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Conservatives' Misread of Keynes Reveals Unconscious Bias
Growing support for gay rights by conservatives and Republicans has reinforced a dubious political narrative: that there are fiscal conservatives and social conservatives and only the latter are antigay. But Niall Ferguson's bizarre attack on the personal life of economist John Maynard Keynes has exposed the nasty moralizing aspect of fiscal conservatism. Indeed, it's revealed a deep philosophical connection between social and fiscal conservatism and suggests the presence of unconscious homophobia at the root of the conservative mind.
Ferguson's controversial comments centered around Keynes's famous remark that "in the long run, we're all dead." Ferguson, a Harvard historian who studies how empires decline, told an audience of 500 that Keynes's economic worldview grew out of his personal experience as a childless homosexual. According to reports, Ferguson cast Keynes as selfish and "effete," concerned more with poetry than progeny. His logic was that the economist favored high debt and short-sighted consumption over the more virtuous Protestant ethic of saving and self-denial because childless gays are less invested in the future. (Apparently Ferguson forgot the advice of heterosexual father George W. Bush following the 9/11 terrorist attacks: to go shopping.)
Ferguson apologized Saturday for suggesting that Keynes developed hedonistic economic beliefs because he was a childless gay with no investment in the future. He stated that he would never dismiss Keynes's economic beliefs by impugning his sexuality, and he claimed to "detest all prejudice." But evidence quickly materialized that Ferguson has a history of making precisely such dubious and disparaging links.
Recognizing the gravity of his misstep, Ferguson penned a longer letter to the Harvard community. In his open letter to the Crimson, Ferguson resorts to a version of the "some of my best friends are black" defense against prejudice. Indeed, Ferguson previously fought allegations of racism for comparing President Obama to a black cat, and his retort was he couldn't possibly be racist because his wife was born in Africa. Likewise, he wrote this week that he couldn't possibly be antigay because he asked a gay person (Andrew Sullivan) to be his son's godfather.
To Ferguson, these personal facts about his bio make the charges of bias "easy to refute." But I don't think they do. To be clear, I do not wish to join the chorus of critics who call Ferguson's remarks "gay bashing" or who angrily hurl the epithet "homophobe" at anyone who goes off-script about gay people. Indeed, I'd like to make this script less, well, scripted, and encourage our culture to learn from the feelings that words express instead of censoring the script.
On this, Ferguson and I agree. He says we can confront prejudice through "repression" or "education" and, correctly, chooses education, touting his own efforts to condemn eugenics, homophobia, and anti-Semitism. But just what are we to make of his having said these things in the first place? Ultimately, Ferguson gives us zero explanation for how these things could ever have come out of his mouth, simply dismissing the words as the "stupid things" that we all occasionally say.
The problem with Ferguson's explanation is that he entirely misses the difference between taking a position and having a feeling. And he misses this distinction in a surprisingly unthoughtful way. "There is still, regrettably," he writes, "a great deal of prejudice in the world." But he doesn't seem capable of applying this critique to himself.
The difficult truth is that it is very possible to love people and hold nasty and incorrect views about them at the same time (or nasty and correct views, for that matter). In fairness, if this is Ferguson's failure, it's reflective of a larger failure of our culture. Too often we prefer the WASPy dinner party to the revealing — and healing — heart-to-heart, opting for everyone to say the polite thing rather than to get to the bottom of the issue. As Ferguson writes, "To be accused of prejudice is one of the occupational hazards of public life nowadays." And if, in writing this, I am insisting that, of course Ferguson must be kinda antigay, I'm compelled to add that none of us is immune to prejudice.
At left: Niall Ferguson
Still, it's a particular sin of American conservatives, who have a long history of defining gays (and liberals) by their immorality, specifically their supposed inability to control their desires. This is probably an important source of conservatives' newfound hatred of deficits: the need for a scapegoat for their doctrinaire belief that America is ever threatened by untamed desire.
In a revealing National Review piece, Jonah Goldberg, a Fox News contributor, provided a number of instructive examples of conservatives identifying Keynes's economic beliefs with his suspect sexuality. Gertrude Himmelfarb, he points out, claimed that Keynes's views had "an obvious connection with his homosexuality" and his "childless vision," which she also linked to the "Keynesian doctrine that consumption rather than saving is the source of economic growth." She found a "discernible affinity" between Keynes's "premium on immediate and present satisfactions" and Keynesian economics, which, she (wrongly) claimed "is based entirely on the short run and precludes any long-term judgments."
Calling Keynes "a Bloomsbury aesthete and a practicing homosexual," George Sim Johnston wrote in 1986 that the economist "did not believe in self-denial" nor that he "had any obligation to posterity," adding that was only natural "if you have no children and don't want any." If Keynes had disclosed all this, complained Johnston, "we might have lower federal deficits." One editor even theorized that Keynes's sexual morality led him to reject the gold standard.
Critics of Keynes are fond of citing his own self-description as an "immoralist" to justify their distaste for his allegedly hedonistic theories. But they consistently quote him out of context — or genuinely misunderstand his principled moral critique. Goldberg maintains that "Keynes himself" described the mindset of his peer group "as a rejection of all standards" and quotes the following: "We repudiated entirely customary morals, conventions and traditional wisdom. We were, that is to say, in the strict sense of the term, immoralists," recognizing "no moral obligation on us, or inner sanction, to conform or to obey."
What Goldberg leaves out is a key phrase just before the ones he quotes: "We claimed the right to judge every individual case on its merits, and the wisdom, experience and self-control to do so successfully." You might call this arrogant, but it's simply not a rejection of morality, per se. It's a rejection of mindless conformity, in favor of a deliberative, particularized assessment of what is ethically obligatory in a given situation. Indeed, the passage was part of an earnest and tough-minded effort to think rationally about moral obligations, a project that's far more admirable than the simple process of following rules drilled into you on your mother's knee. Keynes wanted to subject the rules of tradition for tradition's sake to the light of reason.
Elsewhere I've written of a growing body of evidence that homophobia operates in subconscious regions of the brain and that the stories told by antigay people about gay people are efforts to rationalize intuitive antigay sentiment. By all accounts, that appears to be happening here. Keynes's support for deficit spending is cast as a product of his hedonistic sexuality, while Adam Smith's virtually identical praise for self-interest and the virtues of consumption are simply empirical observations about the natural processes of the invisible hand. Keynes is viewed as a dangerous champion of debt and consumption when, as Paul Krugman points out this week, Ronald Reagan and the two Bushes were the only presidents of the last 10 who left office with a higher debt ratio than when they came in. And Keynes is cast as a lover of debt while critics entirely ignore the critical other half of his philosophy: that while you should run deficits in hard times, you should pay them down in good times. As Matthew Yglesias writes in Slate, the idea that Keynes was a short-term thinker is absurd, as he was "one of the deepest thinkers about the long-term economic trajectory of all time."
Getting Keynes this wrong is no small matter, because it raises the distinct possibility that even "serious" thinkers are pouncing on a narrative that confirms their antigay biases but does little to advance the truth. It's a damning pattern of conservative thought we'd do well to call out when it happens. Not so we can censor its expression, but so we can guard against dubious policy conclusions, and — if we're lucky — so we can nudge people to examine their own harmful biases.
The point is not that all conservatives are homophobes, but that a persistent feature of both fiscal and social conservatism — what ties them inextricably together into one worldview — is a deep distrust (one might call it a fear) of desire, a sentiment that harks back to our founders' concerns that stability in a democracy relied on citizens' ability to keep their impulses in check. This may or may not be a valid concern in the 21st century. But one thing that should be clear is that gay people have no more trouble controlling their desires, or acting responsibly toward the future, than anyone else. Suggestions to the contrary say far more about the psychology of straight people than the reality of gay people.
NATHANIEL FRANK, author of Unfriendly Fire, is a visiting scholar at Columbia's Center for Gender and Sexuality Law and a frequent contributor to Slate.

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cwilkins88 wrote:Source of the postpurple_hayes wrote:Source of the postTyler wrote:Source of the post How does everyone automatically have one? When a baby is born do they implant it with one right away? I guess everyone that doesn't have one eventually dies off and only people left are those with it?
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Blaitière mountain pastures are located beneath the Aiguille de Blaitière, on the north facing side of the valley. This pasture land was exploited by peasant farmers from the middle ages up until the 1950′s. The land and farm buildings were then pretty much abandoned until the turn of this century. Lower Blaitière is situated at 1708 m altitude and Upper Blaitière at 1920 m.
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Pascal Payot is the gardian of this alpine paradise, along with his herd of 40 Saanen goats. Meet them at lower Blaitière (Blaitière-Dessous) until mid September. As the weather cools and the grazing diminishes, the troops will regain their winter quarters at their farm in Les Houches ferme des Houches
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(define (matrix-multiply matrix1 matrix2)
(lambda (row)
(apply map
(lambda column
(apply + (map * row column)))
where my map looks like this:
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;;map: act to a list with a procedure
;;proc ---> lst
(define (map proc lst)
(if (null? lst)
(cons (proc (car lst))
(map proc (cdr lst)))))
I have tested it and runs great!But i have some questions since i'm still learning:
1)In the first prodecure(line 6) we call as "map * row column" but my map is like (map proc lst).In line 6 there is one more argument.So i can't understand why and how it works.
2)In the second lambda why is not "column" inside parenthesis?Isn't the format of a lambda something like:
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((lambda (x) (+ x x)) (* 3 4))
I haven't found anywhere a lambda without arguments a the parenthesis.
Any kind of info should be useful since i'm a learn.Even the slightest.
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With Fedora 9, the Fedora project continues its tradition of being the most innovative major distribution, combining new applications from other distributions as well as its own inventions. However, in no other release has Fedora walked the line between leading edge and bleeding edge so precariously. At times, as with its updating of subsystems and its selection of desktop software, Fedora 9 manages to innovate without inconveniencing users. But, in other cases, most notably in the changes to package installation, the project has chosen innovation over usability.
Like earlier releases, Fedora 9 offers a wealth of installation alternatives, and introduces some of its own. The download page offers 32- and 64-bit DVDs and CDs, and live media for both GNOME and KDE desktops. Alternatively, you can create a bootable USB flash drive -- an option that, starting in Fedora 9, includes the ability to store your own data and permanently alter the installation. Other choice include the Unity subproject's supply of custom spins. If none of these choices suits you, you can create your own install image using Revisor.
With Fedora 9, you also have the option of using live-usb-creator from Windows to create a live flash drive. While Fedora leader Paul Frields says that adding a version of Ubuntu's Wubi remains a future possibility, the live-usb-creator seems a simpler alternative, especially as the result lacks most of the speed problems of a live CD. For now, the application is not available in Fedora itself, although the project page suggests that it should be soon.
Most users will probably install via an install or live DVD/CD. The live CD is the fastest choice to download and offers the simplest install program, but experienced users might miss the ability to control the details of the installation.
The standard install disks use Anaconda, which is probably the oldest graphical install for GNU/Linux still in use. Fedora 9's Anaconda offers only minor changes from earlier versions, such as the ability to install on an ext4 filesystem (if you happen to feel adventurous, since the format is still being developed and is only partially supported by tool sets) and the ability to resize partitions. Between the beta and the final versions, the listing of wireless devices in Anaconda seems to have vanished, leaving installers in the uneasy position of not knowing which ones have been detected until they reboot into the new system. That point aside, as in previous versions, Anaconda provides an installation that requires minimal choices for newcomers while providing the customization that experienced users may prefer.
Fedora 9 also looks forward to future releases with PreUpgrade, a wizard to guide you through the process of upgrading an existing system. While PreUpgrade currently points only to Rawhide, the Fedora development repository, it does promise to remove some of the uncertainty about how to change from one release to another.
The system and the desktop
Behind the scenes, Fedora 9 boasts a number of modifications that average users may not observe, but that may still have a major effect on their computing. PulseAudio, which was an installable option in Fedora 8, is now a standard in the configuration dialogs, offering more sophisticated sound than earlier alternatives such as ALSA and OSS. Fedora 9 has also adopted Canonical's Upstart as a replacement for System V's init scripts, resulting -- among other things -- in a somewhat faster boot and shutdown, with the promise of more enhancements to come. Other speed increases come courtesy of Xorg 1.4 and X Server 1.5, which together improve the performance of the X Window System.
After installation, Fedora 9 opens a default desktop with New Age tie-dye wallpaper. The selection of standard software is more cutting edge than in earlier versions of Fedora, perhaps due as much to accidents of timing in various project releases than any deliberate policy choice. At any rate, the release includes not only stable new releases such as GNOME 2.22 and OpenOffice.org 2.4, but also some applications still in development, such as KDE 4.03, Firefox 3 beta 5, the 2.6.25 Linux kernel, and OpenJDK, the free version of Sun's Java, supplemented by the earlier IcedTea workaround. On the whole, the inclusion of releases still in development is remarkably trouble-free. OpenJDK seems ready for prime time for common desktop purposes, while Firefox 3 is stable, if not optimized for speed yet. Those who use wireless devices with Ralink chipsets should be especially glad of the 2.6.25 kernel, which includes built-in support for them.
To this mix, Fedora 9 adds only a few minor enhancements in applications, such as a redesigned Screen Resolution dialog and SE Linux policies for browsers and extensions. Probably the most noticeable changes for everyday computing are in the Network Manager, which now supports multiple active network devices as well as what the release notes summary describe as "ad-hoc support for wireless" -- which appears to mean automatic detection of wireless devices without the need to configure them specifically.
Software installation
The most controversial change in Fedora 9 is the replacement of the Pirut front end for Yum and the Pup updater with PackageKit, an application intended to provide a universal front end for all package systems. Although PackageKit is not intended to allow you to install a mixture of .DEB and .RPM packages on the same system, or convert packages from one format to another, the advantages of a common interface are obvious. PackageKit is also a marked improvement over Pup, in that it divides upgrades into categories such as Security, Bug Fixes, and Enhancements, allowing you to make choices about what to install without having to go to the effort of researching every upgrade.
However, the way that Fedora 9 has implemented the change is less than ideal. For one thing, neither Pirut nor Pup is in the Fedora 9 repository. Even more importantly, while the GNOME PackageKit interface divides packages into groups and displays filtered search results, it does not allow installation by groups or multiple selections. In other words, should you want to add the KDE or Xfce desktop without having to install dozens of packages one at a time with GNOME PackageKit, you need to use the Yum command itself, or install another graphical software installer like Yumex.
According to the PackageKit FAQ for Fedora 9, group installs should be available shortly in PackageKit. But, given the current lack of this functionality, PackageKit's inclusion in the release seems premature. It could have easily waited for the next release.
Aside from the problems with PackageKit -- and, to a lesser extent, the inclusion of KDE 4.0.3 -- Fedora 9 manages to balance innovation with a high degree of usability. Over the last few months, Fedora has been increasingly compared favorably with Ubuntu on both accounts, and, to a large extent, it deserves this praise. If anything, it has probably exceeded Ubuntu in innovation, with at least a dozen major new ideas in every release. It is a rare release, too, in which Fedora's menus and dialog do not show minor tinkering to fine-tune the user experience.
Yet the problems in Fedora 9 emphasize how difficult a balance the Fedora project tries to maintain. The fact that improvements are coming for both KDE and PackageKit, and that, meanwhile, workarounds exist, is beside the point -- these facts are lucky accidents, and nothing that Fedora has done.
Although Fedora's innovations make it one of the more interesting distributions to use and watch these days, the project needs to temper its creativity with more consideration of how changes affect users. Perhaps these relatively minor problems will help the distribution correct its release policies before a major disaster happens in a future release.


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Inflammatory bowel disease affects hundreds of thousands of people around the world each year. It is, according to conventional medicine, incurable and its cause is unknown (BMJ, August 6, 1994). The number of reported cases is increasing worldwide each year (Canada Health Rep, 1990; 71: 343-59), especially among children.
Generally speaking, IBD is thought to be autoimmune in nature, causing the immune system to attack and inflame the body's own tissues. For diagnostic purposes, doctors divide IBD into two separate categories: Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis (UC). Crohn's involves all the layers of the bowel but can affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract from the mouth to the anus, while ulcerative colitis affects only the colon/rectum.
While Crohn's and ulcerative colitis are usually categorized as two separate diseases (BMJ, 1994; 309: 355), there is also an argument that they are better described as two examples of the same process, which merely affects different areas in the intestine to a differing degree. No single test is sufficient to diagnose either disease, and sufferers are often put through an endless round of endoscopic, radiological, histologic assessments, laboratory testing and bowel studies in order to come up with a definitive diagnosis (Postgrad Med J, 1995; 112: 46-8; and 54: 57-8). In 10-15 per cent of patients it is almost impossible to differentiate between the two diseases.
Each type may have different causes (Gastroenterol Clin North Am, 1995; 71: 475-507), making the selection of appropriate treatment difficult. Diagnosis can also be made difficult by the fact that both diseases mimic several other infections of the intestines, as well as other conditions (see box below).
While the death rate from IBD is dropping, the risk is still greater than that of the general population (Gastroenterol, 1996; 110: 1339-45). In a retrospective study of death certificates in Rochester, New York from January 1973 to December 1989, Crohn's was the direct cause of death in 25 per cent of cases and in 6 per cent of cases of UC (AM J Gastroenterol, 1995; 90: 927-32).
But what makes someone suceptible to IBD in the first place? Certainly there is a genetic link which is stronger among sufferers of Crohn's. If someone in your family is a sufferer, you are anywhere from 3.5 to 10 times more likely than the general population to contract the disease yourself (Acta Chir Scand Suppl 1990; 559 (Crohn's Disease-EP/GE): 1-42; N Eng J Med, 1991; 324: 84-8).
The use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) is another possible explanation. Research in Jersey showed that in 38 per cent of new cases of inflammatory bowel disease, the disease developed while the patient was taking NSAIDs (Lancet October 8, 1994).
Viral and bacterial links with IBD have also been explored at length, particularly in relation to Crohn's (Ann Med, 1993; 25: 557-61). Studies have shown that the human herpesvirus 6 (HHV 6), Epstein-Barr virus and cytomegalovirus seem to play a much greater role in the development of UC (J Med Viriol, 1992; 38: 183-90). But the weight of research into bacterial causes centres around Crohn's disease and the presence of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis.
This bacterium is known to cause chronic enteritis in many animals and may also be responsible for the disease in humans, especially in those with inherited or acquired susceptibility. Its presence is more common in those with Crohn's than with ulcerative colitis.


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When was the last time a movie had more beautiful young stars, perfect costumes, and stunning locations. Will The Talented Mr. Ripley become our generations Philadelphia Story?
Friday, October 14, 2005
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The only thing I think I disliked in the Philadelphia story was a double-breasted suit with no lapels that Cary wore. Hmm, some styles don't catch on for a reason. The best dressed Cary Grant movie, I feel is the 1941 Hitchcock thriller "Suspicion" with Joan Fontaine.
Have you ever seen any of Tony Curtis's movies? I found his suits to be beautifully fitted (slim everythings, jackets with skinny arms) especially in "Goodbye Charlie."
I love "Tallented Mr. Ripley" with all my soul. Jude Law's clothes are georgeous,the way he moves pure ellegance, his way of life a dream for every "bon vivant". I almost understand the hate of Ripley when he realices… He´ll never be like him.
just stumbling through, but so glad to see this little post — I always think this movie has been really underappreciated for its style.
we are totaly on the same page…leopard paltrow's coat in Venice blew me away…
'The Talented Mr. Ripley' is a hugely underrated film not just for its undoubted stlye, but also its substance. It's probably due to the critical acclaim given to the French version of the Ripley story 'Purple Noon' which is also excellent , with superb clothes and if i remember correctly, Alain Delon….
I absolutely agree with you
How about The Great Gatsby?
The Talented Mr Ripley is a superb movie as is the other 'Ripley' movie with John Malkovich which is scarier but not as stylish. On the subject of Cary Grant best dressed movie surely it has to be that grey suit in North By Northwest which also has another stylish dresser James Mason, he of the voice.
The actual movie was just okay, but I watched it a few times for the style and clothes! Jude Law and Gwyneth just captured the whole era with their wardrobe and their demeanors.
my favorite jude law outfit in that movie was when they go to this wonderous patio to hear a jazz orchestra and dickie is wearing a crisp white shirt, i think linen khaki pants, a wicker hat, and the most gorgeous deep cobalt silk jacket. the fabric made it look deliberately pilly. since this post is 3 years old and only you, scott, could be reading this, do you know what to call that type of fabric? i've been searching for it for 2 years. granted i'm 17 and have a fe wmore years of searching but i'd appreciate any help i can get from someone with your expertise on italian fashion.
Hello – I know a lot of time has passed, and I don't know if anybody else answered your question – I think the type of silk you are referring to is raw silk.
Gwyneth's rich blue silk or velvet cape/opera coat with the creamy tan lining, the hood collar fastens in a heart shape with the lining showing.
I want to be her, just for that item, despite everything bad that happens to her in the film.
But instead i settle for wearing glasses just like Tom's in the picture. Only i'm a 19 year old girl.
i make it work.
so much style!!
I never thought of it that way, but I think you're on to something. Both are great movies. You have to give the edge to Grant and Hepburn though. Especially Cary Grant. No one does it like him anymore.
Wouldn't that be sad, though? I mean, I love the movie, I love the clothes, I love the actors (Cate Blanchett MUCH more than Gwyneth Paltro). But since the movie take place in the 1950's, it would mena that "our generation" has advanced in fashion by only 15 years from when the Philadelphia Story was shot… Not that our current fashion is that amazing. Trust me, as a European on the US west coast i feel like a fish out of water. But to regress into the 50's is not really a solution, nor is it really indicative of our generation.
Some great style in that movie. Really should have been talked about more for fashion.
It is definately one of my favourites!
A brilliant film.
They all look very nice. I love Gweneth Paltrow vera much ;)
one of my favorite movies ever! the style, the class, the scenery! just so sad about him and peter at the end…oh and the music of course!!!
such a stunning pic
Finally saw Purple Noon (Plein Soleil) on an Air France flight last fall. Beautifully shot, and Alain Delon's wardrobe couldn't be better. Late 50′s Rome looks wonderful!


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Old Herald building smoking, thanks to Burn Notice
No, the old Miami Herald building is not burning down. At least not in real life.
Burn Notice, the USA spy series filming its final season, took over the abandoned Herald headquarters this week to shoot part of its series finale. On Friday, black smoke began billowing out of the building's western wall facing 14th Street, and pictures of the action promptly began popping up on Twitter shortly after 2 p.m..
"For a second it appeared the old @MiamiHerald building was on fire. Nope. It's #BurnNotice filming,'' CBS 4 correspondent David Sutta tweeted, including a picture of the smoke looming over the nearby Adrienne Arsht Performing Arts Center, which sits across from the old Herald site.
Natalie Leon, a public relations executive, was at her nearby condo building when she heard sounds of trouble from the former One Herald Plaza.
"I was working from home today. I was on the computer and heard this big bang,'' Leon said around 3 p.m.. "You could see all of this fire. They're pretty much done now."
Genting, a Malaysian casino company, purchased the Herald building in 2011 and rented it to the media company until the Herald moved to its current Doral headquarters in May.
A Genting spokesman, Aaron Gordon, said Burn Notice is using the old Herald home for the final episode of the season, which will also be the final episode of the series. USA Network, which airs the popular show, annouced in May that Burn Notice would not be returning for an eighth season once the current one ends in the fall.


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MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE CENTER for the Arts events and programs coordinator Andrea Solomon helps Joey, right, and Noah Viner strip leaves off saplings and add them to a growing pile that will be used for an art installation being created this month in front of the museum by sculptor Patrick Dougherty. Noah's class from St. Mary's School had visited with the artist Tuesday morning and Noah came back after school with his mother and siblings to volunteer with the sapling preparation.
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MIDDLEBURY — Addison County's efforts in battling domestic violence got a huge boost on Tuesday with news that Middlebury-based WomenSafe had landed a $495,509 federal grant to hire new staff to educate the community about crimes against women and to investigate those suspected of committing such offenses.
U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., announced that three Vermont organizations had been picked to share $1.55 million in U.S. Department of Justice grants for programs aimed at combating domestic violence. Among them was WomenSafe, an organization that helps abuse victims in Addison County and Rochester. WomenSafe's nearly half-million-dollar grant will provide for:
• A full-time coordinator for the Addison County Council Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. The council's members include a variety of crime-fighting and human services organizations — such as the Vermont State Police, the Parent-Child Center of Addison County and the Vermont Department of Probation and Parole — that all work with people who have been touched by domestic violence.
MIDDLEBURY — The Counseling Service of Addison County (CSAC) has put the finishing touches on a $650,000 fund-raising campaign and is now seeking permission from the town of Middlebury to proceed with two major building projects to accommodate its ever growing list of clients and services.
The most ambitious of the projects is a proposed 19,000-square-foot building in Catamount Park off Exchange Street that would house CSAC's administrative offices and its "Community Associates" program that provides services to people with developmental disabilities in Addison County. That program has outgrown its current headquarters at 61 Court St.
CSAC is also advancing a plan to build a 2,528-square-foot addition on its office building at 89 Main St. That structure currently houses CSAC's adult mental health, psychiatry, out-patient and emergency services departments. The addition would accommodate four new offices; a large "group area"; a clinical records storage space; and sprinkler/fire alarm systems for the entire building.
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VERGENNES — The Vergennes Development Review Board on Monday held a public hearing but made no ruling on a topic that has intrigued city officials: a proposal by the Champlain Valley Christian School (CVSC) to put four wind turbines on top of the new high school it is building off Church Street on the Waltham town line.
CVSC representative Ted Boelens said on Tuesday that school officials estimate that the four turbines, which he said at the Monday hearing looked like larger versions of "55-gallon drums," would save the school about $6,000 a year in its power bills.
The purchase and installation of the four wind turbines, plus smaller power-generating solar panels and needed electronic equipment, will cost about $36,000, Boelens said. Efficiency Vermont is granting the school $18,000 toward the project.
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For the CPU part of my code I am using the goto2 BLAS compiled for CORE2 which consistently uses four cores, which I can see by monitoring CPU cores on my computer. I am running this on an 8 core CPU (I cannot use the 8 core version of goto2 BLAS because it has a bug).
When I run a program which makes a call to magma_zgetrf_gpu I have to make a call to cublas_set_matrix to transfer the data and one to cublas_get_matrix to get it back afterwards. What I observe is that during these calls three of the four cores show a sharp drop in usage, and an extra core has a peak. I don't know what use the cublas routines make of blas calls, but it looks very much as though these calls are not using the four cores available to the program through gotoblas.
I think that these calls are in fact what is giving me poor performance, particularly when I want to do repeat back substitution using magma_zgetrs_gpu when in fact the performance is much worse than doing the work in the CPU. The matrix size is about 4000.
The following data for zgetrf_gpu shows that I should get a considerable speed up but I am not seeing it because of the overhead of the data transfers.
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fletcher@fletcher-desktop:~/magma_1.0.0-rc4/testing$ ./testing_zgetrf_gpu
device 0: GeForce GTX 460, 1400.0 MHz clock, 2047.2 MB memory
testing_zgetrf_gpu -M 1024 -N 1024
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960 960 19.62 47.00 1.102403e-17
1920 1920 26.94 59.55 1.096587e-17
3072 3072 27.30 63.06 1.075028e-17
4032 4032 27.76 67.16 1.033353e-17
4992 4992 27.93 68.29 1.044090e-17
5952 5952 27.96 68.98 1.025062e-17
7104 7104 28.13 69.48 1.020955e-17
8064 8064 27.92 69.82 1.004068e-17
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|A challenge for Chinese businesses is to re-capture the vast domestic market owing to the recent food scares that have seriously undermined the domestic brands.
After several high-profile food safety incidents, according to one recent survey, around 64% of Chinese consider food safety as the number one priority that affects their daily lives and requires immediate action by the government.
The Chinese government is taking these concerns very seriously and has launched important reforms in its system of food control. It promulgated a new Food Safety Law in 2009, and created a new food safety authority in 2013 to deal with these issues. These reforms are now rolling out to provincial and local levels. These reforms will eventually affect more than one million state officials, restructure more than a dozen government ministries, and revise more than 5,000 regulations. The reforms will result in a complete overhaul of the food control system and introduction of new global best practice policies for food safety.
A joint World Bank and IFC team, which I'm part of, has been working with authorities and industry in China to improve food safety in the world's most populous country. Over the last two weeks of March, the World Bank Group developed a workplan for a comprehensive food safety capacity building needs assessment, which would serve as the integral diagnostic work to support the identification of a set of major investments for strengthening the food safety system in China. The effort was also supported by the Global Food Safety Partnership—a World Bank-hosted public-private partnership that aims to improve food safety capacity around the world.
Also in March, the World Bank Group co-organized with the China National Food Safety Risk Assessment Center, WHO, and FAO an International Symposium for Food Safety Standards and Risk Management held in Beijing.
The Symposium brought together over 300 high level officials from all over China and the international community, who came to discuss the matters of food safety and how to respond to the new policies of the government.
"Food safety is everyone's responsibility", said Juergen Voegele, Director of the Agriculture and Environmental Services Department of the World Bank, in his keynote address at the symposium. "Both industry and the public sector must ensure that the food supply chain is safe—from farm to chopsticks."
Food safety is clearly linked to public health with greater impact on the poor. Food also plays a critical role in developing markets. A challenge for Chinese businesses is to re-capture the vast domestic market owing to the recent food scares that have seriously undermined the domestic brands. In addition, adopting global best practices would enable China to maintain or expand international markets.
"While the modern food safety systems around the world put increasing emphasis on industry's responsibility for food safety, the uniqueness of China requires the joint responsibility—both industry and government," said Voegele. "Nevertheless, governments do not produce food, but farmers and companies do. Governments have a role in ensuring that food safety policies and standards are able to protect consumers from foodborne illnesses. Therefore, we must work both with the government and with the industry to support China's effort for improving food safety."
"Food safety is one of the entry points for us to work together addressing global challenges," said Klaus Rohland, World Bank Country Director for China.
In China, we're bringing together years of experience in addressing food safety issues at both the government policy and industry value chain levels, including:
- Reforming food safety systems
- Harmonizing food safety legislation with international requirements
- Building the capacity of food safety inspectors to conduct risk based inspections
- Demonstrating pilots to reduce the burden on the industry caused by ineffective food safety regulations and
- Facilitating exports and encouraging industry compliance with food safety standards through regulatory solutions.
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Great initiative and program meeting urgent and immediate needs of the country. Thanks for sharing.
Great post! Made me think of an interesting paper by IFPRI on a way to measure the regulatory gaps between exporting and importing countries when a particular SPS standard is applied named "Bridge to Cross" (BTC). The researchers modeled this method to SPS regulation relating to aflatoxin contamination in corn, and it seems that the effect of BTC is larger the smaller the exporter is, and thus poorer countries could be more affected by this regulatory gap as the reduction of BTC costs become prohibitive. It made me wonder about these types of initiatives on smaller producers (domestic and foreign) in the Chinese supply chain. the article is here: http://www.ifpri.org/publication/sanitary-and-phytosanitary-standards-b…
Thanks for the comment. The use of different policies and procedures between domestic and export/import products is a challenge which need to be analyzed on a case by case basis as the costs to bridge the gap and the potential health the impact vary according to the produce and value chain.
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Another Cisco Live is just around the corner! Are you going to be in San Diego? I can't think of a better backdrop for what will be a packed week full of learning opportunities and the chance to network with peers from across the globe. IT pro's will converge on the San Diego Convention Center and take in rich, interactive, and educational content in areas ranging from Video, to Networking , Security, Mobility, Collaboration and Data Center.
Front and center will be a focus on Desktop Virtualization and VXI, which will be covered extensively by Cisco and its ecosystem partners, across the exhibit floor, as well as within special technical breakout sessions you need to check out if you're implementing this technology. If you're focused on data center infrastructure, pay special attention to these technical breakout sessions:
- BRKVIR-2015 | Architecture Optimizations for Desktop Virtualization
- BRKVIR-2010 | Cisco VXI: An End to End Virtualization System
You'll also find great VXI breakouts focused on our VXC endpoints, along with our Security, Mobility and BYOD solutions so be sure to check out the session catalog.
Back to Data Center Infrastructure, in addition to the sessions mention above, you have the opportunity to take in helpful theater presentations in the Cisco booth running throughout the week, so please stop by and check it out. As I mentioned above, we have session BRKVIR-2015, presented by my friend Ashok Rajagopalan, Product Manager, Desktop Virtualization at Cisco. If you ever wanted to know what makes for an optimized infrastructure for virtual desktop workloads, and how the latest Unified Computing blade servers are raising the bar on desktop performance, scale and cost-effective manageability, you need to be at this session. Lots of customers have been asking about what our new Intel Romley-based server line does for VDI, and this is the place to learn about it. If you want some reading material for the flight, check out these whitepapers covering our new B200 M3 blades hosting VDI, for both VMware and Citrix
Our friends at the VMware (booth #1626) will have demos on VXI with VMware View, as well as a spotlight on Horizon App Manager and Octopus, along with theater presentations throughout the week. You'll also have a chance to hear from VMware's Chris Romano, discussing how to "Build Your Next-Generation End User Workspace" in BRKPCS-4383. Stop by the VMware booth to learn more.
I also want to share some valuable content presented by our friends at NetApp. In addition to some great theater presentations in the NetApp booth (#826) covering our FlexPod solution for VDI, there are 2 great demos they're hosting: VXI Accelerated on FlexPod, and Citrix XenDesktop with Microsoft Private Cloud. Finally, don't miss BRKPCS-4381 "University of Tennessee: Virtual Desktop Revolution" to learn how the university leveraged FlexPod to enable on-demand virtual desktop services for 27,000+ students. You should check out their blog at www.singlemaltcloud.com when you get a chance.
There's a lot more I could get into here, but you've probably got enough to deal with this week before heading out, so make note of the sessions above, pack your bags, and safe travels – see you in San Diego!
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Like one of those faster-than-light particles that's gone before you can see it, filmmaker and tech innovator Tiffany Shlain zips from the virtual to the real and back again. The Bay Area native whom Newsweek named one of the women shaping the 21st century has been into technology since she and Silicon Valley were both kids. Fifteen years ago, she founded the Webby Awards; well before Twitter, no acceptance speech could be longer than five words. She delivered more than that last year in a commencement speech at her alma mater UC Berkeley, exhorting students to embrace the quality that she claims as her own guiding light: "moxie" -- a long-ago patent medicine turned soft drink whose name has become synonymous with the human recipe for being "bold ... and a little outrageous."
Many people will be reading this in print; others will be reading it online -- but you won't, at least not today.
I do these technology Shabbats; they've been really life-changing. Friday night, we unplug all of our technology. All the screens go off for 24 hours, and we're present with each other. I'll tell you, it's very profound for me to do it, and every week I feel like I get to reset my mind and be completely present with people. It's really wonderful. I definitely feel like disconnecting is going to be more and more valued. For me, it's the unplugging that's a very big boundary. And I [have] a land line. I tell my family, if it's urgent, call me on the land line, which they think is very funny. It's Shabbat for the 21st century.
Does it change the way you behave with technology the other six days?
On Saturday night I can't wait to go back on; I kind of re-appreciate the power of technology.
Your father, who was a surgeon and a writer, died in 2009. His advice, delivered on a video shown at his funeral, was "be present." People seem so immersed in the technological world that they often don't seem to be present in the real one.
That's one of the big goals with "Connected" [her feature-length documentary subtitled "An Autobiography About Love, Death and Technology"]. People are ready to talk about it, and we're launching a global conversation about what does it mean to be connected in the 21st century. We've had screenings in China and Spain and all over the U.S.; everyone's been so swallowed up in these tools, and I think everyone's realizing, "Oh my God, it's changing my behavior." What's the good of it, what's the bad of it? And the part everyone feels they need to be more conscious of is just being plugged in all the time.
You have seen people who do just that -- ignore the person across the table from them to be in electronic contact with someone else miles away.
I start off the movie that way. I never thought I would be that person, [but] I sneaked off to the bathroom [to text]. I think we're changing behavior too much in our personal levels.
I'm connected to people in beautiful ways through technology -- like my mother-in-law. I'm constantly sending her videos of [her grandchildren's] cute little moments she misses in Pennsylvania. I can stay more connected with my family; I'm up to date with my friends, and that's very powerful.
Any technology -- I could tell you three really great things about it and three really bad things about it. I think we just need to be having a conversation [about the] fact that everyone's moving so quickly.
It's nothing I'm proud of, but there was an eight-year period that I smoked. Now I look back and think, "Oh my God, I can't believe I smoked in that situation -- when I woke up, or on a plane. That's so horrible." I wonder whether we're going to look back on this period and say the same thing about the way we're using technology.
When people text during a funeral, they have a problem. Why do they have to be told that that's wrong?
I think there's a generational issue going on. No matter how much we're connecting in these new ways, nothing is going to replace the importance of a deep relationship. It requires attention and presence. That's not going to change.
You have two daughters, but the Webby Awards are your eldest "child."
I created the Webby Awards and spent a decade running [them]; now I've gone back to films full time. There's this film we released last month called "The Declaration of Interdependence," and the film was completely crowd-sourced. We posted a script on the Internet, had people read it from all over the world, and it's turned into a four-minute movie.
Robert Hutchins, the president of the University of Chicago, believed that the great promise of television had been squandered -- as if, he said, "Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books." Some people regard the Internet in the same light: For every Arab Spring there are a thousand ridiculous conspiracy theories and a million kitten videos.
Some things fuel the growth of other things. Look at the whole dot-com bust of the "90s -- that really paved the way for all the stuff that's happening now; [it] paved the way to wire up this world.
Your kids will have no awareness of a world before this kind of technology. How differently do they think about things?
Very differently. The big concern when the written word was invented was that people would lose their memory, and we certainly have lost a lot of oral tradition and culture, but we've gained so much with the written word. I believe we are in a transition period [to] a new way of understanding and sharing information. Our brains can only grow so big, so we hooked up into the computer.
One of my favorite stories about Einstein is that he was being interviewed, and at the end the reporter said, "If I have any follow-up questions, can I call you?" And Einstein went over to the bookcase and looked up his phone number [in a phone book] and gave it to the reporter. And the reporter said, "You're the smartest man in the 20th century -- how do you not know your own phone number?" And he said, "Vy fill my mind with such useless information if I know vere I can find it?" Was that why he was able to come up with the theory of relativity -- he wasn't filling his mind with useless information?
So our children come up with new ideas we can't even imagine because they're not trying to hold onto all this information. When I was in school, the person who memorized the most facts was the smartest person in the class. Now it's going to be all about re-contextualizing ideas and recombining ideas.
You illustrate evolution in your film with "The Rise of Man" series of drawings, but yours ends with man sitting at a computer! What's the next stage?
The next stage is that we're combining each other's minds. The potential of global brainpower -- if we can only not have global ADD also!
Throughout history, the most innovation occurs in cities because more people from different perspectives bump up against each other and new ideas come out. So suddenly [there is] this global framework for global perspectives around our problems.
Right now we're very much in the social stage of the Web. The next phase, which we're just starting, is the collaborative phase. Gather around problems and share insights.
At the University of Washington, scientists had been trying to figure out the way [an enzyme that allowed AIDS to reproduce] folded, and they couldn't solve it. They put it on the Internet and made it into a game and these gamers from all over the world solved it in [three weeks]. Imagine if you had the brainpower of the world.
What is exciting about humanity has always been our ability to collaborate, and suddenly we have this new way to do it.
You did a video send-up of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl": "I see the best minds of my generation distracted by texting, emailing, tweeting, dragging their cursors through Google links at dawn Â…" Why?
"Connected" was taking very long to make and [for a] national day of unplugging, they asked me to do a poem to begin the event. My husband and I whipped it out. After spending 41/2 years on the feature, it was very fun to blast that [video] out.
You had Apple's Lisa computer before most people knew what a computer was. It makes me think how big a role women play in the tech world.
Oh yeah -- women are all about the Web. The Web is all about relationships, and women are all about relationships. They own it! It is playing to our strengths.
This interview was edited and excerpted from a longer taped transcript. Interview archive: latimes.com/pattasks.


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Bravo to EU's young translators
The names of the 27 winners of the European Commission's annual EU Young Translator Juvenes Translatores contest for secondary school pupils are published today (28 January, list of winning pupils/schools below). More than 3 000 pupils from 750 schools sat the contest in November 2012. The winners – one per EU country – will be invited to an award ceremony in Brussels on 11 April to receive their prizes from Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou and will also have the chance to see the Commission's translators at work.
"The contest is an excellent way to promote language learning and translation as a possible career. Language skills are a fantastic asset: they broaden the mind and can boost employability, something which is especially important in the current economic environment," said Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth.
The contestants translated a one-page text based on their choice of any of the 506 language combinations possible among the EU's 23 official languages. All 23 were indeed used as source languages. The winners also exhibited a fair share of linguistic diversity, -11 translated from English, 5 from French, 5 from Spanish, 4 from German, 1 from Estonian and 1 from Irish. The texts were marked by the Commission's translators.
The contest, which was first organised in 2007, continues to grow in popularity. Nearly 1 750 schools registered to take part in the 2012-2013 competition – this was reduced to 750 for logistical reasons following a random computer selection. The contest has created its own network, enabling students, teachers and professionals to interact through Facebook, Twitter and a blog.
It also gives schools an opportunity to learn from each other and try out different methods of language teaching. The Salzmannschule Schnepfenthal school in Thuringia, Germany, is clearly one to watch: its students have won the title three times. Perhaps the name of its head languages teacher – Susanne Bravo – is a clue to its success.
The translation texts focused on solidarity between generations, the theme of the 2012 European Year, and ranged from stories of the young teaching the old how to use computers to history lessons given by elders to children. The texts were prepared by Commission's translators to ensure the same level of linguistic challenge in all the languages.
Croatian pupils will be able to take part in the 2013-2014 contest for the first time after their country joins the EU and Croat becomes its 24th official language.
The 'Juvenes Translatores' (Latin for 'young translators') contest is organised every year by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Translation. Its aim is to promote language learning in schools and give young people a taste of what it is like to be a translator. It is open to 17-year old secondary school pupils (in the case of the 2012-2013 contest for those born in 1995) and takes place at the same time in all selected schools all over Europe. The contest has encouraged some entrants to take up language studies and to become translators.
The winners (plus their chosen language combination for the test) and their schools are as follows
The winning pupils are available for interview (details available from spokesperson).
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Contest website: ec.europa.eu/translatores
Facebook: facebook.com/translatores
Twitter: @translatores
JT blog for teachers: http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/translatores/
DG Translation: ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation
Androulla Vassiliou's website: ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/vassiliou
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Tim Tebow still wants to spread his word, but some churches are apparently too politically hot for him to handle.
Via USA Today, Tebow had been scheduled to appear April 28 at First Baptist Church Dallas, the megachurch of Robert Jeffress, whose views on other religions and homosexuality have drawn fire in recent years.
But rather than add fuel to the fire, Tebow sent out a stream of tweets this morning, stepping politely away from Jeffress and canceling the appearance without refuting any of his controversial positions.
"While I was looking forward to sharing a message of hope and Christ's unconditional love with the faithful members of the historic First Baptist Church of Dallas in April, due to new information that has been brought to my attention, I have decided to cancel my upcoming appearance. I will continue to use the platform God has blessed me with to bring Faith, Hope and Love to all those needing a brighter day. Thank you for all of your love and support. God Bless!"
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We have decided to upload two detailed ultra-high quality 360° virtual tours about the temples of Abydos and Dendera in Egypt. Although located relatively close to each other, these two places have not too much in common.
Abydos is a mystical place with a New Kingdom large mortuary temple built by Seti I and his son. It is famous for a group of hieroglyphs representing modern vehicles like a helicopter, a yacht, a submarine, and a fighterplane. They are commonly explained as being the result of erosion, and later adjustments, or re-writing over the original inscriptions that left parts of the older text visible creating the illusion of modern looking machines. The Osierion temple located at the back of the temple of Seti I is again a mysterious building, it was even considered to be an Old Kingdom ruin due to its unusual form.
Dendera is a much newer building compared to the ruins of Abydos, the well-preserved temple complex explains us the last glorious days of the ancient Egypt. It dates back to the times of the Ptolemaic dynasty and was completed by the Roman emperor Tiberius.
Abydos was the cult center of Osiris, god of the dead. Although there were shrines dedicated to the parts of Osiris throughout Egypt, the temple of Abydos used to be the most important of them. This was a place that most Egyptians wished to visit once in their lifetime or to have them buried here. Thus the area of Abydos was used as a necropolis from predynastic times to Christian times (4000 BC-600AD). The pharaohs of the first dynasty were buried in Abydos, including Narmer, the founder of the first dynasty. Nine or ten temples were erected here in Abydos from the first dynasty to the twenty-sixth dynasty. The array of temples included the Great Osiris temple, the temple of Seti I and the temple of Ramses II., out of which the temple of Seti I is the best preserved.
The 360° virtual tour focuses on the temple of Seti I and the Osierion showing areas that are usually not accessible to the public (ie. Ptah-Sokar complex). Besides the panoramic images, there is also detailed textual description describing each of the monuments included in the virtual tour. Interesting details, carved panels and scenes have been highlighted.
The Dendera Temple complex which contains the Temple of Hathor belongs to the best preserved ancient temples in all Egypt. The whole complex covers around 40,000 square meters and is surrounded by a hefty mud brick enclosed wall. The present building dates back to the times of the Ptolemaic dynasty and was completed by the Roman emperor Tiberius, but it rests on the foundations of earlier buildings dating back to the 4th dynasty [c. 2613–c. 2494 BC].
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Kay Spears will explain the terms used in scanning photographs, share the essentials of organizing, scanning, and storing family (or other) photographs digitally, as well as provide suggestions on the equipment you may need. Please join us for another opportunity at hearing about the "Basics of Scanning Photographs," on March 10, 2010 at 2:30 PM in Meeting Room C.
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