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Die Deutschsprachige Gegenwartsprosa seit 1970 ist eine Monografie von Irmgard Scheitler aus dem Jahr 2001, die ihren Gegenstand in dreifacher Perspektive darstellt: in einer Theorie der wichtigsten Schreibtraditionen, einer kurzen Geschichte der Prosa von 1945 bis zum Ende der 1990er Jahre und in einer Übersicht nach Gattungen und Themen. Dieses Handbuch soll "ein Wegweiser durch das Dickicht der neuen deutschsprachigen Prosa", eine Orientierungshilfe für Leser sein, die auf neue Leseerlebnisse hoffen. Das Potenzial hierfür sieht Scheitler weniger in avantgardistischen Experimenten und mehr in den Werken eines neuen Erzählens.

Übersicht
Die Gegenwartsprosa wird "um der schärferen Konturierung willen" vom Standpunkt des realistischen Erzählens der Vergangenheit betrachtet und die von dieser Folie abweichenden Merkmale der modernen Literatur – oft distanzierend  – hervorgehoben. Noch im Realismus hätten Autor und Leser die weitgehend gleichen Werte besessen, aber die Welterfahrung der Moderne sei durch Pluralität und daher durch unverbindliche Weltmodelle gekennzeichnet. Diese grundsätzliche Lage präge seit bald 100 Jahren und vor allem nach 1945 die Gegenwartsprosa, in der sich einerseits das "end of fiction" bis hin zu sperrigen und unlesbaren Wortkonstrukten einer autistischen Avantgarde, andererseits aber auch ein Neues Erzählen für Welthaltigkeit und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung entwickelte. Das Handbuch beschließt ein umfangreicher Anhang mit Begriffsklärungen, Abkürzungen, Literaturangaben und einem Register.

Erzähltheorie der Gegenwartsprosa
Der einleitende erste Teil liefere eine "kleine Theorie der Gegenwartsprosa",  die die epische Illusion wegen ihres Zweifels an der Verlässlichkeit der Realität und an der Berechtigung der Leserverführung beende. Daher ihr Widerwille gegen erfundene Geschichten und geschlossene Romane. Sie verabschiede sich zum Beispiel von der "Welthaltigkeit" oder Referenz auf die Außenwelt und arbeite stattdessen mit dem Bewusstseinsstrom und offenen Enden. Oder sie betone genau diese Welthaltigkeit, aber durch Wahrheitssignale wie Bildmaterial, Zeitungsausschnitte, Fußnoten, Referenzen auf andere Werke, reale Personen, Orte und Ereignisse und gebe damit Fiktion als Faktum aus, "was der Leser aufgrund seiner Leseerfahrung (…) als ´Tarnung´ zu dechiffrieren" wisse. Nicht weniger illusionserschwerend seien Untertitel wie "Roman", Hinweise auf narrative Alternativen und rhetorische "Werkstattgespräche". Sofern sich illusionsstützende und fiktionsstörende Hinweise abwechseln, entstehe ein "Fiktionsrelief", das den Leser irritiere und ihm ein eigenes Urteil über den "ontologischen Status" der Erzählung abfordere.

In der realistischen Erzählung wirkten die Struktur und ihre Teile durch Akzente der Sinngebung des Ganzen zusammen, in der Gegenwartsprosa reduziere die Unsicherheit der Welt die Möglichkeit eines die Episoden übergreifenden Sinnes; der Text vermittle seine  Botschaften nur noch in seiner Struktur: Das Wie und das Was seien nicht zu trennen. Traditionell seien Fabeln linear erzählt und früher mit Anfang, Mitte und Schluss den Erwartungen der Leser entsprechend konstruiert worden. Das habe logische Zumutungen für den Leser vermieden, während in der Gegenwartsprosa die Fabeln inkonsistent und undurchschaubar seien wie die Welt. Die Struktur der Prosa verliere Linearität, Finalität und ihre Gliederung in Sinnschritte und in der Struktur, im "Kosmos eines Romans" und der von ihm bewirkten Verunsicherung des Lesers liege die Botschaft, mit der er sich abfinden müsse. (Würde die Inkonsistenz einer Fabel aber mit dem Wirrwarr der Welt begründet, würde die Abbildfunktion von Literatur durch die Hintertür wieder eingeführt.)

Gegenwartsprosa verabschiede sich vom allwissenden Erzähler und seiner Sympathielenkung, arbeite stattdessen mit einer Fülle von Perspektiven und ihrem Wechsel. Eine einzelne Instanz im Besitz der Geschichte gebe es nicht mehr und in dieser Verunsicherung distanziere sich der Erzähler auch von sich selbst – seine Identität sei immer "unfertig". Dem schwankenden Charakter des Erzählers entsprechen die weniger "runden" und eher "flachen Charaktere" der Figuren, von denen ebenso wenig zu sagen sei, wie von der Beschaffenheit der Welt.

Die Experimente der Inkohärenz in der Konstruktion, Kombination, Segmentierung, bei Tempus und Sprache suchten nach Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten jenseits aller Traditionen und überfordern damit teilweise auch die Rezipienten, wodurch Lesen zu einem Thema von Spezialisten werde. Dazu gehöre auch das Spiel mit Autorreferenzen wie zum Beispiel anachronistischem Verhalten und Selbstkorrekturen. Während "die herkömmliche Narratologie (…) mit dem Erzähltempus Präteritum" arbeite, verwende die Gegenwartsprosa das Präsens als "Leittempus". Damit werde auf eine noch schwebende Entwicklung, auf Unfertigkeit und Offenheit der Welt für weitere Erschütterungen verwiesen. Der Leser habe keinen festen Bezugspunkt mehr und könne sich auf die fiktive Welt nicht mehr verlassen. Das Verständnis auch disparater Teile und des Ganzen geschehe in dem bekannten Kreislauf, im Wechselschritt auf dem Boden der Materialhinweise, was weniger ein "finden" als ein "erfinden", ein konstruieren sei – der Leser werde zur "sinnstiftenden Mitarbeit" und "als Ko-Autor gefordert."

Die Gattungserwartungen der Leser an historische, Künstler-, Reiseroman und andere Romangattungen würden in der Gegenwartsprosa intensiv genutzt und ironisch umspielt. In der Erfüllung und Verweigerung dieser Erwartungen bestehe ein Reiz der Lektüre und führe dem Leser vor allem bei der Nichterfüllung seine Manipulierbarkeit vor Augen.

Kurze Geschichte der Gegenwartsprosa
Bevor Scheitler insgesamt vierzehn Themengruppen bzw. Genres der Gegenwartsprosa beschreibt, fasst sie in ihrer zweiten Einleitung auf 20 Seiten die Geschichte der Gegenwartsprosa seit 1945 zusammen. Diese entwickle ihre Themen und Trends im Zusammenhang mit der sozialen und politischen Geschichte der beiden später wiedervereinigten Teile Deutschlands. Die Politisierung der literarischen Intelligenz in den 1960er Jahren habe die Gruppe 47 zerbrochen und zunächst "zu einer Literatur des Engagements für die Öffentlichkeit" geführt. Als unter dem Einfluss des RAF-Terrors "der Rückhalt der Linken in der Gesellschaft dahinschwand", wurde wieder mehr erzählt als agitiert, obgleich die Auseinandersetzung um die atomare Nachrüstung den Erzählungen den Stempel der "Endzeitstimmung" aufdrückte und das "unzusammenhängende Schreiben" von Collagen, die "Schnipseltechnik", das "passantische Schreiben" verbreitete. Diese Unterschiede befeuerten "bereits um die Mitte der 80er Jahre jene Debatte um den Wert des Erzählens", in der sich erzählende "Aufklärer" und postmoderne Avantgarde mit ihren kleinen Auflagen gegenüberstanden. Die gewollt antipopulären Avantgardespiele der Literatur zu entschlüsseln sei für Leser eine minderinteressante Aufgabe, zumal diese oft nur "Langeweile, Leere, die nicht nur vorhanden sind, sondern zelebriert werden", zu entdecken hatten.

Obgleich Hans Magnus Enzensberger 1968 den "Tod der Literatur" aus politischen Gründen und Wolfgang Hildesheimer 1976 "The End of Fiction" aus ästhetischen Gründen proklamierten, gab es immer wieder Strömungen des Erzählens, die sich sogar seit den späten 90er Jahren verfestigten. Aber diese normative bzw. ästhetische Offenheit mache es heute nicht nur den Literaten, sondern auch den Kritikern schwer, Kriterien guter Literatur zu entwickeln. Das aber wirke sich einschneidend auf den Literaturbetrieb aus: "Die bedrängendste Frage scheint gegenwärtig zu sein: Wie kommen wir zu einer Literatur, die gekauft und gelesen wird?"

Themengruppen der Gegenwartsprosa
Scheitler beschreibt insgesamt vierzehn Themengruppen bzw. Genres der Gegenwartsprosa, denen sie jeweils zwischen zehn (experimentelle und erzählfreie Prosa) und dreiundzwanzig Seiten (Dokumentarismus, Besonderheiten deutschsprachiger Literaturen) widmet. Neben den genrespezifischen Schreibtraditionen, den Themen und der Handhabung der narrativen Kategorien werden in den Kapiteln stets Werke verschiedener Autoren eines Genres ausführlich analysiert.

Realismus
Nach 1945 wurde der literarische Realismus in Ost- und Westdeutschland als Heilmittel angesehen – in der DDR in Form des "sozialistischen Realismus" für den Aufbau einer neuen Gesellschaft, in der BRD aus Sorge um die Popularität von Literatur und um den Leser. Für Autoren eines neuen Erzählens waren Unterhaltung und Lesevergnügen kein Manko der Literatur und wie in der DDR Herman Kants Die Aula ihre Leser fand und diese unterhielt, so in der BRD zum Beispiel die Werke von Max von der Grün, Gerd Fuchs, Uwe Timm, Helmut Heißenbüttel, Dieter Wellershoff, Maxim Biller und Josef Haslinger, die aber auch an die Grenzen der Inselhaftigkeit und Individualität aller Erfahrung stießen.

Dokumentarismus
Die Skepsis gegenüber erfundenen Geschichten führte auch zum Dokumentarismus, der in der Verarbeitung von Dokumenten mehr "Wahrheiten aus erster Hand" liefern und "authentisches Leben" einfangen wollte. Neben anderen suchten Erika Runge, Alexander Kluge, Heinrich Böll, Peter Schneider, Günter Wallraff und Walter Kempowski einen unmittelbareren Bezug zur gesellschaftlichen Wirklichkeit und nutzten verschiedene Formen von Dokumenten und Quellen zur Untermauerung ihrer politischen Ansprüche.

Neue Subjektivität
Mit der Auflösung der Studentenbewegung Anfang der 1970er Jahre verbreitete sich eine bisher durch die Politisierung verdrängte Arbeit an Liebes- und Partnerbeziehungen. Den Autoren der neuen Subjektivität ging es im Zeitraum von vor 1968 bis nach 1980 um "Schicksalsbewältigung oder doch Schicksalsdarstellung. (…) Egozentrik, Beziehungsarmut, Einsamkeit, Scheitern, Krankheit, Wahnsinn, letztlich Tod – auffallend viele Autoren widmen sich diesen Themen. (…) Es sind ja alles Geschichten von Scheiternden, Gescheiterten, Verlustgeschichten, Zerfallsgeschichten". Wichtige Autoren waren Karin Struck, Peter Schneider, Nicolas Born, Peter Handke, Christa Wolf, Gerlind Reinshagen und Martin Walser. Die jüngste Autorengeneration seit den 90er Jahren konnte aber mit dieser Gefühligkeit nichts mehr anfangen.

Autobiografische Literatur
Autoren autobiografischer Literatur schreiben über immerhin kleinere Lebensabschnitte und implizieren mit dem Genre sowohl eine Aufwertung des Erzählens als auch des Authentischen. Die Autobiografien der 1970er Jahre setzen sich aber von traditionellen Biografien ab, indem sie kürzere Lebensausschnitte in lockerer Verbindung, raum-zeitlich, intentional oder kausal wenig verknüpft, von wechselnden Erzählern präsentieren lassen und das Erzählte, das Faktengewicht wieder vermindernd, als "Erzählung" oder "Roman" etikettieren. Das Qualitätskriterium des Genres bleibt die Überwindung der Egozentrik, des bloß Subjektiven und Privaten durch Bedeutsamkeit. Wichtige Autoren sind zum Beispiel Thomas Bernhard, Max Frisch, Christa Wolf, Peter Härtling, Elias Canetti und Stephan Hermlin – bei letzterem wurden wichtige Abweichungen von seinen Lebensdaten festgestellt, ein Verstoß des mit der Gattung gegebenen Autor-Leser-Pakts, der zur Wahrhaftigkeit verpflichtet.

Biografie
Eine Biografie bietet Autoren wie zum Beispiel Peter Härtling, Dieter Kühn, Adolf Muschg, Wolfgang Hildesheimer und Karin Reschke die scheinbare Erleichterung, nicht erfinden zu müssen und sich auf Fakten stützen zu können, aber das mit dem Genre gegebene Versprechen der Faktizität einzuhalten wird durch die zeitliche Entfernung und die oft spärlichen Daten eingeschränkt. Objekte von Biografien wurden sensible Autoren oder Gescheiterte wie zum Beispiel Hölderlin, Lenau, Kleist, Günderrode, Schumann, Keller und Henriette Vogel.

Der Grundwiderspruch dieses Ansatzes kann von den meisten Autoren nicht gelöst werden: Wenn die chaotische, durch Zufälle bestimmte Welt einen Sinn nicht mehr zulässt, wie kann ein Autor einen anderen Menschen dann verstehen, sinnstrukturierte Lebenspläne entdecken und Wahrheiten über ihn schreiben? Daher werden Biografien mehr oder weniger offen doch zu einer nur faktenorientierten Fiktion. Konsequent radikal daher Wolfgang Hildesheimers fiktive Biografie seiner erfundenen Figur "Marbot" und Karin Reschkes Psychografie der Henriette Vogel.

Mythos
Mythen, diese Erzählungen von den das menschliche Leben bestimmenden außermenschlichen Kräften und ihren sich seit Urzeiten wiederholenden Konstellationen, gelten als nicht "erfunden", sondern als "empfangen", wodurch manche Autoren sich weniger als Dichter denn als Seher fühlen. Als eine Form des zur Sprache Bringens des sprachlos Machenden, Überwältigenden bieten sie eine Katharsis vom Entsetzen. "Mythos ist die ´Depotenzierung dessen, was ängstigt´." Es entspricht der Logik dieses Genres, dass die erzählende Stimme sich der Autorität eines allwissenden Erzählers, also der Wiederbelebung eines konservativen Ideals bedient.

Vom Ende der 1970er bis zum Anfang der 1990er Jahre tritt das Mythische in der Gegenwartsprosa in zwei Varianten auf: In der Aufwertung, Entrückung eigener Erfahrungen als "Privatoffenbarungen" in einen gleichsam religiösen Bereich  und im "umschaffenden Nacherzählen" vorgeformter Mythen, die in der zeitenthobenen Folie Gegenwartsthemen verhandeln. Ausführlich untersucht Scheitler die Beiträge Peter Handkes, dann auch Franz Fühmanns, Christa Wolfs, Christoph Ransmayrs, Gerd-Peter Eigners und Robert Schneiders zu diesem Genre.

Vergangenheitsbewältigung
In der Literatur der Vergangenheitsbewältigung von Nationalsozialismus und Kommunismus in Deutschland dominieren zwei Intentionen, die Erzählung aus Opfersicht und die Untersuchung des Verhaltens und der Motive der "kleinen Leute". Dem Doppelziel von Verständnis und Wiederholungsverhinderung entspricht der Anfang von Christa Wolfs Kindheitsmuster: "Das Vergangene ist nicht tot, es ist nicht einmal vergangen." Entscheidend für die Erfüllung der Erwartungen ist die Tiefe der Charaktere und ihre Komplexität, die Reife der Schuldklärung und ein demokratischer Standpunkt. Das haben neben anderen Autoren auch Günter Grass, Christa Wolf, Uwe Johnson, Jurek Becker, Christoph Hein, Thomas Bernhard, Gerlind Reinshagen und Monika Maron in ihren Werken versucht.

Generationenliteratur
In einem Produktionsschub mit dem Höhepunkt der Jahre 1977–1981 verbreitet sich in der Generationenliteratur die Auseinandersetzung der erwachsenen Kinder mit ihren Müttern und Vätern. Themen sind deren Verstrickung in den Faschismus und die Jahrzehnte der späteren Leugnung, die autoritäre Erziehung und die familiäre Versteinerung. Eine den Grundton dieses Genres bestimmende Schwäche ist ein Mangel an anderen Quellen als der Leidenserinnerung der Autoren. Hauptverursacher der Lebensprobleme der Erzählstimmen sind Vater und/oder Mutter, die oft als allmächtige Popanze imaginiert werden. In den meisten Fällen entsteht so nur eine nachgetragene Abrechnungsliteratur in "depressiver Selbstbezogenheit, kindlicher Klage und düsterem Autismus" mit einer Tendenz zur Weinerlichkeit und Selbstgerechtigkeit.

Frauenliteratur
Im Zerfall der 68er-Bewegung rückte mit der Frauenliteratur seit den frühen 1970er Jahren ein weiteres, bisher verdrängtes Thema in den Vordergrund. Diese Literatur ist vor allem von Frauen, "besonders solche, die sich kritisch mit der Erfahrung von Frauen auseinandersetzt." Aber diese Definition wird der Offenheit des Genres kaum gerecht: "Frauenliteratur ist nicht gleich feministischer Literatur. (…) So ist zweifellos Der Butt von Günter Grass ein feministisches Buch." Und Christa Wolfs Kassandra sei sehr stark von Männern rezipiert worden. Auch sei bisher der intensiv gesuchte weibliche Stil in der Literatur und eine spezifische Frauensprache, eine "Poetik der Entkolonialisierung" noch nicht ge- oder erfunden geworden.

In einer ersten Phase habe die Mythologisierung des weiblichen Körpers und die Destruktion des Männlichen dominiert; dann, nach Einsicht in die "Wertlosigkeit der Aggression" und die Grenzen des Biologismus, wurden in einer zweiten Phase "historische Ausformungen des Weiblichen" untersucht; nach dieser Erweiterung der Perspektiven löste sich die Literatur in einer dritten Phase auch vom Klischee der Konnotierung des Weiblichen und Männlichen als positiv und negativ.

Beispielhaft werden Werke von Karin Struck, Verena Stefan, Christa Reinig, Ingeborg Drewitz, Elisabeth Plessen, Angelika Mechtel, Anne Duden, Brigitte Kronauer und Marlene Streeruwitz analysiert.

Körper
Der Körper als Objekt des Schreibens gewinnt in den 80er und 90er Jahren nicht nur in homoerotischen Kreisen eine neue Relevanz. Wie die Autorinnen der Frauenliteratur, befreit von dogmatischen, männergelenkten politischen Gruppen der sich auflösenden Studentenbewegung, wird die Subjektivität weiblicher und männlicher Körpererfahrungen zum Motiv, zur Quelle und zum Vorbild einer Reihe von Autoren.

Nicht der Kosmos komplizierter menschlicher Psychen und ihrer Gefühle, nicht eine komplexe Fabel, sondern der menschliche Körper, sein Aussehen und seine Funktion wird das wichtigste Thema. Statt Freud und seiner Seeleninszenierung dominiert nun die "medizinisch-anatomische Obsession". Komplexe Realität wird zur sinnlich-dinglich verstandenen Körperlichkeit in allen Facetten seiner Oberfläche: Von der Berührung über die systematische und sexuelle Stimulierung, über die Anwendung von Gewalt und das lustvolle Leiden an ihr bis zum "Aufbrechen" von Körpern im Mord reicht das Spektrum. Der hohe Rang der Subjektivität, die Skepsis gegenüber der Fiktion und eine Art subjektiver Materialismus sowie Lust an der Provokation verbinden sich: Beschreiben der Körperoberflächen und ihrer Zerstörung im Sadomasochismus wird "Textejakulation". Diesem Körperfaszinosum werden Individualität und Gefühle, soziale Beziehungen und Ethik geopfert. In der Verbindung von Leid, Ekstase und narzisstischer Fokussierung entstehen sogar religiöse Anspielungen.

Obgleich die Autoren Schreiben als Protest, als Rückeroberung eines verlorenen Terrains erleben und Tabus aufs Äußerste verletzen, versuchen  sie in ihrer "körperbezogenen Schreibweise" konservativ mimetisch Körperfunktionen sprachlich nachzubilden oder zu imitieren: "Grammatik, Syntax und vor allem Interpunktion werden vernachlässigt zugunsten von ungehindertem ´Herauslassen´ des Textes. Mit alledem soll die Sprachproduktion in die Nähe von körperlicher Produktion (Aderlass, Samenerguss) gerückt und von intellektuellem Überbau befreit werden (…) Bisweilen versucht sich der Text in rhythmischer Nachahmung: Herzrhythmusstörungen erscheinen in Form von Textfetzen, die durch ´…´ unterbrochen sind."

Als wichtige Autoren dieses Genres analysiert Scheitler einzelne Werke von Marcel Beyer, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Michael Kleeberg, Christoph Geiser, Bodo Kirchhoff und Thomas Hettche.

Weitere Themenkreise
Abschließend widmet sich Scheitler der Experimentellen und erzählfreien Prosa, den Besonderheiten der Literaturen in der DDR, Schweiz und Österreich, dem Deutschlandbild des geteilten Landes und der Literatur der Wiedervereinigung.

Einzelnachweise

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Literatur (21. Jahrhundert)
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Johannesburg, 6th July 2010 - The JSE has cut trading fees to zero on Single Stock Futures and Options traded through the exchange's central order book. The Equity Derivative market's new billing model, which is the result of extensive consultation with market participants, advisory bodies and regulators, came into effect this Monday the 5 July 2010. The model is aimed at making pricing structures more equitable by rewarding participants bringing liquidity to the market. Ultimately, this is likely to encourage greater activity and transparency on the market.
The new billing structure follows the internationally recognised Maker Taker model, which is widely used by derivatives exchanges worldwide. It rewards liquidity providers – that is, anyone posting a price on the central order book – and charges price takers a reduced fee. Global experience is that this pricing structure increases trade volumes on exchanges by giving traders an incentive to post additional liquidity. The model also enables smaller traders – such as individual investors – to compete with larger firms to ensure more competitive markets.
Price makers trading single stock futures and options through the central order book won't attract a transaction charge. Single Stock Futures and Options fees for price takers will also be reduced. In terms of the new model, price takers' transaction cost has been reduced to 1 basis point of the value of the underlying (or 0.0001 times the value). The maximum cost of transacting has also been reduced from R1.40 to R1.20 per contract on central order book trades. Off-screen reported trades are more expensive in order to further encourage on-screen central order book trading.
The new billing model, which has been approved by the JSE's Executive Committee and Board, reduces fees for trading Single Stock derivatives and increases fees on Index futures by moving to a value based billing methodology. Trading in standardised contracts (those defined by the exchange and traded in high volumes) is cheaper than non-standardised contracts such as Can Do derivatives, which are tailor-made to the specifications of each client.
Equity derivative investors are advised to consult with their broking firm in order to assess the impact of the new billing model on their trading costs.
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2. In a large mixing bowl, beat sweet potatoes with all ingredients except cinnamon until smooth.
3. Transfer to a 1-1/2 quart casserole. Sprinkle with cinnamon.
4. Bake at 350 for 25 to 30 minutes, until heated through.
Very easy and very good, just a touch of sweetness.
Recipe is from Light & Tasty October / November 2004 issue.


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Annual Progress Report on Section 75 and the Disability Discrimination Order 08-09
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ECOWORLD - A WHOLE NEW WAY TO DO YOUR BIT FOR THE PLANET
The Consumer Council and CCEA are helping young people understand how the consumer choices they make today affect all our lives and environment with Ecoworld - a unique new web-based game launched yesterday (29 April). Ecoworld is designed to help young people start good habits early so that making responsible choices about the food we eat, the energy and water we use, how we travel and the waste we create become second nature.
NORTHERN IRELAND CONSUMERS ARE SITTING ON A SMALL FORTUNE
Don't you just love the feeling of finding £1 down the back of the sofa? What if you were sitting on a small fortune you didn't even know you had? Go for a slap up meal? Take a weekend break or start saving for a rainy day? There is about £12 million lying around in forgotten bank and building society accounts in Northern Ireland. If some of it's yours, the Consumer Council has launched a campaign to help you get it back.
NEW RAPID TRANSPORT SYSTEM WELCOMED BUT MUST DELIVER ON PASSENGERS' EXPECTATIONS
The Consumer Council today welcomed the Minister for Regional Development's announcement that a rapid transit network for Belfast is viable and expressed its commitment to ensuring passengers' expectations are at the heart of any decisions on how to proceed.
YOUNG PEOPLE GET HELP TO MANAGE THEIR MONEY
The Consumer Council says that young people in Northern Ireland are set to become more financially savvy thanks to the launch of "Money Talks" - a new pack from the Northern Bank and Citizens Advice.
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Abril sends HRT Mercedes-AMG to the top in sunset session at Circuit Paul Ricard
HRT kept Mercedes-AMG on top in pre-qualifying at Circuit Paul Ricard thanks to a rapid lap from Vincent Abril, who hit the top of the timing screens shortly before sunset.
The session began in daylight at 20:40 and concluded 90 minutes later in darkness, with the best times coming around the 21:00 mark. This provided teams and drivers with crucial preparation for tomorrow's six-hour race, which runs from 18:00 to midnight.
AKKA ASP led the earlier free practice, but the French squad was beaten into second place in the evening session thanks to a 1m53.993s from its former driver Abril in the #4 machine.
Raffaele Marciello was second quickest in the #88 Mercedes-AMG, continuing his team's strong form on home turf. Saintéloc Racing finished third as Christopher Hasse repeated his free practice result in the #25 Audi, lapping just 0.069s shy of Marciello.
Fourth spot went to the #34 Walkenhorst Motorsport BMW. David Pittard set a 1m54.279s to put the Bavarian marque in the mix ahead of a busy Saturday, while Mirko Bortolotti made it four brands in the top five at the wheel of the #63 Orange1 FFF Racing Lamborghini.
Sixth overall went to the Silver Cup pace-setter, Konstantin Tereschenko, who completed an excellent night for AKKA ASP in the #87 Mercedes-AMG. The Russian was 0.148s clear of class rival Mikäel Grenier in another AMG GT3, in this case the #57 Winward Racing entry.
Sky Tempesta Racing completed a perfect Friday by topping the Pro-Am class, having previously occupied P1 in the morning's bronze test and in free practice. On this occasion it was Eddie Cheever III who set the lap in the #93 Ferrari, ensuring that all three drivers have topped a session today.
The Tempesta car was an impressive 10th overall, five spots clear of class rival AF Corse with its #53 Ferrari. Full session times can be viewed here.
Live coverage will begin with tomorrow's qualifying session (10:45) and continues for the six-hour race, which gets underway at 18:00. All of action will be free to view on the Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS website and across the championship's social media channels.
Pre-qualifying result


I've been prodded to get this thread up, so here it is. I'll flesh it out when I get the chance to check various things in a month or so.Here's the basics of purging Skyrim from your system:1) Uninstall the game normally2) Delete your skyrim folder under Steam/steamapps/common. The Steam directory is wherever Steam is installed. By default, it's in Program Files (x86) on the main system partition.3) Delete your Skyrim directory under (My )Documents/(My )Games after backing up your save files if you wish.4) Do a system-wide search for plugins.txt making sure hidden folders and files are included. Delete the Skyrim folder that it is in.Some registry cleanup may be necessary, so I'll check on that when I get the opportunity.
Thanks. Doing a state-wide purge of everything LE.
The only thing salvaged from the wreck was BSAopt x64.exe and BSAUnpacker- although that's a bit old- will it work i wonder?
And the little CreationkitNOENBbug.bat that renames the DLL- although as ENBoost is not available, it won't be used.
Also worth mentioning the ...\Users\%Username%\AppData\Local\Skyrim as well, it's created for plugins.txt.
Thanks, I'll add a note to that effect when I get to cleaning up the formatting of the first post.


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Q: You have already authorized facebook, iOS Now I have an iOS Application that using facebook SDK to login using user facebook account, obviously you know that. And here is my code which i use to do this stuff.
-(void)loginButtonClicked
{
    FBSDKLoginManager *login = [[FBSDKLoginManager alloc] init];
    [login logInWithReadPermissions:@[@"email"] fromViewController:self handler:^(FBSDKLoginManagerLoginResult *result, NSError *error)
     {
         if (error)
         {
             // Process error
         }
         else if (result.isCancelled)
         {
             // Handle cancellations
         }
         else
         {
             if ([result.grantedPermissions containsObject:@"email"])
             {
                 NSLog(@"result is:%@",result);
                 [self fetchUserInfo];
             }
         }
     }];
}

- (void)fetchUserInfo
{
    if ([FBSDKAccessToken currentAccessToken])
    {
        NSLog(@"Token is available : %@",[[FBSDKAccessToken currentAccessToken]tokenString]);

        [[[FBSDKGraphRequest alloc] initWithGraphPath:@"me" parameters:@{@"fields": @"id, name, link, email, birthday, bio, location, friends, hometown, friendlists"}]
         startWithCompletionHandler:^(FBSDKGraphRequestConnection *connection, id result, NSError *error) {
             if (!error)
             {
                 NSLog(@"resultis:%@",result);
             }
             else
             {
                 NSLog(@"Error %@",error);
             }
         }];

    }
}

Problem is when user deleted app and they install then signin back again, the dialog of facebook login show "You have already authorized {ApplicationName}" and user must click OK to return my app.
All I want that they only need tab to login button then a loading circle show up and success.
Any idea to do that?

A: Choice-1
if you press the Login button, call this
delete all granted permisson
[[[FBSDKGraphRequest alloc] initWithGraphPath:@"me/permissions" parameters:nil
HTTPMethod:@"DELETE"] startWithCompletionHandler:^(FBSDKGraphRequestConnection *connection, id result, NSError *error) {

 if (error)
     {
         // Process error
     }
     else if (result.isCancelled)
     {
         // Handle cancellations
     }
     else
     {
      // call your login action and create the new session
       [self loginButtonClicked];
     }

 }];

Choice-2
if you want to clear the current session use like
-(void)loginButtonClicked
{
FBSDKLoginManager *login = [[FBSDKLoginManager alloc] init];
[login logOut];
[FBSDKAccessToken setCurrentAccessToken:nil];
// then continue the same process

update
if you want to bypass the connection
 -(void)loginButtonClicked
{
if FBSDKAccessToken.currentAccessToken != nil
{
  // already logged in with the requested permissions
}
else
{
  // start the login process
}
}

Swift
delete all granted permisson
  FBSDKGraphRequest(graphPath: "me/permissions", parameters: nil,  HTTPMethod: "DELETE").startWithCompletionHandler({(connection:  FBSDKGraphRequestConnection, result: AnyObject, error: NSError) -> Void in
if error! {
    // Process error
}
else if result.isCancelled {
    // Handle cancellations
}
else {
    // call your login action and create the new session
    self.loginButtonClicked()
}

})

Choice-2
if you want to clear the current session use like
func loginButtonClicked() {
var login: FBSDKLoginManager = FBSDKLoginManager()
login.logOut()
FBSDKAccessToken.currentAccessToken = nil

// then continue the same process

}

update
func loginButtonClicked() {
if FBSDKAccessToken.currentAccessToken != nil {
    // already logged in with the requested permissions
}
else {
    // start the login process
}
}

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Q: Taskwarrior - how to display actual *date* that task is due I don't want to see the number of days left before something is Due.
ID Age   Due Description        Urg
 1 33min 9d  Do Stuff           8.33

I want to see the actual date that it's due, like below.
ID Age   Due         Description        Urg
 1 33min 2022-04-27  Do Stuff           8.33

Is there an easy way to modify ~/.taskrc ?

A: Found a solution. Use:
$ task list

Result:
ID Age   Project  Tags    Due        Description   Urg
 1 33min                  2022-04-27 Do Stuff      8.33

Reference: https://taskwarrior.org/docs/report.html#modifiable


Montreal, Canada- Andy Murray made light work of Gilles Muller to book his quarter final place in the Rogers Cup.
The Brit needed just over an hour to defeat the Luxembourgian 6-3, 6-2 and will face Jo Wilfried Tsonga in the last eight. The Frenchman defeated Bernard Tomic in the third round.
Murray was put under pressure in the opening game of the match, finding himself at 0-40 in his opening service game. However the world number 46 could not take advantage of his early opportunity. Instead it would be Murray who dealt the first blow, breaking at 2-1 with a spectacular lob. The Brit would serve out the set to take it 6-3.
Muller's fortune would not get any better with the change of shirt as the 32 year old would drop serve to love in the opening game of the second set. Murray was cruising and a double fault from his opponent would gift the double break. The Scot suffered a slight lapse in concentration when he dropped his serve the following game.
Muller would blow his chance to get back in the match as a third consecutive break would give Murray the chance to serve out the match. The 28 year old wrapped up a decent performance by successfully closing the match out on serve to book a quarter final place. Murray only made six unforced errors and was generally solid throughout the duration with only minor lapses- next up defending champion Tsonga.
The Frenchman defeated Murray on his run to the title in Toronto last year 7-6(5), 4-6, 6-4. The Brit has since won their following two matches, including a straight sets win at the Davis Cup last month. Murray has an overall 11-3 head to head against Tsonga. The Frenchman has dropped only one set in his three matches so far.
Andy's job for the was not quite done however. He had the awkward task of facing brother Jamie in the doubles a few hours later. This was the first time the Murray's have faced each other at tour level. Andy was teaming with doubles veteran Leander Paes, whilst Jamie is with his familiar partner Jonathan Peers. It was a close contest but Jamie would claim victory over his brother 6-4, 7-6(9).


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Q: How to use less space for ~ In a paper, I need to use the abbreviated form of Figure as in "see Fig. 2". To avoid line breaks between Fig. and the number itself, I place a ~ in between. However in that case, the inserted space is way too much and a \, looks a lot better.
So the question is, how can I protect the Figure expressions from line breaks but also reduce the space to \,?

A: \, is defined as
\DeclareRobustCommand{\,}{%
   \relax\ifmmode\mskip\thinmuskip\else\thinspace\fi
}
\def\thinspace{\kern .16667em }

Thus it is basically a \kern. It is not followed by glue, therefore there is no line break caused by \, in:
see~Fig.\,2

A fast test:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
  \parbox{0pt}{%
    \hspace{0pt}% allow hyphenation for the first word
    see~Fig.\,2
  }
\end{document}

As expected, there is an overfull \hbox warning:
Overfull \hbox (38.80566pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 9--9
\OT1/cmr/m/n/10 see Fig.2

And the line is unbroken:


Rebecca Onie's Ted Talk: What if Our Healthcare System Kept Us Healthy?
Below is the link to the Ted talk mentioned in the October PCMH meeting: Rebecca Onie asks audacious questions: What if waiting rooms were a place to improve daily health care? What if doctors could prescribe food, housing and heat in the winter?


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How do we educate interfaith children about the various religions in the family tree? These days, a child may have a Jewish father, Hindu mother, Buddhist uncle, and Christian step-grandparent. Such children benefit deeply from understanding the religions they encounter at home and at family gatherings. And many interfaith parents are on the lookout for supportive tools for interfaith education.
It is encouraging that a major Jewish funder such as PJ Library understands that families providing interfaith education to interfaith children are engaged with Judaism. The program does not screen out families based on how they should engage with Judaism, or whether or not they are exclusively or "authentically" Jewish. PJ Library's approach is inclusive, and I hope that other Jewish funders and institutions will begin to appreciate that many of the families providing interfaith education to interfaith children are serious about engaging with Judaism, even if this engagement is not exclusive.
But I was also curious about how many interfaith family subscribers identify as Jewish only, and how many identify as "Jewish and…" So I asked, and PJ Library went back to their survey data and provided me with this rather stunning breakdown: 50 percent of interfaith families in the survey were raising children "Jewish and something else," while 45 percent were raising children Jewish only.
So, fully half of the interfaith families surveyed were raising kids "doing both." This is important for a number of reasons. For one, Pew Research in 2013 found 25% raising kids "Jewish and…" So the question is why, just four years later, PJ Library found double that percentage. One reason could be a large increase in interfaith families choosing interfaith education. Another reason could be that families choosing interfaith education are finding their way in large numbers to the very welcoming PJ Library program in order to access Jewish content for their children. And this, in turn, may be related to the fact that some other Jewish institutions (notably, many synagogues) exclude children who are "doing both." I suspect all of these factors may be contributing to the large number of "Jewish and" families subscribing to PJ Library.
In order to better understanding how and why the program works for families raising kids "Jewish and something else," I spoke to two locals mothers who subscribe to PJ Library. Lis Maring is Jewish, and her husband was raised Lutheran. They are educating their boys, ages 8 and 13, in both religions as members of the Interfaith Families Project of Greater Washington DC. The Maring family has spent time in India, and their shelves include books on Christmas and Easter, but also on Hindu deities.
A handful of PJ Library books have featured interfaith families. But both Lis and Lindsay note that they are seeking Jewish content from the program, not affirmation of their family choices. They are not concerned with seeing more interfaith families represented in the books, as long as the spirit of the program is inclusive. "I have generally been impressed that the books are not judging or telling you that there's only one way," says Lindsay.
Meanwhile, interfaith parents teaching religions beyond Judaism and Christianity will need to consult librarians or booksellers, and check out #WeNeedDiverseBooks on twitter or Pinterest. Bharat Babies, a children's book subscription service on Indian culture including both Hindu and Muslim topics, was inspired in part by PJ Library. And Noor Kids creates books on Islam for subscribers. Such programs may well thrive and proliferate as millennial parents, many of them unaffiliated with traditional religious institutions, continue to seek out tools for interfaith education.
Journalist Susan Katz Miller is a speaker and consultant on interfaith education for interfaith families. Her book Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family is available from Beacon Press.
Nicely done, Susan. I'm going to presume the discrepancy between PJ Library and Pew is that Pew measured all interfaith households, including those who are not doing anything Jewish. You don't say here (and I don't feel like researching) how many of the PJ families say they are not raising their kids with any Judaism but I presume it is a very low number (or how else did they get into the program in the first place). In Pew, 61% of intermarried households were incorporating some Judaism; if you make that your new 100%, then Pew's 25% doing both comes much closer to PJ's 50%, and the 20% doing just Jewish comes close to PJ's 45%….
Thanks for reading, Paul. Your statistical analysis sounds plausible, and I should have thought of that. PJ Library told me they found 5% of their interfaith families not raising kids Jewish at all (by religion or culture). But another statistical complication is that PJ Library combined Pew's "raising Jewish by religion" and "raising Jewish not by religion" into one category for the purposes of these interfaith statistics. However we got there, my takeaway is that if anywhere near 50% of "engaged" interfaith families are "doing both," then Jewish institutions need to take "being both" more seriously.
Finding good-excellent interfaith books for children continues to be one of my specialties.
I had contacted the PJ Library in 2015, but with no response.
So I'd love to see the list of books you used and/or recommend, along with the ones recommended by other parents.
What's the simplest way to access these?
Sue, You can see the list of past/current PJ Library books on their website: https://pjlibrary.org/books-and-music/books. Parenting bloggers have curated tons of lists of religion books–I recommend just putting "Buddhist children's books" or whatever you are searching into the search box on Pinterest or Twitter, or Amazon (reviews!).
This looks very good, thank you! As a writer with an "interfaith" family that includes secular non-believers, I might like to write a book for those families. Any suggestions who to speak with to publish?
Ah, thank you, Susan, I missed McGowan's book. We need more like it. Appreciate your work.


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Music Catalogue
A Light Rekindled
GoOn Ensemble
Shy Music
Amin Sarrafi
- Liberation Waltz '2019
- Inner Journey '2019
- Dusk '2019
- Behind The Shadows:
Violin, Viola, Harp, Bass, Cajon '2022
- Dancer of The Dark:
Violin, Harp, Piano '2019
- Beyond The Brink:
Harp, Piano '2019
Song Cycle
(Omnibus):
- Beyond The Seas
- Interlude I
- Direction
- Interlude II
- Water
Countertenor, Harp '2021
- Transcendence '2022
- Manifestation '2022
- Light '2022
Home: List
Amin Sarrafi is an Iranian American classical composer, based in Tehran since 2020, with a repertoire of works comprised of solo piano, duets, trios, quintets, song cycles, and symphonic pieces. He studied music at Santa Barbara City College, where he had the opportunity to create his first EP and host live performances. Amin Sarrafi strives to encapsulate the power of human emotion through sound.
His public musical journey began in 2017 as the founder of GoOn Ensemble, a trio group comprised of Harp, Violin, and Piano. His first original works for the ensemble include: Beyond The Brink, Dancer of The Dark, Dusk, Dusk, and Liberation Waltz. After having successfully released their EP in 2019, GoOn Ensemble hosted their first performances in intimate theaters and art galleries across Santa Barbara.
Shortly following his work with GoOn Ensemble, Amin has continued to create a collection of 6 short piano pieces called Shy Music. This collection of musical motifs were all published along with their original scores in 2020 and were constructed freely for the public. Shy Music both demonstrates how a basic melodic idea can be made beautiful while also cutting the mental restraints artists create when believing that each work produced must be a masterpiece.
His first song cycle, A Light Rekindled, an operatic duet written for harp and countertenor, was published at the end of 2021 in partnership with Librettist, Alan Olejniczak and was inspired by the work of contemporary Persian poet, Sohrab Sepehri. From Sohrab's work, three of his poems were chosen and translated from Farsi to English. This three song, two interlude song cycle was performed by countertenor, Kyle Tingzon, and harpist, Ginger Rose Brucker. A Light rekindled was created to both address the philosophical and social issues that we face today while drawing a parallel between Iranian and western culture through Persian poetry.
His latest quintet, "Behind The Shadows", written for violin, viola, harp, double bass, and cajon, was composed for the San Francisco Conservatory of Music senior harp recital, where it was performed live. Behind The Shadows represents the welcomed inspiration that appears in unexpected moments.
Amin Sarrafi's mission is to contribute his music to the growth of contemporary classical music as well as to expand the possibilities of what the identity of classical music sounds like in the context of today's world.
Home: Bio
Behind The Shadows
A Light Rekindled, is a way for us to both address the philosophical and social issues that we face today while drawing a parallel between Iranian and western idealism through contemporary Persian poetry.
"Within darkness, the light of the simple beauties shine brighter."
Home: Listen
Stories Told Without Words
Home: Compositions
Dancer of the Dark
What determines the difference between self deception and self empowerment lies within the very first word of both states of being, the 'self'. To deceive is to rob the truth, and by taking away what you already possess, you forfeit all that you could truly become. Dancer of the Dark is representative of the turmoils of one's own spirit, unknowingly traveling through the darkness of deception, only to dance towards the light of self realisation.
Liberation Waltz
Our most immediate and yet undervalued source of freedom is movement. Our ability to act at any time upon our own desires all lies within the tools of our own body. Liberation Waltz is a celebration of movement where the strains of external limitations are released by the overwhelming power of our own being.
Home: Recordings
A collection of spontaneous melodic ideas written for piano and published with original full scores.
Shy Music both demonstrates how a basic melodic idea can be made beautiful while also cutting the mental restraints artists create when believing that each work produced must be a masterpiece.
Home: What I Do
aminsarrafi7@gmail.com
©2019 by Amin Sarrafi. Proudly created with Wix.com


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Cisco CCNA Security 210-260 IINS
December 2015 with Keith Barker
30 hrs 8 mins
Note: The exam associated with this course was retired. However, this course still retains value as a training resource.
Join Keith Barker as you develop the skills required to support a security infrastructure, recognize threats and vulnerabilities to networks and systems, and mitigate security threats. The Cisco CCNA Security exam addresses core security technologies, as well as the installation, troubleshooting, and monitoring of network devices to maintain confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data and devices.
This course includes security concepts, secure access, VPN, secure routing and switching, Cisco firewall technologies, IPS, as well as content and endpoint security.
Whether you are fairly new to the network security world, or you've been in it for a while and simply want to fill in the gaps and see how all the pieces can be integrated together to build a fortress of security using a defense-in-depth approach, this course is for you.
Cisco CCENT or equivalent experience
Recommended Equipment (emulated, simulated or physical)
Cisco IOS Routers
Cisco Catalyst Switches
Cisco ASA Firewall
Related Certification
Cisco CCNA Security (210-260)
Security Technician/Engineer
This exam also meets the requirement for DOD 8750 and/or DOD 8140 baseline certifications IAT Level I and II.
Keith Barker has been a CBT Nuggets trainer since 2012 and holds a variety of Cisco certifications, including Cisco CCIE Routing and Switching, Cisco CCIE Security, and Cisco CCDP.
1. Welcome to CCNA Security (2:20)
2. CIA (6:31)
3. Port Security Concepts (14:14)
4. Port Security Implementation (10:46)
5. DHCP Snooping Concepts (15:17)
6. DHCP Snooping Implementation (16:28)
7. PVLAN Concepts (9:52)
8. PVLAN Implementation (13:36)
9. DAI Concepts (16:40)
10. DAI Implementation (16:04)
11. Secure Switching (1:56)
12. Securing the Switched Data-plane (50:47)
13. Secure Switching Review (8:35)
14. IOS Firewall Services (3:19)
15. IOS Firewall Fundamentals (31:21)
16. Zone Based Firewall Implementation (25:47)
17. ZBF GNS3 Integration (23:54)
18. Zone-Based Firewall Review (17:06)
19. ASA Concepts (1:32)
20. ASA Firewall (47:28)
21. ASA GNS3 Integration (11:29)
22. ASA Activation (7:25)
23. Build an ASA GNS3 Topology (13:33)
24. ASA CLI configuration in GNS3 (20:16)
25. ASA and ASDM working in GNS3 (13:37)
26. ASA NAT (3:25)
27. NAT on the ASA, 8.2, 8.3 and beyond (01:11:24)
28. ASA NAT Lab (14:47)
29. ASA ACLs (16:41)
30. ACLs on the ASA (56:15)
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32. MPF 101 (54:54)
33. Transparent Firewall (57:51)
34. Active/Standby Failover (50:47)
35. Virtual Firewalls (contexts) (51:17)
36. Active/Active Failover (01:06:29)
37. ASA MPF and DMZ Lab (20:07)
38. NFP, Hardening, AAA, and more (1:29)
39. Network Foundation Protection (38:17)
40. Fortifying the Local Router (42:09)
41. AAA, RADIUS and TACACS+ (47:38)
42. Tools to Protect the Management-plane (43:13)
43. Controlling the IPv4 Data-plane with ACLs (34:22)
44. AAA, Review, and Assessment (18:20)
45. Authentication and Accounting on the ASA (1:08)
46. AAA on the ASA (47:44)
47. Cryptography, IPsec, and SSL/TLS (1:06)
48. Cryptography Essentials (42:02)
49. IPsec Site to Site VPNs (53:34)
50. SSL VPNs (51:27)
51. Going Deeper into Crypto and VPNs (2:17)
52. ASA VPN Options (41:20)
53. VPN Profiles and Policies (35:26)
54. Implementing Clientless SSL VPNs (44:46)
55. SSL and IPsec Technologies (30:01)
56. Plugging into the PKI (25:42)
57. AnyConnect SSL VPNs (40:17)
58. Digital Certificates with IPsec Clients (28:53)
59. Site to Site IPsec VPNs (56:21)
60. AAA VPN Authentication (24:12)
61. Crypto Review and Lab (19:09)
62. Crypto and VPN Assessment (4:41)
63. IDS & IPS Fundamentals (2:32)
64. Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) (45:16)
65. IDS/IPS Review and Assessment (16:22)
66. FirePOWER (12:30)
67. Multiple Layers of Security (18:15)
68. Defense in Depth (24:16)
69. Putting on the Parka (5:25)
70. 802.1x Wired (40:56)


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Buffett Warns Social Network Investors
By Sharon Gaudin
Computerworld |
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett warned others to be wary of sinking their money into overinflated social networking companies.
Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., made the comments while speaking in New Delhi. Just as major social networking companies, like Facebook and LinkedIn, are taking steps toward making an initial public offering, Buffett advised investors to be wary of social media valuations, according to a report from the Bloomberg news service .
"Most of them will be overpriced," Buffett reportedly said, though he didn't specify which companies he was referring to. "It's extremely difficult to value social-networking-site companies. Some will be huge winners, which will make up for the rest."
Bloomberg noted that Buffett, 80, has bypassed technology investments in favor of industrial, financial and consumer-goods holdings in his 40 years at Berkshire.
Dan Olds, an analyst with The Gabriel Consulting Group, said Buffett is offering a reality check for investors looking at the social networking industry and the whopping valuations that companies have been getting.
"Warren Buffet is looking at social networking as an investor and not just any investor, but as one of the most successful investors in modern history," he added. "He's not a guy who will see these companies as having huge values simply because they have large user counts on innovative models. This doesn't mean that he's the be-all, end-all authority on valuations of technology companies. He's missed his share of them over the years. But it is at least a minor shower of cold water for a segment that could be overheating."
Social networking companies are starting to look toward IPOs and the piles of cash they could bring in.
Despite its role as a second-tier player in a social networking world that includes Facebook and Twitter , LinkedIn is the first one out of the IPO starting gate. Earlier this year, the company, which just hit 100 million users, filed papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering .
Facebook, which is reportedly exploring its own IPO either this year or next, has received some hefty investments. In January, Facebook received a $500 million influx of cash from Goldman Sachs and a Russian investor. Goldman Sachs, a major investment bank, also valued Facebook at $50 billion.
In February, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers reportedly took a stake in Facebook . According to the Wall Street Journal, the firm was in the process of investing $38 million into Facebook, giving it a less than 1% hold on the popular social network. Kleiner also had reportedly valued Facebook at $52 billion.
That financial shot in the arm did a lot to validate the business behind social networking, which was, until recently, considered little more than an immature venture without a lot of business planning behind it.
That financial momentum in the social networking space might have given a boost to the venture capitalists who invested $41 million into Color , a new social networking application that's geared for iPhone and Android devices.
Ezra Gottheil, an analyst with Technology Business Research, said he's not surprised that Buffett would warn investors to be wary about the social networking industry.
"It's a very volatile business," he said. "Some of the current winners, like Facebook, are very sticky and will be around for a very long time, but the time people spend on [these sites] may diminish as new things come online. And all the new ones are high risk."
Olds echoed Gottheil's caution.
""There's definitely a danger of overinflated valuations in the social networking space," he added. "For every firm that is profitable and growing, like Facebook and Groupon, there are many more that are struggling to build user counts and find a viable business model. While they may have a unique idea, there's quite a distance between having that idea and turning it into a thriving community with viral growth."
Sharon Gaudin covers the Internet and Web 2.0, emerging technologies, and desktop and laptop chips for Computerworld. Follow Sharon on Twitter at @sgaudin or subscribe to Sharon's RSS feed . Her e-mail address is sgaudin@computerworld.com .
Read more about web 2.0 and web apps in Computerworld's Web 2.0 and Web Apps Topic Center.
This story, "Buffett Warns Social Network Investors" was originally published by Computerworld.
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Gold FM är en närradiostation i Växjö. Stationen riktar in sig på att spela musik från senare hälften av 1900-talet. Stationen ingick tidigare i nätverket Fria Media, där även de två lokala radiokanalerna Gold FM och Hit FM ingick. Fria Media köptes under år 2005 upp av SBS Radio. Den 23 februari 2006 ersattes Hit FM med Mix Megapol och de lokala sändningarna försvann.

På närradiofrekvensen finns dock Gold FM kvar, med lokala sändningar. Stationen hette fram tills år 2007 - "Hit FM Gold" och "Gold 102,4" från 2007-2016.

Radioproducenten Daniel Kristiansson  sänder varje vardag mellan klockan 8 och 13 sedan tar Ray Matson och Malin Matson över och sänder live mellan 13 och 18 varje dag förutom söndagar.. Övriga tider sänds musikmix och riksnyheter från Aftonbladet. Fram tills sommaren 2014 sände stationen även programmet "Golden Friday" på fredagseftermiddagarna och Saturday Gold Fever på lördagskvällarna. I TNS Sifo's radioundersökning (IV 2014) framgick att inom privat lokalradio-området Växjö lyssnade ungefär 11.000 personer på Gold  FM's-sändningar i Växjö dagligen, vilket gör kanalen till en av de större närradiostationerna i Sverige.

Eftersom stationen sänder genom Växjö Närradioförening är de inte ensamma om att sända över frekvensen, utan delar den med Växjö Kristna råd (Kristen närradio), LO och Palestinska kvinnoföreningen.

Gold FM sänder ungefär 100 timmar i veckan. Via internet sänds dock Gold FM dygnet runt genom TuneIn Radio. Sedan februari 2016 sänder de även på frekvensen 96,4 MHz, med täckning över Växjö och Alvesta.

Externa länkar
Gold FM  Lyssna från Radioplay
Gold FM  via internet
Växjö närradio's hemsida

Referenser

Svenska närradiostationer

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State Department Special Envoy Fights Global Anti-Semitism
May 31, 2016 by Bonnie Squires Leave a Comment
Ira Forman with ADL Regional Director Nancy Baron-Baer and ADL board members Judith Meyer and Doug Stanger
Ira Forman's job is to identify and pursue anti-Semitism around the world. As a result, he knows where the trends are particularly disturbing and where there is reason to have hope. Recently, he brought this knowledge and experience to Philadelphia when he served as the keynote speaker for the closing board meeting of the local Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
Forman works in the State Department's Office of Religion and Global Affairs in the position of Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. He was appointed to this position three years ago by Secretary of State John Kerry. Forman has an extensive resume, which, among other things, includes his work as Jewish outreach director for the Obama campaign, CEO and executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC), and — very early in his career — political director and legislative liaison for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
At the meeting in Philadelphia, Forman gave a run-down of the Jewish communities he has visited and discussed what the future may hold for Jews in those countries. For example, he pointed to a particularly disturbing survey of French Jews — which even pre-dated the Paris attacks — in which 47% said they were considering leaving France. Forman was then asked about the heartening response of thousands of French citizens who marched in support of the victims of the Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Kacher attacks. He said it was believed that if the Charlie Hebdo journalists had not also been killed, the response by non-Jews on behalf of the Jewish community would not have been as strong.
However, Forman did express hope for some smaller Jewish communities. He also emphasized that outside the United States, England seems to be the most secure place for Jews to live.
In order to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, Forman and his staff travel the world. They often work in cooperation with agencies like the ADL, as well as with other nonprofits and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
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PSW Article #6: Personal Support Worker Career (PSW): Credit Crisis and Recession Proof?
Personal Support Worker Career (PSW): Credit Crisis and Recession Proof?
Recently the Provincial Government of Ontario announced that they will increase spending towards personal support workers. In total the budget increase will come to a total of over $100 million ($107 to be exact). All of this funding will be used to hire an additional 2500 personal support workers by the year 2011.
With the current financial hardships that are found within the real estate, stock market and the broad economy as a whole, the personal support industry is one of the few career choices that appears to be recession proof. While I do emphasize the word "appears", as nothing is certain in this world, it really does make sense if we stop and take the time to think about it.
Firstly the government has already publicly committed to increase spending in the hiring of additional employees throughout the province. Secondly, the nature of the job can be seen as recession proof. Recession or not, individuals throughout the province require care. This is a fact. Typically these patients can be individuals with disabilities or senior citizens that have a hard time taking full care of themselves. With the oncoming baby boomer retirement in full effect there should be more citizens of Ontario requiring care than ever before.
Personal support worker courses are only one year in duration, with accelerated courses taking as a little as eight months to complete. This includes in class and on field assignment. Even with the short course duration and the increased spending by the government, support facilities are typically finding themselves with shortages of available labor.
With increased government spending, a proffesion that relies little upon economic cycles and a shortage of qualified labor, a personal support worker in the province of Ontario can have a relative rarity in todays economy, namely job security.


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Shekalim 7: The Half Shekel of Siamese Twins
in Purim by Rabbi Simcha Weinberg on 12 Feb, 2010 0 Comments
The Half Shekel From the Perspective of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1874), the original "Siamese Twins"
"Chang and Eng … never really needed [showman P.T.] Barnum at all. [They] had been born near Bangkok, Siam, in 1811,
bound tightly stomach to stomach by an unforgiving, armlike tube. Asian doctors had recommended separation, but Chang and Eng's parents instead encouraged them to learn how to coexist. Working daily to stretch the thickening ligature, ultimately three and a half inches in length, eventually the boys could stand side to side, dress separately, walk and run. …
"In 1829, Chang and Eng were 'discovered' by an American ship's captain and whisked away to Europe and America to make their fortune. World fame came quickly, but at a price; by 1838, after seven years of exhibiting themselves in the U.S., the twins were exhausted. Sick of the roving show-life, and wealthy enough now to retire, they had adopted American citizenship and taken the name Bunker, after a Boston acquaintance. Purchasing a plantation in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, including slaves to go with it (eventually 33 of them), the brothers settled into an agrarian life that included marriage to unjoined [American] sisters, and, very quickly, the fathering of numerous children. … Forced by their fleshy bond to sleep face to face, needing to cooperate on everything, they divided their time between two houses and two families, alternating three-day periods during which one or the other was in full charge of their whereabouts and activities. …
"In 1860, Barnum's big chance came finally came. Self-educated and literate, possessing a fine penmanship, Chang and Eng decided to come out of retirement in order to raise money for the college tuitions of their now huge brood of children. … and they [signed with Barnum] and arrived at Barnum's for a six-week engagement at [his] American Museum. … Barnum had no control over these independent minded-brothers, or their families. 'The truth is,' he wrote later … 'the wives of the twins (who are sisters) fight like cats and dogs and they want their husbands separated.' But it was not just the wives; increasingly, the heavy-drinking, irritable Chang was coming to dislike his quiet, teetotaler brother….
"In 1865, their wealth demolished by the [Civil War], Chang and Eng came out of retirement once again. … Separation was increasingly on the twins' minds. On August 31, 1868, Chang and Eng met again with Barnum … [and he] announced his decision to send them on a tour of Great Britain and on a search for a surgeon who might separate them. The tour occurred, but the separation did not. Chang suffered a stroke in 1870 and from then on had to be partially carried by Eng. Just four years later, on January 17, 1874, to the horror of his brother, 62-year-old Chang died. Eng managed to live on for four fearful hours."
Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr., Philip B. Kunhardt III, Peter W. Kunhardt, P.T. Barnum, Alfred A. Knopf, Copyright 1995 by Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr., Philip B. Kunhardt III, Peter W. Kunhardt, pp. 144-147.
Half Shekel, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, Shekalim, The Foundation Stone


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December 13, 2017 Dining » Food Features
Folks Behind Cleveland Culinary Launch & Kitchen Are Set For a Major Expansion, in Space and Services
Photo courtesy of CCLK
For the past four years, the Cleveland Culinary Launch & Kitchen (CCLK) has helped small food startups make the transition from dream to reality, spinning out success stories like Cleveland Kraut, Randy's Pickles, Chill Pop Shop and Saucisson, to name a few. Under one roof, food-focused entrepreneurs have access to shared prep and cooking facilities, dry, cold and frozen storage space, and a professional incubator program to guide them every step of the way.
But what happens once those people cultivate an audience for their product? Where do they go next?
"When people outgrow our kitchens at CCLK, it's very expensive for them to build out their own space," explains partner Eric Diamond. "And while some of them can do it, others cannot and are forced to look at other options, like co-packing."
A co-packer, or contract packager, is a third-party entity that will manufacture, warehouse and ship your food products to your specifications. They make, you sell. But most co-packers are out of state, require very large minimum orders, and often wield control over what ingredients do and don't get used.
When Diamond and partner Gordon Priemer launch the new multifaceted Cleveland Food Hub, area producers will gain a local partner. Occupying one small sliver of a newly acquired 138,000-square-foot warehouse in Midtown, the co-packing facility will have small minimums for producers of everything from pasta sauce and salsa to energy bars and beef jerky. Proximity to your co-packer means you are nearby for quality control and when inevitable production snafus arise.
"It will also allow individuals who don't want to produce their own products to still be able to say that it is produced locally here in Cleveland," Diamond adds.
But the co-packing element might be the least exciting component of the Food Hub. Six individual kitchens will serve as rentable production space for the specialty food businesses of tomorrow. Unlike the shared commercial kitchens found at CCLK, these are all yours 24/7, notes Diamond. Each 700-square-foot space is outfitted with a hood, range, steam kettle or tilt skillet, prep space and hand-washing sinks. The cost will be $2,000 per month.
"There is a need for those niche spaces," adds Diamond. "We've been hearing for a long time, 'Hey, I'd love to have a gluten-free kitchen,' and we haven't been able to accommodate that [at CCLK]. Under this scenario, we will be."
This setup opens the door to certifications such as USDA Organic, Kosher, Halal and gluten-free. Tenants also will have access to shared-use dishwashing and storage outside of their individual kitchens. Plans call for more than 7,000 square feet of dry, cold and freezer storage space that will be available not only to CCLK and Food Hub tenants, but also the food community at large, offered at per-pallet prices. To facilitate loading and unloading, the facility will have three loading docks and one drive-through dock.
"Once we have this up and running, it will be the largest production facility for food in the state of Ohio," says Diamond.
Five startups already have expressed interest in the kitchen space, he says, with products that include fermented foods, bakery items and even a candy maker.
The final leg of the Cleveland Food Hub stool is retail. Souper Market has had both its production facility and retail soup shop at this location for years, and we recently shared the news that Cleveland Bagel will soon join them. But plans call for one or two additional food-based storefronts to fill the spaces in between. Given the recent development taking place in the neighborhood, Diamond says the demand already exists.
"We really think Midtown is a great location because of all the new businesses that have moved into the area and the food hasn't caught up yet," he says. "We looked at it like it was the perfect opportunity to add retail. Having Souper Market and Cleveland Bagel as anchors have brought out many more clients saying they want to be here too."
Shoppers will have access to free parking.
As for CCLK, Diamond says that the success of recent graduates like Cleveland Bagel prove that the nonprofit incubator's formula is working, an essential element of which is an eight-week program that covers food regulations, product development, packaging and marketing.
"We encourage everybody who has never been in food production before to go through our incubator course," he explains. "If you look back at the most successful companies who have come out of the kitchen, they all followed the same path, which was: take the course, produce a product, sell at farmers markets for a year, get a following, and then go into retail."
The kitchens should be up and running by spring, with retail to follow.
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Q: S3 uploads corrupt file when using stream I've built a chat server using rails, socket.io, and node that allows users to send images to each other, which I'm trying to get to work with Amazon s3. Here are the relevant code snippets from the client and server:
Client:
var img_file = this.files[0]; //retrieved from file input

file_reader.onload = function(e) {
    //console.log(img_file);
    var extension = img_file.name.split('.');
    extension = extension[extension.length-1];

    get_user_id(username, function(to_id) {
        socket.emit('message', {
            from: "<%= @user.displayname %>",
            fromid: <%= @user.id %>,
            to: username,
            toid: parseInt(to_id),
            content: e.target.result,
            type: 'image',
            extension: extension,
            size: img_file.size
        });
    })

};

file_reader.readAsBinaryString(img_file);

Server:
socket.on('message', function(message) {
    console.log(message.type + " message received, sending to appropriate person: " + message.to);
    if (message.type == 'text') {
        //send message like normal
        sendMessage(message);
    }
    else {
        //it's an image, need additional processing

        var blank_file = uuid.v4() + '-' + new Date().getTime() + '.' + message.extension;
        var contents = message.content;

        s3.putObject({
            Bucket: 'bucket-name', //not the real bucket name
            Key: blank_file,
            ContentType: 'image/' + message.extension,
            //ContentLength: message.size,
            Body: contents
        },
        function(err, data) {
            if (err) {
                console.log(err)
            }
            else {
                console.log('file uploaded to s3 successfully');

                message.content = getS3Url(blank_file);

                sendMessage(message);
            }
        })
    }
}

Whenever I try to upload an image using this code, it appears to work, but when I check my s3 bucket and open up the image, my operating system says that the file is unreadable or corrupt. I've tried using the ContentLength parameter but when I use that I get the error "BadDigest: The Content-MD5 you specified did not match what we received."
Can anyone help me out? I got this code to work properly without s3, but for some reason I keep getting corrupt or unrecognizable files since I started using it.

A: I figured out what was wrong. You need to use a binary buffer to pass the data to s3 instead of just passing the string as is, so basically use these for the s3 parameters:
s3.putObject({
    Bucket: 'bucket-name',
    Key: file,
    Body: new Buffer(contents, 'binary') //use a buffer to pass the data over
}, function() { });

By using the buffer, it should upload the files properly.


Exceptional museum quality extremely fine micromosaic round plaque set on copper representing an owl that grasps with its claws a kid or baby lamb in a landscape with a light blue background, attributable to Antonio Aguatti ( active 1800-1846) mounted on the lid of a green granite or porphyry snuff-box with gilded silver mountings bearing hallmarks of the city of Rome, goldsmith Luigi Mascelli (active 1804 -1825).
Perfect conditions, commensurate with age.
The rare subject depicted here in our micromosaic is taken from a drawing or painting by Johann Wenzel or Wenceslas Peter active in Rome from 1774 until his death.
Johann Wenzel Peter was born September 9, 1745 in Karlsbad in the now-Czech Republic and died December 28, 1829 in Rome, Italy. Peter is known for his animal paintings which appear in the Vatican Museums and frescos which are on the walls of the Galleria Borghese. Pope Gregory XVI furnished the Room of the Consistory in the Papal State Apartment with twenty works purchased from Peter.
The micromosaic, given the museum quality could be attributed, not being signed, to some of the most important and best micromosaicists active at the beginning of the century: Giacomo Raffaelli, Antonio Aguatti or Filippo Puglieschi whom all three made subjects of this kind.
An almost identical round one "signed" Aguatti was sold by Christie's in Paris in 2007.
Another rectangular plaque, kept in its original leather case, signed by Aguatti was sold at auction by Delon-Hoebanx in Paris in June 2018 for about 40,000 euros.
So we are inclined to ascribe ours to the same artist.


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Jezero Orta (italijansko: Lago d'Orta) je jezero v severni Italiji, ki se nahaja zahodno od jezera Maggiore na nadmorski višini 290 metrov.

Do 16. stoletja se je jezero imenovalo Lago di San Giulio (jezero sv. Julija), po svetem Juliju, zavetniku pokrajine. Poetično ime jezera je Cusio. Južni del jezera se začne okoli severozahodno od Novare, v bližini pa poteka železniška proga Torino-Milano. Skupna površina jezera znaša 18,2 km², napaja pa se s področja velikega 116 km². V dolžino jezero meri 13,4 km, v širino pa na najširši točki 2,5 km. Povprečna globina jezera je 71,6 m. Voda v jezeru se zamenja vsakih 8,9 let.

Ena najbolj značilnih in najlepših točk jezera je otok  San Giulio, ki je prav tako dobil ime po svetniku iz 4. stoletja.

Najpomembnejše mesto v bližini jezera je Orta San Giulio, ki stoji na polotoku na vzhodni obali jezera. Geologi predvidevajo da je jezero Orta ostanek veliko večjega jezera, ki je nastalo s taljenjem ledenikov po zadnji ledeni dobi. S časom se je voda umaknila, iz velikega jezera pa je do danes ohranjenih več manjših jezer.

Na jezeru je bilo organiziranih več veslaških regat, leta 1893 pa tudi prvo Evropsko prvenstvo v veslanju.

Reference

 CNR - ISE: Laghi   (v italijanščini)
 LIMNO Banca dati dei laghi italiani: Orta (v italijanščini)

Zunanje povezave

 Orta.net: Slike, zgodovina in zanimivosti jezera Orta  (v angleščini in italijanščini)

Jezera v Italiji


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Tags | gay theory, science
Mormons More Likely To Be Gay
Excerpt from The Hastings Center:
Discussions and debates over the origins of homosexuality have tended to focus on two possibilities: you're either gay because you've got a "gay gene," or you're gay because of some aspect of your upbringing.
(The latter option is usually imagined to involve something nasty, like a pedophilic priest.) These two options—gene-gay and turned-gay—fit neatly in the (yawn) nature-nurture debate, and that
probably explains why almost everyone seems to keep ignoring a third option, one for which there is astoundingly robust data: womb-gay.
The official name of the womb-gay idea—bestowed by Ray Blanchard, the man who articulated the phenomenon—is the fraternal birth order effect.Blanchard is Head of Clinical Sexology Services at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto and Professor of Psychiatry
at the University of Toronto.
The upshot of the fraternal birth order effect is this: "In men, sexual orientation correlates with an individual's number of older brothers, each additional older brother increasing the odds of
homosexuality by approximately 33%." And this isn't because big brothers somehow socially pressure their little brothers into becoming gay. Another sex researcher,Anthony Bogaert of Brock University in
Canada, has shown decisively that it isn't due to family environment; adopted male siblings don't show the fraternal birth order effect, and the effect holds even when biological male siblings are raised
separately. It doesn't happen in females, and female fetuses don't add to the effect. The effect happens only among male siblings who have inhabited the same woman's womb.
So if you are a man, the farther down the reproductive chain you were in terms of male fetuses inhabiting your biological mother's womb, the greater the chance you are gay. Blanchard estimates this effect accounts for the sexual orientation of somewhere around 15-29% of gay
Why on earth would this happen? That's not at all clear, but the researchers who have looked at this phenomenon think it may involve some kind of immunological response a woman's body exhibits to
carrying male fetuses, a response whose effect on male fetuses grows stronger with each successive male-fetus pregnancy. This etiology remains theoretical. But the effect does not. In spite of the long-running "gene-gay versus turned-gay" discussions of homosexuality, we have far better data evidencing womb-gayness than we do gene-gayness or turned-gayness.
So what does this have to do with Mormons? Well, given the relatively large size of Mormon families, on average, it is highly likely that gay men are relatively more common among Mormons than among the general population, where family size is, on average, smaller. It's not just that each Mormon family would have, on average, more sons than the average American family; it's that the population of Mormons would include more gay men per capita than the general American population.
60 Minutes did a story on the "womb" theory back in 2006. A portion of that story is shown below.


Home Obituaries	Ernest "Jay" Singleton, Jr.
Ernest "Jay" Singleton, Jr., 51,a resident and native of Morgan City, LA, passed away on Thursday April 6, 2019 at Regional Medical Center of Central Alabama in Greenville, AL.
Visitation will be observed on Saturday, April 13, 2019at the Church of God of Prophecy in Patterson, LA, from 8:00 AM until funeral services at 3:00 PM. Bishop James T. Whitney will officiate the services. Burial will follow funeral services in the Morgan City Cemetery.
Memories of Ernest Jr. will forever remain in the hearts of his wife, Nina Nicole Harvey-Singleton of Patterson, LA; a son, Eric Harvey of Harvey, LA; one brother, Terence Singleton, of Patterson, LA; one sister, Shauna Singleton of Morgan City, LA; his mother-in-law; four uncles, two aunts; four grandchildren and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.
Ernest Jr., was preceded in death by his parents; his grandparents, and an aunt.
Moise Joseph "Mo" Clement, Jr.


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Q: Examples of pairewise independent but not independent continuous random variables By considering the set $\{1,2,3,4\}$, one can easily come up with an example (attributed to S. Bernstein) of pairwise independent but not independent random variables.
Counld anybody give an example with continuous random variables?

A: Let $x,y,z'$ be normally distributed, with $0$ mean.  Define $$z=\begin{cases} z' & xyz'\ge 0\\ -z' & xyz'<0\end{cases}$$
The resulting $x,y,z$ will always satisfy $xyz\ge 0$, but be pairwise independent.

A: An answer of mine on stats.SE gives essentially the same answer as the one given by vadim123.
Consider three standard
normal random variables $X,Y,Z$ whose joint probability
density function
$f_{X,Y,Z}(x,y,z)$ is not $\phi(x)\phi(y)\phi(z)$ where
$\phi(\cdot)$ is the standard normal density, but rather
$$f_{X,Y,Z}(x,y,z) = \begin{cases} 2\phi(x)\phi(y)\phi(z)
& ~~~~\text{if}~ x \geq 0, y\geq 0, z \geq 0,\\
& \text{or if}~ x < 0, y < 0, z \geq 0,\\
& \text{or if}~ x < 0, y\geq 0, z < 0,\\
& \text{or if}~ x \geq 0, y< 0, z < 0,\\
0 & \text{otherwise.}
\end{cases}\tag{1}$$
We can calculate the joint density of any pair of the random variables,
(say $X$ and $Z$) by integrating out the joint density with respect to
the unwanted variable, that is,
$$f_{X,Z}(x,z) = \int_{-\infty}^\infty f_{X,Y,Z}(x,y,z)\,\mathrm dy.
\tag{2}$$

*

*If $x \geq 0, z \geq 0$ or if $x < 0, z < 0$, then
$f_{X,Y,Z}(x,y,z) = \begin{cases} 2\phi(x)\phi(y)\phi(z), & y \geq 0,\\
0, & y < 0,\end{cases}$ and so $(2)$ reduces to
$$f_{X,Z}(x,z) = \phi(x)\phi(z)\int_{0}^\infty 2\phi(y)\,\mathrm dy =
\phi(x)\phi(z).
\tag{3}$$

*If $x \geq 0, z < 0$ or if $x < 0, z \geq 0$, then
$f_{X,Y,Z}(x,y,z) = \begin{cases} 2\phi(x)\phi(y)\phi(z), & y < 0,\\
0, & y \geq 0,\end{cases}$ and so $(2)$ reduces to
$$f_{X,Z}(x,z) = \phi(x)\phi(z)\int_{-\infty}^0 2\phi(y)\,\mathrm dy =
\phi(x)\phi(z).
\tag{4}$$
In short, $(3)$ and $(4)$ show that $f_{X,Z}(x,z) = \phi(x)\phi(z)$ for all
$x, z \in (-\infty,\infty)$ and so $X$ and $Z$ are
(pairwise) independent standard normal random variables. Similar
calculations (left as an exercise for the bemused
reader) show that $X$ and $Y$ are
(pairwise) independent standard normal random variables, and
$Y$ and $Z$ also are
(pairwise) independent standard normal random variables.  But
$X,Y,Z$ are not mutually independent normal random variables.
Indeed, their joint density $f_{X,Y,Z}(x,y,z)$
does not equal the product $\phi(x)\phi(y)\phi(z)$ of
their marginal densities for any choice of
$x, y, z \in (-\infty,\infty)$

A: The continuous analog of the Bernstein example: Divide up the unit cube into eight congruent subcubes of side length $1/2$. Select four of these cubes: Subcube #1 has one vertex at $(x,y,z)=(1,0,0)$, subcube #2 has one vertex at $(0,1,0)$, subcube #3 has one vertex at $(0,0,1)$, and subcube #4 has one vertex at $(1,1,1)$. (To visualize this, you have two layers of cubes: the bottom layer has two cubes in a diagonal formation, and the top layer has two cubes in the opposite diagonal formation.)
Now let $(X,Y,Z)$ be uniform over these four cubes. Clearly $X, Y, Z$ are not mutually independent, but every pair of variables $(X,Y)$, $(X,Z)$, $(Y,Z)$ is uniform over the unit square (and hence independent).

A: Here's a potentially very simple construction for $k$-wise independent random variables, uniformly distributed on $[0, 1]$ (though admittedly I didn't work it out very carefully so hopefully the condition checks out)? There is a standard way of constructing discrete $k$-wise independent random variables: let $X_1,\ldots, X_{k}$ be uniform independent rvs drawn from $F$, $F$ a finite field of order $q$ ($q$ sufficiently larger than $k$, of course). Then, for $u\in F$, let $Y_u = X_1 + uX_2+\cdots + u^{k-1}X_k$. Then, the random variables $\{Y_u : u\in F\}$ are $k$-wise independent.
Now, just divide $[0, 1]$ into $q$ evenly spaced subintervals. Let $Z_u$ be uniform from the $Y_u$th subinterval. The rvs $\{Z_u : u\in F\}$ are $k$-wise independent (their joint CDF would decompose as the product of the individual CDFs, since the $\{Y_u\}$ are $k$-wise independent), and are uniform over $[0, 1]$ since each $Y_u$ is uniform over $F$.


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/*
 * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
 *
 * License: Apache License, Version 2.0
 * See the LICENSE file in the root directory or visit http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 */
package org.hibernate.test.sqm.domain;

import org.hibernate.sqm.domain.EmbeddableType;
import org.hibernate.sqm.domain.EntityType;
import org.hibernate.sqm.domain.IdentifiableType;
import org.hibernate.sqm.domain.IdentifierDescriptorSingleAttribute;
import org.hibernate.sqm.domain.SingularAttribute;
import org.hibernate.sqm.domain.Type;

/**
 * @author Steve Ebersole
 */
public class SingleAttributeIdentifierDescriptor implements IdentifierDescriptorSingleAttribute {
	private final SingularAttribute idAttribute;

	public SingleAttributeIdentifierDescriptor(
			IdentifiableType entityType,
			String idAttributeName,
			Type idType) {
		this.idAttribute = new SingularAttributeImpl(
				entityType,
				idAttributeName,
				idType instanceof EmbeddableType
						? SingularAttribute.Classification.EMBEDDED
						: SingularAttribute.Classification.BASIC,
				idType
		);
	}

	@Override
	public Type getIdType() {
		return idAttribute.getBoundType();
	}

	@Override
	public boolean hasSingleIdAttribute() {
		return true;
	}

	@Override
	public String getReferableAttributeName() {
		return idAttribute.getName();
	}

	@Override
	public SingularAttribute getIdAttribute() {
		return idAttribute;
	}
}


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