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Recognition of Mendeleev as the most important, although not the only, developer of the periodic law has strengthened in recent years, and his contributions to other areas of science and learning have begun to be explored in greater detail by scholars. Interest in Mendeleev's work has continued in the early twenty-first century, and a small but steady stream of studies continues to flow from scholars both inside and outside of Russia.
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The Periodic Law and its Reception . B. M. Kedrov's article in the original Dictionary of Scientific Biography (1981; DSB) brought his conception of the discovery of the periodic law to a broader audience and this view has since become widely accepted by many scholars. In brief, Kedrov argued that Mendeleev formulated the main contours of the periodic law during the course of one day, 17 February 1869 on the Russian calendar (1 March by the Gregorian calendar in use in the West). Mendeleev had recently been appointed to the chair of chemistry at St. Petersburg University and was writing his own general chemistry textbook for use in his classes. By early in 1869, Mendeleev had finished the first part of the textbook, ending with a chapter on the halogens, and moved on to the alkali metals. He was then faced with what group to consider next. The logical choice was the alkaline earth metals, but some other metals had similar properties, so Mendeleev would have to choose which way to proceed. On 17 February, he began to compare the atomic weights of these various groups of elements, which Kedrov identified as the key step in the discovery of the periodic law. Over the course of this day, Mendeleev increased the numbers of elements he was able to arrange in groups in several rough drafts of a table. To help in this process, he made a series of cards on which he wrote the symbols and main properties of the sixty-three then-known elements and began to play what Kedrov called chemical solitaire. At the end of the day, he drafted a clean copy of his table of elements and sent it to be printed.
There are serious deficiencies with Kedrov's account that are beginning to be recognized and discussed by a larger group of scholars, even though a few historians of chemistry (mainly residing in St. Petersburg) had long
provided alternate views of Mendeleev's discovery. Kedrov provided an extremely detailed, almost hour-by-hour recreation of the so-called day of one great discovery. However, the evidentiary basis of this reconstruction is shaky, because the few archival documents Kedrov used cannot definitively be dated to that one day and may not even refer to the incidents claimed by Kedrov. In addition, Kedrov tended to overlook the evidence provided in Mendeleev's textbook as a guide to his thoughts during the months surrounding 17 February. Kedrov's belief that the key step in the discovery involved the alkali metals and what elements to discuss after this group is implausible, because no hesitation can be noted in Mendeleev's prior plans for his textbook and the chemical properties of the alkali earths make them the natural successors, despite some other elements having a few similar properties. Also, Kedrov's emphasis on Mendeleev's comparison of various natural families of elements by the atomic weights of their members is likewise implausible because many of these groups did not have clearly established weights and other properties in 1869.
In contrast to Kedrov's view of the discovery taking place on one day, a credible case can be made for a longer process of discovery that lasted well over a year. When Mendeleev first began writing his textbook from 1867–1869, he formulated a framework for thinking about the elements, which included, among other ideas, an abstract conception of a chemical element using its atomic weight as the fundamental feature that determined its chemical energy and consequently also its chemical properties. By early 1869 Mendeleev had arrived at the concept that trends in properties of elements corresponded to increases in their atomic weights. However, a system based only on this criterion did not satisfy him, because the different periods exhibited varying characters, such as the number of elements in them and the rate of change of some of the elements' properties. In constructing this early fragmentary table, he employed analogies between atoms and organic compounds, including the idea that elements could be viewed as similar to isomers in organic chemistry. Using this idea from organic chemistry, he identified two classes of elements, where some chemical elements with similar atomic weights have different chemical properties, whereas other elements with similar atomic weights have similar chemical properties. He continued to struggle with his desire for a unified table that would have a symmetrical structure.
The version of the table he completed on 17 February 1869 was a compromise between Mendeleev's two main taxonomical criteria: physico-chemical relationships and chemical relationships. This table clearly showed the physico-chemical criteria of the periodic change in the properties of the elements based on their atomic weights (his first taxonomic requirement), but much less well the chemical relationships between the different elements in one column (group; his second desideratum). This compromise table was similar to those of some of his predecessors, but it did not satisfy Mendeleev's thirst for what he termed a natural system of elements. To construct this type of a system, he needed to find chemical criteria that could unite elements of the different classes. By the end of 1869 or early in 1870, Mendeleev had settled on the use of the highest forms of oxygen compounds (higher salt-forming oxides and their corresponding hydrates and salts) as the essential chemical criterion. Using this idea, Mendeleev recognized that the characteristic properties of the elements determine the highest oxidation state of these elements and the properties of these compounds: "[T]he natural arrangement of elements in groups according to the size of the atomic weight corresponds to the amount of oxygen that these elements can hold in the highest salt-forming oxides" (1958, p. 57). He used this principle to solve his main classificatory problem of uniting elements of different classes and by November 1870 was able to create a natural system of elements. Although this did not resolve all of his problems, such as placement of the rare earths, it did allow him to formulate the
periodic law in its entirety: "the essence, the nature of elements, is expressed in their weight, i.e., in the mass of the substance entering into the reaction... The physical and chemical properties of elements, appearing in the properties of the simple and complex bodies they form, stand in a periodic dependence...on their atomic weight" (1949, p. 907). He summarized his findings in a long paper published in 1871 in Justus Liebig's Annalen der Chemie, later calling it "the best summary of my views and ideas on the periodicity of the elements." Although he did some further work on developing the periodic law after this time, his main attention shifted to other interests.
It took many years for Mendeleev's periodic law to become accepted by a majority of scientists. Kedrov, in his DSB article, claims that the discovery of gallium, scandium, and germanium—earlier predicted by Mendeleev—was "of decisive importance in the acceptance of the law." However, Mendeleev made many other predictions that turned out to be incorrect. This has led to a debate among scholars over whether prediction or accommodation (the ability of the theory to incorporate known facts) was the primary factor in the acceptance of Mendeleev's periodic law. For example, Brush has shown that scientific journals and textbooks began to discuss the periodic law only after the confirmation of Mendeleev's predictions. He suggests that chemists gave more weight to these novel predictions, which then can help explain why Mendeleev's work is remembered whereas the others who claimed to discover the periodic law have been forgotten. Alternatively, Scerri believes that the successful predictions served mainly to draw attention to Mendeleev's periodic law itself and that once scientists became aware of it, they valued the way it successfully incorporated known facts. In addition, other aspects of the periodic law—such as its ability to correctly place beryllium and other difficult elements in the table—helped it gain gradual acceptance from scientists by about 1890.
Long before the discovery of isotopes, chemists realized there was something deeply puzzling about Mendeleev's Periodic Law. It was not based on atomic weights per se, but on periodicities in the order of atomic weights. In the first edition of his textbook, Mendeleev speculated that "interal differences of the matter that comprises the atoms of similar elements" could be the reasons for their differences in properties (1949, p. 191). In the fifth edition (1889), Mendeleev singled out mass as the key determinant of periodicity. He later (sixth edition, 1895) used an analogy with Newton's law of gravitation to argue that mass is the source of periodicity. Even though we do not have an explanation for this relationship of periodicity on mass, he asserted, it can be accepted, just as we accept the law of gravitation—also without explanation—because it works.
Mendeleev's Work in Other Fields . Russian scholars have long examined the totality of Mendeleev's varied activities both inside and outside of science, although they have devoted most of their attention to examining the periodic law and its consequences. In his DSB entry, Kedrov provided a brief summary of many of these activities. Scholars outside of Russia, however, have not paid much attention to Mendeleev's activities other than the periodic law until relatively recently (Gordin, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2004; Rice, 1998; Brooks, 1998, 2003; Almgren, 1968, 1998; Stackenwalt, 1976, 1998). This recent work has opened important new perspectives on Mendeleev.
It is difficult to make sense of Mendeleev's intentions in pursuing many of his varied activities—such as his sudden abandonment of work on the periodic law in 1871 in order to take up research on gas laws funded by the Imperial Russian Technical Society, his widely scattered activities as an economic consultant, his writings on theoretical economics, his research on smokeless gunpowder, among others—but some possible clues are emerging. Gordin has viewed Mendeleev as a conservative reformer who wished to bring order to the world around him—both the scientific as well as political worlds. At first Mendeleev hoped to use scientific societies and expert opinions as a way to organize the necessary development of the Russian Empire after the changes wrought by the Great Reforms Era. For example, Mendeleev used the Russian Physical Society as the organizer of a commission to investigate spiritualist claims during the 1870s. What mainly concerned Mendeleev, it seems, was the spiritualists' desire to encroach upon what Mendeleev saw as scientific territory by interpreting natural phenomena. Although Mendeleev gained some measure of renown for his participation in this commission and his activities against spiritualism, he did not succeed in vanquishing spiritualist beliefs from Russian society. Kedrov quotes Mendeleev's statement that "spiritism was rejected," but this was not the case; Russian spiritualism continued to flourish long after this time.
Gordin has argued that Mendeleev's rejection for full membership by the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1880 initiated an imperial turn in Mendeleev's thinking. From that time on, Mendeleev devoted more of his attention to concerns that would require empire-wide organization and changes. Thus, he began to become involved with the economic development of Russia, as in his efforts to reform the tariff and in his actions as director of the Chief Bureau of Weights and Measures. In these activities Mendeleev at first functioned closely with high-ranking government bureaucrats and then he became one himself. Soviet historians of science often implied that Mendeleev held anti-tsarist views, but in fact he firmly supported the government, although he had disputes with some officials while working well with others.
Mendeleev had a long interest in issues dealing with metrology when he was appointed the scientific curator of the Depot of Weights and Measures in 1892. Especially in the decade prior to this appointment, he had become deeply involved in various economic matters, including his leading work on the revision of the tariff structure from 1889 to 1892 under the auspices of the Ministry of Finance. Mendeleev drew up an expansive plan for his new institution, which was soon transformed into the Central Bureau of Weights and Measures in 1893 with himself as director. He envisioned an institution that would carry out both practical activities and purely scientific research, and he greatly enlarged both its staff and purview. The main goals of the new institution were to unify the many different weights and measures used in the diverse Russian Empire, achieve their regulation in trade and industry, and orchestrate the eventual conversion to the metric system. The first task tackled by the bureau was the renovation of the prototypes of the official standards of weights and measures employed in Russia. At the same time, Mendeleev and his colleagues conducted research on various metrological questions, most of them related in some way to the renewal of the prototypes. For example, the researchers made extremely precise determinations of the weight of one liter of air and one liter of water, and conducted studies on how to increase the precision of balances as well as on techniques of weighing, among others. Also, Mendeleev founded a new scientific journal in which the results of this research could be published and made available to scholars both in Russia and abroad. When the prototypes had been prepared and tested, Mendeleev drafted a new law (enacted in 1899) on standardization that codified the prototypes and created the framework for their use in the unification of standards throughout Russia. One of the major provisions of the law was for the gradual adoption of the metric system in Russia. This law also gave the bureau responsibility for a network of local stations and inspectors to verify the accuracy of weights and measures used in trade and commerce throughout the empire. Meanwhile, Mendeleev began to develop plans for establishing standards of measurement for liquids, gas and water flows, electricity, light, and others. Mendeleev and the bureau received strong support for all of these (sometimes very costly) activities from the minister of finance, especially under Count Sergei Iu. Witte (1892-1903). However, Mendeleev had to temper his plans for expansion in the years before his death, likely due to Witte's resignation as well as to the financial pressures related to the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) and the military buildup after the war.
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Nathan M. Brooks
Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev
Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev
The Russian chemist Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907) is best known for the formulation of the periodic law of the chemical elements.
Dmitrii Mendeleev was born on Feb. 8, 1834, in the Siberian town of Tobolsk. He was the seventeenth and last child of Ivan Pavlovich and Maria Dmitrievna Mendeleev. At the age of 7 Dmitrii entered the gymnasium in Tobolsk and completed his studies in 1849. He displayed brilliant intellectual ability, a sharp memory, and a fascination for mathematics, physics, and geography. The following year he enrolled in the division of mathematical and natural sciences of the Main Pedagogical Institute of St. Petersburg, his father's alma mater.
Chemistry in Russia
The universities of Kazan and St. Petersburg were the principal centers of chemical activities in Russia during the first half of the 19th century. Mendeleev worked under Aleksandr A. Voskresenskii, whom the Russians call the grandfather of Russian chemistry. Mendeleev's first scientific paper was "The Analysis of Finnish Allanite and Pyroxene," and his diploma thesis was On Isomorphism in Connection with Other Relations between Crystalline Forms and Chemical Compositions (published in 1856 in Gorny zhurnal). His studies of the phenomenon of isomorphism led him to observe the similarity of the crystalline structures of related elements, which aided him in constructing the periodic table. When he graduated in 1855, he won the gold medal for being first in his class.
Mendeleev returned to the University of St. Petersburg in May 1856 to defend his thesis, On Specific Volumes. The degrees of master of physics and of chemistry were conferred on Mendeleev, and soon thereafter he presented a second thesis, The Structure of Siliceous Combinations. This resulted in his being appointed dozent, enabling him to teach theoretical and organic chemistry at the University of St. Petersburg. Toward the end of the 1850s Mendeleev reluctantly came to the conclusion that he would have to study abroad if he desired a professional chair because the research facilities at his university were inadequate.
Mendeleev Abroad
After a brief stay at the Sorbonne, Mendeleev journeyed to Heidelberg University, where he organized his own laboratory. He concentrated on the problem of molecular cohesion as displayed in the phenomena of capillarity and surface tension. The results of his experiments were published in three papers: "The Capillary Properties of Liquids," "The Expansion of Liquids," and "The Temperature of the Absolute Boiling Points of the Same Liquids." The significant conclusion reached by Mendeleev was that the molecular cohesion of a liquid in a capillary tube disappears at a specific temperature and that no gas can be liquefied above its unique "absolute temperature," commonly designated as the "critical temperature." During his stay in Heidelberg he designed the Mendeleev pyknometer for determining the specific gravity of liquids.
In 1860 Mendeleev and several other Russian chemists participated in the work of the First International Congress of Chemistry at Karlsruhe. Its purpose was, according to Mendeleev's letter dated Sept. 7, 1860, "to clarify and, if possible, agree on the basic differences which exist between the followers of different chemical schools."
Periodic Law
In 1861 Mendeleev resumed teaching chemistry at the University of St. Petersburg, the College of Engineering, and the Transport Institute. That year he wrote Organic Chemistry, Russia's first university manual on the subject. Two years later Mendeleev contracted an unhappy marriage with Feozva Nikitichna Leshcheva which lasted until 1876, when he met the young art student Anna Ivanovna Popov, whom he married illegally. When the charge of bigamy was raised against Mendeleev, Czar Alexander responded, "Mendeleev has two wives, yes, but I have only one Mendeleev."
Mendeleev accepted in 1864 the chair of technology (industrial chemistry) at the Technological Institute of St. Petersburg; received his doctorate in chemistry in 1865; filled in 1867 the chair of inorganic chemistry at the University of St. Petersburg, which he retained for the next 23 years; and helped found in 1868 the Russian Chemical Society.
It is difficult to determine precisely when Mendeleev first hit upon the periodic table. The problem of inaccurate atomic weights was solved by Stanislao Cannizzaro. Attempts to organize the chemical elements by increasing atomic weights had already been made by Alexandre Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois and by John Alexander Reina Newlands. It is known that Mendeleev also was impressed with certain regularities of the chemical properties of elements when preparing, in 1868, his highly successful text Principles of Chemistry. On March 18, 1869, Mendeleev's paper "An Outline of the System of the Elements, Based on Their Atomic Weights and Chemical Similarities," which contained the periodic table, was presented at the Russian Chemical Society and was subsequently published in Russian and German. In his table Mendeleev left six gaps for the yet-undiscovered elements having the atomic weights of 8, 22, 45, 68, 70, and 180.
Mendeleev had confidence in the existence of the law of periodicity of elements. He devoted considerable effort to predicting the chemical and physical properties of three elements vacant in the table. He named these hypothetical elements eka-boron, eka-aluminum, and eka-silicon (in Sanskrit the prefix eka means one). He was able to derive their valences and atomic weights and the formulas of compounds they are likely to form. Mendeleev's table hardly attracted attention until his predictions were fulfilled by the discoveries of gallium (1874), scandium (1879), and germanium (1885). The major drawbacks of his table were that it had difficulty in accommodating the rare-earth group and that no provision was made for the chemically inert elements, helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon.
In recognition for his formulation of the periodic law and the systematization of organic chemistry by means of his periodic table, academicians proposed Mendeleev's candidacy to the vacant chair of chemical technology of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. On Nov. 11, 1880, a shocked academic world learned of the rejection of Mendeleev's candidacy. Contributing to his defeat were Court Tolstoy, the minister of public education and later president of the Imperial Academy, who sought to limit the teaching of science in Russian schools and found Mendeleev a formidable opponent, and the members of the "German party" at the academy, who attempted to discourage native Russian scientists from becoming academicians. In expressing displeasure with the academy's rejection of Mendeleev and recognizing his achievements, five Russian universities elected Mendeleev as an honorary member, Cambridge and Oxford designated him an honored scholar, and numerous academies and societies elected him member. Few Russians since have been able to match Mendeleev's worldwide recognition.
Technical Activities
Mendeleev also showed a great interest in technology. In 1863 he was immersed in the problems of the Baku petroleum industry. He suggested a pipeline should be built to carry the oil from Baku to the Black Sea. He noted that the system of leasing oil-rich government-owned lands for a 4-year period tended to prevent large-scale investments in needed equipment to modernize operations, and he fought the government tax on petroleum products. In 1876 Mendeleev visited the Pennsylvania oil fields, brought back some technical ideas, and presented an unflattering view of America in his book The Oil Industry in the North American State of Pennsylvania and the Caucasus. He developed a theory that petroleum originated from the action of water on metallic carbides inside the earth.
In 1886 Mendeleev turned his attention to agricultural productivity, earning him the reputation of being the founder of Russian agrochemistry. At the request of the Ministry of State Property, Mendeleev examined in 1888 the possibilities of organizing a coal-mining industry in the Donets Basin (Donbas). And in 1899, despite age and infirmity, he traveled to the Urals to investigate the stagnation of the iron industry. In his The Urals Iron Industry in 1899 he concluded the problem lay with the monopolistic practices of the owners.
While looking into the properties of rarefied gases under varying pressures, Mendeleev designed a differential barometer that could determine precisely the height above sea level. He became fascinated with the problem of studying the upper strata of the atmosphere, and he even went so far as to plan a hermetically sealed gondola that could carry a human observer or automatic recording equipment. On Aug. 7, 1887, Mendeleev had the opportunity to make an ascent in a government balloon for the purpose of observing a solar eclipse. Inasmuch as the balloon lacked the power to lift Mendeleev and his experienced balloonist, Mendeleev bodily ejected the balloonist and carried out a solo flight, rising to an altitude of 11,000 feet and landing two hours later after covering 150 miles. Just before his death, Mendeleev was contemplating a journey to the North Pole by balloon.
In 1890 Mendeleev resigned from the University of St. Petersburg. Soon thereafter he worked for the Admiralty and Ministry of War. In 1892 he was appointed treasurer of the Chamber of Standard Weights and Measures, later becoming its chief. In 1899 he introduced the metric system into Russia.
Philosophy and Outlook
Mendeleev saw in science a valuable tool for remaking and modernizing Russia. He saw Russia gaining respectability in the community of nations through scientific activity benefiting mankind. And he saw in science the essential ingredient of the educated mind. However, he rejected science as a panacea for society's ills, believing that science must be complemented by religious and artistic sources of knowledge.
During his last years, Mendeleev defended his atomistic view of matter to the point of denouncing the modern ideas of physics of the divisibility of the atom and the transmutability of the chemical elements. One of these transmuted elements, the 101st in the periodic table, is named mendelevium. Mendeleev died on Jan. 20, 1907.
Further Reading
Although not a definitive study, Daniel Q. Posin, Mendeleyev: The Story of a Great Scientist (1948), is valuable for its broad treatment of Mendeleev's life and for its bibliography of his publications. There are many biographical sketches, but the one by Henry Leicester in Eduard Farber, ed., Great Chemists (1961), is most accurate and is based on Russian sources. A translation of a brief Russian study of Mendeleev is O. N. Pisarzhevsky, Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev: His Life and Work (1954). The 19th-century history of the periodic table is described in great detail by Francis P. Venable in The Development of the Periodic Law (1896), and by A. E. Garrett in The Periodic Law (1909). □


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Users of proprietary operating systems don't really have control over their computers, and thus sometimes have to deal with inconvenient changes that they didn't want and couldn't plan for.
macOS users had a new filesystem called APFS forced on them. A filesystem that is young and obviously still full of serious errors that can lead to data loss. The OS can only be installed on APFS volumes now, effectively leaving users no choice in the matter unless they want to partition and risk "only" the OS portion while keeping their data in a more battle-tested filesystem.
The situation isn't better in the Microsoft camp, with forced updates making some computers unusable again and again. It has lead to headlines like "Microsoft Delivers Yet Another Broken Windows 10 Update". If you read The Register, you'll catch something like that at least once a month.
Because these companies operate according to their own strategic market interests and not in the best interest of their customers and users, this kind of thing always feels to me like they're raping people's computers. The user doesn't want it, the computer certainly doesn't need it, yet the actual owners just have to open wide and swallow because these companies have decided for them.
Are things better in the GNU/Linux world, then? Yes and no. Some GNU/Linux distributions are controlled by companies that also serve their own interests first, such as Canonical, makers of the Ubuntu distribution. They have previously partnered with Amazon to supply sponsored search results inside the OS search function. This month they've announced that they will collect data on users' machines. Granted, it's a lot less than what Microsoft collects about its users, but it's an ugly move that doesn't fit the GNU/Linux mentality.
Due to tactics like the above, I distrust companies, any and all of them. Whenever money is one of the primary drivers, people and their rights tend to not look so important anymore. You might get some companies with a social contract that behave better than others, but I haven't seen too many of these in the last 20 years, despite paying some attention.
I trust projects that are managed by groups of individuals or by non-profits with a solid charter, such as Debian with its social contract. Debian is also a great first example for my list: In over 20 years, they have never behaved in a way that harms your freedoms as a user. The biggest controversy happened when they followed all other distributions in the adoption of systemd, but the only thing this schism did was produce Devuan, an additional GNU/Linux distro that is systemd-free. This already proves my point.
So here's a list of GNU/Linux distributions maintained by communities instead of companies. Operating systems that are more likely to respect you as a human than macOS or Windows, but that also fare better than commercialized distributions such as Ubuntu:
- Debian GNU/Linux and its derivatives. A good allround operating system for servers, desktops, gaming, whatever you want to throw at it.
- Trisquel, basically Ubuntu without the nasty bits and without non-free software. Endorsed by the FSF, but you'll be on your own if you want proprietary graphics card drivers, for example.
- Arch Linux, if you want to piece together your perfect operating system from all the components you love, this is for you. In case you run into trouble, it has an excellent wiki with very deep and broad documentation, and a friendly community forum.
- Gentoo. A distro where you can compile every single piece of the system yourself, with your own options and compile flags. If you really want to dig deep and learn everything about all the things, this is the one.
This leaves me slightly optimistic. A few years ago we didn't have that many GNU/Linux distributions in this category, now we have at least six, and that's only the more popular ones. If one of them behaves badly you have a broad choice of alternatives where all your software still works the same way it always did. Unlike leaving the Windows camp for macOS where you'd have to make some lifestyle changes.
This also shows, once again, the raw power of free and open source software. Let's say you're an Arch Linux contributor mortally afraid of gothic horror novels, but the Arch community suddenly decides that all Arch packages must ship with a complete copy of H.P. Lovecraft's collected works. There's nothing preventing you from creating a Cthulhu-free spin of Arch. None of the work you've put into Arch before is ever lost, and you won't even have to change your habits since the base distribution will be the same. Who knows, maybe other Cthulhuphobes will join and help you out. Antergos and Manjaro started with just a few people as well, and look at where they are today.
I'm not sure who I'm addressing with this — if you care about such issues you have surely already migrated to some FOSS operating system. If you don't care about such issues, I'm not going to convince you to care either.
But sometimes I talk to people and they are very surprised that Debian doesn't collect any data about users. That there are operating systems where you still come first and where your freedoms matter. These people assume that it's equally bad everywhere, but that isn't true. Maybe I can surprise them by revealing that it's not bad at all where I am, and that everyone's invited.


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If you don't follow the Curiosity rover on Twitter, you should: the feed is simultaneously fascinating and funny. Forbes has taken a peek behind the avatar, to find out why the feed is so good.
Behind the account are three NASA employees from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Veronica McGregor, social media manager, and Stephanie L. Smith and Courtney O'Connor, both social media specialists. In the article, they explain some of the secrets of their success:
"Back when Twitter was new, we tried tweeting both ways — in the first and third person. We always got more feedback when we were in first person... It's easier to anthropomorphize rovers... The cameras make it look like she has eyes. So it's tempting to think of the rover as a bodacious chick on the surface of another planet with a rock vaporizing laser on her head."
Word. Elsewhere, they explain how, unlike many Twitter accounts that belong to big organisations, they include plenty of references to internet and pop culture to make the feed more accesible and relevant:
"We're not trying to make science sound like fun... Because science IS fun! The feed reflects how the team talks to each other, as well as the hopes and dreams of people here at JPL. We want people to realise that science is fun... We're keeping it real."
You can read more about how they approach Twitter over at Forbes — hey, you might even pick up some tips! — but your first priority should be to follow Curiosity. Right now. [Forbes]


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Pringles Keepy Uppy Basement Game
Pringles, the potato crisps produced by Procter & Gamble, is being promoted in an online competition connected with "Basement Game", a television commercial featuring soccer players from around the world. Launched in time for the FIFA World Cup 2006, the campaign focuses on the cylindrical tin in which Pringles are packed. Roberto Carlos walks into an underground carpark, car keys in one hand, a tin of Pringles in the other. Another player calls to Carlos to pass the Pringles. He drops the can onto his foot, juggles it and passes it. Over the next twenty seconds the tin is passed to Steven Gerrard, Francesco Totti, Freddie Ljungberg, Robbie Keane, Djibril Cisse, Gerald Asamoah, Arjen Robben, Junichi Inamoto and Ahn Jung-Hwan. The tin is passed out of the building and onto the street. The voiceover invites players to compete for a chance to join the Pringles Dream Team for two days, by buying a tin of Pringles and visiting the web site pringleskeepyuppy.com.
The Pringles Keepy Uppy television campaign was created at Grey London, by copywriter Howard Fretton, art director Mike Sands and agency producer James Colvill.
Filming was shot by director Michael Williams with producer John Brocklehurst at The Mob, London.
Editor was Art Jones at Speade.
Post production was done at Rushes, London, whose team included producer Danny Jones, Marcus Timpson (Spirit), Brian Carbin and Paul Wratten (Fire), Omar Akkari (Flame), George Barbour and Lee Tibbetts (3D).
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Dresden is More Livable'If it is correct to say that I can not only judge of what is horrible and ugly but also of what is beautiful, I attribute this gift to my good fortune in having grown up in Dresden.'—so author Erich Kästner put it. And he should know, as Dresden was his birthplace.
Today, the millions of tourists who visit this 'Florence on the Elbe' every year are delighted by the city just like Kästner. It's a feeling that never fades when you live and work here. Probably the only place to offer comparable quality of life is the 'real' Florence—but that's not here on the Elbe.


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The Keg Steakhouse + Bar is the undisputed Steakhouse leader in Canada, with a presence in the United States. Founded in 1971, The Keg has a focus on high-quality steaks, and a casual yet contemporary dining experience.
As part of our dynamic team, our franchisees have complete operational support, including extensive training, advertising/marketing, and central purchasing. You'll be able to focus on your day-to-day business knowing that there is a team of expert professionals on your side.
We are actively looking for franchisees in many locations. If you are interested, please take a look through the Frequently Asked Questions. Please note that a population base of approximately 85,000 people in Canada or 225,000 in the United States is required for us to consider a new location.
Your initial investment to acquire a license to operate a Keg franchise is $75,000. For this initial investment, you will receive your initial training, support, development assistance and operating manuals necessary to start up the restaurant. Your total investment will vary from project to project, but an estimated range is from $4,000,000 to $5,500,000. The following are key factors that will determine the amount:
- a conversion of an existing restaurant versus building from the ground up
- the cost of development and construction in your particular market
- the local and general economy
- the efficiency of your project manager
Our Development Department can prepare an estimate based on your specific circumstances.
The royalty fee is 6% of gross sales. This fee provides you with the use of The Keg Steakhouse + Bar brand name and operating system as well as ongoing support, training, research and development.
The marketing assessment is 1.5% of gross sales. This is used to promote and build brand recognition of The Keg Steakhouse + Bar name.
Your return will be dependent on a number of factors: your skill and abilities, your competition, interest rates, the economy, inflation, labour and supply costs, lease terms and the marketplace in general.
Our franchise organization is designed to provide you with the tools and support you need to make your restaurant the first choice for people who love steak. The support begins before you open your restaurant with a development team who will assist in creating The Keg environment, followed by a training team to train your management and staff on how to provide your guests with The Keg experience. Once your restaurant is open, follow up support will be provided to insure that The Keg systems and specifications are in place. Ongoing support will be provided with respect to accounting, marketing, menu development and human resources.
No. However, any experience you have gained in any area of food service always helps. More than anything else, your sound business sense and your compatibility with The Keg's high standards are what will make you an ideal candidate. If you don't have full service restaurant experience, we insist that you have a day-to-day operator with experience; ideally Keg experience.
Training for you and your staff is thorough. We will train your management team and key staff at one of the corporate locations. We will send a hands-on support opening team to assist in training your staff. Besides travel, accommodation and meals, additional costs for the opening team are minimal. You can open your restaurant with the confidence and knowledge that you have received adequate training to do things The Keg way, with a support system and people to help you.
You will find that The Keg has taken care of every aspect of The Keg experience for you, including: interior design, layout, menu, recipes, health and safety standards, food suppliers, product specifications and advertising. Your adherence to these standards is what will make your Keg franchise a success. The consistency and quality of these standards not only creates and reinforces the brand, but also insures that Keg guests have The Keg experience, at any Keg location, each and every time.
The Keg will provide you with assistance in finding the best site possible. The detailed site criteria that we have compiled will help contribute to the success of your Keg restaurant. Although The Keg must give final approval, you are responsible for site selection.
In Canada, the metropolitan areas of Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary and Edmonton are designated as corporately owned and operated. All other Canadian markets are current or potential franchise markets. In the Pacific Northwest, Greater Seattle is corporately owned and operated with the remainder of Washington designated as a potential franchise market. Following this same philosophy, we have opened corporate locations in the metropolitan areas of Dallas/Fort Worth, Denver, and Phoenix, and will evaluate outlying areas and other parts of these states as potential franchise markets. We are continuing to evaluate other U.S. markets for both corporate and franchise opportunities.
The application process from the date of your initial inquiry to the executive approval is from two to six weeks. Once your application has received executive approval, the time frame to opening day will depend on whether it is a conversion of an existing restaurant or a new construction. This can take from three to twelve months, and will depend largely on the time required for building and liquor permit applications in your jurisdiction.
If you wish to investigate The Keg opportunity further, please complete the Confidential Qualification Report and forward it to The Keg's Vice President of Business Development. Once your qualification is determined, the franchise application process starts. You will then be contacted for an interview and the exchange of information will begin so that you can make a fully formed business decision.
The information here is general. You will receive a disclosure package from which to make your business decisions.
You qualify as a franchisee if:
- You have successfully run a business the size and scope of The Keg. Although restaurant experience is preferred, your excellent management skills can be adapted through The Keg's training programs.
- You have a thorough knowledge of the market in which you wish to open your franchise. It is preferable that you have lived in the city, as well as know the business and cultural climate. Please note that a population base of approximately 100,000 people in Canada or 225,000 in the United States is required for us to consider a new location.
- You have sufficient unencumbered capital. Although the amount will vary from location to location depending on the specific business, your combined net worth should be a minimum of $4 million.
- You have a desire to be a part of a successful franchise group. If you are interested in a territory or multiple restaurants, the following additional criteria must be in place:
- A development agreement which will specify the number of sites and the time period in which they must be built.
- The financial ability to operate more than one restaurant.
- The management capability and personnel to operate the desired number of restaurants in the territory or multiple restaurants.
You will be required to submit a proposal detailing all aspects of your business plan and management, shareholder and operating structures.
Your plan must include:
- A projected operating statement of revenue and expenses;
- A financial plan for construction of your restaurant, including a rough timetable for completion;
- A personal employment history and business history of all proposed shareholders and operating managers;
- Details on your proposed operating management team.
We thank you for your interest in our franchise opportunities. To begin, print this qualification report (PDF), complete the information and fax or mail it to:
Attention: James Henderson or Buster Edwards
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Phone: (604) 276-0242
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You'll also get to wake up to a stunning view of the Ayrshire coastline or historic Royal Troon golf course as many of our Double Rooms have excellent views.
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I may not be particularly literate, but based on the title of this post, I'm clearly alliterate. ;-D!
Here are some more rough sketches for, and related text, from my latest children's story, "Clyde and I Help a Hippo to Fly". Both sketches will be revised per my feedback, and then will become full-color illustrations for the book. In the first, I've asked Josh to make her bottom teeth flatter and less fang-like, and in the second she will be more detailed in the one depicting her falling through the floor of the plane.)
She said, "That's not all. I told a bird.
It wasn't long until all the birds heard.
They crow that I'm much too big to fly
And chirp hippos don't belong in the sky.
Then they sing a mean old song
And sing and sing it all day long:
"Cheepetty Chirpetty Cawww-petty Hum
Flippetty flappetty, You're so dumb!
We never heard such a silly thing;
Hippos can't fly; you don't have wings.
Quacketty Honketty Squawketty Coo
Your idea's crazy and so are you."
"They said I should stay down in the dirt
And made this hippo's heart really hurt.
But nothing is going to keep me down;
I belong in the sky not on the ground.
So I tried real hard to build some wings
I made them out of wood, cloth, and things
And jumped from a high hill nearby
And, for a moment, I was in the sky;
Then my wings broke and I thought I'd crash,
But I hit the lake with a great big splash.
I then bought a ticket for an airplane ride
And walked up the ramp to the plane with pride,
But when I squeezed in the narrow door
All of a sudden I crashed through the floor.
So they won't even let me near a plane
And now here I am on the ground again."
Huge hippo tears fell from Hippita's eyes.
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Imagine John Lennon at 70 living on an island off the Mayo coast.
It could have happened. Had John Lennon not been shot by Mark Chapman, he would have turned 70 this weekend. He would also have gone through with plans to turn a remote Irish island into a hideaway retreat, his Irish lawyer revealed.
Lennon bought Dorinish Island off the Mayo coast in 1967 and got planning permission from Mayo County Council to build a house there for himself and Yoko Ono. That planning permission had lapsed, but according to his lawyer, Michael Browne, he was looking into renewing it before he was shot.
Yoko One has no doubt they would have returned there
"It was a place where we thought we could escape the pressures and spend some undisturbed time together. But because of what happened our hopes never came to be," Yoko Ono has said. "We often discussed the idea of building a cottage there. It was so beautiful, so tranquil, yet so isolated, it seemed a perfect place to get away from it all."
Lennon first saw the island for sale in 1967 and decided he wanted it . He hired a local, Paddy Quinn, to take him to the island.
Quinn did not know who his famous passenger was. "It was only afterwards that I discovered it was John Lennon. As far as I was concerned, he was a customer. Beatlemania and the Swinging Sixties had not quite reached the west of Ireland," Quinn said.
They spent an hour and a half surveying the 19 acres of Dorinish,
Browne said: "He had a cine camera with him and was taking shots of the scenery all around the area. He was very impressed with Clew Bay. I found him very practical and business-like. He was completely in command of himself, and interested in the logistics and the cost of building a house out on the island. He was worried about further erosion on the island. He was concerned that something should be done to prevent it."
Lennon returned later and visited the island by helicopter with Yoko.
In 1970 he handed the island to a commune of hippies, who made it their summer camp.
It was sold in 1984, three years after Lennon's death, to a local farmer named Michael Gavin, who still grazes sheep there.
In 1980 just before he died, he made enquiries again about the island and was in the process of making plans to visit again. Then came Mark Chapman and that dreadful night.
After she sold the island Yoko gave the $50,000 proceeds to a local Irish orphanage.


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Steps to Prevent Access to Inappropriate Content on Childen's Computers
1. Utilize Settings in the Windows Operating System
a. Create a Windows user account for each child.
i. Go to the control panel, then User Accounts.
ii. Create a new account without administrator privileges (i.e. go to Account Type and select "Standard".
iii. Adult user accounts should have administrator privileges, administrator privileges have no restrictions. Be sure to log out of adult user account with administrator
privileges anytime they are not in use.
b. Adjust the parental controls for each child account to limit what sites can be visited.
i. Whitelist Option (Recommended) – Add specific websites to a list of Unblocked websites and limiting access to the internet to only these selected websites.
ii. Blacklist Option – Add specific websites to a list of Blocked websites while allowing full access to websites on the internet that are not on the list.
c. In Windows 8, go to Control Panel and then to "Family Safety" to get reports of your kids PC activities, choose what they see online, set time limits, Windows "app"
restrictions, and more. After creating a new child account, go to "Family Safety" and set up restrictions here.
i. On the left, click on "Rating System" to select the agency whose list of inappropriate websites will automatically be restricted using the "Family Safety" tool.
The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is recommended.
d. In earlier versions of Windows, go to Control Panel and then go to Parental Controls, this is the earlier version of Family Safety which is in Windows 8.
2. Monitor Web History in the Internet Browser
Depending on the internet browser you use (e.g. Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, etc.) or search website (e.g. www.google.com, www.bing.com, etc.), settings may be in different locations but are generally located in the browser "Settings".
a. Go to the internet browser settings to monitor web history. This will display all the web pages that were typed into the internet browser address bar where you see
"www.google.com" or "mail.yahoo.com".
b. Go to the internet browser settings to monitor the list of recent downloads.
c. Go to the primary search website and access the search history, this may be in the account settings identified as "Recent Activity" or available in a drop down menu of
the search bar.
Note: Children are very capable of monitoring these forms of web history and deleting what they do not want seen. But few children have the discipline to monitor this information on a routine basis so be sure to monitor this information on a routine but changing schedule.
3. Use safe email programs like Zoobuh that have functions that allow parents to restrict whom their children can contact, reduce spam, and limit unwanted emails.
4. Keep the computer in a common area of the home and limit its usage to times when adults are nearby to monitor usage.
5. Use anti-virus and/or spyware protection software to block unwanted programs or content from entering the computer. While this protection software is often free, paid services have larger databases of cataloged malware (malicious software) and more advanced software tools to block access to your computer and check for existing malware on your computer.
6. Windows and other virus protection services come with a "Firewall", use it! A firewall is like a toll booth that monitors all of the electronic information sent from the internet to your computer. The built in Windows firewall can be accessed in the Control Panel and gives you a choice to the level of protection you want and monitors the information itself. The Windows firewall settings may be managed by a 3rd party anti-virus software like Norton or McAfee, if you are not paying for these services you may want to uninstall the 3rd party software so the Windows Firewall can be used. Having a firewall helps prevent a child from accidentally accessing or downloading inappropriate or malicious software and content.
7. A simple search using an internet search engine like Google, Bing, or other could yield explicit websites and visual content. One way to prevent this is to block these search engine websites on your child's normal or recreational Windows user account. This may seem rather extreme due to the usefulness and educational potential of internet search engines. Another option is to have two Windows user accounts for each child, one user account for recreational use that restricts search engines and one user account for educational use that does not restrict search engines. Another option is to purchase content-filtering software.
8. Web communication applications like internet phone calls and video conference like Skype present an opportunity for children to communicate under their parent's radar. It is the parents responsibility to monitor all forms of communication used by their children on the internet.
9. Do not forget that all of the items discussed here are applicable to mobile devices like smart phones and tablet computers. You must monitor the content on these devices as well, if not more because they can be taken anywhere (in privacy, school, a friend's house, etc.) and be used without supervision.
10. Discuss the dangers of the internet with the child, especially those that involve direct communication via social networking sites and chatrooms. Make sure they are aware that just like in life outside of the computer, that you must never talk to strangers or accept friend requests from people you do not know while on the computer as well. When a child is checking email or any other online communication like chatrooms or social networking sites, instruct them to never click on any hyperlinks without asking an adult.
For Your Information:
1. There are content websites and smart phone apps like Pinterest, Instagram, and many other similar services that are less popular in which users post a variety of visual content matter, some of which may be inappropriate. At times it is rather easy to do a search and accidentally or intentionally result in explicit visual content. The more popular services like Pinterest have staff that actively try to prevent the use of explicit visual content.


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