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Ex-KKK man freed over 1964 deaths
James Ford Seale
was first arrested in 1964 but charges were dropped A US appeals court
has overturned the conviction of a former Ku Klux Klansman
jailed last year over the deaths of two black teenagers in Mississippi in 1964.
James Ford Seale, 72, was serving three life terms on charges of kidnapping
and conspiracy over the deaths. The court agreed with arguments by Mr Seale's
lawyer that a legal time limit for prosecuting the case had lapsed.
Dozens of black people were killed in the 1950s and 1960s by white people
wanting to preserve racial segregation. Former policeman Mr Seale's case is
one of many recently revived by US prosecutors hoping to punish unsolved
crimes from the era of the civil rights movement. Charles Eddie Moore and
Henry Hezekiah Dee were both aged 19 when they were killed.


2)
What Schools Produce the Most Black Ph.D.'s?

Diverse Issues in Higher Education is produced every year.
It gives an accurate account of institutions that
award a top ranking number of Ph.D.'s to African Americans.
African American doctorates:
and
Here is the total minority ranking:
According to DI, Yale ranks 57 in awarding African American Ph.D.s
JSU ranks 4 whereas Nova and Capella rank top in production.

PDF shows Institutional change on cultural diversity issues, especially
at predominantly white institutions.


3)
Lehman Brothers and Slavery.

The NY Times today stated that Lehman Brothers began as part of the cotton trade in 1850.
The Lehman's partner in the 1860s and 70s was John Wesley Durr, the
grandfather of Clifford Durr, a principled Alabama attorney who fought for civil rights and
civil liberties a century later, and the husband of the famous Virginia Foster Durr. 
In the 1950s, hate groups targeted Durr because of his family's long-past business
relationship with the Lehman family (which they identified as Yankee collaborators during Reconstruction).

Credit Default Swap (CDS) - Lehman Final Results In
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/lehman-debt-swaps-settled-for-52-billion/
Sellers of insurance on Lehman Brothers debt made net payments of $5.2 billion to settle an
estimated $400 billion or more in credit default swaps, the
Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation said Wednesday.
As predicted, the net payments were a fraction of the $400 billion. 
--
"Valuation" of CDS's fascinating, because of the following "law":  Black Scholes option
valuation says that the value of a security that derives value from an underlying *uncertain*
asset is dependent on the product of the underlying asset value and the volatility of that asset.  
To be worth zero, under Black-Scholes, one needs both a very low volatility and a very low underlying asset value.
CDS's *should* follow Black Scholes.  It's the "bible" truth.  Yet we have a very *high*
volatility (uncertainty) in the underlying assets!  Nearly infinite - because we cannot
predict the future.  So the "bible" appears to be wrong.
Now this is where the mathematicians of finance lost it, and the physicists failed to
remember their culture.   The "bible" depends on some assumptions.  Those assumptions
are no longer written down.  It is assumed that the market will never move to a
state that violates such assumptions.
I can share the math with you if you want, but it would be simpler if you just go
and buy Dixit and Pindyck's "Investment under Uncertainty", which beautifully
explains it all so that a mathematician and physicist can understand it.
The paradox is resolvable.   The mathematics are based on core assumptions
that fail to scale.  Yet the "market" is at scale, not at the micro level where
Black Scholes holds true.  Greed - the attempt to scale to become masters
of the universe - falsified the assumptions of the greedy modelers. ~ David P. Reed

4)
Announcing the publication of *To Advance Their Opportunities: Federal
Policies Toward African American Workers from World War I to the Civil
Rights Act of 1964* by Judson MacLaury
download this digital book (at no charge)
published by Newfound Press, a digital imprint of the University of
Tennessee Libraries, on Labor Day2008.
www.newfoundpress.utk.edu
The author, a retired historian for the U.S. Department of Labor, chronicles
the evolution of federal policies and programs impacting African American
workers before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made racial discrimination in
the workplace a violation of the law. MacLaury examines the fascinating
and little-noticed workings of federal bureaucracies as they attempted
to rein in racism in the nation's federally funded workplaces.

5)
Healthy Children
The Neuroscience about Healthy Children
Best and Worst Food for Children
Eat This, Not That - The No-Diet Weight Loss Solution From Men's Health

6)
Voting Fraud
Analysis of Vote Flipping On Hart Systems

7)
Discovery: Scotch tape is X-ray-ted
Researchers have discovered that Scotch tape emits X-rays
as long as you are in a vaccum chamber.

8)
Comcast DOCSIS 3.0 Launches, More Speed @ Same Price
Official press release
As many people know, we're rolling out DOCSIS 3.0 starting now, through
2009, and into the early part of 2010.  The nice thing about the network
is that once an area is upgraded to this new wideband technology it is
available to any of the homes we pass or serve.
For example, a 6Mbps/1Mbps (down/up) customer
will go to 12Mbps/2Mbps, and an 8Mbps/2Mbps customer goes to
16Mbps/2Mbps.

9)
“Tech Policy and the Financial Crisis”
The intellectual connection between the financial meltdown and
current technology policy.
“As a professor of both banking regulation and technology policy, there are striking
similarities between the anti-regulation positions of John McCain in these two key
sectors. Under the pressure of the current financial crisis, McCain has recently backed
off of his laissez faire positions and admitted that the government must play a greater
role in housing and financial markets. His unrepentant positions on technology policy,
however, reveal the intellectually flawed approach to government regulation that has
led both to the financial mess and to mistakes in technology issues such as
broadband deployment, net neutrality, and privacy online. . . .”

10)
A Robot Network Seeks to Enlist Your Computer
By JOHN MARKOFF
In a windowless room on Microsoft’s campus here, T. 
J. Campana, a cybercrime investigator, connects an unprotected 
computer running an early version of Windows XP to the Internet. In 
about 30 seconds the computer is “owned.”
An automated program lurking on the Internet has remotely taken over 
the PC and turned it into a “zombie.” That computer and other zombie 
machines are then assembled into systems called “botnets” — home and 
business PCs that are hooked together into a vast chain of cyber-
robots that do the bidding of automated programs to send the majority 
of e-mail spam, to illegally seek financial information and to install 
malicious software on still more PCs.
Botnets remain an Internet scourge. Active zombie networks created by 
a growing criminal underground peaked last month at more than half a 
million computers, according to shadowserver.org, an organization that 
tracks botnets. Even though security experts have diminished the 
botnets to about 300,000 computers, that is still twice the number 
detected a year ago.

11)
Jean Bartik one of the original ENIAC programmers was made a fellow of the
Computer History Museum on 10/21/08 (her co-inductees were Bob Metcalfe,
inventor of the ethernet, and Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux.
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