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Intel's Otellini Says Company Will Probably Tap Insider to Succeed Him
If you had any lingering hopes that the next CEO of chipmaker Intel might come not from within the company's ranks but from the outside, they've effectively been shot down about as completely as possible from a pretty unimpeachable source: Intel CEO Paul Otellini himself.
Speaking at a Sanford Bernstein conference yesterday covered by Bloomberg News, Otellini said that Intel's board of directors will likely select an internal candidate to succeed him when he retires next year and not an external one. When Otellini's decision to retire was announced last month, a lot of attention was paid to the fact that Intel said it would break with tradition and consider external candidates in addition to the internal ones already in the running. Trouble is, there aren't many available executives who fit the bill.
Intel Chairman Andy Bryant more or less made it clear in comments to the New York Times that the "external candidate" language in the press release issued that day had more to do with covering the Intel board's backside from a corporate governance point of view than anything else.
"It's not up to me, but I think that's the most likely outcome," Otellini said at the conference, adding that he's "very comfortable" with the internal people vying for the job.
If you're not up to speed on who those candidates are, then you should go read this post from last month listing who's who and why they're in the running.
The smart money says the race will come down to COO Brian Krzanich and CFO Stacy Smith, with software chief Renée James representing the dark horse who would get the nod if Intel's board decides to vary pretty substantially from its script.
The thing is, it won't. Intel needs some radically new thinking in order to rise to the challenges facing it in the smartphone and tablet space. Having essentially conquered the first wave of the digital world by stomping all over every other challenger in the PC and server industry with its chips, churned out by its world-beating manufacturing expertise, it entered a new decade looking flat-footed in the face of its first existential threat in a generation: ARM.
There are now PCs running a variant of Windows with ARM-based chips inside them from vendors like Nvidia and Qualcomm. And while it's still early to say, the perception in the marketplace is that these devices, not those with Intel chips inside them, have the momentum of the moment. Even Apple, Intel's showpiece customer on the PC, is said to be close — and by close I mean arguably within a few years — of switching away from Intel chips to its own internally designed ARM-based chips on the Mac.
That leaves Intel with two strongholds: One vulnerable, one seemingly unassailable. The vulnerable one is the server space. The movements by many chip companies to harness new ARM-based designs to attack Intel's dominance there will, I think, emerge as an important story in 2013.
The unassailable one is Intel's manufacturing prowess. There is not a single entity on the planet that knows more about manufacturing chips, nor anyone that can do it anywhere near as well as Intel. In time, this fact will force Intel to become more of a foundry company than it has been before.
Consider some other comments that Otellini made at the Bernstein conference yesterday, as reported by Barron's. Asked about the possibility of becoming a foundry — that is, a company that manufactures chips on contract for companies that don't have their own chip factories — Otellini said:
We're running a small foundry business. We are building up our capabilities. We don't want to compete with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing. But for the right types of products, and not to enable my competitors, I would certainly consider it. There's a lot of stuff in the pipeline. … I think it makes sense for us to have that kind of capability, particularly as our semiconductor lead gets wider over the rest of the industry.
Which brings me back to the dark-horse candidacy of Renée James to be Intel's next CEO. A lot of the value that goes into chips is now coming from software. Chips are made to be computing engines, but they're also programmable, and a lot of secret sauce that gets put into them comes not only from hardware but from software. Intel is still a manufacturing company, but it is also a software company and employs legions of software engineers — including but not limited to the McAfee security software division it acquired in 2010. Software will increasingly become as important a strategic advantage in the manufacturing and customization of chips as the technology itself. Why not put a software executive in charge?
Also, if there were ever a moment to go off the script that Intel has followed since the days of Andy Grove — wherein every CEO has served first as COO — and shake tradition just a bit, it might be now. Just a thought.


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Zingers and Other Debating Knock Outs
Sept. 30, 2004 -- After Ronald Reagan's poor performance and questionable command of the facts in his first presidential debate against Walter Mondale in 1984, critics wondered if age was starting to rob the 73-year-old president of the mental capacity he needed to lead the free world.
Reagan kept mangling facts in a second debate. But even so, he disarmed his critics and his opponent with the quip, "I will not make age an issue in this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience."
The remark dominated the news cycle and rolled off pundits' tongues long after Reagan cruised to a landslide victory on Election Day.
As President Bush and John Kerry drill on the issues before tonight's debate on foreign policy and homeland security, they likely are burnishing zingers and ripostes that they hope will neatly encapsulate their own messages or indelibly stain their opponent through Nov. 2.
Perhaps their best material even could stick in political lore as vividly as Reagan's "There you go again" dismissal of Jimmy Carter in 1980, or Lloyd Bentsen's "You're no Jack Kennedy" putdown of 1988 vice-presidential aspirant Dan Quayle.
Big Moments
Voters tend to watch presidential debates to get an overall impression of each candidate as a person or leader, observers say. But soon afterward, the soundbite-style nature of modern media coverage can amplify effective gaffes or quips, and maybe even change initial perceptions of who won the debate.
Not everybody is pleased by the phenomenon.
"The problem with the presidential debates, I think, is that it really has become much more spectator sport than an effort to educate the voters on the issues," says Marie Danziger, director of the communications program at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
The boldest debate quips are rarely, if ever, off the cuff.
"Most of the things that we remember as the key debate moments have been scripted," says Alan Schroeder, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston and author of Presidential Debates: Forty Years of High-Risk TV. "'There you go again,' 'I won't exploit my opponent's youth and inexperience,' 'You're no Jack Kennedy.' Those were all practiced in advance."
The candidates are also likely practicing to avoid going too far out on a limb, thus avoiding debating gaffes that have long thwarted candidates — such as Al Gore's awkward sighs in 2000, George Bush's glances at his watch in 1992, Gerald Ford's insistence that "there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe" in Cold War-era 1976 and Richard Nixon sweating next to a relaxed John F. Kennedy in 1960.
Click here for memorable moments from past campaigns' debates.
"I think Bush and Kerry are pretty evenly matched, so I don't know if this year will produce any knockout winners," Schroeder says. "My guess is that each of them will probably wage a fairly careful and restrained rhetorical strategy."
Still, Schroeder says, "I'd be willing to bet the deed to my condo that Bush will have some quip ready about Kerry's alleged 'flip-flops.' "
White House communications director Dan Bartlett may have let slip a Bush zinger when on Monday he cited a catchphrase from the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in a conversation with reporters.
"Senator Kerry keeps wanting … to say, 'Now, this is really my position,'" Bartlett said. "The question needs to be asked is: 'Is that the final answer?'"
Schroeder believes Kerry might hit Bush with "a one-liner or two based on an economic theme, sort of an updated version of Reagan's 'Are you better off now than you were four years ago?' from 1980."
Kerry would likely use such a line during the second presidential debate on Oct. 8, when the discussion will be open to topics beyond the foreign affairs and homeland security that will be covered tonight, or during the Oct. 14 debate covering domestic issues. The vice-presidential debate on Oct. 5 will be open to all topics.
Political Competition
In such debates, says Danziger of Harvard's Kennedy School, it is useful for debaters to encapsulate their thoughts into tidy statements.
"Zingers are important in all public speaking," Danziger says. "I teach my students all the time that one of the most important parts of the speech is a short, dramatic statement of your bottom line, because that's what listeners will remember."
She discourages students from political-style attack zingers, though she understands they may be a symptom of political debates' emphasis on winning public office. Academic debates, on the other hand, can be more focused on ideological persuasion.
"I tell my students that their primary goal should be to provide citizens with the information they need to make the decisions that will affect their lives," Danziger says. "I think most people will agree that the presidential debates have a goal that's quite different from that."
Even if the candidates have what they think are surefire putdowns in store, there may be other arguments against deploying them.
"If they're too sharp or too personal, they can backfire and make the person telling the joke look worse than the target of the joke," Schroeder says.
Such may have been the case in a 1976 vice presidential debate, when Bob Dole relentlessly attacked his Democratic counterpart Walter Mondale.
"He made a crack about Walter Mondale's makeup at one point," Schroeder said. "It was a personal, barbed sort of comment … that went beyond fellowship."
Another Dole remark decried American deaths in "Democrat wars," such as World War I, World War II and the Korean War, prompting Mondale to say, "I think Senator Dole has richly earned his reputation as a hatchet man tonight."
One-liners also can come across as too soft or unoriginal, particularly as viewers have come to expect them.
Mondale still is remembered for a 1984 Democratic primary debate quip in which he asked of an opponent's positions, "Where's the beef?" quoting a popular catchphrase from an advertising campaign of the day.
But perhaps fewer people recall that Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis initially got chuckles with a knock-off in 1988, referring to a duplicitous ad pitchman in his comment that Vice President George Bush threatened to become "the Joe Isuzu of American politics." In the same debate, Bush called one of Dukakis' answers, "about as clear as the water in Boston Harbor."
"It was so obvious that they just sort of landed with a thud," Schroeder says. "Certain debaters are more adept at detonating these lines than others. Ronald Reagan was a master at it because he could speak one of these pre-scripted lines and make it sound off-the-cuff and spontaneous."
Schroeder is not certain Bush and Kerry — though both strong debaters — have what it takes to deliver a line for the ages.
"Kerry doesn't try that many jokes because it's not really natural to him," Schroeder says. "You can see the gears sort of turning when he's trying to do one of these things that he's been told to do. … He can't make it sound like it's something he just thought of."
"Bush's issue is sort of that he's so on message, you don't feel like you're getting the answer to the question," Schroeder adds. "You're getting the answer that he rehearsed."
ABC News' Terry Moran contributed to this report.

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We have reviewed several Pass Labs products in the past, and I finally decided to get a pair of what they call "Room Heaters", i.e., the X1000.5. These monoblock power amplifiers are rated at 1,000 watts rms into 8 ohms. They are similar in physical design to the XA200.5, but the XA200.5's are biased into Pure Class A, while the X1000.5's are biased about 80 watts into Class A, with the rest as AB.
Specifications of the Pass Labs X1000.5 Power Amplifier
- Design: Monoblock Power Amplifier; Class AB
- Power: 1,000 Watts RMS into 8 Ohms, 2,000 Watts RMS into 4 Ohms
- FR: 10 Hz – 20 kHz, ± 0.1 dB
- THD+N: 1% at Full Output
- Input Impedance: 20 kOhms RCA, 30 kOhms XLR
- Inputs: XLR and RCA
- Dimensions: 11.2″ H x 19″ W x 27.5″ D
- Weight: 183 Pounds/each
- MSRP: $34,100/pair USD
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The Design of the Pass Labs X1000.5 Power Amplifier
Pass uses what they call Supersymmetry in the circuit design. What this means is that the input stage is fully balanced, which eliminates some of the distortion, and the input stage drives the output stage which consists of 72 output transistors. So, the output is single-ended. This combination of a balanced input stage but single-ended output stage is very unique, and it allows them to manipulate the input stage in such a way that the final sound can be made to be "just right". In Pass' case, this tends to be a spectrum that has a bit more third order harmonic than second. Again, this is unique to the Pass philosophy, as most designers tend to try and get the harmonic spectrum to be primarily even ordered, and mostly second order.
At 27″ in length and 183 pounds in weight, these monoblocks are not easily placed. If you have a dedicated music listening room, then you probably want them center stage as they are quite nice in appearance. Otherwise, they could go behind the speakers.
The rear panel is shown below. There are two sets of speaker binding posts, but they are designed to accept bare wire or spade lugs, not banana plugs. However, Pass will supply you with a pair of banana-to-spade adapters if you wish. My cables are all terminated with bananas, so I wished. At the top are an RCA jack and an XLR jack. If your preamplifier is XLR out, and you want to connect it to the X1000.5 with an XLR cable, you first have to remove a U-shaped pin from the XLR jack. Leave it in if you are using the RCA inputs.
The on/off power toggle, three-pin grounded AC receptacle, and a trigger connection round out the panel features (along with the handles for lifting the amplifier).
The Pass Labs X1000.5 Power Amplifiers In Use
For the listening tests, I used an OPPO BDP-95 universal player (stereo XLR analog outputs), BAT Vk-5i preamplifier (XLR inputs), and Magnepan 1.7 planar speakers. Cables were Wireworld.
What I was really after here was a comparison of the X1000.5's with the XA100.5's which I reviewed in April, 2011. Those monoblocks are Pure Class A, but output 100 watts instead of 1,000. The X1000.5's are biased Class A for the first 80 watts. So, I wanted to see if dynamic range would be affected by transient peaks that might require more than the XA100.5's capability, at moderate listening levels.
Guitars, especially when you have a quartet of them, have leading edge transient peaks when the strings are plucked. I did find that, at moderately loud levels, there seemed to be more snap to the leading edge of the sound with the X1000.5's, indicating that those transient peaks were requiring a very short period of more than 100 watts, even though the overall sound averaged about 50 watts or so. This does not surprise me. I just wanted to confirm it. So now that we have that question answered, let's just talk about the musicality of the sound.
At modest listening levels, I heard no difference between the XA100.5's and X1000.5's. This is because both were playing in Class A. However, when I really cranked things up, having those extra 900 watts made a huge difference, which could be summarized by saying the entire room was moving in time with the musical rhythm. I did notice that there was a slight difference in the detail during certain musical passages, due probably to the Class AB operation of the X1000.5's above 80 watts. However, one has to decide on a preference for detail or high power. You get the detail with the Class A and the power with Class AB. You want a 1,000 watt Class A monoblock? You had better have room for two refrigerator-sized amplifiers.
I prefer power, and with the X1000.5's in the system, I never ran out. Never felt that the amplfiers were straining. Never felt the music had hit a wall. And the transients were always there regardless of the volume, due most likely to the reserve power storage in the power supply.
Piano is another instrument that is very transient-oriented. The strings are not plucked, but they are struck, and a lot of power goes a long way in making the piano sound like it is across the room in front of you. The low notes were full bodied, the high notes were crystal clear and clean, and the tonality was completely natural.
For this Fleetwood Mac DVD-A album, I switched out my two front channel power amplifiers for the Pass X1000.5's, driving two full-range electrostatic speakers. This is my stress test, as the speakers dip to about 1 ohm in the high frequencies. I had the entire system cranked, and there was no problem with the Pass amplifiers at all (my other amplifiers will sometimes shut down with intense high frequencies). So, if your speakers have low impedance (and/or low sensitivity as do the electrostatics), a pair of the X1000.5's will fix you up just fine.
For this test by the way, I had to move my SSP and electrostatic speakers from downstairs into the room with the Pass amplifiers because the amps are too heavy for me to lift by myself. I didn't bother moving the side or rear channel speakers because I was only interested in how the X1000.5's would drive the electrostatics. As a second test, I used the dance scene from House of Flying Daggers. The trouble with my other amplifier comes when all the crystals are tossed onto the floor. The X1000.5 didn't dial 911.
It would probably an understatement to say that Fleetwood Mac is legendary, but it is, and the music soared with the X1000.5's. Perhaps that is because when a rock band performs, they use amplifiers with thousands of watts of power on stage. So, it seems logical to play the music with thousands of watts of power to get a feeling of the live performance. I got that feeling. I don't know if my cats did or not. I couldn't find them for two hours after playing this album. I was in a garage band in the 1960's and we played LOUD. The X1000.5's play LOUD too. One of my neighbors called and asked me if I had finally found some people to jam with (I play drums now and then), and I said, "Thanks for the complement. Even if I had found some friends to jam with, I don't think we would have sounded quite this good in musicianship."
Anyway, enough said. The X1000.5's are extreme high fidelity, and are killer amplifiers when it comes to transients and volume capability.
The Pass Labs X1000.5 Power Amplifier On the Bench
At 1 kHz, 5 volts into 8 Ohms, distortion was a paltry 0.005%.
At 20 volts (50 watts) output, distortion actually decreased (however, I consider this difference insigificant). Notice that the odd ordered harmonics predominate.
The B-A peak (1 khz) from using 19 kHz and 20 kHz sine waves as the test signal, was 95 dB below the fundamentals. Notice also that the base of the 19 kHz and 20 kHz peaks is relatively clean.
IMD at 50 watts output was 0.004%. This is terrific performance.
THD+N vs. Frequency for a 50 watt output (8 Ohms) shows distortion staying below 0.02% to about 5 kHz, and a rise to just under 0.1% at 20 kHz.
THD+N vs. Power indicates that the X1000.5 outputs 1,000 watts into 8 Ohms at clipping (1% THD+N). In this graph, the 1% mark is crossed at about 950 watts, but this was due to the wall AC voltage dropping significantlly with such high power demand. There is no question that this amplifier will output at spec.
The measured Frequency Response was 10 Hz – 20 kHz ± 0.1 dB.
Conclusions About The Pass Labs X1000.5 Power Amplifiers
At $34,100 for the pair, the Pass Labs X1000.5 monoblock power amplifiers are not for the faint of wallet, but on the other hand, with their sound and build quality, you won't have to worry about upgrading. Ever.


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S.T.Coleridge as a critic
Coleridge is one of the greatest of literary critics, and his greatness has been almost universally recognized. He occupies, without doubt, the fist place among English literary critics. After eliminating one after another the possible contenders for the title of the greatest critic, Saintsbury concludes:
So, then there abide these three Aristotle, Longinus and Coleridge.
According to Arthur Symons, Coleridge's Biographia Literaria is,
the greatest book of criticism in English.
Herbert Read concludes Coleridge as:
head and shoulders above every other English critic.
I. A. Richards considers him as the fore-runner of the modern science of semantics, and Rene Wellek is of the view that he is a link, between German Transcendentalism and English Romanticism.
A man of stupendous learning, both in philosophy and literature, ancient as well as modern, and refined sensibility and penetration intellect, Coleridge was eminently fitted to the task of a critic. His practical criticism consists of his evaluations of Shakespeare and other English dramatists, and of Milton and Wordsworth. Despite the fact there are so many digressions and repetitions, his practical criticism is always illuminating and highly original. It is rich in suggestions of far reaching value and significance, and flashes of insight rarely to be met with in any other critic. His greatness is well brought out, if we keep in mind the state of practical criticism in England before him. The Neo-classic critics judged on the basis of fixed rules. They were neither legislative nor judicial, nor were carried away by their prejudices. Coleridge does not judge on the basis of any rules. He does not pass any judgment, but gives his responses and reactions to a work of art. His criticism is impressionistic-romantic, a new kind of criticism, a criticism which dealt a knock out blow to neo-classic criticism, and has been in vague, more or less, ever since. He could discover new beauties in Shakespeare and could bring about fresh re-valuations of a number of old English masters. Similarly, his criticism of Wordsworth and his theories enable us to judge him and his views in the correct perspective.
In the field of theoretical inquiry, Coleridge was the first to introduce psychology and philosophy into literary criticism. He was interested in the study of the process of poetic creation, the very principles of creative activity, and for this purposes freely drew upon philosophy and psychology. He thus made philosophy the basis of literary inquiry, and thus brought about a union of philosophy, psychology and literary criticism. His literary theories have their bases in philosophy; he imparted to criticism the dignity which belongs to philosophy. He philosophized literary criticism and thus brought about a better and truer understanding of the process of creation and the nature and function of poetry.
His greatest and most original contribution to literary criticism is his theory of imagination. Addison had examined the nature and function of imagination, and Wordsworth, too, had developed his own theory on the subject. But all previous discussions of imagination look superficial and childish when compared with Coleridge's treatment of the subject. He is the first critic to differentiate between Imagination and Fancy, and to differentiate between primary and secondary Imagination. Through his theory of imagination he revolutionized the concept of artistic imitation. Poetic imitation is neither a servile copy of nature, not is it the creation of something entirely new and different from Nature. Poetry is not imitation, but creation, but it is creation based on the sensations and impressions received from the external world. Such impressions are shaped, ordered, modified and opposites are reconciled and harmonized, by the imagination of the poet, and in this way poetic creation takes place.
Further, as David Daiches points out:
It was Coleridge who finally, for the first time, resolved the age old problem of the relation between the form and content of poetry.
Through his philosophical inquiry into the nature and value of poetry, he established that a poem is an organic whole, and that its form is determined by its content, and is essential to that content. Thus metre and rhyme, he showed, are not merely, pleasure super-added, not merely something superfluous which can be dispensed with, not mere decoration, but essential to that pleasure which is the true poetic pleasure. This demonstration of the organic wholeness of a poem is one of his major contributions to literary theory.
Similarly, his theory of Willing Suspension of Disbelief marks a significant advance over earlier theories on the subject. His view that during the perusal of a poem or the witnessing of a play, there is neither belief nor disbelief, but a mere suspension of disbelief, is not universally accepted as correct, and the controversy on the subject has been finally set at rest.
However, it may be mentioned in the end that as Coleridges views are too philosophical, he is a critic no easy to understand. Often it is fragmentary and unsystematic. Victorians, in general, could not appreciate him and his appeal was confined to the few.
It is only in the 20th century that his literary criticism has been truly understood and recognition and appreciation have followed. Today his reputation stands very high, and many go to him for inspiration and illumination. Despite the fragmentary nature of his work, he is now regarded as the most original critic of England.
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I spent the day writing a site report for an excavation we did at Beaulieu, Chelmsford in Essex. For all excavations and project we do we have to write a site report and compile an archive of the site records which are then deposits with the County's Historic Environment Record (HER). This means that in the future people can go back to our excavations and know exactly what we found and help them with any future research. These are available to the general public with summaries of all previous known archaeology available on the Heritage Gateway and the individual HERs can be contacted / visited if more detailed information is required. Part of the process of compiling this archive is to write a report which is a detailed account of what we found and is the most studied part of the site archive that people and future archaeologists will look at as it contains all the information and eventually will be available online on the ADS website.
The first part for the site report gives an introduction as to what happened on site and provides a summary of the known archaeology in the area. The second part gives the results of our excavation, this is then followed by a discussion of what we found and its significance in the wider landscape and to the known archaeology of that period. The discussion was what I am writing today and writing this blog is giving me a break from trying to work out what some confusing brick linears are and how they formed part of the landscape in one of Henry VIII's summer palaces.
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Well, we got some info about where disgruntled B. Makowsky handbag buyers should direct their complaints.
Here is the first post we got regarding a contact for Makowksy customers whose purses bled when wet or otherwise did not hold up.
The first was rather huffy.
"They are not 'Bruce's customers,'" it said. "They are the customers of Li & Fung Limited, a Hong Kong corporation, who purchased the BM, KVZ and Tignanello brands a few years ago. L & F does have an American subsidiary, The Millworks Trading Co., Ltd., a/k/a LF USA. Direct your complaints there."
The "BM" obviously refers to B. Makowsky, while the "KVZ" refers to Kathy Van Zeeland, Bruce Makowsky's handbag-designer wife, while Tignanello is their lower-priced leather line, which QVC also sells.
First off, you can try to blow smoke up someone else's behind, dear poster, but make no mistake: These QVC shoppers and other women are Bruce's customers.
If we go into Pizza Hut and find a bug on our personal pan pizza, we are customers of Pizza Hut, not its corporate parent Yum! Brands. Who the hell knows who Yum! Brands is?
If we shop at Kmart, we are a Kmart customer, not a customer of Sears Holding Corp., the chain's parent.
Here is the site for Li & Fung, as well as Bloomberg BusinessWeek's info on U.S. unit Millwork Trading Co., which does business as LF USA Inc.
Then we got a second posting that said this: "Contact for B Makowsky: VZI Investment Corp. 1359 Broadway, 21st Floor New York, NY 10018 648/839-7000."
That address is the same one as for LF USA Inc., but is a different phone number.
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My research interests lie broadly in exploring the social life of cities, and more particularly the informal and innovative strategies by which urban residents claim their rights to the city. This research often involves the interdisciplinary integration of social anthropology, geography, sociology, politics and philosophy, among others. I completed my PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh in 2012 and am delighted to be an urban anthropologist at large, contributing to both the Urban Studies and Sociology and Anthropology programs. As a joint appointment in Sociology and Anthropology, I teach various anthropology courses within the major and help students explore the links between urban life, culture, globalization and society. I am currently enjoying the opportunities Wheaton College offers to introduce students to the marvels and challenges of life in the city, from Edinburgh, Scotland to Chicago, just around the corner.
When not reading, writing or teaching about cities, these sustained interests still inform family activities, with my husband, son and daughter, as well as our contributions to church and community, as we seek to better understand, practice and communicate God's grace both to and within the city. Beyond these particularly urban pursuits, however, I also love the rural delights of camping, hiking and getting (reasonably) lost, and an especially perfect day would include a canvas, easel and perhaps three or four extra hours.
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Cutlural change, or how people think, act and interact, is the key to ongoing business continuous improvement and ultimately business success. It took the lean community some years to understand and accept the fact that implementing lean tools was not the end goal. The tools were only the means with which you could access and impact the culture. During the last week of April, for the first time in over ten years, I flew on Southwest Airlines and I was impressed.
The biggest difference between this flight and all of others flights I have taken (mostly on an airline with the the initials AA) in the last ten years is that each and every Southwest employee acted as if work was fun and customers were important. Can you believe that! I hadn't seen so many smiles since watching a Miss America pagent.
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La mejor manera de todas para adquirir fluidez en español es conseguir
una novia o novio que es un hablante nativo de español, que sólo sabe
hablar español y estar con ellos 24/7. Entonces mirar la televisión en
español con ellos y así sucesivamente hasta la cama.
Es lo que he hecho yo.
Back in 79, I met this Chilean in California, who married this beautiful American girl. The girl ended up speaking like a Chilean, and the guy didn't even know how to say Hola in English.
Muy interesante.
He hecho lo mismo con varias novias de habla hispana.
Aprendí mucho español pero ellas no aprendían mucho inglés.
Me sentía un poco culpable, pero yo quería aprender español
más de lo que ellas querían aprender inglés.
No es mi culpa.
Your Spanish must be perfect, you´re such an untiring learner ! I don´t know if Infatigable is untiring or not.
Congratulations on your will power.
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¿He mencionado que durante dos años enteros solo veía la televisión en español no viendo la TV en inglés en absoluto?
También estoy aprendiendo la lengua italiana y haciendo muchas de las mismas cosas para aprender italiano que he hecho para aprender español. Por supuesto el italiano es relativamente fácil sapendo el español. Esta es otra de las ventajas de aprender español. Una vez sabiendo español las otras lenguas latinas son más fáciles de aprender.
una novia de habla hispana? Tener una novia que solo habla inglés y nada de español?
En mi caso, mi novia hispana miraba telenovelas en español todas las noches y yo miraba las con ella. Despues y el dia siguiente hablabamos de lo que habia pasado en las novelas. Ella tenía revistas sobre las telenovelas en el idioma español y me gustaba leer sobre los actores en estas revistas todo en español. Mis novias de habla hispana me hablaban durante horas en español. Me enseñaron mucho vocabulario en español. La inmersión total pues. Por no hablar de hacer el amor en español. Te quiero tanto vida mia! Eres la mujer más hermosa del mundo. Bésame mucho, como si ésta fuera la última noche juntos. Te adoro vida mia. Cuanto me quieres? Estoy totalmente enamorado contigo! Eres muy linda! Me haces el hombre mas feliz del mundo. Eres el amor de mi vida. Me has extrañado?
Te necesito tanto vida mia! No hubiera aprendido nada de esto y mas sin mis novias de habla hispana.
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How to get fluent
I can speak Spanish very well and yet I still ask myself how it actually got that way.
It all started when I decided to do a Spanish course in Spain many many years ago. I wasnt even learning Spanish at the time and didnt do it at school either. Anyhow, I decided to go for it and in those days it meant going to the consulate (where I found some flyers), writing to the school for info, sending off the application form etc etc. I went to Granada in a school called Instituto Espanol de Granada - it doesnt exist any more. I booked for 4 weeks, 20 lessons a week, but ended up staying for 6 weeks.
What happened in those 6 weeks is a blur - eating, drinking, partying, lessons, meeting new people of all nationalities, speaking Spanish, excursions... And at the end of the 6 weeks I could communicate in Spanish. I could even talk to the barman in my favourite bar about the soccer on TV - something Id never imagined possible just 5 or 6 weeks previously.
The following year I did another 4 week course (Proyecto Espanol school) and, as with the previous year, learned tons but all in a blur which left me thinking "how did that happen". Last year, more than ten years after the first course in Granada I decided to do another course (with Estudia Espana this time). In the 10 years Id had little or no contact with Spanish but was surprised to find out how much I still knew. I had no communication problems really. And the 4 weeks was just like the rest - blur... learn... blur... learn.
I guess what Im saying is that the best way to become fluent is to go to a Spanish speaking country and do a course but also get out there to the bars, cinema, speak to people (they dont bite!) and immerse yourself. One thing I have learned over the years is that the fears and worries we have about speaking a foreign language, making mistakes etc, is absolutely not necessary. The schools are great for giving you the the grammatical guidance and security but speaking and living the language is the ONLY way to get fluent.
Speaking of going to a Spanish speaking country to learn Spanish reminds me of a joke I heard years ago:
In the U.S. state of North Dakota on the Canadian border a high
school student is in his room at night studying his Spanish
homework. His dad walks in and asks him what he's doing.
The kid says he's studying his Spanish but says what good
is it to learn Spanish because nobody around North Dakota
speaks Spanish. The father says that's true but some day
son you might take a trip to Los Angeles, California.
To understand this joke you have to realize that even though
Los Angles, California is in The United States there are more
Spanish speakers in L.A. than many Spanish speaking cities
in the 21 Spanish speaking countries around the world. In fact
after Mexico City and Guadalajara Los Angeles is the third largest
Spanish speaking city outside of Mexico.
I just read there are 69 million Spanish speakers in the U.S.
Half of them speak English too. Also there are 6 million
students of Spanish in the U.S.
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I think reading doesn't make you fluent in Spanish. At least for me, it doesn't work. I learned tons of vocabulary, read books in English and practised with different softwares written and spoken Spanish and grammar. But speaking stayed a problem for me. I'd advise you to look for intercambios (they are free and you both benefit from each other) face to face or via Skype and regularely. If it's very important for you to improve very fast you should consider going to a language school for some weeks. I have been to one for several weeks because I couldn't communicate fluently. Then you'll be forced to speak and have a way more motivating surrounding in order to get absolutely into the language.
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Having spent the last couple of months working with a South African ( hello Trevor) and being reminded, oh so gently, of that nation's recent cricketing success, I was hoping to get the opportunity to return the favour via the medium of Rugby Union.
The Springboks narrow defeat of England in the Autumn International did little to derail this cunning plan. Unfortunately, my emergency backup nationality failed at a crucial moment as the hitherto invincible All Blacks were roundly thrashed by England a week later.
People in glass-houses…
Anyway, what follows is a solution to a fairly specific problem we were confronted with recently.
The problem
Imagine you have a flat file which is loaded by means of SQL*Loader into a database table.
For operational reasons, it is not possible to alter the structure of the table.
The table may look something like this :
CREATE TABLE results( fixture_date DATE NOT NULL, home_team VARCHAR2(30) NOT NULL, away_team VARCHAR2(30) NOT NULL, home_points NUMBER NOT NULL, away_points NUMBER NOT NULL) /
The file that you are required to load into the table is called fixtures.dat and looks like this …
The data is the fixture list for this year's Rugby Championship. No, I'm not making any comment about any of the results.
Notice a problem ? Yes, the HOME_POINTS and AWAY_POINTS columns in the table are mandatory, but the file itself contains nulls for these values in some of the records.
So the question is – how do we load this file directly into the table using only SQL*Loader ?
The SQL*Loader Control File
These days, you'll often find SQL*Loader used for External Tables.
In this instance, we're going to be using this utility in it's more traditional command-line mode.
Fortunately, the command itself is fairly simple, because most of the messy stuff can be written separately in a control file.
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The formatting of date data is fairly common place in control files.
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LOAD DATA INFILE 'fixtures.dat' INTO TABLE results APPEND FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' TRAILING NULLCOLS ( fixture_date DATE "DDMMYYYY", home_team, away_team, home_points "NVL(:home_points,0)", away_points "NVL(:away_points,0)")
Time to put it to the test (NOTE – in this case, I'm connecting to a schema where the RESULTS table already exists) :
$ sqlldr userid=mike control=results.ctl Password: SQL*Loader: Release 220.127.116.11.0 - Production on Thu Dec 27 12:50:46 2012 Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Commit point reached - logical record count 12 $
It looks as if all the rows have been loaded successully so we can now check the actual contents of the table …
SQL> SELECT fixture_date, home_team, away_team, 2 home_points, away_points 3 FROM results 4 WHERE fixture_date = TO_DATE('15092012', 'DDMMYYYY') 5 / FIXTURE_DATE HOME_TEAM AWAY_TEAM HOME_POINTS AWAY_POINTS ------------ -------------------- -------------------- ----------- ----------- 15-SEP-12 AUSTRALIA ARGENTINA 0 0 15-SEP-12 NEW ZEALAND SOUTH AFRICA 0 0 SQL>
This is by no means the neatest way of manipulating data during upload into Oracle and there may well be performance penalties using this method. However, when you're stuck for a better alternative, it's worth remembering that SQL*Loader does have a fair amount of flexibility.
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The Blue Jays have lost five of six games and had no answer for Buchholz in Wednesday's lopsided affair.
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Happ defeated the Red Sox on April 6 with 5 1/3 shutout innings in a 5-0 victory and is 1-1 with a 4.91 ERA in four career games, three of which have been starts, against Boston.
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He recently got rid of his faux hawk and perhaps has gotten hotter, no one saw this coming, but the world rejoiced.
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HOT DAMN is that man foxy. It's just we're so happy
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No one wants that. Look, he's still adorable, but THE HAIR IS NOT FLATTERING.
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Rolling down to 1 is ... Look, I know you've seen this coming, but Rafa Nadal. The Monkey himself. Now, I'll be honest, longish hair on men doesn't do it for me, and I dislike Nadal, BUT! In my defence, I did try to pick a picture where Nadal was showing slightly more of his human attributes versus his primate ones, and one where his hair didn't look greasy. Also, the picture is one where The Fed Ex also has a questionable 'do (my brother calls it flock of seagulls, I think that's a little harsh) Furthermore, the persistence of Nadal's to keep a cut which is not at all flattering ranks him at the bottom of the leaderboard:
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