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Rob Rosenberger is the co-founder of Vmyths. He is one of the "original" virus experts from the 1980s, and the first to focus on virus hysteria. Red Herring magazine describes him as "one of the most visible and cursed critics in computer security" today, and PC World magazine says he "is merciless with self-appointed virus experts and the credulous publications that quote them." Rosenberger was one of only a dozen industry experts invited to the White House's first-ever antivirus summit meeting in December 2000.

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After blogging about the absence of women in the line-up of the Kapow! comic book convention I had a number of lively discussions about it.
I also discovered that Mark Millar twittered about this issue back on the 7th of December 2010, when someone else pointed out there were no female guests. His response, over two tweets:
You realise this is being put together by 5 women, don't you? The reason the comic guests are mostly male is because the biggest names in UK comics are male. Who is the big british female pro they're missing here?
I'm amused by 'the comic guests are mostly male' bit, when the guests are all male.
This kind of response is quite familiar. First off, there's a variation on the 'my best friend is a woman' card. Women are capable of overlooking other women, however disappointing it is when it happens. Just because women make up the Kapow team doesn't mean that their omission of women from the convention guest list is acceptable.
The next part of the argument is the 'Well, where are all the women?" gambit.
Millar indicates that there were several criteria for guests of the convention: they had to be pros that were a "big name" in comics and "British".
A cursory examination of the current Kapow guest list proves that several of them are not British. At least one of them has not written/drawn for comic books at all. So, the stated criteria is only being applied selectively to the line-up.
On the other hand there is a perceived dearth of women working professionally in British comics at the moment. This was the first thing people pointed out to me when I raised this issue initially. Women writing/drawing graphic stories in the USA seem to have more visibility than those working in the UK.
This is a depressing fact. The industry on this side of the Atlantic needs to take a serious look as to why it is happening (even taking into account the difference in the size of the markets). Not having women as part of the guest list at a major convention is certainly not helping matters, however.
Women are not entirely absent from British comics. One of the things I like do to in a situation like this is raise the profile of the women who are involved in the industry, so I did some digging and have come up with names of women who are working in the field. Some I already knew (and need no promotional work from me) and some are discoveries.
First is Posy Simmonds, who has been working in graphic storytelling for over forty years. In fact, due to her work on Tamara Drewe for The Guardian (recently made into a film), her name is probably more familiar to the British public than many of the guests attending Kapow.
There's also Carol Swain, who has been writing/drawing comic books since the 1980s. Leah Moore has been writing comic books both on her own and with her husband John Reppion for nearly ten years (including my personal favourite, their fine adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula).
Emma Vieceli has been making a name for herself in the emerging British Manga field, and is slated to do The Thrill Electric next with Moore and Reppion. Computer games writer Rhianna Pratchett has written a 6-part mini-series with DC Comics based on the Mirror's Edge world.
After becoming familiar with Vieceli's work I discovered Sweatdrop a British Manga studio that is a hotbed of British (and International) female talent such as Vieceli, Sonia Leong, Laura Watton, Morag Lewis, Rebecca Burgess and Kate Keattch.
Other artists/writers working in England are: Nana Li and Kate Brown.
I feel I should also give a shout-out to Annie Parkhouse and Ellie de Ville who have been lettering for 2000AD and other publications for a considerable time.
And if Millar and his team were willing to invite a guest from Ireland, he could do no wrong with Catie Murphy, a novelist who put together her own creator-owned 5-issue comic book, Take a Chance, which was published by Dabel Brothers Publishing. I think it's fair to say that Catie helped launch the career of her artist Ardian Syf, and her experience in writing, pitching and organising everything with the comic book would make her an informative guest.
Assembling this list didn't take me very long and it's incomplete.
If you know women who are working in a professional capacity in the comics books industry in the UK/Ireland please drop me a comment on this blog post with their names and a link to their work.
I'd be happy to write another blog entry adding more names to this list in the future.
Since Kapow is inviting both non-comic book guests and non-British writers/artists to the convention they should have been able to spring for at least one of the many brilliant women working in the USA, or even did a little bit of research and asked one of their local creators – as listed above. Hey, there are British actresses and female screenwriters who could fit the bill since Kapow is touting itself as a version of San Diego's Comic-Con, which features cross-media guests.
There is no need for tokenism when there are women working in the field who deserve the recognition.
I'd much prefer if those involved in events like this would explain how the situation came about rather than state that they had no one to choose from. I used to run conventions so I know the tough realities involved. Oversights occur, people back out, budgets don't cover your guest wish list, etc.
I don't believe there is any conspiracy to keep women off the Kapow guest list, but there doesn't appear to be a will to have women part of the bill either.
I notice last year's British International Comics Show had women guests, so this is not a unique or impossible expectation.
Visibility of women creators at events like this is very important. Otherwise, where are the role models for the women who aspire to enter the industry?
Update: I've created an extensive list of female comic book creators in these islands in this post: women in comics in UK/Ireland – redux, and I've written an overview on my research.


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Editor's note: To uncover this story on widespread fraud linked to California's drug rehab program, CNN's Special Investigations Unit teamed up with the independent, nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting for "Keeping Them Honest" reports on Anderson Cooper's "AC360." The show airs 8 and 10 p.m. ET Monday through Friday on CNN.
(CNN) -- A California lawmaker has scheduled a hearing to examine disclosures of significant fraud in taxpayer-funded drug rehabilitation by The Center for Investigative Reporting and CNN.
Dr. Richard Pan, chairman of the Assembly Health Committee, wants to know how the problem persisted for so long, even as state health authorities expanded their efforts this week to shut down questionable clinics.
"A lot of people seemed to know what was going on, but for some reason, they didn't seem to be acting on what was going on," said Pan, a Democrat who represents the Sacramento area. "It seemed like it was hiding in plain sight."
A yearlong investigation by CIR and CNN found widespread fraud and poor oversight in the state's alcohol and drug counseling program for the poor, called Drug Medi-Cal. It is part of the nation's largest Medicaid program.
In the wake of that investigation, another California lawmaker has called for an independent audit into the troubled program. Los Angeles County officials also are proposing reforms aimed at tightening clinic oversight.
Some clinics say they've done nothing wrong
Some of the clinics, however, are fighting back. Several of those temporarily suspended by the state are filing appeals.
"These people have done nothing wrong," said Arthur Barens, a Los Angeles attorney who is appealing the suspensions of several clinics. "They have not shown us any evidence of wrongdoing. I think that offends any concept of due process."
Pan said he will examine the issue during a hearing on Medi-Cal oversight already scheduled for September. "I'm hoping first to identify where the gaps are that allow the Drug Medi-Cal fraud to happen," he said. "Basically, what broke down?"
State Sen. Ted Lieu, a Democrat who represents parts of Los Angeles County, called for an independent review of the rehab program by the state auditor.
"I want to know ... what can we do to change laws or regulations so the fraud doesn't occur in the future," Lieu told CNN on Tuesday.
He said he was motivated by his belief in rehabilitation programs as a crucial tool for reducing crime and the prison population.
"I became very concerned," Lieu said, "that if we don't fix this fraud immediately, it would undercut the public support for this entire program."
Watch Anderson Cooper's interview with Lieu
Related: California lawmakers order audit of taxpayer-funded rehab program
Infographic: Rehab investigation gets results
State agency widens crackdown this week
The state agency responsible for policing the rehab clinics, the Department of Health Care Services, widened its crackdown this week, announcing Friday it had temporarily suspended 46 clinics with 62 satellite counseling sites -- raising its previous total of suspended clinics by 13. The department won't disclose which clinics have been targeted.
Department spokesman Norman Williams pledged that the dragnet would be expanded even further.
"We're going to make sure people who have defrauded the program are punished," he said on Bay Area public radio station KQED on Tuesday. "You can expect penalties, you can expect jail time and the top thing you can expect is a refocus, a stronger focus on making sure that these things are not happening in the future."
On Wednesday, the state Department of Justice said 36 clinics so far have been referred for investigation.
One client of Barens confirmed that her two South Los Angeles rehab clinics, Changing Steps and Pom-Pom's Castle, were suspended. The state's suspension letter stated that Belinda Baker's clients do not meet requirements for receiving services -- implying that they might not be addicts.
"Every single person we have (has) an addiction problem," Baker said. "They're condemning us without really investigating us."
Baker said another suspended clinic might be the source of her problems. She said a county auditor recently informed her that Able Family Support -- a clinic run by a man with a 2000 organized crime conviction in Texas -- was billing for clients she was serving.
"That place is billing the same people we're billing, and they're sitting right here in group," Baker said. "We're getting caught up in something, and I don't even know what's going on."
Able Family's executive director, Alexander Ferdman, did not respond to a phone call. County authorities have been trying to determine why reporters observed no more than 30 people enter Ferdman's clinic during a stakeout in April. The clinic later billed for seeing 179 clients that day.
Related: Ferdman responds to CNN's questions
Group therapy patient: 'All you can do is pray'
Jerome Sanders, 53, said he's gone to group therapy sessions for a year at Baker's Changing Steps clinic.
He credits the facility with helping him stay off crack cocaine and said he's disappointed that it's stopped offering counseling. "You never get strong enough; all you can do is pray," Sanders said.
Sanders said he hasn't been to another Drug Medi-Cal clinic since Changing Steps closed its doors in mid-July because "there's nowhere to go."
"Every now and then, I'll go to an AA meeting just to keep my sobriety going," he said.
Baker's clinics have been cited in county audits for problems including billing for therapy sessions when counselors were off work and other practices investigators labeled as "directly indicative of a lack of integrity."
Her lawyer, Barens, said audits tend to "result in some kind of adjustment being made, but it's always been very minor."
Barens said his other clients are R.I.G.H.T. Program, the New Choice Recovery Treatment Center, all also in Los Angeles County. Another of Barens' clients was eventually taken off the suspension list, according to county officials.
Barens has requested in-person hearings, he said, and is filing appeals with state officials to speed up the process and restore funding.
All five of his clients and at least three other suspended clinics, including Able Family Support, employ the same medical director, Dr. Howard Oliver. Oliver said the clinics do important work but might be sloppy with their paperwork and employ "uneducated" counselors who make mistakes.
"I don't think it's fair," Oliver said. "They're not dishonest."
The attorney for Immaculate Care Center in Riverside County also said that clinic has been suspended and is appealing.
"It's a really sad state of affairs, especially because we don't know what went wrong," said Joseph Benincasa. "If we did something wrong, we want to correct it."
The suspension letter cites a 2009 fraud prosecution against Immaculate Care's leaders, Godday Imakavar and Japhet Ifejoku. Imakavar was convicted and banned from billing Medi-Cal. The attorney said Imakavar remains on the clinic's board of directors but has little to do with the clinic.
Ifejoku has been a fugitive avoiding the 2009 charges, yet remained the clinic's executive director. Benincasa said he was removed from his post in June, an action that occurred after CIR made inquiries.
Regulators suggest reforms to Drug Medi-Cal
Noting the CIR and CNN investigation and the state crackdown, Los Angeles County regulators suggested reforms to the Drug Medi-Cal program.
In a memo to the county Board of Supervisors, Public Health Director Dr. Jonathan Fielding recommended that the state toughen requirements for clinics to become certified and make certification provisional for the first two years.
"Quite frankly," he wrote in an e-mail, "we've been frustrated in the past over the lax standards of state certification and the time it has taken the state to investigate and take action suspending and removing certification from bad actors."
Fielding called the fraud uncovered by reporters "a tragedy." He said the county won't be satisfied until "every unscrupulous operator is out of business and brought to justice."
At the same time that state authorities began suspending clinics suspected of illegality, county officials announced a more than $191,000 funding increase for New Choice Recovery Treatment Center.
The county immediately suspended those payments, Fielding said, adding that the mistake was "unacceptable" and underscores the need for better communication between the state and county.
Rehab racket: A CNN/CIR investigation of fraud, fakes and felons Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
August 2014 news update: State audit confirms weak oversight, potential fraud at rehab clinics
Got a story idea or tip for CNN's investigations team? Go to cnn.com/investigate or click here to submit. CIR reporter Joanna Lin, CNN senior investigative producer Scott Zamost and CNN investigative correspondent Drew Griffin contributed to this report. This story was edited by Amy Pyle. It was copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee.
Reprinted with permission of Center for Investigative Reporting.


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All you squeakers and squawkers out there, reed, double-reed, no reed, brassheads and trash can bangers, looking for some help here. I've been asked to write a piece for symphonic band, which is a genre I haven't touched since … let's call it 20 years. So, here's my question for you:
Is there a piece of literature for symphonic band that really, deeply moves you? Anything you've listened to that just left you breathless? The only one I can remember is Bukvich's Symphony No. 1 (In Memoriam, Dresden, 1945). Anything else that comes to mind?


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Duke Energy rate hike approved by NC regulators
North Carolina regulators have approved a rate increase of 4.5 percent for Duke Energy.
The North Carolina Utilities Commission approved the increase on Tuesday. The rate hike increases to an overall average of 5.1 percent after two years.
Regulators said the typical residential electric bill would go up about $7.60 a month in 2015, to a monthly average of $110.
Duke Carolinas serves nearly 2 million customers in North Carolina.
Duke president Paul Newton said the higher rates are needed for the company to modernize its equipment to meet environmental regulations.
Some of the money will be used to retire and replace old plants That includes a new coal-powered unit near Cliffside and a natural gas fueled plant in Eden.
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Monthly mean atmospheric pressure for Australian Antarctic StationsEntry ID: SOE_air_pressure
Abstract: INDICATOR DEFINITION
Monthly means of three-hourly pressures, reduced to mean sea level, for Australian Antarctic stations Casey, Davis, Mawson, Macquarie Island and Heard Island.
There are three types of indicators used in this report:
1.Describes the CONDITION of important elements of a system;
2.Show the extent of the major PRESSURES exerted on a system;
3.Determine ... RESPONSES to either condition or changes in the condition of a system.
This indicator is one of: CONDITION
Measurement of the pressure over Antarctica and the Southern Ocean is considered important for monitoring behaviour of pressure systems on a local and global scale, which will help to interpret global climate change.
Spatial Scale: Australian Antarctic stations: Casey (lat 66 degrees 16' 54.5" S, long 110 degrees 31' 39.4" E), Davis (lat 68 degrees 34' 35.8" S, long 77 degrees 58' 02.6" E), Mawson (lat 67 degrees 36' 09.7" S, long 62 degrees 52' 25.7" E), Macquarie Island (lat 54 degrees 37' 59.9" S, long 158 degrees 52' 59.9" E), Atlas Cove, Heard Island (lat 53 degrees 1' 8" S, long 73
degrees 23' 30" E) and Spit Bay, Heard Island (lat 53 degrees 6' 30" S, 73 degrees 43' 21" E).
Frequency: Monthly.
Measurement technique: Barometry.
There is need to develop a high-quality data set from the available data, correcting erroneous data and estimating missing data. Adjustment may be necessary for changes in site location or exposure, and for changes in instrumentation or observing practices.
Some of these changes are documented in the station history files held by the Regional Observations Section. These history files are currently held as paper records, although more recent information is held electronically and there is an effort to digitise the older records.
Before the data can be used for the detection of change, a concerted effort will need to be made to identify deficiencies in the data, and then make compensations where possible. This is made more difficult by the lack of suitable comparison sites.
SOE Indicators 1 - Monthly mean air temperatures for Australian Antarctic Stations
SOE Indicators 2 - Monthly highest temperatures for Australian Antarctic Stations
SOE Indicators 3 - Monthly lowest temperatures for Australian Antarctic Stations
SOE Indicators 4 - Monthly mean lower-stratospheric temperature above Australian Antarctic Stations
SOE Indicators 5 - Monthly mean mid-tropospheric temperature above Australian Antarctic Stations
SOE Indicators 38 - Mean sea level
SOE Indicators 62 - Water levels of Deep Lake, Vestfold Hills
Note - Station codes in the data are as follows:
300000 - Davis
300001 - Mawson
300004 - Macquarie Island
300005 - Atlas Cove, Heard Island
300017 - Casey
300028 - Spit Bay, Heard Island
The fields in this dataset are:
Mean MSL Pressure
Station Code
Enough Observations
Number Observations
Related URL
Geographic Coverage
Spatial coordinates
Data Set Citation
Dataset Originator/Creator: Barnes-Keoghan, I.
Dataset Title: Monthly mean atmospheric pressure for Australian Antarctic Stations
Dataset Series Name: CAASM Metadata
Dataset Release Date: 2001-04-26
Dataset Publisher: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Version: 1Online Resource: https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/SOE_air_pressure
Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 1948-04-01
Location Keywords
Data Resolution
Temporal Resolution: 30 Day(s)
Science Keywords
Quality Mean monthly atmospheric pressure is calculated from all the available 3-hourly observations made during a given month. Each three-hourly air pressure observation is 'reduced' to the equivalent value at mean sea level, using an algorithm embedded in the AWS. If less than 200 observations are present for that month, the monthly value is flagged and removed from the State of Environment dataset.
The monthly atmospheric pressure anomaly is calculated as the difference between the mean atmospheric pressure for a given month and the long-term mean atmospheric pressure for that calendar month between 1971 and 2000, so that:
Anomaly (for given month) = Value (for given month) - Long-term Mean (for relevant calendar month)
Although the Bureau of Meteorology uses the period from 1961 to 1990 as the standard period for calculation of long-term means, it was decided that for Antarctic stations, the 1971-2000 dataset was in most cases more complete, and would therefore provide a more accurate long-term mean.
These records require analysis for variability and trends. However, there are likely to be significant errors in the data, and these need to be addressed first (see Research Issues).
With regard to Heard Island, unfortunately, the two AWS are not 'normal' ones (they are actually ocean drifting buoys that have been strapped down). They do provide temperature and pressure, but not wind or daily maximum and minimum temps. Also, they do not report to a fixed, regular schedule, instead sending when they are within the satellite footprint. The system set up for the other sites assumes the regular 3-hourly schedule. The irregularity of the Heard data could cause curious biases, which have not been explored. Also, the criteria used to flag that there are 'enough' data (greater than 200 obs in the month) may not really work with these more frequent, and irregular, reporting schedules.
Heard Island (Atlas Cove)
WMO number: 95997
Elevation: 3 m
Barometer elevation: 3.5 m
Heard Island (The Spit)
WMO number: 94997
Elevation: 12 m
Barometer elevation: 12.5 m
Access Constraints Data arising from this project are available from the state of the environment indicator at the provided URL.
Use Constraints This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=SOE_air_... when using these data.
Ancillary Keywords
Data Set Progress
Originating Center
Data Center
Distribution Media: HTTP
Fees: Free
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Role: DIF AUTHOR
Phone: +61 3 6221 2043
Fax: +61 3 6221 2045
Email: I.Barnes-Keogahn at bom.gov.au
Contact Address:
Climate and Consultancy Section GPO Box 727 Bureau of Meteorology Tasmania and Antarctica Regional Office
City: Hobart
Province or State: Tasmania
Postal Code: 7001
Country: Australia
CSIRO (2001), Climate Change Projections for Australia., Climate Impact Group, 8, CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Melbourne
IAWG (2001), Climate Change Impacts for Australia., CSIRO Impacts and Adaptation Working Group., 8, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Aitkenvale
White, W.B. and Peterson, R.G. (1996), An Antarctic Circumpolar Wave in Surface Pressure, Wind, Temperature and Sea-Ice Extent., Nature, 380, 699-702
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Jury: Exxon Mobil owes $236M over gas chemical
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — An order for Exxon Mobil to pay $236 million in damages for groundwater contamination is by far the largest verdict in state history but represents only about two days' worth of profit for the energy company, an industry analyst said.
Fadel Gheit, managing director of oil and gas research and a senior analyst at Oppenheimer & Co., said the verdict won't put a dent in Exxon Mobil's bottom line.
"Exxon will probably make close to a $40 billion profit this year," Gheit said. "That's two days' work."
He said it's no surprise that Exxon Mobil would take the state's 10-year-old contamination lawsuit to trial, saying the company "will make you sweat for every dollar you think you're going to get." Company leaders view it as a matter of principle, he said.
The jurors reached their verdict against the Irving, Texas-based energy company in less than 90 minutes after sitting through nearly three months of testimony. Lawyers on both sides were stunned by the speed with which they reached the verdict on liability and even more stunned when they took barely 20 minutes more to fill out the damages verdict.
Juror Dawn Booker, of Pembroke, said all 12 jurors felt "very, very confident about our decision."
"It was just cut and dry," Booker said. "We all pretty much had our own decision before we went in there."
Although the state's burden of proof was a preponderance of the evidence, or 51 percent, as the judge explained, Booker said it was "way more than 51 percent for New Hampshire."
Lawyers for Exxon Mobil Corp. say they will appeal and file motions that could land the case back to the courtroom before month's end. A motion to set aside the verdict is common in civil liability cases.
Exxon Mobil lawyer David Lender said "erroneous rulings" prevented the jurors from hearing all the evidence and deprived the company of a fair trial.
"We have strong legal and factual arguments to make on appeal," he said.
Attorney General Michael Delaney called the verdict and award "historic" and said the state will vigorously defend them on appeal.
The panel awarded the state all $236 million it was seeking from Exxon Mobil to monitor and remediate groundwater contaminated by MTBE, a chemical added to gasoline to reduce smog but found to travel farther and faster in groundwater than gasoline without the additive. A teaspoon, experts testified, can cause widespread contamination.
The verdict is more than twice the $105 million jurors awarded the New York City Water District in 2009 in its case against Exxon Mobil over MTBE contamination. That case is on appeal.
California law firm Sher Leff, which won the New York City verdict, was hired by New Hampshire near the outset of its 2003 lawsuit to try its case against Exxon Mobil.
Jurors found that Exxon Mobil was negligent in adding MTBE to its gasoline and that MTBE was a defective product. They also found Exxon Mobil liable for failing to warn distributors and consumers about its contaminating characteristics.
The jury found damages in the amount of $816 million, but that award was reduced to 28.9 percent of the total, reflecting Exxon's market share of gasoline sold in the state between 1988 and 2005.
Lawyers for Exxon Mobil argued the company used MTBE to meet federal Clean Air Act mandates to reduce air pollution and should not be held liable for sites contaminated by other retail businesses.
Exxon Mobil was the sole remaining defendant of the 26 the state sued in 2003. Citgo was a co-defendant when the trial began in January, but it began settlement negotiations with the state and withdrew from the trial. Citgo ultimately settled for $16 million, bringing the total the state has collected in MTBE settlement money to $136 million.
Attorney Matt Pawa, of the Pawa Law Group in Boston, has been involved in the case from the start and brought in the Sher Leff firm. He said perseverance paid off.
"When you seek justice against one of the world's biggest corporations, you have to stick it out for the long haul," he said.
Jurors had more than 400 exhibits to sift through, including memos and reports dating back decades. Those memos included some in which Exxon Mobil researchers warned against using MTBE gasoline because of the extensive harm it can do to groundwater.
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Jawaid, you are a walker right? Which means that you have a lot of neuronal sparing. It is only B & B & SF you are after. In which case I think Jerry's peripheral nerve graft + chondroitinase could be the most interesting for you. However, at the moment Acorda who have the patent for the enzyme do not have plans to go to trial. They still have more pre-clinical studies to perform.
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When we first entered Jerusalem we went to the Hebrew University at Mt Scopus for a Shehecheyanu blessing. There we learned that this world renowned university that began in 1925 with such luminaries as Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud and Martin Buber on its board (I am sure there is the potential for a great improv skit on their board meetings), had to close the Mt Scopus campus from 1948 until the reunification of Jerusalem in 1967. The Hadassah Hospital at Mt Scopus was also closed during that time as Jordan forbid access. Ironically Haddassah Hospital serves all populations in Israel and Arabs make up 30% of its population. Now imagine a US university or hospital faced with such a circumstance.
One more story on a somewhat related theme. Our guide told us a personal story from during the 1967 war when she was a high school student. She and fellow students were required to dig temporary graves in Tel Aviv as they expected 20,000 deaths. Juxtapose that thought with the fact that her father was in the army and they hadn't seen him for a month. She and her mother made sandwiches for soldiers when the Army was having difficulty feeding the soldiers. For every sandwich they handed out they got a note in return saying "please call my wife, my mother, my family and tell them I'm all right". I think about how such experiences color one's perspective, what it must be like to live daily with an awareness of threat. And perhaps those of us who judge from the comfort of our well-protected nation are also prone to magical thinking, skipping over unpleasant facts and realities that conflict with our tidy solutions.


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Hello to everybody !!
franky speaking , being a total newbie both in the *Nix world as well as the programming field I wonder what programming lge might be more beneficial to me than others ..
ksh scripting ? perl ? python ?
they say python is clement as to beginners but I feel perl can help me advance better in 'daemonology' ..
right ,
Daemonologists ?
I have two recommendations.
Programming effectively is more than learning any given language's syntax. Programming effectively also means understanding the problem which is to be solved. Lots of research may need to done before you fully understand the underlying problems & all essential code can be written. When embarking upon any programming project, be very truthful with yourself as to your own commitment, curiosity, fortitude, & time when tackling the exercise.
Some programming problems will be trivial, but many won't. Practice & experience will help. So don't think that programming can be "mastered" in a week or two. It takes time. Consider the effort a long-term investment.
I would think Bourne shell (sh) scripting is essential if you're going to maintain your own Unix-like system.
Knowing a bit of awk scripting can be helpful with your shell scripting. awk uses a C-like syntax, so if you're familiar with C it should be reasonably accessible. If you're not familiar with C, it would be worth considering. Any self-respecting Unix-like workstation will have a C compiler on it, so why not know something about this language with deep Unix roots, which is still used today for system development. It's nice to be able to compile your own programs.
Beyond that, I'd think very carefully why you want to learn anything else before proceeding on a large effort.
Most, if not all shells claim Bourne compatibility, although some are more compatible than others.
The point IdOp is making is consider coding to the Bourne shell as the lowest common denominator. Bourne shell code has a higher probability to running on any number of shells. Although bash was not initially mentioned, integrating bash-ism's into a script limits its use to the bash shell only. Getting locked into using a specific shell may hurt one's self at the most inopportune moment later on.
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Thanks Ocicat , much indebted to you and you're a source !
I thought the openbsd team chose perl because it is more practical and more powerful than the rest .. likewise after reading days ago that openbsd team got rid of c++ from the base I thought c is better or less problematic or more secure .. again a newbie scale ..
my aim is to qualify as a BSD user [and contributor in the long run] so that I can -the best way- make use of the new OS I discoverd,loved, and trusted .. I feel the urge to embrace this new culture .. the BSD UNIX culture .. I met with some problems that windows hid from me as a user .. namely : unicode support ..
I am divorsing my old bad 'WinHabits' .. among many , doing without gui to develop the alternative '*Nix-habits' .. using snownews / lynx/ mp3blaster/ mutella /xxxterm / ...
so I guess it is python instead of perl ..
ldOP , Thanks for your suggestion
c is famous in prog literature so well as in real UNIX LIFE , but some disencourage beginners like me from choosing c as a first programming language
some went further as to blame c for pushing learners into learning bad programming habits .. I am just quotng here .. I still have no clue how true or false this might turn ..
Friend ldOP , what do you mean by 'large effort' ?
But that is my opinion.
interesting ..
well I said it as a fact (bad habits relating to the very nature of the OS) not as an attitude. while bidding windows farewell I did it , not out of contempt or resentment but simply because I found a better alternative .. encompasing all expectations and at this low newbie level , let alone afterwards ..
I reember Theo de Raadt once said on an old TV interview that security is based both on me and the other net user ..
I believe Windows has contributed much to most net probs ..
Respect to all opinions of course .. bifrost has got many colors ..
Here's a fuller answer about the decision to use Perl:
C++ isn't removed from base in any way that would meaningfully limit you if you chose that as your first programming language. The gcc in base compiles C++ fine, and these days is only a little out of date on most architectures. If you find yourself wanting to use features from C++11 (the new ISO standard just out this year) you may be able to pull in a newer gcc from ports with some support. The C++ program they removed from base I believe you are thinking of was groff. Whatever the C++ bashers want you to believe, the problems for them with groff seemed, from my reading, to have more to do with that particular code base, that it was a general purpose troff formatter and they only needed enough of it in base to handle man page formats, that groff's license was GPL (perhaps -- I'm always unclear just how big an issue GPL in base is for OpenBSD and whether that issue isn't overstated by some people), that the job to bring in a newer version of groff was nothing anyone would find fun, and that Kristaps Dzonsons and Ingo Schwarze had done such a nice job with mandoc. Unfortunately, this usually gets translated as, "groff's written in C++ so it sucks."
C is not better than C++. Python is not better than Perl. I'd suggest you try to avoid these language A is superior to language B kinds of statements (both reading them, even when written by OpenBSD developers, or writing them). Bjarne Stroustrup writes about the problems with these statements better than I ever could in his FAQ: http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#compare .
What ocicat wrote about Python being syntactically clean is fair and a plus for Python as a first language. I think I've read something to the effect that Guido had an earlier language whose goals included being a good teaching language as a model, so it's perhaps understandable that it's novice friendly. That said, Perl's not as bad a choice as many make it out to be either, and you could read the source to the OpenBSD package system, once learning it. Larry Wall has been quoted as having a design goal of supporting "baby talk" meaning that there are meant to be multiple levels of Perl knowledge, none of which leave you hamstrung as far as making things work. IMO, he's been quite successful with that. I found learning Perl to be great fun (and still do every time I relearn it ).
I also like what ocicat said in suggesting shell script (though, personally, I go out of my way to avoid shell script beyond a two liner -- Olin Shivers takes some entertaining swipes at Unix shell script I relate to that you can find here if you don't feel like following my advice above about reading language bigotry: http://www.scsh.net/docu/scsh-paper/...per-Z-H-1.html ), since you said your goal was to perhaps contribute to OpenBSD someday. I'm guessing you would start with making ports, in which case you'd need to know shell script, perhaps some Perl, Makefiles, and some C at a minimum. If you learned Python instead of Perl, maybe you could start by maintaining Python module ports.
In general though, except for your goal to contribute, I don't personally think you should be as influenced as you seem to be by the preferences of other BSD users and developers. There seems to be a bias towards C and shell script/awk/sed among Unix people. That's not such an unattractive programming world, but there are other worlds, and OpenBSD supports programming in them quite well too, despite the preferences of many of its kernel and user land developers. As an example of the many alternatives available, this book on Lisp could be a fun place to start for a beginner (and there are some great, more serious books on Lisp you could follow up with, such as Peter Norvig's Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence or Abelson and Sussmans' Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs): http://landoflisp.com/ OpenBSD now has very good support for Common Lisp. They actually are better (in some respects?) than anyone else in their SBCL support, supporting me on PowerPC (yay!). Not even Linux or OS X are up to the version number the OpenBSD porter and SBCL people have gotten up to: http://www.sbcl.org/platform-table.html
Why Perl is in base has been discussed on misc@ periodically for a number of years. My recollection centered around project developer comments such as the following:
However, your resurrection of Espie's take (as done above...) is more apropos(1).
As I recall, the motivation came from wanting to move away from GCC3.2 which was getting old in the tooth. pcc was considered, but many of the developers had concerns over whether pcc was mature enough & whether it could handle all of OpenBSD's supported platforms. The window for making a decision was short, so retrofitting GCC4 was the alternative chosen.
I suspect that there will be continued piecemeal moves away from GNU. If mandoc(1) (for replacing textproc/groff...) & tmux(1) (for replacing misc/screen...) are indications, there are collateral advantages. Increased stability is one. Clarity coming from reviewing the problems of old & seeing where usage is likely to go in the future is another. The original tools being replaced had been long used in enough situations for their deficiencies to become clear. Plus, there have been developers motivated enough to come up with working alternatives. Clarity didn't come from using newer shinier tools & languages; clarity came from understanding the fundamental problem space.
But for those who dismiss the notion, functional programming idioms can be found in Perl & Javascript too(as examples...).
Again, thanks thirdm for your insight! You have made some compelling arguments.
I find myself lately wanting to do everything through emacs, scsh and Common Lisp. But I've bounced back and forth on this over the years. Sometimes even now I read how others work, quotes like, "the Unix environment is my IDE," and find myself wistful, almost ready to bounce the other way again and become for a while a vi/awk/shell/C person or an acme/awk/rc/C/plan9 person.
Still, I hate the quoting rules and lack of types in shell. Just my preference. No one should take that as advice, but instead try it and decide themselves what they like.
that's deep reasoning .. thanks Thirdp ! thanks Ocicat ! we learn from you nice guys ..
I 've got a lot of programming tutorials .. I haven't yet made up my mind .. how ironic it seems to be : for while one tries hard to well choose the right prog-lge to ave time , he wastes more time deciding ..
will a year spent on python be a waste of time for a bsd-oriented newb ? won't it help much as fas as c itself is concerned ? being ditched by the openbsd team, obviously when a nerd informed that another lge came first , alluding to perl ...
Yeah, it almost feels easier not to have choice. I was probably a no nothing idiot, but it was comfortable for me starting out because my choices were (falsely?) limited. At one point Turbo Pascal was the "obvious" choice among people I chatted with on BBSes. Then Pascal was no good and you had to use C. Then a few years later, if you weren't using C++ and Objected Oriented Programming you must be very small minded (there was a voice or two chiming in that if you really wanted to do OOP you should learn Smalltalk not C++, but that didn't run on PCs back then, I don't think). As simplistic as my way of thinking was it got me somewhere I'm happy with now. I make my living writing mostly C++, quite like using the language (*ducks*), and am excited about where it's going.
Now (I think) I see better that there are many choices with various tradeoffs and no single right path to take. But I feel just as you do the doubt in picking one thing over another. Should I have never looked at Lisp? Should I have stuck with Scheme instead of switching to Common Lisp (and then, which compiler or interpreter should I use). Maybe I should have concentrated on learning C++ better. I may be local guru where I work but I'm novice level compared to real C++ gurus. Or should I spend more of my free time learning things consistent with the new preferences of the company I currently work for rather than learning it piecemeal as I need it? I don't want to spend a lot of my free time learning a proprietary (more or less) language and library set, especially if I can escape it next job, but should a professional not be expert in anything he uses?
I guess you just have to make a choice, go with it a while, then revisit later and potentially switch paths if you have better information then. There's a danger when switching from one thing to another that you never actually write much of anything substantial cause you're always in novice mode or reading books (I'm guilty of this with my recreational programming). To me, if it's something you're doing for enjoyment, that's not that horrible as long as you really do enjoy what you are learning. To others, that may be a serious problem. You might consider asking yourself what programs you want to write and set out goals. Many of the best programmers came at it more that way, I think (maybe minus the goals part -- I guess the best probably just do it without all the deliberation). They wanted to bring something into existence and found the topics they needed to learn.
However you go, though, it's bound to be fun and rewarding, so don't worry too much.
As someone starting to learn to program, your goal should be learning how to best use the language to solve problems. This comes from lots of reading, lots of experimenting, & lots of reflection on how to do the same work again, only better.
Discussion has been split from its parent thread:
...as discussion is not on favorite programming languages.
Thanks Ocicat , enlightening and zen-short ..
Thanks Thirdm , enlightening and stream-of-counsciousness that reminds of woolf and joyce .. while reading your post I remembered a friend of mine who bitterly had to divorce visual basic as he had to move to unix .. in fact despite being myself a total newbie it was me who introduced him to BSD World the way Enkidu introduced Gilgamesh to the world of Mortality and its Consciousness .. and here is where the shoe pinches , isn't it futile to learn sth you cannot use at a certain point in time .. some of you Nerds might argue that learning *any* prog-lge is advantageous in that it enables one to understand prob-solving dynamics and procedures and syntax and such .. isn't this a relative truth that occurs only in kingdoms like LISP or PROLOG .. while not feasible as far as VB & ASP are concerned ..
as a newly-enamored bsdfan and as a non-programmer , I expect from a prog-lge to open up a door to contribute sth to the ZEN OS and its community ..
.. I voted for c here http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=543
still , I am not sure if c is the right for me as a zero-stage-newb ..
I feel I still need clues from the experienced folk .. to start correctly .. and contribute ..
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Good stuff in this thread. fwiw, Eric Raymond also recommends Python as a first language.
yes , the famous how-to-become-a-hacker article ..
Raymond is a linux man and he is still using python after so many years .. maybe this means that choosing a language influences the future of its user .. so my worrying Q is valid.. will DaemonLand benefit from pythonists at this stage ? will learning python be as beneficial to the BSD community as learning C for instance ? isn't C the gateway to porting ? ..
Application language choice and your underlying OS and architecture do not necessarily need to have a correlation. You might pick one or the other due to features, capabilities, supporting libraries .... but there may not always be a need to select a particular programming language, or perhaps, a particular OS.
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If you're willing to accept the hack's terms, you first start your journey toward turning your smartphone into a touch-based payment system by unlocking the device's bootloader. Droid-Life has a great step-by-step instruction guide for doing so but, in short, you'll need to first set up the Android SDK, reboot the device into its bootloader, type in a text command to unlock it, agree (and kiss your warranty goodbye), and sit back while your smartphone performs a factory reset.
From there, you'll need to root your Galaxy Nexus – not as easy of a process as, say, firing up SuperOneClick and hitting a button, but one that's sure to simplify as more enthusiasts tinker around with their new Galaxy Nexus smartphones.
Finally, you'll want to download ROM Manager, use the app's "Flash Custom Recovery" option, and follow these steps to finalize the process of adding Google Wallet onto your smartphone.
If that's all just too complicated to deal with in words, we've found a step-by-step video that should give you a bit more clarity as you go about hacking bits and pieces of your smartphone's OS. Have faith: You'll be using your Galaxy Nexus like a credit card before you know it!
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1. WEIGHBRIDGE TIPPLER Cane is transported to the factory on Tully Sugar Limited's highly energy efficient cane railway network consisting of some 280 km of 610mm gauge track. Bin units have a nominal capacity of eight tonnes. Each rake of bins is accompanied by a consignment note from the grower. When the bins reach the cane marshalling yards the consignment notes are collected and the details entered into the weighbridge computer system. When the bin/unit reaches the tippler it is weighed, tipped into the hopper below then weighed again when empty. The net weight of cane is allocated to the particular grower by the computer system.
2. CRUSHING MILLS After tipping the cane passes through a shredder, which reduces the billets of cane to a fibrous mass. The shredded cane then passes through a series of five crushing mills to extract as much sugar juice as possible. Most of the crushing mills are driven by steam turbines. The juice from the first crushing mill is analysed in the laboratory for sugar content (CCS). Payment to growers is based on weight of cane and CCS value.
3. STEAM GENERATING PLANT The fibre remaining after the cane has passed through the milling train is called "bagasse". Bagasse is used as fuel for the boiler plant, which provides steam to power the entire factory including our electricity generating turbines. Bagasse is also stored for use in the lead up to the start of the crushing season and when wet weather disrupts harvesting operations. This makes our factory virtually independent of external energy needs during the crushing season.
4. "GREEN" POWER The vast majority of what you see coming out of our chimney stacks is carbon dioxide and steam. The carbon dioxide is released when our bagasse is burnt. However, it was removed from the atmosphere over the past growing year as the sugar cane used the CO2, water and solar energy to grow. Bagasse that is excess to the factory needs is used to make additional steam for generating "green" electricity, which is then exported to the state grid (enough to power about 5,000 homes continuously). Tully Sugar Limited has been exporting renewable "green" power for use by Queenslanders since 1997. The steam from the chimney stacks is the result of water sprays that clean the exhaust gases by removing particulate matter.
5. CLARIFICATION The cane juice, as delivered from the milling train, contains some soil and other undesirable impurities. To remove these the juice is heated and lime is added to settle the unwanted material. The impurities settle out in the clarifier and then go to the rotary vacuum filters, which filter out any remaining juice. The filter mud from the vacuum filters is rich in nutrients and is recycled back to cane fields. Clear amber coloured clarified juice containing about 15% sugar is decanted from the clarifiers to the evaporators.
6. EVAPORATORS (EFFETS) The clarified juice is concentrated to a thick syrup by boiling off water in the evaporators. The juice passes continuously from vessel to vessel until it is concentrated to a syrup containing approximately 70% sugar. The evaporators are operated under vacuum and in "multiple effect" configuration whereby the vapour space of one vessel is connected to the heating surface of the next throughout the set. This gives maximum efficiency in evaporation and steam usage. Boiling under a vacuum is very energy efficient because the boiling point of the liquid is much lower than at normal atmospheric pressure.
7. PAN STAGE At the pan stage the syrup from the evaporators is converted to crystal sugar. A charge of syrup is taken into a vacuum pan and again boiled under a vacuum. A quantity of very fine "seed" crystal is introduced. As water is evaporated fresh syrup is added and sugar is deposited on the seed crystal. This process continues until the crystals have reached the desired size (approx. 1 mm square). The resulting semi liquid mass of sugar crystals and molasses is called 'massecuite'.
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10. SUGAR SHIPMENT The sugar is transported by road to the bulk sugar terminal at Mourilyan Harbour. Each truck carries 40 tonnes of sugar. The sugar is stored at the harbour in large sheds before being loaded on ships and transported to our overseas customers. All Tully sugar is exported and is widely recognised for its high and consistent quality.


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During last night's Conan monologue, Conan O'Brien went off on a bit of a tangent regarding the Obamas' appearance on The View and the questions asked by conservative cohost/idiot Breck Girl Elisabeth Hasselbeck. While many, as Conan points out, expected the women of The View to conduct softball interview with the President and First Lady, Hasselbeck took it upon herself to ask the POTUS on how he's failed the middle class. (Please note that The View clip on Conan was edited for a joke and that the Obamas did indeed answer her questions.)
"Who the hell is Elisabeth Hasselbeck [to ask the president a question]?" Conan asked emphatically before going off on Hasselbeck's conservatism and her appearance on Survivor: Australia.
Look, I'm no fan of Hasselbeck or her interviewing technique (where she seems always on the brink of tears or hyperventilating), but isn't the obvious answer to Conan's question that she's a voting citizen who has the right to ask any question that she wants? Especially seeing that the Obamas were on her show? (Oh God, now I'm defending her, aren't I? Let us never speak of this again.)
The president has done Reddit forums and Town Hall meetings — a part of his job is answering the questions, concerns of the public. If he can't respond to the misguided nonsense of Elisabeth Hasselbeck (and he responded just fine, by the way), then, Conan, we have much bigger fish to fry than a reality show star asking dum-dum questions.


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During a ceremony held Friday, Richard E. Kirschner, MD, chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and director of the Cleft Lip and Palate-Craniofacial Center at Nationwide Children's Hospital, was announced as the first recipient of The Robert F. and Edgar T. Wolfe Foundation Chair in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. One of a series of endowed chairs to be announced by Nationwide Children's this month, the Robert F. Wolfe and Edgar T. Wolfe Foundation, a supporting foundation of The Columbus Foundation, was created in 1989 by John W. Wolfe to honor the memory of his grandfather and father, Robert F. Wolfe and Edgar T. Wolfe.
Robert F. Wolfe arrived in Columbus in 1888 and found work as a shoemaker, eventually beginning the successful Wolfe Brothers Shoe Company. In 1903, he bought The Ohio State Journal with his brother, Harry P. Wolfe. In 1905, they acquired The Columbus Dispatch. Robert's son, Edgar T. Wolfe, Sr., began working for the Journal in 1919 as an advertising solicitor. He later became co-publisher of both the Journal and the Dispatch.
John W. Wolfe, the son of Edgar T. Wolfe, Sr., began his career with Ohio National Bank in 1948. In 1975, he became chairman of the Dispatch Printing Company, parent organization of The Columbus Dispatch. He was appointed to the Governing Committee of The Columbus Foundation in 1984 and provided leadership for decades in the health field in central Ohio.
In 1995, the Wolfe Foundation established four permanent endowment funds, which provides support to Nationwide Children's Hospital Foundation, COSI Columbus, The McConnell Heart Health Center and The Columbus Foundation.
Richard E. Kirschner, MD, is chief of the Section of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Nationwide Children's Hospital and Professor of Surgery and senior vice chair of the Department of Plastic Surgery at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. A native of Southern California, he graduated summa cum laude from the University of Miami, serving as student vice president of its chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. He later graduated with research distinction from the University of Miami School of Medicine, serving as president of its chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha. He completed an internship and residency in general surgery at The New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center, a residency in plastic surgery at The University of Pennsylvania, and a fellowship in pediatric plastic surgery at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where he remained on faculty for 12 years. Dr. Kirschner joined the Nationwide Children's team to lead the development of the Section of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in 2010. He is currently director of Ambulatory Surgery, of the Cleft Lip and Palate Center, and of the Pediatric Plastic Surgery Fellowship at Nationwide Children's, where he also serves as co-director of the 22q Center.
Dr. Kirschner has lectured and published extensively on cleft lip and palate both in the United States and abroad. He is co-editor of the text Comprehensive Cleft Care, now in its second edition. He has served on the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association (ACPA) Research Education Committee, the Program Committee, and the Task Force on Clinical Trials/Outcome Studies. He currently serves as ACPA vice president and as chairman of the Program Committee. He has served on the Cleft Palate Foundation's Research Grants Task Force and has chaired the CPF Research Grants Committee and the Task Force on Economic Models of Team Care. Dr. Kirschner has traveled with Smile Train to provide educational symposia for cleft care providers in South America, Asia, and Africa. He and his wife LoriAnn are co-founders of Casa Azul America, Inc., a non-profit organization devoted to providing care to underprivileged children with cleft lip and palate in Latin America.
For clinicians and researchers working in academic-medical institutions like Nationwide Children's, endowed chairs represent the most prestigious and significant recognition of their work.
Richard E. Kirschner, MD, chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and director of the Cleft Lip and Palate-Craniofacial Center at Nationwide Children's Hospital


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The MoSGA Library program is seeking complimentary copies of recently published books on family histories, genealogies, local histories, and any other books relevant to genealogists. Every book will be reviewed in the MoSGA Journal, and a copy of the review will be sent to the author.
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Half Day -- Web Services Security - Patterns, Practices and Threats
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) defines an architectural style which promotes developing applications in a highly decoupled manner with a well defined service interface. The application level boundaries and technology differences are removed with the encouraged support for heterogeneity. Connecting heterogeneous applications together without jeopardizing security is
equally important. Conventional applications hard code it's own security models - in other words - bake-in to the application it self. This doesn't find to be the best fit in an SOA deployment.
Standards such as WS-Security, SAML, WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation and WS-SecurityPolicy emerged over the years to define the 'best-fit' security model to an SOA deployment based on Web Services.
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This month some of the city's poorest residents have lost access to public services that they, in particular, need.
On July 1, the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation began charging fees at six previously free recreation centers located in low-income, minority neighborhoods. This means that all of the city's 28 recreation centers -- public facilities, financed through taxes -- now charge.
In 2003, the Parks Department began charging membership fees at 22 recreation centers to bring in additional revenue. It also raised fees for tennis permits at the city's courts. But the six centers supported by federal Community Development Block Grants were exempted from the charge. The city has now brought those centers in line with other centers by charging for annual memberships.
A spokesperson for the Parks Department said the fees are being instituted "so that all the membership fees will be consistent with all our rec centers." (The city's parks, playgrounds and outdoor pools will remain free.) The city also says the fees will reduce overcrowding at the six centers.
The primary purpose of the change is to raise revenue -- the city projects that an additional $2 million will be raised through the enlistment of 40,000 paying members. But a March 2006 Independent Budget office reportdisputed that claim, estimating that the "city will receive no more than half that amount."
Three recreation centers that had been free -- Hunts Point in the Bronx, and Thomas Jefferson and Hamilton Fish in Manhattan -- will now charge adults $50 annually; three other centers with indoor pools (St. Mary's in the Bronx, and Brownsville and St. John's in Brooklyn) will charge $75. Seniors 55 and older will have reduced membership fees, and children under 18 will continue to be admitted free.
At hearings on the plan held in April, critics said the fees would drive away people who depend upon the centers but will be unable to afford the new charges. The IBO report found that attendance dropped 13 percent at centers that began charging fees in 2003 but rose 23 percent at centers that remained free.
While the fees may sound modest, they can loom large for low-income New Yorkers. Nancy Rankin, director of policy research at the Community Service Society, points out that more than a third of the city's population lives near or below the federal poverty line, making a $50 or $75 fee difficult. "More than 70 percent of all low-income New Yorkers have less than $100 in savings," she said, "and 65 percent of poor households spend more than half their income on rent."
Until they began charging, the centers' gyms, pools, basketball and volleyball courts, boxing rooms, and other features may have been the only health facilities that the poorest of New Yorkers could afford. The neighborhoods where the centers are located suffer from high rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and other chronic health issues. For example, in Hunts Point and Mott Haven (where St. Mary's is located), the rate of diabetes is twice that of the city on average.
"By making it more difficult to access recreation and exercise precisely in those neighborhoods that most need an increase in access, the administration is directly contradicting Mayor Bloomberg's commitment to promote public health in his second term," said Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum.
"A city like New York that suffers from obesity and high asthma rates needs to provide affordable recreation opportunities in all neighborhoods," said Christian DiPalermo, executive director of New Yorkers for the Parks. "With the implementation of the charge we will be watching closely to see if the increase deters people from using the recreation centers."
And it's not just exercise facilities that are affected. Adults will also need to become paid members to use the centers' computer resources that were built to help "bridge the digital divide" by providing computer access and instruction to the community.
But Robert Matthews, chair of Community Board 8in Crown Heights, does not think the new fees will be a problem at St. John's, particularly since young people will still be able to take advantage of the center's facilities, including its after-school programs, for free. "Generally in our community people find ways to pay for what they want," he said. "We have to remind ourselves that the day of the free lunch is over. In this city there are certain things that need to be taken care of, and people have to learn they have to pay their way."
In fact Matthews sees the charges as an opportunity for residents: "If they're paying into their membership it opens up more doors for them because they can go into other centers and utilize those facilities as well as St. John's to which they are restricted now."
Several proposals have been made to eliminate the need for fees at the centers or at least minimize their effect on residents. Gotbaum, who once served as parks commissioner, has suggested an "Adopt-a-Rec-Center" program to try to try to get corporate and community sponsorships for recreation centers. She points out that, while money raised from memberships fees enters the city's general funds and can be spent anywhere, money from sponsorships of specific centers would have to stay at those centers.
New Yorkers for Parks suggested a sliding scale of fees based on the income level of the member.
It is unclear whether such alternatives might still be possible, now that the fees have gone into effect. The next step may simply be watching to see if the poorest users of these centers decide they have no choice but to stay home.
David R. Jones is president of Community Service Society.Â


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