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NAIROBI, Kenya — Two Spanish aid workers kidnapped by Somali militants from a Kenyan refugee camp in October 2011 have been released, ending a 21-month hostage ordeal, the aid group Doctors Without Borders said Thursday.
Doctors Without Borders said the two women — Montserrat Serra and Blanca Thiebaut — are both safe and healthy and are eager to join their loved ones. The group thanked those involved with securing the women's release but did not specify who that was.
"As we are still working on the return of the two girls to their homes, we ask you to respect their need for privacy at this time," Doctors Without Borders said.
Somali militants entered the world's largest refugee camp — Dadaab, in eastern Kenya — in October 2011 and took the two women after shooting and wounding their Kenyan driver. The attack was the third kidnapping of Europeans in Kenya in six weeks and was one of the reasons Kenya gave for sending troops into Somalia days later.
Kenya's military deployed troops and six helicopters to hunt for the kidnapped women. Security forces found their vehicle abandoned and mired in the desert, meaning the women were forced to march on foot into their captors' lawless country.
At the time of the kidnapping Serra —from Girona, in northeast Spain — was 40 and Thiebaut — from Madrid — was 30.
The kidnapping forced aid agencies to scale back relief operations in Dadaab. The United Nations temporarily suspended all non-lifesaving aid operations, and hundreds of staff were confined to their offices, forcing the cancellation of services like education, counseling and relocation of families until further notice.
Security at Dadaab remains a concern for Kenya's government still today. Militants are known to recruit disaffected young male refugees as fighters. Aid workers live in guarded compounds surrounded by high barbed-wire walls, and the U.N. requires its staff to travel in the camps with armed escorts.
Since the 2011 kidnapping, the camp has suffered from a series of explosive attacks often aimed at Kenyan police.
Only days after the kidnappings of the Spanish women Kenya sent thousands of military forces over the border into Somalia to fight al-Shabab militants. The Kenyan troops — now a part of the African Union military mission — remain there today.


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Canton City Schools will cut its savings account in half this year as it funnels funds into personnel and services — a move that's sparking debate among the district's administration, Board of Education candidates and parents.
Five-year forecasts, which show a district's financial projections, were due to the state Department of Education this month. Forecasts from the county's largest school districts show lowered real estate tax revenues and increased personnel costs almost across the board.
For some districts, that means dipping into their reserve funds as they spend more than they anticipate bringing in.
North Canton expects to reduce its carryover by about 15 percent during the course of the school year. Canton City Schools anticipates a 46 percent drop in its reserve funds.
Eric Resnick, a candidate for the Canton City Schools Board of Education who has been endorsed by the outgoing board president, said it's OK to roll out big programs, such as the district's Brighter Tomorrow initiative, but they need to be sustainable.
"When you look at this forecast, it's clear: Unless the state of Ohio is willing to — after 2015 — start shoveling millions a year into this district," he said, "this whole thing is going to collapse under its own weight."
For this school year, Canton's five-year forecast shows the largest difference between revenue and expenditures among major districts in the county. The district plans to dole out about $6.5 million more than it will bring in — with the bulk of the expenses coming from personnel and purchased services. That spending will drop the district's reserve from about $14.1 million to about $7.6 million.
Officials with both the state Department of Education and the Ohio Association of School Business Officials said they don't offer a blanket recommendation as to how much carryover a school system should have because it varies too much by district.
Richard Milligan, who chairs the Canton City Schools finance committee and is running unopposed for another term on the school board, said the staff and teacher wage increases granted earlier this year upped costs, as did new hires.
He said the state has put "tremendous pressure" on districts to have children reading by the third grade as part of the third-grade guarantee.
"We don't have any choice but to really ratchet up what we're doing, because it will be a disaster otherwise," he said.
Superintendent Adrian Allison was not available this week to be interviewed for this article, the district's spokeswoman said.
Resnick, who previously served on the Canton Board of Education, is running on the platform that the district's personnel costs are climbing at an unmanageable rate. He said he is a proponent of the Brighter Tomorrow plan but said the district is trying to support more expenses with fewer dollars and no clear knowledge of where the money is going to come from.
"That frame has to be refocused," he said, "or Brighter Tomorrow will just become an experiment."
John Rinaldi, a former board member who is running against Resnick, said the five-year forecast is a fluid document that can change even within a few months. He is calling for fiscal conservatism.
"We need to under-budget and spend wisely," he said.
At the October Board of Education meeting, two residents — one a grandfather of a student and the other a parent of students — expressed concern about the district pouring money into administrative personnel rather than increasing salaries for teachers or improving facilities for children.
This summer, the district hired several administrators to supervise principals and help implement the Brighter Tomorrow plan. The board also approved the hiring of 12 assistant principals for elementary schools, citing a state law that changes how teachers are evaluated, according to previous Repository articles.
John Charlton, spokesman for the Ohio Department of Education, said there are no state mandates requiring districts to employ more teachers or administrators. Some districts are justifying the need for more personnel, however, from the stipulations of the third-grade reading guarantee and the new, more-involved teacher-evaluation system, he said.
But Charlton also said the districts have other options, and the state would argue that existing administrators need to focus on hitting the new standards. Rather than organizing a bus schedule, attending a Rotary Club meeting or making an appearance at a student volleyball game, administrators should spend more of their time ensuring that the district is hiring quality teachers who are doing a good job, he said.
"It's just a matter of priorities," Charlton said.
Canton City Schools isn't the only district pulling from its reserve account.
North Canton anticipates spending about $902,000 more than it brings in this year, according to the district's forecast. Expenditures are up about $1.7 million over last year, with much of the increase stemming from employee benefits, the forecast indicates.
Superintendent Michael Hartenstein said the district plans to handle teacher evaluations using its existing staff. But it did have to undertake "massive amounts" of retraining to prepare teachers to meet the third-grade reading guarantee, he said.
The real costs are coming from additional staffing to address the district's increasing special education needs, Hartenstein said, along with the cost of long-overdue building repairs and technology updates.
He also said, with the way the retirement system is changing in 2014, the district might save some money as teachers at the higher end of the pay scale retire and are replaced by teachers on the lower end of the pay scale — but it's not something he can predict.
The five-year forecast for Massillon City Schools indicates the district once experienced a similar drop in its carryover, with its reserve diving from $8.1 million at the end of fiscal year 2011 to about $4.9 million at the end of fiscal year 2012. The district's reserve dipped again — this time marginally — during the course of last year, but the projections for the upcoming school year show the district pumping $1.1 million back into its savings account.
Superintendent Rik Goodright said the district is working to rebuild its carryover — a process that involves scrutinizing staffing and cutting back when needed.
He said the district has to keep a reserve fund so it's prepared for the unexpected, whether it's a new state mandate or decreased funding.
Plain Local Schools has reduced staff in order to balance its shrinking budget, Treasurer Kathy Jordan said. But while she stressed the importance of saving money, she also acknowledged that the school funding model is cyclical. A district will pass a levy, use that money to build up its reserve account, and then spend it, she said. Plus, with the new standards that schools must meet, sometimes spending the carryover is necessary.
"You absolutely do have to eat into your carryover," Jordan said.
When asked whether Canton City Schools' funding model was sustainable, Milligan chuckled. He said every year for the close to 12 years he's been on the school board, board members have wrestled with this issue about what programs to ax and which to continue.
What makes it so tough, he said, is the financing model is unstable because it's tied to the state budget.
"So the answer to that is, we believe it is, but our funding stream is not always predictable, and we will do what's necessary to maintain a viable budget going forward, including, if we need to, cutting back," Milligan said, "but it's hard to do the things we're being asked to do on the one hand and on the other having resources cut."
Total projected revenues and expenses for area districts from July 1, 2013, through June 30, 2014
Canton City Schools
Revenues: $104,046,854
Expenditures: $110,570,046
Difference: -$6,523,192
North Canton City Schools
Revenues: $40,442,454
Expenditures: $41,344,772
Difference: -$902,318
Massillon City Schools
Revenues: $38,997,910
Expenditures: $37,887,941
Difference: $1,109,970
Jackson Local Schools
Revenues: $49,696,592
Expenditures: $48,751,750
Difference: $944,842
Plain Local Schools
Revenues: $49,975,528
Expenditures: $48,742,376
Difference: $1,233,152
Source: Five-year forecasts submitted to the Ohio Department of Education
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Imagine watching a large sporting event with a pizza commercial playing. By clicking an "order now" selection on the screen, you are immediately contacted by a customer service representative who takes your order information without you needing to look up the store, dial the number, and possibly wait on hold. Taking this one step further, when the representative calls you, they can add location information for the wired telephone or GPS information from a wireless phone and cut down the amount of time it takes to deliver your order.
The costs of accessing telephone networks can often be prohibitive for application developers. Communications equipment is required in order to provide interoperability between the IP network and the PSTN or mobile network. This equipment, at a minimum, requires an investment in hardware and software -- not to mention the expense of time to get the equipment configured correctly. CaaS platforms allow a developer to consume services written in standards-based languages using common development environments. By lowering the costs for developers to create applications that provide communications services, the number of applications exposing these services will increase.
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I've been planning on writing down my recipe for barbecue pork ribs for a couple years now. I kept avoiding it to prevent runaway discussions on whether or not this is the best way or the correct way to barbecue ribs. I finally decided to just sit down and write it. This is how I do my ribs, barbecue style. They come out delicious, tender and juicy, and full of smoky flavor.
The texture of the ribs after cooking is not "falling apart". The meat doesn't fall off the bone when you prod it with a fork. (For that, you'll want to take a look at
Recipe File: Oven Baked Spare Ribs
which will produce meat and cartilage that is just completely falling apart.) However, the ribs will be tender enough that it'll come off the bone easily when you're eating it, and the texture will provide just enough chew to be satisfying. I think that's the best texture for ribs (even though sometimes I do like the completely falling apart texture as well - that's why I have more than one recipe for making ribs!).
This recipe is more of a method than a firm step-by-step because there's a lot of flexibility when it comes to barbecuing ribs. I usually smoke at least two racks of ribs (a rack is one side of the hog - one continuous cut of meat that includes 8 to 15 ribs depending on your butcher and the style of cut) at a time but cooking one rack is pretty much the same exact recipe - cooking times don't change only the amount of spice rub you use up.
Before we start, you'll need pork ribs. Baby back ribs come from the loin of the hog and the bones are generally smaller and the flesh is leaner and meatier than spare ribs which come from the side and belly. Because of the leanness of baby back ribs, the cooking time is less (about 1-1/2 hour compared to 2-1/2 hour) than that of spare ribs. In the photographs for this recipe, I prepared baby back ribs, but I'll mention the differences between preparation for baby back and spare ribs in the text.
You'll also need a dry rub. I like using the rub from my
Grilled Pork Chops
recipe. In fact, I usually prepare a large quantity of the rub and put them into jars so I can use them whenever I need it. Alternatively, you can use a store bought spice rub like those found at
Rod's Rub
For glazing, a barbecue sauce is needed. My
Slow Simmered Spicy Barbecue Sauce
is a crowd pleaser, but I like trying out other people's sauces and playing with a variety of store bought sauces as well.
Wood chips (hickory or mesquite both work really well) are also needed. Part of what makes barbecue ribs authentic is the taste of smoke permeating the meat. Since the ribs cook in just a couple hours, the smokiness will be fairly mild.
Let's begin.
The night before you plan on barbecuing, prepare your pork ribs. Working with one rack at a time, lay the rack on a large cutting board. You'll want to trim off any excess meat because they won't cook at the same rate as the rib meat. Usually baby back ribs don't come with any extra flaps of meat, but spare ribs, St. Louis style and country style ribs often do. Cut them off and save them for a stir fry or other pork dish.
Flip the rack over so the meaty side is face down. There is a thin membrane on this side that goes over all the bones. Removing this membrane is optional, but generally a good idea. It can become a very tough sheet that tastes and feels like you're chewing on plastic if you cook it with the ribs. To remove it, just thrust a blunt object (like the blunt tip of a thermometer) in between the membrane and the bones as shown in the photo. Wiggling your tool around a little should give you enough room to get a finger beneath the membrane.
Once you've got a grip on the membrane, pull it away from the back of the ribs. You'll need to use some force, but if you're smooth about it, the membrane should come away as one piece. Using a paper towel can help you grip the membrane better if your fingers keep slipping.
Cover both sides of the rack with a generous portion of spice rub. I generally use about 1/2 cup of rub per rack of ribs. Make sure you use your hands to rub the mixture into the ribs. The moisture from the pork should be enough to make the rub stick and coat easily.
After both sides have been rubbed with the spice rub, place the rack onto a large sheet of heavy duty aluminum foil. The foil should be large enough to wrap the entire rack in it (just image you're going to gift wrap the ribs).
Fold the foil over the ribs and fold the aluminum foil onto itself to seal just like you would if you were preparing to freeze it. (For photographs explaining the folding and crimping technique please refer to
Kitchen Notes: Freezing Meats
Do the same steps (removing excess meat, removing the membrane, spice rub, and wrapping in foil) for each of the other racks of ribs that you might be preparing. Put them onto a sheet pan and slip it into the refrigerator so the rub can do its thing. We'll want to leave the ribs in the fridge for at least 10-12 hours. The salt and sugar in the rub should draw out some moisture from the ribs which serves two purposes. First, it firms up the flesh a little bit, and, second, helps provide moisture to the rub which turns it into a paste and then a liquid. The liquidly rub penetrates into the meat during the next several hours, so it's important to wait before cooking the ribs.
About an hour before you plan on cooking, soak 2 cups of wood chips in water for that hour.
Prepare a grill for indirect heat. For a charcoal grill, start a fire and move the coals to one side, leaving the other side without coals. For a gas grill, turn on the burners only on one side. (If your grill doesn't have burners on just one side, then I suggest you rig up something so your ribs will be much higher up and away from the flames than they normally would be.) You'll also need a
rib rack
(a metal device that looks like a desk top filing rack - not to be confused with a rack of ribs which is the cut of meat that a rib rack is designed to help you cook). If you don't have a rib rack or don't want to buy one, then just use a
for roasting chickens and turkeys. Flip it over so the point of the V is facing up and stick it on the grill. That's how I do it. Place the rack on the side of the grill without direct heat.
Remove the wood chips from the water. If you've got a charcoal fire going, put the wood chips directly onto the coals where they should begin to smolder. If you're using a gas grill, place the wood chips into a smoker box (or an aluminum foil sheet shaped into a box with holes punched in the top like the one in the picture) and put it on the side where the flames are on. Turn the fire up until the chips begin to smoke and then turn the heat down to low.
Remove the ribs from the refrigerator and unwrap them. If the racks are too long to fit on the rib rack on your grill, then you might have to cut them in half. Insert the racks or half racks into the rib rack so they are standing up. Position them so they are as far away from the heat source as possible. Close the lid.
Every twenty minutes, open the lid and rotate the ribs. Move each rack closer to the heat source, then move the rack closest to the heat source to the position farthest from the heat.
After about 1-1/2 hours for baby back ribs or 2-1/2 hours for spare ribs, the meat should have shrunk away from the bone substantially. The temperature of the rib meat should be over 180°F which means much of the collagen in the meat has probably converted to juicy and unctuous gelatin (the reason we love ribs).
At this point, pull the racks off the grill and clear off the smoker box and rib rack. Redistribute the heat so it is even throughout the grill (for gas grills, use medium heat). Place the racks of ribs back onto the grill and brush on your favorite barbecue sauce. Every three minutes, flip the racks and brush more sauce on. Repeat until you're tired, have run out of sauce, or can't wait any longer.
Cut the ribs apart to serve.
That's it. Follow these steps correctly and you should have some great barbecue ribs.}?>
Barbecue Pork Ribs
Prepare grill for indirect low heat
Prepare grill for direct medium heat
2 racks of baby back or spare ribs
remove membrane
refrigerate 12 hours
smoke for 1-1/2 hours (baby back) to 2-1/2 hours (spare) rotating every 20 minutes
glaze over medium heat for 3 min. each side repeating until sauce is consumed or chef is tired
1 cup spice rub
2 cups wood chips
soak in water 1 hour
heat on grill until smoking
1 cup barbecue sauce
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 1:22 am
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In case anyone is interested, I had posted a "behind the scenes" photo of one of the photography setups for this recipe on
my blog
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 2:52 pm
Post subject: Cooking temp
What temp do you try to keep your smoker at for this?
225? 230?
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 6:42 pm
Post subject:
I've been using variations on this technique for quite some time:
... rather than use indirect heat, I just use fewer coals. This has proven tricky -- if I use too many coals, the ribs will char a bit early on if I'm not aggressive at spraying out flare ups; and if I use too few coals, the fire doesn't last quite long enough. I'd considered indirect heat but didn't think there was enough space to do two racks at once on my Weber (and really, if you're cooking for 3 hours, you gotta do more than one rack!) -- the "rib rack" suggestion solves that problem neatly.
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Michael Chu
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 7:27 pm
Post subject: Re: Cooking temp
Franker wrote:
What temp do you try to keep your smoker at for this?
225? 230?
I have no idea. I don't have a smoker right now and the thermometer on my grill is a joke.
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 7:41 pm
Post subject: Excellent ribs
I sent a link to your article to my husband, and now feel guilty because he acted on it straight away with
excellent results
! Thanks very much!
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 6:01 am
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What's the recipe for the spice rub you made for the ribs?
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Michael Chu
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Posts: 1654
Location: Austin, TX (USA)
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 6:50 am
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dmlamb wrote:
What's the recipe for the spice rub you made for the ribs?
I linked to it within the article. Here is the link again:
Recipe File: Grilled Pork Chops
The spice rub is the first three photos of that recipe and the first recipe summary table at the bottom.
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Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:12 pm
Post subject:
How hot is your grill when you do this? My BBQ ribs would never be done in that short of time. For baby backs I do a 2-1-1 method. Two hours of smoking, then one hour in foil and another hour out. With spare ribs I do a 2-2-1 method. I use a vertical smoker that is always between 240 and 275 degrees.
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Michael Chu
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Posts: 1654
Location: Austin, TX (USA)
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 1:43 am
Post subject:
The best I can estimate is that the grill is about 250-300F on the side where the ribs are arranged.
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Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 2:52 pm
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I'm excited to say I just found this site and I love it! the step by step directions along with the pictures are perfect. (especially the pictures!!) I'm really glad I found your site. Do you ever list the nutritional information, such as calories, carbs, or fat? Thanks, Diane
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Michael Chu
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Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:38 am
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Anonymous wrote:
Do you ever list the nutritional information, such as calories, carbs, or fat?
I've considered it, but in the ended decided not to due to technical reasons (i.e. laziness). Maybe sometime in the future when I'm not working full time and can spend the time I'd like to spend on this website.
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Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:08 pm
Post subject:
Here's my offering of a firm favorite here.
Pork Spare Ribs, Ok the BBQ tag in this instance relates to the use
of BBQ sauce when initially marinated for an hour. Chinese Recipe
from a book that has been in the Family bookcase since i can remember.
Of course these must have my Fried Rice to go with them, lol
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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:19 pm
Post subject: RIBS AND RECIPES
I,too, just recently found this site and find it is very informative. Who (or is it whom) ever came up with it deserves much credit and many thanks. I'm doing 2 racks of ribs as we speak.
Long Retired PE
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 4:48 pm
Post subject: Leave it to an engineer ...
. . . their bridges may sometimes fail, but their ribs are always infallible! LOL
Just kidding (I earned my right to kid fellow engineers over 45 years ago).
Seriously, your method for cooking ribs is impeccable, and your photography ain't none too shabby.
Thanks for the great post.
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It doesn't matter if you are a gamer playing World Of Warcraft, or a soldier remotely flying a spy drone on the other side of the world. Latency can, and will get you killed, and there isn't anything you can do about it.
Internet service providers love to hype their services, especially cable providers, talking about the speed of their bandwidth, but you won't see anyone screaming their latency in advertisements. This isn't the fault of anyone, no one is being misleading, the fact is that all internet connections, regardless of speed, have inherent latency.
So what is the difference between BANDWIDTH and LATENCY?
I am going to boil this down the the simplest explanation I can: Bandwidth is your connection SPEED, Latency is the inherent time delay before your data flows.
For example, you are home and you go to a favorite website. You type in the URL, and wait…your request has to go through the internet till it hits the server of the website you are visiting, and it has to make a return trip back to you.
Once the website starts to load, it flows in very quickly (Bandwidth)
It is the TIME you waited BEFORE the website was visible, we call (LATENCY).
So what's the big deal, it was only a second or two…
Well, it is a very big deal. To best illustrate latency, have you ever watched a live news feed where the news anchor is interviewing a correspondent in another country via Satellite feed? The news anchor asks a question, and a second or two passes before the correspondent replies.
The video is nice and clear (this is fast bandwidth), but the DELAY in the conversation between the individuals is LATENCY.
Latency issues have a real effect when trying to do online gaming, for example World Of Warcraft, or VoIP services like SKYPE, or a U.S. soldier remotely flying a spy drone behind enemy lines to provide recognizance information for troops. For example, the soldier fires a missile at his command console, a second later the missile actually fires from the drone. That one second (1000 miliseconds) could mean the difference in hitting the target, or hitting an innocent bystander.
Real time applications are most impacted by latency. Studies show that when absolute delays are below approximately 20 milliseconds, they are generally imperceptible. A total system latency of 50 milliseconds will feel responsive, but still subtly lagging. For the average computer user, gamer, etc. things are not exactly optomized, resulting in an end to end latency of 100 miliseconds or more.
The internet connection in the general consumer's home set up is twister pair copper ethernet. Let's take a look at the fastest systems we have available. Fiber Optic.
Latency in Fiber optics: Light in a vacuum travels at 299,792,458 meters per second, and this equates to a latency of 3.33 microseconds per kilometre of path length. Light travels slower in fiber due to the fiber's refractive index and this increases the latency to approximately 5 microseconds per kilometre. So, while we are using the current generation of optical fibers there is a limit to how low we can drive latency – take the shortest possible route and multiply this by 5 microseconds per kilometre. A 50km link would therefore have a fiber latency of 250 microseconds, a 200km link would have a latency of 1 millisecond and a 1000km link would have a
fiber latency of 5 milliseconds.
Latency is a very frustrating bottleneck, one we will have to live with for quite some time to come, if not forever. Einstein's famous E=MC2 still holds true. Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, and this is the limitation inherent in the internet.
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John Dillinger Resources
The following Indiana Division materials may be of use in researching John Dillinger, noted gangster. In addition, an extensive bibliography of newspaper citations from throughout Indiana is available for use in the Indiana Division's newspaper collections. Card file indexes are available for use in the Indiana State Library. For additional information, please contact the Indiana Collection.
Books and Pamphlets
Ip 923 D578 no. 1
Title: Clark! Makley! Pierpont! Dillinger! captured.
Author: Wollard, C. A.
Ip 923 D578 no. 1 I 923 D578t I 923 D578t 1969 Ip 364 no. 36 I 923 D578n Ip 364 no. 32 I 923 K18la Ip 364 no. 33 I 923 D578c I 923 D578g I 923 D578na I 923 D578j S1854, Hubert Hawkins Collection IN MH 1-13-2015
Title: Identification order no. 1217, March 12, 1934.
Author: U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Published: Washington, 1934.
Title: The Dillinger days.
Author: Toland, John.
Published: New York : Random House, [1963].
Title: The Dillinger days.
Author: Toland, John.
Published: [New York : Avon Books, 1969, c1963].
Title: True inside story of Dillinger.
Author: Taylor, Merlin Moore.
Title: Dillinger, dead or alive?
Author: Nash, Jay Robert, 1934-.
Published: Chicago : Henry Regnery Co., [c1970].
Title: Life and exploits of John Dillinger; America's public enemy, no. 1.
Published: Mt. Morris, Ill. : R. C. Remington, c1934.
Title: The Alvin Karpis story.
Author: Karpis, Alvin.
Published: New York : Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, [c1971].
Title: The life story of John Dillinger and the exploits of the "Terror mob".
Author: Gallagher, Basil.
Published: Indpls. : Stevens pub. co., 1934.
Title: Dillinger, a short and violent life.
Author: Cromie, Robert Allen, 1909-.
Published: New York : McGraw-Hill, [1962].
Title: Dillinger : the untold story.
Author: Girardin, G. Russell (George Russell).
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1994.
Title: The Dillinger dossier.
Author: Nash, Jay Robert.
Published: Highland Park, Ill. : December Press ; Chicago, Ill.
Title: John Dillinger [videorecording] : public enemy #1.
Producer/writer, Michael Husain.
Published: [New York] : A&E Home Video : Marketed in the U.S. by New Video Group, c1995.
Note: VHS.
Oral Histories
I 923 D578t
I 923 D578t 1969
Ip 364 no. 36
I 923 D578n
Ip 364 no. 32
I 923 K18la
Ip 364 no. 33
I 923 D578c
I 923 D578g
I 923 D578na
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In directing his first feature, writer and documentarian Nicholas Jarecki shows great command of tone — a balance of sex, danger and manipulation with some insiderish business talk and a healthy sprinkling of dark humor to break up the tension.
His film is well-cast and strongly acted, and while it couldn't be more relevant, it also recalls the decadence of 1980s Wall Street, shot in 35mm as it is, with a synth-heavy score from composer Cliff Martinez (who wrote similar music for Drive).
Richard Gere stars as Robert Miller, a billionaire hedge-fund magnate. As he turns 60, Robert would seem to have it all — looks, wealth, a loving family and respect among his peers. And yet he always wants more, and feels emboldened by the different set of rules and morals that seem to apply in his rarefied world.
So he "borrows" $417 million from a fellow tycoon to cover a hole in his portfolio and make his company look as stable as possible as it's about to be acquired by a bank.
This is otherwise known as fraud. And despite the loyalty and support of his smart, beautiful wife (Susan Sarandon), he has a hot (and hot-headed) French mistress on the side (former Victoria's Secret model Laetitia Casta) who runs in stylish, hard-partying art circles.
Both these schemes explode in his face over the course of a few fateful days. An audit of his firm has raised some red flags, making the potential buyer turn reluctant and evasive. This prompts the suspicions of his devoted daughter (Brit Marling, every bit Gere's equal), who's also the company's chief financial officer and heir apparent.
But more immediately and dramatically, Robert is involved in a deadly accident that puts the police on his tail (Tim Roth plays the lead detective with a wonderfully thick New York accent) and requires him to enlist the help of a kid from Harlem (Nate Parker) who's the son of his ate, longtime chauffeur.
That's a lot of plates to keep spinning at once; just the financial storyline alone could have sufficed without the affair messing things up further. What's surprising about Arbitrage is that Jarecki never judges this man for the tricky position he's gotten himself into, and never tries to steer our feelings toward him, either.
The film's strong women don't quite get enough to do until the third act, when Sarandon and Marling both have powerful showdowns with Gere. But the entire supporting cast is well-chosen.
Robert may not learn anything by the end, and actually gets nastier and more demanding as the screws tighten.
As Parker's character puts it: "You think money is gonna fix this?" Robert doesn't miss a beat in responding: "What else is there?"


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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
The Race Is On
This kind of real human drama is what can make both politics and sports so compelling. Since primaries and caucuses became a regular feature of presidential campaigns, starting in Oregon in 1910 and really catching on for good in 1936, there simply has never been one like the Hawkeye Cauci we just witnessed. In the wee hours, CNN actually roused the two ladies in Clinton County whose sleepy, shaky vote tabulations, worked out live on the telephone, determined the outcome (and they immediately started trending on Twitter).
In case you went to bed before the final numbers came in, here they are:
Mitt Romney 25% (30,015 votes)
Rick Santorum 25% (30,007 votes)
Ron Paul 21%
Newt Gingrich 13%
Rick Perry 10%
Michele Bachmann 5%
Jon Huntsman 1%
Yes, folks, Romney won by eight votes. That is simply unprecedented in the history of American elections. Bush beating Gore by 537 votes in Florida in 2000? A veritable landslide. The Iowa result shatters the previous record for narrowest victory in a primary or caucus, held by South Dakota Governor Warren Green, who won his home state Republican primary in 1936 by 257 votes over Idaho Senator William Borah (they both lost the GOP nomination, though, to Alf Landon, who went on to crushing defeat at the hands of FDR).
The stunner here isn't just the closeness of this caucus, but which two Republicans came out on top. A month ago, this was a battle between Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul for the conservative soul of the Iowa GOP. Mitt Romney didn't intend to contest the caucus that intensely, not with social conservatives dominating the Iowa Republican Party and a sure victory awaiting him in New Hampshire. Rick Santorum was an asterisk in the polls. But with the collapse of first Herman Cain, then Michele Bachmann, then Rick Perry, Romney sensed an opening and began to pour resources into the state. Meanwhile, Santorum was plugging away, biding his time, staying true to himself and hoping the conservatives would eventually come to him. They did. Now both the Massachusetts moderate and the Pennsylvania conservative can lay claim to outperforming expectations and emerging from Iowa as the only true contenders for the nomination.
As I wrote Monday, Santorum is still a long shot, even with his out-of-nowhere surge in Iowa. Most American voters will react the way my wife did when she saw him on TV last night: "Rick who?" When they Google Santorum, the first thing they'll find will be the derogatory definition that's haunted him ever since his notorious comments about homosexuality in 2003. He has little money and no ground organization in the states ahead, most critically Florida. He'll get massive media attention now, and certainly an infusion of donations and volunteers, especially from those abandoning the Perry, Bachmann and Gingrich campaigns. He can consolidate the anti-Romney conservatives and present himself as the only viable alternative. He and Paul will gang up on Romney in this weekend's New Hampshire debates, while Gingrich spews venom at the frontrunner and becomes the bomb-throwing attack dog he swore he wouldn't be. But Santorum has to ramp up in a hurry, and while the party establishment rallies around Romney, the Pennsylvanian will feel the heat of Romney's Super PAC, which will educate Republican voters about some of his more extreme positions, arguing they make him unelectable in November, and he probably won't have the resources or campaign infrastructure to respond effectively.
Romney, in the meantime, is on the verge of becoming the only non-incumbent presidential candidate ever to sweep both the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary. It just hasn't happened before, and it's likely to give him powerful momentum heading into the Southern states, where he has trailed Gingrich in the polls (Romney's 25% is the lowest in history for an Iowa caucus winner, but he benefits from a perfect storm: first, a fractured field of conservatives who split the Iowa right wing, leaving the moderates to him, and next, a primary state in which he happens to be a virtual favorite son, thanks to his vacation home there and his familiarity as governor of neighboring Massachusetts). Santorum will try to take Newt's spot at the top in South Carolina and Florida, but it'll be a tall order, especially in the less conservative Sunshine State.
None of this means Romney coasts from here. Ron Paul and his fanatic base will stick around for a while. The Iowa outcome underscores that conservatives just can't stomach the wishy-washy Romney, whom many see as a robotic opportunist. Voters are clearly moved by Santorum's sincerity, by his emotional, populist appeal, by his air of authenticity. He's a smart guy and a terrific campaigner. His "victory" speech last night (delivered while Romney was pulling ahead of him for good) may have been the best I've seen so far this campaign season. It was heartfelt and real, and if that's his introduction for many voters, it will serve him well. Meanwhile, Romney stumbled awkwardly through his basic stump speech, his laugh lines falling flat like some bad Catskills comedian. The contrast between the Teleprompted Romney and the off-the-cuff Santorum will be even more stark in the days ahead.
Romney needs to break through the 25% ceiling that's kept him from pulling away from the flawed field of conservatives trying to chase him down. Electability is his trump card, and he's banking that, outside Iowa, more Republican voters prioritize beating President Obama over sticking with their core convictions. It's a cynical calculation but I think it's a winning play for Romney. He'll also be helped by a return to the focus on jobs and the economy, which weren't the central issues in Iowa, where the economy is relatively strong. The argument that Romney is the turnaround artist the country needs will resonate much more in the states to come.
Whatever lies ahead, this campaign is off to a much more rousing start than anyone anticipated, and the fun, and drama, are just beginning.
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can't bode well for the Republicans either that their overall vote total in Iowa (120K) is virtually identical to their one in 2008. With widespread discontent of incumbent politicians and a wide-open presidential race, they're simply not resonating with potential voters.
- January 4, 2012 at 4:08 AM
- Herman said...
How many actual votes did Santorum receive? Am wondering if they are simply the same voters who voted for
Huckabee last time.
- January 7, 2012 at 8:49 AM
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Can't, it indicates the republicans either, they always in Iowa whole vote (120 k) is actually the same them for the 2008 a. And widespread discontent incumbent politicians and a wide-open presidential campaign, they won't resonate with potential voters.
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