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A 30 60 90 triangle is a special type of right triangle. What is special about 30 60 90 triangles is that the sides of the 30 60 90 triangle always have the same ratio. Therefore, if we are given one side we are able to easily find the other sides using the ratio of 1:2:square root of three. This special type of right triangle is similar to the 45 45 90 triangle.
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In honor of the 30th anniversary of the iconic Reebok Classic Leather style, the brand has collaborated with graffiti pioneer Stash to recruit 12 other pre-eminent graffiti artists from around the world to design exteriors for the limited edition Reebok City Classics capsule collection. Participating artists include Wane (New York City), Eklips (Los Angeles), Pose (Chicago), Mad (Philadelphia), Tati (Miami), Totem (Atlanta), Da Flow (Mexico City), Sick Systems (Moscow), Rae Martini (Milan), Rimo (Tokyo), Monster (Paris) and Swifty (London).
Each has a unique pedigree. The paintings of Totem, from Atlanta, have been displayed in galleries across the globe. His signature is a robotic armored typeface, called the Mechanical Battle serif.
Pose founded the Chicago-based design and art firm We Are Supervision and works in commercial and fine art as a member of the West Coast artist collective The Seventh Letter.
The only woman in the bunch, Tatiana "Tati" Suarez is a Miami native, based in Brooklyn. Her colorful interpretation for Reebok, contrasted with gray suede uppers, is one of my favorites.
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FALFURRIAS, Texas—On a Wednesday morning in February, a bicyclist pedaling past a crossroads spotted something in the tall weeds that has become common here: a dead body.
The dead man was flat on his back, his hands hard by his sides and his face blank. Law-enforcement officials speculate he was an illegal immigrant from Central America left behind by human smugglers. They still don't know his name.


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- Ads began to appear on December 31 and were removed Friday, Yahoo says
- Yahoo's servers released a kit that exploited Java and installed malware
- An IT security firm estimates tens of thousands of users were affected per hour
A malware attack hit Yahoo's advertising server over the last few days, affecting thousands of users in various countries, an Internet security company said.
In a blog post, Fox-IT said Yahoo's servers were releasing an "exploit kit" that exploited vulnerabilities in Java and installed malware.
"Clients visiting yahoo.com received advertisements served by ads.yahoo.com," the Internet security company said. "Some of the advertisements are malicious."
Fox-IT, which is based in the Netherlands, focuses on cyber defense. It estimates that tens of thousands of users were affected per hour.
"Given a typical infection rate of 9%, this would result in around 27,000 infections every hour," the company said. "Based on the same sample, the countries most affected by the exploit kit are Romania, Great Britain and France. At this time it's unclear why those countries are most affected, it is likely due to the configuration of the malicious advertisements on Yahoo."
If a computer infected with malware is connected to a network, attackers can often access other connected systems and servers.
Yahoo said it is aware of the attack and is monitoring and blocking such advertisements.
"At Yahoo, we take the safety and privacy of our users seriously," it said in a prepared statement Monday. "From December 31 to January 3 on our European sites, we served some advertisements that did not meet our editorial guidelines -- specifically, they spread malware. On January 3, we removed these advertisements from our European sites."
The attacks did not affect North America, Latin America and the Asia Pacific region, Yahoo said.
"Additionally, users using Macs and mobile devices were not affected," it added.
Fox-IT said it is unclear who's behind the attack, but it appears to be "financially motivated." It did not provide details.


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The Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy is one of seven divisions of the Department of Allied Health Sciences in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The division administers a Master of Science program in Occupational Therapy as well as a PhD in Occupational Science, and conducts multiple research, clinical, and service projects through our faculty collaborations. The faculty-student ratio is approximately 1:7, and students in both the MS and PhD programs encounter faculty on a routine basis in classroom, professional, and social settings.
Established in 1978 by Dr. Marlys Mitchell, the program in occupational therapy graduated its first class in 1980, and has been consistently recognized as a national leader in occupational therapy education. The Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy has a strong track record of educating students for traditional positions in health care settings, as well as a national reputation for innovative education related to educational and community-based practice settings. The MS program in occupational therapy is accredited by the Accreditation Council of Occupational Therapy Education of the American Occupational Therapy Association. (ACOTE: c/o Accreditation Department, American Occupational Therapy Association, 4720 Montgomery Lane, Suite 200 Bethesda MD 20814-3449).
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Our division resources include an 1,100-square-foot model apartment used as lab and meeting space for student coursework, and a 300-square-foot assistive technology and materials lab. Classrooms include state-of-the-art teaching technologies and are shared with students from other allied health disciplines and the medical school. The Health Sciences Library is situated next door to Bondurant Hall and contains over 290,000 texts, 4,000 current serial titles, and over 8,900 audiovisual and microcomputer software programs. A large computer lab and media design labs are available for student use. In addition, Davis Library, the main campus library, houses invaluable text, media, and archival resources.
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What's on my mind? A lot, actually.
My county is about to do some budget cuts that will leave Montgomery County PA without an advocate for the special needs kids and as some of you know I just so happen to have a special need kid and I don't know what I will do without her.
Emotional pleas to save funding for Montco nonprofits
These people are being penny wise and pound foolish. They don't understand that this particular savings is no savings at all in the long run. To say that this woman would have been working cheap at twice her salary would be an understatement. I wrote to my local paper. I hope they print what I wrote.


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Using Delegates Asynchronouslyby Richard Blewett
In the article "
Understanding the Nuances of Delegates in C#," by Satya Komatineni,
the concept of delegates and their general pattern of usage in C# was introduced.
This article takes the subject further and looks at another feature of delegates--the built-in ability to perform tasks asynchronously by handing off work to
the system thread pool. To understand exactly how delegates
perform their async magic, an understanding of how the system thread
pool works is first required. For each process in which it is loaded, the CLR manages
a thread pool. This thread pool consists of a queue to which pieces of work
are added, and a pool of threads that service the queue (by dequeuing the pieces
of work). The thread pool is exposed to the world via the
The number of threads in the pool is not fixed but gradually grows and shrinks,
according to certain heuristics. Initially at 0, the pool grows as the number of concurrent,
outstanding pieces of work grows. As threads stand idle, they
may be removed from the pool. The pool is capped at 25 threads and this figure
is not alterable from managed code. Applications hosting the CLR can change it
via the .NET unmanaged API. For example, the
maxWorkerThreads attribute
in the
processModel element in machine.config specifies the
maximum size of the thread pool in the ASP.NET worker process.
Thread pool threads have a number of specific characteristics:
- They are background threads--in other words, they will not prevent your process terminating, should every non-background thread in your process terminate.
- Their priority should not be altered. The thread is "owned" by the thread pool and may be used for a variety of tasks--for example, remoted calls are serviced on thread pool threads. Altering the priority of a thread pool thread will cause other tasks to be bound by the new priority.
The COM Apartment affinity (exposed as the
ApartmentStateproperty of a thread) should not be altered for the same reason as the priority.
- Long-running tasks should not be assigned to the thread pool, as this will decrease the number of available threads with which to service other requests.
- They should not be suspended or aborted. They are a system, not application, resource.
System.Threading.Thread class. However, the thread pool itself
is not the focus of this article; rather, how delegates can be leveraged to have
work processed by the thread pool is.
Delegates Under the Covers
So what happens when a delegate type if declared? Consider the following delegate declaration.
Code Example 1
delegate long CalcNthPrimeNumber( int N );
This can be used for invoking methods that calculate a specific prime number (this can be a very lengthy calculation): The C# compiler generates code equivalent to the following:
Code Example 2
class CalcNthPrimeNumber : System.MulticastDelegate
// ctor omitted
// Used in synchronous execution
public long Invoke( int N );
// Async execution methods
public IAsyncResult BeginInvoke( int N,
AsyncCallback callback,
object asyncState );
public long EndInvoke( IAsyncResult ar );
Invoke is the method that the compiler calls during standard
synchronous execution. However, the interesting methods for this discussion are
BeginInvoke and
BeginInvoke will
always return an
IAsyncResult and will always have its last two
parameters as an
AsyncCallback delegate and a
EndInvoke will always have as its last parameter an
The rest of the signatures of these two methods are dependent on the signature
of the delegate in question.
BeginInvoke always takes any
parameters passed by value (unadorned) or reference (
ref) before
the callback delegate.
EndInvoke always has the same return type
as the delegate signature, and also has any
ref or
parameters before the
Invoking Delegates Asynchronously
There are four patterns in async delegate execution: Polling, Waiting for
Completion, Completion Notification, and "Fire and Forget". Before explaining the
patterns, however, there is one caveat about async delegate execution. You
cannot execute a multicast delegate (one that calls more than one client)
asynchronously. Each client must be called asynchronously in turn by processing
the stored list of clients, the Invocation List. Failing to do this
results in an
ArgumentException being thrown. Processing the
Invocation List turns out to be a far from onerous task--below is example
Code Example 3
CalcNthPrimeNumber c;
// Code omitted when numerous clients
// are hooked up to the delegate
if( c != null )
foreach( CalcNthPrimeNumber cpn in c.GetInvocationList())
// Now call each cpn asynchronously
Spawning a method onto a worker thread is achieved by calling
on a delegate that wraps the method. This tells the delegate to queue the
method invocation onto the Thread Pool.
BeginInvoke takes all
unadorned and
ref parameters, as well as an optional
System.Object (both of which will be explained later).
Once a method has been given to a worker thread, the thread that instigated the async call carries on with its own work. Given this, how does it find out what the async method returned?
Harvesting Results
Retrieving results is a simple operation; all that is required is a call to
However, there is an issue: if the async method has not completed,
will block until it completes. This may be the required behavior--that the
caller gets on with other work and then calls
EndInvoke when the
results are needed. However, what if the caller can usefully get on with work
until the async call has completed? Calling
EndInvoke before the
call is complete means the thread is blocked where it could still be carrying
out useful work. Also, what if the caller wanted to be able to timeout the wait
after a specified period, that the background task had been too lengthy?
blocks until the async method completes--an indeterminate point in time.
We saw in Code Example 2 that
BeginInvoke returns an
reference. The semantics of
EndInvoke require that it must be
passed an
IAsyncResult reference that matches that returned by the
BeginInvoke. This is because the asynchronous call
is represented by a call object that the
IAsyncResult references.
To find out whether a call has completed, we can talk to the call object
representing the async call. Let's look at the definition of
Code Example 4
public interface IAsyncResult
object AsyncState{ get; }
WaitHandle AsyncWaitHandle { get; }
bool CompletedSynchronously { get; }
bool IsCompleted { get; }
As can be seen, one of the members of
IAsyncResult has been
IsCompleted returns
true when the asynchronous is
complete; until that time it returns
IsCompleted can,
therefore, be used to assess whether the long-running calculation is finished.
In Code Sample 5, the 672nd prime number is being requested and the calculation
will be performed on a thread pool thread. The main thread then polls until the
calculation is complete.
Code Example 5
void SpawnPrimeNumberCalc(int N)
CalcNthPrimeNumber cpn =
new CalcNthPrimeNumber(CalculatePi);
IAsyncResult ar = cpn.BeginInvoke( 672,
null );
// Do some stuff
while( !ar.IsCompleted )
// Do some stuff
// we now know that the call is
// complete as IsCompleted has
// returned true
long primeNumber = cpn.EndInvoke(ar);
void CalculatePi(int n)
// calculate the prime number specified by n
Waiting with Timeout
As stated before,
EndInvoke is a blocking operation. The calling
thread will not continue until the async call has completed. However, what if
instead of calculating the Nth prime number locally, the target method were to
invoke a web service to perform the calculation? This could involve a network
hop (which could have timeouts in the order of minutes, in the case of network
failure). It may be preferable to be able to enforce a more user-friendly
timeout, say, twenty seconds. Through the use of timers and
this could be achieved, but it is not necessarily the most efficient way of
doing it. Let's have another look at
Code Example 6
public interface IAsyncResult
object AsyncState{ get; }
WaitHandle AsyncWaitHandle { get; }
bool CompletedSynchronously { get; }
bool IsCompleted { get; }
This time another of the properties of
IAsyncResult has been
AsyncWaitHandle. This property returns a
WaitHandle--an object that can be waited on using the
WaitHandle.WaitOne method,
which takes a timeout as a parameter. It is, therefore, possible to spawn the
async call on to another thread and then wait for it to complete--but then
timeout the call if it carries on too long. The code in Code Sample 7
demonstrates this pattern:
Code Example 7
void SpawnPrimeNumberCalc(int N)
CalcNthPrimeNumber cpn = new CalcNthPrimeNumber(CalculatePi);
IAsyncResult ar = cpn.BeginInvoke( 672, null, null );
// Do some stuff
if( ar.AsyncWaitHandle.WaitOne( 20000, true ))
long primeNumber = cpn.EndInvoke(ar);
Console.WriteLine( "672nd Prime Number is: {0}", primeNumber );
Console.WriteLine( "Timed out calculating prime number");
void CalculatePi(int n)
// calculate the prime number specified by using
// a web service
The highlighted code waits for 20 seconds for the method to return; if it doesn't return in that time, a message to that effect is printed out to the console window. The final facility allows for the calling thread to be completed disengaged from collecting the values returned from an async call. Instead, we can request to be notified when the call completes.
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The renovation will begin on the first floor and will displace the Administrative Offices from March 25 until the beginning of May, depending on how the work progresses. At this time, the Library anticipates the other floors will be worked on in the following order: 5th floor (May – end of June), 4th floor, 2nd floor, and finally, the 3rd floor.
Some or all materials in collections located in various parts of Hamilton Library (Asia, Business, Humanities and Social Sciences, Charlot, Hawaiian and Pacific, and Northeast Asia) will be unavailable at different times for up to eight weeks at a time. Classrooms may be moved or will be periodically unavailable. In addition, some group study rooms will be unavailable part of the time.
The Hawaiian, Pacific, and Charlot collections and service desks on the fifth floor of the main building of Hamilton Library will be closed beginning in May 2013 for a period of six to eight weeks. Reference service and instruction related to these collections will be limited during this period.
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The Library will provide updated information as it becomes available. Please be patient as the Library tries its best to continue to help and support the campus community with resources and information during this much needed renovation.
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Franck-Elie Laloum, chef de cuisine of Jade on 36 Restaurant of Pudong Shangri-La, Shanghai, launches a refreshing dinner menu in time for the summer in Shanghai. The menu emphasises the restaurant's focus on using only the best products, coupled with Franck-Elie's trademark use of exotic flavours.
"The seafood we use is from the wild, and the vegetables are organic," said Chef de Cuisine Franck-Elie Laloum.
His insistence on the best products is evident in his efforts to personally source all supplies. The seafood menu is formed daily, based on the freshest items available. The menu features seasonal wild caught fresh fish from Japan, wild Icelandic langoustines and crabs weighing up to 2kg from the cold waters of Brittany.
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Guests are also encouraged to challenge Chef Franck-Elie to customise their menu:
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Prior to making his China debut at Jade on 36, Chef Franck-Elie was chef de cuisine at Maison Pic, a Michelin three-star restaurant in Valence, France. From 2000 to 2010, he successively worked at the Michelin three-star restaurant Pavillon Ledoyen in Paris, Maison Troisgros in Roanne, the Michelin two-star restaurant La Palme d'Or in Cannes, and La Villa des Lys in Cannes.
Chef Franck-Elie presents classical French cuisine with a modern touch at Jade on 36 Restaurant, and enhances the restaurant to Michelin standards. He takes pride in his newly defined New Age French food, for which he likes to present new flavours based on high-quality ingredients. He adds new twists and dimensions to classical recipes using advanced technology, thus forming a union of opposites – the traditional and the innovative. Although Chef Frank-Elie uses new technologies to present diverse flavours, he has a simple philosophy of respecting fresh produce, which means choosing and using only the freshest seasonal ingredients for his creations.
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The argument from incredulity is often applied to science by the layperson. You don't need an opponent or a debate to use a logical fallacy. The fact that the Kitzmiller vs. Dover case had to happen proves that people question science regardless of it's validity.
It wouldn't be real science without real skepticism. A theory should remain a theory until it can stand up the to the scrutiny of skepticism.
Yes, but the emails show that the preexisting bias is on the climate-scientists side, not the skeptic's side.
Look, we have a group of people discussing the deletion of emails in response to a FOI request. They also discuss boycotting forums that publish an opposing point of view. That these items were even considered is all the sign we need that something is not kosher. Sure, the science may remain legitamite, but these particular scientists are not to be trusted. They are snake-oil salesman who at best may have lucked into the correct side of a debate.
I don't think that means, what you think it means: Scientific Theory [wikipedia.org]
A theory should remain a theory until it can stand up the to the scrutiny of skepticism.
A theory should remain a theory only as long as it can stand up the to the scrutiny of skepticism.
Real skepticism provides criteria by which it can be satisfied. Unchanging skepticism in the face of evidence is not scientific.
The argument from incredulity is often applied to science by the layperson. You don't need an opponent or a debate to use a logical fallacy. The fact that the Kitzmiller vs. Dover case had to happen proves that people question science regardless of it's validity.
Exactly. There has never been, nor ought their be, an automatic trust of anything, including science. By definition of "layperson", we do not know and are not read-up on, the exact arguments for an against any particular theory. It has long been the case that unscrupulous individuals will try to sell a product or an idea "because science says so". This is behind every diet fad, every exercise machine, every crackpot "business methodology", that we've been exposed to for centuries (see: snake oil salesman).
The reason that climate change has been resisted and argued by so many, for so long, is exactly this. We do not trust the people interpreting this for us at the national level. We see a group of people who have financial motivation to resist, a group of people who have financial motivation to sell green-wash products, and a group of people who advocate shucking technology and returning to some insane, idealized view of nature, where man and animal and nature all get along, and don't eat or kill each other. All "climategate" has done, is confuse us further. We still lack faith in science, we still do not trust any of the people arguing, and we have good reason for this lack of trust.
There has never been, nor ought their [sic] be, an automatic trust of anything, including science
"Automatic" trust? Perhaps not. "General" trust? Yes.
We generally 'trust' science thousands of times per today. This morning I went into a man-made 'cave' deep in the ground and got on the subway. The 'cave' didn't fall in and the subway didn't crash. The subway train didn't have a 'driver' - It was automatic and operated by a computer. I listened to my mp3 player and trusted everything.
Two weeks ago I let my doctor inject two different kinds of vaccines into my arm.
I could go on and on with examples, but the bottom line is I trust science and the mechanisms that are put in place by scientists (engineers, doctors et al) to accredit each other - And I trust these people orders of magnitude more than Palinesque drones who believe some kind of flying spaghetti monster made the world 6,000 years ago and that Fred Flintsone lived with Triceratops.
Didn't we see the same bloviation from the mainstream media when cold fusion went from the energy source of the future to a byword for scientific fraud? It seems to me if the reputation of hard science could survive out and out fraud like that, it will probably survive the climate change "fraud".
So, the main difference is not that scientists might be proved wrong or fraudulent, since that happens from time to time and is proof that the system works. The problem here is that the system itself is alleged to be rigged.
Within the academic community, you have the same problem in both of these cases: inability to repeat the experiment. With Cold Fusion, you can't get the same results when you follow the experimental procedure. That's failed science. With the global warming 'scandal', you have a few scientists who are the only ones with access to the raw temperature data. There is no independent analysis of the data, meaning the statistics (and released data) can be tweaked or cherry-picked until the authors get results they want. Without independent analysis repeating their results, that's failed science as well.
The issue is when other studies are based off of the 'groomed' data, rather than the raw measurements. We need to take their word that the data wasn't cherry-picked to seem hotter, and nobody can independently verify that it wasn't. That makes it easy to dismiss the findings, and makes it hell for those who want to study the phenomenon. It's too important not to verify.
The other problem is that a layperson (or even many scientists) wouldn't know if it was rigged or not. For the layperson, we see news articles that say "In a research paper published in Nature...", and nobody gets to read the paper. So the average person is told "take our word for it", which doesn't do much to combat rumors of poor science. Without people who are science-literate (though perhaps not PhD scientists) being able to read the paper, see that it is sound, and tell their non-scientific friends why, it will always appear like a bunch of hand-waving.
Science shouldn't be "accorded automatic stature and respect" any more than politics should. There's no reason to trust a scientist any more than you'd trust your barber.
The problem isn't that people aren't automatically believing science, it's almost the exact opposite: people are automatically doubting science. And that's quite another thing entirely.
I would argue that people don't know when to doubt, and when to believe.
Which scientists do they believe when it comes to Autism and vaccines? Which scientist to believe when it comes to global warming? It is just they have more insight into the infighting that is present into the community now.
The infighting has ALWAYS been there. When I was in graduate school I never saw a larger bunch of petty people whining over who was the bigger fish in there tiny ponds.
I would argue that people don't know when to doubt, and when to believe.
Which scientists do they believe when it comes to Autism and vaccines? Which scientist to believe when it comes to global warming? It is just they have more insight into the infighting that is present into the community now.
The infighting has ALWAYS been there. When I was in graduate school I never saw a larger bunch of petty people whining over who was the bigger fish in there tiny ponds.
You believe the theory that has observations to prove it works. Not the scientist. Pretty simple if you ask me.
That's fine, if you can read the papers, and read the papers confirming (or not) the observations, etc. For example, with the whole autism/vaccine kerfluffle, the original paper by a British doctor has been debunked, and apparently he made up and/or mis-represented his data. Plus various doctors (which the public conflates with scientists, which is sometimes true and sometimes not) make all sorts of claims, often based not on scientific methods or verifiable proof, but instead on personal opinion/experience and a few particular cases they've seen. The problem is that it's way to easy to jump to an unwarranted conclusion, or to do what humans are all too good at - picking facts that support what we already believe or want to believe.
The public has little or no understanding of how science works (even many non-scientist academics don't). Combine that with the modern media's preference to not interpret, but instead present all points-of-view as equivalent (or to prefer certain points-of-view based on politics), and it's easy to see how the public can reach the belief that science is just opinion too - that you can pick who to agree with, based on what you want to be true.
Um, but if that scientist consistently, and repeatedly, refuses to give you his data or his methods (hi Michael Mann!) and just says "believe me" on an issue that will cost your country literally billions of dollars, are you just supposed to shut up and go along? Especially when it appears after much prodding and poking that some of the data were cherry-picked, others were "adjusted", and finally, the raw data was deleted? The Earth may well be warming, but it has warmed and cooled countless times over the millenia, and the case for AGW is certainly "not proven". So I think a healthy skepticism before imposing the huge financial penalties and bureaucracies that are being punted about is the only wise position.
I'm certain that people believe it when a spacecraft launches, or their new TV is even thinner.
Thing is, do they even realise that is science?
In their mind science is a term for the fuzzy stuff that they read about in the papers - like is a glass of wine good or bad for you? Are potatoes/fish/eggs/etc good or bad for you? And all the U-turns since. Science is the word they associate with anything that goes wrong or seems to be a stupid waste of money to research.
The media has propagated this view of science, because journalists could never hack the subjects themselves, and they just want to get their own back on those people who could do it.
Indeed. Personally, I would like to see a bit more skepticism when it comes to science. As in "Hey, show me some data and explain to me why what you say should work before I take your word for it." Or at least go out and do some of your own research before accepting something from some random scientist. Too often news organizations quote someone with some professorial or scientific title and pretend that the quote has value. Unless I know that person and have been able to assess their credibility in some way beforehand, they could have just as well quoted my barber. This presentation issue is a failing of news organizations though. Any person can still do their own filtering.
What we're getting now though is that ad hominem attacks on scientists (of the sort of "You work for institution XYZ, you're automatically disqualified from contributing.") is seen as valid approach in any discussion on any topic. This is complete idiocy, and a mark of the intellectually lazy. To some extent, the public press and scientists themselves contributed to the problem. The press has elevated scientists to the status of oracles, and the public was happy to believe the oracles. Many scientists thrived on that elevated status, and did little to dispel it. Now that the oracles have been shown to be as human as everybody, the public is engaging in a massive back-lash. To some extent, it's to be expected.
But no matter how explainable the situation, there is a fundamental problem if science is being put on the same level as high-school English Lit (see posters above for ready examples) - and that's going to cause more problems down the line. Sadly , I find this attitude is mostly prevalent in the US - and various voodoo-practicing countries.
When I was a kid, I used to genuinely believe that humans were on a path to greater wisdom, more profound discourse, and perfect knowledge.
Lately, I just see a bunch of power-hungry assholes doing their utmost to discredit intelligent thought and dumb-down the world around them, so they can continue on an unimpeded path toward greater assholism.
Will people even begin to doubt the most rigorous sciences like Mathematics and Physics
The answer is no. The good thing about science is that it is open source. For mathematics, you can go through all of the proofs from your text books. For physics you would need a bit of gear to reproduce some of the experiments, but again, that is just a question of money and interest.
The basic point is that the scientific method don't expect you to accept anything without proof. If you can falsify any of the theories by experiment, people will pay attention to you, regardless of politics.
"If you can falsify any of the theories by experiment, people will pay attention to you, regardless of politics."
The upside to this is that science appears to hold itself to a higher standard of truth than religion and politics. The downside to this is also that science appears to hold itself to a higher standard of truth than religion and politics. Science always says first to its student: "Doubt me." It's a tough marketing job from there on out. As science has skepticism as a built-in requirement, people will always doubt its findings more than the claims of religion or the promises of politicians. Of course, science has the added benefit of being difficult to understand, much unlike the prescriptions of religion. This all creates a situation where knowledge and rational skepticism actually have no political force, and their antitheses, ignorance and hysteria, drive our political discussion.
If people reserved nearly as much skepticism for religion as they did for science, we would live in a much more sensible world.
Sure, you can go through the proofs and run some experiments - if you're a mathematician or a scientist. For the average Joe, these activities are as foreign as eating boiled locusts for dinner. Average Joe will doubt (and already does doubt) because he lacks the training to understand how math and science work. And average Joes outnumber and outvote mathematicians and scientists by a large margin, and end up electing the scientific ignoramuses who dominate one of the US national political parties.
You're assuming that everyone who has an opinion about this will actually be informed, will take the time to look through those proofs, reproduce those experiments, etc.
Read this. [nationalgeographic.com]
In particular, look at that graph. Are you frightened yet?
Evolution is one of the crowing triumphs of modern science. It has more evidence than any other theory I know of, from many branches of science -- the "tree of life" is repeated, exactly, in genetics, in the fossil record, in the geologic record, everywhere we care to look for it. It informs pretty much all of modern medicine and biology, and it is a humbling look at our origins and our true status with respect to other life on the planet. It is beautiful, important, and solidly supported by fact.
Even the Catholic Church has officially embraced evolution, and the big bang theory, as truth.
And a third of Americans reject evolution outright. These aren't people who just aren't sure -- they say it is definitely false.
Want to guess why?
Because they feel it threatens their religion. Because if evolution is true, the Earth (and certainly the Universe) cannot be six thousand years old, and they must accept that they are descended from apes -- or that, by any honest classification, humans are still a species of ape. Because they cannot accept the fact that at least some part of that religion is a fairy tale, or at least a metaphor.
The problem is, in order to reject evolution, they find they have to doubt just about every legitimate scientist who has an opinion on the subject, and keep themselves willfully ignorant. Furthermore, in order to believe the earth is six thousand years old, they pretty nearly have to stick their fingers in their ear and go "la la la la" in order to avoid pretty much every branch of science that has anything to say about the subject.
That is, if they are right, even the most basic grade-school cosmology must be wrong -- there are objects more than six thousand light years away from us. Geology must also be wrong -- not merely carbon-dating (which is already quite rigorous), but the kind of time scales modern geology suggests. And of course, modern medicine must be wrong -- our understanding of things like antibiotics relies on evolution to work.
And yet, they will feel qualified to address these issues, to challenge real scientists with such arguments as, "That's microevolution. Show me one 'kind' turning into another, and I'll believe it." When this fails to get them anywhere, they again close their eyes, ears, and minds, and ultimately turn to the very simplistic, reassuring, and ultimately wrong words of Ken Ham: "Who should you believe -- God or the scientists?"
The problem here is not just the validity of evolution. It is that in order to believe what the creationist wants to believe, they have to reject huge chunks of modern science. In order to continue to be relevant, they have consistently attempted to get their strange ideas taught in school -- not just as a philosophy, or a class in its own right, but as part of science.
And it's not just america -- 22% of Canadians [ncse.com] are creationists. Something like a third of Americans are.
So, the short answer is, yes, laypeople absolutely will doubt whatever they feel they have a problem with. If they doubt evolution, cosmology, Einsteinian relativity, geology, archeology, paleontology, etc, just so they can believe a certain way, it's certainly not a stretch that they would doubt anything that conflicts with their actual (polluting, wasteful) lifestyle.
And unfortunately, even when 99.9% of scientists agree on something, it doesn't help if they can't convince the public -- because laypeople are also voters.
We need another Carl Sagan.
sometimes you've got to recognize that someone who studied climatology for X years might actually know a thing or two that you can't pick up from reading a blog
Happens in every field; I get it all the time supporting computers. I ask them to do something, and suddenly I'm questioned, berated, argued with, told it won't work, they've done it, yadda yadda, and when I finally get them to do it and humor me...it fixes their problem and they hang up. No apology, no thank you, and likely no realization that they don't know my field as well as I know my field.
Problem is, people really believe that they can become experts on extremely complicated topics and weigh the evidence for themselves.
This is a serious problem. On the one hand, a democratic society holds that each member can and should act independently, weighing the factors that they find personally important, to come to vital decisions. On the other hand, most people are ignorant on nearly every subject, and lack the means, ability, incentive, or time to become expert on each subject as it comes along. Making medical decisions is one of the most important examples of this. When presented with a treatment for a condition, who among us can really make an informed decision? Are we ever even given the proper tools to make decisions (such as percentages of success, side-effect, and failure for the treatment, practioner, or hospital? Hardly. Instead we have FUD like, "OMFG they're putting POISON in vaccines." I work in neuroscience research at a big hospital, and *I* don't know why thimerisol is used as a standard preservative in multi-dose vials of H1N1 vaccine. I don't even know how much mercury would end up being in a standard dose of a vaccine, or if that is enough to cause neurological issues long-term. If I'm in the same general field, and I don't have the proper tools to evaluate the risks, how possibly can the general public?
Right. They can't. Not possible; not even remotely possible. It would take a motivated, highly educated person with a lot of money to pay for scientific articles (they aren't by-and-large free except when you have a university affiliation), and lost of time to comb through stacks and stacks of papers in order to make an informed decision about one treatment. This is a barrier to knowledge that is not realistic. Expecting the lay person to make good, informed decisions is a joke. Expecting that the lay person can understand the myriad of complexities about climate change when the very idea of a static climate is demonstrably bogus is nothing more than political propaganda.
So, people have been brainwashed into thinking they can become experts on any subject in a few short minutes (witness all of the "well, why dont' they just do
I am not a climate scientist. I am not a geologist. I have friends who are, and from my second-hand understanding of anthropogenic climate change, no one really understands what is going on. Sure, there's some evidence for anthropogenic climate changes (like the ozone hole over Antarctica), but *I* lack the skills and knowledge to understand the issues. So when I hear Al Gore saying things like, "we dump billions of tons of CO2 into our thin atmosphere like it was a sewer," it makes me angry that anyone is listening to that drivel at all. He might be right, anthropogenic CO2 may be a really, really big problem, but delivering that message with distortions and distractions that make the Soviet propaganda machine appear tame in comparison, ultimately is doing far more harm than good.
Blind trust in authority is bad. But so is what we have now where fear, uncertainty and doubt determines what the public thinks.
Who could have possibly predicted that accepting hundreds of billions of dollars from governments over the last couple of decades could have somehow politicized Science?
Who could have possibly predicted that accepting hundreds of billions of dollars from governments over the last couple of decades could have somehow politicized Science?
Dwight D. Eisenhower - 1961.
"The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientifictechnological elite."
Hundreds of billions??? You have the wrong side. 20 Billion dollars over 30 years for the entire world. Compared with 37Bn dollars given as subsidies to fossil fuel and nuclear power industry *EACH* *YEAR* by the *US* ALONE* and I think you find the finger points a different direction.
How many people would want a piece of THAT action?
Much more.
Who could have possibly predicted that accepting hundreds of billions of dollars from governments over the last couple of decades could have somehow politicized Science?
For some reason people have a very romantic view of what it means to be a scientist. They seem to think that the scientists just pocket the money they get. All of it goes to research, i.e. salaries for post-docs, phd students, etc. (of the not Ferrari-driving nor private jet flying kind), equipment, and conference expenses. And it is expensive do to science.
But until you see scientists buying private jets, yachts and arrive at the university in Bugatti Veyrons, I suggest you calm down.
I work in a field closely associated with climatology (satellite remote sensing), and I work with climatologists. And I agree with the article on one point: We really do not understand how big a deal this 'climategate' is.
The worst bits in that email dump are petty squabbles between researchers and critics. That's standard -- often critics are dishonest people who are attacking the science in order to advance a political agenda, and that is very frustrating to someone who wants to do honest science. Yes, tempers flare in private emails. Scientists are human. If people are going to lose faith in science because scientists are human...then we as a race are doomed, in my opinion.
As for the results of the CSU climate research, they're not in any doubt. Every criticism of them has been answered, and there are other studies that agree with the CSU results. So attack the scientists for being human if you must, but the science is sound and must be heeded.
I really do not understand why this has blown up into such a conflagration. Anyone who gives up on science because of this trifling matter is welcome to go back to the dark ages and live their short, wholesome, science-free life.
The worst bits in that email dump are petty squabbles between researchers and critics.
Then you haven't been paying attention. The worst problems are evading a legitimate FOIA request, coercing journals to not publish the works of "skeptics", and excluding "skeptic" literature from the IPCC record. Those aren't "petty" scrabbles due to the stakes involved.
(Reposting this where appropriate)
People seem to forget the context of that "undermining the peer review process" took place.
They certainly tried to impact the peer review process. The paper in question resulted in half of the editorial board of the journal in question resigning over the peer review process that took place.
http://www.sgr.org.uk/climate/StormyTimes_NL28.htm [sgr.org.uk]
The paper in question turned out to be underwritten by the American Petroleum Institute.
As for Mann and Jones' apparent effort to punish the journal Climate Research, the paper that ignited his indignation is a 2003 study that turned out to be underwritten by the American Petroleum Institute. Eventually half the editorial board of the journal quit in protest. And even if CRU's climate data turns out to have some holes, the group is only one of four major agencies, including NASA, that contribute temperature data to major climate models — and CRU's data largely matches up with the others'.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1946082-2,00.html#ixzz0ZJERceR1 [time.com]
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
- Bertrand Russel
As evidence of the validity of Russel's insight, consider the people who are cocksure enough to assume it is they who are the doubters. They will even quarrel amongst each other about which of them is the intelligent, when in reality they are all idiots.
Oh, I'm sorry. I guess that we can't really thank science for medicine, computers, airplanes, the food on our table. I guess that one murderous programmer working on an open source file system means all of Linux is shit, too. And you know what? I got taken for a ride buying speculative real estate in Florida. I guess this means that you can't make money in real estate, that the whole thing's a rotten idea. Incidentally, I threw out the bath water. Where'd the baby go?
I'll buy that argument once religious whackadoodles promise to renounce their faith because of televangelists and pedo-priests.
"You've never worked in the real world... they expect RESULTS!" -- Dr. Peter Venkman
Therefore, the "tolerance stackup", a polite word for 'fudging data' will lean in the direction of the benefactor.
If this statement is not the truth, it is certainly the perception. Convince the masses that the scientists are not supporting the suppositions of the sponsors and maybe they will trust the science again. Start by convincing me.
I can not believe that someone on this forum, FOR NERDS, would make such a huge mistake on the REAL stuff that matters.
"You've never worked in the real world... they expect RESULTS!" -- RAY STANTZ TO Dr. Peter Venkman
As a Slashdot reader, you should know better...You might as well have misquoted a Python line, sheesh
This has always been a problem and there has probably never been a time when politics and/or religion did not have inappropriate influence over scientific research.
Some (lay) people see science as a religion in and of itself having its own agenda. This is a failure in the sense that since attempts to deal with understanding the most absolute reality possible and tries to be impartial to any particular point of view. (Let's not get into the politics within science itself, I know it exists, but let's stick with idealism for a moment while I make my point.) In politics and religion, there is a propensity to believe "if you're not with us, you are against us" sort of ideas and so when data that is unfavorable to their position emerges, they tend to respond to it as if it were an enemy rather than a new facet of reality. (Fighting an enemy is one thing. Fighting reality is another!)
All science is to be doubted and disputed. This is part of how things work. However, lay people see a doubting of science as a problem of trust or faith because they know of no other context in which to process falsified or incorrect scientific data. While it was a tremendous disservice to the whole scientific community to have "climategate" surface, it is not as big of a problem within the community as it is outside of the community.
It would be really nice if people were able to acquire the simple understanding of what science is and is not and how it should be treated. The public knows that the weatherman is not always accurate but must always be depended upon nevertheless. The public knows that the weatherman does not control the weather and only reports his observations and renders predictions based on those observations. The public, in general understands and appreciates this correctly and fully. What the public needs to do, then, is expand this understanding to ALL of science and not just meteorology.
When there are people that espouse creationism, and that vaccines cause autism, it's obvious a lot of lay people didn't respect science before. How different can it be now?
Somewhere in hell, Jenny McCarthy, and William Dembski are going at it like rabbits. Their offspring will be the ultimate creature of evil.
The best way to restore healthy debate on climate change science is to open source everything...the data, the source code for the computer models, and the methodology for how the data is collected: specific locations of data collection (is it a rural area, a parking lot in a city, on a school roof, in direct sunlight or in the shade), date and time of day (noon, midnight, 5pm), weather conditions at the time it is collected (sunny, raining, under a snow drift), age of the equipment (mercury thermometer installed in 1953 or digital sensor device). All of these factors would influence a simple temperature reading. Heck there are probably dozens of other factors that I am not considering.
Since our government is PAYING for so much of this research it should be no problem to PUBLISH all of these details and let everyone debate from a common framework. However, I believe our government has an agenda and therefore won't ever take such a logical approach.
While we are at it, let's do the same thing for how inflation, unemployment, public health statistics, education metrics, and poverty rates are calculated.
Logic is the chastity belt of the mind!


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amazing banner made by: eternitys_charm Selena Spelling is a vampire with a gift not even the Volturi could even dream of. Her power is something every female vampire will chase her for. Her gift is something that any vampire would trade places in a heartbeat with her for. Now that she's on the run from the vampires that want her gift used on them, she stumbles into the town of Forks. Little did she know, Rosalie Hale Cullen wants her gift most of all. Did I mention what her gift? The power of making a female vampire able to give birth.
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I hate my life. I hate that every vampire in the world is chasing me. But I don't hate my gift. I have a gift that nobody ever thought possible. I don't even know how I got my gift. I was changed by one named Victoria, I was to be used for an army she was constructing to avenge her lover. I had supernatural control, so she ordered me to be killed by Riley. What she didn't know was there was a flaw in her plan. Riley loved me when we were human.
"Why are you not extremely thirsty and rabid?" the horrible redhead demanded.
"I do not know." I answered, scared out of my mind.
"RILEY!!" she roared, he came to her side immediately and didn't take his eyes off her. I choked back a gasp when I noticed who he was. Riley Scott, my fiancee in the human lifetime.
"Eliminate her." she spat and darted out of the forest. He turned to me.
"Rye?" I breathed, using my nickname for him.
"Lena?" he asked in the same tone.
"You're going to kill me?" I whimpered. Hurt filled his eyes.
"You know, until I laid eyes on you, I had no memory of my human life. Now that I've seen you, I remember it all." he told me.
"Please don't kill me." I begged.
"Never, my Lena. I will let you go. I wish to come with you, but she would find us." he said.
"I love you, my Riley. Is she your mate now?" I wondered.
"She says so, but I don't believe her. I'll help her fight this war, and then I'll leave her." he decided.
"Rye, come away with me. We'll stay together, be with each other forever." I pleaded.
"I cannot. But we can say good-bye to each other here. She won't expect me back for hours." he said. I grabbed his neck and kissed him. Then, I left.
I got word that Riley was killed, as was Victoria. I mourned Riley's death, but got over it, seeing that he would have never come back for me anyways. I discovered my gift on Jennifer, my best friend, and her, now her mate, Joseph. I found Joseph first, and we liked each other from the start. We were walking in the forest one day, and discussed the idea of a relationship between us. We kissed once, felt nothing, and decided friendship was better. He's like my brother now. Then, we came across Jennifer, she and Joseph fell in love, and now they're together forever.
The first time they were 'together', she got pregnant. We knew vampires couldn't get pregnant, so we accused my gift. After testing it, and Jen and Joe having four babies, we discovered how my gift worked.
When I kissed a male, I gave him the ability to have children once. When he was 'with' his mate, we got her pregnant. The female couldn't get pregnant again, unless I kissed her mate again. We also found out I can control the gender too. Jen and Joe now have four beautiful babies: Marcus, Annie, Brian, and Christina. They decided that just four children is enough for now. They say I've given them their happily ever after. Now, I'm going through Hell. I'm constantly on the move, since my location is not a secret for too long. My newest home is Forks, Washington. I really hope this will be safe. Well, that's what I thought. Until now.
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Global Citizen: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie October 6, 2010 – January 9, 2011
Ottawa - October 6, 2010
Major retrospective exhibition explores the mastery of Moshe Safdie and a lifetime of international architectural achievements.
Architectural visionary, successful entrepreneur and humanist are all words that describe one of Canada's most renowned architects, Moshe Safdie. Opening to the public at the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) on October 6, 2010 and on view until January 9, 2011, Global Citizen: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie is the most comprehensive retrospective of his work to date and celebrates over 40 years of his remarkable achievements and contributions to city skylines, civic buildings and personal habitats. Organized by the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas and the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles (both designed by Moshe Safdie), and curated by Donald Albrecht, an independent curator and curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of the City of New York, this exhibition takes an unprecedented look at Safdie's work and philosophy. It also illustrates his extraordinary career as a leading architect, urban planner, theorist, educator, and author. After its presentation in Ottawa, Global Citizen will go on tour to Chicago, Los Angeles, and Bentonville, Arkansas.
Global Citizen explores the design and building process of Safdie's projects in Jerusalem, North America, China, Singapore, and India. The exhibition underscores his deep impact on architectural practices and the realization of his design philosophy.
"Moshe Safdie designed one of the finest museum buildings in the world for Canada's national collection; one that magnificently ennobles its function," said NGC Director, Marc Mayer. "The National Gallery of Canada is his first art museum and its exhilarating perspectives go a long way to prepare the visitor for the unique cultural experiences we hope that each one will have. This exhibition travels the world to show us the extraordinary variety of equally intelligent, inventive and meaningful buildings that Safdie has created throughout his brilliant career."
Global Citizen – a 40-year retrospective
The exhibition guides viewers on a journey from Safdie's groundbreaking Habitat for Expo '67 in Montreal to his most recent projects in Asia and the U.S. Divided in five sections, each dedicated to pivotal points in the trajectory of his career, Global Citizen explores Safdie's structures and the thinking that shapes them through approximately 175 drawings, sketches, videos, photographs and scale models. To further contextualize the architectural and humanist dimensions of Safdie's work, Global Citizen includes audio and video monitors that parallel the developments of the projects and his career. The exhibition's concluding section – Habitat of the Future − is an evolutionary reworking of Habitat – Safdie's radical solution for quality, affordable housing. The culmination of two years of design research, created especially for Global Citizen, Habitat of the Future proposes new design strategies that innovatively address the growing density of global cities – an ever more pressing issue today.
Profoundly influenced by his upbringing in Haifa, Israel, Safdie believes in an economic and collectivist approach to architecture, as well as in integrating nature into his designs to ensure the quality of residential life – Habitat 67 being a classic example. Often monumental but always inviting, many of his civic buildings are characterized by the use of transcendent light, powerful geometry, iconic forms and the expression of cultural identity. These elements are easily recognizable in the National Gallery of Canada, which was one of Safdie's earliest great communal spaces and is the first permanent home of the nation's art collection. The Gallery's design incorporates Canadian contexts through its materials and local elements, such as the Parliamentary Library-inspired, conically-shaped Great Hall, and its relationship with the Ottawa River.
"Through his buildings," said Albrecht, "Moshe Safdie has been especially adept at realizing the aspirations of a surprisingly diverse group of clients. For them he has created buildings where communities are forged of strangers, memory is enshrined, and identity is created in built form. Few architects have been able to so fully realize their philosophies in practice and in such diversity of project type and geography."
Building highlights in the exhibition
Buildings that are highlighted in the exhibition include Safdie's thesis project at McGill University, the precursor to Habitat, Montreal (1964-1967), which was commissioned by the Canadian government for the upcoming international world fair, Expo '67, when he was only 29 years old;the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (1983-1988), the most significant of Safdie's projects that helped shape Canada's identity and the first of several museum buildings; the Mamilla Center, Jerusalem (1972-2010), a 113 310 square meters central business and mixed-use district for which Safdie completed a master plan that includes urban, architectural, and landscape design; The Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles (1986-2012), an urban, pedestrian-oriented ensemble in an automobile-centric culture; The Khalsa Heritage Centre, Anandpur Sahib, India (1998-2011), a new museum and cultural center that celebrates 500 years of Sikh heritage; United States Institute of Peace Headquarters, Washington, D.C. (2001-2012), a center comprised of research facilities, a conference center, and a museum dedicated to the theme of peacemaking; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas (2005-2011), which seamlessly integrates art, architecture and landscape; and Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, (2006-2010), a high-density, mixed-use integrated resort that unites a 2,560-room hotel, convention center, shopping and dining, theaters, museum, and a casino across the water from Singapore's Central Business District.
About Moshe Safdie
Moshe Safdie is a leading architect, urban planner, theorist, educator, and author. Embracing a comprehensive and humane design philosophy, Safdie has been a visionary force in architecture and urban planning and design for over forty years. His work continues to evolve and grow, guided by a strong set of values and without succumbing to current trends. Safdie is committed to architecture that supports and enhances a project's program; that is informed by the geographic, social, and cultural elements that define a place; and that responds to human needs and aspirations.
Exhibition Tour
The North American exhibition tour will include:
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (October 6, 2010 – January 9, 2011)
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago (May 7, 2011 – July 24, 2011)
Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles (Fall 2012, dates to be confirmed)
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas (Summer 2013, dates to be confirmed)
Exhibition Catalogue
A fully illustrated 144-page hardcover catalogue published by Scala Publishers featuring essays by Moshe Safdie, Donald Albrecht, and critic Sarah Williams Goldhagen accompanies this exhibition. It also features 130 colour illustrations with new photography by Gus Powell. At a cost of $38, it is now on sale at the National Gallery of Canada Bookstore or at www.shopngc.ca, the NGC's online store.
Educational Program
On October 6, 2010 at 12 noon, there will be a unique opportunity to meet and engage with Moshe Safdie and exhibition curator, Donald Albrecht in a Meet the Architect program which is being staged in the Auditorium. Free admission. For more information, visit www.gallery.ca, or call 1.800.990.1985 or 1.800.319.ARTS.
Admission and NGC hours
Tickets are on sale at $9 for adults, $7 for seniors and full-time students, $4 for youths aged 12 to 19 years, and $18 for families (two adults and three children). Admission is free of charge for children under 12 and for Friends of the Gallery. This includes admission to the NGC Collection. Tickets are available by telephone at 613-998-8888 or 1-888-541-8888.
From October 1, 2010 until April 30, 2011 the Gallery is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 5 pm; Thursday until 8 pm. Closed Mondays.
Note: Thanksgiving Day Monday (October 11, 2010) the Gallery is open from 10 am to 5 pm.
About the National Gallery of Canada
The National Gallery of Canada is home to the most important collections of historical and contemporary Canadian art, including the extensive collection of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. The Gallery also maintains Canada's premier collection of European Art from the 14th to the 21st century, as well as important works of American, Asian and Indigenous Art and renowned international collections of prints, drawings and photographs. Created in 1880, the National Gallery of Canada has played a key role in Canadian culture for well over a century. Among its principal missions is to increase access to excellent works of art for all Canadians. To do so, it maintains the largest touring art exhibition programme in the world. For more information, visit www.gallery.ca.
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hypnosec writes: Twitter based system has managed to detect the earthquake off the Philippines before any other advanced spotting systems being used by Seismologists. US Geological Survey uses the micro-blogging site to quickly gather information about earthquakes around the globe through the use of a system – Twitter Earthquake Detection (Ted) which put behind USGS' own sensors on Friday when it came to detecting 7.6 magnitude earthquake off the Philippine coast. The Ted system gathers earth-quake related messages (Tweets) in real-time from Twitter. The system takes into consideration various parameters like place, time, keywords, photographs of affected places where tremors have been detected. Online information posted by people, Tweets in this case, can be picked up faster by researchers as compared to scientific alerts that may take up to 20 minutes.


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Forget Instagramming selfies — stars like Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus, and Bella Thorne are so in love with their pets that they'd rather post tons of pics of their dogs! (Ariana even has an Instagram account 100% dedicated to pics of her puppies Coco, Toulouse, and Ophelia.) Since these stars are so obsessed with their fluffy companions, it should come as no surprise that they LOVE taking naps and sleeping with their pups. Talk about the perfect cuddle buddy, right?!
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NEW KENSINGTON, Pa. -- The Final Jeopardy answer is "May 1." The correct question is "When did former Penn State New Kensington student Michelle Flaherty appear on Jeopardy?"
Unfortunately, "Dates that New Kensington alumna appear on TV" was not a category, but Flaherty, who earned a bachelor's degree in applied psychology from the campus, knew enough trivia to finish runner-up to Julia Collins, the longest-running female champion in the show's history. After missing the game-ending answer, "Other than Q, these two letters appear the least in the names of states," by writing Z and X instead of Z and J, she pocketed $2,000 in winnings.
"I made a good showing," said Flaherty, a native of Allegheny Township. "I got a bunch of questions right and didn't get many questions wrong."
In a bit of serendipity, one of the categories was "Psychology." Flaherty graduated with high distinction in 2011. Although she didn't always succeed in the buzzer battle, she knew many of the answers. Flaherty shared her glory with her former psychology professors, Rob Bridges and Rick Harnish, in a May 1 email.
"One of the questions that I got on the show was a psychology question and, spoiler alert, I got it correct," Flaherty wrote. "As you can see, all your psychology efforts paid off."
Bridges and Harnish, associate professors of psychology, were Flaherty's advisers and mentors. Both teach lower- and upper-level courses.
"Michelle was the type of student who, when you asked a question in class, could always count on for a quick and correct response," said Harnish, who spent 13 years in private industry before joining the campus faculty in 2003. "It doesn't surprise me that she competed so well."
"Michelle was a delight to have in class," said Bridges, the 2005 recipient of the Penn State Milton S. Eisenhower Award for Distinguished Teaching. "Her leadership in my student-led seminar class suggested to me that she had great things in her future."
Her yearlong cross-country trek to the land of Alex Trebek started with an online test, moved to an audition in Niagara Falls, and concluded on a stage in Culver City, California, where the show was taped in February. Believing that study sessions would have a negative impact on her performance, she did no special preparation for the show.
"I always had an aptitude for trivia," Flaherty said. "For some reason, I just retain things you never really need to know."
For the "As Fate Will Have It" category, Flaherty's appearance on television was analogous to her senior research paper, "The Effect of Background Television on Performance." The paper detailed the results of an experiment on students studying while watching television.
The hypothesis was that students who were exposed to background television during a task would have a lower performance rate and would take longer to accomplish the task than those who were not exposed. Results, however, indicated no significant difference in performance rate between the groups.
There is no empirical data on final grades for the New Kensington campus students who were studying for final exams while watching Flaherty on Jeopardy.
"I remember Michelle's project very well because of the topic matter and her null results," said Harnish, who was the adviser for 11 undergraduate research projects this semester. "I'm still trying to convince students that background noise, be it music or conversation, is distracting and that performance will suffer."
For the Valley News Dispatch story on Flaherty's Jeopardy appearance, visit http://triblive.com/neighborhoods/yourallekiskivalley/yourallekiskivalleymore/6041431-74/flaherty-tonight-appear#axzz317fYXt00
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Short of discovering that each of Facebook's datacenters is actually a vast, nearly empty, mausoleum, lit only by the unhallowed glow of Masonic runes drawn in the blood of innocents and the blinding glare of the all-seeing-eye atop the pyramid in the center; could there be any revelation about their privacy practices worse than those that can already be inferred from prior activity?
I'm pretty sure that this revelation would be better than what we can already infer about Facebook, actually.
So, some politicos are going to investigate. They'll wave a magic wand of approval, or they'll wave a magic wand of disapproval. There's no way of knowing if this investigation will be good or bad. Maybe if we knew something about the individuals involved with the investigation, we could make some guesses.
Well, they need to put a little pressure if they want to ensure a solid flow of campaign donations.
Most likely what will happen is that a few Democratic congress critters will decide that FB is a significant threat to privacy beyond what one can reasonably expect and try to regulate it. Then the GOP will go apoplectic about ZOMG we can't regulate businesses, and prevent it from being elected.
Of course that assumes that there are enough politicians in favor to get it past in the House or voted on in the Senate.
I predict 100% stereotypical ranting from random people on the internet for both sides of the R vs. D debate.
So, some politicos are going to investigate. They'll wave a magic wand of approval, or they'll wave a magic wand of disapproval.
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but that's not a wand they're waving....
And the waving is more likely to based in the direction of some interns...
Are they just being cookie monsters and user trackers with their cookies and shoddy privacy policies, or are they actually committing crimes? What gives the various government groups, ones NOT in the executive branch, authority to conduct any of this?
Um, the EU has pretty tough data protection and privacy laws. Notice the part in TFA about how they're looking into FB in Dublin?
Yeah, I know the UK doesn't consider itself to be EU, but still they have tougher laws than the US it seems. And the UK does have to have cross-agreements in place with the EU.
As far as US investigation goes, I'm willing to bet a bunch of public and private figures would be nervous about their browsing habits...
Yeah, I know the UK doesn't consider itself to be EU
Er, I don't think you do know that [europa.eu]. The larger party in our coalition government wants us out, as do most of the press, but we're still in at the moment, and there are still plenty of us who like it that way.
Be that as it may, Dublin is in Ireland. Ireland is presently a completely independent country from the UK. Now, confusingly, the physical island of Ireland (sometimes called Hibernia) presently has two countries on it - Ireland, described as the Republic of Ireland, and Northern Ireland. Only the latter is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The larger eastern island of Great Britain (sometimes called Britannia) has three countries on it - Scotland, Wales and England, and t
This being an investigation they are trying to find answers to questions like the ones that you asked. What's wrong about that?
Do not let your common sense interfere with the workings of Slashdot. It would disrupt the Force and give Yoda indigestion.
I have never had a Facebook account, and never will, because they add absolutely zero value over private listservs, forums, blogs, and websites.
Google on the other hand, I use very much for searching and other services. And it seems to me that Google collects even more valuable information than Facebook.
So why aren't these groups going after Google?
One of them seems to sell your information to the highest bidder, regularly changes defaults to allow more sharing, and has many "partners" which grab your data and share if further.
The other one collects information and uses it to show you advertisements, but doesn't seem to do anything else with it, and actively goes after people exploiting loopholes. And also gives an incredible amount of support to open-source projects. And provides many free services which are often superior to "pay" alternatives.
One of them seems to sell your information to the highest bidder...The other one collects information and uses it to show you advertisements, but doesn't seem to do anything else with it
Yes, public perception of the companies is part of the answer. Followup question: How much does Google spend on PR to help create that perception?
And provides many free services which are often superior to "pay" alternatives.
Yes, that's another part of the answer, actually the part that motivates my use of Google search, mail, maps, and a few other services. These "free" services are sufficiently valuable that I accept "paying" for them by giving up my privacy. This is a conscious personal choice.
The fact that people continually group the two in the same category shows that it doesn't matter how "well" a corporation behaves, people will still manufacture reasons to hate them.
Oops, now you've jumped into the deep end of the crazy pool. Radical emotions like "hate"
I don't agree. Google keeps it's data to itself for the most part. The main reason is that it doesn't want people to know what algorithms its using to decide what ads to serve where. Plus, there's no reason for me to know what data there is that would be placing my ad in one place or another. The main thing that I would be caring about in that scenario is that it leads to enough click throughs to pay for the ads.
If you have a problem with your privacy on Facebook then simply don't use it.
The problem with that is that even if you have no FB account, they may still track you through the cookies built into their "like" buttons, spread around the internet.
Although you can always turn off cookies. But I can't say I've done that lately to know how that would affect today's web experience like turning off JavaScript does.
You can, but why should you have to? Entering a web page does not provide permission to be tracked by random companies just because the webmaster put the code into the page to make it so. There is no reasonable expectation that permission is being granted for such 3rd party tracking.
This is a bit like walking onto the premises of say Starbucks and being tracked by Walmart. You might be consenting to having Starbucks track transaction, but there's certainly no basis for Starbucks to believe that you're conse
Then don't accept the GPS tracker that Walmart hands you as you walk in the door, ditch it when you exit Walmart and they will never track your Starbucks usage...
Which is basically exactly what is going on here - you accept a token from Facebook, and you give that token back whenever its asked for. All voluntarily.
Although you can always turn off cookies. But I can't say I've done that lately to know how that would affect today's web experience like turning off JavaScript does.
Switching off all cookies is overkill for the issue described by GP. If you're using Firefox, it's sufficient to install an add-on such as Facebook Blocker [mozilla.org], which explicitly blocks all requests to Facebook which originate from non-Facebook sites. This obviously blocks tracking cookies from Facebook like-buttons on other sites, but does not interfere with your use of Facebook (if any; better to avoid Facebook sites completely).
I assume you already have a strategy for wiping LSO Flash objects ("super cooki
In actuality, this is a Tax fiction, used to avoid taxation on their massive EU and US/Canada earnings, and there is pressure by the EEC, since Ireland's economy is failing due to lack of tax collection from the Rich and Corporations like FB, MSFT, etc, to restore tax levels to a more common historic level.
But this does not provide them with a legal defense against violating National Privacy rights, as any Scientologist in Germany knows.
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Red Hots and canned cherries flavor this memorable dessert from my childhood. I hadn't had it in years, so when I found my mother's recipe, I had to make it to see if it's as good as I remembered. It is!—Betty Zorn, Eagle, Idaho
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- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) pitted tart cherries
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1/2 cup water
- 3 tablespoons red-hot candies
- 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 6 tablespoons brown sugar, divided
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup shortening
- 1 large egg, lightly beaten
- 1/4 cup whole milk
- 1 tablespoon butter, softened
- 1/3 cup finely chopped pecans
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- Drain cherries, reserving juice; set cherries aside. In a small saucepan, combine the sugar, cornstarch, water and reserved juice until smooth. Stir in red-hots. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly; cook 1-2 minutes longer or until thick and bubbly and red-hots are melted. Stir in cherries; heat through. Transfer to a greased 8-in. square baking dish.
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, 3 tablespoons brown sugar, baking powder and salt. Cut in shortening until crumbly. Combine egg and milk; stir into crumb mixture just until blended.
- Turn onto a lightly floured surface; knead 3-4 times. Roll into a 14x10-in. rectangle. Spread with butter; sprinkle with pecans. Combine cinnamon and remaining brown sugar; sprinkle over top.
- Roll up, jelly-roll style, starting with a short side. Cut into eight slices; place cut side down over cherry filling.
- Bake at 400° for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown. Cool for 10 minutes. Combine glaze ingredients; drizzle over cobbler. Yield: 8 servings.
Originally published as Cinnamon Roll Cherry Cobbler in Taste of Home October/November 2005, p31
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November 11, 2009 > Theatre Preview: Emotional dive into Rabbit Hole
The Ohlone College Department of Theatre and Dance drop us into the dark, tight cellar of tragedy and grief with their production of "Rabbit Hole" showing now through November 21st. Written by David Lindsay-Abaire the play first premiered at the Pacific Playwrights Festival in 2005 and went on to be a hit on Broadway where it earned five Tony Award nominations. Its success was then crowned with the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. After the accidental death of their only child, four-year-old Danny, fractured couple Becca and Howie are unable to find solace in each other or agree about how best to deal with their loss. The strain is intensified by the presence of Becca's zany, immature sister Izzy and her unexpected news, their good intentioned mother and the desire of the young driver that killed their son to meet with them. "Rabbit Hole" is an exploration of how we deal with tragedy and loss, and how we handle friends and family who use methods different from our own to cope. The story is an intricate weave of humor and suffering which the cast handles well, albeit with some bumps along the way. Bobby August wears the character of Howie with considerable ease and grace, delivering a performance of depth and emotion that moves one to tears. Amber Jene is colorful and thoroughly enjoyable as the kooky, childish Izzy and deftly handles the job of providing the bulk of the show's comic relief. Jessica Bettencourt grows more comfortably into the pinched and practical Becca as the evening progresses but still comes off as less accessible than her counterparts. Christine Hearn-Cotrufo is a pleasure as the girls' mother Nat, while Will McDermott's Jason is a little awkward and disconnected.Set designer George F. Ledo renders the manicured, contemporary home of Becca and Howie so beautifully that if you didn't know better you would believe you were touring a model home in the neighborhood. Another nice feature is the collection of artwork hanging in the lobby depicting scenes from the play.There is the opportunity to see the show in the hands of different players as two alternating casts deliver performances. The aforementioned actors will take the stage again for the November 13 and 20 dates. An American Sign Language interpreted performance is also available on the 13th. "Rabbit Hole" is a compelling and thought-provoking story that encourages us to hold onto hope and trust that somehow we'll find a way through the darkness.Tickets are $15 general admission and $10 for students/youth. For more information or to purchase tickets call (510) 659-6031 or visit online at www.smithcenterpresents.com. Rabbit HoleNovember 6-7, 12-14, 19-218 p.m.Smith Center at Ohlone College43600 Mission Blvd., Fremont (510) 659-6031www.smithcenterpresents.comTickets: $10-$15


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