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The courtyard, just off a busy street in a Delhi slum called Mongolpuri, is buzzing with people—men in plastic sandals arguing with one another, women in saris holding babies on their hips, skinny young guys chattering on cheap cell phones. New arrivals take up positions at the end of a long queue leading to the gated entry of a low cement building. Every so often, a worker opens the gate briefly and people elbow their way inside onto a dimly lit stairway, four or five on each step. Slowly they work their way upward to a second-story landing, where they are stopped again by a steel grille.
After a long wait, a lean woman in a sequined red sari, three children in tow, has finally made it to the head of the line. Her name is Kiran; like many poor Indians, she uses just one name. She and her school-age brood stare curiously through the grille at the people and machines on the other side. Eventually, an unsmiling man in a collared shirt lets them into the big open room. People crowd around mismatched tables scattered with computers, printers, and scanners. Bedsheets nailed up over the windows filter the sun but not the racket of diesel buses and clattering bicycles outside. Kiran glances at the brightly colored posters in Hindi and English on the walls. They don't tell her much, though, since she can't read.
A neatly dressed middle-aged man leads the children to a nearby table, and a brisk young woman in a green skirt sits Kiran down at another. The young woman takes her own seat in front of a Samsung laptop, picks up a slim gray plastic box from the cluttered tabletop, and shows Kiran how to look into the opening at one end. Kiran puts it up to her face and for a moment sees nothing but blackness. Then suddenly two bright circles of light flare out. Kiran's eyes, blinking and uncertain, appear on the laptop screen, magnified tenfold. Click. The oversize eyes freeze on the screen. Kiran's irises have just been captured.
Kiran has never touched or even seen a real computer, let alone an iris scanner. She thinks she's 32, but she's not sure exactly when she was born. Kiran has no birth certificate, or ID of any kind for that matter—no driver's license, no voting card, nothing at all to document her existence. Eight years ago, she left her home in a destitute farming village and wound up here in Mongolpuri, a teeming warren of shabby apartment blocks and tarp-roofed shanties where grimy barefoot children, cargo bicycles, haggard dogs, goats, and cows jostle through narrow, trash-filled streets. Kiran earns about $1.50 a day sorting cast-off clothing for recycling. In short, she's just another of India's vast legions of anonymous poor.
Now, for the first time, her government is taking note of her. Kiran and her children are having their personal information recorded in an official database—not just any official database, but one of the biggest the world has ever seen. They are the latest among millions of enrollees in India's Unique Identification project, also known as Aadhaar, which means "the foundation" in several Indian languages. Its goal is to issue identification numbers linked to the fingerprints and iris scans of every single person in India.
That's more than 1.2 billion people—everyone from Himalayan mountain villagers to Bangalorean call-center workers, from Rajasthani desert nomads to Mumbai street beggars—speaking more than 300 languages and dialects. The biometrics and the Aadhaar identification number will serve as a verifiable, portable, all but unfakable national ID. It is by far the biggest and most technologically complicated biometrics program ever attempted.
Aadhaar faces titanic physical and technical challenges: reaching millions of illiterate Indians who have never seen a computer, persuading them to have their irises scanned, ensuring that their information is accurate, and safeguarding the resulting ocean of data. This is India, after all—a country notorious for corruption and for failing to complete major public projects. And the whole idea horrifies civil libertarians. But if Aadhaar's organizers pull it off, the initiative could boost the fortunes of India's poorest citizens and turbocharge the already booming national economy.
The Indian government has tried to implement national identity schemes before but has never managed to reach much more than a fraction of the population. So when parliament set up the Unique Identification Authority of India in 2009 to try again with a biometrically based system, it borrowed a trick used by corporations all over the world: Go to an outsourcer. The government tapped billionaire Nandan Nilekani, the "Bill Gates of Bangalore."
Nilekani is about as close to a national hero as a former software engineer can get. He cofounded outsourcing colossus Infosys in 1981 and helped build it from a seven-man startup into a $6.4 billion behemoth that employs more than 130,000 people. After stepping down from the CEO job in 2007, Nilekani turned most of his energy to public service projects, working on government commissions to improve welfare services and e-governance. He's a Davos-attending, TED-talk-giving, best-seller-authoring member of the global elite, pegged by Time magazine in 2009 as one of the world's 100 most influential people. This is the guy who suggested to golf buddy Thomas Friedman that the world was getting flat. "Our government undertakes a lot of initiatives, but not all of them work," says B. B. Nanawati, a career federal civil servant who heads the program's technology-procurement department. "But this one is likely to work because of Chairman Nilekani's involvement. We believe he can make this happen."
The Unique Identification Authority's headquarters occupies a couple of floors in a hulking tower complex of red stone and mirrored glass on Connaught Place, the bustling center of Delhi. As chair of the project, Nilekani now holds a cabinet-level rank, but his shop looks more like a startup than a government ministry. When I show up in February, the walls of the reception area are still bare drywall, and the wiring and air-conditioning ducts have yet to be hidden behind ceiling tiles. Plastic-wrapped chairs are corralled in unassigned offices.
"I took this job because it's a project with great potential to have an impact," Nilekani says in his spacious office, decorated with only a collection of plaques and awards and an electric flytrap glowing purple in a corner. He's a medium-size man of 56 with bushy salt-and-pepper hair and a matching mustache. His heavy eyebrows and lips and protuberant brown eyes give him a slightly baleful look, like the villain in a comic opera. "One basic problem is people not having an acknowledged existence by the state and so not being able to access things they're entitled to. Making the poor, the marginalized, the homeless part of the system is a huge benefit."
Aadhaar is a key piece of the Indian government's campaign for "financial inclusion." Today, there are as many as 400 million Indians who, like Kiran, have no official ID of any kind. And if you can't prove who you are, you can't access government programs, can't get a bank account, a loan, or insurance. You're pretty much locked out of the formal economy.
Today, less than half of Indian households have a bank account. The rest are "unbanked," stuck stashing whatever savings they have under the mattress. That means the money isn't gaining interest, either for its owner or for a bank, which could be loaning it out. India's impoverished don't have much to save—but there are hundreds of millions of them. If they each put just $10 into a bank account, that would add billions in new capital to the financial system.
To help make that happen, Nilekani has recruited ethnic Indian tech stars from around the world, including the cofounder of Snapfish and top engineers from Google and Intel. With that private-sector expertise on board, the agency has far outpaced the Indian government's usual leisurely rate of action. Aadhaar launched last September, just 14 months after Nilekani took the job, and officials armed with iris and fingerprint scanners, digital cameras, and laptops began registering the first few villagers and Delhi slum dwellers. More than 16 million people have since been enrolled, and the pace is accelerating. By the end of 2011, the agency expects to be signing up 1 million Indians a day, and by 2014, it should have 600 million people in its database.
The village of Gagenahalli sits amid a placid quilt of green millet and tomato fields in the hinterlands of Karnataka state, some 1,300 miles south of Delhi. Bulls with tassels on their horns pull wooden carts decorated with deities and demons past tiny, cheerily painted houses of dried mud. Old men and skinny cows lounge in the shade of baobab trees. It's a lovely place to visit but a hard place to live. Many of Gagenahalli's 8,500 residents are landless peasants, and about three-quarters subsist below India's official poverty line, earning less than a dollar a day.
Most Indians still live in rural hamlets like this, so getting them enrolled in Aadhaar requires some creativity. One evening not long ago, a man walked through Gagenahalli's red-dirt streets beating a drum and calling the villagers to gather outside—the traditional way to make public announcements. He explained that the government wanted everyone to visit the village schoolhouse in the weeks ahead to be photographed.
A few days later, Shivanna, a stringy 55-year-old farmer—again, with just the one name—presents himself in a cement classroom commandeered by the agency. He doesn't know what it's all about, nor is he particularly interested. "When the government asks to take your picture, you just go and do it," he shrugs. Shivanna takes a worn plastic chair at one of the four enrollment stations set up about the room. All the computer gear and the single bare lightbulb are plugged into a stack of car batteries and kerosene-powered generators—the village gets only a few hours of electricity a day from the national grid.
A young man in a polo shirt records Shivanna's personal information in a form on his laptop. It's bare-bones stuff: name, address, age, gender (including the option of transgender). He has Shivanna look into a camera mounted on the laptop. Once the Aadhaar software tells him he's got Shivanna's full face in the frame and enough light, he snaps the picture. The program runs similar quality checks on the agent's work as Shivanna looks into the iris scanner and then puts his fingers on the glowing green glass of the fingerprint scanner. "We had to dumb it down so that anyone could learn to use the software," says Srikanth Nadhamuni, Aadhaar's head of technology, as he watches the scan progress.
About 100 miles east of Gagenahalli is Bangalore, the center of India's booming IT industry. In one of its southern suburbs, across a busy street from Cisco's in-country headquarters, sits the office building housing Aadhaar's Central ID Repository. The information collected from Shivanna the farmer, Kiran the rag sorter, and every other person enrolled in the Aadhaar system gets sent here, electronically or via couriered hard drive.
This is Nadhamuni's domain. He's a trim, energetic, half-bald engineer with geek-chic rectangular glasses. His English is full of the awesomes and likes that he picked up in Silicon Valley, where he worked for 14 years. In 2002, he, his engineer wife, and their two kids returned to India, and a year later he and Nilekani launched a nonprofit dedicated to digitizing government functions. Nilekani even kicked the organization a few million dollars.
Some of the projects that Nadhamuni worked on—computerizing birth and death records, improving the tracking of schoolkids in migrant worker families—impressed upon him how much India needed a central identity system. When Nilekani asked him to be point man for the task of wrangling Aadhaar's data, Nadhamuni says, "I was, like, delighted."
The offices, like the identity program's Delhi headquarters, are still under construction. When I tour them, rolls of carpet tied with string are stacked along a wall, and workers' bare feet have left plaster-dust prints in a corridor leading to an unfinished meeting room. The rows of cubicles that will eventually accommodate roughly 400 workers are only about half full. The wall intended for a dozen video monitors showing incoming data packets is, for now, empty.
Each individual record is between 4 and 8 megabytes; add in a pile of quality-control information and the database will ultimately hold in the neighborhood of 20 petabytes—that is, 2 x 1016 bytes. That will make it 128 times the size of the biggest biometrics database in the world today: the Department of Homeland Security's set of fingerprints and photos of 129 million people.
The unprecedented scale of Aadhaar's data will make managing it extraordinarily difficult. One of Nadhamuni's most important tasks is de-duplication, ensuring that each record in the database is matched to one and only one person. That's crucial to keep scammers from enrolling multiple times under different names to double-dip on their benefits. To guard against that, the agency needs to check all 10 fingers and both irises of each person against those of everyone else. In a few years, when the database contains 600 million people and is taking in 1 million more per day, Nadhamuni says, they'll need to run about 14 billion matches per second. "That's enormous," he says.
Coping with that load takes more than just adding extra servers. Even Nadhamuni isn't sure how big the ultimate server farm will be. He isn't even totally sure how to work it yet. "Technology doesn't scale that elegantly," he says. "The problems you have at 100 million are different from problems you have at 500 million." And Aadhaar won't know what those problems are until they show up. As the system grows, different components slow down in different ways. There might be programming flaws that delay each request by an amount too tiny to notice when you're running a small number of queries—but when you get into the millions, those tiny delays add up to a major issue. When the system was first activated, Nadhamuni says, he and his team were querying their database, created with the ubiquitous software MySQL, about 5,000 times a day and getting answers back in a fraction of a second. But when they leaped up to 20,000 queries, the lag time rose dramatically. The engineers eventually figured out that they needed to run more copies of MySQL in parallel; software, not hardware, was the bottleneck. "It's like you've got a car with a Hyundai engine, and up to 30 miles per hour it does fine," Nadhamuni says. "But when you go faster, the nuts and bolts fall off and you go, whoa, I need a Ferrari engine. But for us, it's not like there are a dozen engines and we can just pick the fastest one. We are building these engines as we go along."
Using both fingerprints and irises, of course, makes the task tremendously more complex. But irises are useful to identify the millions of adult Indians whose finger pads have been worn smooth by years of manual labor, and for children under 16, whose fingerprints are still developing. Identifying someone by their fingerprints works only about 95 percent of the time, says R. S. Sharma, the agency's director general. Using prints plus irises boosts the rate to 99 percent.
That 1 percent error rate sounds pretty good until you consider that in India it means 12 million people could end up with faulty records. And given the fallibility of little-educated technicians in a poor country, the number could be even higher. A small MIT study of data entry on electronic forms by Indian health care workers found an error rate of 4.2 percent. In fact, at one point during my visit to Gagenahalli, Nadhamuni shows me the receipt given to a woman after her enrollment; I point out that it lists her as a man. A tad flustered, Nadhamuni assures me that there are procedures for people to get their records corrected. "Perfect solutions don't exist," Nilekani says, "but this is a substantial improvement over the way things are now."
For the past year or so, Mohammed Alam, 24, has spent his nights in a charity-run Delhi "night shelter" for the homeless. Inside the weathered cement building, nearly 100 men and one 3-year-old boy in various states of dishevelment sprawl on worn cotton mats in a gloomy open room. A bloody Bollywood action movie flickers on a small TV sitting on a folding table in a corner. The stench of ammonia wafts from the group bathroom across the foyer.
Alam looks markedly healthier than most of his compeers, his glossy black hair elaborately gelled and his teal shirt and jeans spotless. He left his home in Lucknow because of family problems he'd rather not specify and has been getting by in the capital ever since, doing odd labor jobs. In a good month, he pulls in about $50. That makes it hard to afford his own place to live. But the Unique Identification Authority came to enroll the shelter's inhabitants a few weeks ago, and Alam just received a letter from the authority with his randomly generated 12-digit Aadhaar number.
The authority doesn't issue cards or formal identity documents. Once enrolled, each person's eyeballs and fingertips are all they need to prove who they are—in theory, anyway. For now Alam keeps the folded-up letter in his pocket. It serves as ID when the police stop him, he says. But more important, he just used it to open a bank account. "I tend to spend more money when it's on me," he says.
That's exactly the kind of thinking Nilekani is counting on. One of his first major coups was persuading India's central bank to declare the Aadhaar number adequate identification to issue no-frills accounts. Bringing biometrically verified banking to the poor could lead to enormous savings in government benefit programs—for both the recipients and the state. Today, a pensioner in a village like Gagenahalli has to take a bus to the nearest town to collect his monthly payment in cash. That's time and money lost for him. Meanwhile, more than 40 percent of the government's $250 billion in subsidies and other spending on the poor will be siphoned off by scammers over the next five years, according to investment group CLSA. Both problems could largely be solved if instead the funds were sent straight to bank accounts held by biometrically verified recipients. "It's like having 1.2 billion pipes through which you can send the benefits directly," Sharma says. Connecting the poor to banks could also enable some of them to get loans to start businesses or pay for their children's education.
Banks, however, are in short supply in the countryside, where most Indians live; the one nearest to Gagenahalli is 7 miles away. That's one reason only 47 percent of Indian households have bank accounts (compared with 92 percent in the US). So Indian financial institutions have begun introducing "business correspondents" into bankless areas, essentially deputizing some shopkeeper or other trusted local who has access to a little cash to handle villagers' tiny deposits and withdrawals. Here's how it's supposed to work: Say Shivanna wants 50 rupees from his savings account. Instead of schlepping miles to an actual bank, he goes to the little kiosk down the road from his house. The guy in the kiosk scans Shivanna's fingerprints with an inexpensive handheld machine. (There are several on the market already; other similar gadgets—and even cell phone apps—that scan irises are in the works.) Then he transmits the image via cellular network to the tech hub in Bangalore and gets a simple confirmation-of-identity message. (The same process works for deposits.) Once Shivanna's identity is validated, the kiosk guy gives him his cash or deposit receipt, minus a small commission. Shivanna's bank reimburses the kiosk guy. Shivanna saves time and money, the kiosk guy makes a little profit, the bank gets more capital, and the rising tide lifts all boats.
In practice, of course, all kinds of things might go wrong. "Some iris scanners can be fooled by a high-quality photo pasted onto a contact lens," says a senior exec from a biometrics-equipment maker working on the project. Fingerprints can be lifted from almost anything you touch, and a laser-printer reproduction of one will have tiny ridges of ink that may fool scanners. Or a corrupt Aadhaar worker could pair a scammer's name with someone else's biometrics. The system is being built with open architecture so other agencies and businesses can add their own applications. The idea is to make Aadhaar a platform for all kinds of purposes beyond government benefits and banking, much like a smartphone is a platform for more than making phone calls. In January, the Indian Department of Communications declared Aadhaar numbers to be adequate ID to get a mobile phone. It's easy to imagine the numbers being used to authenticate airline passengers, track students, improve land ownership records, and make health records portable. But opening up the Aadhaar system so widely makes it vulnerable. Each record is encrypted on the enroller's hard drive as soon as it's completed, and the central database will have state-of-the-art safeguards. Still, Sharma acknowledges, "there's no lock in the world that can't be broken."
Anyway, Nadhamuni points out, credit card numbers are stolen all the time, but everyone still uses them because the card companies have come up with enough ways to spot when they're being used fraudulently. In the big scheme of things, credit card fraud is a relatively small problem compared with the gigantic benefit of being able, say, to buy stuff online. He believes the same calculus will hold for Aadhaar. And if Aadhaar data is stolen, they have countermeasures to deal with it.
There's also the question of whether India's cell phone network, which will carry the bulk of the verification requests, can handle such a load. "We expect to be getting 100 million requests per day in a few years," Nadhamuni says. "And the authentication needs to happen fast. The answer needs to come back in maybe five seconds." Partly to meet that demand, the federal government is investing billions to massively expand the nation's broadband capacity. "It's not there yet," Nilekani says. "But if someone had told you 10 years ago that there would be 700 million mobile phones in this country today, you'd say he was smoking something."
The technological problems may pale compared to the potential civil liberties issues. Anti-Aadhaar protesters showed up at Nilekani's January speech at the National Institute of Advanced Studies. Several anti-Aadhaar websites have sprung up. And members of parliament and prominent intellectuals have criticized the whole idea. (A Christian sect even denounced it as a cover for introducing the number of the Beast.)
Technically, Aadhaar is voluntary. No one is obligated to get scanned into the system. But that's like saying no American is obligated to get a Social Security number. In practice, once the Aadhaar system really takes hold, it will be extremely difficult for anyone to function without being part of it. "I find it obnoxious and frightening," says Aruna Roy, one of India's most respected advocates for the poor (and, like Nilekani, one of Time's 100 most influential people). India, she points out, is a country where people have many times been targeted for discrimination and violence because of their religion or caste.
Earlier this year, privacy concerns scuttled an effort to give every citizen of the United Kingdom a biometric ID card, and similar worries have slowed ID plans in Canada and Australia. "But the intentions were very different. It comes more from a security and surveillance perspective," Nilekani says. "Many of these countries already have ID. In our situation, our whole focus is on delivering benefits to people. It's all about making your life easier."
The Unique Identification Authority is very deliberately not collecting information on anyone's race or caste. But local governments and other agencies subcontracted to collect data are permitted to ask questions about race or caste and link the information they harvest to the respondent's Aadhaar number. In Gagenahalli, for instance, agents asked villagers several extra questions about their economic conditions that the Karnataka state government requested. "I haven't seen any agencies asking for caste or religion, but the fact that they can seems problematic," admits a midlevel Aadhaar official who asked to remain anonymous. And while the agency has pledged not to share its data with security services or other government agencies, "if they want to, they can," says Delhi human rights lawyer Usha Ramanathan. "All that information is in the hands of the state." It's not an unreasonable concern; in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks, security is a major preoccupation in India. Armed guards, x-ray machines, and metal detectors are standard features at the entrances of big hotels, shopping centers, and even Delhi subway stations. Police officials have told Indian newspapers that they would love to use Aadhaar numbers to help catch criminals. And, in fact, some of the agency's own publicly available planning documents mention the system's potential usefulness for security functions. "We would share data for national security purposes," Nilekani admits. "But there will be processes for that so you have checks and balances." Every official I speak with, from Nilekani on down, seems impatient when I bring up this issue. They breezily remind me that there's an electronic data privacy bill before parliament—as though the mere fact that the government is thinking about the issue is enough.
For supporters, the bottom line is simple: The upsides beat the downsides. "Any new technology has potential risks," Nilekani says. "Your mobile phone can be tapped and tracked. One could argue we already have a surveillance state because of that. But does that mean we should stop making mobile phones? When you have hundreds of millions of people who are not getting access to basic services, isn't that more important than some imagined risk?"
Indeed, Kiran, the mother of three at the Mongolpuri enrollment station, actively wants the government to have a record of her and her children. She's a bit mystified when I ask if the idea worries her. If you've never read a newspaper, let alone fretted over your Facebook privacy settings, the question of whether the government might abuse your digital data must seem pretty abstract—especially when you compare it with the benefits the government is offering.
The first thing Kiran plans to use her Aadhaar number for, she says, is to obtain a city government card that will entitle her to subsidized groceries. "I've tried very hard to get one before, but they wouldn't give it to me because I couldn't prove I live in Delhi," she says. Having that proof will take some other stress off her mind, too. She's constantly afraid the police will order non-Delhi residents to leave the overcrowded slum, but now she has something to show them if they do.
Her three children come running up, fresh from having their own irises scanned. They're excitedly waving their receipts for the numbers that will be attached to them for the rest of their lives. "It was fun!" 7-year-old Sadar says. "It wasn't scary at all."
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Even though an all-telling history of international education has not been established[1], many comparativists will agree that international education and travels to distant countries was the foundation on which comparative education was based.[2] William Brickman even notes in his writing the importance of early travels abroad to the foundation of the Comparative Education Society later called the Comparative and International Education Society.[3]
The 1920s and 1930s and the years after World War II brought about increased interest in going abroad and documentation on international exchange. These two decades also proved to be a significant time in itself for educators to explore educational systems in other countries. According to Jurgen Schriewer and Carlos Martinez, these decades were some of the most active times in terms of education for such countries as Spain, Russia/USSR, and China. They show through citations in major academic and scientific journals that this was the time period over the last 100 years that represented the most international exchange of ideas. They write, "The 1920s and early 1930s stand out as the period in history when all three countries clearly opened up their own reform reflections and displayed an enormous interest in international models, modern reference societies, and theory discussions from abroad."[4]
Not only did the idea and interest in travels abroad, the development of professional organizations, the creation of publications, and simply ripe timing surround the development of the comparative education and international education fields, but special reports and research by either government or private agencies also helped to create interest and awareness about systems abroad. In addition, the fields were solidified with the first organized academic program, as well as the development and emergence of other related areas of study.
[1] William Hoffa has done an excellent job of documenting the history of study abroad in the United States.
[2] Erwin H. Epstein, "Comparative and International Education: Overview and Historical Development," in International Encyclopedia of Education, 2nd Ed., ed. Torsten Husen and T. Neville Postlethwaite, 918-923 (Oxford, England; New York: Pergamon; New York: Elsevier Science, 1994): 918-919.
David N. Wilson, "Comparative and International Education: Fraternal or Siamese twins? A preliminary genealogy of our twin fields," Comparative Education Review 38, no. 4 (November 1994): 451.
[3] William Brickman, "Genesis and Early Development of the Comparative and International Education Society" Comparative Education Review 10, no. 1 (February 1966): 9-19.
[4] Jurgen Schriewer and Carlos Martinez, "Constructions of Internationality in Education" in The Global Politics of Educational Borrowing and Lending, ed. Gita Steiner-Khamsi, 29-53 (New York: Teachers College Press, 2004): 45.

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Consensus Report
Facing Hazards and Disasters: Understanding Human Dimensions (2006)Disasters Roundtable
Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academy to address a particular statement of task and is subject to a rigorous, independent peer review; while the reports represent views of the committee, they also are endorsed by the Academy. Learn more on our expert consensus reports.
Social science research conducted since the late 1970s has contributed greatly to society's ability to mitigate and adapt to natural, technological, and willful disasters. However, as evidenced by Hurricane Katrina, the Indian Ocean tsunami, the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, and other recent events, hazards and disaster research and its application could be improved greatly. In particular, more studies should be pursued that compare how the characteristics of different types of events--including predictability, forewarning, magnitude, and duration of impact--affect societal vulnerability and response. This report includes over thirty recommendations for the hazards and disaster community. Notably, comparative research should be conducted to refine and measure core components of societal vulnerability and resilience to hazards of all types, address the special requirements of confronting disasters caused by terrorist acts, and advance knowledge about mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery related to disasters having catastrophic physical and social impacts. Moreover, strategic planning and institution building are needed to address issues related to the management and sharing of data on hazards and disasters (hazards and disaster informatics), sustain the momentum of interdisciplinary research, advance the utilization of social science findings, and sustain the hazards and disaster research workforce. And above all, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Homeland Security should jointly support the comparative research, strategic planning, and institution building called for in the report.
Key Messages
- A more diverse, interdisciplinary, and technologically sophisticated social science workforce is needed in the future.
- Far less is known about how the characteristics of different types of hazards affect disaster preparedness and response.
- How research is communicated and applied is not well understood.
- NEHRP has made important contributions to understanding longer-term disaster recovery.
- Social science hazards and disaster research has advanced in the United States and internationally.
- Social science knowledge about the responses of U.S. households to natural hazards and disasters is well developed.
- The circumstances of terrorist threats could alter societal response to disasters.
- The management and accessibility of data needs immediate attention.


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Developing a Dotnet app with Cassandra API using Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's globally distributed multi-model database service. You can quickly create and query document, table, key-value, and graph databases, all of which benefit from the global distribution and horizontal scale capabilities at the core of Azure Cosmos DB. This quick start demonstrates how to create an Azure Cosmos DB account for the Cassandra API by using the Azure portal. You'll then build a user profile console app, output as shown in the following image, with sample data.
Running this sample
- Before you can run this sample, you must have the following perquisites:
- An active Azure Cassandra API account - If you don't have an account, refer to the Create Cassandra API account.
- Microsoft Visual Studio.
- Git.
Clone this repository using
git clone https://github.com/Azure-Samples/azure-cosmos-db-cassandra-dotnet-getting-started.git
Open the CassandraQuickStartSample.sln solution and install the Cassandra .NET driver. Use the .NET Driver's NuGet package. From the Package Manager Console window in Visual Studio:
PM> Install-Package CassandraCSharpDriver
- Next, configure the endpoints in Program.cs
private const string UserName = "<FILLME>";
private const string Password = "<FILLME>";
private const string CassandraContactPoint = "<FILLME>"; // DnsName
Compile and Run the project.
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ANTIOCH — It's been a year since Lauren Rojas' Hello Kitty rocket soared to new heights, and brought a whirlwind of worldwide attention on the teen.
But much like the figurine that returned back to Earth after its trek into the stratosphere, life for the 13-year-old has also settled down.
Well, for the most part.
Lauren was invited by organizers of this weekend's Bay Area International Children's Film festival at Oakland's Chabot Space and Science Center to screen her popular YouTube video and answer questions about it after the viewing.
Lauren, an eighth-grader at Cornerstone Christian School, sent her Hello Kitty doll into near space in fall 2012 on a faux-rocket as part of a class science project. The weather balloon traveled 93,625 feet above the planet and was airborne for about 90 minutes.
A video of Hello Kitty's journey became an instant smash on YouTube when it was posted a year ago today — garnering more than 978,000 views. With the Fun. song "We Are Young" playing as a backdrop, the video shows the rocket's flight from different camera angles, the weather balloon bursting and Hello Kitty's fall back to Earth.
Lauren's Hello Kitty video is one of nine short films that will be shown at 10 a.m. Sunday.
"When they asked me, I said yes right away. I was so excited," said Lauren, flashing a braces-covered smile. "I had always wanted to be part of a film festival, but it was always 'I wish I had a video.'"
Jim Capobianco, the festival's co-founder, said they asked Lauren to take part after one of the entrants, Ron Fugelseth, of Aptos, mentioned that Lauren's video is similar to one where he sent his 4-year-old son Stanley's toy train to space on a weather balloon.
"We felt it would be great to show this work a father and son did and show the work that a girl did with her father, back to back," Capobianco said. "It's not just something that's boys and their dads."
"We are thrilled to be able to showcase Lauren's creativity and passion for space travel. Her participation will help inspire other kids in science," adds Melissa Russo, Chabot's director of institutional advancement.
The Rojas' project started in fall 2012 when a Citibank television commercial showing three men using reward points for a weather balloon piqued Lauren's interest.
The goal was to test the effects of altitude on air pressure and temperature as a weather balloon rose.
Lauren and her dad, Rod Rojas, launched the balloon from an industrial complex parking lot in Livermore. It remained aloft for about 90 minutes before landing in a tree in a park west of San Jose, about 47.5 miles from its takeoff spot. They found the balloon by attaching a GPS tracking device, which is her favorite memory.
"As soon as someone brings up the experiment, all those memories rush through my head, especially trying to drive and listening for the beeper," Lauren said. "When we did find it, I still remember thinking how we are going to get it down."
Rod, the elder Rojas, says the family received a barrage of interview requests from national and international media after the video went viral, including from Canada, India, Australia and Japan, and university students seeking raw footage.
Life has returned to normal, with Lauren tackling a full plate late of homework and after-school activities, including cheer and gymnastics.
She is also involved in another school project this year. But eighth-graders at Cornerstone have to present projects on history. So instead of Hello Kitty, Lauren is working on a presentation and poster board on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Lauren is also excited about entering high school next fall. She hopes to get into Dozier Libbey Medical High School. If not selected in that school's lottery, Lauren said she will likely stay at Cornerstone.
Someday, Lauren hopes to pursue a career in science or the medical field, saying right now "it's probably a draw between those two."
When Lauren goes to college, she will receive a bit of financial help.
Sanrio, Hello Kitty's parent company, also has offered to make a contribution to Lauren's college fund to support her "creative spirit."
"Sanrio is truly inspired by Lauren's quest for knowledge and honored she has taken Hello Kitty to a new frontier," wrote a company spokesman.
And as for the video, Lauren still checks periodically in hopes it gets a million views.
"I can't believe people are still watching. It's so cool," she said.
Contact Paul Burgarino at 925-779-7164. Follow him at Twitter.com/paulburgarino.
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Yesterday Men's Journal published some tantalizing quotes from their Mark "Is Anyone Else Still Wondering About That Third Nipple?" Wahlberg profile. Quotes in which Mr. Entourage speculated on how he would have kicked some terrorist ass, had he been on the planes during the September 11th hijacking.
"If I was on that plane with my kids, it wouldn't have went down like it did," he said in the piece. "There would have been a lot of blood in that first-class cabin and then me saying, 'OK, we're going to land somewhere safely, don't worry.'"
Responding to some less-than-positive feedback for his "grandstanding" (to put it mildly), Mr. Wahlberg apologized today in a statement released to the press.
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"To speculate about such a situation is ridiculous to begin with, and to suggest I would have done anything differently than the passengers on that plane was irresponsible…I deeply apologize to the families of the victims that my answer came off as insensitive, it was certainly not my intention."
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Thai Chicken Pizza
16-20 ounces whole wheat pizza dough (I used my favorite recipe)
1/4 cup natural peanut butter
3 tablespoons water
2 teaspoons soy sauce
2 teaspoons rice vinegar
2 teaspoons minced fresh ginger
1 garlic clove, minced
1 teaspoon canola oil
8 ounces boneless/skinless chicken breast, diced
1 cup diced red bell pepper
4 green onions, thinly sliced
4 ounces shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
Preheat oven to 450 with the rack placed on the lowest position.
Stretch dough on a lightly floured surface into a rough 16" oval. Carefully move dough over to a baking sheet lightly coated with nonstick spray. Place in the oven and bake until lightly crisped on the bottom, about 8 to 10 minutes.
In a small bowl, whisk together peanut butter, water, soy sauce, vinegar, ginger and garlic.
In a medium skillet, heat oil over medium-high. Season chicken lightly with salt and fresh ground pepper to taste - add chicken and cook, stirring, until cooked through, about 3 to 4 minutes. Scoop mixture into a medium bowl and toss together with the bell pepper, scallions and 1 tablespoon of the peanut sauce.
Remove the crust from the oven and evenly spread the remaining peanut sauce over the top. Scatter with the chicken mixture and then sprinkle with cheese. Place the pizza back in the oven and continue to bake until the cheese is melted and the crust has fully baked - about 8-14 minutes.
Makes 4-6 servings.
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Now THAT sounds good :) And obviously you're tummy troubles have gone away!ReplyDelete
Thanks for posting the review- this is definately going into my dinner plans later this week!
Now THAT looks good! I really need to start using more recipes out of Eating Well- love them!ReplyDelete
And I can assume your stomach is 100% better if you're throwing Thai spices at it! ;)
Thanks for the review- I just put this on the menu for dinner later this week!
My roommate just introduced me to Eating Well - they have some good recipes in there. I will have to check out this recipe! Thanks!ReplyDelete
Elizabeth - Yep, back to normal again finally!ReplyDelete
Lizzy - I've grown fond of Eating Well as of late, but I find I'm marking less and less recipes to try.
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Fantastic! I got to this page through slashfood. I'll be making this and taking pictures.ReplyDelete
Saw this yesterday in Joanne L's post over on Slashfood. It is delicious (made it today for lunch). My husband is also a fan of Thai food - we both loved the recipe. Thank you for sharing.ReplyDelete
This recipe is delicious. Definitely use the dough recipe referenced here as well - so good. My husband usually likes the thick crusted pizzas but raved about this one (and it's whole wheat!). The pizza is also really good the next day if you have any left.ReplyDelete
Awesome Karin - Glad you liked the recipe!ReplyDelete
I just made this for a Saturday afternoon lunch, and I thought it was great and SO easy to throw together! Thanks for sharing the recipe, Joe!ReplyDelete
Elisabeth - Glad you got to try the recipe! We need to make this one again too!ReplyDelete
I have to say that I am so thrilled to have a successful pizza dough. Wow. This will be a staple in our house, so fun and my kids loved waiting for the dough to rise.ReplyDelete
Everyone loved it, even my 3 year old girl.
I am so happy I happened upon your sight looking for a Thai Pizza recipe yesterday. :) You are now in my faves and I already have a couple of your recipes planned for the week. Whoo hoo.
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Sometimes the parody is more relevant than the original.
Bob, you can't tell me that you honestly liked Inuyasha.......
SAMURAI PIZZA CATS! I loved that damn show, it was the most INSANE thing on TV and it was great. They ripped on themselves the whole time and, as said, made some pretty innuendo laded jokes.
Plus their god damn cats that get shot out of a gun.
There's a DVD coming out of it? Well, there goes my monies.
Pretty sure saying "It would be better if someone lost the script" isn't him saying he liked it.
I couldn't understand anything that was being said during the pizza cats clips
That was a very informative episode Bob,
Oh god, Bob bashed Inuyasha! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE FROM THE FLAMES!!! (I saw the footnote, but I guarantee you some people won't...)
Like that guy lol I'm guessing he didn't see it.
In any case, I actually loved the Samurai Pizza Cats as a kid because...well...I like anything that has some food humor in it. I still love the Paul Lynde style theme song singer :P
I remember when that ran on YTV. Ugh, I couldn't stand that show.
I love bad puns, and no show was as rife with them as Samurai Pizza Cats:
[Pizza Cats shot out of their giant gun]
MOTHER: I guess you'd call that a cat-apult!
CHILD: I'm glad I didn't say it.
Yeah... I caught onto anime about ten years after this, when I was old enough to dig into some of the more violent series. I haven't turned back since...
Ah,90s animation...good times.
You did it Bob. You cobbled together an entire episode about the Samurai Pizza Cats (something you yourself determined to be impossible). Well done. /slowclap.
Also: hell yes!
NOPE! Didn't see a damn thing the first time :P
Usually he throws it in big white text so I'm going to blame Bob for it, because I can :D
Wow, it's been pretty long since I watched that show. I remember being a fan of that series then moving on to TMNT, Sonic the Hedgehog, Transformers, Earthworm Jim, Sonic the Hedgehog(Freedom Fighters version), Reboot, and Beast Machines/Beast Wars along side anything Marvel released on tv during that time.
Yay for DVD releases.
Its also weird, because a couple months ago in an earlier big picture you said that if you had a whole episode dedicated to Samurai Pizza Cats the Escapist was going to give you a talking to.
And that last joke. It makes me think you watched Inuyasha to some capacity...
Huh, I did not know that about the show. I'm trying to picture it as a largely serious show with a bit of slapstick (ala the untranslated Sailor Moon for example) and it's just not clicking.
Not only did he do it, but I don't think the Escapist staff is going to have a talk with him about it, because people will be entertained, and ads will still be sold.
I'd never heard of this show until Bob started joking about doing an episode on it, but I have to say this was hilarious.
Samurai Pizza Cats sounds like a single, self-contained meme. I could see the re-releases becoming the epitome of "stoner TV".
Thanks for the eye-opener, Bob.
It's a great show I used to catch, at random, as a kid on re-runs.
I liked cats, I liked Power Rangers...COME ON!
Course, now, with about 20 years of anime behind me I tend to 'get' a lot more of the visual references.
Awesome video expically sense it informed me that the complete DVD is on it's way, I've been waiting years to hear news like that. WOOT!
My favourite character was always the Big
That guy had some of the best quotes; "I've seen better outfits on He-Man, and he wears hardly anything."
Lesson learned here from Bob: Abridging is the best thing to ever happen to anime.
Thank you, Little Kuriboh.
He doesn't. Hence the closing joke.
I'm pretty sure he shares Scott Ramsoomair's opinion (VG Cats dude)
"It's Dragonball Z For Girls! I Saw That Shit When It Was Called Fushigi Yuugi!"
Don't worry, I did that too. Watch the credits, at the bottom of the screen. He reverses it.
Inu-Yasha's English dub as it's own Abridged series... Nah, still probably wouldn't work.
Why, did they have to talk to him over one of his other videos or articles?
a Pizza Cats DVD release?!?! *bounces wallet off screen repeatedly*
never saw this anime but it does look kinda cool
I am a huge fan of cartoons and kids tv shows
Only the dub because Inuyasha was ported over from Japan pre-recorded in Japanese by VIZ.
Pah! You thought Rumiko Takahashi used scripts?! That's why it was so bad! There was no script to be lost!
Hmmm, taking a swipe at InuYasha on a site that's populated by video game and anime enthusiasts? I hope you brought your flame shield, Bob.
This was awesome... this show was one of my first forays into anime, knowing it was foreign animation. I kept losing track of the airtime, so I didn't see much, but I liked what I saw! I still have a CD with a rip of the 'movie' somewhere 'round here...
Also, who do I give my money to for that DVD set?!
Edit: Ah, Discotek has it. Those guys are getting all the good ol' shows lately.
I remember watching this when I was around 6-7 and there was so much wtf. I remember not really being interested in watching it for humors sake, but to try to get a grasp of what the hell I was watching.
Though I consider myself lucky. When it seems only extremely wacky (sometimes) or extremely melodramatic (more than not) anime makes it to the west I consider it a boon that something crazy was my first impression.
Bob NO! Trust me, you don't want to disturb the hornets nest that is the anime otaku fanbase by basing Inuyasha.
Otherwise a great episode, I already heard about how shout factory(who also did Sonic Satam, G1 Transformers, and MST3k) is making the power ranger dvd sets but I'm glad that they are also doing a Samurai Pizza Cat set since I missed out the first time it was aired on tv and now it be out in non-vcr recorded quality.
PS- I have my fingers crossed that they throw in some sentai episodes for the special features of the PR dvds or do what they did for Japanese G1 Transformers and bring em over here on dvd. Speaking of which maybe you should do an episode on Japanese G1 since you already covered japanese ninja turtles.
As a huge fan of inuyasha I'm quite glad I read your little foot note... otherwise I'd do nothing since people have the right to there own opinion. I still need to watch the ending series of it though.
I loved how the English writing staff were able to skirt the issue of "the BIG Cheese" being an openly gay character.
I say this NOT because he wore robes BUT because in several episodes he dresses as a woman for the purpose of seducing one of the male members of the cast (Al Dente, Emperor Fred even Gerry Atrick) and to influence female members.
That and Emperor Fred being a opium fiend.
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Networking projects that are still under development / test.
Wifi bridge test[edit]
- Running two Linksys WRT54G APs as master->managed as an 802.11b bridge.
- SSID: nb-bridge
- ap - 172.30.0.41
- client - 172.30.0.42
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Choice of carabiners for attaching a HUIT, RACK... to the harness
- Read the technical notice before viewing the following techniques.
- It is important to fully understand the information provided in the technical notice before using this complementary information
- Mastering these techniques requires training.
- Consult a professional before attempting to perform these techniques on your own.
Key issues and risks
The large attachment hole allows the device to move freely around the carabiner: it can exert leverage on the sleeve and break it in severe cases.
When the rope is taut, the carabiner and the device are held in position by the tension. But when the rope is slack, the device and its carabiner can move about and become poorly positioned.
The most important risks to consider
Recommendation on carabiner and accessories
- Use a D-shaped carabiner
- Choose a locking system according to your preference
Why this choice?
• The D shape, with its very acute angles, helps resist carabiner rotation.
There is only one device to attach, so a wide opening and high capacity are not necessary
• Depending on the application (sport or work, use of a backup belay system...) it is possible to choose a locking system to prioritize speed of operation (SL, RL) or to prioritize security (TL, BL)
Precautions for use
• Regularly monitor your belay device and the positioning of the carabiner during use, especially when it is reloaded after having been unloaded
• Verify that the sleeve is properly locked at each connection (red indicator not visible)
• With an auto-locking carabiner, check at each opening and closing that the sleeve is completely locked
• Avoid any pressure or rubbing that could damage or unlock the locking sleeve, and/or cause the gate to open
In this application, pear-shaped carabiners have a tendency to rotate and become poorly positioned.


text: Swellinfo.com Press Release July 10, 2007 Swellinfo.com is excited to announce the release of the Swellinfo community surf report network. The surf report network allows anyone to host their own customizable surf report page on Swellinfo and easily upload reports and photos. This technology offers Swellinfo users a great resource to find out the current surf conditions, and an outstanding ways for businesses to gain great, free exposure from the thousands of daily Swellinfo visitors. The following page offers an example surf report page: http://www.swellinfo.com/surfreport/oceancity-md.html Swellinfo has always offered the ability for its users to submit text surf report, but now the surf reporters can upload photos and utilize the entire left side of the page to advertise their business logo and any news or info they want to share with the visitors to their page. And when a new report is submitted, a link will show up on the surf forecast pages, so the users will be alerted to check out the updated report. Eastern Lines Surf Shop from Belmar, NJ is the first to start their report page at http://www.swellinfo.com/surfreport/belmar-newjersey.html with several other shops looking to sign on. Check out http://www.swellinfo.com/surfreport-signup.html to read more about starting a surf report page, and go to http://www.swellinfo.com/surfreport.html to view all of the latest surf reports.


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L Lynch necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 79 diseños de 36 diseñadores freelance.
we need a new logo for a start up business called Brands Direct. We are a marketing company.We bring together fmcg brands to share channells to market . Our product will be called Savings Galore which is a 6 page insert into national newspapers driving consumers to purchase brands as opposed to own brand retail products. The idea is that in this current economic climate we need to show consumers that brands do offer percieved added value and not just quality. We need a logo for the business and not the product.
Brands Direct
We need a logo that reflects we are serious business to business service providers, our values - quality , credibilty, value for money, offering unique new fresh ideas to target consumers.
We also collect consumer data and anlyse it for fmcg companies to segment and target there customers with the right message at the right time
Our start up business is a perfect fit for the econmonic climate we now live in. Brands need to show consumers they do offer value for money , quality is still important, reward consumers with offers for providing loyalty to our brand.
We are a group of marketers with over 30 years combined experience in the UK and Irish markets. We intend sharing our media and print management experience with fmcg brands to get there offers out to consumers in the most cost effective channells possible. Personally I have set up and sold two businesses in the past 10 years and rather than become a boring old fart I wanted a new challenge and I am passionate about this offering.
- tagline should be something for everyone
- colours we like are blue, red, yellow and green
- logo needs to reflect we are serious business to business providers but have a consumerism type twist
- we will be selling to othert businesses and the product savings galore will sell to the consumer
- we are open to any ideas
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The Pennel family of Edgewood, is serving as the 2013 Harford County March for Babies Ambassador Family to help raise awareness about the lifesaving research and support of the March of Dimes and their team, Two Tiny Blessings, will participate in the annual March for Babies Sunday. The walk begins at 9 a.m. (registration at 8 a.m.) at the Forest Hill Industrial Airpark at the intersection of Route 23 and Commerce Road at the roundabout.
This year, the March of Dimes celebrates its 75th anniversary and its ongoing work to help all babies get a healthy start in life. More than 4 million babies were born in the United States last year, and the March of Dimes has helped each and every one through research, education, vaccines and breakthroughs.
Leslie and Kelton Pennel were so excited to become parents again when they were told they were having identical twins. They were looking forward to their growing their family. At 19 weeks, Leslie and Kelton were told their twins had TTTS (Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome), which put their babies lives in jeopardy. She delivered Isabella and Addisyn at only 26 weeks, weighing 2.2 pounds, 14 inches and 2 pounds, 13.75 inches. Due to multiple complications, Isabella passed away eight days later. Addisyn remained in the NICU/Intermediate Care at University of Maryland Medical Center for six weeks, six days, and then spent 33 days at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.
Today, Addisyn is a vibrant 2 1/2-year-old child; her only setback being asthma and mild PDA. She enjoys playing with her older sister, Kyra, 5, watching Bubble Guppies, coloring and playing with the family cat, Oswald.
The Pennels are dedicated to making sure other parents don't have to experience what they did and if they do, they want them to know they are not alone and the March of Dimes is there to give support. The Pennel family credits the March of Dimes with helping Addisyn survive by funding research and other programs for premature babies. They want to ask other families to join them in supporting the March for Babies.
Sign up to walk and raise funds at marchforbabies.org, or call 1-800-525-9255.
The prematurity rate has decreased in our state but we have more work to do. Premature birth is the most urgent infant health problem in the U.S. and the leading cause of newborn death. Factors such as early elective deliveries are important to address. Speak with a local March of Dimes representative who can explain what the March of Dimes is doing to help more families have full-term pregnancies and healthy babies.
The March of Dimes is the leading nonprofit organization for pregnancy and baby health. With chapters nationwide and its premier event, March for Babies, the March of Dimes works to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality. For the latest resources and information, visit marchofdimes.com or nacersano.org. Find them on Facebook and follow them on Twitter.
The 2013 March for Babies is sponsored nationally by the March of Dimes number one corporate supporter Kmart, Farmers Insurance Group, Macy's, Cigna, Sanofi Pasteur, Famous Footwear, Actavis, Mission Pharmacal and United Airlines. Local sponsors include Rosedale Federal Savings and Loan Association and Safeway.


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Amazing Computer Called MRS (Dec, 1958)
Wow! This was a stunningly advanced computer for the time. I think it would give HAL a run for his money.
A temperamental MRS computer doesn't always follow instructions—and self-programs a surprise that only another computer could understand
By Hugh B. Brous, JR.
FIRST OFF, let me tell you that the MRS is no off-the-shelf commercial computer. MRS stands for Multipurpose Research System, and we designed and built the whole works ourselves at the Research Institute. Consequently, we can blame only ourselves for the design features that led to all the troubles. Everyone on the staff still feels that the basic concepts are sound but we unanimously agree that some changes will have to be made before MRS can be a dependable computer system.
MRS is a well-built hunk of hardware with just about everything a computerman could want. She's got microprograming, built-in compiling routines, half a billion words of high-speed memory, a basic pulse rate of a micromicrosecond, and fantastically fast input-output scanners that work with a whole printed page at a time.
But the most interesting feature is the automatic diagnostic and maintenance circuitry. This is sort of a separate sub-computer in itself. MRS runs her own diagnostic programs and on the basis of the results does her own maintenance. MRS can also do a certain amount of modification of her own circuits and units to improve them or for maintenance reasons. And right there is where we must have goofed.
AFTER the usual initial start-up with its nightmare of cold solder joints, mismatched connections, and other sundry manufacturing bugs, we finally got MRS "on the air" and running. The first month of production computing was a spectacular success with a minimum of intervention from the maintenance unit.
Then the brass of the Institute came around for a demonstration and to hear us brag. A machine difficulty will occur at such times with a probability of one. It occurred.
Right in the middle of the demonstration run MRS stopped computing, and the Maintenance-in-Progress light popped on. This was unexpected, and at first we were pleased. Here was a chance to give a real demonstration of the machine's ability to repair itself.
Everyone in the machine room watched entranced as the removal arms rolled over to the main arithmetic unit, plucked out a rack of adder circuit, and disappeared with it into the maintenance unit. We expected the arms to return within twenty seconds with the new adder and the demonstration to proceed. Instead the Maintenance Monitor flashed, "Part AD 7732, binary adder, out of stock." Every computerman in the room inwardly groaned.
At the time there was nothing to do but plug in an adder by hand and get the show on the road again. The visiting dignitaries were duly impressed by everything, but the computer staff was perturbed. There should have been plenty of spare parts in the internal stock bins to handle the situation, but later, when we looked in the bins, some of the parts were missing.
AND THAT was just the beginning. For the next several months MRS played this game with us. Parts, both good and bad, disappeared into the innards of MRS, and try as we might, we could find no clues as to what was happening to them. MRS was doing some obscure hardware work internally which we didn't understand. Since this idiosyncrasy caused no large amounts of delays in the computing schedule, the Chief Computerman refused to let us shut down MRS to investigate.
About a month after this cannibalism began, we ran up against a second class of difficulties. MRS refused to accept data for certain types of problems. We would feed the data sheets into the scanners, fire up the program in the usual manner, and almost immediately we would get output. This output consisted of nothing but the input data, unprocessed. No amount of checking of both the data and the machine itself could find the cause of this cute trick. But just when the Chief was ready to say shut her down, the difficulty went away.
This bug was replaced in a few days with a new one. The warm-up time in the morning, instead of lasting the usual twenty minutes, started stretching out to an hour or longer. There were days when we waited until almost noon for a ready light. During much of this dilly-dallying around, the Maintenance-in-Progress light was shining brightly.
And there were mornings when MRS acted just plain sluggish. We would watch the voltage monitors, and those meters would take just too much time to get up to the proper levels. We checked the power coming into the machine room, and it was okay. This bug also defied discovery. MRS was just going to take her own sweet time about getting ready to work.
THINGS were fast coming to a head. We were running MRS three shifts now just to get the work out. Dozens of times a day the maintenance light would turn on, and the removal arms would go wandering around the room somewhere. Almost continuously we could hear the built-in drills or grinders or something working away inside the maintenance unit. And in spite of a hundred tons of air conditioning, there was always the smell of burnt solder flux in the machine room.
Finally the Chief threw in the towel. He gave the order to shut down MRS for a while and for us to dig in and modify the automatic maintenance. Maybe with part of this operation on a manual basis and dependent upon human decisions, we would be able to get more good time from the computer. However, we had one important job to do before the shut-down, and I drew the duty to sit with MRS on this last run.
If the machine had run according to design specs, this job would have been done by around midnight. But of course MRS didn't run exactly according to our expectations, and I spent the night in the machine room. More than half the time I sat looking at a glowing maintenance light and wondering what was going on.
JUST a little before daylight, MRS quit computing completely and dumped out the output to date and reams of unprocessed data. Then maintenance lights flashed on all over the room. I figured MRS had had it and dashed around to the rear of the maintenance unit to pull the covers and see what MRS was up to.
The removal arms got there first and dropped the covers right in my path. I skidded to a halt to keep from getting hit. Then the arms pulled out a collection of miscellaneous boxes of hardware that I had never seen before. Then they produced a collection of cables and plugged all these boxes together, and darned if the whole array didn't look like a scaled-down version of MRS. About that time the output printer began to clack away.
I rushed around to the printer to see what this was and read the following message; "MRS, Jr., arrived 4:46, weight 8467 pounds, 12 ounces. MRS and progeny doing fine."
The big question around the Institute now is, if MRS is the mother, then who is the father?


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The Hebrew prophets were for the most part preachers who tried to persuade people to remember their religion and culture often with very strong words.
They have inspired many people in later days, and some through the ages have claimed they too are prophets. Many of these prophets brought a lot of suffering into the world.
The purpose of this thread is to collect together the stories of some such characters, to identify common factors, and to distinguish them from the other type of prophet biblical texts tell us about.
I hope people will in time add their own summaries of the lives of some of those "prophets".
I start with two. Both lived at the same time, but had never met, and both lives were quite similar.
The first is German, known as Nicholas of Cologne. He was a simple farmer's son, and at the time (around 1200) perhaps 18 years old, He went to Cologne as a wandering preacher, trying to get people to follow him to Jerusalem, where he said upon his arrival the Muslim rulers would hear him preach and convert to Christianity, provided enough people would follow him and obey him. He gathered a quite large group of followers, mostly children, but also other generally poor people, and they set off. His attempt to cross the Alps without the right clothing and preparation resulted in 2/3 of them dying, but the rest made it to Genoa. There Nicholas had prophecised, God would part the sea to allow him and his followers through. When neither the sea nor God obliged, people lost faith in him and he had to flee for his life. He went to Pisa and the to Rome, and asked the pope to help him to get a new group of followers. The pope told him no, and ordered him to go home to his family. He tried, by he died crossing the Alps a second time.
The second is Stephan de Cloyes. Also a young man, with pretty much the same message. Obey me and follow me and I will take you to Jerusalem which will become our home, and the Muslims will become Christians. God has spoken to me and has promised me this. So follow and God will reward you. He gathered some 3000 followers, mostly kids. Because he started from just outside Paris, he set of for Marseilles, avoiding the Alps. He claimed almost daily the he received letter written by Jesus. Sadly we do not have any of these, as they were later burnt. He also insisted on unquestioning obedience. As with Nicholas, a stubborn and unreasonable sea refused to part on his arrival there, but he was luckier, it seemed at first, than Nicholas. He appeared to have impressed some merchants and they arranged to give him and his 3000 or so followers passage in seven ships. Two of them sank near Corsica in a storm, and the other five made straight for what is today Algeria to sell the children on Muslim slave markets.
Both these remarkably similar events occurred within a year of each other. What is also important that the followers of these two "prophets" were uneducated poor, often children who lived in permanent hunger. For the most part of their journey, they were fed wherever they passed a town or village, so the hunger they knew from home for the first time in their lives was quiet, albeit only for only a few short weeks.
Would any of you like to tell the story of another?


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Today in Google Street View crime: Cops say this brazen drug ring dealt heroin openly on the streets of Williamsburg. Police busted it after their surveillance cameras caught members stuffing heroin packages into a lock-box hidden behind a store's sign.
When the Google Street View car cruised by, these guys were hanging outside one of two bodegas in North Williamsburg, at the corner of Kingsland and Jackson, where they peddled their drugs. The guy in the red coat is 32 year-old Shaundell Dade, to the right is Jamel Pringle, 22, and to his left is Jonathan Paulino, 20, according to police.
So, Google Street View car picked up a trailer-theft-in-progress in England, and a heroin ring in Brooklyn. Does the Street View Car catch criminals at every turn by coincidence, or does it actually inspire criminal behavior via some secret laser beam being developed at Google's Mountain View headquarters?
Either way, cops should probably tail the Street View Car, arresting everyone in its path.


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(Reuters) - Microsoft and Google's Motorola Mobility unit squared off on Tuesday at a trial with strategic implications for the smartphone patent wars and which could reveal financial information the two companies usually keep under wraps.
The proceeding in a Seattle federal court will determine how much of a royalty Microsoft Corp should pay Google Inc for a license to some of Motorola's patents. Google bought Motorola for $12.5 billion, partly for its library of communications patents.
If U.S. District Judge James Robart decides Google deserves only a small royalty, then its Motorola patents would be a weaker bargaining chip for Google to negotiate licensing deals with rivals.
Apple Inc and Microsoft have been litigating in courts around the world against Google and partners like Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, which use the Android operating system on their mobile devices.
Apple contends that Android is basically a copy of its iOS smartphone software, and Microsoft holds patents that it contends cover a number of Android features.
Motorola had sought up to $4 billion a year for its wireless and video patents, while Microsoft argues its rival deserves just over $1 million a year. A federal judge in Wisconsin last week threw out a similar case brought by Apple against Google just before trial.
In court on Tuesday Microsoft called Jon DeVaan, a veteran software manager in the Windows division, as its first witness. He said Motorola's wireless and video patents at issue covered only a small part of the overall Windows architecture.
During the run-up to trial in Seattle, both Microsoft and Google asked Robart to keep secret a range of financial details about the two companies, including licensing deals and sales revenue projections. Google requested that Robart clear the courtroom when witnesses discuss those details.
However, in an order on Monday, Robart rejected that request. The public will not be able to view the documents describing patent deals or company sales during trial, Robart ruled, but testimony will be in open court.
"If a witness discloses pertinent terms, rates or payments, such information will necessarily be made public," the judge wrote.
Additionally, any documents the judge relies on for his final opinion will be disclosed, Robart wrote on Monday.
Before trial began on Tuesday, Robart said in court that he wanted to take the most "expansive" interpretation of the public's right to know. Several outside companies besides Microsoft and Motorola, like Research in Motion Inc, have also asked him to keep secret their royalty deals.
Robart said he would consider a request to refer to those third party companies by code names, known only to the lawyers and the judge.
The case in U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington is Microsoft Corp. vs. Motorola Inc., 10-cv-1823.
Reporting By Bill Rigby in Seattle and Dan Levine in San Francisco; editing by Jim Marshall and Carol Bishopric