Paul Samuelson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Samuelson

book: the intimate strangers

by Lillian Rubin

This book is interesting.

Do you wear one or two ear rings?

Caroline met John at a conference somewhere on the earth.

John asked Caroline: Do you know Mark?！
Caroline replied: Yes, he is my colleague.
John said: You know what. Mark wears ear ring on his left ear ?！
Caroline replied: I wear ear rings on both my ears, left and right ears.
John said: No, Mark's ear ring is different from yours ?！
Caroline replied: Of course. They are different. My ear rings are pink. My pink-colored ear rings are more beautiful. I have good taste in picking ear rings.

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stastistical + n

• research/study/work
• analysis
• method
• procedure
• data/information
• model
• test
• skill/technique
• evidence
• significance
• finding/result
• table
• software
• probability
• correlation
• the statistical analysis of the data
• compare statistical data from different countries
• a new statistical model
• statistical evidence suggests there is ....
• statistical significance of the differences
• statistical results

book: the art of living

by Wilferd Peterson

I like this book.

what is shadow?

something you are afraid of facing/feeling/touching directly

what is life?

Feel good and Be Happy

What is death?

not feel being alive

GeSCA --- structured component analysis

GeSCA is a free web-based software program for generalized structured component analysis that is a component-based approach to structural equation modeling. I would like to inform that two major extensions were just implemented into the program. One extension is a multi-group analysis with the optional imposition of cross-group equality constraints, and the other includes three options for dealing with missing observations (listwise deletion, mean substitution, and least-squares imputation). For the latest updates, please visit the GeSCA website (http://www.sem-gesca.org/ or http://www.sem/-gesca.com). Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Jay Haley

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The Virginia Satir Global Network

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Local Governments Offer Data to Miners

SAN FRANCISCO — A big pile of city crime reports is not all that useful. But what if you could combine that data with information on bars, sidewalks and subway stations to find the safest route home after a night out?

In Washington, a Web site called Stumble Safely makes that possible. It is one example of the kind of creativity that cities are hoping to mobilize by turning over big chunks of data to programmers and the public.

Many local governments are figuring out how to use the Internet to make government data more accessible. The goal is to spawn useful Web sites and mobile applications — and perhaps even have people think differently about their city and its government.

“It will change the way citizens and government interact, but perhaps most important, it’s going to change the way elected officials and civil servants deliver programs, services and promises,” said Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, which is one of the cities leading the way in releasing government data to Web developers. “I can’t wait until it challenges and infuriates the bureaucracy.”

Advocates of these open-data efforts say they can help citizens figure out what is going on in their backyards and judge how their government is performing.

But programmers have had trouble getting their hands on some data. And some activists and software developers wonder whether historically reticent governments will release data that exposes problems or only information that makes them look good.

It is too early to say whether releasing city data will actually make civil servants more accountable, but it can clearly be useful. Even data about mundane things like public transit and traffic can improve people’s lives when it is packaged and customized in an accessible way — a situation that governments themselves may not be equipped to realize.

A Web site called CleanScores, for instance, tracks restaurant inspection scores in various cities and explains each violation. After School Special combines data from San Francisco schools, libraries and restaurants so parents can plan after-school activities and see how children’s nutritional options compare by neighborhood. And Trees Near You, available for the iPhone, lets people identify trees on New York streets.

By releasing data in easy-to-use formats, cities and states hope that people will create sites or applications that use it in ways City Hall never would have considered.

San Francisco recently unveiled DataSF, a Web clearinghouse of raw government data that the public can download. The data sets include seismic hazard zones, street sweeping schedules and campaign finance filings. New York City’s Data Mine includes directories of sidewalk cafes, property values, horseback riding trails and historic houses.

Washington was a leader in releasing its data, and the federal government is doing it too at Data.gov.

Much of this data has always been publicly available, but until recently it has been almost impossible to find. Getting hold of it might have required tenacity, drive and endless phone calls.

The push to publicize government data goes as far back as the 1960s, but technology has made it possible for people to use the data in ways that would not have been possible even a year ago, said Eric Gundersen, president of Development Seed, the Washington company that created Stumble Safely. The company builds data and map applications for international development programs.

“The timing now with the open data movement is really critical because there are a lot of open-source tools that really make that data usable,” Mr. Gundersen said. These include the mapping tool he used to build Stumble Safely and also a site for the United States Agency for International Development that maps public health clinics.

Some activists are skeptical that governments will release politically risky data that could show that people are not doing their jobs. Mayor Newsom said he wants to release all kinds of data, and said he would not be surprised if “people who love to hate their mayor” create an application that maps his public schedule, to bolster their cases about which parts of town he neglects.

There is also the concern that people might misinterpret what the data is telling them.

“In the most basic of forms, with regard to crime stats and unemployment numbers, these kinds of bulletin boards are very useful,” said Saul Bloom, executive director of Arc Ecology, an environmental nonprofit group, who has been an activist in San Francisco for three decades. “But on detailed data dealing with very complicated material, you really have to know what you’re looking for in order to distinguish between good data and junk data.”

Mr. Bloom also worries that cities could manipulate data to gloss over things like unemployment rates by neighborhood.

Governments are trying to make data openness a more open process itself by asking people to vote for data sets they want to be released. In New York, for example, people have requested data on school violence, public restroom locations and bicycle accidents.

Still, asking for the data is often not enough. Software developers in New York have been unsuccessful in getting data feeds of pedestrian and bicyclist injuries and fatalities from the Police Department, said Noel Hidalgo, who is director of technology innovation for the New York State Senate and has been working with developers on building city-data applications. He envisions applications that overlay accident information on city bike maps.

Paul J. Browne, a deputy commissioner of the New York City Police Department, said it releases information about individual accidents to journalists and others who request it, but would not provide software developers with a regularly updated feed. “We provide public information, not data flow for entrepreneurs,” he said.

There have been other scuffles over who has the right to data. Routesy, an iPhone application, uses data from San Francisco’s Municipal Transportation Agency to show train and bus schedules and locate stations on a map. It stopped working for a while because a private contractor working with the agency wanted to charge a licensing fee for the information. The agency now requires its contractor, NextBus, to make the data freely available.

There is evidence that governments’ attitude toward publicizing data is changing. Two years ago, when a Web design and research firm called Stamen Design started a Web site, Crimespotting, that mapped crime data for Oakland, Calif., the city cut off access to the data a week after the site went up.

Bob Glaze, the city’s chief technology officer, said the frequent data requests from the site were disrupting the city’s own crime site. The city eventually changed its mind. And in August, Stamen’s designers unveiled a San Francisco version of Crimespotting with Mayor Newsom at their side.

Some government leaders are making data disclosure an official policy. Mayor Newsom signed an executive order saying city data should be released, and the White House is about to publish a directive expected to give similar instructions to federal agencies.

San Francisco, New York and Washington have all organized contests to encourage software developers to create applications with their data. And the developers are using the data to build businesses. Stamen, for example, uses Crimespotting to show potential clients what it could create for them. Other firms are selling the iPhone apps they have built.

The cities, meanwhile, are to some degree using developers to provide citizens with a service so they do not have to.

“We are increasingly governing in a time when the demand for services exceeds our resources,” said Aneesh Chopra, chief technology officer of the United States. If the contests “spur dozens of innovative applications,” he said, “then we’ve essentially achieved a policy objective at virtually no cost.”

books by Martin Seligman

• What you can change and what you can't : the complete guide to successful self-improvement
• Abnormal Psychology
• Authentic happiness: using the new positive psychology to realize your potential for lasting fulfillment
• The optimistic child
• Authentic happiness
• Learned optimism

book: the cinderella complex

by Colette Dowling

This book talks about women's fear of being independent, emotionally, intellectucally, financially and so on. I find this book reflects my many female friends' fears. This book was published in 1980s. Interestingly, the same fear still exists in 2009.

book: assessing families and couples: from sympton to system

This book introduces some cases the authors faces in their works. The symptons of families and couples can be treated through analyzing the family system or structure. This is a good book.

rational choicer or emotional choicer

My friend recommended me to read a book, the road to serdom, which influences my friend a lot.
I have not read this book. I will try to find time to read this book. I guess this book is about rational choice, economic approach to make choices. However, based on my own survey on many so-called smart PhD people who do know rational choice theory very well, I find many of them make decisions based on feeling good. That is, emotional choicer. I do believe emotion plays a very important role in our choices and our lives.
Caroline asked: how do you make choices?
People reply: depend on my moods or depend on how I feel

Privacy Should Be Protected --- I agree

Privacy Should Be Protected

Daniel J. Solove is a professor of law at George Washington University Law School and the author of “The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet.”

We love to put celebrities in a fishbowl and eagerly await news of their foibles and peccadilloes. But this practice is deeply unfair to them. Despite the fact they chose a career in the limelight, they shouldn’t have to sacrifice their privacy (and the privacy of their spouses, friends and family) in the process.

Everyone — no matter how famous — deserves some domain away from the searing glare of the public eye.

In response to gossip about marital infidelity, Tiger Woods asked for “the right to some simple, human measure of privacy.” Many members of the media and the public speak as if they are entitled to have him lay bare his deepest secrets, but he shouldn’t be chastised for drawing a line and refusing to talk further about his private life.

Everyone — no matter how famous they might be — deserves at least some domain away from the searing glare of the public eye.

Several women have now come forward claiming they had affairs with Tiger Woods, offering proof in the form of voicemails, text messages and photos. In England, attempts to disclose confidential information can readily be barred by the law there, which strongly protects matters that are considered confidential by the people involved. In the U.S., while the law protects confidentiality in certain relationships, like those with doctors and lawyers, it currently doesn’t go as far as the law in England to cover personal relationships.

The law should provide better protection of confidentiality. The women who are now lining up to reveal Woods’s intimate information and communications (assuming they are telling the truth, and many may not be) will add little of value to public discourse. They are merely attempting to cash in by feeding the public’s hunger for salacious details.

We shouldn’t sanctify morbid curiosity by deeming it legitimate for the public to know Woods’s secrets. Although many are curious about what he has done behind closed doors, society should respect his right to keep his doors shut.

Tiger Woods

No matter how intense curiosity about public figures can be, there is an important and deep principle at stake which is the right to some simple, human measure of privacy. I realize there are some who don’t share my view on that. But for me, the virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one’s own family. Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn’t have to mean public confessions.

----------- I agree.