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Earning a Gold Award is not easy -- but the rewards, for yourself, your community, and your future are worth the effort.
We ask Gold Awardees to give other Girl Scouts who are considering a Gold Award Project a realistic idea of what is involved. Below, Stephanie Schisler tells us about the challenges and rewards she encountered while implementing her project.
How did you
come up with your idea?
At first, I looked around the downtown, comparing it with other downtowns, trying to find something our downtown didn't have that those other downtowns did have. I was going to do a sprinkler playground for kids, but when I examined the cost and possibility of this project being completed in my projected time, I realized it wasn't feasible. It wasn't until I started examining the smaller communities around my school 'til I found a project worth working on - The Dale County Christian School Library.
Were you
intimidated by the scale of this project?
At first, no, I wasn't. But, it wasn't until I started getting into the main part of the project when I started wondering what I had gotten myself into.
How did you
keep up the momentum for the project
Up until the time I started getting distraught about my project, I really didn't have a hard time keeping up, because it was mainly taking books off shelves, writing letters, etc. When the book organizing, labeling, cataloging, and shelving came into play, I really didn't know what to do except "keep swimming".
Were you ever
discouraged? If so, what did you do to overcome that?
Yes, once or twice I got discouraged. The book sorting, cataloging, and shelving really got me. Things were set back several times because something was done wrong. When shelving, I thought the books were never going to end because there were so many.
I just kept thinking that there were only a few more books left to put up before I was done. That and that the project was almost done.
Can you tell
us a story about some part of your project that was special to you?
It was during the portion of the project when I was shelving all the books. Many people were so enthusiastic about the library that they kept donating boxes of books. I would get pretty far shelving them and a new box of books were donated. So, I had to move books down - shelves at a time - so that I would have more room on the shelves for the new books. This happened several times during my project.
How will people benefit from this?
· Fewer detentions from lateness of books should be handed out at school.
· Students will have higher grades.
· Students and teachers will have a better time checking out books in the library.
· Youth going to Ewell Bible Baptist Church will have an extra source of information.
· Books are the source of knowledge. Students will gain that knowledge provided by those books.
How did you
feel after you finished?
In a word, relieved. I know that I won't have to go back there and spend all day every day putting up books or something.
What advice
would you give to other girls considering a Gold Award?
"Don't give up. Be relentless in your project. It's worth it in the end." My mottos for the project were "The harder it gets, the closer you are to finishing it." and "Just keep swimming!" - Dory from Finding Nemo
Your Gold
Project made a change for the better in your community. What will you take away from this project?
Did it change me? I'm going to have to say yes. This project made a big impact not only in other's lives but also in mine. I am a little bit of a 'in charge' type of person. This project made me realize that not everyone likes to be followers and be told what to do. In rare moments during this project, I was taken out of my leadership position and put in a follower's place. It felt different and was an eye-opener on how others view things, giving me not only the leadership point-of-view but also the follower's perspective of things causing me to have better judgment on telling people how to do things.
I definitely learned new skills. Library cataloging is more difficult than it looks but at the same time easy. You have to order the books on the shelves by last name of the author. After you do that, you have to add them all in to the computer system. Once you have them on the system, next comes the easy part. You find all the barcode labels for all the books. For those books that don't have barcode labels or even ISBN (International Standard Book Number) codes, you make one for that specific book using a ISBN generator. Then, You print off the barcode stickers, find the corresponding book, put the label on the inside of the front cover. Organization and time management are skills that I brushed up on while I was working on this project. Those were used countless times.
What will I take away from this experience? All of the above plus some others. Determination is one. When I go into a book store, much less a library, I have to struggle to stop myself from looking at every last book in there and getting ten of them. Throughout this project, I had to stop myself countless times from reading a book when I'm supposed to be doing something totally different. Another is the desire to volunteer again. I am really happy knowing all my hard work I put into the library will not go to waste. The students will use it. The teachers will use it. Church youth will use it. Everybody benefits.


text: Certified... 30 May 2008 Ishai-Hachlili MS Certification This week I got certified, I guess. I took two tests, each one took 30 minutes or so, and got an MCTS Web Dev certification. Because it was so easy (and cheap, test prices are 125$ but with discounts you can take a test for 85$) it makes me feel like this certificate doesn't mean much to those who know what it is. .Net and Visual Studio can make it to easy to just drag and drop to create an application. Microsoft also has a lot of built in tools to make life simpler. Mastering these tools and drag and dropping seemed to be the focus of these tests. Sure, there were some questions about serialization, but after working with .Net ever since the first release (was it a preview or a beta? too long ago to remember) I found that most of the questions were about things I've never had to do. Even without having experience with some (or most) of what Microsoft decided a .Net web developer should know, it was very easy to pass these tests, I guess after such a long time working with the .Net framework you understand the philosophy behind it and can guess how the folks at MS would've called a method, even f you never heard of it before. There is a whole business built around certifications, Microsoft offers online courses and books and there are plenty of other companies in the game as well, so maybe it's all about the money, or maybe it's more important for IT certifications (system and network administrators should probably know what their doing, if you let them near the most important servers in your company). So now I have my MCTS Web Developer certification, my guess is it won't hurt but I'm not sure how much it will help. I was planning on doing a third test to get the MCPD, but the only reason to do it now is to check if that test is any harder. (btw, according to the Microsoft Learning web site, there are just over 20,000 MCTS Web Dev 'achievers', and 4,500 MCPD Web Dev while the number for certified windows 2003 sys admins is 186,000. This numbers are updated for April 2008, seems like not too many people felt the MCPD is worth it...)

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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Pizza Art
When we make pizzas as a family, we put what they can eat out on the bench-top and then let them pick and choose from our selection. I call it 'the art of controlled choice,' and I've blogged about it before when the girls were making a pretend-pond on a mat.
If you want to have pizza too, set a good example and rather than just scattering the ingredients on top of your pizza, show them how easy it is to turn a pizza base into a canvas, and craft a face, landscape or treasure map. Be sure to set an even better example and EAT what you make.
Best wishes for Halloween everybody - have fun and don't eat too much candy!
3 comments:
- Amy - while wearing heels said...
How much fun! I love the palm tree on the desert island. You make everything fun, don't you?
- October 31, 2012 at 2:24 PM
- Twinkle Star said...
Fun and yum - my fave combo!
Happy Halloween! Xx
- October 31, 2012 at 10:53 PM
- Partycraft Secrets said...
Thanks Ladies - and yes, i try to be a fun-mum... but sometimes 'being fun' is too much hard work and I just stick on a DVD to give myself a moment's peace and then I serve up toast for dinner... only difference is I don't blog about it!... oops - I just did! x
- November 1, 2012 at 9:50 AM
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Opportunities to Get Involved
You may not realize it, but Rochester, NY has one of the most vibrant Young Professionals communities across the country. Or maybe you've noticed the plethora of groups (upwards of 35!) but aren't sure how to become a part of them. Check out the information below to learn about groups that are looking for new leadership:
The local Center for Disability Rights is starting a brand new group they're calling Rochester Young Professionals with Disabilities. Meeting times are to be determined–they're currently recruiting individuals 21-34 and you don't have to have a disability to get involved. In addition to serving as a discussion community, they hope to become a peer mentoring resource and provide opportunities to volunteer and network. If you want to learn more, contact the D&C's newest Young Professional blogger Luticha Doucette at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Rochester Children's Scholarship Fund is looking for new members on their Gala Committee to plan a special event happening in late October. Potential committee members will solicit sponsorships and silent auction items, assist with invitations and programs, and provide support on the day of the event. If you're interested, contact Erin Hogan at firstname.lastname@example.com or Stephanie Wickham at firstname.lastname@example.com. To learn more, visit: http://rcsf.info/.
The YWCA Young Professionals are looking for several new steering committee members to help coordinate the group's volunteer and fundraising efforts. So far, this fairly new group has volunteered with the YWCA's housing programs, provided support during the YWCA's Adopt a Family program, and hosted an Open Mic night as a part of the YWCA's Stand Against Racism. The steering committee meets once a month–interested individuals can contact me at email@example.com.
Don't see a group listed here that speaks to your interests? Keep your eye on the D&C's Young Professionals page this week, as I'll be highlighting other opportunities over the next few days.


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by Anton Shilov
Samsung Electronics, the largest maker of NAND flash and DRAM memory chips, is about to enter the market of solid-state drives for upgrade that is about to explode.
Although Samsung Electronics has been producing solid-state drives (SSDs) for many years now, the company has not really gained popularity on this market as the manufacturer has never offered retail SSDs, but concentrated on drives for OEMs. As a result, names like OCZ Technology, Corsair Memory and Patriot Memory are much better known for solid-state drives than much larger Samsung Electronics. One of the reasons for that is the size of the SSD aftermarket, which has been small for Samsung. But the market is growing and the company is reconsidering its stance about it.
Samsung on Wednesday said that later this year it will release a new 830-series solid-state drives aimed exactly at personal computers requiring upgrade of storage sub-systems.
Samsung 830-series SSDs will use Serial ATA-600 interface, will be available in 64GB, 128GB, 256GB and 512GB capacities as well as will be powered by Samsung's proprietary firmware fine-tuned for the company's memory to achieve maximum performance and reliability. In addition, the included Samsung Magician software keeps the SSD running at its peak.
The 830-series bundle includes a bracket for installing the 2.5" drive in a 3.5" bay, all required cables, and detailed instructions. Notebook upgrade kits include a USB to SATA adapter cables. Samsung will also include Norton Ghost software for easier migration from SSDs.
"Solid state drives have long been the preferred choice for those seeking the very best in performance. With the Samsung SSD 830 Series, we are raising that performance to even higher levels, while also delivering unparalleled Samsung design and convenience in the package," said UnSoo Kim, vice president of memory brand product marketing at Samsung Electronics.
Detailed features will be disclosed at the official launch, which is scheduled for October.


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U.S. Men Pull Off World League Win Over Poland
B.J. Hoeptner Evans
Manager, Media Relations and Publications
Phone: 719-228-6800
ANAHEIM, Calif. (July 24, 2008) – The U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team held off match-point and pulled out a five-set victory (25-18, 23-25, 27-25, 18-25, 16-14) over Poland in the FIVB World League Final Round on Thursday in Rio de Janeiro.
The U.S. Men will take Friday off while Poland faces Serbia in the final pool play match (9:15 a.m. PDT). If Serbia defeats Poland, Team USA will advance to the World League semifinals as the second-place team in Pool F. If Poland wins, then each team will have a record of 1-1 and it will come down to the tie-breaker, which is the points ratio. The third-place team will not advance.
Russia defeated Japan 3-0 (25-14, 26-24, 25-18) in the other World League Final Round Pool. Japan will face Brazil in the first match on Friday.
Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.) and Clay Stanley (Honolulu, Hawai'i) each scored 21 points for the United States. Stanley had 19 kills, one block and one ace. Priddy finished with 16 kills, one block and a match-high four aces, including the match-winner.
Poland's Mariusz Wlazly led all scorers with 31 points on a match-high 27 kills, two blocks and two aces.
The tie-breaking fifth set proved to be a barn-burner. The U.S. Men held two-point leads of 3-1, 5-3 and 12-10, but Poland came back each time to tie the score. Trailing 12-13, Poland scored twice on a kill and an ace by Marcin Wika to take its first lead of the set and match point, 14-13. U.S. Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand) called timeout and Team USA tied the score on Stanley's kill. A Poland hitting error put the United States ahead and the ace by Priddy sealed Poland's fate.
Among other U.S. scorers, Ryan Millar (Palmdale, Calif.) had 14 points on eight kills, five blocks and one ace. Riley Salmon (League City, Texas) added 12 points on 10 kills and two blocks. Tom Hoff (Park Ridge, Ill.) scored five points on five blocks. David Lee (Alpine, Calif.) totaled four points on two kills and two blocks. Setter Lloy Ball (Fort Wayne, Ind.) finished with two points on two kills.
U.S. libero Rich Lambourne (Tustin, Calif.) was credited with 20 "excellent" receptions with no faults on 37 attempts for 54 percent. He also had 17 digs and eight faults on 27 attempts.
Ball was credited with 38 running sets and two faults on 100 attempts.
The United States out-blocked Poland 16-13 and had six aces as compared to four for Poland. The United States was credited with 50 "excellent" serve receptions on 87 attempts for 53 percent. Poland had 46 "excellent" receptions on 96 attempts for a rate of 42 percent.
Poland beat the United States in kills, 65-57.
McCutcheon started Priddy and Salmon at outside hitter, Lee and Millar at middle blocker, Stanley at opposite, Ball at setter and Lambourne at libero.
Hoff substituted for Lee in the second set and played the rest of the match. Scott Touzinsky (St. Louis, Mo.), Gabe Gardner (San Clemente, Calif.) and Kevin Hansen (Newport Beach, Calif.) all substituted for the United States.
The U.S. Men jumped out to a 4- 1 lead in the first set, causing Polish Head Coach Raul Lozano to call timeout. However Team USA led 8-3 at the first technical timeout (TTO). The United States held its biggest advantage of the set at 15-6 on Priddy's kill before rolling to the 25-18 victory.
Poland kept the score close in the second set and held an 8-7 lead at the first TTO and extended the lead to 14-10. McCutcheon brought in Hoff and Team USA went on a 6-0 run behind the serving of Priddy, who had two aces. Hoff also had two blocks in the run and the U.S. Men held a 16-14 lead at the second TTO. With the score tied 23-23 and Priddy getting the serve, Poland called timeout, then took the lead on Priddy's serving error. A U.S. team error gave Poland the 25-23 set win.
The third set was again close as Stanley and Wlazly each attacked with tenacity. With the score tied 21-21, the U.S. Men scored three straight points on a Priddy kill and two Millar blocks to reach set point at 24-21. But Poland came back with three straight points, including a Wlazly kill and a block by Daniel Plinski. With the score tied 25-25, the United States scored on Priddy's kill and a Hoff block to win the set.
The fourth set was tied at 15-15 when Poland went on a 5-0 run, including two blocks by Wlazly and two by Marcin Mozdzonek, to take a commanding 20-15 lead. A kill by Ball stopped the run, but Poland scored twice more to end U.S. hopes of a comeback.
The FIVB's Andrea Zorzi interviews U.S. Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon at http://followmebyazorzi2008.splinder.com/.
View the U.S. Men's World League Media Guide at www.usavolleyball.org/media/national/08WL_MNTMediaGuide.pdf.
The U.S. World League site is www.usavolleyball.org/national/08WL.asp.
The FIVB World League site is www.fivb.org/EN/Volleyball/Competitions/WorldLeague/2008.
2008 FIVB World League Final Round
U.S. Men's Roster
1 Lloy Ball (S, 6-8, Fort Wayne, Ind., IPFW)
2 Sean Rooney (OH, 6-9, Wheaton, Ill., Pepperdine)
4 David Lee (MB, 6-8, Alpine, Calif., Long Beach State)
5 Rich Lambourne (L, 6-3, Tustin, Calif., BYU)
8 Reid Priddy (OH, 6-5, Richmond, Va., Loyola Marymount)
9 Ryan Millar (MB, 6-8, Palmdale, Calif., BYU)
10 Riley Salmon (OH, 6-6, League City, Texas, Pierce College)
12 C Tom Hoff (MB, 6-8, Park Ridge, Ill., Long Beach State)
13 Clay Stanley (Opp, 6-9, Honolulu, Hawai'i, Hawai'i)
14 Kevin Hansen (S, 6-5, Newport Beach, Calif., Stanford)
15 Gabe Gardner (Opp, 6-9, San Clemente, Calif., Stanford)
18 Scott Touzinsky (OH, 6-6, St. Louis, Mo., Long Beach State)
Head Coach: Hugh McCutcheon
Assistant Coach: Ron Larsen
Assistant Coach: John Speraw
Team Doctor: Michael Wynn
Technical Coordinator: Jamie Morrison
Athletic Trainer: Aaron Brock
Schedule and Results (all times PDT)
Pool E
July 23: Brazil def. Russia, 25-23, 25-18, 25-15
July 24: Russia def. Japan, 25-14, 26-24, 25-18
July 25: Brazil vs. Japan, 6 a.m.
Pool F
July 23: Serbia def. USA, 25-23, 25-29, 25-17
July 24: USA def. Poland, 25-18, 23-25, 27-25, 18-25, 16-14
July 25: Poland vs. Serbia, 9:15 a.m.
Semifinals – July 26
6 a.m.: Pool F winner vs. Pool E second place
9:15 a.m.: Pool E winner vs. Pool F second place
Finals – July 27
5:30 a.m.: Bronze medal match
8:30 a.m.: Gold medal match


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Shaking out notebooks and out comes the unexpected
The final fours of the high school state baskeball tournaments are on the plus side of this job.
Combine an idea of how much teams have worked to advance with the excitement of the players and you get highlights.
The East High girls basketball team, never a Section V champion before this season, became the first team from the Rochester City School District to win a state title. Earlier this year, the Democrat and Chronicle wrote how the Rochester City Athletic Conference, the league that East plays in, is clearly behind others in the area.
So the East players were right when they said after each win during the Class A state tournament that they were making history.
"It's exciting," East athletic director Mike Burns said. "When you think about the city, you think about boys basketball, football and track.
"To have a girls basketball team do it is pretty exciting. The building has a buzz about it, it's crazy."
Maybe other teams in the district can follow East's lead and bring the RCAC to respectful level. We'll watch and wait.
Section V Football Hall of Fame: Tickets and tables are available for the Section V Football Hall of Fame induction ceremony April 5, at the RIT Inn and Conference Center.
This year's class of 12 includes former coaches Gene Mastin (Hornell), Dan Caraher (York) and Mike Driscoll (Fairport).
John Genier (Gates Chili), Mike Kircher (Roth), Tom Kwapich (West), Gino Oliveri (Batavia Notre Dame), Louis Masciangelo (Fairport) and Rick McPhee (East Rochester) are the former players being inducted.
Pittsford resident Greg Connors, a Hornell graduate, is being honored as a contributor. On-field officials also are a part of each class, and this year the honor goes to a pair from the Rochester Chapter of Certified Football Officials, Barney Ryan and Dick Kingdon.
Tickets are $35 per person or $300 for a table of 10. To order, mail checks payable to Section 5 Football to Neil Zwierlein, 81 Vineyard Dr., Rochester, NY 14616.
Award for H-AC: Harley-Allendale Columbia's varsity boys basketall coach Paul Liotti accepted the overall IAABO Board 60 Thomas G. Emmanuel Sportsmanship Award for the school's team earlier this week.
The Rochester chapter of the officials organization has given the award named after the former IAABO Board 60 president since 1977.
H-AC became a finalist for the award as the Finger Lakes league winner. Avon of the Livingston County league, Elba (Genesee Region), Franklin (Rochester City Athletic Conference), Hilton (Monroe County), Marion (Wayne County) and Webster Christian (independent teams) also were finalists.


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Hey guys,
It's been a while since I last posted a blog, but I've got plenty of interesting stuff to tell y'all. I've been turtley busy, dudes. What can I say?
First of all, I was held up eating, I mean, 'working' during the Red Nose Day cake sale. Yum! Thank you to everyone who got involved in both baking AND buying. Judging took place and two tasty cakes won prizes. In the end we earned £177.15 for Comic Relief!
And I've been stuck visiting my cousin the painted turtle. He's like a super mutant (but not a ninja) turtle, and it shows in his DNA. You can freeze him solid or lower the oxygen levels, but he'll keep coming back. Unstoppable. If you wanna learn more then check out the blog and get reading! I'm not jealous, but I wish someone would paint me…
The RCUK policy on open access will be taking effect on 1st April. This policy supports free access to articles and encourages open access research that can be used by anyone all over the world. In my view shouldn't be restricted from those who need it most. I'm not just talking about students. I'm talking about people in developing countries in need of information! Who's with me? How about you watch the video to learn loads more about this sweet new policy.
A heap of articles have popped up on the Biomed Central website that are worth a read. You may want to pay a quick visit to the blog on tuberculosis and diabetes to learn about their effects in developing countries.. Diabetes leaves people vulnerable to all sorts of infection, especially in developing countries, and tuberculosis doesn't hold back.
Check out the pine beetle too. This bug is a real pest in forests and can even kill whole trees, but its genes are super crazy and worth reading about. The pine beetle even has a bacterial gene that helps in its pesky activities. Researchers sequenced the pine beetle's genome, which may even help in stopping them from wreaking yet more havoc. Don't want them eating up the forests, that would really bug me!
Speaking of creepy crawlies, I learned about the weeeirdest new technique: Squishomics! Scientists are busy making crushed bug DNA soup to study different species and biodiversity. Not only does it sound tasty, but this goo contains the relevant genetic information to identify unknown creatures!
Plus, better looking birds are better moms and raises healthier chicks even if they're adopted babies. Nature really is crazy, man.
See you later, peeps.


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Uranium is no good for the Navajo
A recent post on the High Country News website advocates the position that the Navajo Nation should eventually drop its 2005 uranium ban so that it can get a better deal on uranium development, which the author, Jonathan Thompson, sees as inevitable. The post holds up the example of the Ute Tribe as an example of how a ban or moratorium on extractive industry can be a useful gambit for increasing tribal revenues when industry comes knocking.
As an attorney representing Navajo communities resisting new uranium mining for the last 15 years, I found HCN's showcase of this perspective both troubling and disappointing. I also think the fundamental assumptions that underpin the piece are misguided.
Like the Ute Tribe ultimately growing rich off oil and gas production, the article's author assumes that the Navajo Nation can likewise grow rich off uranium mining. The economic realities don't support this position. World uranium prices have been depressed for 30 years and there is no end in sight. An upsurge in nuclear power demand might change that, but the trend since the Fukushima disaster has been to move away from nuclear power and toward renewables. Indeed, the only places where nuclear power has even a chance to survive is in countries where there is unwavering state support for the industry, i.e., China, India and Russia. So comparing petroleum to uranium simply isn't equivalent in economic terms. Further, uranium's economic realities, should they come to pass on the Navajo Nation, guarantee significantly more modest economic development gains than the riches promised by the uranium industry.
But the more troubling aspect of the piece is its ahistorical view of uranium on Navajo and failure to acknowledge the reality of tribal sovereignty in the Federal Indian Law context. In the piece, there is an acknowledgement of the devastation that past uranium mining has caused on the Navajo Nation. However, what isn't acknowledged is the continuing reluctance of the uranium industry to take responsibility for the legacy contamination and the devastation it has caused. Until communities can expect the uranium industry to take the very fundamental step of taking responsibility for its past (and in many cases ongoing) part in the public health nightmare that many Navajos face daily, any discussion of future resource extraction should be off the table.
Additionally, the environmental and public health track record of the uranium industry has not appreciably changed since the last uranium mining boom from the 1950s to the 1980s. Uranium mining is still responsible for contamination of hundreds of millions of gallons of water in Texas, Wyoming and Nebraska and for ongoing public health disasters in those states.
The article also cites the recent Churchrock Chapter resolution endorsing both clean up of past uranium mining waste and new uranium mining as an example of a community choosing economic gain over the long term integrity of their groundwater. However, the Churchrock resolution was a product of grossly overblown economic promises and outright fabrications about the mines' groundwater impacts. In fact, neither the Chapter nor the Navajo Nation will receive any revenue from one of the mine sites in Churchrock because it is located on private land and not subject to tribal jurisdiction. While communities and tribes have the right to make decisions about their resources, the decisions must be made after free, prior and informed consent, consistent with international law. When the uranium industry refuses to be truthful about the economic benefits and public health impacts, informed consent is impossible.
Finally, the piece rests on the assumption that corporate interests will eventually get to exploit the uranium resource. This prediction may or may not come to pass, but it reinforces the idea that resource exploitation is inevitable and the only choice tribes have. I disagree. This perspective only serves to perpetuate the federal government's assimilationist and racist policies of the last 250 years in which meaningful tribal sovereignty is always subordinated to corporate interests and resource extraction. It's time that we support the truly meaningful exercise of tribal sovereignty, which includes the right to choose economic development that is both healthy and consistent with traditional cultural values. Uranium mining is neither.
Eric Jantz is a staff attorney at the New Mexico Environmental Law Center.
Essays in the Range blog are not written by High Country News. The authors are solely responsible for the content.
I am now the coordinator of a coalition of grassroots community organizations representing communities that have been personally impacted by past mining activities. We refuse to buy into false promises of jobs and economic development. For us, our cultures, languages, relationship to Mother Earth and spiritual identity far outweigh any false promises of short-term jobs and financial gain.
The approval of a chapter resolution to allow HRI to do an ISL demonstration project doesn't represent the values or views of community members in Churchrock. The approval of this resolution didn't allow community input or discussion. It wasn't on the agenda so that people could plan to attend the meeting to voice their opinion. A shady, behind-the-scenes resolution shouldn't be taken as a statement from the people that we are open to allowing new uranium mines back in our communities- because we are not. The outside world should not think the Navajo people are allowing uranium companies back onto our lands to destroy what they haven't yet- because we are not.
In the original post, Thompson wrote, "In fact, maybe all communities in the path of the extractive industry could learn something from Burch's approach. He realized that, one way or another, the oil companies were going to get what they wanted, along with a hefty profit that comes with it. The best he could do was hold them at bay, temporarily, or to use his power to put a little bit of that profit into his peoples' pockets." I couldn't disagree more with this statement. Uranium mining on the Navajo reservation is not inevitable. Uranium companies like HRI are not "going to get what they want." Community people, especially young people like myself, are committed to stopping dangerous mining projects that threaten our right to a healthy and safe environment, both for ourselves and for future generations.
With respect to economic impacts, the Churchrock Chapter members were presented with specific job descriptions and actual expenditures based on project feasibility studies. Our company has operated similar uranium recovery operations for many years and knows these economic metrics to be factual.
As for his claim of negative groundwater impacts, Mr. Jantz must not have read the Churchrock Resolution. The Resolution only supports the company's conduct of a safety demonstration. The ISR uranium recovery industry has operated for decades without ever affecting a surrounding underground source of drinking water as determined by EPA. The safety demonstration will be conducted to satisfy this topic.
Wow Mark! Willmott must be paying you a fortune. After the water mess at Goliad, I couldn't look in the mirror after saying that. Speaks volumes about URI ethics.


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WASHINGTON — Democrats are united behind President Obama's proposal to raise tax rates on the wealthiest of Americans, but some Democrats worry the president could be willing to make further concessions on entitlement programs to avert the "fiscal cliff" than many Democrats can support.
Any final deal has to include Democratic concessions on entitlement programs, including Medicare and Social Security, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Tuesday on the House floor. "Where are the president's spending cuts? The longer the White House slow-walks this process, the closer our economy gets to the fiscal cliff," he said.
BOEHNER: Obama should outline spending cuts
Michael Steel, a spokesman for Boehner, confirmed a new counter-offer was sent to the White House on Tuesday that includes proposals to overhaul entitlement programs. He declined to offer specifics.
Democratic angst at making any significant changes to entitlement programs in the short-term—combined with Republican reluctance to raise taxes—highlights the tricky path Obama and Boehner face at finding a deal that can pass a GOP-controlled House and a Democratic-controlled Senate before Dec. 31.
If Washington doesn't act before the end of the year, all of the George W. Bush-era tax cuts will expire, affecting practically every American household. Billions of spending cuts will also begin to take place in order to achieve $1.2 trillion in across-the-board cuts over the next decade. Combined, the two unpopular budget deadlines threaten to throw the U.S. economy back into recession.
The three most frequently floated short-term proposals to reduce entitlement spending in order to get Republicans on board are increasing the Medicare eligibility age, charging wealthier seniors more for their health care benefits and using a less generous way to calculate cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security beneficiaries.
"We're not proposing those three," Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said. "I agree that everything is on the table, but that doesn't mean (Democrats are) for everything."
Democrats are also under pressure from their base.
Labor unions, including the Service Employees International Union, are lobbying lawmakers to oppose any deal that cuts benefits. The Center for American Progress, a leading liberal think tank, released a report Tuesday outlining opposition to hiking the Medicare eligibility age, arguing that it threatens to leave as many as 435,000 seniors between the ages of 65 and 67 uninsured.
Obama has offered $400 billion in entitlement savings in his initial proposal that includes changes to beneficiaries, but Republicans and outside deficit hawks, including Obama's debt commission co-chairman Erskine Bowles, have said more concessions are required to cut the deficit and rein in long-term health care spending.
Fueling Democrats' concerns is Obama's previous willingness to negotiate with Republicans on these proposals. In unsuccessful deficit reduction talks in 2011, Obama and Boehner also discussed options that included raising the Medicare eligibility age and changing the way Social Security benefits are calculated.
The White House now says that Social Security changes should be on a "separate track" than fiscal cliff talks, but few on Capitol Hill are privy to the private talks between Obama and Boehner that have been closely guarded by a small cadre of aides. "I wish I knew more than you did about the negotiations. I don't," Hoyer said.
In an interview with ABC News on Tuesday, Obama did not reject outright a proposal to raise the Medicare age but said he wasn't sure how much money it would save.
Liberal Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, said he did not support raising the Medicare age or changes to calculating Social Security benefits because they are "direct attacks" on the working class. Asked if there were Democratic concerns that Obama might be more willing to negotiate on those issues he said, "There's thoughts of that, that's why we talk to them regularly," Brown said.
Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., also said he has made his views known to the White House. "I've taken the opportunity to talk to people I believe are advising directly the president on these issues. I'm sure my other colleagues have expressed the same."
It would be hard for Democrats to support a final deal including any combination of these three proposals, Cardin said. "Every single one of those affects beneficiaries," he said. "We think that when you look at shifting (costs to beneficiaries), you're not going to help the economy and you're going to burden these people unnecessarily."


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Every family must deal with misfortune and tragedy; however, not every family must do it in front of a nation, and with such frequency as the Kennedys. Kennedy family patriarch Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. used his immense wealth and influence to encourage his sons' political careers, but their luck ended there. From the WWII death of Joseph Jr., to the unexplained mental illness of Rosemary, to JFK's and RFK's political assassinations, the Kennedy family has seen more than its fair share of terrible circumstances. But, they remain America's royal family. In this video, WatchMojo.com explores the Kennedy Curse.


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Omid, beautiful, especially the second pie. Are you going back and forth between the Santos and the KA? I'm curious what your latest thoughts are concerning the Santos?Grazie,Salvatore
Omid . . . My question now is when you are using the KA mixer, are you employing the paddle or the dough hook? I know my KA, when using 1st speed, has 40 RPM. If you use it with the spiral dough hook, however, this translates to 94 RPM. Grazie,Salvatore
Omid, stop leaving these beautiful broads in the dark!
I have been in contact with Kitchen-Aid, and here are the RPMs for my Professional 5 Plus Series: (I believe they will be the same for your machine) Shaft Shaft-HolderStir 40 rpm 94 rpm#2 54 rpm 127 rpm#3 79 rpm 186 rpm#4 104 rpm 244 rpm
Omid, do you use a special light bulb in the light that we see that you use for all of your pictures?
How many other things do you do as well as pizza, photography and oven re-construction?
cool videos Omid!! nice guitarra flamenca skills!! i work in the music business, and one of my clients is Fernando de la Rua () do you know him?
And to think I had Paco de Lucia on in the background as I watched those videos!Funny coincidence.Excellent videos!
Not long ago, I talked to a corporate owner of a Neapolitan pizzeria who told me that, bufala di mozzarella imported from Italy enter the U.S. in a frozen state. (I think he mentioned that often "liquid nitrogen" is used to freeze the mozzarella balls!) If truly so, there goes out the window a percentage of the texture and flavor of the bufala di mozzarella imported to this country from Italy! Moreover, to the best of my knowledge, bufala di mozzarella is supposed to be "fresh" (hence "fresh mozzarella"), not aged. Because of the unavoidable factors of distance and time, the mozzarella balls imported to the U.S. are not as fresh as one hopes them to be. Therefore, there are inevitable compromises!
Hello AllThank you for the introduction to this thread. . . .
Omid, I now know I have something in common with another member , the love of Flamenco. Tienes Duende!


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OK. Here it is, I think. The first test firing in the slightly modified oven described above. 40 second bake, timed with a stopwatch. I did not expect it to cook this fast. Needs a lot of work. Liked the soupy interior. Did not like the dough formulation. Definitely need an adjusted dough for when baking that fast.
Fantastic David! Now that is an authentic neapolitan pie - not an "Almost..."John
I agree - very nice.
Beautiful job David. One of the nicest ones I've seen from a home oven. If you don't mind posting a shot of your oven setup, I'm sure lots of folks would like to duplicate it.
Dear David, it is very impressive what you have achieved with your electric oven! The way you modified your electric oven, per your brief description above, seems much simpler than the way I modified my gas oven. I look forward to more pizzas coming out of your oven. Good day!
How have you modified your oven?
Nice leoparding. Would you mind posting your dough formula and workflow even if it's a test formula?Marlon
Towards the tail end of fermentation I like to let a little bit of bacteria into the mix. They'll play a very subtle sour note at the finish. Sort of a sweet and sour type of deal. So the dough does not start out a sourdough, but it ends up as one.The flour is 00. Hydration is around 57% or so. The performance of the dough was fine. The flavor was just fine, and not overpowering. But the hydration needed to be increased to probably over 60% I think. The gluten never degraded one single iota, which is normal for a sourdough and to some extent a pure commercial yeast dough. I was counting on protein degradation and water release during extended fermentation in order to compensate for the relatively low hydration, but that never occurred.
David, I love that leoparded look but have worked away from it b/c of the undesired aspects of the crumb I would get from my starters. This yeast sounds really fascinating and could possibly allow for the look while still maintaining a healthy crumb texture. Your pie reminds me of Toby's Nearlypolitian pies.http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,10024.msg87446.html#msg87446A lot of fun to look at for sure.


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Christopher Reba, assistant professor of music and sound recording at the University of New Haven, will be part of a worldwide live Internet concert on GooglePlus on Halloween.
The concert, called The Worldwide G+ Halloween Hangout, will take place on Monday, Oct. 31, from 8 to 10 p.m.
Reba, who plays the bass, will appear with Heather Fay, singer/song-writer, at 9:15 p.m. Their performance will last 45 minutes. Fay, who has a commercially available album "Scraped Kneed Girl" on the market, is a former associate technical director on the Drew Carey show.
The GooglePlus concert is accessible online at http://www.thehalloweenhangout.com/.
Viewers do not need a Google account to watch the concerts live.
Reba is also a composer and works as a recording engineer, live sound technician and educator. Additionally he runs a small independent record label, Parabiosis, from which he releases his own music and the music of other independent artists.
Reba is a member of the Notations 21 Project, the College Music Society, a composing and publishing member of ASCAP, a voting member of NARAS (the award granting body of the Grammys) and a published member of the Audio Engineering Society.
A leader in experiential education, the University of New Haven provides its students with a valuable combination of solid liberal arts and real-world, hands-on professional training. Founded in 1920, UNH is a private, top-tier comprehensive university with an 82-acre main campus. The university has an enrollment of more than 5,900: approximately 1,700 graduate students and more than 4,200 undergraduates, 70 percent of whom reside in university housing. The university offers 75 undergraduate and graduate degrees through the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business, the Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences, the Tagliatela College of Engineering and University College. University of New Haven students study abroad through a variety of distinctive programs.


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Borough President to Deliver Electric Trucks to U.S. Postal Service
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NEW YORK—Eight new zero-emission electric
delivery trucks have officially joined the United States Postal
Service fleet serving the Hunts Point and Mott Haven communities in
the Bronx, thanks to the New York Power Authority (NYPA).
Borough President Adolfo Carrion Jr. joined
David Solomon, Postal Service vice president for area operations,
and representatives from several-community based organizations at a
ceremony Wednesday at the Hunts Point Post Office to mark the
"The vehicles that the Post Office has put to
work in the Bronx at my request are nearly silent in their operation
and produce no harmful emissions," Carrion said. "These trucks are
part of the future of the working Bronx and will certainly
contribute to improving the air quality in these neighborhoods.
"I welcome the use of the electric-powered
postal delivery trucks and hope that more of these new non-polluting
vehicles will be launched in the Bronx soon."
Solomon said, "The Postal Service continues its
role as a leader in alternative fuel transportation. Our commitment
to a cleaner environment, without compromise to dependable mail
service, is evident by our deployment of these electric vehicles to
the Bronx."
Joseph Leary, NYPA's director of public and
government affairs for Southeastern New York, said, "Under the
leadership of Governor George E. Pataki, New York State is
vigorously working to improve air quality and cut dependence on
imported oil through increased reliance on clean transportation
alternatives. These electric postal vehicles are part of that
NYPA has supplied funding for 22 electric
delivery trucks already in service at postal facilities elsewhere in
New York City. The latest additions—CitiVans manufactured by
Solectria—are part of a $23 million voluntary initiative by NYPA to
offset the emissions from a series of small, clean power plants
installed three years ago to address power shortages predicted for
downstate New York. Two of the small plants overlook the Harlem
"We are very pleased to assist the New York
Power Authority and the United State Postal Service in their efforts
to improve the quality of the air in the Bronx," said Douglas
Alderton, national sales manager for Solectria, representing the
company's president, John Muclair. "We look forward to new
opportunities for partnering with organizations like the Postal
Service and NYPA to add more clean vehicles to the streets of New
Solectria CitiVans are two-ton delivery trucks
that in the Bronx will replace diesel-powered trucks used to
transport mail and bulk packages between central distribution
facilities and neighborhood post offices serving Hunts Point and
Mott Haven. Three vehicles will be stationed at the Hunts Point
facility; the other five have joined the fleet at the Mott Haven
post office.
The CitiVan by Solectria has a range of 40 miles
on a complete charge, with a top speed of 60 miles per hour. To
improve overall energy efficiency, each vehicle has regenerative
braking to capture energy lost while braking. Over the course of a
year, each truck will eliminate about 4,833 pounds of carbon
dioxide, 32 pounds of nitrogen oxides and one pound of particulate
NYPA is a recognized national leader in the
promotion and demonstration of electric drive technologies. With the
inclusion of the new CitiVans, NYPA has helped place nearly 60
electric or hybrid-electric vehicles in service in the Bronx.
Statewide, the total exceeds 700 vehicles for state university
campuses, local governments, community organizations and public
parks and recreation areas.
NYPA is the nation's largest state-owned
provider of electricity. In New York City, it supplies power for
public schools, hospitals, subway and commuter trains and other
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isn't it reasonable to assume that because the owners have locked out the players, the owners would be considered in breach of contract with the players? and if that is the case, wouldn't the players be free to look for employment elsewhere?
i say all the players should just desert the sinking ship s.s. nfl and all go over to the ufl and play...the owners would lose all their hard earned leverage...the owners keep fighting to keep the lockout in place, it could stay locked out forever this way.
we really don't need the nfl to have football...nfl, ufl,...a rose by any other name, ya know...fuck the owners, if they don't want football...we should make sure the big greedy babies don't get football.
the season is gonna be a bust anyway, might as well make good use of the time and build the ufl teams while the time is ripe!
i just hope all the cities who give teams tax breaks put the screws to the owners and demand compensation for the loss of the 2011 season.
Here's a sign for you nfl owners...


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This year, the popular Devil's Night Halloween party, hosted by Gentlemen of the Garden, returns for an epic rebirth to benefit the Ann Norton Sculpture Garden. The costume party will feature music by Jason Cardinal, as well as The Spazmatics. Guests can beverages and food by Echo of Palm Beach, Hullabaloo, LongBoards and Rocco's Tacos. In addition, a costume contest will reward the best-dressed guest with a special prize. This is a great event for adults looking to let loose, dance and enjoy their Halloween in style.
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DFL picks Clark Johnson in 19A
NORTH MANKATO – Clark Johnson won the DFL endorsement for the Minnesota House district 19A special election Thursday at the official DFL endorsement convention held in North Mankato.
Johnson, who has worked as a student-relations coordinator at MSU-Mankato for 28 years, defeated three other candidates in a close three-hour, four-round endorsement convention. The other candidates were teacher and union leader Robin Courrier, hog farmer Karl Johnson and St. Peter Mayor Tim Strand.
The convention had 66 voting delegates present, approximately two-thirds of the total possible delegates. The rules required that a candidates receive 60 percent of the votes to be endorsed, with increasing thresholds to whittle away the lowest vote candidates.
The first round ballot showed 32 votes for Clark Johnson, 23 votes to Karl Johnson, 10 votes to Courrier and 2 votes to Strand. Due to the rules, Strand was dropped from the race for being below the voting threshold.
The second round went 33 votes for Clark Johnson, 23 votes for Karl Johnson and 10 votes for Courrier, who was dropped due to being just under the vote threshold.
The third round went 39 votes, or 59 percent, to Clark Johnson and 27, or 41 percent, to Karl Johnson. The immediate fourth round settled the matter with Clark Johnson moving up 41 votes, or 62 percent of the votes.
The delegate consensus was that Clark Johnson won with a commanding lead through his years working the "Get Out the Vote" campaign for the DFL in the district, making hi close to a household name. Johnson said he hopes to translate energizing that DFL into voters in the general election
After his victory was announced, Johnson said he felt a DFL victory was assured for 19A due to the energy he witnessed from the delegates. He said he will work extensively to gain the youth vote in the district. He is scheduled to visit Gustavus Adolphus College on Monday.
The college occupies the precinct contains nearly all the 19A college student vote and the single highest voter population for a precinct in the last election.
On his election issues, Johnson said his primary focus would be on finding a final, sustainable method to redraw the state budget to prevent chronic budget shortfalls. He said he opposed any use of gimmicks like school funding shift and that a state tax reform proposal was essential to reaching the goal.
He also support same-sex marriage, but was against making it a campaign issue. He said that if any other candidate attempted to make social issues a focus of the campaign would "find it to their detriment."
The three other candidates said they plan to abide by the endorsement, including Karl Johnson, who indicates last week he may run if not endorsed. He said he changed his mind because he considered keeping the Republican candidate Allen Quist out of office to be more important.
The campaign
With the DFL endorsement choosing Johnson as the candidate, the 19A special election field is now set with Republican Allen Quist and Independence Party candidate Tim Gieseke filling out the other parties.
The DFL have a variety of hurdles facing them in this election.
First, the general election for 19A has been set for Feb. 12, giving the DFL just 23 days to campaign.
Second, the just over 1,500 voters in the Gustavus Adolphus district will have the college students away on break for a week before the general election, with them returning just two days before the vote. Due to this time constraint, all the campaigns have barely over two weeks to sell their campaigns to the students.
Finally, the DFL's biggest hurdle is the hiccup with the timing of their endorsement. When the election dates were announced after the endorsement convention had been set, the filing period for the election ended up falling the week before the convention and made it necessary for DFL to have to register for the primary to be eligible when endorsed later.
The DFL will now have to spend time and money on ensuring the correct candidate is voted in while the Republican and Independence candidates are free to campaign. As Sen. Kathy Sheran (DFL-Mankato) noted, the DFL will have to additional make sure the primary turnout is high to ensure no Republican "mischief" occurs in the election. While the district DFL leaders do not expect this scenario, closeness in names between the two Johnsons could lead to votes being accident spread out among candidates by low information voters.
Clark Johnson said he is hopefully this will be an easy task due to the remaining energy and enthusiasm among the DFL in the district from their legislative victories this last election. He said the race will be exciting and challenging regardless of how it plays out.
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The Power Play Warp Speed Brassie may just be that missing club you have been looking for all along as a control club off the tee or to reach those long par 4s
This year, Hireko is introducing a new type club that golfers are probable going to be unfamiliar with. That is until after today! In modern era of golf, we know there is the driver, fairway wood, hybrids, etc. Plus, in many of the clubhead categories like the best fairway woods, they have numbers engraved on the sole like 3, 5 and 7 (which are the most common). However, this wasn't always the case. History shows us all type of unique names for clubs, such as "spoon", "mashie", "baffy" and "cleek" to name just a few. Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, we would like to re-introduce to you one of terms in the brand new Power Play Warp Speed "Brassie".
History of the Brassie
For you old-timers out there, you probably recollect such a club called the Brassie fairway wood. In fact, you might have even hit a ball with one. For the rest of us, the Brassie was a wooden golf club with a brass sole plate – hence the name. Brass was more durable than the wood it replaced to protect the head from being hit off the ground. One byproduct of the dense brass material was that it produced a clubhead with low center of gravity. The term "Brassie" or variants also applied to various lofted wooden clubs in the 1880s and 1890s, such as a Driving Brassie, Brassie Spoon or Brassie Iron.
The loft of a Brassie was typically between 12 and 17 degrees. In trying to replicate history, the Warp Speed Brassie is equipped with 13º of loft and outfitted with a metallic sole with a brass PVD finish.
Is the Brassie a modern #2 wood?
Close, but no cigar. In reality, one way to describe the Power Play Warp Speed Brassie is a strong 3 wood as the weight is the same a normal 3 wood (instead of lighter like the #2) as well as lower lofted. Because of the massively large volume (we'll get to why in a moment), we could not physically make this very special forged stainless steel fairway any lighter.
Who is the Brassie for?
The million dollar question is who is a candidate to put the Warp Speed Brassie in their golf bag? I guess the first thing you need to understand is the purpose. In the olden days, the Brassie could also be used off of a tee because they could provide player more accuracy and control without suffering much, if any, distance. In keeping with that theme, the Power Play Warp Speed Brassie was developed.
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There are a number of strong lofted 3 woods on the market, but none quite like this one. Our "Brassie" is just part of the Power Play Warp Speed line. I'll get ahead of myself a bit, as we have yet to introduce the other members of the family yet. But if you take a look at the diagram you will understand what we have done.
The Brassie has a very large footprint at address – only 12% smaller than the matching driver. If it were the height of a typical driver, then the volume would comparable to a 380 cc driver telling you just how forgiving it is. If you want to compare the Brassie to a typical #3 wood, then it will be approximately 24% more forgiving. In layman's terms – you'll hit the Power Play Warp Speed Brassie straighter.
But remember, the face is still shallow and easy enough to hit off of the deck. Rest assured "that ain't gonna happen with a driver". We thinned the crown area out as much as possible to maintain a low as well as rearward center of gravity to get the ball up and out with less spin.
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(Previous issue: Vol. 4, No. 1, March 2012)
Abstract: Recent research in cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and robotics has widely explored the tight relations between language and action systems in primates. However, the link between the pragmatics of linguistic and nonlinguistic interactions has received less attention up to now. In this paper, we argue that cognitive agents exploit the same cognitive processes and neural substrate-a general pragmatic competence-across linguistic and nonlinguistic interactive contexts. Elaborating on Levinson's idea of an "interaction engine" that permits to convey and recognize communicative intentions in both linguistic and nonlinguistic interactions, we offer a computationally guided analysis of pragmatic competence, suggesting that the core abilities required for successful linguistic interactions could derive from more primitive architectures for action control, nonlinguistic interactions, and joint actions. Furthermore, we make the case for a novel, embodied approach to human-robot interaction and communication, in which the ability to carry on face-to-face communication develops in coordination with the pragmatic competence required for joint action.
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Abstract: A probabilistic framework for interactive learning in continuous and multimodal perceptual spaces is proposed. In this framework, the agent learns the task along with adaptive partitioning of its multimodal perceptual space. The learning process is formulated in a Bayesian reinforcement learning setting to facilitate the adaptive partitioning. The partitioning is gradually and softly done using Gaussian distributions. The parameters of distributions are adapted based on the agent's estimate of its actions' expected values. The probabilistic nature of the method results in experience generalization in addition to robustness against uncertainty and noise. To benefit from experience generalization diversity in different perceptual subspaces, the learning is performed in multiple perceptual subspaces-including the original space-in parallel. In every learning step, the policies learned in the subspaces are fused to select the final action. This concurrent learning in multiple spaces and the decision fusion result in faster learning, possibility of adding and/or removing sensors-i.e., gradual expansion or contraction of the perceptual space-, and appropriate robustness against probable failure of or ambiguity in the data of sensors. Results of two sets of simulations in addition to some experiments are reported to demonstrate the key properties of the framework.
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Abstract: Researches in the brain science field have uncovered the human capability to use tools as if they are part of the human bodies (known as tool-body assimilation) through trial and experience. This paper presents a method to apply a robot's active sensing experience to create the tool-body assimilation model. The model is composed of a feature extraction module, dynamics learning module, and a tool-body assimilation module. Self-organizing map (SOM) is used for the feature extraction module to extract object features from raw images. Multiple time-scales recurrent neural network (MTRNN) is used as the dynamics learning module. Parametric bias (PB) nodes are attached to the weights of MTRNN as second-order network to modulate the behavior of MTRNN based on the properties of the tool. The generalization capability of neural networks provide the model the ability to deal with unknown tools. Experiments were conducted with the humanoid robot HRP-2 using no tool, I-shaped, T-shaped, and L-shaped tools. The distribution of PB values have shown that the model has learned that the robot's dynamic properties change when holding a tool. Motion generation experiments show that the tool-body assimilation model is capable of applying to unknown tools to generate goal-oriented motions.
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Abstract: We studied people's acceptance of robots that per- form tasks in a city. Three different beings (a human, a human wearing a mascot costume, and a robot) performed tasks in three different scenarios: endless guidance, responding to irrational complaints, and removing an accidentally discarded key from the trash. All of these tasks involved beings interacting with visitors in troublesome situations: dull, stressful, and dirty. For this paper, 30 participants watched nine videos (three tasks performed by three beings) and evaluated each being's appropriateness for the task and its human-likeness. The results indicate that people prefer that a robot rather than a human perform these troublesome tasks, even though they require much interaction with people. In addition, comparisons with the costumed-human suggest that people's beliefs that a being deserves human rights rather than having a human-like appearance and behavior or cognitive capability is one explanation for their judgments about appropriateness.
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Abstract: This is a theoretical, modeling, and algorithmic paper about the spatial aspect of brain-like information processing, modeled by the developmental network (DN) model. The new brain architecture allows the external environment (including teachers) to interact with the sensory ends and the motor ends of the skull-closed brain through development. It does not allow the human programmer to hand-pick extra-body concepts or to handcraft the concept boundaries inside the brain . Mathematically, the brain spatial processing performs real-time mapping from to , through network updates, where the contents of all emerge from experience. Using its limited resource, the brain does increasingly better through experience. A new principle is that the effector ends serve as hubs for concept learning and abstraction. The effector ends serve also as input and the sensory ends serve also as output. As DN embodiments, the Where-What Networks (WWNs) present three major function novelties-new concept abstraction, concept as emergent goals, and goal-directed perception. The WWN series appears to be the first general purpose emergent systems for detecting and recognizing multiple objects in complex backgrounds. Among others, the most significant new mechanism is general-purpose top-down attention.
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Anton Corbijn
Until relatively recently, Anton Corbijn was probably most famous for being the creative director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode and U2. Now, however, his career has branched out, with an award-winning directorial debut on the feature-film, 'Control,' about the life and death of Joy Division singer, Ian Curtis; and with his striking advertising and campaign work for G-Star.
Born in Strijen in the Netherlands, Anton started his career as a music photographer in around 1975, when he saw the Dutch musician Herman Brood playing at a cafe in Groningen. His pictures gained instant exposure for Brood, and Anton remained his 'in-house' photographer until the singer's death in 2001. Anton has since maintained a similar pattern of long-term collaboration with many other artists.
" I'm not a natural choice for fashion, but I really like G-Star—I like the people there, I like their attitude "
In the following years Anton got to photograph hundreds of world famous celebrities, including David Bowie, Miles Davis, Robert DeNiro, Stephen Hawking, Elvis Costello and Clint Eastwood. But it is his iconic covers for the U2 albums 'The Joshua Tree' and 'Achtung Baby' as well as his other work with the band that have made the greatest impression. Anton later moved into directing music videos and made a short film about Captain Beefheart for the BBC called 'Some Yoyo Stuff' that, ultimately, led to 'Control.'
He describes how his collaboration with G-Star began: "They asked me if I would help them find a new way of shooting their campaigns. I gave them a briefing of what I thought they could do, and they liked it very much and said I should be the one to shoot their campaign. I'm not a natural choice for fashion, but I really like G-Star—I like the people there, I like their attitude."
The first campaign gave Anton the opportunity to challenge G-Star's established advertising house-style and create a fresh, new look: "In old G-Star campaigns they shot models in studios against a white background. I wanted to change that. So instead of using empty studios we used outdoor locations, and instead of models we used Alexandra and Toby from 'Control,' because G-Star loved the film, and I loved the actors."
The campaign was an instant success that breathed new life into G-Star's image. Anton was delighted to be invited back for the following campaign,accepting on condition that he could try something new: "We did the next shoot in black and white, which was another transition."
His third campaign continued the strong black-and-white visuals - this time with a more refined, elegant atmosphere - and featured an old friend. "The campaign with Liv Tyler was a little softer. I first met Liv in 1996 to photograph her for a German magazine. She is an absolutely wonderful girl, she looks classical yet she has an edge, it's an intriguing combination. It sort of sums up G-Star, I guess."
Delighted with the results of the campaign shoot, both Anton and Liv jumped at the opportunity to return for the Fall/Winter campaign, although Anton, wanted to shake things up again: "The second campaign with Liv focused more on her edginess, where the first was more focused on her classicism."The results of their collaboration appeared in 2010 on billboards and magazines across the world.
Keep watching G-Star for more on Anton Corbijn.


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This one-minute time-lapse film taken in Mauna Kea, Hawai'i made me ache for the magic dome of my home state of North Dakota — the thickness of the galaxy in plain site. The canvas overhead will surely spark your sense of wonder for the weekend. Enjoy heartily.
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I love time-lapse photography, especially of the sky.
Permalink Submitted by Tammerie Day on Sat, 2010-03-06 05:56
I love time-lapse photography, especially of the sky. This is a treasure. Reminded me of "still" images: visiting the McDonald Observatory, and the sky clearing just in time for our late-night viewing. Binary stars, the Pleiades up close and crowded with stars, a climbing comet ... beautiful, beautiful night. How do we sleep through you?

I like this, indeed it shows what a photographer can do
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I like this, indeed it shows what a photographer can do with the Cannon 5D.

I shall be one speck of dust floating in the Milky Way
Permalink Submitted by Shane on Sat, 2010-03-06 10:47
I shall be one speck of dust floating in the Milky Way waiting for you to join me in the creation of a new star.
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Hauntingly beautiful and a brief respite from a gloomy
Permalink Submitted by Elizabeth on Sat, 2010-03-06 11:56
Hauntingly beautiful and a brief respite from a gloomy Saturday morning...

wow, that was awesome!

Permalink Submitted by Debbie on Sat, 2010-03-06 17:37
wow, that was awesome!

How easy it is to forget when one is in a city like New
Permalink Submitted by hal2u9000 on Sun, 2010-03-07 01:28
How easy it is to forget when one is in a city like New York that the Universe is more than a subject of academic or cosmological discussion. No. It is quite real, and overwhelmingly beautiful!

The wonder of the stars, of space, of Chi.

Permalink Submitted by Kip Kippley on Sun, 2010-03-14 22:39
The wonder of the stars, of space, of Chi.

Wonderful, especially on this Easter Sunday. Thanks.

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Wonderful, especially on this Easter Sunday. Thanks.

Made me feel like I was on a spaceship! I guess in a
Permalink Submitted by Art on Sun, 2010-04-04 21:49
Made me feel like I was on a spaceship! I guess in a sense, we are!!

What is amazing to me is that with so much light
Permalink Submitted by Neshobe on Mon, 2010-04-05 14:51
What is amazing to me is that with so much light pollution, there are millions if not billions of people who have never experienced the milky way. During the power outage in LA a few years ago, emergency lines were deluged with calls from people concerned about the huge band of light in the sky. I grew up in the dark (then) mountains of southern Oregon, later lived in a protected area of the Olympic Penninsula in WA state, and then high in the Colorado Rockies. In all of those places, the Milky Way was like a beacon for me. Now, ironically, I live in a small village in Vermont saturated with street lamps, and I not only cannot see the Milky Way, I cannot even see the lighning bugs in my back yard! I truly miss the Milky Way; something essential is missing from my life.

Another remarkable time lapse view of the Milky Way:

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Awesome, Thank You

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Awesome, Thank You

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far, the very best tip for lengthening the life and sweetness of your rugs and
carpets is to vacuum them totally and constantly ( once or more if not more
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Truly beautiful. A very nice expose of a gorgeous, night
Permalink Submitted by OldStarMan on Tue, 2012-01-03 14:53
Truly beautiful. A very nice expose of a gorgeous, night sky. One thing does surprise me here: even on Mauna Kea, chosen site for one of the world's greatest observatories in part because it is so dark, I am surprised by how much light of human origins there is there. Even there, *sigh*.
I am from North Dakota too,
Permalink Submitted by Cathy on Fri, 2013-04-12 09:29
I am from North Dakota too, and left for Hilo, Hawaii when I was nineteen years old. I couldn't help but feel comforted by running up Hilo's hills and looking up to feel home again. I now live in NYC, but I constantly look for moments of home. This video was great. Thank you.
Cathy, love that phrase
Permalink Submitted by Trent Gilliss on Fri, 2013-04-12 11:36
Cathy, love that phrase "moments of home." Great to hear from a fellow NoDak.
thank you for t his minute
Permalink Submitted by peggy elder on Mon, 2013-07-08 11:00
thank you for t his minute long contemplation. Been to Mauna Kea and appreciate having this 'memory'.
A beautiful reminder of our
Permalink Submitted by Barry Svigals on Sun, 2014-12-28 09:28
A beautiful reminder of our place in the universe, endlessly beautiful. We must lament that because of light pollution so many of us are no longer in touch with the awe of the Milky Way. So rarely do we feel both humbled and exalted in its presence. Incredible that even the barest hint of that majesty on a small screen can touch us deeply, surely a sign of its profound power. Thank you for that.
Lovely time-lapse. But get
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Lovely time-lapse.


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Endovascular embolization is a procedure to treat abnormal blood vessels in the brain and other parts of the body. It is an alternative to open surgery.
This procedure cuts off the blood supply to a certain part of the body.
You may have general anesthesia (asleep and pain-free) and a breathing tube. Or, you may be given medicine to relax you, but you will not be asleep.
A small surgical cut will be made in the groin area. The doctor will use a needle to create a hole in the femoral artery, a large blood vessel.
This procedure can take several hours.
The procedure is most often used to treat aneurysms in the brain. It can also be used for other medical conditions when open surgery might be risky. The goal of the treatment is to prevent bleeding in the problem area and to reduce the risk that the blood vessel will break open (rupture).
Not all aneurysms need to be treated right away. Those that are very small (less than 3 mm) are less likely to break open.
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Mack W, Dusick JR, Martin N, Gonzalez N. Principles of endovascular therapy. In: Daroff RB, Fenichel GM, Jankovic J, Mazziotta JC, eds. Bradley's Neurology in Clinical Practice. 6th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2012:chap 47.
Meyers PM, Schumacher HC, Higashida RT, Barnwell SL, Craeger MA, Gupta R, et al. American Heart Association Indications for the performance of intracranial endovascular neurointerventional procedures: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention, Stroke Council, Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia, Interdisciplinary Council on Peripheral Vascular Disease, and Interdisciplinary Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research. Circulation. 2009;119:2235-49. PMID: 19349327
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U.S. Beach Teams Go 2-1 at Youth Worlds
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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. (July 11, 2012) – U.S. beach volleyball teams went 2-1 on the first day of play at the 11th annual FIVB Beach Volleyball SWATCH Youth (Under-19) World Championships on Wednesday in Larnaka, Cyprus.
The U.S. is represented in the girls' division by Sara Hughes (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Justine Wong-Orantes (Cypress, Calif.) and Bennett Bird (San Diego, Calif.) and Riley Mallon (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) on the boys' side.
The eighth-seeded Hughes and Wong-Orantes opened play with a win against Nene Amie Kante and Aissatou Perpetue Kamano from Guinea, 21-5, 21-5 in 24 minutes.
The U.S. girls' duo will be back in action on Thursday against No. 24-seeded Roukeya Insa Garanke and Samira Abdou Hamadou of Nigeria before taking on Australia's No. 9-seeded Rebecca Reeve and Jessyka Ngauamo.
No. 9-seeded Mallon and Bird were defeated in their first match by No. 24-seeded Michal Bryl and Kacper Kujawiak of Poland, 21-15, 21-12 in 26 minutes.
In its second match of the day, the U.S. men's team defeated Canada's No. 25-seeded William Hoey and Liam Kopp, 20-22, 21-13, 17-15 after 53 minutes of play.
Mallon and Bird will play Austria's No. 8-seeded Martin Ermacora and Lukas Peter Stranger on Thursday.
The event has brought in 80 teams, including 40 men's and 40 women's, to compete for the title in Cyprus' third largest city. Thirty-six countries are represented at the FIVB Beach Volleyball SWATCH Youth World Championships.
The format for the event has placed 32 teams in each gender in the main draw. Six pools with four teams in each will compete in pool play before the top three teams from each pool will advance to single-elimination play on Friday. Following those matches, the championship matches will be played on Saturday.
For more information about the FIVB Beach Volleyball SWATCH Youth (Under-19) World Championships, visit the FIVB web site.


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Denmark and Germany qualified for the European Men and Women's Team Championships finals in Amsterdam on Saturday.
The Championships double up as qualifiers for the Thomas and Uber Cups Finals in Wuhan, China from May 20-27 and the top four men's teams and top three women's teams will all qualify automatically for the Finals.
Denmark continued their perfect record in the men's tournament when they crushed England 3-0 in their semi-final tie. They had earlier defeated Poland by the same margin in the quarter-finals while also registering 5-0 sweeps of Sweden and Scotland in the group stages.
Denmark got their first point when England's Rajiv Ouseph (above), retired injured after losing the first game 21-19 to Jan O Jorgensen.
Former world No. 1s Mathias Boe-Carsten Mogensen then made it 2-0 when they defeated Chris Adcock-Andrew Ellis 21-13, 21-13, before Hans-Kristian Vittinghus sealed the deal with a come-from-behind 13-21, 21-18, 21-18, victory over Carl Baxter.
Germany, inspired by Marc Zwiebler (left), clinched their place in the final with a 3-1 victory over Russia. Zwiebler had given the second seeds the lead with a 21-12, 22-20 victory over Ivan Sozonov.
Meanwhile, the Danish ladies showed they were still a force to be reckoned with when they hammered a strong Russian team 3-0 to confirm their place in the Uber Cup Finals.
After scrapping past Ukraine 3-2 in Friday's quarter-finals, the Danes were in no mood for a repeat performance.
Former All England champion Tine Baun made up for her loss to Carolina Marin of Spain by trouncing Anastasia Prokopenko 21-9, 21-12, in only her second match of the Championships.
Malaysia Open winners Christinna Pedersen-Kamilla Rytter Juhl then made it 2-0 when they swept aside Anastasia Chervaykova-Nina Vislova 21-15, 21-16. Karina Jorgensen made it a clean sweep when she defeated Tatjana Bibik 24-22, 16-21, 21-16.
Holland got off to a brilliant start against Germany when Judith Meulendijks stunned Juliane Schenk 21-17, 21-19. However, that was as good as it got for the Dutch and Sandra Marinello-Birgit Michels (right), Olga Konon and Johanna Goliszewski-Schenk all won their matches in straight games to give Germany the win.
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An evening Macca and friends were guests at a family's home
I was watching the UK Antiques Roadshow on BBC America. This woman in her late 40s came with these pics involving an evening in Harrold, Bedfordshire on June 30, 1968. I looked up the name that came with the photos online and found the following link. When Paul McCartney, Derek Taylor, Peter Asher, The New Musical Express' Alan Smith, and one Tony Bramwell went to ask where the local pub was to this local gentleman. And were invited back to his family's for dinner. Amongst, the events that happened that evening were a debut of "Hey Jude" from Paul on guitar.
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For all its work with conservation in the wild, the Palm Beach Zoo is an urban institution, with a population topping 1.3 million people within its market. But even with this expansive population, the annual attendance at the zoo comes in at more than 300,000, meaning not everyone is coming to the zoo.
"Visiting the zoo is a luxury expense for a lot of people, and a lot of the kids that come to Zoo School have never been to the zoo before," says Cytacki, who targets Title I schools for that reason. "It is really important to reach these kids, to show them the opportunity that you can have with wildlife and environment in terms of careers, but also in giving them a strong understanding that they play a very powerful role in keeping the environment healthy and clean."
Third- to fifth-grade classes from Title I schools take over the Palm Beach Zoo's education complex for a weeklong field trip that integrates the zoo's mission with the class's curriculum. Here, students listen as a zookeeper imparts a lesson on conservation efforts happening at the zoo.
Upon completion of the parent evaluation forms, students are given four passes to the zoo so they can visit with their family. It's not only a chance for the zoo to spread the word of its conservation mission to more visitors but also an opportunity for students to show off what they learned at Zoo School. "We feel the student has a special insight to the zoo and how it operates," Cytacki says, "so this allows them to really share their experience."
From developing the curriculum to bussing and providing lunch for each student every day, the zoo pays for every aspect of Zoo School—a program that costs $4,000-$5,000 per week. The expenses are paid for through sponsorships, grants and donations.
"Even though it is expensive, it is a very high quality, in-depth learning experience. And I promise you, if you ask these students in 20 years what they remember from elementary school, I think they will say Zoo School," Cytacki says.
It will likely be true for Haley Wade, a fifth-grader who visited visited Palm Beach Illustrated's office during "Take Your Child to Work Day" in March [read the Junior Journalist's musings here]. When asked what she was learning in school, she responded with excitement about attending Zoo School in October. "We learned something every day … about the animals, what they do and what's important about them," she said. "I am much more aware of animals now and how I can help."
In addition to the class's school work, students have a chance to see the zoo's animals up close and personal.
Perhaps most amazing was how Haley, who attend North Grade Elementary School, discussed how much science was involved in the program—without realizing the educational components built into the activities. For example, each student created new signage for a specific animal that accompanies the exhibit. With a curriculum focused on the environment, adaptation, conservation efforts and the food chain, this entailed researching the animal, on top of determining the verbiage for the sign and designing art to give visual cues for visitors. This all-inclusive activity covered many aspects but didn't feel like schoolwork.
"That's the beauty of the program," Cytacki says. "It's immersive."
All of this speaks primarily to school-based academics, but students are also exposed to what their studies ultimately translate into in the everyday world. For the most part, field trips are tightly regimented and scripted: They include a tour through a historical site, a guided nature walk conducting a geocaching activity or a lecture on an exhibition at a museum. Rarely do students get a chance to see professionals working at their craft unencumbered. One of the keystones of Zoo School is a trip to the Melvin J. and Claire Levine Animal Care Complex animal hospital, where the students can observe a working veterinarian clinic in action. This place, the first LEED gold-certified animal hospital in the United States, is not a staged portion of the tour—children may witness animals in quarantine or undergoing routine check-ups or emergency procedures. It's an opportunity for students to see the subjects they are learning in the classroom—the foundations of biology—put into action.
May concludes the first full year of the Zoo School program, hosting 12 classes and reaching 244 area students in the process. The goal for the 2014-15 academic year is to reach 300 students, which will largely depend on scholarship funding. The long-term goal for Cytacki is to have multiple classes attending Zoo School every week—which, with 65 Title I elementary schools in Palm Beach County, would keep the Palm Beach Zoo staff pretty busy.
"We would love to reach all the Title I schools in Palm Beach County," she says. "If we could reach all of them, we'd have a full schedule."


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Range DescriptionThe species occurs in the southern desert and sub-desert belt of Western and Central Palaearctic from Morocco and Niger as far east as north-west India. It is possibly present in the whole of the desert area in the north of Africa where there is suitable habitat.
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Funguni Palace Hotel is situated in Stone Town,the Old City and Cultural heart of Zanzibar
Located in Malindi,Funguni Street, approximately 10 Minutes walk from the City center and Forodhani (Food Court)
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A Certain Magical Index
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CHICAGO The BizBash Chicago IdeaFest brought 800 event pros and 80 vendors to the Merchandise Mart on Wednesday. Right in time for corporate holiday parties, vendors caught planners' attention with everything including Eskimo-shaped ice sculptures and ice-cream-based Manhattan cocktails. Here's a look at 15 ideas from the trade show floor.
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