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How to Dispel Your Illusions [Freeman Dyson on The New York Review of Books]
The reason why our commander in chief was unwilling to rip out gun turrets, even on an experimental basis, was that he was blinded by the illusion of validity. This was ten years before Kahneman discovered it and gave it its name, but the illusion of validity was already doing its deadly work. All of us at Bomber Command shared the illusion. We saw every bomber crew as a tightly knit team of seven, with the gunners playing an essential role defending their comrades against fighter attack, while the pilot flew an irregular corkscrew to defend them against flak. An essential part of the illusion was the belief that the team learned by experience. As they became more skillful and more closely bonded, their chances of survival would improve. When I was collecting the data in the spring of 1944, the chance of a crew reaching the end of a thirty-operation tour was about 25 percent. The illusion that experience would help them to survive was essential to their morale. After all, they could see in every squadron a few revered and experienced old-timer crews who had completed one tour and had volunteered to return for a second tour. It was obvious to everyone that the old-timers survived because they were more skillful. Nobody wanted to believe that the old-timers survived only because they were lucky. At the time Cochrane made his suggestion of flying the white Lancaster, I had the job of examining the statistics of bomber losses. I did a careful analysis of the correlation between the experience of the crews and their loss rates, subdividing the data into many small packages so as to eliminate effects of weather and geography. My results were as conclusive as those of Kahneman. There was no effect of experience on loss rate. So far as I could tell, whether a crew lived or died was purely a matter of chance. Their belief in the life-saving effect of experience was an illusion. The demonstration that experience had no effect on losses should have given powerful support to Cochrane's idea of ripping out the gun turrets. But nothing of the kind happened. As Kahneman found out later, the illusion of validity does not disappear just because facts prove it to be false. Everyone at Bomber Command, from the commander in chief to the flying crews, continued to believe in the illusion. The crews continued to die, experienced and inexperienced alike, until Germany was overrun and the war finally ended.
The Simpletons: David Brooks, Thomas L. Friedman, and the banal authoritarianism of do-something punditry [Matt Welch on Reason]
Do something. Is there a two-word phrase in politics more loaded with disguised ideological content? Embedded within is both an urgent call for powerful government action and an up-front declaration that the policy details don't matter. The bigger the crisis, the more the urgency, the sparser the detail. On September 30, 2008, in a classic of the do-something genre, Brooks argued that the Troubled Asset Relief Program should be rammed through Congress over public objections because the federal government needed "to give people a sense that somebody was in charge, that something was going to be done." Did that "something" involve buying up toxic assets? Introducing or relaxing certain banking regulations? Taking over or winding down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Not important. "What we need in this situation," Brooks declared, "is authority."
Hospice Turns Months-to-Live Patient Into Years of Abusing Drugs [Peter Waldman on Bloomberg]
Suffering from painful nerve damage in his feet, Charles Groomes was prescribed a daily dose of 205 milligrams of Oxycontin and oxycodone in 2007. His doctor wrote that it was the most he was comfortable prescribing — more, he said, than anyone without cancer should take. After he was admitted to hospice care 11 months later, his painkillers were eventually increased to 2,880 milligrams, 14 times the pre-hospice levels. The hospice doctor forecast he had six months to live at most. He was wrong. Groomes was discharged from Horizons Hospice LLC in Pittsburgh last year after 32 months. The legacy of the stay was debilitating, according to his family and doctors who examined him. He was depressed, addicted to narcotics and desperate. He turned to four doctors and three hospices begging for more drugs.
For decades, city fathers and academics have studied economic development, searching diligently for ways to make urban economies prosper. Surely this quest is understandable—as understandable as the search for success that so many people undertake in the personal-finance section of the local bookstore. But just as personal finance has yet to unlock the secret of how to get rich, no surefire government-led strategy exists that can turn around a troubled economy like Buffalo's or Gary's. Cities, like people, are too diverse to allow anything but fairly commonsense prescriptions. A lot of grand theories have been advanced—targeted tax incentives! bike paths!—but they have proven of little practical use.
The Best States to Grow Up In [Nancy Folbre, economics professor at University of Massachusetts, Amherst via New York Times Economix]
Unfortunately, as the political scientist Robert Putnam asserts, racial and ethnic diversity tends to weaken social solidarity. Children are directly affected. Research by the economists Alberto Alesina, Reza Baqir and William Easterly, among others, shows that racial and ethnic diversity tend to undermine support for public spending on education and other services at the municipal level. Other research indicates that the causal linkages are complicated. Levels of segregation, interaction and political representation all have an impact. The political scientist Daniel Hopkins shows that a sudden change in the racial and ethnic composition of a community may have a particularly divisive effect. But some institutions – and political jurisdictions – do a better job of coping with these stresses than others do. Professor Putnam points to the success of policies adopted by the United States armed forces to bring recruits together and build their trust for one another. As a previous Foundation for Child Development report by Donald Hernandez and Suzanne E. Macartney emphasizes, immigrant children in the United States are geographically concentrated in a few states where they remain economically and socially vulnerable. The new analysis of state differences shows that African-American and Hispanic children have lower levels of well-being than white children. The higher the percentage of children in a state who are minorities, the lower the state's index of child well-being. But demography is not destiny. Some states with large numbers of immigrants and minority children, like New Jersey, New York and Illinois rank fairly high, while others, like Texas, Florida and California, rank quite low.
How Many Stephen Colberts Are There? [Charles McGrath on The New York Times]
Colbert's super PAC is in a way an extended improvisation with no end in sight. It just keeps adding new layers. Why does he have a super PAC? Because he can and because it's funny. On most evenings the show's best moments occur when Colbert is winging it with a guest. There's the Colbert persona listening and grinning while the other Colbert, the one who is surely not an idiot, processes what the guest is saying, invents a response and then translates it back into the language of his character. The process happens faster than most of us can think. "The trouble with the jokes," Colbert said to me, talking about the ones scripted beforehand, "is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work, and all I can do is not hit them. I'm more comfortable improvising. If I have just two or three ideas and I know how the character feels, what the character wants, everything in between is like trapeze work."
Counter-Terrorism Is Getting Complicated [Tom Junod on Esquire]
Listen: Sammy Crump was never going to go to Africa. He was never going to make botulism, and he wasn't going to make ricin, either, despite shopping for things like lye and acetone and having a stash of castor beans. The preposterous extravagance of his plans should have been exculpatory. As you listen to him on the tapes, you just want someone — perhaps Sims; maybe Scott Matthewson, the FBI agent who collected many of the tapes from Sims once they were made — to tell him to just stop, the show's over, time to go home. Instead he's fixed to a conspiracy to make weapons of mass destruction. The first thing you ought to know about the conspiracy is that it could have been stopped at any time. The second thing is that it never was. It never stopped. It didn't stop, even after Thomas found out that Joe Sims had just gotten out of jail and that Anthony Howard had been arrested, because Dan Roberts vouched for Joe Sims. It didn't stop, even when Fred Thomas told the undercover agent that they didn't have the money to buy what they wanted; it didn't stop even when Dan Roberts is heard on tape worrying that they're stepping into a sting. It didn't stop because it was powered by Fred Thomas's Ahab-like obsessions and Joe Sims's need to stay out of jail. It didn't stop because the old men had too much time on their hands and the government had too much invested in the outcome.
L.A. Woman Was the Doors' Bluesy Masterpiece, and Jim Morrison's Kiss-Off to L.A. [Jeff Weiss on LA Weekly]
With Morrison out on bail pending appeal, the only legitimate option is to head into the studio to deliver the final record on their Elektra contract. After that, an indefinite hiatus is certain — provided the band can capture something superior to "cocktail jazz," the slander with which their longtime producer Paul Rothchild leaves them before quitting during early L.A. Woman sessions. The Doors return to their rehearsal studio at a crossroads, attempting to invent a new, Western blooz and reimagine a dissolute swamp as the concrete Delta. Jazz is Beat, but blues is blood. Blues is bruised. Blues is booze. Blues is the boomerang. Blues isn't the hangover; it's the hanging. Jim Morrison jokes to John Densmore: "You're drinking with No. 3." Janis. Jimi. Jim. Blues is when the doors close.
The Obama Memos [Ryan Lizza on The New Yorker]
Obama made important mistakes in the first half of his term. He underestimated the severity of the recession and therefore the scale of the response it required, and he clung too long to his vision of post-partisanship, even in the face of a radicalized opposition whose stated goal was his defeat. The memos show a cautious President, someone concerned with his image. When, in 2009, he was presented with the windfall pot of thirty-five billion dollars that he could spend on one of his campaign priorities or use for deficit reduction, Obama wrote, "I would opt for deficit reduction, but it doesn't sound like we would get any credit for it." At other moments, the memos show a President intensely focussed on trying to restrain the government Leviathan he inherited, despite an opposition that doesn't trust his intentions. When his aides submit a plan to save money on administrative efficiencies, Obama writes back, with some resignation, "This is good—but we should be careful not to overhype this given D.C. cynicism." He is frustrated with the irrational side of Washington, but he also leans on the wisdom of his political advisers when they make a strong case that a good policy is bad politics. The private Obama is close to what many people suspect: a President trying to pass his agenda while remaining popular enough to win reelection.
FiveBooks Interviews> Peter Boettke on Austrian Economics [Sophie Roell Interviews Professor Peter Boettke of George Mason University on The Browser]
Analytically, the biggest difference between the Austrians and their mainstream brethren is a focus on processes of adjustment and changing conditions, as opposed to static or equilibrium states of affairs. In a supply and demand curve, a standard economist would focus on the price and quantity vector that would clear the market. The Austrians want to talk about all the exchanges and activity that take place that results in that vector being discovered and the market being cleared.
Turn off, tune in, drop out [Devin Powell on Science News]
Previous studies suggested that hallucinogens stimulate certain kinds of neurons in mice. Nutt expected to see an uptick of activity in the visual regions of the brain, which would explain the kaleidoscopic hallucinations often experienced by magic mushroom users.But suppressing core regions that help to coordinate and control the brain could have deeper, more philosophical consequences. It fits with how Aldous Huxley described the effects of mescaline — a hallucinogen that, in his words, flung wide the "doors of perception." "Decreasing the activity in certain hubs in the network may allow for a more unconstrained conscious experience," says Matthew Johnson, an experimental psychologist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore who studies psilocybin and other hallucinogens. "These drugs may lift the filters that are at play in terms of limiting our perception of reality."
In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad [Charles Duhigg and David Barboza on The New York Times]
Given Apple's prominence and leadership in global manufacturing, if the company were to radically change its ways, it could overhaul how business is done. "Every company wants to be Apple," said Sasha Lezhnev at the Enough Project, a group focused on corporate accountability. "If they committed to building a conflict-free iPhone, it would transform technology." But ultimately, say former Apple executives, there are few real outside pressures for change. Apple is one of the most admired brands. In a national survey conducted by The New York Times in November, 56 percent of respondents said they couldn't think of anything negative about Apple. Fourteen percent said the worst thing about the company was that its products were too expensive. Just 2 percent mentioned overseas labor practices.
Amazon's Hit Man [Brad Stone on Bloomberg Businessweek]
In the middle of this stew of rancor and mistrust sits Kirshbaum. He was once the ultimate book industry insider, widely known and almost universally liked. He has a well-honed instinct for big, mass-culture books and was thinking about e-books—and losing money on them—long before almost anyone else in the industry. Many of his former peers now consider Kirshbaum a turncoat. In interviews, more than a dozen publishing executives said he had gone over to the dark side; some said they'd conveyed that sentiment to Kirshbaum directly. (None of the executives would speak on the record because Amazon is still a vitally important retail partner.) "I have a message I really believe in," Kirshbaum says. "Which is that we're trying to innovate in ways that can help everybody. We are trying to create a tide that will lift all boats."
Cell phone taxes and the tragedy of the anticommons [Alex Tabarrok on Marginal Revolution]
no single politician does choose to tax them that much. Instead, the high taxes that we pay on our cell phones are the sum of lots of little taxes imposed by several different political entities. Consider, for example, the tax bill of a typical New Yorker. It includes a federal USF fee, four state taxes, five city taxes, and a local 9-1-1 fee. Each of these is relatively small, but when you add it all up, the combined rate is over 22 percent.
Videogamers Embark on Nonkilling Spree [Conor Dougherty on The Wall Street Journal]
Stephen Totilo, Kotaku's editor in chief, says videogame pacifism isn't usually a moral decision but rather "an urge to break the rules"—and dial up the difficulty of the game. "One of the most interesting challenges is to get through the game without killing," he says. Virtual pacifism can be a squishy concept. Ian Jones, a 21-year-old college student in Charlotte, N.C., has also been playing Skyrim as a "pacifist." But his method is hardly nonviolent: He uses spells to possess the game's computer-generated bystanders, and they do the killing. Tweaking the rules to make a game more difficult is as old as play itself. Some golfers, for instance, challenge themselves by playing with one club instead of 14.
Segregation Hits Historic Low [Miriam Jordan on The Wall Street Journal]
Using the most common measure of segregation, the "dissimilarity index," the authors found that segregation is lower now than it was in 1970 in all but one of the 658 housing markets tracked by the Census Bureau. Between 2000 and 2010, segregation declined in 522 out of 658 housing markets, the report said. The index of dissimilarity measures how evenly two groups are distributed in a neighborhood. The score indicates what share of the members of one group would need to move neighborhoods to enable the two groups to be equally distributed. In 2010, Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston were the country's least segregated large cities. Atlanta's index fell 28 points to 54.1 in 2010 from 82.1 in 1970; Dallas-Fort Worth's fell to 47.5 from 86.9 over the same period. Still, segregation hasn't been eliminated. The typical urban African-American still lives in an area where more than half the black population would need to move to achieve overall integration.
Why the Clean Tech Boom Went Bust [Juliet Eilperin on Wired]
As with the Internet bubble, and the more recent housing bubble, there were signs of trouble. In fact, in the weeks and days leading up to Obama's visit to the Solyndra plant, officials at the Office of Management and Budget were issuing warnings. "I am increasingly worried that this visit could prove embarrassing to the Administration in the not too distant future," wrote one OMB official. In fact, though Solyndra CEO Brian Harrison painted a rosy picture for lawmakers in July 2011—boasting that revenue "grew from $6 million in 2008 to $100 million in 2009 to $140 million in 2010″ and would nearly double in 2011—the truth was laid out in an internal White House memo obtained by The Washington Post after Solyndra filed for bankruptcy. The August 2011 memo, written days before Solyndra went bankrupt, stated simply that "the company has had 0 percent sales growth since [fall] 2009." Perhaps the biggest force working against not just Solyndra but clean energy in general is this: Because natural gas has gotten so cheap, there is no longer a financial incentive to go with renewables. Technical advances in natural gas extraction from shale—including the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking—have opened up reserves so massive that the US has surpassed Russia as the world's largest natural gas supplier.
No seriously, I'm dead. [James Byrne on Scientific American]
As comical as it appears to be it is obviously a manifestation of some deep-seated emotional issues or brain dysfunction. Another commonly described case involved a motorcycle accident victim who believed he had died as a result of complications during his recovery from the accident. Furthermore his mother had moved to South Africa with him from Edinburgh shortly after the accident, which confirmed to him that he was in hell as it was so hot. The underlying cause of Cotard's Syndrome appears to be a misfiring in the fusiform face areas of the brain, which recognises faces, and also in the amygdala, which adds emotions to those recognitions. The result is a lack of emotion when viewing familiar faces and the result disconnection can result in complete detachment. Viewing ones own face in this condition can lead to a lack of association between their reflections or projected self and their own sense of self, leading to a belief that one doesn't exist.
Defending Mom-and-Pop Stores, an Old and Enduring Fight [Marc Levinson via Bloomberg]
In most countries, these laws to protect small shopkeepers have faded over time, but change has often come slowly. That's likely to be the case in India as well. Indian consumers will gradually learn the virtues of large-scale retailing, and they will press their own government to let them choose which type of retailer they wish to patronize. Meanwhile, we in America shouldn't be patronizing about a country that seems to be turning its back on modern retailing. That used to be us.
For Wounded Vet, Love Pierces the Fog of War [Michael M. Phillips on The Wall Street Journal]
During a lull in the fighting, Mr. Welch drew a sketch of the first man he killed, an Iraqi soldier he shot in the neck. Later, in a bombed-out Iraqi barracks, he wrote a starkly prescient letter to a Marine friend. "Our penance comes in many forms," he wrote. "Never will we smell fire the same. Never will we be at ease during the fireworks and storms….Our penance will be the sleepless nights, the fools we will make of ourselves at loud noises, the looks on our faces at the sight of swerving cars, and the pains in our chests when no one is awake." Mr. Welch called April 7, 2003, "the beginning of the end of my life."
Comedy First: How Harold Ramis's movies have stayed funny for twenty-five years [Tad Friend on The New Yorker, April 19, 2004]
Ramis said that he identified with Nathan Zuckerman, the alter ego in many of Philip Roth's novels: "Watching other people having experiences I'm not going to have. But understanding, empathizing. Much as I want to be a protagonist, it doesn't happen, somehow. I'm missing some tragic element or some charisma, or something. Weight. Investment." After a moment, he continued, "One of my favorite Bill Murray stories is one about when he went to Bali. I'd spent three weeks there, mostly in the south, where the tourists are. But Bill rode a motorcycle into the interior until the sun went down and got totally lost. He goes into a village store, where they are very surprised to see an American tourist, and starts talking to them in English, going 'Wow! Nice hat! Hey, gimme that hat!' " Ramis's eyes were lighting up. "And he took the guy's hat and started imitating people, entertaining. Word gets around this hamlet that there's some crazy guy at the grocery, and he ended up doing a dumb show with the whole village sitting around laughing as he grabbed the women and tickled the kids. No worry about getting back to a hotel, no need for language, just his presence, and his charisma, and his courage. When you meet the hero, you sure know it." He smiled. "Bill loves to get lost, to throw the map out the window and drive till you have no idea where you are, just to experience something new." And you? "Oh, I'd be the one with the map. I'm the map guy. I'm the one saying to Bill, 'You know, we should get back now. They're going to be looking for us.' "
A Cheesebox on a Raft [Rick Beard via Opinionator on The New York Times]
In the meantime, though, Ericsson had written to Lincoln on his own initiative. Never modest, the engineer assured the president that he possessed "practical and constructive skill shared by no engineer now living" and sought "no private advantage or emolument of any kind." His battery, he claimed, could within 10 weeks "take up a position under the rebel guns at Norfolk and … within a few hours the stolen ships would be sunk and the harbor purged of traitors."
Why French Parents Are Superior [Pamela Druckerman via The Wall Street Journal]
I first realized I was on to something when I discovered a 2009 study, led by economists at Princeton, comparing the child-care experiences of similarly situated mothers in Columbus, Ohio, and Rennes, France. The researchers found that American moms considered it more than twice as unpleasant to deal with their kids. In a different study by the same economists, working mothers in Texas said that even housework was more pleasant than child care…Yet the French have managed to be involved with their families without becoming obsessive. They assume that even good parents aren't at the constant service of their children, and that there is no need to feel guilty about this. "For me, the evenings are for the parents," one Parisian mother told me. "My daughter can be with us if she wants, but it's adult time." French parents want their kids to be stimulated, but not all the time. While some American toddlers are getting Mandarin tutors and preliteracy training, French kids are—by design—toddling around by themselves. I'm hardly the first to point out that middle-class America has a parenting problem. This problem has been painstakingly diagnosed, critiqued and named: overparenting, hyperparenting, helicopter parenting, and my personal favorite, the kindergarchy. Nobody seems to like the relentless, unhappy pace of American parenting, least of all parents themselves.
Curiously Strong Remains:
- How USPTO's recklessness destroys business, innovation, and competition [Cory Doctorow on BoingBoing]
- Bell police got undeserved disability pensions, investigation finds [Jeff Gottlieb on The Los Angeles Times]
In Kansas, Gov. Sam Brownback puts tea party tenets into action with sharp cuts [Annie Gowen on The Washington Post]
- First Responders: Personal accounts from those among the first on the scene at three of the year's most traumatic disasters [Bloomberg Businessweek]
- Dave Barry's 2011 Year in Review [Dave Barry on The Miami Herald]
- The Rise and Fall of MF Global Chief Jon Corzine [Michael Daly on Newsweek Magazine via The Daily Beast]
- Solar Cheaper Than Diesel Making India's Mittal Believer [Natalie Obiko Pearson on Bloomberg]
- Navy SEALs Rescue Hostages in Somalia: Night Mission Leaves 9 Captors Dead, After Weeks of White House Planning [Wall Street Journal]
- Fumblerules of Grammar [List of Notes]
- The Swinging Days of Newt Gingrich [David Osborne on Mother Jones]
- Behavioral Pricing: A consumer's worst nightmare, a merchant's dream [Allen Gannett on The Insider on The Next Web]
- How Do We Identify Good Ideas? [Jonah Lehrer on Frontal Cortex on Wired]
- Father Cox, Andrew Mellon and a Huge March on Washington [Philip Scranton, Board of Governors Professor of the History of Industry and Technology at the University of Rutgers at Camden and the editor-in-chief of Enterprise and Society on Bloomberg]
- Google announces privacy changes across products; users can't opt out [The Washington Post with Bloomberg]
- Economic Insanity from Gingrich on Marijuana Use: Life imprisonment With No Parole; Who Benefits from War on Drugs? Big-Brother Expansionist Ideas: Gingrich Proposes "Free Radios" for Everyone in Cuba! [Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis]
- Meet the Marriage Killer: It's More Common Than Adultery and Potentially As Toxic, So Why Is It So Hard to Stop Nagging? [Elizabeth Bernstein on Wall Street Journal]
- Megaupload's Ripple Effect [Geoffrey Fowler on The Wall Street Journal]
- Grading Obama's Foreign Policy [Foreign Policy]
- Waiting for the green light [The Economist]
- Will Cholesterol Kill Baseball? [Matthew Futterman on The Wall Street Journal]
- In Standoff, Egypt Blocks Americans From Leaving [Matt Bradley and Charles Levinson on The Wall Street Journal]
- Economists vs. Americans [Sudeep Reddy on Real Time Economics on The Wall Street Journal]
- How a late night talk show works [Gavin Purcell on Twitter via Jason Kottke via Storify]
- UN Gets 35 Pounds of Cocaine Sent From Mexico [Bloomberg]
- The Shoe-Thrower's index [Graphic Detail on The Economist]
- What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind? [Alison Gopnik on The Wall Street Journal]
- Is Modern Finance Ruining Modern Art? [Mark C. Taylor, the chair of the Department of Religion at Columbia University with excerpts from his new book "Refiguring the Spiritual: Beuys, Barney, Turrell, Goldsworthy," via Bloomberg]
- New Light-Bulb Battle a Breeze Compared With Edison's [Linda Simon via Bloomberg]
- How Siri is ruining your cellphone service [Paul Farhi on The Washington Post]
- Reuters Magazine: The one percent war [Chrystia Freeland on Reuters]
- The Coming Tech-led Boom [MarkMills, a physicist, founder of the Digital Power Group, and writer of the Forbes Energy Intelligence column and Julio Ottino, dean of the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Northwestern University via The Wall Street Journal]
- The Yin and the Yang of Corporate Innovation [Steve Lohr on The New York Times]
- Saudis Push Young People, Including Women, Into Jobs [Ellen Knickmeyer on The Wall Street Journal]
- How to Listen for Racism on the Campaign Trail [Jeffrey Goldberg on Bloomberg]
- When Japan Invaded Shanghai [Philip Scranton, a Board of Governors Professor of the History of Industry and Technology at the University of Rutgers at Camden and the editor-in-chief of Enterprise and Society, via Echoes on Bloomberg]
- Christie Finds Himself on Losing Side of History After Civil Rights Remark [Terrence Dopp on Bloomberg]
- Mark Berndt, L.A. Teacher Accused of Horrific Sex Crimes, Still Being Paid More Than $3,800 a Month [LA Weekly]
- Carson City Prostitutes Stand Up for Paul Donating Their Tips [Amanda Crawford on Bloomberg]
- Harvard Targeted in U.S. Asian-American Discrimination Probe [Daniel Golden on Bloomberg]
- Inside Facebook Headquarters [Bloomberg Businessweek]
- A quarter of Oregon students chronically absent [Associated Press via The Stamford Advocate]
- Isolated Peru tribe makes uncomfortable contact [Frank Bajak on The Associated Press]
- To Colleagues: I'm Outta Here: Unspoken Job Skill: Wording a Goodbye Email That Won't Make Co-Workers Cringe [Sue Shellenbarger on The Wall Street Journal]
- Blaming the messenger: Greece's chief statistician under fire [Roy Gutman on McClatchy]
- Pythons Are Wiping Out Mammals in the Everglades [Dashiell Bennett on Atlantic Wire]
- How Social Security Really Began [Kristin Aguilera, the deputy director of the Museum of American Finance and the editor of Financial History magazine, via Bloomberg]
- Official homelessness decreases but advocates are skeptical [Pamela Prah on Stateline]
- Why the Early U.S. Didn't Go the Way of the Euro [Robert E. Wright, the Nef Family Chair of Political Economy at Augustana College in South Dakota, via Bloomberg]
- The Glock Family Feud [Paul Barrett on Bloomberg Businessweek]
- Book Review: We're with Nobody by Alan Huffman and Michael Rejebian [Brett Berk on Bloomberg Businessweek]
- Facebook's Bizarre Friend Rally [Jack Hough on SmartMoney]
- Parents Snared in $100 Billion College Debt Trap Risk Retirement [Janet Lorin on Bloomberg]
- Nobel peace prize jury under investigation [Associated Press]
- The growing Iranian military behemoth [Glenn Greenwald on Salon]
- U.S. drones targeting rescuers and mourners [Glenn Greenwald on Salon]
- Presidential Fathers and Sons [Michael Medved via The Wall Street Journal]
- Where Did All the Workers Go? 60 Years of Economic Change in 1 Graph [Derek Thompson on The Atlantic]
- Those Millions on Facebook? Some May Not Actually Visit [Andrew Ross Sorkin on New York Times Dealbook]
- Old mortgages rise from the dead, haunt homeowners [Michelle Conlin on Reuters]
- States seek currencies made of silver and gold [Forbes]
- The End of Wall Street As They Knew It [Gabriel Sherman on New York Magazine]
- New Guide to Who Really Shouldn't Eat Gluten [Melinda Beck on The Wall Street Journal]
- The Twilight of the Leisure Class [Rick Bookstaber via Economonitor]
- The value of friendship: Facebook is likely to become a gargantuan company. That will bring risks as well as rewards [The Economist]
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Hot on the heels of his Golden Globe nomination this morning in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture Drama category for his portrayal of a presumed deceased Marine who returns home from Afghanistan to his family in "Brothers," Tobey Maguire talked to Access Hollywood about his excitement on receiving the nomination.
He also gave an update regarding one of the hottest rumors making the rounds on the Internet right now: Reports over behind the scenes talks regarding his possible casting as Bilbo Baggins in "The Hobbit."
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"I have not met or spoken to Guillermo del Toro or Peter Jackson or anybody. Nobody has given me a script or approached me about it," Maguire said of any first hand contact he may have had with the director and executive producer team of the big screen adaptation of the prequel book to the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
According to an online report on Latino Review, which was subsequently picked up by multiple other Web sites including Ain't It Cool News, Dark Horizons, and Movieline, a source at CAA (Maguire's talent agency) confirmed that preliminary talks were taking place between the agency and the film's producers for the lead role in "The Hobbit."
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Tobey Maguire
"Apparently, we're in the early stages of talks between CAA and the producers of 'The Hobbit' film for Tobey to topline the film as Bilbo Baggins!" the CAA source told Latino Review. "Again, right now it's that – just dialogue taking place between the respective parties. Tobey hasn't been cast and an offer hasn't been made. It's just talks," the source continued.
While it is possible Maguire still may be offered (or may read for) the role of the younger version of the character played by Ian Holm in the "Lord of the Rings" films, Tobey told Access Hollywood he has not had any discussions with the filmmakers even though he was well aware of the story circulating on the Web.
"Somebody actually sent me that link that said that I had a conversation with the director and it was just not true," Tobey said of the online buzz. "I was wondering if maybe there was a miscommunication, I was talking about another director or something."
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While Tobey is set to return and star in "Spiderman 4" (and possibly 5 and 6 as well), "The Hobbit" is expected to span the course of two separate films shot back to back.
Both "Spiderman 4" and "The Hobbit" are scheduled to begin filming next year.
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH — Matthew Thomas doesn't say much.
In fact, when you ask the MiamiBooker T. Washingtonlinebacker if he has time for an interview, he will tell you exactly that. He's quiet.
But what he said Friday at the New Smyrna Beach Battle at the Beach 7-on-7 Tournament spoke volumes.
The 6-foot-3, 200-pound Thomas said he likes Alabama, and he added that he's favored the Tide for a while now, but has just been reluctant to make that public.
"I like Alabama. I don't remember [when I decided] but I remember them being my favorite, I think around spring time," Thomas said, as the Tornadoes prepared to defend their $10,000 Battle at the Beach title. "I like that they are a national program … how they breed linebackers to the NFL. They can go for a national championship every year, so I like that.
"I talked to Coach Saban [head coach Nick Saban], Coach Kirby [defensive coordinator/linebackers coach Kirby Smart] and Coach Stout [assistant head coach/offensive line Jeff Stoutland] … they have a good coaching staff. I can see myself playing for them."
It's the first time Thomas has singled a team out of his top five, which he added to Friday by listing Miami, Georgia, Florida State, USC and Louisville, in addition to Alabama.
Thomas also said, "There's nothing to rush," and mentioned that he likely won't decide until National Signing Day, which his Feb. 6.
He has only ruled out one school so far and that is Florida "I don't hear from them much," he said
Thomas, the No 1-ranked player in the Sentinel's 2013 Miami-Dade Super60 and the No. 9 player in the Sentinel's 2013 Florida Top 100, was on an unofficial visit to Coral Gables on Wednesday for another glimpse at the Hurricanes.
"It was good. I was watching the players work out. I was talking to the coaches. I liked it," Thomas said. "I liked what I've seen because they've been working hard trying to get back to win a national championship again, trying to bring that back to Miami."
Thomas is listed as the No. 2 linebacker in the country by Rivals.com and the No. 3 linebacker by 247sports.com.
And he said that sort of mentality could perhaps swing his favoritism.
For now, however, he's siding with Alabama, and that's saying a lot, for him.
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I don't pick my wisdom from the stars, but I think I understand astronomy, although not to predict good or bad luck, or plagues and famines or what the seasons will be like. Nor can I tell fortunes, showing individuals their own moods and their ups and downs, nor tell rulers whether things will go well by frequent predictions from what I see in the heavens. But I get my knowledge from your eyes, and as they are constant stars, I'm able to predict that truth and beauty will thrive together if you would turn your attention from yourself to the reproduction of yourself; otherwise, this is my prediction for you: your death will be the final end of truth and beauty.


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An independent analysis has faulted a freezer's digital controls for the loss of 147 brain samples that defrosted earlier this year at the Harvard-affiliated Brain Tissue Resource Center at McLean Hospital.
Among those samples were the brains of 54 people who had autism – nearly a quarter of the autism brain samples available for research into a condition that now affects 1 in 88 American children. At the time researchers said the collection, which took 14 years to amass, could set autism research back perhaps as long as a decade.
McLean staff discovered on May 31 that Freezer U — one of 24 in its brain bank — had lost power days earlier. No one noticed because the digital readout on the front of the freezer still indicated minus 79 degrees, the appropriate temperature. A backup system designed to detect freezer malfunctions also failed.
This summer, McLean hired LWG Consulting, an Illinois-based company which specializes in equipment loss and forensic engineering, to investigate the failure. In a three-paragraph statement to be released Monday, McLean said LWG had attributed the failure to the freezer's microprocessor-based digital controls.
In the statement, McLean reiterated its commitment to ensuring the safety of its facility, "the largest and longest-operating federally funded" brain bank in the country. "All freezers, including their microprocessors, have undergone a thorough inspection and the hospital is in the process of installing a third alarm that will serve as a tertiary backup to two other alarm systems already in place and will further ensure that laboratory personnel will be notified immediately if any freezer begins to show a warming of its internal temperature."
The company that made the $12,000 freezer, Thermo Fisher Scientific, whose US headquarters is in Waltham, released this statement in response to inquiries from the Globe: "We share the concerns of McLean Hospital and the entire scientific community over the loss of research material. In our investigation into this incident, we were unable to replicate the freezer malfunction. Given the sensitive nature of material frequently stored in laboratory freezers, we reiterate McLean's emphasis on the importance of backup alarm systems, which we recommend to our customers."
Neither McLean nor Thermo Fisher would answer any other questions beyond their prepared statements.
At least one leading autism researcher, Manuel Casanova of the University of Louisville, found the investigation and McLean's conclusions unsatisfactory.
So many autism brain samples should not have been stored in one freezer, Casanova said. The brains had been consolidated into Freezer U several weeks before the failure to make them easier to access for visiting researchers. McLean staff said earlier this year that they had not yet had time to redistribute the brains among the 24 freezers, as is their standard operating procedure.
"Shifting a significant number of brains to a single freezer and leaving them there for a prolonged period of time contravenes a safety norm of brain banks," Casanova said. "It stands to common reasoning that you try to minimize damage in case of a freezer meltdown by distributing brains with similar diagnosis among many freezers."
He also faulted brain bank officials for not opening the freezer doors more often, to check the temperature themselves.
"McLean can also institute as many alarms as they desire, but occasionally they should also look, visually, into the freezers," he said.
H. Ronald Zielke, director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD Brain and Tissue Bank for Developmental Disorders at the University of Maryland, defended McLean's actions. Sometimes freezers just fail, he said, and there was nothing McLean officials could have done to prevent the loss.
The Belmont brain bank "has done an outstanding job in collecting and distributing tissue for research on many disorders over the last few decades," he wrote in an e-mail. "Mechanical failures are always possible. It is a dread that hangs over the head of anyone responsible for storing tissue for decades."
Frozen brain tissue offers the only means for examining the proteins in the deceased person's brain, as well as the microscopic structure of brain tissue and other biological markers that researchers may want to investigate.
Understanding the tissue structure and the activities of the proteins could offer crucial insights into a condition that largely remains a mystery.
The lost autism brains make up about one-third of the Autism Tissue Program, which is run by the advocacy group Autism Speaks, and is by far the largest collection in the world. Zielke's brain bank has the second-largest collection, with about 60 brains. Other collections are much smaller, autism researchers said.
Robert Ring, Autism Speaks' vice president of translational research, said in a statement that his organization is satisfied with McLean's investigation, its response to the freezer failure, and the safeguards it had in place before the incident. For many of the samples, half the brain had been stored in formaldehyde, so some genetic and other analysis is still possible, he wrote.
"The event has also placed a new urgency on outreach efforts to increase awareness for the important role that donation plays in supporting research that has the ability to fundamentally change our understanding of the biological causes of autism and other disorders of the nervous system," he said in the statement.
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What appeared to be a laugher, turned into a nail-biter.
When the Twins came to bat for the first time last night, the Phillies were up 6-0. Then, up, 7-1 and 9-3, behind Cole, their ace who was trying to end a personal two-game losing streak. The Twins chipped away and trailed only 9-8 after seven.
Qualls struck out the side in the eighth, but a wild pitch on the third strikeout allowed the batter to reach first. Enter Papelbon, who wound up with a four-batter save. It was his third appearance this month, the only wins in June for the Phillies.
The Phillies offense had a chance to give their closer some breathing room by loading the bases with no out in the top of the ninth. As has happened too often this season, they failed to score.
While the Phillies have scuffled on this trip, 41-year-old Thome has shined. Last night, he unloaded a titanic home run over the batter's eye in center field at Target Field (estimated at 466') and drove in four runs. According to Elias Sports Bureau, three other Phillies over 40 have had four-RBI games, Matt Stairs, Tony Perez (twice) and Joe Morgan.
In five games as the DH, Jim has 10 hits, including two doubles and a pair of homers, and 10 RBI.
Eight years ago today, Jim hit his 400th home run at Citizens Bank Park, one of the great early moments in the Phillies new home. Since that day, he's hit 206 more home runs.
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**Reading swept a doubleheader at Binghamton, 3-1 and 1-0. 2B Cesar Hernandez, 4-6 in the DH, 2 RBI; took club lead with .325 average. RHS Jonathan Pettibone (6-5) and RHR Lisalverto Bonilla (2-1) picked up wins with saves for RHR Justin Friend (12) and RHR Michael Cisco (1).
**Clearwater won, 8-5, at Tampa. DH Chase 1-5, double, RBI, 2 runs. RF Anthony Hewitt, 3 hits including 6th HR, 4 RBI. LHS Mario Hollands (3-0), 2 earned runs in 5 innings for the win.
**Lakewood edged Delmarva, 5-4, in a game halted by rain after 4.5 innings. CF Kyrell Hudson, 2-2, double, 3 RBI, 22nd stolen base. RHP Joshua Warner (1-0) gave up 3 runs, 0 earned in first Lakewood start.
June 14, 2004: 1B Jim Thome homers off RHP Juan Acevedo in the first inning at Citizens Bank Park for his historic 400th career HR. Phillies win, 10-7, over Cincinnati.
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When will Cole Hamels be traded, now that we know he's interested in moving back to the West Coast?


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· wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument
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But it was Manchester City-bound Gabriel Jesus who stole the show with a match-winning display that further underlines his world-class potential.
The 19-year-old scored one and then turned provider for Renato Augusto, before being taken off with four minutes remaining. He now has five goals in six games for Brazil – a remarkable record for a teenager.
"I am working hard, quietly, hoping to help my team-mates on the pitch"' he told TV Globo after the game.
"There are lot of players in Brazil who can wear the No 9 but I am proud that I have this opportunity. I am proud to be honouring the shirt."
Jesus will join City in January after agreeing a switch from Palmeiras in the summer.
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Peru (4-2-3-1): Gallese; Corzo (Advincula 79mins), Ramos, Rodriguez, Loyola; Aquino, Yotun; Polo (Sanchez 75), Cueva, Carrillo (Ruidiaz 62); Guerrero.
Unused subs: Alfageme, Araujo, Caceda, Carvallo, Cespedes, Pena, Sandoval, Santamaria.
Booked: Loyola, Cueva.
Brazil (4-3-3): Alisson; Alves, Marquinhos, Miranda, Luis; Paulinho, Fernandinho, Augusto; Coutinho (Costa 86), Jesus (Willian 83), Neymar.
Unused subs: Caio, Fagner, Giuliano, Firmino, Gil, Fabinho, Lucas, Muralha, Silva, Weverton.
Booked: Augusto.
Goals: Jesus 58, Augusto 79.
Meanwhile, Nicolas Otamendi starred in Argentina's comfortable 3-0 win over Colombia. The City defender played the full 90 minutes and impressed as Argentina kept alive their hopes of qualification for the 2018 World Cup.
Lionel Messi opened the scoring after 10 minutes with a sensational free-kick that went in off the underside of the bar – and the Barcelona forward then assisted two, one for Lucas Pratto and another for Angel Di Maria, as Argentina ran riot.
They are now fifth in the CONMEBOL World Cup qualifying group.
Argentina: Romero; Mercado, Otamendi, Funes Mori, Mas; Mascherano, Biglia; Di Maria (Acuna 85'), Banega (Perez 63'), Messi; Pratto (Higuain 79')
Subs: Roncaglia, Rulli, Guzman, Pizarro, Demichelis, Correa, Zabaleta, Belluschi, Aguero.
Goals: Messi, Pratto, Di Maria
Booked: Funes Mori, Mercado, Banega, Pratto
Colombia: Ospina; Arias, Sanchez, Murillo, Balanta; Sanchez, Cuadrado, Torres (Copete 67'), Barrios (Torres 46'), Rodriguez; Falcao (Bacca 76')
Subs: Cardona, Perez, Gonzalez, Muriel, Vargas, Medina, Borja, Diaz, Aguillar.
Booked: Alvarez, Arias, Rodriguez, Cuadrado


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In all courses, the department seeks to contribute to the University's liberal arts mission by developing a deep understanding of the interdependent relationship between the individual and society – encapsulated by C. Wright Mills as "the sociological imagination" – thereby liberating the mind from narrow, parochial, and solipsistic thought patterns.
In all courses, the department seeks to develop students' critical thinking by emphasizing the importance of empirical information, logical analysis, and careful conceptualization in evaluating beliefs and claims about how the social world works.
In all courses, the department strives to encourage an appreciation for human diversity by examining how culture, race, ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status shape people's behavior, affect life chances, and often engender social conflict.
In its design of the major, the department seeks to follow a general consensus among leaders within the discipline that the sociology major should entail a sequenced mastery of skills and knowledge which is achieved through a structured, four-level progression from introductory through capstone experiences, and includes courses in theory, methods of research and data analysis, and several substantive areas of study.
The sociology major is intended to prepare students for entry-level positions in a variety of occupations in the private sector, government, and non-profit agencies, and for graduate study in sociology and a number of other fields, including professional schools such as law and social work. This is accomplished by providing a solid foundation in the methods, skills, theoretical perspectives, and substantive fields of study within sociology.
Faculty members seek to inspire a love for learning that lasts a lifetime by communicating their enthusiasm for sociology, sharing their research, guiding and collaborating in student research, serving as role models and mentors, and participating in Sociology Club and other student activities.
The department seeks to develop good citizenship in its students by arranging a variety of internships, including those required in the capstone seminar for majors.
The department seeks to create an environment in which faculty achievements in teaching, research, and service are supported and rewarded in annual reviews, tenure and promotion applications, sabbatical leaves, and the informal exchange of ideas.
The department seeks to be a worthy member of the broader Loyola community and the Baltimore area by bringing the sociological perspective to bear in a wide range of service activities.
Andy's passion for service shaped his path, from volunteering in Nicaragua to working for the Center for Community Service and Justice


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I'd like to know your thoughts on how to integrate your speaking with Twitter during a presentation. (I'm assuming that afterwards is effectively too late.) Sometimes the verbal few don't represent the majority -- sometimes they do -- we know that from market research focus groups, jury duty, etc., the most verbal responders tend to represent either end of the tail, not the median. So, would you actually stop mid-stream, take a pause, and say "I'd like to gauge your feelings on (such and so) before moving on. Any comments?" What if no one piped up? What if a lot of people did? To what extent do you "own" your presentation and to what extent are you responsive -- on the fly? What if the tweeters don't represent the views of majority? There is individualism, and there is the needs of the collective. At what point is it considered disruptive?I decided to wait, watch and cover interesting cases of Twitter use during presentations on the blog while I formulated an answer. For starters, many of the questions here could apply to live questioners as well as to those using Twitter--every audience has its share of overly talkative contributors and questioners, as well as those who say little in front of the group. Speakers need to balance that mix "on the fly" by encouraging questions but also guiding the conversation and handling disruptive questioners with tact and a respect for the entire crowd, no matter whether the questions are electronic or in person.
We have, however, learned quite a bit about the point where it's considered disruptive to have an audience tweeting. In some high-profile cases, speakers have learned the hard way that having a Twitter stream projected behind them can lead to trouble. On occasion, a spectacular speaking failure led the audience to take most of its commentary to Twitter, rather than out loud in the room. At the same time, trying to forbid tweeting can be counterproductive (and impossible to enforce). Over time, the utility of having a Twitter moderator--someone solely focused on monitoring the Twitter stream about your presentation and giving you a heads-up when you need to respond--has become recognized as an important part of the process.
So what's a speaker to do when she wants to integrate Twitter into her presentation? Here are 14 ways to consider:
- Use Twitter as part of your presentation audience research. Search for last year's conference hashtag and read audience reactions; then search for this year's version and see what your audience is talking about, and who they are.
- Issue a hashtag for your specific presentation and share the meeting hashtag--in advance and in the presentation. Then use it consistently, yourself, so that all tweets about your presentation can be easily found.
- Announce your presentation topic, date and time. Letting Twitter users get familiar with your Twitter account and your presentation in advance helps to set the stage and puts your talk into the context of Twitter. (And you may boost attendance, too.)
- Elicit questions on Twitter well in advance of your talk. There's no better way to find out what's on audience members' minds than to ask them. Twitter is ideal for this purpose, and will help you plan your talk as well as learn about your listeners.
- Share links to resources from your presentation in advance. Head off misunderstandings at the pass, and help develop a more knowledgeable audience by sharing fact sheets, your bio, links to your websites and even your slides in advance. Not everyone will consult these in advance, but it's helpful for those so inclined.
- Ask who'll be attending. Get a sense of who's coming to your presentation and which of those attendees are active on Twitter, so you start with an understanding of your potential shadow audience. Remember that you may hear from attendees in the "other room"--those who will be following your talk via Twitter, but not attending in person. It's an equally important audience.
- Follow audience members who identify themselves in advance. Rather than stay disconnected, follow your audience members so you can see what they're discussing, and converse with them ahead of the meeting--when you meet in person, you'll already have a connection.
- Search for related hashtags and use them in your advance tweets. Find out what others are saying in general about your topic this way. Using these topical hashtags in your tweets will broaden your audience on Twitter by reaching those searching for your subject matter.
- Identify your Twitter moderator and regular moderator. Make sure everyone on Twitter knows how to identify and reach your Twitter moderator as well as the regular moderator (and share that information with the people in the room for your presentation as well).
- Decide ahead of time whether to project the stream live during your session. If you choose to use this tactic, make sure the stream is placed where you, the speaker, can see it at all times--perhaps on either side of the room, rather than behind you. Work with the organizers to make sure your preference is reflected in what happens.
- Explain to Twitter users and your live audience how you will handle their questions. Will you answer them all? Right away? After the presentation? Will you choose a selection or a certain number of tweeted queries? Share that on Twitter and out loud with your in-person audience.
- Consider a Twitter break. Giving attendees time to tweet, upload a photo or otherwise share what you're saying may help people in the room to focus more on your presentation. If you choose this tactic, announce how it will work and at which points the breaks will occur, as well as what they're for.
- Don't prefer one audience over the other. Take at least a few questions from folks outside the room and do the same for those in the room. Ignoring one audience -- whether live or virtual -- won't help its view of your presentation.
- Use Twitter for thank yous, new follows and follow-up. Answer the questions you couldn't get to during the session, thank those who added to the discussion, follow back your new followers and send additional material as requested. Don't forget to point people to your resources, using the hashtag from the presentation. After-the-fact communication isn't too late!
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London Preps for Marathon With Bomb-Proof Recycling Pods
London is vigilant for Margaret Thatcher's funeral and London Marathon.
April 16, 2013 -- London, which is on alert as it prepares for Margaret Thatcher's funeral on Wednesday and the London Marathon on Sunday, long ago took steps that many U.S. cities and large corporations with huge campuses may be thinking about now.
Packages or bags placed on the ground or in trash bins are a major vulnerability.
London rid itself of trash bins decades ago as a security risk amid strife with Northern Ireland. The city is accustomed to extensive public safety planning and precautions surrounding major public events, such as the London Summer Olympics.
Read more: Vulnerable Points Along Marathon Route Highlight Security Challenges
Boston police say there is no evidence the devices at the marathon blew up in trash cans, though they might have been placed in a nylon bag and set on the ground.
Kaveh Memari, CEO of Renew, said a "blast mitigating" recycling "pod" his company developed can prevent some damage if a device was placed in one of these bins.
"It's exactly this kind of thing that this thing was designed to handle," Memari said of the unit, which is almost 5-feet tall.
Read more: Possible Bomb Clues in Gruesome Boston Wounds
"We don't use the word bin at all as most times people would not envision a Renew Pod," Memari said. "It's like referring to an email as a message, an armoured transport a wagon, or a smartphone a telephone to someone who has never written an email, been in a tank nor used a mobile."
Renew is providing about 100 "bomb-proof" recycling pods in London that show advertisements and public service announcements.
"Renew is not just a hardened shell," said Memari. He said its built-in messaging system also fills the "informational black hole" that follows for people in the surrounding area, like that which followed the London bombings on July 7, 2005.
The company conducted blast testing at New Mexico Tech's Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center, which provides training approved by the Department of Homeland Security.
Stephen Vickers, account executive with Renew in London, explained that free newspapers and other material piled up in the streets after trash bins were eliminated.
As part of Renew's 21-year contract with the city, last year it began placing the pods in London's City Square Mile.
The company already placed one pod near the New York Stock Exchange in the spring of 2012 and hopes to have additional units in the city later this year. It also has four pods in Singapore.
For the upcoming London Marathon, the pods will provide information on road and subway closures, as well as advice on being safe and vigilant.
"Road closures will be in effect from 07:00 in the City on Wednesday as part of arrangements for Lady Thatcher's funeral," is one example of a message. London Underground subway status updates can also be shown on the bins.
The opening of the paper only pod fits the size of a McDonald's disposable cup, said Vickers. There are also mixed recycling apertures which also allow for the collection of plastic and can be leverage containers.
Ian Murison, director of engineering with Curventa, the industrial design firm that helped develop Renew's pods, adds that the openings to the bins can be locked remotely so people can't put anything inside in emergencies.
Murison said the internal area of the pod is designed to withstand the shock force of a bomb.
Previously, London had a number of cast iron bins that would cause additional damage if an explosive device broke away its pieces.
The city previously had over 1,300 waste bins before the IRA bombings but now has about 25 in some of the parks, Memari said.
Many cities are limiting garbage bins or only using clear plastic bags hung by simple wire or plastic stands, so the contents of the garbage are easily viewable.
Murison declined to reveal the bins' material for security purposes, but said they were made of a type of steel "joined together in the best way possible to withstand a substantial shock blast." The company also enlisted the help of a submarine engineer.
They are composed of a "Blast Module center," "which is four times stronger than steel and is designed to handle huge over pressures and blast waves emanating from an Improvised Explosive Device," Memari said.
"We learned that bombs placed inside of bins made better bombs," Murison said from Curventa's headquarters in London. "And when glass shatters, that's what causes the damage and a lot of lacerations."
The recycling bins are also designed so any potential explosion would blow the lid up in the air.
"The vast majority of the energy of an explosion is going into thin air. We do have to send the shock waves somewhere and like a chimney it goes straight up but should protect people in the vicinity," he said.
While some technologies may assist in preventing some tragedies, Murison said public vigilance is a major factor.
"You can control something in an enclosed space like a stadium, but when it's outside like a marathon, it's extremely difficult," he said. "You hope the vast majority of the public is vigilant and report suspicious activity -- unless you lock down the whole city which isn't going to happen."
Read more: After Boston Marathon Bombings, Gun-Control Push Continues


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• Juneteenth •
jun-teenth • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun, proper
Meaning: Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration of the end of slavery in the United States. This African-American celebration remembers the day, June 19, 1865, when news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached slaves in Galveston, Texas—two and a half years after it was issued.
Notes: Early celebrations evolved into political rallies and later into formal celebrations planned far in advance by Juneteenth committees. June 19, 1865 was a Monday but now Juneteenth is often celebrated on the weekend nearest June 19th. In early years these celebrations were commonly relegated by law to the outskirts of towns. However, many Juneteenth organizations eventually purchased tracts of land inside towns for the express purpose of holding the celebration. Many of them were named 'Emancipation Park' and some remain today.
In Play: In 2005 celebrations were held in more cities across the US than ever before, marking the 140th anniversary of this special day. For details of celebrations in your area this year, visit the Juneteenth website at www.juneteenth.com.
Word History: Today's Good Word is a blend of June and nineteenth that sounds rather odd, since -teen-th are suffixes that usually attach to numbers (teen is a variant of ten). June was taken from the calendar of the Romans, who named the month after their goddess, Juno, the wife of Jupiter and the goddess of the moon, marriage, and childbirth. Juno's name comes from the same root as the Latinate words, junior, juvenile, and our own Germanic versions, English young, German and Dutch jung "young", and Swedish ung "young". (Let us all join with Larry Brady, who originally suggested today's Good Word, in celebrating this unique US holiday and the freedom from repression it symbolizes.)
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Bali Roller Shade Style Basics is a basic blackout roller shade made of ply fiberglass/ply vinyl. These roller shades are washable and durable. Many of these fabrics have width limits but can be turned...call us if your are restricted.
Based upon a size of 24x36
Outside mount blinds and shades are installed outside the window casing, covering an area larger than the window itself. 1. Measure the exact width to be covered. Be sure the measurement overlaps the window opening by at least 1 1/2" on each side (3" total overlap) to ensure light control and privacy. * For Solar Shades make sure the measurement overlaps the window opening by at least 3" on each side (6" total overlap) to ensure light control and privacy.
Roller Shades- Solar Specs
Classic design meets contemporary style.
Choose Bali Roller and Solar Shades for window coverings that are easy to operate, affordable and available in all the newest colors and fabrics. Bali Solar Shades defend your home's interior against glare and harmful UV rays while maintaining your view to the outside. They also provide a stylish way to keep your rooms cool, comfortable and on-trend. Options like bead trim and tassels help make Bali Roller Shades as stylish as they are dependable.
The standard continuous-loop lift system provides easy operation of window treatments. A powerful clutch lifts the shade and holds it steady without the cord loop changing length. Included safety tension device keeps the cord out of reach of children and pets to eliminate dangling cord hazards.
Note: The design now features a new locking style tension device to restrict the shade/blind operation unless the device is properly mounted to a fixed surface (window frame, sill or wall). This safety enhancement is in compliance with the American National Standard for Safety of Corded Window Covering Products (effective March 7, 2011).
Ideal for homes with children or pets, the cordless lift system eliminates dangling cord hazards of traditional cord-controlled window treatments. The cordless lift system also provides a cleaner, more orderly appearance. Use only on windows treatments you can raise and lower by hand; choose cord control or motorization for high, hard-to-reach window treatments.
|Innovative new lift system lets you raise or lower the shade with a few simple tugs of the control cord. The cord will stay the same length, so it?s perfect for tall or hard-to-reach shades.
Chain type
Plastic or Stainless
|Valance options
|Add a fabric-covered cassette valance to your window treatment to create a unique visual effect. Cassette valances must be ordered at the same time as the shade. If ordering shades for multiple window sizes, please be sure to specify valance size on order to ensure all are manufactured with same size valance.
|Square-corner valance is coordinated with your window treatment by inserting matching fabric into a PVC Stay-Clear? Channel Panel. Valances up to 192" wide are available should you choose to cover multiple shades with a single valance. Fabric will not be continuous in these instances.
Tips To Remember:
Use a steel measuring tape
Round down to the nearest 1/8" for width
Round up to the nearest 1/8" for height
See Product Specifications for more specific product info.
Sizes should always be provided in this format: Width x Height
On any measurement given, the factory does have a +/- 1/8 of an inch variance allowance.
Measuring for Roller Shades
Inside Mount Width
• Measure the exact width (left to right) of the inside edge of the window frame in three places (top, middle and bottom).
• Take the smallest of the three measurements to the nearest 1/8 of an inch.
• The factory will make the correct deduction from the total width to allow for brackets and correct installation. Roller shades have generally large deductions due to the nature of the product (roller and hardware) -PLEASE CALL FOR SPECIFIC FABRIC AND TUBE DEDUCTIONS. Fabric is usually minimally- 1 1/8" or more from ordered width on inside mount .
Inside Mount Height
• Measure the exact height (top to bottom) from the top inside edge down to the window sill in three spots across window.
• Take the largest of the three measurements.
Outside Mount Width
• Measure the exact width (left to right) of the wooden or metal window frame (outer edge) OR how wide you want the product to be.
• For Solar Shades or Roller Shades, make sure the measurement overlaps the window opening by at least 2" on each side to ensure light control and privacy.
Outside Mount Height
• Measure the top and bottom edge of window frame/trim. If no trim, be sure you provide the height you want the shade to be from top of the headrail to bottom of the bottom rail.
• Be sure to allow for coverage for light control and mounting hardware if mounting above window opening to wall surface. You will need 2 inches of surface area to mount above opening. Call us for further instruction if needed.