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The New York Times' Executive Editor, Bill Keller, wrote a piece for New York Magazine entitled "The Twitter Trap" in which he laments the pandora's box of continuously connected social media he has just opened for his 13 year old daughter by allowing her to have a Facebook account.
"I'm not even sure these new instruments are genuinely "social." There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter...The shortcomings of social media would not bother me awfully if I did not suspect that Facebook friendship and Twitter chatter are displacing real rapport and real conversation, just as Gutenberg's device displaced remembering. The things we may be unlearning, tweet by tweet — complexity, acuity, patience, wisdom, intimacy — are things that matter."
There's a valid concern in here somewhere—that our youth is actually becoming less social—but the cause of this problem isn't social networking. For many teens, online social networking is both a symptom of and a remedy for their increasingly sheltered lives and limited freedoms provided by parents. Yup... that's right. It's not the tech. It's dear old mom and dad--paving the road with only the best of intentions.
Parents are doing more harm to this generation's ability to socialize than Twitter could ever do. When you take kids off the streets and out of the playgrounds, locking them… err… protecting them from the dangers of the outside world, you force them to turn to the computer in their room and now, the one in their pocket. The reason why your kids aren't communicating with you and they're texting all the time is because they're not actually given the freedom to just meet their friends when and where they want to. I can't speak for Mr. Keller's own parenting style, but, in general, parents are becoming more and more protective. I think about that when I do my job as a venture capitalist. My job basically revolves around strangers and technology--letting people I've never met that wind up in my inbox come into my office to pitch. It's a function that I find the kids in my entrepreneurship classes at Fordham would be increasingly uncomfortable with, because they're not good with new people in person. The assignment they hate doing the most is the one where they have to do 3-5 informational interviews of industry professionals. They'd rather just talk to their suitemates--and their online social networking behavior reflects this. They don't really tweet or blog, but Facebook--the social network meant to connect you with people you already know--is the standard.
I grew up in Brooklyn. There were over a dozen kids that lived on my street alone. At noon, I'd run out of the house and, after a brief return for dinner, wouldn't came back until 8, 9, 10, then 11. I was always in the neighborhood somewhere—usually never more than a block or two away—but I had no cell phone, and there was no way to get in touch with me. If I was on my bike, I was going even further. This freedom meant that my friends were always within easy reach—and we didn't have to escape anywhere online—not that there was an internet at the time. We got to have private conversations, to meet new people (strangers!), and, most importantly, to make our own mistakes. When the internet did make its way into our house—somewhere in the mid 90's—it was always a late night activity after I was called in for my curfew. I was awake, had nothing else to do besides watch TV, but the key was that I had *nowhere to go*. TV was boring because it wasn't social and wasn't interactive. It was just a way to tune out—to be told what to think and to insert images into my head that didn't orginate with me. The internet was a lifeline.
Same with my usage of the phone. I started using the phone a lot when I was in high school and had to travel from Brooklyn to Manhatten to go. My parents were strict about getting home before a certain time, and so conversations that would have otherwise happened in Manhattan in the neighborhood around my school became phone conversations in my room later on. I was going to socialize by any means that I had, and if I couldn't do it in person, I was going to use technology. I wanted to connect to people and actually interact. The internet was a means to do that, and still is. Did we talk about anything particularly earth-shattering? Nope… it was mostly drivel about who we liked and didn't like—the same crap kids text about now.
Today, the tighter the leash we put on our kids, the more likely they are to dig a hole in the ground to escape—and that's the internet in their rooms and in their palms. We're forcing our kids onto these platforms by giving them no where else to play and connect. The same holds true for adults. When we use the tool to help catapult ourselves into the real world—to discover the shared interests of others, to find meetups, sports, concerts—things to do in the meatspace—we're using the internet to increase our socialization. It actually reconnects us to the real world when we can't always be, as opposed to taking us away from it. (Farmville being an acception, of course--but that's not really "social media", even though you play it on Facebook. It's just a video game.)
Anecdotally, that holds true in my observation. My social media adept friends, the ones who participate on open social networks like Twitter the most have the busiest real life social calendars. My friends from home—the ones I went to elementary school with who aren't on Twitter, Foursquare, Meetup, etc.—they're the ones who fell into the most routine. They hangout with the same people they grew up with and haven't ventured much past the world that mainstream media and pop culture has served to them via the broadcasted silver platter of TV. They obsess over American Idol while I make plans via Twitter to meet someone new who I share a common interest with.
I recently talked to someone from the UK who told me that Americans have an irrational fear of pedophiles and terrorists—that it seemed like every move we made, particularly as parents, seemed in response to the belief that these were the two biggest dangers our kids face. To "protect" them, we keep them indoors and sit them from of the TV safe, secure, and full of Hot Pockets and Mac & Cheese—destined to become a heart disease and diabetes statistic. Occasionally, they'll get taken to a two hour long soccer pratice, and that will be their exercise for the week.
At least they're not getting touched in places they'll one day have to point out on a psychologist's doll, seemingly goes the logic.
So before anyone goes blaming Twitter or Facebook for causing the next generation to lose the ability to make new friends and interact socially, perhaps we should rethink our notion of "stranger danger" and what other alternatives we provide our kids for socialization. How much do we let them out in the real world with the freedom to learn, or are we spoon feeding them contrived, overly organized, "safe" socialization because we'll afraid they'll get exposed to something terrible. Of the nearly 800,000 cases of kids going at least temporarily missing each year, only about 115 are the result of classic stranger abductions. It's not 115,000. Just 115. Yet, we're driving teens and kids to the internet as the main and sometimes only method of socialization, because we're closing off all of their other free range opportunity to meet and discover new people. These could be other kids whose interests might align more with theirs than the kid who just happened randomly to grow up next door.
You should fear that humanity is getting sucked into the "false" socialization on social media because our real life socialization is getting poorer and poorer—not the other way around. We don't go out anymore—that's the problem—and that started well before the internet showed up in our houses en masse. "Bowling Alone in America" documents this well and it inspired Scott Heifernan to create Meetup.com—an online social network—in an effort to get people socializing in real life again. Online social tools can very much increase the amount of socialization done in the real world.
It's the kind of perspective that Mr. Keller has on this social connectedness—that social media represents an "aggressive distraction" and is the "enemy of contemplation" that contributes to a severe missed opportunity for younger generations. I struggle to teach kids in college classrooms about the opportunity that social media presents—the opportunity to meet and speak with people in just about any field of study or career pursuit imaginable. If you think you want to go into a particular career, there's usually a person who writes a blog about it whose e-mail address is listed in the sidebar. When you dismiss the relationships that you can build online as ones build on nothing more than "snark", you're inevitably going to produce rather dismissive offspring as well. The most difficultly I have in getting my students to do any assignment is one where they have to go use the internet to meet a stranger. It might sound sketchy, but many more social media savvy people simply take this to mean professional networking—and they gain a tremendous career advantage by being able to complete this task with not only ease—but enthusiasm, excitement, and curiousity. Is Mr. Keller's daughter going to enthusiastically reach out to an artist she sees on Tumblr and get inspired to pursue a career in that field, or will she assume the whole thing to be much less socially acceptable and even potentially more dangerous than letting her brain rot in front of "Real Housewives"? For her sake, I hope he teachers her all about how much people can gain from the medium than warning her away from it like a drug.
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I prepared a tasting earlier in the week for Gary Lincoff's lecture on mushrooms at the American Museum of Natural History: Marinated Maitake with Scallops, Chicken Canzanese with Morels, and Cheesecake Bars with Candy Cap Syrup (recipes below). I also spoke a bit about cooking mushrooms and the kooky mushroom hunting culture, but I realize now that the audience would have benefited more had I offered up basic generalizations. (Ah, the curse of hindsight!) So in an attempt to redeem myself, here's what I know about cooking mushrooms.
There are two categories out there: wild and cultivated. New cultivars are on the market that you used to only find in the wild, like maitake (hen of the woods) and royal trumpets, as are mushrooms long cultivated in the Far East, like wood ear and enoki, and more wild varieties are showing up in specialty stores, like blewets and black trumpets. In general wild mushrooms are more intensely flavored, benefiting as they probably do from their soil and bacterial symbionts, but the cultivated varieties are excellent, too.

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Milpitas, Calif., May 5, 2010 - SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), the global leader in flash memory cards, today announced that it is shipping the Xbox 360® USB Flash Drive by SanDisk for the Microsoft Xbox 360 gaming and entertainment console. The new drive makes it easier than ever for gamers to take their gamertags, saved game progress, map packs, Arcade game downloads and bonus content with them for fast and convenient access on another Xbox 360 console† .
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"SanDisk has a proven track record of creating high-quality storage solutions," said Ilan Spillinger, Vice President, Xbox Hardware and Technology, Microsoft. "The Xbox 360 USB Flash Drive by SanDisk provides a great solution for gamers who need portable storage for their Xbox 360 content. It's plug and play simple."
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I can only assume that artisanal air is composed from handcrafted Australian atoms of hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, rather than, say, made 13.7 billion years ago during the big bang.
Next is this, which came up as the error message when the page crashed. So the IT guys are now officially artisans.
Now we have this picture from Las Vegas, advertising a local strip bar.
I suppose in some way the strippers are artisanal, as their chests were handcrafted by some of the finest plastic surgeons in Tijuana.
By the way, your cab driver is asleep.
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Turkey and Armenia Saturday agreed to open their sealed border and establish diplomatic relations after a century of animosity between the neighboring countries came to an end thanks to mediation from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Turkish and Armenian foreign ministers signed the historic accord in the neutral Swiss city of Zurich, where Clinton and Swiss mediators met with the leaders to find a solution to the nations' unrest, which stemmed from World War I, when an estimated 1.5 million Armenians were killed. Turkey denies genocide, and the accord contains a clause that will allow further investigation of historical records kept about the deaths.
Clinton, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu spent hours hashing out the accord, which is designed to reduce tensions in the region.
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Oil and gas drilling has swept off the plains and into the Colorado statehouse, fueling battles between the industry and community advocates and potentially between Gov. John Hickenlooper and his fellow Democrats in the legislature.
Drilling for oil and gas has nearly doubled on the Front Range since 2006, sparking local concerns and seven legislative bills — with more possible.
Some bills focus on the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, the agency overseeing oil and gas development. The measures seek to boost inspections, increase spill reporting, raise fines and limit industry influence.
Others seek to buttress the role of local government in overseeing oil and gas development.
"As drilling has moved closer to neighborhoods, this has become a bigger and bigger concern," said Rep. Su Ryden, D-Aurora, who is working on a bill to clarify local land-use powers in oil and gas development.
Meanwhile, the scale of drilling is reaching new proportions in Colorado.
In 2013, the two largest operators in the region, Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and Noble Energy, are poised to spend more than $3.2 billion on Front Range oil and gas development and drill about 650 wells.
The discretionary portion of the state's budget, by comparison, is about $8.2 billion.
For Hickenlooper, who supports oil and gas development and maintains that the state has sole control over regulating drilling, the Democrat-sponsored and -supported bills create a dilemma.
"I am very sympathetic to communities that are seeing a changing landscape and are worried about an industrial activity within a thousand feet of their homes," Hickenlooper said in an interview. "But what are you going to do, take away everyone's mineral rights?"
Oil-and-gas-industry representatives say they are willing to discuss issues such as boosting inspections, spill reporting and fines.
"Our concern is an overreach on some of these bills," said Doug Flanders, director of policy for the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, a trade group.
The legislation isn't an overreach but rather a response to massive growth in oil and gas activity, said Rep. Mike Foote, D-Lafayette, sponsor of two of the bills.
Fueled by the discovery of oil in the Niobrara shale, a formation stretching from south of Denver to the Wyoming border, new wells jumped almost 100 percent between 2006 and 2012 — to 1,713 in a six-county area, according to state data.
In 2012, Colorado oil production reached a 51-year high — 48 million barrels — and Anadarko and Noble are projecting drilling about 1,600 wells in the next five years.
In February, ConocoPhillips announced that it had found a "sweet spot" in the Arapahoe-Adams County area and is planning to drill 38 wells this year.
Almost all the activity has been in Weld County, but local officials in neighboring areas are struggling, as drilling spreads, to meet their residents' concerns over health, safety and property values.
"As a local official, you feel your hands are tied," said Rep. Dominick Moreno, D-Commerce City. "That's why you are seeing these bills in the legislature."
A lack of confidence in state regulators is also fueling much of the debate.
The city of Longmont, for example, adopted its own regulations and a ban on hydrofracturing, or fracking, a rock-cracking technique that releases oil and gas.
For its efforts, the city has been sued by the Hickenlooper administration over the rules and by the industry over its fracking ban.
"The people rose up and did this because they are not getting satisfaction from their government," Kaye Fissinger, a spokeswoman for the citizens group Our Health, Our Future, Our Longmont, testified at a hearing.
"They were not getting satisfaction from the Colorado Oil and Gas Commission," Fissinger said.
The administration is trying to find common ground with legislators on some of the bills, Matt Lepore, the executive director of the oil-and-gas commission, said in an e-mail.
But bills requiring an $8.2 million increase in oil and gas inspectors and blocking anyone paid by the industry from serving on the commission — which has three industry-designated seats — are problems, administration officials said.
"You want to think very carefully before you change the commission's mission," Hickenlooper said.
For the most part, the bills are moving on Democratic-majority votes, with no support from Republicans.
"This is a very emotional issue," said Rep. Ray Scott, R-Grand Junction, and is "vilifying a particular industry."
So when bills do reach Hickenlooper, the partisan fault line will already have been well-defined.
"It will be interesting to see what the governor does," said Peter Maysmith, executive director of Conservation Colorado, an environmental group supporting the bills.
"Representatives are bringing their constituents' concerns about a state agency they do not see as being responsive," Maysmith said. "This is democracy playing out."
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The bills
The bills filed in the Colorado Senate and House dealing with oil and gas drilling and development:
HB 1267 raises the maximum daily fine for an oil-and-gas rule violation to $15,000 from $1,000, removes a $10,000 cap on any single fine and sets a minimum fine of $6,000 for health and safety violations. Sponsor: Rep. Mike Foote, D-Lafayette.
HB 1268 requires a seller to disclose if the oil-and-gas rights have been leased on a property. This bill passed the House unanimously Tuesday. Sponsor: Rep. Dominick Moreno, D-Commerce City.
HB 1269 aims to reduce conflicts of interest on the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission by not allowing people paid by the industry to serve as commissioners and removing the agency's mandate to "foster" oil and gas development. This bill is ready for a vote by the full House. Sponsor: Foote.
HB 1273 provides funds to local governments to oversee and inspect oil and gas operations. Sponsor: Rep. Randy Fischer, D-Fort Collins.
HB 1275 authorizes a one-year report on Front Range health issues from oil and gas drilling and directs closing facilities that pose a risk. Sponsor: Joann Ginal, D-Fort Collins.
HB 1278 lowers the size of a spill that must be reported to state and local officials to one barrel and 42 gallons, from five barrels. Sponsor: Diane Mitsch Bush, D-Steamboat Springs.
SB 202 adds inspectors and support staff so all oil and gas facilities in the state are inspected once a year. The cost of adding the estimated 65 staffers is $8.2 million. Sponsor: Sen. Matt Jones, D-Louisville.
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Lipscomb basketball player Jimmy Oden, a 6-3 guard from Murfreesboro, Tenn., has asked for his release from the Bisons.
Oden played two seasons for Lipscomb appearing in 56 games, starting four. He averaged 5.5 points and three assists per game.
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A welcome change or reign of the fashion police? Students, parents and staff comment on the new district-wide uniform policy.
Booker T. Washington High School student Daniel Kupetsky initially protested the new uniform policy, but now admits he can live with it.
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Khakis. They're the new black. This school season's must-haves. And that's not fashion jargon — students really must have khakis to attend class in Tulsa Public Schools.
The classic pants, shorts, and oxford and polo shirts on the approved wardrobe list may not be coming down any designer runways this fall, but they'll fill the corridors of every school as part of Regulation 2601-R, the TPS uniform policy.
Stylist to the stars Rachel Zoe would hardly call the look "major," but since 2006, all middle school students have been required to wear uniforms. In 2011, the district's elementary and junior high students joined in, along with East Central and McLain high schools and the new Will Rogers College High School.
By Day 1 of the 2012-13 school year, uniforms were the order of the day for all students, in all grades, at all TPS schools. It's like a never-ending game of "Who Stole My Look?" for the Joan Rangers of Joan Rivers' "Fashion Police."
Yet the biggest surprise of the new policy is how smoothly it happened and how little resistance it generated.
"It all started when a group of high school principals came to me with the idea, citing safety and security issues," says TPS Superintendent Dr. Keith Ballard. Initially, there was a strong reaction that included a large number of emails, lots of activity at school board meetings — even student protests at the meetings.
"I was impressed with the students," Ballard says. "They were respectful and articulate in getting their point across."
Since the implementation, both sides have calmed down.
"Now, there is no competition among students for designer this or designer that," he says. "But we did have some pockets of pretty fierce opposition."
Daniel Kupetsky of Booker T. Washington High School was one of the students protesting.
"The objection for me was that the uniform was uncomfortable and unnecessary," Kupetsky says. "Other students argued for the right to express themselves."
Now, he admits, "I can live with it. It's not a huge deal, but it didn't help anything. And there are still people who miss class for code violations."
Daniel's mom, Michelle Cantrell, objected to the policy, too, but for different reasons. With three boys in three different schools with three different uniform requirements, this new policy hit her in the wallet.
"Before, they would have worn jeans with one of the countless hundreds of running shirts we had," she says. "I know it sounds easy to put on a uniform, but finding a belt in the morning or not having clean khakis can be more stressful — and more expensive."
White oxford shirts are the one item all three boys can wear, but that gives their mom little comfort.
"Those get stained," she says.
Many parents of girls feel differently. Donna Keffer's little fashionista is about to be a first grader, but already — thanks to the uniform policy — mornings with Madeline have taken a turn for the better.
"There isn't a battle over what she'll wear," her visibly relieved mom says.
Their discussions have shifted to how Madeline can personalize her uniform look. Striped or polka dot leggings in school colors often do the trick. Hair bows and barrettes help. And footwear, of course.
"She wants shoes to make her run faster so she can catch the boys," Keffer says. "Her turquoise sequin tennis shoes are good for that."
The skirts, jumpers, shirts, pants and shorts in Madeline's closet can be mixed and matched to make about 10 outfits. She is not really partial to pants, but the shorts come in handy on the days she wants to twirl on the monkey bars.
At Eisenhower, Madeline's school, uniforms must include the school logo, which can add as much as $5 to the price of a garment.
"There are a couple of places around town that (can add the logo), or I can catch a 1-cent sale at Land's End," Keffer says.
The school also hosts a consignment sale every year, a convenient outlet for parents to donate and buy used uniforms.
The uniform policy has certainly changed the pace of business for Chari Edwards of C&J School Uniform Co. Her store originally catered to private and parochial school students, but now serves TPS families, too.
"This is our 18th summer, and the business has grown substantially," she says.
Local discount and department stores carry the individual pieces that make up the TPS uniform collection, but a uniform store can offer additional perks.
"We have sizes parents can't find in stores, like slims and huskies, from 2T to 54 men's," Edwards says. "Our boys' pants have reinforced knees. Some girls buy the boys' pants for that reason."


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Русские собирательные числительные: семантика против грамматики
Vowel Reduction and Language Change in Russian and Belarusian Verbs
Russian "Purely Aspectual" Prefixes are a Verb Classifier System
Khovanshchina and Musorgsky's Philosophy of Love
Boris Godunov and the Terrorist
Barskova's Metamorphoses
Newest Tradition: Translating Maria Stepanov
Anna Glazova, Poems and Photographs
Disappointed Teenagers: Suicide and Trickery in Ernest Iasan's Youth Films
Sergei Parajanov: Brushes with Cultural Autonomy and Political Risk
Rocking Past the Red Tape: The Rock‑n‑roll Film and the late Soviet Film Industry
Osip Mandelstam and the Dating of Poetry
From Native Land to No‑Land's‑Man: Marina Tsvetaeva's Renunciation of Homeland
The Last Place You'd Look: Humor in Mayakovsky's Political Poemy
Tears to Burn Down Cities": Revolutionary Emotions in Mayakovsky's Poetry
The Dynamics of Bilingual Mental Lexicon: The Effects of Partial Conceptual Equivalence on Acquisition of Russian as an L2
Птица [ш]астья завтрашнего дня: The Status of "щ" in the Speech of Heritage and L2 Students of Russian
How Can Linguistics Help Language Teaching? Multiple Wh-Questions in Russian as a Foreign Language
Affix Ordering Constraints and the Processing of Russian Derivational Morphology
O структуре экспериментального словаря глагольных модификаций русского языка (на материале глаголов звучания)
"О яблочниках и юниксоидах": On the Word Formation of Russian Internet Terms
Demons in the Descent into Hell
Mikhail Vrubel's Demon Series and the Reflection of Icon Painting: Between Orthodox Design and Religious Aestheticism
The Hollow Icon: The Demonic in Dostoevsky
Body/Text: Representing the Body in Polish Literature and Culture
The Grotesque Body and the Late Russian Realism
Feeling Communist
Table‑talk as literary device in The Reserve of Sergey Dovlatov
The Obshchina on the Soil of Provence. Berberova's Poslednie i pervye (1930)
Невоплощённые замыслы Шаламова 1950-х годов
Poetry and Politics: Reading Shalamov's Poem «Аввакум в Пустозерске» Allegorically
The Pre-History of New Formalism
Roman Jakobson and Claude Lévi-Strauss in New York in the 1940s"
Memoirs of Russian Formalism
Two Worlds in Two Words: Stal'noi Skok (1927) on Diaghilev's Stage
Among Aesthetics: Early Soviet Dance Writing and its Interlopers
The Russian Ballet That Stayed Home: The Work of Liubov' Blok in Early Soviet Russia
The Russian Ballet That Stayed Home: The Work of Liubov' Blok in Early Soviet Russia
The Russian Ballet That Stayed Home: The Work of Liubov' Blok in Early Soviet Russia
Anna Karenina as a Gothic Figure
olstoy's Modes of Communication as Moral Indices
A Hierarchy of Hues: The Role of Color Imagery in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
A Hierarchy of Hues: The Role of Color Imagery in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
Innocents in Tolstoy's War and Peace
"Dreadful Documents": Language and Being in Two Copyist Tales by Nikolai Gogol
Horizontal and Vertical Law in Gogol's Tale of the Two Ivans
Collection and Recollection for a Void in Dead Souls
At the Intersection(s) of Content, Language and Task
Moving Content to the Core
Developing Linguistic and Professional Competence: an On-line Business Ukrainian Textbook
Russian for Professionals, from Intermediate to Advanced: Challenges and Solutions
Uncle Ivan Meets the Avatar: Teaching Russian Verbs of Motion Online
Interpreting Key Words of Russian Culture through Art
A Visit to the Old Curiosity Shop: Bare ni in the Russian Universal Concessive Conditional
On Paucal Numerals and Adjectivals in Russian
Participles Come Back to Slovene
You Say 'Gerund' and I Say 'Participle', You Say 'Morpholexical', and I Say 'Morphosyntactical' … Let's Call the Whole Thing Off!
White Horse, Yellow Dragon: A Twenty‑first Century Czech Literary Mystification
"The World is an Absolute Toy to my Absolute Will." Ladislav Klíma's Egotism, Ludibrionism, and the Underground Culture of Czechoslovakia Under Soviet Rule
Provincial Family Portraits and the Influence of Hellmouth on the Portraiture of Dogs
The gestures of devils in Old Russian iconography: between order and disorder
The Damned Trinity: Hell, the Devil and Judas in Old-Russian Iconography and Narrative Sources
Gorbachev's Book Perestroika i novoe myshlenie dlia nashei strany i dlia vsego mira as a Dystopian Utopia
The Chechen Wars, Ramzan Kadyrov, and Chrystal Callahan: Staging Captives in Literature and Life
Glasnost 2.0 or Cyber Curtain? Web‑based Strategies of Political Communication in Contemporary Russia
A Time for Trauma: Narrative Time in Shalamov's Kolyma Tales
Специфика художественного времени и художественного пространства в "колымской эпопее" В.Шаламова
"Athenian Nights": Poetry as a Physiological Drive
From Imperial Mysticism to Total Art: Encountering Nikolai Roerich through Rabindranath Tagore
Ritualizing Empire: Spectacles of Travel in the Periphery
Settlers and Titans: Inhabiting the Russian Frontier in Sergai Aksakov's A Family Chronicle and Ivan Goncharov's Frigate Pallas
Wrecking on Dostoevsky Street: Erenburg's The Second Day and the Suicidal Intelligentsia
Kaverin's Artist Unknown: An Unrepentant Painter Re‑Painting the World
Aleksei Surkov and Territorial Consciousness in the Soviet Interwar Period
he Nameless Female Other in "The Kreutzer Sonata" and "The Meek One": Personhood and Otherness in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
On Dostoevsky, Hegel, and the Impasse of Underground Freedom
Freedom in the Sentimental Mode: A Reexamination of Two Early Works by Dostoevsky
The Devil is in the Desinences: The Neutering of Pavlova's Religious Poetry in the 20th Century
Ego Mori – Ergo Creo of Vl. Solovyov's Syzygy: Quality of Author's Absent "I" in Poems of A. Pushkin
On the Present Calamity of the Russian State: Mirzoev and Pushkin
Teaching Through Games: Let the Fun Begin
The Use of PRS Clickers in the Russian-Language Classroom
The Use of the Online Language Learning Communities and Video-conferencing Software to Enhance the Speaking Ability and Listening Comprehension of Learners of Russian
Online Film Course: Integrating Video and Metadata
Developing Russian Language Proficiency via L2 Debates
The Quality and Quantity of Reader Comprehension Strategies as a Function of Language Proficiency
Directness Level of Complaints of Russian Native Speakers and American L2 Learners of Russian
Cultural and Inter-cultural Awareness and Their Role in Informing and Enriching Students' Communicative Competence
The Speakers' Evolving Attitudes towards Israeli Russian: A Sociolinguistic Analysis
The Sociolinguistics of Variation in Odessan Russian
Jewish Argumentation as an Element of Russian Revolutionary Rhetoric
The Poetics of Odessa: Tricksters and Looking-Glass Logic
Narrating the Center: Kiev and Moscow in 16th-century Historiography
The Faberge Imperial Eggs: A Geo-Cultural Mapping
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Light, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Form: Formalism's Quiet Revolution
Art of Dissimulation in Ruthenian Thought of the XVIIth Century
My Name is Ivan Solntsev: Personal and Cultural Identity in Andrei Kravchuk's Ital'ianets
Putevoditel' po proshlomu: Literary Depictions of Soviet Childhoods by Grishkovets and Klinau
Music and Sound in Kama Ginkas's Комната смеха
The Transcendent Ouroboros: Mamleev's Aesthetics of the Body
The Artist Magda Nachman in the years 1918–1921
The Symbolist in the Revolution: Valerii Briusov and the Poetics of History
History and the Self in Blok's "Vozmezdie"
Lera Auerbach's Symphonic Interpretation of Tsvetaeva's Poem "Novogodnee"
Music of Silence: The Creative Potential of Silence in Mandelstam's Poetics
Love at the End of the Century: Chekhov, Zola, and Contemporary Sexual Ideology
The Burden of Superfluity: Reconsidering Female Heroism in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull
Chekhov's Reception in Brazilian Theater: First Moments (1940-1972)
Verisimilitude and the Golden Age in Dostoevsky
How does Myshkin Communicate? The Misstep of "Double Thought" in Dialogue
The Influence of Pushkin's "The Station Master: on Dostoevsky's Humiliated and Insulted: Searching for Moral Depth in Dostoevsky's "Weak Novel"
The Russian Language in Belarus: On the Road to Pluricentricity?
A Pragmatic View of Grammatical Forms
Sociolinguistic Consequences of Migration: A Comparative Study of Migrant, Minority and Foreigner Integration
Linguistic Ecologies of Empire: Russian and Ottoman Perspectives
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Experiential Language Learning: Teaching Czech to Study Abroad Students in Prague
Using Czech Fairy-Tales to Teach Literacy Skills
Using Games to Teach Czech Word Order
The Anatomy of a New Possessor in Russian
Defending Overt Predicators
Genitive of Negation as Inherent Case
Lexical-Semantic Factors in the Genitive of Negation
Using 'here' and 'now' to Establish Blended Joint Attention in Russian
Time and Space in Russian Prepositional Semantics: под "under"
Magyars as "Asiatic Horsemen" in Hungarian and Slovak Narrative
Cultural Colonization: The Case of Marquis de Custine and the Orientalizing of Russia
The Ethnographic Return to their Own People: Bogoraz and Shternberg
The Diseased Generation of the Polish Political Transition
Polish Demons, Yiddish Demonology: Kawalerowicz's Mother Joan of the Angels and The Dybbuk
Artificial America. Imaging the Roaring Twenties in Polish Avant‑Garde Literature and Art (1918‑1939)
The Search for Love and Identity in Prešeren's "The Baptism on the Savica"
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Solar Calendar and Russian Fairy Tales
Exploring the Limits of Empire: Eurasianism in Pavel Krusanov's The Bite of an Angel (1999)
Retro-future in Post-Soviet Dystopia
Victor Martinovich's Paranoia, re: Contemporary Russophone Culture
Nabokov and Virginia Woolf's Orlando
Mrs. Dalloway and The Defense
Creating Fact between Commentary and Autobiography: Eugene Onegin as Memory's Rite of Passage
Imaging the Siege, Imaging the Siege Se
Terror in Search of a Face: Vsevolod Garshin's Nadezhda Nikolaevna
Andreev's "Pan-Psikhe" Drama and Modernist Crisis of Identity
Less is More: Tracing the Development of Chekhov's Art of the Unspoken
Valerii Briusov's "Zemlia" and the Theater of Convention
Tainted Love: Empire in Turgenev's "First Love"
For Their Freedom and Ours: Herzen's Polish Agenda
Ippolit Terent'ev as Forerunner: Contextualizing Fries' "The Beheading of John the Baptist" in The Idiot
A Slumbering Power: Oblomov's Expanding (and Contracting) Minor Characters
The Experience of Sacred Space in L. N. Tolstoi's Anna Karenina and Gustave Flaubert's Un Coeur simple
Anna Karenina's Faustian Pursuit of Desire
Charles Dickens in Leo Tolstoy's Universe
Russian Heritage Language Course: Content‑Based, One‑Size‑Fits‑All Curriculum, Sociolinguistics, Pedagogically Manifested Proficiency Levels, Enrollments, and Instructor Training
Requests in Heritage Russian: A Case Study
Investigating Syntactic Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in the Writing of Heritage Speakers of Russian
Motivations for Possessor Dative Raising in Czech
Creating a Digital Archive of Texas Czech: Applied Documentation for the Community, Education, and Research
A Tool for Keyword Analysis in Czech
Constructions Define Aspectual Pairs in Russian
The Grammar of Slavic Honorifics
The Rehabilitation of the Dancing Body: Akim Volynskii and Vasilii Rozanov
Lyrae Personae: Blok's Балаганчик and the Lyrical Touch
Devalued Trophy of the Tsarist Era: The Return of Alexander Vertinsky to the Soviet Land
Bella Akhmadulina: To and From Translations
he Style of Pasternak's Translations of Shakespeare in Comparison to the Style of His Original Writings
Alec Brown as Remizov's Translator and Promoter in Britain
Samokhvalov – A Periodization of His Illustrations
Stalinist Objectives and Invented Suitors: The Role of Romance in World War II Hero Narratives
Two Kislovodsk Stairs: The Evocation of Power in the Design of a Climbable Space
"The Battle between the Professor and the Poet": The Soviet Artist and Punitive Psychiatry in M.A. Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
Микроситуация стиха в прозе поэта
"Liubliu tsezuru na vtoroi stope" — The Role of the Caesura in Russian Poetry
Mapping Petersburg's Androgynous Zones: Sophia Petrovna's Gender Ambiguity and Its Implications
Our Two Worlds of Chaos Called Out to Each Other:" Blok's The Puppet Show and Andreev's Black Maskers
From the Modern Epic to the Modern Romance of Success: Fedor Sologub's A Legend in Creation
Rozanov's Fallen Leaves: Undoing Tolstoy's Path of Life
Solovyovian Aesthetics and Tolstoy's What Is Art?
Music and Motion in Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata
Narrative Framing and the Russian Fantastic Tale
Among Honest Contrabandists: Pechorin as a Rogue Hero in Lermontov's "Taman'"
Finding the Murder Weapon – Innovative Approaches to Using Digital Media as Learning Tools
Integrating Computer Technologies into the Language Curriculum
Digital storytelling for lower-level students
Reconciling Two Leading Recent Accounts of Russian Syntax
The Symmetry of (Anti)passives
Passivization and Argument Structure in Russian and Lithuanian
Accusative Survival in Icelandic: A View from Slavic
Attenuation by Means of the Russian Prefixes под- and при-
Keyword Analysis with a Usage-Based Perspective: A Preliminary Study in Czech
The Choice of Morpheme in Russian Factitive Verbs
A Computational Construction Grammar Approach to Structure and Meaning in Case Marking Systems
Yugoslav Identity in the Post-Yugoslav Space: National Imaginaries, Diasporic Narratives, and Space in Ministry of Pain and No Man's Land
A Man with No Country?: Danilo Kis at the Center and Periphery of Yugoslav Authorship
Regarding Socialist Realism: Miroslav Krleza's Version of a Yugoslav Literature
National Identity (De)Construction in the Russian New Wave: Kirill Serebrennikov's Iur'ev Day (2008) and Sergei Loznitsa's My Joy (2010)
Subtexts of Imagery in Aleksandr Sokurov's Russian Ark (2002)
Stalingrad: Visual Memory of the Battle in Russian and German Documentary Film
Peculiarities of the National Character: Finns and Finland in the Films of Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Ethics in an Authored World: Considerations for the Ethics Question in Nabokov's Works
Nabokov's Shadow‑Line: "Shadow" in Nabokov's Aesthetics and in The Gift
Nabokov and Tennis
A Purged Monument: Yuri Trifonov's House on the Embankment
The Tolstoy Connection: The Role of the Russian Proverb in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's V kruge pervom
The Literary Resurrection of "Narodnaia Volia" Martyrs in Late Soviet Russia
Erecting the Khrushchevka of Acmeism: Sergei Gandlevskii and Aleksandr Blok's "Gorod" Cycle
"Так сочинилась мной элегия": Elegiac Intonations in Oberiu poetry
Productive Rhythms": The Sounds of China through Soviet Ears
Fathers, Sons, and Midwives: Maxim Gorky in Isaac Babel's My First Fee
Dismantling the Intersubjective Self in Dostoevsky's "A Weak Heart"
Dostoevsky's Gothic Cityscape: Sublime Anxiety in the Early Petersburg Prose
Dostoevsky's Gothic Cityscape: Sublime Anxiety in the Early Petersburg Prose
The Architectonics of Insanity: Tracing Golyadkin's Descent into Madness
The Architectonics of Insanity: Tracing Golyadkin's Descent into Madness
Historical Distance as Poetic Laboratory: Pushkin's Experiments in Charting the Poetic Self
Sud'ba Lichnosti – Sud'ba Kultury: the Crisis of the Middle Ages as Seen Through Pushkin's "Skupoi rytsar'"
The Poor Knight between Madonna and Meretrix: Pushkin's Lyrics and the Medieval Concept of Courtly Love
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Pictured: Gino Gordon led the Crimson offense at Cornell
Saturday with 137 rushing yards and 149 total yards to go with a
Photo: Courtesy Dave Silverman.
ITHACA, N.Y. - In a battle of Ivy League unbeatens, freshman defensive back Brian Owusu picked off two passes and freshman running back Treavor Scales scored two touchdowns as Harvard downed Cornell, 28-10, Saturday in Ithaca, N.Y.
Senior running back Gino Gordon paced the offense with 137 yards on 22 carries (6.2 yards per carry) and one TD while Scales added 92 yards and two short scoring runs for the Crimson, which improved to 3-1 overall and 2-0 in the league. Cornell dips to 2-2 and 1-1 in the Ancient Eight.
Harvard gained 251 yards on the ground with 4.6 yards per carry while rushing for four touchdowns. However, it was defense that marked the win in Tim Murphy's 100th coaching victory at Harvard as the Crimson limited Cornell to just 62 rushing, 182 total yards and nine first downs on the day.
Punter Thomas Hull played a big role as well, pinning three kicks inside Cornell's 10-yard line and two inside the five in his return to Ithaca after booming a pair of 50 yarders there two years ago. He was aided by cover man Dan Minamide, who made two sparkling coverage tackles on Bryan Walters, one of the top return men in league history, statistically. Cornell ended with one return yard on punts.
Harvard struck on its opening drive, asserting the ground game with Gordon during a 54-yard drive and finishing it with a five-yard scamper from Scales.
Mistakes plagued the Crimson on the afternoon however, as a missed 25-yard field goal led to a 47-yarder for the Big Red and an illegal shift penalty negated a 38-yard TD run by Gordon in the second. Harvard broke through with 3:12 left thanks to a 22-yard pass from Collier Winters to Marco Iannuzzi on 4th-and-10 from the Big Red 30. Two plays later it was Gordon with an untouched nine-yard scamper to make it 14-3 at the break.
Late in the third, another critical mistake by the Crimson negated a Cornell punt and gave the home side possession at Harvard's 29 following an illegal participation call. Cornell capitalized as Ben Ganter found Shane Savage on a 17-yard pass and catch to make it 14-10 with 1:46 left in the third.
Harvard's defense made some important stop in the fourth and set up the final scoring drive, a seven-play, 37 drive capped by a three-yard plunge from Scales with 6:39 left. The final score came late in the game as Winters carried it in from 15 yards out.
Collin Zych led the defense with eight tackles (seven solo) while four players had a sack and the Crimson had seven pass breakups. For Owusu, his interceptions came on the second and third defensive downs of his young career.


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Uganda: 22 Students In Girls-Only High School Expelled For 'Lesbianism' --Report
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Twenty two students have been expelled for allegedly practicing lesbianism in the girls' only Iganga Secondary School.
Sources at the school told this newspaper the girls, mostly in Senior Two and Three were expelled at the end of the third term, after the Headmistress, Ms Aida Balinanseko, held a meeting with their parents before she handed them over along with their expulsion letters.
Although a copy of the November 29 dismissal letters, which the Daily Monitor has seen, does not explicitly state whether the students had been expelled for their alleged role in lesbianism, Ms Balinanseko pointed out they had failed to reform despite management's repeated efforts to counsel them.
"I am sorry to inform you that your daughter's conduct can no longer be tolerated. The administration has repeatedly counseled her [them], but she has not reformed and there are no signs that she will reform in the near future," the letter reads in part.
A source among the teachers revealed the girls had been found in possession of numerous sex toys, including artificial penises.
However, management was still clueless on how the objects got into the school given the strict inspections carried out at the beginning and during parents' visitation days.
The school's Public Relations Officer, Mr Robert Emerikol, confirmed the expulsion of the girls, but said it was not connected to lesbianism.
He, however, could not readily spell out the "acts of indiscipline" that he claimed the girls were guilty of.
Iganga Secondary School is the biggest girls' school in the district with a population of more than 1,000 students.
Early this year, students went on strike demanding for among other things a change of the school's status from single to mixed sex to allow them interface with boys.
One of the affected parents, who spoke to the Daily Monitor on condition of anonymity, said the parents had been informed of their daughters' sexual activities during a meeting held at the school together with their daughters and chaired by Ms Balinanseko.
"The headmistress called me for a meeting to discuss the behavior of my daughter and it was from there that she told us that they were practicing lesbianism and that they would be expelled. After the meeting, she handed us the expulsion letters," said the parent
"The girls were, however, not allowed to make any submissions during the meeting," he added.
Towards Christmas, Parliament passed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2009, which criminalizes sexual acts between people of the same gender.
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Um excelente post de Chuck Connel na Dr. Dobb's, defendendo a tese que a Engenharia de Software (ES) não faz parte da Ciência da Computação (!). Achei muito interessante o ponto de vista dele, mostrando que a ES não precisa ter um rigor matemático em suas atividades, basicamente, porque software é feito com "criatividade, visão, pensamento multidisciplinar e humanidade". Isso me lembra alguns colegas de trabalho em um passado recente, tentando provar por fim da força que Análise por Pontos de Função é algo confiável :-). O trecho onde ele fala que essas técnicas de estimativas são meramente subjetivas, devido aos fatores humanos presentes em sua formulação, é um excelente argumento na defesa de metodologias mais ágeis para tentar prever os diversos aspectos da construção de software.
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"A few years ago, I studied algorithms and complexity. The field is wonderfully clean, with each concept clearly defined, and each result building on earlier proofs. When you learn a fact in this area, you can take it to the bank, since mathematics would have to be inconsistent to overturn what you just learned. Even the imperfect results, such as approximation and probabilistic algorithms, have rigorous analyses about their imperfections. Other disciplines of computer science, such as network topology and cryptography also enjoy similar satisfying status.
Now I work on software engineering, and this area is maddeningly slippery. No concept is precisely defined. Results are qualified with "usually" or "in general". Today's research may, or may not, help tomorrow's work. New approaches often overturn earlier methods, with the new approaches burning brightly for a while and then falling out of fashion as their limitations emerge. We believed that structured programming was the answer. Then we put faith in fourth-generation languages, then object-oriented methods, then extreme programming, and now maybe open source.
But software engineering is where the rubber meets the road. Few people care whether P equals NP just for the beauty of the question. The computer field is about doing things with computers. This means writing software to solve human problems, and running that software on real machines. By the Church-Turing Thesis, all computer hardware is essentially equivalent. So while new machine architectures are cool, the real limiting challenge in computer science is the problem of creating software. We need software that can be put together in a reasonable amount of time, for a reasonable cost, that works something like its designers hoped for, and runs with few errors.
With this goal in mind, something has always bothered me (and many other researchers): Why can't software engineering have more rigorous results, like the other parts of computer science? To state the question another way, "How much of software design and construction can be made formal and provable?" The answer to that question lies in Figure 1.
The topics above the line constitute software engineering. The areas of study below the line are the core subjects of computer science. These latter topics have clear, formal results. For open questions in these fields, we expect that new results will also be formally stated. These topics build on each other — cryptography on complexity, and compilers on algorithms, for example. Moreover, we believe that proven results in these fields will still be true 100 years from now.
So what is that bright line, and why are none of the software engineering topics below it? The line is the property "directly involves human activity". Software engineering has this property, while traditional computer science does not. The results from disciplines below the line might be used by people, but their results are not directly affected by people.
Software engineering has an essential human component. Software maintainability, for example, is the ability of people to understand, find, and repair defects in a software system. The maintainability of software may be influenced by some formal notions of computer science — perhaps the cyclomatic complexity of the software's control graph. But maintainability crucially involves humans, and their ability to grasp the meaning and intention of source code. The question of whether a particular software system is highly maintainable cannot be answered just by mechanically examining the software.
The same is true for safety. Researchers have used some formal methods to learn about a software system's impact on people's health and property. But no discussion of software safety is complete without appeal to the human component of the system under examination. Likewise for requirements engineering. We can devise all sorts of interview techniques to elicit accurate requirements from software stakeholders, and we can create various systems of notation to write down what we learn. But no amount of research in this area will change the fact that requirement gathering often involves talking to or observing people. Sometimes these people tell us the right information, and sometimes they don't. Sometimes people lie, perhaps for good reasons. Sometimes people are honestly trying to convey correct information but are unable to do so.
This observation leads to Connell's Thesis:
Software engineering will never be a rigorous discipline with proven results, because it involves human activity.
This is an extra-mathematical statement, about the limits of formal systems. I offer no proof for the statement, and no proof that there is no proof. But the fact remains that the central questions of software engineering are human concerns:
- What should this software do? (requirements, usability, safety)
- What should the software look like inside, so it is easy to fix and modify? (architecture, design, scalability, portability, extensibility)
- How long will it take to create? (estimation)
- How should we build it? (coding, testing, measurement, configuration)
- How should we organize the team to work efficiently? (management, process, documentation)
All of these problems revolve around people.
My thesis explains why software engineering is so hard and so slippery. Tried-and-true methods that work for one team of programmers do not work for other teams. Exhaustive analysis of past programming projects may not produce a good estimation for the next. Revolutionary software development tools each help incrementally and then fail to live up to their grand promise. The reason is that humans are squishy and frustrating and unpredictable.
Before turning to the implications of my assertion, I address three likely objections:
The thesis is self-fulfilling. If some area of software engineering is solved rigorously, you can just redefine software engineering not to include that problem.
This objection is somewhat true, but of limited scope. I am asserting that the range of disciplines commonly referred to as software engineering will substantially continue to defy rigorous solution. Narrow aspects of some of the problems might succumb to a formal approach, but I claim this success will be just at the fringes of the central software engineering issues.
Statistical results in software engineering already disprove the thesis.
These methods generally address the estimation problem and include Function Point Counting, COCOMO II, PROBE, and others. Despite their mathematical appearance, these methods are not proofs or formal results. The statistics are an attempt to quantify subjective human experience on past software projects, and then extrapolate from that data to future projects. This works sometimes. But the seemingly rigorous formulas in these schemes are, in effect, putting lipstick on a pig, to use a contemporary idiom. For example, one of the formulas in COCOMO II is PersonMonths = 2.94 × SizeB, where B = 0.91 + 0.01 × Σ SFi, and SF is a set of five subjective scale factors such as "development flexibility" and "team cohesion". The formula looks rigorous, but is dominated by an exponent made up of human factors.
Formal software engineering processes, such as cleanroom engineering, are gradually finding rigorous, provable methods for software development. They are raising the bright line to subsume previously squishy software engineering topics.
It is true that researchers of formal processes are making headway on various problems. But they are guilty of the converse of the first objection: they define software development in such a narrow way that it becomes amenable to rigorous solutions. Formal methods simply gloss over any problem centered on human beings. For example, a key to formal software development methods is the creation of a rigorous, unambiguous software specification. The specification is then used to drive (and prove) the later phases of the development process. A formal method may indeed contain an unambiguous semantic notation scheme. But no formal method contains an exact recipe for getting people to unambiguously state their vague notions of what software ought to do.
To the contrary of these objections, it is my claim that software engineering is essentially different from traditional, formal computer science. The former depends on people and the latter does not. This leads to Connell's Corollary:
We should stop trying to prove fundamental results in software engineering and accept that the significant advances in this domain will be general guidelines.
As an example, David Parnas wrote a wonderful paper in 1972, On The Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules. The paper describes a simple experiment Parnas performed about alternative software design strategies, one utilizing information hiding, and the other with global data visibility. He then drew some conclusions and made recommendations based on this small experiment. Nothing in the paper is proven, and Parnas does not claim that anyone following his recommendations is guaranteed to get similar results. But the paper contains wise counsel and has been highly influential in the popularity of object-oriented language design.
Another example is the vast body of work known as CMMI from the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon. CMMI began as a software process model and has now grown to encompass other kinds of projects as well. CMMI is about 1000 pages long — not counting primers, interpretations, and training materials — and represents more than 1000 person-years of work. It is used by many large organizations and has been credited with significant improvement in their software process and products. But CMMI contains not a single iron-clad proven result. It is really just a set of (highly developed) suggestions for how to organize a software project, based on methods that have worked for other organizations on past projects. In fact, the SEI states that CMMI is not even a process, but rather a meta-process, with details to be filled in by each organization.
Other areas of research in this spirit include design patterns, architectural styles, refactoring based on bad smells, agile development, and data visualization. In these disciplines, parts of the work may include proven results, but the overall aims are systems that foundationally include a human component. To be clear: Core computer science topics (below the bright line) are vital tools to any software engineer. A background in algorithms is important when designing high-performance application software. Queuing theory helps with the design of operating system kernels. Cleanroom engineering contains some methods useful in some situations. Statistical history can be helpful when planning similar projects with a similar team of people. But formalism is just a necessary, not sufficient, condition for good software engineering. To illustrate this point, consider the fields of structural engineering and physical architecture (houses and buildings).
Imagine a brilliant structural engineer who is the world's expert on building materials, stress and strain, load distributions, wind shear, earthquake forces, etc. Architects in every country keep this person on their speed-dial for every design and construction project. Would this mythical structural engineer necessarily be good at designing the buildings he or she is analyzing? Not at all. Our structural engineer might be lousy at talking to clients, unable to design spaces that people like to inhabit, dull at imagining solutions to new problems, and boring aesthetically. Structural engineering is useful to physical architects, but is not enough for good design. Successful architecture includes creativity, vision, multi-disciplinary thinking, and humanity.
In the same way, classical computer science is helpful to software engineering, but will never be the whole story. Good software engineering also includes creativity, vision, multi-disciplinary thinking, and humanity. This observation frees software engineering researchers to spend time on what does succeed — building up a body of collected wisdom for future practitioners. We should not try to make software engineering into an extension of mathematically-based computer science. It won't work, and can distract us from useful advances waiting to be discovered."


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The Social Security Administration announced Tuesday that monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for nearly 62 million Americans will increase 1.7% in 2013.
But some retirement groups are worried that a looming Medicare Part B premium increase that could consume most of that extra money reflects a worrisome trend of health-related costs consuming a larger share of retirement resources.
The 1.7% cost of living adjustment (COLA) will begin with benefits that more than 56 million Social Security beneficiaries receive in January. Increased payments to more than 8 million SSI beneficiaries will begin on Dec. 31, according to the Social Security Administration.
Despite the increase, most Social Security recipients may not receive bigger benefit checks as the increase could be mostly offset by higher Medicare Part B premiums, which typically are deducted from Social Security benefits, according to the Insured Retirement Institute (IRI).
IRI said in a statement released the same day that Part B premium costs for 2013 will be announced in the near future, but estimates show an increase is on the horizon, with the 2012 Medicare Trustees Report projecting an increase of more than 9%.
"While the majority of Medicare beneficiaries are protected by the hold-harmless provision, which prevents a beneficiary's Social Security check from declining, any offset of the COLA reduces the overall purchasing power of the Social Security benefit, as the increase is designed to keep pace with inflation," IRI says. "Furthermore, the provision does not apply to higher-income individuals and new enrollees, who can expect premiums to consume a larger share of their Social Security checks."
IRI President and CEO Cathy Weatherford said in the same statement that "this reflects the growing trend of health-related expenses eating into retirement income," The cost of health care, she said, "is a real risk that can jeopardize one's retirement security. Now more than ever, consumers need to be aware of how quickly health-related expenditures can decimate retirement savings and develop a plan with a financial advisor that includes a strategy to cover basic living expenses as well as medical expenditures."
According to IRI research, 42% of baby boomers expect Social Security to be a major source of retirement income. The same study also found that only 37% of boomers are confident that they will have enough money to take care of their medical expenses during retirement. A separate IRI study found that cumulative health care expenses including premiums for a healthy 65-year-old male, throughout the remainder of his life, will reach $369,000 on average. For a healthy 65-year-old female, cumulative costs will reach $417,000 on average.


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