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You can rarely go wrong by making a product thinner and lighter. Toshiba, a company whose first foray into Android tablets was a relative behemoth, is showing the world that its designers can do "thin" better than anyone. Yes, even better than Apple.
Priced at $530 with 16GB of storage, or $600 for 32GB, Toshiba evidently feels that its tablet's iPad-besting thickness and weight deserve a slightly higher price than the competition.
The Excite 10 LE feels impossibly thin and light. After a week handling the 1.44-pound new iPad, the 1.2-pound Excite feels like it's in a different weight class. The difference may sound insignificant, but for a device that's often held for long periods in one hand, it's a difference you can feel. It's also a difference you can see, as the Excite measures just 0.3 inch thick. If most 10-inch tablets feel like a cutting board, this one feels like a knife.
For some, having the thinnest, lightest 10-inch tablet money can buy is enough to justify the $530 investment. If that doesn't describe you, then there are a number of design disappointments here to scare you off.
The first design feature that threw me was Toshiba's big honkin' charging adapter. It connects to the Excite using a proprietary dock connection on the bottom edge of the tablet, and terminates in a standard USB plug that can be used with an included charging block. Granted, Apple pulls the same stunt with the iPad, but you can probably find a replacement cable for that in even the darkest corners of the world. Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 is also guilty of this crime against universal charging standards, but at least its adapter will fit easily in your pocket. For what it's worth, you can charge the Excite over its Micro-USB connection, but it takes much longer.
My other gripe about the Excite's design is a seemingly petty thing, but it's something you'll feel every time you'll pick it up. The back of the Excite is covered in a thin sheet of brushed magnesium alloy. Aside from the fact that this light, soft metal feels an awful lot like plastic, we have no problem with it. The issue is that it butts up against the rough edge of the tablet's plastic siding precisely where you naturally hold the device. It's like the prickly edge of a shirt tag that can't be ignored. For a device that sells on the strength of its premium design, it's a detail that should have been taken care of.
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Given the Excite's price and the context of other 10-inch Android tablets on the market or on the horizon, Toshiba's tablet isn't offering the best value. The honor of having the most cutting-edge processor goes to Asus and the quad-core Tegra 3 chip inside its Transformer Prime.
The Excite is also trailing behind on having the most up-to-date Android OS. It's running Android 3.2 (Honeycomb), which is a fine OS, but doesn't have the same new-car smell as Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Toshiba is promising a spring update to ICS, but you won't have it out of the box. In my experience, the differences between Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich are negligible, but it's nonetheless a measuring stick worth considering.
In terms of hardware, Toshiba includes an impressive array of ports and capabilities considering its slender profile. On the left edge, you get a Micro-USB port for transferring media and (slowly) charging, along with a headphone output, microSD memory slot, and Micro-HDMI video output.


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|Hello everyone! Welcome to Part #2 of my coverage report on The 2012 Houston Arcade Expo. (You can flip through Part #1 of my coverage here.) For this article, I'm back with details on the many amazing machines that were available at the show. I'll get to the interviews in Part #3 and Part #4 of this series. Check back soon for those. For now though, it's time to enjoy more of the eye-candy!
As I mentioned in Part One, this was definitely a pinball-dominated show. There was an amazing selection of machines, ranging from an actual "Pin Ball" machine which had no flippers, and which very much resembled the Japanes 'Pachinko' machines. Thanks to the generous efforts of collector, Dan Ferguson, there was a lovely sampling of some of the first EM (Electro-Mechanical) machines ranging from the late 1940's which featured the first user-controlled flippers, up to some of the last EM-machines made before the advent of the Digital systems.
For those who aren't familiar with the development of pinball as part of American culture, there was an hour-long session by Dan Ferguson of The Lone Star Pinball Museum who presented "The History of Pinball". While there is far too much information to sum up here, suffice to say that you can think of pinball in 3 phases:
There is something intrinsically fascinating about the older electro-mechanical machines. The complexity of their innards, with solenoids, cams, ratchets, motor-driven gearings, flappers, bells, and so forth, rivals or exceeds the intricate design of many fine mechanical clockworks. There were a tiny handful of other mechanical amusement games at the Expo as well:
However, the lion's share of the floor space was devoted to slightly more modern tech. The vastly improved reliability of digital solid-state electronics supplanted EM machines in the late 1970's, and they've reigned supreme since. Further, the complexity and interactivity of the digitally programmed machines has led to the truly dazzling light- and sound-show which a modern pinball provides. Not to mention the scoring levels have inflated (instead of hundreds and thousands, most machines feature scores running into the BILLIONS and BILLIONS...) and the complexity of the game-play has increased phenomenally.
As you can see from the pictures, and from the grainy video I shot (YouTube link #1 and YouTube link #2), there was an amazing variety to choose from. The most interesting part of the show was watching how people of every age were playing on all the different machines. While the kids tended to gravitate to the modern ones, and more than one grey-haired guy hung about on the older EM pinballs, there were several instances in which young kids stood for some time, playing the older machines with the classic, mechanically driven, "ching-ching-ching" bell sounds that are so evocative of the word, "Pinball".
Despite their overall higher reliability, even the digital pinball machines have their problems. They are, after all, mechanical devices; ones in which a rather heavy steel ball is whacked around at a fairly good clip. Unsurprisingly, given the age of some of these machines, a few went down during the show. The staff was usually quickly at work troubleshooting and getting the machines up and running again. Here we see old-tech meeting new-tech; the iPhone acting as a flashlight:
There were a couple of pinball oddities and rarities at the show. First up, we see the "hybrid" pinball/video-game mixes. The one hybrid everyone is familiar with is Baby PacMan. But here it sat next to what I think is the most bizarrely named arcade machine I've ever encountered: Granny and the Gators by Bally-Midway.
I'd never heard of this bizarre game before. And I think I know why; the gameplay SUCKED. The video game controls were awful, so bad in fact that I could never get through the first level to the point where it would trigger the "pinball play" portion of the game.
The first rarity I spoke of is this machine: A Joust Pinball! This is a head-to-head 1 or 2 player machine, with a split playfield and a couple of spinner gates between the two halves. Here we see a fellow playing the game solo--he challenged me to a dual-player match right after this, and it was an absolutely crazy fun experience. This is one of the pinball machines that I would LOVE have. It was actually for sale, but I didn't have $5000 burning a hole in my pocket...
Another rarity will be immediately familiar to everyone, and needs no introduction or explanation:
For my part, I found about 6 pinball machines that I'd absolutely love to have. And should bags of money start dropping from the sky onto my head, I promise to go buy them all and take pictures and video for everybody to ogle. Until then though, I'll have to satisfy myself with playing the VirtualPinball and Hyperpin emulated versions. What is Hyperpin you ask? Here is an example:
These have started gaining popularity with the hobbyist community over the last couple of years. It allows you to play HUNDREDS of different pinball tables, without having to pay for your own personal warehouse to hold them all. Consisting of a 37-47" LCD display for the main playfield, and a 22"-27" LCD display for the backglass, and equipped with buttons and some force-feedback mechanisms, the thing is essentially a pinball physics simulator. It takes a rather hurky modern PC to handle the high resolution dual-displays without lagging and also run the physics simulation on the ball, but most of the kinks have been worked out now.
These particular machines available for free-play at the show were about 2/3-sized constructions, meant for smaller kids or tiny apartments. I've seen (and am planning to build) full-sized versions of these pinball cabinets. Having played several of the "real" pinballs, then the virtual versions, I can state categorically that the virtual emulation is somewhere between "Very Good" and "Awesome". There are a few instances when the ball-physics are slightly off, but nothing that detracts from the game. The only other downside to these virtual machines is the quality of the "playfield animations". The blinking lights and back-lit areas looked great. The problem showed up in any mechanically spinning, popping, or wiggling devices.
A good example of what I'm talking about can be seen on the Elvira pinball. There are the 2 little rubber monsters at the top of the playfield which move when you get the "Monster Bash" bonus. On the real machine, the two little rubber guys pop up and down alternately on a pair of matched solenoid coils. The effect is hilarious, as their arms and appendages wobble and jiggle crazily while they hop up and down in time with the little tune which plays when you get that particular bonus. On the virtual Hyperpin machine, it displayed 2 static sprites/photo-scans of the 2 rubber monsters, whose color and lighting didn't match the rest of the 3D-rendered playfield, and when you hit the bonus it only snapped them between 2 positions; up, and down, in a jerky staccato fashion, without even a smooth animation of their up and down motion. The effect was LAME compared to the real machine.
However, the virtual pinball machines don't break down or have parts wear out either...
Once more, I have to call it a night. Suffice to say that there is still much more wonderful game-related goodness to come, and I promise not to make you wait long. Next time I'll be covering the home-console games that were available, and my impromptu interview with Joe Crookham, founder and owner of Classic Arcade Works. I'll cover the hour-long talk he gave on cabinet restoration and replacement, and some photos of his amazing arcade machine reproductions and custom cabinets. As always, I thank you for reading, and look forward to reading everyone's comments.


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Monday, November 04, 2013
New Seb Montaz Film Has Kilian Jornet on Skis
If you liked Seb Montaz' film A Fine Line - Summits of My Life, featuring mountain running phenom Kilian Jornet, be sure to check out his latest ski film DownSide Up. Per Seb's usual, it is incredible footage of the mountains with some funny and poignant moments of extreme mountain sports. The trailer alone is enough to get your blood flowing.
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Another note: I haven't given up on Albion yet, and ready to return if they at least admit that gold speculation is a game-breaking, obviously corrupted feature and pledge to remove it before release. But I won't hold my breath and make the page this week if they don't.
I'm afraid most game devs are unaware of the big questions of MMOs and design their game from the standpoint of lore, visuals or combat system, then looking puzzled why their "awesome" game failed. The reason is that while bad lore, visuals or combat can kill an MMO, good ones don't make one. MMOs need other players - a community - and they are already somewhere. An "awesome" WoW clone will be empty, while WoW will be full. Not to mention that Blizzard can just import some of the "awesome" features (like they did with AoE loot) and beat you. I claim that MMOs that give the same answers to the big questions are mods/reskins of each other and only one can be successful. Sure, if you have a billion dollar, you can make a WoW-killer, but the only way to make a new MMO that coexists with existing ones is to give a different answers to the big questions. There are no right and wrong answers to the questions, just different games for different audiences.
Below you'll see the big question and the answers of WoW, BDO, EVE, Albion, League of Legends and World of Tanks (as they claim to be, ignoring rigging)
- Can you change the game World for other players? The simpler version is "Is there a World, or are you playing parallel single player games?" Many players prefer to be left alone, while others want to cooperate and compete with others. Please note that optional group-worlds do not apply, so just because your raid can kill a boss for a week and it's dead for all of you, it did not affect any other players who did not choose to be in your raid. Similarly distant and irrelevant elements (like who holds Tol Barad in WoW) do not count either. The World must be strongly affecting the gameplay of all players (besides total newbies in starter zones). While "sandbox" usually means a living World, they are not interchangeable. A Persistent setting where you can do whatever you want is sandbox (Hitman, Grand Theft Auto), while being a combat soldier commanded from one battle to another can be a living World, assuming your victories and defeats reshape the World for everyone.
- WoW: Persistent
- BDO: Persistent
- EVE: World
- Albion: World
- WoT: Persistent
- LoL: Persistent
- Is there meaningful trading? "meaningful" refers to "buying and selling items fundamental in progressing your character and/or affecting the game World". It's a big question, because trading allows non-combat cooperation and competition between players. Please note that trading irrelevant and auxiliary items do not count. If a player gains most of his power from his personal play and not traded it from others, the answer is no. This question has a weird connection to Is it pay-to-win? (meaning "throwing money to the game makes your character more powerful") If there is trading and there is any form of in-game spending, the players can trade their premium item for power items with other players. So a "meaningful trading" game is always P2W unless every player is strictly paying the same, which has no precedent in the last years (as devs want money). So the three answers are "No", "isolated P2W" (no player trading, but there is item shop), "trade-P2W":
- WoW: No trade
- BDO: Trade-P2W
- EVE: Trade-P2W
- Albion: Trade-P2W
- WoT: Isolated-P2W
- LoL: No Trade(remember, ignore rigging!)
- Is there PvP where you can lose character progression or the World changes against your will? Obviously important question. Please note that PvP being consensual doesn't nullify the question, as long as the loser loses progression or the World does change for everyone upon his defeat (for example nullsec citadel changes hands). Further question: is this PvP enforced to be at fair numbers or can one bring zerg to win? Both are valid answers, but result in very different games and cultures:
- WoW: PvE
- BDO: PvE
- EVE: Zerg
- Albion: Equal
- WoT: PvE
- LoL: Equal
After crossing out impossible combinations, I see 11 different options, 11 possible successful big massively multiplayer games. Instead we have a few successful ones and a bunch of WoW-clones looking puzzled why they don't grow. Let's look at the whole map:
- Persistent, Notrade, PvE: this is WoW and no one else can take its place without a billion dollars. You only progress your character and do so by gaining stuff for yourself by fighting NPCs. There are PvP arenas but they give rewards for losers too, so they are just another non-competitive grind (many people do them AFK).
- Persistent, Notrade, Equal-PvP: this is what League of Legends claims to be and probably is after Platinum. You only progress your rating and do so by fighting other players in an equal footing (you wish).
Persistent, Notrade, Zerg-PvP: impossible option as creating a zerg always means some World-changing thing, even if not hard coded into the game. The forums, chats needed to create such zerg would also mean some meaningful sub-culture that is a World of its own. Also, no one would play a game where you can only progress your character by ... being a meaningless cog in the zerg.
- Persistent, Isolated-P2W, PvE: World of Tanks. The "PvE" part is what skyrocketed this game. As long as you play, even if you always lose (impossible due to rigging), you get XP, so you can buy new tanks. So while it sells itself as a PvP game, it's actually just a grind, that's why it can be botted. Credit income depends on your premium status and gold tank use more than on your combat results.
- Persistent, Isolated-P2W, Equal-PvP: Clash of Clans and the rest of the moneygrabbing mobile crap.
Persistent, Isolated-P2W, Zerg-PvP: impossible option as creating a zerg always means some World-changing thing. Also, who would pay to win just to be zerged down and his progress taken?
- Persistent, Trade-P2W, PvE: Black Desert Online. Get more and more powerful gear via trading and payin that you use for nothing (unlike in WoW where you claim it yourself from "hard" bosses)
Persistent, Trade-P2W, Equal-PvP: Impossible combination. The point of Equal PvP is to be considered (by himself or others) to be skilled. This can of course be cheated by P2W, see mobile crap. But trading would allow skilled players obtain premium currency by trading, and then pwn paying ones, giving them negative progression, killing the game. Persistent, Trade-P2W, Zerg-PvP: impossible option as creating a zerg always means some World-changing thing. Also, who would pay to win just to be zerged down and his progress taken? World, Notrade, PvE: Financially impossible, since the P2W versions will always pay more. Not P2W games can only exists where the focus is personal progression and players reject cheating via P2W. World, Notrade, Equal-PvP: see above World, Notrade, Zerg-PvP: see above
- World, Isolated-P2W, PvE: I don't know any games like this, but is not impossible. It would be a player empire fighting against an NPC empire, changing the map as they progress, players using only items they gained themselves or bought in the item shop.
- World, Isolated-P2W, Equal-PvP: I don't know of any games like this, but it's not impossible. Imagine player empires fighting each other for land, but only using self-gained items and fighting in enforced arenas. Actually WoT clan wars are somewhat similar, though they aren't really a "world" since most players can't interfere or be affected by it.
- World, Isolated-P2W, Zerg-PvP: It would be my long held dream of Knights vs Demons (parts are all over my blog, I must write a comprehensive post some day)
- World, Trade-P2W, PvE: I don't know of any games like that and not sure how it would look like, but is not logically impossible.
- World, Trade-P2W, Equal-PvP: This is where Albion is, despite the devs didn't ask the questions before designing their game, therefore copied the "small highsec, middle lowsec, big nullsec" of EVE and look puzzled why black zones (Albion nullsec) are empty: it's because 5v5 GvG can't be zerged down, so black zone play is only for a small elite, while EVE nullsec alliances hire large amount of unskilled players for F1-pushing zerg. I believe Albion has a chance for success (because it has a unique niche), if they redraw the map and strictly redesign PvP in every other aspect to rule out zerg play (not because zerg play is bad, but because those who like zerg go to EVE).
- World, Trade-P2W, Zerg-PvP: EVE Online


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Friday, March 19, 2010
Changing the Rules and Raising the Bar
Official tenure and promotion codes, however, don't contain much useful information about what the actual standards are for tenure and promotion in a particular department or academic discipline. You may learn some useful information from the official code -- for example, do you have to develop an international reputation for one or both promotion stages, or is a national reputation considered sufficient? -- but for the actual standards in terms of research, teaching, and service "metrics", you should consult the department chair, a mentor, or other senior faculty. In fact, in the changed tenure codes I just mentioned, the differences were so subtle, most of us had to be shown the changes (by an administratively savvy colleague) to detect the difference.
The criteria for tenure might seem mysterious to some, but there is a specific time by which the tenure evaluation must occur. Promotion from associate professor to professor, however, is more murky in terms of time and possibly also in terms of criteria of evaluation.
Last year I wrote about why some professors may spend their post-tenure careers as so-called terminal associates (associate professors who are never promoted to professor). When I wrote about terminal associates last year, I was surprised that some people prefer to be terminal associates, believing that they will do less service work at this level than as full professors, so I should add "by choice" to my list of reasons for terminal associateness.
One of the reasons I mused about involved syn-career changes in standards for promotion. I have no idea how many terminal associates remain unpromoted for this reason. That is, how many cases involve raised standards for promotion and:
1. an increase (but an insufficient one) over time in research productivity (however that is measured);
2. a plateau in research productivity compared to at the time of tenure (no increase or decrease); or
3. a decrease in research productivity compared to at the time of tenure?
There is surely no way to tell, but it is the first two cases that are relevant to this discussion.
At least with associate professors, there is (in theory) time to ramp up a research program to meet raised standards, without fear of losing your job entirely.
That's not easy, of course. If there is a gap in your funding record or a lull in graduate student recruitment, it can be exceedingly difficult, and maybe even impossible, to get a research program back on track, much less take it to a more active level. And if you are already active in research but are somehow expected to bring in more grants, that may not be humanly possible in some fields.
I don't think it is in a department's interest to have terminal associates. At different universities, I have seen a number of cases in which there was a concerted effort on the part of a department chair to jump-start an associate professor's lagging research program. These efforts have included providing time off from teaching and/or even some research funds or commitment of cost-shares for proposals or research assistants.
Of course there are also situations in which a department chair is so disappointed with an apparently terminal associate that there is no effort to help them, and instead the associate professor is assigned additional teaching or service responsibilities. I think that is quite fair, but ideally would only be resorted to after an attempt to help someone who wants assistance revising or revving up research activities.
Promotion to full professor at a research university should be a natural progression for someone who builds their research program over time, successfully advises students in research, and participates in teaching (and does it reasonably well) and service (institutional and professional). It should not be a step reserved only for those who work 80 hours/week for a decade or more and who are insanely productive in terms of papers, grants, or whatever else is valued in their field. Nevertheless, it should (and, I think in most cases, does) recognize a fairly high level of research, teaching, and service; the very things we are hired to do, and that, in some ways, become easier to do at the mid-career stage.
I experienced a raised tenure bar because I moved to a different university, not because standards changed at a particular university. Also, my assistant professor to full professor transition years occurred in the mid-90's to early-2000's, a time at which there were not dramatic changes in standards, at least not in my field or university.
Does anyone want to put dates on the most likely time for an associate professor to remain stalled owing to changes in standards rather to a decrease in research activity by the individual? To the extent that I believe this might be a factor, and in part for the sake of discussion, I propose that those hired as faculty at research universities pre-1985(ish) have experienced the most dramatic changes in tenure and promotion standards. Discuss?!
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- Suzi said...
This is probably more true in other areas than science, but there is also the possibility that the person earned a Ph.D. later in life, and began a tenure track job later, as well. This happens in education, when an experienced teacher goes back for the Ph.D., and then begins a tenure track job in their 40's or even 50's.
Deans or department chairs "helping" terminal associate profs and giving them assistance to do their jobs?? Just another reason why the whole institution of tenure should be done away with entirely. This is the 21st century for goodness sake, the pool of qualified postdocs eager for academic careers is vast. If someone isn't doing their job, even though they've been around for a decade and used to be productive but have stopped being so, kick them out and replace them with someone who will do the job better.
When a university revises its tenure and promotion code, faculty hired before the revisions should be evaluated according to the policy in place at the time they were hired.
Why? Is this just your opinion, or is there some document outlining academic freedom principles (or something like that) to justify this claim? I am inclined to agree with you concerning short time frames, such as a change in year 4 after hiring an assistant professor, who won't have time to change how they do research by year 6 when they are up for tenure.
But to me it seems crazy to make a policy change and 10 years after the fact, keep evaluating two professors in the same department according to different standards. I understand it could be frustrating to deal with raised standards, but that's life. Especially if a professor is already tenured, and getting cost-of-living raises each year, why should they get any more than their colleagues if they aren't keeping up with those colleagues? I don't see an academic freedom issue here, so why should senior professors be artificially protected from competition at the expense of junior professors by a rule that does not apply to any other profession?
The obvious cynical explanation is (and I honestly hope I am wrong about this): tenured senior professors realize that as other universities get better and compete harder for external grants, their own department won't keep getting grant money, attracting good students and keeping the teaching load down, unless someone does excellent research, but they don't want to raise standards on themselves to make this happen.
- female Science Professor said...
You don't invest a decade or more in someone and then just kick them out because there are lots of eager postdocs around. In some cases a tenured professor's research activity slows or is interrupted for a good reason, and it makes sense for the system to at least try to help.
One possible reason for a slow advance from associate to full: the associate prof has realized tenure by receiving support from their academic spouse who is a couple of years behind them on the job ladder, who then gets an assistant prof job and needs the support in return. It is exceedingly difficult to have two assistant, pre-tenure professors in the same household and have a family, so some take the staggered approach. Full professorship will have to wait; I imagine this is why some don't go up for promotion 'by choice'.
- John V said...
I thought I remembered some "terminal" Assoc Profs, but when I just looked for them at the three depts I've been in, all those with regular TT appts have moved up to Full. Only one unusual joint appt appears stranded.
I also found only one Research Assoc Prof, and I wrote a letter for his promotion literally last week. He had suffered from mainly doing math and writing code for larger, applied efforts, rather than lack of productivity.
My impression is that the difficulty of moving from Assoc to Full has lessened, not risen, in the past 20 years.
- Kevin said...
I currently know only one "stalled" associate professor. He's the male half of a husband and wife in the same department. She's been a full professor for years. He's an adequate researcher and teacher, but not motivated to put in the extra effort to become a full prof, preferring to spend more time with his family and hobbies.
- inBetween said...
I am an associate prof who experienced the worst of a few colleague's personalities during my tenure review. I had 15 outstanding outside letters, several NSF grants, and over 30 peer-reviewed publication, great teaching, popular new courses developed, and lots of service (was the pres of a prof org). But I was ridiculed and horribly mistreated within my dept such that I ended up being apologized to by the administration.
That experience was horribly psychologically traumatic and so I'm seriously considering never putting myself up for another promotion. I have tenure, I have lots of students, a couple of post docs, money to do research. Why should I give my "colleagues" another chance to unjustly ridicule me? What is to be gained, other than money and prestige of title, by being promoted?
- Plague of Crickets said...
In my department there are three associate professors that have not been promoted, and are unlikely to be promoted unless they increase their research productivity. We have two others that may or may not end up stalling out. While it's certainly true that our standards for promotion have been rising, they are by no means unreasonable. For the most part, these are people who have decided to devote more effort to other activities. Most have contributed substantially in various administrative roles, and at least some are outstanding teachers. Thus, despite their lack of research productivity, most make valuable, even essential contributions. They shouldn't be promoted at a research university without also contributing to the research mission, but they also shouldn't be marginalized (or fired, as one commenter suggested).
What galls me is the very small proportion of associate professors that entirely stop doing research and don't increase their contributions to teaching and service. These are the people who should be fired. Unlike the terminal associates that take on more of the teaching and administrative burden, they drag everyone else down because others have to pick up their slack.
I thought this was a good read: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/03/05/osu
Presented above by the first two anons are two suggestions for alternatives to double standards: 1) ABOLISH TENURE AND FIRE THE PROFESSORS!, and 2) give tenured professors who are not as productive as the rest of the department a fair salary with cost-of-living raises, but don't promote them or give them big raises or other big incentives unless they keep up in productivity, so long as many years have passed since tougher standards were implemented so that they have plenty of time to adapt.
FSP predictably responds to the first and ignores the second. Perhaps we will soon see a post dedicated to the crazy people she's met over the years who want to abolish tenure, represented as the only possible alternative viewpoint to double standards for promotion. She should thank anon #1; not since Larry Summers said that women are innately worse at science has anyone presented such an outrageous straw man that we can all enjoy beating to death, to help distract from thornier issues where the other side is not clearly wrong.
Meanwhile, outside of Black-and-white-ville, over here in Debatable-gray-area-land, I remain mystified concerning the source of the word "should" in the following sentence:
When a university revises its tenure and promotion code, faculty hired before the revisions should be evaluated according to the policy in place at the time they were hired.
- female Science Professor said...
I selected the vague word "should", after a bit of thought, to cover situations in which (1) this is the rule but it is not followed; (2) this is not the rule (but it should be). At some universities with which I have been associated, faculty are evaluated under the tenure code in place when they were hired, and this has been enforced.
Anonymous, Larry Summers did not put up a strawman in his remarks. I find it annoying when that case is brought up. He merely suggested--in private off-the-cuff comments--that it is a possibility that men were innately better at science than women, which might explain partly the disparity of men and women in math and physical science. He didn't say they were better, merely that it was one possible explanation. I don't think that explains the disparity at all, but given the physical differences between men and women, it is not a ridiculous hypothesis to suggest that the mental faculties between men and women might be different. Perhaps he is sexist, but there is nothing sexist in that remark. I agree it would be desirable that men and women had identical mental facility for science, but sometimes that which is desirable turns out not to be fact. The ignoramuses that had him fired--and at Harvard no less--apparently can't see that distinction. Scientists search for the TRUTH, not for what is convenient or what fits our modern prejudices, keeping open the possibility that not everything in life is a care bears fucking teaparty.
In my dept, we have several associate and full professors who don't do research anymore (no publication in the last 5 yrs), but they have the same teaching load (2/2) as us who do lots of research and bring in grant money. Our chair has no intention to change it, which makes us feel unfair.
FSP:"You don't invest a decade or more in someone and then just kick them out because there are lots of eager postdocs around. "
Two questions:
(a)So then why is it OK to do exactly this to postdocs? - after a decade of hard work and sacrifice in "training" they are pushed out of the pipeline and forced to leave science because of a lack of jobs. Meanwhile, those who do have the jobs can at some point start being UNproductive and not lose their job because of this thing called tenure. I agree with whoever it was who suggested getting rid of tenure. There is just no reason why - in a job market with vastly more qualified candidates than positions - the positions should be tied up by people who are no longer being productive while those who would be more productive are kept out. makes no sense.
(b) this is what happens everywhere else why shoud it be any different for professors? Where does this sense of entitlement come from?
Anon @3:58 AM:
1. Postdocs are significantly less expensive than faculty. And I don't just mean in terms of salary and benefits. I'm also counting startup packages, space usage (office and lab), and anything the department might do for the faculty member w.r.t. teaching and advising. Those are all costs that add up to a huge amount for faculty over time. After putting all that into a single faculty member, it is in the best interest of the department to try to recoup its investment by spending a little more on someone who's hit a stumbling block. Postdocs do not incur all those costs at the same scale or rate, so it is cheaper for the department to cut them loose. (I don't mean this to be harsh, just a reality check.)
2. It's not entitlement. Again, it reflects the cost to the department incurred by a faculty member and a desire to get a return on investment. And it doesn't happen everywhere else. In fact, if you look at other industries in which an employee at the highest level comes with a large cost (professional sports, for instance), you'll see time and time again the employer giving them multiple chances in an effort to get the best value from their high investment.
Anon @ 8:47: Summers made his comments during a speech to faculty. He did not suggest this was a merely possible explanation, but said it was his "best guess" and was "probably" the explanation, showing no familiarity with the vast evidence in favor of alternate explanations. Furthermore, he was fired at Harvard for many failures, not just for that one speech, and the people calling for him to be fired were not simply incapable of making important distinctions.
You don't invest a decade or more in someone and then just kick them out because there are lots of eager postdocs around.
There are good reasons for tenure, but this is not one of them. Universities regularly invest six tenths of a decade in someone and then kick them out. In fact, one could interpret this academic ritual (get tenure or get fired with no second chance) as a strong rejection of the sunk costs fallacy that you propose.
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That's why many department are devoting a lot more attention and resources to Assistant Professors than in the past. Now many Assistant Professors get mentors and time off from teaching and there are lowered expectations for time devoted to service. Universities and department invest in tenure-track faculty, and it is in everyone's interests that they succeed. I think this is a good thing, and a big improvement over the old sink-or-swim approach. This "investment" philosophy is completely consistent with my statement about Associate Professors who may need help jump-starting a lagging research program.
That's why many department are devoting a lot more attention and resources to Assistant Professors than in the past.
And yet tenure still is not granted in many cases. So universities occasionally decide they made a mistake in their investment and fire someone because of it. Every organization has it in their interest that whomever they hire should succeed, but none of them except universities grant tenure. The investment mindset is not the reason that universities support the institution of tenure. There are other reasons but that is not one of them.
This "investment" philosophy is completely consistent with my statement about Associate Professors who may need help jump-starting a lagging research program.
Of course. But the statement about helping Associate Professors is not consistent with the suggestion that, until that research program is jump-started, one should evaluate them by different standards than other faculty. They won't lose their job because they are tenured. That said, why do they deserve any special consideration not granted to assistant professors? I have not seen a justification of relaxed relative standards that applies to senior faculty but not to junior faculty. No one is claiming that research is easy, or that it's easy to start again after a dry spell, or that there are not legitimate external reasons such as kids or medical problems, etc., that one's research could go south for a while. But everyone faces these problems, and assistant professors without strong research are fired no matter how legitimate their problems.
Why is it that a senior professor deserves to be treated differently in terms of promotion/raises/perks/teaching load/etc. than his or her colleagues, who are all also subject to these same pressures and chance events, just because the senior professor was hired earlier? No answer to this question is legitimate unless it compares junior professors to senior professors and highlights the fundamental differences. Any answer phrased solely in terms of the needs and concerns of senior professors, implicitly pretending that these concerns do not also apply to junior faculty, is just snobbish entitlement.
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In the British/Australian there is no expectation that everyone will eventually get to be "Professor" which is more like an endowed chair in the US system or even to Reader/Associate Professor which is equivalent to professor in the US system. In Australia the proportion of full professors is much higher at the highest ranking universities (such as ANU and Melbourne) compared to the lower ranking ones where sometimes a large department only has one or two full professors. I wonder why there is this difference?


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I think the Left simply has no intellectual vision remaining. Where are the great writers? Does one see the way forward into the future reading Clinton's or Obama's books, where they whine about racism and sexism?
The Left is reduced to yelling and name-calling about bigotry, racism and sexism, homophobia, Islamaphobia, etc.
All of the best-selling political nonfiction books are coming from the Right. The "intellectual" Left doesn't read anything longer than a Tweet.
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While I devote this post to one song in particular, I hope we can discuss other songs from the soundtrack in the comments section, as well.
A question this leads to is whether this has as much to do with the state of the Hindi film music overall, as it does with the greatness of A. R. Rahman. (Rahman is, as any objective comparison of the last 10, maybe 15 years of Hindi film soundtracks would indicate, simply way ahead of his peers in Hindi cinema.) Like most things, it's probably a combination of both. But I digress. Rather than dwell on the question, aren't we just better off enjoying the talent Rahman is blessed with? What's wrong with just appreciating divinity at work? (Assuming we believe in some divine force.)
Appreciation of divinity at work and its universality is the essence of a 'qawwali' (this Wikipedia entry has notes on the style of poetry/song/music), and Rahman has long established himself as a leader in infusing Hindi film music with the spirit of his qawwalis. He tends to meet conventions of the song, retaining the structure of a proper qawwali, while adding the unmistakable quality of his songs -- growth over time, and the innovation in music we have long associated with only his style. Kun Faaya Kun is only the latest such example of his fine work in the genre, no doubt inspired by his faith. (This is a good place to link to the Tehelka Piece, "The Mystic Master", initially shared in this Delhi-6 post.) Here is a promo of good length:
I'd be kidding if I termed this as merely another Rahman qawwali. Truth is, this has as much depth as any qawwali that's been released for a very long time, regardless of whether for a Hindi film. The source of the depth? We'll have to wait to know if it's the film as much, but we already know it's at least the lyrics, the subject of this post. To those who e-mailed me requesting a translation to this song: I hope this post adds to your listening pleasure (at the very least). :)
Among the several references to the Arabic 'Kun Faaya Kun' (Kun pronounced 'koon', rhyming with 'soon') in the Quran, is this, from Ya-Seen (Chapter 36, Verse 82):
Verily, when He intends a thing, His command is, "Be," and it is!
Now, I'll gladly ignore that the title, 'Kun Faaya Kun', is repeatedly mispronounced throughout the song. It's a song in Hindustani or Urdu, depending on how one wants to consume it. While the scripts to at least two of these are similar, the vast difference lies in practice of how the same letters of the alphabet are pronounced. That's just the way it is.
Like any work of art, this song will mean different things to different people. This specific qawwali adds more layers of complexity to its comprehension given the forces involved, which include:
- The Self (body, soul, and shadow)
- The Addressed (by the self, when not the self)
- Allah (or God)
- Muhammad, God's Messenger
- Nizamuddin Auliya, a renowned saint (Wikipedia entry here; predecessors include Moinuddin Chishti, invoked in another popular Rahman qawwali, 'Khwaaja Mere Khwaaja' in the film Jodhaa Akbar (2008))
The layers of complexity mentioned above are added with the several overlaying dialogues within the lyrics. Who says what to whom (recursion included)? What to make of the hints at existentialism? I'll leave that to your interpretation. (The punctuation in my translation offers some idea of what mine is.) We won't know the context in the film until its release, anyway. I must say that it's more complex than it initially seems even to those familiar with the core themes of the chapter(s) from the Quran these lyrics are adapted from (there are several more, a true analysis of which would belong in a more formal dissertation).
Here are the lyrics and my translation (click to enlarge):
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The complexity is hardly restricted to the lyrics or the theme. How about some fabulous, fun, soul-stirring interludes involving the guitar? Guitar in a qawwali, you ask? Absolutely! The hallmarks of a Rahmanized qawwali are all present, all working in harmony. Does that Ranbir Kapoor entranced gaze skyward remind anyone of Hrithik Roshan in the Rahman qawwali in Jodhaa Akbar, one finger upward and seeking divine help, the other pointing downward to transfer that help to his subjects?
By now, I've listened to the soundtrack in its entirety. It's trademark Rahman, and one can only imagine singer Mohit Chauhan smiling his way through the album. My only hope is the movie it's for does it some justice. It surely has an excellent ecosystem of music to work with.
Your thoughts on the song, and on the soundtrack?
For further reading, here's an excellent Mumbai Mirror article on Director Imtiaz Ali and A. R. Rahman. (Thank you Dunkdaft for sharing!)
This YouTube link has the making of the song.
Official film website: rockstarthefilm.com
Translating Kun Faaya Kun reminded me of this from from the book 'An Aetheist with (Mahatma) Gandhi' by Gora:
"I used to say 'God is Truth.' That did not completely satisfy me. So I said 'Truth is God.' He and His law are not different. God's law is God Himself. To interpret it man has to resort to intense prayer and merge himself in God. Each one will interpret the same in his or her own way. As for the relationship between man and God, man does not become man by virtue of having two hands. He becomes man by becoming a tabernacle of God." -- M. K. Gandhi
It's a complete coincidence that we celebrate Gandhi Jayanti this weekend (October 2), and I figured this might be a good time to share these pictures taken by yours truly last year at the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad in the state of Gujarat in India. Enlarge the photos and you might just find a few of Gandhi's other ideas of God. ;)
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Two bungling British hitmen who went to the wrong address and stabbed a teenager to death instead of their intended victim have been convicted of murder.
Ben Hope, 39, and Jason Richards, 38, were paid STG1000 ($A1530) each to kill a man who owed money to an underworld businessman, prosecutors said.
But the pair, both heroin addicts, killed 17-year-old Aamir Siddiqi on his doorstep instead. Hope and Richards also attacked the teen's parents as they tried to save their son, who had wanted to be a lawyer.
A jury at Swansea Crown Court on Friday unanimously found the pair guilty of Siddiqi's 2010 murder in Cardiff, Wales. The two also were convicted of the attempted murder of Siddiqi's parents.
Prosecutors said the killers, former prison cell mates, had acted with "staggering incompetence".
After carrying out the attack at a house on the wrong street, Hope drove away from the crime in a stolen car. It was found abandoned, covered in his fingerprints and the victim's blood.
Richards denied being at the scene of the murder, but the jury did not believe him.
The murdered teen's sister, Umbareen Siddiqi, said Aamir had been "the heartbeat of our family".
"On the 11th of April 2010, a house which was previously filled with love and laughter was brutally destroyed by the callous, vicious attack on our parents and our brother," she said outside court. "Within seconds our lives changed forever.
"Aamir was a beautiful person with a bright future. If he was still with us, he would be looking forwards to turning 21 this year and completing his law degree."
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Week 15: Browns Slide Past Bills 8-0
Browns make enough plays to win it in the snow.
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When I heard of the impending snow storm in Cleveland, I figured it would help the Bills and that would be enough to get them the win. I was half right, it did help them, it helped them avoid getting blown out. It didn't help them enough to gain an upset victory as the Browns handed the Bills their first shutout loss in nearly four years by a score of 8-0. The Browns ran there game plan better than the Bills as they pretty much controlled the game throughout. The few inches of blinding snow that fell throughout the game kept the high powered offense from pulling away early.
Trent Edwards got a brief initiation to snow games last week against Miami but it was nothing like what transpired in Cleveland and Edwards wasn't up to the task. He played in a bonafide snowstorm for the first time in his life and has never played in weather this cold. He tried to wear gloves for the first time and it showed in his inaccuracy. The Browns couldn't do much better but they did make some plays, enough plays on this day to get the win but you could tell this high powered offense could have had a big day if the weather conditions were a bit more favorable.
The Browns got two clutch field goals from Phil Dawson from 35 and 49 yards out sandwiched around a safety to score all eight points in the first half. The safety occurred on a high snap that went over Brian Moorman's head and into the end zone in the 2nd quarter. The Bills seemed scared to try a field goal from about 38 yards out in the 2nd quarter while the Browns appeared to have more faith in their kicker on this day.
The Bills still had two chances in the fourth quarter. First they took over at their own 41 yard line after a seven yard punt but they squandered that chance. Michael Gaines dropped a pass that could have went a long way maybe even for a score. They then showed no confidence in the passing game by running the ball on third and 8 and then punted.
Moorman did his job as the punt was downed at the 2 but the Bills defense gave way as the Browns just started grinding the ball out on the ground. For the Bills to win they had to win the running battle but they didn't as Jamal Lewis rumbled for 163 big yards and actually wore down the Bills front four during a very cold game.
The defense was game as they gave the offense one more chance after allowing three first downs. The Bills offense had their best drive of the game in the two minute drill as they moved the ball from from their own 30 to the Browns 10 but the game ended when a 4th and 5 screen pass to Fred Jackson gained no yards.
It was a well played game as there were no turnovers which is a shock considering the weather conditions. The Bills were eliminated from the playoffs but showed the heart and character by never giving up and battled to the end. I expect them to play hard in the final two games as they try to build something for next year since this improbable run has come to an end. I said all along I'd like to just see some meaningful football in December from the Bills and we had three weeks of it. Next year no more excuses as they need to be a playoff team. They might as well get a jump start on next season the next two weeks by laying some more building blocks for future success.
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Veteran actor Burt Reynolds has been hospitalized in Florida with a nasty case of the flu.
The actor, who has been ill for several days, was recently transported to a local medical center after struggling with worsening systems, and on Friday he was treated in the intensive care unit for severe dehydration.
A representative for the 76 year old tells TMZ.com doctors expect him to make a full recovery.


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Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has issued his orders to recall the Egyptian ambassador Atef Salem from Tel Aviv in a official statement after the latest Israeli aggression on Gaza sector tonight.
Morsi has ordered our envy in the UN to call for an urgent meeting for the security council. He also ordered the ministry of foreign affairs to summon the Israeli ambassador in Cairo.
He also called Nabil El Araby, the General secretary of LAS in order to held an urgent meeting to discuss the latest developments in Gaza.
According from what I understood , The Israeli Ch2 stated that our ambassador in Tel Aviv demanded that the operation in Gaza to be stopped but it seems that the Israeli government has refused and Egypt had to escalate. It is worth to mention that the first official reaction from Egypt was the demand of the ministry of foreign affairs following the strikes demanding Israeli forces to stop the operation.
Of course this is a major shift in the relations.
Story is developing.Here is the video statement of Presidency's spokesperson Yasser Ali announcing the decisions of Morsi.
Here is a quick look to the reactions from Cairo following the aggression on Gaza.
Updates :
|From Alex Yudelson
The name of that operation is called Operation Pillars of Cloud , oh yes and it has got something with Egypt and the Exodus !!


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If you're reading this story on a smartphone in Bangor, Maine; Key West, Florida; Spokane, Washington; or really any point in between, you wouldn't think that a bill making its way through the California state legislature would have much of an impact on your mobile device. But a new proposal for a mandatory kill-switch on mobile devices in California figures to have ramifications felt far beyond the borders of the Golden State should it come to pass.
The bill, introduced Friday by State Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), would require any mobile device sold in the state to come with a digital kill-switch that would render the device useless if it's ever nabbed by a thief. The idea behind the proposed law is to put a dent in smartphone theft, which has spiked upward in recent years.
Well, good for California, then. But what's it matter to you, if you happen to live in one of the 49 other states in this country?
Consider it an offshoot of The Golden Rule—as in Them That's Got the Gold Makes the Rules. By virtue of its size—and the hefty fine for phone makers that's included in Leno's proposed law—California has enough pull to make kill switches a standard feature on mobile devices.
The bill introduced by Leno proposes fines ranging from $500 to $2500 per device for retailers who sell a device without kill-switch technology. (Sales of second-hand phones are excluded, so don't worry about state troopers busting into your home should you ever try to unload that aging iPhone on eBay.) By not complying with such a law, device makers and retailers would either have to pay a fine for each phone and tablet they sold or decide that they no longer care to do business with the 38 million people who live in California. Neither option seems like it would be particularly palatable to a business interested in turning a profit.
Equally unpalatable would be producing a separate product available just for California consumers. So if California moves forward with a smartphone kill-switch mandate, devices complying with that requirement would likely be sold in the other 49 states, whether they pass similar laws or no.
So the big question: How likely is it that California's legislature moves ahead with this bill? The kill-switch proposal comes with formidable political backing. San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, who's been applying pressure on tech companies to adopt technology that reduces the risk of phone thefts, is joining Leno to introduce the bill. Mayors and police chiefs of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Oakland have also pledged their support.
Partisan gridlock is unlikely to derail the bill. Leno's fellow Democrats hold substantial majorities in both the State Senate and Assembly. California's governor is a Democrat as well.
The biggest opposition is likely to come from the wireless industry. The CTIA, a trade group for the phone industry, has been cool to mandate kill switches, instead promoting a nationwide database of stolen phones as a way to combat theft. (Law enforcement officials think the effectiveness of that database has its limits.) TechNet, a high-tech industry trade group, told the Los Angeles Times that it's guarded about a government-mandated solution.
Some smartphone makers have already taken matters into their own hands: iOS 7 introduced an Activation Lock feature to Apple's mobile devices and Samsung installed a Lojack feature on some of its phones, though you need to pay an annual fee to take advantage of that capability. Should it pass, California's proposed law figures to be a game-changer for smartphone and tablet owners—even those in other states.
This story, "Why California's kill-switch mandate might save your phone" was originally published by TechHive.


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Defense official discloses cyberattack
Now it is official: The most significant breach of U.S. military computers was caused by a flash drive inserted into a U.S. military laptop on a post in the Middle East in 2008.
In an article to be published Wednesday discussing the Pentagon's cyberstrategy, Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III says malicious code placed on the drive by a foreign intelligence agency uploaded itself onto a network run by the U.S. military's Central Command.
"That code spread undetected on both classified and unclassified systems, establishing what amounted to a digital beachhead, from which data could be transferred to servers under foreign control," he says in the Foreign Affairs article.
(Government wants help managing the Internet)
"It was a network administrator's worst fear: a rogue program operating silently, poised to deliver operational plans into the hands of an unknown adversary."
Lynn's decision to declassify an incident that Defense officials had kept secret reflects the Pentagon's desire to raise congressional and public concern over the threats facing U.S. computer systems, experts said.
Much of what Lynn writes in Foreign Affairs has been said before: that the Pentagon's 15,000 networks and 7 million computing devices are being probed thousands of times daily; that cyberwar is asymmetric; and that traditional Cold War deterrence models of assured retaliation do not apply to cyberspace, where it is difficult to identify the instigator of an attack.
(15 nations agree to work together on cyberwarfare)
But he also presents new details about the Defense Department's cyberstrategy, including the development of ways to find intruders inside the network. That is part of what is called "active defense." Counterfeit hardware has been detected in systems that the Pentagon has bought. Such hardware could expose the network to manipulation from adversaries.
He puts the Homeland Security Department on notice that although it has the "lead" in protecting the dot.gov and dot.com domains, the Pentagon - which includes the ultra-secret National Security Agency - should support efforts to protect critical industry networks.
(National security project: Top Secret America)
Lynn's declassification of the 2008 incident has prompted concern among cyberexperts that he gave adversaries useful information. The Foreign Affairs article, Pentagon officials said, is the first on-the-record disclosure that a foreign intelligence agency had penetrated the U.S. military's classified systems. In 2008, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing anonymous Defense officials, that the incursion might have originated in Russia.
The Pentagon operation to counter the attack, known as Operation Buckshot Yankee, marked a turning point in U.S. cyberdefense strategy, Lynn said. In November 2008, the Defense Department banned the use of flash drives, a ban it has since modified.
Infiltrating the military's command and control system is significant, said one former intelligence official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. "This is how we order people to go to war. If you're on the inside, you can change orders. You can say, 'turn left' instead of 'turn right.' You can say 'go up' instead of 'go down.' "
In a nutshell, he said, the "Pentagon has begun to recognize its vulnerability and is making a case for how you've got to deal with it."


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Comedian Fred Armisen doesn't blame ex-wife Elisabeth Moss for ending their marriage after just eight months – because he was a "terrible" husband.
The couple separated in 2010, and Armisen confesses to Howard Stern that their break-up was largely his fault.
The "Portlandia" star says, "I think I was a terrible husband; I think I'm a terrible boyfriend."
The couple dated for one year before tying the knot, and Armisen admits he probably rushed into things too quickly.
He explains, "I want it all – fast. I want to be married … and then somewhere around a year, two years, I get freaked out."
But instead of breaking things off himself, the 46-year-old admits he sabotaged the relationship with the "Mad Men" star so he didn't have to confront his emotions: "You sort of withdraw and you sort of get into all the things you think make you weird, like, 'I'm really into playing Xbox … (or my) record collection.' You sort of disappear into the things that you think are just your hobbies.
"It must be so shocking to the woman because you're this guy who is so super-attentive in the beginning … and you are, like, the best boyfriend in the beginning, and then you become the worst boyfriend. I feel bad for everyone I've gone out with."
Armisen also opened up about his first marriage to English singer Sally Timms, insisting they wed "more for her green card" than out of love, and his recent brief romance with his former "Saturday Night Live" co-star Abby Elliott.
He continues, "(We) just fizzled. (We ended on) so-so terms. Once in a while, it would kind of be a little weird at work, but I have to say for the most part it was fine."


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Traditional Russian Mennonite Buns
Traditional Russian Mennonite Buns
These buns aren't just buns, they are a history lesson and a sociology study wrapped into a tasty tasty snack. This bun recipe has been in my family for a long long time, possibly since the late 19th century. In any case, my grandmother made them back in Molotschna, my mom makes them and so do I. These buns are really general purpose buns, but particularly appropriate for Sunday afternoon early supper (Vaspa), or served after funerals, in a church basement, with cheese and coffee. What makes them a bit different than what we usually see on the Fresh Loaf is that they contain a lot of fat, in this case lard, and they are shaped with a sort of "extrusion" technique.
The lard content is an honest byproduct of the heritage of the buns. Mennonites (and of course lots of other folks) were in the past a primarily agrarian people, and raising pigs was a big part of farm life. Butchering and rendering produced lard, which was an important and primary source of fat. Lard was used in day-to-day baking, long before the advent of "shortening" and other manufactured fats. Lard has gotten a bad name in the recent past, but is now making a bit of a comeback because its healthier than previously proclaimed (by the margarine/shortening cabal). In any case, these buns contain a fair bit of lard, in an honest, farmyardish sort of way.
The buns also contain a fair bit of sugar, which speeds the rising. I appreciate that sugar and fast rising is anathema to some, but really its a practical way of making a buns much quicker, which is an important consideration when cooking on a busy farm or household. Besides, the buns taste great.
The mystery ingredient is vinegar. I really have no idea why there is vinegar in the recipe, but there is and I use it. Anyone care to hazard a guess?
The buns are shaped by extruding them between your thumb and forefinger and then being pinched off. I haven't seen the extrusion shaping technique described (I haven't looked hard either), my Mom taught me how to do this and it works pretty well. The pictures below and the description will hopefully inspire you to try it out.
Here's the recipe
1 cup Lard Try to get a non-hydrogentated lard, not all lards are equal.
4 cups hot water.
The hot water softens the lard.
2 teaspoons Salt
1/2 cup Sugar
1 tablespoon Vinegar
4 Cups Flour
Stir vigourously until you get a nice sponge going. Because of the hot water used in stage one, the sponge will be warm. If its hot, then let it cool down a bit before the next step.
1 Tablespoon instant yeast (this may be the "non-traditional" part of the recipe, but it works well)
Gradually add in:
About 4 more cups of flour
At this stage you should have a fairly moist rough dough. you may have to add more flour if its too sticky. Go by what feels right, that's my Oma's way of baking.
Turn out on a well floured surface and start kneading, adding flour as required, about 15 minutes.
Cover and let rise until doubled, about 30 to 45 minutes. (There is a lot of yeast and sugar in this dough, so it doesn't take long)
The Shaping Technique
Here's the interesting part, this shaping technique takes a bit of practice, but once you get the idea you can shape buns fairly quickly.
To shape the buns, tear or cut out a section of the dough and grab with your left hand.
Make an open circle with your left thumb and forefinger, then push the dough through circle with your right hand, from underneath.
The dough should be stretched through.
Now pinch off the bulging dough ball with your left hand thumb and forefinger, and place the resulting ball of dough on a baking sheet.
Cover and let the buns rise until doubled, about 30 to 45 minutes, perhaps a bit longer.
They should look very light and not spring back when depressed.
Bake in a 400F oven for 20 to 25 minutes, until nice and brown on top.
Mmmm, these are good buns. Slather on the butter and clover honey from the canadian praries, and it's just about the best thing you've ever had.
Bake on!


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Texas Democrats are organizing a march and rally at the Capitol Saturday to coincide with Gov. Rick Perry's prayer rally.
They expect about 500 people to gather under the theme of "Rick Perry: Bad For Texas, Worse For Our Nation," with speakers including Austin lawmakers, U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett and state Rep. Mike Villarreal, D-San Antonio.
As Perry touts his Texas record in advance of announcing his decision on a presidential run, the Democrats say:
"This rally will highlight Governor Perry's failed record in Texas on public education, human services, environmental policy and many other important issues. His Enron style accounting plunged our state into its largest budget shortfall in history and we must expose this to the nation."
Perry has said Texas has lured and created jobs under his leadership due to relatively low taxes, a "fair and predictable" regulatory climate, lawsuit reform and efforts including innovative programs in higher education institutions.
The Legislature under Perry just balanced the budget despite a multibillion-dollar shortfall through cutbacks in areas including education and putting off paying for Medicaid costs.


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Friday, June 1, 2012
* Celebrating The End Of The School Year!
Do you have any traditions or special things you do
to celebrate the end of another school year with your kids?
We do in our house!
(Celebrating Preschool Graduation 2012!)
I like having traditions and little rituals that are a fun way
for the girls and me to wrap things up and head into our summer break.
I recently read an article over at Mom's Homeroom written by the Scholastic Staff
with some fun ideas for how to make the last weeks
before the school year ends a special time with your kids.
Even if you homeschool, you can still have rituals
to celebrate the end and start of a new school year with your family.
They suggested spending some time looking at
changes and accomplishments
from the school year with your child.
A bit of a "Now and Then" comparison so to speak.
We do this in our house by looking at photos and scrapbooks.
I always start the school year by taking
an official first day of school photo
of the girls in front of our house or at the bus stop.
The photo above is of both girls from this school year.
I even remembered to ask them to hold up little signs!
Next year, I'd like them to make their own signs.
I also take photos on the last day of school.
It's a fun way to see how much the girls
have grown up over the course of a school year.
These photos were taken on the LAST day of school.
Look how little ""C" and "E" are - that rainy last day of school was
"E"'s last day of kindergarten.
This photo was taken last year when "E" got off the bus and "C" and I were waiting
with a box of popsicles to hand out to all of our bus stop friends!
It was such a big hit that I plan to be at the bus stop
again this year on the last day of school with popsicles for all of the kids.
It's going to be a fun new tradition for our family.
We have another summertime popsicle tradition in our family.
The ice cream truck starts making rounds in our neighborhood this time of year.
Its music is always a signals the start of summer
and the end of the school year.
The girls love to get treats but most of it is really junky and overpriced.
I try to stock our own freezer with frozen treats
like frozen tubes of squeeze yogurt
and homemade fruit popsicles.
It cuts down on the begging and negotiating that takes place
whenever they hear "ice cream truck music" -
I just send them inside to grab a treat from our freezer instead!
We made these popsicles with chopped up fruit and juice
in paper cups with craft sticks and we use cupcake wrappers
to keep them upright.
Bonus -- they also help catch drips when you eat your popsicles!
We also have school memory books that we ask the girls' teachers to sign
so each year of school they have a note from their teacher.
When they graduate from High School, I'll hand over the books
to each of my girls as a graduation gift!
The article also suggested making a "Countdown Calendar"
for the last month of school to count down the days.
They suggested asking your child to write down things
that he/she wants to do when school is over and add it to the calendar.
In our house, we make a Summer Fun To Do List! (here's the post)
The girls and I brainstorm a big list of what we want to do over summer break
including trips we have planned and we make a big collage together.
We're planning to make this summer's to do list soon!
We also enjoy decorating our driveway and side walk with
chalk drawings and homemade sidewalk paint.
It's a fun way to add a little pizzazz to the neighborhood and send the message
that school is out for the summer!
We also enjoy a special family dinner on the last day of school
with some kind of treat like ice cream sundaes or S'Mores!
I would love to hear how you celebrate the end of the school year
with your family!
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Maurice O. "Moe" Rondeau - Woonsocket
Maurice O. "Moe" Rondeau - Woonsocket
Maurice O. "Moe" Rondeau, 74, of East Woonsocket, died Saturday, August 10, 2013, at the Philip Hulitar Inpatient Center, Providence. He was the husband of Jeannine C. (Deziel) Rondeau, whom he married on May 28, 1960. Born in Woonsocket, he was the son of Gertrude (Mandeville) Rondeau of Woonsocket and the late Edmond Rondeau.
Moe was a 1955 graduate of Mt. St. Charles Academy. He served in the Army National Guard. Moe was the owner of Travel Advisors International (Travel Leaders Franchise) for 27 years and was a meat manager prior to working in the travel industry. He was a communicant of St. Joseph's Church. He was a lifetime member of the 4th degree Knights of Columbus, a lifetime member of Circle Laurier, a member of Woonsocket BPOE Elks #850, a member of the NRI Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Butchers Union of America, and a member of the Putnam CT Chamber of Commerce. He was on the Board of Directors of the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council, was an advocate of Buy Local, was a past President of the Woonsocket North Stars youth hockey program, a past President of the Brookhaven Condo Association, and was affiliated with the United Cadets of America.
Moe enjoyed working in the travel industry and vacationing with old and new friends.
Moe is survived by his wife Jeannine and his mother Gertrude, his daughter Jocelyn Champagne and her husband Robert of Pascoag, his son Marc Rondeau and his wife Kimberley of Oakland, and his son Daniel Rondeau and his wife Christine of Lithia, FL. He is also survived by his seven grandchildren, Courtney, Katherin, Blake, Brooke, Darren, Jarred and Faith.
His funeral will be held Saturday, August 17 with a Mass of Christian burial at 10:30 AM at St. Joseph's Church, 1200 Mendon Rd. His burial will be private. Calling hours are Friday from 4-8 PM at the Holt Funeral Home, 510 So. Main St. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, 30 Speen St., Framingham, MA 01701 or to Home and Hospice Care of RI, 1085 No. Main St., Providence, RI 02904.


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KHL Game Day: 12-3-09
Omsk 2 @ Astana 1
Karri Ramo, Omsk, Win, 25/26, 1.00 GAA, .962 sv%
Season totals: 24 GP, 14-9, 2 SO, 1.91 GAA, .917 sv%
Jaromir Jagr assisted on Dimitri Pestunov's game winning third period goal to help lift Karri Ramo and Omsk over Astana 2-1. Former Lightning draft pick Ilya Solarev took two minor penalties in the match for Astana. Interestingly, Ramo's numbers are very similar to St. Petersburg goaltender Robert Esche (15-7, 3 SO, 2.04 GAA, .916 sv%), who the Lightning briefly courted for Ramo's vacant backup spot in Tampa Bay before signing Antero Niittymaki.
Chekhov 0 @ Magnitogorsk 4
Vasily Koshechkin, Magnitogorsk, Win, 29/29, 1 SO, 0.00 GAA, 1.000 sv%
Season totals: 29 GP, 14-13, 3 SO, 2.13 GAA, .920 sv%
Koshechkin got his first shutout in a Metallurg jersey to help boost Magnitogorsk to a 4-0 victory. Former NHL superstar Sergei Fedorov supported Koshechkin with a goal and an assist in the match. Magnitogorsk moves 1 point ahead of Yulaev into 1st in the Eastern Conference.
CSKA 2 @ Ekaterinburg 1 (OT)
Denis Kazionov, Ekaterinburg, 0-0-0, -1, 0 PIM, 3 SOG
Season totals: 28 GP, 4-3-7, -9, 10 PIM
CSKA got an overtime goal from ex-Senators draft pick Alexander Nikulin to pull out a 2-1 win over Ekaterinburg. Denis Kazionov played 13:29 in the match. Ekaterinburg has managed to climb over Novokuznetsk and Khabarovsk to get out of the Eastern Conference basement, but still sits 5 points behind Chelyabinsk for the 8th and final playoff spot in the East.
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operator[] wrote:I'm thinking of two numbers (x, y) from a large set {1..N}, and you want to find them. At your disposal is the ability to ask questions about subsets S ⊆ {1..N}. For each such question I will (adversarially) pick one of my two numbers, and answer with either (x in S) or (y in S), without telling you which number I answered for. So for instance, if N = 5 and I'm thinking of the numbers 2 and 3, I'm required to answer true for the query {1,2,3}, but for {1,2,4} I can give any answer I like.
After asking as many questions as you like, you may name a number, and you win if your number is one of (x, y), and lose if it's not.
Do you have a winning strategy?
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