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A Dongle Joke That Spiraled Way Out Of Control

In an age of blogs, tweets, Hacker News, Reddit and Anonymous, an off-the-cuff joke can spin wildly out of control. At least it appears that’s what happened with PyCon this week when a sexual joke led to some very public firings, a virulent debate about women in technology, another virulent debate about public shaming, and now, an apparent DDOS attack (although we haven’t been able to confirm it with the company). So here’s what happened: 1) While sitting in the 10th row of a Python programming conference, a developer who used to work for mobile monetization startup Playhaven apparently made a joke about ?big? dongles and “forking someone’s repo.” 2) Adria Richards, a developer evangelist sitting in front of them, called them out on Twitter and in a blog post for making the conference environment unwelcoming toward women. PyCon then escorted them out to the hallway. Not cool. Jokes about forking repo's in a sexual way and "big" dongles. Right behind me #pycon http://t.co/Hv1bkeOsYP— Adria Richards (@adriarichards) March 17, 2013 “Women in technology need consistant [sic] messaging from birth through retirement they are welcome, competent and valued in the industry,” she explained in a blog post. 3) Shortly afterward, Playhaven said it had fired the developer. CEO Andy Yang explained, “As a company that is dedicated to gender equality and values honorable behavior, we conducted a thorough investigation. The result of this investigation led to the unfortunate outcome of having to let this employee go.” He added that the employee wasn’t Alex Reid, who is the guy looking straight at the camera in Richards’ tweeted photo. Reid still works for Playhaven. 4) The unnamed fired employee showed up on Hacker News by the name of “mr-hank” and apologized for the joke. I really did not mean to offend anyone and I really do regret the comment and how it made Adria feel. She had every right to report me to staff, and I defend her position. However, there is another side to this story. While I did make a big dongle joke about a fictional piece hardware that identified as male, no sexual jokes were made about forking. My friends and I had decided forking someone’s repo is a new form of flattery (the highest form being implementation) and we were excited about one of the presenters projects; a friend said “I would fork that guys repo” The sexual context

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Yankees, Red Sox to honor Newtown victims

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) ? The New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox will honor the community of Newtown and the memory of those killed in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School when the teams play opening day April 1 at Yankee Stadium.

Pregame ceremonies include a joint honor guard of Newtown police and firefighters, and a moment of silence at which time a list of the victims' names will be recognized on the center-field scoreboard.

The Yankees and Red Sox will wear a special ribbon on their uniforms. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig has asked that all other 28 major league teams wear the ribbon during their opening games.

Associated Press

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A milestone for new carbon-dioxide capture/clean coal technology

Public release date: 20-Mar-2013
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An innovative new process that releases the energy in coal without burning while capturing carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas has passed a milestone on the route to possible commercial use, scientists are reporting. Their study in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels describes results of a successful 200-hour test on a sub-pilot scale version of the technology using two inexpensive but highly polluting forms of coal.

Liang-Shih Fan and colleagues explain that carbon capture and sequestration ranks high among the approaches for reducing coal-related emissions of the carbon dioxide linked to global warming. This approach involves separating and collecting carbon dioxide before it leaves smokestacks. Fan's team has been working for more than a decade on two versions of carbon capture termed Syngas Chemical Looping (SCL) and Coal-Direct Chemical Looping (CDCL). They involve oxidizing coal, syngas or natural gas in a sealed chamber in the absence of the atmospheric oxygen involved in conventional burning. Metal compounds containing oxygen are in the chamber. They provide the oxygen for oxidation, take up coal's energy, release it as heat in a second chamber and circulate back for another run in the first chamber.

Their report describes the longest continuous operation of the CDCL test system. It operated successfully for 200 hours without an involuntary shutdown. The system used sub-bituminous and lignite coals, which are the main source of carbon dioxide emissions at U.S. coal-fired power plants. Carbon dioxide captured during operation had a purity of 99.5 percent.

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A milestone for new carbon-dioxide capture/clean coal technology Public release date: 20-Mar-2013
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Contact: Michael Bernstein
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An innovative new process that releases the energy in coal without burning while capturing carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas has passed a milestone on the route to possible commercial use, scientists are reporting. Their study in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels describes results of a successful 200-hour test on a sub-pilot scale version of the technology using two inexpensive but highly polluting forms of coal.

Liang-Shih Fan and colleagues explain that carbon capture and sequestration ranks high among the approaches for reducing coal-related emissions of the carbon dioxide linked to global warming. This approach involves separating and collecting carbon dioxide before it leaves smokestacks. Fan's team has been working for more than a decade on two versions of carbon capture termed Syngas Chemical Looping (SCL) and Coal-Direct Chemical Looping (CDCL). They involve oxidizing coal, syngas or natural gas in a sealed chamber in the absence of the atmospheric oxygen involved in conventional burning. Metal compounds containing oxygen are in the chamber. They provide the oxygen for oxidation, take up coal's energy, release it as heat in a second chamber and circulate back for another run in the first chamber.

Their report describes the longest continuous operation of the CDCL test system. It operated successfully for 200 hours without an involuntary shutdown. The system used sub-bituminous and lignite coals, which are the main source of carbon dioxide emissions at U.S. coal-fired power plants. Carbon dioxide captured during operation had a purity of 99.5 percent.

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The authors acknowledged funding from the U.S. Department of Energy and the Ohio Department of Development.

The American Chemical Society is a nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress. With more than 163,000 members, ACS is the world's largest scientific society and a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.

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NYT: Study of men?s falling income cites single parents

Binyamin Appelbaum , The New York Times ? ? ? 1 hr.

WASHINGTON ? The decline of two-parent households may be a significant reason for the divergent fortunes of male workers, whose earnings generally declined in recent decades, and female workers, whose earnings generally increased, a prominent labor economist argues in a new survey of existing research.

David H. Autor, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says that the difference between men and women, at least in part, may have roots in childhood. Only 63 percent of children lived in a household with two parents in 2010, down from 82 percent in 1970. The single parents raising the rest of those children are predominantly female. And there is growing evidence that sons raised by single mothers ?appear to fare particularly poorly,? Professor Autor wrote in an analysis for Third Way, a center-left policy research organization.

In this telling, the economic struggles of male workers are both a cause and an effect of the breakdown of traditional households. Men who are less successful are less attractive as partners, so women are choosing to raise children by themselves, producing sons who are less successful and attractive as partners.

?A vicious cycle may ensue,? wrote Professor Autor and his co-author, Melanie Wasserman, a graduate student, ?with the poor economic prospects of less educated males creating differentially large disadvantages for their sons, thus potentially reinforcing the development of the gender gap in the next generation.?

The fall of men in the workplace is widely regarded by economists as one of the nation?s most important and puzzling trends. While men, on average, still earn more than women, the gap between them has narrowed considerably, particularly among more recent entrants to the labor force.

For all Americans, it has become much harder to make a living without a college degree, for intertwined reasons including foreign competition, advancements in technology and the decline of unions. Over the same period, the earnings of college graduates have increased. Women have responded exactly as economists would have predicted, by going to college in record numbers. Men, mysteriously, have not.

Among people who were 35 years old in 2010, for example, women were 17 percent more likely to have attended college, and 23 percent more likely to hold an undergraduate degree.

?I think the greatest, most astonishing fact that I am aware of in social science right now is that women have been able to hear the labor market screaming out ?You need more education? and have been able to respond to that, and men have not,? said Michael Greenstone, an M.I.T. economics professor who was not involved in Professor Autor?s work. ?And it?s very, very scary for economists because people should be responding to price signals. And men are not. It?s a fact in need of an explanation.?

Most economists agree that men have suffered disproportionately from economic changes like the decline of manufacturing. But careful analyses have found that such changes explain only a small part of the shrinking wage gap.

One set of supplemental explanations holds that women are easier to educate or, as the journalist Hanna Rosin wrote in ?The End of Men,? because women are more adaptable. Professor Autor writes that such explanations are plausible and ?intriguing,? but as yet unproven.

He disagrees entirely with the view of the conservative analyst Charles Murray, in ?Coming Apart,? that men have become ?less industrious.?

?We?re pretty much in agreement on most of the facts,? Professor Autor said of Mr. Murray. ?But he looks at the same facts and says this is all due to the failure of government programs, eroding the commitment to working. And we?re saying, what seems much more plausible here is that the working world just has less and less use for these folks.?

Professor Autor?s own explanation builds on existing research showing that income inequality has soared, stretching the gap between rich and poor, and that a smaller share of Americans are making the climb. The children of lower-income parents are ever more likely to become, in turn, the parents of lower-income children.

Moreover, a growing share of lower-income children are raised by their mother but not their father, and research shows that those children are at a particular disadvantage.

Professor Autor said in an interview that he was intrigued by evidence suggesting the consequences were larger for boys than girls, including one study finding that single mothers spent an hour less per week with their sons than their daughters. Another study of households where the father had less education, or was absent entirely, found the female children were 10 to 14 percent more likely to complete college. A third study of single-parent homes found boys were less likely than girls to enroll in college.

?It?s very clear that kids from single-parent households fare worse in terms of years of education,? he said. ?The gender difference, the idea that boys do even worse again, is less clear cut. We?re pointing this out as an important hypothesis that needs further exploration. But there?s intriguing evidence in that direction.?

Conservatives have long argued that society should encourage stable parental relationships. Liberals have tended to argue that the government should focus instead on improving economic opportunities. Jonathan Cowan, the president of Third Way, said the paper underscored that addressing social problems was a means to improve economic opportunities.

?If Democrats have as their goal being the party of the middle class, they have to come to the realization that they?re not going to be able to get there solely through their standard explanations,? said Mr. Cowan, a veteran of the Clinton administration. ?We need to ask, ?How can we get these fathers back involved in their children?s lives?? ?

But some experts cautioned that Professor Autor?s theory did not necessarily imply that such children would benefit from the presence of their fathers.

?Single-parent families tend to emerge in places where the men already are a mess,? said Christopher Jencks, a professor of social policy at Harvard University. ?You have to ask yourself, ?Suppose the available men were getting married to the available women? Would that be an improvement?? ?

Instead of making marriage more attractive, he said, it might be better for society to help make men more attractive.

This article, "Study of men?s falling income cites single parents," first appeared in The New York Times.

Roth's 80th cause for Newark, NJ, celebration

FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2008 file photo, author Philip Roth poses for a photo in the offices of his publisher Houghton Mifflin, in New York. Roth turned 80 on Tuesday, March 19, 2013 and he?s in his hometown Newark, N.J., for the occasion, where several events are planned in his honor. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)

FILE - In this March 2, 2011, file photo, President Barack Obama, right, presents a National Humanities Medal to novelist Philip Roth during a ceremony in the East Room. Roth turned 80 on Tuesday, March 19, 2013 and he?s in his hometown Newark, N.J., for the occasion, where several events are planned in his honor. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, file)

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) ? "Sitting there in the park," Philip Roth wrote in "Goodbye Columbus, "I felt a deep knowledge of Newark, an attachment so rooted that it could not help but branch out into affection."

On the novelist's 80th birthday Tuesday, Newark returned the sentiment to one of its most celebrated natives.

The city that played a seminal role in many of Roth's novels played host to a series of events honoring Roth, including a conference of scholars, a bus tour, an exhibit of Roth's personal photos and a birthday party Tuesday night at the Newark Museum, where Roth cuts a cake made to look like a stack of books.

"Newark has been to Roth's writing what whaling is to Melville," said Rosemary Steinbaum, dean of instruction at Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy in Livingston, N.J., and a photo exhibit curator.

"Philip Roth: An Exhibit of Photos from a Lifetime" opened Tuesday at the Newark Public Library. Many of Roth's personal photographs are featured: Roth and his brother eating popsicles at the beach as children, Roth acting in plays at Bucknell University, surrounded by friends including the writer William Styron, and photos of Roth's brother, parents and grandparents.

Roth was born and raised in Newark's Weequahic neighborhood, populated almost entirely by Jewish families at the time. Roth would bike back from its library with books in tow and attended the neighborhood's art deco high school. The city features prominently in his novels, including "American Pastoral," ''Nemesis," ''The Plot Against America" and "Portnoy's Complaint."

The Philip Roth Society held a symposium called Roth(at)80, and many members who dedicated careers to studying Roth, but never visited Newark, piled on three tour buses that wound through the city streets.

Liz Del Tufo, president of the Newark Preservation and Landmarks Committee, started giving Roth bus tours in 2005. She and the society were instrumental in getting Roth to celebrate his birthday in Newark.

"Whenever Liz Del Tufo calls him (Roth), which is at least monthly, he says, 'Am I 80 yet?'" said Roth's biographer, Blake Bailey.

Del Tufo narrated a tour that was as much a history of Roth's life in Newark as it was an account of the city's past. Each time the bus entered a neighborhood or passed a building that played a role in one of Roth's works, the bus stopped and Del Tufo asked a passenger to read a pertinent passage.

After leaving Newark Museum blocks away, the bus pulled over on Washington Street, parallel to Washington Park.

"Down Washington Street, behind me, was the Newark Museum ? I could see it without even looking; two oriental vases in front like spittoons for a rajah, and next to it the little annex to which we had traveled on special buses as schoolchildren," a man read in part from "Goodbye Columbus." Passengers applauded when he finished.

The bus continued past the Essex County Courthouse, mentioned in "I Married a Communist," and went down Clinton Avenue. It drove through the Olmsted-designed Weequahic Park and Roth's old neighborhood, where large homes gave way to more modest structures as the bus chugged up a hill.

It pulled over in front of Weequahic High School and everyone aboard was asked to recite a chant from "Portnoy's Complaint."

"Ikey, Mikey, Jake and Sam

We're the boys who eat no ham

We play football, we play soccer ?

And we keep matzos in our locker!

Aye, aye, aye Weequahic High!"

Passengers burst out laughing and got off the bus to snap photos in front of the high school. Blocks later they bounded off the bus to see Roth's childhood home, now a yellow-sided structure with faux rocks on the front and a small sign proclaiming it a historic site.

"It's remarkable how many monuments from his literature are here," said Michael Kimmage, a Roth scholar at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

Sarah Shieff, a professor of Jewish literature at the University of Waikato in New Zealand, flew to Newark for the event with her husband. Roth's descriptions of places were foreign to Schieff, a New Zealand native, and seeing Newark was a way to round out her study.

"This is a way of putting it in three dimensions," she said. "He writes his settings incredibly vividly. It's a bonus to see them in the flesh."

Associated Press

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Two inmates escape from jail in helicopter

SAINT-JEROME, Quebec (AP) ? Two Quebec inmates climbed up a rope into a hovering helicopter to make a daring daylight escape Sunday from a jail northwest of Montreal, authorities said.

Quebec provincial police said later that they had arrested three people about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of the Saint-Jerome jail from which the inmates escaped. One of those arrested was 36-year-old inmate Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau.

Authorities late Sunday located the second inmate and said a security perimeter had been set up around the area where 33-year-old Danny Provencal was found.

Quebec provincial police Sgt. Benoit Richard said authorities were in contact with Provencal and have him surrounded at a compound near where the three others were arrested.

"We're still in negotiations and that's still going on," Richard said. "He's in a compound and we are in contact with him and we are trying to find a peaceful resolution."

Earlier on Sunday, police received a call from the staff at the Saint-Jerome jail, reporting the escape around 2:20 p.m., Richard said.

The jail's warden told police that Hudon-Barbeau and Provencal had grabbed a rope dropped from the helicopter to make their getaway, Richard said.

Quebec provincial police tracked down the helicopter used in the escape on Sunday afternoon to Mont-Tremblant, about 53 miles (85 kilometers) away from the jail but only the chopper's pilot was still at the scene. He was taken to a local hospital and was treated for shock, Richard said. He called the pilot "an important witness" in the case.

According to a provincial police, Hudon-Barbeau was arrested in November on two firearm related charges and associating with people who have a criminal record. The arrest came as part of an investigation of a double murder in Quebec.

A Montreal radio station, 98.5 FM, said it received a call Sunday from a man claiming to be Hudon-Barbeau, who said he was "ready to die" as he tried to evade police.

"The way they're treating me in there, it's unreal," the man told the radio station. "They won't let me be. They put me back in prison for nothing."

Authorities did not immediately respond to the claims made in the radio station interview.

Yves Galarneau, the correctional services manager who oversees the Saint-Jerome jail, said he'd never seen anything like the dramatic escape in more than three decades on the job.

Galarneau said there are no security measures in place at the jail to prevent a helicopter from swooping down from above.

"As far as I know, it's a first in Quebec," he told reporters at the scene. "It's exceptional."

Although the tactic may have been a first for Quebec, using a chopper to break out of jail has a long and colorful history, and not just in the movies.

A New York businessman, Joel David Kaplan, used a chopper to escape from a Mexican jail in 1971, and went on to write a book about it. Pascal Payet, a French prisoner, used a helicopter to escape on three occasions, only to be caught by authorities every time.

The jail at the center of Sunday's escapade in Quebec is a provincial detention center with a maximum-security wing.

Saint-Jerome jail, located about 37 miles (60 kilometers) northwest of Montreal, experienced a mini-riot by about a dozen prisoners a little over a month ago. In that incident, police were called in to secure the outside of the jail, which holds about 480 inmates, and jail staff used pepper spray to disperse the mob.

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Associated Press writer Benjamin Shingler in Montreal contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/2-inmates-escape-quebec-jail-helicopter-001905068.html

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Findings: Good News Spreads Faster on Social Media

[unable to retrieve full-text content]While old-fashioned outlets focus on tragedy and drama, on social media, people tend to share more positive news, especially about themselves.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/19/science/good-news-spreads-faster-on-twitter-and-facebook.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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