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The map of white people was not on the Internet, so I made one. Conversely, it is a map of people of colour.
The map (click on it to enlarge) uses four colours:
- dark blue: 75% to 100% white
- medium blue: 50% to 75% white
- light blue: 25% to 50% white
- grey: 0% to 25% white
- majority POC: grey and light blue
- majority white: medium and dark blue
- multiracial: light and medium blue
But who is white? For this map two kinds of people are:
- Those who self-identify as white, like in a census.
- Those who belong to an ethnic group that is historically Christian or Jewish, with roots in West Eurasia.
That means white Hispanics, Armenians and Lebanese Christians are in, most Africans and Muslims, even Albanians, are out.
In the case of self-identification, note that someone who is considered white in one country might not be considered white in another.
I tried different definitions. This one is clean, easy to use and a good, general approximation.
Notes on each region:
North America: While the rest of the map is based on data from 2006 to 2011, Mexico is based on the last census that asked about race: in 1921! For the US, Hispanics who identify as white are counted as white. Doing otherwise led to paradoxes outside the US. Notice that Canada is not as lily-white as many imagine.
South America: Argentina, the pope's home country, is extremely white. Its most "diverse" province, Chubut, is close to 90% white.
Most whites in South America, like in North America, live outside the tropics, which run from Havana to Rio. Worldwide most whites live in the temperate zone, 23.5 to 66.5 degrees from the equator:
Europe, North Africa and West Asia: Albania and Kosovo are mostly Muslim so they do not count as white, even though they are in Europe. I did not use "Europe" or "European" in my definition of white because then I would have to define Europe too! Not a battle I wanted or needed to fight.
Siberia: The people in the dark blue region are mainly ethnic Russians. Russia and Kazakhstan keep very good records on ethnicity.
The rest of Africa: The surprise here is South Africa. I thought at least the Cape would be light blue. Whites are less than 25% in every single province. The way they complained you would think they were like a third of the country. It is galling to see this.
The rest of Asia: The dark blue at the top is the tail end of Russia.
Oceania: The North Island of New Zealand is more multiracial than Australia, mostly because of the Maori.
Because Australia, Siberia, Canada and Argentina are large but thinly settled, the map makes it seem like there are more white people than there are.
To correct that, let's scale each region according to its total population and put the map back together:
Notice that whites are not the main part of the world, but only a sixth of it.
Sources: Mainly the English and Russian Wikipedias (2014), the census of Argentina (2010) and New Zealand (2006) and the graphic that inspired this post (2011).
See also:
- The map of Black people
- Maori
- Black Canada: a brief history
- Peters projection
- demographically weighted history
- Geographical terms:
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Golf tournament boosts program that builds homes for wounded veterans
John Gonsalves' life changed three years ago when he saw a news report about an American soldier who had lost both of his legs while serving in Iraq.
Touched by the soldier's plight, the Wareham-based construction supervisor and contractor was eager to do anything he could to help. He wanted to lend his talents to an organization that built and adapted homes for severely wounded veterans.
The only problem was he couldn't find one.
``I found out that nothing like this ever existed,'' Gonsalves said.
So Gonsalves dropped his construction business and decided to start his own group called Homes for Our Troops, which builds or remodels homes for veterans who were severely wounded in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Yesterday, more than than 100 golfers teed off yesterday as part of the second annual 890 ESPN Boston Celebrity Golf Invitational at the Hopkinton Country Club to benefit Gonsalves' non-profit organization.
The list of celebrities who were scheduled to compete in the event included former Celtic Jo Jo White, former Boston Bruin Glen Featherstone and comedian Steve Sweeney.
Len Weiner, program director for 890 ESPN Boston, said the mission of Gonsalves' organization `` really struck a chord'' with those who organized yesterday's event.
Homes for Our Troops completed its first home two years ago in Middleboro for Sgt. Peter Damon and his family. Damon lost both of his arms in an explosion while he was changing a tire on a Black Hawk helicopter. Since then, the organization has completed 14 more homes for injured veterans, and 20 more are currently being built in 18 states, Gonsalves said.
One of the homes that's currently being built in Massachusetts is for a injured soldier in Plymouth.
Gonsalves said these types of fundraising activities like the one yesterday in Hopkinton do more than bring in much needed money to build and adapt homes for injured veterans. It also opens of the eyes of many who don't know the organization exists, he said.
``With events like this, it's not all just about the money we raise - it's about awareness,'' Gonsalves said.
Also participating in yesterday's event was Staff Sgt. Larry Gill, who was wounded in Oct. 7, 2003 in a grenade explosion in Baghdad. He met Gonsalves while he was recovering from his injuries at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and now serves on the advisory board of Homes for Our Troops and is a veteran's advocate.
Gill is currently looking to raise money for a home for an injured soldier in his native state of Alabama.
``I think I was meant to help these guys,'' said Gill, who has twice been awarded the Purple Heart.
Gonsalves' organization has already received widespread support across the country. Pro golfer Phil Mickelson has publicly supported Home for Our Troops by taking part in a campaign called ``Birdies for the Brave'' where fans can join Mickelson in donating money to the organization every time Mickelson makes a birdie or eagle.
``The more people that know about what we're doing, the more of these houses we're going to be able to build,'' Gonsalves said.
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Baseball great Stan Musial died last weekend. He was 92.
In September 2007, I was invited to make a speech to a civic group in St. Louis. I told the person who invited me I would come on one condition: that I could meet Stan Musial.
'That's no problem,' he said. 'We are members of the same sports club.'
I forget what I said in the speech — and the audience probably has long forgotten, too, — but I will always remember having lunch with Stan Musial.
Stan regaled me with baseball stories.
I asked him how it all began. He said when he was in high school during the Depression a baseball scout came to his hometown of Donora, Pa. The scout told Musial's father he wanted to sign him to a contract.
Musial said his father rejected the offer, telling the scout, 'My son is going to college.' Musial's father worked in a steel mill and never got a college education. Like most fathers, he wanted a better life for his son and believed college would be his ticket to success.
The scout left, but returned several weeks later to again ask that Stan be allowed to play professional baseball. He was rejected again. Musial says the scout then appealed to 'a higher authority, my mother' and she agreed.
In 1938, Musial was signed as a pitcher to a professional baseball contract. I asked him how much they paid him. As I now recall it was about $2,000 to $3,000. With so many players of lesser skill making millions today, I didn't begrudge him selling his autograph on baseballs and memorabilia.
After injuring his arm as a minor league player, Musial was moved to the outfield and then to first base where he began to hit the ball like few left-handers ever had. He became one of the greatest hitters in Major League Baseball history.
If ever there was a sports role model, Stan was one. A World War II vet and family man, Musial played his entire career with the St. Louis Cardinals, a rarity today when players, like interchangeable parts, are traded often or jump to other clubs for more money.
President Obama touched on Musial's character when he presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 2011. The president said then, 'Stan remains to this day an icon untarnished, a beloved pillar of the community, a gentleman you'd want your kids to emulate.'
In our celebrity culture where it doesn't matter why you're famous, only that you are famous, we don't focus enough on true achievement and the untarnished. Musial's contemporaries, Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams, received more media attention than he did, but Stan never publicly expressed any bitterness. They were in larger media markets, — New York and Boston respectively — which may account for some of it, though it was in New York that Musial acquired his moniker 'The Man.' Sporting News reports that, 'According to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Musial earned 'The Man' nickname 'by (Brooklyn) Dodgers fans for the havoc he wrought at Ebbets Field."
Sporting News quoted Hall of Fame president Jeff Idelson: 'Stan will be remembered in baseball annals as one of the pillars of our game. The mold broke with Stan. There will never be another like him.'
On that one day in 2007, as I had lunch with my childhood hero, I was a kid again. For me, it was better than any politician I have met or dined with. He signed a baseball for me, for free. It sits encased on a shelf in my office.
In so many ways, Stan Musial was, 'The Man.'
(Readers may e-mail Cal Thomas at email@example.com.)


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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Photos of the Pop Ups from Cricut Everyday Pop Up and Neighborhood Cards
Provocraft has posted photos of the pop up sections from the Cricut Everyday Pop Up Cards and Cricut Circle cartridge, Pop Up Neighborhood.
They are on the Cricut facebook page, located HERE! So helpful in figuring out how to make these cards....
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- Martina R.April 12, 2011 at 7:14 PM
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In this hyper-connected, networked world, many more of our devices are getting linked to the cloud, whether we want them to or not. That's sometimes good, and sometimes bad, so when a basic device like a mouse requires a user to go online and set up an account to activate all of its functionality, people are understandably going to ask why?
We've seen really bad implementations of cloud connectivity for devices that simply don't need it. Witness Cisco's "Connect Cloud" program that replaced the traditional management interface for wireless routers with a cloud-connected one that was less useful and contained some bizarre anti-porn and anti-piracy terms of service. Users protested in what we think was a completely justified rebellion, and Cisco quickly back-pedaled to save face.
Now we have a new entry in the saga of "Why the hell does this thing need to connect to the Internet?" In this case, the company on the receiving end of the backlash may not entirely deserve it, but hasn't done a great job avoiding confusion among customers.
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The subject is Synapse 2.0, a "cloud-based unified driver for gamers" offered by Razer that saves gaming preferences online, including the user-defined settings and configuration of gaming mice. This lets gamers log in from anywhere in the world, or switch to a new mouse and play with their personal settings intact. The activation server for Synapse 2.0 went down a couple of times recently due to Hurricane Sandy and some server usage spikes that the system couldn't handle. That's relevant because an uproar against this service building this week seems to have originated from a forum post by a customer who purchased a Razer Naga gaming mouse, and apparently tried to set it up during one of the outages. The user writes:
This really took me by surprise. Just bought a new Naga 2012 mouse, installed the software and get greeted by a login screen right after. No option to bypass it to use the software to configure the mouse, set the options, sensitivity, shortcuts, macros etc.
So I go ahead and create an account and try to log in. Nothing. Try several more times, and still nothing. Try to make new accounts with different email addresses and it still wont work.
Finally call Razer who tells me the activation server is down, and I wont be able to use the mouse until it goes back up and will only be able to use it as a standard plug and play mouse til then. I ask about a workaround to use the mouse offline and they say there is none. Supposedly once the mouse is activated on the computer offline mode will work, but it needs to upload my profile and activate my account first and since their server is down its not going to happen. I ask for a supervisor to confirm this is the case and ask again for a workaround to use it offline. He said sorry theres nothing they can do, tells me the call center is closing and hangs up on me.
Im pretty shocked Razer thought it was a good idea to do this to customers. Nowhere on the box does it say anything about needing an Internet connection to "activate" a mouse. If the servers go down in the future, anyone who buys this mouse is out of luck.
Honestly the last time I buy a Razer product. Absolutely ridiculous.
While the user's post acknowledges the mouse does work out-of-the-box, without an Internet connection, it goes on to say that advanced functionality gamers depend upon is not available without one:
Razer forces you to create an account with them before you can use the software with the mouse. You can't configure the mouse in any way until you make an account with them and activate your computer and account through their server. … Yes, you can use the mouse as plug and play with basic functionality if you choose not to make an account and activate your computer, but who pays $80 for a basic plug and play mouse? The reason people buy the Naga 2012 is the configurable buttons and to change the DPI, polling rate, set up macros and profiles along with everything else. Razer has no right to lock this away from customers who paid for these features. For the Naga 2012 mouse, there is no other offline drivers to revert to. Synapse 2.0 is your only option.
The user's post led to a variety of complaints about Razer blocking functionality and forcing "always-on data mining" and DRM schemes onto its users. The complaints may be overblown, but at the very least Razer hasn't done a good job informing gamers about the differences between Synapse 1.0 and Synapse 2.0.
Save your settings in the cloud
Razer's Synapse 2.0 FAQ could be read to suggest that a Synapse 2.0 account is required to create macros and key bindings. "All Razer products function as plug and play devices," the FAQ states. "Razer Synapse 2.0 offers a service above and beyond basic functionality to enhance your Razer product's capabilities. This includes features like configuring and saving macros, key binds, and preference settings. Razer Synapse 2.0 also maintains your devices in optimal condition by automatically updating and downloading driver and firmware updates, in addition to its cloud-syncing ability. Razer Synapse 2.0 is not compulsory software to get your Razer peripherals working—but it is advisable if you want to get the best out of them."
However, further statements by Razer in response to the controversy suggest that Synapse 2.0 is needed only for syncing settings across devices, not for creating the settings in the first place.
Razer Creative Director Min-Liang Tan addressed the controversy in a lengthy Facebook post yesterday, and our old friend Ben Kuchera of Penny Arcade declares the hullabaloo a tempest in a teapot. After investigating the matter, Kuchera concluded "You only need to go online once to register the product, the company claims no information is being collected, offline mode is available once you create an account, and if you want to bypass this craziness you can just stick to an earlier version of the Synapse software or not use Razer's drivers at all. But DRM? Spyware? That doesn't look likely."
The Synapse 2.0 registration page asks for first and last name, phone number, e-mail, and street address. Even if you never create a Synapse 2.0 account, you can still configure a Razer mouse, it seems. "For the DeathAdder [a gaming mouse], for example, you can still program your buttons, but you have to do it through the game or Windows, not through the driver," a Razer representative told Penny Arcade. "Some adjustments would need to be made through the driver on some mice or via a switch on other mice."
While I don't have one of these mice to test it out for myself, Tan writes in his Facebook post that the functionality requiring a Synapse 2.0 account is mostly for syncing settings online, not for creating the settings. There is an exception that could limit a gamer's functionality, though, in that the Synapse 2.0 drivers are necessary to sync keymappings between mice and keyboards. Here's what Tan says:
Our products work perfectly out of the box. Unlike DRM games or other media that require an always-on connection, you can use any of our peripherals right out of the box, even if someone doesn't install Synapse 2.0, and whether a user is offline or online.
Synapse 2.0 provides for additional functionality in the form of cloud storage for settings, inter-device communications, etc. Once registered, Synapse 2.0 provides additional functionality of almost limitless memory in the cloud. It does the same with mapping physical functions, affording myriad options for an array of applications. The amount of information required to register the product is minimal. Again, we make a range of products that, to some degree or another, benefit from cloud-based functionality, but it is not a requirement for our products to work. There are great gamers out there that don't regularly use Synapse 2.0, which speaks to the inherent quality of our products.
Tan goes on to say that once a mouse is registered with Razer's servers, all of the Synapse 2.0 functionality can be used offline, with settings stored locally instead of being synced to the cloud. However, Tan acknowledged Razer needs to take "steps to clarify the situation." For one thing, Razer now plans to make Synapse 1.0 drivers and other legacy drivers available shortly on its support site, although this only applies to "applicable legacy products." Razer will also add what Tan called a "manual offline mode" letting users keep their mice offline even when their computers are connected to the Internet.
Currently, users have to check a setting to allow the mouse to enter offline mode when the Internet connection goes down. "At this time, Synapse 2.0 works seamlessly between online and offline mode, and is unobtrusive to the user," Tan wrote. "If an Internet connection goes down and if the user has enabled offline mode by checking the "stay logged in" box, Synapse 2.0 automatically goes into offline mode."
More offline mode, please
There may not be much to worry about in this particular case. But it's hard to consider the matter totally settled, as Tan's explanatory post raises some questions. For instance, he says, Razer is moving toward cloud storage because "we realized that as firmware, profiles, macros and other settings stored in onboard memory became more complex, more memory space was required."
While Synapse 2.0 in its current form works offline once you've created an account, Tan's statement suggests a belief that mice are on the verge of gaining more advanced functionality that cannot be delivered without access to cloud storage. But if the settings can be stored in the cloud, why can't a user who prefers not to have an account at all just store them on their PC instead? Even today, if Synapse 2.0 works perfectly offline once you've created an online account, why not just let Synapse 2.0 (minus cloud syncing) work offline without creating the account in the first place? With all the storage gamers have on their desktops, citing a lack of storage space doesn't seem like a strong argument.
The fact that Razer is now rushing out a release of the older drivers and is creating a new type of offline mode suggests the company was trying to tie its products' functionality to the cloud a little bit faster than its customers wanted them to. And if Razer or any other company makes further moves customers dislike, those customers can do what they've always done: protest until everything is set back in its proper place. After all, the customer is always right.


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According to new Justice Department e-mails obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California, and published on Wednesday, federal investigators have been routinely using "stingrays" to catch bad guys. A stingray is a device that can create a false cellphone tower, and allows authorities to determine a particular mobile phone's precise location. Stingrays aren't new—law enforcement agencies nationwide are believed to have been using them for years.
But one e-mail in the new trove reveals something brand-new: that the Feds were not fully clear about the fact that they were specifically using stingrays (also known as "IMSI catchers") when asking for permission to conduct electronic surveillance from federal magistrate judges.
A press representative from the United States Department of Justice did not respond to Ars' request for comment.
Groups like the ACLU are concerned that unsupervised use of such technology can inadvertently collect information of people who are not suspected of any crime, nor under investigation.
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The ACLU intervened as an amicus in the case of a federal defendant, Daniel David Rigmaiden, who is facing dozens of federal charges of identify theft, mail fraud, and other charges stemming from an alleged massive fraudulent tax refund ring. Rigmaiden and another as-yet unnamed co-conspirator are in federal custody. A third man, Ransom Marion Carter, III, remains a federal fugitive.
Rigmaiden maintains his innocence, and argues that using a stingray without a warrant is unconstitutional.
"Before this e-mail, we did not know whether Rigmaiden was an outlier," Linda Lye told Ars, explaining that little is known about the scope of stingrays' use. Now it's clear they have been using stingrays as a matter of course.
As a result of this new disclosure, Lye has filed a motion to leave the new file with the court. Consequently, Rigmaiden filed a motion that the evidence resulting from the stingray—which allowed authorities to arrest Rigmaiden and search his apartment—be suppressed.
"There's definitely a lot riding on [his] motion," Lye added. "The government would have to establish that there was independent probable cause without using this device to know that this was the right apartment to search." If they can't prove that, substantial evidence is likely to be suppressed, and that would throw a wrench into the prosecution.
Between 2005 and 2008, federal investigators allege that the trio (Rigmaiden, Carter and the unnamed person) filed over 1,900 fake tax returns online, yielding $4 million sent to over 170 bank accounts.
The ACLU received the group of e-mails last week as the result of a Freedom of Information Act request jointly filed with the San Francisco Bay Guardian, a local alt-weekly newspaper.
On Wednesday, Lye published (PDF) the e-mails, and will formally present them Thursday to a federal court in Arizona, where Rigmaiden's case is ongoing.
Lye wrote that these e-mails confirm "the need for suppressing the evidence in the Rigmaiden case because it shows that the government was engaged in a widespread practice of withholding important information for judges, and that it did so for years."
"We hope that the court sends the clear message to the government that it cannot keep judges in the dark. Judges are not rubber stamps—they are constitutional safeguards of our privacy."
A May 23, 2011 e-mail from Miranda Kane, chief of the criminal division at the United States Attorney's Office, to her colleagues, states:
As some of you may be aware, our office has been working closely with the magistrate judges in an effort to address their collective concerns regarding whether a pen register is sufficient to authorize the use of law enforcement's [stingray] WIT technology (a box that simulates a cell tower and can be placed inside a van to help pinpoint an individual's location with some specificity) to locate an individual. It has recently come to my attention that many agents are still using WIT technology in the field although the pen register application does not make that explicit.
Or, as Lye concludes: "Notably, this email chain is dated May 2011, some three years after the Stingray's use in Rigmaiden's case—meaning the government was not 'forthright' in its applications to federal magistrate judges for at least three years."
In December 2011, noted German security expert Karsten Nohl released "Catcher Catcher"—a piece of software that monitors network traffic and looks at the likelihood that a stingray is in use.
"The Hacker"
Rigmaiden's case dates back several years. In 2007 and early 2008, the Internal Revenue Service identified a bank account at Compass Bank in Phoenix that seemed to be receiving fraudulent tax refunds under the name "Carter Tax & Accounting, LLC." Authorities identified Carter as being involved in the possible scheme.
By early 2008, undercover operatives identified another man who was dubbed "the Hacker," as well as another as-yet unnamed co-conspirator who served higher up than Carter. They then opened a bank account for the Hacker, who unknowingly deposited some fraudulently obtained tax refunds electronically into that account.
In April 2008, the second co-conspirator was arrested in Utah, and that case remains under seal. This suspect and the Hacker were deemed to be above Carter in the tax fraud ring.
From April to August 2008, federal investigators tracked the Hacker via his Arizona bank account, and via packages sent to a Northern California apartment. According to the FBI, on July 23, 2008, the Hacker was served with a 50-count indictment under seal. Within two weeks, the man was arrested in Santa Clara, California, "after a foot and car chase," following the pinpointing of his location because of the stingray.
An FBI press release detailed the rest of the story: after searching the Hacker's person, authorities found a key to his apartment, and with a search warrant, searched his Santa Clara apartment and storage unit in San Jose, seizing "a laptop and multiple hard drives, $116,340 in cash, over $208,000 in gold coins, approximately $10,000 in silver coins, false identification documents, false identification manufacturing equipment, and surveillance equipment."
Investigators identified the Hacker, via his fingerprints, as prior felon Daniel David Rigmaiden.
According to an IRS special agent's search warrant (PDF), Rigmaiden's computer also included "Email regarding leaving the United States for the country of Dominica…[and] documents regarding obtaining citizenship in other countries; emails regarding paying off Dominican officials to get Dominican birth certificates and passports; and a Belize residency guide."
Rigmaiden's indictment was initially sealed, pending cooperation with a federal investigation. But by January 2010, Rigmaiden declined to cooperate, and moved to represent himself (after firing three attorneys) and the case was subsequently unsealed.
The defendant's trial in Phoenix is slated to begin on May 15, 2013.


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President Barack Obama praised the new Sept. 11 museum on Thursday as "a sacred place of healing and of hope" that captures both the story and the spirit of heroism and helpfulness that followed the attacks.
"It's an honor to join in your memories, to recall and to reflect, but above all to reaffirm the true spirit of 9/11—love, compassion, sacrifice—and to enshrine it forever in the heart of our nation," he told an audience of victims' relatives, survivors, rescuers and recovery workers at the ground zero museum's dedication ceremony.
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After viewing some of the exhibits, including a mangled fire truck and a memorial wall with photos of victims, the president touched on some of the many stories of courage amid the chaos: the passengers who stormed a hijacked plane's cockpit over a Pennsylvania field and first responders who rushed into the burning twin towers. He also honored military members "who have served with honor in more than a decade of war."
He focused especially on the story of Welles Crowther, a 24-year-old World Trade Center worker and former volunteer firefighter who became known as "the man in the red bandanna" after he led other workers to safety from the trade center's stricken south tower. He died in the tower's collapse.
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One of the red bandannas he made a habit of carrying is in the museum, and Crowther's mother, Alison, told the audience she hoped it would remind visitors "how people helped each other that day, and that they will be inspired to do the same in ways both big and small. This is the true legacy of Sept. 11."
By her side was Ling Young, one of the people Welles Crowther rescued.
"It was very hard for me to come here today," but she wanted to thank his parents, she said.
Before the ceremony, Obama walked quietly through an expansive hall with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. First Lady Michelle Obama, former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton following behind them.
The museum, which commemorates the 2001 terrorist attack, as well as the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, opens to the public on May 21.
Reflections from dignitaries—including New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, current New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani—were interspersed with the voices of everyday people caught up in Sept. 11.
Retired Fire Department Lt. Mickey Cross described being trapped for hours in the wreckage of the north tower—and then joining the recovery effort after being rescued. "There was a real sense of caring for each other," he said.
Ada Dolch, a school principal whose sister died at the trade center, recalled turning her grief into inspiration to open a school in Afghanistan. "What a kick in the head to Osama bin Laden!" she said.
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Kayla Bergeron remembered walking down 68 flights of stairs in the north tower, amid confusion and fear that there was no way out. Her final steps to safety were on an outdoor stairway, now in the museum as the "survivors' stairs."
"Today, when I think about those stairs, what they represent to me is resiliency," she said.
By turns chilling and heartbreaking, the ground zero museum leads people on an unsettling journey through the terrorist attacks, with forays into their lead up and legacy.
There are scenes of horror, including videos of the skyscrapers collapsing and people falling from them. But there also are symbols of heroism, ranging from damaged fire trucks to the wristwatch of one of the airline passengers who confronted the hijackers.
The museum and memorial plaza above, which opened in 2011, were built for $700 million in donations and tax dollars.
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It costs $125 to nominate a book for a National Book Award. Why were so many more publishers willing to pay it for nonfiction than for fiction or poetry?
Do recent nonfiction books outshine novels? Many critics think so. And publishers seem to agree, based on their willingness to pay the $125-per-book entry fee for the National Book Awards.
The prize sponsor reports that in 2008 publishers nominated the following numbers of books by category: 540, nonfiction; 274, young people's literature; 271, fiction; and 175, poetry. Publishers may have submitted nearly twice as much nonfiction as fiction because more of it gets published. Yet that explanation begs the question, because publishers presumably buy books for the same reason they nominate them for awards: They think they're good.
More evidence of the superiority of nonfiction might seem to come from Wednesday night's fiction winner: Peter Matthiessen's Shadow Country, a reworking of an earlier trilogy. If this year's novels had been stronger, would the judges have considered a book that includes previously published material? Was Matthiessen's shortlisting a sign of desperation in judges who wanted a strong book on the final list even if it meant exhuming some work published as long ago as 1990?
Probably not. It's more likely the judges wanted to reward a distinguished author in his 80s for his fiction and didn't know if they'd have another chance. (Matthiessen won the 1980 National Book Award for nonfiction for The Snow Leopard.) It's also possible that the judges just didn't like some of the novels that many critics ranked among the best of the year, such as Netherland.
Then why did publishers nominate so much more nonfiction? Two possible explanations. One is that nonfiction books have more opportunity to catch fire in the media or elsewhere: They don't depend on reviews as much as novels do. And publishers know that momentum can affect judges. In paying those $125 entry fees, some may have invested in what they considered the safest bets.
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Yet nonfiction dates faster than nonfiction. This is why novels tend to define their eras better than works of nonfiction do. So the answer to "Were this year's novels better than the nonfiction books?" rests with history. Decades from now, this year's best nonfiction books may have yielded to others that have more recent reporting or more up-to-date research, while some of the novels may seem as fresh as ever, just as Jane Austen's do nearly two hundred years after they appeared.
For a list of the National Book Awards entry fees and eligibility requirements, click here www.nationalbook.org/nbaentry.html.
Janice Harayda is a former judge of the National Book Critics Circle Awards for fiction, nonfiction, biograhy, poetry and criticism.
© 2008 Janice Harayda. All rights reserved.


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Tips for throwing a kids Valentine's Day party
Valentine's Day can be a fun holiday for kids. If you're thinking about hosting a Valentine's Day party for your child and his or her friends, consider using some of these ideas.
Decorate cookies: Kids love to decorate cookies. You can pre-bake heart-shaped cookies and let the kids decorate them with red and pink frosting, sprinkles and other decorations. The cookies can also serve as snacks for the party, or as a treat the kids can take home with them after the party.
Make Valentines: Set up a card-making station and allow the kids to make their own Valentines, either for the other guests at the party, or for their family.
Create crafts: Kids love making crafts. Go to the local craft store and pick up supplies to let kids make heart-shaped or Valentine's Day inspired crafts. The kids can take their projects home with them, allowing the craft to serve as entertainment and as a party favor.
Make Cupcakes or cakes: Pre-bake cupcakes or tiny cakes (you can even likely find heart-shaped cake pans) and let the kids decorate their own treats.
Dance party: Find fun kids songs that mention Cupid, hearts or love and let the kids have a dance party.


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I felt a little guilty taking the train to a walk. I should walk to a walk, right? But I live in Hoboken, and was joining the Hudson River Walkway Conservancy for a stroll from Weehawken to Hoboken last month (pre-Hurricane Sandy). So first I had to get to Weehawken.
I made a mad dash for the northbound light rail (yes, NJ Transit, I purchased a ticket). So I like to think that my short burst made up for the exercise I lost by riding the train.
I exited at Port Imperial and headed to Pershing Road Park, where the walk would begin. About 15 people from surrounding communities gathered on a crisp morning for the approximately 3-mile southbound walk. This was the fourth of four walks scheduled for 2012 by the Hudson River Walkway Conservancy, each with a requested $5 donation.
The route is very walkable.
The Conservancy is a non-profit organization that monitors the continuing construction and maintenance of the Walkway.
But enough talking—more walking.
We headed out, past condos and down into Weehawken Waterfront Park. It was immediately clear what amazing skyline views the walkway provides. I wondered if simultaneously, a woman was walking along the west side of Manhattan, admiring the beautiful Weehawken skyline. Would the two ever meet, or would the mighty river keep them apart forever? Note to self: Begin draft of screenplay.
August and Anita
Fellow walkers August and Anita Riska quickly got on my good side by suggesting that I was the youngest member of the excursion. Flattery will get you everywhere, Riskas! The Edgewater couple is originally from Czechoslovakia, back when that was a place you could be from. They walk along the waterfront every day. Anita pointed out black dog silhouettes posted on the park's grass.
I assumed they were decorative, but Anita believes they are "scare-dogs" intended to keep away geese. From my occasional runs along the Hoboken waterfront, my sneakers are well aware of the preponderance of geese. This may be an elegant solution.
May Jo Schendler, a Weehawken resident, also had lots to talk about, from Theo's Masala Food Cart in Missoula, Montana, to Hartz Mountain, the flea-collar-company-turned-real-estate-magnates who own the waterfront's Lincoln Harbor complex.
Don Stitzenberg, the Conservancy's vice president, led the walk, assisted by treasurer Ed Rogaski. They provided interesting historical tidbits about locations along the way (such as the railway yards that used to line the waterfront, and theformer staging-area building for the Macy's Parade balloons in northern Hoboken, near the Weehawken border.
We crossed into Hoboken over the gorgeous Weehawken Cove. This segment of the walkway was just completed in April.
Hoboken section
In Hoboken, we were met by Helen Manogue, president of the Conservancy. She explained how, in the early 1970s, her Hoboken Environment Committee defeated an effort to bring a major oil refinery to the waterfront. (The geese might've really been in trouble.) That committee's work helped pave the way for the Walkway Conservancy. Manogue also discussed how the Conservancy reviews any waterfront development plans and makes recommendations to the state's Department of Environmental Protection.
We continued along the edge of the mile-square city, past Eli Manning's place in the Hudson Tea Building on 14th Street, and down the waterfront (as seen in 1954's Academy Award winner On the Waterfront) to the Hoboken train terminal.
The Conservancy will hold more group walks starting in the spring. But of course, the walkway is open year-round for strolling, running, cycling, dog-walking, and writing about.
We passed a few spots where the walkway is not fully completed, due to lack of funds, shipworm damage, and ongoing legal squabbles. But all in all, the route is very walkable, solidly continuing up to North Bergen and down to Jersey City.
I said my farewells as the bulk of our group boarded the Light Rail for the return trip to Weehawken. The Riskas wanted to stay in Hoboken for lunch. I walked with them, pointing out the old Clam Broth House and the Cake Boss's bakery, and suggested either La Isla for Cuban or Satay for Malaysian food. Hmm, maybe I could become a waterfront tour guide…


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I've been wanting to blog about my newest favourite creative obsession outlet, but thought it would be better to wait until I had a little more to show you. I wanted to explain the why's and how's, give you the soul behind the groove…
But I just can't wait because it's so fun!
I am in love with making these notebooks! Don't you love the unfinished, just raveld enough edges? I think they look so natural. Sometimes I wonder if it's normal to enjoy sewing into paper so much, because it's the bee's knees. I promise a more in-depth post soon, but you know when you're into something and you just have to share it? This little cupper is actually on its way to a very sweet Birthday Girl. It doesn't have far to go, but I don't think it's going to make it in time. Sigh.
These notebooks have become my birthday gift idea par excellence, and I'm working on a few others right now. I've done a pretty good job honoring my Handmade Pledge, and this is a great way for me to send something from the heart and hands. I've been using Moleskine (over-priced) and faux-Moleskine (far more reasonable but difficult to find) notebooks, but I'm going to be making my own soon (that'll be part of the part 2 of this post!).
Rather than typing this post, I should be embroidering this :
It's going to be for a notebook for my nephew's birthday. These groovy little carp are from this book :
I bought it last summer when visiting the U.S. I think it's a great book for embroidery beginners (like me!) because it gives a good explanation of some basic techniques and has some fun project ideas, and though not all of them are really my cup of tea, I've enjoyed flipping through the pages for inspiration. I'm excited to use a design from this book for the first time.
I'll be posting a proper bookmaking W.I.P. soon, promis, juré!
Did you happen to see the whiteout cakes that were taking over the Internet last week? If not you can visit Honey B or Natalia to see how beeeutiful they looked. They got me dreaming of deep, dark chocolate and frosting and since Guppy & I are on vacation, we decided to make some cupcake love…
Clearly not as fancy as it could have been, but very fun to make with Guppy, and even more fun to eat! We just used the chocolate cupcake recipe from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World, but I doubled the cocoa (because I'm punk rock like that) and we made a variation on the fluffy buttercream recipe. Betcha want one, too!


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Today's News: Our Take - The Walking Dead: Can Rick Get His Act Together to Save His Group?
After declaring a "Ricktatorship" in the Season 2 finale, the third season of The Walking Dead has seen the group's fearless leader descend into madness, threatening their wellbeing and ability to survive while The Governor (David Morrisey) and his cronies in Woodbury prepare to knock at their gates for an all-out war. Will Rick (Andrew Lincoln) be able to gather his wits about him and lead the group safely through the impending battle? Or will his questionable sanity ultimately be their downfall?
Walking Dead Postmortem: Why didn't Andrea kill The Governor?
"He's flawed and he's dangerous," Lincoln told the crowd at Friday's PaleyFest panel, moderated by Talking Dead's Chris Hardwick. "He's become this leader and maybe it is starting to poison him. You're taking responsibility of a lot of people's lives. Certainly, this season, he's been making terrible calls."
One of his first bad calls was trying to find sanctuary at the prison - where his wife Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies) and T-Dog (IronE Singleton) both lost their lives - but that was just the first push that sent the snowball down the hill that would ultimately drive him mad. "I think guilt is a huge part of it," Lincoln said. "He can't let himself off the hook, and it's one of his great heroic strokes, but it's also his Achilles as well."
Eventually, Rick's son Carl (Chandler Riggs) stepped in and told his father he shouldn't lead the group any longer. "After that scene, it puts him to a different gear," Lincoln said. "To be called out by your son is pretty tough at the best of times. I do think it is a difficult moment and he does realize that he has to step up at this point." But a moment in Sunday's episode will really force Rick to face what he's become. "There's something that happens in the episode this weekend that really holds a mirror up to Rick and he starts to realize that he has to come back," Lincoln added.
Mega Buzz: When will we meet Negan on The Walking Dead?
Certainly, Rick's past bad decisions have served as life lessons. After losing his wife and T-Dog to outsiders interfering with their group, Rick isn't about to trust easily again, which leads him to kick Tyreese (Chad Coleman) and his followers out of their prison sanctuary. That lesson in distrust will stick with Rick in the coming episodes, including Sunday's, in which Rick, Michonne (Danai Gurira) and Carl have no qualms about not stopping the car for a hitchhiker. "It's so brutally real," Gurira said.
Though he can't trust her, Rick may actually find help in former group member Andrea (Laurie Holden), who will attempt to broker peace between his group of survivors and the Woodbury group. "I think she's going to fight to the end to reach the humanity in both of these leaders," Holden said of Rick and The Governor. "She totally thinks that [Woodbury] is salvageable. The reason she went back was to prevent a war."
The Walking Dead airs Sundays at 9/8c on AMC.
View original The Walking Dead: Can Rick Get His Act Together to Save His Group? at TVGuide.com
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