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Interviews: Giovanni Organtini Answers About the Higgs and LHC 123
You asked questions about the LHC (and in particular, the believed discovery of the Higgs Boson) of physicist Giovanni Organtini. Organtini has responded (answers below), and written a brief introduction to explain what the Higgs boson is and how it provides mass to other particles: "The Higgs mechanism was introduced to explain the fact that experimentally particles have mass. In fact, without the Higgs mechanism, the equations of motion for particles can only be written for massless particles. The actual mechanism is rather difficult to understand without a solid Quantum Field Theory background, but can be understood as follows: most of you know that particles gain some energy when they interact with a field. As an example, consider a book on a table. Since the book is subject to the earth's gravitational field, it has some potential energy that transforms into kinetic energy if it is free to fall. The potential energy depends on the mass of the book and on the intensity of the gravitational field. With the introduction of Special Relativity, however, we have to add an extra term to the energy of the book depending on its mass only (the famous E=mc^2). Introducing a special field (the Higgs field), we can turn this term into something similar to the gravitational potential energy, i.e. something that contributes to the energy of the book because it interacts with a field. The mass of a particle, then, is nothing but its potential energy in the Higgs field. The Higgs field is auto-interacting, i.e. it interacts with itself, as the electric and magnetic fields do. As the electromagnetic field can, the Higgs field can also propagate through space, but since it's auto-interacting, it gains some energy from itself, as the book gains energy from the interaction with it, resulting in the appearance of a mass for such a field, that becomes observable as a particle called the Higgs boson. You can find a more formal, yet simple, explanation of the mechanism here." Read on for his answers to reader questions.Why is Higgs so elusive?
by jkauzlar
This may sound really dumb but the answers to the dumbest questions are sometimes the most interesting :) I understand that the Higgs is responsible for giving mass to all the other particles, then it must be *everywhere*. Why is it so difficult to detect? Why does it take such a staggeringly powerful supercollider to find what ought to be as common as the electron or proton?
Giovanni Organtini: The Higgs boson is unstable: once produced, it suddenly decays into pairs of particles. As a result, it cannot be found in ordinary matter as protons or electrons. It must be produced and observed soon after. In order to produce new massive particles, we are used to smashing other particles together. It happens that the energy E of the collision can "materialize" into particles, provided that E>=mc^2, where m is the sum of all the particles produced in the collision.
The Higgs boson mass is about 125 times the proton mass: it is quite heavy, in fact! The higher the mass of the particle to be produced, the higher must be the energy of the collision. Moreover, it turns out that protons are not elementary particles: they are composed of quarks and gluons, collectively called 'partons'. It is the collision between partons that produces the Higgs bosons. Partons carry only a fraction of the total energy of the proton. Then, we had to build a very high energy collider to produce such a Higgs boson, such that the collision between two partons happens with enough energy to create a Higgs boson.
There are other limitations, too: the production of a Higgs boson, even if the energy of the collision is enough, is a rare process, much rarer than the production of other particles like those we already know. The collider, then, must not be just powerful in terms of energy; it must also be 'luminous' enough, i.e. it must produce billions of collisions, such that the expected number of Higgs bosons produced is large enough to be distinguished from background.
"Also, I can't help but to visualize particles as something like billiard balls while I'm aware they're only mathematical abstractions from our point of view and that experiments like the double-slit experiment refute the billiard-ball model... is there a way to visualize the Higgs to make the answer to my previous question easier to understand?"
Actually, from the mathematical point of view, there is no such a distinction between particles and fields. Both are represented in the same way. In fact, in quantum mechanics, there are neither particles, nor fields, as we imagine them. The 'objects' behave like fields in certain conditions and like particles in different conditions.
This may sound frustrating to some people, but you have to consider that physics relies on experiments. We cannot tell the Universe how it should work: it's just the opposite! Despite the fact that we cannot figure out what a particle that behave like a field is, experiments tell us that, in our Universe, sometimes particles behave like fields. That's all! There is no reason for Nature to work as we would like it. Nature works irrespective of our ability to imagine how it works.
In my opinion the best image you can have of a Higgs boson produced at LHC is just like a billiard ball, in fact.
Energy to mass conversion?
by slashmydots
This is an IT worker question, not a particle physicist question, so hopefully it's an easy one. How does the Higgs boson come into play when photons, which have a tiny amount of mass, are spontaneously created when a substance like metal gets hot. Is it a direct energy to mass conversion?
GO: Photons do not have a tiny amount of mass. They are massless, as they do not interact with the Higgs field. When a metal gets hot, it's because you provide some heat — that is, a form of energy. You can always convert energy into particles (and vice versa) provided the total energy (i.e. including the rest energy mc^2) is conserved. As far as the metal glow, it gets colder, since the energy accumulated during heating is released in form of photons. There is no need for a Higgs boson in this case. Even this is not the case, energy to mass conversion is a common practice in high energy physics and is predicted by Einstein's Special Relativity. Each time we make two particles collide, they often produce new particles as a result of materialization of the energy of the collision.
The question, however, is interesting to discuss another feature. Despite that photons do not couple with the Higgs bosons, the latter were identified because of their decay into two photons. It may happen in quantum mechanics that a pair of particles 'annihilate' into photons. In this case, the Higgs bosons decay into a pair of quarks or vector bosons, that in turn annihilate producing two photons.
Is it higgsy?
by rwven
What success or failure factors can/should/will be used to determine whether or not the new particle is actually the higgs, or something else unexpected?
GO: We currently have just a measurement of the mass of this new particle. We also know, from its decays, that it must have spin-0 or spin-2. In order to be reasonably sure that this new particle is in fact a Higgs boson we must precisely measure its spin and we also have to observe and measure the predicted decays.
To complete this task we need a lot more statistics. It will take years, probably, to obtain enough precision.
That said, assuming that the new particle behaves exactly like a Higgs boson in its decays, there is in principle no guarantee that it is the Higgs boson, in the sense that all these measurements do not prove that the observed particle is the one that gives rise to the existence of mass! However, I cannot believe that we observed a particle that behaves exactly as predicted for a Higgs boson that is, in fact, something very different!
Analogies to magnetic and electric fields?
by FreedomFirstThenPeac
One press report discussed the idea that the Higgs field might have the same transient existence that the aether did in Electro-Magnetic theory. Do you think there is a field that will interact with the Higgs field to produce an energy transmission function similar to that described by Maxwell's equations?
GO: The Higgs field interacts with itself and as such is able to propagate more or less as electromagnetic waves. The only difference with respect to the e.m. field is that the latter is massless and propagates to infinite distances, while the Higgs field gets mass and materializes into a Higgs boson. Due to its finite mass, it cannot propagate too far, in fact. Actually a Higgs boson decays into matter particles in tiny fractions of a second.
Higgs and the Ether?
by Liquidrage
The likely Higgs discovery would seem to validate Quantum field theory. Would this then be best described as an ether, only instead of matter traveling through the ether, matter is a manifestation of the ether (fields) itself? Would this also than mean that the motion of matter is not a physical movement of a "particle" but instead the transfer of the "excitement" of a field from one spot of the field to another?
GO: That is an intriguing question. I am personally convinced that there could be some relationship between the Higgs mechanism, inertia and the fact that the speed of light is finite, mostly because the Higgs field is a scalar field (I do not want to enter into details, here, but this is the first observed spin-0 elementary particle). In my opinion what physicists called Ether could in fact be something related to the Higgs boson. It must be said that there is no coherent formulation of this. It's just a guess I make (and not very popular among other physicists).
As already said, there is no difference between a particle that moves and what you called an excitement of a field from one spot to another, in quantum mechanics. Both are the same thing.
And what, if any, implications does this discovery have for unifying gravity or other areas of physics?
GO: It is hard to say. Despite the Higgs hypothesis was formulated some 50 years ago, no convincing theory emerged yet, unifying gravity and other forces. In fact it is not yet clear why the inertial mass (the one provided by the Higgs boson) is equal to the gravitational mass (the source of gravity).
Inertial mass vs. gravitational mass?
by Omnifarious
The Higgs boson is famously associated with how particles acquire a 'mass.' But mass is, in itself, an interesting property. As I understand it, the Higgs boson is only associated with inertial mass. If this is so, do you expect gravitational mass and inertial mass to be always the same? If so, would you speculate on the mechanism that ensures this is true?
GO: In fact the Higgs boson provides inertial mass to particles. As far as we know inertial mass is something fundamentally different with respect to the gravitational mass: the first is responsible for inertia; the second is the source of the gravitational field. We have no idea about why the two masses are numerically equal. We do not believe in coincidences. There must be a reason for that, but we could not yet figure out it.
If you want me to speculate, I can imagine that gravity comes into play because the Universe tends to remain stable. The Higgs mechanism predicts that an empty Universe is unstable, while a Universe with some amount of the Higgs field is stable, because its energy is lower than an empty Universe. We call this condition the vacuum condition (i.e. vacuum does not correspond to 'empty', but to 'minimum energy'). What I imagine is that there should be some mechanism according to which fluctuations of the vacuum produces Higgs bosons that must interact in such a way that the energy of the Universe is conserved. And this may generate gravity. Though, again, I have not a coherent formulation of such a principle.
Applying the discovery in engineering & tech?
by globaljustin
Dr. Joe Incandela of UC Santa Barbara and CMS director said recently of the CERN Higgs results: "This is so far out on a limb, I have no idea where it will be applied, we're talking about something we have no idea what the implications are and [they] may not be directly applied for centuries." My questions: Do you agree that the direct application of the findings are as nebulous and abstract as he describes?Please discuss the implications of your answer and how they relate to the economic choices of how humans use their scientific resources.
GO: I completely agree with the above statements. Note that most important revolutions in technology and economy came much later with respect to a fundamental scientific discovery: we can use cell phones and WiFi because of Maxwell equations, GPS because of Relativity and all the electronics is an application of quantum mechanics. None of these discoveries were done having in mind any application. Moreover, no major breakthrough in technology or economy was achieved thanks to applied research. That is, in fact, a very good reason to support our activities.
That said, even if we cannot imagine possible direct applications of the Higgs bosons, we can for sure imagine possible applications of the technologies developed in order to detect it: large scale superconduction can save lot of money and energy savings, computing techniques needed to analyze LHC data are driving the birth of cloud computing, the detectors developed for these experiments can be used in different ways in medicine and industry. The past generation of experiments already generated some interesting spin-off: the new detectors for mammography, much more compact and precise with respect to the past, were developed for LEP experiments. Also the research on composite materials received a boost from our needs and are nowadays used to realize helicopters. Last, but not least, the world wide web as we know it today, is a CERN spin-off, developed to keep hundreds of physicists around the world updated about what was going on at CERN.
The future of the Higgs?
by Dartz-IRL
While I know it is rather early to comment, what do you think the future applications of today's research into Higgs Boson will be? Don't be afraid to be a little bit sky-high. I for one am already fantasizing about space ships propelled by manipulation of the Higgs field on a local scale. I'm only asking because, a century ago the electron was discovered and nobody was quite sure what to do with it. And it runs the world.
GO: As I said above, I cannot figure out any direct application of the Higgs boson itself. However I can imagine the birth of new techniques in manufacturing, energy production and transport, medicine and computing inspired by the technologies that we had to develop to discover the Higgs boson.
However, I don't want to escape the question and, being *very* sky-high, I can imagine that if we were able to isolate a region from the Higgs field (much as we use Faraday cages, i.e. metal boxes, to protect circuits from electromagnetic interferences), we can turn all the particles inside the region massless. You can imagine by yourself what this implies, for transportation, storage, etc.
What are the next incremental follow-ons?
by peter303
I heard they may want to check several other decay paths for energy resonances. I also heard there could be a family of Higgs bosons, so we may look for others?
GO: There are plenty of questions to which we need to provide answers, in fact. First of all we have to search for all the predicted decay paths for the observed resonance. There are theories predicting the existence of two or more Higgs bosons, and we need to discriminate between them. Some theory predicts charge Higgses, too. Moreover, even if the resonance is a standard Higgs boson, we are still left with the questions 'why different particles have different mass?' and 'why the masses are those observed?', just to be on the subject.
Needless to say that with the discovery of the Higgs boson we still have the problem to explain the estimated mass and energy of the Universe. With the known particles we can explain less than 10% of the mass of the Universe. There must be other weakly interacting particles (called dark matter) providing the missing energy, that we have not yet discovered.
Significance of Higgs Boson mass?
by SpinyNorman
As I understand it, a Higgs Boson compatible with the standard model could have been found at a range of different masses, and the search for it has involved searching the possible mass range until it was either discovered or not. Assuming that this new discovery is indeed the Higgs Boson as predicted and compatible with the standard model, what is the significance of the particular mass that it has been found to have? Are there any macro-scale predictions that depend on its mass?
It means that with this mass, a Higgs boson can be accommodated in any 'reasonable' theory. In other words, the Higgs boson has the observed mass because it cannot have any other mass. Any other mass would cause the Universe to behave differently at different scales. This is an important fact. If something similar is proven for other fundamental constants, we can get rid (at least partially) of the (in)famous anthropic principle: the world is as we observe it because, whatever the initial conditions, it must necessarily evolve in the current state!
The Best of the Worst Science Reporting?
by eldavojohn
In regards to the Higgs Boson, what's the stupidest thing you've seen in the press? Has anything in particular made you really laugh or groan? Has the reporting been overly irresponsible for this discovery process or just the same old press that you're used to?
GO: Incredibly enough, for this discovery I didn't find something particularly funny in the press. As I am a bit conceited :-) I can attribute the merit to our communication teams, that in fact did a great job this time.
The nickname given to that particle (the 'God' particle) makes me laugh a bit. But in this case the one responsible for this is a physicist: Prof. Leon Lederman, who gave this title to a book of his about the Higgs boson. According to what can be read, in fact it was the publisher that chose that title, but manifestly Prof. Lederman must have agreed. In this case journalists just used that nickname, which obviously sounds appealing.
by Michael Woodhams
Had the superconducting supercollider (SSC) been completed in the USA in the 1990s, would it have found this particle? Even with a 20 year technology advantage, LHC has taken some time to get there.
GO: The plan for the SSC was to achieve a higher energy with respect to the one planned for LHC. In fact we are still using LHC at half of its maximum energy, for safety reasons. Hence, in principle, SSC would have found it.
However, a discovery like that is not just a matter of energy and luminosity. The possibility to find the Higgs boson is strongly related to the available computing and networking technologies that evolve much faster than detector's technology.
Use of military tech in physics?
by solidraven
How do you feel about the fact that a large portion of the CMS was built by recycling military hardware? Do you see it as a sign that the world is finally moving towards peace and that large scientific projects like the LHC are helping it along that path; Or do you find it disappointing that it was the only option to acquire the necessary materials?
GO: I am happy with the fact that a portion (not so large, in fact) of the CMS was built by recycling material, irrespective of its provenance. I believe that we should learn recycling much more than what we do now, not only in building detectors (on the other hand we build a new detector like CMS every 15-20 years). Then I don't see why I should be disappointed. Recycling should not be seen as a last resort to exploit when money is lacking; its should be regarded as an opportunity for the whole of mankind.
The fact that, to build CMS, weapons were destroyed, well, is exciting! The less weapons on earth, the better the life for humans. I'm glad to be part of an experiment who helped in making weapons disappear.
Open Data?
by eldavojohn
Since you're a fan of free software, why don't we see more open data efforts in particle physics? I see headlines like this and they're kind of a turn-off. Aside from this super-confusing applet I haven't been able to find torrents of the data available on these tests. Why is that? I mean, as a software developer there is a legitimate effort of folks writing open source software and then there's a legitimate effort of people using that software to accomplish many things and everyone deserves credit. So why are particle physicists so keen on being the collectors and (at least initially) the sole keepers of their data? It would seem to make sense to me that people should be rewarded based on their collection of data and how meticulous and well they do that while any group can consume and derive results from said data. I understand the process has gotten more open but why so slowly? Why not torrent your data to whoever wants it immediately after you get it?
GO: Let me first state here that I'm in favor of open data, whatever they come from. Then, I will support any action to make more and more public our data, too.
There is, in fact, some reluctance to make scientific data public, also by scientists that use and promote open source software. I believe that this attitude has sociological bases and with time will vanish, as is happening with software.
That said, not only particle physicists tend to keep their data. As far as I know, in most scientific projects data (at least raw data) can be accessed only by those who collected them. The only exception I know is in astrophysics where, however, there is an initial period in which only the principle investigator's team can look at data collected by telescopes or satellites. This is comprehensible since who had a brilliant idea about how to make some observation, want to keep for himself the right to publish the result that, in few cases, can be straightforward to obtain once you have the data.
It must be said that in particle physics this is not the case. And in particular for LHC. Data are extremely complex and it is not at all easy to extract interesting signals from it. You must also consider that we produce of the order of 1 to 5 PB of data per year and it is impossible for anyone not owning a large computer centre to download even a small portion of them. You should also consider that the physicists working on these experiments already saturate all the available resources (in terms, e.g., of bandwidth, storage and CPU) and, of course, we do not want to reduce our quota of resources just to make data public.
Thanks to Dr. Organtini for these answers. Do you have ideas for leads for more Slashdot interviews? They're welcome at firstname.lastname@example.com!


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October 17, 2011
Pumpkin Treasure Hunt
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- October 17, 2011 at 7:39 AM
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- October 17, 2011 at 11:20 AM
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- October 18, 2011 at 3:42 AM
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- October 19, 2011 at 5:33 PM
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The NHL lost one of its better people, and best interviews, of the last decade or so when Aaron Ward announced his retirement after more than 13 seasons at the game's highest level today.
Ward, 37, played in more than 839 career games and won three Stanley Cup championships — one with Carolina and two with Detroit. In a Bruins uniform, he skated in 150 regular-season games and 17 postseason contests, as he helped restore the Bruins to a place of prominence in the NHL hierarchy.
The Bruins were on their way to a second straight playoff-less spring post-lockout and post-Joe Thornton when general manager Peter Chiarelli made a deadline-day deal with the New York Rangers to swap Paul Mara for Ward. Mara had struggled at both ends of the rink in his return to his hometown, while Ward had had a very public dispute with Rangers star Jaromir Jagr. What looked like just a swap of struggling veteran defenseman soon proved to be a huge deal in terms of molding the makeup — off and on the ice — of Chiarelli's Bruins.
It didn't take long for Ward to display his gift for gab. Sometimes he could be light-hearted, but more important for the Bruins' odds of success, he proved to be a player that could criticize himself and his teammates honestly and also demanded accountability from everyone in a Bruins uniform. Over the last couple seasons, players like Shawn Thornton and Mark Recchi have emerged as voices in the Bruins dressing room that take some of the heat off quiet captains Zdeno Chara and Patrice Bergeron. Ward was one of the first players to fill that role once he landed in the Hub.
Ward's willingness to speak his mind definitely rubbed head coach Claude Julien and the rest of the Bruins' brass the wrong way a few times over the years, but Boston really needed someone to distract attention when things were going wrong or going right. Ward embodied the Bruins' desired approach of never getting too high or too low, and that rubbed off on his teammates — even as his cohorts were making fun of him for constantly catering to the media.
Last summer, Chiarelli dealt Ward back to Carolina to make cap room for the signing of Derek Morris. It was difficult to predict how such a swap would affect the Bruins, who won the Eastern Conference in the '08-09 regular season with overwhelming depth and talent, and great chemistry. As last season's squad tread water, weighed down by injuries and a lack of production from some key players, it was obvious that Ward's leadership was missed even as the team still featured an air-tight defense without the backliner who made the forearm shiver into a hockey move that seemingly only he could get away with.
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Britney Spears may be making headlines this week for her eighth album Britney Jean, but her younger sister Jamie Lynn stole a bit of her thunder by unveiling the video for her debut single, "How Could I Want More," on Tuesday — the same day that Britney's album started streaming on iTunes.
Jamie Lynn Spears's music couldn't sound more different from the clubby electropop of, say, Britney's Vegas-ready banger "Work B----." "How Could I Want More" is a mature country ballad produced by Georgia singer-songwriter Corey Crowder and dedicated to her fiancé, Jamie Watson. And the song's video is stark and simple, shot in a recording studio with just a few lightbulbs for atmosphere and not a single scantily clad dancer in sight.
Although 10 years separate these sisters in age, a side-by-side comparison of their material almost makes it seem like 22-year-old former Nickelodeon star Jamie is the elder Spears.
However, fans eager to hear a different side of Jamie Lynn Spears can check out her duet with Britney, "Chillin' With You," off Britney Jean, which comes out Dec. 3. No word yet on when Jamie Lynn's debut album will be released.


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GENEVA – A blazing bullpen relay of Brian Smith, Eddie Orozco and Jeffry Antigua handed the Cougars two things Thursday afternoon.
First: A combined one-hitter in a 5-0, seven-inning victory against Peoria.
Second: Plenty of downtime between games of a split doubleheader.
Manager Mark Johnson gave players about three hours on their own before preparing for the nightcap, an 8-2 loss that brought the club back to .500 at 19-19. Some stayed in the clubhouse. Some didn't. Either way, it wasn't a bad afternoon to explore the Tri-Cities.
"Yeah, absolutely," third baseman David Bote said. "Good to see what you've got around, you know. I mean, I like seeing it. It's pretty out here."
The Chiefs (19-19) would just as soon have looked away from one another after the opener.
Making a spot start, Smith spaced two walks and two strikeouts in four innings while extending his scoreless streak to 10 1/3 innings over four May appearances. A familiar and comfortable approach pushed him through.
"Definitely that's what my goal is. Pitch inside. Soft away," Smith said. "It worked out for me today."
Orozco yielded the lone Peoria hit when Chiefs designated hitter Patrick Wisdom singled to open the fifth. The Cougars promptly erased him on a double play, and Orozco and Antigua retired the final seven hitters in order after that.
Peoria, shut out in the middle two games of a four-game split, could have used a better boost entering a long day at the ballpark.
Although center fielder Nick Martini – a Prairie Ridge alumnus – might have served as a useful Randall corridor tour guide, the Chiefs stayed put, following the usual protocol of life on the road in the Midwest League.
"It's mostly just baseball and trying to get lifts in and stuff like that," Martini said.
The Cougars, granted a bonus home game because making up a postponed game in Peoria could not be worked out logistically, can attest.
"I've been in those shoes before, too, and that's not very fun," Johnson said. "But hey, you get some cards, play, have fun. Whatever you need. Whatever you can do to pass the time."
About the only Game 2 advantage the Cougars boasted was a niche one. Lefty Michael Heesch got the better of his five-year Prairie Ridge reunion with Martini, retiring his former IHSA 4A state champion teammate twice among his nine outs.
The Cougars committed six errors in the game, as four of Heesch's six runs were unearned. Peoria limited Kane County to six hits.
Shortstop Marco Hernandez, who finished with a four-hit day, smacked a two-run homer in the second inning to provide a brief lead. Peoria scored six times in the third, then tacked on a pair of unearned runs in the seventh.
Cougars right fielder Bijan Rademacher, a former collegiate pitcher, absorbed that rally along with a come-backer. He shook off any concerns of injury and finished his third relief appearance this season.
As usual, using Rademacher was in the name of saving the bullpen, ideally for performances such as those in Game 1.
"We definitely needed something like that on a day like this," Smith said.


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A chamber music centenary celebration of American composer Elliott Carter (b. 1908) and French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) will be presented Wednesday, September 10, at 7:30 p.m. by CUNY Graduate Center faculty members, students, and guest artists. The concert will be held in the Graduate Center's Baisley Elebash Recital Hall, located at 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street). Admission is free and open to the public.
Carter and Messiaen are two of the most renowned of the post-World War II generation of composers. Featured on the program will be two of the great works of the contemporary chamber music literature: Carter's Sonata for Cello and Piano (1948) and Messiaen's monumental Quartet for the End of Time (1941). These works will be performed by violinist Olivier Fluchaire, D.M.A. candidate at the Graduate Center; clarinetist Anthony McGill, principal clarinet of the Metropolitan Opera; cellist Edward Arron, artistic director of the Metropolitan Museum Artists and the Caramoor Virtuosi; and pianist Sylvia Kahan, professor of music at the Graduate Center.
Elliott Carter is "one of America's most distinguished creative artists in any field" (Aaron Copland). With the explorations of tempo relationships and texture that characterize his music, Carter is recognized as one of the prime innovators of 20th-century music. Recent years have seen an outpouring of major orchestral scores, along with numerous chamber works. His late style is marked by transparency and clarity of texture, with a new directness of formal design. Carter's music has been championed by leading conductors including Boulez, Barenboim, Knussen, Dohnányi, Levine, Gielen, and Holliger. The recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes and commissions from many prestigious organizations, Carter has received awards and honors from, among others, the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as the governments of France, Germany, and Italy. The year 2008 marks Carter's 100th birthday, with centenary celebrations across the world.
Also born in 1908, Olivier Messiaen was arguably the greatest French composer of the 20th century. His works – music for piano and for organ, chamber music, orchestral music, and opera – are informed by two major influences: birdsong, which Messiaen notated in great detail and which became a vital musical source for him, and his Christian faith and Catholicism, which has imbued his works with a profound spirituality. His first great test of faith took place in 1940, when he was captured by the Nazis. Interned in a prisoner of war camp and starving, he experienced 'colored' dreams, which led him to compose what is probably his most performed work: Quatour pour la Fin du Temps (Quartet for the End of Time). The instrumentation (violin, cello, clarinet, and piano) was governed by the musician friends that were with Messiaen (the pianist) in the camp. The first performance took place in 1941 in front of fellow prisoners.
The Graduate Center is the doctorate-granting institution of The City University of New York (CUNY). An internationally recognized center for advanced studies and a national model for public doctoral education, the school offers more than thirty doctoral programs as well as a number of master's programs. Many of its faculty members are among the world's leading scholars in their respective fields, and its alumni hold major positions in industry and government, as well as in academia. The Graduate Center is also home to more than thirty interdisciplinary research centers and institutes focused on areas of compelling social, civic, cultural, and scientific concerns. Located in a landmark Fifth Avenue building, the Graduate Center has become a vital part of New York City's intellectual and cultural life with its extensive array of public lectures, exhibitions, concerts, and theatrical events. Further information on the Graduate Center and its programs can be found at www.gc.cuny.edu.
Edward Arron, cellist, has appeared in recital, as a soloist with orchestra, and as a chamber musician throughout the United States, Europe and the Far East. The 2007-2008 season marks Mr. Arron's fifth season as the artistic coordinator of the Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert, whose performances are broadcast live on WQXR-NY. Mr. Arron is also the artistic director of the Caramoor Virtuosi and of the Alpenglow Chamber Music Festival in Summit County, Colorado. He has performed at Carnegie's Weill and Zankel Halls, Lincoln Center's Alice Tully and Avery Fisher Halls, New York's Town Hall, and the 92nd Street Y, and is a frequent performer at Bargemusic. Summer festival appearances include Ravinia, Salzburg, Mostly Mozart, BRAVO! Colorado, Tanglewood, Bridgehampton, Piccolo Spoleto, Santa Fe, the North Country Chamber Players, the Chamber Music Conference of the East, and Isaac Stern's Jerusalem Chamber Music Encounters. Mr. Arron has participated in the Silk Road Project and is currently a member of MOSAIC, an ensemble dedicated to contemporary music.
Olivier fluchaire, violinist, has performed throughout Europe, Asia and the United States as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. He gave his New York recital debut in Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall in 2001 as winner of the Artists International Competition, and has performed concertos with the French Philharmonia Orchestra, the Bachanalia Orchestra, The Jupiter Symphony, and the Bronx Orchestra. At the Montepellier Opera House, he performed the Bach Double Violin Concerto alongside Yehudi Menuhin. As chamber musician, he has collaborated with members of the Guarneri, American, and Emerson string quartets. He has recorded for the Vox and Newport Classics Labels, as well as for Radio France, BBC Television, National Educational Television, WQXR-NY, and National Public Radio. Mr. Fluchaire is currently a doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, and serves on the strings, chamber music, and music history faculties at the College of Staten Island and Hunter College, CUNY. He has recently been named Coordinator of Orchestral Studies at Hunter College.
Sylvia kahan, pianist, has performed as concerto soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician in all of New York's major halls and in concert venues throughout North America and Europe. She has been featured in prestigious concert series New York, Chicago, and Paris, and her recitals have been broadcast on WQXR, WNYC, and National Public Radio. She has participated in the Tanglewood, Aspen, Waterloo, Delta, and Nancy (France) summer festivals, and has collaborated with the English Chamber Orchestra, sopranos Roberta Peters and Shirley Verrett, and members of the New York Philharmonic and Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. An award-winning musicologist, Sylvia Kahan has written books and articles on 19th-century and 20th-century French music and culture, including the critically hailed biography Music's Modern Muse: A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac (University of Rochester Press). An alumna of the CUNY Graduate Center's Music Program, Dr. Kahan is now Professor of Music at both the Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island.
ANTHONY McGILL, clarinetist, has been principal clarinet of the New York Metropolitan Orchestra since 2004. From 2000-2004, he was associate principal clarinet of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. In 2001, he became the sixth clarinetist in history to win an Avery Fisher Career Grant, a $15,000 prize recognizing immensely talented instrumentalists. Mr. McGill has performed at the Marlboro Music Festival, Sarasota Festival, La Musica, Tanglewood, Music@Menlo, and the Grand Teton Music Festival. He has also appeared as soloist with the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, New Jersey, and Hilton Head, and has performed with some of the great string quartets of the world, including the Guarneri, Tokyo, Shanghai, Miami, Brentano, Miró, and Daedalus quartets. Anthony McGill has appeared in Ravinia's Rising Stars series, has toured repeatedly with Musicians from Marlboro and, in Europe and Japan, with the Brentano String Quartet and Mitsuko Uchida, and has performed at Lincoln Center as a member of Chamber Music Society Two.
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Pepper was a coordinating producer at ONE LIFE TO LIVE, and directed at OLTL winning a DGA Award in 2001. She also AS THE WORLD TURNS, where she won an Emmy in 2007. She has also been involved with THE VINDICATED, a web soap from Julia Barr and Jill Larson, and worked as a production coordinator on GUIDING LIGHT.
Digest also reports actress Lindsay Hartley has inked a deal to appear ALL MY CHILDREN as Cara, and reveals Prospect Park has "reached out to three other big name Pine Valley stars and has its sights on some OLTL biggies, too."
- Ginger Smith Named Showrunner Of ALL MY CIHLDREN
- Vincent Irizarry Signs Up For New ALL MY CHILDREN
- Susan Lucci Contacted For ALL MY CHILDREN Revival
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Clearly, NBC's "Tonight" show host Jay Leno can't seem to keep a lid on his feelings about his network bosses, and the reports that have been swirling that name Jimmy Fallon as his heir apparent.
On Monday night's episode of "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon," that all comes to a head – if you're to believe a video sent out wide by NBC on April Fool's Day.
Also read: Jay Leno Ratings: Losing His Job Despite Beating His Rivals
Apparently, Leno will be giving Fallon a call to talk about the reports that he will replace him when his "Tonight" contract ends in 2014. Leno has been making light of the reports in his show monologues.
Watch the teaser below and decide for yourself:


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2013-04-24 / Events & Calendar
Last Hope Animal Rescue Bingo May 3
Last Hope Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation will hold Bingo Fri., May 3, Levittown Hall, 201 Levittown Pkwy., Hicksville. The doors open at 6 p.m. and Bingo runs from 7 to 10 p.m. Prizes will be an assortment of baskets including groceries, household items, Italian night, kids playtime, gardener's delight, movie night, cleaning day and more.
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With a recent poll showing one in eight Americans has been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, local experts emphasize that this common chronic disease may be prevented or delayed.
Type 2 diabetes results when your body doesn't properly use or make insulin, a hormone that is required for your body to use blood sugar (also called blood glucose) for energy. Before developing Type 2 diabetes, most people have "pre-diabetes," a condition where their blood sugar levels are above normal, but not high enough to be diagnosed with diabetes.
"The progression of pre-diabetes to Type 2 diabetes can be slowed or perhaps even stopped by managing blood glucose levels," said Mary Lee Lehrich, a certified diabetes nurse educator at Scottsdale Healthcare's Diabetes Center. "The key to warding off Type 2 diabetes is a healthy lifestyle."
That often means losing weight, eating healthy, watching food portions and increasing physical activity, according to Lehrich.
"Maintaining healthy blood sugar levels is tough when food is part of social events, portion sizes are huge, and we are too busy or tired to prepare nutritious meals or be active," she said.
Another complicating factor, Lehrich noted, is that blood glucose levels continually change and are affected by variables such as diet, medication, activity and stress.
Challenges aside, a healthy lifestyle is vital for reducing diabetes complications such as damage to the eyes, kidneys, nerves and heart.
While the poll's one-in-eight finding may seem staggering, also concerning is that 79 percent of those surveyed may not realize they're at risk for Type 2 diabetes or may already have the disease.
"You can have diabetes and not know it," agreed Lehrich. "The symptoms come on gradually and mimic other things. For example, you may be especially thirsty or tired and attribute it to being in the desert or being very busy."
Other symptoms of pre-diabetes can include weight gain or inability to lose weight when you try, excessive hunger, confusion or clouding of the mind, as well as sleepiness after meals.
Scottsdale Healthcare's Diabetes Center offers a variety of classes to help with understanding and managing pre-diabetes and diabetes. For information, call (480) 323-4800, option 1 or visit shc.org/diabetes.
The poll, conducted by Harris Interactive in early February, involved 2,090 U.S. adults age 18 and older.


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Warrants say drug deals ended in robberies
Two men arrested on robbery charges in Groton and Ledyard this week both are accused of ripping people off during drug deals last fall.
Corey M. Wynn, 26, of New London allegedly attacked and robbed a man who had agreed to buy a half-pound of marijuana from him in Groton on Nov. 2.
Wynn was arraigned Wednesday on charges of first-degree robbery, second-degree assault, breach of peace and illegal sale of controlled substance.
According to an arrest warrant affidavit, Groton Town police were called to the Pequot Medical Center, where a man claimed he had been hit over the head with a pistol. The victim initially said that he had been attacked and beaten as he walked on Vergennes Court. The victim later admitted he had gone to buy $2,000 worth of marijuana from Wynn and was sitting in a car with him when a man appeared on the passenger side of the car and stuck the gun in his face.
Wynn is on special parole, having been convicted in 2008 and sentenced to four years in prison for a string of crimes that included a drive-by shooting in Norwich, assaulting his girlfriend while she held their infant daughter and drug dealing.
At his arraignment, Judge Stuart M. Schimelman set Wynn's bond at $100,000 and continued the case to May 22.
In the Ledyard robbery case, David B. Dixon Jr., 23, is accused of robbing a man who had agreed to purchase a pound of marijuana for $5,000. The man, who was with three other people, told police Dixon and another man had held them up during an October meeting on Crocker Hill Road, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
Ledyard officers traveled to Allentown, Pa., Wednesday to extradite Dixon and serve him with a warrant charging him with three counts of first-degree robbery, criminal use of a firearm in a felony, criminal possession of a firearm, second-degree strangulation, threatening and third-degree larceny.
At his arraignment Thursday, a judge set bond at $250,000 and continued the case to May 21.
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Hi, welcome to Grand Theft Wiki! Thanks for your edit to the [[:Myths in GTA San Andreas]] page.
Hi, welcome to Grand Theft Wiki! Thanks for your edit to the [[:Myths in GTA San Andreas]] page.
Revision as of 13:59, 26 August 2009
- 1 Welcome
- 2 Latest News
- 3 ps3 online name
- 4 myth hunters
- 5 guys
- 10 headless cj giltch that shoots blood out.
- 11 challenge mod contest
- 12 cool
- 15 Warning
- 16 Apology
- 17 Warning II
- 18 psn network
- 19 psn network again
- 20 gsf4l
- 21 gboyers or some one
- 22 please
RIGHT ANYONE WHO PUTS ABUSIVE AND STUPID AND ASKING WHERE I LIVE AND ASK THAT I USE MODS WILL BE COUNTED AS SPAM HERE AND WILL BE DEALT WITH BY AN ADMIN OR A WIKIA STAFF HERE IN MY PAGE THIS GOES FOR VANDALS AS WELL COUNT.--Stephendwan 13:59, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi, welcome to Grand Theft Wiki! Thanks for your edit to the Myths in GTA San Andreas page.
Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! -- Gboyers (Talk) 15:47, 26 March 2009
Latest News
Hi there. Just to say we don't put rumours in the Latest News section, simply because there are thousands of rumours, and they aren't really 'news'. Just list them on the GTA 5 Wishlist or discuss them in the Forum. Thanks - Gboyers talk 15:07, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
ps3 online name
can anybody here post there ps3 online name so i can add you as a friend especailly friends of my gta wiki page my name is irelandcool user stephendwan
I will have it up and running in a couple of days, i will note you when my computers fixed, my names DentyLad, i will add you when i get it running again ok!. GSF4L 19:13, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
myth hunters
i have my own gta myth hunters group so far i investigated the sprunk factory activity alot like a head in the window and a voice bangs footsteps a black orb out the window a fence outside fell a drum can bouncing up and down, the heart of liberty city, ratman twice by myself then online found a big shadow and seen a guy running faster then a normal human i tried to catch him but a train ran me over, docklands twice by my self and online found a possible manifestation or giltch. then online we heard bangs and footsteps and i thought i saw an orb. ufolights em i think these are real but im not 100%. note i do not use mods but i use cheats which do noting to the myths as i have san andreas and gta 4 on ps2 and ps3. am i did ghost vortex didn't get anything, ghost town a manifestation and a feeling of being watch doing a daytime investigation its diffently haunted the manifestation is shadowy and i just saw it standing then it just disapeared. if anyone wants to join just tell i don't care what version of each game you have oh and if you have the ps3 version of gta 4 and you got online then tell me and i will send an invite if either of us are online oh and we can do one person only and tell me what ye find. ghost town nightime very scary place they seem to be 3 manifestions at night time then i got so scared that i got into my jeep and drove to the nearest road very scary. dr. salvador other wise known as leatherface, undiscovered so i moved on. serial killer discovered in cluckin bell and fort carson without his guns or knife. las brujas ghost town nightime investigation strang noises, strange voice, got the feeling of being watch and got really scared, apparitions. i think the strange voices were there cause i had the chaos cheat on. next chase zombies no such thing. serial killer more evidence i hit him and he punch me back then i got him to hit a cop and when the cop pulled out the pistol so did the serial killer and started to shoot but the officer managed to kill him and he then spawn a couple of times when i pointed gun at him or heard gunfire when he was fighting me he did not care. i was at the spring place next to his house be careful if you trying to find him as he exists. user--Stephendwan 12:22, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
so far members mis-chief
user--Stephendwan 12:31, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
You have placed a lot of untrue crap on the myths page and you have also swore on there as well, please work on you grammer (all titles have to be capitalisd in articles) and please do not post stupid things on the myths page that are obviously fake and made up, i reverted those edits. Thanks! (Note: Ratman is fake, the sprunk factory ghost is the guard from Honkers Gentlemen's Club and leatherface does NOT exist) --Chimpso 11:09, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
in gta 4 i have a freedom of doing whatever i want that includes killing preachers and hippies. cause your a bad guy which means your able to do it. they are just a few peds that actually annoy me so. i kill them with whatever i have and whatever sick way i can kill them with. its called gta for a reason. user--Stephendwan 12:21, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
THE HEART 0F LIBERTY CITY IN GTA 4 IS ATTACKING ME HELP. THIS MIGHT JUST BE THE ONLY BOSS IN THE GAME IT COUNTERED ATTACKED ME WHEN I THREW A MOLTOV AT IT I WENT ON FIRE THEN I SHOT A ROCKET AT THE TOP IT PUSHED ME BACK ANY TIPS ON KILLING THIS SUPERBOSS!!!!!! USER--Stephendwan 11:33, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
OH NO IT KILLED ME. USER--Stephendwan 11:37, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Ok now i know you are lying, the heart does not attack you, please you have officially proved you are lying in all your myths.
i have found the nearest match to bigfoot it cannot be a mod as its the ps2 version. notice the ps2 buttons on the bottom got this from google pictures. http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/profiles/63/100001763/17941c580064d12a.jpg user--Stephendwan 12:07, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
first off chimpso i am trying to investigate myths that is what a myth hunter does and secondly R* said there was something in the Back O'beyond woods so its either bigfoot, bears or there just on about the ghost cars and i have version one were one of them put bigfoot in as a joke and thirdly i was just joking or pranking people about the heart attacking so stop saying im lying as i do investigate myths. user--Stephendwan 09:59, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
That image is Photoshop. Ok also im sorry. I shouldent accuse you of lying. But please, before adding myths to the articles tell people on the talk pages so that people can verify that they have even HEARD of them. --Chimpso 10:03, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
OMEGA WEAPON ITS ATTACKING ME ITS A BOSS FIGHT IN GTA 4 FINALLY HELP!!!!!! USER--Stephendwan 11:33, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Stop this. Your making yourself look like a total idiont on your own talk page. --Chimpso 11:35, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
oh wait now i remember im playing final fantasy 8 not gta 4. user--Stephendwan 12:03, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
anybody here who knows how to turn down nat as i am at type 3 can anybody tell how to turn it down to two and weres the upnp as i need to enable it in the ps3 so i can play with my friends online that have headsets like me. user--Stephendwan 11:51, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
anybody here who knows how to turn down nat as i am at type 3 can anybody tell how to turn it down to two and weres the upnp as i need to enable it in the ps3 so i can play with my friends online that have headsets like me. user--Stephendwan 11:51, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
headless cj giltch that shoots blood out.
this is instructions of the headless cj giltch.
first of all you need the traid with katana cheat or yakuza theme cheat second you need to get to a two player icon not a rampage just a normal one. third when you enter it be controlling the player two. fourth kill one of the traids and steal there swords when there dead. fifth attack cj with the katana untill you chop his head off.
now you got a headless cj that you can controlle with blood shooting out of his head i haven't entered a mission with the giltch yet or saved it you may want to try it out but be carefull as it may corrupt your save file and turn off the yakuza theme cheat.
user--Stephendwan 17:35, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
challenge mod contest
challenge I got this challenging mod for you to make. you will make a mod were you fight diamond weapon from ffvii i will post a link to a utube video to show you what he looks like and his attacks and also he comes walking from the sea and his massive also make him attack not just you but everybody he sees. user--Stephendwan 15:56, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
2 the winners shall recieve a gift it is open to all friends blocked people even though i don't have any blocked and people who are neither friends nor foe.
please i really want people who have fraps to record to show me i will also like it if people actually fought and won also normal attacks do no damage at all and give him body armor and the diamond flash abilty that people who played ffvii find very annoying as it disables magic and summons so i think maybe make it so it destroys or disables your gun. toughnest rating 10/10. user--Stephendwan 20:42, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
its U-8 from re5 his in gta 4 im fighting it not easy lol i may need assitance. user--Stephendwan 11:29, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
As far as I know you can't change that, it's based on your connection type. That's why you don't get an option while your setting up your network, it tells you your NAT type after you've set it up. However, I don't play online much, so maybe I'm not the best person to ask. I think I spent more time trying to make the online work when I first got my PS3, that I have actually playing online. Biggest GTA Fan EverTalk 11:13, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
ITS THE GREAT ALMIGHTY BAHAMUT SUMMON HERE IN LIBERTY CITY I NEVER IMAGINED CRAP IT ATTACKS ITS ANOTHER BOSS FIGHT. USER--Stephendwan 16:53, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I have previously warned you about harassing other members and spamming messages on people's user talk pages and boards. However, I have had a number of further complaints regarding your behaviour. In light of this, I'm going to have to ask you to abide by some very clear and specific rules. Please do NOT message individual members unless you have something that is specifically related to that person. That means that you should NOT ask random questions to members just because you think they might be able to help, you should not ask people to check your pages/edits or particpate in your quizzes or ask them what they think of various false myths you are making up, and you should not ask unrelated/offtopic questions on this wiki (such as about other games). If you have a general GTA-related question, you should ask this in the Forum only, not any talk pages. What you choose to write on your user talk page is your choice (within reason), but nobody else reads it, so I see no point in leaving messages about the false missions/myths/bosses you are making up. If you continue to ignore these warnings, further action may be taken. If you can manage to behave like a normal member, and participate in this GTA wiki without harassing other members, then no further action would be taken. To ensure this does not happen again, make sure you have read the Rules and are familiar with our Policy. Gboyers talk 23:45, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
cool thanks for that but i think i just message myself and spam my own talk page for the fun of it. See you online on some game i suppose oh and for people who annoy me here i'll give you some trashing as i am with the UBCS and not afraid of anyone. user--Stephendwan 09:05, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
PLEASE MAN PLEASE!!!!! I put up with you stupid talk about mods and boss fights and myths for a while, but now Im fed up! SERIOUSLY, no one really cares about other games or creating a mod for you. I am cleaning up my talk page, I am removing any non-relevant edits by you and I will ignore (and delete) any further comments you make. You have lost my trust. At first I enjoyed talking with you. After that argument we had about the myths I decided to make It up to you because I abused you. So yeah, I replied to your comments about FFIV. And the one about a stupid mod, and the one about myth hunters even though I said it on my user page myself: BUT NOTHING ABOUT MYTHS!!!!!. But then you posted some gibberish on my talk page about NAT 2 or NAT 3 or whatever it was. I got angry and told you to go away. I felt bad about that and said sorry, THEN YOU MAKE ANOTHER POST!!!!! Please sir, I beg you, stop this! --Chimpso 10:19, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
dude do you even now that your talking a one of the best gta 4 pro gamers on this wikia if you were to have ps3 version of it i would target you alot until you begged me to teach you how good i am. user--Stephendwan 10:23, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
What does being a pro gamer have to do with this wiki. You can give me all the ludicrous threats you want. It doesen't change anything. Your skating on thin ice friend. Don't worry, I'll think of a platitude worthy of this moment. --Chimpso 10:34, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
THATS IT THATS IT!!!!!!!!!!! IM SICK OF YOU!!! No no no no no.... I can't act like that, thats against policy. Please friend, stop abusing other users, I reported you again. --Chimpso 10:31, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
Oh good. He changed it. The first line of his post used to say:
i would become someones big friend if i can hire them if they have the pc version of it take out chimpso for revenge
Now it says:
i would become someones big friend if i can hire them if they have the pc version of it take out someone for revenge
Wise choice friend, wise choice. I don't want you to be banned, if you worked on you grammer more and less on your wit then you would really be a good contributer to this site. --Chimpso 10:39, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
Ok, first off things haven't gone great between us. There have been conflicts, arguments and insults. So I just want to say somthing we can both agree on. First off, I apoligise for being an idiot. There is just so much going on In my life that is making me so short temperd. Life is not good for me, and I can sometimes take it out on other people just because they are there. It seems that I have grown into this wiki. My friend said to me: Emanuell, why do you go on that stupid site, you don't get anything in return, the site is gay anyway. My reply to him was: I don't know. Well I guess I have said enough. I won't be annoying you anymore. I will do my best to once again become a co-operative member of this wiki. I hope you feel the same way. --Chimpso 11:56, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
Warning II
Stephen, when I specifically ask you to behave and be courteous to other users, I don't expect you to then issue a barrage of threats and post a request for other users to get "revenge". That is completely unnecessary and against what this community is here for. If you have a problem with Chimpso or anyone, you should discuss it with him or approach a member of staff for assistance - which is what Chimpso has tried to do. There also really is no need for your boastful unverified claims of being "one of the best gta 4 pro gamers" - and you certainly should not use this claim to "win" a discussion. I am suspending you from this wiki for 3 days to give you time to reflect on how you should be treating other members of this community, and for you to decide whether you want to behave or leave - that is entirely your choice. I'm pleased your argument appears to have stopped, but you really need to learn to discuss rather than react like you do, and I hope this drills it into you. Gboyers talk 13:23, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
psn network
since i cannot talk on someone elses page due to a block i just use my own so what i will say is if someone has a ps3 and has online mode on it then add ME PLEASE THE NAMES IRELANDCOOL you should know how to friend invite me. user--Stephendwan 18:28, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
psn network again
yo biggest gta fan ever add my ps3 name its irelandcool or whoever wants to add me. user--Stephendwan 19:21, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
i won't be able to respond to your comments cause the leave a message button does not work or some reason but i can leave messages here (strange) SD. WHAT THE HECK IS THAT ITS. ULIMATE WEAPON. HAHAHA ITS ME ULTIMATE WEAPON ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL CREATURES IN THE WORLD NOW FIGHT ( ULTIMATE WEAPON ATTACKS FORCE YOUR WAY MUSIC STARTS PLAYING AND FANSY INTRO SCREEN HAPPENS ITS A SUPERBOSS FIGHT user--Stephendwan 19:29, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
gboyers or some one
unblock me its 10-19 here in ireland thats nearly 12 O'clock so unban me.
? its 22:05 here in england and we are further ahead than you, how can it be 10-19? also tell me what you mean by unblock? GSF4L
- The unblocking is automatic, so stop complaining. It will expire at 13:57 today. If you do not heed my warnings and start behaving like a normal member, the block will be placed straight back on again. Gboyers talk 12:14, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
sorry i did not know it was automatic. user--Stephendwan 12:20, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
Don't send me any messages now im fighting a boss in final fantasy 7 now do not disturb. --Stephendwan 18:58, 11 August 2009 (UTC)


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The education symposium, open to chefs, culinary students and representatives of the seafood industry, will feature science updates on North Atlantic swordfish and blue crab parasites.
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Sign me up for 15 catgirls.
Have you ever seen a cats tongue and teeth or rabbit teeth? I don't want those any where near my privates. And how does a furry shave? I don't want cat/rabbit hair in my mouth. The eight breasts might be difficult to design lingerie for. Ok I think I have to take a shower now.
I'm not too sure you understand the premise.
Don't forget to spay or neuter your cat-girls
If you've got to neuter your cat-girl then something went VERY wrong.
... that ever read the Ballad of Lost C'Mell?
Or the Dead Lady of Clown Town?
The Underpeople?
Come on slashdot...
How we would treat 'sub-humans'?
Probrably the same thing we do today. Put them in the White House and Congress.
It's clear how you would treat them considering your choice of words.
'sub-human' versus 'semi-human'
Great way to hold no bias at the opening of THIS discussion.
I was looking forward to Giraffe man.
Really? You have some weird tastes [wikia.com].
Rule 34: http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/wikiality/images/3/31/ManKissesGiraffe.jpg [nocookie.net]
Maybe we should resolve the ethical concerns before we perform the science
This is opening Pandora's Box.
Nazi scientists maiming and blinding unwilling subjects happened.
Even from a non ethical moralist view, the parent of the parent was right. When someone says maybe we should sort the paperwork out first, it doesn't mean the is a neat freak and you would be considered an ass for calling him one.
Sorting out ethics in ones mind does not make them a "moralist". Someone getting their heart ready for something big doesn't make them a moralist either.
If it's a matter of some guy creating human-animal hybrids on his own personal island, I don't see that it's anyone else's business.
What if it's a couple torturing or killing their own kids?
How about this less extreme take? What if it's a couple raising their children in a way you don't particularly like? Spanking responsibly (ie: not beating), but you feel Time Outs are the only proper way? There really is a point at which, no matter what your personal opinion on the matter is, unless you can prove a personal stake in the matter, you should just let it go. By utilizing your freedoms and inflicting your will on others, you restrict their freedom unfairly, just because you think what they're doing is wrong. Get over it.
What if I have my own island and I breed humans for food. Is that wrong? If so then why? it doesn't hurt _you_
See this relativist shit is too much for me. Inside every man's head (the sane ones) is a morality calling out that says "this is WRONG". Stop playing the "everything is gray" card because it's not. You live in a community and if said community says you should stop you either remove yourself completely from that community (good luck) or you comply. If you want to change the community views then so be it, but don't pretend for a second you live on some isolated island and have no contact with humanity so it's all OK as long as you stick to your own ethos. The community has a say also and has just as much right to "tell you what to do" when it comes to questions of morality. Morality is a social issue just as much as it's a personal issue.
Whatever happened to doing things because we *could*, rather than because we should?
It ended when we exploded the hydrogen bomb.
But fission bombs were just fine?
Whatever happened to doing things because we *could*, rather than because we should?
And we're tired of people like you who treat a sentient life form as fucking science project! Then you scream, "but... but... I'm not a Nazi! I'm experimenting on ape-men, not Jews!"
In what way is an embryo sentient? Sentience [wikipedia.org] is the ability to feel or perceive subjectively. Absent any nervous system, an embryo, even a purely human embryo, is not sentient.
Well, those embryos are 9 months and a bit of luck away from being sentient, whereas you are one hammer-blow and a bit of luck away from no longer being sentient (and not necessarily dead). And yet I don't think that gives us a right to experiment on those of us who are less fortunate than others.
Yes, there are issues with this line of reasoning with respect to the more intelligent animals, but necessity trumps some things, and keep in mind we still experiment on humans - just once we feel we've reduced the risks sufficiently through other tests. Someone was the first guy to get a pig valve implanted in his heart, and I'd be unsurprised if the success rate was lower at first due to the experimental nature of the treatment.
Speak of Pandora's box, replacing the animal DNA with human DNA in an animal cell is pretty much like taking out a big chunk of code out of your text editor in binary form, replace them with another chunk of code from your image editing software, without any understanding of what exactly is the processor doing, and hope the end result will actually execute and lets you edit images. TFA indicated that the right genes are getting turned off. What we really should worry about is what genes are getting turned on since our DNA is littered with inactive segments of virus RNAs. We may stumble on something that we don't know how to deal with.
Maybe we should resolve the ethical concerns before we perform the science
This is opening Pandora's Box.
Seems to me the only time we resolve ethical concerns are when the ethical concerns become obsolete. People are still debating whether abortion is ethical. It comes down to a matter of beliefs. Does a human genetic code constitute an independant human? Your answer to that question, reguardless of how much you believe it, is not based on fact. Different people don't all share your beliefs and will have different answers. There is no resolving this ethics question. Well, there is one way, and that is to perform the science. If it turns out to be a scientific dead-end, then we'll have our answer: no it is not ethical because it's pointless.
Note that I'm not saying lets do it BECAUSE it might be a scientific dead end and then we can move on, that would be a terrible reason to do something. Just pointing out that waiting for the ethical question to be answered 100% is basically a sneaky way of saying "lets not do this ever because I am uncomfortable with it."
Maybe we should resolve the ethical concerns before we perform the science
This is opening Pandora's Box.
How, exactly, do you propose to resolve the ethical concerns before we even know what they are?
You're suggesting that we sit down and thoroughly examine all the possible ethical concerns ahead of time and come to some kind of consensus...
Never mind the fact that we can't even get everyone to agree on how human beings should be treated, let's all figure out how we're going to treat our human/animal hybrids.
And then, after tons of debate and discussion it turns out we can't even make human/animal hybrids. Tons of wasted time and effort.
Or maybe our hybrids turn out to have no more brainpower than the animals they were hybridized with, but we've already decided that they should have the right to vote.
Or maybe our hybrids turn out to be far smarter than us and take over.
The point of the hybrids mentioned isn't to make freakish movie monsters or vile fringe-wank material
Now he tells me. I'm off to drop out of my graduate genetics program.
More people accept cows dying for the benefit of humans than apes. Simple as that, you all suck!
Wouldn't chimp make a lot more sense?
Don't know about the genetics part, but I seem to recall that chimps are becoming very rare and expensive for experimentation. Also, from the ethical/PR point of view people get a lot more worked up about experimening with chimps rather than cows, pigs & rabbits.
You mean we can't!?
Dammit guess I'll stop my nightly reactor core exposure sessions...:(
Of course you can make mutant atomic supermen. All you need is some DNA and chronitons. Who wouldn't want to have a cannon in their chest or extendible arms?
Granted, you may have to go to the Forbidden Zone in the Galaxy of Terror to get them, but so what?
Or better yet, imagine if we could make a device for turning on / pointing at things at a distance (I don't remember what he used it for or called it so joke fails
Too bad DNA doesn't work like this.
I really find myself wondering, where's the "duh" tag for this article? Sheesh. We've known for *decades* that radical hybridization simply don't work. Anyone remember the totato / pomato? Not the grafted gimmick plant, but the actual genetic hybrid? Yeah, didn't think so. That didn't work either.
Rabbit eggs? I guess the easter bunny has to make money somehow in the off-season.
Making a human-animal hybrid is a waste of time, the real challenge is making something far superior to man.
The five-assed monkey [philgomes.com].
I'll see your five-assed monkey, and bet you a three-peckered billy goat [ravensbrew.com]!
So there!
My one hope for not dying a virgin geek...crushed like a grape under a giant anthromorphic fighting robot's foot. I'm doomed...
Guess I'll have to go with my backup plan to hack into a government mainframe and accidentally create Kelly LeBrock during a lightning storm.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Hell, we're still dealing with how people should treat other actual humans.
Ironically, by treating said humans like sub-humans.
Religious views have never been based on good arguments.
There are a lot of cases where genetic engineering (either cloning or hybridization) DOES raise many valid ethical concerns.
Think about this:
1) Would you feel bad about taking organs from a clone which was grown without any brain?
2) What about a clone who had a brain the size of a bird's?
3) What about a clone with a brain the size of a three year old?
Or say we made some humans who had the intelligence of a dog. Would they be less than human? Could we treat them like slaves and train them just like we train dogs now? What would happen if one of the subhumans bred with a real human? Would the result be 'human' enough that you would treat it like a human?
It feels like religion/morals is the justification they use for all of their decisions here in the States. As an American, an atheist, and a college graduate it really bothers me that it feels like everything is justified by a religion rather than logic. Didn't these guys study formal logic in law school?
Unfortunately, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" is not the same as "Congress shall make no law whose only justification is an establishment of religion"
Every ethical argument has some unjustifiable assumptions at its base.
"We should maximize the sum of human happiness over time." But why?
"Do unto others as you'd have them do to you." But why?
"Let everyone do their own thing so long as it doesn't impinge on your own happiness." But why?
"Respect the sanctity of human life, from conception through to death." But why?
"Don't punish the innocent." But why?
"All men are created equal." Really? Why do you think that? ('self-evidence' isn't a very solid ground in an argument.)
Utilitarianism and humanism are just as arbitrary as disliking human cloning. Worse, actually, since they so often fool their adherents into thinking that the basis of their morality is rationality.
Hierarchy of geekdom. Published scifi authors at the top, furries at the bottom, erotic furries below that.
http://www.brunching.com/geekhierarchy.html [brunching.com]
Of course, neither of those is the goal of the research.
The idea is to create animals that can manufacture various human tissues, whether it's a particular protein, a new heart, or stem cells.
We used animals to produce insulin for a long time, until someone figured out how to genetically engineer bacteria to produce human insulin, or even modified human insulin with particular properties. Now there's interest in engineering plants to produce human insulin.
More-or-less haphazardly mixing up nonhuman cells/genes with human ones (which is, at present, all we're tech
Some kind of PigBearMan?
the question of how we would treat sub-humans will have to wait until we actually figure out how to make them
Why? I think it _should_ be the other way around.
Many animals have natural immunity to diseases that we don't. Or digest particular foods better then we do, or have instincts of healthier activities, such as preferring the taste of vegetables over high fat meet. Lets say for example we bread a human with a shark and a rabbit. Immune from Cancer however prefers vegetables and able to digest vegetables more efficiency.
Yeah, but what if it all goes wrong, and we end up with a killing machine that loves meat and breeds like crazy? Oh wait...
"putting human DNA into cow or rabbit eggs"
No wonder it doesn't work. Cows don't even lay eggs!! Must be the UN scientists...
SailorSpork writes "Fans of furries and anime-style cat girls
I call bullshit on this right out the gate.
There is NO SUCH THING as a fan of a furry.
Furries are mocked and persecuted throughout the internets. In real life, parents (realizing that it is too late to leave them hobbled in the woods) disown them. The feeble-minded openly deride them. Even juggaloes cannot abide the presence of furries.
I understand the occasional grammar or spelling mixup. I really do. But to allow such an egregious error to be posted is on par with a summary detailing the efforts of General Fred Rogers leading his unicorn cavalry against the Mongolian horde.
It has been known for a while now that enucleating an egg (i.e. removing its nucleus) and putting the nucleus of an adult cell inside it seems to do somewhat of a reset. This makes a little sense, since mammalian eggs have chemicals and chemical gradients necessary to uncover the right genes to start off the process.
Given how hard it is to get eggs from humans, other animals would be ideal.
The thing is, the nuclei of these eggs are removed. There is one thing of the animals' genes that would remain, though: the mitochondria. That's why you can trace just your maternal line through your mitochondria - they are provided almost exclusively by the egg. If this ever gets used for actual cloning, imagine how this could screw up a deep ancestry project!
Mitochondria do pretty much the same job and have done so for aeons. They do mutate faster, though, so there *might* be other jobs that they are doing for us that are slightly incompatible. On the whole, though, probably not. In the end, chances are that the only fantasy "hybrid" part of this is human cells with animal batteries.
There's a lot of basic research left to do to see how cow and rabbit eggs (especially the ever-copious rabbit eggs!) differ from human eggs in terms of the chemical environment they provide, but once we figure that out, we will have another avenue of making stem cell equivalents, valuable for all sorts of things including spinal cord repair.
Cloning is a little different than therapeutic stem cell application would be, however. You cannot just throw cloned 'stem' cells into a body - you will get a teratoma: a disgusting ball of flesh with all the body tissues in it. You need to coax it down other development paths first. You can wait for a cloned embryo to develop and take out that particular kind of tissue, which is where some ethical considerations come in, or you can apply hormones and other chemicals to do the job.
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It's that time of year again, when your friends, neighbors and school principal in the Upper Valley lend their time and talents to the annual Mid-Columbia Lions Follies fundraiser for the Oregon Lions Sight and Hearing Foundation.
Parkdale Elementary Principal Kim Vogel hams it up again in this year's Follies, this year as a maintenance supervisor at a civic auditorium called the Madison.
From being called on to scoop up circus elephant droppings to using her trusty mini fan on her belt loop to revive people when the air conditioners break down, "Marge" as she's known, is there to lend a hand.
Megan Ball, Emma Dexter and Natasha Muenzer of Parkdale and Shawn Gray and Emily Curtis of Mt. Hood are part of the large teenage ensemble this year, providing amazing singing and dancing performances in a five-song segment from CATS and a '60s prom scene, among others.
Parkdale resident Carol Arnold stars as Suzanne Sugarbaker, the zany shopaholic but loveable owner of the Madison and Wade and Emily Hogg of Parkdale lend their character and dancing talents to the cast.
This reporter can been seen as Gigi, the auditorium decorator who teams up with daughter Megan to perform "Mama I'm a Big Girl Now" and "Walk Like You're Glam" in a beauty pageant scene.
Sarah Fox of Odell stars as Angela Madison, marketing director and daughter of owner Suzanne, and her daughter Haylie is a kitten in CATS.
Longtime Upper Valley resident Mary Jette assists backstage, but can also be seen onstage in her bathrobe as the over-controlling mother of billionaire geek Wes, played by Wade Hogg, chasing him home from a speed-dating venue.
The Lions Follies has raised over $300K over the years to help local residents receive sight and hearing assistance that they could otherwise not afford.
Three more performances are this Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, April 10, 11 and 12 at 7:30 p.m.
Advance tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for children 12 and under and can be purchased in the Upper Valley from any Lions member, McIsaac's Market and Jim's Market in Parkdale and Mid Valley Market in Odell.
Ticket prices are $1 more at the door.
The Parkdale Fire Department will hold its 21st annual Casino Night on Saturday, April 19, starting at 5:30 p.m.
A $20 entrance fee gives you $50 in starting poker chips, entrance to the beer garden and a chicken dinner.
There will be gift cards and prizes to be won and if you have an item you'd like to donate, please drop it off at the fire station at 4895 Baseline Road or send it by mail to the Parkdale Fire Department, P.O. Box 40, Parkdale, OR 97041.
The event is for ages 21 and over and free local rides home will be provided if needed.
All proceeds help Parkdale Fire to provide necessary yearly training to firefighters and to update necessary equipment.
The Mount Hood Town Hall has recently received an art program grant for $1,000 from the Hood River Cultural Trust, to support eight Parkdale Elementary students taking a six-week pottery class on Thursdays, from 2:30-5 p.m.
Teacher Shanda Pickhardt says four of these students are in the first session ending on April 24.
"Our theme for session one is birds and music, so we've been making owl planters, imaginary paper birds, bird houses, dissecting owl pellets and creating fossils, making bird sculptures and a musical instrument wall hanging. It's not just about clay." said Pickhardt. "I love integrating science, reading, art history, and math into the arts."
"I see a lot of creativity, curiosity and smiles and if you enter the room when there are six kids working on the pottery wheels you can feel the excitement," said Town Hall manager Nikki Stansel. "We are thankful to the HRCT for helping the Mount Hood Town Hall art program create a stronger community through the arts."
The second session starts May 1 and ends on June 5.
For more information, contact Shanda Pickhardt at 541-385-1109.
It's time for Kindergarten Round-Up at Parkdale Elementary School.
If your child will be 5 years of age on or before Sept. 1, you are asked to register him or her at the school between Monday, April 28, and Friday, May 2, when forms will be available in the school office from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Parents need to bring a legal birth certificate and all immunization records for your child the day you register.
Birth certificates can be ordered in advance online and any needed immunizations can be done by Sept. 1 at the Hood River County Health Department on a walk-in basis.
For more information, contact the school office at 541-352-6255
There will be no school next Monday, April 14.
Hood River County School District has added two days to the school year to make up for snow days in February when school was canceled.
School will now be held on Thursday, June 12, and Friday, June 13, with the last day of school being June 13.
The Parkdale Lego Club is now meeting every third Saturday of the month at 12:30 p.m. at the Parkdale Public Library. Legos will be provided but children are also welcome to bring their own.
Parkdale's OSU Extension Family and Community Education Study Group meeting for April will be a part of the Community Cultural Meeting.
On Thursday, April 17, at 11 a.m. in the OSU Extension Meeting Room at 2990 Experiment Station Drive in Hood River, there will be a presentation by Arlene Burns of Mosier, where she lives when not pursuing another exciting adventure in life.
Arlene is an accomplished filmmaker/consultant, worldwide traveler, adventurer, and river guide and has climbed mountains in Tibet, trekked across the salt flats of Bolivia and explored Mongolia from the back of a wild horse.
She will relate her experiences of connecting with people from across the world no matter the language or culture while telling of life-risking tales and wild places.
Everyone is welcome to come and bring a friend.
A lunch hosted by FCE County Council will follow the presentation, with a variety of delicious soups, breads and desserts for all attendees.
For more information contact Joanne Ehl at 541-352-7363.
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