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December 6, 2012 \|Johnette Benkovic, keynote speaker at the Women's Conference 2012: "A call to transform the world," speaks to a group of women attending the conference. Benkovic is a renowed Catholic speaker, author and retreat present. She is also a host for EWTN television and radio shows.(Photo by Donna Rychaert/NTC)\| The Diocese of Fort Worth’s first Diocesan Bilingual Woman’s Conference held Nov. 17 at St. Joseph Parish in Arlington, gave women from throughout the diocese the opportunity to learn about the Church’s teaching on true womanhood and authentic Christian femininity. The day-long conference began with a Mass celebrated by Bishop Kevin Vann, before English and Spanish speakers parted for a day filled with presentations in their own languages led by local and nationally-renowned speakers. Chris Vaughan, diocesan director of Marriage and Family Life, stressed the importance of reaching out to various groups in the diocese at conferences such as these. “Since our diocese is very diverse, we try to make sure we cater to both English and Spanish speakers when we do events,” said Vaughan. “We wanted to make sure that we had something equal to what we were doing in English for the Spanish-speaking.” The theme of the conference was “You too go into my vineyard,” from Matthew 20:4. Each speaker targeted this topic, focusing on the call of Jesus. Spanish presenters included Aurora Tinajero, Hispanic coordinator for the Catholic Pro-Life Committee of Dallas, and Father José Álvarez, CORC, pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Fort Worth. Featured guests were the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, presenting for both English and Spanish-speaking audiences. The primary keynote speaker for the English session was Johnnette Benkovic, a renowned Catholic speaker, author, and retreat presenter. A host for EWTN television and radio shows, she is the founder and president of Living His Life Abundantly International Inc. and Women of Grace. Benkovic approached her presentations in the light of the gift of authentic femininity. She said women can make God’s presence known through their gifts and talents. “They have been chosen and sent,” Benkovic said, “and He desires to use their influence, effect, and power in our day, to save humanity from falling and to save the peace of the world. I am hoping that through the gift of the Holy Spirit,” that these women of God will see that, “this is their own personal call and mission, as they set off to go into the vineyard the Lord has prepared for them.” \|Sister Maria Silva from the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, presented primarily for the Spanish-speaking audience. (Photo by Donna Rychaert/NTC)\| Sister Maria Silva, OP, from the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, presented primarily for the Spanish-speaking audience. She used examples from Church documents to tell her listeners that God desires heaven for everyone. “The theme of the conference is ‘You too go into my vineyard,’ which is really a call for holiness. It’s not just limited to religious and to priests, but it’s a call for everyone,” said Sr. Maria Silva, OP. St. Joseph parishioner Dolores Sutton said God’s presence was apparent as Benkovic lectured. “We’re a community and God’s love is everywhere,” said Sutton. “I just felt it throughout the whole talk that she’s touched hearts.” Thirteen year-old Emma Klee, also a parishioner at St. Joseph, said seeing the sisters helped her to consider a religious vocation and understand available opportunities within religious orders. “I’ve considered being a religious, but this helps me because if I become a nun, I want to be a Dominican,” said Klee. Karen Wyatt, a parishioner at St. Catherine of Siena Parish in Carrollton, said Benkovic reminded her that her faith must be first. “I think it helped me to look at what I could do differently going forward, and to make a change in the way my life is now,” said Wyatt. Benkovic also expressed words of wisdom for readers of the North Texas Catholic who could not attend the conference. “Our Father God is all about blessing them with a special grace,” she said, “I would encourage women to keep their hearts open wide to receive what God wants to give them, and to keep their spiritual eyes and ears opened,” so they might be open to receive the grace that “has the capacity to transform them and to transform the world.” The Diocese of Fort Worth’s first Diocesan Bilingual Woman’s Conference held Nov. 17 at St. Joseph Parish in Arlington, gave women from throughout the diocese the opportunity to learn about the Church’s teaching on true womanhood and authentic Christian femininity.
December 11, 2012 IRVINE, CALIFORNIA -- Bishop Kevin W. Vann was installed as the fourth bishop of the Diocese of Orange Dec. 10 during a Mass that reflected California’s rich cultural diversity. A crowd of more than 4,000 people packed the UC-Irvine Bren Center to witness the landmark event. Bishop Vann, who shepherded the Diocese of Fort Worth for seven years, now leads the nation’s tenth largest diocese with one of the fastest growing Catholic populations in the country. Forty-two percent of the three million people living in Orange County are Catholic. Much of the growth is attributed to the influx of Latin American and Asian immigrants to the area. The influence of the Mexican, Vietnamese, and Native American traditions on the local Church was evident during the grand procession. Wearing a traditional Aztec headdress and carrying bowls of smoking incense, the Danzantes del Sol dancers from Ontario, California led clergy, ecumenical leaders, and members of lay Catholic apostolates into the arena turned worship space. The Diocese of Orange has the largest number of Vietnamese descendants outside of Vietnam and young girls from St. Barbara’s parish paid tribute to their heritage by wearing customary Ao Dai dresses to carry flowers to the altar. Guests at the installation ceremony included Cardinal Roger Mahony, Archbishop Emeritus of Los Angeles, Most Rev. Jose Gomez, metropolitan archbishop of Los Angeles and Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano. More than 150 priests and 50 bishops also witnessed the rite of installation. Among those attending from the Diocese of Fort Worth were Vicar General Monsignor Stephen Berg, Director of Vocations Father Isaac Orozco, Monsignor Michael Olson, rector of Holy Trinity Seminary, Monsignor Juan Rivero, Father Stephen Jasso, Father Jonathan Wallis, and Chancellor Father Dan Kelly. Seated in the audience were two of Bishop Vann’s brothers, Dennis and Les as well as other friends and family from his hometown of Springfield, Illinois. “Thank you for your generosity in answering the call to serve,” Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano said before reading the Apostolic Mandate from the Holy See appointing Bishop Vann to the Diocese of Orange. “We are confident that with the example of the Good Shepherd and the intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of this diocese, you can meet the challenges of the New Evangelization.” After reading the Apostolic Mandate, Bishop Vann was led to the cathedra (bishop’s chair) by Archbishop Gomez and Archbishop Vigano. The audience burst into applause as Bishop Vann sat in the chair — an act symbolizing his new role as Ordinary of the Diocese of Orange. During his homily, Bishop Vann thanked his predecessor Bishop Tod Brown who is retiring after serving the Diocese of Orange 14 years. “Thank you for your friendship of all these years and for what you have done in Orange,” he said, citing the elder bishop’s work in the area of education and ecumenism. “I am honored to be your successor, and I look forward to working with you in this wonderful diocese.” Bishop Vann also sent a personal message to his 87-year-old father who was unable to attend the ceremony for health reasons. His mother, Theresa, died in June. The installation ceremony was live streamed on the internet so the elder Vann was able to view the proceedings from his home in Springfield. “This is a time for me to say thank you, Dad, for always teaching us to do what was right all the time,” he added. “Thank you for all that you taught me and my siblings because who I am now, Dad, is greatly due to you.” \|Click Here for Slideshow\| An evening prayer service was held the day before the installation Mass at the future Christ Cathedral Arboretum formerly known as the Crystal Cathedral. The gathering brought together leaders of different faiths to pray, bless, and welcome Bishop Vann to Orange County. IRVINE, CALIFORNIA -- Bishop Kevin W. Vann was installed as the fourth bishop of the Diocese of Orange Dec. 10 during a Mass that reflected California’s rich cultural diversity.
June 30, 2012 \|The six former Anglican priests, (left to right) Christopher Stainbrook, Charles Hough,III, Joshua Whitfield, Timothy Perkins, Charles Hough, IV, and Mark Cannaday, present themselves to the congregation prior to their ordination.\| Hundreds gathered under the ornate dome of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Keller Saturday, June 30, for the ordination of six men as Catholic priests in an event with weighty implications. Bishop Kevin Vann ordained Mark Cannaday, Charles Hough III, Charles Hough IV, Timothy Perkins, Christopher Stainbrook, and Joshua Whitfield as Catholic priests to serve in the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, the “diocese” for former members of the Anglican community and priests created through the Anglicanorum Coetibus of Benedict XVI. The ordination Mass marked the first class of the ordinariate. “This is an emotional day for me and many who are here,” said Msgr. Jeffrey Steenson, the head, or Ordinary, of the Ordinariate, based in Houston with Our Lady of Walsingham Parish as its principal church. “They will make a great impact through the blessing and strength of our Lord Jesus Christ in the life of the Church.” Through the Ordinariate — which has the status of a diocese — former Anglican parishes are being welcomed back into full communion with the Church across the U.S. and Canada, while being allowed to retain some of their Anglican traditions of liturgy, most notably the use of many elements of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer in the Book of Divine Worship (revised in 2003). Msgr. Steenson was ordained to his post and bestowed the title “Monsignor” during a Mass officially erecting the Ordinariate at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of the Diocese of Galveston-Houston, Feb. 12. Though he is a voting member of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Msgr. Steenson cannot be ordained as a bishop because he is married. Five of the former Anglican priests are seated with their families. Their vestments are seen draped over the pews. (Photo by Donna Ryckaert) The U.S. ordinariate, based in Houston at Our Lady of Walsingham, was the second to be formed worldwide in response to increasing requests in recent years from Anglican priests and congregations to join the Roman Catholic Church while maintaining some of their traditions. The first was formed in England and Wales last year, the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. A third, the Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, was established in Australia on June 15. The ordinations at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton were yet another momentous step in the growth of the Ordinariate. The six are among 60 former Anglican priests to be ordained as Catholic priests this year, including 35 this summer. “You are being called to priestly ministry in the Catholic Church in which your role as a witness is much needed,” Bishop Vann told the men. The bishop has said that the Ordinariate is the culmination of the work of the Holy Spirit, going back to the Oxford Movement that began in the 1830s and Blessed John Henry Newman’s efforts to unite Anglicans and Catholics. Reunification efforts continued through the Second Vatican Council and further advanced with Pope John Paul II’s Pastoral Provision of 1981 that served as a mechanism for Episcopal priests to become Roman Catholic. Anglicans have always considered themselves Catholic, a point each of the new priests emphasized, saying their journey of faith to become Catholic priests has less, or nothing, to do with the political turmoil existing within the Episcopal church. Father Dennis Smith, parochial vicar of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish, gives Fr. Charles Hough, IV a customary welcome hug following his ordination. “Newman, I think, would have been thrilled to bits [by the ordinations],” said Father Allan Hawkins, who as pastor brought the congregation of St. Mary the Virgin Parish of Arlington into the Church in 1991. The ordinariate “is the fulfillment” of his movement. “Sometimes I thought it was all lost, but it is not. It is here, gloriously flourishing.” His father, Charles Hough III, 57, was an Episcopal priest for 31 years, including 18 as Canon to the Ordinary of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth before stepping down in September 2011. Father Hough III and his wife, Marilyn Ann have been married for 32 years and have one other adult child.Father Charles Hough IV, 30, of Keller will be appointed as pastor of Our Lady of Walsingham Church in Houston. He was served as an Episcopal priest beginning in 2007 until entering the Catholic Church in June 2011. Hough is married and has two sons. Father Timothy Perkins, 57, was received into the Catholic Church in September 2011 after more than 21 years as an Episcopal priest. He and his wife, Jody, have children ages 19 to 30. Father Christopher Stainbrook, 52, was pastor of St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church in Fort Worth. His congregation was received into the Catholic Church in May. Father Joshua Whitfield, 34, was ordained an Episcopal priest in 2003, and published his book “Pilgrim Holiness” in 2009. He has served as a curate and rector in the Episcopal Church in Fort Worth. He and his wife of nine years, Allison, have two young children. Father Mark Cannaday, 63, was an Episcopal priest for 36 years holding positions in the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas and the Diocese of Fort Worth, most recently as rector of St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Gainesville. He and his wife of 43 years, Doris, have two adult children and three young grandchildren. In a brief message from the ambo after the ordination, a humble Father Perkins told those gathered Saturday that his ordination doesn’t feel like a “culmination” but rather another new beginning. “We are dabbling in a moment of history that touches on eternity,” Perkins said. “We are sharing the great mystery “We are conjoined, not just we who have been ordained priests, but all of you faithful people of God.”of unity for which Christ prayed his priestly prayer.
In January, I blogged about adding insulation to an older home. That article mentioned both spray-foam and blown cellulose, and specifically stated that spray-foam is popular and fast, but not always appropriate. Since it appears that spray-foam insulation is rapidly taking over the world, I wanted to follow up my last blog with additional comments to help homeowners decide where spray-foam should be applied. First of all, since I am a Preservation Architect, this blog will address older and historic homes, not new construction. For recently-built homes, you can go crazy and use whatever insulation is recommended for your specific needs. But if you own or manage an older home – please keep reading. Anybody can buy a can of spray-foam, bring it home, and spray it anywhere that they like. It’s that easy to use. But as I previously mentioned, older homes are normally built to “breathe” in order to expel excess moisture in wall and ceiling cavities. Plugging up these cavities with spray-foam could result in trapped moisture, damaged materials and could even promote mold growth. Spray-foam has many popular qualities: it’s easy to apply; it expands to fill cavities and small cracks; and it can bond to materials and become as strong as the structure itself. But these qualities can also harm older homes: spray-foam is wet applied, which means that it can introduce moisture wherever it is sprayed; it can expand too much and blow out plaster walls; and being able to bond to existing materials makes it almost impossible to remove later. Over the last year, I have talked with several spray-foam distributors who rebutted the negative aspects that I have listed here about spray-foam. Although it appears that newer brands of spray-foam may be addressing some of these issues, not all brands are equal, and there are still many lingering questions about its use in older homes. Because of this, the National Park Service (the Federal agency that oversees the weatherization of nationally-significant buildings) does not recommend spraying foam in wall or ceiling cavities, or spraying it directly on vulnerable materials such as wood or plaster. Even if your home is not nationally-significant, it is good advice to follow these NPS guidelines when insulating an older home. The NPS does state that spraying foam at pipe penetrations through foundation walls, at by-pass areas (e.g. where chimneys go through floors or ceilings) or where the foundation wall meets the first floor framing are acceptable locations. So it can be used, although in limited applications. To be safe, I would not spray foam insulation anywhere that you cannot see it, or on any important materials. What are your thoughts about using spray-foam? Do you have any experiences that you would like to share?
Blackmail attempt on BNP leader Nick Griffin: Man jailed A businessman who attempted to blackmail BNP leader Nick Griffin and targeted his family has been jailed. His now-defunct firm, Romac Press, had produced election leaflets for the BNP, but Mr Griffin refused to pay, saying there were too many errors. The judge at Carlisle Crown Court sentenced Sloan, of Newtonards, County Down, to two-and-a-half years in jail. He had denied the charges, but was convicted of two counts of blackmail. 'Loathing and contempt' Sentencing, Judge Peter Hughes, said Sloan was a man of previous good character, and under stress, but he had set about trying to enforce the debt using improper means. He said: "Blackmail is a despicable offence, it is rightly regarded with loathing and contempt. "You went to considerable lengths, travelling to England to target Mr Griffin's daughter. "You tailgated her in your car from the BNP office in Wigton to Carlisle, it must have been terrifying. "Your purpose was to scare. "This has nothing to do with politics, or Mr Griffin's views, it is about the use of blackmail." NWN: Looks like the state is protecting 'Agent Griffin' here. Nationalists are usually ignored by the police when we make complaints. Bailiffs go around threatening people all the time. But the state are not usually interested, especially when they owe money, as Griffin clearly does here.
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Dapper: All content tagged as Dapper in NoSQL databases and polyglot persistence Google’s paper about their large-scale distributed systems tracing solution Dapper which inspired Twitter’s Zipkin: Here we introduce the design of Dapper, Google’s production distributed systems tracing infrastructure, and describe how our design goals of low overhead, application-level transparency, and ubiquitous deployment on a very large scale system were met. Dapper shares conceptual similarities with other tracing systems, particularly Magpie and X-Trace , but certain design choices were made that have been key to its success in our environment, such as the use of sampling and restricting the instrumentation to a rather small number of common libraries. Download or read the paper after the break.
Firm notes their view on American Express is largely unchanged from initiation on May 11, 2009, and reiterates their Underperform rating. They remain primarily concerned that returns will not bounce back to near the historical levels investors appear to expect, and given that a good deal of optimism is embedded in the valuation of shares at present, they think AXP is poised for a pullback. Firm anticipates earnings pressure will persist due to: 1) likelihood of persistently above-average levels of credit pressure for the next several years; 2) negative impact from the challenging economic/regulatory environment on billed business and card fee revenue (combined representing roughly 63% of total revenue at 2Q09) as the company pulls back its lending activities; 3) higher capital levels (lower financial leverage) resulting from defensive credit moves, as well as from potential for more conservative regulatory capital guidelines. A bill crafted by Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) targeting card interchange fees could also negatively impact American Express, though RBC hesitates to put significant weight on this factor given uncertainty of timing or ultimate passage in Congress. Recent signs of credit improvement reported by the company are positive, though they remain tenuous, and they believe meaningful further improvement will only come as a result of declines in unemployment. Historically, charge-offs continue to rise well beyond the end of a recession, so the firm is not convinced that charge-offs are on the mend, and they think they could erode further later this year. Even if credit trends were to continue to improve, we doubt that charge-offs would decline meaningfully below 7% in even the best case by the end of 2010, meaning earnings performance will still remain under pressure for a significant period of time Even a Middle of the Road View Suggests Shares Are Over-Valued at Present: So what happens if RBC's anemic recovery view is too gloomy? If they weigh the outcomes based on a less pessimistic probability-based approach, assuming there is a 10% chance of a V-shaped recovery, a balanced 40%/40% chance of moderate or anemic recovery, and a 10% chance of a challenged recovery, shares still appear expensive at current levels, in our view. The chart below illustrates the set of outcomes from this weighting and share prices based on various 2012 forward P/E and P/B multiples, assuming a 12% discount rate. Exhibit : Discounted Present Value of AXP Shares – Probability-Weighted Approach Caveat Emptor - Reiterating Underperform: Investors should be wary of owning shares at current levels, in firm's view. They continue to believe that at recovery AXP will more likely see lower than historical ROE, and that earnings growth will also be more modest than in the past. $20 price target is more reasonable for shares on this basis. Notablecalls: Here are some thoughts on this call: - The market surely favors the call today. The stock seems to have gotten ahead of itself in recent weeks and is due for a sharp correction. RBC provides the que. - Note that Citigroup upraded AXP to Buy and added it to their Top Picks Live list with a $36 tgt. That's not much upside. RBC's $20 tgt kinda implys the risk/reward ain't spectacular here. - I'm troubled by RBC's 10% probability of a V-shaped recovery. Could the market be THAT wrong? Because right now it seems everyone is expecting a V-shaped bounce off the lows. - Why did BAC rally so big on Friday? The word is it was in anticipation of positive master trust data due out this week. That's something to think about because it surely will have an impact on AXP as well. How much will AXP fall today? It's going sub-$31 for sure...next stop 30.50 and then maybe even lower. We could see sub-$30 levels as soon as today if the market doesn't put together a bounce.
Will someone please take away my driver's license? I mean really. I haven't had a ticket since I was 22 years old. I made what they deemed an illegal U-turn. To this day, I still disagree, but whatever. Fast forward 12 years and the birth of Repete. It was also at this time that I traded in my small car for a small SUV. I don't know what kind of fatal synapses thing happened in my brain that year but I now search out and destroy parked unmanned cars. In fact last Spring right around this timeframe, I backed into a cart pusher. Not the actual kid, the little self-propelled machine that helps the kid push 400 shopping carts back to the store. I saw the cart pusher, I made a mental note not to back into it and then I stepped on the gas. Vrooom! Craash! My insurance company sent us a letter that said, "Dear Madam: Your driving sucks and we are making a fortune!" So, this December marked three years since I acquired the first of six tickets/accident claims and it "fell off my record". We received a letter from the insurance company that said, "Well, this just stinks, but we have to lower your premiums a wee bit." I'm so glad that happened because... This past Monday, I sought out the biggest unmanned parked SUV in the Chuck E. Cheese parking lot and rammed right into it. What the hell is wrong with me? I spent the first 17 years of my driving career, the part where I drove a sports car and thought I was so cute, without incident. Is it the kids screaming and distracting me? Has staying home these last eight years really turned me into a babbling idiot incapable of driving a vehicle? (don't answer that) I bet I get another "Yipee, we're rich." letter from the insurance company next month. I just hope they don't cancel on us. I may just voluntarily hand over my license.
[Patch v2] emacs: add pipe attachment command Jameson Graef Rollins jrollins at finestructure.net Mon May 7 08:22:11 PDT 2012 On Mon, May 07 2012, Mark Walters <markwalters1009 at gmail.com> wrote: > Here is a rebased to current master version of the previous patch: no > other changes. Actually, what I sent was a rebase. And this rebase doesn't look correct. The notmuch-show-mm-display-part-inline function moved to notmuch-lib.el. It certainly has nothing to do with this patch, so I don't think adding it here is correct. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Size: 835 bytes Desc: not available More information about the notmuch
So you might recall my current obsession with all of the new lip balms currently hitting drugstore shelves, and how I was super excited to find two new Carmex products at Walgreens a while back. Well I picked up both, and I'd love to share my thoughts about each one with you today. I'm a big Carmex fan and have reviewed several of their products on the blog over the years, so let's see how these two new additions measure up, shall we? Let's start with this one: Carmex Pomegranate Everyday Ultra Smooth Lip Balm (retail: around $1.50, 0.15 oz) Keep reading for my full review of each new Carmex product... Of the two new products I'm reviewing today, only this one contains SPF: I'm a big fan of the Carmex Lime Twist Click Stick, which is also SPF15, but I want to note that the formula of the Click Sticks is different than this Ultra Smooth Lip Balm. This new balm feels more buttery and creamy on the lips, and I think the staying power might be a little better as well. It's a lovely formula that feels very smooth and hydrating and I have no complaints about it at all. The one thing I do have a complaint about? The flavor. The fragrance is wonderful--it smells like yummy, sweet and tart pomegranate with just a touch of the signature Carmex scent in the background. But the flavor? Ick. It tastes like perfume to me. Very chemical-y and just not pleasant. The sharp chemical taste doesn't seem to subside much and I can still taste it on my lips about 15 minutes after application. I'm so sad about this, because I really love the formula, but the flavor just isn't pleasant to my taste buds one bit. Carmex Orange Everyday Lip Conditioner (retail: around $2, 0.20 oz) Isn't it funny how the product you have the least expectations about often ends up being the one you love the most? Carmex says this product is "like lotion for the lips" and that could not be a better description. It truly has a lotion-like texture and feel to it: It goes on white, but it quickly turns clear once it's on the lips. And the coolest part is that, unlike other lip creams, this one doesn't just sit on the lips--it quickly absorbs into the skin, just like lotion. I can't describe it much better than that, but I'm telling you, it's really neat and you just have to experience it for yourself. I think this would make a great product for the guys in your life too, specifically because it's so fast-absorbing. I know that my boyfriend doesn't like to have any type of glossy finish on his lips, so it's perfect for him. The best part is that you can still feel its hydrating properties even after it's been absorbed. Again, just like a lotion. Unlike the Pomegranate lip balm, this orange-flavored lip conditioner smells AND tastes fantastic. To my nose, the fragrance is exactly like an Orange Julius. Seriously, it's just as creamy and orange-y. And the flavor? It actually tastes like an Orange Julius too, but imagine an Orange Julius with a few fresh mint leaves floating around inside of it. There's a teeny tiny hint of mint there, but it doesn't taste anything like the traditional Carmex lip balms (camphor, etc.). We've got ourselves a winner with this one, folks! The one complaint I have about the Orange Lip Conditioner is that my particular tube feels like it's only half-full. I have to squeeze it pretty hard to get the product to come to the opening (sort of like when your tube of toothpaste is running low). I don't know if all tubes are like that, or if I just got one from a bad batch. FINAL VERDICT: A big whopping yes to the new Carmex Orange Everyday Lip Conditioner. If you don't like heavy or thick-feeling lip products, this is a great choice since it absorbs quickly (seriously, it's lotion for your lips) and doesn't leave a shiny finish behind. It would be perfect to wear underneath lip color, and I find it to be very nice in the hydration department as well. As for the Pomegranate Ultra Smooth Lip Balm, I love the texture and how creamy it feels, but I just can't get past the flavor. It has a strong, sharp, chemical taste to it, which makes it hard for me to recommend to anyone. Although taste buds vary from person to person, so you might not get that sharp, unpleasant flavor if you try it--you never know. Are you a Carmex fan? Have you tried either of these new offerings yet? Thoughts?
\|Publisher version (open access)\|\|168 KB\|\|Adobe Acrobat PDF\|\|View/Open Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/807824 - Design of serially concatenated continuous phase modulation with symbol-wise interleaving - The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - In this letter we consider serially concatenated continuous phase modulation (SCCPM) schemes with symbolwise interleaving and an additional intra-symbol interleaving. We use extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) chart to optimize the outer code and intra-symbol interleaver. We show that, for various continuous phase modulation (CPM) parameters, the outer code with memory 2 may not always be the best choice. For CPM with modulation index ℎ = 1/2, considerable improvements can be achieved by moderately increasing the outer code memory. - IEEE Communications Letters Vol. 13, Issue 10, p. 785-787 - Publisher Link - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) continuous phase modulation; serially concatenated CPM; symbol wise interleaving; - Resource Type - journal article - Copyright © 2009 IEEE. Reprinted from IEEE Communications Letters. This material is posted here with permission of the IEEE. Such permission of the IEEE does not in any way imply IEEE endorsement of any of the University of Newcastle's products or services. Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution must be obtained from the IEEE by writing to firstname.lastname@example.org. By choosing to view this document, you agree to all provisions of the copyright laws protecting it. - Full Text
\|Author final version\|\|178 KB\|\|Adobe Acrobat PDF\|\|View/Open Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/920829 - Stability of state estimation over sensor networks with Markovian fading channels Quevedo, Daniel E.; Johansson, Karl H. - Stochastic stability for centralized Kalman filtering over a wireless sensor network with correlated fading channels is studied. On their route to the gateway, sensor packets, possibly aggregated with measurements from several nodes, may be dropped because of fading links. By assuming the network states to be Markovian, we establish sufficient conditions that ensure the Kalman filter to be exponentially bounded in norm. In the one sensor case, this new stability condition is shown to include previous results obtained in the literature as special cases. The results also hold when applying power control, where the transmission power of each node is a nonlinear mapping of the network state and the channel gains. - 18th International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) World Congress. Proceedings of the 18th World Congress: The International Federation of Automatic Control (Milano, Italy 28 August - 2 September, 2011) p. 12451-12456 - Publisher Link - International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) fading communication channel - Resource Type - conference paper
Out of necessity, much of the national media's coverage of the country's deepening foreclosure crisis takes a big-picture view, focusing on broad economic trends, maneuvering on Wall Street and the federal government's cleanup efforts. But behind those reports lie the stories of individual home and business owners coping with losses or assessing their chances of weathering the downturn. Likewise,and developers working in commercial real estate in the hardest hit cities have to wonder whether their markets have hit bottom yet and, if not, how much farther they have to fall. If retail follows rooftops, as the adage goes, what happens when those rooftops are on foreclosed homes? As it stands, the rash of foreclosures shows no sign of slowing yet. From February to March, foreclosure filings rose 5 percent across the country to a total of 234,685, according to RealtyTrac. That's a 57 percent hike from a year before. Overall, estimates of total foreclosures by the end of 2008 range as high as two million to three million homes. Complicating matters is the fact that home prices are still falling. The average single-family home in a U.S. metro area sold for $206,200 in the fourth quarter of 2007. Prices were down 2.7 percent year over year — the largest drop on record according to the National Association of Realtors. According to the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index, nationwide home prices are down 18 percent from their 2006 peak. As a result, an estimated nine million homeowners are now in negative equity situations — they owe more for their mortgages than their houses are worth. Figures from the Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urbanshow that 471,000 new houses were on the market at the end of February — a 9.8-month supply at the current pace of home sales. And 4.1 million existing homes were up for sale at the end of March, according to the National Association of Realtors, a 9.9-month supply. But the damage has not been spread equally. Somehave been particularly hard hit by the crisis. So what's the view from the bottom? It turns out, it is not exactly the same. Detroit, Las Vegas and Stockton, Calif., are three very different markets. But they do have one thing in common. They are cities where foreclosure rates have climbed precipitously high, according to national tallies of bank repossessions and default and auction notices. And the retail markets in each city are feeling the aftereffects of the residential crisis. Yet the symptoms of the crisis cropping up in each city's commercial real estate market are far from uniform. They vary according to how these cities had fared before the foreclosure crisis, their relative strengths and weaknesses in retail offerings, and other macroeconomic drivers. Conversations with brokers and developers find diverging stories behind theheadlines, but a shared tendency to focus on the positive and a sense that opportunities can be found in even the most difficult of circumstances. Many view the correction in the housing market as a necessary return to normal — one that requires a little extra salesmanship but that can be overcome. “What can you do?” asks Barry Landau, a broker in Detroit. “You can curl up in a ball and die. Or you can make phone calls.”
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His Horse is Thunder is the Director of Members Services for the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) and enrolled member of the Nakona (i.e., Assiniboine) Nation. Dr. His Horse is Thunder’s past experience with tribal colleges include serving as: the Academic Vice President at Fort Peck Community College, the Academic Dean at Haskell Indian Nations University, and as a Project Director for a consortium of tribal colleges (Salish Kootenai College, Little Big Horn College, and Fort Peck Community College) in the development of a distance learning program. Dr. His Horse is Thunder has also served as a faculty member at the University of Montana, the Interim Director of Native American Studies at Montana State University, and as a staff member in Student Services at Eastern Montana College. She was also appointed to the Board of Regents for the Montana University System. Deborah earned a doctorate from the University of Montana.
My husband and i are in the process of phasing out processed foods, and over packaged household goods from kitchen to bathroom and beyond. By buying in bulk, making things from scratch, and choosing natural alternatives to housekeeping and toiletry products, we’ve made a big dent. Sometimes, however the most over packaged and chemical ridden things are hiding in plain sight. In this case, shaving gel was the culprit. For over a year, my husband has been using shaving soap with a shaving brush. He’s still using disposable razors, though – something i will be remedying for his birthday thanks to the recommendation of a fellow blogger friend, Susy Morris of Chiot’s Run. Check out this super great safety razor. A bit spendy for the initial investment, but anything could be better than the chinsy disposables he’s been using and filling the waste bin with. I must admit, he had a hard time making the switch from shaving foam to natural shaving soap. Shaving soap doesn’t have quite the same lather as its chemical and fragrance laced counterpart, but the shave is just as smooth. Natural kaolin clay creates a smooth slip for a close shave. So, although he misses the Santa Clause like foam, the health of his face makes up for it. Our shaving soap contains natural ingredients chosen for their soothing properties, key for maintaining skin health through daily shaving. - Neem oil: excellent for soothing dry and itchy skin as well as dermatitis and other skin problems - Sweet Almond oil: gentle for even baby skin, sweet almond oil is wonderful for use on the face - Chamomile: i infuse distilled water with a generous portion of chamomile to help calm stressed skin after a close shave - Clay: helpful in creating the slip needed for a good shave, kaolin clay also helps draw out impurities from dirty pores - Lemongrass essential oil: may help reduce pores - Lavender essential oil: the all around cure all, lavender has soothing and healing properties Are you interested in making the switch (for yourself or the man in your household) from packaged/processed/definitely not natural shaving gells and foams to all natural shaving soap? Making the switch includes an initial investment: but your health and the capacity of the land fill will benefit for years to come. Shaving brushes can be found at estate sales or at Amazon (and plenty of other places, i’m sure). We picked a budget brush, and also inherited our grandfather’s full shaving kit. You want to choose a brush with real badger hair for bristles and try to find one that comes with a little drying stand when you’re not using it: the hair needs to dry between uses. This is the razor i’ll be buying soon, again from Amazon. The last thing you’ll need is a dish to keep your soap in. You can use a mug, small bowl or any receptacle you choose. Convinced? Great! Head over to the shop and pick up a bar of shaving soap and enjoy getting that face, leg, armpit or bikini line silky smooth: naturally!
Search Results for tag: Nurse Talk joined the team Walk or Grow Wings last Saturday in Santa Rosa, California to walk for a cure for MS. Inspired by the people in our lives with Multiple Sclerosis, the team raised over $9000 under the enthusiastic and able leadership of Karen Krueger. Thank you to everyone who donated, walked or volunteered. If you are so moved, you can still donate. A shout out to Missy and Barbara Vaughan you were with us in spirit. The team name Walk or Grow Wings was chosen as a tribute to Kim McIlnay, a physician diagnosed in 2007 who inspired Karen for Walk MS Sacramento in 2010 with the original Team Walk or Grow Wings. Read more… Sweetheart of the Nurse Talk staff, Austyn Leigh with team captain Karen Krueger Nurse Talk joined the team Walk or Grow Wings last Saturday in Santa Rosa, California to walk for a cure for MS. Inspired by the people in our lives with Multiple Sclerosis, the team raised over $9000! Read more… We have lots of great topics and discussions going on on our blog and Facebook pages. Stroke patient, Joyce Hoffman has been telling it like it is from the patient’s perspective. Do you know how your patients see you or what a lasting difference your care can make? And, we’ve got current events from National Nurses United. Nurses, Robin Hood and the band of merry women and men, and scores of friends are strapping on their boots and preparing to head to Chicago for a protest Friday, May 18 during the Staff Nurse Assembly. Must See Video: Our resident comedian Lynn Ruth Miller as she wows the judges (all but one?) on Britain’s Got Talent. See it here. Due to the grave illness of host Casey’s father we were unable to tape our show this week. Please hang with us while we give you one more rerun. We thank and appreciate each and every one of our listeners, friends sponsors and others for making Nurse Talk possible. WE WILL be back next week with current issues, our fantastic new co-host Shayne Mason, and some wild and crazy entertainment. ON this week’s Best of Nurse Talk Casey and Dan chat with Boston RN Karen Higgins. Karen is past president of Massachusetts Nurses Association and one of three co-presidents for National Nurses United. Karen shares her views on the continuing need for single payer health care in our country, the urgency regarding nurse-patient ratios and other important issues that affect all of us. AND some great advice about taking care of your parents or other elderly loved ones. Kira Reginato joins us. Kira is the president of Living Ideas for Elders and is the host of her own radio show on KSRO, The Elder Care Show in Santa Rosa, California.
Patients with delirium at The Miriam Hospital in Providence can now expect more from their day than lying quietly with a sitter. Thanks to a new sensory protocol, patients with delirium are returning to a normal state much more quickly. After attending a NICHE conference, Suzanne Brown, OTR-L, learned about new ways to promote movement and action among patients with delirium. In doing subsequent research to develop a curriculum for CNAs, she realized there was no protocol for assessment and treatment, in many cases. She was even more surprised to observe the med/surg unit and see that patients would be in the throes of full-blown delirium before staff modified their environment. "My colleagues in skilled nursing facilities, acute care hospital and home care were experiencing the same thing," she remarked. "There's just not a lot of literature on managing delirium. Most of what I could find only advised providing glasses and hearing aids and minimizing noise." While Brown said the medical team was doing a fantastic job of treating the underlying causes of delirium like UTIs or dementia, there was no system for managing the symptoms like agitation, poor concentration, inability to focus, wandering, etc. Approximately 65 percent of patients at The Miriam Hospital are over age 60, but delirium can affect patients of any age. Connection to Autism Brown's "aha moment" occurred when it hit her that children with autism display the exact same warning signs. Together with a multidisciplinary task force, including Martha Watson, MS, RN-BC, GCNS, staff at The Miriam Hospital studied the OT interventions that helped pediatric patients with sensory disorders and tried similar interventions. OT staff put a $24,000 grant from Lifespan Risk Management to use partially in creating a sensory toolkit and modifying the contents to fit different patient profiles. So, instead of the standard magazines and newspapers, patients had the option of utilizing yarn, squishy balls, fabric, playing cards, crossword puzzles and lavender oil. As many patients were previously engaging in activities that had no beginning or end (such as rolling blankets or picking at points in the air), items like sandpaper and lambs' wool provided sensory stimulation. CNAs reported that many patients expressed concern about their money so they experimented with constructing play currency out of paper. Small pocketbooks were created for women fixated on purses. One lady, a former seamstress, engaged the staff in conversations about fabrics and showed an interest in measuring, so her CNA equipped her with a tape measure. In addition to providing increased stimulation to patients, the initiative also launched reminiscence therapy. The toolkit jumpstarted conversations about the patients' interests and nurses customized their treatment. "From a nursing perspective, our previous education about delirium focused on medication management so this was a new approach," said Watson. "Our nurses who had autistic children picked up on what we were trying to do right away and made suggestions like using weighted blankets. This was also huge in building a collaborative relationship between nurses and OTs" Assessing for Hypoactive Delirium While Watson and Brown expected great success with the patients displaying the signs of hyperactive delirium, they were pleasantly surprised at the positive outcomes for those with hypoactive delirium. "Our patients in a hypoactive state in critical care reacted very well to the hands on communication and focus on touch," said Watson. "Even many in a medically fragile state began interacting. We had a better understanding of patients' emotions." According to Watson, hypoactive delirium is often missed because the patient is quiet. "Many lie in bed and don't say a word," she said. "They don't eat, don't use the bathroom and families always tell us to let them rest. "But, it could become fatal if the patient is in pain and we don't treat it quickly," she continued. "Sometimes these patients are misdianosed as depressed and we miss the opportunity to treat them." Watson admits to very "very intolerant" to statements about "pleasantly confused" patients. "We need to investigate," she said. "Sometimes these patients are confused, sometimes they're constipated. As a team, we need to assess behavior changes." Catching delirium in an earlier stage can be lifesaving for patients and hospitals can improve their quality indicators as well. Even something as simple as considering hypoactive delirium as a medical emergency or trying to draw sluggish patients back into reality can help prevent falls or pressure ulcers, Watson said. It also significantly reduces the hospital's use of restraints Though it's hard to connect the sensory therapy with any quality marker, the popularity of the sensory toolkits in the units and rave reviews from visiting families are evidence enough of the intervention's success. Today, the toolkits are updated as much as finances and infection control regulations allow and the only real challenge is finding the time to train new hires. "We try to convey a sense of responsibility to the CNAs," said Watson. "We owe it to our patients to modify their activities so we can pull them out of a delirious state. We've seen it happen where we have a permanent effect on the quality of their lives." Robin Hocevar is senior regional editor at ADVANCE.
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How much fun is it to be a child in your home? Do you ever stop to think about how the house looks from their point of view? My task for this week is to conduct a Child’s Eye Audit of our living space, to try and make the rooms more child- and play-friendly. The audit need only take a few minutes and might suggest simple changes to make to improve the play space. To conduct a child’s eye audit, sit or kneel down so you’re at your child’s eye-level and consider the following things. 1. Safety first. Most importantly, the room needs to be safe and it’s useful t0 review this aspect of your home from time to time as children grow taller, become more mobile or more adventurous. Think about what your child can reach, what you don’t want them to reach and make any necessary adjustments. 2. Child’s eye view. Sit back for a minute on the floor and scan the room. What’s visible to your child at their height, and what’s not? You might display all their lovely paintings on the wall and fridge door – but are they too high for your child to actually see? Is their view just of empty walls? Hang some art work at a lower level or set up a low shelf or table with a display of things they can enjoy. 3. Within reach. Consider how accessible your toys are. Do you have an enabling environment where your child can independently help themselves to toys and resources to use in their play or is everything out of reach? Try to find a balance so you can keep the space tidy whilst still allowing free access. Open shelving and low baskets work well for us with some materials such as paint stored higher up. 4. Ring the changes. Do you always have they same toys out? Sometimes putting away familiar toys and bringing out some forgotten ones can spark new creativity and fun. Don’t have a complete change of resources though, as children do like to know where favourite toys are. With Christmas on the way now is a good time to have a toy audit, donating ones your child has grown out of to the charity shop and getting ideas for their Christmas list. 5. Invitation to play. Do you have any toys that never get played with, or activities that you child rarely takes part in? What can you change to make things more inviting? If you’d like to encourage some more reading, perhaps you could set up a cosy reading corner or story tent – with comfy cushions, a basket of tempting books and a favourite teddy to share with? If your toy kitchen has been ignored for a while, add some new resources to catch your child’s eye: a muffin tin and paper cake cases, some jars of real dried pasta, a recipe book from your shelf or lay the table for a birthday tea and surprise your child with a new play possibility. Do you sometimes review things from your child’s point of view? What changes have you made to make your space more child- and play- friendly? Leave a comment and share an idea with us. I’m writing this at one o’clock in the afternoon and the sky is grey and the rain is tumbling down. It’s making me think about how the weather affects our play, and particularly I’m thinking about how much time we spend outdoors in autumn and winter. I don’t think there’s any question that playing outside is wonderful for children: the fresh air, the feeling of space, the sensory benefits of being in nature. I certainly know with my own two girls, and all the children I’ve looked after, that if we’re having a grumpy sort of day, getting outside – in the garden, park or just for a walk – most often is all that’s needed to lighten everyone’s mood. But it’s getting colder now, and windy and rainy and dark. If you’re the type who is happy to be outside all the time in all weathers, I really do salute you. I however am naturally inclined to prefer a hot cup of coffee and a warm blanket inside! We do play outside everyday, whatever the weather, but there’s no denying we play outdoors less in winter – which I’m guessing is the same for lots of you? So, I’m resolving to put more thought into getting out there and planning on bringing you some posts over the next few months that inspire us to venture out. I’d also like to invite you to share your ideas too. The Play Academy carnival on Friday is open to any of your posts and I’d also love to hear from you if you’d like to write a guest post here. (On any play subject in fact, not just on playing outside. You can e-mail me cathy (at) nurturestore (dot) co (dot) uk if you have an idea you’d like to write about). To start us off, my top three tips for getting outside, whatever the weather are… - Keep yourself warm. If you’re wearing the right clothes, you’re much more likely to enjoy your time outside. Pretty much all the children I know don’t care if it’s cold, windy or raining – they are active kids and just love being outside. So, to help everyone enjoy themselves outside, and to stop you cutting short the children’s outdoor fun because you’ve had enough, my first tip is to make sure you are wearing the right clothes. Layer up, don’t forget your hat and gloves and make sure you are cosy. - Get active. We’re going to shift our outdoor play away from fairy gardens and dinosaur world’s and include lots more active games. Hopscotch, skipping, what’s the time Mr. Wolf are great fun and will keep everyone on the move. - Audit your outdoor space. Now is a good time to review your garden and get it ready for the colder months. Think about what you play outside and re-locate things or make changes to suit the weather. We’ll move the sandpit and den to under our covered area and make sure there are lots of props outside ready to spark active play (bikes, balls, kites, hula hoops). We’re not likely to do as much water play outside, so I’ll be thinking of ways to bring this inside. What about you – are you an all weather family? How do you promote lots of outdoor play, whatever the weather? Back in January I resolved to make 2010 our Year of Play. I’ve been thinking about this again this month as L has started at school. In last week’s Play Academy link-up I talked about wanting to make sure the girls still have lots of opportunity for playing, as well as schooling. So this weeks Twitter Tips are dedicated to having a playful return to school. The Twitter Tips get tweeted on a Friday at 8.30pm and in previous weeks they’ve started great twitter conversations, with people swapping ideas. The main thing I love about blogging is it being a forum to get inspiration and encouragement from others, so please feel free to add your own ideas in the comments or on our Facebook page. Join in, swap ideas, go play! How to have a playful Back to School #goplay Twitter Tip #1If you’re using after school clubs check how playful they are: do they offer free play after a structured school day #goplay Twitter Tip #2Make the school run fun: cycle, scoot or play i-spy. Leave a little earlier to let the kids play a bit before class #goplay Twitter Tip #3 Set up a play invitation in the morning to entice the kids to play before they switch on the TV #goplay Twitter Tip #4 Rediscover some old school favourites such as conkers or fortune tellers #goplay Twitter Tip #5 Consider how many clubs to join so after school play time isn’t lost in a busy schedule. #goplay Twitter Tip #6 Encourage playground fun by packing a skipping rope in the book bag. Ready for Ten has a great skipping tutuorial #goplay Twitter Tip #7 Plan family time for the weekend: it doesn’t have to be expensive or extravagant but do make sure it happens. #goplay Twitter Tip #8 Consider screen time. Could your kids live without TV for an hour, a day, a week? What could they play instead? #goplay Twitter Tip #9 Locate the park nearest your school and stop off any day day you can on the way home. Enjoy some #playoutdoors #goplay Twitter Tip#10 Instead of only setting up a homework area set up a play area too. Add untoys & let them #goplay How do you feel about the balance between school and play time? How do you manage homework at the weekend? Do your kids attend a playful school? Happily shared with Top Ten Tuesday. Use the linky below to add your post to the Play Academy Our summer holidays are drawing to a close and my Little is starting school on Monday (oh my!). I feel very strongly that our play should keep going. B is moving up to the Juniors and although her school offers are great curriculum including play, art, music, drama and experiments I think it’s inevitable that her lessons will become more and more about schooling. September always feels like the start of the year to me, so I’m keeping in mind my resolution to make 2010 our Year of Play, and we’ll certainly be limiting our after school clubs and weekend commitments to allow plenty of time for playing. How do you feel about finding a balance between schooling (or home educating) and play? I’m looking forward to getting even more inspiration from your Play Academy ideas this week – hope you’ll add a link. 1. Add your post to the Linky below. Remember to link to the individual post rather than your homepage. If you are not a blogger please visit the NurtureStore Facebook page and share your photo there. 2. Go and visit some of the other blogs on the Linky. Leave a comment and say hi. Get ideas. Tell them you’re visiting from the Play Academy. 3. Add a link back from your own post to this Play Academy – your readers can then come and get ideas too. You can use the Play Academy badge if you like.(Grab the code from the column on the left.) 4. Come back next Friday and swap some more play ideas. The next Play Academy linky will be Friday 10th September.
I am interested in Japan and the Japanese language. I lived in Sendai, Japan for a year from July 1998 through July 1999. As with any student learning Japanese, I have thousands of flashcards of vocabulary words and characters I have made, studied, and forgotten over the years. In the past few years, while studying at DePaul University's Japanese Language Program , I started typing the flashcards into a Japanese word processor and printing out the flashcards. More recently, I have started working on Java applications to help anyone with a web browser study Japanese. I have been working for over a year now on Java Kanji Flashcard 500, a program that lets you study the 500 most commonly occurring kanji. These kanji account for 85% of the kanji you will find in a newspaper. Each kanji includes the meaning, reading, stroke order animation, and example compounds. You don't need a Japanese system to use this program! Please try it and let me know what you think! As of June 23 (1999) Kiki's Kanji Dictionary is online, just two weeks after I wrote the following. I am working on a Java program that will combine Jim Breen's two main Japanese dictionaries, EDICT, a Japanese-English dictionary, with KANJIDIC, a Kanji dictionary, to brovide a browsable Kanji Dictionary. Here's the original Japanese HTML version. The problem with current web "search" dictionaries is they only help you find a single word. I want to help people learn relations between kanji, and take advantage of serendipity. This example of my Compound Explorer Concept demonstrates how kanji readings can be learned by examining many compunds that use the same readings. Imagine if all the kanji were links to other pages! Here's a Japanese HTML version. I have many files containing vocabulary lists from textbooks and reference materials I have purchased. These are mostly probably copyrighted somehow, but I do have some generic lists you may find useful. You will need a browser that can display Japanese to see the following pages: Well, that's it for now.
People of Northwest Public Radio Thu January 19, 2012 How Property Taxes Climb, Even If Home Value Drops Millions of homeowners are finding out that their property taxes are either holding steady or climbing, even as their house may be worth much less. There may not be much they can do about it. In Ohio, Cuyahoga County's fiscal officer, Wade Steen, has been taking many calls from unhappy homeowners. He says they most often live in a community where voters passed a recent levy. That's a property tax measure that boosts funding for things such as schools and libraries. "Shaker Heights comes to mind, where the voters have voted for those school levies, which is going to naturally raise the taxes that they pay," Steen says. With about $3,700 paid per $100,000 of home value, the Cleveland-area community of Shaker Heights has the highest property tax rates in the state. Voters approved major school levies in 2006 and 2010. Some residents may grumble, but most enjoy what levies provide. "We have garbage pickup in our backyard. If they miss my house, and I call, they'll make a special run on another day," says Myra White, who's lived in Shaker since 1964. "On Halloween, there are firetrucks and police cars driving around. I guess that's just kind of for fun, but it's also like a patrolling thing. It's almost ... I hate to say this, but it's a little bit of a concierge environment." Levies are often the only recourse school districts and other agencies have for increased funding. Kevin O'Brien of the Great Lakes Environmental Finance Center says that's because the recession has forced states to slash budgets, sending less money to counties and municipalities. "This hurts communities. Not having the revenue that they anticipated from the prior years, and having to carry the same number of staff and the same body of services," O'Brien says. "So they have to find creative ways to cover the gap." Fixed Rate For Property Taxes Another reason for property taxes not see-sawing with home value could be state law. In the 1970s and '80s, many legislatures passed bills designed to keep property tax collections from automatically going up with inflation. "Voters fail to remember that through the '80s when property values were going up astronomically, their tax bills were holding fairly steady, maybe increasing modestly," Steen says. "But yet we never heard anyone say, 'Geez, my property value has doubled in five years. This is great, but my taxes aren't doubling.'" However, the flip side to these laws, which are found in nearly 40 states, is that when home values plummet, the assessment rate can increase to keep revenues at that fixed rate. That's what's happening now. Cracking Down On Old Assessments Homeowners might also take their government to task if it doesn't do annual assessments. "I live in Virginia, and they reassess property every year, but right across the river in Maryland, they're on a three-year assessment cycle," says Jacqueline Byers, who heads research for the National Association of Counties. "So what can really happen to them is that their property taxes will be high, even in a down economy because they're using data for the value of their property that's two, three years old." In other words, the assessment in Byers' example would be based on years when home values were higher, and therefore do not reflect the current value. So what can homeowners do? In most cases, people can challenge their assessment — if they feel it's not accurate and can back up that claim. Ohio's Cuyahoga County projects 26,000 property valuation complaints this year, almost twice the number from 2011.
People of Northwest Public Radio Business Support Profiles Thu February 23, 2012 Puget Sound Energy Puget Sound Energy has been meeting the Puget Sound region’s energy needs for more than 135 years. They embrace the responsibility to provide safe, reliable, reasonably priced energy service to their customers in Washington State. PSE works to provide habitat for wildlife, protect birds and fish, and encourages green energy; a few of the ways PSE is making a difference.
Published : 2013-02-21 19:26 Updated : 2013-02-21 19:26 The government was one step behind when it hurriedly arranged a meeting on Thursday with officials of domestic food companies to rein in soaring food prices. Food companies have already raised the prices of a wide array of products, ranging from flour and soy sauce to kimchi, tofu and soju. For instance, Samyang Corp. raised the prices of its flour products by up to 9 percent on Wednesday. It was the last among major flour producers to raise prices. The increase in flour prices pushed cookie companies to raise prices, transferring the cost increase to consumers. Earlier this month, Daesang FnF jacked up the prices of its kimchi products by an average 7.6 percent. Last month, CJ CheilJedang Corp. increased the prices of its soy sauces by 7.1 percent on average, while Lotte Chilsung Beverage Co. raised its soju price by 8.8 percent. Most of the companies that joined in the rush to hike prices said their move was inevitable given the surge in international cereal prices since last summer. But this explanation does not hold much water. Last year, the Food Price Index compiled by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization marked an average of 211.7, down from 227.6 a year ago. The drop was led by a sharp fall in sugar and dairy price indices. But other commodities, including cereals and oil and fats, also contributed to the decline. In case of cereals, global prices did surge in July last year. But they have since moved southward. The companies’ price hikes are all the more unjustifiable given the sharp appreciation of the Korean currency since last June. The won-dollar ratio stood at 1,180.3 in May but fell to 1,070.6 at the year-end. The strong won, combined with the downward trend in global food prices, boosted the profits of domestic food companies. According to reports, the operating profits of CJ Cheiljedang, Lotte Chilsung Beverage and Daehan Flour Mill jumped by 45 percent, 68 percent and 920 percent, respectively, last year. The Korea Rural Economic Institute recently forecast that international cereal prices would drop further due to an increase in global output. It expects import prices of beans, corn and wheat to fall by 10 percent, 6 percent and 2.4 percent, respectively, in the second quarter compared with the previous quarter. The circumstances lead us to suspect that food companies sought to gain undue profits by taking advantage of the lax oversight by government officials during the political transition period. If cereal prices drop down the road, they will have to lower their prices accordingly.
Christopher Carroll, The Unbearable Truth of War Simone Weil once wrote that “nothing of all that the peoples of Europe have produced is worth the first known poem to have appeared among them.” She was referring to the Iliad, and, judging by the recent raft of translations, adaptations, and novelizations of the poem, we would seem to agree. Four new English versions, all published within a few months of each other, enter a market already glutted with Iliads, many of them—like Richmond Lattimore’s recently reissued classic 1951 translation and Robert Fagles’s widely used 1991 rendering—still vital. Now, the New York Theatre Workshop has staged An Iliad (up through April 1), a play that compresses the entire epic into a one-man, hundred-minute performance. While translations abound, dramatizations of the Iliad are fairly uncommon. Of course the poem has inspired countless plays—Aeschylus, for instance, called his tragedies “scraps from Homer’s banquet.” But these typically focus on a single episode, like the Greeks’ efforts to persuade Achilles to return to battle in Book 9. The entirety of Homer’s text runs to over 15,600 lines and would take about 24 hours to recite from beginning to end; it also has hundreds of characters—men, women, gods, demigods, a crying baby, and two immortal, talking horses, among others. Remarkably, An Iliad’s ultra-condensed script—co-written by the actor Denis O’Hare and the theater director Lisa Peterson—not only attempts to encompass almost all of this, but it also places that burden on a single character. Photo: Denis O’Hare as The Poet in the New York Theatre Workshop’s An Iliad
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It’s f-f-f-freezing out! Ok well not fully freezing but it is cold! I know last week I was all excited about the foods of fall, this week I’m sad about the cool temperatures haha! There’s still a ton going on, despite the fact that I’m cold. May your days be filled with pumpkin & apple pie & lots of pumpkin & apple ales. Oct 8 - Monday Night Oktoberfest Beer Dinner at Perilla, 9 Jones St (bt. Bleecker & W 4th St) at 5:30pm. At Perilla, any Monday night in October is Oktoberfest—the perfect excuse to treat yourself to a couple beers early in the week. The bar is teaming up with Weihenstephan (the oldest brewery in the world) to create a German dinner menu that goes well with classic German brews. To view the entire menu, visit www.perillanyc.com. The event is $60 per person and reservations are encouraged! Krug Champagne & Chef Marc Forgione Dinner at Krug House, 150 W 15th St (bt. 6th & 7th Ave) at 7:30pm. Don’t miss your chance to taste Krug’s amazing champagnes at the exclusive dinner that will benefit the James Beard Foundation. Enjoy a night of sample tastings and courses cooked by accomplished chef Marc Forgione! The $300 tickets are well worth it and aid the James Beard Foundation’s cause, which is to “celebrate, nurture, and preserve America’s diverse culinary heritage and future.” Get your tickets here! Oct 9 - Pumpkintoberfest at The Owl Farm, 297 9th St (bt. 4th & 5th Ave) from 6-10pm. There’s no better combination than Oktoberfest and pumpkin beers. And that’s exactly what The Owl Farm is bringing to you with their Pumpkintoberfest celebration! They’re offering nine beers (Flying Dog Dogtoberfest, Dogfish Head Punkin and Brooklyn Post Road Pumpkin to name a few) with alcohol percentages ranging from 5% to 8.6%. The bar opens at 2pm but $5 beers are from 6-10pm—get ready to get your drinkin’ on! $10 Tuesday Tastings – Colorado at Jimmy’s No. 43, 43 E. 7th St., Basement (bt. 2nd & 3rd Ave) from 7:30-10pm. Sample beers from Colorado at Jimmy’s No. 43 for the fabulous price of $10. Tuesday Tastings are known to be one of the best deals around, so grab a few friends and head over for a low-key night of drinking. The event is hosted by a beer expert who is sure to bestow upon you his hoards of brew wisdom. Get there early because the event starts at 7:30pm sharp! Eat My Heart Out Supper Club at DUMBO Loft, 155 Water St. (bt. Pearl & Front St) from 8-11pm. If you’re looking for a jazzed up version of a boring old dinner party, look no further. Eat My Heart Out consists of food as intriguing and enjoyable as the stories told around the table. The menu is inspired by the performers’ stories to keep your head (and eyes) spinning. The chefs for the evening have worked at well-known restaurants such as Roberta’s, Gramercy Tavern and Yuji Ramen. Only vegetarian tickets (all tickets $85) are left, so to enjoy a meatless meal and awesome entertainment, get your ticket here! Oct 10 - Speak like a Sommelier: Learning the Language of Wine at Astor Center, 399 Lafayette St (@ E 4th St) from 6:30-8:30pm. We know you love wine. But do you know how to speak about it? Do you ever want to venture outside your usual dry red? This class will teach you a whole new vocabulary full of words to describe how wine tastes and how to compare different wines. You’ll also learn the difference between flavors and techniques, which could come in quite useful at happy hour. You never know what else you might like until you try it, so get your tickets here! Heirloom Apples Lecture & Tasting at Manhattan’s Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden, 421 E 61st St at 6:30pm. Manhattan’s Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden, together with the Culinary Historians of New York, is hosting a lecture and tasting on Heirloom Apples. he lecture will discuss the history of apples, both globally and locally. The tasting will include fall apple varieties, cider, and sweet and savory apple recipes. Tickets can be reserved by calling 212-838-6878. Oct 11 - 5th Annual SUS Olympics Oktoberfest at the Brooklyn Brewery, 79 N 11th St (bt. Berry St. & Wythe Ave) from 7-11pm. The only thing better than drinking beer? Drinking it for a good cause. Swing by Brooklyn Brewery to gorge on unlimited food and beer to benefit the SUS Olympics, which are games that celebrate people with intellectual/physical disabilities who compete as athletes to promote physical health. Tickets are $40 in advance (get them here) or $50 at the door. Everyone’s in for a good time at this 5th Annual SUS Oktoberfest celebration! And really, how can you say no to unlimited beer? Weird Spices at Brooklyn Brainery, 515 Court St (bt. W 9th & Huntington St) from 8:30-10pm. If salt and pepper are your go-to spices, it’s time to throw them out. Yep, you heard us. Spice up your life (sorry, we still love the Spice Girls)! There is a whole other world of spices out there that are bound to increase the taste of your staple meals. Hint: powders that taste like ground-up Sour Patch kids and seeds that smell like beef jerky. Attend this class to learn such weird spice facts you won’t be able to get them out of your head! $20 tickets available here! Oct 12 - The Pasta Sheet, Lasagna and Ravioli at Ger-Nis Culinary & Herb Center, 540 President St., Suite 2E (bt. 3rd & 4th Ave) from 6:30-9:30pm. Making homemade pasta isn’t just for professional cooks, ya know. This class will teach you how to make ravioli and lasagna from scratch and then how to incorporate them into delicious recipes, such as Spinach & Hearty Vegetable Marinara Lasagna and Butternut Squash Cannelloni with Sage Cream. You’ll mix, crank, fold and seal to deliver the freshest sheets of pasta you’ve ever tasted, so next time someone asks you to cook for them, you won’t have to hesitate. Purchase your tickets here! GODIVA presents SWEET! Celebrating Five Years of NYCWFF at 82Mercer, 82 Mercer St (bt. Broome & Springs St) from 9-12pm. Happy 5th birthday to the New York City Wine and Food Festival! Join in the celebrations by attending GODIVA’s special party sponsored by ZED Moscato Rosé and hosted by Sandra Lee, star of Food Network’s “Semi-Homemade Cooking.” Your sweet tooth will be in heaven at this dessert tasting full of confectionary cakes, lush cupcakes, ice cream and, of course, GODIVA chocolates. Get your tickets here now! Oct 13 - New York City Wine & Food Festival at Various Locations starting at 10am. What do you get when you combine the best food and wine NYC has to offer? The Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival! This weekend will be full of amazing chefs and winemakers as they educate and entertain the people with their best tips, advice and products. All proceeds benefit the Food Bank For New York City and Share Our Strength®, so grab your ticket here and enjoy a night of spirits and noms! Harvest Beer & Cider Sessions at Factory on Kent, 110 Kent Ave (@ N 8th) from 12-9pm. Trade out the cocktails for cider, apple spirits and local beer at the Harvest Beer & Cider Sessions! WIth over 20 cider and specialty craft beers available, you’ll be in spirit heaven at this local tasting event. There are two sessions (“Old World and New World Cilders” and “Blending, Terroir and Cider Apples of the Northeast”), so choose whichever suits your fancy and head over for a night of imbibing pleasure. Tickets are available here! Drink Local: A Tasting of Regional Wine & Spirits at Astor Center, 399 Lafayette St (@ E 4th St) from 2-4pm. Everyone knows it’s best to eat local, but what about drinking local? Celebrate the wonderful wines and spirits produced regionally at this local tasting event that aims to gain support of regional wineries and distilleries. More than 15 wines and 10 spirits will be available for tasting for just $15 (buy them here), so stop by to support your fave labels and get special discounts on bottles after the event. Oct 14 - Amateur Chili Cook-Off With Lucky 777 Chili at Jimmy’s No. 43, 43 E 7th St., Basement (bt. 2nd & 3rd Ave) from 1-3pm. It’s chili season and that means it’s time for the first cook-off of the fall! Stop by Jimmy’s No. 43 to participate in their Amateur Chili Competition with Lucky 777 Chili. Cooks will compete for highly regarded recognition as the chili master. $20 tickets are available at the door and all proceeds go to God’s Love We Deliver! Enjoy a night of beer, food and chili to ring in the cold weather. Hummus Cook-Off at Public Assembly, 70 N 6th St (bt. Kent & Wythe St) form 6-9pm. Think you have what it takes to throw down at a hummus cook-off? Stop by the 6th Annual Craig Murphey Fellowship Fundraiser to enter three quarts of your best hummus (with veggies or crackers for dipping) and see if you’ll win the title of hummus king. Everyone is welcome to purchase a judging card for $5. Benefit a good cause, throw back some beers and taste-test these tempting snacks!
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NYLUG.org is New York's Linux Users Group supporting all things Linux and Open Source in the greater New York area. Members are Linux enthusiasts who come to the general meetings and workshops, subscribe to our mailing list, join our meetup group, and/or participate in keysignings and other NYLUG events. Meetings are free and open to the public (RSVP usually required). General meetings will usually (but not always) take place the second Thursday of the month starting at 6:30pm. Meetings are announced on the NYLUG-Announce mailing list and on meetup. All meetings are free and open to the public, but you should put yourself on the RSVP list for your convenience and ours. Our "Hack Workshop" takes place every other Tuesday at the NY Public Library, Hudson Park Branch. You can see the Public schedule and RSVP for events on Meetup: www.meetup.com/nylug-meetings Please, feel free to contact us via the "contact organizer" link on Meetup.com.
Matt Cooke met with NHL officials in Toronto yesterday — we'd like to imagine it went down exactly as Down Goes Brown's "top secret transcript" said it did — and the league doled out what seems like a pretty reasonable punishment for his elbow to the head of Ryan McDonagh: a suspension for the remaining ten games of the regular season and for the first round of the playoffs. Cooke, to his credit (we guess), didn't even try to defend himself in Toronto this time. Cooke, who has been suspended five times overall and four in three seasons with the Penguins, has defended himself in previous disciplinary hearings with NHL Hockey Operations. He didn't take that tact Toronto yesterday. "In the past, I've been very defensive and have argued my point," he said. "The (Players Association) talks, they argue their point; and your agent gets on and defends you a lot. "I realize and understand more so now than ever that I need to change. That was what I wanted my message to be." Obviously, decide for yourself whether you think Cooke really intends to change, or whether that's just what one says in situations like this, particularly when one's owner just days earlier sent a proposal to the league under which teams would be fined when their players are suspended (and under which those fines would be doubled if the player is a repeat offender). But the bigger question, raised by Puck Daddy and others already, is whether this lengthy suspension is an indication the league is getting serious about punishing such dirty hits, even if it means punishing, in Greg Wyshynski's words, "a less convenient defendant" than Cooke. We can't know the answer to that yet, though it's safe to say that no matter what, this punishment was especially heavy because Matt Cooke is, well, Matt Cooke. (After all, few players have Cooke's body of work in the field of dirty hits.) In any case, Cooke will go away for a while now. Meanwhile, McDonagh, who returned to the game on Sunday after the elbow (and reportedly heard from Cooke via text at some point afterward), says the pain in his jaw is subsiding. He's been cleared to play when the Panthers visit the Garden tonight.
Skip to content, or skip to search. No fruit inside the convention center. The iTunes app looks particularly refreshing. Ready for a bar code on your broccoli? 'Eat fruit and die!' A kosher fruit market adds to the neighborhood green quotient. Copyright © , New York Media LLC. All Rights Reserved.
A lengthy profile in today's Times, titled "The 9 Lives of Carine Roitfeld," doesn't shed any new light on Roitfeld's forthcoming magazine. (Although she does confirm — yet again — that it's in the works, that she's not sure if she'll name it after herself, and that her former French Vogue colleague Marie-Amélie Sauvé is on board.) But Roitfeld does comment on those rumors that she requested to sit directly across from her now-nemesis Emmanuelle Alt at fashion shows this past season, presumably so that she could stare Alt down across the runway. Ms. Roitfeld denied that any attempt at such seating manipulation took place. She said she sat closer to editors from American publications, or on the same side of the runway as Ms. Alt. “I was not very often sitting just in front of her,” she said. That the Roitfeld-Alt rivalry made for a good story, she agreed, as it played into all the Machiavellian things you hear about the terribly competitive editors at Vogue and Condé Nast. But worry not, their feud is still alive and well: She said she regretted nothing about losing Ms. Alt’s friendship, which had lasted for the 10 years Ms. Roitfeld had edited the magazine. “Maybe this was not supposed to be a friendship,” Ms. Roitfeld said. “If I look at the balance, maybe I lost some people I thought were my friends, but I made so many new friends. I am very happy, in the end, because I am the winner.” Sorry? That French accent can be tough. Did you say ... ? “I am the winner,” she repeated. “At the end of the day.” And lo, a perfect title for her new magazine! Although she'd better trademark that, and quickly.
70 Orchard St., New York, NY, 10002 nr. Grand St. By heleneparis on 6/26/2011 I love this store. Original dresses by in house designer Richard Ives, the vintage paris jewelry, the chanel handbags, the chanel jewelry, the tons of vintage jewelry from paris that is very rare and the best quality. Truly a great store in New York and run by the nicest guys in New York! I love this store and stop in every time I am in New York. By CharaJ on 9/29/2012 This store has the best vintage chanel handbags I've ever seen. Anywhere. They only get mint condition or unused vintage chanel bags from a dealer. I got one that is amazing red with gold hardware. Everyone asks me where I got it. I am so thrilled to walk around with this bag. Also, the clothes and the jewelry. Amazing. It is a very unique store. Very well curated. I love coming here whenever I am in New York. It is like no other store I've been to. Simply Divine! By MonicaH on 10/23/2012 It's like being in the Marais in Paris! Very Tres Chic Boutique. Great selection of all types of jewelry, new clothing, vintage designer clothing. They even tend to favor french labels in jewelry and vintage. The Chanel handbags are exquisite -- I've never seen better even in Paris. Love this store. It's really great I could spend hours in there. Great soundtrack too!
Ronni Soled, mom to Amanda, a college junior, is in her 16th year of bringing moms together; she is the matriarch of the Moms-and-Babies Luncheons concept in New York City. Laura Deutsch, mom to Ava, 13 months, debuted her mothers’ luncheons in February of this year. Now, the two women have joined forces. Ronni Soled’s New Mothers Luncheons has merged with Laura Deutsch’s Baby Bites NYC , to cover the waterfront with four luncheons a week at baby-friendly restaurants throughout the city. Deutsch will lead the luncheons; Soled and partner, Pamela Weinberg, will be frequent speakers and facilitators. “Laura brings a new vitality to everything she does,” says Soled. “I love working with her and together we plan on coming up with lots of new ideas for new moms. Stay tuned!” Baby Bites NYC will also continue its monthly dinner events for expectant moms, at Giggle Soho. These two ladies keep up a steady pace of activity. Deutsch just moved to Westchester from the Upper West Side, but she is commuting into the city to lead her lunches Monday through Thursday, and is busy organizing the first of her regular Friday luncheons in Larchmont as well. Soled, when not helping new moms network, works as the party/special events coordinator at Little Maestros music school, and, as a volunteer, runs a weekly new moms’ discussion group at New York Presbyterian Hospital. In her down time, she can be found at her computer, emailing daughter Amanda at Cornell! Baby Bites NYC luncheons, $35 per mom, include guest speakers and raffle prizes. For more info on locations and times, contact Ronni Soled at (212) 744-3194, Laura Deutsch at (646) 258-3907, or go to www.babybitesNYC.com.
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By Barry Janoff June 6, 2012: Major League Soccer.2012 is not your grandfather's game. And probably not even your father's game. MLS is still about goals, penalty kicks, offsides, yellow cards, defensive schemes and blood, sweat and tears. But it is also about iPhones, iPads, Roku, YouTube Kick TV, Twitter, Facebook, ExtraTime Radio podcasts, Wi-Fi, fat pipes, adidas' miCoach Speed_Cell data tracker and MLS Live, which offers HD streaming, multi-platform access of up to 230 out-of-market games per season. The league's digital growth has been fueled by — and in turn has fueled — growth in attendance and marketing deals and stability in franchise cities. More than two-thirds of the league's 19 clubs have jersey-sponsor deals. And since 2007, MLS has opened nine soccer-specific stadiums, most with naming-rights partners, including BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston, which had its ribbon cutting last month. From 2003-2009, the MLS Web site was under the auspices of MLB Advanced Media, the interactive media and Internet division of Major League Baseball. But the league took its Web site in-house and ramped up expansion and production of its digital and social media properties. Chris Schlosser was hired by MLS in 2008 as director of digital strategy, bringing with him a resume that included four years at Microsoft. In 2011 he was named general manager of MLS Digital. NYSportsJournalism spoke with Schlosser about navigating through and exploring new aspects of the digital side of the pro soccer landscape. NYSportsJournalism.com: What did you see as your biggest challenges when you joined MLS, and have they been met? Chris Schlosser: I joined in August 2008. I was, basically, Digital Employee No. 1 at Major League Soccer. At that time, all of our digital business was managed by MLB Advanced Media. They have done amazing things and have done a great job. But we saw the writing on the wall. We have a young, tech-savvy fan base, and with the growing importance of digital, we felt that it was really key that MLS controlled its own destiny in this area. So [in 2009, after six years with MLBAM] we took over control of our digital operation. Since then, we have invested significant money in building MLS Digital into our own business unit. We just hired our 35th employee. So we are growing fast. We now have a phenomenal suite of digital products on the marketplace. NYSJ: Has your focus changed since you joined MLS? CS: The interesting thing is that when I started here, our focus was on taking over the Web site content duties from MLBAM and building our Web site. But as we expanded our strategy we began to focus on two strategies. One was to create content. We now have the largest soccer content team in North America, with offices in New York and San Francisco and writers across North America and around the world. The second strategy was that we began to look at how would we distribute that content to our fans on whatever device they were using. NYSJ: Can you tell whether or not core fans are supporting your digital strategies? CS: The ecosystem has changed significantly over the last four years. And we believe that will continue as we go forward. The growth in metrics we have seen has been incredible. This year alone, visits to our Web are up 40%, mobile is up 200%, and fans are accessing more and more of our content across our system. So we are looking to continue to build our content and stay ahead of the changes in technology so were are providing information and data to our fans in the ways they want to consume it. "Visits to our Web are up 40%, mobile is up 200%, and fans are accessing more and more of our content across our system." NYSJ: Are you finding that you are attracting casual and non-soccer fans? CS: Social is a key element in the growth of our league and the individual clubs. We see it as a major strategy to grow our fan base. One of the interesting stats that I look at is the percentage of people who are visiting our property for the first time. At any given time, a third of the people visiting our site have never been there before. That, to me, is an incredible stat. It shows how we are constantly reaching out to new people who are discovering the sport and discovering our content, whether that's through search [engines] or social or from an article they read on one of our distribution partners. But to constantly have that key user base is, to me, phenomenal. NYSJ: How important is it to have a core base of young players who have grown up using technology and social media? CS: Having tech-savvy players is incredible. Our players are all over Twitter. They use our products. They like our products. We get comments from them all the time. You'll see players posting comments on our site and have a dialogue going back and forth with each other. A recent ESPN poll showed that among 12-24-year olds, MLS and soccer is their second-favorite sport behind the NFL. I think that shows a pretty incredible shift in the American sports landscape. That's an amazing thing for the league. But for us in digital, having all of those young fans loving the sport just takes all of the things we are doing to the next level. NYSJ: Some leagues don't want their players to use Twitter during games or at other times they feel might compromise certain situations? How does MLS feel about that? CS: [Laughs.] I chuckle a little about that because we are so far from telling our players not to tweet. We want them to be part of it, and we want our fans to follow our players on Twitter. It helps connect the fans with the players. And the banter that goes on among the players is phenomenal. And we encourage our players to use our applications. I get requests from players every week asking for access to our live streaming system so they can watch games on their iPad or iPhone. They love it. They use it to follow the league, just as our fans do. We are working on All-Star Game planning and we will have Twitter as part of our voting so that fans can tweet for their favorite player. NYSJ: What role do you see Kick TV on YouTube playing in the growth of MLS' fan base? CS: Kick TV is the new TV channel from MLS and SUM in conjunction with YouTube as part of the Google Originals concept. It is able to cover the global sport of football in a broader way than we do at our Web site. It gives us a voice in the sport that is beyond MLS focus, and that has helped not only bring football fans worldwide into our realm but has also helped our fans to expand their soccer experiences beyond MLS. We are starting to see some very interesting opportunities. NYSJ: In the 2012 AT&T MLS All-Star Game on July 25, adidas will embed its miCoach data tracker in uniforms worn by players, which will provide coaches with real-time data about player position and performance. Do you find you are able to experiment with technology? CS: The best thing about digital in general is that it is so easy to make changes. You look at the data, the technology, the capabilities that you have and put out great products. But then you have to look at how consumers and fans are using them. Look at the feedback you are getting on Twitter and through social media. And then you continue to tweak and evolve your products and strategies as you move forward. That's the beauty whether it's from the consumer side or the product development side. You have to take advantage of that. I've said before that Twitter is the world's best customer-service tool. You constantly hear from and connect with your fans and consumers in a big way. "We believe that there is an opportunity here over the next 18-24 months to completely change the digital match experience." NYSJ: Considering how rapidly technology changes, how difficult is it to stay ahead of the curve and have platforms available for fans when they want them? CS: That challenge is a constant focus of mine. When you ask, 'What comes next?,' we believe — and what we are spending a lot of time working on is — that there is an opportunity here over the next 18-24 months to completely change the digital match experience. If you look across the landscape today, there are a lot of amazing ways to consume sports. But we feel there are some things that we can bring to the table across various devices that will revolutionize the way people interact with our game. NYSJ: MLS has opened nine soccer-specific stadiums since 2007. How important has it been to have them outfitted with the latest technology? CS: It has been amazing for us and for sports in general. LiveStrong Sporting Park in Kansas City [KS, which opened in 2011], is, I believe, the most technologically advanced building in America. The folks in Kansas City are working hard to think about how to maximize the use of such technologies as Wi-Fi, mobile and fat pipes in partnership with Cisco and Google. They constantly think about how to revolutionize the way sports is consumed in-stadium and using technology to do that. Whether it's instant polling in a game, ordering food via an app, checking on memberships. They do an incredible amount of work and we work closely with them to bring these experiences to life. NYSJ: How important has it been for MLS Digital to look not just at soccer domestically but in a global picture? CS: That is an interesting aspect of our strategy. One of the businesses we put in place when I started here and that we have continued to grow is MLS Digital Properties. Today, we are commercializing 60 of the largest soccer sites in the world: the English Premier League official Web site, Goal.com, AOL, The Sporting News, and we are just about to finalize a deal with another large sports portal to [maintain] their soccer section. So today we are selling across the system, whether you are an Hispanic fan, a global football fan or a fan of MLS. We are commercializing those efforts today and, as I said, in the next 18-24 months you'll see us on the property side using our technology and content expertise and applying to areas that are broader than MLS. NYSJ: What type of feedback have you gotten from MLS marketing partners and peers in other sports regarding what MLS Digital is doing and where it is going? CS: The feedback has been that we are doing exactly what we should be doing with technology and that we should continue to move forward. If you look across the globe today, our mobile apps are the best in football. There is not another experience like it on with highlights, data, with social all built in, taking advantage of whether it's an IOS platform, Android, or on the Windows Phone application that we are releasing. NYSJ: Head coaches and managers are usually old-school guys who might not want to adapt, or who might find it too challenging given the rapid growth of and changes in technology. What are you seeing and hearing from MLS coaches? CS: I would say the biggest change I have seen from coaches on the field is the use of advanced data. Historically, or stereotypically, you hear a lot that 'soccer is not a data sport.' But we have a partnership with [research firm] Opta, with whom we analyze hundreds and hundreds of data points from every game. So you are starting to see our coaches take advantage of that. The presence of adidas will take that to a higher level not only by utilizing game data but also all sorts of physical data — speed, distance, power — to which coaches had never had access. So when you combine that, you'll see on the coaching side a further investment in technology as a way to make the players better and the game better. NYSJ: What does MLS Commissioner Don Garber say about all of this? CS: He loves it. He loves the technology. He's a great follower of Twitter — all hours of the day and night he'll send me something that he has read on Twitter. He has an iPhone and tablet, and he uses them. He consumes every bit of information and uses it to help improve and promote MLS and soccer. "One of [our] key tenets is keeping the game first. We don't want to change the sport. But we believe that technology can make that experience even better." NYSJ: How big a challenge is it to keep integrating technology into the game but not lose sight of the basic elements that make the game special? CS: One of the key tenets of everything we do is keeping the game first. At the end the day it is all about an authentic game experience. You are not going to see glowing pucks. That is not what we are focused on. We are focused on soccer as a beautiful game. We don't want to change the sport. But we believe that technology can make that experience even better, whether you are in the stadium, at the pub with friends or at home. And not just for fans. Whether you are a player or a coach, we believe technology can make the sport better. NYSJ: What are you looking at now as your next challenges? CS: MLS is at a very interesting point in time where we have this incredible technology. We have this phenomenal fan base. We have these incredible young players. So it makes sense that MLS sees this as a great area for us to advance our technology, to innovate. We want to innovate, not just in the U.S., but on a global platform in the sport of soccer. So everyone from ownership and management on down is focused on creating truly amazing digital experiences. That is my team's mandate now and our mandate moving forward. Photos: MLS Digital (5); Livestrong Sporting Park courtesy Sporting Kansas City
Moral Values: A Grand Farce nytheatre.com review by Larry Kunofsky August 13, 2006 The title speaks for itself: Moral Values, A Grand Farce, or, Me No Likey The Homo Touch-Touch. As with many FringeNYC shows, your feelings about the title will most probably inform your feelings about the show. In this play's Bizarro-World future, our government has not only legalized gay marriage but has also instituted a law that requires every straight family to house a gay married man in the name of understanding and tolerance. This is a very funny idea that doesn't make too much sense, and Moral Values is a very funny play that doesn't make a lot of sense, either. This is perplexing coming from a political satire, but if you like your satire broad, this show's for you. Our story begins one morning in the home of John (Josh LaCasse) and Margaret (Carrie McCrossen), and their teenage kids, Stacy (Maria McConville) and Michael (Roger Lirtsman). John, a raging homophobe, having just learned of this new proclamation, goes completely nuts. He holds an emergency family meeting, instructing the family to treat their soon-to-arrive resident homosexual with extreme prejudice. Despite the paternal influence, everyone else in this family is too busy being some other kind of crazy to join John in his bigotry. Margaret acts as John's cheerleader, echoing his hostile statements, but this is just a smokescreen to distract from her affair with Estaban (Graham Skipper), the mailman. Stacy is running some kind of porn site online, and Michael is obsessing about the track team and the steroids he keeps taking, which don't seem to be doing much for him. Yes, it's a pretty messed up family, folks. Enter Steven (Isaac Oliver), dressed in a pink shirt and equipped with all the stereotypical gay affectations. He's the family's government project. The trick here, though, is that Steven's not actually gay. The government project ran out of actual married gays, Steven explains, and so they first resorted to unmarried gays, and then wound up using straight guys who everybody thought were gay, which brings us to Steven. A great deal of this is very funny. There is also a lot that is, alas, painfully unfunny. At its best, Moral Values comes across as a lesser Christopher Durang effort or a really good Saturday Night Live sketch. At its worst, it's more like Mad TV. What saves the script from being mediocre is Ian McWethy's writing, particularly when lambasting the hypocrisy and madness of bigotry. The playwright loses sight of what he's satirizing (or at least I did), but there are some sharp observations here. What also helps is Jeffrey Glaser's buoyant direction (he has all the actors enter and exit dancing, and the show ends with a very enjoyable dance number). The best part of the show is the fine comic ensemble acting. LaCasse has a bit of Ben Stiller in him, taking pigheaded indignation to new comic heights. McCrossen is even funnier in her pitch-perfect Automated Voice than she is as Margaret (and she's funny to begin with). McConville and Lirtsman effectively lampoon the teenager ethos with brio, just as Oliver skewers our perceptions of gayness, while all three play their characters with sympathy. Graham Skipper and Richardson Jones do triple and quadruple duty (respectively) in multiple roles. I saw this show with a very young crowd and was delighted by their enthusiasm. It's surprisingly rare to see audiences having this good a time in the theatre, but maybe shows like Moral Values will make it happen more often.
Rebel Without a Cause nytheatre.com review by Matt Schicker October 8, 2005 So what does a stage adaptation of one of the most famous films of all time, Rebel Without a Cause, which coincides with the 50th anniversary of the film, have to offer that the original doesn’t? Based on Barely Balancing Artists Group’s current production: nothing. This attempt to dramatize a familiar movie fails because it has not re-imagined the story for the stage. Not only are there are no new insights here, it is so literally based on its source material that the experience is the equivalent of watching a group of friends act out the scenes of the movie for each other. The story is a classic of middle-class teen angst in the conformist 1950s. To say new kid on the block Jim Stark is having difficulty adjusting to his new hometown is an understatement. A gang of high school toughs has singled out the friendless teen for knife fights and an extreme stunt called a “chicken run”: two cars race off the end of a cliff and the first driver to jump out of the car before it reaches the precipice is declared a “chicken.” When the “chicken run” results in the death of Buzz, the leader of the pack, Jim is racked with guilt and bonds with two other frightened teen outsiders—Judy, Buzz’s girlfriend, whose tough veneer melts away as she develops a sweet, genuine romance with Jim; and Plato, a sensitive, confused boy whose globe-trotting parents have all but abandoned him and left him to be raised by their maid, Mrs. Davis. By the end, the police and parents have cornered the teens, who have found the peace they seek in an abandoned mansion and the companionship and understanding they seek in each other, and the story finishes with the taking of another young life—a symbolic sacrificial lamb. Playwright James Fuller follows the film closely, but he has trimmed a bit (most notably removing Judy’s family from the story), and added a scene here and there to further fill out the narrative. But these new scenes belabor and overexplain a story which is artfully and precisely told in the film. The addition here of the character Officer Mullen, whose “tough cop” interrogation style is a counterpoint to the more touchy-feely Officer Ray character from the movie, seems more a device than a well-written character. The production and performances don’t help things. The play is co-directed by Joshua Coleman (who also plays the lead role of Jim Stark) and Brian Stites, who also is artistic director of the producing company. Their blocking has the actors consistently upstaging each other, the transitions between scenes are long and awkward, and there is a general lack of dramatic pacing. Here’s an example: Early in the piece, a scene taking place in a police station employs a double-sided revolving set piece; one side is the waiting area outside Officer Ray’s office, the other is the office. The unit is turned from one side to the other—not a quick process—multiple times throughout the evening, slowing down the the action and forward momentum of the play for no justifiable reason. If the directors were primarily concerned with clearly telling this story rather than simply copying scenes from the movie, surely this repeated switching would have been cut to allow the story to move forward. Joshua Coleman’s portrayal of Jim seems entirely based on an imitation of James Dean’s iconic turn in the film version, hunched shoulders, pained facial expression, and all. But where Dean’s Jim is a tense bundle of nerves, a tormented man-child overflowing with emotions and thoughts he hasn’t the tools to express, Coleman simply goes through the motions without any of the motivating intentions. Because of this, there’s no chemistry or real emotion between Jim and Judy, played by Erin Cunningham; their scenes together pass without making any kind of impression at all. Indeed, the character of Judy has a significantly diminished role here; Judy’s father, with whom she shared a borderline incestuous relationship in the film, does not appear, so the source of her angst is never clearly explained. Allie Mulholland as Plato at least seems invested in his role and his performance reveals some skill and experience. The high school boys led by Judy’s boyfriend Buzz, played by Major Dodge, are rowdy, loud, and lively. Peter Bongiorno is wooden as Office Ray, and though Jamie Effros’s Officer Mullen is spirited, it’s difficult to accept that he is a police officer as he appears to be younger than the student toughs he interrogates. Selena C. Dukes valiantly does all she can with the small role of Mrs. Davis, Plato’s maid and surrogate maternal figure. There is some creative work by lighting designer Lauren Phillips, notably a bright headlight effect for the “chicken run” scene, but the lighting frequently is overly dim, at one point near the end so dim as to be invisible. Constant blackouts after every scene are jarring and confusing to the audience, who take them as a signal to clap after every scene. In the end, Rebel Without a Cause feels like a vanity piece for a group of fans of the movie who had a notion (and some capital) to bring their fan show to New York. It’s hard to imagine the stage version of Rebel Without a Cause having a future, not because it’s not a good idea, but because this particular version has nothing to offer but a less-than-skillful reenactment of the film.
Thai food in New York immediately suggests a tiny dining room, tinier tables and a lunch special for less than $10. The Basil has none of the above. This offshoot of Holy Basil, a popular East Village Thai restaurant, pushes even further toward black-tie Thai, working pan-Asian accents into the mix, turning down the heat and stepping up the elegance of the surroundings. At funky Thai restaurants, you can order iced litchi drinks, a flowery Asian answer to iced tea. At the Basil, the waiter looks confused, but then steers you toward a litchi martini. June 14, 2002
Act I, With Lunch "Food for Thought," a program of lunchtime readings accompanied by a box lunch, is now in its second year. Patricia Neal, Treat Williams and Kathleen Turner will be some of the actors reading from the works of Samuel Beckett, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter and others. Most of the readings are being held on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 1 to 2 p.m., through Dec. 10 at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South. There will be a reading on Nov. 20 but none on Nov. 21 or 22. On Dec. 10, new one-act plays that deal with the events of Sept. November 7, 2001
Scope and Content Note Uncommon Knowledge video tapes, Date (inclusive): 1996-2010 Collection number: 2001C109 123 manuscript boxes, 3 card file boxes, 54 videotape reels, digital files 56.2 linear feet) Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace Stanford, California 94305-6010 Abstract: Relates to various aspects of American foreign and domestic policy. Television program sponsored by the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives Collection is open for research. The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible. For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives. [Identification of item], Uncommon Knowledge video tapes, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives. Acquired between 2001 and 2011. For the broadcast years, most of the videotapes and audio tapes were acquired directly from Uncommon Knowledge production staff in a series of increments. Some tapes were obtained from storage at the Hoover Press. Additional videotapes were acquired from the Bay Area Video Coalition in San Francisco, California and the PBS Media Library in Alexandria, Virginia in 2009. For the webcast years, video programs are received directly from Stanford Video. Transcripts were captured from various websites by Hoover Archives staff. Transcripts were captured by Hoover Archives staff from the Uncommon Knowledge website (http://www.hoover.org/multimedia/uk/) and the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine since December 2008. Uncommon Knowledge is still being broadcast; video will continue to be deposited at the Hoover Institution Archives. Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number of boxes listed in this finding aid. Peter Robinson papers, Hoover Institution Archives Uncommon Knowledge is a public policy talk show produced by the Hoover Institution. It features Hoover research fellow Peter M. Robinson discussing national and international economic, political, and social issues with political leaders, distinguished scholars, leading journalists, and others. William F. Buckley Jr. designated it as the successor to his television program, Uncommon Knowledge was broadcast as a weekly half-hour television program from 1996 to June 2005. The first four seasons were broadcast on KTEH-TV, a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) affiliate in San Jose, California; beginning with the Winter/Spring 2000 season it was carried by PBS stations throughout the United States. It was also carried internationally by National Public Radio (NPR) Worldwide. Beginning in 2006, Uncommon Knowledge became an exclusive on the web, offered through National Review Online, FORA.tv, and the Hoover Institution website. The unedited webcasts are typically between 30 and 40 minutes in duration. During the broadcast years, each program in the season was assigned a sequential number, and with each new season, the numbering started with the next even hundred: - 1996: 1-13 - 1997: 101-113 - Winter 1998: 201-213 - 1998-1999: 301-326 - 1999-2000: 401-426 - 2000-2001: 501-539 - 2001-2002: 601-639 - 2002-2003: 701-739 - 2003-2004: 801-839 - 2004-2005: 901-939 After the program shifted to webcasting, the PBS program numbering was discontinued and Hoover Archives staff assigned each program a sequential number: - 2006: WUK06 01-04 - 2007: WUK07 01-10 - 2008: WUK08 01-24 - 2009: WUK09 01-25 - 2010: WUK10 01-25 Host Peter M. Robinson writes about business and politics, and edits the Hoover Institution's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest. He has written three books: How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life (Regan Books, 2003); It's My Party: A Republican's Messy Love Affair with the GOP (Warner Books, 2000); and the best-selling business book Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MBA (Warner Books, 1994; still available in paperback). In 1979, he graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College, where he majored in English. He went on to study politics, philosophy, and economics at Oxford University, graduating in 1982. Robinson spent six years in the White House, serving from 1982 to 1983 as chief speechwriter to Vice President George H. W. Bush and from 1983 to 1988 as special assistant and speechwriter to President Ronald Reagan. He wrote the historic Berlin Wall address in which President Reagan called on General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!" After the White House, Robinson attended the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where the journal he kept formed the basis for Snapshots from Hell. He graduated with an MBA in 1990. He then spent a year in New York City with Fox Television, reporting to the owner of the company, Rupert Murdoch. He spent a second year in Washington, D.C., with the Securities and Exchange Commission, where he served as the director of the Office of Public Affairs, Policy Evaluation, and Research. In 1993, Robinson joined the Hoover Scope and Content Note The collection includes videorecordings, audio recordings, and transcripts of programs. Most recordings represent edited programs, though a few of the webcasts are unedited. Unedited webcast versions do not have lower third graphics (name/title) nor a Hoover watermark, and have a 4:3 aspect ratio (vs. 16:9 pillarbox for edited shows). Videotape formats in the collection include VHS, Betacam SP, Digital Betacam, one-inch videotape, D3, DVCAM, miniDV, and DVD. Sound recording formats are limited to audio CD. Transcripts are file-based (RTF or PDF). Full descriptions of all programs are taken verbatim from the Uncommon Knowledge website. Dates listed for each program are the date the program was taped. Where the Uncommon Knowledge web site information differs from the label on a video tape, the label information has been used. The two Collections of Programs series consist of programs grouped around particular themes by the Uncommon Knowledge staff. The one-inch videotapes usually contain more than one program per reel. For unidentified programs, the information in the container list is taken from the labels on the videotapes. They may contain clips from multiple programs. Uncommon Knowledge is an ongoing program, additional material continues to be added to the collection. Box List by Format Loose on shelf - Programs on one-inch Videoreels Box 1-22 - Individual Programs on VHS Videocassettes, 1996-2005. Television programs arranged by program number Box 23-25 - Unedited Programs on VHS Videocassettes Box 26 - Collections of Programs on VHS Videocassettes, 1996-1998. Television programs grouped together as thematic collections, arranged by collection number Box 27-43 - Individual Programs on Betacam SP Videocassettes, 1997-2002. Television programs arranged by program number Box 44-48 - Collections of Programs on Betacam SP Videocassettes, 1996-1998. Television programs grouped together as thematic collections, arranged by collection number Box 49-55 - Individual Programs on D-3 Videocassettes Box 56 - Individual Programs on CD-ROM (Audio only) Box 57-60, 63-117 - Individual Programs on Digital Betacam Videocassettes, 2000-2001. Television programs arranged by program Box 118 - Individual Programs on miniDV, DVCPro, DVCam Videocassettes Box 119-120 - Individual Programs on DVD (MPEG4s and Flash) Box 61-62 - Research Materials for Individual Programs Reading Room workstation - Program Transcripts The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the repository's online public access catalog. United States--Foreign relations--1989- United States--Politics and government--1989- Genres and Forms of Material Other Index Terms Related to this Collection Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace.
Memoirs, other writings, deposition, and correspondence, relating to King Michael, Romanian participation in World War II, the transition of Romania from monarchy to communist regime, and Romanian emigre affairs. Includes a dissertation on Swiss Jacques M. Vergotti was born in 1915. A Major in the Romanian Army, he served as aide to Michael I, King of Romania, between 1941-1947. He witnessed the last year of the Romanian monarchy and the palace coup of December 30, 1947, when the King was overthrown and the Popular Republic of Romania was proclaimed. He was one of the few people allowed to leave the country together with the King, whose aide he was for one more year. He then emigrated to the US and has lived there since. 3 manuscript boxes 1.25 linear feet) For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives. Collection open for research.
This collection consists of digital images of the correspondence of John Muir from 1856-1914. The vast majority of the letters were sent and received by Muir, although the collection also includes some correspondence of selected family members and colleagues. Muir’s correspondence offers a unique first-hand perspective on his thoughts and experiences, as well as those of his correspondents, which include many notable figures in scientific, literary, and political circles of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The correspondence forms part of the John Muir Papers microfilm set that filmed letters located at over 35 institutions. A Scottish-born journalist and naturalist, John Muir (1838-1914) studied botany and geology at the University of Wisconsin (1861-1863). He worked for awhile as a mill hand at the Trout Broom Factory in Meaford, Canada (1864-1866), then at an Indianapolis carriage factory (1866-1867), until an accident temporarily blinded him and directed his thoughts toward full-time nature study. Striking out on foot for South America, Muir walked to the Gulf of Mexico (September 1867-January 1868), but a long illness in Florida led him to change his plans and turn his interests westward. Muir arrived by ship at San Francisco (March 1868), walked to the Sierra Nevada Mountains and began a five year wilderness sojourn (1868-1873) during which he made his year-round home in the Yosemite Valley. Working as a sheepherder and lumberman when he needed money for supplies, Muir investigated the length and breadth of the Sierra range, focusing most of his attention on glaciation and its impact on mountain topography. He began to publish newspaper articles about what he saw in the California mountains and these articles brought him to the attention of such intellectuals as Asa Gray and Ralph Waldo Emerson, both of whom sought him out during their visits to California. Encouraged by Jeanne Carr, wife of his one-time botany professor, Ezra S. Carr, Muir took up nature writing as a profession (1872). He set up winter headquarters in Oakland and began a pattern of spring and summer mountaineering followed by winter writing based upon his travel journals that he held to until 1880. His treks took him to Mount Shasta (1874, 1875 & 1877), the Great Basin (1876, 1877, 1878), southern California and the Coast Range (1877), and southern Alaska (1879). Muir found that he could finance his modest bachelor lifestyle with revenue from contributions published in various San Francisco newspapers and magazines. During this period he launched the first lobbying effort to protect Sierra forests from wasteful lumbering Some of the materials in the John Muir Correspondence Collection may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) and/or by the copyright or neighboring rights laws of other nations. Additionally, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by privacy or publicity rights. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to reproduce or use the item.
The Mailliard Family Papers contain correspondence to and from various members of a socially and politically prominent San Francisco family. In addition, the collection contains family records, journals and diaries, newspaper clippings and scrapbooks, and various publications and memorabilia. The bulk of the collection is focused on the life and career of William S. Mailliard, who was most notably a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's Fourth District, serving from 1953 to 1974. The collection also includes the correspondence of William S. Mailliard's parents, John Ward Mailliard, Jr. and Kate Peterson Mailliard, as well as that of other family members. Number of containers: 10 cartons, 3 boxes, 2 oversize folders Linear feet: 14 Materials in this collection may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user. Collection is open for research.
Services to remember Sept. 11 Updated: October 2, 2012 9:33AM Members of the Tri-State Fire Protection District invite communities to this year’s Remembrance Memorial located at 419 Plainfield Road in Darien. At 6:30 p.m. Sunday, they will remember the 11th year anniversary of Sept. 11. The Remembrance Memorial will consist of an 8 foot I-beam brought back from Ground Zero in New York, an eternal flame that flows through the water of a reflection pool which represents the safety and stability found through community service. Walkways of Honor surround the memorial where visitors may pause to contemplate and reflect on the events of Sept. 11. Visit tristatefd.com website to view pictures of the memorial. Eleven years after the terror attacks on America, citizens and first responders of La Grange and surrounding suburbs will come together in a commemoration ceremony to honor the victims of Sept. 11, 2001. The ceremony will take place at 8 a.m. Sept. 11 at the Robert E. Coulter, Jr., Post 1941 in La Grange. Light refreshments served immediately after the ceremony. The commemoration ceremony honors the victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, airline flight takeovers and the American military service personnel who have died in the war against terrorism while other members of the service continue to fight. American Legion posts across America are energizing their communities to ensure that the innocent victims will never be forgotten. “We must not forget all of those who gave their lives for this great country,” said Post Cmdr. Al Krenz. The ceremony will begin with recognition of emergency-service personnel who have remained strong throughout the entire ordeal on the attack of America and who have upheld the honor of patriotism. There will be a number of different events during the ceremony, including the placement of a ceremonial wreath to commemorate past war fighters who are now deceased.
Veteran Damion Easley is one of the busier part-time players in baseball this season. 08/21/2008 2:09 PM ET Damion Easley is ready for anything Mets veteran is a big part of the club's playoff chase By Hal Bock / MLBPLAYERS.com When Mets manager Jerry Manuel wanted to give David Wright a day off during the dog days of August, he plugged Easley in at third base. The next day, it was Jose Reyes' turn to get some rest, and there was Easley, playing shortstop. When the regulars returned to duty, Easley went back to second base, where he has become just about an everyday starter since Luis Castillo went on the disabled list with a hip flexor injury on July 3. Castillo had been in and out of the lineup before that, with Easley filling in regularly. At age 38, Easley had a more leisurely summer in mind as a backup infielder and maybe a once-a-week starter when he signed last winter. "You would probably be right about that," he said. "I thought I'd be a guy off the bench, spell guys who need a break or filling in for somebody on the disabled list." He has been much more than that and a vital part of the Mets' bid for the National League East lead. He has become a prime-time regular in the twilight of his career. Easley is in his 15th Major League season. He's played with California, Detroit, Tampa Bay, Florida and Arizona. He reached his statistical peak with an All-Star season in 1998 when he hit 27 home runs and drove in 100 runs for the Tigers. But he hasn't been an everyday player since 2002, which is why this season has meant a significant change in his daily preparation. "It's easier if you're in the lineup every day," he said. "I was an everyday player. I draw on those experiences on the fly. I listen to my body and get my work in every day." For the Mets, part of the attraction of Easley was his flexibility. Easley is a handy guy to have around, and GM Omar Minaya knew that when he originally signed him in 2007. Easley became the fifth Mets player in history whose first two hits for the team were home runs. He batted .280 in 193 at-bats last season and hit 10 home runs, one of them inside the park. The 10 homers were the most he's had in a season since 2001, and five of them either tied the game or gave the Mets the lead. He was building an impressive season before it came to a premature end when he suffered a severely sprained ankle in August. At that point, he had made his usual position tour, filling in at six spots. It was nothing new for him. "I have played almost every position at one time or another," Easley said. "I never played center field, or pitcher or catcher. Nor do I have any interest in them." Over his career, he's also batted in every spot in the lineup, which is versatility that is valuable in today's specialized game. Easley worked hard in rehabilitating the ankle, and the Mets welcomed him back this season. It's a good thing. He batted .459 with a 10-game hitting streak during the first week in July when the Mets turned their season around. The 10-game hitting streak was his longest since 2001 with Detroit when he hit in 12 straight. He has delivered a fistful of clutch hits for the Mets. With six weeks left in the season he had more at-bats than in any season since 2002 and was ready for the sprint to the finish line -- just as long as they don't ask him to pitch, catch or play center field. Hal Bock is a freelance writer based in New York.
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Sharma, K K and Kumar, S M and Syamala, D and Devi, P (2003) Protocol for efficient plant regeneration and Agrobacterium tumefaciens mediated genetic transformation of pigeonpea. Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding, 63 (4). pp. 289-294. ISSN 0019-5200. - Published Version Restricted to ICRISAT users only Download (565Kb) \| Request a copy A simple, efficient, reproducible and genotype independent high frequency plant regeneration protocol has been developed from cotyledonary node explants from 12-d-old in vitro raised pigeonpea seedlings cultured on shoot induction medium [Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium + 2.0 mg L-1 benzyladenine]. Shoot-buds originated from the cut ends of the cotyledonary node explants and multiple adventitious shoots developed from 80% of the explants. They elongated rapidly on shoot elongation medium comprising the MS medium supplemented with 0.5 mg L-1 gibberellic acid-A, rooted on MS medium supplemented with 0.5 mg L-1 indole butyric acid (IBA). The survival rate of the in vitro regenerated plantlets was over 70%. The cotyledonary node explants were co-cultivated with Agrobactcrlum tumefaciens strain C-58 harboring the binary plasmid, pCAMBIA1301 [conferring β-glucuronidase (GUS) activity and resistance to hygromycin], cultured on selection medium containing hygromycin to select putatively transformed shoots and rooted. About 24 putative TO transgenic plants have been produced and the stable expression and integration of the transgenes was confirmed by GUS assay, PCR and Southern blot hybridization with a transformation efficiency of over 45%. \|Subjects:\|\|Mandate crops > Pigeonpea\| \|Depositing User:\|\|Ms Vibha Raju\| \|Date Deposited:\|\|11 Nov 2011 05:43\| \|Last Modified:\|\|11 Nov 2011 05:43\| Actions (login required)
Psychology, Board of To advise the Mayor; regulate the practice of psychology in DC; administer and enforce the Act. To evaluate applicants' qualifications and administer exams; recommend standards and procedures; issue licenses; receive and review complaints; request investigations; conduct hearings; issue subpoenas, examine witnesses and administer oaths; issue an annual report. Members must file personal financial disclosure statements. Five members, including a chairperson, who are DC residents, appointed by the Mayor: four licensed psychologists, who have been engaged in practice for at least 3 years preceding appointment and one consumer, who is at least 18 years old and is not a health professional or in training to become one, and may have no household member who is involved directly in or indirectly in providing care. Approval Type - Passive (If not disapproved by resolution within 45-day review period, deemed approved.) Licensed - Yes Paid stipend or salary - No
In Loving Memory Of 25 entries \| 1 photo The Guest Book is expired. GEORGE E. BERUBE SR. Dec 6, 2012 CARIBOU - George E. Berube Sr., 87, former Korean War POW and well-known area veterans advocate, died Dec. 6, 2012, at Maine Veterans Home, Caribou. He was born Sept. 14, 1925, in St. John Plantation, son of the late Louis and Coralie "Gertrude" (Lavasseur) Berube. Mr. Berube was employed as a mechanic by several area garages and auto dealerships for many years, as well as being employed at Potato Service for a number of years. He married Florentine Ouellette, July 3, 1954. Mr. Berube was a longtime member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church. George served with the U.S. Navy during World War II and then served with the U.S. Army during the Korean War. While in Korea, Mr. Berube was captured by enemy forces and was held as a POW for nearly two years. During his military career, Mr. Berube received many awards and commendations, including two Purple Hearts, and the Bronze and Silver stars with Oak Leaf Clusters. He was a member of Henry B Pratt Post 15 American Legion; was a life member of Lister Knowlton Post 9389 Veterans of Foreign Wars, The Smart Ricker Post 10 Disabled American Veterans, Military Order of Purple Heart and Korean War Veterans Association. Mr. Berube was also a founding board member of Maine Veterans Home, Caribou. Surviving, in addition to his wife of more than 57 years, Florentine of Caribou, are three sons and a daughter-in-law, George Berube Jr., Dennis Berube and Frederick, and Treska Berube, all of Caribou; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Fred and Jackie Berube of Presque Isle, and Ralph and Marsha Berube of Millinocket; four sisters and two brothers-in-law, Leona and Lawrence Thibeault of Van Buren, Alice and Willie O'Leary of Fort Kent, Theresa Poirier and Rosalie Turney, both of Waterbury, Conn.; grandchildren, Dianna Lavoie and husband, A.J., Denise Verbicky, Sarah and Duane Berube, and Jamie and Jarid Hendrickson; nine great-grandchildren, many nieces and nephews. Mr. Berube was predeceased by a brother, Joseph; and a granddaughter, Madison Ouellette. Friends may call 6-8 p.m. Sunday at Mockler Funeral Home, 24 Reservoir St., Caribou. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated 11 a.m. Monday, Dec. 10, from the Parish of the Precious Blood Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Interment and military honors will be at Northern Maine Veterans Cemetery. After the service, all are invited to a time of continued fellowship and refreshments at the VFW. Published in BDN Maine on December 7, 2012
An Obscure Day at The Bunny Museum Come out and explore the "hoppiest place in the world" filled with bunnies - and bunny related objects - of all shapes and sizes Pasadena, CaliforniaGet tickets! On Obscura Day join Candace Frazee at The Bunny Museum for an afternoon exploration of the world's largest collection of bunny-related EVERYTHING. Between visits with bunnies real, stuffed, sculpted, and made of chocolate - and don't forget to look for some freeze-dried friends - Candace will tell the story of this living museum. Hint: it started when she called her husband "Honey Bunny" when they were dating. Time03:00 PM to 05:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
It always staggers me when New Yorkers-and New York theater critics, to boot-prostrate themselves before the altar of British theater, howling: “Thank you! Thank you! We are so inferior! Show us the way! Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you.” To which the English, hurrying home with sacks full of awards and cash, reply: “No, thank you .” I don’t think I’ve ever quite experienced such a shocking display of Anglophilia as the conversation among the three theater critics of The New York Times -Ben Brantley, Vincent Canby and Peter Marks-in the Feb. 21 Arts and Leisure section. I’m sorry, attention must be paid. Messrs. Brantley, Canby and Marks, a vaudevillian act, were part of a special theater section on British theater (“Why London Now Dominates New York,” “A Parade of British Imports,” and so on). The Times celebration is part of the problem. If I were an American working and struggling in American theater, I’d be inclined to jump off Brooklyn Bridge with the farewell words: “Give us a break!” When was there ever a celebration of the enormous achievements and creativity of American theater? Messrs. Brantley, Canby and Marks-Anglophiles to a man-see only the superiority of London over New York as if they’re still colonized subjects. “Part of our embrace of the English is that in some ways we haven’t got over England,” said Mr. Marks, and no one disagreed. Gentlemen, get over it! The War of Independence was won some time ago. And all is by no means so rosy in England, or as dire here. Let me comment on a few of their points. Compared to the “energy” and “buzz” among English audiences, Broadway audiences “go anesthetized” and “they leave anesthetized.” Oh, really? Are the shaken New Yorkers coming out of, say, Death of a Salesman or Electra suffering from anesthesia? Hardly. In fact, the reverse is the truer picture: The dominantly middle-class audience in England is by no means as animated as its American counterpart. Every British director and actor I know pays tribute to the vibrant, un-English enthusiasm of New York audiences. Jonathan Kent, who runs the Almeida Theater in North London, is the director who brought the Ralph Fiennes Hamlet to Broadway, and the Diana Rigg Medea , among others. Here’s what he told me about American audiences: “We English too readily want to believe that Americans are less sophisticated than us. It’s nonsense . It’s just possible they’re less jaded than we are. English audiences have a certain knowledge, a heritage. We’re not as demonstrative as Americans, but then we’re not a demonstrative nation. But New Yorkers want to be there. They want to be part of the event. It’s not their 25th Hamlet this year. And it gives the play an exciting immediacy .” Then again, is American theater “conservative,” and English theater “fresher” and “younger”? Well, I wouldn’t say that the work of Tony Kushner, Wooster Group, Susan Lori Parks, Danny Hoch, Ellen Stewart’s La Mama, Richard Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theater or Hedwig and the Angry Inch -to name a few-is conservative. Let it pass. The last thing English theater adds up to is “younger.” Would Messrs. Brantley, Canby and Marks say that The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Oklahoma , in repertory in the two main houses of the Royal National Theater, are young ? To be sure, the Royal Court import Shopping and Fucking was young. But was it fresh? Was it any good? We tend to see the best of English theater in New York. Is it all great-as great as we are led to believe? This season alone, more than a few of us have found David Hare’s The Blue Room no masterpiece; Martin Crimp’s modern version of The Misanthrope makes one wonder how they get away with such silliness in England; Beautiful Thing , Jonathan Harvey’s slice of London working-class life and adolescent gaydom, is little more than a cozy TV sitcom compared to Diana Son’s Stop Kiss ; and the pseudo-chic prestige import of Phèdre with Diana Rigg disappointed in its 19th-century acting histrionics. Of course we get to see some terrific English actors and writers. But why this craven need to overcelebrate them at the cost of American theater? One hundred and fifty years ago, New Yorkers caused an anti-British riot about theater. (I am encouraging another today.) The notorious 1849 Astor Place riots concerned a xenophobic rivalry over two productions of Macbeth . One starred the leading English thespian of his day, William Charles Macready; the other starred the American idol Edwin Forrest. Whether the riot was purely anti-English or against English hams on tour, I leave to scholars. Either way, there were 34 deaths and 100 injuries. You see, New Yorkers felt American theater counted in them days. The riots were the subject of a wonderfully funny Richard Nelson play, Two Shakespearean Actors . Mr. Nelson, an American, has had some half-dozen of his plays commissioned and subsidized by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The British system of Arts Council subsidy went unmentioned by Messrs. Brantley, Canby and Marks-yet it accounts for the most crucial difference in our two systems. Virtually every British import has originated in its subsidized theater-from Tom Stoppard’s plays to David Hare’s, to Conor McPherson’s The Weir , to Patrick Marber’s Closer . Tony Kushner’s seminal Angels in America was produced at the National Theater before New York producers brought it home to Broadway. That says as much-if not more-about unimaginative, Anglophile ruling elites of Broadway. They shop-buying anything stamped with the English good housekeeping seal of approval. Broadway producers should invest in American talent, risk far more, and trust the intelligence of American audiences. But look a little closer at the British scene: Its Arts Council is under serious attack from the anti-elite populist Cromwellians of the Blair government. Cutbacks in subsidy have meant the decimation of the once-thriving English regional theater. The American regional powerhouses of Chicago, Washington, Seattle and the West Coast axis are, in fact, producing more and far better theater than their English counterparts. To which one might also add that the proud Royal Shakespeare Company is in financial and artistic crisis; that a new generation of English actors and directors is in revolt against the stiffly rhetorical, emotionally dead acting style of its peers; and that no major theater in London reflects multiethnic England in the dynamic way that the Public Theater truly reflects New York. They have a theater culture, we don’t! I don’t think so. They say tomah-toe, we say tamay-ter. Let’s call the whole thing off. Meanwhile, may I ask Messrs. Brantley, Canby and Marks to raise their right hand and repeat after me: “We do solemnly swear never to genuflect before British theater again. We’ll cool it. We agree Anglophilia is blind. We have seen the error of our ways. We faithfully promise to celebrate American theater. Because it is worthy of celebration, too. Because it is the right thing to do.” Follow John Heilpern via RSS.
Final plans are still being worked out for the Cooper-Hewitt Museum’s first National Design Triennial, a showcase of trends in design with an emphasis on younger talent to be held every three years, starting in March 2000. According to sources close to the museum, however, Gabellini Associateshasbeen tapped to design the show itself, which will be held in the turn-of-the-century town house the museum occupies at Fifth Avenue and 91st Street. Gabellini Associates, founded by Michael Gabellini in 1991, will also be among the 20 or so exhibitors selected to represent contemporary American architecture. New York architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, who are designing the Museum of Folk Art on West 53rd Street, have also been invited to be part of the exhibition, which will also include sections on graphic design and product design–a total of 80 exhibitors. Some of the projects that will be exhibited are still in the planning stage, some are under construction, and a few have been completed. The show is supposed to be similar in ambition to the Whitney Biennial, the museum’s assessment of the contemporary art world, held every two years, and has the potential to become as important to the careers of architects and designers as the Biennial is to artists. The entire design community is awaiting a formal announcement of the exhibitors, which they expect from the museum in late September. “No one has offered me a round-the-world tour,” said Donald Albrecht, the curator of the architecture section of the exhibit, “but I have been approached by a lot of people.” Architecture is at a crossroads right now, and the Triennial will help clarify where the future of the field lies. Mr. Gabellini, Mr. Williams and Ms. Tsien are part of a group of emerging New York architects that also includes Steven Holl and partners Henry Smith-Miller and Laurie Hawkinson (neither of whom were asked to exhibit in the Triennial). In his choices, Mr. Albrecht has already sent out a message concerning the form the architecture section of the Triennial will take. Both firms are noted for cool minimalism that is finely crafted, and for being closely aligned with the art world. Gabellini Associates has designed the new 20,000-square-foot Nicole Farhi storeonEast60th Street, the Linda Dresner and Jil Sander showrooms and the Grant Selwyn Gallery here in New York. Mr. Gabellini, 40, is a leader in a style of finely crafted architecture that is rooted in environmental art. He has publicly decried the excesses of postmodern theorists like Michael Graves and Peter Eisenman. According to sources familiar with the selection process, Mr. Eisenman will not be invited to be a part of the Triennial. Mr. Albrecht said he has tried to focus on younger architects, which is difficult in a field where those in their 40′s and 50′s are still coming into their own. He has also tried to get firms from outside of the Eastern Seaboard and the West Coast, which dominate most of the practice. “The person who follows the trade publications will not be surprised by our selections,” said Mr. Albrecht, “but we are interested in educating the general public.” The Cooper-Hewitt exhibition will underscore an easing out of the old guard in architecture, which has been dominated by postmodern theorists like Messrs. Eisenman and Graves, and formally introduce a new school. Susan Szenasy, editor in chief of the design magazine Metropolis , said she supports the direction that the Triennial appears to be taking. “Eisenman is still talking in a language that only he understands,” said Ms. Szenasy. “The new ones like Gabellini and Williams and Tsien do see the need to communicate a larger idea to the audience. They are working more like artists, and their work needs to be seen in the context of a museum. When I first started looking at the idea that architecture is an artistic statement, I said, ‘Yes, [buildings] are very artistic, but they are also functional. In the final analysis, it is art, but it is really there to be used. Artists, after all, are who still provoke us to think about who we are.’” Look, Ma, No Camera At 38, Adam Fuss is as tightly coiled as a boxer. He has closely cropped hair and a trim beard, and he speaks in a definitive English accent that has the rich, fulsome timbre of a headmaster from 100 years ago. Born in London in 1961, he grew up in a cottage at the edge of a village in West Sussex. “It was really their weekend house that they moved to after [my father] lost his business,” Mr. Fuss said of his parents’ place. On Sept. 9, Mr. Fuss (pronounced Foos) celebrated the opening of My Ghost , an exhibition of works in which he has illustrated personal memories in the antiquated style of the daguerreotype, a photograph on a metal reflective surface and the photogram, a photograph made without a camera by exposing photographic paper directly to light. The show is at Cheim & Read Gallery, 521 West 23rd Street, until Oct. 16. “The daguerreotype is the perfect medium for what I am trying to capture,” said Mr. Fuss, standing next to a photograph of a child’s toy rabbit, “because it is a mirror and a photograph at the same time, the mirror being the present and the photograph being the past–simultaneous memory, the past and the present at the same time.” Mr. Fuss’ earlier work took natural subjects and made them into abstract shapes. In his current show, there are photograms of birds in flight and plumes of smoke that represent the spirit world. Although he considers himself a modernist, he has some connection to the thinking of the symbolists and pre-Raphaelites. His show also depicts a child’s christening gown, a baby’s dress, a self-portrait of the artist and several photograms of a woman in profile. Working with such a rich narrative language is not easy for him to talk about. “I am reluctant to say too much because if I could say it, I wouldn’t be trying to make art,” he said. Pointing to a baby’s dress, he added, “It could be about a male child because the christening gown is ambiguous. So it is an empty dress. There is no human there. The idea is that the child’s body is without life. It is actually the spirit of love. It is like disembodied love without the ground, a kind of childish love, the spirit of a kind of love.” Mr. Fuss, who lives by himself in a loft in Chelsea with a black pet rabbit, explained that he began working on My Ghost in 1994. “The photographs represent a personal expression of loss,” he said, “and an attempt to express in visual terms an emotional presence of a human who is now absent.” Follow Jeffrey Hogrefe via RSS.
So George H.W. Bush used an interview with CBS News last Friday to decry the lack of civility in modern politics and to brand Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow “sick puppies.” “The way they treat my son and anyone who’s opposed to their point of view is just horrible,” the former president said of MSNBC’s primetime duo. Say what you will about Olbermann and Maddow, but there is rich irony in the former president-who has, in retirement, somehow morphed into a symbol of some bygone era of chivalry-lamenting the tone of today’s political dialogue: because he, as much as anyone else, is the one who created it. “What’s 14 inches long and hangs in front of an asshole?” Bush, according to Richard Ben Cramer’s authoritative account of the 1988 presidential campaign, asked a friendly local in Kennebunkport during that race. She beat him to the punch-line: “Oh, I’ve heard that one, George. It’s Michael Dukakis’ tie.” They both shared a good laugh over that one. How’s that for civil? And when it comes to the Bush ’88 campaign’s treatment of Dukakis, that was on the benign end of the scale. It’s not hyperbole to say that Bush’s campaign, guided by Roger Ailes and Lee Atwater, essentially wrote the modern Republican political playbook-one that relies on vilifying opponents with personal smears, turning the word “liberal” into an epithet, and fracturing the electorate with barely-concealed appeals to prejudice and racism. The Bush ’88 strategy was spawned by necessity. Contrary to the hagiography that has taken hold this decade, the country had actually grown tired of Ronald Reagan, whose second term was bogged down by revelations about arms-for-hostages dealings with Iran and an illegal war in Central America. As the ’88 primary season wrapped up, Dukakis built a solid lead over Bush in the polls-one that exploded to 17 points after that July’s Democratic convention. The issues generally favored Dukakis and voters were ready for a change, so the Bushies fought back with an unprecedented blitz of personal attacks and wedge politics. Dukakis’ patriotism was challenged with claims that he was “soft” on flag-burning and the pledge of allegiance, and-borrowing from Joe McCarthy-Bush took to referring to him as “a card-carrying member of the ACLU.” And then there was Willie Horton, the furloughed Massachusetts inmate (many states-including Reagan’s California-had furlough programs for violent offenders back then), who’d left the state on a weekend pass and committed a brutal assault and rape. A particularly menacing-looking photo of Horton’s black face became the centerpiece of an ad that purported to juxtapose Bush’s and Dukakis’s views on crime. The issue of crime, of course, had nothing to do with it; it was pure, old-fashioned race-baiting slicked up for national television. The ad was Atwater’s brainchild, though in the grand dirty-tricks tradition, he quietly set up an independent committee to fund it and played dumb when reporters asked about it. (Any doubts about Atwater’s extensive role have long since been put to rest.) Through all of this, Bush refused to condemn, or even comment on, his campaign’s actions. He was “above the fray,” he’d respond, somehow removed from culpability for the vile attack machine that was operating in his name. And he got what he wanted: The assault on Dukakis delivered a 25-point swing, with Bush winning the November election in a 40-state landslide. Somehow, the media fell for Bush’s “above the fray” nonsense, treating him-even as they pummeled him for his domestic policy failures as president-as the quintessential gentleman. One of the sad injustices of presidential politics is that Bush has enjoyed such a reputation for 20 years while the truly decent man he slimed, Dukakis, has never lived down the gruesome caricature created by the Bush machine. Oh, and about that “sick puppies” put down of Maddow and Olbermann: Just remember, this is the same George H.W. Bush who in June 1992 invited Rush Limbaugh to the White House for an overnight stay in the Lincoln Bedroom-and who personally carried Limbaugh’s bags inside when he showed up. Follow Steve Kornacki via RSS.
Richard Johnson cannot be bought! Well, he wants to be bought but he’s not allowed. Gawker reported on Friday evening that Richard Beckman, who recently picked up Janice Min for The Hollywood Reporter, tried to snag Mr. Johnson from Page Six by doubling his salary and offering him a signing bonus. All of this was fine with Mr. Johnson! Post editor Col Allan prevented the deal from going through by holding him to his contract, which will keep him around for another few years. Retention is an issue at the Post right now. Investigative reporter Murray Weiss was the latest in a series of departures from the paper in recent months, and now would be a good time for Mr. Johnson to leave Page Six. His most experienced reporter, Neel Shah, just abandoned him last month after Corynne Steindler and Paula Froehlich took off last year. Meanwhile he has formidable competition at the Daily News since Frank Digiacomo took over Gatecrasher at the beginning of June. Slightly related: Also on Friday, Page Six reported that Condé Nast employees might start to see their first raises since 2008 after the departures of Mr. Beckman and others created room in the budget. Follow Zeke Turner via RSS.
It’s the moment developers, planning geeks, and perhaps the entire city without knowing it, has been waiting for all year: the unveiling of the city’s plans, first hinted at in the mayor’s State of the City address, to remake the face of Midtown Manhattan. It is big. No, really big. Bigger than almost anything the city has ever seen. Empire State Building big. While that will not be the case for every tower that is eventually built through the program, it could be for at least a few. The parameters, unveiled at Community Board 5 last night, are close to what had been previously hinted at, an area stretching from 39th Street up to 57th Street, emanating out from Grand Central. Fifth Avenue has been eliminated from the original study area, as has the northern reaches of Third and Lexington avenues, which were considered too residential. Still, the plan affects all or part of 74 blocks in the heart of the city. Far fewer of them will be developed because a provision in the plan limits development sites to only those that stretch the length of an entire avenue blockfront, and they must sit on a site that covers at least 25,000 square feet, or a little more than half an acre. Still, that is already the case for many Midtown towers, including landmarks like the Seagram and Lipstick buildings, for example. The bigger challenge would be emptying old towers of tenants so new buildings can be built. Just how big? As suggested at another public meeting last month, the focus of the rezoning is on the blocks surrounding Grand Central Terminal as well as the length of Park Avenue to 57th Street. Surrounding avenues will see their density bumped up slightly, from a floor area ratio of 15 to 18 (excuse the technical numbers for a moment). Park Avenue and the Grand Central subdistrict, which will expand one block north to 49th Street and two blocks south to 39th Street, between Madison and Lexington Avenues, will have an FAR of 21.6. A new Grand Central core district will be created for the blocks immediately around Grand Central with an FAR of 24. (See: map.) To put that all in perspective, the massive Pan Am/MetLife tower that currently looms over Grand Central has an FAR of 18. City Planning pointed to the old Bear Stearns headquarters around the corner, at 383 Madison Avenue, as having an FAR of 21.6. One Bryant Park, just down 42nd Street, hits 24 FAR, and is one of the biggest buildings in the city. Frank Ruchala, the project manager for the rezoning from the Department of City Planning, mapped out scenarios with towers rising between 575 feet and 700 feet on Park Avenue and between 700 and 800 feet around Grand Central, approaching the height of 30 Rockefeller Center. “We think that’s what’s appropriate to build the kinds of building we need,” Mr. Ruchala said. After all, this plan is predicated on preparing the Central Business District for a major modernization over the coming decades. But the fun does not end there. All these big new buildings can be built as of right, meaning no cumbersome public reviews. But should a developer wish to aim high, really high, they can go for an additional FAR bonus, a jump to 24 along Park and around Grand Central, while the Grand Central core subdistrict, the eleven small blocks around the train station, jumps up to a whopping 30 FAR, on par with the skyline defining Empire State Building (FAR of 33, the only thing in town that comes close). As if to drive this point home, City Planning’s presentation showed a spindly tower, which looked not unlike the MoMA tower it once rejected, piercing the skyline above Grand Central. To achieve this, a developer must submit to a special permit, requiring the standard (and often torturous) public reviews. There would be a considerable emphasis on quality design, both at the top of the building, which would almost certainly take a prominent place on the skyline, as well as at the base, where “a significant public space” would be required, as Edith Hsu-Chen, director of the Department of City Planning’s Manhattan office, put it. Mr. Ruchala framed it in terms of global competitiveness. “If you look around the world, you see iconic building being built in every major city,” he said. “We invented that.” He then showed a slide of the Chrysler Building, Seagram Building and Lever House. These greater heights do not come for free, however. For a boost ranging from 25 to 100 percent of the current zoning, developers would have to buy their air rights either from local landmarks or a city-sponsored Development Investment Bonus. The numbers are still far from final on this, but the project would hope to generate many millions of dollars to fund improvements to the streets and subways. The city has only identified two projects so far, the most critical of which seems to be better routes through the Grand Central subway stations for the Lexington Ave and No. 7 trains, though attention is also being paid to stops along 53rd Street. “The 4/5/6 is at 116 percent capacity,” Raju Mann, chair of the board’s transportation committee, pointed out warily. “We need to think seriously about solving this problem, and make sure there are sufficient resources to do so.” The other big public works project—of which there could be more, the city is still soliciting ideas—is the already controversial closure of Vanderbilt Avenue. A drawing of the plan reveals that the crosstown traffic lanes will remain open, essentially creating plazas out in front of the new and old buildings, similar to Times Square but without the traffic of 7th Avenue rushing by. Access to Grand Central would still be provided by the block between 43rd and 44th streets (just missing the slightly incensed Yale Club, two of whose members spoke at the hearing). As for those old buildings not quite big enough to cash in on all the new air rights being thrown around, if they were built before the 1961 zoning code, and thus have more FAR than current zoning might allow, developers will be allowed to tear down their buildings and build to the old densities, a move seen as helping replace many outdated buildings—nearly 80 percent in the area are older than 50 years, according to the city. While supportive of the idea, the community board was taken aback by many of the proposals. “The amount of density here is incredible, and I applaud the city for being ambitious” Mr. Mann said. “But I don’t think many of the issues have been thought through that will keep Midtown from being overwhelmed.” One of the biggest issues was the decision to allow bigger buildings if their designs were deemed to be of sufficient quality. There was widespread concern about who would determine that—the City Planning Commission and the City Council—and why every building in the district should not be held to the same standard if Midtown was so important to begin with, as the city officials kept insisting. “Thirty FAR scares the hell out of me,” board member Miele Rockefeller said. Member Matthew Scheid countered that “I’m fine with 30 FAR, but I don’t understand why it’s not 40 FAR or 25 FAR. You haven’t explained the rationale for the numbers.” As with a previous meeting, historic preservation was a hot topic, with many board members concerned that there would not be enough time for the Landmarks Preservation Commission to survey and protect buildings of historical or cultural significance. Especially now, given the economic incentive developers would have to tear down their buildings, since the rezoning has been outlined, the task would be even harder. “I think there’s wide recognition that this is a special area, and there are special buildings in this area,” Edward Klimerman said. There were also widespread concerns about whether the sale of development rights would be sufficient to cover the costs of the needed improvements. “The city paid for the improvements to Times Square,” land-use vice-chair Giuseppe Scalia pointed out. “Why are developers being given millions of square feet to do it here?” But the biggest issue was not so much policy as politics. The city is putting what it calls a sunrise provision into the plan, which means that no buildings can be built under the new zoning until five years from now, in the summer of 2017. This is meant as a protection for the city’s considerable investment in Hudson Yards—Mr. Ruchala called that “our top priority”—but that left many on the board wondering why this rezoning could not simply wait five years. Their explanation, at times implicit, occasionally explicit, was that the administration, and its partners in Big Real Estate did not feel it could wait. Ms. Hsu-Chen said simply that developers needed time to plan for their projects. “There was this idea that came out in the media that we were looking to destroy half of Midtown,” Mr. Ruchala said. “We’re not looking to do that, and we don’t think that’s possible. We’re looking to create some development for the future.”
Simon discovered Work Rave recently. It’s a program similar to Xwrits which I have running on my X desktop. It forces you to take a break every so often and hopefully let your hands rest. I’ve used Xwrits for a long time now, and it’s one of those apps I wouldn’t be without. You might also like
As seen everywhere, here are the first sentences of my first post of each month in 2010. Bragging Rights Central, hockey pools, grants, visitors, quizzes, and bears – sounds about right! (But no Winter Olympics posts? That’s hardly representative of the year as a whole!) Congratulations to Massimo for winning the First Annual VWXYNot? Readers’ Choice Comment of the Year Award! Did anyone else see the Canucks-Leafs game on Saturday?! I’m currently (intermittently, half-heartedly) tidying my inbox and desk after the latest round of grant applications. One of my best friends from the UK should be landing in Vancouver in a couple of minutes, with her lovely hubby and adorable two year old son! My parents are here! As you may remember from an old post, since I moved to Canada in 2002 I’ve spent much, much more time worrying about bears than actually encountering them. My boss is a very busy man whose trainees sometimes have a hard time getting his attention. I’m back from my trip with more photos than I can reasonably fit into a blog post, so please bear with me while I attempt to cull the collection! Yes folks, it’s time for another fun quiz from my puzzle-a-day desk calendar! New archive post! First of all, many thanks to Chall and ScientistMother for hosting the last two updates! Spotted on a whiteboard in a PI’s office, written in massive letters (colours as in original): Book chapters and reviews are for people with no data - NEVER SAY YES Right, now let’s see your versions!
For more than two months now in the United States and even longer globally with protests in Egypt and Spain, for instance, a lot of attention has obviously been given to the movement to raise awareness of economic injustice. That being said, I still find a lot of people in the United States of America, the 99%, quite apathetic or at the very least unaware of the movement's developments or even how it has already changed a lot of public dialogue concerning the dismal state of economic affairs. It has educated many on subjects such as corporate personhood and the Glass-Steagall Act, and even brought more attention to alternative energy sources such as solar power in addition to economic statistics such as those highlighting the continued growing income disparity, for instance. For many of the first responders, a term used by an insightful Occupier in conversation the other night, this new way of thinking and keeping abreast of developments at the very least are daily parts of the lives of those engaged in this movement whether we occupy land, march in streets, write blogs, post video, teach workshops, perform, actively reach out to others in public, or a combination of some kind. In the spirit of expanding the awareness of what the movement is about, what it is accomplishing, what it's message is as it evolves, creativity with events, and more, I have opened a Facebook page entitled OCCUPY OUTREACH. Here is what it is about: The primary purpose of this page is to occupy an online space for sharing creative ideas and promoting created events that reach out to the global public in a variety of peaceful ways. Express yourself ethically,intelligently and simply from the heart! If you have an interest in creatively raising awareness and promoting the creative, ethical, peaceful, and intelligent elements of the Movement, I invite you to check it out. We've only just begun! IN PEACE... NOW,
of POC Using Satellite Data calibrated with Transmissometer and POC Data from JGOFS/WOCE Our group has collected transmissometer data since the early 1980's all around the world during JGOFS (North Atlantic Bloom Experiment, Equatorial Pacific, Arabian Sea, Ross Sea, Antarctic Polar front Zone-Pacific sector), WOCE (Pacific, Indian and Southern Oceans), SAVE (South Atlantic), and other programs. Many of these data have been published and a synthesis of the WOCE and JGOFS data is performed as part of this NSF-SMP grant. These data include transmissometer measurements from 51 cruises and corrected data collected (1991-1995) and BATS Fig. 1. SeaTech instrument attenuation data from the areas noted above include 6678 profiles, beginning in 1983. Measurements were made using a SeaTech transmissometer interfaced with CTD rosette. A total of 16 different instruments were used on WOCE cruises (serial ##: 15, 63D, 100D, 102D, 114D, 115, 135, 148, 151D, 152D, 156, 173D, 203D, 264AD, 265D, 266D). measures the beam attenuation coefficient in the red spectral band (l = 660 nm). Attenuation of the light beam across the transmissometer's 25 cm path length (r) was obtained using the same procedure for all cruises making the data comparable and uniform. In brief, the percent transmission (Tr) of light was measured and was converted to beam attenuation (c) using the equation c = -Ln(Tr)/r. Beam attenuation (c) is the sum of attenuation due to particles (cp), water (cw), and colored dissolved organic matter (ccdom): c = cp + cw + ccdom. According to several studies, ccdom is small enough to be ignored in measurements at 660 nm in open waters. Attenuation due to water cw is essentially constant for this instrument at a factory-calibrated value of 0.364 1/m. Transmissometer Data reduction majority of original raw transmissometer data were acquired during both down and up casts of the CTD/rosette. The down trace is generally the preferred trace because the sensors are less obstructed during descent, However, water bottles are routinely tripped during the ascent, so it is essential to record transmissometer data at the time and depth of the bottle trip. Having both down and up traces provides an opportunity to compare the two profiles to check for instrumental errors in the data and to use the up trace if there are problems with the down trace. Temperature hysteresis can cause slight differences between down and up traces, especially where temperature gradients are large (Gardner et al., 1985; Bishop, 1986). Compared to the typical signal magnitude in surface waters, the hysteresis data were sampled at high frequency (30Hz) and binned to a standard 2 db pressure interval. The data reduction procedure was applied uniformly to all data. This procedure was quite complicated and consisted of several steps briefly Raw-data files were processed using customised software algorithms, which processed down and up casts stored in these files. This processing included: Pressure checking and filtering - due to ship heave during the cast the CTD-probe sometimes experienced a brief reverse excursion, so pressure values were checked for non-monotonic values and breaks were filtered; An initial large-spike removal was performed using two filter windows depending on depth. Window size was 0.274-1.245 1/m (15300-12000 counts of the raw data) for upper 100 m depth and 0.274-0.572 1/m (15300-14200 counts) below spike checking and removal was performed using a gradient binning - data were averaged over 2 db intervals centred at the even numbers (i.e. 0, 2, 4, 6, ... db pressure), but data between 2 and 6 db were often excluded because of air bubble contamination in surface waters; Instrument calibrations - data were recalculated from the volts to the physical units using the pre-cruise, during-cruise and post-cruise calibration values. When several during-cruise calibrations were made, those values were applied according to the most closely associated Smoothing by means of a running 5-point average; (this smoothing was not done in the transmissometer data stored in the JOGFS data base) Profile minimum determination. After the first step all data were loaded into a preliminary data base for visual checking and examination which included: Checking for remaining spikes likely representative of individual large particles (see Fig. Checking for the "nose"-feature, which sometimes occurs with SeaTech instruments. The "nose" is a smooth, roughly normally-distributed (with depth) peak in beam attenuation that occurs between 200-800 m water depth (see Fig. 3). The manufacturer believes it is due to condensation on electronic components inside the instrument (not on the windows) and is most likely to occur when the instrument has been heated in the sun on the ship deck prior to deployment. Up casts seldom had the Checking for excessive noise; Checking for the necessity of a uniform profile shift, which can occur due to "dirty windows," sensor trend or instrumental offsets; After the second step data were manually edited: Final removal of any remaining spikes which passed through the software filtration; Profile editing - when profiles with artefacts such as the "nose" had no associated up profile, we eliminated the "nose" portion of the data and used the surface data and deep-water data. Assessment of general cruise trends and minimal values Fig. 4. Instrumental trend The minimum value, its depth and the station bottom depth were plotted for each profile on every cruise. This allowed detection of any cruise-long decay in the instrument settings. This cruise trend assessment was based on the minimum signal values recorded only at open-ocean, deep-water stations (see Cruise trend correction and profile normalization has been made by shifting the entire profile so that the profile's minimum value in deepwater (from the zone deeper than 750 m and more than 750 m above the seafloor) was set equal to the cruise's minimum. For the shallow-water stations the cruise-mean minimum deep-water value was E. Final database loading was performed after all the above steps have been completed. The final database for each cruise was used for further global quality checks and map and section construction. Global Quality check twenty-plus years of measurements, multiple transmissometer units have been used to collect data. Sometimes instruments have been switched within the same cruise due to malfunction or use of multiple CTDs. Therefore it is necessary to determine the variability of the data caused by using of multiple instruments. Our basic assumption has been that deep-waters are highly stable and constant in terms of hydro-optical characteristics. We used the minimum beam c values measured in deep water as an absolute minimum value of every cruise. The manufacturer (Bartz, personal communication) has used this approach and we have used it in modified ways during processing of the JGOFS transmissometer data. It has been proven to be widely applicable as long as you have some stations in deep water. 5. Crossing points a means of comparing data between cruises (which could be seasons or years apart in time), we overlay beam c profiles obtained during different cruises where stations were located in close proximity (within 1° longitude-latitude circle) to each other. We called such points "crossings". A total of 24 crossings with two or more stations measured during different cruises were chosen: 10 in the Atlantic (22 stations), 10 in the Pacific (20 stations) and 4 in the Indian (8 stations) Oceans (see Fig. Comparison of the mid-water part of the beam c profiles (~1000 m - ~4000 m) shows very good agreement of data from different cruises for nearly all crossings (see Fig. 6). Reproducibility at crossings is better when the same instrument is used rather than different instruments, suggesting there may be some instrumental differences in the data at depth. Transmissometers may be perfectly calibrated in air over a range of temperatures, but it appears that there may be different responses to pressure that cannot be easily tested for without a simultaneous full-depth deployment of instruments. We have made a few simultaneous deployments of two SeaTech transmissometers from the same production batch and found that they produced identical profiles, but that does not guarantee that all SeaTech transmissometers used would track each other throughout the entire water column. The most important data come from the upper 100 m, where the signal is strongest, and although it is not possible to distinguish between temporal and instrumental differences from these data, we do not believe there is much difference in euphotic zone data obtained with different instruments. If differences exist, they appear to occur primarily in deeper water as differing instrumental responses 6. Crossing profiles Beam Attenuation coefficient Sections of transects and some maps we have processed are placed on this CD and also can be viewed on the project web-site. One can click on any cruise-line on the map or table listed at the bottom of each page and obtain an instant view of the section of beam attenuation along that transect. Placing the mouse pointer on or off the image switches the sections from 0-500 m to 0-6000 m water layers. Images and data can be downloaded as PDF files. Some sections are also displayed as POC concentration through a conversion Regressions for different regions/programs This large data set allows us to assess the relationship between POC and beam cp in different regions and during different seasons. Since beam cp is a function of particle size, shape and index of refraction, one might expect the beam cp to POC relation to vary regionally and temporally during the cycle of a bloom and spatially as regimes with different community structures are encountered. The beam c profiles exhibit very little structure below 200-300 m except on some continental margins. In areas where resuspension of bottom sediments creates bottom nepheloid layers the beam attenuation signal increases. Regression of beam cp vs. POC does not apply on those regions because most of the material in the water is fine-grain clays, not POC. published by our group using the data included in this W.D., P.E. Biscaye, J.R.V. Zaneveld and M.J. Richardson, 1985. Calibration and comparison of the LDGO nephelometer and the OSU transmissometer on the Nova Scotian Rise. Mar. Geol. 66:323-344. W.D., M.J. Richardson, I.D. Walsh, and B.L. Berglund, 1990. In-situ optical sensing of particles for determination of oceanic processes: what satellites can't see, but transmissometers can. Oceanography 3:11-17. W.D., I.D. Walsh, and M.J. Richardson, 1993. Biophysical forcing of particle production and distribution during a spring bloom in the North Atlantic. Deep-Sea Res. M.J., G.L. Weatherly, and W.D. Gardner, 1993. Benthic storms in the Argentine Basin. Deep-Sea Res. 40:957-987. E.P., W.D. Gardner, M. J. Richardson, and M. Kominz, 1994. Abyssal currents and advection of resuspended sediment along the northeastern Bermuda Rise. Mar. W.D., S.P. Chung, M.J. Richardson, and I.D. Walsh, 1995. The oceanic mixed-layer pump. Deep-Sea Res. II 42: 757-775. I.D., S.P. Chung, M.J. Richardson and W.D. Gardner, 1995. The diel cycle in the Integrated Particle Load in the Equatorial Pacific: A Comparison with Primary Production. Deep-Sea Res. II 42: 465-477. S.P., W.D. Gardner, M.J. Richardson, I.D.Walsh, and M.R. Landry, 1996. Beam attenuation and microorganisms: Spatial and temporal variations in small particles along 140° W during 1992 JGOFS-EqPac transects. Deep-Sea Res. II 43: 1205-1226. W.D., 1997. Visibility in the ocean and the effects of mixing, Quarterdeck 5: 4-9. M.J. and W.D. Gardner, 1997. Tools of the trade, Quarterdeck D., J. Aiken, W. Balch, R. Barber, J. Dunne, W. D. Gardner, C. Garside, C. Goyet, E. Johnson, D. Kirchman, M. McPhaden, J. Newton, E. Peltzer, L. Welling, J. White and J. Yoder, 1997. A meeting place of great ocean currents: shipboard observations of a convergent front at 2° N in the Pacific. Deep-Sea Res. II I.D., W. D. Gardner, M. J. Richardson, S-P. Chung, C.A. Plattner and V. Asper, 1997. Particle dynamics as controlled by the flow field of the Eastern Equatorial Pacific. Deep-Sea Res. II 44: 2025-2047. S.P. W.D. Gardner, M.R. Landry, M.J. Richardson and I.D. Walsh, 1998. Beam attenuation by microorganisms and detrital particles in the equatorial Pacific. J. Geophysical Research 103: 12,669-12,681. J.S., W.D. Gardner, M. J. Richardson and I.D. Walsh, 1998. Effects of monsoons on the seasonal and spatial distributions of POC and chlorophyll in the Arabian Sea. Deep-Sea Res. II 45: 2103-2132. W.D., Gundersen, J.S., M. J. Richardson and I.D. Walsh, 1999. The role of diel variations in mixed-layer depth on the distribution, variation, and export of carbon and chlorophyll in the Arabian Sea. Deep-Sea Res. II 46: 1833-1858. J., L.A. Codispoti, S.L. Smith, K. Wishner, C. Flagg, W.D. Gardner, S. Gaurin, S.W.A. Naqvi, V. Manghnani, L. Prosperie and. J. Gundersen, 1999. The oxygen minimum zone in the Arabian Sea during 1995. Deep Sea Res. II 46: 1903-1931. W.D., M.J. Richardson, and W.O. Smith, 2000. Seasonal Patterns of Water Column Particulate Organic Carbon and Fluxes in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Deep-Sea Res. II, 47: 3423-3449. W.D., J.C. Blakey, I.D. Walsh, M.J. Richardson, S. Pegau, J.R.V. Zaneveld, C. Roesler, M.C. Gregg, J.A. MacKinnon, H.M. Sosik and A.J. Williams, III, 2001 (May). Optics, particles, stratification and storms on the New England continental shelf. Journal of Geophysical Research, 106: 9473-9497. E., W.S. Pegau, W.D. Gardner, J.R.V. Zaneveld, A.H.B. Barnard, M.S. Twardowski, G.C. Chang, and T.D. Dickey, 2001. The Spectral Particulate Attenuation and Particle Size Distribution in the Bottom Boundary Layer of a Continental Shelf, Journal of Geophysical Research, J., S. Gaurin, L.A. Codispoti, T. Takahashi, F.J. Millero, W.D. Gardner, and M.J Richardson, 2001. Seasonal evolution of the hydrographic properties during the Antarctic Circumpolar Current at 170° W during 1997-1998, 2001. Deep-Sea Res. II, 48: 3943-3972. W.D., M.J. Richardson, C.A. Carlson, and D.A. Hansell, A.V. Mishonov, 2003. Determining True Particulate Organic Carbon: Bottles, Pumps and Methodologies. Deep_Sea Research II, 50: 655 - 674. [PDF] A.V., W.D. Gardner, and M. J. Richardson, 2003. Remote sensing and surface POC concentration in the South Atlantic. Deep-Sea Research II, 50: 2997-3015. [PDF] Y., W.D. Gardner, and M. J. Richardson. Nepheloid layers on the central Louisiana shelf, Continental Shelf Res. (in revision). W.D. and M.J. Richardson, 1999. Temporal and spatial variability of particulate matter in the Ross Sea, Spring-Fall 1996-1997. Antarctic Journal of the U.S. W.D. A.V. Mishonov, and M.J. Richardson, 2004. 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Welcome to Whale Wednesday, the first ever hump(back) day feature devoted to cetaceans. I'm taking a cue from Oceans4Ever, the masters of alliterative weekly features, like Make a Difference Monday and Freaky Fish Friday. Hopefully this will become a semi-regular feature -- what's not to love about whales, after all? Today, three scintillating stories about cetaceans: 1. The Seattle Times reports on the first scientific review of the effort to reintegrate Keiko, the "Free Willy" orca, into the wild. The paper, which appears in the journal Marine Mammal Science, shows that while Keiko wasn't accepted by other orcas and had to be fed frozen fish until he died in 2003, he lived a longer life span than any other captive male orca. Turns out Willy's freedom was only possible on screen -- having been captured at the age of 2, he had been held in captivity too long to make it on his own. 2. As Dot Earth reports today, a new study in Marine Mammal Research suggests that blue whales could be moving into old pre-whaling migratory patterns in the Pacific. 3. An interesting post at WaterNotes about Sarah's quest to learn every species of dolphin and whale. Did you know dolphins are technically whales? One of Sarah's favorite is the pilot whale. Mine has to be the blue whale. What's yours? - Victory! Delaware Becomes Seventh State in U.S. to Ban Shark Fin Trade! Posted Thu, May 16, 2013 - It's Endangered Species Day! Posted Fri, May 17, 2013 - Stocks Show Signs of Recovery, But Still Work to Do Posted Fri, May 17, 2013 - What Do Historic CO2 Levels Mean for the Oceans? Posted Tue, May 14, 2013 - U.S. Coast Guard Captures Illegal Fishermen in Texas Posted Tue, May 14, 2013
At yesterday’s TedxOilSpill, I spoke to the crowd about the questions I hear most from people who don’t see eye to eye with me on why the disaster in the Gulf is our call to action. Here are my responses to the naysayers -- feel free to use these with any clean energy skeptic you come across. 1) Isn't the Deepwater drilling disaster just like an airplane crash? We don't shut down aviation when a plane crashes. No. In an airplane crash, most of the victims are those who were on the airplane. In this case, most of the victims are the millions of people living in the Gulf. This is more like the guy who built a campfire in the dry season, against regulations, and burned down the national forest and all the towns and cities alongside it. That's why we have regulations against building campfires during the dry season: Not because every camper burns down his campsite, but because all we need is one. We have laws against dry season campfires, and we should have laws against ocean oil drilling. 2) There are 3600 drilling platforms in the gulf. Are you going to shut them all down? We're not calling for a shutdown of the platforms, just of drilling. Once the wells are drilled, the risks go down. The pumping can continue, but the drilling has to stop. 3) So then isn't this just a deep-water problem? Can't we continue in the shallow water? Ocean drilling in shallow water is also very risky. One of the top three oil drilling disasters of all time, Ixtoc 1, was in 160 feet of water. And last August, the Montara rig blow-out near Australia, which took 11 weeks to control, was in just 250 feet of water.
Giant Manta Ray Giant Manta Ray Manta birostris Divers often describe the experience of swimming beneath a manta ray as like being overtaken by a huge flying saucer. This ray is the biggest in the world, but like the biggest shark, the whale shark, it is a harmless consumer of plankton. When feeding, it swims along with its cavernous mouth wide open, beating its huge triangular wings slowly up and down. On either side of the mouth, which is at the front of the head, there are two long paddles, called cephalic lobes. These lobes help funnel plankton into the mouth. A stingerless whiplike tail trails behind. Giant manta rays tend to be found over high points like seamounts where currents bring plankton up to them. Small fish called remoras often travel attached to these giants, feeding on food scraps along the way. Giant mantas are ovoviviparous, so the eggs develop and hatch inside the mother. These rays can leap high out of the water, to escape predators, clean their skin of parasites or communicate.
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Topics covered: Ideal solutions Instructor/speaker: Moungi Bawendi, Keith Nelson The following content is provided under a Creative Commons license. Your support will help MIT OpenCourseWare continue to offer high quality educational resources for free. To make a donation or view additional materials from hundreds of MIT courses, visit MIT OpenCourseWare at ocw.mit.edu. PROFESSOR: So. In the meantime, you've started looking at two phase equilibrium. So now we're starting to look at mixtures. And so now we have more than one constituent. And we have more than one phase present. Right? So you've started to look at things that look like this, where you've got, let's say, two components. Both in the gas phase. And now to try to figure out what the phase equilibria look like. Of course it's now a little bit more complicated than what you went through before, where you can get pressure temperature phase diagrams with just a single component. Now we want to worry about what's the composition. Of each of the components. In each of the phases. And what's the temperature and the pressure. Total and partial pressures and all of that. So you can really figure out everything about both phases. And there are all sorts of important reasons to do that, obviously lots of chemistry happens in liquid mixtures. Some in gas mixtures. Some where they're in equilibrium. All sorts of chemical processes. Distillation, for example, takes advantage of the properties of liquid and gas mixtures. Where one of them might be richer, will be richer, and the more volatile of the components. That can be used as a basis for purification. You mix ethanol and water together so you've got a liquid with a certain composition of each. The gas is going to be richer and the more volatile of the two, the ethanol. So in a distillation, where you put things up in the gas, more of the ethanol comes up. You could then collect that gas, right? And re-condense it, and make a new liquid. Which is much richer in ethanol than the original liquid was. Then you could make, then you could put some of them up into the gas phase. Where it will be still richer in ethanol. And then you could collect that and repeat the process. So the point is that properties of liquid gas, two-component or multi-component mixtures like this can be exploited. Basically, the different volatilities of the different components can be exploited for things like purification. Also if you want to calculate chemical equilibria in the liquid and gas phase, of course, now you've seen chemical equilibrium, so the amount of reaction depends on the composition. So of course if you want reactions to go, then this also can be exploited by looking at which phase might be richer in one reactant or another. And thereby pushing the equilibrium toward one direction or the other. OK. So. we've got some total temperature and pressure. And we have compositions. So in the gas phase, we've got mole fractions yA and yB. In the liquid phase we've got mole fractions xA and xB. So that's our system. One of the things that you established last time is that, so there are the total number of variables including the temperature and the pressure. And let's say the mole fraction of A in each of the liquid and gas phases, right? But then there are constraints. Because the chemical potentials have to be equal, right? Chemical potential of A has to be equal in the liquid and gas. Same with B. Those two constraints reduce the number of independent variables. So there'll be two in this case rather than four independent variables. If you control those, then everything else will follow. What that means is if you've got a, if you control, if you fix the temperature and the total pressure, everything else should be determinable. No more free variables. And then, what you saw is that in simple or ideal liquid mixtures, a result called Raoult's law would hold. Which just says that the partial pressure of A is equal to the mole fraction of A in the liquid times the pressure of pure A over the liquid. And so what this gives you is a diagram that looks like this. If we plot this versus xB, this is mole fraction of B in the liquid going from zero to one. Then we could construct a diagram of this sort. So this is the total pressure of A and B. The partial pressures are given by these lines. So this is our pA star and pB star. The pressures over the pure liquid A and B at the limits of mole fraction of B being zero and one. So in this situation, for example, A is the more volatile of the components. So it's partial pressure over its pure liquid. At this temperature. Is higher than the partial pressure of B over its pure liquid. A would be the ethanol, for example and B the water in that mixture. OK. Then you started looking at both the gas and the liquid phase in the same diagram. So this is the mole fraction of the liquid. If you look and see, well, OK now we should be able to determine the mole fraction in the gas as well. Again, if we note total temperature and pressure, everything else must follow. And so, you saw this worked out. Relation between p and yA, for example. The result was p is pA star times pB star over pA star plus pB star minus pA star times yA. And the point here is that unlike this case, where you have a linear relationship, the relationship between the pressure and the liquid mole fraction isn't linear. We can still plot it, of course. So if we do that, then we end up with a diagram that looks like the following. Now I'm going to keep both mole fractions, xB and yB, I've got some total pressure. I still have my linear relationship. And then I have a non-linear relationship between the pressure and the mole fraction in the gas phase. So let's just fill this in. Here is pA star still. Here's pB star. Of course, at the limits they're still, both mole fractions they're zero and one. OK. I believe this is this is where you ended up at the end of the last lecture. But it's probably not so clear exactly how you read something like this. And use it. It's extremely useful. You just have to kind of learn how to follow what happens in a diagram like this. And that's what I want to spend some of today doing. Is just, walking through what's happening physically, with a container with a mixture of the two. And how does that correspond to what gets read off the diagram under different conditions. So. Let's just start somewhere on a phase diagram like this. Let's start up here at some point one, so we're in the pure - well, not pure, you're in the all liquid phase. It's still a mixture. It's not a pure substance. pA star, pB star. There's the gas phase. So, if we start at one, and now there's some total pressure. And now we're going to reduce it. What happens? We start with a pure - with an all-liquid mixture. No gas. And now we're going to bring down the pressure. Allowing some of the liquid to go up into the gas phase. So, we can do that. And once we reach point two, then we find a coexistence curve. Now the liquid and gas are going to coexist. So this is the liquid phase. And that means that this must be xB. And it's xB at one, but it's also xB at two, and I want to emphasize that. So let's put our pressure for two. And if we go over here, this is telling us about the mole fraction in the gas phase. That's what these curves are, remember. So this is the one that's showing us the mole fraction in the liquid phase. This nonlinear one in the gas phase. So that means just reading off it, this is xB, that's the liquid mole fraction. Here's yB. The gas mole fraction. They're not the same, right, because of course the components have different volatility. A's more volatile. So that means that the mole fraction of B in the liquid phase is higher than the mole fraction of B in the gas phase. Because A is the more volatile component. So more, relatively more, of A, the mole fraction of A is going to be higher up in the gas phase. Which means the mole fraction of B is lower in the gas phase. So, yB less than xB if A is more volatile. OK, so now what's happening physically? Well, we started at a point where we only had the liquid present. So at our initial pressure, we just have all liquid. There's some xB at one. That's all there is, there isn't any gas yet. Now, what happened here? Well, now we lowered the pressure. So you could imagine, well, we made the box bigger. Now, if the liquid was under pressure, being squeezed by the box, right then you could make the box a little bit bigger. And there's still no gas. That's moving down like this. But then you get to a point where there's just barely any pressure on top of the liquid. And then you keep expanding the box. Now some gas is going to form. So now we're going to go to our case two. We've got a bigger box. And now, right around where this was, this is going to be liquid. And there's gas up here. So up here is yB at pressure two. Here's xB at pressure two. Liquid and gas. So that's where we are at point two here. Now, what happens if we keep going? Let's lower the pressure some more. Well, we can lower it and do this. But really if we want to see what's happening in each of the phases, we have to stay on the coexistence curves. Those are what tell us what the pressures are. What the partial pressure are going to be in each of the phases. In each of the two, in the liquid and the gas phases. So let's say we lower the pressure a little more. What's going to happen is, then we'll end up somewhere over here. In the liquid, and that'll correspond to something over here in the gas. So here's three. So now we're going to have, that's going to be xB at pressure three. And over here is going to be yB at pressure three. And all we've done, of course, is we've just expanded this further. So now we've got a still taller box. And the liquid is going to be a little lower because some of it has evaporated, formed the gas phase. So here's xB at three. Here's yB at three, here's our gas phase. Now we could decrease even further. And this is the sort of thing that you maybe can't do in real life. But I can do on a blackboard. I'm going to give myself more room on this curve, to finish this illustration. There. Beautiful. So now we can lower a little bit further, and what I want to illustrate is, if we keep going down, eventually we get to a pressure where now if we look over in the gas phase, we're at the same pressure, mole fraction that we had originally in the liquid phase. So let's make four even lower pressure. What does that mean? What it means is, we're running out of liquid. So what's supposed to happen is A is the more volatile component. So as we start opening up some room for gas to form, you get more of A in the gas phase. But of course, and the liquid is richer in B. But of course, eventually you run out of liquid. You make the box pretty big, and you run out, or you have the very last drop of liquid. So what's the mole fraction of B in the gas phase? It has to be the same as what it started in in the liquid phase. Because after all the total number of moles of A and B hasn't changed any. So if you take them all from the liquid and put them all up into the gas phase, it must be the same. So yB of four. Once you just have the last drop. So then yB of four is basically equal to xB of one. Because everything's now up in the gas phase. So in principle, there's still a tiny, tiny bit of xB at pressure four. Well, we could keep lowering the pressure. We could make the box a little bigger. Then the very last of the liquid is going to be gone. And what'll happen then is, we're all here. There's no more liquid. We're not going down on the coexistence curve any more. We don't have a liquid gas coexistence any more. We just have a gas phase. Of course, we can continue to lower the pressure. And then what we're doing is just going down here. So there's five. And five is the same as this only bigger. And so forth. OK, any questions about how this works? It's really important to just gain facility in reading these things and seeing, OK, what is it that this is telling you. And you can see it's not complicated to do it, but it takes a little bit of practice. OK. Now, of course, we could do exactly the same thing starting from the gas phase. And raising the pressure. And although you may anticipate that it's kind of pedantic, I really do want to illustrate something by it. So let me just imagine that we're going to do that. Let's start all in the gas phase. Up here's the liquid. pA star, pB star. And now let's start somewhere here. So we're down somewhere in the gas phase with some composition. So it's the same story, except now we're starting here. It's all gas. And we're going to start squeezing. We're increasing the pressure. And eventually here's one, will reach two, so of course here's our yB. We started with all gas, no liquid. So this is yB of one. It's the same as yB of two, I'm just raising the pressure enough to just reach the coexistence curve. And of course, out here tells us xB of two, right? So what is it saying? We've squeezed and started to form some liquid. And the liquid is richer in component B. Maybe it's ethanol water again. And we squeeze, and now we've got more water in the liquid phase than in the gas phase. Because water's the less volatile component. It's what's going to condense first. So the liquid is rich in the less volatile of the components. Now, obviously, we can continue in doing exactly the reverse of what I showed you. But all I want to really illustrate is, this is a strategy for purification of the less volatile component. Once you've done this, well now you've got some liquid. Now you could collect that liquid in a separate vessel. So let's collect the liquid mixture with xB of two. So it's got some mole fraction of B. So we've purified that. But now we're going to start, we've got pure liquid. Now let's make the vessel big. So it all goes into the gas phase. Then lower p. All gas. So we start with yB of three, which equals xB of two. In other words, it's the same mole fraction. So let's reconstruct that. So here's p of two. And now we're going to go to some new pressure. And the point is, now we're going to start, since the mole fraction in the gas phase that we're starting from is the same number as this was. So it's around here somewhere. That's yB of three equals xB of two. And we're down here. In other words, all we've done is make the container big enough so the pressure's low and it's all in the gas phase. That's all we have, is the gas. But the composition is whatever the composition is that we extracted here from the liquid. So this xB, which is the liquid mole fraction, is now yB, the gas mole fraction. Of course, the pressure is different. Lower than it was before. Great. Now let's increase. So here's three. And now let's increase the pressure to four. And of course what happens, now we've got coexistence. So here's liquid. Here's gas. So, now we're over here again. There's xB at pressure four. Pure still in component B. We can repeat the same procedure. Collect it. All liquid, put it in a new vessel. Expand it, lower the pressure, all goes back into the gas phase. Do it all again. And the point is, what you're doing is walking along here. Here to here. Then you start down here, and go from here to here. From here to here. And you can purify. Now, of course, the optimal procedure, you have to think a little bit. Because if you really do precisely what I said, you're going to have a mighty little bit of material each time you do that. So yes it'll be the little bit you've gotten at the end is going to be really pure, but there's not a whole lot of it. Because, remember, what we said is let's raise the pressure until we just start being on the coexistence curve. So we've still got mostly gas. Little bit of liquid. Now, I could raise the pressure a bit higher. So that in the interest of having more of the liquid, when I do that, though, the liquid that I have at this higher pressure won't be as enriched as it was down here. Now, I could still do this procedure. I could just do more of them. So it takes a little bit of judiciousness to figure out how to optimize that. In the end, though, you can continue to walk your way down through these coexistence curves and purify repeatedly the component B, the less volatile of them, and end up with some amount of it. And there'll be some balance between the amount that you feel like you need to end up with and how pure you need it to be. Any questions about how this works? So purification of less volatile components. Now, how much of each of these quantities in each of these phases? So, pertinent to this discussion, of course we need to know that. If you want to try to optimize a procedure like that, of course it's going to be crucial to be able to understand and calculate for any pressure that you decide to raise to, just how many moles do you have in each of the phases? So at the end of the day, you can figure out, OK, now when I reach a certain degree of purification, here's how much of the stuff I end up with. Well, that turns out to be reasonably straightforward to do. And so what I'll go through is a simple mathematical derivation. And it turns out that it allows you to just read right off the diagram how much of each material you're going to end up with. So, here's what happens. This is something called the lever rule. How much of each component is there in each phase? So let's consider a case like this. Let me draw yet once again, just to get the numbering consistent. With how we'll treat this. So we're going to start here. And I want to draw it right in the middle, so I've got plenty of room. And we're going to go up to some pressure. And somewhere out there, now I can go to my coexistence curves. Liquid. And gas. And I can read off my values. So this is the liquid xB. So I'm going to go up to some point two, here's xB of two. Here's yB of two. Great. Now let's get these written in. So let's just define terms a little bit. nA, nB. Or just our total number of moles. ng and n liquid, of course, total number of moles. In the gas and liquid phases. So let's just do the calculation for each of these two cases. We'll start with one. That's the easier case. Because then we have only the gas. So at one, all gas. It says pure gas in the notes, but of course that isn't the pure gas. It's the mixture of the two components. So. How many moles of A? Well it's the mole fraction of A in the gas. Times the total number of moles in the gas. Let me put one in here. Just to be clear. And since we have all gas, the number of moles in the gas is just the total number of moles. So this is just yA at one times n total. Let's just write that in. And of course n total is equal to nA plus nB. So now let's look at condition two. Now we have to look a little more carefully. Because we have a liquid gas mixture. So nA is equal to yA at pressure two. Times the number of moles of gas at pressure two. Plus xA, at pressure two, times the number of moles of liquid at pressure two. Now, of course, these things have to be equal. The total number of moles of A didn't change, right? So those are equal. Then yA of two times ng of two. Plus xA of two times n liquid of two, that's equal to yA of one times n total. Which is of course equal to yA of one times n gas at two plus n liquid at two. I suppose I could be, add that equality. Of course, it's an obvious one. But let me do it anyway. The total number of moles is equal to nA plus nB. But it's also equal to n liquid plus n gas. And that's all I'm taking advantage of here. And now I'm just going to rearrange the terms. So I'm going to write yA at one minus yA at two, times ng at two, is equal to, and I'm going to take the other terms, the xA term. xA of two minus yA of one times n liquid at two. So I've just rearranged the terms. And I've done that because now, I think I omitted something here. yA of one times ng. No, I forgot a bracket, is what I did. yA of one there. And I did this because now I want to do is look at the ratio of liquid to gas at pressure two. So, ratio of I'll put it gas to liquid, that's ng of two over n liquid at two. And that's just equal to xA of two minus yA at one minus yA at one minus yA at two. So what does it mean? It's the ratio of these lever arms. That's what it's telling me. I can look, so I raise the pressure up to two. And so here's xB at two, here's yB at two. And I'm here somewhere. And this little amount and this little amount, that's that difference. And it's just telling me that ratio of those arms is the ratio of the total number of moles of gas to liquid. And that's great. Because now when I go back to the problem that we were just looking at, where I say, well I'm going to purify the less volatile component by raising the pressure until I'm at coexistence starting in the gas phase. Raise the pressure, I've got some liquid. But I also want some finite amount of liquid. But I don't want to just, when I get the very, very first drop of liquid now collected, of course it's enriched in the less volatile component. But there may be a minuscule amount, right? So I'll raise the pressure a bit more. I'll go up in pressure. And now, of course, when I do that the amount of enrichment of the liquid isn't as big as it was if I just raised it up enough to barely have any liquid. Then I'd be out here. But I've got more material in the liquid phase to collect. And that's what this allows me to calculate. Is how much do I get in the end. So it's very handy. You can also see, if I go all the way to the limit where the mole fraction in the liquid at the end is equal to what it was in the gas when I started, what that says is that there's no more gas left any more. In other words, these two things are equal. If I go all the way to the point where I've got all the, this is the amount I started with, in the pure gas phase, now I keep raising it all the way. Until I've got the same mole fraction in the liquid. Of course, we know what that really means. That means that I've gone all the way from pure gas to pure liquid. And the mole fraction in that case has to be the same. And what this is just telling us mathematically is, when that happens this is zero. That means I don't have any gas left. Yeah. PROFESSOR: No. Because, so it's the mole fraction in the gas phase. But you've started with some amount that it's only going to go down from there. PROFESSOR: Yeah. Yeah. Any other questions? OK. Well, now what I want to do is just put up a slightly different kind of diagram, but different in an important way. Namely, instead of showing the mole fractions as a function of the pressure. And I haven't written it in, but all of these are at constant temperature, right? I've assumed the temperature is constant in all these things. Now let's consider the other possibility, the other simple possibility, which is, let's hold the pressure constant and vary the temperature. Of course, you know in the lab, that's usually what's easiest to do. Now, unfortunately, the arithmetic gets more complicated. It's not monumentally complicated, but here in this case, where you have one linear relationship, which is very convenient. From Raoult's law. And then you have one non-linear relationship there for the mole fraction of the gas. In the case of temperature, they're both, neither one is linear. Nevertheless, we can just sketch what the diagram looks like. And of course it's very useful to do that, and see how to read off it. And I should say the derivation of the curves isn't particularly complicated. It's not particularly more complicated than what I think you saw last time to derive this. There's no complicated math involved. But the point is, the derivation doesn't yield a linear relationship for either the gas or the liquid part of the coexistence curve. OK, so we're going to look at temperature and mole fraction phase diagrams. Again, a little more complicated mathematically but more practical in real use. And this is T. And here is the, sort of, form that these things take. So again, neither one is linear. Up here, now, of course if you raise the temperatures, that's where you end up with gas. If you lower the temperature, you condense and get the liquid. So, this is TA star. TB star. So now I want to stick with A as the more volatile component. At constant temperature, that meant that pA star is bigger than pB star. In other words, the vapor pressure over pure liquid A is higher than the vapor pressure over pure liquid B. Similarly, now I've got constant pressure and really what I'm looking at, let's say I'm at the limit where I've got the pure liquid. Or the pure A. And now I'm going to, let's say, raise the temperature until I'm at the liquid-gas equilibrium. That's just the boiling point. So if A is the more volatile component, it has the lower boiling point. And that's what this reflects. So higher pB star A corresponds to lower TA star A. Which is just the boiling point of pure A. So, this is called the bubble line. That's called the dew line. All that means is, let's say I'm at high temperature. I've got all gas. Right no coexistence, no liquid yet. And I start to cool things off. Just to where I just barely start to get liquid. What you see that as is, dew starts forming. A little bit of condensation. If you're outside, it means on the grass a little bit of dew is forming. Similarly, if I start at low temperature, all liquid now I start raising the temperature until I just start to boil. I just start to see the first bubbles forming. And so that's why these things have those names. So now let's just follow along what happens when I do the same sort of thing that I illustrated there. I want to start at one point in this phase diagram. And then start changing the conditions. So let's start here. So I'm going to start all in the liquid phase. That is, the temperature is low. Here's xB. And my original temperature. Now I'm going to raise it. So if I raise it a little bit, I reach a point at which I first start to boil. Start to find some gas above the liquid. And if I look right here, that'll be my composition. Let me raise it a little farther, now that we've already seen the lever rule and so forth. I'll raise it up to here. And that means that out here, I suppose I should do here. So, here is the liquid mole fraction at temperature two. xB at temperature two. This is yB at temperature two. The gas mole fraction. So as you should expect, what's going to happen here is that the gas, this is going to be lower in B. A, that means that the mole fraction of A must be higher in the gas phase. That's one minus yB. So xA is one minus -- yA, which is one minus yB higher in gas phase. Than xA, which is one minus xB. In other words, the less volatile component is enriched up in the gas phase. Now, what does that mean? That means I could follow the same sort of procedure that I indicated before when we looked at the pressure mole fraction phase diagram. Namely, I could do this and now I could take the gas phase. Which has less of B. It has more of A. And I can collect it. And then I can reduce the temperature. So it liquefies. So I can condense it, in other words. So now I'm going to start with, let's say I lower the temperature enough so I've got basically pure liquid. But its composition is the same as the gas here. Because of course that's what that liquid is formed from. I collected the gas and separated it. So now I could start all over again. Except instead of being here, I'll be down here. And then I can raise the temperature again. To some place where I choose. I could choose here, and go all the way to hear. A great amount of enrichment. But I know from the lever rule that if I do that, I'm going to have precious little material over here. So I might prefer to raise the temperature a little more. Still get a substantial amount of enrichment. And now I've got, in the gas phase, I'll further enriched in component A. And again I can collect the gas. Condense it. Now I'm out here somewhere, I've got all liquid and I'll raise the temperature again. And I can again keep walking my way over. And that's what happens during an ordinary distillation. Each step of the distillation walks along in the phase diagram at some selected point. And of course what you're doing is, you're always condensing the gas. And starting with fresh liquid that now is enriched in more volatile of the components. So of course if you're really purifying, say, ethanol from an ethanol water mixture, that's how you do it. Ethanol is the more volatile component. So a still is set up. It will boil the stuff and collect the gas and and condense it. And boil it again, and so forth. And the whole thing can be set up in a very efficient way. So you have essentially continuous distillation. Where you have a whole sequence of collection and condensation and reheating and so forth events. So then, in a practical way, it's possible to walk quite far along the distillation, the coexistence curve, and distill to really a high degree of purification. Any questions about how that works? OK. I'll leave till next time the discussion of the chemical potentials. But what we'll do, just to foreshadow a little bit, what I'll do at the beginning of the next lecture is what's at the end of your notes here. Which is just to say OK, now if we look at Raoult's law, it's straightforward to say what is the chemical potential for each of the substances in the liquid and the gas phase. Of course, it has to be equal. Given that, that's for an ideal solution. We can gain some insight from that. And then look at real solutions, non-ideal solutions, and understand a lot of their behavior as well. Just from starting from our understanding of what the chemical potential does even in a simple ideal mixture. So we'll look at the chemical potentials. And then we'll look at non-ideal solution mixtures next time. See you then.
Topics covered: Encapsulation, inheritance, shadowing Instructor: Prof. Eric Grimson, Prof. John Guttag OPERATOR: The following content is provided under a Creative Commons license. Your support will help MIT OpenCourseWare continue to offer high quality educational resources for free. To make a donation or view additional materials from hundreds of MIT courses, visit MIT OpenCourseWare at ocw.mit.edu. PROFESSOR: Last lecture we were talking about classes, and object-oriented programming, and we're going to come back to it today. I'm going to remind you, we were talking about it because we suggested it is a really powerful way of structuring systems, and that's really why we want to use it, It's a very common way of structuring systems. So today I'm going to pick up on a bunch of more nuanced, or more complex if you like, ways of leveraging the power of classes. But we're going to see a bunch of examples that are going to give us a sense. I'm going to talk about inheritance, we're going to talk about shadowing, we're going to talk about iterators. But before get to it, I want to start by just highlighting, sort of, what was the point of classes? So I'll remind you. A class, I said, was basically a template for an abstract data type. And this was really to drive home this idea of modularity. I want the ability to say, I've got a set of things that naturally belong together, I'm going to cluster them together, I want to treat it like it's a primitive, I want to treat it like it's a float or an int or a string. Is this going to be a point or a segment or something different like that. So it's really a way, as I said, of just trying to cluster data together. And this is a notion of modularity slash abstraction where I'm treating them as primitives. But the second thing we talked about is that we also have a set of methods, using the special name method because we're talking classes. But basically functions that are designed to deal with this data structure. We're trying to group those together as well. So we cluster data and methods. Second key thing we said was, in the ideal case, which unfortunately Python isn't, but we'll come back to that, in the ideal case, we would have data hiding, and by data hiding, which is sort of a version of encapsulation, what we meant was that you could only get to the internal pieces of that data structure through a proscribed method. Proscribed meaning it's something I set up. So data hiding saying, you would only access the parts through a method. And as we said, unfortunately Python does not enforce this. Meaning that I could create one of these data structures, ideally I'd have a method, that I'm going to see some examples of that I used to get the parts out, unfortunately in Python you could take the name the instance dot some internal variable you'll get it back. It is exposed. And this is actually just not a good idea. So I suggested in my very bad humor, that you practice computational hygiene and you only use appropriate methods to get the parts out. OK didn't laugh the joke last time, you're not going to laugh at it this time, I don't blame you. All right, and then the last piece of this is that we said the class is a template. When we call that class, it makes an instance. So class is used to make instances, meaning particular versions, of that structure, and we said inside the instances we have a set of attributes. Internal variables, methods, that are going to belong to that structure. OK, so with that in mind, here's what I want to do. I'm going to show you a set of examples, and I want to warn you ahead of time, the code handout today is a little longer than normal because we want to build essentially an extended example of a sequence of examples of classes. We're going to see the idea, of which we're gonna talk about, of inheritance or hierarchy, in which we can have classes that are specializations of other classes. We're gonna see how we can inherit methods, how we can shadow methods, how we can use methods in a variety of ways. So this is a way of suggesting you may find it more convenient to put notes on the code handout rather than in your own notes. Do whatever you like, but I just wanted to alert you, we're going to go through a little more code than normal. So, the little environment I'm going to build is an environment of people. I'll build a simple little simulation of people. So I'm going to start off with the first class, which I've got up on the screen, and it's on your handout as well, which is I'm going to build an instance, or a class rather, of persons. I'm going to draw a diagram, which I'm gonna try and see if I can do well, over here, of the different objects we're going to have. So I've got, a class, and by the way a class is an object. Instances are also objects, but classes are objects. We're gonna see why we want that in a second. Because I'm gonna build an object, sorry a class, called a person. Now, let's walk through some of the pieces here. The first one is, there's something a little different. Remember last time we had that keyword class and then a name, that name, in this case, person says this is the name for the class, and then we would have just had the semicolon and a bunch of internal things. Here I've got something in parens, and I want to stress this is not a variable. All right, this is not a def, this is a class. I'm going to come back to it, but what this is basically saying is that the person class is going to inherit from another class, which in this case is just the built-in Python object class. Hold on to that thought, it's going to make more sense when we look at a little more interesting example, but I want to highlight that. All right now, if we do this, as I said before, we can create a version of a person, let me just call it per, person. OK? And what we said last time is, when we wanted to create an instance inside of this class definition, we've got one of those built-in things called init. I'm gonna again remind you, some of the methods we have, Underbar underbar init is going to be the thing that creates the instance. Actually slightly misspeaking, actually Python creates the instance, but it's one thing that fills it in. So in this case, I'm going to give it 2 arguments: Frank Foobar Now, you might have said, wait a minute, init here has 3 arguments: self, family name, and first name. So again, just to remind you, what we said happens here is that when I call this class, person, I'm creating an instance. We'll draw a little instance diagram down here. I'm going to give it the name per. And I should have said inside of person, we've got a set of things. We've got our underbar underbar init, we've got, what else do I have up there? Family name. And a bunch of other methods, down to say. What happens inside of Python is, when we called the class definition, person, it creates an instance, there it is. Think of it as a pointer to a spot in memory, and then what we do is, we call, or find, that init method, up here, and we apply it. And the first argument self, points to the instance. So this object here is what self looks at. Now you can see what init's going to do. It says, oh, inside of self, which is pointing to here, let me bind a variable, which was, can read that very carefully, it's family underbar name, to the value I passed in, which was 4. Same thing with first name. OK, so the reason I'm stressing this is, self we do not supply explicitly, it is supplied as pointing to the instance, it's giving us that piece of memory. And that is what then gets created. So here's, now, the instance for per. OK, and I put a little label on there, I'm going to call that an isALink, because it is an instance of that class. God bless you. All right, so once we got this, let's look at what we can do with person. That's why I built person here. And as I said, I've already bound basically, those two pieces. If I want to get a value out, I can give person, or per, rather, this instance, a messaging. In this case I want to get family, what did I say, family name out, now, again I want to stress, what is happening here? per is an instance, it's this thing here. When I say per dot family name, I'm sending it a message, in essence what that does is, it says, from here it's going to go up the chain to this class object and find the appropriate method, which was family name. It is then going to apply that to self, which points to this instance. And that allows it, therefore, is you can see on the code, to look up under self, what's the binding for family name, and print it back up. So self is always going to point to the instance I want and I can use it. OK what else do we have in here? We can get the first name, that's not particularly interesting. We've got 2 other special methods: that's cmp and str. All right, cmp is our comparison method. And since I, I was about to say I blew it last time, I misspoke last time, a wonderful phrase that politicians like to use, I misspoke last time. Let me clarify again what cmp will do. Underbar underbar cmp is going to be the method you're going to use to compare two instances of an object. Now, let's back up for second. If I wanted to test equality, in fact I could use underbar underbar eq, under under. It's natural to think about an equality tester as returning a Boolean, it's either gonna be true or false, because something's either equal to or not. In many languages, comparisons also return Booleans, which is why I went down this slippery slope. For many languages, either it's greater than or it's not. But Python is different. Python use cmp, in fact it has a built in cmp, which is what we're relying on here. Where am I, right there. And what cmp returns is 1 of 3 values. Given 2 objects, it says if the first one is less than the second one, it returns -1, if it's equal it returns 0, if it's greater than, it returns 1. So it allows you this broader range of comparisons. And if you think about it, cmp, you could apply on integers, you could apply it on floats, apply it on strings. So it's overloaded, it has the ability to do all of those. And in this case what we're saying is, given 2 objects, let's create a tuple of the first, sorry, family and first name of ourselves, and other is another object, family and first name of that, and then just use cmp to compare them. All right, so it's going to use the base pieces. OK, so it gives me a way of doing comparisons. And str we saw last time as well, this is cmp does comparison, and str is our printed representation. OK. So what we've got now, is a simple little class. We've also got two methods there. I want to look at them, we're gonna come back to them, but they start to highlight things we can do with our classes. So I've built one simple version of it here, which is per. And notice I've got another method, right up here, called say. And say takes two arguments, for the moment the second argument, or the first argument's, not going to make a lot of sense, but say takes two arguments besides itself. It's going to take another object to which it's saying something and the thing to say. Since I only have one object here, I'm going to have person talk to himself. You may have met a few other undergraduates who have this behavior. I'll have him talk to himself and say, just some random message the faculty members occasionally worry about. OK, what does this thing do? Now you're going to see some of the power of this. Again, remember, I'm down here, I'm sending this the message say, it's going to go up the chain to find the say message in person. And what does say do, it says given another object and some string, it's going to return, oh, and interesting things, part of which you can't see on the screen. First what it does, is it gets first name of self. Remember self is pointing to this instance, so it's simply looks up that binding, which is Frank. It's going to create a string in which it adds to that the family name of self, and then another thing that says to, and then ah, I'm now going to send a message to the other object, saying give me your first name. Going to add that to the second piece, and you can see in this case it happens to be the same first and family name. And then at the end of it, which you can't see here but you can see in your handout, I just append the whole string, so it spits it out. What's the point of this, other than I can get it to say things? Notice, I can now reference values of the instance. But I can also get values of other instances, by sending in a message. And that's why we have that form right there. And then it glued all together. If you think about this for a second, you might say, wait a minute, actually you might have said wait a minute a while ago, why am I just using the variable name there in the function over here? Well in fact, I could've used the function here, first name open close, right? It would have done the same thing. But because I know I'm inside the instance, it's perfectly reasonable to just look up the value. OK, I could have, although I don't want you to do it, have done the same thing there and used underbar, sorry, first name underbar, sorry, first underbar name, but that's really breaking this contract that I want to happen. I should send the message to get the method back out. So again the standard practices is if you know you're inside the object, you can just access the values. If you're doing it with any other objects, send it a message to get it out. OK, now, that gives you an ability to say, let's look at one more example here, and then we're going to start building our hierarchy, which is, that this person can also sing. And we've got a little sing method here. And notice what it does, it's going to sing to somebody, I guess you're part of the Chorallaries. You're going to sing something, and notice what it does, it's simply going to use its say method, but add at the end of whatever's being said, just tra la la at the end. So this is now an example of a method using another method. Why would you want that? It's nice modularly. I have one method that's doing saying, I have another method that's just building on it. So if I have is person sing to themselves, not a highly recommended activity, it would help if I had it sing to itself, not sing to sing, sorry about that. Notice what it does. Looks like exactly like a say method, except it's got tra la la at the end. Don't worry I'm not going to sing to you. I'll simply say the words. Power of this, other than the silly examples. You see how I can access variables of the instance, how I can access variables of other instances, going to come back to that, and how I can use versions of my own methods to implement other methods. In this case sing is using say as part of what it wants to get out. OK, so we got a simple little example. Now, let's start adding some other pieces to this. OK, and what do I want to add. Find my spot here. OK, we're going to add an MIT person. Sorry, machine is -- do this, let's go down. OK so I'm going to add an MIT person. Look at the code for second. Aha! Notice what this says. MIT person says it inherits from person. That is, that's the first thing in parens up there. It says, you know, class of MIT person is person. What that is saying is, that this is a specialization of the person class. Or another way of saying it is, we have a super class, in this case it's person. And we have a subclass, in this case its MIT person. And we're going to walk through some examples, but what it says is that that subclass of MIT person can inherit the attributes of the person class. Can inherit the methods, it can inherit variables. OK, what does MIT person do? Well, here's 1 of the new things it does. It has a local variable called next id num, which is initially set to 0. See that up there. And then it's got some methods, it's got an init method, a get id method, a few other things. OK, let's run this. In particular, I go back down to this one. Let me just uncomment this and do it here. Assuming my machine will do what I want it to do, which it really doesn't seem to want to do today. Try one more time. Thank you, yep. Still not doing it for me, John. OK, we type it. No idea what Python doesn't like me today, but it doesn't. So we're gonna define p 1, I've lost my keyboard, indeed I have. Try one more time. p 1 MIT person, see how fast I can type here -- OK, now, let's look at what the code does, because again it's going to highlight some things. I called MIT person, push this up slightly, it's going to create an instance down here, I called p 1. And when I would do that, I'm gonna initialize it. So I've got, right up here, an initializer, init for MIT person, takes in the family name and the first name. Notice what it does. Huh. It says, if I'm sitting here at MIT person, I'm going to go up and inherit from person its init function and call it. And what am I calling it on? I'm calling it on self, which is pointing to this object, so I've still got it, and then I'm then going to apply the base initialization. And that does exactly what you'd expect, which is just going to create a binding for family name down here. As well as some other things. So this is an example of inheritance. MIT person inherits the init method from person, can get access to by simply referring to it, and I refer to it right there. And it's take the person class, get its init and apply it to my instance plus those things. So I'm just using the same piece of code Notice the second thing it does. It says inside of self, I'm going to bind the local variable id name to the value of next id name in MIT person. Self is down here, id num, sorry, not id name. I'm going to bind that to the value that I find my going up to here, which is 0, and having done that, I simply increment that value. OK? So what has this done? It says I now have captured in the class, a local variable that I can keep track of. And when I use it, every time I generate an example, let me build another one. I make p 2 another MIT person. OK, I can do things like saying, what is the id number for each of these. First one is 0, second one is 1, which makes sense, right? I'm just incrementing a global variable. Now, things I want you to see about this. Now that I've got a beginning of a hierarchy, I have this notion of inheritance. I can ask a function inside one class to use a function from a class that it can reach by going up the chain. I just did it there. I can ask it to go get values of variables, right, so that looks good. What else do we have in person or MIT person? Well, we can get the id number, we just did. We have a thing to do with this string. Notice it's going to print out something a little different. In fact, there's a kind of funky form there. Which just says, if I want to print it out, I'm gonna create, what this says to do is, I'm gonna create an output template that has that structure to it, but where I see that percent s I'm going to substitute this value for the first one, that value for the second. So if I say, what is p 1? It says ok, MIT person Fred Smith. On the other hand, if I said, what is per, which is that thing I build earlier, it had a different string method, which is just print out person, those pieces. All right, one last piece to this and we're going to add to it. Suppose I want Fred to say something. Say something to Jane. OK, he said it. Where's the say method? OK, Fred is an instance of an MIT person. where's the say method? Well, there isn't one there, but again, that's where the hierarchy comes in. Fred is this object here, I'm sending it the message say. That turns into going up the chain to this object, which is the class object, and saying find a say method and apply it to that instance. Fudge-knuckle, it ain't here. Don't worry about it, because it says if I can't find one there, I'm going to go up the chain to this method, sorry to this class, and look for a method there. Which there was one, I have a say method. It's going to use that say method. Apply to it. Well, you might say, OK, what happens if it isn't there? Well, that's where, remember I defined person to be an instance of an object, it will go up the chain one last time to the base object in Python to see is there a method there or not. Probably isn't a say method for an object, so at that point it's going to raise an exception or throw an error. But now you again see this idea that the inheritance lets you capture methods. Now you might say, why not just put a say method inside of MIT person? Well, if you wanted it to do something different, that would be the right thing to do. But the whole notion here's that I'm capturing modularity, I've got base methods up in my base class. If I just want to use them I'm just going to inherit them by following that chain, if you like, basically up the track. OK, so we've got an MIT person, we can use that. Let's add a little bit more to our hierarchy here. I'm going to create, if I can do this right, a specialization of an MIT person, which is an undergraduate. A special kind of MIT person. All right, so if I go back up here, even though my thing is not going to let me do it, let's build an undergraduate. OK, there's the class definition for an undergrad. We're just starting to see some of the pieces, right, so in an undergraduate, where am I here, an undergraduate. OK, it's also got an initialization function. So if I call undergrad, I'm gonna make an undergrad here, again let me go back down here, line ug 2 it's making undergrad, Jane Doe. Now, what happens when I do the initialization here? Notice what goes on. It simply calls the person initialization method. All right, so I'm down here. I'm going to call the person initialization method, what did do? Sorry, the MIT person method, it calls the person method. Just walking up the chain, that's going to do exactly what I did with all the other ones, so I now have a family name and a first name. So I can, for example, say family name and get it back out. All right? And then, other things that I can do, well I can set what year the person's in, I can figure out what year they're in, there's this unfortunate overflow error if you've hung around too long, but that's not going to happen to you. And I've now got a say method here, so let's look what happens if I ask the undergraduate to say something. OK, it's not a realistic dialogue I know, but, what did this method do? I asked this object to do a say. And notice what it does. It simply passes it back up to MIT person. There's that inheritance again. It's saying, I'm going to have my base say method say something. I'm going to say it to a person, but all I'm going to do because undergraduates in my experience, at least, are always very polite, I'm going to put "Excuse me but" at the front of it. OK, what am I trying to show you here? I know the jokes are awful, but what am I trying to show you here? That I can simply pass up the chain to get it. In fact, what method does the final say here? What class does it come from? Person class, yes, thank you. It goes all the way up to person, right, because MIT person didn't have a say. So I can simply walk up the chain until I find the method I want to have. Now this is an example of shadowing. Not a great example, but it's a beginning example of shadowing, in that this same method for an undergraduate, shadows the base say method, it happens to call it, but it changes it. It puts "Excuse me but" at the front, before it goes on to do something. Now again, I could have decided here to actually copy what the original say method did, stitch all the other things together. But again, that loses my modularity. I'd really to only have to change it in one place. So by putting my say method up in person, I can add these nuances to it, and it lets me have something that has that variation. If I decide I want to change what say does, I only have to change it in one place. It is in the person class definition, and everything else will follow through for free. OK, so now I've got an undergrad, right? Let's look at a couple of variations of what happens here. So first of all, I can -- yes? PROFESSOR 2: Shadowing here is often sometimes called overriding. PROFESSOR: Yes, thank you, because I'm going to do a pure example of shadowing in a second, John right. Also called overriding. Part of the reason I like the phrase shadow is, if you think about it as looking at it from this direction, you see this version of init before you see the other ones, or you see that version of say, but it is overriding the base say example. OK, so I can say, what does p 1, sorry, yes, what does undergrad look like? And I said wait a minute, MIT person, not undergrad, is that right? Well, where's the str method? I didn't define one in undergrad, so it again tracks up the chain and finds the str method here, so it's OK undergrads are MIT people most the time, so it's perfectly fine. OK, now, I have built into this also these cmp methods. So I've got two examples. I've got undergrad, or ug. And then I've got poor old Frank Foobar back there, per person. So suppose I want to compare them? What do you think happens here? Compare sounds weird, right, I compare an undergraduate to a person. I don't know what that's doing, some kind of weird psychological thing, but what do you think happens in terms of the code here if I run this. I know it's a little hard because you got a lot of code to look at. Do I have a cmp method defined somewhere? Yeah. So, it's hard to know what it's going to do, but let's look at it. Hmm. Now sometimes I type things and I got errors I don't expect, this one I did expect. So what happened here? Well let's talk about what happens if I do that comparison I was doing, what was I doing? Ug greater than per? What unwinds into is, I'm going to send to ug, that instance, a cmp method. This is really going to become something like ug dot under under cmp under under applied to per. I think that's close. What does that do? It says starting in ug, I'm going to look for the first cmp method I could find, which is actually sitting here. I had a cmp method in MIT person. If you look at your code, what does it do? It looks up the id numbers to compare them. Well the, ug has an id number because it was created along this chamber. Remember per over here was just created as a person. It doesn't have an id number, so that's why it complaints. Ok, happens if I do that? Compare per to ug. How many people think I get an error? Wow. How many people think I'm going to get either true or false out of this? A few brave hands. Why? Can I ask you, please? Why do you think I'm going to get a, doesn't matter whether it's true or false, why am I going to have something work this time that didn't work last time? PROFESSOR: Yeah, exactly. And in case you didn't hear it, thank you, great answer, sorry, terrible throw. In this case I'm using per, that's the first part, so it's not symmetric. It's gonna use per to do the look up. And as it was said there, per over here goes up and finds a cmp method here which it can apply. In that case, it simply looked at, remember, it took the tuples of first and last name which are both defined here, and did some comparison on that. So this is a way of again pointing out to you that the things are not always symmetric, and I have to be careful about where do I find the methods as I want to use them. Ok? All right. Let's add, I'm gonna do two more classes here. Let's add one more class, some people debate whether these are really people or not, but we're going to add a class called a professor. OK. Now what am I doing? I'm creating another version of class down here. Which again is an instance, or a subclass, sorry, not an instance, a subclass of an MIT person. I see that because I built it to be there. Again I've got an initialization that's going to call the person initialization, which we know is going to go up -- I keep saying that -- going to call the MIT person initialization, which is going to go up and call this one. So again I'm going to be able to find names. And I do a couple of other different things here. I'm gonna pass in a rank, full professor, associate professor, assistant professor, which I'm just going to bind locally. But I'm gonna add one other piece here, which is I'm gonna add a little dictionary on teaching. So when I create a professor, I'm gonna associate with it a dictionary that says, what have you been teaching? And then notice the methods I create. I've got a method here called add teaching, takes, obviously a pointer to the instance. A term, which will just be a string, and a subject. And let's look at what it does right here. OK. In fact the call I'm going to make, I'm not certain I'm going to be able to get away with it, my machine is still wonderfully broken, all right, it is, let me just show you what the calls would look like. As you can see here I'm not going to be able to do them. But I'm going to add teaching, as a method call with this with a string for term, and a subject number. What is this going to do? Yeah, I know I'm just worried if I restart Python, I may not be able to pull the thing back in, so I'm going to try and wing it, John, and see if I can make it happen. Right, what does that teaching do? It's got one of those try except methods. So what does it say it's going to do? It's going to go into the dictionary associated with teaching, under the value of term, and get out a list. And it's going to append to the end of the list the new subject. So it's going to be stored in there, is then going to be term, and a list of what I taught, in case I teach more than one thing each term. It's going to do that, but notice it's a try. If in fact there is no term currently in the dictionary, started out empty, it's going to throw an error, sorry, not throw an error, it's going to raise an exception. Which is a key error, in which case notice what I'm going to do, I'm not going to treat it as an error. I'm simply going to say, in that case, just start off with an empty, with an initial list with just that subject in and put it in the dictionary. As I add more things in, I'll just keep adding things to this dictionary under that term. And if I want to find out what I'm doing, well I can use get teaching, which says given the term, find the thing in the dictionary under that term and return it. If I get an error, I'm going to raise it, which says there is nothing for that term, and in that case I guess I'm just going to return none. OK? And then the other two pieces we're going to have here, and we want to look at a little more carefully, I just wanted to show you that example, is a professor can lecture, and a professor can say something. Look at the say method, because this now add one more nuance to what we want to do here. And I think in interest of making this go, let me actually, since I'm not going to get my machine to do this right, let me create a couple of professors. If I look at what that is, it's an MIT person because I didn't have any separate string thing there, and we will create a more important professor. What rank do you want, John? Do you want to stay full? PROFESSOR 2: Undergraduate. PROFESSOR: Undergraduate, right, a lot more fun I agree. Sorry about that, and we can again just see what that looks like. And that of course, we'll print out, he's also an MIT person. But now here's what I want to do. I want to say something to my good colleague Professor Guttag. Actually I'm going to start a separate -- I'm going to say something to a smart undergraduate. So if I say, remember we have ug defined as an undergraduate, let me do something a little different here. Well let, me do it that way. It says, I don't understand why you say you were enjoying 6.00. Not a good thing to say, right, but if I say to my good colleague Professor Guttag. I have to spell say right, I know, I need help with this, what can I say? We flatter each other all the time. It's part of what makes us feel good about ourselves. Why is the sky blue? I enjoyed your paper, but why is the sky blue? OK, terrible examples, but what's going on here? One more piece that I want to add. Here's my say method for professor, and now I'm actually taking advantage of to whom I am saying something. Notice again, what does it do? There's the self argument, that's just pointing to the instance of me. I'm passing in another argument, going to call it to who, in one case it was ug, in one case it was Guttag. And then the thing I want to say, ah, look what it does, it says, check the type. And the type is going to take that instance, I had an instance, for example, of a professor down here, and it's going to pick up what type of object it is. So if the type of the person I'm speaking to is undergrad, let's pause for second. Remember I started away back saying we're building abstract data types. Well, here's a great example of how I'm using exactly that, right? I've got int, I've got float, I now have ug, it's a type. So it's says if the object to whom I'm speaking is an undergrad, then use the same method from person where I'm going to put this on the front. On the other hand, if the object to whom I'm speaking is a professor, then I'm going to tag this on the front and use the underlying say method. On the other hand, if I'm speaking to somebody else, I'm just going to go lecture. All right, and when a professor lectures, they just put it's obvious on the end of things, as you may have noticed. What's the point I want you to see here? I'm now using the instances to help me to find what the code should do. I'm looking at the type. If the type is this, do that. If the type is this, do something different, ok? And I can now sort of build those pieces up. OK, I said one more class. Notice what we're doing. I know they're silly examples, but, sorry, they are cleverly designed examples to highlight key points. What I'm trying to do is show you how we have methods inherit methods, how have message shadow methods, how we have methods override methods, how we can use instances as types to define what the method should do. Let me show you one last class, because I'm gonna have one more piece that we want to use. And the last class is, sort of, once you've got a set of professors, you can have an aggregate of them. And I don't know, if a group of geese are gaggle, I don't know what a set of professors are, John. Flamers? I, you know, we've got to figure out what the right collective noun here is. We're going to call them a faculty for lack of a better term, right? Now the reason I want to show you this example is, this class, notice, it only is going to inherit from object. It actually makes sense. This is going to be a collection of things, but it's not a subclass of a particular kind of person. And what I want the faculty to do, is to be able to gather together a set of faculty. So if I go down here, grab this for second, and pull it down so you can see it. It looks like I'm not going to be able to run this because my machine is broken, but basically I'm gonna define a set of professors, and then I'm gonna create a new class called faculty. There's the definition of it. It's got an init. You can kind of see what it does. It's going to set up an internal variable called names, which is initially an empty list, internal variable called ids, which is empty, an internal variable called members, which is empty, and another special variable called place, which we're going to come back to in a second, initially bound to none. OK, I've got a method called add which I'm going to use down here to add professors to the course 6 faculty. Here's what I want to add to do. First of all, notice I'm going to check the type. If this is not a professor, I'm gonna raise an error, a type error, it's the wrong type of object to pass in. The second thing I'm gonna do is say, if that's okay, then let me go off and get the id number. Now remember, that's right up here, so I'm asking the instance of the professor to go up and get the id number. And I want to make sure I only have one instance of each professor in my faculty, so if the id number is in the list of ids already, I'm going to raise an error, sorry, raise an exception as well, saying I've got a duplicate id. OK? And the reason that's going to come up is, notice what I do now. Inside of the instant self, I take the variable names and I add to it the family name of the person I just added. OK, notice the form. I'm using the method, there's the parens to get the family name of the person. I'm just adding it to the list. I've got the id number, I've added the ids, and I add the object itself into members. So as I do this, what am I doing? I'm creating a list, actually several lists: a list of ids, a list of the actual instances, and a list of the family names. And as a cost I want to add, that's why I can check and see, is this in here already or not? Now, the last reason I want to do this is, I want to be able to support things like that. This is now different, right, this instance is a collection. I want to be able to do things like, for all the things in that collection, do something, like print out the family names. And to do that, I need two special forms: iter and next. OK, now let me see if I can say this cleanly. Whenever I use a for, in structure, even if it was on just a normal list you built, what Python is doing is returning an, what is called an iterator. Which is something that we talked earlier. It's keeping track of where are you in the list, and how do I get to the next thing in the list? I'm going to do the same thing here, and I'm going to create it for this particular structure. So this little thing iter, when I call a for something in, one of these instances, it calls iter, and notice what it does. It initializes place to 0. That was that variable I had up there. That's basically saying I'm at the beginning of the list. It's a pointer to the beginning of the list, and it returns self. Just gives me back a pointer to the instance. That now allows me at each step in that loop to call next. And what does next do? Next says, check to see if that value is too long, if it's longer than, for example, the list of names, raise an exception called stop iteration, which the for loop will use to say OK, I'm done. I'm going to break out of the for loop. Otherwise, what am I going to do? I'll increment place by 1, that's going to move me to the next place in the list, and then in this case I'll just return the instance itself, right? Members is a list of instances, place I've incremented by 1, I take 1 off of it, I get to it. So iter and next work together. Iter creates this method, that's going to give you a pointer to the place in the structure, and then next literally walks along the structure giving you the next element and returning elements in turn so you can do something with it. Right, so now what that says is, I can have classes that just have local variables. I can have classes that get methods from other variables, and I can also have classes that are collections. And I've supported that by adding in this last piece. OK once you have all of that, in principle we could start doing some fun things. So let's see what happens if we try and make all of this go. And let me, since I'm not going to be able to run it, let me simply do it this way. If I have my undergraduate, ug. I can -- sorry, let's not do it that way -- I can have undergraduate say things like -- all right, what did I just do wrong here? Do I not have undergrad defined? I do. Oh, I didn't have Grimson, sorry, it's me, isn't it? Thank you. The undergraduate very politely asks why he didn't understand, you can have the professor respond. Again, it simply puts a different thing into there. On the other hand, if Professor Guttag asks me something about understanding, I say I really like this paper on, you do not understand, it's a deep paper on programming languages 5, I think, John, isn't it? What else can you do with this thing, right? You can have an undergraduate talk to an undergraduate, in which case they're still polite. Or you could have -- sorry, let me do that the other way -- you could also have an undergraduate simply talk to a normal person. All right, but the good news is you know eventually you get it done, and when you're really done you can have the undergraduate be really happy about this, and so she sings to herself. OK it's a little silly, but notice what we've just illustrated. And this is where I want to pull it together. With a simple set of classes, and the following abilities, an ability to inherit methods from subclasses, sorry from superclasses, that is having this hierarchy of things. I can create a fairly complex kind of interaction. I can take advantage of the types of the objects to help me decide what to do. And if you think about that, I know it sounds very straightforward, but you would do exactly that if you were writing earlier code to deal with some numerical problem. All right, if the thing is an integer, do this, if it's a float, do that, if it's a string, do something else. I'm now giving you exactly the same ability, but the types now can be things that you could create. And what I've also got is now the ability to inherit those methods as they go up the chain. So another way of saying it is, things that you want to come away from here, are, in terms of these classes. We now have this idea of encapsulation. I'm gathering together data that naturally belongs as a unit, and I'm gathering together with it methods that apply to that unit. Just like we would have done with float or int. Ideally, we data hide, we don't happen to do it here, which is too bad. Basically we've got the idea of encapsulation. The second thing we've got is this idea of inheritance. Inheritance both meaning I can inherit attributes or field values. I can inherit methods by moving up the chain. I can also the shadow or override methods, so that I can specialise. And I do all of that with this nice hierarchy of classes. So what hopefully you've seen, between these two lectures, and we're going to come back to it in some subsequent lectures, is that this is now a different way of just structuring a computational system. Now, you'll also get arguments, polite arguments from faculty members or other experts about which is a better way of doing it. So I'll give you my bias, Professor Guttag will give you his bias next time around. My view, object-oriented system are great when you're trying to model systems that consist of a large number of units that interact in very specific ways. So, modeling a system of people's a great idea. Modeling a system of molecules is probably a great idea. Modeling a system where it is natural to associate things together and where the number of interactions between them is very controlled. These systems work really well. And we'll see some examples of that next week. Thanks.
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Tillerman has posted about a recent night of Laser racing and the more eventful aftermath of Laser racing at his local watering hole. He mentions his choice of personal lubricant for the evening - Long Trail Ale - a regional ale I wasn't yet familiar with. Since I'm naturally curious about worldly things, I asked Mr. Google what he could tell me about Long Trail Ale and I clicked on a web page that turned out to be one of those snooty know-it-all beer connoisseur sites. Those people are worse than the wine nuts with their oaky fruity pear and plum overtones and their noses and their finishes. Can't they just drink a brew and quietly burp like the rest of us? Do they have to interpret a beer as if it were a Jackson Pollack painting? If you like the beer, give it five stars and order another. If not, give it two stars and let it go at that. Why must you be obsessed with how long it took the somewhat moderate but not overly frothy head to settle back to three-quarters of an inch? Why would you study the pattern the foam makes on the side of a beerglass? Why must you invent more jargon to describe a simple glass of beer than phrenologists have for the bumps on your head? While looking for the lowdown on Long Trail Ale, I had to endure descriptions like this: "It's slightly sweet, but not overbearing or cloying at all" Who the freak worries about whether his beer is cloying or not? I think someone who uses words like 'cloying' probably should not be drinking beer at all. I read on through a dozen or more of these very serious reviews of Tillerman's beer, and then it hit me. They could just as easily have been describing Tillerman's blog. See for yourself: - a light to moderate touch of floral and earthy... - a crisp edge to it. It's refreshing. - anytime, anywhere, any season, any occasion. ... there's a lot of flavor here. - There's nothing in your face about it, but the balance ... is spot on perfect. - Quirky enough to be unique... - leaves you satisfied and wanting more So, can you judge a man or his blog from his beer? Has Tillerman become what he drinks? Has his beer made his blog what it is today? Is that his secret? Tillerman - the blogger that made Tiverton famous.
News & Events Ohio well represented at American Farm Bureau voting delegate session Ohio Farm Bureau members and their policy positions were well represented at the American Farm Bureau annual meeting. The delegate body accepted several Ohio resolutions, adding them to national policy. “Ohio Farm Bureau delegates were actively engaged in the policy development process at annual meeting, and spoke from the floor on several key issues including dairy policy, pharmaceutical prescriptions for animals, livestock identification and crop insurance,” said Ohio Farm Bureau Senior Director of Legislative and Regulatory Policy Yvonne Lesicko. Ohio Farm Bureau proposed resolutions accepted at the meeting including clarifying language on how family farm ownership is defined, and policy to support the use of Electronic Benefit Transfer at farm markets and farmers markets. In addition, Ohio delegates were successful in offering a policy change from the floor that would eliminate the barrier of economic modeling as a condition for consideration of a specialty crop for crop insurance. Farm bill policy also was amended to remove the specific reference to target prices and include broader language supporting risk management options. “Ohio Farm Bureau was instrumental in farm bill policy being changed,” Lesicko said.
I’ve now finished the first of three sections in Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love, and although at first I found the writing style a bit glib and Gilbert’s sense of humor a little silly, I now find myself completely won over. The book is about how Gilbert decided to spend a year traveling after suffering through a bitter divorce and a heart-wrenching affair; she travels first to Italy to find pleasure, then to India to practice devotion, and then to Indonesia to try to find a balance between the two. In the Italian section, Gilbert finds pleasure mainly by eating the best food possible in Rome and every other Italian city she travels to. She also takes joy in learning Italian, first through lessons at a language school and then simply by talking to as many Italians as she can. Part of what won me over was simply the forthright honesty with which Gilbert tells her story — she describes her horrendous divorce in ways that make it clear just how awful it was but that also don’t ask for your pity and don’t sound whiny or self-indulgent. I think her light, almost glib tone works better when she’s describing something serious; somehow the serious subject matter modulates the voice so that it comes across as brave rather than annoyingly light. But I also like the ideas she’s exploring, and, as I understand it, the next section on prayer and devotion are even more idea-driven, so I’m looking forward to it. In the Italian section, she writes a lot about the pursuit of pleasure and why she and Americans generally have such a hard time with it. These passages really spoke to me: Generally speaking, though, Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment-seeking nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one. Americans spend billions to keep themselves amused with everything from porn to theme parks to wars, but that’s not exactly the same thing as quiet enjoyment … Americans don’t really know how to do nothing. This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype — the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax. For me, though, a major obstacle in my pursuit of pleasure was my ingrained sense of Puritan guilt. Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is very American, too — the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness. Planet Advertising in American orbits completely around the need to convince the uncertain consumer that yes, you have actually warranted a special treat. I can be like this — not able to enjoy myself and relax and do nothing because I’m haunted by this feeling that I need to be using my time productively, need to be doing something worthwhile, need to be improving myself in some way. I am very much an inheritor of that Puritan guilt, the mindset and work-ethic that turns pleasure-seeking into a sin. Towards the end of the section, Gilbert writes this: It was in a bathtub back in New York, reading Italian words aloud from a dictionary, that I first started mending my soul. My life had gone to bits and I was so unrecognizable to myself that I probably couldn’t have picked me out of a police lineup. But I felt a glimmer of happiness when I started studying Italian, and when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt — this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight. Isn’t that last sentence beautiful? Seeking beauty in life is not a bad goal to have at all.
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A new play for one actor, Becoming Liv Ullmann will premiere at the 16th Annual New York International Fringe Festival – FringeNYC. The play, written and performed by Crystal Finn (Partial Comfort Productions), will be directed by Danny Mefford (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson). Becoming Liv Ullmann is a comedy about delusion, denial, and the black and white films we all should have seen but can't really remember. Crystal loves Ezra. Ezra loves Liv. Crystal will do anything to win him back-even become a Swedish movie star. Or is Liv Norwegian?! And who is this Bergman guy!? The story of one woman's descent into love, madness, and The Seventh Seal. Finn, an actress and writer, has performed locally and regionally at theatres including Clubbed Thumb, Two River Theatre, Ars Nova, Fulcrum Theatre, 59E59 Street Theaters, and Trinity Rep. She was recently seen in the Clubbed Thumb production of Ethan Lipton's Luther, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll. She is a member of Partial Comfort Productions. As a writer, she studied with Tina Howe at Hunter College, where she won the John Golden Award for Playwriting. Danny Mefford choreographed the hit musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson on Broadway, as well as the new musical February House at The Public Theater and Sarah Ruhl's Melancholy Play for 13p. As a director he works with the Joe Donovan Variety Show, having recently premiered their new show at the Ars Nova ANT festival. Finn and Mefford are longtime collaborators, having both attended the Brown/Trinity MFA program. Becoming Liv Ullmann will begin its run on August 16th at 9:15pm. Additional shows in August are on Saturday 18th at Noon, Wednesday 22nd at 3:45, Saturday 25th at 9:30, Sunday 26th at 2:15. All shows are at the First Floor Theatre at LA MAMA: 74 East 4th street between 2nd and Bowery. For more information, visit fringenyc.org or becominglivullmann.com.
How is that even possible? I know! But in the article they say "it happens all the time." ;-) Years ago I saw a T.V. network news story about a passenger on a train in France who got his arm stuck in the toilet on the train. I can't remember what the reason was that he was toilet-diving.He wasn't able to dislodge his arm, even with help, so the train made an emergency stop so maintenance people to come and take apart the toilet to get the man free of it.The kicker of the story, for me, was that the comedian Jerry Lewis was on the train. He wasn't the one who got his hand stuck in the train toilet, but I remember thinking at the time, that's just like someone Jerry Lewis would do in one of his movies. And now he's on a train where it really happens.Word verification is "feast". Funny word verification. It definitely sounds from a JL movie! ...Your news story sounds as if it could have been from a JL story, not your word verification... Post a Comment
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POTSDAM - Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo will visit Clarkson University, Potsdam, at 11 a.m. Tuesday to give his 2013 State of the State and executive budget presentation. Clarkson is serving as the regional host site for the presentation, which will take place in the Clarkson Alumni Gym. RSVPs are due by 7 p.m. Monday with ClarksonRSVP@exec.ny.gov. Requests must include the name, organization, phone number and email of the individual attending the presentation.
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Link to PDF February 23, 2009DO-09-008 Agency Heads and Designated Agency Ethics Officials Robert I. CusickDirector Authorizations Pursuant to Section 3 of Executive Order 13490, "Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Personnel" The purpose of this DAEOgram is to provide guidance to agency heads and Designated Agency Ethics Officials (DAEOs) on the application of section 3 of Executive Order 13490. As you know, section 1 of the Executive Order requires all covered appointees to abide by several commitments in an Ethics Pledge, unless they are granted a waiver under section 3. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has now designated the DAEO of each executive agency to exercise section 3 waiver authority in consultation with the Counsel to the President. This designation and the limitations on waiver authority are addressed below. DAEOs are Now Designated to Exercise Waiver Authority in Consultation with White House Counsel Section 3(a) of the Executive Order provides: The Director of the Office of Management and Budget, or his or her designee, in consultation with the Counsel to the President or his or her designee, may grant to any current or former appointee a written waiver of any restrictions contained in the pledge signed by such appointee if, and to the extent that, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, or his or her designee, certifies in writing (i) that the literal application of the restriction is inconsistent with the purposes of the restriction, or (ii) that it is in the public interest to grant the waiver. The Director of OMB has, after consultation with Counsel to the President, determined that the most appropriate designee of his authority is the Designated Agency Ethics Official (DAEO) of each executive agency. This designation reflects the high degree of trust and confidence with which the experience and professional judgment of the DAEOs are viewed. The deep agency knowledge of the DAEOs was also an important factor in the Director’s decision. Designated Agency Ethics Officials Page 2 Limitations on Exercise of Waiver Authority It is the President’s intention that waivers will be granted sparingly and that their scope will be as limited as possible. All waivers must be in writing. As specified in the Executive Order, a waiver may be granted only after consultation with the Counsel to the President and only upon the DAEO’s certification either that the literal application of the restriction is inconsistent with the purposes of the restriction or that it is in the public interest to grant the waiver. Executive Order 13490, sec. 3(b). For the latter purpose, the public interest includes, but is not limited to, exigent circumstances relating to national security or the economy. Additionally, provisions in paragraph 3 of the Pledge, which pertains to appointees who have been registered lobbyists within two years of appointment, may be waived where the appointee’s lobbying activities in connection with an agency, or on a particular matter, or in a specific issue area have been de minimis. Finally, we wish to emphasize that the legal requirement under the Executive Order of advance consultation with the Counsel to the President remains and is to be strictly enforced. Norman Eisen, the Special Counsel to the President, is the point of contact in the Office of the Counsel to the President and can be reached at (202) 456-1214 or email@example.com. To ensure that the consultation requirement is met, no waiver should ever be granted until the Special Counsel has provided a written acknowledgement affirmatively stating that the required consultation has occurred and is complete. Your OGE desk officers should also be consulted in advance with respect to all waiver issues. OGE will continue to publish additional guidance on the Pledge required by Executive Order 13490 as needed. Questions about the application of the Pledge should be referred to the OGE desk officer responsible for your agency.
Fantasy Flight obviously doesn’t have enough to do. I mean, we’ve already declared FFG the overachiever of GTS ’08 and gone down the list of planned releases. But the company obviously isn’t content to go ahead with its already impressive release schedule, and has added more to its plate: ICv2 reports an agreement with Italian game manufacturer Stratelibri to publish and distribute boardgame titles like Constantinople and recent Origins Award nominee Kingsburg. One begins to wonder how much of the increasingly ambitious schedule FFG can pull off – on time, at least. Site copyright 2001-2013 Allan Sugarbaker. Trademarks and copyrights mentioned on this page owned by their respective owners.
Museum of the Atacama Desert, Antofagasta, Chile "A window to the Universe" is one of the five permanent exhibitions installed at the Museum of the Atacama Desert (MDA), in Antofagasta (II Region of Chile). The MDA is built on the levelled area in front of the Huanchaca Ruins, the remains of a silver foundry from the beginning of the 19th century. The museum, which contains unique collections, presents to the visitor the whole history of the Atacama Desert, from its geological formation up to the present times, when it becomes an important site for ground-based astronomy. This exhibition was designed and donated by ESO as a contribution to the Region of Antofagasta. About the Image \|Release date:\|\|7 July 2010, 14:00\| \|Size:\|\|2560 x 1815 px\| About the Object • X - People and Events • X - Events
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New Albany safety Darron Lee was bound and determined to land an offer from Ohio State, and the 6-foot-2, 205-pound, athlete made a return trip to the Buckeye summer camp in an attempt to impress the staff. Once he landed his offer, Lee wasted no time in accepting it, committing within days. He could play either safety or linebacker for the Buckeyes, and could be a force on special teams as well as a freshman. BREAKDOWN: Good sized kid who has played all over the field. Shows good ball skills, hands, and timing when going up for passes. Displays a willingness to come up and hit, has good closing speed to the football, takes good angles and is a strong hitter and sure tackler. Has the frame and ability to play safety or even outside linebacker at the next level. - Allen Trieu Looking at Lee's senior highlights, he had so many big plays that if we edited them all out, his highlight tape would be over 10 minutes long. He had that big of year. He's big, athletic, shows good ball skills and his speed was on display as an offensive player. With his size and ability to run, he offers possibilities as a safety or even a linebacker down the line. He definitely showed that he's willing to come up and lay a hit. You have to love a guy who's played all over the field, returns kicks, and quarterbacks his team deep into the playoffs. There's a lot to like about Lee, and he's a guy who is going to continue to move up in the rankings. - Allen Trieu Lee On Choosing Ohio State: "I have committed to Ohio State," Lee stated. "I got the offer a short while ago, when I spoke to Coach (Luke) Fickell. He told me they were offering me a scholarship, and I couldn't believe it. Before I could even commit, Coach Fickell made me call my mom and my head coach, to tell them the news." "Once I called the both of them, I was back on the phone with Coach Fickell, and I told him I wanted to be a Buckeye," he added. "My mom and I had discussed this earlier, and the plan was always to take the offer if it came. There was no reason to wait and think it over. This is my dream come true. My mom and I knew they had limited spots, and getting a scholarship would be tough." Following his impressive performance last Saturday, Lee was told by the Ohio State linebackers coach that he would go to bat for him. Luke Fickell kept his word, which led to Lee committing to Ohio State. "A big shout out to Coach Fickell from me," Lee exclaimed. "He really went to the wall for me to get offered, and he told me he was going to fight for me to be a Buckeye. He means a lot to me, and the same for Coach (Everett) Withers and Coach (Kerry) Coombs, because they were on my side as well. Obviously, I would run through a wall for this coaching staff for giving me this opportunity." "I'm excited to play for Coach (Urban) Meyer, and he told me he was going to take the word of his coaches," he continued. "It's rewarding to play for a staff that is upfront and honest with you, and I feel blessed. I haven't had a chance to speak to Coach Meyer yet, and he is on the road so we will talk soon. I committed to Coach Fickell by phone, and he was very happy and excited."
All-girl rock group "Pragaash" disband after threats The band appeared live at the Battle of the Bands in Srinagar in December An all-girl rock group in Indian-administered Kashmir say they have disbanded after the region's most senior cleric called them "un-Islamic". "Just tell everyone we have quit. We are no more a band," one of the members of the group Pragaash told the BBC. The three teenage members say they have received threats since they appeared at a Srinagar music event in December. On Sunday the Muslim-majority state's grand mufti criticised them for what he said was indecent behaviour. "When girls and young women stray from the rightful path... this kind of non-serious activity can become the first step towards our destruction," Grand Mufti Bashiruddin Ahmad said in a statement, quoted by AFP news agency.Many others have leapt to the girls' defence, however. Support for a band which has broken with tradition has poured in from all over the state and elsewhere in India, where the story has been headline news. Pragaash made their first live appearance at the Battle of the Bands music festival in Srinagar in December. Since then, they say they have received abuse and hate mail on their Facebook page. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has promised police will investigate the threats, and has promised the state will ensure their security. "I hope these talented young girls will not let a handful of morons silence them," Mr Abdullah said on Twitter over the weekend. Jammu and Kashmir is India's only Muslim-majority state and has been the scene of a violent insurgency against Indian rule since 1989. The region has a long history of women dancing and singing in public at festivals and marriages, even though some clerics oppose such behaviour. "Singing has been a part of our culture and we have had many famous female artistes from the region," said Mehbooba Mufti, president of the opposition People's Democratic Party. A spokesman for the hardline Geelani faction of the separatist Hurriyat Conference distanced itself from the grand mufti's remarks."There is no threat to the girls. Nobody has issued any threats. It is a mere propaganda by the media," he said, adding that abuse posted on social networking sites could not be described as a threat.
Le Grand Amour 7:30 p.m., Wednesday March 20 Pierre is married to Florence. Everything is fine in their relationship and at work. Manager of his father-in-law’s factory, he spends his days signing checks and his evenings watching TV. The years pass, monotonously, until a young new secretary arrives. He falls in love with her and starts to dream… Director: Pierre Étaix 1969 France 87min. NR digital With short film Happy Anniversary 1962 12min. digital A young woman sets the table for her wedding anniversary celebration. Her husband is stuck in Paris traffic. The few remaining errands he has to make only delay him more and more. Academy Award Winner – Best Short Subject, Live Action 1963. Oklahoma City Museum of ArtPhone: 415 CouchWebsite: okcmoa.com
OKG7 things to do St. Patrick’s Day isn’t until Sunday, but Saturday is when Bricktown celebrates it with a 22nd annual block party! From noon to midnight at Sheridan and Oklahoma avenues, enjoy continuous live music from the likes of Laura Leighe pictured and Super Freak. The parade runs from 1 to 3 p.m. Admission is free, whether or not you’re wearing green. Visit bricktownokc.com.
One thing is for certain, the Kansas Jayhawks pulled out of Bramlage Coliseum Tuesday night knowing they had been in a battle. At the end of the night, KU won the game 59-55, but it was one not decided until the 3.6-second mark when Elijah Johnson made one of two free throws making it a two possession game. “We didn’t stop fighting, but we didn’t play smart enough or well enough,” said Weber of the loss that slips K-State to 15-3 and ends an eight-game win streak. “If you look at it ahead of time and you see a game in the 50s you’d feel like maybe you had a chance to get a victory.” K-State had the chance, but didn’t get the victory despite going almost everything that it took to win. • It held KU’s transition game in check, and in fact won the fast break point count, 14-6. • The ‘Cats eliminated those ally-oop dunks that the Jayhawks cash in on seemingly at the most opportune times. • The KSU defense held KU to 59 points, which was a season-low. • And, the ‘Cats turned the ball over a more than respectable 10 times. The Wildcats scraped and were in it until the end despite being out-shot 46 percent to 35 percent, and out-boarded 35-28. Defenses ruled as the 59-55 final was much like last year’s 59-53 KU win in Bramlage with those two games being two of the three lowest total scoring games in the Sunflower rivalry since 1992 when the Jayhawks won 54-52. “We relied, obviously, on the 3-ball, 30 of them, but it’s something they give you,” Weber said. “You have to hit the open ones and then you would make them defend you a little different, but we didn’t do that. “Somewhere along the line we have to get some more inside looks and we have to get some penetration to the basket,” Weber said of the lack of inside scoring. In the end, Weber said not getting enough “50-50 loose balls” was pivotal to the outcome of the game, as were the eight points off the bench by freshman Perry Ellis. Kansas shot to a 10-point lead, 53-43, at the 6:49 mark, but K-State then held the winners without a field goal until the 2:44 mark to help it climb back to within three, 56-53 at the 38-second mark before the Jayhawks put the game away at the foul line. Shane Southwell led KSU’s charge with a career-high 19 points, which included five 3-pointers. The win ended K-State’s eight-game win streak, and the win extended KU’s run to 16 games in a row. Kansas moves into first place with the win at 5-0, while K-State is now tied for second at 4-1 with Oklahoma and Baylor, while Iowa State is another half-game back at 3-1. “It’s a long journey,” Weber said of the rest of the season. “This is not the end of the season. The important thing is to get back in the gym and have good practices and get another road win at Iowa State.” Credit KU’s Travis Releford for playing stifling defense on KSU’s Rodney McGruder. K-State’s ace did score 13 points, but his first field goal didn’t come until the 1:27 mark of the first half on a transition dunk, and his first points out of offense didn’t come until early in the second half. “Starting off the first half I thought I did real well at making him uncomfortable and not letting him get easy looks at the rim,” Releford said. McGruder nailed a trio of 3-balls in the first 8:05 of the second half, but did not score again from the field as his only points came from the foul stripe with five seconds to go. McGruder finished with 4-of 12 shooting overall and 3-of-9 from 3-point range. RODRIGUEZ BREAKS KU SLUMP: In two games last year, Rodriguez played 37 minutes in the two Kansas games combined and did not score a point. In the games the Wildcat guard was a combined 0-of-12 from the field. That changed in a hurry on Tuesday as he tallied 12 of KSU’s 27 first-half points, which included 4-of-7 from 3-point range. Rodriguez ended the game with 12 points with all of those coming in the first half. He also had eight assists, two steals and two turnovers in 36 minutes of action.
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School districts in California and New Mexico are trying to ban the popular snack food Flamin’ Hot Cheetos because they say it is a health hazard to students. School officials say the concern is their nutritional value, or lack thereof. Each bag of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos contains 26 grams of fat and a quarter of the mount of salt that’s recommended for the entire day. One school district in Illinois, which used to sell about 150,000 bags each year, has already taken the snack off its menu. “If children were to bring in snacks that are high in fat, high in calories, that’s their choice,” Rockford School District Interim Superintendent Robert Willis said. “We’re not going to be providing those kinds of foods.” On top of the artificial coloring and flavoring, some experts say the Cheetos are “hyperpalatable,” meaning they’re highly addictive. “Our brain is really hardwired to find things like fat and salt really rewarding and now we have foods that have them in such high levels that it can trigger an addictive process,” said Ashley Gearhardt, a clinical psychologist at the University of Michigan. Frito Lay, which makes and sells Cheetos, says it is “committed to responsible and ethical practices, which includes not marketing our products to children ages 12 and under.” “Got my fingers stained red and I can’t get them off me. You can catch me and my crew eating hot Cheetos and takis,” one boy raps in the video. Takis are a chili pepper- and lime-flavored corn snack. The video has already been viewed more than 3.3 million times and there are even Facebook fan pages dedicated to the snack. One fan page has more than 49,000 “likes,” with many fans posting photos and videos with the snack. “Don’t feel like leaving to get food,” one person writes. “So I’m eating Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.”
As I become more and more interested in American history and archeology, I found this latest news about the USS Monitor quite fascinating: The Monitor finally sank around 1 a.m. on December 31. Twelve sailors and four officers would lose their lives. Periodicals like Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper would later publish artists' renderings and poems about the tragedy, but for families of the victims there was little solace. The exact location of the Monitor's final resting place and the crewmen who perished would remain a mystery for more than a century . . . John Byrd, director of the laboratory, says that "sunken ships can be a very, very good environment for preserving remains" because of the protective coating of silt that forms over them. This was the case inside the Monitor, where tons of coal mixed with the silt, creating an anaerobic environment that prevented chemical reactions and animal activity from destroying the skeletons.
December 18, 2012 Sandland has `pretty good idea' where he's heading TE Beau Sandland is less than 24 hours from announcing a final decision - he will sign with the school of his choice at a ceremony at his school that begins at 11:30 a.m. EST on Wednesday. So what is he saying about his finalists? Read on. ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now for a FREE Trial
There's no question one of the biggest preseason battles will revolve around short corner and who eventually replaces Asher Allen, now a rookie with the Minnesota Vikings. Although experience will be somewhat lacking, athleticism won't be in short supply. Sophomore Brandon Boykin enjoyed an outstanding spring and would appear to have the upper hand, but freshmen Branden Smith and Jordan Love both figure to get a long hard look with returnees Sanders Commings and Makiri Pugh still expected to receive opportunities of their own. Although he played sparingly his freshman yeah, Boykin did get in all 13 games last for Georgia. But he isn't taking anything for granted. He certainly doesn't believe the position is his to lose. "I don't look at it that way, that the spot is mine to lose," Boykin said. "You look at the depth chart on UGASports and it might say my name, but I know I'm going to have to go out and work hard every day because there are some other people that are right behind me wanting to play the same position and they're going to work just as hard. I'm definitely would not say that that it's mine to lose. I'm going to continue to work hard." Smith isn't taking anything for granted either. And that five-star ranking he brings to Athens? The former Washington star said it won't mean a thing when he steps foot on campus with the rest of the freshmen this weekend. "I'm ready to compete for the job," Smith said. "I know I've got to go in and prove myself to everyone, but I think I'm ready for that. I know as a freshman I have to come in and prove myself all over again, but that's fine. I'm ready to compete. I know everyone has high expectations of me and I'm going to try and prove them right by being the best I can at my position." Although Commings and Pugh will likely see most of their action at nickel back, Boykin believes that the pair could bring their own bit of flair to the position. At 6-foot-2 and 210 pounds, Boykin said that Commings can become the kind of tall, physical cornerback that will remind Georgia fans of another "big" corner - former Bulldog Paul Oliver. Although Commings is actually two inches taller that the 6-foot Oliver, approaching his third year with the San Diego Chargers, Boykin doesn't believe that added height will be a detriment in the least. "Sanders is pretty fast for his size, but he's also really strong, probably just as strong as the safeties we've got. Him at corner will be a real advantage in the running game and be able to get off blocks," Boykin said. "Whatever Coach (Willie) Martinez decides to do he's going to be pretty good, nickel or corner, he could play either one." Boykin, who made seven tackles as a backup last year, said he's looking forward to the competition, especially with Commings, one of his best friends on the team. "It's going to be pretty intense but it's going to be in fun," Boykin said. "When we went out there for pass skel on Thursday he played a lot of safety and I'm telling him what to do a lot of the time but we know that we're going to compete against each other and whatever the outcome, we'll still be friends. We're both going to be on the field regardless. That's pretty much how it's going to be." Boykin said recently he was unsure how Smith and Love would fit into the equation, but he recalls what it was like his trying to earn playing time as a freshman. It wasn't easy. "With any freshman they've got to learn the system. It takes a while to do that," Boykin said. "But when the new guys come in I'm going to try and teach them everything they need to know because they can help us out early." Boykin remembers what it was like for him. "Starting off it was kind of tough adjusting school and football, but Asher and Remarcus (Brown) really helped me out a lot," Boykin said. "I was actually playing more nickel than corner last year. I'm actually a lot more comfortable with corner but playing nickel really helped a lot with corner because now I now all the different positions." NOTE: Prince Miller returns as the starter at wide corner, with Vance Cuff ticketed for a backup role. ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now for a FREE Trial
You may have noticed that Beanblossom Hard Cider has been sold out since 2010. You’re probably thinking, “it’s summer, it’s hot & I need that perfect picnic wine!” Your tastebuds have been craving the crisp, refreshing, slightly sweet taste of fresh picked apples that pair perfectly with summer salads and turkey sandwiches. Summer just hasn’t been the same without it! Beanblossom Hard Cider fans – the wait is over! The new Beanblossom Hard Cider and it’s entourage of flavors is now available in the tasting room. This new collection of ciders boasts new packaging – 100% recyclable aluminum bottles. Yes, aluminum bottles! Perfect for all of your backyard get-togethers, outdoor recreational activities and any social encounter where adult beverages are part of the fun. This is truly a hard cider from the heartland. Crafted from the juice of fresh Midwestern apples, the Original Beanblossom Hard Cider is just how you remember it. We added 3 naturally flavored hard ciders – Peach, Raspberry & Strawberry. They are all crisp, refreshing and slightly sweet. Just like a summer beverage should be. Our staff got a preview of the hard ciders at our annual employee meeting on Wednesday and they very excited to share them with you! We are just so excited to share this new product with you. Stop in for a visit this weekend. Each delicious 500ml bottle sells for $4.00 plus tax. We are having an introductory case sale to celebrate the launch of the Beanblossom Hard Ciders. You can pick up a mixed Beanblossom Fruit Crate Mixed Case for 25% off. (Normally $48, you can enjoy a case of 12 for $36 plus tax) Instead of a “U-pick” case sale it’s a “We-pick” case sale. It is a great deal and it will give you a chance to try all 4 fancy flavors! Can’t make it to our Tasting Room in Bloomington? The Beanblossom Hard Ciders will soon be available for purchase through our website and will be coming soon to grocery and package stores near you. Visit our website for more updates.
Front Page Titles (by Subject) OF GIVING THE LIE - Essays of Montaigne, vol. 6 The Online Library of Liberty A project of Liberty Fund, Inc. OF GIVING THE LIE - Michel de Montaigne, Essays of Montaigne, vol. 6 Essays of Montaigne, vol. 6, trans. Charles Cotton, revised by William Carew Hazlett (New York: Edwin C. Hill, 1910). Part of: Essays of Montaigne, in 10 vols. About Liberty Fund: Liberty Fund, Inc. is a private, educational foundation established to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. The text is in the public domain. Fair use statement: This material is put online to further the educational goals of Liberty Fund, Inc. Unless otherwise stated in the Copyright Information section above, this material may be used freely for educational and academic purposes. It may not be used in any way for profit. OF GIVING THE LIE WELL, BUT some one will say to me, this design of making a man’s self the subject of his writing, were indeed excusable in rare and famous men, who by their reputation had given others a curiosity to be fully informed of them. It is most true, I confess and know very well, that a mechanic will scarce lift his eyes from his work to look at an ordinary man, whereas a man will forsake his business and his shop to stare at an eminent person when he comes into a town. It misbecomes any other to give his own character, but him who has qualities worthy of imitation, and whose life and opinions may serve for example: Caesar and Xenophon had a just and solid foundation whereon to found their narrations, in the greatness of their own performances; and it were to be wished that we had the journals of Alexander the Great, the commentaries that Augustus, Cato, Sylla, Brutus, and others left of their actions; of such persons men love and contemplate the very statues even in copper and marble. This remonstrance is very true; but it very little concerns me:— “I repeat my poems only to my friends, and when bound to do so; not before every one and everywhere; there are plenty of reciters in the open market-place and at the baths.” I do not here form a statue to erect in the great square of a city, in a church, or any public place:— “I study not to make my pages swell with empty trifles; you and I are talking in private:” ’tis for some corner of a library, or to entertain a neighbor, a kinsman, a friend, who has a mind to renew his acquaintance and familiarity with me in this image of myself. Others have been encouraged to speak of themselves, because they found the subject worthy and rich; I, on the contrary, am the bolder, by reason the subject is so poor and sterile that I cannot be suspected of ostentation. I judge freely of the actions of others; I give little of my own to judge of, because they are nothing: I do not find so much good in myself, that I cannot tell it without blushing. What contentment would it not be to me to hear any one thus relate to me the manners, faces, countenances, the ordinary words and fortunes of my ancestors? how attentively should I listen to it! In earnest, it would be evil nature to despise so much as the pictures of our friends and predecessors, the fashion of their clothes and arms. I preserve their writing, seal, and a particular sword they wore, and have not thrown the long staves my father used to carry in his hand, out of my closet:— “A father’s garment and ring is by so much dearer to his posterity, as there is the greater affection towards parents.” If my posterity, nevertheless, shall be of another mind, I shall be avenged on them; for they cannot care less for me than I shall then do for them. All the traffic that I have in this with the public is, that I borrow their utensils of writing, which are more easy and most at hand; and in recompense shall, peradventure, keep a pound of butter in the market from melting in the sun:— “Let not wrappers be wanting to tunnyfish, nor olives; . . . and I shall supply loose coverings to mackerel.” And though nobody should read me, have I wasted time in entertaining myself so many idle hours in so pleasing and useful thoughts? In moulding this figure upon myself, I have been so often constrained to temper and compose myself in a right posture, that the copy is truly taken, and has in some sort formed itself; painting myself for others, I represent myself in a better coloring than my own natural complexion. I have no more made my book than my book has made me: ’tis a book consubstantial with the author, of a peculiar design, a parcel of my life, and whose business is not designed for others, as that of all other books is. In giving myself so continual and so exact an account of myself, have I lost my time? For they who sometimes cursorily survey themselves only, do not so strictly examine themselves, nor penetrate so deep, as he who makes it his business, his study, and his employment, who intends a lasting record, with all his fidelity, and with all his force. The most delicious pleasures digested within, avoid leaving any trace of themselves, and avoid the sight not only of the people, but of any other person. How often has this work diverted me from troublesome thoughts? and all that are frivolous should be reputed so. Nature has presented us with a large faculty of entertaining ourselves alone; and often calls us to it, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but chiefly and mostly to ourselves. That I may habituate my fancy even to meditate in some method and to some end, and to keep it from losing itself and roving at random, ’tis but to give to body and to record all the little thoughts that present themselves to it. I give ear to my whimsies, because I am to record them. It often falls out, that being displeased at some action that civility and reason will not permit me openly to reprove, I here disgorge myself, not without design of public instruction: and also these poetical lashes:— “A slap on his eye, a slap on his snout, a slap on Sagoin’s back,” imprint themselves better upon paper than upon the flesh. What if I listen to books a little more attentively than ordinary, since I watch if I can purloin anything that may adorn or support my own? I have not at all studied to make a book, but I have in some sort studied because I had made it; if it be studying to scratch and pinch now one author, and then another, either by the head or foot, not with any design to form opinions from them, but to assist, second, and fortify those I already have embraced. But whom shall we believe in the report he makes of himself in so corrupt an age? considering there are so few, if any at all, whom we can believe when speaking of others, where there is less interest to lie. The first thing done in the corruption of manners is banishing truth; for, as Pindar says, to be true is the beginning of a great virtue, and the first article that Plato requires in the governor of his Republic. The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe; as we generally give the name of money not only to pieces of the just alloy, but even to the false also, if they will pass. Our nation has long been reproached with this vice; for Salvianus of Marseilles, who lived in the time of the Emperor Valentinian, says that lying and forswearing themselves is with the French not a vice, but a way of speaking. He who would enhance this testimony, might say that it is now a virtue in them; men form and fashion themselves to it as to an exercise of honor; for dissimulation is one of the most notable qualities of this age. I have often considered whence this custom that we so religiously observe should spring, of being more highly offended with the reproach of a vice so familiar to us than with any other, and that it should be the highest insult that can in words be done us to reproach us with a lie. Upon examination, I find that it is natural most to defend the defects with which we are most tainted. It seems as if by resenting and being moved at the accusation, we in some sort acquit ourselves of the fault; though we have it in effect, we condemn it in outward appearance. May it not also be that this reproach seems to imply cowardice and feebleness of heart? of which can there be a more manifest sign than to eat a man’s own words—nay, to lie against a man’s own knowledge? Lying is a base vice; a vice that one of the ancients portrays in the most odious colors when he says, “that it is to manifest a contempt of God, and withal a fear of men.” It is not possible more fully to represent the horror, baseness, and irregularity of it; for what can a man imagine more hateful and contemptible than to be a coward towards men, and valiant against his Maker? Our intelligence being by no other way communicable to one another but by a particular word, he who falsifies that betrays public society. ’Tis the only way by which we communicate our thoughts and wills; ’tis the interpreter of the soul, and if it deceive us, we no longer know nor have further tie upon one another; if that deceive us, it breaks all our correspondence, and dissolves all the ties of government. Certain nations of the newly discovered Indies (I need not give them names, seeing they are no more; for, by wonderful and unheard-of example, the desolation of that conquest has extended to the utter abolition of names and the ancient knowledge of places) offered to their gods human blood, but only such as was drawn from the tongue and ears, to expiate for the sin of lying, as well heard as pronounced. That good fellow of Greece said that children are amused with toys and men with words. As to our diverse usages of giving the lie, and the laws of honor in that case, and the alteration they have received, I defer saying what I know of them to another time, and shall learn, if I can, in the meanwhile, at what time the custom took beginning of so exactly weighing and measuring words, and of making our honor interested in them; for it is easy to judge that it was not anciently amongst the Romans and Greeks. And it has often seemed to me strange to see them rail at and give one another the lie without any quarrel. Their laws of duty steered some other course than ours. Caesar is sometimes called thief, and sometimes drunkard, to his teeth. We see the liberty of invective they practised upon one another, I mean the greatest chiefs of war of both nations, where words are only revenged with words, and do not proceed any farther.
Front Page Titles (by Subject) CHAP. IX.: Of Vegetables, or Plants. - The Works, vol. 2 An Essay concerning Human Understanding Part 2 and Other Writings Return to Title Page for The Works, vol. 2 An Essay concerning Human Understanding Part 2 and Other Writings The Online Library of Liberty A project of Liberty Fund, Inc. Search this Title: Also in the Library: CHAP. IX.: Of Vegetables, or Plants. - John Locke, The Works, vol. 2 An Essay concerning Human Understanding Part 2 and Other Writings The Works of John Locke in Nine Volumes, (London: Rivington, 1824 12th ed.). Vol. 2. About Liberty Fund: Liberty Fund, Inc. is a private, educational foundation established to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. The text is in the public domain. Fair use statement: This material is put online to further the educational goals of Liberty Fund, Inc. Unless otherwise stated in the Copyright Information section above, this material may be used freely for educational and academic purposes. It may not be used in any way for profit. Of Vegetables, or Plants. Next to the earth itself, we may consider those that are maintained on its surface; which, though they are fastened to it, yet are very distinct from it; and those are the whole tribe of vegetables or plants. These may be divided into three sorts, herbs, shrubs, and trees. Herbs are those plants whose stalks are soft, and have nothing woody in them, as grass, sowthistle, and hemlock. Shrubs and trees have all wood in them; but with this difference, that shrubs grow not to the height of trees, and usually spread into branches near the surface of the earth, whereas trees generally shoot up in one great stem or body, and then, at a good distance from the earth, spread into branches; thus gooseberries, and currants, are shrubs; oaks, and cherries, are trees. In plants, the most considerable parts are these, the root, the stalk, the leaves, the flower, and the seed. There are very few of them that have not all these parts, though some there are that have no stalk; others that have no leaves; and others that have no flowers. But without seed or root I think there are none. In vegetables, there are two things chiefly to be considered, their nourishment and propagation. Their nourishment is thus: the small and tender fibres of the roots, being spread under ground, imbibe, from the moist earth, juice fit for their nourishment; this is conveyed by the stalk up into the branches, and leaves, through little, and, in some plants, imperceptible tubes, and from thence, by the bark, returns again to the root; so that there is in vegetables, as well as animals, a circulation of the vital liquor. By what impulse it is moved, is somewhat hard to discover. It seems to be from the difference of day and night, and other changes in the heat of the air; for the heat dilating, and the cold contracting those little tubes, supposing there be valves in them, it is easy to be conceived how the circulation is performed in plants, where it is not required to be so rapid and quick as in animals. Nature has provided for the propagation of the species of plants several ways. The first and general is by seed. Besides this, some plants are raised from any part of the root set in the ground; others by new roots that are propagated from the old one, as in tulips; others by offsets; and in others, the branches set in the ground will take root and grow; and last of all, grafting and inoculation, in certain sorts, are known ways of propagation. All these ways of increasing plants make one good part of the skill of gardening; and from the books of gardeners may be best learnt.

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