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SHANNON – The Mississippi Development Authority has awarded the town of Shannon a Community Block Grant totaling $449,000.
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A recent study found that women who carry a little extra weight live longer then the men who mention it.
It's not clear to me where he is getting his data or even what data he is using. I have previously posted data on the growth of the deficit. The actual growth in "currency" is a little trickier since you have to decide what constitutes currency. For now, the primary measures are M1, representing actual currency plus checking account balances, plus M2, which includes other highly liquid deposits such as savings accounts. When Clinton became President, the value of M1 + M2 totaled about $2.8 trillion. When Bush was inaugurated the second time in January 2005, the total stood at about $5.3 trillion and when Obama became President, the total was about $6.3 trillion. The growth was attributable to a combination of two factors: massive deficits incurred under Bush, and a conscious policy by the Fed to expand the money supply because they felt it was restricting real growth during the first Bush term.
If you want to track this information, it is published every Thursday by the Federal Reserve Bank. The growth slowed dramatically in the second Bush term because of the Fed's efforts to contract the money supply by raising interest rates. I do not see growth curves that in any way reflect the graph described by Beck. However, I only looked at data through February 23, 2009 -- maybe Beck's growth happened last week.
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Rochdale council's social services team for children missed 181 chances to stop young girls being groomed for sex, an inquiry was told.
In a damning and tearful 30-minute testimony from a front-line sexual health worker, it was claimed bosses ignored scores of warnings that girls were being groomed and sexually exploited as early as 2004 – four years earlier than previously thought.
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Sara Rowbotham, who leads an NHS team of¿sexual health workers in the town, said girls as young as 14 were being abused to this day despite sweeping changes and a high- profile police investigation into sex gangs.
The revelations came to light during a dramatic day of evidence at an MP-led inquiry into the child-grooming scandal.
Roger Ellis, the council's former chief executive, told the House of Commons Home Affairs select committee he was unaware of the problem until as late as 2010. It was only then that police and the CPS finally took action against nine men for exploiting five girls for sex. They were jailed in May for a total of 77 years.
Committee chairman Keith Vaz said he was 'very disturbed' by the evidence from Mr Ellis, who was in charge of the town hall between 2000 and 2012.
Ms Rowbotham, who appeared on her own before the committee, said: "We were making referrals from 2004, very explicit referrals, referrals which absolutely highlighted for protective services that young people were incredibly vulnerable."
Ms Rowbotham said that from 2005 to last year, the service she works for made referrals for 181 young people.
But she was only aware of nine prosecutions around abuse of young girls – the recent high-profile cases.
When quizzed on why the other referrals were not acted on, she said: "It was unfortunate that it was about attitudes towards teenagers. It was absolute disrespect that vulnerable young people did not have a voice. They were overlooked, they were discriminated against.
"They were treated appallingly by protective services. I told everybody these children were being abused. As far as I'm concerned, I told everybody."
After her evidence, Mr Ellis and the council's current chief executive Jim Taylor spoke.
Mr Ellis claimed he wasn't told that dozens of referrals were being made to managers beneath him, each warning that children were being sexually exploited. He said: "They told me about a lot of things, but not about this."
Nicola Blackwood MP¿asked if he wasn't told because of incompetence or a more sinister conspiracy among his staff.
He said he was 'not sure I want to choose either of those words', adding: "Clearly the information was withheld from me."
Mr Ellis said he felt a sense of responsibility and regret for the scandal but insisted he felt 'no personal culpability'.
He was quizzed on details of the pay-out he received from the council – which he left in March – but said he would refuse to give any of it up because staff under him repeatedly failed to intervene.
At the end of Mr Ellis' evidence, Mr Vaz said: "I am deeply disappointed and surprised that in the 12 years you were chief executive you say you had no knowledge. It is very, very disturbing."
Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk said Mr Ellis' performance had been 'shocking'.
He said: "His appearance before MPs showed what I've long suspected in that Rochdale has been let down by mis-management and incompetence at the highest level in its local authority."
The judge who sentenced the nine men in May said they treated their victims 'as though they were worthless and beyond any respect'.
The gang received jail sentences of between four and 19 years. The offences happened in and around Rochdale and Heywood in 2008 and 2009.
The five girls – aged between 13 and 15 – were given alcohol, food and money in return for sex but there were times when violence was used. Police said the victims were from 'chaotic', 'council estate' backgrounds and as many as 50 girls could have been victims of the gang.
A report into the scandal revealed in late September that social workers, police and prosecutors missed opportunities to stop a child exploitation ring abusing young girls in the town.
Deficiencies in the way children's social care responded to the victims' needs were caused by 'patchy' training of frontline staff, the Rochdale Borough Safeguarding Children Board said in its 29-page report into child sexual exploitation.


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Vietnam Vets with PTSD Double Likelihood for Heart Disease »
"Male twin Vietnam veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were more than twice as likely as those without PTSD to develop heart disease during a 13-year period, according to a study supported by the National Institutes of Health."...
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CAPOZIDE® (captopril and hydrochlorothiazide tablets, USP) for oral administration combines two antihypertensive agents: CAPOTENÒ (captopril) and hydrochlorothiazide. Captopril, the first of a new class of antihypertensive agents, is a specific competitive inhibitor of angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE), the enzyme responsible for the conversion of angiotensin I to angiotensin II. Hydrochlorothiazide is a benzothiadiazide (thiazide) diuretic-antihypertensive. CAPOZIDE (captopril and hydrochlorothiazide) Ò tablets are available in four combinations of captopril with hydrochlorothiazide: 25 mg with 15 mg, 25 mg with 25 mg, 50 mg with 15 mg, and 50 mg with 25 mg. Inactive ingredients: microcrystalline cellulose, colorant (FD&C Yellow No. 6), lactose, magnesium stearate, pregelatinized starch, and stearic acid.
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Captopril is a white to off-white crystalline powder that may have a slight sulfurous odor; it is soluble in water (approx. 160 mg/mL), methanol, and ethanol and sparingly soluble in chloroform and ethyl acetate.
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The NISE Net runs a series of online brown-bag conversations focused on helping partners share their work and learn from others in the Network. The aim of the online brown-bag conversations is to increase the number of professional development opportunities available to our partners, create more channels for Network partners to learn from each other directly, and create ways for partners to follow-up on ideas or efforts that emerge at in-person meetings.
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Sheltered instruction helps English-speaking facilitators to reach participants who don't speak English, as well as those who have other language barriers such as hearing impairment or development disorders. This overview will outline when to use sheltered instruction, cover a few of the basic strategies and how the audience benefits from them, and share resources to find out more.
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DrupalCon Portland 2013
DrupalCon is an international event that brings together the people who use, develop, design, and support the Drupal platform. More than just another trade show or industry conference, it's a shared experience that seeks to inspire and engage. DrupalCon Portland will feature dozens of curated sessions and panels from some of the most influential people and brightest minds within the Drupal community and beyond, as well as countless opportunities for networking, code sprints, informal conversations, and more. Whether you're new to the community, have been around awhile, or are just curious to see what all the fuss is about - we have a place for you.
Join the Acquia Team for Dries' Keynote
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Thinking about that voting system for articles I proposed in my last post, it might be simpler if people could only transfer their vote to articles, not to other people; but they could do so based on the (public or not) advice of other people. This way there is much less of a privacy issue, and votes can be completely anonymous. No one but the owner of the vote will know which articles are supported by his or her vote. If a person wants to give his or her power of voting to another person, a group or a combination of others, they can use a system which automatically votes based on the published recommendations of these others.
I wonder if this will all sound like nonsense to me by the light of day? I wouldn't be surprised!
It does seem a bit troublesome that in order to assign a vote to a new article, one will have to subtract some vote from other articles. I guess this could be done automatically (and evenly) by default, that wouldn't be too bad.
In general it would probably not be a good idea to support too many different articles, perhaps 10 per person would be a sensible number at any one time.
Withdrawing support from an article need not necessarily mean that you don't think it's important; just that it's no longer a focal point of current importance. For example, once a decision has been made, the proposed options are no longer news.
The system could remember the time-profile of articles' rankings (at least approximately, perhaps every 30min or denser near the present), this could be historically interesting, and people could choose to read `older news', or look for the all-time peaks of importance, etc. People would not be forced to use the ranking system. Alternative ordering systems would be encouraged.
Even on matters of importance, I suggest that people should not be -required- to vote - but a one-time vote for a particular other person or party who publishes their voting recommendations would not be difficult for any person. I think ordinary people would likely be less disaffected and apathetic with a voting system where they could make more difference - and even submit articles themselves that other people could vote for.
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SAS War Diary to break cover at the the Royal Armouries, Leeds - Friday, 4 November 2011
The SAS War Diary – published to mark the 70th anniversary of the Special Air Service – makes its first public appearance on November 10 and 11 at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds.
SAS historian and author of "The Originals", Gordon Stevens, will deliver a fascinating lecture into the diary's history and its unique insight into the crack regiment's birth, development and secrets.
The event – which follows unprecedented interest in the diary's launch triggering orders from all over the globe – will allow museum visitors to leaf through the publication, billed as one of the most astonishing manuscripts to emerge from the Second World War.
Publisher Martin Morgan will introduce Gordon Stevens to Leeds' audiences at a lecture at 7pm on November 10, followed by a chance to see and handle some of the Royal Armouries' collection of Second World War weapons.
Martin Morgan said, "The story behind the diary's publication is truly remarkable. In early 1946, a former SAS soldier tasked himself with one final mission. The SAS had been disbanded and there were no plans to resurrect it. The soldier's self-appointed mission was simple: to find and preserve whatever documentation he could before the SAS was forgotten and its story lost for ever.
"The soldier tracked down the Top Secret order authorising the first ever SAS operation; he sought out photographs of the original members of 1 SAS, including men lost on that first operation; he somehow acquired the after-action reports from the few who survived.
"Then with more photographs, operational orders and reports (all Top Secret), and a handful of newspaper articles from Britain and even America, he traced the story of the SAS through North Africa, Sicily, Italy and France, on to the drive through Europe for Berlin, until the final march past when the SAS was stood down."
Martin added that by the end of his mission the soldier had produced something unique – the first-ever history of the SAS, collated by one of their own men. He then locked it away for half a century until – shortly before his death – he visited the SAS Regimental Association and gave it to them.
Tickets for the November 10 event, which includes a reception, are priced at £5. A percentage will be donated to the SAS Regimental Association.
Tickets can be bought from the Royal Armouries shop website or contact James Walker on 0113 220 1888.
For more details about the diary, please visit www.sasdiary.co.uk
Copies of the diary – weighing 25lbs and bound in leather – will be on display. Prices start at £975.
For more information and the latest news about the Royal Armouries:
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Notes to editors
- Royal Armouries is the national museum of arms and armour and has sites in Leeds, HM Tower of London, Fort Nelson and Louisville, Kentucky. It is the first British national museum to open a permanent presence in another country
- Admission to the museum is free. However, there may be a small charge for some special events.
- Open all year daily, 10am-5pm. Closed 24-25 December
- Information Line: 0113 220 1999
- Website: www.royalarmouries.org
- The Royal Armouries Museum should not be confused with Royal Armouries International plc, the private sector corporate hospitality business.
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Steamboat Springs Routt County Sheriff-elect Garrett Wiggins has offered his undersheriff position to Hayden Police Chief Ray Birch, who said today that he'll accept the offer.
"I'm going to take that job as undersheriff," Birch said in a brief phone interview this morning.
Wiggins cited Birch's experience.
"Mr. Birch has a very impressive résumé in the law enforcement profession serving in numerous positions and has served his country throughout his entire adult life as a solder in the U.S. military," Wiggins wrote in an e-mail to the Steamboat Pilot & Today on Monday night. "Mr. Birch will bring forth many years of experience and leadership capabilities to the Routt County Sheriff's Office."
Wiggins is in Littleton training for his upcoming job and could not immediately be reached by telephone.
Birch has served in the Marine Corps and enlisted in the Air Force Reserves after Sept. 11, 2001. He since has served two tours of duty in Iraq, including a 191-day tour in 2008 and early 2009.
He was named Hayden's chief of police in December 2006 after being selected by a committee of residents.
He has about three decades of law enforcement experience. He worked at the Pomona Police Department in Los Angeles County for 17 years before moving to Colorado. He worked at the Clear Creek Sheriff's Office and served as the 14th Judicial District's chief investigator. After returning from Iraq in March 2005, Birch was hired as a sergeant with the Routt County Sheriff's Office.
Birch ran for the Republican nomination for Routt County sheriff in 2006 but lost to Wiggins in the primary. Wiggins went on to lose to Sheriff Gary Wall, a Democrat.
Wiggins first offered the undersheriff job to former 14th Judicial District investigator Joe DeAngelo, who declined last week in favor of remaining in his current position as an investigator for the Colorado Attorney General's Office.


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By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 1:28 PM GMT on May 07, 2012
A rare strong tornado ripped through Ibaraki Prefecture in eastern Japan 30 miles northeast of Tokyo on Sunday, killing a teenage boy, injuring 48 people, and damaging or destroying 890 buildings. The tornado carved a path of destruction 15 km long and 500 meters wide, said the Japan Meteorological Agency. The tornado was given a preliminary rating of F-2, with winds of 113 - 157 mph (Japan uses the traditional "F" scale to rate tornadoes, not the "EF" scale used in the U.S.) The tornado also damaged homes in a housing complex in Tsukuba where 20 people from seven families from Fukushima Prefecture had evacuated following the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, caused by the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011. I bet those families are feeling disaster-prone!
Video 1. A rare tornado in Japan hits approximately 30 miles northeast of Tokyo on May 6, 2012.
Japan's tornado climatology
Tornadoes are rare in Japan, due to the fact the nation is surrounded by ocean, which tends to stabilize the air. Between 1961 - 2010, an average of 15 tornadoes per year hit Japan, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. Only four F-3 tornadoes have hit Japan. The most recent F-3 hit on November 7, 2006, in the Wakasa area of Saroma, Hokkaido. Nine people died and 26 were injured. Over 30 buildings, including a dwelling, warehouses and temporary structures were damaged or destroyed. No violent F-4 or F-5 tornadoes have been recorded in Japan, according the Japan Meteorological Agency, though other sources list a December, 1990 tornado as having been an F-4. Wunderground's weather historian Christopher C. Burt has more details in his latest post, Deadliest Tornadoes. Only one F-2 tornado hit Japan in both 2010 and 2011. A 1997 study published in the Journal of Climate found that Japanese tornadoes occurred most frequently in September and least frequently in March, and that typhoons were responsible for about 20% of all the tornadoes. A list of Asian tornado outbreaks maintained at Wikipedia lists the deadliest Japanese tornado as one on 6 September, 1881, which killed 16 people.
Figure 1. Distribution of tornadoes in Japan, 1961 - 2010. Image credit: Japan Meteorological Agency.
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One of my favorite conservative writers, R. Emmitt Tyrrell, editor of the American Spectator, tells us Dingy Harry is having an affair with a cow. I find that more believable than Romney not paying taxes for 10 years.
It's certainly amusing watching all the socialists worried about so much of 'their' money slipping away because the IRS can't get their grubby fingers on it so the SFN crowd has more handouts and government freebies.
Do any of the lefties think additional tax income will have anything to do with lowering the debt...or balancing the budget? HOW MUCH MORE DO YOU SPENDTHRIFTS NEED???


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TUPELO – The Lee County School Board hired Allen Stanford on Thursday to serve as assistant principal at Shannon Elementary.
Stanford replaces Pam Blissard, who was named Plantersville Middle School principal in December. Blissard, who had been at Shannon Elementary for seven years, replaced Bill Horton, who died suddenly on Nov. 30.
Stanford has been a teacher, baseball coach and assistant principal at Ripley High School.
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Few of the social gatherings this season have afforded more genuine enjoyment than the entertainment given by the Equitable Aid Union at their hall the the Wakefield block on Tuesday evening. Over two hundred members and invited guests were present, including a delegation from the sister Union at Wabasha. The programme of exercises was as follows:
Address of Welcome--Dr. S. B. Sheardown.
Prayer--Rev. R. J. Thomson.
Organ Solo--Prof. Roberts.
Song--guitar accompaniment--Master Preston.
Select Reading--Miss Pettis. [Kate Pettis, my great-grandmother]
Song--Mr. Schoonmaker.
Mottoes of the E. A. U. Order--Jno. Chapman.
Harmonica and Bones--Miss Mary Thomas.
The programme in all of its features was attractive and pleasing.
The opening address by Dr. Sheardown was pithy and right to the point.
The prayer by Rev. R. J. Thomson was replete with excellent thoughts and kind words that touched the hearts of the audience.
The organ solo of Prof. Roberts, song by Master Preston, the mirth-provoking song of Mr. Schoonmaker, were all good, and duly appreciated.
The recitation by Miss [Kate] Pettis greatly pleased the audience, as did Mr. John Chapman's essay on the Mottoes of the Order. Miss Thomas's performance on the harmonica and bones was also well received.
At the conclusion of the programme refreshments were served, consisting of oysters, sandwiches, cake and coffee in abundance. A pleasing incident occurred just before the serving of refreshments, in the presentation of an exquisite basket of flowers by the Winona Union to their brethren of the Wabasha Union, Captain Slocumb making the presentation speech, which was responded to by Mr. J. N. Murdoch of Wabasha. The basket of flowers had the letters "E. A. U." imbedded in a floral design on the top.
After refreshments there were several impromptu speeches by both the Wabasha and Winona members. Also a happy rendering of the familiar song "Oft in the Stilly Night" by Miss [Kate] Pettis. The sociability continued to a late hour, and the unanimous sentiment was expressed that it was the pleasantest gathering within the history of the society.
I'd never heard "Oft in the Stilly Night" but easily found lyrics, sheet music, and several versions online. It's a beautiful song, but so sad! I am still scratching my head over the choice of the words "happy rendering" in the newspaper description of my great-grandmother's performance. Here's a stunning version recorded by Maggie Teyte in 1945, also, perhaps, a happy rendering?
Update: Sorry, readers, the Maggie Teyte video which was formerly posted here is gone from YouTube. However, you can listen to a short snippet of Teyte's rendition here.What's that you say? You couldn't understand a word of it? A happy rendering, indeed. Here's Kevin McDermott's version, in which the lyrics are quite clear:
"Oft in the Stilly Night" was written by Irish lyricist Thomas Moore (1779-1852).
Oft, in the stilly night,
Ere slumber's chain has bound me,
Fond memory brings the light
Of other days around me;
The smiles, the tears,
Of boyhood's years,
The words of love then spoken;
The eyes that shone,
Now dimm'd and gone,
The cheerful hearts now broken!
Thus, in the stilly night,
Ere slumber's chain hath bound me,
Sad memory brings the light
Of other days around me.
When I remember all
The friends, so link'd together,
I've seen around me fall,
Like leaves in wintry weather;
I feel like one
Who treads alone
Some banquet-hall deserted,
Whose lights are fled,
Whose garlands dead,
And all but he departed!
Thus, in the stilly night,
Ere slumber's chain has bound me,
Sad memory brings the light
Of other days around me.


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Mathematician David Mumford is known for his work in algebraic geometry and vision and pattern theory. A winner of the Fields Medal in 1974, he is currently a professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University. His books include Indra's Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Could you tell us a bit about yourself?
I'm a mathematician who has worked in both pure and applied math. These are very different: In pure math, the only thing that counts is proving theorems, which is to say unraveling the abstract structures of algebra, geometry and analysis. This is building castles in the sky. On the other hand, in applied math, you seek models for things going on in the real world, models which simplify reality but nonetheless capture the essence of some real system. The pure and applied sides complement each other, and I've spent roughly half my career on each. In applications, I have worked especially on visual perception and the neurophysiology of vision.
What books are you currently reading (or have you just finished reading) for your work or for pleasure? Why did you choose them, and what do you think of them?
On the one hand, I have wanted for some time to understand Arab culture better. It started with discovering the beautiful scientific work of Ibn al-Haytham (a.k.a. Alhazen) on vision, whom I would place on a par with Galileo and Kepler. Then my historian son sent me Maria Rosa Menocal's The Ornament of the World (Little, Brown, 2002), a wonderful, loving account of the Muslim society in medieval Spain, its greatness and its downfall. And then a friend told me about Philip Khuri Hitti's book The Arabs (Princeton University Press, 1943), and another friend told me you must take seriously The Thousand and One Nights—but only the J. C. Mardrus/Powys Mathers translation (The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, 1923), which doesn't take out the sex. So I'm in the middle of this!
But I have to confess a lifelong interest in science fiction, perhaps the subgenre which Freeman Dyson calls "theo-fiction." Olaf Stapledon is, in my view, one of the most provocative authors I have read. Recently a friend gave me the wonderful book The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov, recently translated by Diana Burgin and Katherine O'Connor (Ardis, 1995): It's a wild story of the devil toying with the good citizens of Moscow of the '20s and '30s. Check it out!
When and where do you usually read (specific location, time of day, etc.)?
Before going to bed or on planes.
Who are your favorite writers (fiction, nonfiction or poetry)? Why?
In college, I loved Joseph Conrad: No one can ratchet up the tension like he does. At various times, I have read avidly Joyce Cary, V. S. Naipaul, Robertson Davies, John Irving. I am a sailor, and I love sailing books—Alan Villiers and Joshua Slocum, for instance. My first wife was a poet, and she showed me some poems that seem so absolutely right—Theodore Roethke's "The Waking" and Phillip Levine's "They Feed the Lion."
What are the three best books you've ever read? Explain.
Oh boy: That's hard. I notice that an earlier respondent mentioned Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (1900). I have to say this book was hugely influential on me, too, and I find it bizarre that Freud is discounted nowadays to such a huge degree. I think everyone should be aware that many things are going on in their minds without coming into consciousness. A second book which I found very provocative is Freeman Dyson's Disturbing the Universe (Harper & Row, 1979). The depth and breadth of his thinking is inspiring. Each piece here is something to mull over at length. I think I should choose a math book for the third. Now, math books are not cover-to-cover reads (for me, at least). They are rich sources of ideas into which you dip multiple times and find new insights each time. My candidate for the best math book is G. H. Hardy and E. M. Wright's An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers (1938), which is full of so many different sides of the subject and is beautifully written (for a math book!).
What book has influenced you most? Explain how.
I think I should look at the books that had a professional impact on me. In pure math, there was no one book: It was really my professors' lectures that brought this subject alive, especially those of George Mackey and Oscar Zariski. To get started in math, there is nothing like the human voice, the proof that all this abstraction is alive for someone else. But in applied math, there was one book. It is David Marr's book Vision (W. H. Freeman, 1982). For me, this book defined clearly a whole area of science. It shows how math and computer science can be brought to bear on psychophysics and neurophysiology in ways which seem an order of magnitude deeper than anything before (for example, earlier ideas in artificial intelligence or ideas of neural nets). The actual content is now a bit dated, but the approach is not.
Name three books you want to read but haven't gotten to yet.
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen (Scribner, 1984), by Harold McGee. I have always thought the way to learn chemistry was to understand cooking, and this book does exactly that. Perhaps it should be read in conjunction with my old friend Larry Gonick's latest comic-book-style college text: The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry (HarperResource, 2004). An admission of my lowbrow tastes: The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Bible (Alpha Books, 1999). I have never been able to read more than a page of the Bible, especially the Old Testament, which—for me—is a mishmash of Hebrew tribal lore, and frankly this version seems pretty good. Maybe I'll understand a bit more of my heritage one of these days.
What book recommendations do you have for young readers?
Arguably, the most important step in everyone's education should be getting outside the narrow view of the world in which our culture immerses them. Aside from traveling, they can either read novels or read history. The hard part is to find the book which makes a different point in the space-time continuum come alive for you, the reader. This is very personal. Let me just say that I found my horizons stretched by Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel (W. W. Norton, 1997) and Alfred Crosby's The Measure of Reality (Cambridge University Press, 1997) (both given me by my historian son).
What science book recommendations do you have for nonscientists?
Let me interpret your question as math books, because that's my field. There are, in my view, too many pseudo-math books purporting to be about some math topic which never dare to ask the reader to learn some actual piece of math, and hence are nothing but math gossip. The problem with recommending any math to a nonscientist is that they are quite likely to have negative impressions of math from high school. So, to be honest, I have to give a basic-level book which is user-friendly. If the nonscientist really wants to read some math, the book that drew me into math was the classic Mathematics for the Million, by Lancelot Hogben (1936). It is never outdated. A bit lighter but still honest is the more recent book by Phil Davis and Reuben Hersh, The Mathematical Experience (Birkhäuser, 1981). It's a great read.
Taking science more widely, Thinking Physics by Lewis Epstein (Insight Press, 2002) is a wonderful book introducing physics through a sequence of highly nontrivial puzzles, each followed (after you turn the page) by the answer and discussion. I got quite a few wrong myself. It's my ambition to write something as good as this about math (for the bright high school student or anyone older).
Name one book in your discipline that you would recommend for scientists outside your field. Explain your choice.
I'm tempted to name my own book (with coauthors Dave Wright and Caroline Series) Indra's Pearls (Cambridge University Press, 2002). We tried to take a research topic that incorporates some very beautiful pictures and does not require a huge amount of background and explain it to general audiences. The trouble is that any math book with real content does require serious application, and we did get so carried away that I fear its level grows exponentially chapter by chapter! But the pictures show highly nontrivial scaling phenomena and are worth a look.
If there is one topic in my area which I feel will be very influential on science as a whole, it is statistical learning theory. All too many scientists are not aware that statistics does not stop at the t-test and that many deep and important statistical ideas have been found lately. There is a recent text—too systematic, maybe—but full of the good stuff: Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani and Jerome Friedman, The Elements of Statistical Learning (Springer, 2001). Some of the buzzwords are bootstrap, support vectors, boosting. My recommendation is to try to pick this up.
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The entrance into the desert house at the Phipps Conservatory featuring Chihuly's Desert Star.
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Recently the Republicans have amped up their talking point again on how Democrats and specifically President Obama are weak on Terrorism. With each new call of added protections we as a nation I believe just make the situation worse. It seems that just whispering the word terrorist nullify Constitutional protections. Even during the Bush administration terrorists had civilian trials. Now it seems we are just sliding down this slippery slope more and more, and with each rung we pass as we go further and further down this slope the Terrorists winning percentage goes up.
Here is a passage from a recent article in Slate by Dahlia Lithwick:The full article can be found here:http://www.slate.com/id/2243429America has slid back again into its own special brand of terrorism-derangement syndrome. Each time this condition recurs, it presents with more acute and puzzling symptoms. . . .
Moreover, each time Republicans go to their terrorism crazy-place, they go just a little bit farther than they did the last time, so that things that made us feel safe last year make us feel vulnerable today. . . . In short, what was once tough on terror is now soft on terror. And each time the Republicans move their own crazy-place goal posts, the Obama administration moves right along with them. . . .
We're terrified when a terror attack happens, and we're also terrified when it's thwarted. We're terrified when we give terrorists trials, and we're terrified when we warehouse them at Guantanamo without trials. If a terrorist cooperates without being tortured we complain about how much more he would have cooperated if he hadn't been read his rights. No matter how tough we've been on terror, we will never feel safe enough to ask for fewer safeguards. . . .
But here's the paradox: It's not a terrorist's time bomb that's ticking. It's us. Since 9/11, we have become ever more willing to suspend basic protections and more contemptuous of American traditions and institutions. The failed Christmas bombing and its political aftermath have revealed that the terrorists have changed very little in the eight-plus years since the World Trade Center fell. What's changing -- what's slowly ticking its way down to zero -- is our own certainty that we can never be safe enough and our own confidence in the rule of law.


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It's an essential part of any trip, an activity we all take part in.
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Souvenir buying -- instead of being an enjoyable part of the travel experience, it too often becomes an obligatory slog.
The global economy for ill-conceived souvenir purchases is staggering.
In 2013 alone, travelers spent a total of $2.3 billion on souvenirs that were subsequently ignored, unused, unappreciated, unworn, discarded, disliked, ridiculed and/or stuffed in bottom drawers and backs of closets never to be seen again.
Worse, travelers wasted 427 million aggregated hours fretting over the purchases of pointless doodads, knickknacks, tchotchkes, gewgaws and dust gatherers.
OK, we made all those figures up, but given all the "Singapore is a Fine City" T-shirts, Chairman Mao cigarette lighters, plush koalas and inflatable jumbo airplanes cluttering the CNN Travel office, we're pretty sure people spend a lot of money and time on desperation purchases that unfairly burden recipients with the obligation of hanging on to these dubious prizes for years to come.
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Rhythm Guitar: Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)
Drums: Iain Paice (Deep Purple)
Bass: Steve Harris (Iron Maiden)
Vocals: Ronnie James Dio (Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio)
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I am supposed write something on my work about Bangladesh... but do you think I am doing that? Nooooo... but I'll probably do that when I get home.
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Here are some pictures I took awhile ago as part of the COACH MYNY campaign. It was a total pleasure working with them and I love love love love love my bag. It's very me. Sparkly and ridiculous and useful (am I useful? I would prefer the world ~talented~). Obviously these pictures were taken when the weather was not HOTTER THAN SATAN'S ARMPITS.
This is me being a nerd. With a cool bag. This negates the nerd factor... kindofIhopemaybe.
Here's the bag if you want one of your own! Trust me, it's all kinds of awesome.
Isn't it wonderful? You know how much of a sequin hoarder I am (or if you don't and you're new to the blog, now you know. I have several piles of sequined shenanigans in my room. It's pretty awesome.).
I find it pretty funny how since these pictures were taken I've since redyed my hair twice but it's basically the same color now. My hair just likes being purple I guess.
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Although Erwin Schulhoff (8 July 1894, Prague-18 August 1942, Wlzbourg internment camp, in Bavaria) did not settle permanently in the city of his birth until the end of 1932 (he had studied and worked primarily in Germany up to that time), he soon made his name as a composer among both the German speaking inhabitants of Prague and in native Czech musical circles. One additional proof of this is the commission which Schulhoff received from the Czech National Theatre in the spring of 1926 to compose the stage music for Molire's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. The play was given an extremely modern treatment by the director, and he chose his co-workers accordingly. He considered Schulhoff the most suitable man for the job, because the composer showed a sense of humor and a feeling for the ridiculous in his work, he was fond of jazz, expressed himself succinctly and pithily, and was responsive and inventive. Schulhoff's participation in the Dada movement also played a role in the choice: at the time, Dadaist art was still the most current style among theatrical artists in Prague....
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The Ebony Band was founded in 1990 by Werner Herbers, solo oboist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. For many years he was one of the artistic directors of the Netherlands Wind Ensemble. The Ebony Band is concerned with the performance of modern, unusual, and adventurous music, primarily from the first half of this century. Attention is devoted primarily to the work of less well-known composers worthy of (re)discovery. The Ebony Band devoted several programs to German music at the time of the Weimar republic (degenerated music). A program was also given during the 1991 Holland Festival with composers who were involved in the Spanish Civil War. Other programs included Leonard Bernstein and Friends, Degenerated influences on Jazz and Unknown Russians in the Twenties. The core of the Ebony Band consists of musicians from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. In the 1993 Holland Festival, the Ebony Band performed music by Robert Graettinger, the legendary arranger for the Stan Kenton band; a live recording of this concert has been issued (City of Glass, CCS 6394 Channel Crossing). Chaim Levano (originally a musician) is recognized in the Netherlands as an important figure in the field of avant-garde theatre and also in various spatial aspects of the same discipline. Through his activities in Germany, he contributes to the increased interest there for new and modern theatrical work from the Netherlands. He was one of the first to conceive and execute not only numerous (musical) theatre productions dealing with Russian and Italian Futurism, Dadaism, the Russian Oberioe Group, Gertrude Stein, Kurt Schwitters and Max Rosenblatt, but also his own ideas and concepts of theatre which were performed in productions for the Holland Festival and other venues abroad. On 15 June 1994, the Ebony Band celebrated the 100th birthday of Erwin Schulhoff (8 June 1894) with a concert devoted exclusively to his music, given in Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht. The concert paid homage to an extremely versatile composer with works to his credit such as the classical Concerto for String Quartet and Winds, the striking stage music for Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, and the joyful Suite for Chamber Orchestra of 1921, in which Schulhoff was one of the first to show his great affinity for the newest and most fashionable dance music. There are echoes of daily life as well: a car horn is included in the score (in our performance of the 1918 Nonpareil). Schulhoffs oeuvre is a highly accurate mirror of the time in which he lived. He probably didnt drink champagne every day, and he certainly didnt have a drivers licence (he was a demon cyclist), but his music sparkles like vintage Mot & Chandon Millsim and it has the elegance and speed of a Maybach 5.7 litre Tourer. Schulhoffs artistic interests were not confined to music; this can be seen from his close ties to the Dada movement, as exemplified by several texts which he himself wrote, e.g. the prologue to the Suite and the texts for Bassnachtigall and Wolkenpumpe (both of which appear on the next CD), and also in his collaboration with the painter and graphic artist Otto Griebel (1895-1970), with whom he composed his Zehn Themen in 1920: a collection of 10 piano pieces and 10 lithographs, published together in one book. Werner Herbers
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(...) Iets voor muzikale avonturiers. Volkskrant, December 1994 (...) De toon is volstrekt onromantisch, brutaal en af en toe behoorlijk ruig - al blijft de balans tussen het strijkkwartet en al die blazers (waaronder ook het stevige koper) overeind. Dirigent Werner Herbers en zijn Ebony Band verdedigen deze muziek met een flair alsof ze zelf iedere nacht optreden in mondaine, rokerige bars. NRC, February 1995
(...) De Ebony Band verdient dan ook alle lof voor dit eerste deel van de werken voor ensemble...(...) Over het concert voor strijkkwartet en blazers uit 1930: (...) Dit stuk is zonder meer een meesterwerk en rechtvaardigt op zich al deze uitgave. (...) Entreacte, June 1995
(...) LEbony Band, nous offre de bonnes interprtations (...) Diapason, April 1995
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(...) Lyrique et mlodieux (...) (...) On attend avec impatience son second disque (...) Le Monde de la Musique, April 1995
(...) virtuos gespielt (...) Dissonanz, February 1995
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