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Escarce: The engineers were joking that I could go to college, get a master's, get a PhD, come back and the satellite still would barely have launched.
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respiration, process by which an organism exchanges gases with its environment. The term now refers to the overall process by which oxygen is abstracted from air and is transported to the cells for the oxidation of organic molecules while carbon dioxide (CO2) and water, the products of oxidation, are returned to the environment. In single-celled organisms, gas exchange occurs directly between cell and environment, i.e., at the cell membrane. In plants, gas exchange with the environment occurs in special organs, the stomates, found mostly in the leaves (see leaf; transpiration).
Organisms that utilize respiration to obtain energy are aerobic, or oxygen-dependent. Some organisms can live in the absence of oxygen and obtain energy from fuel molecules solely by fermentation or glycolysis ; these anaerobic processes are much less efficient, since the fuel molecules are merely converted to end products such as lactic acid and ethanol, with relatively little energy-rich ATP produced during these conversions.
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Happy Holiday Technology Detox
Christmas gift to self: a technology detox. No blogging, no email, no Twitter, no Facebook for the next five days. (I'll still be indulging in Pinterest and Instagram, the social equivalent to dark chocolate—very good for me in moderation.) What started out as an experiment on a trip to our (internet-free) cabin in Montana has become a personal mandate. It's cleans out the clutter and the noise so that I can hear my inner voice and let any suppressed feelings float to the surface. Clarity only comes when we allow it. Like one nice long mediation. Only there will be wine. And massages. And an OUTDOOR claw-foot tub. Yes, this techtox will take place in Napa. More on that when I return! Fa-la-la-la-la.
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Good afternoon. I'm Barry Mills, president of the College. It's a pleasure to welcome faculty, staff, students, parents, family members and friends to these exercises where we will recognize students who have distinguished themselves as Sarah and James Bowdoin Scholars and have earned other important academic distinction over the past year. I offer a special welcome to those of you who have earned these important distinctions. All of us are proud of you and your achievements and I look forward to congratulating each of you.
Our recognition of Sarah and James Bowdoin Scholars goes back more than sixty years to 1941. The College was all men in those days and that this day was originally named exclusively for James Bowdoin III. In 1997, the College, by faculty vote, determined that it was appropriate to reestablish this tradition in the name of James Bowdoin and Sarah, his wife, certainly partially in recognition of the fact that the College is a place where men and women from across the United States and the world come as students and faculty to study, teach, and learn.
A brief history lesson.
The Honorable James Bowdoin III lived from 1752 until 1811. He was the son of James Bowdoin II for whom the College is named. The father — James II — was a Revolutionary War hero well remembered for his role in putting down Shay's Rebellion who was later twice elected governor of Massachusetts. He was a very successful entrepreneur, especially in maritime business dealings and as a member of the elite business society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts — which, in those days, included the District of Maine. James II — who along with John Adams, John Hancock, and others founded the American Academy of Arts and Sciences — was also a man with a profound interest in learning. When visiting Boston, in the Granary cemetery on Tremont Street near the Parker House Hotel, you can find Governor Bowdoin's grave.
Let's just say that his son, James III, known as Jemmy, was — as sons can sometimes be — more of a free spirit than his father. Less the serious student and businessman and more one of America's first connoisseurs of life, culture, and politics, both in the Americas and abroad. During his lifetime, he acquired a substantial library, a significant art collection, and an impressive array of scientific materials, for which we at the College are the inheritors. His art collection was the genesis of the art treasures still accessible to us all within the walls of our glorious Walker Art Building. In 1794, it was $1,000 and 1,000 acres of land from this generous diplomat, agriculturist, and art collector that started us off on our noble mission.
Our students will remember this lesson as we talk about James Bowdoin when students come to my office to sign the matriculation book — where a picture of James Bowdoin with globe and telescope hangs above a desk of Nathaniel Hawthorne. The globe and telescope all live in my office. Historic inspirations for the president.
This year we celebrate at Bowdoin the 41st year of women at Bowdoin — women were formally admitted to Bowdoin commencing in the 1971-1972 academic year, the year I graduated from Bowdoin. Although the 40th anniversary year was our big celebration year — at least until year 50 — we should appropriately spend some time learning more about Sarah Bowdoin Dearborn, the wife of James Bowdoin III and also one of the founders of the College.
Sarah Bowdoin Dearborn was born in 1761 and her mother died when she was 11 and her father died when she was 12. She moved in with the family of her uncle (her father's half-brother), the very James Bowdoin II. Sarah married her first cousin, James Bowdoin III on May 18, 1781. They did not have any children. In 1805 James and Sarah were sent to Spain on a diplomatic mission, but operated out of Paris. The family traveled to London and Paris from 1806 and 1808 and Sarah kept a journal (located in our library) that details their life.
James Bowdoin III died in 1811 and Sarah then married General Henry Dearborn in 1813, a courtship which attracted the attention of many, including John Adams and Thomas Jefferson as indicated in a rather risqué letter from Adams to Jefferson chronicling the relationship. Sarah was quite an advanced woman, creating a prenuptial agreement that protected her assets of all property that she brought to the marriage with General Dearborn.
Sarah's will expressed her desire to be buried with James Bowdoin in the Old Granary burial ground in Boston. She put provisions in her will for several of her nephews to drop their last names (Winthrop, Sullivan) to take the name of Bowdoin in order to receive an inheritance from her estate. She also indicates their children must also carry the Bowdoin name.
Her obituary, in 1826 in the Boston Centinel, described Sarah Bowdoin Dearborn as "Born and educated, and living in affluence, she felt for the needy as she had at some time in her life been one of their number; she has clothed, fed and comforted the poor and the sick in both hemispheres; and if we indulged in a superstitious faith that prayers for the dead could avail the departed soul, or if could be supposed that her pure spirit could require their aid, we might be abundantly consoled with the belief that a thousand persons will ascend to Heavens in her behalf in distant lands and in different dialects; for wherever she went, wherever she dwelt, she spread around her the blessings and left behind her the remembrance of her sweet charity." Our college ancestor and founder therefore demonstrated for us our true testament to our abiding conviction and commitment to the Common Good. Sarah Bowdoin Dearborn.
So, today we remember our founders and meet to celebrate and congratulate the Sarah and James Bowdoin Scholars sitting among us. The scholars sitting among us are the Bowdoin students who in the prior academic year achieved a grade point average in their course of study that places them in the top 20 percent of the class. That's not an easy thing to accomplish. It takes hard work and dedication, for which each of these students and each parent and family member can and should be particularly proud.
This sense of pride is shared by the College because these young men and women represent what Bowdoin is all about. The College has been blessed with a talented faculty and the resources to provide an enormous range of learning opportunities for our students, whether in the classroom, residence hall, athletic field, studio, laboratory or library. But we intentionally make relatively few choices for students, instead expecting them to choose their own paths. Our students are eager participants in this College's great liberal arts tradition and the students among us today are intentional and purposeful in the pursuit of academic excellence that is at our core.
Achievement of good grades at Bowdoin is the metric we have used to identify our Sarah and James Bowdoin Scholars for many years. It is a worthwhile metric, and you should be proud of your achievements. But the metric of good grades alone does not tell the whole story about the talented men and women we celebrate today — these students are much more than their grade point averages.
Over the past number of years I corresponded with a student who remarked that these exercises miss the point of Bowdoin because we are here recognizing students who merely have received good grades at the College. And, she remarked that there are hundreds of talented students doing impressive work on campus who are not recognized today. Bowdoin students shouldn't be competing for grades against each other. I am sympathetic to these perspectives — achievement at Bowdoin is not only about GPA, nor should it be. And competition for grades is not at the heart of our intellectual enterprise — in so many ways it runs counter to our goals. Bowdoin is a great college and there are so many students in our community who are doing impressive work in the studio, in the field, on the dance floor, in our labs, in Studs Hall, in the library and throughout our community in its entire sense. We take pride in all who achieve at Bowdoin.
Nonetheless, I continue to believe that these exercises are important for Bowdoin. For it must be the case at Bowdoin that good grades mean more than a reward for hard work — this achievement represents a recognition by our faculty that the students sitting among us understand and analyze their studies in complex, serious and rigorous ways. Our recognition today is premised on the assumption that the students sitting among us did not achieve these grades cynically just to get grades for the next step in life — this is a recognition that good grades at Bowdoin reflect a seriousness of purpose, a commitment to learn, a subtlety of mind and the tenacity to achieve.
We talk often at Bowdoin about what our goals should be for our students. We understand that the defining characteristic of our best students and our best faculty is that through their education and teaching at Bowdoin they become "fearless" learners — learners who are fearless and unafraid of new ideas and new concepts; learners who are unafraid of questioning "conventional wisdom"; learners who are fearless in the face of complex technology; learners who are fearless when they listen to a symphony, or enter the Bowdoin Museum of Art.
And so, to all those fearless learners among us, and their parents, families, friends, and admirers, thank you and congratulations to all here on the accomplishments of the students we celebrate today.


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Don't Defend Indefensible Van Jones
Ms. Valerie Jarrett felt betrayed after staking her reputation on him, and now have refused to defend Mr. Jones' vile words
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Re: Van Jones, Victim Of Hate-broadcast Terrorism, blackstarnews.com September 6.
What's Mr. Jones' answerability in this matter!? As people of color, we will cease offering excuses for repugnant conduct by highly educated, successful professionals who, undoubtedly recognize the magnitude of this moment.
President Obama and Special Adviser, Ms. Valerie Jarrett felt betrayed after staking her reputation on him, and now have refused to defend Mr. Jones' vile words, terrorist actions and legal violations of public trust.
Prior to being nominated as Special Adviser, "he affirmed in a lengthy security questionnaire, nothing in his past would surface that could cause damage or ridicule to the administration." Forlorn protestations of in-culpability are inconsequential!
Mr. Jones was not targeted by "A Right Wing Hate Broadcast." Just like Rev. Jeremiah Wright, he tarnished President Obama with cosmic conspiracy theories on the eve of a generation's defining moment and the most pivotal five day interval of his elected life. As Dr. Maya Angelou said: "When someone shows you who they are, believe them."
His words, actions and criminal record led to his ruination and no amount of apology or self-indignation can remake history or salve his treachery.
Militant thesis' or juke-joint persiflage committed in perpetuity deserves neither sympathy, gudgeon outrage or commiseration.
For a Yale educated lawyer, Mr. Jones assuredly postulates inarticulate colloquys.
For example: "I had a professor who encouraged me to apply to Harvard and Yale [for law school], which was almost unheard of for students coming from the kind of public schools that I was coming from in the rural South. I was accepted to both places, and decided to go to Yale because Yale didn't have any grades and was smaller than Harvard. I figured, once I enroll I'm guaranteed to graduate, so I can just go and be a radical hell raiser student, and they can't do anything about it. Which is pretty much what happened."
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It's New Year's Eve 1981, and no one seems to know where the party's at. Literally. A bunch of chain-smoking, sex-addled twentysomethings almost miss their New Year's bash because they are having too hard a time finding their way to the house party they'd planned to attend.
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Drake Field to remain open despite budget cuts
City will fund tower using reserve funds
The Drake Field control tower will stay open using city money despite Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) cuts.
The Fayetteville City Council agreed April 2 to fund the tower for $20,394 a month, or roughly $196,000 for the rest of the year. The money will come from budget reserve funds.
"I was told we have 38,000 landings a year there and so I'm concerned as a mayor from a safety aspect that we need a tower," Fayetteville Mayor Lioneld Jordan said.
The city agreed to contract the control tower to CI2 Aviation Group Inc., an aviation management and telecommunications provider.
Fayetteville city attorney Kit Williams appealed the decision to close the tower at Drake Field, arguing it would be "legally inappropriate" because the military uses the airfield and it could compromise safety. His petition joins several other states with towers slated to close.
"We just really feel like we need that tower just for safety. On football game days and the military uses it, I just don't think the city can do without the tower," Mayor Jordan said.
The FAA was set to close the tower at Drake Field April 7 but pushed the closures back to June 15, allowing time to resolve legal disputes.


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Why You Need Not Fear the Fed
Hype continues to mount ahead of next week's Fed meeting, with all the fuss centered around when the Fed will start tapering its bond-buying program. But there are opinions that say everyone just needs to chill out. Steven Russolillo joins MoneyBeat. Photo: AP.
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... the mortgage the last three weeks really ... being for re now by the idea that the Federal Reserve ... might pull back on the stimulus the dreaded and proverbial ... the purring ... this is what the Fed the market ... really entertaining for a couple weeks ... should you be concerned about it though morning welcome to MoneyBeat I'm Paul vignette ... today by my compatriot on the MoneyBeat blogged Steve Russolillo ... you know nothing ... Zemsky yes come up with a report out there right now he this model been written by the Fed ... I could ... still ... hear the taper yes yes so this of this of the morning MoneyBeat that you're alluding to hear the headline on our morning MoneyBeat was the ... big bad sleepers nothing to fear nothing to fear nothing new markets are clearly for a while they are there they are so due to make judgment that they are paid because volatility has picked up a little bit some of these daily swings that we've seen have been a lot bigger than we've seen in the past the right so so the first five months here when you look out not today not a lot of movement today but I think he's hundred point swing by ... Thompson Simon Scott all of them one ... of the bond market is certainly a more well know ... what when you add it all together though you thought that this three week stretch trade ... the Dow was down with two percent for the past three weeks and that that was still up sixteen percent this year so we're making the argument that ... this this thing is going to cause a lot of openings couldn't because I'm choppiness but when it's all said and done though ... the Fed tapering when it does happen is a good thing because it means that ... the Fed is only due to start pulling back ... on its bond buying program whenever the they feel the economy is strong enough to ... go on its own without the that the Fed propping up so ... that is the inherent good sign for the time it's good for ... further growth it's good for former profits and should be good for the stock market so ... that's that's the idea that we're making here yesterday I get some people freak out in the short term but long term bigger picture this is a good thing ... that that war I see it ... Anna is also the podcast for the pocket that I mean a thing of it is you have had not just the U S market with global markets built on the psyche of the central bank's easing ... thrown liquidity out the trillions of dollars not just the Fed the Bank of Japan the ECB with every other bank is Islam has low rates ... what you seen the last couple weeks isn't on wind of the big bet ... on that that they wrote it the trader speculators could borrow cheaply and a lot by anything and nothing could lose ... and yes the Dow's Dell about two percent between Japan the Nikkei ... got crushed the Treasury working alluded to in emerging markets and currencies ... had been I mean ... really really hit hard ... it's not just the US right of course is not just the lesson or I mean when you look like a country like Japan ... that market is still awful lot for the year suggests that is in a bear market rate now but it just goes to show that all that the central bank stimulus is really skewing these markets heavily on the upside and then as you seem rather depend heavily on the downside as well so yes there's a lot of moving parts has a lot of things happening but ... perhaps maybe the US is a little bit insulated from ... all the of the volatility that's going on I think that's which are seeing right now that Essex is desktop has picked up but ... it's nowhere near what happened in Japan and those that don't read or write percent moves in and day ... not happy here you can even make the argument ... how much I can do all that what ... really cobble secured meant that the U S stocks were CP ... part of relative safety and ... the onset of the offer a balance between risk and were great ... I figure that would make that a man if you're looking around the globe in you're looking at what's going on are worried about the central bank so that makes you worry about Japan ... Europe is still a mess China is cut their own issues right it's only make their twenty s the U S and U S stock market discipline is ... the sort of a sea cave in and out of it completes a doctor they say but but you need to be somewhere and I think that that gets back to the point that we are making peace here is that guess ... Fed tapering it is a good thing overall in the one in the long term so that could be a little short-term volatility but long-term should be open to all right Steve Russolillo ... can catch more that on the podcast to


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I love cats, do you? And I know very well how cats love when they have their own cute little home (be it a box or my wardrobe shelf).
And here's a home for a geeky cat: a cute home made of an old CRT monitor! Notice that nice little mouse that serves as a toy. And I love the way the cat bed is decorated and colored (the item is sold out currentky but you can easily make something like this yourself)!


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A new study of 2,500 white, Mexican American and black children from low-income families suggests that early spankings make for aggressive toddlers. According to the study, which is published in the journal Child Development, "Children who are spanked as 1-year-olds are more likely to behave aggressively and perform worse on cognitive tests as toddlers than children who are spared the punishment, new research shows."
"Age 1 is a key time for establishing the quality of the parenting and the relationship between parent and the child," said study author Lisa J. Berlin, a research scientist at the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University. "Spanking at age 1 reflects a negative dynamic, and increases children's aggression at age 2."
"The study also found that mothers who said their children were 'fussy' babies were more likely to spank them at ages 1, 2 and 3. But children who were more aggressive at 2 were not more likely to get spanked.
'The implication or the suggestion in past arguments is that some kids who are more aggressive or difficult to control might elicit more spanking, but that's not what we found,' Berlin said."
The average number of spankings for 1-year-olds in this study was 2.6 per week.
I am by no means a perfect parent (if such a thing even exists) and I've definitely felt the urge to spank my kids on occasion. I've raised my voice and not always parented the way I planned to but I cannot imagine a situation where I'd ever conceive spanking a 1-year-old – especially more than twice per week on average!
Alma from Always on the Verge
Why are we spanking one year olds? My next question is, why are we spanking one year olds almost 3 times a week? What are they doing that deserves physical punishment?
I wish they would have told us that in the article because I cannot for the life of me understand what a one year old does that requires physical punishment. This goes back to something that I preach a great deal about.
Forcing unrealistic expectations on children.
I have heard reasons as to why people spank their young children and they range from not wanting to eat, not wanting to sit in a carseat for extended periods of time, and not wanting to go to sleep when the parents want them to. All of these common reasons are things that children should not be really expected to do…. but our society has said that they are. What needs to change here? The kids or the expectations?
Alma also notes that this is certainly not the first time a study has showed the negative effects spanking has on a child. CNN posted Spanking Kids Leads to Long-Term Bad Behavior more than 10 years ago.
On the Attachment Parenting Blog API Speaks, Sarah wrote about the one and only time her now 7-year-old son was spanked (back when he was 18 months old and by the hand of her mother-in-law) in her post His Only Spank.
Carina spanked her 3.5 yr old son after he made a colossal mess of her living room (don't believe me? check this out) and said in the comments:
I have mixed feelings about the spanking (don't we all?). I have tried a lot of alternate disciplinary tactics. Today was the first day that we did a bare-bum and open hand spanking. The good thing is that I was not angry, it was not a release, it was done calmly. Afterwards I made him sit on my lap and talk about it. I probably wouldn't have done it, except that he poured out most of the chocolate syrup on the carpet yesterday, after which he lost TV privileges and had a long time out. With the escalation today, I felt like we needed to step up the discipline.
Carina also told me, "It's rare that we use it [spanking] as a discipline (hate using it when there is any other alternative). We'd tried everything else and nothing else was working. I think I come down on the side of 'if it's rare and appropriate.'"
LilSugar wrote Did Your View on Spanking Change Once You Became a Mom? and confesses that her's did.
I was adamant that I would use spanking as a method of punishment in our home… before I became a mother. When it came time for me to teach my daughter right from wrong, I popped her tush a couple of times and found it completely ineffective. She actually enjoyed the quick tap and giggled her way to more mischief. Eager to try a new plan, I gave her a time out in a not so fun part of the house — the dark guest room. In 60 seconds, I discovered that the new system was more compelling than making physical contact.
A commenter MissSushi said:
I will probably spank, but only for very severe things. Sometimes you need the shock of it as a wake up call. We hardly ever got spanked as kids, but the few times it happened because of severe and usually dangerous transgressions, it really made an impact. I got slapped across the face as a teenager when i was totally going over the line and it shut me up and kept me from doing it ever again. I needed the reality check to realize how god awful I was behaving. None of my siblings and I really ever misbehaved, and anywhere we went people raved over how well behaved we were. My mother used consistency, manual labor, spanking when necessary, removal of privileges and taking away our toys/electronics. Taking our things away worked for us because she didn't give them back. We weren't allowed outside, and we weren't allowed to play with anything. A few weeks of trying her patience out staring at the walls when you aren't scrubbing the floors and doing laundry for a six-person household was miserable. I will be using a similar method.
Debs from Muddy Bare Feet said:
My opinion on the matter is very clear – children should never be hit because they are people, just like adults, and have the same human rights (or should have) not to get hit anytime they do something "wrong". On the list [message board she is a part of] I gave the example of an adult who was doing something "wrong" (I do not believe that a child's behaviour is ever "wrong" but that's another discussion), or who refused to do what you wanted them to – would you hit them? Of course not, so why is it seen as okay by some people to hit a child? Hitting out of anger, i.e. not in a premeditated way, is loss of control on the part of the parent and not the child's fault, yet they become the victim of it. Premeditated hitting, counting down, saying, "If you do that again, you'll get a smack" is just plain cruel to me. I cannot imagine doing that to another human being.
She references some websites and books about "nonviolent parenting," such as Children are Unbeatable. (Speaking of nonviolent parenting, I found it interesting to learn that in Sweden it is against the law to spank a child.)
Debs then goes on to say:
I hope it doesn't sound too stupid, but I'm kind of hyper-aware that this is the only chance I've got to get it right. This is the only childhood R will ever have, and I keep having a little panic that I'm going to mess it up for him! I'm also very aware that, as we can't have any more children, this is my one chance to do this parenting thing right. 🙂
Annie at PhDinParenting notes that one of the 10 things all new parents should know is "Discipline means teach."
New parents worry that they need to 'discipline' their child. But often when they say discipline, they mean spanking or punishing. However, the word discipline means to teach. That is what parents need to do. They need to guide and teach their children. In the same way that we do not expect a first grader to learn calculus, it is important to understand what age appropriate behaviour is and to shape your expectations of your child and your discipline (teaching) according to what a child can reasonably be expected to understand at any given age.
Annie also has a lot of information for parents who want to find other methods of disciplining their child in her Best Anti-Spanking Resources post.
In a post from April, Summer from Wired for Noise raises awareness about SpankOut Day. "SpankOut Day USA was initiated in 1998 to give widespread attention to the need to end corporal punishment of children and to promote non-violent ways of teaching children appropriate behavior."
Summer is against spanking as a form of punishment.
Despite the cute names people may like to use taking your hand to another human being is hitting. Hitting. Children should not be hit.
I've written before my thoughts that spanking does not equal discipline. Some people have the mistaken idea that a parent who does not spank simple lets their kids run wild without correcting or guiding them. This black and white, one way or the other type thought often prevents them from seeing the benefits of choosing not to hit my children, and the dangers of them choosing to hit theirs. I believe in disciplining children, not punishing."
Commenter Susan of Lil Mom That Could admits that she used to spank, but doesn't anymore. "Okay I hate to say this but I have proof that spanking does not work. I will admit it I spanked- hold my head in shame. Moreso because I was spanked – a learned trait – I didn't work. Yes I got the behavior to stop for that minute but never for good. Now I have been giving my son a stern voice and a time-out. This has done more for him and me – he respects me more – we resolve our problems verbally, work out why he was being naughty."
A few commenters on the Strollerderby post, They Say: Spanking Makes Your Kid Mean, a Bit Dumb, question how scientific this study was and if other variables could have played a role in the aggressiveness of the children.
Another commenter (Manjari) from the Strollerderby post said, "Whether or not the study is sound, I don't think children should be spanked. I don't want anyone to hit me, and I think kids should have the same protection from violence that I do."
What do I think about all of this? (I know you want me to chime in.) My thoughts are that a very occasional spanking is not likely to cause a child any permanent harm (though I still can't imagine or condone spanking a 1 year old). That doesn't mean I believe in spanking for my children, because I do not. However, I know that even parents with the very best of intentions sometimes do things they regret. What should a parent do if that happens? I think explaining to the child why he/she (the parent) acted the way they did and apologizing to the child and telling them you love them is a good course of action.
I think that children who are spanked are more likely to grow up into adults that spank because of the argument, "I got spanked and I turned out OK." But the cycle of spanking – hitting another human being – violence begetting violence – continues. How is that a good thing to teach?
I read a lot today about the argument (in favor of spanking) that kids today are out of control and disrespectful and I think the vast majority of that comes down to how they were raised in the early years. Were they treated with love and respect? Were boundaries firmly established? Were they given consistent and loving care? Resorting to spanking at a later age seems like what parents do when they've lost all control. I think, however, that if we are raising our children with empathy from the very beginning, starting with birth, we are less likely to get to the point of no return and have to resort to spanking. I could go on, but that could be another whole post entirely.
Additional resources:
Gentle Christian Mothers
Best Anti-Spanking Resources (it's worth repeating down here)
From API Speaks, there are several post about how to Practice Positive Discipline
From the American Academy of Pediatrics: What is the best way to discipline my child?
From CNN: Spanking detrimental to children, study says
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Is there a way to get the root parent site, no matter how many levels deep you are in sub-sites? For example, in this structure:
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Carlos Boozer scored 27 points and the Chicago Bulls dominated on the boards to become only the third visiting team to win in Miami this season, beating the Heat 96-89 Friday night.
Chicago outrebounded Miami 48-28. The Bulls had 19 offensive rebounds to four for the Heat.
The Eastern Conference-leading Heat fell to 15-3 at home. Their other home losses came against the Knicks and Warriors.
Miami's LeBron James scored 30 points, extending his streaks of scoring at least 20 points to 31 consecutive games this season, and 52 games in a row overall when including last year's playoff run. He has scored at least 25 in eight consecutive games
The first meeting between the teams this season was a bruiser, and the Bulls repeatedly outfought and outfoxed Miami on the boards. The Heat had won four games this season when outrebounded by 15 or more, but this time the disparity beat them.
Boozer collected one offensive rebound in a sitting position after the ball rolled between his legs, which led to two more second-chance points for Chicago.
The Bulls' final offensive rebound helped seal the win. Jimmy Butler grabbed it and fed Boozer for a layup with 46 seconds left to put them up 93-86.
Chicago had 20 second-chance points to seven for Miami.
Boozer and Joakim Noah had 12 rebounds apiece, and Taj Gibson added nine in 17 minutes. James led the Heat with six.
Boozer went 12 for 17 after scoring a season-high 31 points Wednesday at Orlando. Noah, back after missing one game with flu-like symptoms, had 13 points and set the tone with his physical play.
While the Heat were often on their heels, they kept coming back. A jarring foul by Kirk Hinrich near the sideline staggered James and he collapsed on the Bulls bench, then was helped to his feet by coach Tom Thibodeau.
Seconds later, James sank a 3.
Noah drew a flagrant foul when he tackled James around the neck with one arm to stop a drive early in the fourth quarter. The violation led to a four-point possession for the Heat, with James sinking four consecutive free throws.
The next time Miami had the ball, James drove for a dunk that cut Chicago's lead to 75-72. But the Heat got no closer.
Chicago won with more than mere muscle. The Bulls' 5-foot-9 Nate Robinson made a leaping interception of a James pass, then smartly bounced the ball off Miami's Shane Battier to avoid traveling. The ball dribbled out of bounds, allowing Chicago to keep possession.
Robinson's 3-pointer with 6½ minutes left gave the Bulls their biggest lead, 83-73.
The Bulls pounded the boards from the start and scored the final 10 points of the first quarter for a 26-22 lead. Jimmy Butler's buzzer-beater to end the first half put them up 49-48.
Marco Belinelli sank a 3-pointer to put Chicago up 75-66 after three quarters.
The Heat had won their past two games, both in overtime, but this time they couldn't get to OT.


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Rfam clans are a set of biologically related Rfam families. This module provides simple abstraction methods and loaders.
TODO This has to go into biobase and needs to be made nice-looking.
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Simple RfamClan data wrapper. Could Easily be just a list of bytestrings, which it is using strings


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- (adj) unnecessary, especially through being more than enough; "the purchaser should avoid asking for superfluous information"
Superfluous (सुपर्फ्लूअस / सूपर्फ्ल्वस) meaning in Hindi (English to Hindi meaning)
- अतिरिक्त, अनावश्यक, निरर्थक, फ़ालतू, ज़रूरत से ज़्यादा, अति अधिक
Superfluous Origin
- late Middle English: from Latin superfluus, from super- 'over' + fluere 'to flow'.
Superfluous in a sentence (word usage in recent Hindu newspaper editorial)
- The 'superfluous' branches would be merged with the nearest SBI branch.
- Had James Milner converted his penalty and Liverpool held off Southampton for all three points, all talk of style would be superfluous.
- It is therefore superfluous to equate Hindutva with singing Vande Mataram, teaching yoga or doing surya namaskar.
- A pod hotel tends to strip a hotel room of all the superfluous facilities and compresses it down to space for a single person's use.
- The Kolkata Knight Riders suffered a minor setback in their last game when they were blown away by David Warner's superfluous 126.
Mnemonic trick to remember the meaning of superfluous
- super = over… fluous = flow… overflow
Superfluous Pronunciation


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Factor is a new language that is gaining momentum in the open source community. A few of the core members were in town visiting after the creator Slava gave a Google Tech Talk. Over beers and pizza at the Lucky Lab NW the Factor guys told me how FFI works and we had a binding to a Bessel function working within half an hour. It's that frickin' easy!
Here is the gitweb for factor-gsl, which currently has support for all Bessel functions.
To clone master repo:
git clone http://leto.net/code/factor.git
Example usage:
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( scratchpad ) 10 gsl_sf_bessel_J0 .
There are tests also, but the docs are still a bit rough.


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We regret to inform you that Legendary Film Critic Roger Ebert passed away today. When I was a kid living in Chicago Siskel and Ebert were the Film Critic version of the Dynamic Duo. Their series "Siskel and Ebert and the The Movies" was very entertaining and the bickering those two did never got old! The title was changed the year after launch to just "Siskel and Ebert".
But seriously… I grew up with them. When I was just 19, dumb, drunk and bowling with a group of my friends (late night) at Marina City Bowling I met Gene Siskel. He was with his friends bowling next to us and he congratulated my ability to consistently roll a strike while barely able to stand up. I sobered almost instantly when I saw who it was and it made my week to have discussed the ability to control a bowling ball under the influence of alcohol. I explained to him that I was celebrating my birthday and I must have gotten into the wrong punch… he laughed without a bit of judgment in his eyes and I was instantly a bigger fan.
When Gene Siskel passed, Roger Ebert continued on. He was no longer part of that magical dynamic duo, but he held his own very well and continued to do his show now renamed to "Roger Ebert & the Movies" Ebert had a number of Critics guest on his show, but Richard Roeper was eventually selected and co-hosted with Roger for a number of years. In 2002 just after being diagnosed with Thyroid Cancer Roger Ebert's show was renamed to Ebert & Roeper until 2006 when complications led to an emergency operation that kept Ebert from appearing on his show for quite awhile. Ebert's doctors attempted several surgeries to reconstruct his jaw bone, however his face and neck became increasingly malformed with each surgery. The producers were concerned that Roger's appearance would cause a decline in the viewership and so… it didn't air anymore.
In the summer of 2007 the show kind of came back, but Ebert wasn't appearing very often and many guest critics played opposite Roeper. Ebert had his column in the Chicago Sun-Times, and that was incredibly popular. In fact in 1975 he won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, and was one of the most gifted movie critics of our age. He was the author of some 15 books, a contributor to a gaggle of magazines, an avid blogger, and an inspiring teacher at the University of Chicago.
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UPDATE: New Jersey lawmakers spoke about Aaron Sofer's disappearance at a Tuesday morning press conference.
Three days into the search for a New Jersey student missing in Israel, his family is asking for intervention from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), according to the Jerusalem Post.
Aaron Sofer, 23, disappeared Friday while hiking in the Jerusalem Forest with a friend. The two became separated while making their way along a steep incline. Sofer has not been seen since and now his family and members of his community back home in Lakewood, New Jersey, fear he may have become a victim of the Gaza-Israeli conflict.
"Obviously, the concern that he may have been abducted is there because of the volatile events," said Meir Lichtenstein, a Lakewood committeeman and former mayor.
Several hours after Sofer disappeared, the Ocean County man's friend contacted police and filed a missing person report, according to the Jerusalem Post. Since then, hundreds of volunteers have aided police and rescue organizations in searching for Sofer, but so far there has been no sign of him and no indication of what happened to him.
"A physically, mentally and emotionally healthy young man does not go missing for 72 hours," family spokesman Dov Hirth told the Jerusalem Post on Monday.
"They've sent a whole set of K-9s into the area tonight and tomorrow they will start new search patterns," said Lichtenstein who spoke late Monday with officials in Israel.
Another teen with ties to Lakewood — 16-year-old Naftaly Frenkel — was kidnapped in the West Bank and killed this summer, along with two other Israeli teens. Frenkel's aunt lives in Lakewood, a community of about 100,000. The growing population of Orthodox Jews came together to support Frenkel's family.
The kidnapping and murders of the three teens was one of the key factors leading to the summer conflict.
Last month, Muhammad Abu Khdeir, a 16-year-old Palestinian boy, was kidnapped and killed in an alleged revenge attack. Abu Khdeir was beaten and burned to death in the same forest where Sofer is missing. Spokesman Dov Hirth said the family wants Israeli forces involved in the search for Sofer because of the Abu Khdeir killing and because of increased tension between Israelis and Palestinians.
"I don't know if they have any physical evidence that he [Sofer] was kidnapped," Lichtenstein said, explaining that the Jerusalem forest is bordered by both Jewish and Arab communities. "Three days is a pretty long time to be searching a relatively small area."
Sofer's family is in Israel now. Lakewood's mayor, Menashe P. Miller will be joined by other lawmakers on Tuesday at 10 a.m. for a news conference at Lakewood's Town Hall. They'll brief the community on the latest efforts by the U.S. and Israel to find Sofer.


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- Amanda
I remember my first chicken fried steak. It was in Houston, Texas, at the home of Jenny's in-laws. They were wise chicken fried steak aficionados, and cooked theirs in an iron skillet out on the patio on a squat little grill, where grease was welcome to spray the plants. The steaks came out of the pan wrapped in a warped brown and salty crust. It was my first time in Texas and knew from then on it would not be my last.
A few weekends ago, I went to Oklahoma for a couple of book events, and got to hang out with Jeff Martin, the founder of Booksmart Tulsa, who may be the coolest guy north of Texas. At one of our stops -- lunch at Lucky's (go if you can) -- he talked me into chicken fried steak. It was just as delicious as I remembered it. This one came with a sage gravy. If you don't have guts for the gravy, a squeeze of lemon will work well (think veal Milanese). Just don't tell anyone in Tulsa I said that.
Chicken Fried Steak with Sage Gravy
Adapted from Matt Kelley, the chef and owner of Lucky's in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Serves 4
1. Working with one steak at a time, lay the steak between two sheets of parchment or wax paper and flatten with a meat pounder to 1/8-inch thickness. Season with flattened steaks with salt and pepper.
2. Spread 1 cup flour on a large plate. Season with flour with salt and pepper. In a large bowl, whisk together the buttermilk and egg.
3. Again, working one steak at a time, dip the steak in the flour, lightly coating both sides. Next, dip the steak in the buttermilk mixture, letting any excess drip off. Then dip the steak in flour once more, lightly but completely coating the steak; shake off any excess flour. Set the coated steaks on a baking sheet until ready to use.
4. Heat the bacon fat or butter in a medium saucepan. Once it's hot, add the remaining 7 tablespoons flour, and whisk until smooth. Cook over medium low heat for 1 to 2 minutes. Whisk in the milk, then the cream, bring to a boil -- whisking all the time -- then reduce the heat and let the gravy simmer until thickened, 3 to 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
5. Meanwhile, cover the base of a large iron skillet with 1/8-inch canola oil. Place over medium high heat. Once the oil is hot, add as many steaks as will fit (probably just one or two), and brown on both sides, about 2 minutes per side. Do the rest in batches. A splatter guard comes in handy if you don't want your stove covered in beef fat. As the steaks finish cooking, set them aside on a baking sheet.
6. When the steaks are nearly finished, whisk the gravy and add the sage. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
7. Serve each steak with a ladleful of gravy.
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Had someone asked me to guess what it would look like if Girls ever addressed mental illness, I would never have picked OCD as the appropriate affliction. And I wish Lena hadn't. It would seem odd to — unlike the bromance, or the brownstone lover — sweep this all-consuming condition under the rug next week like it never happened. But, then again, I don't feel particularly wedded to watching Hannah twitch forever (unless it makes fodder of mild assaults on unsuspecting Carlyle Cafe restaurant patrons, which was funny).
It's an episode that, like Adam's old glass of milk, soured in my mouth. (I couldn't spit this one out, unfortunately.) Yet it also gave us Carol Kane! Who doesn't love Carol Kane? (I'm not in the target demographic to properly appreciate Judy Collins, but surely many of the show's viewers are.)
Sk8er Boi; or, I've got 99 Problems and They're All Boys
"This is what she does. She fucks shit up, leaves, and blames it on her marriage, or her relationship with her dad. This is what she does, this is classic Jessa," Marnie explains to Shoshanna. The rest of the episode is spent dismantling the "classic" ingredients of every character, until we end up with: Marnie the cocktail waitress who sings; Shoshanna the unwitting cheater; Hannah the OCD victim; Charlie the bougie nightmare; Adam as the "really nice boy"; the psychiatrist as kitschy novelist. Jessa's reputation as a "fucking hustler" remains intact, but only because the whole sentimental "I'm the child!" bit from last week — not to mention the gilded cage of her marriage — did similar work in the rounding-out-characters department.
"Charlie has a company?" Marnie squeaks, rhetorically, in her pigtails and hooded long-sleeve T-shirt, then runs away. If only she'd known he'd grow up to be a (bread) winner!
The least flash-in-the-pan-y seeming character evolution in this episode is granted to Charlie, which not only gives an otherwise flailing plotline some traction but gives Marnie another legitimate thing to whine about. Is it just me or has Marnie morphed into a wholly sympathetic character this season? I don't fault her for liking Charlie now that he's a moneyman, even if it's technically a despicable move. But who hasn't felt awkward about not recognizing the potential energy of men until they're your ex-boyfriend?
It's made worse, of course, that Charlie seems content with his promise never to give Marnie sway over matters below the belt. In fact, he's weary of her and rightly suspicious of her motives:
Marnie: I'm just here for support.
Charlie: From me or for me?
But actually the real kicker is the fact that Charlie would never have created "Forbid" — which sounds hilariously like a bad perfume — had Marnie never broken up with him. Ouch. Not to mention the fact that the episode starts with a vignette of Hannah spiraling into a stress ball after getting a mostly unwanted call from Adam.
I do love that Charlie's newfound fiscal solvency allows us a window into pre–"Harlem Shake" start-up office culture, even if it has the potential to permanently close the door on the Charlie-Marnie saga. (LOL to the datedness of Teach Me How to Dougie.) "I'll have my assistant send over the new Jack Johnson album," someone tells Charlie, signaling to us that our musician has officially given up the dream for this carpeted sweatshop. (Since I'm making mention of perfect cameos: Charlie's svelte, blonde co-worker who interrupts his tête-à-tête with Marnie happens to be the Brooklyn-based writer Alice Gregory. I also support the verbal hat tip to Ann Patchett as the go-to author for moms from Michigan.)
"Is she in a tropical climate or somewhere up high. Omigod! Is she warm enough?" +5
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"It wasn't love the way I imagined it," Adam says of his relationship with Hannah. "I just felt weird if I didn't know what she was up to or whatever." I can't help but be reminded of Hannah's utterly beautiful, not to mention heavily screen-capped monologue about what she — and every woman — wants from their not-boyfriends. The great thing about Adam is that he does feel a lot, in the same way that Hannah feels a lot, but he's much more honest with himself about what his feelings reflect about him. The contrast is especially potent in this episode, if only because we're privy to more of Hannah's poor-me talking points (which are directed now at her parents, rather than Adam), which paint her as lacking self-awareness in the most juvenile possible way.
Carol Kane, playing the chain-smoking mom at a PTA meeting on Long Island, recognizes a boy who's trying to figure his life out and likes what she sees. Her spawn would be attractive and compelling in all the right ways! Not only does she work for a private eye, she has a landline. Perfect woman.
"Goddammit if you're not cuter than a dimple on a bug's ass." +3
"Your mother said you have great teeth." +5
In Which Things Fall Apart for All the 20-Year-Old Women
Ray muses that Shosh is "navigating through the folds of pure conformity" at her NYU party, unawares that his premonition is being taken fairly literally by our adulterer. I realize their May-December romance has to disintegrate, but must it happen in such a contrived fashion? Speaking of contrived, does Marnie have to be a singer? I hate everything about this episode, and I get that certain stereotypes are being rewritten or made fun of, but Marnie can't be the next Norah Jones. (Also: Oasis, Norah Jones, Duncan Sheik — what are these twentysomething-year-olds doing listening to the music of
What isn't stereotypical for TV, obviously, is Hannah's OCD. (Apparently Lena talks about her own brushes with the disorder in her Rolling Stone article, but that's a paywall I have yet to breach.) "I'm not supposed to be here," Hannah exclaims after being escorted to a psychiatrist's waiting room by her parents. She's right. Hannah's got a potential entree into the adult life she's always dreamed of, and the stress has caused a regression in her mental health.
Marnie's not supposed to be where she is, either: "It doesn't matter how right you do things, because you know who ends up living their dreams? Sad messes like Charlie."
Ray, ever the pocket philosopher, points out that Marnie's only "mad because [she] wants what he has." And it's true. The girls are not at a loss for knowing what they want, even if they have no idea of how to go about achieving it. Shoshanna wants Ray to have a real job so they can go on dates; Hannah wants to be an established writer; and Marnie wants to pull her weight in a power couple.
Good luck with those dreams, ladies!
"You're, like, really good-looking for a doorman." +1
"You can't dress like a magician's assistant for very much longer." +5


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Tuesday Morning QB: Snow, cold, record scoring and Manning, Brady and Brees
The QB rankings entering week 14:
Quarterback ……………….. (Last week's ranking)
1. Peyton Manning, Broncos (1t)
On his way to 5,000+ yards, 50+ TDs and 5th MVP.
2. Tom Brady, Patriots (1t)
Played awful for so long Sunday in falling behind 19-3 at home to lowly Cleveland. Wound up with 418 yards and incredibly lucky 27-26 win.
3. Drew Brees, Saints (8)
Wait your turn, Cam. In NFC South showdown against the Carolina Panthers, Brees threw for 313 yards with 4 TDs and 0 picks.


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Many travellers see very little of south central Laos, spending just a night or two in the principal towns of Thakhek or Savannakhet before pressing on to the far south or crossing the border into Vietnam. However, those willing to take time out from the more popular north and south of the country will find that there is much more to the region than the main Mekong towns, not least the otherworldly beauty of the Mahaxai stone formations at the edge of the Khammouane Limestone NBCA near Thakhek, and the largest of all Laos's conservation areas, the massive Nakai-Nam Theun NBCA to the northeast.
The three narrow provinces that dominate this part of Laos, namely Bolikhamxai, Khammouane and Savannakhet, are squeezed between mainland Southeast Asia's two most formidable geographical barriers: the Mekong River and the Annamite Mountains. The mighty Mekong has long served as a lifeline for the inhabitants of this stretch of the interior, providing food and a thoroughfare for trade and transport. In the late nineteenth century, European colonialism turned the life-giving "Mother of Waters" into a political boundary, and the Lao on its west bank were incorporated into Siam. During the 1970s and 1980s, the river became a further political and economic divide, when short-lived but draconian post-revolutionary policies forced large numbers of the inhabitants of the towns along this stretch of the Mekong, primarily ethnic Vietnamese and Chinese, to flee across the river intoThailand.
East of the river, the elevation gradually increases, culminating in the rugged Annamite Mountains, which, throughout much of recorded history, have divided Indochina culturally into two camps, Indian influence prevailing west of the chain and that of China dominating the east. Until very recently these mountains made up one of the region's least inhabited areas and were teeming with wildlife, including some of Asia's rarest and most endangered species, such as the tiger, Javan rhinoceros and Indian elephant. In recent years, however, this area has been the target of heavy logging, and some observers claim that the damage done to the forest since the start of the new millennium is irreversible.
As might be expected, the three principal settlements and provincial capitals of south central Laos – Paksan, Thakhek and Savannakhet – are all on the Mekong. Paksan, the smallest of these, lies at the mouth of the Xan River, which flows down from the 2620-metre Phou Xaxum on the Xieng Khuang Plateau. Thakhek now sees few foreign visitors, though it was once a casino town that drew gamblers from Thailand. East of Thakhek is a dramatic landscape of imposing and impossibly vertical mountains of the kind often depicted in old Chinese scroll paintings, which forms the southern boundary of the Khammouane Limestone NBCA. Easily visited on a day-trip from Thakhek, these awesome limestone formations are riddled with labyrinthine tunnels and caverns. Savannakhet has been described as southern Laos's equivalent of Luang Prabang, its inhabitants living comfortably among architectural heirlooms handed down by the French. Situated at the junction of two ancient trade routes, the town also displays evidence of other cultures – Vietnamese, Thai and Chinese – that have left their mark while passing through.
Aside from the main north–south artery of Route 13, central Laos has three important highways – Routes 8, 12 and 9 – which cross the region from west to east, connecting the Mekong River Valley with the provincial interior, and extending beyond into Vietnam. The northernmost highway, Route 8 – paved and served by daily buses from Vientiane – snakes up through mountains, rainforests and the Phu Pha Maan "stone forest" before winding down to the city of Vinh on the Gulf of Tonkin. The middle route, Route 12, begins at Thakhek and crosses the Annamites, connecting with Vietnam's Highway 15 and the coastal city of Dong Hoi. Southernmost of the three is Route 9, served by daily buses connecting Savannakhet with Dong Ha, Da Nang and Hué in Vietnam.
Near Xepon, Route 9 bisects another route of more recent vintage: the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Actually a network of parallel roads and paths, the trail was used by the North Vietnamese Army to infiltrate and finally subdue its southern neighbour. The area is still littered with lots of war junk, some of it dangerous. The best way to view these rusting relics is to use Xepon as a base, making trips to nearby Muang Phin and Ban Dong.


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