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Hat-tricks: (2) Sep 6, 2008 v Bristol Rovers (h) League One & Nov 10, 2007 v Wrexham (FA Cup).
Best scoring run: 5 games (6 goals) Mar 31 2007-Apr 21 2007.
1 Stunning volley in 5-0 win at Oldham in February 2011.
2 Mazy dribble on his way to a hat-trick in front of live TV cameras against Bristol Rovers in September 2008.
3 Great chase of a lost cause and excellent finish in front of live TV cameras in a 4-4 draw with Southampton in League One in February, 2011. Typical Mackail-Smith.
Most important goal: Second goal in 2-0 win over MK Dons in League One play-off semi-final in May, 2011. It put Posh 4-3 up on aggregate.
A young Winston Churchill once wrote that "Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." In Southern California, we can feel the same way when the ground starts to quake and we ride the earth like buckaroos until the shaking is over. The renowned U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Lucy Jones has studied our earthquakes, and gone on television time and again to give us information and comfort. Now the "Earthquake Lady" is retiring – but s till kind of wishing, in the nicest possible way, for a chance to experience a Big One.
First, I'm going to use the phrase "the big one" in a different context. I want to ask you about another "big one," which is the big lesson of what your years of science and research have taught you about human nature.
I think one of the more interesting things I've done in the last decade is really get more informed about what social science tells us about how people feel about disasters. Psychologists have shown that people don't make rational decisions about the risks they face. Even in Southern California, we have killed more Southern Californians with landslides and floods than we have with earthquakes. But who's afraid of the rain?
I always try to remind people that the week of the Northridge earthquake [in 1994], more people died in an ice storm on the East Coast than in the earthquake. Earthquakes are not a big threat to our lives. They are a threat to our pocketbooks, and they're a threat to the viability of the economy of Southern California. But you're far more likely to die on the freeway. In fact you're far more likely to be murdered than you are to die in an earthquake.
And they've actually been able to show what are the things that make us afraid: it's unpredictability, unseen, not-understood dreadedness of the outcome. The one other thing that pushes everybody's buttons is intentionality. So when you look at how we respond to the terrorist threat, it's nothing about the actual physical risk to your life. It is about the psychological damage that somebody's out to get us – and out to get us because of who we are. Earthquakes trigger all these buttons, and so we're afraid.
So when I give the earthquake a name and I give it a number and I give it a fault, we're saying, somebody understands what's going on here and that's reassuring.
I remember when I first heard people say, Oh, it's so important to see you, it's so comforting after the earthquake. And I'm going, what? I'm telling you there's going to be aftershocks, and that's comforting? And yet it is because it's saying there's order to it. And I think on a fundamental level, we feel better when mommy tells us it's okay than when daddy does.
People still ask, What does it measure on the Richter scale? Poor Charles Richter: the phrase is entrenched but seismologists don't find it very useful any more.
Charlie Richter took it from the magnitude of stars. He'd been trained as an astrophysicist. He was trying to help people understand that what happened in the earthquake was not just what you feel.
But what's happened now is people don't know how to talk about what they feel. I can't tell you how many people have said, Okay so it was a magnate 6.7 in Northridge, but what was it at my house?
I'd like to see us, if I could wave a magic wand and change how we talk about earthquakes, get rid of magnitudes. It's just a completely arbitrary scale that really doesn't mean anything. And since that time, we have come up with a way of measuring the earthquake. We call it the seismic moment. We actually proposed that we could create a unit called the Aki. Keiiti Aki was a professor, first at MIT then at USC, who created the concept of seismic moment.
So we could have an Aki and a kilo-Aki and a mega-Aki and a micro-Aki. Because the range of earthquakes, from the smallest you can feel to the biggest we have in the world, is about 15 orders of magnitude, and we try to describe that between a magnitude 2 to a magnitude 9.
You know, actually: This is a micro-Aki, this is an Aki, this is a mega-Aki – that gives people a better feeling of how big the difference is. And then we can reserve the simple numbers, one two three four five six seven eight nine, for the intensity.
I think it would remove a lot of the misinterpretation, but it's a very big change. And most of my colleagues go, But people know magnitude! And I'm like, Yeah, but I don't think they understand it.
In the movie "L.A. Story," there was a scene most Angelenos cherish, where a group of people is sitting at brunch, an earthquake hits, and Steve Martin guesses at the magnitude – with great aplomb, I have to say.
The best way to guess the magnitude is to count how long it lasts, because as you get to the bigger earthquakes, they last for a longer time. I can remember the Landers earthquake – Landers is '92, two years before the Northridge earthquake – 7.3 was the final magnitude. I was lying in bed and I started counting. I counted up to 30 seconds before I got out of bed. So I knew it was bigger than magnitude 7 before I even got out of bed.
How has technology changed your job, both the communications aspect and the science?
Oh, it's changed it fundamentally. And the field has changed completely because of it. When I first started, I spent months pulling out magnetic tapes downloading seismograms, reading the records to locate earthquakes. Doing that same paper that took me six months of work – now, that part of the work would happen in a day.
Actually, I have found Twitter wonderful because I can go and respond on Twitter and just give the magnitude, say where I expect for aftershocks, say what fault it is, and I'm in control of exactly how it's phrased. I have to get it down to 140 characters, but I'm sure I'm not going to be misquoted then.
This is kind of a ghoulish question, I suppose, but is there one earthquake in California you wish you could be around to witness if you had the opportunity?
Oh, I want to see the San Andreas earthquake. I mean, I don't want to do it to people, but given that it has to happen, I really hope I'm still alive when it comes along, because we're going to learn a lot about it.
They still do have earthquakes in the east. You get a three-point-something in New York, and it would be blazing headlines.
Earthquakes in the east get felt over a larger area. An earthquake happens on a fault, and that puts off energy just like snapping your fingers: you slip across your fingers and you create a soundwave. You slip across a fault, and you create a soundwave that travels through the earth.
How it travels depends on what the earth is like. Here in California, our rocks are young and relatively hot and broken up with lots and lots of faults. So just like a cracked bell, it's not a very good transmitter of energy and you don't have to get very far away from the fault and have the shaking be a lot less.
On the east coast, rocks are older and colder and harder and less faults, so when the energy gets put into the crust there, it tends to transmit it very easily. We see relatively small earthquakes felt over a much larger area.
The Washington Monument got damaged.
At 80 miles away from a 5.8. Eighty miles away from a 5.8 in California, you might not feel it.
Is there a really good earthquake joke or cartoon – a cartoon you've got on the fridge or on the door of your office?
I don't have any cartoons. Most of them seem to be the same joke I've heard 500 times: it's not my fault, and that sort of thing. But I did keep a sign for quite a while that I saw at my stepmother's office.
My stepmother is a biologist at Santa Monica College, and her office was destroyed in Northridge [earthquake] and they had to relocate and rebuild the building. And somebody had put up the sign that "Earthquakes are the way the earth relieves stress by transferring it to those who live on it." That one I kept around.
Of course earthquakes are great fodder for movies, and there are some that do a good job and some that don't.
More that don't! I go, why are you trying to learn your science from a Hollywood movie? Do not take this seriously!
Now, there are some [filmmakers] that have worked with us and tried to get it accurate. Sometimes it's very frustrating to me because I think we could make a great movie while being completely legitimate in the science.
The one movie that I thought got it the best, that you've got to go back in time to, is the 1974 "Earthquake" movie with Charlton Heston. The whole damage part was what those disaster movies do, but the beginning of the movie – with the scientists getting worried and going and talking to the mayor – it wasn't that they were saying, I know an earthquake's gonna happen. They were saying, Something's happening and I don't know what it means. That was the realistic one.
You know, it's a funny thing, and I think it's connected to how little we educate people about earthquakes. If you look at the California state curriculum, the only mention of earthquakes is that in sixth grade, you learn that they result from plate tectonics.
I think that our citizens need to know more than that to live with them. And I think the impoverishment of our movies is a reflection of an impoverishment of education.
You spent time in the mayor's office and you saw some of what you alluded to – the scientists and the engineers – and you saw the other side of that triangle, which is the politics and the lobbying and the economic forces that are at work.
A large part of what I did in the mayor's office was getting out and talking with groups, talking with the engineers, talking with building owners, talking with the LA Conservancy, talking with business owners, and saying, This isn't about whether or not you have to spend a certain amount of money on a building. This is about whether we will have a functioning economy after the earthquake.
And when you put it in that context, and help take them through, treat them as adults, give them the full info, we didn't end up with opposition.
The building owners and management associations stood up with the mayor and said, Yes, this is going to cost us $5 billion, it's what LA needs.
Aha, the magic eyes of the geologist!
The magic eyes of the geologist. Do you get to switch them off, or are they always on?
I remember being in El Paso, all those unreinforced masonry buildings, and I was like, Oooh, they don't' have earthquakes, gotta remember they don't have earthquakes. And then they had a magnitude 5 two weeks after I was there! It was far enough out of town that it didn't actually bring down those buildings.
The places you can go that don't have earthquakes tend to have hurricanes or really bad snowstorms. I'll take the earthquakes.
You'll be retiring from this job but still working, still keeping your hand in.
I have spent 33 years as a government employee, a federal research scientist, and it's time to have space for younger ones.
And I've reached the point in my career that what really interests me now is implementing this work. I'm going to start by writing a book, that's the first thing. And I hope to be spending time working with policy people, with my fellow scientists, about how to communicate but really focus on the science communication, because I think as we further disrupt the earth's climate, our population has to understand the science or we're going to destroy the world.
And you're going to work on your music, too.
When I was in college, I took Chinese, physics and Renaissance music. I wondered at one point whether I was going to go into the Foreign Service, become a research scientist, or become a classical musician. I finally decided that being a professional scientist and an amateur musician was a better-paying option than a professional musician and an amateur scientist. And I was a better scientist than I am a musician. But in my adult years, and with the children now out of the house, and more time, I've gone back to playing the viola da gamba. And it's very soothing to the soul.
Football supporters watching the England and Wales matches during the group stages of Euro 2016 saw alcohol marketing almost once a minute during game play, a charity has said.
With French laws banning alcohol sponsorship of sporting events and alcohol advertising on television, the Euro 2016 sponsor Carlsberg replaced its brand name on pitch-side digital boards with one of its well-known slogans, in the brand’s font, Alcohol Concern said.
Over the five group matches played by England and Wales – including the game between them that ended in a 2-1 victory for England – these slogans were seen 392 times, the charity said. This equated to an average of 78.4 a game, or once every 72 seconds.
Tom Smith, the director of campaigns at Alcohol Concern, said: “The volume of alcohol marketing in sport, especially in football, which is popular with children and younger people, is enormous. We already know from our previous research that half of children associate leading beers with football.
He said the government should phase out alcohol marketing from sport, as it has done with tobacco.
On Saturday, May 16, the Red Bank-based nonprofit Lunch Break will hold the 2015 edition of Foodstock, a community food drive. The event will take place at Red Bank Middle School (101 Harding Road) from 10:30 am until 3:00 pm. The collection goal for this year is 100,000 pounds.
The 2015 Foodstock will include refreshments, live entertainment and children’s activities, with all members of the community encouraged to bring your family and friends, enjoy good music and good food, and be a part of a good cause — an organization that acts as the first line of defense for thousands of vulnerable residents of Monmouth and Ocean Counties, and serves more and more people each year.
Click the graphic to enlarge for details on the 2015 Food and Fund Drive, including a list of the most needed items, and the 100,000 Pound Challenge matching donations campaign.
According to Lunch Break executive director Gwen Love, in 2014 more than 1,000 families depended on Lunch Break’s pantry each and every month for groceries to feed their families. That amounts to hundreds of thousands of pounds of food which Lunch Break must purchase at local and national retailers and wholesalers, as well as the FoodBank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties. This means there is a constant need for food to stock the pantry shelves. Summer is especially difficult, with schools closed and many people on vacation — but hunger doesn’t take the summer off.
For more than 32 years Lunch Break has provided, free of charge, life’s basic necessities for community members in need, including clothing and fellowship in addition to food. In 2014, along with having served nearly 63,000 hot meals and provided groceries for families from the pantry, Lunch Break also offered internet access for job seekers; employment information; social, health and wellness recources; everyday as well as professional and special occasion clothing; the Adopt-A-Family holiday gift program; cooking classes for children; Community Dinners; a weekly Community Gardener’s Market; disaster relief when needed; and a place for guests and clients to gather for fellowship, hope, laughter, compassion, and more.
If you are unable to come to the May 16 event, Foodstock donations can be delivered, from now through June 30, directly to Lunch Break’s donation area at the rear of 121 Drs. James Parker Boulevard in Red Bank. Donations are accepted Monday through Friday from 9 am to 2 pm and on Saturday from 9 am to noon. If you have more than 300 pounds of food, or too much for you to physically handle, please call in advance of your arrival at (732)747-8577 extension 3102, and help will be arranged.
If you would like more information about the Foodstock food drive and/or the event, please visit the Lunch Break website or e-mail mjeter@lunchbreak.org. Lunch Break can be found on Facebook, and followed on Twitter.
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Aussie has continued to consolidate within this zone with price turning sharply from resistance today. As it stands, the pair is poised to post an outside-day reversal and leaves the immediate threat lower against today’s highs. That said, we’re still only playing within the broader range as price continues to coil- stay nimble. Intraday trading levels remain unchanged from this week’s AUD/USD Technical Outlook.
Yesterday we highlighted a key weekly support zone in Kiwi at 6663 heading into the RBNZ interest rate decision – price has made a decisive break below this threshold and the break of a multi-week consolidation pattern leaves the pair vulnerable to further losses while below 6700. Look for a weekly close sub-6660 to offer further conviction here.
Price is testing interim support here at the 1.618% extension at 6616- could get a near-term rebound here but looking to fade strength sub-6675 targeting the 76.4% retracement / triangle measured move at 6515/71.
We are soliciting manuscripts to be featured in the inaugural issue of the Museum of Science Fiction’s Journal of Science Fiction (MOSF Journal of Science Fiction, http://publish.lib.umd.edu/scifi/index), to be released in January 2016. The MOSF Journal of Science Fiction is completely Open Access—there are no submission or subscription fees required.
We are particularly interested in works that offer insight into the myriad facets of science fiction in all its different manifestations as well as works emphasizing the interdisciplinary and innovative history of science fiction.
Science fiction transcends boundaries of the imagination; thus, submissions from all academic fields are welcome and will undergo the same review process.
Please send a letter of inquiry to the Managing Editor of MOSF Journal of Science Fiction if you are interested in submitting book reviews, academic columns, or short essays; articles may be submitted unsolicited.
Manuscripts should be submitted as .doc, .docx, or .rtf files. All submissions should be in APA style. The text of the manuscript and the reference list should be submitted as a single file. Article manuscripts should be 5,000 to 8,000 words long.
Please submit manuscripts through the MOSF Journal of Science Fiction website. More details about submission formatting requirements, authors’ publication rights, and the peer review process are also available through this site.
Please contact Monica Louzon (monica.louzon@museumofsciencefiction.org) if you have any further questions.
technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) areas, the Museum uses tools such as mobile applications and wifi-enabled display objects to engage and entertain.
MOSF Journal of Science Fiction seeks to uphold the spirit of educated inquiry and speculation through the publication of peer-reviewed, academic articles, essays and book reviews exploring the myriad facets of science fiction. The journal welcomes unsolicited, original submissions from academics around the world, with an emphasis on the interdisciplinary and innovative history of science fiction. Issues are published three times a year and each issue will feature 8 to 12 academic articles.
There seems to be a glitch in this website today. Every time I log in under Disqus, it tells me I have 2 new messages. I check them and the 2 goes away, but the next time I log in the 2 is back, and it’s the same 2 messages.
Learn how to produce music like a pro.
To produce good music, you need a good set of tools. Artists require a bevy of instruments and technology to create and mix songs, but at the center of it all is the digital audio workstation (DAW). Perhaps the most crucial part of a producer's setup, the DAW is an electronic device or application software designed to compose, record, edit, and mix audio. It also serves as a receptacle of all the audio elements you want to incorporate in a track, which you then arrange and harmonize to make music magic.
Now there's a plethora of DAWs available on the market, but one of the most revered software in the music industry is Ableton Live. Used by heavy-hitters like Daft Punk, Skrillex, Diplo, Deadmau5, and Kaskade, it's filled to the brim with effects, instruments, sounds, and a myriad of extra creative features to help artists make the best music.
Considering all of Ableton Live's bells and whistles, it can be intimidating for a beginner—or for anyone using it for the first time for that matter—to navigate and manage the program without proper guidance. And that's why there's the Ableton Live Mastery Bundle by Noiselab, which will supply you with the training you need to create music from scratch using the app. You can get it right now at the Popular Mechanics Shop for $30.
To be the best, you also need to learn from the best, which is why this extensive training bundle is exclusively taught by Noiselab, a community of Ableton producers and electronic musicians. Courses are led by Ableton live-certified trainers who all possess impressive industry credentials. These instructors have worked with some of the biggest artists in the industry, including Nine Inch Nails, Skylar Grey, The Mars Volta, and more.
The Ableton Live Mastery Bundle includes ten courses and over 22 hours of insight. On top of providing you with tips and tricks on how to use the software, you'll also get a primer on the anatomy of a hit song, so you can produce one on your own. You'll then come to grips with different production processes, including sound design, stereo imaging, and synthesis. There's also a course on putting together a live set, which would be helpful if you wish to perform live using the app in the future.
The Ableton Live Mastery Bundle by Noiselab is only $30 right now.
Offensive lineman Aaron Neary, a member of the Rams’ practice squad, was arrested Sunday in Simi Valley on suspicion of misdemeanor driving under the influence and hit and run, a police spokesman said.
Neary, 25, was arrested at 7:24 p.m. after the Simi Valley Police Department received calls that a car was being driven erratically near Royal Avenue and Sinaloa Road and had struck a bus stop sign and other objects, the spokesman said.
Neary’s blood alcohol level test was 0.17, the spokesman said. It is illegal to drive with a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.08 or higher.
A Rams spokesman said the team was aware of the incident but declined further comment.
The 6-foot-4, 300-pound Neary played in one game for the Rams last season. He was waived after training camp but was re-signed to the practice squad.
Neary has a court date of Nov. 15, according to the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department website.
Following are application deadlines for awards, honors, and contests available to teachers. Asterisks (*) denote new entries.
The International Reading Association offers the Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award to a doctoral student whose research focuses on the reading/literacy field or has implications in reading. Dissertations must have been completed between May 15, 1999, and May 14, 2000. For more information, contact: Gail Keating, Division of Research and Policy, International Reading Association, 800 Barksdale Rd., P.O. Box 8139, Newark, DE 19714-8139; (302) 731- 1600, ext. 226; fax (302) 731-1057; e-mail [email protected]; www.reading.org.
The Entomological Society of America sponsors awards for educators who use insects in the classroom. The society recognizes two teachers: one from grades K-6 and one from grades 7-12. The winners receive an expenses-paid trip to the ESA annual meeting. Their schools receive a $400 grant for supplies. To apply, teachers submit seven copies of materials and letters documenting an original activity, lesson, or exercise using insects in the classroom. For more information, contact: Prizes for Primary and Secondary Teaching Committee, Entomological Society of America, 9301 Annapolis Rd., Lanham, MD 20706; (301) 731-4535; fax (301) 731-4538; e-mail [email protected].
Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge seeks nominations for the Valley Forge 24th Annual Leavey Awards for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education. These awards honor full-time K-12 educators and college or university professors who conceive and implement an innovative course, program, or project that fosters a better understanding of America's private enterprise system. Up to 20 educators receive $7,500 each; a special award of $15,000 may be given for an unusually meritorious entry. Eligible programs must have been launched or operated during the 1999-2000 academic year. Entries may be submitted by instructor teams or individuals. For more information, contact: Debbie Bathen, Director of Awards, Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, 1601 Valley Forge Rd., P.O. Box 706, Valley Forge, PA 19482-0706; (610) 933-8825; fax (610) 935-0522; e- mail [email protected]; www.freedomsfoundation.com.
The Science Screen Report Inc., in conjunction with the National Science Teachers Association, sponsors the Science Screen Report Award. K-12 science teachers who have used commercially available films or videos to develop a science unit or theme are encouraged to apply. One winner receives $1,000, plus up to $500 to attend the NSTA convention in St. Louis. For more information, contact: National Science Teachers Association Award Programs, 1840 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22201-3000; (703) 243-7100; fax (888) 400-NSTA; www.nsta.org.
The International Reading Association and TLC School, a division of the Learning Company Inc., an educational software publisher, announce the 2001 Presidential Award for Reading and Technology. Educators creatively using technology to help students read are encouraged to apply. One grand- prize winner receives a laptop computer and $1,000 of reading software from the Learning Company. The winner also attends an expenses-paid trip to the IRA's annual conference in New Orleans. Up to seven regional winners from the U.S., one winner from Canada, and one winner outside North America each receive $500 of reading software. Individuals may nominate themselves or others; all nominees must be full-time educators who work directly with students ages 5-18. For more information, contact: Executive Office, International Reading Association, P.O. Box 8139, Newark, DE 19714-8139; (302) 731-1600, ext. 221; fax (302) 731-1057; e-mail [email protected].