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Haphazard combo of good sound and bad noises.
Pros: Cheap price. MicroSDHC slot. Supports flac. Can run Rockbox firmware.
Cons: Cheap build. Makes some unwelcome noises. Original firmware can't do gapless.
I used the player with the original firmware and I also installed Rockbox. I'll deal with notable points of each firmware.
The hardware:
It's cheap. This needn't be such a bad thing as in a bigger player. Cheap stuff can work fine. There is no mystery involved in assembling/making a small plastic case or a two colour display or some buttons. The Clip's clip still clips after 28 months and the buttons still work. The one component that was always much too cheap and has become worse is the headphone socket. It doesn't hold the headphone jack tight and it has become a little looser over time. In contrast the headphone sockets in my other players and phones and tablets all have a small spring clamp in the socket and any jack inserted is held securely. With the Clip+ noise from the poor connection is audible every time the player is moved, such as while in my pocket as I walk. To me this counts as a major failing. I bought the Clip+ for use while I'm out or busy but this is where its most prominent shortcoming is evident.
The microSDHC slot is a great feature. MicroSDHC cards have tumbled in price and it cost me less than £25 to add a good quality 32GB Class 10 card that works perfectly. The internal 8GB of storage is very slow.
The radio is basic but decent enough. If you live somewhere with strong FM signals and little interference you'll enjoy it. It's not a great radio with weak signals.
The player is so tiny and light that you can clip it onto a belt or sleeve or pocket and just forget about it.
My review doesn't cover Slot Radio or Audible audio book support as I don't use either facility.
I'm not sure there's any more to say about the hardware.
Notable features of the OF (Original Firmware):
Gapless playback is not supported even for those formats which natively support gapless (flac and ogg vorbis). Some people don't seem to mind clicks or gaps artificially inserted into performances. I definitely do. Bad Sansa.
The OF is database only. It can present a "browse by folder" option but this actually depends on the database so it will only show you files it knows. Refreshing the database can be very slow indeed if you have a large capacity card in the slot. This is most definitely a deficiency as it's inefficient and inconvenient enough to become annoying.
Aside from that I think the OF interface is pretty reasonable. It's easy enough to browse by folder/genre/artist and so on.
Notable positive differences of Rockbox over the OF:
Gapless playback. It works! It works in every format which can support it.
You can choose not to use a database. Even if you use a database it refreshes on changes extremely quickly, just a few seconds.
You can choose to browse by folder, and which types of files you want to see.
Rockbox supports many more audio codecs. It can play your m4a files or midi tracks or the weird format from your old skool game.
There are numerous other features and enhancements (bookmarking, sleep timer, wake up alarm, games, apps etc.) but in this review I want to concentrate on the player and its core task - music playback.
Sound Quality:
Firstly the sound quality is basically fine. It's neutral. There is no silly bass emphasis or nerve jangling highs. It works well with my typical low impedance IEMs and 'phones (various Sennheiser, Shure and Sony models from 16 ohms to 32) and also seems to put out a fair bit of power for a portable device so can drive plenty of full size headphones if they are sensitive enough. It easily drove my Sony MDRZX700 headphones (106 dB/mW and 24 ohm) but wasn't really capable of driving an old pair of Sennheiser HD 500 (101dB/mW and 150 ohm).
Some people note a difference between Rockbox and OF and claim one sounds better than the other (or one is right and the other is wrong). This can get very exciting with accusations of deafness, bias, stupidity and all the rest. There can be differences in the sound because each firmware does some things differently:
Supports 44100 and 48000 Hz files without sample rate conversion.
Has a pitch error so 44100 files play back at the wrong speed (you can hear this but you might not notice it). 48000 Hz files have correct pitch.
Dithering seems to applied and cannot be switched off*.
Replay Gain is off by default.
Only supports 44100 Hz files internally. Uses a linear sample rate converter for other rates.
Plays back with no pitch error (or error so small you need measuring instruments to detect it).
Dithering is not enabled by default (user can enable it).
Replay Gain by default is in mode "Track Gain if Shuffling". This means it "Maintains a constant volume between tracks if Shuffle is set to Yes. Reverts to album mode if Shuffle is set to No" (from the Rockbox manual). Clipping prevention is off and pre-amp is set to 0.
So if you play a 44100 track in each firmware at seemingly identical volume (max in OF and 0 dB in Rockbox measure the same on my Clip+ into a recorder) it's possible to notice differences in level (due to Replay Gain in Rockbox) and pitch (due to error in OF) and perhaps a difference due to dithering.
If you play back a 48000 Hz file the OF's pitch error is gone. There is still the possibility of Rockbox's Replay Gain altering the level. There is a definite change in the sound in Rockbox due to the resampler. This is completely unmissable with 10000 Hz sine wave or if you want to hear it in real music try a track with some cymbal splashes and hi-hats. It's horrible.
So people claiming to hear a difference between the firmwares can be reporting a real difference. And people reporting no difference may also be right.
Almost all of my music collection is 16-bit 44100 Hz audio from CD so Rockbox's sample rate converter hardly matters. Replay Gain can be toggled off or its settings changed. Dithering can be enabled/disabled as preferred. But in the original firmware there's nothing you can do about the pitch error (and you can't switch off the dithering). Rockbox clearly has an advantage over the OF for 16-bit 44100 Hz audio. It can play it back at the correct pitch without introducing artificial gaps. If you are that rare person with a huge collection of audio at 48000 Hz (maybe a big collection of music from DVDs) then the OF is better. If your priority is playback of 88200/96000/192000 or even very low bitrate HE-AAC then this isn't the player for you.
Output level is pretty good. Assuming no positive increase of level from Replay Gain you won't get distortion even at maximum volume in the OF or up to 0 dB in Rockbox. Rockbox can artficially go louder but you might not like it much. There are louder players but the Clip+ should satisfy anyone who hasn't already damaged their hearing.
The Clip has an unexpected feature - a collection of squeaks, clicks, screeches, buzzes and rumbles that if emitted by an adult human might qualify them for psychiatric evaluation and some interesting pills. Some of these noises arise from button presses or play pausing/resuming/stopping and are tolerable. Others can appear in playback. I assume the player's CPU and/or memory get maxed out (maybe I'm wrong) but you can sometimes get the kind of annoying noises you'll know from cheap PC boards with integrated audio. On one occasion my player made a nasty screeching sound for a second or two instead of music and did so in the same place several times. I powered it down and up again and all was back to normal. On another occasion it did a similar thing but distorted as though clipping - again it was repeatable in the same place in the track and powering down solved the problem. Sometimes a piece gets to a quiet passage and I notice there shuffling/rumbling noises that don't come from the music file. Again powering down and up fixes it. I'm glad the player can resume from the same point. Occasionally it fails to complete playing a track and just jumps right to the next one. So Tourettes wasn't all, it also has Alzheimers. Making whacky noises and forgetting to play a track right through isn't exactly audiophile territory and does reveal the Clip+'s lowly origin. But for the most part it does play back perfectly normally. Until it doesn't.
How to minimise the noises and dementia (assumes running Rockbox):
You need to minimise CPU and memory load so:
Don't enable the database (or enable it but disable auto updating and gathering of runtime data)
Don't enable dithering
Don't use EQ, crossfeed, tone controls or anything that touches the audio.
Luckily normal playback without modifying the audio sounds very good.
When it isn't making unwanted noises it's hard to fault. When it is making unwanted noises it's hard to listen to. The headphone socket is the weakest part of the player as it's not replaceable, is of the lowest possible quality and if/when gets noisy you can't fix it. Assuming your headphone socket is OK then Rockbox turns a player with huge convenience but hardware and firmware problems into something extremely appealing and enjoyable to listen to. Until the headphone socket breaks.
If I could rate the player and the firmwares separately I'd give the player and OF 2 stars with 4 for value. Rockbox would get a straight 5 stars, lit up and heralded with a fanfare. Rockbox rescues the player from being a joke (wrong pitch!), makes it really appealing in many ways and gets the best out of the player but there is no getting around the deficiencies or limitations of the hardware.
It is very, very cheap. It can be terrible, it can be brilliant. But it's always cheap. So am I, and that's why I bought it. If you're cheap you'll probably like it too.
*I noticed a perfectly silent 44100 Hz file played back silently in Rockbox but with a little noise in the OF. There was no EQ applied or sample rate conversion. If I enable dithering in Rockbox I then get the same quiet background noise as the OF produced.


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A sparkling example of this style is illustrated by La Sultana Marrakech, which has combined several traditional Medina homes into one glorious boutique hotel. Situated down a quiet residential alley, from the moment I walked through the grand front door, I felt I'd been transported into a world of exquisite fantasy, indulgence and timeless charm.
La Sultana is dramatically furnished with 5 tonnes of marble, 12,000sq m of carved cedarwood, hanging gardens and 18 full-grown palms.
The four interlocking courtyards are individually themed: Moroccan art deco in one, African safaris in another. But it's the pool courtyard, bracketed by elegant brickwork and private suite balconies, that really hit the sweet spot.
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A highly talented painter, draughtsman and engraver, Felice Giani gave new impetus to the art of large-scale interior works, a genre he practiced with a highly original and personal style even though it followed the dictates of the dominant neoclassical taste. After his apprenticeship in Bologna under the last remaining disciples of the Baroque theatrical tradition of the Bibiena family, he completed his artistic training in Rome, where he arrived in 1780. He attended the Accademia di San Luca, dedicating himself enthusiastically to the study of Raphael and Michelangelo.
Giani, who was relatively disinterested in easel painting, produced large numbers of works, including masses of preparatory drawings for his decorative projects (of which he also saw to the ornamentation and stuccoes), as well as plentiful sketches and models such as this Venus and Adonis . This delightful painting, which was probably the study of a detail for a much larger composition (possibly made in the 1790s), gives a good indication of the peculiar characteristics of his style: great compositional abilities, skill in stylistic succinctness, a lack of interest in rigid neoclassical models, and a visionary talent tinged with a vein of melancholic irony.
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Can we make a change to the classified ads?
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More than three years ago, parents of Pine View School students filled a section of the Sarasota County School Board chambers, complaining that the board was considering a lottery to control the number of new students allowed into its nationally recognized school for the gifted, given the campus' space limitations.
Those concerns no longer are relevant as a result of the declining district enrollment, Sonia Figaredo-Alberts, the district's executive director for Pupil Support Services, told the school board during its Oct. 18 work session.
The district has been monitoring all of its gifted programs for the past three years, Figaredo-Alberts said, but staff particularly had been concerned about not going over capacity at Pine View.
The numbers of gifted students have remained steady at all other schools offering programs for them, she said. "So we feel that our parents have choices" about where to send their children, she added.
"If the enrollment picks up at Pine View, what will kick that lottery system back in place?" board member Shirley Brown asked.
The monitoring of applications for Pine View and the other gifted programs should keep the district from having to consider a lottery in the future, Figaredo-Alberts said. No data from the past three years had raised a flag, she added, to indicate problems might arise in the near future.
"We have a process that is working?" board member Carol Todd asked. That was the case, Figaredo-Alberts told her.
"If we have a process that is working, I am OK with it," Todd said.
If it appeared the district, once again, would encounter problems with capacity in the gifted programs, Superintendent Lori White said, staff would bring the situation to the board's attention in a timely fashion.
"It's not something we all of a sudden would spring on everybody as a surprise," she said.
Brown also asked Figaredo-Alberts about enrollment figures showing Pine View had seen its number of second-graders increase from 108 in the 2010-11 school year to 111 in the current school year. According to her calculations, Brown said, the 2011-12 figure put one second-grade class three students over the Florida Class Size Amendment level allowed.
If necessary, Figaredo-Alberts said, schools, including Pine View, combined second- and third-graders in a class to make sure the district met the class-size standards. However, she said, "We have not had to do that" at Pine View.
"Instructionally, one student (over the allowed limit) is not going to make a difference," Todd said.
However, the district would have to pay approximately $5,000 to the state for any instance of exceeding class size, White pointed out.
"It was a lot of monies to risk," she said. "We made a specific goal in this district to meet the class-size requirement."


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Liam Hemsworth turned 22 years old last week and those close to the actor celebrated with a party Saturday evening at Club Icon in Los Angeles.
It was your basic festive occasion, with one notable exception that is now making headlines for Miley Cyrus: the singer, reported by onlookers to have been drinking heavily all night, got up close and VERY personal with her boyfriend's birthday cake.
Which was shaped like a penis.
TMZ has posted photos of Miley squatting, sticking out her tongue and posing provocatively at the base of the phallic creation.
At this point, we almost admire Cyrus for legitimately not caring what others say about her. Consider just a few of her actions when cameras were around:
- She smoked salvia out of a bong.
- She joked about being a pot head.
- She posed both topless and in weird poses with her dad for Vanity Fair.
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My pup is 6 and a half months now. We are following Evan Graham's Smartworks system.
Here's where he is now.
Formalizing obedience:
I spent two weeks...two sessions most days on HERE and CC and HERE with resistance taking advantage of any distractions that presented themselves. As far as how much pressure he's getting from the collar in case you are wondering.....my CC went like this. I started on 0.5 while calling HERE....and pulling with the rope gradually stepping up the pressure. He showed that he noticed the pressure at 1.5 but it didn't seem to bother him. At 2.0 he would run quickly to me and at 2.5 he would let out a little whine so I established 2.0 as a good working level of pressure. He's completely reliable on HERE if there are no distractions at this point. His attitude when we are on walks or getting ready for field training is happy excitement hopping around tail up and wagging....no droop or anxiety but you can see him reigning himself in to check back as he stays close to me (within 10-15 yards)....just like the book says to expect...he's expecting me to call him HERE at any moment so he's keeping himself ready to come and checks back frequently. If there is a distraction like one of the kids or another dog or our cat or whatever he will come but usually needs a nick from the collar as reinforcement and depending on the distraction he needs a heavier nick as high as 3.5 or 4 and sometimes continuous which amazed me as he showed that 2.5 was more than enough pressure during CC. I am using planned and unplanned distractions to further formalize HERE. First question: Should I be continuing my focus on HERE before moving on to HEEL, SIT, HEEL with stick pressure? Earlier this week I thought I was ready to move on so I have begun HEEL, SIT, HEEL and after 4 sessions he's getting the picture.....he's doing very well on a very short lead in a straight line as long as no distractions just like above with HERE. For HEEL, SIT, HEEL I am using a pinch collar on a short lead...NO E COLLAR. Since I'm seeing the same thing with HEEL, SIT, HEEL as I did with HERE I'm thinking I need to back up and spend more time on HERE and more time on CC with resistance until he can work through distractions????? I want to make sure I'm fully ingraining all of this and am trying to take my time.
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We've done a lot of single marks up to 80-100 yards and have done short double marks ...maybe 50 yards... all in short grass and medium cover...nothing he can't see over.....this has been pretty easy stuff. For the singles my bird boy or girl makes the throws at varying distances. For the doubles one bird boy makes the first throw and I restrain him after he's marked the fall and then turn 180 degrees and the other bird girl makes the second throw which I allow him to retrieve. He then is allowed to go to the memory bird. He's very good at this and I've started introducing some doubles at different angles as close to each other as 90 degrees....he's good on these as well but you can see him eyeballing that memory mark the whole time.
Progressing from there I've introduced him to stickmen and today we did our first A,B,C drill with 4 stickmen and a bird girl throwing single marks ranging from 20 to 80 yards in short grass. He nailed every single throw completely ignored the bird girl and completely ignored the stickmen. All he cares about is the bumper and me. (except for when the neighbors basset hound heard the commotion and came to check things out). I did use this as an opportunity to reinforce HERE.
For all of this the only obedience I'm requiring is that he start out at heel sitting next to me and comes all the way HERE....I'm not needing to use any pressure for this. While the bird boys throw I keep him steady by holding his collar.
My question about this part is how many marks do you generally give a 6 month old pup in a single session. Right now he's been getting about 20 and is begging for more. He goes out hard and fast, comes back hard and fast. Doesn't want to give up the bumper and if I'm not careful he'll jump up and steal it back from me any chance he gets.....simply CRAZY about bumpers. He's not been introduced to birds yet but that's coming soon.


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A child is more likely to develop an interest in science if she is the firstborn in a Protestant or Jewish family. When she becomes an expert, she'll be more likely than a novice to discard hypotheses, to use intuition and analogy and to mistrust common sense. And she'll be more likely to make a creative achievement in science if her personality is open, flexible, driven, ambitious, introverted, arrogant and self-confident.
We know all of these facts today about the psychology of scientists, but until recently there's been no organized effort to knit the threads into an organized area of study. Gregory Feist hopes to change that.
Feist, a lecturer in psychology at the University of California, Davis, lays out his vision in a new book, The Psychology of Science and the Origins of the Scientific Mind (Yale University Press, 2006). In it, he gathers preliminary research into the psychology of successful practitioners and begins to consider how this mode of thinking may have arisen in our species to begin with. "Psychological principles are at work with all scientific thought and behavior," he writes. "Simply put, there is a psychology behind science."
American Scientist Online managing editor Greg Ross interviewed Feist by e-mail in September 2006.
The history, philosophy and sociology of science are well-established disciplines. Why hasn't psychology joined them?
That question lies at the heart of my book. To understand why this was so was a major impetus behind writing the book. I wanted to understand why psychology has not joined the ranks of the more established studies of sciences and to make an argument for why it should. The question of why, however, is a hard one to answer. The question of how is a bit easier, and let me answer it this way: Every field, on its path to maturity, goes through at least three stages. First is isolation, when a few founding figures or "lone wolves" are writing about an important new finding or perspective. These seminal figures are persuasive enough in their findings or arguments to attract a circle of followers, and then the field moves to its second stage, identification. The third stage of maturity happens when there is enough social momentum for graduate programs, societies, journals and regular conferences to form. This stage is called institutionalization. Philosophy of science and history of science have been institutionalized for roughly 100 years, and sociology of science for perhaps 40 years. Psychology of science, I would argue, is somewhere between isolation and identification. So that is the how.
The why is a harder one to answer, and one that I could fall back on psychological, historical and sociological forces to answer. For the sake of space, I focus only on philosophy of science. Historically, during much of the 20th century many philosophers of science, under the influence of Karl Popper's powerful and insightful ideas, believed that the nature of science should only be analyzed by logical, not psychological, criteria. Who did science, what personalities they had, how they thought—these were irrelevant to whether the science was any good or not or even whether it was science or not. And this view is right. Scientific findings exist beyond their creators and should be evaluated on their own scientific merit. Popper, however, dismissed the psychological perspective as "psychologism" and argued that "subjective, non-logical factors" have no place in determining whether something is science or not. Many other philosophers of science before the 1970s agreed with him.
But I argue (borrowing from Popper himself), that there are two things here: process and product. The product and outcome of science—empirical findings and scientific theories—stand on their own. I simply argue that psychology has something important and interesting to say about the process of how and why these particular individuals came up with these particular findings and how their thinking styles, personalities and family influences had something to do with this. I should also point out that over that last 25 to 30 years, as Popper's influence has waned, there are many philosophers of science much more sympathetic to the psychological perspective as a valuable contributor to understanding the nature of science, recognizing that science as it is actually practiced is as important as science as it should be practiced.
What questions could a psychology of science take up?
I teach introduction to psychology, and as I tell my students in that class, psychology is simply the scientific study of thought and behavior. That is very broad and very general, but it is the essence of psychology. So the psychology of science is very simply the scientific study of scientific thought and behavior. So any topic, method or theory covered by psychology can be applied to the psychology of science. For instance, what is the nature of scientific reasoning? What elements of thought are behind scientific reasoning and scientific insight? How are these similar to and how are they different from everyday reasoning? Can anyone learn these cognitive strategies?
My favorite topic focuses on scientific creativity, talent and eminence: Why are some people able to solve apparently intractable problems with elegant, original and useful solutions? What led a person or team to make that breakthrough discovery? Why are some individuals consistently able to come up with creative solutions to scientific problems?
There are many, many other possible questions. Just to give a flavor: What makes a child go from simply being curious about the physical, biological or social world to wanting to answer these questions for a living? That is, how does scientific interest become a scientific career? Are there particular personality profiles that make a person more likely to pursue and excel in science, and are these profiles different in the physical, biological and social sciences? How do groups change and influence the scientific process, problem finding and problem solving? One question that I did not deal with much in the book but I have started to think there might be something to is the question of mental health/illness and scientific interest and ability. Are scientists as a whole any less likely than the normal population to suffer from major thought disorders, schizophrenia and mood disorders, depression and bipolar? What about anxiety disorders, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder? After all, does not the scientific method almost require compulsive attention to detail and order? Disorganized and undisciplined people rarely make good scientists. One final example would be gender and science. Psychologists can add their own unique contribution to the gender and science question by exploring the psychological aspects of gender (identity, self-concept, confidence, etc.) and whether and how it influences interest and talent for science.
How do you define science?
In writing the book, my views on these broadened and become more complex. Obviously, the simplest and most pragmatic answer to that question is to define it as science is as science does, or to define science professionally. Science is what scientists do while working on scientific problems. Obviously, psychologists of science are interested mainly in practicing professional scientists. But science is clearly not limited to professional scientists. In fact, I quickly realized that I needed to think about science very differently: It is not just the final, explicit systematic thought and behavior of professional scientists. We all make observations of and develop implicit theories of the physical, biological and social worlds; children do this, and as I came to realize in reading about evolution of the human mind, our early human ancestors did it, at least in rudimentary ways. No one would argue that early hominids were doing "science," but if you want to look at the origins of the scientific mind, as I do in the second part of the book, you see cognitive processes that laid the foundation for later human cognitive processes involved in science. But a few distinctions need to be sharpened to make this argument.
The first distinction is between "implicit" and "explicit" science. Implicit thought is nonconscious and for the most part nonverbal. It consists of assumptions we make about the world, and these assumptions are not well thought through or even recognized by the individual. So I argue that implicit or folk theory is a valid topic of investigation for psychology of science, and therefore we can study scientific thinking in children, adolescents, nonscientists and scientists. The second distinction is a bit more involved, but simply put, I propose there are five major components to science, and over the course of human evolution and human history these developed in this order: observation, categorization (taxonomy), pattern recognition (covariation), hypothesis testing (prediction) and cause-and-effect thinking (causation). The ancient Greeks, for instance, were good at logic and observation but did not practice science as we know it, because they did not test their hypotheses.
The bottom line is that I think that science can be defined in various ways, ranging from the more inclusive to the more exclusive definitions. In the more inclusive definition, I believe the psychological processes of theory and concept formation seen in children, adolescents, adults and even our premodern human ancestors are valid topics for psychologists of science. This provides a glimpse into the precursors of rudimentary scientific thought and behavior seen in professional scientists. They are first principles that get built upon and sometimes get rejected by more formal scientific thought and behavior. They are prescientific forms of thought and behavior and allow a wider net to be cast over who can be caught by the psychology of science: our premodern human ancestors, children, adults and finally scientists. Scientists will always be the preferred target group, but we can learn a lot about scientific thought and behavior from those who are not scientists.
As you've worked to establish this new discipline, how has it been received by scientists? By psychologists?
As is true for any new discipline trying to establish itself, the reception has been mixed, although I think it is becoming more positive. To be sure, there are still some historians who believe that hypothesis testing has no place in historical analysis of scientific thought and behavior, and therefore they are opposed to the kind of work that Frank Sulloway does on birth order and acceptance of revolutionary scientific theory. Moreover, there is a group of sociologists of science who are somewhat hostile to the emphasis psychology places on the individual. In fact, I belong to the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), which is mostly composed of sociologists of science, and the psychological point of view is but a weak minority view in that society. In fact, this is one of the main reasons that I and a small group of psychologists from around the world are on the verge of starting our own society.
The reaction by psychologists has been interesting. Some welcome it with open arms and are as excited as I am to identify explicitly with the field. Since the publication of my book, I have gotten a number of e-mails from psychologists saying they are very excited that I wrote it and they want to be more actively involved in the field. Many others, especially developmental psychologists who study the development of scientific reasoning, are excited by the idea but don't yet identify themselves explicitly as "psychologists of science." But I think having a peer-reviewed journal and a society will start to change that.
What are the next steps? What would you like to see?
As I argued in my book and have alluded to already in this interview, we not only need to move to the "institutionalization" phase, but we are on the verge of doing so. Later this month, I am giving an address at an international conference on the psychology of science in Zacatecas, Mexico, at which Sofia Liberman, Michael Gorman and I will be presenting the draft of a mission statement for founding an international society in the psychology of science. Moreover, I have been in contact with a couple of publishers who seem interested in starting a peer-reviewed journal on the topic. This is what is missing and is what the field needs. Ever since graduate school, I have dreamed of starting a society and a journal (and regular conferences), and it is very exciting to see that these things are about to happen.
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/gregory-feist
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Description Young have 5-8 spots on the back which fade into adulthood. Adults tan-brown sometimes with a wavy stripe along sides of back. Triangular tail. 14 costal grooves.
Dimensions 6.4-14.1cm. (2 1/2-5 1/2")
Breeding June-September. 1-3 dozen eggs laid under rocks/logs near water. Hatches 6-13 weeks. Transforms at 6-13 months. Mature at 3-4 years.
Habitat Rocky woodland streams, seepages, and springs.
Range New Brunswick, Quebec south to Kentucky & Carolinas.
Discussion Shares its habitat with Northern Dusky and Black-bellied Salamanders.Diet includes larvae, earthworms and sow bugs. Spotted Dusky and Northern Dusky were once thought to be the same subspecies. Adult spotted have a reddish/golden pattern of spots.


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Vans Shoes founder James Van Doren recently passed away from cancer at the age of 72. I, for one, have many fond memories of summers spent running around in my Vans slip-ons, and it looks like I'm not the only one. Vans are often the sneaker of choice for celebrities going to casual route, and celeb kids are often spotted in their own mini-sneaks as well.
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Diverse Brains
Saturday, May 25, 2013,
Humans differ. Some are taller than others; some are shorter. Most are right-handed, but some are left-handed. A minority have a mutation that leads to their second toe being longer than their first (a Morton's toe); a minority have a mutation that leads to their having blue eyes rather than brown. A minority can perceive musical pitch absolutely; a minority cannot perceive color distinctions vibrantly. Most humans read with their eyes, but some read with their fingertips. A majority communicate through speaking and listening, but a minority communicate through signing. In the decade following the advent of research-based neuroimaging, researchers' sights were set on mapping general principles of common phenomena. But soon, many researchers turned their magnets toward identifying atypical neural function and structure. How should we view such diversity?
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"I'm so brutal with the paint." Clem Curtis is in his downstairs studio — one of two he has in his house — surrounded by several large pieces in different stages of progress.
The colours crackle ("I like to work in hot colours"), energy that also radiates from Curtis's dynamic application. Hence his comment on how he treats the paint.
Creating a work means pulling something to the surface, a technique of exploration, almost excavation.
They become more real and less realistic all at once.
"There are many, many layers and it gets rough and I don't baby them. Although they're a little like babies in that they're resilient."
To finesse this, he's researched recipes for glazing from the Old Masters, especially Titian, who could work with 50 layers of oil and double-boiled linseed. This lends an incredible tactility to Curtis's pieces; they have heft, thickness. They also have size, projecting a presence and command.
"I like painting large anyway. Painting that size is freeing if you can afford it and make a place for it in the world."
He's not sure what makes him want to paint an individual portrait. The subjects just have to have "something."
One of his current pieces is
of actor/writer Ruth Lawrence, whom he'd been wanting to paint for 10 years. He considers again, the why behind it.
Something about blue, maybe? Always something blue, the blue of the sea. The blue in her black hair.
As a starting point Curtis takes shots with a digital camera, and prints them out in black and white. They are a vital initial tool.
"The unsuspecting photograph, the ones where you're not quite ready, that's usually the one everything comes from."
The image "is drawn in exactly." He uses the photographs "until I get myself set up and everything's where it's supposed to be."
Then he puts the photos away and brings the paintings along on their own, focusing on the canvas.
He can have as many as 15 pieces on the go at a time.
"I just go with whatever feeling I have at the time. The works are in series and not in series at the same time. The abstract landscapes, the portraits, and the mixed media, with sealskin."
His workday starts at 6 a.m., listening to the radio "and cleaning up the mess I probably made the day before. I've got myself set up so there's never nothing to do. There's no excuse not to work."
And that work schedule equals freedom. It's not just the way he paints — one imagines large gestures — but that he can do it at all. "I can concentrate. I don't have to do anything else. I don't have to deliver pizza or drive a cab or move to Alberta. I'm able to get up and do this work."
The last year has been "a bit hectic." He started the big portrait paintings with a view towards an exhibition in a year or so, "to have that show I've always wanted to have, with just portraits."
He also "looks at art all the time." Besides the revered Old Masters ("da Vinci was a monster, he just knew everything") he is very influenced by American Pop artist Jim Dine.
"That's who showed me I was going about it the wrong way, that I can do whatever I want."
Other contemporary interests include the 1980s New York scene of Robert Rauschenberg, Julian Schnabel, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose work was vigorous and highly physical in texture, embedded and incorporated with unexpected media.
These are elements Curtis has adapted as his own.
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By Lena Mitchell/NEMS Daily Journa
CORINTH – Kristy White submitted her resignation today as executive director of the Corinth Area Convention and Visitors Bureau/tourism council, citing the joint city-county board's vote of no confidence in her board, and by extension in her as executive director.
"I will not remain in a position where the performance of the staff and board of directors is so grossly undervalued," she said.
The joint board of Alcorn County supervisors and Corinth aldermen removed all seven members of the tourism council board during a special meeting Wednesday.
White gave two weeks' notice, but with no board in place there is no official body to whom she can submit the resignation.
The Corinth Board of Aldermen has called a special meeting for 4 p.m. Friday at city hall to discuss appointment of new board members.


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Toronto as a city is hardly overburdened with cycle lanes. There are just over 90 kms of bike tracks – not including off-street trails – winding their way through the region, often disjointed and rarely leading to or from anywhere useful. In comparison, the city ranks roughly on par with Vancouver, a city with a quarter the population.
It was 34 years ago that Toronto installed its first and immediately controversial bike lanes on Poplar Plains Road south of St. Clair. Before that, bike tracks were simple looping asphalt trails confined entirely to public parks, ideal for weekend riding with the kids but not so useful for getting to work.
Convincing motorists pre-occupied with the rapidly choking traffic to accept space for a new mode of transport wasn't, and still isn't, easy.
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Rhody Mini-Clave Part 2
Anyone up for a second rhody trip this weekend?
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Nate you houndog! I thought you weren't impressed with Rhody. It's nice down there in South County but the river in Seekonk seems to be the best bet.
It also seems like there is at least some schoolie action on the cape. Judging by the reports it's mostly holdovers in select areas. And now we have another cold week sitting on us, sheesh. Will the real season ever begin? Or will we just go straight into next winter. Maybe we should be planning tying Claves instead. Boo..hoo.
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I could not believe it. I got up at 6:30 this morning only to see a sleet storm, which lasted for about 45 minutes. IT'S TOO FRIGGIN COLD!
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My .02 - we're on the cusp... never know when you'll find a pack of bright migrating fish hitting everything in sight like they do when they first arrive, but there aren't yet enough of these marauding packs to get the odds up. My memories of April are "holy crap!" and "ho hum", in the same spot on consecutive tides. Of course this can happen everywhere but there always seems to be some action available when the hordes have arrived for the season. What's missing in early-mid April is consistency.
One would think pre-spawn schoolies should be on a push for our coastline, but then temperature and things like durations of sunlight and who knows what other factors are in play here. I know things are turning over, the pink cherry blossoms are just starting to come out as if in denial of the sleet and cold.
The smell of herring runs and annual habits of the older adults has got to have them sniffing around at the mouth of the herring-bearing rivers, but only after the spawning urge is sated down in the Chesapeake area.
If my wife didn't have the weekend locked up, I'd go just for the great feeling of being in the roaring surf. Good news is, it seems the Spring Clave is headed for a right-place, right-time kind of schedule!
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what day and time are you planning for Nate? i may be able to get out real early... and wanted to the Rhody myself. Tom
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I will most likely do a day trip on Saturday If anyone is interested. I also might just go trout fishing.
Terry, actually I like it down there quite a bit. It was just that I was getting really tired (late night), and it didn't seem like we where going to catch anything.
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I was jesting. I knew you really liked it when you said the Quonny outflow looked like a Salmon river with all the drizzle, and clear water etc. It is an awesome spot. We will do another one down there this summer.
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Hi All, I am sorry I haven't had the time this year as I am really tied up with moving to a new home. I am going to try and go and look around today on the Seekonk river.I know there is fish there. It is one of the better places for taking keeper size bass early in the season, The RI season opens April 23 for 2 fish 29" long. The reason this pace is so good is that the herring try to get up the falls at Omega Pond, but the only way they can is by the locals who net and put the fish back in above the dam. This makes it so that a run of herring is continued. The bass come right up to the dam and sometimes when the sun is out you can see them laying underneath the railroad bridge. There is quite a few spin fiahermen that go there and I have seen quite a few keepers in the past. If I get there today I will give a report tonight. TL
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Possible Plans for the Rhody Clave P2
Watch Hill
Low 5:40 AM
High 11:45 AM
Low 5:30 PM
West Wall
Low 4:55 AM
High 11:05
Low 4:50
I want to hit Deep Hole, West Wall, Watch Hill, and Quonny. Idealy we could try for the last two hours of the out going tide. That would mean leaving here at 1:30AM (yea right!!!). So we could try for the first two hours of incoming. We would need to leave here at 4:00-4:30. I think we should try Watch Hill or Quonny first, then when the tide starts to go out again at noon go to deep hole???? The whether is key. They are calling for 57 degree high with showers, which doesn't make it look to good, but I am a fisherman and not held down by petty things such as common sense and reason.
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Like I said, I went today for about an hour when the sun came out this afternoon. No hits, didn't even see any herring. I can only think that this is because this was dead low tide on the Seekonk at Omega Pond. I know that the herring come in with the tide and fall back into the holes when the tide drops. There had to be fish, or atleast herring around as there was about 20 commarants diving around in the river. I checked out the acess to Omega pond again, they are making it harder to get in there as they have some 6 x 6 cement blocks across the acess, but you can get around them. There is no signs. TL
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By Bobby Harrison/NEMS Daily Journal
JACKSON – The top appropriators for the House and Senate said late Wednesday they had essentially reached a budget deal.
"We are there except for one or two small items," said House Appropriations Chair Herb Frierson, R-Poplarville.
His counterpart in the Senate, Buck Clarke, R-Hollandale, said in a separate interview, "There are two or three big items we are still working on. We have been working hard."
Frierson said the areas where they are still trying to decide on a funding level are on wireless communications and additional funds for higher education, primarily to deal with tornado damage at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.
Frierson said he and Clarke agreed to provide $23 million more for kindergarten- through 12th- grade education than was approved earlier this session by either the House or the Senate.
He said he hopes those funds will be used to pay for "the third grade reading gate," which is a proposal to have children reading on grade level before leaving the third grade, and for other education proposals. But he said he wanted to allow the chairs of the Education Committee to have input on how to divvy up those funds.
The budget negotiators face a Saturday night deadline to reach a deal on the more than 100 bills that fund the various agencies of state government. The total state general fund will be about $5.6 billion.
Frierson said ideally agreement on all those budget bills could be reached by Friday and the full membership could start voting on them Saturday morning. Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves had told members earlier to anticipate working on both Saturday and Easter in order to meet constitutionally mandated deadlines.
Various agencies, including education, are still trying to recover from cuts made in recent years to deal with an unprecedented drop in state revenue collections. While revenue collections have rebounded to a large extent, numerous agencies including mental health, education and corrections, said they dealing with significant shortfalls that could result in layoffs.


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New York, arguably the most powerful city on earth, is also extremely vulnerable. From its earliest days, a host of dangers -- from Indian warriors and British redcoats to U-boats and terrorist bombers -- have menaced the city, shaping its landscape and character in fundamental ways. In New York at War (Basic Books), historian Steven H. Jaffe offers a riveting account of the attacks, battles, and acts of sabotage that, in threatening this defining American city, have helped forge its very identity. Book signing to follow.
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Are the Infiltrator and the V wing Target Exclusives?
P.S. and no "only dumb people jokes..." ; )
Are the Infiltrator and the V wing Target Exclusives?
P.S. and no "only dumb people jokes..." ; )
Yeah man there was some crazy funny stuff in those lost posts. The ones with Wonderboy had to be the best. Anyways doesn't matter to me much. it wont take long to get it back to where it was at.
Anyone see this?
[FONT=Tahoma]I was born at night, but not last night.[/FONT]You Shouldn't believe everything that you read.(Like my posts)
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That's my jacket!
Whoah...new thread in L.A.
Thanks again to good old Blue for the EE sightings. Just pre-ordered me some cases!!!
Cheers to the new home of L.A. scalper beat-down central!!!
Well, it looks like the Endor AT-AT is back in full force. Saw about 20 at Los Feliz Toys R Us on Sunday.
I don't know, but I ordered one anyway. It says there's clones...
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Nice to hear the new ships have hit our shores. V-wings gonna need some pilots now.
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you be the judge
Bill Davis
At the debate he claimed the day after he said it was a terror attack WRONG he did not say that in the rose garden the next day. According to the guy who asked that question at the debate, afterwards Obama was trying to explain to him why he waited so long. (LONG? the day after? he has lied so much he doesn't even know the truth. Even standing in front of those 4 coffins , hillary had the nerve to blame the video.
[QUOTE=huntinman;1023894]you be the judge
Read the 10th paragraph of the official transcript. He clearly did say it was an act of terror.-Paul
there's no good reason to fatten up a retriever.
This is what he said, No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for.
He said there was an attack on bengazhi which he blames later that day for the video as did Susan Rice on 5 Sunday talk shows and Hillary clinton in front of the 4 coffins and the Pres on letterman and the view. He never said this attack was a "terror" attack until 2 weeks later
This is why Candy Crowley had to walk this back minutes after she opened her big mouth and stuck her foot in it.
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A recent study found that women who carry a little extra weight live longer then the men who mention it.
TODAY on the Jon Stewart show JUST A BUMP IN THE ROAD! Almost immediately after pool reports indicated that President Barack Obama called the deaths of U.S. Ambassador ChrisSteven and three other Americans in Benghazi "not optimal" during the taping of "The Daily Show," social media exploded with outrage over the president's remarks.
The backlash was almost instantaneous — and it was brutal.
i'm not interested in saving him, and neither am i loyal to him except in the sense that he is the President of the United States.-Paul
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Yup. I use voice-to-text because I'm busy and sometimes it posts strange stuff with the auto-text completion. Even if I'm typing on my Droid it does that every now and then.
I don't always have time to watch what it posts.
Right now I typed this using my computer so there aren't any errors.
Flying elephants and eating submarines nervous that Hugh Jackman won the election to refridgerator. - J/K
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By JB Clark / NEMS Daily Journal
TUPELO – A Tupelo woman charged with aggravated assault was given a $50,000 bond Tuesday.
Virginia Flores, 18, of Tupelo, was charged with aggravated assault Saturday.
The charges stemmed from a stabbing in the Kroger parking lot on West Main Street.
She was arraigned by Lee County Justice Court Judge Rickey Thompson and is in the Lee County Adult Jail.
Capt. Rusty Haynes of the Tupelo police department said the alleged stabbing took place around noon Saturday.
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Occidental One of America's Hottest Colleges - Again
Occidental College is one of America's hottest colleges, according to Newsweek magazine – the second time in three years that the nationally ranked liberal arts college has been picked as "a stand-out gem."
Occidental's selection as one of 12 "hot" schools – it is the only California institution on the list – is the latest in a series of high marks the 116-year-old college has received in national college guides. U.S. News & World Report ranked Occidental #10 in its 2004 "Best Values" list for national liberal arts colleges; Washington Post education writer Jay Mathews ranked Occidental #8 in his new college guide, Harvard Schmarvard; and the newly released editions of the Fiske and Princeton Review guides both gave Occidental four-star academic rankings.
Occidental received a record-breaking number of applications for a fifth consecutive year in 2003, totaling more than 4,500 for the first time ever -- a remarkable 145 percent increase compared to six years ago. Of those who applied for admission, 1,964, or 44 percent, were offered admission, with an average SAT score of 1310.
Occidental's status as a "hot" school is based on interviews with deans, admissions officers, guidance counselors, and students – as well as "an eye on the news," according to Newsweek. (The "hotness" list also appear in the 2004 edition of the Kaplan/Newsweek "How To Get Into College" guide.) Occidental was first picked as a "hot school" in the 2002 guide – the only school to appear on both the Kaplan/Newsweek list and on the Wall Street Journal's list of "colleges for a new era" that year.
In a U.S. News article titled "Inside the In Crowd: How Schools Get Hot," Vince Cuseo, Occidental's director of admission, explained that one of the reasons applications to Occidental have more than doubled was a conscious decision to "position the College as a 'player' in Los Angeles life. We did so not only because it would help raise Oxy's visibility but because it was considered the right thing to do as an educational enterprise in this city."
The Newsweek "hot" list also includes such colleges as Grinnell, Reed, Carleton, and Rhodes.
Occidental's #10 "Best Values" ranking by U.S. News is based on a combination of the school's academic quality and the average level of financial aid for students. "The higher quality of the program and the lower the cost, the better the deal," the magazine says. Thanks to its impressive admission numbers, U.S. News also ranked Occidental #24 in selectivity. For the seventh consecutive year, Occidental was rated tops in diversity among nationally ranked liberal arts colleges.
In his new book Harvard Schmarvard: Getting beyond the Ivy League to the College That Is Best For You, Washington Post writer Jay Mathews ranked Occidental #8 on his list of "100 Colleges That Are Better Than You Think." Occidental almost didn't make the list, he explains, "as I no longer think it is underappreciated." But many guidance counselors to whom he spoke insisted, saying that Occidental "has an excellent academic reputation" and "a faculty truly devoted to undergraduate teaching."
The theme that Occidental is no longer a hidden gem was reflected in the new editions of major college guides. Kaplan's Guide to the 328 Most Interesting Colleges, for example, says Occidental "is still a 'treasure,' but it's no longer hidden." Among the other recent reviews of Occidental:
The Fiske Guide calls Occidental "an urban oasis" that shelters "a thriving community of high achievers. … Faculty members are readily available in and out of the classroom, and teaching is one of Occidental's strong points. 'The quality of teaching at this institution is magnificent,' says a sophomore. 'Professors are not only brilliant researchers, but truly committed educators,' says a kinesiology major. 'They seem to really care about students' best interests.'"
According to the Yale Daily News' Insiders' Guide to the Colleges, "Occidental undergrads say that student-teacher relationships are very strong. Professors are often young, with new teaching styles and fresh ideas, and they are 'very accessible and more than willing to assist in the individual education of the students.' … At some other schools, students of different backgrounds may tend to separate into cliques, but Oxy students find their classmates not only extremely tolerant, but also integrated. The strong, tight community and well-integrated diversity are what make Occidental College stand out."
"A small liberal arts college in a huge city, Occidental students claim that at their school, 'the academics are tops in the nation,'" says the Princeton Review. "At the heart of an Occidental education is the close interaction between students and faculty. 'I'm constantly amazed at how much professors -- who, by and large, are incredibly intelligent, capable instructors – take a genuine interest in our progress,' says one student.


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Designed for working professionals, this program is offered completely online. Online courses are taught by faculty from the UW departments of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Construction Management, as well as by leading professionals in the field. During the course of study, you will communicate regularly with instructors and classmates online.
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