, even on the campaign trail, he never said he was against drilling. He said that was one part of the overall solution. There's no flip-flop here as some environmentalists say or are alleging this is. QUEST: Well, you know, there is an adamant to flip-flop in a sense the politicians were against drilling, drill, baby drill. Pristine parts of Alaska. The Shell guy told me specifically that the Alaska drilling will be a huge boon and benefit for Shell and for the provision of under protection of oil supply. But the reality is, a famous quote I often heard was the moment that you and I and everybody else are prepared to pay more, not kick, scream when we pay more at the pump, that's the time when renewables become more effective. ROMANS: All right. Here's another one for you. I'm sure, I have heard so much about this this week, that the long-awaited ipad, it has been unveiled. The device which Apple says fits somewhere between an iphone and Mac book. It's like a touch screen laptop without a keyboard. We were playing around with one of those on Friday in the "Newsroom." Certainly a buzz around this ipad, but, Richard, is it ipad or I-hype, what do you think? QUEST: First things first. Let's go back one stage. I think in the absolute avoidance of conflict of interest, every reporter, and every commentator needs to declare if they're a Mac user or a pc user. And it's true. Because Mac users are messianic, it can do no wrong, it can walk on water. And Pc users look at Mac users like they just came off the boat. ROMANS: Richard which are you? What do you use? QUEST: I have a range of them. But what is fascinating is the way you find these Mac users and lord help you if you sit next to them at dinner. They look upon -- no, it's true. It's true. They look upon the rest of us as if we are some sort of people neophytes who have yet to have the scales fall from our eyes. ROMANS: I don't know what any of this is, Richard, because I still use my handspring visor from 1998. QUEST: Hey, hey. ROMANS: You are very right; messianic is the way to put it. There is not camera in this, you can't multi-task or do two things at once. We'll see how people -- how people react. QUEST: Tell me, tell me ... ROMANS: When they come up with something, he has revolutionized numerous industries. So you never count him -- never say Steve Jobs is just hype. QUEST: Right. Right. I'm on this one. ROMANS: Please. QUEST: Because the truth is, it's content. It's for the use of content as opposed to the generation of content, this machine. It is, if you like, the next generation of television monitors in that sense. You're going to be consuming rather than contributing I believe with the ipad. You're going to be reading, watching, experiencing, but will you be sitting and writing your life's tome? I don't think so. ROMANS: Will it be Richard compatible with my Commodore 64? I don't think so. Richard Quest, who he and I are aging ourselves here at the moment. Richard Quest, "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS." Thank you, sir. QUEST: Look, look, here is something original. Look what this is. ROMANS: Wonderful, a pen. QUEST: Do you think it will ever catch on? ROMANS: I don't know. What will the kids think it's for? I'm not sure. All right. Richard Quest thank you. Take one of the most successful brands in the world, add a country that has suffered unspeakable devastation, mix them together and you've a recipe that could do a whole lot of good. We'll explain, but first, what happens when a branding expert has to recreate her own brand? Mary Snow reports on a small business owner who took her own advice in this week's "Turnaround." (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) MARY SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Catherine Kaputa calls herself a personal brand strategist, but her company that helped individuals create their own brand was struggling. CATHERINE KAPUTA, FOUNDER, SELFBRAND: So many people were out of jobs. They were afraid to invest in themselves and to work with a coach. SNOW: Kaputa decided it was time for her own regret; she started pitching herself to large companies and found a new niche. KAPUTA: I've been mainly targeting large companies because a lot, especially in this tough economic climate, a lot of large companies are still doing innovative programs for their employees. SNOW: One of those companies, Pepsico. Like many in the recession, Pepsico wanted to invest in training employees, but didn't want the high cost offsite workshops it held in the past. Beverly Tarulli helps up the company's women's initiative. BEVERLY TARULLI, V.P. ORG. MGMT. DEVELOPMENT, PEPSICO: In 2009 it was a tough year for all of us. What we were looking to do was do it in a way that would be cost effective, but reaching the most women we could. KAPUTA: You always have to build your brand out of authenticity. SNOW: Kaputa presented a personal branding workshop at Pepsico Headquarters that was broadcast to 12 of the company's sites throughout the country. She says thanks to her new corporate focus, her revenue increased 100 percent in the past year. KAPUTA: It's been a very tough economy, but amazingly 2009 was my best year. Women tend to down play their achievements. SNOW: And Kaputa says any company can reevaluate and refocus just like she did. KAPUTA: Really look at your brand. What does your company stand for? Are you filling a need, a niche in the marketplace? Filling a gap that no one else can do? SNOW: Mary Snow, CNN, New York. (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) ROMANS: Big help this week for a struggling nation. It was nearly three months ago that Haiti suffered a devastating earthquake. This week a new venture from Coca-Cola is aimed at helping Haiti rebuild for the long term. The soft drink giant is creating a mango juice drink. It will be made with mangos from Haiti. All the proceeds from the drink will go back to the country. Jean-Max Bellerive the prime minister of Haiti, with Muhtar Kent chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola and Luis Alberto Moreno president of the Inter America Development Bank worked together on this project. Before it was announced they sat down with our own Ali Velshi. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ALI VELSHI, CNN HOST: Chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola Company I want to ask you, what is Coca-Cola's involvement in this? What are you doing and why? MUHTAR KENT, CEO & CHAIRMAN, COCA-COLA COMPANY: The idea is how can we create a sustainable business that actually benefits the people of Haiti, that actually contributes to the society of Haiti, and there it was the idea of this Haiti hope juice was born. VELSHI: Tell me how this works? KENT: This works in the following way, a simple way. Right now it's being put into the market, the registered name under Haiti hope. It's through retailing partners in the United States and it is available for consumption for sale in the United States. Which we'll create mango groves in Haiti, make sure we protect the mango groves and make sure awareness in Haiti is raised so all the funds go back to Haiti. VELSHI: One of the things about Haiti that people may not know, it had a great dependence of agriculture in the past and the policies that have changed that over the years to the point that Haiti was a net importer of so many of the things that use to grow. Are you hoping this is a step in a direction that will take Haiti back to being a grower of produce? JEAN-MAX BELLERIVE, HAITIAN PRIME MINISTER: Certainly. We have other products, but mango is a good example. It's more than that. You have to -- you need partners to distribute for the marketing and all that. So with that partnership we are starting with Coca-Cola, and perhaps with Coca-Cola other partners, we can expand that idea not only to produce, but also to sell it, to market it. VELSHI: I'm going to ask you a difficult question here. What has this got to do with the rest of the world and our relationship with Haiti? LUIS ALBERTO MORENO, PRESIDENT, INTER AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK: It's fundamental. I think it's a game changer. Think for a minute somebody living in the central plateau of Haiti, having five mango trees, which is the average each person has. That person today is probably cutting those trees to use for firewood. We are giving this concept for that farmer to turn that wood that he would have in his mind into a source of income. This is a country that's 70 percent earns $2 a day this is the best social policy possible, a job. (END VIDEOTAPE) ROMANS: All right. Thanks for joining me for YOUR MONEY. Ali will be back next week. 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The possibilities for biodegradable corn-based plastics, clothing, bedding, packing materials and even sodium-free salt are heating up, thanks to recent research advances funded by state corn associations or carried out through government agencies.
Through recent advances, several alternative uses for corn may become more viable, increasing corn markets and profitability for growers across the country.
"This research provides corn growers more market stability for our versatile product," said National Corn Growers Association Research and Business Development Action Team Chair Larry Hasheider. "We're especially pleased to see the involvement in several state corn checkoff organizations in furthering this important work that moves us in the right direction of reducing our landfill space requirements. As more products are developed along these lines, we progress toward a more biodegradable society as a whole."
While the developments vary from new technologies that allow corn-based bioplastics to withstand heat more effectively, to developing pharmaceutical uses for corn, the corn industry is developing new uses through research initiatives. With major breakthroughs on the horizon, possibilities such as replacing petroleum-based products with corn alternatives help build markets for the ever-growing U.S. corn crop.
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Obviously they were all disappointed, but several of them came up to me after the game and gave me congrats. One guy did throw peanuts at me when I screamed after the touchdown pass. But we were shaking hands by the end of the game.
I will say the crowd was pretty out of the game until the last half of the fourth quarter... But from what you all tell me that is the baseline noise level at clink!
One side note... This is probably not news to those lucky enough to be able to see home games, but Pete throws a nice spiral!
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October Decorating Ideas: 9 Inspirational Fall Mantels
Mantels are the perfect spot for seasonal decorating. Here are nine homes with well edited, creatively crafted, and pleasantly cozy mantels ready for autumn.
Natural props are an obvious choice for fall decorating. Bring together big or little, carved or plain pumpkins (duh). Try adding wood, leaves, dried flowers, and cork into the mix.
Beyond the outdoors, look to repurposed materials such book pages, vintage finds, and handmade elements such as a felt leaf garland and fabric pumpkins (Image 2) or a seasonal bunting (Images 5 and 9).
A dash of a cooler color such as aqua (Image 5) or bright white can be a nice counterpoint to the earth tones generally associated with fall. Similarly, add more interest with a little bit of shine, from something like mercury glass votives (Image 3) or a mirror (Image 6).
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Facing the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in its second home competition of the fall, the MIT rifle team earned a split thanks in large part to a balanced performance in the smallbore portion. The Engineers received strong showings from all four shooters to outscore John Jay, 2118-2044, in smallbore. Tech suffered a narrow set back in air rifle, 2183-2170.
Nigel Kojimoto and Elizabeth Phillips set the tone in smallbore, posting scores of 553 and 544 respectively, good for the second and third highest totals of the match. Kojimoto did not have a single attempt less than 89 points and topped out at 98 on his best shot. Lionel Sotomayor (518) and Timothy Jenks (503) also surpassed the 500-point plateau to contribute to the win.
Despite the close loss, a number of Tech shooters posted career highs in air rifle. Phillips (556), Rebecca Gould (529) and Christian Valledor (502) each had the best scores of their collegiate careers in the competition. Kojimoto once again paced the team with a score of 568, including three shots of at least 96 points.
The Engineers also picked up a sweep of Hofstra University in postal results, winning 2149-1405 in smallbore and 2161-1515 in air. The team remains perfect on the season in smallbore at 3-0 and is an even 2-2 in air rifle competition.
MIT will host the U.S. Naval Academy, Wentworth Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Maritime Academy next weekend beginning Friday, October 22 at 5:00 p.m.