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Six ways Native voters could tip control of the Senate
The Native Vote project of the Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters aims to improve registration and turnout in Wisconsin. (Photo via Facebook)
byMark Trahant
Sep 26, 2018 -edited
A closer look at Senate races in North Dakota, Arizona, Montana, Minnesota, Nevada and Wisconsin
This is a record year for Native people running for office. There are more Native candidates -- and especially more women running -- than ever before. And here we are: Forty days until the votes are counted. (And only a few days left to register to vote in many states.)
But what about the other races? Races where there is no Native American on the ballot, and where Native issues are rarely (if at all) explored.
Let's look at six Senate races where the Native vote can make a difference, and even decide the outcome of the election.
North Dakota has to be at the top of any Senate list. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, a Democrat, against Rep. Kevin Cramer, a Republican. Both have won statewide races. Heitkamp is an independent Democrat, mostly she will vote with her party, but she votes with Trump often.
This is a philosophical race for Indian Country. Many tribal voters have promised to never vote for her again (the Native vote was critical to her win six years ago) because of what they say are her failures to leading during Standing Rock and the Dakota Access Pipeline debate. She was clearly on the side of DAPL. As Marlo Hunte-Beaubrun, Standing Rock, who ran for Public Service Commission two years ago, told the Associated Press, "We rallied so hard for her, but when her hand was forced she basically sold out to big oil." Hunte-Beaubrun said she was going to stay home.
But when it comes to Big Oil, Cramer is even more supportive than Heitkamp. His finance committee is led by Harold Hamm, one of the architects of North Dakota's energy policy. He is chairman of Continental Resources, the biggest leaseholder in the Bakken oil basin.
So why is this race philosophical? Because it begs the question which would-be senator would be there on some issues all of the time?
Heitkamp is one of the best in the Senate on Native issues ranging from violence against women to making sure the Census counts every tribal citizen. She's supported Native American provisions in the Farm Bill, including a Tribal Food and Security Act.
Cramer supports a few tribal issues, but his primary argument is that he is a North Dakota voice that the president listens to on energy issues. And that includes dismissing the science of global warming. He told Energy News Network: "I want voters most to appreciate the next generation of challenges and consequences of driving energy prices up artificially through manipulation of regulatory policy and methods. And that is our global advantage — in manufacturing, [in] server farms or [other] technology—that is greatly diminished when we unilaterally disarm ourselves with energy policy."
Nearly 6 percent of North Dakotans are tribal citizens. North Dakota has no voter registration, and because of a court order, people can show up at the polls, register, and vote on the same day. But one challenge for North Dakota is rural addressing. State law requires an "address," something that's not uniform across Indian Country. In the most recent ruling stopping a challenge to the law, Judge Steven Colloton wrote for the U.S. 8th Circuit Court that voters still have an option: "If any resident of North Dakota lacks a current residential street address and is denied an opportunity to vote on that basis, the courthouse doors remain open."
An earlier judge found that nearly half of all Native Americans lacked state-ordered identification to vote in North Dakota and at least 2,300 would be prevented from voting.
Still the Native American vote, obstacles or not, will continue to matter because the state is so small. The website FiveThirtyEight once called North Dakota the most powerful vote in deciding which party will control the Senate. The statistical models the site uses gives Heitkamp a slight advantage. (For what it's worth: North Dakota was one of the states that FiveThirtyEight got wrong six years ago. Why's that? The statistical models did not account for the Native vote.)
Native Americans were not allowed to vote in Arizona until 1970 when "English literacy" tests were finally outlawed. But that doesn't mean that tricks are still not used to make it more difficult for Native voters to exercise their right. The latest is a measure that makes it a felony to help someone deliver a ballot (other than family members or postal workers). Think of that in the context of Indian Country: It means you can't help an elder get their vote counted.
Most Arizonans vote early -- only 20 percent show up to the polls on Election Day -- so what the legislature calls "ballot harvesting" is a way to make it easier for people to get their votes counted. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that it was only a "minimal burden" for people to get to the polls, or send a family member, during the 27-day voting period. (A second issue was allowing voters to participate in a precinct other than their own. This makes sense in rural issues where people might live far away from where they work, such as in the Navajo Nation. But the court essentially said it deferred to state law.)
But let's get past that and look at the Senate. Arizonans will decide on the replacement for Sen. Jeff Flake, a Republican, who is not running again. The choice is between Rep. Martha McSally, R-Tucson, and Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Phoenix. This will be a close race. Many consider Arizona the best chance for Democrats to take away a Senate seat from Republicans and Sinema has an early lead, but within the margin of error.
That's why registration -- and turnout -- is so important. This Senate seat will be decided by the voters who show up, so each side is working to make sure that turnout is up from the voters most likely to support them. And in Arizona, for Democrats, that means Native American voters. In raw numbers, Arizona has 232,000 Native voters or 5 percent of the pool, according to the National Congress of American Indians Native Vote project. But what makes these votes even more powerful is they tend to vote in a bloc. Two years ago, for example, in Apache County, the Native vote for Democrats Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine was more than twice that for Republicans Donald J. Trump and Mike Pence.
Beyond party differences there is not a lot of depth on tribal issues from either candidate. This election is more about how voters feel about President Trump, the border, building a wall, and the military. The president endorsed McSally and called her an "extraordinary woman" who has "my total and complete endorsement!"
Montana is interesting because it was supposed to be a tight race. It likely will be, but not the razor thin margins that elected Jon Tester to the Senate a dozen years ago. The most recent poll shows Tester with a four point lead over his Republican opponent, Matt Rosendale.
Two big numbers from the Gravis Marketing survey: Tester leads Rosendale by double digits among independent voters, 55 to 34.3 percent. And Tester also holds double-digit edges with female voters and young voters between the ages of 18 and 29. Huge.
The survey did not reflect the Native American vote which is significant in Montana, a potential 50,000 voters. Six years ago Tester won re-election by 3,562 votes and more than 17,000 votes were cast in tribal nations.
President Trump won Montana by 20 points two years ago and has campaigned Rosendale in Billings. Vice President Mike Pence is headed to the state next week.
Nevada is another state that Democrats are hoping to flip from red to blue. But CNN points out that incumbent Sen. Dean Heller is competitive. "The fact that Heller is even competitive, though, in Nevada is a major blow to the idea that the Republican Party is bound to be in trouble because of the shifting demographics in this country," CNN said. "It's actually fairly simple: the white population become much more Republican leaning."
Rep. Jackie Rosen is the Democratic nominee.
Nevada's Native population is tiny, 1.6 percent of Nevada residents,and that's only slightly higher than the U.S. percent of 1.2 percent. However research by the Native Vote project puts the number of Native voters a bit higher, 2.5 percent. And if it's a close election, that's a potential voting bloc.
Most Nevada voters are not from Nevada (more so than any other state). As the Las Vegas Sun puts it: "Fewer than one in four Nevadans — 24 percent — took their first breath here." It's transplant cities.
On top of the small population percentage, Native Americans in Nevada have many voting obstacles. According to research by the Center for American Progress some 26 percent of Native Nevadans cited long distances to the voter registrar's offices as one of the reasons that they decided not to register. Another 27 percent said it was a long drive just to vote. A story in the L.A. Times two years ago said one polling station was 270 miles away. "I would vote, but it's such a long drive, about two hours each way," Alissa Thompson told the Times. "I'd have to leave at 8 a.m."
Minnesota's Native voters should be inspired. Not by any Senate race but because two Native Americans are competing to be the next lieutenant governor. Republican Donna Bergstrom, Red Lake Band, and Democrat Peggy Flanagan, White Earth Nation, are out on the campaign trail and bringing new voters to the process. That should have some impact on the Senate race.
Minnesota has two Senate races taking place (because of Al Franken's resignation). Sen. Tina Smith, who was appointed to the seat, is hoping to hold on as a Democrat. She faces Republican Karin Housley. Sen. Smith is on the Indian Affairs Committee and she wasted no time as a newcomer sponsoring legislation such as the Justice for Native Survivors of Sexual Violence Act to help survivors of sexual violence by allowing tribes to prosecute cases of sexual assault, sex trafficking, and stalking against non-Indian offenders.
Democrat Sen. Amy Klobuchar has an imposing lead over her Republican challenger Jim Newberger for the second seat in play.
Vote for me! A future voter, candidate highlights the importance of the ballot box for Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters, Native Vote project. (Photo via Facebook)
Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin is running for reelection in a state that is often competitive. She is facing Republican Leah Vukmir who is running as a Trump Republican and she was endorsed by the president.
"When President Trump succeeds, America succeeds," Vukmir said. "I am honored to have his endorsement and look forward to beating Tammy Baldwin who wants to obstruct the President's agenda at every turn. Wisconsinites want a senator who will work with President Trump to make American great again, and that's exactly what I intend to do."
Sen. Baldwin, among other issues, is championing the Affordable Care Act. The last "repeal bill failed by just one vote. If my opponent, Leah Vukmir, had been in the U.S. Senate last summer, she would have been the deciding vote on taking people's health care away," she said. "That vote would have had dire consequences for so many Wisconsin families."
Roll Call says this race remains a toss-up. "Republicans believe Wisconsin Democrat Tammy Baldwin remains vulnerable and cite a recent Marquette poll that showed Baldwin's lead within the margin of error. But other polls have found Baldwin in much better shape … any midterm breeze helping the Democrats should keep the Senate seat in their column."
There is also a history of Native voter engagement in Wisconsin. The League of Conservation Voters has had a Native vote outreach for several years. "Measures passed by the Wisconsin Legislature in recent years to limit our democracy, such as making voter registration more difficult and creating the strictest photo ID requirements in the nation, have also had a negative impact on Native voters and caused confusion at polling places," the league's Native Vote web page said. After several years of success, the league cited the 2016 as challenging. "The Native Vote team talked with voters at community events and at their homes, collecting almost 2,400 pledges to vote and knocking on over 5,500 doors. We saw firsthand the impacts of new voter laws, like the photo ID requirements. There was confusion about how to get IDs. We saw multiple cases of laws being implemented incorrectly and confusion among poll workers, clerks, and even a chief election inspector."
There are 35 U.S. Senate seats up for election this November (two more than usual because of special elections).
Mark Trahant is editor of Indian Country Today. He is a member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. Follow him on Twitter -@TrahantReports
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I can understand why Native Americans generally vote Democrat; however, I think you fail to see the big picture. The Democratic Party was once a fairly decent party but no more. It is now funded and controlled by George Soros and others like him whose whole aim is to destroy OUR America that I proudly served for 20 years in the Air Force. The Dems want to turn OUR America into a socialist/communist/fascist (whichever works best) country. Why do you think Dems support gun control? To take all guns away from law abiding citizens so they can't stop them. They want to control every aspect of our lives. The truly sad thing? America is the last bastion of freedom. If she falls, so does the world. I have Native American blood on both sides of my family and am more proud of it than the rest of my heritage but it doesn't blind me. NA's have served in the military in the past. The Apache were code talkers in WWI and the Navajo code talkers unbreakable code helped defeat the Japanese in WWII. It is a proud heritage. I'm a registered Independent and have in the past voted Democrat but no more. I don't support President Trump on everything; certainly not the DAPL Pipeline nor reducing the safe area for the red wolves. He has done some good things for America and for that I thank him. For now, he's the best we have. Hopefully, a third party will rise that will combine the best of both parties and we'll have people we can really get behind and vote for. We also need term limits for Congress.
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This is a guest post written by Jenna Nguyen, MS, OTR/L. Jenna graduated from a 5-year MS Occupational Therapy program in 2017. She has worked with adult and geriatric clients in acute care and rehabilitation settings. Her clinical interests include practice and research in cardiac rehabilitation, hand therapy, and Parkinson's Disease.
When I think about occupational therapy, one of the things I value most is the idea of connections.
Within the field of occupational therapy, one can find meaning in many different connections, including the relationships between educators and students during schooling, practitioners and clients in the workplace, and even the connections between clients and their occupations in everyday life.
I first connected with Anna via Instagram when she launched her website, OTinsight.org. In our initial conversation, we talked briefly about my experience in my first year of practice as a registered occupational therapist. We connected over my passion for writing and sharing my story, which I'm now excited to be sharing with you.
What Do You Think Is the Most Important Aspect of OT?
As occupational therapy practitioners, it is important that we hear other people's stories. In our unique field, we believe in the distinct value of occupational therapy. Yet in order to be successful practitioners who desire to deliver meaningful and impactful therapy, we must listen to the values of the people we work with.
A few years ago, I attended my state's annual Occupational Therapy Association Conference. I attended sessions, viewed posters, and met many other occupational therapy practitioners and students, and learned a lot of new information.
One thing I can clearly recall from the first day of the conference is when one of the speakers told the group that, "Occupational therapy practitioners can set themselves apart from others by really listening to their clients—by understanding what that person wants, and what that person wants to do." This is the exact essence of client-centered, occupation-based therapy.
What Do You Do as an OT?
In the occupational therapy process, we look at where our clients have been, where they are now, and where we hope they will be in the future. We do chart reviews, perform initial evaluations, build occupational profiles, write goals, deliver meaningful interventions, and continue the therapeutic process until our goals are met.
Throughout all of this, we consider how the person, environment, and occupations interact to impact overall occupational performance. In the process, we learn from experience, we learn from stories, we learn from what happens to us, and we learn from the things we listen to.
What Has Your OT Journey Been Like So Far?
After graduating from OT school, I worked primarily in acute care, though I had another PRN job in a subacute rehabilitation setting.
Being an occupational therapist in an acute care setting quickly taught me that you can't know it all, especially in the first year of practice (which is a whole other series of stories). So here is a word of advice to you, prospective students, and those on your way to becoming occupational therapy practitioners: find your resources, find your support system, and learn from everyone you meet and every situation you encounter, even the difficult ones.
Working in a high-stress environment like acute care is very demanding, especially as a new grad. Another very important lesson that I learned during this time is that you cannot let a job demand more of yourself than you are able to give.
During my time working at the hospital, someone close to me was admitted and eventually passed away. This was, of course, a very difficult process, and I couldn't come back to work the same way after his death. I needed to do what I needed to in order to take care of myself.
So, I resigned from a job I thought would be my perfect career. Maybe I will end up back in acute care in the future, but for now, exploring other settings is the best thing for me.
I believe that when a meaningful connection is severed, it is important to take time to heal. As occupational therapy practitioners, we encounter people in the most vulnerable times of their lives to help them find meaning and, in many ways, inspire them to participate once again in their lives. We support participation in self-care, but we also need to care for ourselves, especially in a profession that values therapeutic use of self. While we absolutely need to listen to what our clients value, I think it's also very important to listen to what matters to ourselves as occupational therapy practitioners, and as people, as well.
During the past few months, I've been researching new jobs in new settings, filling out applications, going for interviews, but I haven't found my best fit yet. I have not, however, given up on pursuing the things that give my life meaning.
I am attending dance and exercise classes at a studio and choreographing, as well as completing workouts and mindfulness practices at home on my own as a way to practice self-care. I am reading and writing and listening to music and engaging in the occupations that are meaningful to me.
I've taken time to connect with people who are interesting and inspiring. And I've learned that connecting with myself so that I can better myself in my occupational therapy practice is the most important thing I could be doing right now.
I have learned so much from my own story and experiences. I've learned that you don't need to wait for your work to dictate your passions. During these last few months, I've had time to explore my interests, both personally and professionally. I've been taking online courses and getting certifications in areas I am passionate about. I have looked into PP-OTD programs to further my education and refine my interests in a way that can serve the occupational therapy community in new ways.
I believe that the therapists who value lifelong learning will find their work fulfilling. I challenge you all to keep reading, keep attending conferences and lectures when you can, and keep taking the time to learn from others so that you will keep growing and bettering yourself. You don't need to formally go back to school to keep being a student. I believe that we should not live the same year of our practice over and over again. And with everything I've dealt with in these last 12 months, I certainly don't want to.


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Bar codes that can be scanned using cell phones could help bring the Internet into the physical world. Already in use in parts of Asia, "physical hyperlink" technology would allow a camera-phone user to take a picture of a square bar code on an object and have their phone provide related information in the form or audio, video, or text. The required software must currently be downloaded by U.S. cell phone users. The bar codes, which can hold much more information than traditional bar codes, are being placed on some states' drivers' licenses. Although other methods for physical hyperlinking such as radio waves, computer chips, or satellite location systems have been considered, they are far more intricate and expensive than the bar codes. "The cell phone is the natural tool to combine the physical world with the digital world," says CBS executive Cyriac Roeding. A late 1990s effort to market scanning devices that could link users to information about products failed, due to a lack of consumer interest in a device that could only serve this purpose, but using cell phones for the technology seems to be a better fit. One third of U.S households with cell phones already have a camera phone, reports Forrester, and that is expected to increase in coming years. Many uses for the bar codes exist in Japan, but the most popular is for airplane tickets: A user can download the bar code to their phone and simply wave the screen over a scanner to board their flight. Users could also scan bar codes off of computer screens, if they had to go somewhere but wanted to bring the content with them. If wireless companies support the bar codes and include the reader software in their devices, they will have to choose between different bar code formats, such as Semacode, QR Code, and Qode.
UCSD News (03/29/07)
Electrical engineers at the University of California, San Diego are developing an image search engine system dubbed Supervised Multiclass Labeling (SML) that can annotate and search images by analyzing their content. When evaluating an image, the system figures out the probability that various objects or "classes" are present, and creates appropriate labels. SML can also separate images by class, a process known as "image segmentations," meaning a picture of a landscape could be split up into mountains, trees, and lake sections. "Right now, Internet image search engines don't use any image content analysis," explains UCSD professor Nuno Vasconcelos. "They are highly scalable in terms of the number of images they can search but very constrained on the kinds of searches they can perform." The imaging index technique used by SML can process more images at a lower computational cost than previous methods. Not only can the system tell the difference between similar visual concepts, such as different types of bears, but it can do so for many different classes, such as bears, trees, or any concrete object. Previous systems for annotating images that have no captions have been less accurate, or have only been able to find photos similar to one they are shown or tell whether a visual concept if present in an image. During training, SML separates each image into 8-by-8 pixel squares and takes some information, known as a "localized feature," from each. All of the localized features for an image are known as a "bag of features." Researchers gather all the bags of features for a particular visual concept in a way that keeps important details of the images without keeping track of every 8-by-8 pixel square. The system has shown similarities to the way humans label images, says Vasconcelos.
HPC Wire (03/30/07)
SC07 has a new deadline of April 16, 2007, for submissions of technical papers and Gordon Bell Prize papers. As part of the two-part submission process, authors will have to register at the submission Web site ( www.sc-submissions.org) and submit an abstract by Friday, April 6, and upload manuscripts before the extended deadline. This year, technical papers will have a "blind" submission and review process. Authors should not include their names on the manuscript, and try to hide their identity. Although citations to prior work can be included in manuscripts, authors should refer to them in the third person, and also omit acknowledgements and when possible remove other identifying references. Guidelines for Gordon Bell Prize submissions can be found at sc07.supercomputing.org/html/gordonbell.html. ACM and IEEE are the sponsors for the top international conference on high performance computing, networking, and storage. SC07 is scheduled for Nov. 10-16, 2007, in Reno, Nev.
EE Times (03/27/07) Goering, Richard
In his Multicore Expo keynote address, MIT professor Anant Argawal said that multicore systems-on-chip will require that designers "rethink computer architectures in a most fundamental way." He predicts that cores on a single system will number in the hundreds within the next few years. Increasing the number of processors and keeping cache sizes small will cause better results than maintaining the number of processors and making caches larger would. He said the "keep if less than linear" (KILL) rule, which means that a resource in a core should only be increased in area if the performance of the core increase proportionally, could help determine the optimal size of a cache in a specific system. For connecting cores, Argawal supported the idea of distributed meshes as opposed to busses or rings, since meshes are scalable, can be more power efficient, and offer more simple layouts. "Tiled" architecture, fully distributed with no centralized resources, is the wave of the future, while "the bus-based multicore system will fade in the next year or two," he claimed. The difficulty of multicore programming is a result of both perception, the fact that parallel programming tools are "in the dark ages," and that old programming approaches are not sufficient. ASIC designs, the ability to stream data from one computing unit to another, presents a possible solution. Core-to-core data transfer is potentially cheaper than memory access, Argawal said. Multicore devices would benefit from a "socket like" stream-based programming APIs, he said, noting that the Multicore Association's proposed Communication's API (CAPI) is this type of API. If such developments are made, the best they can do is "offer an evolutionary path," explained Argawal. "Therein lies our challenge."
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) (03/26/07) Kloeppel, James E.
Researchers at the University of Illinois, Lehigh University, and Purdue University have developed a way to use dense arrays of aligned and linear carbon nanotubes as a thin-film semiconductor material that can be integrated into electronic devices. Manipulating and positioning nanotubes and achieving sufficient current outputs have been stumbling blocks for past research. These arrays could be placed on plastic or other substrates and used in technology such as flexible displays, or to improve the performance of devices built on silicon-based chips technology. "The aligned arrays represent an important step toward large-scale integrated nanotube electronics," said University of Illinois professor John A. Rogers. To build the arrays, researchers started with a wafer of single-crystal quartz on which they deposited thin strips of iron nanoparticles, which act as a catalyst for the generation of carbon nanotubes through chemical vapor deposition. As the nanotubes grow past the strips, they lock into the quartz crystal, which causes the alignment of their growth. The arrays consist of hundreds of thousand of nanotubes, which are 1 nanometer in diameter and as much as 300 microns in length. Charges move independently through the thin-film semiconductor material created by the arrays. Conventional chip-processing techniques would allow the nanotubes to be integrated into electronic devices. The researchers built a series of transistors and logic gates using the arrays and compared the arrays to individual nanotubes. "This is the first study that shows properties in scalable device configurations that approach the intrinsic properties of the tubes themselves, as inferred from single-tube studies," said Rogers.
Wisconsin State Journal (03/29/07) LaRoi, Heather
Enrollment in computer science is declining just when computer science grads are becoming a valuable commodity due to an abundance of high-tech jobs and the prospects of continued job market expansion. There has been a 60 percent drop-off in the number of students who say they are interested in majoring in computer science since 2000, according to Jan Cuny with the National Science Foundation's Broadening Participation in Computing Initiative. About 10 percent of computer science bachelor's degrees at U.S. research universities are awarded to women, while the percentage of women who received bachelor's degrees in computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison fell from 16 percent to 9 percent between 1998 and 2006. Many experts are bewildered by the widening gender gap in computer science and IT fields, because studies indicate that efforts to get more women involved in math and science have had a generally positive effect. Cuny cites a NSF study showing that there has been a profound leakage of women in the field of computer science, as opposed to engineering and physics. One reason often given for the gender disparity is the differing reasons why men and women use computers; while men tend to see computers as devices for gaming and entertainment--and by extension, programming--women frequently view them as tools for chatting and word processing, which limits their appeal. Madison Area Technical College IT instructor Nina Milbauer says the image of IT professionals as solitary, socially maladjusted geeks is a deterring factor to girls and women that must be countered. Cuny observes that any signs of job insecurity can discourage women from entering IT, although the climate for IT jobs is more secure than ever, with the U.S. Department of Labor projecting "much faster than average" job growth for most of the chief computer science employment categories through 2014.
CNet (03/29/07) Lombardi, Candace
Researchers in IBM's Visual Communication Lab plan to add more social-networking features to the Many Eyes Web site because they believe communities will be formed around the data-sharing and visualization tool. Still in public alpha, Many Eyes allows users to upload data sets from an Excel file or other common delineated files, click a few times to create a visual, and make it available to the public. Viewers can manipulate the 15 different types of data charts or visualizations to search and parse for alternative views and specific data subsets. By the summer, the IBM team plans to allow users to pull bigger versions of visualizations and tools into blogs, incorporate live updates into Web sites, add more browsing options, and create categorized forums so that people with similar interests can have a place to discuss the data. Many Eyes has grown from 20 data sets to more than 2,000, and has been used by Christian bloggers to analyze the Bible, and book enthusiasts have used it to upload data from Project Gutenberg, says Matt McKeon, a developer for the project. He believes sports statisticians will take to Many Eyes once more become aware of it, and hopes other researchers will put the Web site to good use.
Computerworld (03/26/07) Anthes, Gary
The binary number system is the most fundamental incarnation of computer science, and strings of zeros and ones comprise the foundation of all the software and all the data in digital computers. From the beginning, computers were designed to work directly on binary rather than decimal numbers at their lowest levels, because the binary concept has advantageous properties. British mathematician Charles Boole outlined a logic system in which the basic AND, OR, and NOT operations could form simple statements with a binary property and could be combined and stacked into the most sophisticated of logical constructs; this became the basis of computer hardware and software. In hardware, AND, OR, and NOT operations can be easily deployed as "gates," and combining enough gates generates a computer. Claude Shannon took binary a step further with his demonstration that electrical switching circuits could automatically execute Boolean logic; in essence, Shannon proved that zeroes and ones could represent all information. The science of spintronics could harbor an even more staggering breakthrough, according to University of California, Santa Barbara physics professor David Awschalom. "In contrast to zeroes and ones, with spintronics, we might go to a system with an arbitrarily large number of states," he explains. "The electron is either off or it's present with the spin pointing in one of many different directions. Each direction is a 'bit,' so that you would increase the density of information by many orders of magnitude."
The Engineer (03/29/07)
University College London researchers are working on a radar-style detection system that uses wireless network technology to track people or objects. Today's target detection and tracking systems require targets to contain or carry an RFID or other device, can have their coverage restricted, by walls for example, and depend on the installation of expensive equipment. UCL's Wi-Fi-based tracking system could track subjects without their knowledge, be used indoors and outdoors, and use low-cost wireless hardware. "The system could be deployed anywhere with a Wi-Fi capability using the existing infrastructure," said UCL's Dr. Karl Woodbridge. "All you would have to do is to install a relatively simple receiver to build a detection system." The project is scheduled to be finished by August 2009, at which point a prototype should be ready to demonstrate detection, tracking, location, and imaging abilities using a small network. The final system would use both Wi-Fi and WiMax, and would include video surveillance to identify unusual behavior and send the information to a central unit that would evaluate the suspected threat. Signals would be received from both the transmitter and the target, but the transmitter signals would be stronger, since they have not been reflected. However, "the waveforms are designed for communications not radar detection, so they aren't necessarily ideal for passive radar transmission," Woodbridge said. "We will therefore have to develop a way to suppress the stronger signal as well as software that will be able to pinpoint the target." Wi-Fi sensors being installed for other purposes could be used for surveillance at only a slight extra cost.
InformationWeek (03/28/07) Wagner, Mitch
PalmPilot inventor Jeff Hawkins sees no reason why a machine cannot be made to think like a human brain. Speaking at the O'Reilly ETech Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, Hawkins said there is no magic involved in the way human beings are able to recognize images and speech, and adapt as they learn. The neocortex is where things such as seeing and language function occur in the human brain, and although there is no differentiation in the cells in the thin layer covering this area of the brain, the various parts of the brain do different things because they are connected in different ways, he explained. The company Hawkins co-founded, Numenta, is attempting to build software that can learn and think like the human brain, and has developed a software model that is able to learn by experiencing sense data, similar to the manner in which humans do. Conference attendees saw slides that showed how the software can recognize symbols that resemble hieroglyphics. Such technology could allow car makers to build vehicles with sensors to detect dangerous driving conditions. The technology could also be used in gaming, network modeling, drug discovery, vision systems, market analysis, and business modeling.
TechNewsWorld (03/28/07) Mello, John P. Jr.
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs' optical filter made from silicon can both improve the speed of fiber-optic networks and take advantage of current manufacturing processes. Today's network filters must convert an optical signal to an electrical one in order to clean it up, and then turn back into an optical signal before sending it along. What the new filter does is allow the signal to be cleaned up as an optical signal, so the high speed of optics is not hindered by electronics. "This would be a novel filter architecture even if it were made from the typical boutique photonic components," explained the labs' technical manager Sanjay Patel. "The gravy, though, is that we did this on a new silicon platform. That makes this a milestone." The union of silicon and photonics allows optics-on-a-chip systems to benefit from the silicon-based chip building infrastructure, a goal of both industry and academic researchers. The move to silicon would allow smaller, more sophisticated devices. "It opens up a whole new class of structures and architectures, which I just couldn't imagine doing in the traditional way," says Patel. Silicon photonics could increase the speed of the Internet because "you can put everything on a small chip and increase the integration level," and put many chips in a smaller, more energy-efficient device, which helps process signals much faster, says Patel. He estimates that it will be three to five years before silicon photonics are put into use in networks.
Linux.com (03/28/07) Stutz, Michael
The preservation of American history is the goal of an ambitious project the Library of Congress is about to undertake, in which Linux-based systems will be used to digitize rare and deteriorating public domain documents and publish them online in various formats. Open source software's role in this effort will be "absolutely critical," according to the Internet Archive's Brewster Kahle. The chief element is Scribe, a book-scanning system that combines hardware and free software, and that has been wholly migrated to Linux by the Internet Archive. The documents to be scanned will be held in a Linux-based workstation at the Library of Congress and photographed by two cameras; quality assurance will be performed by a human operator, and then Scribe will transmit the images to the Internet Archive in San Francisco, where they will be processed and ultimately published online in multiple formats. Once scanned and processed, the digital versions of the documents will be made freely available online, says the Library of Congress' Dr. Jeremy E.A. Adamson. Some of the historic materials are so deteriorated and fragile that placing them in Scribe's V-shaped scanning cradle could damage them beyond repair, and Adamson says the development of a more formal classification and description of such debilitated materials and the establishment of "digitization workflows based on that classification of condition" are among the project's goals. Should new software and digitization methods be required to scan such materials, then the Library of Congress and the Internet Archive will collaborate to make the tools publicly available.
University of Southampton (ECS) (03/31/07) Van Kleek, Max; Bernstein, Michael; Karger, David R.
Information must be entered in order to be retrieved, but too frequently the data is not entered because it may seem too much of an effort or investment to launch and navigate through multiple applications to capture the information, or because the need to record some information can be thwarted by the lack of a natural repository. The authors offer text as a possible solution, although its unstructured form makes retrieval a sticking point; to overcome this obstacle, they have conceived of "journo," a tool designed to use lightweight text input to capture richly structured data for later retrieval and navigation in a graphical environment. The interactions the authors wanted to capture required tackling various challenges, including capturing structure from text not entered in a form, modeling the capture of a desktop state for proper tie-in to a scrap, supporting interpretation and retrieval of individual scraps of text, and blending captured data so it can be used with existing applications. Journo supports lightweight information input with a simple text input that allows users to type notes in any desirable fashion and to divide their text buffer into notes that can be freely rearranged; lowering the cost of switching applications to add notes to journo is accomplished through the provision of a number of shortcut hotkeys, and notes can be categorized through the addition of tags, which are identified syntactically as single word beginning with "@." The expression of structured information to the system in a way that is understandable to journo is offered by a simplified "pidgin" language and a lightweight triple syntax that allows the user to encompass arbitrary structural properties and relationships among entities via statements. The main technical challenges to deploying the journo design involved support for unrestricted textual input; flexibility in information structuring; integration with desktop applications; acquisition of subtext from unconstrained text; context capture and consequent selection and presentation of relevant contextual instances for facilitating refining and memory priming; and correlation among text, context, and subtext.
Economist (03/29/07)
As computing components reach a certain minutiae, quantum effects could have negative consequences, but researchers have found a way to use these quantum effects to benefit data storage using spintronics. The results show that a single atom could be used to store the ones and zeros that comprise binary code. A form of spintronics, known as ballistic anisotropic magnetoresistance, occurs when a magnetized wire with a width of a few atoms is placed in another magnetic field. The wire's atoms become magnetized in the direction of the field, and this direction could be used to encode a bit of data. Since electrons would be able to travel down the wire without bumping into any atoms, their spin could align itself with those of the data-storing atoms, creating a readable signal. Researchers at the University of Nebraska and the University of Strasbourg placed a narrow strip of cobalt wire on a silicon chip and made the wire into an hourglass shape at one point on its length. The "waist" of the hourglass was only one atom wide and acted as the narrow wire. Evidence showed that the signals from atoms could be read as they passed through the waist. These results are far from being ready for store shelves, but if this technology could be utilized, it could allow a superior form of compact memory.
Roanoke Times (VA) (03/31/07) Esposito, Greg
Virginia Tech put its robots and other innovations on display last Tuesday for its Engineering Technology Showcase. The robot that received the most attention was DARwIn (the "Dynamic Anthropomorphic Robot with Intelligence), which in its latest form was designed and programmed by a team of engineering students. A toy-sized robot that can move like a human, DARwIn was initially developed three years ago by Dennis Hong, a mechanical engineering professor and founder and director of the university's Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory. The nearly two-foot-tall robot with human proportions makes use of sensors to keep its balance and feel with its feet, rotating and stationary cameras to locate objects, a computer and software for a brain, and motors to control its movements. DARwIn has taken second place in an international student mechanism design competition, has appeared on the cover of the robotics trade magazine Servo, and a clip of the robot on YouTube has been viewed more than 13,000 times. The robot will participate in the RoboCup robotics and artificial intelligence soccer skill competition in July at Georgia Tech.
Computerworld (03/26/07) Vijayan, Jaikumar
A group of organizations led by the SANS Institute has launched the National Secure Programming Skills Assessment program, a series of tests designed to give companies with internal software development employees a way to test their coding skills so any flaws can be caught and corrected. Initially, four examinations will be offered, with each one testing a different type of programming language. The four areas covered are C/C++, Java/J2EE, Perl/PHP, and .Net/ASP. The exams will first be available in Washington, D.C., in August, and be made available worldwide later in the year. The necessity for a security assessment test comes from the growing need to improve programming skills while cybercriminals are becoming increasingly better at exploiting application-level vulnerabilities, many of which are the result of common coding errors such as input validation, buffer overflows, and integer errors. The program involved more than 360 organizations from the private sector, government agencies, and universities. The exams are being designed to test knowledge of basic security problems that may arise during programming, not to test advanced security knowledge. The objective is to test an individual's ability to spot coding errors and apply fundamental best practices while coding software.
SD Times (04/01/07)No. 171, P. 1; Worthington, David
The World Wide Web Consortium plans to recharter the HTML Working Group and include Web developers much more in the process of determining new HTML specifications. Some Web developers have expressed concern that they were not involved in the 4.01 Working Group, and ZapThink analyst Ron Schmelzer added that the heavy presence of software vendors may skew the standard to changes and other things that would benefit their products. "Involving developers in the standard will help not just the products that support the standards but also the people that have to live with them," says Schmelzer. The schedule calls for the first public working draft of the HTML revision in June, and a final version by 2010. The XHTLM 2.0 Working Group has also been rechartered, and spinning it off will allow for greater independence. Schmelzer envisions a separate community developing from users of traditional tools, best practices, and disciplines, and that it will be made up of developers who want to take a more rigorous and evolutionary approach to XHTML.
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The Prospective Population Study of Women in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1968-69 to 1992-93. A 24-year follow-up study with special reference to participation, representativeness, and mortality.
Bengtsson C1, Ahlqwist M, Andersson K, Björkelund C, Lissner L, Söderström M.
Department of Primary Health Care, Göteborg University, Sweden.
To describe the fourth phase of the Prospective Population Study of Women in Gothenburg, Sweden, with special reference to participation and survival.
Prospective population study.
City of Gothenburg with about 430,000 inhabitants.
1462 participants and 128 refusers aged 38-60 years at the time of the initial study in 1968-69, 282 women who were sampled but not invited to the study in 1968-69, and 266 women participating since 1980-81 and 32 women for the first time in 1992-93.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:
Participation rate, survival, anthropometric and metabolic characteristics.
The participation rate throughout the study period was high. The participants were mainly characteristic of women of the same ages in the general population even after 24 years. The mortality after 24 years was higher in non-participants than in participants, while there was no difference in survival between women who were invited and women who were not invited to the study.
The initial participants were mainly characteristic of the general population, also after a long follow-up period. The long-term survival was lower in initial refusers than in initial participants.
Publication types, MeSH terms
Human Experimentation*
Mass Screening*
Mortality*
Sweden/epidemiology
Women's Health*
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Who would be your dream celebrity bingo host? There are some celebrities that would light up a bingo hall with laughter, but there are also some that might want to keep their day jobs. Here's who we think would be the best and the worst celebrity bingo callers.
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Jimmy Carr's infectious and… unique… laugh is sure to get the audience in the bingo hall in stitches. With his witty repartee and coarse sense of humour, there is no doubt that Jimmy would make a sensational bingo host and have the audience falling out of their lucky chairs. You might want to have someone on stage with him though, just to make sure the numbers add up.
Just imagining playing a game of bingo with calls like "Aaaah, legs eleven!" ringing out through the hall, has us in stitches. Make no mistake, Steve Coogan as himself would make a fine enough bingo caller, but if he came as the legend Alan Partridge, you might actually struggle to hear the calls over the roaring laughter.
When you want something read right, you give it to Brian Blessed. The only thing bigger than Blessed's booming voice is his larger-than-life personality. Mix in a few stories from his career on stage and screen, and you've got possibly one of the most enthralling and entertaining bingo nights you could ever experience.
Obviously, it would be amazing to have Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey call your bingo evening, and the best part about it is that he does actually call bingo games! The Austin icon and his family hosted a virtual bingo night for the residents at the Enclave at Round Rock Senior Living centre, after they made a post on social media inviting him to host it for them. So, if you just ask him nicely, maybe McConaughey will call a game for you, or even join you and your mates for some online bingo games.
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Thank goodness there aren't numbers that rhyme with lamb sauce. Bingo is about light-hearted fun and bringing people together, but if you had Gordon Ramsay calling your game, you had better check your card twice before going up, because you might get shouted off stage if you call a false bingo. We think that Gordon would do better with hosting on online bingo sites, where he can take his frustration out away from the players.
It is hard to know where to begin with Jedward – the silliness and dancing and joking around are all mostly harmless at first — but after a while you might be wishing that instead of a singalong game of bingo, you had just stayed home and played some online bingo instead. While we are all for playing bingo for a laugh and some fun, dabbing can also be serious business, so too much hijinks might eventually wear you out.
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Despite the fact that Kamara would be hilariously entertaining to have as a bingo host (for a while anyway), there is always the chance that he gets a little… distracted. If you have ever had to ask your bingo host to repeat a call, you would know that slowing down the game can be annoying for some of the other players. So, when Kamara starts replying with his classic "I don't know, Jeff!", the game might start to stagnate a bit.
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Soldier's last letter of love
By JAMES TOZER
It was the letter he hoped would never be opened. In heartbreaking words sent to his fiancee, a hero soldier in Iraq wrote: "I really hope that this letter never gets to you, because if it does that means I am dead."
But now the contents of the letter have been revealed after the tragic death of Gunner Lee Thornton in combat.
Read Gunner Thornton's letter here
In the poignant handwritten note entrusted to her parents to be passed on in the event of his death, he declared his undying devotion to 21-year-old Helen O'Pray, telling her she was "the girl of my dreams".
The 22-year-old soldier, fatally shot after volunteering to take part in a patrol following the death of a close friend in another attack the day before, told his grieving fiancee "just because I have passed away does not mean I am not with you".
He wrote on: "You are the beat of my heart, the soul in my body; you are me because without you I am nothing."
And he closed with the reassuring message: "Whenever you feel lonely just close your eyes and I'll be there right by your side...Never forget I will always be looking over you."
Yesterday Helen, who had just started a teacher training course when she heard the news, said the heartfelt sentiments epitomised the man she had been expecting to spend the rest of her life with.
"There are no words that can describe how I felt when I read the letter for the first time," she said. "I love him so much.
"He was kind, generous and everything you would want in a man. I miss him dearly and this letter just shows how much I meant to him."
The couple were planning on setting up home together close to Northumbria University, where Helen is studying, after he completed his second tour in Iraq later this year, and were due to marry in 2008.
Instead his family and fiancee received the devastating news earlier this month that he had been hit by a single shot during a patrol north of Basra and was being flown to a military hospital in Germany.
Tragically, doctors could not save him, and with Helen and his parents at his bedside he died on September 7, becoming the 118th British soldier killed in Iraq and the third from his unit to die in three days.
Gunner Thornton had secretly given the letter to Helen's parents, Eric and Janette, when he visited her on her 21st birthday, but they had no idea what he had written.
Three months later they found themselves passing his final words to her, and the emotional letter spells out the strength of his feelings for her.
Beginning with the words "I really hope that this letter never gets to you, because if it does that means I am dead", it detailed how he would kiss her photograph every night and described the "magical" feeling when they kissed.
Poignantly, he added: "I will always be there looking over you, keeping you safe."
Gunner Thornton, who was in the 12th Regiment Royal Artillery, had volunteered for the dangerous patrol close to a school in the town of Al Qurna after his friend, Corporal Stephen Wright, was killed by a roadside bomb the day before.
Yesterday his mother Karen, 44, said: "Lee was a great man - a loyal man. He wore his heart on his sleeve. Volunteering to take the place of a colleague who had been killed was typical of him."
His father Mick, a 41-year-old highways worker, added: "He's an absolute hero. Everyone who met Lee knew they were meeting someone special. We will never forget him, or what he achieved."
Helen, who graduated from Lancaster University in the summer, is being comforted at her parents' home near Sandbach, Cheshire.
She said: "I cannot put into words how I feel about losing Lee. He was my life and I will never forget him."
After Gunner Thornton's death, his commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Jon Campbell, said the entire regiment had been "numbed" by his death, coming so soon after that of Corporal Wright.
He added: "It was typical of Gunner Thornton that he volunteered to participate in the very next patrol which went out after the attack a day earlier."
The funeral will take place in his home town of Blackpool on Monday.


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The museum has not named the work in question.
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President of the World Jewish Congress, Ronald Lauder in September 2014. Courtesy Michael Thaidigsmann via Wikimedia Commons.
As the restitution of Nazi-looted art has become an increasingly hot button issue, Ronald S. Lauder has been one of the world's most outspoken champions of Holocaust victims and their families looking to reclaim stolen art. Despite his advocacy, Lauder told the New York Times that a work with a disputed provenance was recently discovered at New York's Neue Galerie, which he co-founded with art dealer Serge Sabarsky.
It would seem that even Lauder, the chairman of the Commission for Art Recovery and president of the World Jewish Congress, is not immune to the challenges of collecting pre-war European art. Since opening its doors in 2001, the Neue Gallery, which focuses on Austrian and German art made from 1890 to 1940, has been the subject of close scrutiny from those who believe the institution is not transparent enough about the origins of the works in its collection, donated by Lauder and Sabarsky.
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Egon Schiele, I Love Antitheses (1912). Collection of Ronald Lauder, courtesy of the Athenaeum.
For some, Peresztegi's efforts to investigate the Neue Galerie's collection's provenance are overdue, considering how Lauder has led the charge for museums to part ways with Nazi-looted art. "You would think that his gallery would be the most transparent, but it provides the minimal amount of information," University of Denver history professor Elizabeth Karlsgodt, an expert on art stolen by the Nazis, told the Times.
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Lugoj (, , ) je rumunské město ležící v historickém regionu Banát 350 km severozápadně od hlavního města Bukurešti, protéká jím řeka Timiș. S  obyvateli je po Temešváru druhým největším městem župy Timiș.

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Na dnešním předměstí Tapia byla v dobách Dáků a Římanů významná pevnost. První písemná zmínka o Lugoji pochází z roku 1376, název města je odvozen ze slovanského výrazu luh. V šestnáctém století město ovládala Osmanská říše, po znovuzískání je Habsburská monarchie osídlila kolonisty ze Švábska. Současná podoba města pochází z roku 1795, kdy byla německá osada na levém břehu řeky sloučena s Rumuny obývaným pravým břehem do jednoho administrativního celku. V revolučním roce 1848 svolal Eftimie Murgu do Lugoje sněm usilující o sebeurčení Rumunů žijících pod rakouskou nadvládou. Po první světové válce bylo město pod mezinárodní správou, dokud nebylo odhlasováno připojení Banátu k Rumunsku.

Ve městě sídlí eparchie Rumunské řeckokatolické církve. Zdejšími památkami jsou barokní řeckokatolická katedrála Nanebevzetí Panny Marie a železný most z roku 1902. Město je tradičním centrem rumunského textilního průmyslu a prochází jím mezinárodní silnice E 70.

Demografické údaje
Podle sčítání v roce 1910 mělo město 20 962 obyvatel, z toho 7 322 Rumunů, 6 896 Maďarů a 6 179 Němců, k židovské víře se hlásilo 1 878 osob; na začátku 21. století tvoří Rumuni čtyři pětiny obyvatel, kdežto Maďaři necelých sedm procent a Němci necelá dvě procenta. Počátkem devadesátých let počet obyvatel Lugoje přesáhl padesát tisíc, od té doby se město v důsledku špatné ekonomické situace vylidňuje.

Osobnosti
Z Lugoje pocházel herec Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó, představitel Drakuly v hollywoodských filmech, který na počest svého rodiště používal pseudonym Bela Lugosi. Dalšími rodáky byli politik Aurel Popovici, hudební skladatel György Kurtág a fotbalista Josef Posipal (mistr světa 1954 s týmem západního Německa).

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 http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/350972/Lugoj
 http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Lugoj

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