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Knockout of the week: Joe Benavidez earns spot in flyweight finals
At UFC 152, Joe Benavidez will face Demetrious Johnson for the first-ever UFC flyweight (125 lb.) championship. How did Benavidez get to the finals? Watch and learn.
Off the bell to start the second round, Benavidez scored a quick knockout over Yasuhiro Urushutani. Will he have the same magic against Johnson on Sept. 22? Tell us in the comments, on Facebook or on Twitter.
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A new system that automatically streamlines database access patterns can make large Web applications up to three times as fast
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Most major websites these days maintain huge databases: Shopping sites have databases of inventory and customer ratings, travel sites have databases of seat availability on flights, and social-networking sites have databases of photos and comments. Almost any transaction on any of these sites requires multiple database queries, which can slow response time.
This week, at the 38th International Conference on Very Large Databases the premier database conference researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory presented a new system that automatically streamlines websites' database access patterns, making the sites up to three times as fast. And where other systems that promise similar speedups require the mastery of special-purpose programming languages, the MIT system, called Pyxis, works with the types of languages already favored by Web developers.
Alvin Cheung, a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), is first author on the paper. He's joined by his advisor, EECS professor Sam Madden, and by Owen Arden and Andrew Myers of Cornell University's Department of Computer Science.
A Web-services transaction typically involves both data retrieval say, the flights on a given route with available seats and computation say, whether the difference in flight times would allow the traveler to make a connection. Typically, data is stored on one server, and the computation, or "application logic," is executed on another. The application server and the database might have to exchange information multiple times only to conclude that, no, a given itinerary won't work.
But if a few frequently used chunks of application logic could run on the database server instead, it would save time, by limiting the number of cross-server transactions, and bandwidth, since the sole remaining transaction could be sending the single bit of information "no."
But application logic and database queries are generally written in very different languages, which are optimized to handle different types of operations, so moving code to the database can require not only rewriting it, but also rethinking the way it's implemented. And it's difficult to split a program in two without introducing bugs without, say, losing track of which server needs to modify which variable at which point.
Finally, even if the programmer invests the time to establish that the partitioning of the program won't introduce errors, there's still the difficulty that the demands on the database server are constantly changing. During normal operation, the database server's CPU may have plenty of capacity to handle a little application logic. But a sudden spike in traffic could so burden the CPU that the extra computation puts it over its limit, causing much worse delays than shuttling data between application and database would.
Graphic results
Pyxis solves all three problems. It automatically partitions a program between application server and database server, and it does it in a way that can be mathematically proven not to disrupt the operation of the program. It also monitors the CPU load on the database server, giving it more or less application logic to execute depending on its available capacity.
Pyxis begins by transforming a program into a graph, a data construct that consists of "nodes" connected by "edges." The most familiar example of a graph is probably a network diagram, in which the nodes (depicted as circles) represent computers, and the edges (depicted as lines connecting the circles) represent the bandwidth of the links between them. In this case, however, the nodes represent individual instructions in a program, and the edges represent the amount of data that each instruction passes to the next.
"The code transitions from this statement to this next statement, and there's a certain amount of data that has to be carried over from the previous statement to the next statement," Madden explains. "If the next statement uses some variable that was computed in the previous statement, then there's some data dependency between the two statements, and the size of that dependency is the size of the variable." If the whole program runs on one computer, then the variable is stored in main memory, and each statement simply accesses it directly. But if consecutive statements run on separate computers, the data has to make the jump with them.
"There's some cost to shipping data across the network, and there's some cost to every network round-trip that you do," Madden says. "So we want to find a placement of these nodes on the two different servers that minimizes the overall cost or overall runtime of the program."
In fact, Cheung adds, Pyxis finds several such placements of the nodes, some that push more computation to the database server and some that push less. "Our tool is able to dynamically switch between them based on the current load on the server," Cheung says.
Benchmarking
In experiments involving a standard set of simulated database transactions, Pyxis was three times as fast as a typical implementation, while cutting the bandwidth consumed almost in half. Moreover, the improvements it afforded were within a few percent of those that resulted from careful optimizations hand-coded by software engineers.
At the moment, Pyxis works with programs written in Java, which Madden says is the language favored by many commercial Web developers. But adapting it to other popular languages would require revising only the code that translates programs into graphical models; the rest of the system would remain the same.
In ongoing work, the four researchers on the Pyxis paper are collaborating with Armand Solar-Lezama, an assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering at MIT, to make it even easier to streamline database-dependent Web applications. Most databases are written in so-called declarative languages such as SQL, which allow programmers to issue high-level commands, such as finding the largest value of some variable, without specifying a computational approach. The database system then automatically chooses the most efficient algorithm for executing the command, depending on the data characteristics.
Web programmers who are better-versed in Java than SQL will sometimes move large batches of data from the database to the application server, only to perform operations on it that SQL would have done more efficiently anyway. The researchers are developing a system that builds on Pyxis, dubbed StatusQuo, that can identify such inefficient application logic. It then automatically converts the application code into a SQL query, which the database then executes by whatever means it deems most efficient.
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Share ] Contact: Caroline McCall, MIT Media Relations
cmccall5@mit.edu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A new system that automatically streamlines database access patterns can make large Web applications up to three times as fast
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Most major websites these days maintain huge databases: Shopping sites have databases of inventory and customer ratings, travel sites have databases of seat availability on flights, and social-networking sites have databases of photos and comments. Almost any transaction on any of these sites requires multiple database queries, which can slow response time.
This week, at the 38th International Conference on Very Large Databases the premier database conference researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory presented a new system that automatically streamlines websites' database access patterns, making the sites up to three times as fast. And where other systems that promise similar speedups require the mastery of special-purpose programming languages, the MIT system, called Pyxis, works with the types of languages already favored by Web developers.
Alvin Cheung, a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), is first author on the paper. He's joined by his advisor, EECS professor Sam Madden, and by Owen Arden and Andrew Myers of Cornell University's Department of Computer Science.
A Web-services transaction typically involves both data retrieval say, the flights on a given route with available seats and computation say, whether the difference in flight times would allow the traveler to make a connection. Typically, data is stored on one server, and the computation, or "application logic," is executed on another. The application server and the database might have to exchange information multiple times only to conclude that, no, a given itinerary won't work.
But if a few frequently used chunks of application logic could run on the database server instead, it would save time, by limiting the number of cross-server transactions, and bandwidth, since the sole remaining transaction could be sending the single bit of information "no."
But application logic and database queries are generally written in very different languages, which are optimized to handle different types of operations, so moving code to the database can require not only rewriting it, but also rethinking the way it's implemented. And it's difficult to split a program in two without introducing bugs without, say, losing track of which server needs to modify which variable at which point.
Finally, even if the programmer invests the time to establish that the partitioning of the program won't introduce errors, there's still the difficulty that the demands on the database server are constantly changing. During normal operation, the database server's CPU may have plenty of capacity to handle a little application logic. But a sudden spike in traffic could so burden the CPU that the extra computation puts it over its limit, causing much worse delays than shuttling data between application and database would.
Graphic results
Pyxis solves all three problems. It automatically partitions a program between application server and database server, and it does it in a way that can be mathematically proven not to disrupt the operation of the program. It also monitors the CPU load on the database server, giving it more or less application logic to execute depending on its available capacity.
Pyxis begins by transforming a program into a graph, a data construct that consists of "nodes" connected by "edges." The most familiar example of a graph is probably a network diagram, in which the nodes (depicted as circles) represent computers, and the edges (depicted as lines connecting the circles) represent the bandwidth of the links between them. In this case, however, the nodes represent individual instructions in a program, and the edges represent the amount of data that each instruction passes to the next.
"The code transitions from this statement to this next statement, and there's a certain amount of data that has to be carried over from the previous statement to the next statement," Madden explains. "If the next statement uses some variable that was computed in the previous statement, then there's some data dependency between the two statements, and the size of that dependency is the size of the variable." If the whole program runs on one computer, then the variable is stored in main memory, and each statement simply accesses it directly. But if consecutive statements run on separate computers, the data has to make the jump with them.
"There's some cost to shipping data across the network, and there's some cost to every network round-trip that you do," Madden says. "So we want to find a placement of these nodes on the two different servers that minimizes the overall cost or overall runtime of the program."
In fact, Cheung adds, Pyxis finds several such placements of the nodes, some that push more computation to the database server and some that push less. "Our tool is able to dynamically switch between them based on the current load on the server," Cheung says.
Benchmarking
In experiments involving a standard set of simulated database transactions, Pyxis was three times as fast as a typical implementation, while cutting the bandwidth consumed almost in half. Moreover, the improvements it afforded were within a few percent of those that resulted from careful optimizations hand-coded by software engineers.
At the moment, Pyxis works with programs written in Java, which Madden says is the language favored by many commercial Web developers. But adapting it to other popular languages would require revising only the code that translates programs into graphical models; the rest of the system would remain the same.
In ongoing work, the four researchers on the Pyxis paper are collaborating with Armand Solar-Lezama, an assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering at MIT, to make it even easier to streamline database-dependent Web applications. Most databases are written in so-called declarative languages such as SQL, which allow programmers to issue high-level commands, such as finding the largest value of some variable, without specifying a computational approach. The database system then automatically chooses the most efficient algorithm for executing the command, depending on the data characteristics.
Web programmers who are better-versed in Java than SQL will sometimes move large batches of data from the database to the application server, only to perform operations on it that SQL would have done more efficiently anyway. The researchers are developing a system that builds on Pyxis, dubbed StatusQuo, that can identify such inefficient application logic. It then automatically converts the application code into a SQL query, which the database then executes by whatever means it deems most efficient.
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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider: Text of Mitt Romney's GOP convention speech
Here is the text of Republican Mitt Romney's speech to the GOP convention in Tampa, as he accepted his party's nomination for President on Thursday night.
Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America.
I do so with humility, deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.
Tonight I am asking you to join me to walk together to a better future. By my side, I have chosen a man with a big heart from a small town. He represents the best of America, a man who will always make us proud ? my friend and America?s next Vice President, Paul Ryan.
In the days ahead, you will get to know Paul and Janna better. But last night America got to see what I saw in Paul Ryan ? a strong and caring leader who is down to earth and confident in the challenge this moment demands.?
I love the way he lights up around his kids and how he's not embarrassed to show the world how much he loves his mom.
But Paul, I still like the playlist on my iPod better than yours.
Four years ago, I know that many Americans felt a fresh excitement about the possibilities of a new president. That president was not the choice of our party but Americans always come together after elections. We are a good and generous people who are united by so much more than what divides us.
When that hard fought election was over, when the yard signs came down and the television commercials finally came off the air, Americans were eager to go back to work, to live our lives the way Americans always have ? optimistic and positive and confident in the future.?
That very optimism is uniquely American.
It is what brought us to America. We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better.
They came not just in pursuit of the riches of this world but for the richness of this life.
Freedom.
Freedom of religion.
Freedom to speak their mind.
Freedom to build a life.
And yes, freedom to build a business. ?With their own hands.
This is the essence of the American experience.
We Americans have always felt a special kinship with the future.
When every new wave of immigrants looked up and saw the Statue of Liberty, or knelt down and kissed the shores of freedom just ninety miles from Castro?s tyranny, these new Americans surely had many questions. But none doubted that here in America they could build a better life, that in America their children would be more blessed than they.
But today, four years from the excitement of the last election, for the first time, the majority of Americans now doubt that our children will have a better future.
It is not what we were promised.
Every family in America wanted this to be a time when they could get ahead a little more, put aside a little more for college, do more for their elderly mom who?s living alone now or give a little more to their church or charity. ?
Every small business wanted these to be their best years ever, when they could hire more, do more for those who had stuck with them through the hard times, open a new store or sponsor that Little League team.
Every new college graduate thought they'd have a good job by now, a place of their own, and that they could start paying back some of their loans and build for the future.
This is when our nation was supposed to start paying down the national debt and rolling back those massive deficits.
This was the hope and change America voted for.
It?s not just what we wanted. It?s not just what we expected.
It?s what Americans deserved.
You deserved it because during these years, you worked harder than ever before. You deserved it because when it cost more to fill up your car, you cut out movie nights and put in longer hours. Or when you lost that job that paid $22.50 an hour with benefits, you took two jobs at 9 bucks an hour and fewer benefits. You did it because your family depended on you. You did it because you?re an American and you don?t quit. You did it because it was what you had to do.
But driving home late from that second job, or standing there watching the gas pump hit 50 dollars and still going, when the realtor told you that to sell your house you?d have to take a big loss, in those moments you knew that this just wasn?t right.
But what could you do? Except work harder, do with less, try to stay optimistic. Hug your kids a little longer; maybe spend a little more time praying that tomorrow would be a better day.
I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed. But his promises gave way to disappointment and division.? This isn't something we have to accept. Now is the moment when we CAN do something. With your help we will do something.
Now is the moment when we can stand up and say, ?I?m an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!?
So here we stand. Americans have a choice. A decision.
To make that choice, you need to know more about me and about where I will lead our country.
I was born in the middle of the century in the middle of the country, a classic baby boomer.? It was a time when Americans were returning from war and eager to work. To be an American was to assume that all things were possible.? When President Kennedy challenged Americans to go to the moon, the question wasn?t whether we'd get there, it was only when we'd get there.
The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on OUR souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world.?
God bless Neil Armstrong.
Tonight that American flag is still there on the moon. And I don't doubt for a second that Neil Armstrong's spirit is still with us: that unique blend of optimism, humility and the utter confidence that when the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American.
That's how I was brought up.
My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution. I grew up with stories of his family being fed by the US Government as war refugees. My dad never made it through college and apprenticed as a lath and plaster carpenter. And he had big dreams. He convinced my mom, a beautiful young actress, to give up Hollywood to marry him. He moved to Detroit, led a great automobile company and became Governor of the Great State of Michigan.
We were Mormons and growing up in Michigan; that might have seemed unusual or out of place but I really don?t remember it that way. My friends cared more about what sports teams we followed than what church we went to.
My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all ? the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would BE, and much less about what we would DO.
Unconditional love is a gift that Ann and I have tried to pass on to our sons and now to our grandchildren. ?All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family ? and God?s love -- this world would be a far more gentle and better place.
Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist ? because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died ? she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.
My mom and dad were true partners, a life lesson that shaped me by everyday example. When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, ?Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation??
I wish she could have been here at the convention and heard leaders like Governor Mary Fallin, Governor Nikki Haley, Governor Susana Martinez, Senator Kelly Ayotte and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
?As Governor of Massachusetts, I chose a woman Lt. Governor, a woman chief of staff, half of my cabinet and senior officials were women, and in business, I mentored and supported great women leaders who went on to run great companies.
I grew up in Detroit in love with cars and wanted to be a car guy, like my dad. But by the time I was out of school, I realized that I had to go out on my own, that if I stayed around Michigan in the same business, I?d never really know if I was getting a break because of my dad. I wanted to go someplace new and prove myself.
Those weren?t the easiest of days ? too many long hours and weekends working, five young sons who seemed to have this need to re-enact a different world war every night. But if you ask Ann and I what we?d give, to break up just one more fight between the boys, or wake up in the morning and discover a pile of kids asleep in our room. Well, every mom and dad knows the answer to that.
Those days were toughest on Ann, of course. She was heroic. Five boys, with our families a long way away. I had to travel a lot for my job then and I?d call and try to offer support. But every mom knows that doesn't help get the homework done or the kids out the door to school.
I knew that her job as a mom was harder than mine. And I knew without question, that her job as a mom was a lot more important than mine. And as America saw Tuesday night, Ann would have succeeded at anything she wanted to.
Like a lot of families in a new place with no family, we found kinship with a wide circle of friends through our church. When we were new to the community it was welcoming and as the years went by, it was a joy to help others who had just moved to town or just joined our church. We had remarkably vibrant and diverse congregants from all walks of life and many who were new to America. We prayed together, our kids played together and we always stood ready to help each other out in different ways.
And that?s how it is in America. We look to our communities, our faiths, our families for our joy, our support, in good times and bad. It is both how we live our lives and why we live our lives. The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths.
That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America?s communities, large and small.
It?s when we see that new business opening up downtown. It?s when we go to work in the morning and see everybody else on our block doing the same.
It?s when our son or daughter calls from college to talk about which job offer they should take?.and you try not to choke up when you hear that the one they like is not far from home.
It?s that good feeling when you have more time to volunteer to coach your kid?s soccer team, or help out on school trips.
But for too many Americans, these good days are harder to come by. How many days have you woken up feeling that something really special was happening in America? ?
Many of you felt that way on Election Day four years ago. Hope and Change had a powerful appeal. But tonight I'd ask a simple question:? If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn?t you feel that way now that he?s President Obama? You know there?s something wrong with the kind of job he?s done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him.
The President hasn?t disappointed you because he wanted to. The President has disappointed America because he hasn?t led America in the right direction. He took office without the basic qualification that most Americans have and one that was essential to his task. He had almost no experience working in a business. Jobs to him are about government.
I learned the real lessons about how America works from experience.
When I was 37, I helped start a small company. My partners and I had been working for a company that was in the business of helping other businesses.
So some of us had this idea that if we really believed our advice was helping companies, we should invest in companies. We should bet on ourselves and on our advice.
So we started a new business called Bain Capital. The only problem was, while WE believed in ourselves, nobody else did. We were young and had never done this before and we almost didn?t get off the ground. In those days, sometimes I wondered if I had made a really big mistake. I had thought about asking my church?s pension fund to invest, but I didn't. I figured it was bad enough that I might lose my investors? money, but I didn?t want to go to hell too. Shows what I know. Another of my partners got the Episcopal Church pension fund to invest. Today there are a lot of happy retired priests who should thank him.
That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story. Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. ?An office supply company called Staples ? where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised. At a time when nobody thought we'd ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States.
These are American success stories. And yet the centerpiece of the President?s entire re-election campaign is attacking success. Is it any wonder that someone who attacks success has led the worst economic recovery since the Great Depression? In America, we celebrate success, we don't apologize for it.
We weren?t always successful at Bain. ?But no one ever is in the real world of business.?
That?s what this President doesn?t seem to understand. Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.
It?s the genius of the American free enterprise system ? to harness the extraordinary creativity and talent and industry of the American people with a system that is dedicated to creating tomorrow?s prosperity rather than trying to redistribute today's.
That is why every president since the Great Depression who came before the American people asking for a second term could look back at the last four years and say with satisfaction: "you are better off today than you were four years ago."
Except Jimmy Carter. And except this president.
This president can ask us to be patient.
This president can tell us it was someone else?s fault.
This president can tell us that the next four years he?ll get it right.
But this president cannot tell us that YOU are better off today than when he took office.
America has been patient. Americans have supported this president in good faith.
But today, the time has come to turn the page.
Today the time has come for us to put the disappointments of the last four years behind us.
To put aside the divisiveness and the recriminations.
To forget about what might have been and to look ahead to what can be.
Now is the time to restore the Promise of America. Many Americans have given up on this president but they haven?t ever thought about giving up. Not on themselves. Not on each other. And not on America.
What is needed in our country today is not complicated or profound. It doesn't take a special government commission to tell us what America needs.
What America needs is jobs.
Lots of jobs.
In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled.? Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before. Nearly one out of six Americans is living in poverty. Look around you. These are not strangers. These are our brothers and sisters, our fellow Americans.
His policies have not helped create jobs, they have depressed them. And this I can tell you about where President Obama would take America:
His plan to raise taxes on small business won't add jobs, it will eliminate them;
His assault on coal and gas and oil will send energy and manufacturing jobs to China;
His trillion dollar cuts to our military will eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs, and also put our security at greater risk;
His $716 billion cut to Medicare to finance Obamacare will both hurt today's seniors, and depress innovation ? and jobs ? in medicine.
And his trillion-dollar deficits will slow our economy, restrain employment, and cause wages to stall.
To the majority of Americans who now believe that the future will not be better than the past, I can guarantee you this: if Barack Obama is re-elected, you will be right.
I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.
And unlike the President, I have a plan to create 12 million new jobs. It has 5 steps.?
First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables.
Second, we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow. When it comes to the school your child will attend, every parent should have a choice, and every child should have a chance.
Third, we will make trade work for America by forging new trade agreements. And when nations cheat in trade, there will be unmistakable consequences.
Fourth, to assure every entrepreneur and every job creator that their investments in America will not vanish as have those in Greece, we will cut the deficit and put America on track to a balanced budget.
And fifth, we will champion SMALL businesses, America?s engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.
Today, women are more likely than men to start a business. They need a president who respects and understands what they do.
And let me make this very clear ? unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class.
As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.
President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. MY promise...is to help you and your family.
I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No Mr. President, America has freed other nations from dictators.
Every American was relieved the day President Obama gave the order, and Seal Team Six took out Osama bin Laden. But on another front, every American is less secure today because he has failed to slow Iran's nuclear threat.
In his first TV interview as president, he said we should talk to Iran. We're still talking, and Iran?s centrifuges are still spinning.?
President Obama has thrown allies like Israel under the bus, even as he has relaxed sanctions on Castro's Cuba. He abandoned our friends in Poland by walking away from our missile defense commitments, but is eager to give Russia's President Putin the flexibility he desires, after the election. Under my administration, our friends will see more loyalty, and?Mr. Putin will see a little less flexibility and more backbone.
We will honor America?s democratic ideals because a free world is a more peaceful world. This is the bipartisan foreign policy legacy of Truman and Reagan. And under my presidency we will return to it once again.
You might have asked yourself if these last years are really the America we want, the America won for us by the greatest generation.
Does the America we want borrow a trillion dollars from China? No.
Does it fail to find the jobs that are needed for 23 million people and for half the kids graduating from college? No.
Are its schools lagging behind the rest of the developed world? No.
And does the America we want succumb to resentment and division? We know the answer.?
The America we all know has been a story of the many becoming one, uniting to preserve liberty, uniting to build the greatest economy in the world, uniting to save the world from unspeakable darkness.
Everywhere I go in America, there are monuments that list those who have given their lives for America. There is no mention of their race, their party affiliation, or what they did for a living. They lived and died under a single flag, fighting for a single purpose. They pledged allegiance to the UNITED States of America.
That America, that united America, can unleash an economy that will put Americans back to work, that will once again lead the world with innovation and productivity, and that will restore every father and mother's confidence that their children's future is brighter even than the past.
That America, that united America, will preserve a military that is so strong, no nation would ever dare to test it.
That America, that united America, will uphold the constellation of rights that were endowed by our Creator, and codified in our Constitution.
That united America will care for the poor and the sick, will honor and respect the elderly, and will give a helping hand to those in need.
That America is the best within each of us. That America we want for our children.
If I am elected President of these United States, I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America, to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny. That future is out there. It is waiting for us. Our children deserve it, our nation depends upon it, the peace and freedom of the world require it. And with your help we will deliver it. Let us begin that future together tonight.
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Legendary songwriter Hal David dies in LA at 91
FILE - This Oct. 17, 2011 file photo shows legendary songwriters Bert Bacharach, left, and Hal David pose with singer Dionne Warwick at the "Love, Sweet Love" musical tribute to Hal David on his 90th birthday in Los Angeles, Calif. David, who along with partner Burt Bacharach penned dozens of top 40 hits for a variety of recording artists in the 1960s and beyond, died Saturday Sept. 1, 2012 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Vince Bucci, File)
FILE - This Oct. 17, 2011 file photo shows legendary songwriters Bert Bacharach, left, and Hal David pose with singer Dionne Warwick at the "Love, Sweet Love" musical tribute to Hal David on his 90th birthday in Los Angeles, Calif. David, who along with partner Burt Bacharach penned dozens of top 40 hits for a variety of recording artists in the 1960s and beyond, died Saturday Sept. 1, 2012 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Vince Bucci, File)
FILE - In this June 16, 2011 file photo, Hal David arrives at the 42nd Annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards in New York. David, who along with partner Burt Bacharach penned dozens of top 40 hits for a variety of recording artists in the 1960s and beyond, died Saturday Sept. 1, 2012 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Hal David, the stylish, heartfelt lyricist who teamed with Burt Bacharach on dozens of timeless songs for movies, television and a variety of recording artists in the 1960s and beyond, has died. He was 91.
David died of complications from a stroke Saturday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to his wife Eunice David.
He had suffered a major stroke in March and was stricken again on Tuesday, she said.
"Even at the end, Hal always had a song in his head," Eunice David said. "He was always writing notes, or asking me to take a note down, so he wouldn't forget a lyric."
Bacharach and David were among the most successful teams in modern history, with top 40 hits including "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head," ''Close to You" and "That's What Friends Are For." Although most associated with Dionne Warwick, their music was recorded by many of the top acts of their time, from the Beatles and Barbra Streisand to Frank Sinatra and Aretha Franklin. They won an Oscar for "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" (from the movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"), Grammys and Tonys for the songs from the hit Broadway musical "Promises, Promises."
David joined the board of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in 1974 and served as president 1980 to 1986. He was head of the Songwriters Hall of Fame from 2001 to 2011, and was Chairman Emeritus at his death.
"As a lyric writer, Hal was simple, concise and poetic -- conveying volumes of meaning in fewest possible words and always in service to the music," ASCAP's current president, the songwriter Paul Williams, said in a statement. "It is no wonder that so many of his lyrics have become part of our everyday vocabulary and his songs... the backdrop of our lives."
In May, Bacharach and David received the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song during a White House tribute concert attended by President Barack Obama.
Bacharach, 83, thanked Obama, saying the award for his life's work topped even the Oscars and Grammys he won for individual projects. David could not attend because he is recovering from a stroke. Eunice David accepted on his behalf.
"It was thrilling," she said. "Even though he wasn't there, Hal said it was the highest honor he had ever received."
More than 55 years after their first songs hit the airwaves, Obama said "these guys have still got it." He noted their music is still being recorded by such artists as Alicia Keys and John Legend.
"Above all, they stayed true to themselves," Obama said. "And with an unmistakable authenticity, they captured the emotions of our daily lives ? the good times, the bad times, and everything in between."
David and Bacharach met when both worked in the Brill Building, New York's legendary Tin Pan Alley song factory where writers cranked out songs and attempted to sell them to music publishers. They scored their first big hit with "Magic Moments," a million-selling record for Perry Como.
In 1962 they began writing for a young singer named Dionne Warwick, whose versatile voice conveyed the emotion of David's lyrics and easily handled the changing patterns of Bacharach's melodies. Together the trio created a succession of popular songs including "Don't Make Me Over," ''Walk On By," ''I Say a Little Prayer," ''Do You Know the Way to San Jose," ''Trains and Boats and Planes," ''Anyone Who Has a Heart," ''You'll Never Get to Heaven" and "Always Something There to Remind Me," a hit in the 1980s for the synth pop band Naked Eyes.
Bacharach and David also wrote hits for numerous other singers: "This Guy's in Love with You" (trumpeter Herb Alpert in his vocal debut), "Make It Easy on Yourself" (Jerry Butler), "What the World Needs Now is Love" (Jackie DeShannon) and "Wishin' and Hopin'" (Dusty Springfield). They also turned out title songs for the movies "What's New, Pussycat" (Tom Jones), "Wives and Lovers" (Jack Jones) and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence" (Gene Pitney).
In a 1999 interview, David explained his success as a lyricist this way: "Try and tell a narrative. The songs should be like a little film, told in three or four minutes. Try to say things as simply as possible, which is probably the most difficult thing to do."
The writer, who lived in New York, often flew to Los Angeles, where he and Bacharach would hole up for a few weeks of intense songwriting. Sometimes they conferred by long-distance telephone; "I Say a Little Prayer" was written that way.
David would recall working on a song that seemed to go nowhere. They stuck it in a desk drawer and left it there for months.
"This was particularly disappointing to me. I had thought of the idea at least two years before showing it to Burt," David wrote in a brief essay on his Web site, www.haldavid.com. "I was stuck. I kept thinking of lines like, 'Lord, we don't need planes that fly higher or faster ...' and they all seemed wrong. Why, I didn't know. But the idea stayed with me.
"Then, one day, I thought of, 'Lord, we don't need another mountain,' and all at once I knew how the lyric should be written. Things like planes and trains and cars are man-made, and things like mountains and rivers and valleys are created by someone or something we call God. There was now a oneness of idea and language instead of a conflict. It had taken me two years to put my finger on it."
And so they had another smash: "What the World Needs Now is Love"
The hit-making team broke up after the 1973 musical remake of "Lost Horizon." They had devoted two years to the movie, only to see it scorned by critics and audiences alike. Bacharach became so depressed he sequestered himself in his vacation home and refused to work.
Bacharach and David sued each other and Warwick sued them both. The cases were settled out of court in 1979 and the three went their separate ways. They reconciled in 1992 for Warwick's recording of "Sunny Weather Lover."
David, meanwhile, went on to collaborate successfully with several other composers: John Barry with the title song of the James Bond film "Moonraker;" Albert Hammond with "To All the Girls I've Loved Before," which Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson sang as a duet; and Henry Mancini with "The Greatest Gift" in "The Return of the Pink Panther."
Born in New York City, David had attended public schools before studying journalism at New York University. He served in the Army during World War II, mostly as a member of an entertainment unit in the South Pacific. After the war, he worked as a copywriter at the New York Post, but music was his passion and he had written lyrics for Sammy Kaye, Guy Lombardo and other bandleaders before hooking up with Bacharach.
He married Anne Rauchman in 1947 and the couple had two sons.
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AP National Writer Hillel Italie contributed from New York.
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Minnesota Opera - Multimedia Communications Intern
Minnesota Opera?s Multimedia Communications Intern, under supervision of the Communications Manager, will assist in the development and production of engaging multimedia content for a variety of platforms to support the publicity and communications strategies of the company. The intern will learn about using video, audio recording and photography to promote the productions and initiatives of one of America?s leading opera companies. By filming special events and portions of the rehearsal process, editing in-house video clips for social media and website content, organizing video shoots and assisting our videographers from Comcast and QuarterTon Productions, the intern will develop editing and evaluation skills as well as a critical eye for compelling content for viewers and listeners.
The Multimedia Communications Internship will run from September 10, 2012 ? May 17, 2013. The schedule is approximately 15-20 hours per week, including nights and weekends, with exact schedule to be determined. Internship is available immediately and negotiable in length, but a full season internship is preferable (September ? May). Please only apply if you are available 15-20 hours per week.
The Multimedia Communications Internship will run from September 10, 2012 ? May 17, 2013. The schedule is approximately 15-20 hours per week, including nights and weekends, with exact schedule to be determined. Internship is available immediately and negotiable in length, but a full season internship is preferable (September ? May). Please only apply if you are available 15-20 hours per week.
All interns can expect to interact with staff in various departments throughout the company, providing a better understanding of the role of multimedia content within the organization.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
ACTIVITIES:
Brainstorm content ideas for video clips and audio podcasts. Develop storyboards and scripts. Record, edit, distribute and archive video of a limited amount of special events and various publicity runouts (artist appearances and interviews for newsprint/magazines, radio and television) and the rehearsal process at the Minnesota Opera Center in Minneapolis and the Ordway in St. Paul. Collaborate with Communications Manager, Online Content Specialist, Photography Intern and Social Media Intern to develop content for the Opera?s social media initiatives (Facebook, Twitter, Blog, YouTube) and website. Coordinate video shoots and production schedules for Comcast ?A Backstage Look? features (one for each of our five productions).
Coordinate and assist with artist interviews for in-house created audio podcasts. Organize video interviews and assist in the editing process for QuarterTon Production?s shoots on our final dress rehearsal nights (resulting in interview clips, production b-roll and publicity VNR). Manage Minnesota Opera?s video content via YouTube.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Interest in multimedia conceptualization and production. Previous experience required in video production/editing (Adobe Premiere), podcasting (Audacity, Garage Band) and/or graphic design (Adobe Creative Suite). Detail-oriented with the ability to multitask and meet deadlines required. Strong written and verbal communication skills. Strong interest in pursuing a career in not-for-profit/performing arts publicity. Professional demeanor. Undergraduate/graduate students and recent college graduates with a strong portfolio of work (all majors are welcomed, though Art, Design, Cinema, Communications and other related majors are preferred).
FOR CONSIDERATION:
Please submit cover letter and a link to your personal website/online portfolio of video work, or video projects posted on YouTube to dzillmann@mnopera.org.
Source: http://www.mnprjobs.com/2012/08/minnesota-opera-multimedia.html
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