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Why is Machine Learning not where it should have been?
By arvind |Email | Nov 28, 2018 | 5580 Views
Every day we hear and read about how machine learning is changing the face of technology. From social media to virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa, IoT, and even automobiles, algorithms analyze terabytes of data and make faster decisions.
Storing data and harnessing technology to make life easier has become cheaper. In an article for HBR magazine, Andrew Ng, the founder of Google Brain wrote, "If a typical person can do a mental task with less than one second of thought, we can probably automate it using AI either now or in the near future."
People often think of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) as the same. But there is a difference. AI means machines perform "intelligent" tasks - not only repetitive ones. They adapt to different situations and present us with outcomes accordingly.
ML is a more specific subset of AI. It works on the idea that machines can "think" for themselves and learn without our constant supervision.
Deep learning is ML's most dominant technique. It's essentially a statistical method to teach machines how to classify patterns using (artificial) neural networks. These networks memorize categories and apply them to similar situations in a roughly reliable manner.
Most people believe that if we add 100X more layers and 1000X more data, a neural net can to do anything a human being does. But not everything is copacetic right now.
Technology virtuosos like Elon Musk and the late Stephen Hawking have raised concerns about AI, declaring that it will turn out to be a menace to mankind.
Although possible, that future still is far away. Because Machine Learning itself has a lot of catching up to do when it comes to evolution.
Gary Marcus, professor of cognitive psychology at NYU, had a brief stint as director of Uber's AI lab. He believes deep learning is "greedy, brittle, opaque, and shallow."
Here's why he thinks so, and how that currently pans out for mankind.
1. Greedy
Deep learning systems demand tremendous sets of data for training. A computer works on binary input/output data and electrical voltages. To build smart algorithms, it needs enough real-world examples of the scenario (read training data).
But all this comes at a cost. Not just in terms of currency for buying data, but also hiring and training people to collect and feed it into the system.
Google and Facebook can afford infinite data for their systems, because Google answers over 1.2 trillion search queries each year, while Facebook has over 2.2 billion monthly active users.
But for categories at smaller levels, this is still an obstacle to overcome. For instance, Alexa and Siri still respond with pre-defined answers to many questions, and cannot adapt to new scenarios.
2. Brittle
When a neural net gets subjected to a "transfer test" - situations that differ from training - it cannot contextualize the situation. That's why it breaks. Quality issues have always been a challenge for deep learning.
Context matters while understanding natural language. A word can hold different meanings in different languages. A phrase can mean different things in different legal documents. And while ML has developed breadth in reading and understanding, context is still one area where it struggles.
Technology has a long way to go before matching human translation and understanding.
3. Opaque
Conventional programs have accessible code that can be debugged and fixed. Parameters of deep learning, on the other hand, can only be interpreted in terms weight within a mathematical geography.
In other words, the output of ML cannot be explained clearly even now, which leads to concerns about their reliability and biases. Do you remember Ultron from Avengers 2?
4. Shallow
Neural networks are programmed extensively for pattern-recognition. Most of these are done with an ideal environment in mind. But we don't live in an ideal world, do we? Far from it.
In the real world, humans are irrational species with millions of conflicting emotions, actions, and thoughts. Remember the Milgram experiment, where the majority of subjects who claimed that they would extend kindness to others ended up providing a (fake) shock to someone who couldn't spell?
Deep learning has little or no knowledge about the world or human psychology. They do not understand cross-cultural norms and values unless they have large volumes of data to learn it. This lack of sensitivity can prove costly while trying to enter new markets, predict human behaviour, and so on.
These limitations prove that automation, as shown in movies like iRobot and Total Recall, is still a distant dream.
Source: HOB
Now that we have some idea how Artificial Intelligence (AI) will impact Millennials, banking and financial institutions, and small businesses, how will it impact the classroom?
Quickly dive into Spark capabilities such as distributed datasets, in-memory caching, and the interactive shell
Machine learning is all about making computers to perform intelligent tasks without explicitly coding. This is achieved by training the computer with lots and lots of data.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) have changed the way data is gathered, stored, processed and used; thus, becoming an indispensable part of our life.


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New York, 17 January 2017 - Two new powerful and innovative AOPEN Chrome devices, from one of the leading commercial* Chrome device manufacturers, are set to drive customer experience in 2017.
The AOPEN Chromebase Mini and Chromebox Mini devices are part of a new enterprise range aimed at bringing enterprise reliability and features at an affordable price.
The Chromebase Mini is an enterprise-ready interactive 10.1-inch all-in-one touchscreen solution. It's designed to be managed with ease, reliability, and security - making it ideal for high-traffic enterprise environments including digital signage, POS, self-service kiosks, digital corporate communication, and AV room control.
The second device, the Chromebox Mini, is the smallest Chromebox on the market today and also runs on the Chrome OS platform. It is solid state and can be used as an SME or enterprise desktop replacement hosting IOT applications, digital signage and kiosks and affording greater control of in-store engagement.
Stephen Borg, Global Chief Digital Officer AOPEN Group, says the devices represent a major leap forward in design - allowing a ubiquitous approach to multiple use cases, rapid application development, and ease of use for the signage, kiosk, POS, and other enterprise markets.
The Chromebase Mini, an all-in-one 10.1-inch solution, does not require a kiosk protective case, is waterproof and tamper proof unlike like a consumer touch device.
The enterprise ready all-in-one touch device supports audio-video conference platforms, such as Google Hangouts. It offers mounting options for A/V or desktop use (including a built-in Vesa Mount stand), high-quality camera and audio, and a dual microphone. The chromebase mini is also accompanied by optional accessories such as recess wall mounts, POE adapters, and adapters to mount various payment solutions.
"The Chromebase Mini achieves both customer and operational benefits. Its aesthetic and interactive design makes it ideal for high-traffic enterprise environments and provides a compelling way for customers to transact. Retailers or Integrators can also use Chrome Device Management to control and manage their device fleets. It means that content updates and management of the devices can be done remotely via the cloud, and its ease of rollout gives retailers an amazing experience," says Borg.
The Chromebox Mini is a solid-state, ultra-small form factor device. It is the smallest enterprise-ready Chromebox currently available.
It supports Chrome Device Management, and can be used as an enterprise desktop replacement. Its features include fanless design, Bluetooth, wide-reaching dual-band antenna, and power button extension ports for ease of mounting behind device or having other AV equipment control on/off state .
Both the Chromebase and Chromebox Mini are enterprise-grade solutions, at a price point suitable for home use for those wanting a more reliable silent solution. Both feature fanless/non-venting hole designs, can operate in a wide range of temperatures, and meet Google's security requirements.
"Rather than re-purposing consumer-grade products and support for commercial environments, AOPEN has introduced a design for the Chrome Mini Range that is robust and reliable enough for enterprise deployments across key verticals - including retail, hospitality, and QSR," says Borg.
*AOPEN commercial grade products are engineered for 24/7, 365 use in a commercial environment. Products are all solid state. In addition, the Chromebase Mini has tamper proof and water resistant features.


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RIYADH, April 1 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has no immediate plans to allow Boeing 737 MAX aircraft to operate in the kingdom, its transport minister said on Monday, as state airline flyadeal potentially reconsiders an order for the jets.
Boeing's top-selling MAX has been grounded globally since last month after two fatal crashes involving the same model in five months, the first in Indonesia in October and another on March 10 in Ethiopia.
"There were no 737 MAX flying in the kingdom at the time and there aren't plans for them to be back in the near future," minister Nabeel al-Amudi told reporters at an aviation conference in Riyadh.


Imagine you are part of an advertising campaign for the toothpaste brand Pepsodent. You want to sell your product in a town in Southeast Asia by drawing attention to the whitening aspect of the paste. Later you and your campaign team find out that the local natives chew betel nuts to blacken their teeth. Your toothpaste doesn't sell because you did not know that the culture you were trying to sell your teeth whitening toothpaste to finds black teeth attractive.
This blunder happened to Pepsodent and hundreds of other companies across the world. For example, Kellogg's Bran Buds cereal overtook a name change in Sweden when they found out that the name could be translated to "burned farmer." And when an American company proposed to the British that they "table" a topic—not discuss it— confusion arose as the phrase "table" means the direct opposite in Great Britain.
These mistakes and countless of others could have been avoided with proper training in cross cultural awareness.
As an international student, it can be difficult to understand the culture, slang and traditions of other countries. However, as an international student you can also have an advantage by knowing the culture of your home country, learning the culture of your place of study, and observing the cultures of the other international students you will meet in one of the many top schools for business. Businesses look for future employees with cultural experiences, and some are even offering cross cultural awareness training for their employees to avoid misunderstandings and to integrate diversity.
The importance of cross cultural awareness is crucial, especially in communication fields such as advertising and public relations. A simple slip up in language or etiquette can heavily damage the company or campaign. The key is to think globally. In the field of communications, the world is connected through media. This connection means that the media channels, producers, advertisers and writers must think critically about each culture they are communicating to and ensure that the campaign will work well with their audience. International students can start thinking globally by studying abroad and learning about other cultures around the world. Keeping a multi-cultural perspective may come in handy one day when your advertising agency asks you to create a campaign in a different country.


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This weekend is all about cars, boats, art, home decor, Greek life, fitness, history and, most importantly, mac and cheese.
This weekend, we'll help you pack in fun This weekend is all about cars, boats, art, home decor, Greek life, fitness, history and, most importantly, mac and cheese. Check out this story on tcpalm.com: https://www.tcpalm.com/story/entertainment/tcpalmsocial/2018/01/10/best-things-do-weekend-picks-stuart-fort-pierce-port-st-lucie-jensen-beach-vero-beach-hobe-sound/1014080001/
Laurie K. Blandford, laurie.blandford@tcpalm.com Published 11:25 a.m. ET Jan. 10, 2018 | Updated 12:44 p.m. ET Jan. 12, 2018
10/7: Mac & Cheese Fest AZ - It's exactly what it sounds like: macaroni and cheese heaven. But don't fear, there will also be side dishes and craft beers to compliment the cheesy goodness. The festival also includes games like ping pong and giant Jenga for those who need to work up an appetite. Chefs will share their recipes and techniques to craft the perfect mac and cheese as well as creative spins on the dish like mac and cheese pizza. | Details:Noon-7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 7. Scottsdale Waterfront, 7135 E. Camelback Road, Scottsdale. General admission $15, VIP tickets $75. For general admission attendees, tasting and drink tickets aresold separately. 480-666-5545, macandcheesefestaz.com.(Photo: Fudio, Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Prepare for an event-packed weekend on the Treasure Coast, and we've only just started 2018.
In Hobe Sound and Stuart, it's all about cars and boats. In Jensen Beach and Vero Beach, it's all about art and home décor.
In Port St. Lucie, you can go Greek, eat mac and cheese or get in shape. In Fort Pierce, you can geek out on local history or run around town helping local charities.
Here are the best things to do this weekend in Martin, St. Lucie and Indian River counties.
Honor veterans at car show
The 11th annual 100 Years of Cars show is 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday at The Pine School at 12350 S.E. Federal Highway in Hobe Sound. The event includes show cars, food and children's activities.
Admission is $10. Veterans, and kids ages 10 and younger, get in free. Proceeds benefit the Patriot Scholarship, a full-tuition, renewable scholarship awarded to a high school student whose parents are active or veteran military personnel. For more information, call 772-675-7005 or go to www.thepineschool.org/news-events/100-years-of-cars.cfm.
MORE: 100 Years of Cars: The Pine School site of spectacular show
Check out some big boats
The Stuart Boat show runs Friday through Sunday along Dixie Highway in Stuart. (Photo: ERIC HASERT/TCPALM)
The 44th annual Stuart Boat Show is 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday at 54-290 N. Dixie Highway, northwest of the Old Roosevelt Bridge.
The show features more than 200 local, national and international exhibitors displaying hundreds of boats in water and on land, plus seminars, music, food, drinks and exhibits, including the latest in personal watercraft, marine electronics, outboard and inboard engines, safety equipment, accessories, boat lifts, fishing gear, nautical clothing and jewelry.
Admission is $13 for adults, $11 for veterans, $6 for kids ages 12 and younger and free for infants. For more information, call 954-522-5288 or go to stuartboatshow.com.
MORE: Stuart Boat Show presented by Infiniti is next week
Buy unique artwork
The Jensen Beach Fine Art & Craft Show runs from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Jan. 10-11 in downtown Jensen Beach. Barbara Connell of Stuart is seen in this file photo looking at jewelry. (Photo: GRAYSON HOFFMAN/SPECIAL TO TCPALM)
The 12th annual Jensen Beach Fine Art & Craft Show produced by the Jensen Beach Chamber of Commerce is 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in downtown Jensen Beach.
More than 100 artists, including 20 local ones, will display and sell their artwork and handcrafts, including mixed media, sculpture, photography, pottery, jewelry, textiles, graphics and oil, acrylic and watercolor paintings.
Admission is free. Food from local restaurants will be for sale. For more information, call 772-334-3444 or go to www.jensenbeachflorida.info.
PHOTOS: 11th annual Fine Art & Craft Show in downtown Jensen Beach
Opa! Go Greek
Images from the second annual Port St. Lucie Greek Festival on Friday, Jan. 8, 2016, at the St. James the Apostle Orthodox Church at 2201 S.E. Airoso Blvd. in Port St. Lucie. The free festival continues Saturday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 7 p.m. (Photo: XAVIER MASCAREÑAS/TCPALM)
The Port St. Lucie Greek Festival is 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday and noon-7 p.m. Sunday at St. James Orthodox Church at 2201 S.E. Airoso Blvd.
The festival features Greek food and drinks, shopping, raffles, a bounce house playland and live entertainment with music and Greek dancing. This Greek festival comes about a month before the 39th annual Greek Festival at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Fort Pierce, which is Feb. 9-11.
Admission to the Port St. Lucie Greek Festival is free. For more information, call 772-203-8255 or go to www.saintjamesorthodox.org/festival.html.
PHOTOS: Greek Festival in Port St. Lucie in its second year
Celebrate mac and cheese
One Love Jamacian Restaurant & Seafood's homemade mac and cheese. (Photo: MELISSA STONESIFER/SPECIAL TO TCPALM)
The first Treasure Coast Mac & Cheese Festival is noon-9 p.m. Saturday at Tradition Square, 10489 S.W Meeting Street in Port St. Lucie. The festival includes food, beer, live music and a macaroni and cheese-eating contest.
A food ticket for $25 includes 20 samples of different types of macaroni and cheese, a beer ticket for $25 includes a bottomless mug with endless refills and a $45 combo ticket includes both.
General admission is $5. Kids ages 10 and younger get in free. Part of the proceeds benefit local charities. For more information, call 772-418-5051 or go to treasurecoastmacandcheesefest.com.
Get fit this New Year
Treasure Coast Fit Fest is this weekend in Port St. Lucie. (Photo: CONTRIBUTED PHOTO FROM iSTOCK PHOTO)
The first Treasure Coast Fit Fest is 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday at the Port St. Lucie Civic Center, 9221 Civic Center Place. Registration for the 8 a.m. 5K walk/run begins at 7 a.m.
The event features food, music, games, bounce houses and more than 30 exhibitors with the latest in sports equipment, apparel and nutrition, plus talks and demonstrations throughout the day from some of the top local health and fitness professionals.
Admission is free. For more information, go to www.tcfitfest.com.
Learn local history
Lee (left) Robbie and Mike Adams will talk about the history of Adams Ranch at the Treasure Coast History Festival in downtown Fort Pierce on Jan. 13. (Photo: CONTRIBUTED PHOTO FROM TREASURE COAST HISTORY FESTIVAL)
The second annual Treasure Coast History Festival is 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday in front of the Sunrise Theatre, 117 S. Second St. in downtown Fort Pierce.
This celebration of historical events in Martin, St. Lucie and Indian River counties features historical re-enactors, ghost tours, historic trolley tours, rustic crafts, local history authors and a genuine Summerlin family fish fry. Presentations in the theater's Black Box include the Adams Ranch history, the Summerlin fishing history and the establishment of Fort Pierce as a military base. Plus, students from Indian River Charter High School will present excerpts from "American Jazz," a musical based on the discovery of recent letters between Waldo Sexton and author Zora Neale Hurston.
MORE: Unlikely friendship of Waldo Sexton, Zora Neale Hurston will come to life at Charter High
Admission is free. The fish fry, which begins at 11 a.m., is $12 for a plate that includes fish, coleslaw, baked beans and hush puppies. To make a trolley reservation for 1 or 2:30 p.m., call 772-466-3880. For more information, call 772-940-9005 or go to indianrivermag.com.
Also, the festival expanded this year to Vero Beach with a free session about Sexton at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Emerson Center at 1590 27th Ave.
MORE: Treasure Coast History Festival to feature local luminaries from Adams, Sexton families
Run or walk for charity
The Lions Fort Pierce Half Marathon & 5K is this weekend in Fort Pierce. (Photo: ERIC HASERT/TCPALM)
The second annual Lions Fort Pierce Half Marathon & 5K is Sunday in downtown Fort Pierce. The half marathon begins at 6:30 a.m., and the 5K starts at 7 a.m.
The course was designed to take in the historical and photographic highlights of Fort Pierce, starting downtown and passing waterside parks and sites before traveling over the South Causeway Bridge to the jetty, along the shoreline and back.
Race prices are $80 for the half marathon and $45 for the 5K. Proceeds benefit local charities, including the Lions Club, the HANDS of St. Lucie County and the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Committee to renovate the historic Lincoln Theatre in Fort Pierce. For more information, go to www.runfortpierce.com.
MORE: Lions Clubs' Race Fort Pierce slated for Jan. 14 to benefit local charities
Time to redecorate!
A juried fine art show will be along 14th Ave. in Vero Beach as part of the Hibiscus Festival. (PHOTO PROVIDED BY MAIN STREET VERO BEACH) (Photo: CONTRIBUTED PHOTO FROM MAIN STREET VERO BEACH)
The Vero Beach Winter Arts & Crafts Expo and the Vero Beach Home & Remodel Show are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday at the Indian River County Fairgrounds & Expo Center, 7955 58th Ave. in Vero Beach.
The Arts & Crafts Expo features more than 100 booths with unique handmade and retail products, crafts and art work. The Home & Remodel Show includes options to better your homestead, ideas for home-improvement projects, new products on the market and information about what's hot in local real estate.
Admission is free for both events. For more information, go to www.verobeachhomeshow.com.
MORE: Home-decorating studio customizes fabrics to suit homes across Treasure Coast
Next weekend's preview
Chili Challenge at Hobe Sound Early Learning Center
Community movie night in Jensen Beach
Treasure Coast bull riding at St. Lucie County Fairgrounds
Sebastian Riverfront Fine Art and Music Festival
Laurie K. Blandford is #TCPalmSocial's entertainment reporter and columnist dedicated to adventure and finding the best things to do on the Treasure Coast. Read her weekly column, Laurie's Stories, on TCPalm.com. Follow her on Twitter at @TCPalmLaurie or Facebook at faceboook.com/TCPalmLaurie. Get behind the scenes with TCPalm's Instagram and Snapchat stories.
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Rolling Loud hosted a "pre-Roll" party in Miami, celebrating the upcoming fifth anniversary of their festival. While the event will only be going down in May, anticipation is already high after the line-up was announced.
After a failed appearance last year, Lil Wayne will be performing during a Saturday headlining spot. At the pre-Roll party, Weezy made a statement by wearing all Gucci, including a blue and orange headband.
He smoked while he took some photos with party riders, wearing an over-sized heart sunglasses in the club.
We hope 50 Cent doesn't come for Wayne this time.
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On the 40th anniversary of One Hundred Years of Solitude , Roberto González Echevarría charts the extraordinary recent history of Latin American literature.
Latin American literature specialists gathering in Colombia next week will be privy to an extraordinary reconciliation. A special edition of Gabriel García Márquez's best-known work, One Hundred Years of Solitude, will be launched at the meeting to mark the 40 years since its publication. It will feature a foreword by his one-time friend and recent enemy, the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. They are part of a golden generation of writers who found fame worldwide, but what led to their extraordinary rise, and who will replace them?
Latin American literature was largely unknown before the mid-1960s when the emergence of a handful of remarkable writers put it at the forefront of world literature and concepts associated with it such as magical realism became common cultural currency. The writers who detonated what came to be known as "The boom of the Latin American novel" were the Argentinian Julio Cortázar, the Mexican Carlos Fuentes, Vargas Llosa, García Márquez, and the Chilean Jose Donoso.
But to these young writers was added an older figure, much revered among certain circles in Latin America and Europe, the Argentinian short-story writer, essayist and poet Jorge Luis Borges. The hullabaloo created by these writers brought about the discovery of close precursors such as the Cuban Alejo Carpentier, the Mexican Juan Rulfo, whose meagre work (two books) was nevertheless recognised as brilliant, the Uruguayan Juan Carlos Onetti, and the Guatemalan Miguel Ángel Asturias, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1967. In addition, the success of the narrative drew attention to Latin America's impressive array of living poets: the Chilean Pablo Neruda, who won a Nobel in 1971, the Mexican Octavio Paz, who won one in 1990, the Cubans Nicol s Guillen and Jose Lezama Lima, and the Nicaraguan Ernesto Cardenal.
The boom was brought about by the indisputable talent of Cortázar, Donoso, Fuentes and García Márquez, but also by their personalities. All were cosmopolitan in spirit and action, living abroad and speaking several languages, most significantly French and English, which gave them access to the media. The boom novelists and the poets became fully fledged members of the international jet set of celebrities. They were visiting professors at major universities throughout Europe and the US.
They also won major literary prizes. To the Nobels earned by Asturias, Neruda and Paz, one must add that collected by García Márquez in 1982. His Nobel prize was in recognition not only of his great work, particularly One Hundred Years of Solitude , but of the whole group, and of Latin American literature in general. All of the boom novelists won important prizes in Spain and Latin America as well.
What did these writers have, other than talent and ambition, that suddenly brought them into the limelight? The briefest answer is that they successfully adapted, somewhat belatedly, the aesthetics of modernism to the Latin American narrative tradition. This does not apply to Borges, of course, who had been immersed in modernist aesthetics since the beginning of his career and whose work is so original that it is itself a major influence on the boom writers. But the younger ones began to write novels and stories that were very much in the manner of two major modernist prose writers: James Joyce and William Faulkner.
The Latin American writers felt profound affinities with these writers: with Joyce, perhaps because of a shared Catholic background. Faulkner's American South had much in common with rural Latin America and its telluric conflicts. Both Joyce and Faulkner offered ways out of the realist conventions of the Latin American novels of the 1930s and 1940s. They now boasted interior monologues, unreliable narrators, fragmented plots, twisted family relations and stigmatised sexual practices.
It was a belated rebellion against bourgeois novelistic practice and a gleeful enlistment in modernism. A new trait the Latin American novelists displayed with gusto was humour of all kinds, from the most refined irony to the crudest slapstick, something that was utterly lacking in previous Latin American literature.
A first generation of younger writers, still fellow travellers of the boom, was led by the Cuban Severo Sarduy and the Argentinian Manuel Puig. Sarduy produced highly experimental novels that were, in many ways, parodies of those written by the novelists of the boom. His adherence to cutting-edge critical theory made him difficult to read, which limited his impact to a small circle of other writers and intellectuals.
Puig's obsession was the impact of the mass media, particularly film, on ordinary people and therefore on literature. His Betrayed by Rita Hayworth (1968), set in a small, fictitious Argentine town, has much in common with the work of boom writers. But The Kiss of the Spiderwoman (1976) was something different and a true masterpiece. It is the story of a political activist and a homosexual confined in the same jail cell in Argentina, with the latter seducing the former by telling him the plots of films that he has seen. Although highly original, Puig is refreshingly unselfconscious and easy to read. The early death, from Aids, of these two accomplished yet still promising writers made a smooth transition from the boom to a new generation of writers impossible.
The emergence of such a clear-cut historical break inevitably provoked the desire to discern the appearance of another, particularly one that closed off the period opened by the boom. If there was a boom, there had to be a post-boom. There are already at least two books on the subject, but neither one is very convincing, partly because in literary history it is very difficult to distinguish breaks from continuities unless truly major works and writers arise, as with the boom, and no new figures of the stature of the boom writers have appeared.
Major writers are a rarity, even if the advent of several at once makes one expect the next bunch to promptly rise above the horizon. Besides, the boom novelists continued to produce excellent works unabatedly, some not as good as the ones before but others actually better. The supposed post-boom writers cannot compete with the late works of the boom writers not only because their fame gives them a head start, but because they are simply not as good.
The newer Latin American writers do not so much suffer the continued presence of older writers as ignore them. The reason may very well be that what distinguishes them is a veritable paradigm shift. While the boom writers were the heirs to modernism, their central concern was still the old issue of Latin American cultural identity and uniqueness. This is in part what made them famous abroad: Europeans and Americans want to read about ghostly Latin American towns, outrageous military dictators and improbable happenings attributed to local magic practices. The new writers are not interested in those topics because national or cultural identity does not preoccupy them any more. In fact, it embarrasses them.
A post-boom Latin American literary movement that attempted to distance itself from magical realism and the aesthetics of the famous boom novelists was dubbed "McOndo", an irreverent take-off on the name of the mythic town in One Hundred Years of Solitude , Macondo. Their idea was that the Latin American reality they portrayed is urban, globalised and swamped by US culture, such as McDonald's hamburger chains. A similar group sprang up in Mexico calling itself "Nueva Onda", or "New Wave", which opposed not only Fuentes but also Paz and his hegemonic literary group. Neither of these groups left work of enduring value or a compelling literary figure of national, much less international acclaim.
There are three young novelists who are making their mark: the Mexican Jorge Volpi, the Bolivian Edmundo Paz Sold n and the Colombian Fernando Vallejo. Volpi and Paz Sold n write novels dealing with current developments in science but also the recent past, such as the secret weapons the Nazis attempted to produce.
Macondo, like Homer's Ithaca, Virgil's Rome, Balzac's Paris or Dickens's London, cannot be erased from literary history, but other such imaginary cities may be invented and added to their number.
Roberto González Echevarría is Sterling professor of Hispanic and comparative literatures at Yale University. He co-edited The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature .


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Points-to analysis using BDDs (2003)
by M Berndl, O Lhoták, F Qian, L Hendren, N Umanee
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Cloning-based context-sensitive pointer alias analysis using binary decision diagrams
by John Whaley, Monica S. Lam - In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2004 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation , 2004
"... This paper presents the first scalable context-sensitive, inclusionbased pointer alias analysis for Java programs. Our approach to context sensitivity is to create a clone of a method for every context of interest, and run a context-insensitive algorithm over the expanded call graph to get context-s ..."
This paper presents the first scalable context-sensitive, inclusionbased pointer alias analysis for Java programs. Our approach to context sensitivity is to create a clone of a method for every context of interest, and run a context-insensitive algorithm over the expanded call graph to get context-sensitive results. For precision, we generate a clone for every acyclic path through a program's call graph, treating methods in a strongly connected component as a single node. Normally, this formulation is hopelessly intractable as a call graph often has 10 14 acyclic paths or more. We show that these exponential relations can be computed efficiently using binary decision diagrams (BDDs). Key to the scalability of the technique is a context numbering scheme that exposes the commonalities across contexts. We applied our algorithm to the most popular applications available on Sourceforge, and found that the largest programs, with hundreds of thousands of Java bytecodes, can be analyzed in under 20 minutes. This paper shows that pointer analysis, and many other queries and algorithms, can be described succinctly and declaratively using Datalog, a logic programming language. We have developed a system called bddbddb that automatically translates Datalog programs into highly efficient BDD implementations. We used this approach to develop a variety of context-sensitive algorithms including side effect analysis, type analysis, and escape analysis.
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...zation, parallelization, error detection and program understanding, need pointer alias information. Scalable pointer analyses developed to date are imprecise because they are either contextinsensitive=-=[3,17,19,33]-=-orunification-based[15, 16]. A contextinsensitive analysis does not distinguish between different calling contexts of a method and allows information from one caller to propagate erroneously to anothe...
Parameterized Object Sensitivity for Points-to Analysis for Java
by Ana Milanova, Atanas Rountev, Barbara G. Ryder - ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol , 2002
"... The goal of points-to analysis for Java is to determine the set of objects pointed to by a reference variable or a reference object field. We present object sensitivity, a new form of context sensitivity for flow-insensitive points-to analysis for Java. The key idea of our approach is to analyze a m ..."
The goal of points-to analysis for Java is to determine the set of objects pointed to by a reference variable or a reference object field. We present object sensitivity, a new form of context sensitivity for flow-insensitive points-to analysis for Java. The key idea of our approach is to analyze a method separately for each of the object names that represent runtime objects on which this method may be invoked. To ensure flexibility and practicality, we propose a parameterization framework that allows analysis designers to control the tradeo#s between cost and precision in the object-sensitive analysis.
Refinement-based context-sensitive points-to analysis for Java
by Manu Sridharan, Ras Bodik - PLDI'06 , 2006
...MB of memory for any query, and our implementation does no caching between queries. The memory required to store the results from the contextinsensitive analysis pre-pass is less than 30MB using BDDs =-=[5]-=-, yielding a maximum memory requirement of 35MB for these benchmarks. In comparison, we could not run the object-sensitive algorithm of [21] on the chart benchmark within 2GB of RAM, and a precise equ...
HyperSafe: A lightweight approach to provide lifetime hypervisor control-flow integrity
by Zhi Wang, Xuxian Jiang - In Proceedings of the 31st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy , 2010
"... Abstract — Virtualization is being widely adopted in today's computing systems. Its unique security advantages in isolating and introspecting commodity OSes as virtual machines (VMs) have enabled a wide spectrum of applications. However, a common, fundamental assumption is the presence of a trustwor ..."
Abstract — Virtualization is being widely adopted in today's computing systems. Its unique security advantages in isolating and introspecting commodity OSes as virtual machines (VMs) have enabled a wide spectrum of applications. However, a common, fundamental assumption is the presence of a trustworthy hypervisor. Unfortunately, the large code base of commodity hypervisors and recent successful hypervisor attacks (e.g., VM escape) seriously question the validity of this assumption. In this paper, we present HyperSafe, a lightweight approach that endows existing Type-I bare-metal hypervisors with a unique self-protection capability to provide lifetime controlflow integrity. Specifically, we propose two key techniques. The first one – non-bypassable memory lockdown – reliably protects the hypervisor's code and static data from being compromised even in the presence of exploitable memory corruption bugs (e.g., buffer overflows), therefore successfully providing hypervisor code integrity. The second one – restricted pointer indexing – introduces one layer of indirection to convert the control data into pointer indexes. These pointer indexes are restricted such that the corresponding call/return targets strictly follow the hypervisor control flow graph, hence expanding protection to control-flow integrity. We have built a prototype and used it to protect two open-source Type-I hypervisors: BitVisor and Xen. The experimental results with synthetic hypervisor exploits and benchmarking programs show HyperSafe can reliably enable the hypervisor self-protection and provide the integrity guarantee with a small performance overhead. I.
...r precision by allowing for inclusion-based or flow-sensitive alias analysis and supporting assembly code. Note some promising progresses in this direction have been made by existing research efforts =-=[6]-=-, [8], [11], [19] and the integration of these techniques remains an interesting direction for future work. VI. RELATED WORK Program Analysis and Formal Proof The first area of related work is recent ...
Context-Sensitive Program Analysis as Database Queries
by Monica S. Lam , John Whaley, V. Benjamin Livshits, Michael C. Martin, Dzintars Avots, Michael Carbin, Christopher Unkel , 2005
"... Program analysis has been increasingly used in software engineering tasks such as auditing programs for security vulnerabilities and finding errors in general. Such tools often require analyses much more sophisticated than those traditionally used in compiler optimizations. In particular, context-se ..."
Program analysis has been increasingly used in software engineering tasks such as auditing programs for security vulnerabilities and finding errors in general. Such tools often require analyses much more sophisticated than those traditionally used in compiler optimizations. In particular, context-sensitive pointer alias information is a prerequisite for any sound and precise analysis that reasons about uses of heap objects in a program. Context-sensitive analysis is challenging because there are over 10^14 contexts in a typical large program, even after recursive cycles are collapsed. Moreover, pointers cannot be resolved in general without analyzing the entire program. This paper
...s focused on scalable pointer analyses; it began with an imprecise but very fast algorithm due to Steensgaard [48]. Recently several more precise algorithms have been shown to scale to large programs =-=[7, 27, 33, 56]-=-. These algorithms are all context-insensitive, except for one due to Das, which includes a single level of context sensitivity [20]. Some attempts at context sensitivity, such as the C pointer analys...
Enforcing isolation and ordering in stm
by Tatiana Shpeisman, Vijay Menon, Ali-reza Adl-tabatabai, Steven Balensiefer, Dan Grossman, Richard L. Hudson, Katherine F. Moore, Bratin Saha - In Proceedings of Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI , 2007
"... Transactional memory provides a new concurrency control mech-anism that avoids many of the pitfalls of lock-based synchroniza-tion. High-performance software transactional memory (STM) im-plementations thus far provide weak atomicity: Accessing shared data both inside and outside a transaction can r ..."
Transactional memory provides a new concurrency control mech-anism that avoids many of the pitfalls of lock-based synchroniza-tion. High-performance software transactional memory (STM) im-plementations thus far provide weak atomicity: Accessing shared data both inside and outside a transaction can result in unexpected, implementation-dependent behavior. To guarantee isolation and consistent ordering in such a system, programmers are expected to enclose all shared-memory accesses inside transactions. A system that provides strong atomicity guarantees isolation even in the presence of threads that access shared data outside trans-actions. A strongly-atomic system also orders transactions with conflicting non-transactional memory operations in a consistent manner. In this paper, we discuss some surprising pitfalls of weak atom-
...h implements optimistic concurrency control using versioning [34] for reads and strict two-phase locking [22] and eager versioning for writes. For our whole-program static analysis we used the Paddle =-=[7]-=- extension to Soot [56]. 3.1 Transaction records In the base STM system, a pointer-sized transaction record [1] tracks the state of each object accessed inside a transaction. The transaction record ca...
A logic for information flow in objectoriented programs
by Torben Amtoft, Sruthi Bandhakavi, Anindya Banerjee - In ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL , 2006
"... This paper specifies, via a Hoare-like logic, an interprocedural and flow sensitive (but termination insensitive) information flow analysis for object-oriented programs. Pointer aliasing is ubiquitous in such programs, and can potentially leak confidential information. Thus the logic employs indepen ..."
This paper specifies, via a Hoare-like logic, an interprocedural and flow sensitive (but termination insensitive) information flow analysis for object-oriented programs. Pointer aliasing is ubiquitous in such programs, and can potentially leak confidential information. Thus the logic employs independence assertions to describe the noninterference property that formalizes confidentiality, and employs region assertions to describe possible aliasing. Programmer assertions, in the style of JML, are also allowed, thereby permitting a more fine-grained specification of information flow policy. The logic supports local reasoning about state in the style of separation logic. Small specifications are used; they mention only the variables and addresses relevant to a command. Specifications are combined using a frame rule. An algorithm for the computation of postconditions is described: under certain assumptions, there exists a strongest postcondition which the algorithm computes. 1.
...mentioned in Sec. 5, Table 2 specifies two sets of rules. The reader might have noted that the rules that mention region assertions only specify a points-to analysis similar to well-known ones, e.g., =-=[13, 9]-=-. Data flow facts used in typical points-to analyses can be viewed as assertions. Nevertheless, we have not found in the literature an explicit Hoare-style specification of interprocedural points-to a...
Efficient Relational Calculation for Software Analysis
by Dirk Beyer, Andreas Noack, Claus Lewerentz - IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING , 2005
"... Calculating with graphs and relations has many applications in the analysis of software systems, for example, the detection of design patterns or patterns of problematic design and the computation of design metrics. These applications require an expressive query language, in particular, for the dete ..."
Calculating with graphs and relations has many applications in the analysis of software systems, for example, the detection of design patterns or patterns of problematic design and the computation of design metrics. These applications require an expressive query language, in particular, for the detection of graph patterns, and an efficient evaluation of the queries even for large graphs. In this paper, we introduce RML, a simple language for querying and manipulating relations based on predicate calculus, and CrocoPat, an interpreter for RML programs. RML is general because it enables the manipulation not only of graphs (i.e., binary relations), but of relations of arbitrary arity. CrocoPat executes RML programs efficiently because it internally represents relations as binary decision diagrams, a data structure that is well-known as a compact representation of large relations in computer-aided verification. We evaluate RML by giving example programs for several software analyses and CrocoPat by comparing its performance with calculators for binary relations, a Prolog system, and a relational database management system.
... we have mentioned only applications from software design. This is rather because we are most familiar with this area than because relational querying is useless elsewhere. For example, Berndl et al. =-=[36]-=- present an algorithm for computing the points-to relation between pointer variables and allocation sites (a problem from compiler optimization) which is based on the manipulation of relations, and an...
Strictly Declarative Specification of Sophisticated Points-to Analyses
by Martin Bravenboer, Yannis Smaragdakis
"... We present the Doop framework for points-to analysis of Java programs. Doop builds on the idea of specifying pointer analysis algorithms declaratively, using Datalog: a logicbased language for defining (recursive) relations. We carry the declarative approach further than past work by describing the ..."
We present the Doop framework for points-to analysis of Java programs. Doop builds on the idea of specifying pointer analysis algorithms declaratively, using Datalog: a logicbased language for defining (recursive) relations. We carry the declarative approach further than past work by describing the full end-to-end analysis in Datalog and optimizing aggressively using a novel technique specifically targeting highly recursive Datalog programs. As a result, Doop achieves several benefits, including full order-of-magnitude improvements in runtime. We compare Doop with Lhoták and Hendren's Paddle, which defines the state of the art for context-sensitive analyses. For the exact same logical points-to definitions (and, consequently, identical precision) Doop is more than 15x faster than Paddle for a 1-call-site sensitive analysis of the DaCapo benchmarks, with lower but still substantial speedups for other important analyses. Additionally, Doop scales to very precise analyses that are impossible with Paddle and Whaley et al.'s bddbddb, directly addressing open problems in past literature. Finally, our implementation is modular and can be easily configured to analyses with a wide range of characteristics, largely due to its declarativeness.
...gram analysis, have a long history of experimentation in multiple successive systems, and have experimented extensively with BDD variable orderings until deriving ones that yield "impressive results" =-=[2]-=-.) Nevertheless, what we see in Figure 18 is that it is very hard to provide a variable ordering that minimizes all crucial BDDs. Although the var points-to relation is consistently small, the (contex...
Context-sensitive points-to analysis: is it worth it
by Laurie Hendren - In CC , 2006
"... Abstract. We present the results of an empirical study evaluating the precision of subset-based points-to analysis with several variations of context sensitivity on Java benchmarks of significant size. We compare the use of call site strings as the context abstraction, object sensitivity, and the BD ..."
Abstract. We present the results of an empirical study evaluating the precision of subset-based points-to analysis with several variations of context sensitivity on Java benchmarks of significant size. We compare the use of call site strings as the context abstraction, object sensitivity, and the BDD-based context-sensitive algorithm proposed by Zhu and Calman, and by Whaley and Lam. Our study includes analyses that context-sensitively specialize only pointer variables, as well as ones that also specialize the heap abstraction. We measure both characteristics of the points-to sets themselves, as well as effects on the precision of client analyses. To guide development of efficient analysis implementations, we measure the number of contexts, the number of distinct contexts, and the number of distinct points-to sets that arise with each context sensitivity variation. To evaluate precision, we measure the size of the call graph in terms of methods and edges, the number of devirtualizable call sites, and the number of casts statically provable to be safe. The results of our study indicate that object-sensitive analysis implementations are likely to scale better and more predictably than the other approaches; that objectsensitive analyses are more precise than comparable variations of the other approaches; that specializing the heap abstraction improves precision more than extending the length of context strings; and that the profusion of cycles in Java call graphs severely reduces precision of analyses that forsake context sensitivity in cyclic regions. 1
... of specific analyses, we should have empirical answers to these questions. This study aims to provide these answers. Recent advances in the use of Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) in program analysis =-=[3, 12, 29, 31]-=- have made context sensitive analysis efficient enough to perform an empirical study on benchmarks of significant size. Using the JEDD system [14], we have implemented three different families of cont...


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Governor Larry Hogan announces $125 million for hardening schools with door security, panic buttons at schools in all counties; here are highlights of his proposals:
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The revolving door of letting people who shoot people and being allowed to return to the streets.
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*Plans for how to handle behavioral threats in schools
Training and certification for all school resource officers
Amend school safety governing board to include more law officers
Increased funding for social media trackers to better track intelligence to aid law enforcement officers.
To ensure the safety of kids in schools, improving response to threats in other facilities in all parts of the state.
All state agencies will be required to participate in active assailant planning and training.
We need to move to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. Allow family members and law enforcement to petition the court to remove guns from a family member if a Judge approves.
Domestic violence continues to expand into tragedy as we saw in the case of the murder of a Prince Georges Police Officer
343 people were killed in Baltimore City last year in spite of strict gun laws.
We must pass legislation to remove from the streets repeat violent offenders
Governor Larry Hogan Announces School Safety Initiatives
Will Provide $125 Million for School Safety Enhancements, Plus $50 Million in Annual Grants, Emergency Legislation to Create Statewide Standards, Support for Common Sense Legislation
ANNAPOLIS, MD – Governor Larry Hogan today announced a series of new initiatives, including new funding, an executive order, and emergency legislation. He also voiced his support for existing legislative proposals to enhance safety in Maryland schools; increase coordination among schools, state agencies, and law enforcement; and keep firearms out of the hands of the mentally ill and individuals with violent criminal records.
"There is no more important job than keeping our citizens safe – especially our children. In the wake of the horrific school shooting in Parkland, Florida, citizens here in our state and all across America want to know what government at all levels is doing to keep our children safe, and what we are collectively doing to stop gun violence and violent crime," said Governor Hogan. "Classrooms should never be a place of fear for our children. No mom or dad should ever have to worry when they send their kids off to school whether their son or daughter is going to come home safely."
The governor was joined by Dr. Karen Salmon, state Superintendent of Schools; Glenn Fueston, executive director of the Governor's Office of Crime Control & Prevention (GOCCP); and Ed Clarke, executive director of the Maryland Center for School Safety. Governor Hogan attended the National Governors Association winter meeting in Washington, D.C. this past weekend, where he discussed strategies and best practices for school safety with governors from both parties.
Maryland has already enacted many of the measures that other states are currently considering, including some of the toughest gun laws in the nation. Recent Hogan administration initiatives have strengthened emergency response procedures and agency cooperation, and the Maryland Center for School Safety is the only center of its kind in the nation to be housed in the state's law enforcement fusion center.
"Great work is already being done to ensure the safety of Maryland's students and its schools," said the governor, referencing recent successful law enforcement interventions in Frederick, St. Mary's, and Montgomery Counties. "Incidents like this here in Maryland and all across the country make it very clear that we absolutely must remain vigilant when it comes to protecting our kids, and we absolutely must do more."
To bolster school security efforts in the state, Governor Hogan announced that the administration would commit an additional $125 million to accelerate and enhance safety improvements in schools, including secure doors and windows, metal detectors, security cameras, panic buttons, and other capital improvements, as well as an additional $50 million in operating funds each year for new school safety grants, which could be used for school resource officers, counselors, and additional safety technology. The funding will be allocated through the governor's education lockbox proposal, which provides an additional $4.4 billion in education spending from casino revenues.
The governor also announced that he will submit emergency legislation to create Maryland's first statewide school safety standards, including required training and certification for all school resource officers and security staff. The legislation will require all school systems to conduct an annual school safety assessment and develop plans to address behavioral threats and emergency situations. The plans will be subject to approval by the Maryland State Board of Education and overseen by the Maryland Center for School Safety.
As an immediate step to activate the emergency legislation, the governor announced that he will submit a supplemental budget on Friday, March 2, that provides an additional $5 million for the Maryland Center for School Safety, an increase in funding of 600 percent. The funding will enable the center to hire analysts and social media trackers, allocate staff in more regions of the state, and assist schools with conducting the mandated safety assessments.
To prevent, prepare for, and respond to threats all across the state, Governor Hogan announced that he signed Executive Order 01.01.2018.08 directing all state agencies to develop, review, and update internal plans, policies, and procedures related to active assailant events, and to participate in a coordinated active assailant initiative that includes collaboration with public and non-governmental partners.
To take immediate action to further restrict access to guns for individuals with mental illnesses or a violent criminal background, the governor announced support for several targeted initiatives, including:
Support for "red flag" legislation, which allows family members or law enforcement to petition the court for an order that would prohibit an individual from possessing firearms or ammunition if they were deemed by a judge to be a danger to themselves or others.
Federal action to institute a universal background check system, which the governor has supported since his campaign.
Support for legislation to strengthen and clarify current law to prohibit an individual convicted of domestic violence from possessing firearms, which was a factor in the recent murder of Prince George's County Police Corporal Mujahid Ramzziddin.
Support for legislation banning "bump stocks."
Finally, the governor highlighted his proposed legislation to toughen penalties for individuals committing violent crimes with guns, who are predominantly responsible for the nearly 350 murders in Baltimore City last year. Many of the policies in the administration's violent crime package are making progress in the Maryland Senate under the leadership of Judicial Proceedings Committee Chairman Sen. Bobby Zirkin.
"I want to be very clear: my most important responsibility is keeping the citizens of Maryland safe, and the most important responsibility we all have is to keep our children safe. Let's get it done together," concluded the governor.
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After decades of neglect by Democratic Governors, Republican Governor Larry Hogan Announces Plans to Complete $136.8 Million Widening of US 113
CRIME CONTROL: Maryland Governor Larry Hogan is mad as hell and ain't gonna take it anymore from repeat offenders, violent gangs and weak-kneed liberal judges
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MURDER USA Second arrest made in MS 13 gang slaying of Jose Hernandez Portillo; Juan Carlos Sandoval-Rodriguez joined by his co-defendant David Enrique Diaz Alvarado
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Yazoo City is a U.S. city in Yazoo County, Mississippi. It was named after the Yazoo River, which, in turn was named by the French explorer Robert La Salle in 1682 as "Rivière des Yazous" in reference to the Yazoo tribe living near the river's mouth. It is the county seat of Yazoo County and the principal city of the Yazoo City Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the larger Jackson–Yazoo City Combined Statistical Area. According to the 2010 census, the population was 11,403. The most important industry in 2021 is a group of federal prisons.

History

The community now known as Yazoo City was founded in 1824 with the name Hannan's Bluff. It was later renamed Manchester, then changed to Yazoo City in 1841. Yazoo City became the county seat in 1849. A yellow fever epidemic struck Yazoo City in 1853.

During the American Civil War, the Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas was completed at a makeshift shipyard in Yazoo City after the Confederate loss of New Orleans and Memphis. During her short career, the Arkansas challenged the Union navy's control of the Mississippi River and helped avert the early fall of Vicksburg. On May 21, 1863, as a Union fleet steamed up the Yazoo River, the Confederate forces burned down the shipyard to keep their foes from capturing the vessels being built there. The Federal forces then burned down the sawmill and lumberyard before withdrawing. After their capture of Vicksburg in July 1863, another Union raid briefly occupied Yazoo City, but this time the Union ironclad USS Baron DeKalb was sunk by a mine. Federal troops occupied the town in September and again in October 1863. Another occupation resulted in the Battle of Yazoo City on March 5, 1864 between the Union troops and Confederates led by Robert V. Richardson and Lawrence Sullivan Ross. The Union troops held their ground but departed the following day. The Federal forces returned again on May 19, 1864, doing more damage to the town.

Yazoo City was rebuilt, but yellow fever struck and took more victims in 1878. On May 25, 1904, a fire destroyed much of central Yazoo City. According to a local legend, the fire was caused by a witch avenging her death. In reality, a boy playing with matches accidentally set a house ablaze. The fire quickly spread, and three-fourths of the town was destroyed, including most of the homes. It was stopped by a canal, which saved the new courthouse (built in 1872 to replace the one burned by the Union forces) and 10 antebellum homes nearby. The town took almost two years to recover.

In 1915, the Orr Modern Motor Car Company was founded in Yazoo City by G.A. Wilson and C.D. Orr, with capital of $2,000,000 (). Despite its name, the company was focused just on making Orr's innovative worm drive and assembled only one automobile as a prototype. Not long after, Orr shut its doors.

The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 did much damage to the entire Delta, but Yazoo City was restored and is now protected by an effective flood-prevention system.

Tornado History

A strong tornado, rated EF4 on the Enhanced Fujita scale and with a path width of , hit Yazoo County on April 24, 2010. Four people were killed in the Yazoo City area, and a number were seriously injured; four of the victims were airlifted to the University of Mississippi Medical Center in the capital city of Jackson,  away. The Governor of Mississippi, Haley Barbour, toured the area in a National Guard helicopter and held a news conference on the disaster at 3:30 pm. The tornado and the aftermath were shown in an episode of the Discovery Channel series Storm Chasers, and several YouTube videos show considerable detail and descriptions.

On November 29, 2010 around 8:05 pm local time, Yazoo City was struck by two EF2 tornadoes: the first one tracked  southwest of town. The second went right through downtown causing significant damage to several buildings.

A high-end EF1 tornado passed through the southeast side of the city on May 2, 2021. Multiple mobile homes were destroyed and trees, power lines, and homes were damaged.

Geography

Yazoo City is located  northwest of Jackson at the junctions of U.S. Routes 49, 49E, and 49W, and MS Highways 3, 16, and 149, on the banks of the Yazoo River, near the Panther Swamp National Wildlife Refuge.

U.S. Route 49W provides a fairly direct link between Yazoo City and Belzoni. The old highway segment, renamed Mississippi Highway 149, passes through Panther Swamp National Wildlife Refuge and the communities of Louise and Midnight before reconnecting with the new US 49W at Silver City,  south of Belzoni. The new highway makes the town of Carter so near, it might be considered for annexation by Yazoo City. Two bridges now cross the Yazoo River at Yazoo City.

The section of MS 3 in Yazoo City is called Haley Barbour Parkway. Barbour, the former governor of Mississippi, grew up in Yazoo City and has a home on Wolf Lake, a lake north of Yazoo City. U.S. Route 49 (part of which was formerly U.S. 49E) through Yazoo City is named Jerry Clower Boulevard, after the famous comedian, a former resident of Yazoo City.

Yazoo City is also known as the "Gateway to the Delta" due to its location on the transition between the two great landforms that characterize the geography of Mississippi (the western part of the city lies in the Mississippi Delta and the eastern part lies in the loess bluffs that characterize most of eastern Mississippi).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which  is land and  (1.19%) is covered by water.

Demographics

2020 census

As of the 2020 United States Census, there were 10,316 people, 3,670 households, and 2,050 families residing in the city.

2010 census
As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 11,403 people living in the city. The racial makeup of the city was 82.0% Black, 16.1% White, 0.1% Native American, 0.5% Asian and 0.5% from two or more races. 0.7% were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

2000 census
As of the census of 2000, 14,550 people, 4,271 households, and 2,968 families resided in the city. The population density was 1,349.2 people per square mile (521.1/km). The 4,676 housing units averaged 433.6 per mi2 (167.5/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 28.73% White, 69.68% African American, 0.18% Native American, 0.58% Asian, 0.23% from other races, and 0.60% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 7.47% of the population.

Of the 4,271 households, 37.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 31.5% were married couples living together, 32.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.5% were not families. About 27.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.85 and the average family size was 3.49.

In the city, the population was distributed as 29.0% under the age of 18, 10.5% from 18 to 24, 31.3% from 25 to 44, 17.3% from 45 to 64, and 11.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females, there were 112.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 115.9 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $19,893, and for a family was $22,470. Males had a median income of $26,109 versus $18,650 for females. The per capita income for the city was $9,251. About 35.0% of families and 40.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 52.5% of those under age 18 and 23.5% of those age 65 or over.

Jewish community
The Institute of Southern Jewish Life stated that the Jewish community has been characterized by assimilation and was "small, but influential". 44 Jews lived in the community in 1878, but a flood of the Mississippi River in 1882 meant that additional Jews displaced by the flood came. There were 61 Jews in the city by 1937. The Jews in the community did not create a congregation, and the nearest houses of worship were, in the mid-20th century, in Jackson and Greenwood.

Economy
The Federal Bureau of Prisons operates the  Federal Correctional Complex, Yazoo City, which consists of FCI Yazoo City Low, FCI Yazoo City Medium, FCI Camp, and FCI USP Yazoo City.

Government

Diane Delaware was sworn in as the first female mayor of Yazoo City on April 14, 2014. She was re-elected to a second term on April 2, 2018.

Yazoo City's current mayor is David "Mel" Starling, who was sworn in on Monday, April 11, 2022.

The United States Postal Service operates the Yazoo City Post Office.

Education
Yazoo City is served by the Yazoo City Municipal School District; Yazoo City High School is the public school of this district.

Yazoo County High School, outside of the city limits and a part of the Yazoo County School District, does not serve areas in the Yazoo City city limits.

The three private schools are Thomas Christian Academy (Pre-K–12), Manchester Academy (Pre-K–12), and Covenant Christian School (K–6th grade).

Media
WBYP and WYAZ, both FM, are two local radio stations. The Yazoo Herald is Yazoo County's only daily newspaper.

Infrastructure

Transportation
Amtrak, the national passenger rail system, provides service to Yazoo City using the Yazoo City Station. The Amtrak station is located at 222 West Broadway.

Yazoo County Airport is in unincorporated Yazoo County,  west of central Yazoo City. Lynne W. Jeter of the Mississippi Business Journal said in 2001 that the county airport "may have played an important role in landing the multiphase federal prison project that is currently under expansion."

Notable people
Alexander Boarman, Yazoo City native served as mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S. representative from Louisiana's 4th congressional district, and as a federal judge for 35 years until his death in 1916.
Walter M. Chandler, Republican member of the US House of Representative, 19th District of New York
H. H. Brookins, AME Bishop
Willie Brown (American football), Oakland Raiders, NFL Hall of Fame
James Paul Clarke, United States Senator and the 18th Governor of Arkansas
Haley Barbour, former Governor of Mississippi
J. F. Barbour III, former Mayor of Yazoo City
Jerry Clower, famous country comedian who spent more than 30 years as a resident of the town before moving back to the area he was born, Liberty, Mississippi, in 1988. Many of Clower's comical stories mention Yazoo City.
Fletcher Cox, Philadelphia Eagles All-Pro defensive lineman
Mike Espy, Secretary of Agriculture (1993–94); U.S. House of Representatives, 2nd district of Mississippi (1987–93)
Kaleb Eulls, NFL Player
W. C. Friley, 19th-century Baptist clergyman in Yazoo City; later president of two Baptist colleges
Kenneth Gainwell, Running Back Philadelphia Eagles 2021 5th Round draft pick 150th overall. Cousin to Fletcher Cox
Lawrence Gordon, film producer (Die Hard)
Lynn Hamilton, actress
Michael Henderson, R&B singer
T. J. Huddleston, Sr., entrepreneur
Wardell Jackson, professional basketball player
Mary Johnson, blues singer and one-time wife of Lonnie Johnson
Tommy McClennan, blues musician
Patrick Claiborne Meagher, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives (1916–1920)
Mike Miley, MLB player and Louisiana State University quarterback
L.T. Miller, first medical director of the Afro-American Hospital and co-founder of the Mississippi Medical and Surgical Association
William Joseph Mills, Governor of the New Mexico Territory
Willie Morris, writer who grew up in Yazoo City
Jerry Moses, MLB player
Norman Albert Mott, member of the Mississippi Legislature (1911)
Michael Passons, "Contemporary Christian Musician", founding former member of the Christian music group Avalon
Robert Petway, blues musician
Joseph A. Redding, US Army major general who commanded the 39th Infantry Division in the 1950s
Stella Stevens, actress
Pecolia Warner, 20th-century quiltmaker
James Wheaton, actor, spent his adolescent years in Yazoo City, and graduated from high school there
Zig Ziglar, personal development speaker and trainer

References

Further reading

 Satellite images from the 24 April 2010 tornado outbreak (CIMSS Satellite Blog)

External links
 City of Yazoo City

Cities in Mississippi
Cities in Yazoo County, Mississippi
County seats in Mississippi
Populated places established in 1824
Micropolitan areas of Mississippi
1824 establishments in Mississippi
Mississippi placenames of Native American origin


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my requirement is that i receive events on a file descriptor and am supposed to translate them to qt gui events and pass them over to the qt. pls advise.

A: From documentation http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qcoreapplication.html#processEvents :

Processes all pending events for the calling thread according to the specified flags until there are no more events to process.
You can call this function occasionally when your program is busy performing a long operation (e.g. copying a file).

This is probably not what you are looking for. Based on the short description of your problem, it seems to me that you want Linux's poll(). http://linux.die.net/man/2/poll

A: You can use a QSocketNotifier for this. Note that a QSocketNotifier takes a file handle only on Unix systems. On Windows, it takes a special winsock handle that is not a generalized HANDLE to an event object, neither is it a file handle. Don't worry about processEvents, it's not relevant to your problem.


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Soludo's daughter debuts Aorah brand at Lagos Fashion week
By Apegg Adeneyo October 31, 2022
Adaora Soludo and her international clothing brand, Aorah Fashion House, have made their debut at the Lagos Fashion Week.
This was disclosed in a statement issued by the media of Anambra State where her father, Charles Soludo, is Governor.
Aorah had been selected as a finalist at the Lagos Fashion Week 'Green Access' programme, alongside popular fashion brands from Nigeria and across Africa, and debuted on the runway with a mini collection titled "ogbanaonwe a" (it designs itself), a collection of love, inspired by the Akwete textile which it is named after.
According to the statement, "Ogbanaonwe a one of the most remarkable signature labels at the fashion event, comes in unique prints and finely-tailored blends, illustrating the deep artistry of the Aorah brand and the message that each label passes across.
"The 2022 Lagos Fashion Week, organized in collaboration with Style House Files, had launched the fourth edition of its talent discovery platform 'Green Access' across Africa with Best Seller Foundation (BSF).
"Green Access is a sustainable fashion accelerator programme that nurtures young designers and drives the recommitment of resource efficiency, biodegradability, longevity and recyclability as guiding principles for fashion design and production.
*With Akwete fabric as a focal point, the Aorah cross-national brand offers timeless designs and produces limited pieces that celebrate and uplift women that make the traditional textiles.
"Inspired by the founder's heritage growing up in a multicultural country like Nigeria, with a rich variety of textiles and flamboyant traditional attires, the aim of the brand, according to Ms. Soludo, is to create high-quality pieces as well as promote African textiles to a global audience."
Adaora explains brand's concept
Explaining the energy behind the concept, Adaora said that the design is dedicated to all the women that worked endlessly to hand weave the pieces.
She said it was an ethical and sustainable fashion label inspired by Igbo culture and traditions, transforming traditional African textiles such as Akwete, Aso Oke and Kente into contemporary designs.
The statement continued, "She said that the brand's empowerment programme also trains young people in creative skills with ten percent of profits donated to do so.
"Aorah which was set up as a brand that integrates traditional textiles and Akwete is used in different ways while paying tribute to its rich heritage and continuing to work directly with female weaving communities in Abia State.
"Aorah Fashion House was the leading brand at the recently organized Anambra Fashion Expo, 2022, held in Awka on September 16, 2022."
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"These hols are the most boring yet," groaned Penny, as the gang lolled about in the garden.
"Yes, absolutely nothing to do," moaned Pete.
John was the oldest of the four and unofficial Captain of the Mystery Detective Club. So far they had solved the Mystery of the Disappearing Cat and The Mystery of the Disappearing Dog, but this holiday there had not even been a sniff of an adventure and the summer was almost over.
Soon the gang was strolling along the riverbank, chugging from bottles of lemonade and licking the cold ices they had just purchased from the village tea shop, their faithful dog Bouncer jumping around their heels. Just as they reached the bend that led into Windy Wood, Penny, who was leading the way, suddenly froze, the rest bumping into her on the narrow path.
"Look, down there!" She pointed. The others looked and saw two men dragging a large sack out of a rowing boat. "I wonder what they are doing? And what have they got in that sack?" she said.
The children knelt down until the two men had disappeared into the woods and then started to silently trail them up a small dirt track.
They followed the track for what seemed like an age before they spotted the men again. They were both in a small clearing, leaning over the sack. which was now on the ground.
"This really does look like another adventure for the Mystery Detective Club," whispered John to the rest.
Detective Inspector Moore entered the conference room and took his seat in front of the press cameras. He scanned the room, cleared his throat, then began.
Rodger Parr is a writer from Norn Iron whose short fiction occasionally crops up in print and online. Most recently, it has appeared in 365 tomorrows and Postcard Shorts. He currently hides out at https://twitter.com/RodgerParr. Feel free to come join him.


Chancellor's Fellow in Legal and Ethical Aspects of Biomedicine and Co-Director of the Mason Institute for Medicine, Life Science and the Law, Dr Agonomi Ganguli-Mitra, was this week acknowledged by the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
She has been appointed to the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland, a professional body which fosters interdisciplinary activities among emerging leaders from science, humanities, the arts, the professions, business and civil society.
Head of School Professor Martin Hogg commented: "This is a great achievement, and I extend the School's hearty congratulations to Agomoni on her appointment".
Learn more about Dr Ganguli-Mitra's work here.


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Home News & Analysis Deals Cerberus-backed company goes bankrupt
Cerberus-backed company goes bankrupt
Cerberus portfolio company Aegis Mortgage has filed for bankruptcy – it owes the private equity firm $178 million.
Cerberus Capital Management-backed Aegis Mortgage Corporation has become the latest victim of the subprime mortgage crisis, filing Monday for bankruptcy. The Houston, Texas-based company said it had around $100 million (€74 million) in assets and owes roughly $625.5 million to creditors.
It owes Cerberus $178 million of unsecured, subordinated debt via Madeleine, a lending arm of Cerberus. The private equity firm purchased an 81 percent, $2 million stake in Aegis through Madeleine in 1999.
"Extreme changes in market conditions, coupled with the rapid decline in the secondary mortgage market severely impacted [our] operations," Aegis chief financial officer Edward Robertson said in the company's bankruptcy filings.
In particular, he noted that in 2007 Aegis experienced a "significant increase" in early payment defaults on its loans, and in turn an increase in the number of repurchase requests from the institutions to which Aegis sold the loans through repurchase agreements. At the same time the value of the loans declined rapidly.
The company had showed signs of distress for months. It halted its subprime activity in September 2006, and closed its retail lending business in late June.
In July, Aegis's founder and former president filed a lawsuit against Cerberus executives, accusing the private equity firm of mismanaging the mortgage company and missing an opportunity to take the company public.
Aegis ceased all mortgage origination activity after the close of business on 3 August. The company subsequently sacked 782 of its 1,302 employees four days later.
Several large mortgage originators have failed in recent months, including American Home Mortgage Investment and New Century Financial. Others, including IndyMac Bank FSB, SunTrust Mortgage, National City Mortgage and Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, have cut back or halted subprime lending, according to MortgageDaily.com. According to the US Department of Labor, between October 2006 and June 2007, mortgage-related jobs fell from 507,000 to 458,800.
Aegis is not Cerberus' only exposure to subprime market problems; in April, the firm agreed to buy Option One, the loss-making home loan unit of US tax firm H&R Block, for $800 million. At the time, some analysts speculated that Cerberus had overpaid significantly.
Some private equity firms view the mortgage crisis as a distressed investment opportunity. For example, Sun Capital invested $60 million in subprime mortgage originator First NLC Financial Services in July, and said it has confidence that First NLC will emerge from the industry trough.
But others are less keen to add such companies to their portfolios. Texas-based firm Lone Star indicated it may back away from a $400 million, June agreement to acquire subprime loan company Accredited Home Lenders, citing "drastic deterioration in the financial and operational condition of the company".
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Bruce Jenner is "a bit lonely" since ending his marriage to Kris Jenner in October and recently underwent a procedure to reduce the size of his Adam's apple and grew his hair long in a bid to stay youthful.
Bruce Jenner is "a bit lonely" since ending his marriage to Kris Jenner.
The 64-year-old Olympic gold medallist, who announced his split from his wife of 22 years in October, is trying to embrace his freedom and reportedly underwent a laryngeal shave to reduce the size of his Adam's apple last month, and grew his hair long, in a desperate bid to stay youthful.
A source told PEOPLE.com: "He totally has this 'I may be an old man, but I'm cool and young too' syndrome and no one can tell him otherwise.
"He's a bit lonely, but he's doing his thing. Everything in the end of his marriage just became too much for him and his freedom is really liberating. He wanted to grow his hair long, so he did it. He wants to get manicures, so he gets them."
The insider said that the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star, who moved into a bachelor pad in Malibu, California when his marriage to Kris began to crumble last year, doesn't care what anyone thinks about his new image, including his youngest daughters, Kendall and Kylie.
The source said: "People in the family have brought up his hair or his clothes, whatever it is and how absurd they think it is, but Bruce doesn't care, nor does he want to listen to any kind of criticism. He thinks he looks great and cool and that's that. But at the end of the day, however ridiculous people may think he looks, he's happy about it - or at least trying to find what he's happy with - so you really can't blame the guy for that.
"He's doing what he wants to do. It's just a matter of choice and not everybody has the same taste."