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May 12, 2021 | Interview & Video by Hannah Loomis / Story by Eve Tolpa
Click here to watch a video of tutor Andy Kingston reading and commenting on Du Bois's "The Souls of Black Folk" (and playing jazz gigs).
Tutor Andy Kingston joined the St. John's Santa Fe faculty in 2005. Previously, he completed an interdisciplinary master's program at Boston University on the intersection of music, literature, and philosophy, and he taught in the Boston area. He has also been a professional jazz pianist for many years; he performed in Boston regularly while in graduate school and is frequently heard in clubs around Santa Fe. Read the interview below and watch the accompanying video here, in which Kingston discusses being a jazz pianist and reads and comments on passages from "The Souls of Black Folk" by W. E. B. Du Bois, which is read during senior year in the undergraduate Program. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
What made you choose W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk for this interview?
I've been thinking about the relationship between music and writing for a long time. One of my first encounters with serious writing about music was Albert Murray's Stomping the Blues. What Murray calls the blues idiom in American culture is not just what we would think of as blues and jazz, but is an entire way of being in the world. We're responding to the world through words, music, and voice. Murray talks about the blues as not simply recapitulating suffering, but as a response—an affirmative response—to the fact of the human condition.
It was only after reading Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk in the senior seminar at St. John's that I began to understand the tradition in which writers like Albert Murray are working. Du Bois's book has a kind of call-and-response structure. The first two chapters are "Our Spiritual Strivings" and "The Dawn of Freedom." There's a back-and-forth between a poetic voice, which culminates in the story of the two Johns in the book, and a social science, critical voice. Du Bois presents a counterpoint between at least two voices, maybe more than two voices. It's really important to hear all the voices Du Bois presents to us: the cry and the counter-crying, the call and response, the suffering and the affirmation.
What exactly is call and response?
There's a Black American tradition of line singing in which the leader will call out a line of the text or the hymn, and the response will come from the congregation. The practice arises when there aren't texts available to everyone in the congregation. This brings up an interesting question for us at St. John's—what does it means to hear a voice from an oral tradition reflected in a written text such as The Souls of Black Folk? Call and response is a back and forth, where part of the hymn—the melody—is being called out, and there's a response to it. We find, in the music program, that there's often an "antecedent and consequent" structure to musical phrases, in which you'll have the gesture and then the response. We hear that often as the arc of a particular melody, but there's a way in which it's also one voice reaching out and saying, "This is the introduction," to which there's an "Amen"—a response to that statement. It can be an affirmation, it can be a confrontation, it can be a dialectic, if we want to get philosophical about it. So the book itself does this. It calls out and then responds to itself, but it also demands a response from the reader.
How does that structure play out in the text?
The first chapter raises these questions about what Du Bois famously calls "double consciousness," although I've heard some describe it as maybe triple consciousness, quadruple consciousness ... it's not always clear that it's just two perspectives.
Du Bois asks us to consider both how a Black American is seen in society, and how a Black American sees society—looking at the world and the promise of freedom as an idea, and then the reality of what the position of an individual human being is in the world, which may counter-state the professed ideals of a particular political or social order.
The second chapter is a story of Reconstruction and the failure of Reconstruction, or the seeds of the failure of Reconstruction, or the promise of what Reconstruction could have been and then was not—was violently revoked. We have to see the counterpoint between this promise and this violent response.
The most striking counterpoint, for me, appears in the epigraph to the second chapter, "The Dawn of Freedom," which is a musical quotation from a hymn called "Oh, Lord, What a Morning." And I'm not sure which way I'm supposed to hear "morning," since only the music, and not the text, appears in the epigraph. You can find it spelled both ways if you look for it in printed versions of the hymn—both "morning" as in "good morning" and "mourning" as in "I'm mourning a loss." So that doubleness, that ambiguity, is in the language of the hymn itself. The second chapter of The Souls of Black Folk is "The Dawn of Freedom"—as in the "morning" of freedom, but also as in the "mourning" of freedom.
There's a way in which all the chapters are antiphonal to one another, and the parts of the chapters are antiphonal to themselves. And the music at the beginning of each chapter is a counterpoint to the prose, to the language, to the story in each chapter. Even within the song itself which introduces chapter two, the "morning" and "mourning" are both present; we must hear both of these meanings and both of these significations.
Do you see any similarities between the interplay of voices in the jazz idiom and the conversations we have at St. John's?
In my second year at the college, one of my colleagues, Mike Bybee—we were teaching sophomore seminar together—said, "Isn't seminar like a jazz improvisation?" I hadn't thought about it. How is that? And now, 15 years later, more and more I realize, "Yeah, absolutely."
So why is seminar like a jazz improvisation? It's difficult, it's full of risks. It doesn't always come off well. It's in a tradition: there are texts, there are tunes, there are standards that we're playing on. We need to hear the voices, both of the tradition and the text and of those of us who are animating it and responding to it in real time with one another. It's a practice. It takes time. And the thing that's necessary for it to work at all is goodwill. There are lots of ways in which it goes wrong, and it goes wrong all the time—both on the bandstand and during off nights in seminar—the crowd's not into it, right? There are all sorts of reasons why it goes wrong. But when it goes well, it's spectacular.
We try to make St. John's a safe home where we can speak to one another. This takes a lot of work, because there are risks, and we can't take the risks if we don't feel as though we're among friends in the Aristotelian sense—that there are other selves around the table. It takes a long time to build that kind of community, and it is work. There's a fine line between the performative aspect of being in seminar and the collaborative ideal. The best performances and conversations, for me, are always collaborations.
That doesn't mean it's all happy. There are cutting contests. There's a kind of intellectual engagement, both in the seminar and on the bandstand. They are contests of goodwill, and that's a tricky thing to try to negotiate. The contests have to come out of a place of love.
For me, the litmus test of a great work is if it makes us hear something new, and we hear new things each time we revisit the work. There's lots to hear, and the overtones continue to accumulate as you spend time with the book. The same can be said of a great conversation or a great improvisation. We are constantly striving to hear something anew.


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The Spindler complex was so gigantic that they did not only built the original plant but also the houses next to it, in order to offer their workers affordable living spaces. As we passed by the ruins, I had to make my friends stop and let me out at the shore immediately.
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I tried to sneak inside the buildings, but all the doors, windows and other holes in the walls had been shut. If my friends hadn't been waiting in the boat, I would have tried harder, but that's maybe for another time – if it's not too late then.


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The supermarket was looking for a way to take on the growth of discounters Aldi and Lidl.
Tesco was expected to announce the launch of a new format next week, as it looks to take on the discounters.
The new chain will be called Jack's, named after company founder Jack Cohen, and the first store was expected to be unveiled by chief executive Dave Lewis in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire next Wednesday.
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###一、核心类
    log4j的核心类主要有:Logger(Category)、LoggerManager、LoggingEvent、Hierarchy、Configurator及其子类、Appender及其子类。下面介绍一下各个类的主要作用:

	1.Logger,一个Logger实例就是一个记录器,调用静态方法getLogger()可以获得一个记录器,该类继承自Category

	2.Category,Category类继承自AppenderAttachable接口,该接口有另一个实现AppenderAttachableImpl,先看一下AppenderAttachableImpl类
	    AppenderAttachableImpl类的主要属性有:
	        protected Vector  appenderList; //一个存储Appender对象的列表

			protected boolean additive = true; //设置输出源附加特性,如果为false,则不再向父记录器查找

        除了实现了AppenderAttachable接口的添加、删除Appender对象和判断Appender对象是否存在之外,还定义了另外一个很重要的方法:
	        public int appendLoopOnAppenders(LoggingEvent event) {
            int size = 0;
			Appender appender;

			if(appenderList != null) {
			  size = appenderList.size();
			  for(int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
				appender = (Appender) appenderList.elementAt(i);
				appender.doAppend(event);
			  }
			}
			return size;
		    }
	    这个方法传入参数的是一个打印日志请求,方法的功能是遍历appender对象列表,调用其doAppend(event)方法,此处应用了观擦者模式。

		CateGory类的分析:
		public class Category implements AppenderAttachable {
		    ...
		    volatile protected Level level; //记录器级别

			volatile protected Category parent; //父记录器

			protected LoggerRepository repository; //记录器容器

			AppenderAttachableImpl aai; //Appender容器类的具体实现

			protected boolean additive = true; //输出源附加特性,若为false,则不再向父记录器查找

			//下面这方法展示了additive的应用
			public void callAppenders(LoggingEvent event)
			{
			    int writes = 0;

				for(Category c = this; c != null; c=c.parent)
				{
				  // Protected against simultaneous call to addAppender, removeAppender,...
				    synchronized(c)
					{
				        if(c.aai != null)
						{
				            writes += c.aai.appendLoopOnAppenders(event);
						}
						if(!c.additive) { //根据additive的设置确定是否需要继续往父记录器查找
							break;
						}
				    }
				}
			}
		}

	3.LoggerManager,负责记录器的初始化工作等

	4.LoggingEvent,一次打印日志请求的封装

	5.Hierarchy,记录器(Loggers)的容器类

	6.Configurator,解析日志配置文件的类

	7.Appender,定义了日志输出的策略

###二、初始化流程
    当程序中调用Logger.getLogger("test")来生成一个记录器的时候,其运行过程如下:

	static public Logger getLogger(String name) {
        return LogManager.getLogger(name);
    }

	LoggerManager定义了一个初始化过程的静态块:
	static {
		Hierarchy h = new Hierarchy(new RootLogger((Level) Level.DEBUG)); //定义了一个Hierarchy对象,Hierarchy类稍后分析
		...
		OptionConverter.selectAndConfigure(url, configuratorClassName,
				   LogManager.getLoggerRepository());
		...
	}

	Hierarchy是一个记录器的容器,此处初始化为一个RootLogger的对象,进入到Hierarchy内部:
	public class Hierarchy implements LoggerRepository, RendererSupport, ThrowableRendererSupport {
	    ...
	    Hashtable ht; // 定义一个Hashtable来存放记录器
		Logger root;  // 定义根记录器
	    ...

		public Hierarchy(Logger root) {
		    ht = new Hashtable();
			...
			this.root = root;
			...
		}
		...
		//获取记录器
		public Logger getLogger(String name, LoggerFactory factory)
		{
			CategoryKey key = new CategoryKey(name);

			Logger logger;

			synchronized(ht)
			{
			    Object o = ht.get(key);
			    if(o == null) //容器中如果不存在要查找的记录器,就生成一个记录器
			    {
					logger = factory.makeNewLoggerInstance(name);
					logger.setHierarchy(this);
					ht.put(key, logger); //将生成的记录器存放到容器中
					updateParents(logger); //设置新生成记录器的父记录器,这个很重要,记录器的继承都是通过设置父记录器实现的
					return logger;
				}
				else if(o instanceof Logger)
				{
					return (Logger) o;
				}
				...
		    }
		}
		...
		//设置记录器的父记录器
		final private void updateParents(Logger cat) {
			String name = cat.name;
			int length = name.length();
			boolean parentFound = false;

			// if name = "w.x.y.z", loop thourgh "w.x.y", "w.x" and "w", but not "w.x.y.z"
			for(int i = name.lastIndexOf('.', length-1); i >= 0;
											 i = name.lastIndexOf('.', i-1))
			{
				String substr = name.substring(0, i);

				CategoryKey key = new CategoryKey(substr); // simple constructor
				Object o = ht.get(key);
				// Create a provision node for a future parent.
				if(o == null)
				{
			        ...
			    }
				else if(o instanceof Category)
				{
					parentFound = true;
					cat.parent = (Category) o;
					break; // no need to update the ancestors of the closest ancestor
				}
				...
			}
			// If we could not find any existing parents, then link with root.
			if(!parentFound)
			    cat.parent = root;
		}
		...
	}

	下面再来看看OptionConverter.selectAndConfigure()方法:

	public class OptionConverter {
	   ...
	    //设置Configurator对象,然后通过Configurator对象的doConfigure()方法来获取配置文件的信息
	    static public void selectAndConfigure(URL url, String clazz, LoggerRepository hierarchy)
	    {
		    Configurator configurator = null;
		    String filename = url.getFile();

		    ...

		    if(clazz != null) {
			    LogLog.debug("Preferred configurator class: " + clazz);
			    configurator = (Configurator) instantiateByClassName(clazz,
									  Configurator.class,
									  null);
			    if(configurator == null) {
			     LogLog.error("Could not instantiate configurator ["+clazz+"].");
			     return;
			}
		    } else {
			    configurator = new PropertyConfigurator();
		    }

		    configurator.doConfigure(url, hierarchy); //获取配置文件信息
	   }
	}

	以PropertyConfigurator类的doConfigure()方法为例,看看这个类是怎么处理的:

	public class PropertyConfigurator implements Configurator {
	    ...
		public void doConfigure(java.net.URL configURL, LoggerRepository hierarchy) {
		    ...
			doConfigure(props, hierarchy);
		}

		public void doConfigure(Properties properties, LoggerRepository hierarchy) {
		    ...
			configureRootCategory(properties, hierarchy);
			configureLoggerFactory(properties);
			parseCatsAndRenderers(properties, hierarchy);
			...
		}
		//在doConfigure里面的configureRootCategory()和parseCatsAndRenderers()这两个方法里又调用了parseCategory()方法
		void parseCategory(Properties props, Logger logger, String optionKey,
		     String loggerName, String value) {
		    ...
			appender = parseAppender(props, appenderName);
            if(appender != null) {
	            logger.addAppender(appender); //给logger这个记录器加上appender
            }
			...
		}
	}
    到此,基本分析了log4j的初始化过程

	###三、日志打印流程
	日志打印以Category的debug()方法为例:
	public class Category implements AppenderAttachable {

	    public void debug(Object message) {
			if(repository.isDisabled(Level.DEBUG_INT))
			  return;
			if(Level.DEBUG.isGreaterOrEqual(this.getEffectiveLevel())) { //级别大于DEBUG才打印
			  forcedLog(FQCN, Level.DEBUG, message, null);
			}
        }

		protected void forcedLog(String fqcn, Priority level, Object message, Throwable t) {
			callAppenders(new LoggingEvent(fqcn, this, level, message, t));
		}

		public void callAppenders(LoggingEvent event) {
			int writes = 0;

			for(Category c = this; c != null; c=c.parent) {
			  // Protected against simultaneous call to addAppender, removeAppender,...
				synchronized(c)
				{
					if(c.aai != null) {
					  writes += c.aai.appendLoopOnAppenders(event); //调用AppenderAttachableImpl对象的appendLoopOnAppenders()方法打印日志
					}
					if(!c.additive) {
					  break;
					}
				}
			}
			...
		}
	}

	下面看AppenderAttachableImpl的实现:
	public class AppenderAttachableImpl implements AppenderAttachable {
	     public int appendLoopOnAppenders(LoggingEvent event) {
			int size = 0;
			Appender appender;

			if(appenderList != null) {
			  size = appenderList.size();
			  for(int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
				appender = (Appender) appenderList.elementAt(i);
				appender.doAppend(event); //调用doAppend方法来打印日志
			  }
			}
			return size;
		}
	}
	我们看看Appender的实现类WriterAppender的append()方法是如何实现的:
	public class WriterAppender extends AppenderSkeleton
	{
	    public void append(LoggingEvent event) {
		    ...
		    subAppend(event);
		}

		protected void subAppend(LoggingEvent event) {
		    ...
		    this.qw.write(this.layout.format(event)); //qw是一个QuietWriter对象,调用其write方法可以打印日志
		}
	}

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Wearable, yes, but able…?: it is time for evidence-based marketing claims!
Billy Sperlich1,
Hans-Christer Holmberg2,3,4
1 Department of Sport Science, Integrative and Experimental Training Science, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
2 School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
3 Department of Health Sciences, Swedish Winter Sports Research Centre, Mid Sweden University, Östersund, Sweden
4 School of Sport Sciences, UiT Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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With great interest, we1 have been following the growing popularity of non-invasive wearable sensor technology as a way to increase physical performance, assist recovery or monitor health. These sensors, integrated into clothing worn on the body, are often referred to as 'wearables' or 'wearable technology'.
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In this context, numerous studies aiming to assess the validity and reliability of wearable sensors have been conducted, especially after market launch. They show that many non-invasive wearable sensor technologies have questionable validity and reliability when used in various sport settings and populations.1 ,3
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Inspired by the discussion of evidence-based medicine,6 we believe it is time to demand 'evidence-based marketing claims' (1) to ensure the safe use of wearable technology and (2) to use the technology's full potential to maintain and improve health and performance.
Düking P ,
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Holmberg HC , et al
. Comparison of non-invasive individual monitoring of the training and health of athletes with commercially available wearable technologies. Front Physiol 2016;7:71. doi:10.3389/fphys.2016.00071
Thompson WR
. Worldwide survey of fitness trends for 2017. ACSMs Health Fit J 2016;20:8–17.
Wallen MP ,
Gomersall SR ,
Keating SE , et al
. Accuracy of heart rate watches: implications for weight management. PLoS ONE 2016;11:e0154420. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0154420
Commission FT. Reebok to Pay $25 Million in Customer Refunds To Settle FTC Charges of Deceptive Advertising of EasyTone and RunTone Shoes. 2011. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2011/09/reebok-pay-25-million-customer-refunds-settle-ftc-charges
CNN. Fitbit accuracy questioned in lawsuit. 2016. http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/20/health/fitbit-accuracy-questioned/
Sackett DL ,
Rosenberg WM ,
Gray JA , et al
. Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't. BMJ 1996;312:71–2. doi:10.1136/bmj.312.7023.71
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Q: Hibernate JPA no exception when removing detached object Question
I am writing a unittest for a JPA service, and was expecting to see an IllegalArgumentException when calling remove() with a newly created and thus detached entity (see javadoc for thrown exceptions).
Have I misunderstood the concept of detached entities or is this a bug in the Hibernate implementation?
Example
Sorry about the long example, but I wanted to include everything that was need to reproduce the problem.
TestEntity.java
@Entity
public class TestEntity {
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue
    private Long id;
    private String value;

    // Getter and setter omitted
}

TestEntityTest.java
public class TestEntityTest {
    @Test
    public void testDeletion() {
        final EntityManager entityManager = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("manager1").createEntityManager();

        final TestEntity entity = new TestEntity();

        // Not expected to be contained
        assertTrue(!entityManager.contains(entity));

        try {
            entityManager.getTransaction().begin();
            entityManager.remove(entity);
            entityManager.flush();
            entityManager.getTransaction().commit();
            fail("No exception thrown");
        }catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
            // Expected when removing a detached entity
        }
    }
}

META-INF/persistence.xml
<persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence"
             xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
             xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_0.xsd"
             version="2.0">
    <persistence-unit name="manager1" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
        <provider>org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider</provider>
        <class>org.hibernatetest.TestEntity</class>
        <properties>
            <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="create-drop"/>
            <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.driver" value="org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver"/>
            <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.user" value="sa"/>
            <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.password" value=""/>
            <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.url" value="jdbc:hsqldb:mem:unit-testing-jpa"/>
            <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect"/>
            <property name="hibernate.max_fetch_depth" value="3"/>
        </properties>
    </persistence-unit>
</persistence>

pom.xml
<project>
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <name>persistence service</name>
    <groupId>jpa.example</groupId>
    <artifactId>persistence-service</artifactId>
    <version>1.0</version>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
            <artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
            <version>4.3.8.Final</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
            <version>1.7.10</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.javassist</groupId>
            <artifactId>javassist</artifactId>
            <version>3.19.0-GA</version>
        </dependency>

        <!-- TEST RESOURCES -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hsqldb</groupId>
            <artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
            <version>2.3.2</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>4.12</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

    </dependencies>
</project>

A: Your only mistake is that a brand-new entity object is not detached, it is transient, or new. Take a look at this flow-chart lifecycle diagram for more information.
The takeaway here is that there are four phases of the Hibernate lifecycle an object can be in.

*

*New/Transient objects has no representation in the datastore, and is not associated with any context.

*Managed objects have context and are in the datastore.

*Detached objects are in the datastore, but have been removed from the Hibernate context

*Removed objects are no longer in the datastore (or are marked for removal, at least), but still maintain a connection to the context.

Going by the strict wording of the javadoc, your brand-new object is an entity and it is not detached, so there is no error in the code not throwing an exception.

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Hawaii, California, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Florida
7 Warm-Weather Holiday Season Destinations in the USA
By: Eli Ellison
Wouldn't it be wonderful to spend the winter holiday season in the USA wearing shorts and sandals?
While wide swaths of the Northeast and Midwest experience cold temperatures and snow, you can spend time in the southern parts of the country (or Hawaii), surfing, golfing, hiking or simply basking in the sunny outdoors. So leave the winter coat at home and pack the suntan lotion for these seven cities filled with warmth and a wealth of holiday-themed happenings.
Average December high temperature: 26 degrees Celsius
Popular outdoors activities: Surfing, snorkeling
In the city of Honolulu, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, sip mai tais and splash in the surf at Waikiki Beach. Downtown's Honolulu Hale (city hall) combines Christmas, the holidays and the Hawaiian spirit of "Aloha" (Hawaiian for "peace and affection") in its annual Honolulu City Lights display, complete with a 6.4-meter-tall Santa Claus. A convenient way to visit the display, the Waikiki Trolley offers a holiday lights tour. You'll also find fun holiday decorations in many of Oahu's resort hotel lobbies. Don't miss the Sheraton Waikiki's Christmas-themed sand sculptures.
Hawaii celebrates the holidays with the spirit of Aloha.
Kyle Nishioka
Waikiki Trolley Store
Honolulu City Lights
Average December high temperature: 18.9 degrees Celsius
Popular outdoors activities: Golf, hiking
Desert peaks, forests of saguaro cacti and nearly 200 golf courses invite you to pack your hiking boots and golf clubs for a trip to sunny Phoenix, Arizona, and its neighboring resort town of Scottsdale. You want holiday shopping? Try Scottsdale's art galleries, specialty boutiques and the mammoth Fashion Square mall. To marvel at one of the area's most impressive holiday light displays, visit the Phoenix Zoo at Papago Park. From late November to early January, ZooLights features 3D light sculptures shaped like animals, plus live music, camel and carousel rides, and ice-sculpting demonstrations.
ZooLights 2013 - Happy Holidays from the Phoenix Zoo!
Phoenix Zoo
Popular outdoors activity: Walking the River Walk
Hungry? Mexican tamales (corn husk-wrapped concoctions of masa dough, meat and cheese) are a holiday staple in the south-central Texas town of San Antonio. During the holiday season you'll find homemade tamales on restaurant menus throughout the city. Be careful. Eat enough of them and you'll board the flight home with a Santa Claus-sized belly. Burn those excess calories strolling San Antonio's River Walk, a network of pedestrian paths lined with eateries and specialty shops along the San Antonio River. In December, millions of twinkling lights and thousands of glowing luminaria lanterns (flickering candles inside paper bags) light the way.
San Antonio lines the downtown River Walk with holiday lights.
San Antonio River Walk
Average December temperature: 17.8 degrees Celsius
Popular outdoors activities: Fishing, kayaking
The storied city of New Orleans, in the Southeastern state of Louisiana, is best known for its massive Mardi Gras in February. But don't overlook the holiday season, when hotel rates are low and festivities abound. Check out the annual Celebration in the Oaks, a display of 2 million sparkling lights illuminating City Park. Meanwhile, the city's iconic St. Louis Cathedral hosts live music and special holiday events. On New Year's Eve, join the mass of revelers in the city's historic French Quarter.
The iconic St. Louis Cathedral hosts multiple events during the holiday season.
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New Orleans City Park
New Orleans: City with Heart and Soul
Popular outdoors activity: Golf
Spend the holidays with Mickey Mouse and Harry Potter in Orlando, Florida. Located in the Southeastern state's central region, this ever-sunny city has more than a dozen major amusement parks. The Walt Disney World Resort goes all out with holiday-themed shows, parades and decorations, including Cinderella Castle hung with sparkling icicle lights. At Universal Orlando, home of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter attractions, the holiday season features a live show starring Dr. Seuss's Grinch. The stars of Legoland Florida's Christmas Bricktacular celebration are a 9-meter-high Christmas tree and life-size Santa Claus, both built entirely of LEGO bricks.
Theme parks in Orlando embrace the holiday season with extra lights.
Popular outdoors activity: Boating, fishing
With its vibrant culture, rich history, preserved architecture, coastal location, celebrated dining scene and friendly locals, Charleston, South Carolina, is a beloved travel destination, particularly during the holiday season. Many house museums and plantations harken back to their founding days with displays of heirloom decorations. You can also shop one of the United States' oldest open-air markets for treats and treasures found only in historic Charleston.
In Charleston, you can shop at one of the oldest open-air markets in the USA or take in the city's renowned architecture.
Explore Charleston
Charleston City Market
Popular outdoors activities: Ice skating, surfing
Wonder what it's like to go ice skating by the sea while wearing a t-shirt? Consider California's southernmost coastal city, San Diego, where the circa-1887 Victorian Hotel del Coronado hosts a beachfront ice rink throughout December. All over town, popular attractions such as Balboa Park (including the San Diego Zoo), the Gaslamp Quarter, Seaport Village and Old Town celebrate the season with holiday lights and special events. Save room on your itinerary for the annual San Diego Bay Parade of Lights, featuring a harbor procession of more than 80 decorated boats.
More than 80 boats take part in San Diego's Parade of Lights.
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Pannell Discussions » 291 – The Swinford Toll Bridge » Ideas in economics, environment, policy and more.
Posted on 9 June, 2016 by David Pannell.	This entry was posted in Economics, Latest, Policy.
I remember paying a toll on a pedestrain footbridge, also across the Thames but downstream near Richmond, to get to Eel Pie Island. As a young woman I used to take the footbridge to access the rock shows that featured at Eel Pie Island on a Saturday night in the sixties, to hear bands like the Rolling Stones before they got big.
If this was based on a similar historic arrangement the kiosk must still be there.
Thank you for kindling this distant memory, and for your insights on the use of tolls as a public policy.
I've heard of Eel Pie Island and those rock shows! What a great memory to have.
Dave I crossed that pedestrian bridge to Eel Pie Island just a few weeks ago! Definitely no toll now, but instead there are signs trying to discourage non-residents from crossing!
Great story. Swinford bridge is not alone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney-on-Wye_toll_bridge . Constructed in 1797 with similarly generous terms through an Act of Parliament that inluded treating the toll income as tax free.


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Serious delinquencies increased slightly across all sectors in October. Prime increased by 2 basis point to 5.81%; Alt-A delinquencies increased by 4 basis points to 12.81%; Option Arm delinquencies increased by 5 basis points to 19.59% and Subprime delinquencies increased by 21 basis points to 24.33%. Roll rates from current status to delinquency continue to be held in at very low levels.
Voluntary prepayments decreased across all sectors this month. Prime CRRs came in at 14.1%, down 394 basis points month-over-month; Alt-A CRRs were 12.9%, down 303 basis points month-over-month; Option Arm CRRs were 8.5%, down 117 basis points month-over-month and Subprime CRRs were 9.5%, down 614 basis points month-over-month. Month-over-month changes in CDRs all decreased. Prime CDRs decreased by 13 basis points to 1.28%; Alt-A CDRs decreased by 64 basis points to 3.43%; Option Arm CDRs decreased by 59 basis points to 4.24% and Subprime CDRs decreased by 155 basis points to 4.56%.
Case-Shiller futures indicate a continuation of slow gains in residential home prices, predicting home prices will rise two to three percent annually during the next three years. Year-over-year, home prices are up 5.9% across Case-Shiller's 20 major city index. At the national level, changes in severities were mixed across all sectors. At the state level, California Subprime severities were higher at 52% this month. Florida Subprime severities increased to 72%. New York Subprime severities increased to 90%; and Nevada Subprime severities increased to 73%.


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Egypt: the military's gambit
Issandr El Amrani writes:
I'm not sure how long the general Egyptian public can maintain the bizarre idea that the army is so great. This is the army that took power in a coup in 1952 and ended political pluralism, lost tons of wars after that and continued to justify its predation on the national budget despite not having had to fight anyone since 1973 (if you exclude the Libyans very briefly in the late 1970s and those field hospitals sent to Iraq and Kosovo in the 1990s), that has absolutely no experience policing and yet is getting military police and military intelligence to carry out that function (when their primary job has been keeping an eye on rank and file). It is the army that put Mubarak in place in six days after the assassination of Sadat, and now runs things through a Supreme Council of the Armed Forces that is headed by Mubarak loyalist Mohammed Hussein Tantawi (in place since 1992) and a government headed by former chief of the Air Force Ahmed Chafiq (who considers Mubarak his "spiritual father.") Not to mention, of course, the army that owned the land in Tagammu al-Khamiss outside of Cairo that was sold for the spectacular profits by several real estate developers, or the army that continues to employ conscripts as free labor in various places.
In answer to the question that started the preceding paragraph, I think actually the army can maintain that illusion for a long time. Eleven years in Egypt have taught me to never underestimate the power of the ERDF — the Egyptian Reality Distortion Field. It is a surprisingly flexible and adaptable weapon, even in the face of the most stubborn facts. Part of this is information manipulation, of course — it helps that the military has just appointed one of its own to run the Egyptian Radio and Television Union — but also a certain amount of political caution. Hossam el-Hamalawy, never one to hold on to illusions about power, wrote after the clash with the army:
Everyone is rightly upset about what the army did in Tahrir Square last night. Let's remember, however, the military already moved against peaceful protesters in Suez, and is accused of involvement of torture and arrest of hundreds during the uprising. And almost everyday there is a statement from the army warning strikers and protesters, coupled with an orchestrated media campaign in both state and private TV channels discrediting labor strikes and renewed protests in Tahrir. What happened last night should not come as a shock.
If Mubarak's regime was corrupt (and it was), then why do we treat the military institution, which provided the backbone of his dictatorship, as "neutral" or "pure"? The leadership of this institution, namely the generals of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces are part of Mubarak's regime. And any real change would affect their privileges and control.
We cannot and will not carry up arms against the army. I salute and support all the efforts for resuming the protests in Tahrir, including the one planned for today at 2pm. But still, the most effective weapon is the mass strikes.
Mass strikes is precisely what the army fears the most, along with the Egyptian elite for which it represents both economic disaster and the rise of mob rule.
This entry was posted in Arab Spring, Egypt on February 27, 2011 by News Sources.
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2 thoughts on "Egypt: the military's gambit"
Christopher Hoare February 27, 2011 at 6:18 pm
It doesn't take an electron microscope to examine both the state of the world today, as well as history going back at least 2000 years, and see that the greatest threat to any state is its standing military organization. (It's also in the US Constitution.) Its commanders are people dedicated to exerting their own authority and destroying that of others. They are rigidly opposed to the basic idea of democracy — that the rank and file have the ultimate authority. They are congenitally wedded to maintaining the status quo.
If men like this are expected to produce change, it would be akin to corporate shareholders handing over their factories, mines, and other resources to their customers. It aint gonna happen. Not unless someone or some collective is set with greater authority over them. The Egyptian people have only just begun to fight for their dignity and freedom.
Norman February 27, 2011 at 6:35 pm
We are seeing the birth pangs of the change in the M.E. on a daily basis, which may or may not play out to the benefit of the people. I believe that I read early on that the Army/Military higher ups have their fingers into the pie just as much as the civilians do. Power seems to be much of an addictive force, that the old Guard won't let go of easily. We, as outsiders, can only watch the play from our vantage point, which doesn't really give us a clear picture, whether be design or . . . . . . ?


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