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Excerpt: David Beer, The Social Power of Algorithms
The notion of the 'algorithm' is now taking on its own force, as a kind of evocative shorthand for the power and potential of calculative systems that can think more quickly, more comprehensively and more accurately than humans. As well as understanding the integration of algorithms, we need to understand the way that this term is incorporated into organisational, institutional and everyday understandings. The discourse surrounding algorithms may then provide a focal point for analysing broader political rationalities and modes of governance. In this stream of work, the interest might not be in understanding the social powers of the technical systems, but in understanding how the notion of the algorithm itself has a kind of social power. The algorithm is now a cultural presence, perhaps even an iconic cultural presence, not just because of what they can do but also because of what the notion of the algorithm is used to project. This means that the algorithm can be part of the deployment of power, not just in terms of its function but also in terms of how it is understood as a phenomenon. Algorithmic decisions are depicted as neutral decisions, algorithmic decisions are understood to be efficient decisions, algorithmic decisions are presented as objective and trustworthy decisions, and so on. We certainly need to gain a greater view of the inside of the algorithmic systems in which we live, but we also need to develop an analysis of the cultural prominence of the notion of the algorithm, what this stands for, what it does and what it might reveal.
Excerpt: David Beer, The Social Power of Algorithms
In a tentative mode, I would like to suggest that the term or notion of the algorithm should also be considered when attempting to understand the social power of algorithms. In some ways this power can potentially be detached from its technical and material form whilst still capturing something of the exteriority. As such, we would need to understand algorithms within their discursive practices and framings. The notion of the algorithm is evoked to influence and convince, to suggest things and to envision a certain approach, governmentality and way of ordering. Plus, the term is also part of wider rationalities and ways of thinking. Together then, this requires us to explore and illustrate the power of this term whilst also potentially using it as a focal point for opening up or revealing these wider rationalities. The notion of the algorithm is part of a wider vocabulary, a vocabulary that we might see deployed to promote a certain rationality, a rationality based upon the virtues of calculation, competition, efficiency, objectivity and the need to be strategic. As such, the notion of the algorithm can be powerful in shaping decisions, influencing behaviour and ushering in certain approaches and ideals. The algorithm's power may then not just be in the code, but in that way that it becomes part of a discursive understanding of desirability and efficiency in which the mention of algorithms is part of 'a code of normalization' [Foucault, M. (2004). Society must be defended: Lectures at the collège de France, 1975–76. London: Penguin., p. 38]. The notion of the algorithm is part of the social power we should be exploring. The term algorithm carries something of this authority. Algorithms are, largely, trusted for their precision and objectivity. A certain rationality may well then be built into this perception of the algorithm. The discourse surrounding the algorithm might well reveal something of the wider political dynamics of which they are a part.
Excerpt: Karl Polanyi, Socialist Accounting
A form of accounting, in which the sums were not expressible in common units, would of course not yield anything rationally intelligible. Now, a socialist economy, as we have defined it earlier in terms of its goals, in no way presumes a purely administrative economy, which unilaterally sets the prices for all goods (fixed prices), yielding figures that can be readily added. Instead, such a socialist economy also allows for these prices to arise through agreement (negotiated prices). Since we thus do not want to make any presuppositions about price formation, we must consider the theoretically most general––and, from the viewpoint of accounting, practically most unfavorable—case. We therefore assume that the economy for which we seek a quantitative overview has all types of price formation, from price formation in a market through the free play of supply and demand to administratively set prices. Whether such an assumption is theoretically valid, or even practically conceivable, remains to be seen. […]
But here begins the actual difficulty, which we wish to designate the quantitative difficulty. Fixed prices can affect negotiated prices at a minimum in two fundamentally different ways, according to whether their effect propagates "downstream," […] meaning the same direction that the production process runs (towards the final product)—or in the opposite direction (towards the raw materials). The cost principle in accounting implies, however, that only those cost figures arising from the "downstream" effect of a fixed price may be added to one another. […] A fixed price and all the negotiated prices that arise from its "upstream" effect may be added neither to that fixed price itself nor to the negotiated prices arising from its "downstream" effect […]
Natural costs express the sacrifices that the natural process of material production requires, according to the character of the production task involved. Social costs, on the other hand, are that extra sacrifice that society's will imposes on us via the effort both to ensure just distribution in every instance and to secure production with higher social utility. It is evident that separate quantitative recording of these cost groups (natural and social costs) is the main, practical task of socialist accounting. Without the recording of natural costs, production would have no reliable, infinitesimally precise guidelines, operating instead on intuition and approximation. We wish to point out here with particular emphasis that without the recording of social costs, the political-moral side of socialism would be no more realizable than the technical side would be without the recording of natural costs. Humanity will only be free when it understands what it must pay for its ideals. Only then will humanity come to recognize that the realization of these ideals depends exclusively on humanity itself. Then too, however, humanity will find the strength to realize its ideals.
"Sozialistische Rechnungslegung" ["Socialist Accounting"], 1922; trans. Johanna Bockman, Ariane Fischer, & David Woodruff 2016.
Excerpt: Joseph Vogl, The Specter of Capital
Although Adam Smith was responsible for coining one of the most popular slogans for describing how a market economy operates, its semantics are determined by two further aspects. On the one hand, if we follow the tangled history of the "invisible hand" metaphor, we can see how through this metaphor theological and cosmological questions were deposited in the field of social ontology. A century before Adam Smith, for instance, the metaphor referred to something secretly at work in relations between natural things, a cosmological phenomenon that, like the mechanism of a clock, hides behind the clearly visible hands and dial: "For Nature works by an Invisible Hand in all things." […] The manus gubernatoris of Scholastic philosophy, the guiding hand of God invisibly directing all Creation, returns as an influential theological metaphor for the Providence manifest in the natural order, the oeconomia naturae. And before the "invisible hand" appeared in Wealth of Nations as a topos for the law-governed activity that turns self-interest and the striving for gain to the general good, this expression occurred in Smith himself in an entirely different yet equally significant context.
In his History of Astronomy, probably written around 1758, not only did Smith attempt an apologia for the Newtonian world system, with its laws of gravity and inertia; he also casually remarked on the inability of polytheistic religions to trace irregular events in the natural world — events in which they saw the miraculous power of the ancient gods at work — back to regularly occurring patterns. While it is only natural that "fire burns and water refreshes," or that "heavy bodies descend and lighter substances fly upward," extraordinary phenomena such as lightning, thunder, or storms call for explanation — and for this the ancients would in the end simply turn to Jupiter's "invisible hand." […] Here too the invisible hand is treated as a cosmological fact; and just as an invisible hand will later bring the unpredictable inclinations of self-seeking subjects to order, so too here an invisible hand shows how irregular natural events manifest the workings of divinely ordained laws. As a result of such supernatural intervention, earthly matters are brought into conformity with Providence, irregularities are translated into order, and diffuse forces and movements [p.26] are made to bear witness to an invisible power linking them together. All this activity by invisible hands indicates that hidden manipulations — in the most literal sense — intervene both in the natural course of events and in the dynamics of social interaction.
On the other hand, it should not be forgotten that Smith presented another version of his concept of the "invisible hand" in the first volume of his 1759 essay on moral philosophy, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. And here homo economicus is defined by more than his failure to see the whole situation, his lack of a comprehensive overview. Economic beings can only function to the extent that they are always missing something even more fundamental. […] Despite or precisely because of their "natural selfishness and rapacity," the rich share their wealth with the poor. In Smith's words, this means that […] "they are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distributions of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants; and thus without intending, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society and afford the means for the multiplication of the species."
Joseph Vogl, The Specter of Capital (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015), pp.25-26.
Excerpt: Joseph Vogl, The Specter of Capitalism
Put somewhat crudely, we would have to speak here of the emergence of a liberal despotism. […] This momentous moral-philosophical shift was probably first made explicit by the physiocrats […] The market guarantees that natural laws can pertain equally to moral life; and the forces of the market make it possible for economic law, in particular, to represent natural rights in general. […] One inevitable consequence of this overall accommodation to the market is that the distinction, stemming from the modern theory of the state, between civil society and the state of nature no longer makes sense. The market cancels or elides this distinction and eliminates the associated aporias of natural law. It circumvents the social contract and presents itself as a kind of état de nature. [p.30] What later goes by the name of "liberalism" thus first took the form of naturalism, which defined so-called market freedoms primarily in terms of a duty and an obligation: the duty to relinquish control of economic subjects and a corresponding obligation to subordinate governments and their agents to primordial market laws.
Joseph Vogl, The Specter of Capitalism (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015), p.29.
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Excerpt: Joseph Vogl, The Specter of Capital
Since the Middle Ages, the rudiments of a functioning credit system have been necessary conditions for the expansion of commercial capitalism. […] It is all the more surprising, then, that it was not until the end of the eighteenth century that a sufficiently systematic discussion of banking, capital, and credit mechanisms got underway. This may be due to a delay in the emergence of a systematic science of economics, which was notoriously late in catching up with manifest business practices; but it may also have owed something to a certain theoretical resistance to the fact that a genuinely capitalst structure — one that trades with credit, assets, prospective profits, and hence with time — could no longer be directly translated back into elementary exchange and balance relations. Though people still assumed that there was a balancing dynamic at work in the market, the constant circulation of debt, credit, and capital they observed seemed to contradict this assumption, and they were evidently alarmed by the wide-ranging impact of the economic decisions and actions being taken.
Joseph Vogl, The Specter of Capital (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015), p.41.
Money is that Money does
F.A. Walker's maxim that "money is what money does" is frequently cited within the fairly scanty literature that orthodox economics devotes to the nature of money. (Although in some respects, of course, orthodox economics is all about money).
Walker's quotation usually comes into play to help join the dots between the question, "What is money?" and an answer enumerating the three or four major functions of money (as a medium of exchange; as a unit of account; as a store of value; sometimes as a standard of deferred payment). Some critics (e.g. Geoffrey Ingham) complain that the functional "definition" actually fails to specify money: saying what money does doesn't really tell us what it is, and furthermore, doesn't money do a few other important things that are mysteriously left out of the canonical three or four functions of money?
When Walker's quotation is invoked, the implication is often that we should be open-minded in definitional matters. Otherwise we risk being blindsided by the dynamism and adaptability of money. If something doesn't strike us as money, but one day starts acting as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and a store of value, then we had better sit up and start taking it seriously as money. (A piece of advice that seems all the more pertinent with the rise of cryptocurrency and other forms of digital value). The precision yet flexibility we get from the concentric, increasingly permissive stipulative measures of the money supply (M0, M1, et al.) support the same attitude. It is fascinating, therefore, to see Walker's words in their original context.
When Walker wrote "money is that money does," what kind of money did he have in mind?
Walker is arguing for an extremely narrow definition of money by modern standards, distinguishing it from bills of exchange and checks. He would perhaps not think of it as narrow himself, since he was still tacitly tussling with theorists who thought fiat paper money was not really money. Walker is also explicitly leaving out bank deposits, which nowadays are usually held to constitute the bulk of the middling-to-narrower measures of the money supply. For Walker, bank deposits do not perform the function of money, but "save the use" of money.
Walker is not rigidly dogmatic: he recognizes that treasury notes may be more money-like or less, depending on whether they actually circulate (which he suggests, on the next page, in turn depends on whether they are issued in big or small denominations, and whether or not they are interest-bearing). And bank-notes, "from the ill repute of the issuers, might conceivably become of such slow, difficult and limited currency, as to fall out of the category of money" (p.401).
But Walker is certainly not saying, "I can't offer you hard-and-fast rules for what is or isn't money; money is whatever fulfills the functions of money." What he's actually saying is something more like, "if it discharges debts and purchases things just like money, don't be hasty! We shouldn't really say it's fulfilling the functions of money unless it actually is money."
So what actually is money? The phrase "from hand to hand" is key for Walker, and he does not count the "mutual cancellation of vast bodies of indebtedness" as something passing from hand to hand (nope, not even invisible ones). Money must not only discharge debts and purchase things, it must circulate.
This might be pushing it a little, but you might even interpret him to be saying the very opposite of what he is supposed to have said. It is not that money is intricate and multifarious and adaptable and difficult to identify with confidence, whereas the functions of money are abstract and easy-to-identify things, so that anything we find fulfilling those functions has every right to be called money. Rather, it is the functioning of money that is a bit tricky to identify — Condy Raguet and Amasa Walker seem to have got it wrong — whereas there is at least some money that is very easy to identify: the coins that everyone knows and uses. To determine if some borderline phenomenon is actually functioning as a medium of exchange or merely 'saving the use' of a medium of exchange, we compare it with what we already know is money. (Of course, this isn't mere morphological fetishism: coins that came in huge denominations, and were interest-bearing, just like treasury bills with those features, would presumably be less valid as money for Walker).
Paper: The Priority Heuristic: Making Choices Without Trade-Offs, by Eduard Brandstätter, Gerd Gigerenzer, and Ralph Hertwig
ABSTRACT: Bernoulli's framework of expected utility serves as a model for various psychological processes, including motivation, moral sense, attitudes, and decision making. To account for evidence at variance with expected utility, we generalize the framework of fast and frugal heuristics from inferences to preferences. The priority heuristic predicts (i) Allais' paradox, (ii) risk aversion for gains if probabilities are high, (iii) risk seeking for gains if probabilities are low (lottery tickets), (iv) risk aversion for losses if probabilities are low (buying insurance), (v) risk seeking for losses if probabilities are high, (vi) certainty effect, (vii) possibility effect, and (viii) intransitivities. We test how accurately the heuristic predicts people's choices, compared to previously proposed heuristics and three modifications of expected utility theory: security-potential/aspiration theory, transfer-of-attention-exchange model, and cumulative prospect theory.
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Spiritual Gifts
You are a special part of the body of Christ. The church is called the "body of Christ" for a reason. We are connected by our faith in Jesus Christ and sealed by the Holy Spirit. Many people desperately want to be closer to God and they want to understand how they can be more spiritual but often don't know how. The Spiritual Gifts Inventory is a tool to help you discover what your spiritual gifts are and how God is already in your life.
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WEDDINGS; Tracy A. Butler, Mark I. Silberberg
Published: October 1, 1995
Tracy Anne Butler, the daughter of Marlene and Dr. Marc Butler of Melville, L.I., was married last evening to Mark Ira Silberberg, a son of Marilyn and Dr. Donald Silberberg of Haverford, Pa. Rabbi Marc Gellman officiated at the Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, Queens.
The couple attend Columbia University, where she is a medical student and he is a candidate for a Ph.D. in sociology and education.
Ms. Butler, who is 27 and is keeping her name, graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College. Mr. Silberberg, 29, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and received a master's degree in education from Harvard University. He also teaches science at the High School of Economics and Finance in New York.
The bride's father is a dentist in Melville, where her mother is a vice president of Automatic Data Processing, a tax and payroll company.
The bridegroom's mother is a psychiatric social worker in Philadelphia at Penn's Counseling and Psychological Services Center. His father, the former chairman of the department of neurology at Penn's Medical Center, is the associate dean for international medical programs there.


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Knighthood has always been known as a class of high nobility. Knights were trusted by the kings and lords for their skills with the sword and were commanded to serve the country or kingdom. In today's day and age, knights no longer exist with the change in the political system. However, deep down, if you have always wanted to dress up like a knight, train with the sword, or are just a collector of such pieces, this is your chance to learn about some of the components that made up a knight's armor. Without the essential elements put together, a knight would be helpless and in danger.
The most fundamental part of body armor is the helmet. The role of the helmet was to protect the knight from serious head injuries. The helmets made sure that knights were not gouged by swords from attaching enemies. In addition, the design also made the knight look majestic and courageous with feathers lacing the top. When you start putting together your outfit, take a look at our medieval helmets to give you an idea of the different kinds of helmet styles to pair with your outfit. With our classy metal helmets, you are sure to look like one of the knights from the European Middle Ages.
Another effective way of protecting a knight's body on top of padded clothing was with chainmail. The interlinked metal chains formed a mesh pattern helping protect the body from sword impalement. At the same time, it also added extra comfort for the knight as it let in some air on warm days. If you are looking for body protection that is comfortable and airy, try our chain mail armor. Our body and head chain mails come in different sizes to perfectly fit you. Find the popular Gambeson padded body armor on our site to wear underneath protective chainmail.
Shields were the most important aspect of a knight's armor. Just like the helmets protected the heads of the knights, the shields protected the entire body by deflecting sword attacks from enemies. The knights used shields during war not only to protect themselves, but also as weapons towards opposing forces. They would use their shield with one hand to stop enemies striking while they struck opponents with their sword. Medieval shields were decorated with the knight's coat of arms in a heraldic design on the front. We have a variety of wooden and steel shields for you to choose from. These shields will not only enhance your look but are also lightweight, making it easy to carry.
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The Hoover Hootenanny 2010Categories Hoover Hootenanny, Music0 Comments
It took place in a matter of hours. Six to be exact. But each second of this event was a joy to be part of. So much planning. So much work and so much love went into the event, and it went off without a hitch. Okay maybe one visit from the Asbury Park Police … but that was to be expected towards the end of the night. But even that didn't put a damper on the fun that was had, and the joy that was shared. Friends and family playing music, singing songs, or at least trying to … for each other … at the Hoover Hootenanny.
The idea of this event was actually rather smart. It wasn't some attempt at a night of bad Karaoke … no pre-made soundtrack to warble over. It was a opportunity for a collision of history, past and present. A chance for all to meet in one place at one time. It was a night of reunions, rusty chops, jitters, and dreams, with both newly minted and seasoned musicians. Where past intersected with present forged future friendships and the seeds of new ideas were planted … waiting to flourish.
I hadn't seen Geoff Hoover since our back to school days at CW Post out on Long Island. I graduated in 1982 from Post. We did see each other after that, but meetings were few and far between. I also got to meet his wife Tatiana shortly after they were married. In between that time and now a lot transpired. The Hoover's had three children, Indiana, Duke, and Texas and set off on the process of raising these babes, into find upstanding (and musically talented) men. But during that time we never had contact.
To make a long story short, we reconnected through my finding posts of Geoff's old student films on YouTube. That was how first contact was made. From there Facebook filled in as the medium for daily interaction. When he talked about this party, I knew I wanted to go. He wanted me to come. He and Tatiana even offered to buy me round trip tickets from Seattle. I was fortunate enough to "come into" enough money to get me there. And so it was. Joe flew back to Newark Airport, picked up by Tatiana … and the rest is history.
What follows is only a fraction of the live music. There were so many talented musicians, singers, songwriters, and brave souls singing maybe for the first time in front of others. Though the night was shear magic … there was even a magician.
It took me nearly a year to get this post up. It sat as a "draft" since a few weeks after the party. With the next Hoover Hootenanny A.K.A "Hooverplaooza" on the horizon … I thought it high time to get up what I could.
I'd like to thank once again the entire Hoover family for their warmth, love and friendship …. and one hell of a party!
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In high volatility, the benchmark Sensex closed today positive for five days in a row, the first time in 2009, up by 45.39 points on the back of a smart rally in stocks of metals, pharma, banks, and auto.
The Bombay Stock Exchange 30-share index earlier touched a high of 10,127.09 and fell to a low of 9,913.40 before
bouncing back to close higher by 0.45 per cent at 10,048.49 over the previous close. At the day's high it was up by 124
The broader 50-issue Nifty of the National Stock Exchange also improved by 26.40 points or 0.86 per cent to close at
3,108.65 from its last close.
Brokers attributed the initial smart surge in the Sensex to the strong rally on Wall Street amid sustained buying by
foreign funds. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq Composite Index were up by 2.25 per cent and 3.80 per cent, respectively, on hopes that the US economy's worst days might be over.
However, narrowly mixed trends in Asian indices at the end today weighed on the index and it surrendered part of the
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Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) pumped in Rs 2,603 crore in the first four days of the week, including
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Into the Woods – A Case Study on the Wisconsin Sasquatch & Other Phenomenon (Documentary)
This documentary follows Jay Bachochin (WPI Hunts the Truth) and Mary Marshall (The Paranormal MD) over the course of a year of intensive research. Jay and Mary have two very different approaches and techniques to investigating. Mary is the scientific researcher type, and Jay is the think outside of the box "believer." Think X-files, and a dollar store version of Mulder and Scully on a dime store budget.
Are all these different types of phenomenon related to one another? Is this area beckoning paranormal activity? Is it a host to a portal of some kind? Various types of bizarre phenomenon is occurring, and is making itself known in these woods, and these two individuals combine their years of investigative research experience and set out to discover what it is that is going on there. Although they have very different investigative and research approaches, who have their own separate paranormal research organizations, they successfully show how beneficial it is for paranormal organizations to work together to discover the truth that is out there!


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From the comedy of Jerrod Carmichael and Nick Stoller ("Neighbors") comes an irreverent sitcom inspired by Jerrod's relationships with his say-anything, contrarian father, his therapist-in-training girlfriend, his ever-hustling brother and his mother who is always, always, always right with Jesus. Taking the next step and moving in together, Jerrod and his girlfriend, Maxine (Amber West), are your average young couple trying to make it in the city. They're smart, motivated and looking to build a fulfilling life together. The only thing standing in their way is family. Between Jerrod's larger-than-life brother, Bobby (Lil Rel Howery), and his smothering and passionate parents (David Alan Grier, Loretta Devine), Jerrod and Maxine are put to the test navigating the boundaries of romance, family and sanity.
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Police described it as "terrifying''.
People from as far afield as the US have been offering to adopt a dog which was left at a railway station with a suitcase of his belongings.
The Scottish SPCA has been deluged with well over 100 calls from people offering a new home for shar-pei crossbreed Kai, who was abandoned at Ayr station in South Ayrshire in a tale similar to that of Paddington Bear.
He was discovered tied to a railing outside the building on Friday accompanied by the case containing items including a pillow, toy, food and a bowl.
His story has hit the headlines around the world, from the US to Hong Kong, and the charity has had calls from people in California and Tennessee offering to take him in.
However it hopes to rehome Kai in Scotland once he has had surgery to his eyelids, which are curled under meaning his eyelashes touch his eyeballs.
Kai, who is aged between two and three, is currently being cared for at the Scottish SPCA's centre in Glasgow.
A spokeswoman for the charity said: "He needs surgery which is quite a common procedure. He won't be able to leave till he has had that so he will be with us for the next three to four weeks.''
The pet was sold on the Gumtree website in 2013 and the charity is appealing for information to help trace whoever bought him.
Railway station staff looked after Kai until the Scottish SPCA arrived at the scene on Friday.
Alan Grant, a senior animal care assistant at the Glasgow centre, said: "It would certainly have been very distressing for him at the time he was abandoned.
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Ruel P. Tolman's Images: Who Are You?
Artist Ruel Pardee Tolman (1878-1954) served the Smithsonian for thirty-six years in a variety of positions. He came to the Smithsonian in 1912 after studying at Pomona College Prep School; Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, San Francisco; Los Angeles School of Art and Design; University of California, Berkeley; Corcoran School of Art; and the National Academy of Design, New York City. Tolman's experience as a free lance artist, illustrator, and portrait painter, helped him acquire a job as a preparator of graphic arts for the United States National Museum (USNM).
After a year, Tolman became an Aide in the department. By 1920, Tolman earned the title of Assistant Curator of Graphic Arts. He then served as Acting Director of the Smithsonian's National Collection of Fine Arts (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum) from 1932-1946, when he became Director. Tolman retired in 1948 and was succeeded by Thomas M. Beggs.
In addition to his Smithsonian duties, Tolman took an active role in the Washington, DC, art scene. He worked as a drawing instructor at the Corcoran Gallery of Art from 1906-1919. Tolman also served as a founder and the President of the Miniature Painters, Sculptors, and Gravers Society of Washington. Though most noted for his work as a painter of miniatures, Tolman worked in a variety of disciplines including graphic arts, lithography, etching, mezzotint, drypoint, oil, and watercolor.
A multitalented artist, Tolman also dabbled in photography. His stylish photographs of Smithsonian staff, the city of Washington, and an assortment of cities he traveled to, capture the style of post World War I America. The Smithsonian holds many of Tolman's papers. His collection at the Archives (Record Unit 7433) contains scrapbooks of these images, which allow us to get to know the people who helped shape the Institution as we know it today.
We are excited to present a set of these images on the Smithsonian Flickr Commons. However, there is one snag: some of the individuals are not fully identified, so we ask that you take a look through a sample of these unidentified images (also in the slideshow below) and let us know if you happen to recognize any of the men and women Tolman photographed.
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From: Carrollton, TX
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Topic: Rare or Endangered Plants, Propagation, Seeds and Seeding, Herbs/Forbs
Title: Propagation of endangered plant Texas trailing phlox from Carrollton TX
Answered by: Barbara Medford
QUESTION:1. How many seeds does the Texas trailing phlox produce per season? 2. Can the seeds be taken from a living plant without hurting it? Thank You!
Phlox nivalis ssp.texensis does not appear in our Native Plant Database, but not because it is not native to Texas. It is native to the Piney Woods of East Texas, presently in three counties, Polk, Tyler and Hardin, as you can see from this USDA Plant Profile Map. It is likely that it is not in our database because it was considered extinct until 1972, when it was rediscovered. The closest we can come to providing you with information from our database is to follow this link, Phlox nivalis (Trailing phlox), to our webpage on this plant, which has the same habitat range in Texas.
In response to your questions:
(1) Counting the number of seeds from a plant would require carefully controlled laboratory procedures, which apparently has not been reported. We found this picture of seeds, from Prairie Moon Plants, of Phlox divaricata (Wild blue phlox), in the same genus, which indicate the seeds are quite small. They grow in pods which then pop seeds out in all directions. How many an individual plant would produce would be a factor of how many flowers were on that plant, what the growing conditions for that plant had been that year, and whether all seeds from that plant were captured.
(2) Of course seeds can be taken from a living plant without hurting it; plants throw off seeds and keep on living all the time. Timing is the problem. You would need to determine when the pods holding seeds were ripe, remove them from the plant and then put in a paper bag where the pods can burst and the seeds can be retained.
The best information on Texas trailing phlox we could locate was from the Center for Plant Preservation. From that article:
"• This species is propagated by cuttings, divisions or seed germination as investigated by Greg Wieland (1995) at Mercer Arboretum and Botanic Gardens and Dr. David Creech, staff and students of Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas (SFA 2002). These propagation efforts are performed for reintroduction efforts and to maintain plants for the gene bank. Plants produced for educational display gardens or for specific restoration and reintroduction projects are produced within Mercer's nursery greenhouses and within our Conservation Area. The Conservation Area provides secure, raised beds for mass propagation of plants/seeds. Each bed is provided with independently controlled irrigation and substrates that meet the unique requirements for each species. Populations are propagated separately to insure genetic purity."
Another article on this plant is in this article from The Nature Conservancy.
One last word: If you were planning propagation of this plant in Dallas and Denton Counties, where Carrolton is located, you will have some problems in that this is a piney woods plant, requiring the sandy, acidic soils of Southeast Texas. In North Central Texas, you have a preponderance of alkaline clay soils, not suitable for the plant.
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In John Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums" the reader is given a look at the lives of a couple who lives in a farm valley in California. The valley they live in is always foggy and cold in the winter. The two people's names are Henry Allen and Elisa Allen. The husband sells his animals for meat and the wife, Elisa, plants her chrysanthemums in her garden. Elisa has dreams of doing something else but there are certain objects in the story that symbolize a block. There are many instances throughout this story where the theme and setting relate. John Steinbeck examines Elisa Henry through his use of setting in the story "The Chrysanthemums" to present the themes of repression of women.
The first way the setting and character interrelate is the garden that Elisa works in. The garden that Elisa works in has boundaries that keep her there. This could signify as being locked in or trapped. This did not bother her though; she loved to garden and claimed to have planter's hands. She said this because a person with planter's hands could grow just about anything and so could she. "Elisa Allen, working in her garden, looked down across the yard and saw Henry, her husband, talking to two men in business suits" (Steinbeck 192). This is a good example of what the garden's fence does. It keeps Elisa in her garden and does not let her explore new things. From the start you can see that Elisa has dreams of such things. Even though she loved to plant, she also had bigger and better dreams of one day being outside the valley. The time the characters are in also effects what Elisa can do. Women at this time were supposed to stay home and take care of the house. If a woman wanted to go explore new things she could not.
The second way the setting and character interrelate is the fog of the Salinas Valley. In the book, Steinbeck says that the fog and rain do not come together. It is either rainy or it is either foggy, but never both at the same time. This means they do not mix much like the characters. "The natural elements of the foothills ranch seem as unwilling to confront each other as the characters that inhabit its environs" (Palmerino 164). What he is saying is that Henry and Elisa are not confrontational toward each other and don't resolve issues. This is much like the rain and fog that don't confront each other. Another way the fog interrelates is how dense and unclear it is. Elisa has dreams that are unclear to her how from all the fog that collects over the valley. "The high grey-flannel fog of winter closed off the Salinas Valley from the sky and from all the rest of the world" (Steinbeck 192). This quote is also a good example of how the fog affects the characters. The fog traps Elisa Henry in a way in the valley by not letting any sunshine in. A grey sky all the time could make Elisa depressed and this could also make her dreams disappear. Steinbeck says it also blocks them from the rest of the world. This constant grey sky could make Elisa Henry feel shut off from the rest of the world which could give Elisa no hope in ever pursuing her dreams
The third way the setting and character interrelate is the valley walls. The valley walls that surround Henry and Elisa's farm in the valley trap them in. The walls keep them from exploring and broadening there lives outside the walls of the valley. Both of them have dreams of doing things but there skewed by the "big fence" or valley walls that trap them in. When Henry and Elisa go out for the evening to celebrate the sell Henry had made they enjoy their time outside the walls of the valley. They decide they should go out more often for dinner and wine. "She turned her coat collar so he could n see that she was crying weakly-like an old woman"(Steinbeck 199). This quote is when Elisa realizes that society wouldn't support her dreams in a way. She wants to go to the fights that night but knows by the way Henry talks about it that woman do not usually go to the fights. Even though the reader knows Elisa wants to go Elisa says no when Henry asks her to go. She maybe realizing that some of the dreams she has can not be met even though she is outside the valley walls. This shows the reader that repression of women back then was strict with what they wanted women to be like.
John Steinbeck examines Elisa Henry through his use of setting in the story in the story "The Chrysanthemums". This shows that the character is trapped in this place with dreams to go places and experiencing new things in life. Sometimes these dreams can't be met because of certain inalienable circumstances like the garden fence, the fog, and the valley walls. The garden fence keeps Elisa Henry in her place a way. Even though she loves to garden, she would also love to do something new. The fog traps Elisa in and makes her dreams unclear. The fog, with the cold weather, could also make Elisa depressed and make her want to leave even more. The valley walls trap her in also and keep her from achieving her dreams. Steinbeck has all these symbols in the story to tell the reader what Elisa really wants. Even though she could maybe someday escape the repression of women would hold her back.


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On May 19, 2009, at 8:19 AM, Michael McCandless wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Grant Ingersoll > <email@example.com> wrote: > >> I don't think we have said that bug fixes are required to be back >> compatible, even if it is in analysis. I think it is a really bad >> idea for >> TokenStreams to have if clauses in them checking boolean values for >> old >> versus new behaviors. >> >> When they can be back compat, we do, but there is not a >> requirement. For >> instance, we upgraded Snowball. > > True (Snowball), but then we have discussions like this: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1068?focusedCommentId=12550948&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel > #action_12550948 > > which added a confusing deprecated "boolean replaceDepAcronym = > false;" to StandardAnalyzer. Something similar led to > StandardAnalyzer.replaceInvalidAcronym. > > I think there have been other cases (in particular StandardAnalyzer, > QueryParser) over time, but I haven't tracked them down. Analyzer > back compat after fixing issues is especially tricky since the bugs > get "cached" into the index and queries against that index using the > fixed analyzer may not longer match the docs. (So I think back-compat > is important in Analyzers). > >> Or, the removal of StopFilter as "Standard" all together. This >> coupled with >> a QP that created phrases around stop words is a better solution. > > Interesting... that'd be a pretty big change to StandardAnalyzer, > though. > > I can see we are spinning off lots of neat ideas, decoupled from the > "Settings" proposal, here :) > >> For instance, if we removed the StopFilter from the >> StandardAnalyzer, then >> what? A Settings object would not be able to account for it. > > Why not? The settings object could have say a property > "analysis.standard.enableStopFilter"? And what if it is something that has to be called in the next() chain and not during construction? Are you going to want to call that every single time over millions upon millions of tokens in a large collection? Even if it is during construction, you still might end up calling it a lot of times. > > >> Likewise, the subtler issue of "fixing" a TokenStream such that it >> might produce different tokens. > > Settings should cover this in general, I think. > >> I really worry about Settings objects having to be repeatedly >> checked inside >> of tight inner loops. Even looking at the new TokenStream stuff, >> there are >> now checks for the "new API" in an area that is called _a lot_ of >> times. > > Agreed, but I'd say this is orthogonal. We should never do slow > things inside inner loops -- checking settings, calling logging > frameworks, calling List.size(), opening files, etc. This is the > stuff of standard coding practices... There's a difference between std. coding practices and purposefully putting in lots of if checks to solve back compatibility issues that are created in order to satisfy some naming convention. Given the length of time between releases, we could easily call every new release a major version and we wouldn't be all that different from most commercial projects. I'd bet if we switched from calling things major.minor and just called them Lucene '09 and Lucene '10 people would be just fine with the changes. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Given the time between Lucene releases (at least 6 mos. for minor releases and 1+ year for majors) we have _PLENTY_ of time to let users know what is coming and plan accordingly. By being so dogmatic about back compatibility, I believe we are making it harder to innovate and harder for new people to contribute and we keep cruft around for way too long. (How the heck is a new contributor supposed to keep track of all the things that went into Lucene for the past 1.5 years?) I'm not saying we should throw back compat. out the window, I'm just saying we should take it more on a case by case basis, with the default, obviously, being to favor back compatibility. The large majority of users (I'd venture to say well north of 95% of them) will be able to deal with minor API changes every 6 to 8 months, especially if we are more proactive about communicating them to java-user@ and in CHANGES. In fact, if we announced changes that are going to break for not the next version, but the one after, it would give people lots of time to adapt. > > >> Last, and mostly I mention it as an afterthought. How are you >> going to >> handle changes to the Settings? Say, for instance, we come out w/ >> Settings2.4, release it and then we realize we missed something >> (and this >> seems likely given the number of settings available in Lucene), then >> what? >> >> We deprecate Settings2.4 and come out with TheRealSettingsFor2.4? >> And then >> when that is incomplete? > > Well, in 2.9 there would still be a Settings2.4 class, but it'd have > newly created (in 2.9) settings with their defaults bound. > > So in 2.9, when sorting by field you can optionally turn off scoring. > It gives a sizable performance boost doing so. We of course were > forced to leave scoring on for back compat, but if we had this > Settings class online what we would have done instead is add a new > "search.sort.trackScores" (and, "trackMaxScore") setting to the base > Settings class, but the Settings2.4 would bind it to true. > > There should be no need to make a new class for 2.4's settings on > releasing 2.9? I think you missed the point. The problem lies in releasing 2.4's settings and those settings are wrong. Using your example, say Settings24 was messed up and set trackMaxScore to true when it should have been false (mistakes happen). It gets released in 2.9 as the settings for 2.4 back compatibility. We then realize our mistake. How do you fix it? You can't just set it to false, b/c now you have users who are depending, potentially, on the _wrong_ version. So, now you have to deprecate it and come out with a "new" Settings2.4 called something else. > > >> I still think we would benefit from just communicating upcoming >> changes >> better even in minor releases, thereby allowing for a bit more >> variance in >> back compat. It should be the exception, not the rule. > > I like DM's point, that this Settings class would be a great vehicle > for exactly that communication. Rather than pouring over a > CHANGES.txt, you can see setting-by-setting what changed, and why. Sorry, I'd rather read CHANGES. It is the one place we all make sure to enter our changes. People aren't as good about javadocs, especially accessors where the name is "self explanatory". Plus it has a link to a JIRA issue. Also, how useful is it going to be to have 30 or 40 (hundreds?) accessors on a single Settings object? So, then, the logical thing to do is to split it up and have some nested way of doing things. And then people will be tired of having to programmatically set all the values, so they will create a config/properties file that does it. But, because we don't like dependencies, we will re-invent how that works. After it's all said and done, you end up having re-invented IOC. Another interesting thing to think about is how do we sunset old settings objects. When we are on 4.X, should we still keep around 2.4 settings? 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Stating the author's purpose for writing the book in your introduction will inform readers of its goal from the beginning of your essay. Once you've finished reading and taking notes, write a thesis statement that incorporates both the book' purpose and your evaluation of how well it meets this goal. For example, if you are writing a book report on "The Great Gatsby," the book's purpose might be to portray the recklessness of the 1920s and its consequences. Your thesis might read, "From disturbing character relationships to symbolic settings, 'The Great Gatsby' presents a compelling portrayal of the recklessness of one of America's most notorious eras: the Roaring '20s."
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I confess that I am not cut out for public work. I'm working in an office right now and let me just say, people are dumb. I wish we could gather all of the dumbasses and ship them off to a deserted island. I wonder how many would make it.
I confess that these confessionals make me feel evil. I promise I'm not. I just have mean thoughts sometimes. Not all the time.
I confess that I watch General Hospital, and I cried this week when sweet little Jake died. Dang soap operas. So sad.
I confess that I've been dreaming about my cousin a lot lately. Monday will be one year since her passing, and I still can't believe she is gone. Maybe I will make a post about her one day.
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Discussion in 'Multinational HQ' started by Phil306, Oct 8, 2006.
The heart of the site is the forum area, including:
Judas Priest
Fullers ESB
Special Forces
Uh, is there anything else?
Scouse... As in the food!
But most of all... The English language!!!
Uh - The united states (in collaboration with france)
We did
SA80 Rifles
theakston op!
Fish and Chips. That is one thing I truly must say thank you for. Those delicious morsels are truly blessed by god.
I think that's an honour we now share with Egypt
Good Lord, that made me laugh!
The pneumatic tyre,
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Sunday Roast,
The Commonwealth,
The Empire,
The Spitfire, and Hurricane, and Lancaster (etc).....
India - The world's largest democracy!
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Empire, the Monarchy, world stability (until USA cocked it up), Lightning, Hunter, Tesco, Marmite.
Er.... The founders of the United States of America?
Or are you suggesting that we were quite right to persecute them and force them to flee so that they could ruin somewhere else with their daft ideas, Phil?
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Cross country skis are sized by skier weight. There are certain instances where strength, height and ability may push a skier into a shorter or longer ski. Each of our ski companies have recommendations for ski length based on skier weight. We print these ranges on all our skis and will help guide you to your next favorite pair.
Glide wax is for sliding on snow. Grip wax is used to "stick" to the snow for a split second while classic skiing. Grip wax is used only on waxable classic skis. Grip wax can be applied a few different ways but is always found on the kick zone (under foot). There are two components to the classic stride: kick and glide. Without grip wax you can get no kick on a waxable classic ski. During the glide phase of the classic stride the kick zone "releases" from the snow and ski glides on its tip and tail. Glide wax is used on the tip and tail of ALL classic skis, and the full length of all skate skis, snowboards, alpine skis etc.
Klister is a type of wax with a honey-like consistency used on waxable classic skis. Klisters are used to get kick on snow that has gone through freeze/thaw cycles. This type of snow is commonly seen in the spring. Klister will work in hard/icy conditions when your no-wax skis are slipping.
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Metal edges come in handy in very firm snow (or icy) conditions on steep descents. All backcountry skis have partial or full metal edges. Metal edges do have a few negatives; first, they add weight to the ski; second, they can interfere with the double camber flex of the ski. At Sunnyside we specialize in skate and classic race skis along with light touring. We do not recommend metal edged skis for use at our local snow-parks or nordic areas. Most of the time, metal edged skis are overkill for snow-parks–it is more fun to have a lighter cross country setup and skip the few icy mornings we see in the spring.
Skate technique was developed on classic equipment in the 80's. We have come a long way. Skate skis are shorter, stiffer and more torsional rigidity than racing classic skis. A skate ski should never completely flatten out under skier weight, conversely a classic ski has to flatten out in order for the skier to get "kick".
A "no-wax ski" is a type of classic ski that does not require a kick (grip) wax. Instead, this type of ski uses a mechanical pattern in the kick-zone to grip the snow while striding. All classic skis require glide wax on their tips and tails. The term "no-wax ski" is unfortunate. Many people assume that this type of ski is a no maintenance ski. An easy alternative glide wax is SWIX F4 or TOKO paste wax. These rub-on glide waxes can be used tip and tail and even on the no-wax pattern if icing becomes a problem.


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