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James Northcote

by James Northcote
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In Super Bowl Week, Hall Of Famers Return — As Salesmen

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Endorsement deals can offer retired players millions beyond their sports or TV contracts. In return for these millions, these former Hall of Famers plug the product they're endorsing. But some take the endorsements to an extreme, sprinkling brand names into conversations that have nothing to do with those products.

AUDIE CORNISH, BYLINE: In the run up to the Super Bowl, demand for former players and coaches to interview is high. Dozens of sports radio stations have set up camp in New York City's Radio Row. Many interviewees have leveraged that demand into short-term celebrity endorsements. NPR's Mike Pesca caught the pitches.

MIKE PESCA, BYLINE: Radio Row, Sheraton Hotel, New York City. A station that called itself The Team is here. So is The Ticket. There are a few fans, a sports animal and a sports carnivore. They're talking gap responsibility, debating how often to put eight men in the box. In other words, the raison d'etre of being a sports carnivore. But on occasion, other topics seep in.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Now you're here obviously with the NFL Network and also with Verizon today and...

UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: Tell us about the bowling event...

UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: Tell us about, Chris.

DAN MARINO: Do you get more questions about being on CBS pregame, being a hall of fame quarterback or Nutrisystem?

UNIDENTIFIED MAN #4: I think Denver is going to run away with it.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN #5: All right. Now this week - tell me what you're plugging this week. Www...

DAN PATRICK: You brought in bags of M&M'S here. Thank you.

PESCA: The sport is football, but the pitch is omnipresent. Paulie Pabst has been to 10 Super Bowls as a producer for "The Dan Patrick Radio Show."

PAULIE PABST: If I ever see a guest without a sponsor, I'm wondering how it happened.

PESCA: Talk shows need guests. Guests found a way to be paid. No one in the circle seems to be complaining. Pabst says when he started, a quarter of his show's guests had a product to plug whereas now it's the norm.

PABST: Sometimes you'll be like, what is this product here? Like, Emmitt Smith today, it was a product about gout, and I don't know much about gout. I do now after having Emmitt Smith on.

PESCA: Hall of fame running back Emmitt Smith. Companies figure might as well get the most qualified pro to slide between the quid and quo. The guest Dan Patrick was talking M&M'S with in that montage was Joe Montana. Dan Marino was talking Nutrisystem. The bowling enthusiast you heard was Ed "Too Tall" Jones. One year, former bears coach Mike Ditka endorsed toilet paper.

Jimmy Shapiro who links companies to celebrities wouldn't be surprised if Ditka netted upwards of $100,000 for that endorsement. Even non-athletes get in on the action. One year, Shapiro tried to pair Xbox with the actor Jerry Ferrara. But Ferrara's agent asked for the moon.

JIMMY SHAPIRO: And I don't think Ferrara ever saw it because the price that he quoted me at was $150,000 for, like, three hours on Radio Row, which is ridiculous for a frigging turtle from "Entourage."

PESCA: Bob Broderick, strategic media consultant with RBT(sic) Media, represents athletes and coaches. He says clients can get between five and $20,000 for a week's work. This week, Broderick's client, Super Bowl-winning coach Brian Billick, is plugging

BOB BRODERICK: He's probably done 40-plus radio shows. We also did some TV. We did live CNBC yesterday. And an executive from SeatGeek said yesterday that the CNBC segment alone was worth it. They saw traffic almost four times their normal average.

PESCA: Broderick says years ago, producers would chafe at allowing B- or C-list players to shill on their air. He hasn't heard an objection for a few years. To understand the demand, look at Bill Romanowski, former player in five Super Bowls, current owner of a nutrition company and partner to Smoothie King. I talked to him on Tuesday.

BILL ROMANOWSKI: I did 20 interviews yesterday. I'll do probably 20 today, 20 or 30 tomorrow, 20 or 30 the next day.

PESCA: Where does he get the energy?

ROMANOWSKI: The Lean1 Smoothie. It's a fat-burning meal replacement. Seventeen...

PESCA: To get Romanowski to talk to me, I promised to let him get a plug in, but I still reserved the right to fade out in the interest of keeping one radio network relatively non-commercial. Mike Pesca, NPR News, New York.

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Lessons From The Fall: Household Debt Got Us Into This Mess

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During this first anniversary month of the economic crisis, Planet Money will feature economists talking about what they've learned from a miserable year. First up: Atif Mian and Amir Sufi, who teach at the Chicago Booth School of Business.

The dramatic collapse of financial markets in the fall of 2008 captivated the world's attention and sent the stock market reeling. But the collapse of financial markets was a symptom of a more troubling underlying condition: U.S. households dramatically increased their leverage, or debt, from 2001 to 2007. Our research suggests that the historic growth in household debt preceding the financial crisis was the primary driver of the onset and deepening of the current recession.

The central lesson we as economists have learned from the crisis is that an unsustainable increase in household debt is one of the most serious threats to the U.S. economy. Going forward, policy-makers, regulators and researchers must recognize the central role of household financial health in causing economic turbulence if we are to avoid repeating this painful episode. This is not the first time excessive household leverage preceded a severe economic downturn, and the effect of household debt on the economy is not unique to the United States.

Our own research emphasizes three lessons from the recent U.S. household leverage crisis:

First, the availability of cheap mortgages increases the demand for housing, which can push up house prices. In turn, as demand increases and house prices go higher, lenders become overconfident. They then begin offering mortgage credit on even cheaper terms, fueling a violent cycle where household valuations become increasingly unrealistic. In such a credit cycle, the growth in house prices reflects cheap debt, not the underlying earnings power of households. For example, from 2002 to 2005, we find that zip codes where house prices increased the most had the largest percentage of subprime borrowers — borrowers who were experiencing a relative decline in income. Treating house-price growth as independent of mortgage-credit availability — which both regulators and researchers did during the housing boom — is naive at best and dangerous at worst.

Second, the growth in house prices has a real impact on the economy. We find that homeowners extract $0.25 to $0.30 in cash from their houses for every $1 of growth in house price. Our analysis suggests that the home-equity withdrawals are primarily used for consumption or home improvement, which temporarily boosts economic growth. But when a credit-induced housing bubble drives economic growth on the upside, the consequences on the downside will be necessarily painful. For example, the current U.S. economic downturn has been most severe in counties that saw the most aggressive borrowing during the housing boom.

Third, political considerations distort the policy response to a financial crisis. For example, pressure from the financial industry — through lobbying and campaign contributions — helps push legislators to bail out struggling financial institutions. The implications for moral hazard are obvious: during booms, institutions have the incentive to take large bets and structure themselves in such a way as to make their failure unpalatable to regulators during busts. Similarly, the electorate demands action during economic downturns which can promote excessive public spending. Indeed, our biggest worry is that we are simply replacing a private debt problem with a bigger public debt problem.

Going forward, there are two additional questions that are important to answer if we are to fully appreciate the effects of household finance on economic cycles.

First, why does lending for real estate increase so dramatically when credit is flowing freely? The expansion of subprime mortgage lending in the U.S. is the most recent example, but similarly dramatic real estate lending cycles preceded severe economic downturns in Japan and the Southeast Asian countries. We suspect that when the value of collateral becomes artificially inflated, creditors have a harder time putting an accurate price on the risk of real estate lending.

Second, why do households borrow so aggressively when they get access to credit? One potential explanation is that, in normal times, households are constrained from achieving their optimal spending patterns by overly restrictive credit markets. As credit becomes more easily available, they borrow to satisfy their previously unfulfilled needs. For example, a smart high school graduate borrows to pay tuition for college, which helps her earn higher wages in the future.

However, the pattern of boom-bust cycles in household leverage suggests that people borrow for reasons other than their long-term economic well-being. For instance, they may have self-control problems. As credit becomes easier to get, these problems entice them to borrow more heavily, which leads to future regret. The dynamic is even more severe if sophisticated creditors structure financial products to capitalize on this lack of self-control.

The answer to these two questions will have profound implications for our understanding of household debt and economic fluctuations. This is not the first time that household leverage has led to a severe economic downturn; without further inquiry, we fear it will not be the last.

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More Than Words: How Some Movies Wind Up With Lousy Subtitles

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When Alice's flamingo-cum-croquet mallet was translated as a "flamenco," I'd had enough.

Everybody makes mistakes, but whoever was responsible for the error-ridden subtitles nearly ruined my viewing of Alice, Jan Švankmajer's otherwise delightful adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Shoddy subtitles are all too common, and they can completely alter a viewer's understanding of a film. For example, check out these three different translations of the final scene in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless. The first veers pretty wildly from the actual dialogue. As for the second, who would ever actually say, in English, "It's a real scumbag"? The last comes close to capturing the spirit of the French, but for me, every one of these versions is unnecessarily distracting.

Anyone who's seen enough foreign films is bound to have noticed typos, punctuation gaffes and head-scratching translation choices. So why exactly is sub-par subtitling so common? What is it about the process that leads to such clumsy work? To find out, I called Craig Keller, the producer of boutique DVD label Masters of Cinema.

When Masters of Cinema put together the DVD for another Godard film, Une femme mariée, Keller knew he had to scrap the film's existing subtitles. "They were probably either translated from scratch or taken from old bootleg video tapes," he says. The stilted translation didn't come close to capturing the wit and nuance of Godard's script. Keller doesn't pull any punches: "They were just appalling."

So — as is done with all Masters of Cinema releases — Keller contracted the subtitling duties out to a post-production firm in London that boasts a dedicated staff of translators. As it turns out, subtitles are rarely produced in-house, so unevenness in subtitle quality can stem from unevenness in contractor quality.

If you're willing to pay translators well and give them a reasonable deadline, you can certainly get good subtitles. And then, like Masters of Cinema, you can use updated subtitles as a way to lure discerning cinephiles. But Keller says it's an investment in quality that not everyone chooses to make. "We have a budgetary allotment for the fact that this has to be done right," he says. "A lot of companies don't have that."

Put simply, you get what you pay for, and that part makes sense. But a lot about the subtitling process seems to make no sense whatsoever. For reasons I still don't fully understand, home video companies often commission new subtitles for DVD releases, paying for rushed, cut-rate translations instead of using the perfectly decent ones that already exist from theatrical runs. Exhibit A: the laughably dumbed-down subtitles on the DVD release of Let The Right One In.

Even more incomprehensibly, subtitlers aren't necessarily working with the original dialogue. In worst-case scenarios, they might be creating subtitles from an already-dubbed film. There's been speculation that this might have been the problem with one widely mocked DVD box set of Akira Kurosawa films. Perhaps, the theory goes, the subtitles are based off Chinese dub tracks rather than the original Japanese lines. And perhaps that explains why, according to one online analysis, what the British Film Institute version subtitles as "I saw an old woman in the Forest," this version subtitles as "I met a monster in the spider bush." Or how, similarly, "Keep away from me, you stink" becomes "Get away, you are of cropse smell."

Perhaps the most baffling aspect of these subtitling jobs is the apparent lack of oversight. I mean, doesn't it seem likely that if just one person had double-checked those Alice subtitles, they'd have caught that rogue "flamenco"? In many cases, there's indeed little in the way of copyediting, but Keller inspects all subtitles before printing Masters of Cinema discs, soliciting input from colleagues familiar with various languages if he needs to. DVD labels that mangle the subtitling process "could always copyedit," he says. "They could always do one proof. And they don't."

To be clear, plenty of subtitlers do great work, and that great work can easily go unnoticed, simply because the best subtitles are the ones that make you forget you're reading subtitles in the first place. Ensuring that you get a quality product, Keller says, is all about the way you provide it. "It just comes down to a conscientious approach, which some companies do have," says Keller. "A lot don't."

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Mukasey Dodges Question on Torture Techniques

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If senators had been hoping that President Bush's nominee for attorney general would close the door on using harsh interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects, they were disappointed by the answers provided by retired federal judge and attorney general-designate Michael Mukasey.

When Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) asked directly whether Mukasey thought a technique that simulates drowning, known as waterboarding, is constitutional, the nominee was equivocal. He danced around the issue of whether waterboarding actually is torture and stopped short of saying that it is.

"If it amounts to torture," Mukasey said carefully, "then it is not constitutional."

Whitehouse said the answer amounted to pure semantics.

"I am very disappointed in that answer," Whitehouse said.

"Sorry," Mukasey responded quietly.

The waterboarding question comes in response to an executive order that President Bush issued this summer that permitted the use of some harsh interrogation techniques. The order stopped short of listing them; the administration has refused to say whether waterboarding was on the list. Congress has banned waterboarding in a detainee treatment law.

Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), asked Mukasey if he could shed some light on the matter.

"I'm hoping that you can at least look at this one technique and say, 'That clearly constitutes torture. It should not be the policy of the United States to engage in waterboarding,'"

Mukasey dodged.

"It is not constitutional for the United States to engage in torture in any form, be it waterboarding or anything else," he said. When asked about it again by Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Mukasey allowed that if waterboarding were actually defined as torture, then it could not be permitted by the president.

"If it is torture as defined by the Constitution, or defined by constitutional standards, it can't be authorized," Mukasey said.

Senators also sought to pin down Mukasey about his views on executive authority. They asked when, if ever, the president should be permitted to override laws that Congress has passed. Mukasey, again, equivocated.

"We are not dealing here with black and white," he said. "Which is why it's very important that push not come to shove, because the result could be not just divisive but disaster."

Lawmakers focused in particular on wiretapping — and when the president could skirt a special Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court and order wiretaps on his own. Mukasey said that when the president had the choice of staying within the prescriptions of the FISA law, he ought to.

Mukasey spoke more directly about legislation now under consideration that would shield journalists from having to reveal their sources. The so-called shield law would establish standards that would limit the power of federal authorities to force reporters to testify or disclose documents or sources they have used in their reporting.

There has been a groundswell of support for the law in the wake of a case in which a covert CIA operative, Valerie Plame, was outed two years ago. A court demanded to know the source of the leak; Judith Miller, who was then a reporter with The New York Times, ended up going to jail for 85 days for refusing to disclose who gave her the story.

Mukasey said the shield law wasn't necessary. "The system has worked passably well up until now," he told the committee.

He said that the problems with protecting journalists could be remedied by tinkering at the edges of procedures at the Justice Department. "You can adjust the regulation, you can adjust the procedure, you can put more levels in," he said. "It becomes much harder when it's etched in stone in the form of legislation. And that is part of the reason for my unease."

President Bush has said he would veto the shield law. The administration's argument is that subpoenas for reporters are relatively rare, and a shield law would make it hard to track down people who leaked classified information. Mukasey said the legislation, as written, sets too high a legal threshold for prosecutors to meet. They will have to prove that the disclosure is needed to prevent an attack, and that is difficult to do or prove.

Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) supports the shield law. He asked Mukasey to list his specific objections in writing and submit them to the committee. Mukasey agreed to do so.

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Let's continue our conversation about a farm bill that Democrats and Republicans are trying to negotiate today in Washington. The differences over the bill are huge. The House wants to cut food stamps, or SNAP benefits, by $40 billion over 10 years. The Senate wants to cut 4 billion. Pam Fessler from NPR's Planet Money team explains that the cuts involve complicated legal maneuvers - some call them loopholes.

PAM FESSLER, BYLINE: To hear Republican Andy Harris of Maryland on the House floor this year, $40 billion in cuts wouldn't be all that bad.

REPRESENTATIVE ANDY HARRIS: This is a common sense reform that cuts waste, fraud and abuse, leaving more money for the Americans who truly need help in time of need.

FESSLER: Well, not exactly. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says almost two million low-income people would lose their benefits under the House bill. And waste, fraud and abuse? The cuts really deal with something much more arcane. Here's Republican Rick Crawford of Arkansas.

REPRESENTATIVE RICK CRAWFORD: This legislation will no longer allow states to exploit various loopholes, such as artificially making people eligible simply by mailing a TANF brochure, or substantially increasing benefits by sending a nominal LIHEAP check.

FESSLER: OK, that's a mouthful. But let me try to explain. First, yes, you can - as Crawford says - become eligible for food stamps if you receive a brochure from the welfare office. As outrageous as that might sound.

JESSICA SHAHIN: It does sound a little outrageous. I won't disagree with you on that, but I think what you have to do is think about what it really means.

FESSLER: Jessica Shahin oversees food stamps at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She says you still have to be relatively low income to get the brochure. That it's really an administrative shortcut. The law allows someone who's eligible for benefits for one means-tested program — like TANF or welfare - to automatically become eligible for another, like SNAP. That way you don't have to apply twice.

SHAHIN: It simplifies the process for states.

FESSLER: But, she says, there's a caveat. An individual's income still has to be very low - below the poverty line - to qualify for food stamps benefits.

SHAHIN: If the person has an income that makes them ineligible for a benefit, you can be eligible all day long; you're not getting a benefit.

FESSLER: In other words, if you get that brochure, you're really just eligible to be considered for benefits. Still, Republicans complain that the maneuver has allowed states to waive a $2,000 asset limit for food stamps recipients. So you can have, say, $20,000 in the bank and still get the aid. But states say that's rare and it costs a lot to figure out what people do or don't own. Deborah Carroll administers food stamps for 130,000 residents in the District of Columbia.

DEBORAH CARROLL: If we had to do that for everyone, it would cost us 2, 3, $4 million dollars more to administer that program for a fraction of the population that may have assets out there that we don't necessarily know about.

FESSLER: So the debate really comes down to a difference in philosophy between those trying to get benefits to the needy as quickly as possible, and those trying to reign in government spending. And that brings us back to Congressman Crawford's other complaint. Here it is again.

CRAWFORD: Substantially increasing benefits by sending a nominal LIHEAP check.

FESSLER: LIHEAP. That's a program that helps low-income people pay their energy bills. Those in the program can automatically qualify for higher SNAP benefits. So states have figured out if they give people just $1 in LIHEAP aid, they can get more food stamps - paid for with federal dollars. Both the House and Senate want to clamp down on that one.

DEBORAH CARROLL: Yeah, well it may be a loophole, but I think one that benefits families.

FESSLER: Again, D.C. administrator Carroll. The way she see it, this is one way to offset other cuts in the food stamp program at a time of need, that one person's loophole is another's workaround. Pam Fessler, NPR News.

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Old Richmond County Courthouse or Old Government House, c. 1801, is one of the oldest remaining public buildings in Augusta. It was the seat of local government until 1821, when the government sold it to former Mayor Samuel Hale, who converted the public building into an elegant residence. The building was also home to several prominent families during the 1800s including those of Colonel Paul Fitzsimmons, a Charleston shipping magnate; Colonel James Gardner, editor of the Augusta Constitutionalist; and James Gregg, son of the founder of Graniteville Mills. In 1877, the Murphey family bought the property. Dr. Eugene Murphey was a well-known physician and humanist. He and his family owned the home for 75 years.

Dr. Murphey’s estate sold the property to the Augusta Junior League in the 1950s. The organization used the home as a reception facility until the 1970s and then gave it to Historic Augusta, which sold it to a development firm in the late 1970s. The City of Augusta purchased it in 1987. The city hired VGR Architects, PA, to rehabilitate the building into a reception hall that would also preserve its historic significance. Old Government House is once again a public building with a gracious residential character, accommodating parties and receptions.

The architectural history of Old Government House is particularly notable. It was built in a simple Federal style of brick with parapet end chimneys, appropriate for its governmental functions. When the building became a residence, the owners stuccoed the walls adding the elaborate recessed wings, iron portico, balcony, and window trim, giving it the look of the Regency style. The exterior of the house retains that Regency style today. These changes are thought to have been made between 1821 and 1839.

During the late Greek Revival period, probably in the 1850s, the iron portico was added, and the mantels, all but one door, and door moldings were changed to the Greek Revival style. The mantels were simple marble shelves with arched openings made of black or white marble. The doors were given rectangular sidelights and transoms. The stairway was replaced by an Early Victorian transitional one that is a straight-run but curves slightly when it reaches the central hall of the second floor.

In more modern times, partitions were added in the wings and second floor to provide baths, and the rear porch was enclosed. The stylistic changes to the house, which took place between 1821 and 1860, are compatible with each other and produce the elegant, tasteful, and balanced effect seen today.

Plan your visit

Old Richmond County Courthouse or Old Government House, is located at 432 Telfair St. within the boundaries of the Augusta Downtown Historic District. It is open to the public for free, 8:30am to 5:00pm, Monday-Friday. Call 706-821-1812. Under the name of Murphey House, the building has been documented by the National Park Service's Historic American Buildings Survey.

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Manawatu Standard, 19 Jan 2010

Violence in The Square in Palmerston North, despite a stabbing at the weekend, has dropped by 4 per cent since 2007.

With CCTV cameras on the main streets, the use of community patrols, Safe City Host security and the re-establishment of Maori wardens, police believe the central city has become a safer place.

Senior Sergeant Sue O'Neil said there had been a steady decline in the number of violent offences in The Square for the last four years.

"The new environmental design has been hugely beneficial for Palmerston North. There is much better lighting through there now. It was very dark in some areas of The Square before, but the lighting has been really helpful," Mrs O'Neil said.

There were 110 offences in 2009, down from 125 in 2008 and 150 in 2007. Mrs O'Neil said there had only been 15 violent incidents reported so far this year.

"Over the Christmas period and through into January when people are out in a party-type atmosphere, that figure is pretty normal.

"We're hoping the decrease in offences will continue in 2010."

The community has played a major part in this decrease, she said.

"Neighbourhood support and proactive policing looking into community issues and working with the community is helping to reduce those crimes."

Mrs O'Neil said people still needed to be wary of areas like The Square and not enter them unaccompanied.

"The stabbing this weekend has highlighted the need for people to stay in lit areas, get taxis home, and take safety measures."

Police are still asking for any information from the public about the stabbing, which happened early Sunday morning.

Richard Sargent, 22, of Pahiatua, was found by a member of the public at 5.30am, and police believe the attack happened between 3.23am and 5.30am.

People with information should call the Palmerston North Police on (06) 351 3600 or the crimeline on 0800 808 585.

Crime in Palmerston North has also dropped by 4 per cent since this time last year, police said. However, this figure has been taken from a weekly police statistics report and is considered only an estimate.

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With a production value of over €600 billion, the responsibility of up to 3 million employees, and the main user of Community agricultural produce, the European food and drink industries this week encouraged ministers to back CAP reform.

In the second news of the day on reform proposals to the Common Agricultural Policy - currently on the table at a meeting of agricultural ministers in Luxembourg this week that started today - theCIAA - the body that represents the European food and drink industries - said an agreement would provide more predictability to the sector and further room for manoeuvre that could beused in the WTO negotiations.

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It can be tempting to offer your dog treats and biscuits for all sorts of good behaviors or even just as a special snack, but it’s important to balance your dog’s caloric intake to ensure the proper nutritional balance of fats, proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. Most of these will come from your dog’s food, but giving an occasional treat will not be harmful to your dog — and can be beneficial in terms of bonding and your dog’s overall happiness.

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NVIDIA:  John, what is your role at EM Photonics?

John:  I oversee the technical work for most of our accelerated computing projects, the majority of which employ GPU technology. I have been working with the GPU for over six years, dating back to the pre-CUDA days.

NVIDIA:  One of your current projects is an aircraft carrier landing modeling system for the US Navy. Tell us about it.

 John:  The Navy has a strong desire for CFD (computational fluid dynamics) modeling for a number of reasons.  Foremost among these is to be confident of the safety of both aircraft and pilot. For each vessel and aircraft pair, there are tables describing the difficulty of landings and takeoffs based on a large number of variables, such as light conditions, wind speed and direction, and approach angle.

Constructing these tables to completeness is a huge task, requiring an available vessel and cooperative conditions. Shifting the bulk of the work to a computational environment reduces the work significantly and enhances the quality of the data by not being subject to unpredictable weather and conditions.

NVIDIA:  How does GPU computing play a role in this?

John:  Collecting a single data point for the flight charts takes a hundred thousand CPU hours or more. Even with a moderately sized cluster, that translates to weeks of real time. Generating the full desired data set using present CPU technology may end up taking such a long amount of time that the aircraft under analysis might no longer be in service by the time the data is complete, given that hundreds or thousands of runs must be completed per-aircraft. Using the GPU, we can cut that time by an order of magnitude, ensuring that the data is available when it is still relevant.

NVIDIA:  What are applications in other markets?

John:  There are many similarities among CFD solvers, so broadly speaking many of the concepts and even some of the code segments are directly applicable to other CFD systems. In many of the solvers there is a need to solve large sparse matrix systems. These solvers are applicable to application areas outside of CFD and is something we are working to package into a developer-oriented library to complement our CULA dense linear algebra library.

We are aware of users of our libraries in the spaces of finance, medical imaging, genetic codes, image processing/enhancement, oil and gas, automotive design, molecular dynamics, electromagnetics, and there are sure to be many more.  Adding sparse matrix functionality opens up possibilities in many of those spaces as well as CFD and other finite element applications.

NVIDIA:  What are the main advantages of working with CUDA?

John:  CUDA allows for very direct expression of exactly how you want the GPU to perform a given unit of work. Ten years ago I was doing FPGA work, where the great promise was the automatic conversion of high level languages to hardware logic. Needless to say, the severe abstraction meant the result wasn't good.

In the case of CUDA, we have a direct view into the hardware and can express our ideas in a way that the hardware executes directly and efficiently. In contrast, an abstract algorithm or code translator may or may not execute efficiently on the target platform.

NVIDIA:  What are other projects in the works at EM Photonics?

John: We’ve just announced that the Tokyo Institute of Technology added our GPU-accelerated linear algebra library -- CULAtools -- to the Tsubame 2.0 supercomputer, which is #4 on the Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers.  Tsubame 2.0’s computing power will be available to Tokyo Tech’s scientists as well as to commercial companies and other academic organizations, for R&D in areas such as weather forecasting.

We have also partnered with HPC vendors in Germany, France, Italy and the United States. With the help of our resellers and hardware partners, we anticipate more of these types of initiatives with supercomputing centers around the world.

NVIDIA:  As computing becomes faster, what will we be able to do in the future?

John:  The hope will be to perform analysis in near real time, at which time the possibilities become limitless. A big goal is to use real-time CFD as a component in a hyper-realistic flight simulator, allowing pilots to train for landings in different wind and weather conditions. Present simulators do a poor job of transmitting a realistic feel for these conditions to the pilots.

Bio for John Humphrey

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What Leftovers Look Like

I know people who refuse to eat leftovers. At least, they think they refuse to eat leftovers….little do they know how creative professional kitchens get to minimize food waste. Ever ordered the soup du jour or the daily lunch special? If so – you’ve had leftovers.

Personally, as I’ve mentioned before, I don’t know what I’d eat if it weren’t for leftovers. I think leftovers get a bad rap because people think they’re going to be eating meatloaf sandwiches for 5-days running, or because of some really, really cautious ideas of what constitutes food safety.

I’ll leave food safety for another post, except to say that, as someone who is phenomenally and professionally anal about food sanitation issues, leftovers are safe to make and to eat as long as you follow some basic rules.

How do you avoid the leftover trap of Meatloaf Monday becoming “Meatloaf Again, huh?” Tuesday, “Do I Really Have To Have Meatloaf?” Wednesday, “Dear God, Anything But Meatloaf” Thursday and “Hey, Where Did Everybody Go?” Friday?

Easy! You work from pre-made components. For me, this mostly means previously home-made, but there’s some wiggle room here. This is the first year I’ve done my own salsa, for example. Up until about a month ago I just bought tubs of it in the refrigerator section.

Let’s say maybe you buy those pre-cooked chicken breast strips. That’s a meal component you like to have on hand – it makes dinners easier. So keep in the back of your mind that one day, instead of buying pre-cooked strips, you could grill up a few chicken breasts and have DIY strips in your fridge for the week. They’d be just as ready-to-go, and they wouldn’t have the same texture as your kitchen sponge.

Yesterday, working with components, this was what I made for my lunch. It’s a skirt steak and grilled vegetable salad. I added some of that lacto-fermented salsa I made earlier this month and half an avocado (cause I had one) to leftovers and, in 3 minutes, had a delicious, new meal from the old components:

The trick is having components on hand and ready to go, and that means cooking them. This past weekend we fired up the grill and cooked a lot of components for the week: lots of garden vegetables, skirt steak, salmon, chicken wings and sausage filled the grill. My feeling is, it’s just as easy to cook a whole grill full of food as just a few sausages, so I might as well get some meal milage out of the effort and energy expended.

Here’s a veggie-grilling tip: if you run a skewer through the cross-section of an onion ring, the onion will stay together as you grill it and won’t fall through the barbecue grates.

Those components, plus a big pot of brown rice, will combine in a bunch of different ways over the next several days. We had the original mixed grill meal hot off the fire and served with dipping sauces (a vaguely Korean-barbecue-esque meal), Bella got cold salmon with mayo in her school lunch, Nick has commandeered most of the wings plus some veggies and a jug of Franks Red Hot for a few days of work-lunches (hot wings are never subject to palate fatigue, incredibly), I’m throwing together steak salads at home for the toddler and me.

A rice bowl will probably make an appearance at some point, I wouldn’t be surprised if a roasted vegetable pizza supplied dinner one night, and if I’m really good I’ll eek a sausage frittata or sausage and kale soup out the components too. You get the idea. One big grill-off of food will become 5 or 8 different meals.

None of which is meatloaf.

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  1. says

    Great idea! I grilled some chicken breast and sausages on Sunday, and we ate off them a couple of days. The Son that lives with us eats like a horse, so left-overs are hard to come by. You are absolutely right about the packaged "grilled" chicken breast, just like a sponge. I tried it once, that was enough.

  2. says

    I wanted to add that most things on a restaurant buffet are technically leftovers, and many times, catered dishes were made a day or two ahead of time, so are also technically leftovers.

    We love leftovers in our house. Sometimes I cook components ahead of time to make daily cooking easier. Sometimes I over-cook intentionally with the intention of creating something new from something old. But most of the time, our leftovers get served exactly the way I served them the first time around. We usually find the flavor is better the second, or even third, time around. :)

  3. says

    In defense of my bogarting the chicken wings, I'd like to make it known that I have a cold and that the Frank's does wonders to clear my sinuses and keep me breathing here at work (a.k.a. the land of terrible indoor air quality).

  4. says

    Absolutely! Fried rice and quiches are another great way to make something new using some previously cooked components. I think grilled stuff works especially well because it has such good flavor. Pasta, soups, grilled sandwiches…

  5. says

    i pre-bake potatoes when i happen to have the oven on for something else (bread usually) to both get the potatoes ready for tomorrow (i'll then give them a quick fry with onions, or add them into soup, or whatever) and to reduce the energy use (or make it go farther, however you want to look at it.) i also make massive batches of beans so i can do the soak/rinse/cook a long time steps a fewer number of times, and then i sometimes freeze portions of them so it becomes a lot more like opening a can.

  6. says

    Yep, pre-cook and pre-chop. In fact, the never-ending salad bowl has been mentioned several times in a discussion board I participate on. Pre-washed and spun dry lettuce is torn and ready to go and the dryer vegetables (carrots, daikon, zucchini, etc.) are chopped or shredded, ready to add. Just chop the wet ones (tomatoes, cucumbers, etc.) as needed.

    In fact, I was just debating whether to shred the next three days' worth of vegetables as I plan to eat lots of salad. Might as well get the shredder dirty once only!

    Oh, another tip I just learned re avocados is that apparently the leftover slices freeze well. One person says no lemon juice needed, another says yes to lemon juice. They thaw quickly for your next salad (or guacamole).

  7. says

    The way it works in my house is this: after a meal is cooked my daughter and I help ourselves, when we're done my son takes the rest! Mind you if I made several meals at once it might just work! I'm also a fan of meatloaf sandwiches, lol.

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    I love leftovers – spaghetti sauce, chili, soup, stew just keep on going – as is. But, I also do "components": 1)peel the whole bag of carrots and cut the sweet bottom parts into carrot sticks and leave the thick top chunk for stews, 2)chunk up celery and toss in the same bag with the carrots, save the celery leaves to stuff inside a baked chicken or chop later for soups, 3)mix ground chuck with egg and breadcrumbs and cook into patties to freeze, later these can be dunked in sauce for Hong Kong Hamburgers, thawed and crumbled up for soup/tacos/casseroles, and the Du dog loves meat popsicles, 4) make up a batch of homemade biscuit dough, roll, cut, dimple center, and freeze for later use.

    brenda from arkansas

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    About the closest I come to this is when I make a pork/beef roast (or buy a pre-cooked bbq’d bird – chicken or duck – from the grocery store). I know that what starts out as Fabulous Friday Dinner will become Delicious Roast Day Two the next day, and may also wind up in sandwiches, stir-fries, pasta-sauces, and soups. And then, if there’s bones, there’s stock.
    I make an extra portion of Dinner so that my wife can take it for lunch the following day, sure, but intentionally cooking a week’s worth of grain all at once… not so much.

    That said, I *do* repurpose leftovers in to new meals, so that if I *have* made too much quinoa-and-lentils (to site a recent example) I’ll make sure they get used up (maybe combined with left-over BBQ’d duck, tinned tomatoes, dried peppers, and a lot of Thai Basil) within about two days. I’ve been known to top up leftover Dinner-Minus-Starch (pretty much anything you can make in a frying pan and serve over pasta or rice or gnocchi as you like) with a couple of extras, or a slop of alfredo sauce in order to turn it into Meal Number Two. I’ve got a sandwich-sized container of basa-tomato-coconut-quinoa curry in the fridge right now that could probably become 3-5 fish cakes if I throw in a tin of chili-garlic tuna and an egg, which would be a decent dinner for one this evening. It’s that kind of thing, rather than doing up a slew of grilled veggies in the same oven as my roast, with the intention of making them into three different meals along the way.

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    Not quite to pre-cooking components, though the grill post reminds me of the passage about roasting vegetables all in one day in Tamar Adler’s excellent “An Everlasting Meal”.

    What I *am* starting to do is pre-prep everything. I typically do all in my grocery shopping on one day. Maybe farmer’s market a second day. I’m trying to prep everything that same day. Easier to organize the fridge that way and see exactly what I have, instead of a bunch of amorphous plastic produce bags.

    It also makes for easy experiments. Last night we had extra cucumbers chopped up from a previous salad, so I threw them on leftover tacos to stretch the meat – absolutely incredible!

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Falcon volleyballers to be tested early

  • Written by Don Mann

Ali Forde
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Last year the Woodinville volleyball team placed fourth at the Class 4A state tournament — its best finish in school history by far— and the Lady Falcons are back to take another run at it.

But first things first for fourth-year coach Mike Mills, as last year is just a fond memory.

"Right now we’re still figuring out who our setter’s going to be," he said of the critical position that sets the offense in motion. "We have three players battling for that spot right now and we’ll learn more after we play a couple preseason games."

Mills, however, has the luxury of one sure thing: Ali Forde is back for her senior year, good for the coach and a big problem for the rest of the KingCo conference.

The 6 foot, 2 inch wrecking ball was first team all-state last season — the only junior between the Puget Sound and the Idaho border to earn the honor — and according to Mills has gotten better.

"She can hit outside, hit middle, she can pass and serve and plays great defense up front and in the back," he said. "She’s an all-around player without a doubt, and she’ll be on the court a lot. We have high expectations for her and she has high goals for herself."

Always a leader by example, Forde now steps into a more vocal leadership role with the void left by the graduation of Melissa Gilkey and Carmen Vasilatos, a role she can handle, Mills said.

"Oh yeah, what’s driving her right now is she just wants the team to succeed. She had a lot of fun last year ending state on a high note, not just being a great player but having her team play along at that great level, too."

Seniors Ashtyn Mann, Kelsea Orren and Jen Schnelle all dipped their toes in the state tournament waters and are slated for the starting lineup.

"Ashtyn’s 6-2, will play in the middle, strong, great vertical, getting her angles down," Mills said. "Kelsea is vying for the setter position, played a lot of backcourt for us last year but can play anywhere. And we moved Jen to libero this year. She was a setter but now it’ll be a full time defensive gig for her. She played a lot of defense at state and we’re real excited about what she’s turned into as a senior."

Senior Andie Kelly and juniors Hailey Chapman and Maddy Young appear to have the inside track to be the other starters, Mills said, though nothing was set in stone before even the jamboree was played.

Kelly’s a competitive 6-footer who’s made great strides, Chapman is a high-jumping outside hitter who can set, too, and Young, Mills said, "might surprise some people this year." Also in the mix at setter is junior Brooke Wiley, who played a bit at state as a sophomore serving specialist and gained some big-game experience.

What does Mills like best about this group?

"The neat thing is they really get along well together," he said. "There’s a natural chemistry that clicks. Things have been very smooth so far which is cool, and never a given with teenagers."

The Lady Falcons jump right into the frying pan, traveling to traditional powerhouses Edmonds-Woodway and Graham-Kapowsin this week and then participating in the Adidas Tournament at Auburn-Mountainview to face quality opponents before KingCo play begins.

The big question right now is who will establish herself at setter, and this time next week Mills will have a much better idea of who can put the ball in the window consistently. So far, he likes what he sees on defense.

"I feel we’re ahead defensively right now of where we were (the sametime) last year — which was a pretty good team but we struggled a bit early.

"We just need to play some other teams. There’s only so much you can learn playing against yourself."

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Why Are My Eyes Red?

  • Written by Dr. K. W. Scarbrough, OD
Having red eyes is always a little alarming — for you and for anyone looking at you. Often red eyes are not contagious but are simply caused by inflammation or irritation. Some red eyes are very painful and some are not. We often use pain to gauge how severe a problem is, but with eyes pain is not always a good indicator.

Many people think of "pink eye" as a common contagious infection requiring antibiotics. Actually bacterial infections are rare, especially in adults. Children get them more readily because of hand-to-eye transfer of germs. Bacterial infections often follow a cold or respiratory tract infection because of the drain connecting the eye to the nose. They also create copious amounts of pus; the eyes are often glued shut in the morning.

Viruses cause nasty looking red eyes which are highly contagious. There is no pus but there is usually a flood of tears and some pain. Often one eye is infected first for a few days then the other. The second eye is less red and painful due to the immunity the body develops to the virus. A viral eye infection lasts seven to ten days. Waiting it out and using artificial tears is often the only treatment for a viral eye infection. Viruses are not helped with antibiotics. Steroids can make the eye more comfortable but these often prolong the infection. Some doctors use betadine eye washes if the infection is caught early enough. If infected, do not share towels, pillows, or washcloths with anyone in the family. Get plenty of rest. Do not go to work or school until you are fully well.

Allergies are a primary cause of red eyes, particularly during the spring and summer months. Allergy eyes are typically glassy, swollen, and very itchy. Simply rinsing the eyes out helps a substantial number of people manage their symptoms; cold compresses can also be used to numb the eyes and reduce swelling. Over-the-counter eye drops are available which can be very helpful. Taking oral antihistamines dries the eyes out and so may actually be counterproductive.

A broken blood vessel can create an alarmingly red eye without pain or loss of vision. This is a bruise on the white of the eye. The eye is sealed around the colored iris so no blood will enter the eye. Often no cause is found but heavy lifting, sneezing, constipation, or taking blood thinners such as aspirin, Motrin or flaxseed oil can be the culprit. Stop all such activities, after 24 hours use warm compresses to carry the blood away, and stop all blood thinners your doctor has not prescribed. The bruise usually resolves after a week or so but a little stain may remain.

Another cause of red eyes is dryness, typical of extended computer use, menopause, over-wear of contact lenses, and dry air. Treatment is geared toward moistening the eye. Artificial tears, silicone plugs, and eye drops all work well but there is no cure. Contact lens wear may become challenging.

Lid hygiene — washing the eyelashes with special soap — can make a big difference. There are some bacteria which live around the eye that can cause an overall red, cranky, gravelly eye. Middle aged persons with ruddy skin, fair hair, and light eyes are especially vulnerable. These bacteria are reasonably contained by lid washes and eating well, lubricating drops, and sometimes antibiotic ointments. Extreme cases may get significant relief with chronic low-dose oral antibiotics.

Eye injuries can cause a red eye without your knowledge. Sometimes the offending object is too embedded to be felt, or is tucked under the eyelid, or was transferred from the hand to the eye. Eyes that are injured can heal over but the internal parts of the eye become inflamed. This leads to vague nausea, light sensitivity, and a sense of fullness in the eye. Dilation and steroids are required to give the body a jumpstart toward healing.

In general with a red eye, using artificial tears is a good place to start. Any loss of vision must be explored immediately. If an eye is consistently red, painful, or light sensitive, see your eye doctor for a full checkup.

Dr. Scarbrough is the owner of Eagle Eye Vision Care PS in Woodinville.

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Over 140 quilts registered for annual show

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vvquiltturning(l-r) Sharon Beba and Carolyne Speir hold up one of many quilts laid out on a bed at the annual “quilt turning” held this year at the Duvall Visitor & Centennial Center while Marie Couture explains the story behind each quilt. The quilt turning was part of Duvall’s annual Outdoor Quilt Show held on Sept. 28. This year’s show was forced indoors due to inclement weather. Lisa Allen/staff photoThe 12th annual Duvall Outdoor Quilt Show was held indoors and was a success in spite of the weather.  More than 140 quilts were registered but finding places to hang all of them was tricky. The Duvall Outdoor Quilt Show Board counted the ballots and here are the winners:

The People’s Choice in the D.O.Q.S. was #93, "Scrappy Squares" made by Michelle Ellsworth Church.This quilt features more than 10,000 individually pieced 1" squares.

The 1st Runner Up was # 134, "Tropical Stars" made by Mary Lou Rentz.  This batik quilt features blue stars on a cream background.

The 2nd Runner Up was #51, "Baltimore Bunnies" made by Susan Giacomi.  Needle-turned appliquéd bunnies hopped around flowers and vines on this quilt.

The Centennial Quilt Show (sponsored by Duvall’s Cascade Quilters) People’s Favorite was #14 "Tribute to Snoqualmie Valley" made by Carolyne Speir. This multi-green quilt was hand embroidered with red floss to depict scenes from the Valley.

The 1st Runner Up was # 28 made by Marie Couture with a needle-turned appliqué of "Uncle Wiggly" as the centerpiece. (The model for this has stood for years outside Duvall Books.)

The 2nd Runner Up was # 27, a set of two framed quilts brought in by Sheila Schencke and made by her mother-in-law, Dorothy Schencke.  One is called "Dad’s Ties and Shirts," the other is called "Mom’s Dresses."

vvbandThe“10-Piece Bavarian Dance Band” led by Don Duzan performed in the former Laurel Tree building. They have played for the last four quilt shows and add a fun element to the show. Courtesy photo.

The Children’s Division People’s Choice winner was #59, "Blue Sun," a batik quilt made by Robin Wright, her first quilt.

The 1st Runner Up was #11, "Reversible Doll Quilt" made by Megan Grant.  This is a quilt made with woven strips encasing batting.

The 2nd Runner Up was # 5, "My First Quilt" made by Claire Fleming.  Teals, reds, and pinks abound in this big blocks with rectangles quilt.

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State Of The Giants: Weekly Notebook December 13th

Giants Update

The Giants took a 5-3 decision to the Portland Winterhawks on Friday.

Last Week

Jordan Martinook had a hat trick and and Adam Morrison was superb turning away 46 shots. It was the 400th win for the Giants franchise in the last game for Branden Gallagher before Team Canada camp.

Saturday, the Giants began life without Gallagher and dropped a 4-2 game to the Lethbridge Hurricanes. Jaimen Yakubowski had two goals, one of them on a penalty shot, to end the Giants’ win streak at three games. It was Morrison’s fifth loss since joining the Giants.

This Week

The Giants will make a midweek trip to Seattle tomorrow to take on the Thunderbirds, currently fourth in the US division. Burke Gallimore has 14 goals in 28 games for the T-Birds.

This weekend the Giants are in Prince George to take on the Cougars in a pair. Prince George is last in the BC division.

In the Community

The Vancouver Giants and White Spot have launched a Youtube challenge. If a video of last week’s teddy bear toss reaches 50,000 views, the Giants and White Spot will donate $10,000 to the Province’s Empty Stocking Fund.

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State Of The Vancouver Giants

The Video can be viewed here, please do.

As well, you can look forward to Guy Lafleur night on January 7.

Player Spotlight

Brendan Gallagher is hoping to turn a head turning Habs camp into a spot on the Canadian Junior this team as camp gets underway in Alberta.

With Giants coach Don Hay heading Team Canada, Gallagher should be able to stave off being one of the initial cuts as he was last year.

24 goals and 46 points in 28 games since returning from Montreal, don’t be surprised to see Gallagher wearing the maple leaf on Boxing Day.

Glen Hanlon will run the bench while Don Hay performs his duties with Team Canada.

The Giants will also lose second-leading scorer Marek Tvrdon to Slovakia’s world junior entry Dec. 15 while defenceman David Musil is heading for the Czech camp Dec. 18.

Next Game

The Giants are in Seattle tomorrow night hoping to keep their hot streak going.

They’re 11-3-1 in their last 14, but as mentioned they will be missing two very important pieces to Team Canada.

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Art Has Its Reasons

La Poétique, la Mémoire

Change No. 6, 1970, Editions du Seuil (Paris)

It is equally fatal intellectually to have a system and to have none. One must decide to combine both.”

—F. von Schlegel

Heinrich Schenker claimed that if you did not hear music according to his system, you could not be said to hear it at all. Moreover, his system was not elaborated with much consideration for more traditional ways of looking at, or listening to, music. He swept away as trivial and insignificant not only such notions as “modulation” and “sequence” but even “melody,” the common man’s way of recognizing and appreciating music. Schenker’s contempt for the layman is exceeded only by his contempt for all previous theoretical work before his own except that of Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach.

Schenker was the musical heir of the great Romantic literary critics of the early nineteenth century, like Friedrich von Schlegel, who conceived the task of the critic as being to convey the unity of the work of art. At the time of his death in Vienna in 1935 at the age of seventy-eight, he was ignored by most of the world of music except for a small group of distinguished pupils and admirers. Before Schenker, the analysis of a musical work was largely an articulation of its parts. Even today the most common method is still to identify the succession of themes and to note which ones appear more than once. A more technical analysis may articulate the harmonic scheme, listing the different keys to which the music moves and their relation to the main key of the piece (the tonic).

Schenker tried instead to show not how the piece may be divided up, but how it held together. A beginning was made toward this end in music criticism as early as E. T. A. Hoffmann, who observed how a work of Beethoven seemed to derive from a single motif, and traced this technique of composition back to Haydn and Mozart. For later nineteenth- and twentieth-century critics, however, analysis of motifs became only a new way of atomizing a work of music, and matters remained at this relatively primitive level until Schenker revived Romantic aesthetics and combined it with an anticipation of certain aspects of structuralism.

Schenker’s analyses contain the most important and illuminating observations made in this century about the music written between 1700 and 1880. Until now only the earliest and weakest of his books, a treatise on harmony, was available in English. A translation of the central theoretical work, Der Freie Satz, has never been published, nor are there any English versions of his analyses of Beethoven’s Third, Fifth, and Ninth Symphonies and the last piano sonatas.

For this reason two recent publications are welcome: the Five Graphic Music Analyses and, in Music Forum, Vol. II, a discussion of the Saraband of Bach’s C Major Cello Suite, one of the essays (and by no means the most significant one) from the volumes called Der Meisterwerk in der Musik. The Five Graphic …

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Why Are Poor Kids Paying for School Security?

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Students lining up to pay for cell phone storage near New York’s Washington Irving High School, September 27, 2012

When I asked the students at The Collegiate Institute for Math and Science, a public high school in the Bronx, what they thought of the metal detectors they have to pass through on their way into school, they replied that they hardly thought about them at all. The scan machines had been installed in the entry hall years before they arrived. Lining up outside, often in the cold, removing their belts, surrendering their backpacks and purses to the conveyor belt, and producing their ID cards was a part of their morning routine. But what really bothered them, what seemed unfair, and what they wanted to talk about, was a more recent development: the cell phone trucks. Cell phones are officially banned from public schools in New York City, and each morning, the students, many of whom are poor enough to qualify for the free lunch program, pay a dollar apiece to leave their phones in the privately owned trucks parked outside. Why, they asked, are the students in more prosperous neighborhoods unofficially allowed to ignore the ban, as long as they aren’t caught? And why are the poor kids in the eighty-eight New York schools that have been equipped with metal detectors forced to spend five dollars a week—an expense that, for some, means going without food?

For almost a decade, I have been visiting classrooms in Harlem, the Bronx, and Far Rockaway under the auspices of a nonprofit organization, Behind the Book. The students (usually but not exclusively in honors or advanced placement classes) are assigned to read one of my novels, to come up with questions, and to write brief essays that I then discuss with them. I always find these visits interesting, highly enjoyable—and immensely educational. Each time, I’m given a glimpse of a city very different from the New York in which I live.

I usually spend the first part of each class talking about whatever book of mine the students have read and about books in general; the kids want to know how I became a writer, what my typical day is like, how I make a living. After that, I ask them what they have been thinking, about what concerns them, about their lives—which, I know, are often extremely difficult. The fact that they are excelling in their studies seems all the more remarkable given how often their teachers have told me about the challenge of educating kids who may not have enough to eat, a safe place to do their homework, or, for that matter, a home. One hears that teenagers are secretive and shy, but in my experience they are often so astonished that an adult is interested in what they have to say, they’ll start talking before they realize that’s what they’re doing. In one class, in Far Rockaway, the students, many of whom lived in the projects, wanted to complain about the omnipresence of surveillance cameras in their lobbies, hallways, and elevators. They laughed when I asked if the cameras made them feel safer.

A girl said, “They’re watching us.”

Last week, I visited the Collegiate Institute, one of the seven schools included within the Christopher Columbus Educational Campus, an enormous institution (most of whose 3000 students are black or Latino) that has been broken up into smaller units, partly in response to the city’s repeated efforts to close it for poor performance; Collegiate is considered the most academically challenging of the schools within the larger complex.

The students had read my novel After, which is set in a school that becomes an Orwellian police state, a transformation effected by following, then exceeding, a series of guidelines I found on the internet simply by typing in “Preventing School Violence.” The students hadn’t failed to notice that, in my novel, one of the first steps on the road to dystopia is the installation of metal detectors. And they said what kids in the so-called “scan schools” always say. The students who want to smuggle in weapons find ways to smuggle in weapons. And the scans just make everyone else late for class.

On the other hand, the cell phone trucks were, they felt, an outrage. Their phones are not merely a way of getting in touch with friends, but a necessity for their safety. Many have long and late commutes through dangerous neighborhoods and need to be able to reach their parents and to get help in case of emergencies.

The kids told me that they had asked the administration about the possibility of having a storage area in the school where they could check their phones, but were told that this would be “too chaotic.” Yet a Philadelphia school principal, quoted in the Huffington Post in October, said that her city does indeed have an on-site student-run storage area. In the same article, the PTA president of the Frank McCourt High School on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, which is also equipped with metal detectors, said that the parents’ organization had offered to run a cell phone storage room in the school, and that their offer had been rejected.

Meanwhile the cell phone trucks are generating large amounts of cash for the companies that operate them. With seven trucks, Pure Loyalty is the largest of the firms; others include Safe Mobile Storage, Cell Secure Electronic Storage, Smart Dock, Archangel, and Holding Cell. According to The New York Post, the cell phone storage business takes in $22,800 a day, or $4.2 million a year—most of this from poor kids, and in a city that is slashing its school budget. When the City Council suggested lifting the ban on cell phones to ameliorate the problem, its recommendation was countermanded by DOE Chancellor Walcott and Mayor Bloomberg.

During the two hours I spent at the school, a request came over the loudspeakers (the lessons are routinely interrupted by messages that erupt at random and last for minutes, announcing the start of the Toys for Tots Program, and so forth) for back-up to help deal with a “situation”—indicating some kind of violent incident involving one or more students. It would be naïve to deny that these kids inhabit a frequently violent culture from which we want to protect them—just as it would be naïve to deny that the majority of New York’s middle-class white parents have found a way for their children to attend school that does not involve metal detectors.

Everyone who has ever driven north along Park Avenue has noticed how dramatically the scenery changes around 100th Street. Not only do the luxury apartment buildings give way to tenements and bodegas, but the smooth, well-maintained streets of the Upper East Side become the rutted, pocked roads and sidewalks of Spanish Harlem. On the northern side of that divide, minority kids are being forbidden something that their more fortunate white counterparts are freely allowed, and poor students are being heavily taxed for the privilege of being harassed and inconvenienced. Were it not for my own brief trips across that border, I would never have known about the cell phone trucks. I might never have noticed them, as I do now, in my own neighborhood, outside Washington Irving High School, another “scan school.”

I hope that my visit to their class energized or inspired some of the students. I know that I’m grateful to have learned about something I might otherwise not have been aware of, about yet another example of what is allowed to happen when no one is paying attention, or when no one cares sufficiently about the inequities that exist, when no one sees a problem when companies, with the full endorsement of the mayor and the schools chancellor, are able to exploit the security requirements of schools in poorer neighborhoods to make millions of dollars from the students who can least afford to pay.

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