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From Princess to Goddess: Female Success in ITby Molly Holzschlag
Molly Holzschlag works to educate designers and developers on using web technologies in practical ways to create highly sustainable, maintainable, accessible, interactive and beautiful web sites for the global community.
Ridiculous as it may sound, my experiences as an emotional, sometimes hysterical, highly paid, and astonishingly well-liked female in IT are perhaps somewhat unique. Now, don't get me wrong, I've met my fair share of gender (and other) bias, but I am certain that strong, authentic voices that steer clear of power plays and agenda-wars can actually skyrocket a woman's career rather than harm it.
It's common knowledge that the IT workforce has been male-dominated for most of its life. However, this is clearly beginning to change as more women start careers in some aspect of either computer science or in the larger, more integrated world of the Web. The Web itself is a nascent industry, and many of the people working within it are extremely young, which may well be part of the reason it seems a friendlier and more democratic place. Nevertheless, women—particularly those working on the Web—make up for a growing and significant portion of the IT workforce. As such, the male-domination (in numbers, at least) will naturally have to shift and change over time.
But what do we as women, and an industry in general, do in the interim? The beauty of the Web is that its techno-social infrastructure has been built not on those who hold MBAs or PhDs but, rather, it lives on the merit that any individual who enters its realm brings. In a meritocracy, the idea is that the harder a person works, the more an individual participates and shares, the more merit the individual achieves and can use to his—or her—empowerment.
Common Situations, Uncommon Individuals
Pretend with me for a moment that the world is suddenly egalitarian. Yes, I know, it's a stretch, but if any environment has begun to reach toward that, it has to be the Web. After all, we're worldwide; we encompass every language, race, color, gender, creed, sexual orientation, and gender preference known to the world. This native democracy in the spirit of the Web may well be part of the fact that working in the Web field is a good place for all people, especially women, to be.
Does this mean it's all a bed of wine and roses? Oh, no. There are at least two highly dangerous positions for women to be in wherein (perhaps cliché but unfortunately) very real biases exist:
The first of these common situations is as part of an ingrained corporate or organizational hierarchy still built and based in the old-boy mentality. Working for companies of this nature inevitably puts creative people in the direct way of hard-line thinkers. In some cases, working for biased individuals who long for the lost good-old-boy's world of two-martini lunches and power plays. While I have my tongue in my cheek (as usual), this is an unfortunate reality for many, where women, in particular, have to play the same old game to get ahead. For a woman, this often means not aggressing or challenging a wrong where she might see one. The great irony here is that often it is exactly that behavior that can instigate change. But too much is on the line for most people economically, socially, and within their family life. As such, women tend to be highly protective of their positions and do not reach their full potential in an effort to protect those positions.
The second of these common situations is when a woman gets involved in the academic and scientific branches of the Web's technologies. When you examine the W3C, for instance, and count how many women are actually involved, it might come as something as a shock. (At a glance, there are currently 491 active members on the W3C HTML Working Group's mailing list. Of these, less than 15 are women. If anything, this is an unusual case; many working groups have no women involved at all. We do see more women on the administrative side of things; the W3C staff is approximately 25 percent female.) But how on earth can this democratic, worldwide vision be run by so many men? As one of the few women working with the W3C, I can tell you, there's always the risk of being run right over by the testosterone truck. I mean, how many women do you see running toward working with groups such as the W3C? The Microformats community? Or the WHAT WG? Not too many, as it's intimidating and the rewards are purely contributory and merit-oriented as no one gets paid for their participation (except staff) in any of these organizations.
Fortunately, there is something called self-esteem and courage, which are required to challenge your real or perceived fears about what "could" happen when a person goes against authority. Benjamin Disraeli said, "Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth." I remind myself of that regularly in order to help my esteem and reinforce my personal courage.
While this might make for worse battles in the instance of the good ole boys' club, in the latter case, my own self-esteem actually helped me become more involved, better respected, and very well connected even as I remain an emotionally-expressive female at every turn.
Be Yourself and the Rest Will Follow
There's a popular word that has been going around these past few years: Transparency. I hate that word in the context of business and humans. Just because you can see through something doesn't mean that what you're looking at is real. I prefer the term "Authenticity" because I think it better describes the way people are.
Have I mentioned that I'm often hysterical? Dramatic? Emotional? I've even had two bouts of public suicidal ideations. People outside my field have wondered how on earth I have not only managed to keep my work but also to excel at it. In the years prior to the Web, this might have been a more reasonable question. But, in the environment of meritocracy, what happened instead was that people came to my aid, and saw that my struggles and frustrations were very real and often matched their own unspoken feelings. What may have been career suicide for others was career-altering for me. Today, my clients know exactly who I am and what they're getting; the experience of being authentic has actually filtered out those who cannot cope with me, the way that I am. As a result, the way I'm able to interact with my clients remains open and authentic; this makes for lasting relationships, which, in turn, helps build better web sites and encourage excellence for all.
On the standards front, I've run into my fair share of what I like to call the pedantic semantics. These are the folks who are brilliant, who look at the world in a very linear, very set way. When I interact with them, they are sometimes shocked at my outspoken ways and "dramatic" approach to dealing with what they see as academic problems. But at the end of the day, the merit of my work and the honesty of my passions actually have helped soothe some of the frayed ends of the male-dominated world and helped solve real problems.
But What if I Can't?
I am of the very strong belief that right now women in IT have more opportunities to get ahead than ever. The challenges facing us come from deeply ingrained social concerns as well as practical concerns of raising families, and so on. I've been in a very fortunate situation in that regard, where I've been able to roar across the world because I have no family ties to keep me at a specific job. I've used that to my advantage. However, as the male roles within the workplace change and adapt, so must our roles as women.
Certainly if you're trying to keep a job to feed your family and having to play politics within a less-merit-more-old-school environment, what I'm encouraging here is probably not the way to go. However, if you, as a woman, want to make your way to the podium, there's now a lot of opportunity for you. All you need is a Can-Do attitude and to be willing to grow your skin a bit thicker. You have to take risks. Problems of better working conditions do not solve themselves. But an authentic, motivated voice can.
From Here to There
I've made so many public blunders (seemingly), shown my innermost vulnerabilities, and shared my challenges as a full human with all the joy and suffering that includes. I've been fortunate as to "get away" with such blatant, professionally taboo behavior, which originally came as a shock to me. I began asking my colleagues—most of whom are male—why they thought I did.
Their responses have always been the same. That the merit of my work and the heart of the soul I bring to the table are the clear agenda. The passion, drama, and emotional nature of my being has in fact not made men mock me, because the heart and goal is clear. The work I do is not about me, personally, and it never has been. Rather, it is the concern for the technology as it grows and changes, along with the concern for humanity as it, too, grows and changes, that drives me in my work.
And perhaps that's the most important lesson of all: if you want to succeed, do it for the greater good, not for your own advancement. No matter your gender, your race, your nationality, your language, and beliefs, your authentic passion and voice combined with honest discussion and plain old hard work will advance not only IT, but the very world in which we live.
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I remember being impressed at the idea of our continent being slowly built by bits and pieces of continents being added to it.
The idea of continents moving at all greatly shook up establishment of the day, but ultimately the evidence came in and had to be accepted.
Why do they start with the Idaho line as the former west edge of North America? Possibly because what I read was about the Pacific Northwest. The idea ultimately was accepted: Our state is a patchwork of bits and pieces of other continents, being slowly built as one moving bit after another was added to what was already here.
North America, some writers say, is moving west at the rate of about an inch a year. Parts of it, the Cascade Mountains, for instance, are moving upward from one to three inches a year.
We can tell that advancing scientific theories are being accepted when they make The National Geographic, as this one did a few years ago. Some nice sketches of the relative positions of continents and their component parts were laid out.
Tantalizingly, there was reference to this being not the first time this had happened, but those earlier positions thus far have not been established. Geology, we have been told repeatedly, tends
North America, some writers say, is moving west at the rate of about an inch a year.
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to erase earlier positions of things as they make new ones.
So there came, first, the section that holds the eastern west states, followed by the Okanogan Highlands, which left the western edge of the continent at what is now the Okanogan Highlands.
Included in this latest addition were two huge bodies of molten rock, the Kettle Dome and the Okanogan Dome, the latter making the new edge of the continent.
Later addition of the Cascades, says one source, arrived with spouting volcanoes in place. The range sutured itself to the continent, leaving the river which we call the Okanogan as a memory of the day when larger waters edged the country.
Rock on the two sides of the suture are totally different. If we can jump for a moment from the gargantuan scale of colliding continents to humans, the story is told that a woman and her husband, prospecting for homestead land, went from creek to creek, she with a bar of soap in her hand.
When she got a nice lather in soft water, she decided which place they would stay. If that delightful bit ever included her name, I haven't heard it.
If we can return to the larger scale, we are back to the Okanogan Highlands, running north up the older side of the valley. Between the Okanogan and Kettle domes ran a line of volcanoes, which erupted until they had emptied their reservoirs of lava and then collapsed upon themselves.
Drive the San Poil road in a sharp summer rainstorm and there will be baby waterfalls all up and down the valley, briefly.
But that's not the last word. The rock in the western exposure of the Okanogan Dome is currently identified as mylonite, according to "Northwest Exposures," by Alt and Hydman.
They say: "Mylonite, a type of metamorphic (altered) rock that crystallizes within a moving fault zone deep enough that the rock flows instead of breaking."
For years I misidentified it as gneiss (pronounced nice). There are beautiful exposures of it all up and down the Okanogan Valley, and in many other places up and down the Okanogan.
Hard, crystalline (contains thulite) and beautiful, it once edged the continent. Now, other rocks get the placement.
But that is another story.
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Earlier this year, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC renewed its lease at the First Tennessee Building Downtown.
The legal industry is going through a change when it comes to real estate, as technology affects space needs. Baker Donelson went through a real estate assessment before expanding its lease Downtown.
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The city's largest law firm decided to expand its lease, taking over a quarter of the space at the 415,658-square-foot Madison Avenue office tower.
Before the law firm inked the lease, it went through a comprehensive real estate needs assessment with its real estate partner, Cushman & Wakefield/Commercial Advisors.
The legal industry in Memphis and across the country is going through something of a sea change when it comes to real estate, with factors like a more technology savvy, mobile workforce and a dwindling reliance on paper records playing a role in how law firms make their real estate decisions.
"The industry itself is just going through a pretty significant change," said Jim Hughes, executive director of Baker Donelson. "There's a real emphasis on product delivery and reducing overhead to be more cost competitive. You have to put more of an emphasis on that now. It's a very important part of our strategy."
The stakes for law firms, which are seeking to be more cost competitive while maintaining profits, are high. For most law firms, real estate is their second or third highest operational costs behind salaries.
But according to a national survey from Cushman & Wakefield, the legal industry occupies on average two to three times the square footage per employee than the banking, finance, insurance and technology industries.
How individual law firms implement policies and make decisions to address this imbalance is expected to have a dramatic effect on competition within the industry over the next few years, said Larry Jensen president and CEO of Cushman & Wakefield/ Commercial Advisors.
"It's a big deal now," Jensen said. "I think there is a recognition that the legal sector is changing and you can't keep doing business as you used to."
The Cushman & Wakefield report paints a picture of an industry grappling with a great stress on space efficiencies, reduced square footage per attorney ratios and space flexibility in an ever-changing marketplace.
This stress is not due to a firm's desire to simply downsize, but the financial pressures to maintain profits, decrease occupancy and operational costs, as well as to be more in line with other industries.
Like most industries, legal firms are changing their real estate decision-making process to reflect the technology-driven business world of the 21st century.
"You're recruiting a new generation of the best and brightest who don't understand the need for a big office," Jensen said. "There are lawyers I deal with who rarely go to the office, and they don't have to. They can be anywhere and work and not be fixed to one place."
Law firms, which once used large amounts of space to store papers records and house legal libraries, are now operating in the cloud.
"The need for storing paper is going away," Hughes said. "It's mostly electronic and, of course, the library is becoming electronic."
And in a world where employees can now access all the work-related information they need from their laptops, tablets or cell phones, the office is becoming less and less vital.
"A lot of people can be mobile, so they don't need that big office to sit in," Hughes said. "Things are just changing."
In an environment where clients increasingly expect their legal representatives to visit them on their home turf and meetings can be held via conference over the Web, legal firms are now moving away from large, gilded office spaces.
"What's happened is the day of the fancy, big office, that's gone and now it's more of a standard size office with the emphasis now being placed on information technology and conference rooms," Jensen said.
Law firms are also increasingly looking for flexibility in their lease agreements. For years, many legal firms would carry extra space – some of it empty – in anticipation of growth.
"If you've got 100 lawyers and you're sitting there with 20 vacant offices you can do the math on the impact of the cost on that," Jensen said.
Firms are seeking to maximize the amount of usable space, trying to move the amount of usable square feet as close as possible to rented square feet. That means reducing office sizes and making more use of interior space.
Hughes sees a time in the not-too-distant future where multiple attorneys working as a team would share space in what may have previously been an office for a lone attorney.
"I can envision a room where you can go in there and there are flat-screen televisions and computers and they can go in there and collaborate," Hughes said.
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University of California Hastings College of the Law and the UC Hastings Foundation have announced the selection of two alumni and one faculty member who will be honored at the first UC Hastings Honors Gala.
Recipients to be honored at the inaugural celebration are:
"I am pleased to present these three notable individuals in anticipation of our first honors gala to be held this fall," said UC Hastings Chancellor & Dean Frank H. Wu. "Drawing on a more than one hundred year tradition of service to our city, state and nation, these three honorees are excellent examples of the breadth and depth of the impact of UC Hastings on the broader community."
Willie L. Brown Jr. '58 | Alumnus of the Year
After serving two terms as Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco and as the longest serving speaker of the California State Assembly, Willie Brown remains a political force both locally and nationally.
Simona Agnolucci '06 | Rising Alumna of the Year
From litigating for major firms and cutting-edge tech companies in complex cases to her active pro bono practice representing women fleeing gender-based prosecution, Simona Agnolucci is making her mark.
Roger C. Park | Distinguished Faculty of the Year
Professor Park is an internationally recognized scholar and award-winning teacher whose eight books and scores of articles use interdisciplinary methods to examine evidence law.
The UC Hastings Honors Gala will be held on Friday, October 11th, 2013 at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco. The awards ceremony and reception will kick-off UC Hastings' Reunion Weekend, October 11-13 which attracts alumni from all over the world.
"The UC Hastings Foundation is proud to join in celebrating the impressive accomplishments and the numerous remarkable contributions of these three outstanding members of the UC Hastings community," said UC Hastings Foundation President Gail Flesher.
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SALISBURY, Md. – The York College volleyball team suffered a gut-wrenching 3-2 loss to Salisbury in a pressure-packed, heart-pounding Capital Athletic Conference tilt Wednesday evening. The Spartans, who battled back from two-games down to force a fifth set, fall to 25-5 and 5-3 in the CAC while the Sea Gulls improve to 19-10 and 6-2 in league play.
After a slow start that permeated throughout the first two games, falling 25-20 and 27-25, the Green and White snagged the game three win 27-25. Down 20-17 in that third set, Spartan head coach Sue DuMars called a timeout to settle her squad. That timeout proved fruitful as the York side responded with a 4-1 run to take the lead at 22-21. York took the lead on a huge block that landed just inside the Sea Gull back line. Following several more back-and-forth points, the Green and White finally came out on the better end of the result with the two-point triumph.
Game four, which the Spartans would eventually take 25-23, began exceptionally well for the York squad. On the first point, a Cortni Rentzel set for the Spartans proved too tall for middle hitter Alishia Waltermyer. An alert Heather Bucher came sliding in and bumped the ball from right near the net over to Salisbury's side. York won the point shortly after Bucher's incredible effort.
Later on in the frame, York found themselves down 18-16 and were forced to come back yet again. Another DuMars timeout worked again, as the Spartans took a 20-18 lead after the short break.
Salisbury made the rest of the set more than interesting though, regaining the advantage at 23-21. DuMars again utilized a timeout to rally the Spartans as York would take the next four points to secure the win. Right after the timeout however, Salisbury nearly took a 24-21 advantage. That opportunity though was thwarted by one of the best plays of the evening. Ashley Rineman, the Spartans' exceptionally talented sophomore libero, came up with a huge dig near the short corner of the Spartans side of the court. Rineman came out of nowhere to keep the ball alive as York eventually won the point and later the game. Overall, York's defensive work in the fourth set was exceptional both at the net and the back line allowing the Spartans to eventually take the second game.
Forcing a fifth set, the Spartan had already spent significant energy. Despite that, York did look as if they had plenty left in the tank as they opened up a 4-1 lead to begin the frame.
That advantage did not last long though as the ever-battling Sea Gulls went on a 7-3 run to capture an 8-7 lead. York tied the match at 10-10 but just a few points later Salisbury had regained a 12-11 edge.
DuMars called another timeout, a strategy that had worked well for the Spartans throughout the match, but the ensuing points failed to bring the results the other timeouts had brought. Down 14-12, DuMars called her final timeout of the match but this one went begging as well. Salisbury won the next point to post the tight 3-2 conference triumph.
For the match, Bucher and Alysse Beshore led the Spartan with 12 kills each. Bucher totaled 11 digs and a trio of block assists while Beshore also added four digs and four block assists. Jessica Moyer and Waltermyer each posted 10 kills.
Setter Rentzel distributed 46 assists while collecting 19 digs. Rineman picked up a game-high 37 digs as she continues to make her case for the best defensive player, if not overall player, in the CAC.
Carly Todd led the Sea Gull offense with 16 kills on 48 attempts while Jenna Shay recorded 14 kills. Both of the left-handed hitters gave the Spartan defense fits throughout the five-set tilt.
Melissa Stansbury totaled 25 digs to lead her squad while Chelsea Glowacki posted one block solo and nine block assists.
The Spartan loss results in the Green and White falling to fifth in the CAC standings. As the #5 seed heading into the CAC Tournament, York will travel to St. Mary's on Tuesday, November 2, for the first round tilt.
Prior to that match however, the Spartans head to nearby Goucher on Friday, October 29. York concludes the 2010 regular season that evening with a 7:00 pm non-conference tilt against the Gophers.
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Oceanport, N.J.- Stealcase has worked himself into the
45th running of the Grade 1, $1 million Haskell Invitational this
Sunday at Monmouth
"He breezed so well at Saratoga yesterday (July
22) that afterward we decided we'll be there," said trainer Mark Casse on Monday
Stealcase, a son of dual Grade 1 winner
Lawyer Ron and the Cat Thief mare Steal the Show, breezed five furlongs over
Saratoga's main
track in 1:01.92. Casse will name Shaun Bridgmohan as the rider when entries are
taken on Thursday.
While the field is still taking shape,
Kentucky Derby third place finisher Dullahan, Belmont Stakes runner-up Paynter,
Grade 3 Pegasus Stakes winner Le Bernardin, Grade 3 Affirmed Stakes winner
Nonios and California invader Handsome Mike will also contest the mile and an
eighth event on the main track. Possible runners include Wood Memorial Stakes
winner Gemologist, 2011 Juvenile champion and Iowa Derby victor Hansen,
Long Branch
winner My Adonis, and several other top
Stealcase and Paynter are no strangers. They
met on April 28 in the Grade 3 Derby Trial on a sloppy track at Churchill Downs
and Stealcase was third, just a neck behind runner-up
"He should have beaten Paynter that day,"
said Casse while discussing why owner John C. Oxley and he decided Stealcase
deserves his chance to earn a Grade 1 victory. "He lugged in (in the stretch)
and right after the wire, was ahead of Paynter. Next out, he won an allowance
race at Churchill by four lengths. Last out (In the Grade 3 Matt Winn Stakes at
Churchill) he got into all kinds of trouble and still finished second. With the
tough trip he had, I don't even know how he managed to get
On Monday morning Nonios went through his
final serious Haskell preparation at Del Mar under jockey Corey Nakatani. The Jerry
Hollendorfer trainee went six furlongs handily in 1:15 on the all weather
Handsome Mike, who is trained by Doug
O'Neill and owned by J. Paul Reddam, will be ridden in the Haskell by Mario
Gutierrez. The Scat Daddy colt is scheduled to leave Southern California on
Tuesday on a flight to New
York and will be vanned to
On Thursday, Zayat Stables Paynter, who is
trained by Bob Baffert, and G.B. Smith, Jr.'s Nonios will share a plane ride
from Southern California and arrive on the
The Haskell is slated as the 13th
race on a 14-race program with an estimated post of 6:15 p.m. The Haskell Day
card will get underway at noon, with gates opening at 11:30 a.m. A limited
number of reserved seats are still available and can be purchased by calling
732-571-5563, visiting the ticket booth sales office on the second floor of the
Grandstand on any live race day or by visiting www.ticketmaster.com.
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Down On The Farm With The Manchester Monarchs: Blue Line Corps May Be Their Greatest Asset
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DOWN ON THE FARM: Between goaltending and their defensive corps, the Manchester Monarchs' greatest strength will be on their side of the red line in the 2011-12 season.
LOS ANGELES AND EL SEGUNDO, CA — The Manchester Monarchs, the primary minor league affiliate of the Los Angeles Kings, are 1-1 after their first two games of the 2011-12 season, allowing just three goals in those games. They return to action tonight against the Providence Bruins, the start of a three-games-in-three-nights road trip in which they will also face the Portland Pirates on October 15, and the Springfield Falcons on October 16.
Although no one in their right mind, would draw conclusions about a team based on just two games, especially so early in a season, the Monarchs figure to be one of the stingier teams in the American Hockey League.
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In the first update about the CIF Divisional finals this past weekend, it was reported that Simi Valley had five Masters qualifiers and Crespi had four. Sadly, we missed one Celts qualifier and we regret that omission.
Josh Romero, who is a freshman, also qualified for the Masters tournament when he placed 4th at 106 pounds. He defeated Simi Valley's freshman Jacob Cano 15-10 in his first match, then beat Scott Noah of Palm Springs 7-3 afterward. In his third match, he lost to Nico Sanchez by fall, but then won his first consolation match over Jacob Gutierrez of Hesperia 2-1 and lost to Sanchez again 9-1 to finish fourth.
We deeply regret omitting Romero in the story in Sunday's paper.
In other Crespi news, Blayne Briceno won his first CIF title at 132 pounds. His title is the third Celt CIF championship in the last 12 years.
Romero, Briceno, Carlos Lazo (160 pounds), Adrian Manzo (113) and Richard Ortiz (152) will all compete at the Masters Meet at Temecula Valley High on Friday and Saturday. The top nine finishers at that particular meet will go to State in Bakersfield at Rabobank Arena on the first weekend in March.


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The combination of colours, video footage, bird song and ancient artefacts gives the impression of travel through time and space. At the start of the exhibition, you will find one of their most impressive artefacts, an empty shell of an ostrich egg from 3100 BC. Ostrich eggs have not only been used in ancient Egypt as containers for liquids and raw material for bead carving, but also symbolize the deep integration of avian life into ancient Egypt's spirituality. All life is at times described as entering and leaving the world through the egg as a vessel, and that birds are messengers that can travel between the realms of men and their gods. Many of the Egyptian gods are portrayed as birds, and even their people have been symbolized by different bird species.
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The Marshall University Technology Transfer Office will present a free program about intellectual property and patent protection in the health care and life sciences setting on Friday, Aug. 10, from 10 a.m. to noon in the Board Room of Cabell Huntington Hospital, 1340 Hal Greer Blvd., Huntington.
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October 11, 2013
MACOMB/MOLINE, IL -- The Western Illinois University Board of Trustees approved Fiscal Year 2015 operating budget and capital budget recommendations, as well as the FY'14 All-Funds Budget at its Oct. 11 Board meeting on the Macomb campus.
A recommended FY2015 operating budget increase of $15.1 million was approved. Western's current FY2014 appropriated budget is $127.6 million. The proposed budget includes an additional $5 million to support salary and cost increases; $2 million for deferred maintenance; $5 million for the operation of the Quad Cities Riverfront Campus; $1.5 million for student financial aid; $775,000 for the healthcare professional education program; and $775,000 for the Bachelor of Science in Engineering program.
A proposed FY'15 capital budget request of $327 million was approved by the board for new construction/renovations for a WIU-Macomb Science Complex ($111 million); WIU-QC Riverfront Campus Phase III construction ($35 million); a WIU-Macomb Visual Arts Center ($64.6 million); Stipes Hall remodel ($47 million); and a WIU-Macomb Education Building ($69.6 million). In addition, a request for $10.8 million in capital renewal funds was approved for critical deferred maintenance needs such as elevator maintenance, utility infrastructure repairs and numerous other needs. The University's total deferred maintenance and capital renewal backlog is more than $500 million.
The board also approved the Fiscal Year 2014 All-Funds Budget, which will be presented to the Illinois Board of Higher Education, the General Assembly and Gov. Pat Quinn. The University's total operating budget for FY'14 is $241.6 million.
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In 1974, at the age of 14, I was abducted, beaten and raped in my hometown of Lincoln, Rhode Island by a recidivist, pedophile predator. He was arrested and indicted but never went to trial. He never went to trial because he was brutally beaten to death in the streets of Providence before his court date. Thirty-eight years after his murder, no one has ever been charged with the crime.
Men in My Town is my personal story. It's a gripping suspense novel with a storyline that includes characters based on real people, real places and real events. It's a story about men in my neighborhood, men who watched over me during the time between my assault and my assailant's murder. It's a story about good men with the capacity to do bad things. It's a glimpse into the street hustle hiding in the peaceful suburbs of Providence, Rhode Island in the 1970's, complete with gamblers, bookies, car thieves, petty criminals, organized crime, hard-working honest men and a murderer or two. Men in My Town is a story that causes readers to revisit their position on the question, "does the end ever justify the means," and vividly juxtaposes the good and evil that can exist simultaneously in every man.


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My point is this, and it is probably a cynical one. People make decisions based largely on subconscious desires and fears. We operate in small, segmented spheres of rationality, but outside those we make decisions based on emotions. More specifically, there is a small section of decisions where we feel reasonable people might disagree and we come to a conclusion based on relatively dispassionate analysis. Outside this
My money is on the incoming democratic president quietly NOT roll back the signing statements.
Not only do I agree 100%, but I'd like to add that so-called "whistle-blower" legislation has proved to be fairly useless in protecting the employee from the wrath of the corporation or government they blow the whistle on. And some of those organizations have long memories and ethics that would make a vulture puke.
It's easy to sit on the sidelines and make black-and-white moral judgments about this kind of situation. It's not so simple if you're in the middle of one, and wondering what good a big damag
1. Mitchell Baker, the Chairman of the Mozilla Foundation
2. Dr. Michael Geist, a law professor at the University of Ottawa. Last year, he led the public protest to proposed Canadian copyright law changes that would have devastated consumers' technology rights.
3. Mark Klein, a retired AT&T telecommunications technician who blew the whistle on the government's warrantless surveillance program
"Conversion, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will." -- Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway"


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A 2012 PLoS One publication by former NCEAS Postdoctoral Fellow Duncan Menge and his collaborators has received a prestigious award from the Theoretical Ecology Section of the Ecological Society of America (ESA). The publication titled "Nitrogen and Phosphorus Limitation over Long-term Ecosystem Development in Terrestrial Ecosystems" by Duncan Menge, Lars Hedin, and Stephen Pacala, was one of the important outcomes of Menge's work during his tenure at NCEAS from 2008 to 2010. The paper, which integrates disparate observations, presents a new model to understand nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics over different time scales and will help improve predictions about the extent of climate change.
Menge is currently at the Pacala lab in Princeton University's Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and a visiting scientist in the Vitousek lab at Stanford University. His research bridges ecosystem ecology, theoretical ecology, biogeochemistry, and evolutionary ecology. Starting in July 2013 he will be an Assistant Professor in Columbia University's Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology.
Nitrogen and Phosphorus Limitation over Long-term Ecosystem Development in Terrestrial Ecosystems
Duncan Menge, Lars Hedin, and Stephen Pacala
PLoS ONE, 2012
PLoS ONE Community Blog: Balancing nutrient diets determines how ecosystems age


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From NBC's Domenico Montanaro
It's very likely the New Jersey election will be the closest of the races this evening. We could be in for a long night and possibly be up in the morning and not know the results.
But don't count as a factor the increase in vote-by-mail/absentees, according to state elections officials.
In 2005, New Jersey did away with needing a reason to obtain an absentee ballot. It also changed the name from absentee, which connotes needing to not be in the state, to vote-by-mail to alleviate confusion.
The state issued 185,000 vote-by-mail ballots, and as of now 140,000 have been returned, according to Bob Giles, director of the New Jersey Division of Elections.
The Corzine campaign, for one, has been pushing black voters, in particular, to vote absentee through a Web site called, NJVoteFromHome.com, which was created by the state party.
But Giles said the increase hasn't been just attributable to Democrats.
"It's been embraced by both campaigns," Giles said.
In, the last gubernatorial election in '05, about 91,000 New Jerseyans voted by mail. In 2008, more than 280,000 voted absentee.
Counties began counting absentees this morning, and voters have until 8:00 pm ET, when polls close, to get ballots back to their county offices.
"For the most part," Giles said, "there shouldn't delay -- or not by a dramatic amount," particularly since there are only 45,000 absentees that are still out there and haven't been returned.
Still, because of a potentially close election, results might not be known until late in the evening -- or later. Remember that the last Republican to win the governorship was Christie Todd Whitman -- and she won by fewer than 50,000 votes in '93 and '97.
Back in 1981, Republican Tom Kean beat Democrat Jim Florio by just 1,797 votes -- after a recount. That was the last time there was a recount, by the way.
Translation: This is a Democratic state, and when a Republican wins -- or really has a shot -- it's CLOSE.


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The next time you head to the grocery store you may want to keep your purse close to you. It's a story only 11 News has been warning you about.
In the past few days, two women, at two different Walmarts in the Springs told police their purses were taken right out of their grocery carts in the parking lot.
The most recent incident happened just before 6 p.m. Sunday at the Walmart off of Woodmen and Powers. Police tell us the driver pulled up alongside the woman's cart, reached out of his window, grabbed the purse and drove off. The car was described as a blue four-door Ford Taurus.
11 News talked with shoppers who told us they learned about the crimes right here on 11 News and now they're being extra cautious.
We talked with Pam Johnson who said 80-year-old mother-in-law was also targeted inside a store just outside of Denver two days ago.
"She bent over to get something form the frozen food department and when she looked back up to check the item off her list, her purse was gone," Johnson recounted.
Just three days earlier, the exact same thing happened to Ambra Berger. She told 11 News then that while unloading groceries at the Walmart near Chapel Hills Mall, a car drove up, paused like it was waiting for a parking spot, then someone inside grabbed her purse and like Sunday, drove away.
Berger had left her purse in cart while unloading, but said that she was paying attention when Thursday's theft occurred.
"I went to move my cart like it was in the way," Berger said. She thought the driver was waiting on her to move the cart so he or she could park. "They reached out, grabbed my purse and sped off. I was just in shock that that just happened right in front of me."
Johnson used to keep her purse in the shopping cart, but not anymore.
"I'm going to pay more attention to getting my purse out and making sure it's put in the car and it's safe so that somebody doesn't grab my purse too," Johnson told 11 News.
Other shoppers said they've been keeping up on what's been going on, and aren't taking any chances.
"I throw my purse over the middle of the car and then lock the car while I load the groceries and then try to stay sideways so I can see what's behind me," shopper Suzanne Doggrell said.
"One thing my mom has always taught me was to never have your purse sitting on top of a cart whether you're in a store or out of the store. So (hearing about the recent crimes) just makes me hold onto my purse a little bit tighter," shopper Michelle Marquez said.
Police say all of us need to be aware of our surroundings. Thefts increase during the holiday shopping season.
When you're walking out to your car police say to put your purse on your shoulder. And while shopping if you want to keep your purse in the cart, use the child straps to lock it down.
A lot of women forget just how much they would lose if they're purse was stolen. Some women carry multiple credit cards, digital cameras, and other things that would be hard to replace it taken. Police say only take the things you'll need. Maybe just one or two credit cards, try not to take too much cash, take as much as you think you'll spend on that trip, in case someone gets your wallet.
If you have any information on either of these crimes, call Springs police at 444-7000 or Crime Stoppers at 634-STOP.


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JUNEAU — Gov. Sean Parnell's crime bill is raising legal concerns.
The bill, HB73 in the House and SB22 in the Senate, would allow investigators to intercept private communications in sex trafficking cases and strengthen sentencing laws in child pornography and sex trafficking cases. It also would allow judges to order GPS tracking of people with protective orders against them. It is a continuation of the Parnell administration's effort to crack down on domestic violence and sexual assault.
Some of the language in the bill could have unintended consequences if it were to pass as currently written, Quinlan Steiner, head of the Alaska public defender agency, said in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Monday.
Under certain circumstances, the court could require someone accused in a civil court to wear and pay for a GPS monitoring system, even when they might not be able to afford one, Steiner said.
The bill's expansion of the offenses that would require someone to register as a sex offender might go too far as well, Steiner said.
Jeffrey Mittman, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska, in a letter to the committee said the bill raises constitutional concerns.
"While the ACLU of Alaska does not contest the State's ability and duty to pass laws to protect public safety, as drafted, SB22 goes far outside this permissible sphere," Mittman said in the letter. Some provisions in the bill "present substantial Constitutional problems and would entangle the state in lengthy, costly, and needless litigation, should SB22 pass as currently written," he said.
Mittman also said the fiscal note attached to the bill is misleading, and that some of the provisions could be costly for the judicial system.
"The imposition of enormous drains on the economic resources of the state is often the result of proposed statutory revisions such as are set forth in SB 22," Mittman said in the letter. "Fiscal notes prepared by many affected state agencies list the costs as 'undetermined,' because no one knows exactly how much each provision of the law will cost."
Both the House and Senate Judiciary committees heard and held the respective bills Monday.
HB73: http://bit.ly/X2WLDO
SB22: http://bit.ly/12nlIfP


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I agree that Wiki markup is intuitive, but try formatting a large table, for example.
I'd personally like a wiki that would support automated entries, e.g., configuration management. I dreamt once that the wiki I was putting together at work could derive configurations and also cause configuration changes.
Then I woke up.
So not everything apple does is also a hit. The companies that have track records of hits keep trying different approaches until something awesome comes out.
Google, Apple and a few others are looking for a perfect product and lots of things fail along the way. Not every idea is workable on a massive scale.
This time around it appears like the googlites now feel threatened by, oh no, slashdot. So it just seems to be a tightly controlled sites, where a bunch of 'stink' tanks, get to put forward their own for profit views, promote themselves and at the same time try to give that whole 'knol' marketing B$ an air of legitimacy.
The whole site seems terribly stifled and completely lacks the open cook pot of slashdot, where thousands of ideas and opinions boil to the surface upon a continuous basis, all without th
"Google would rather Knol didn't suffer the ignominious fate of Google Answers [google.com]. Not everything Google does is a hit."
Google answers was a bit of a cash grab, you'd get better responses for money. No one really wants to pay a bunch of google guys money for answers when they can use google themselves and save money.
Yeah, Knol works on selling ads.
And massive copyright violation. More than a few Wikipedia editors are getting a little peeved at (a) people blatantly taking Wikipedia articles and reposting them in violation of the GFDL (b) Google's refusal to do anything about this massive blatant copyright violation. IT'S NOT HARD TO OBEY ON THE WEB, GUYS.
Google Answers was tremendously useful thought IMO.
I never understood why they closed it.
It was far better than comparable services are even now (yahoo answers, expertSexChange)
looks good, thanks!
"market prices" on the answers I saw seem quite higher than the old google answers thought.
Expert Sexchange is pretty good, simply for the security they have on not showing you the answers: "Gee whiz, we hope nobody scrolls down!"
I think this only happens when you access their content from a crawled search result. At least, that's what happens from the links Google serves you.
You don't need it. You're wrong.
Without wanting to sound too cynical (I'm using Occam's razor here), this is (rather obviously) just another way for Google to profile you. Unless someone can offer a simpler explanation for an advertising company trying to engage you this way.
Having said that, I'll check it out. Playing the part of devil's advocate, of course
but I think it is mostly that they are sick and tired of people voting with no clue who they are voting for.
There's a simpler explanation: more revenue from ad views.
They're a public company. They are obligated to make money. Making people vote based on an informed thought process--how exactly does that make Google money? Not all are going to vote for the candidate that helps Google. Meanwhile, the site is going to take time (i.e. money) to build and operate.
You can't really chalk it up as a branding or awareness thing either: the Google brand is strong and everybody knows it. And it's definitely not "the co
Making people vote based on an informed thought process--how exactly does that make Google money?
a mismanaged economy in global depression is bad for profits?
bad tech policy and bad internet policy is bad for tech&internet sector profits?
global hatred for America and American companies is bad for US based company profits?
global thermonuclear war is bad for profits?
Not necessarily.
I think Google will remain neutral, but they will probably add some realtime election maps:
http://code.google.com/p/election-maps-2008/ [google.com]
http://code.google.com/p/primary-maps-2008-live/ [google.com]
(hint: only Google people working on that)
Knol Debates: Listening to opinions, debating the facts
That isn't exactly how a debate should be run. It should be listening to facts and debating about opinions unfortunately, there lacks a good source to get facts, and even the presidential debates are more or less set up to keep us more in the dark.
Ideally, there should be a debate where individual citizens can stand up without pre-screened questions and ask the candidates anything pertaining to the election, but today with the news nothing more than glorified hype, that isn't going to happen.
I'd say that especially when it comes to economics and climate, interpretations of the data are basically opinions. I don't think we are going to end up with a single fact repository for these issues.
On the presidential debates, I agree 100%. They are all about management. Especially when they are this close to the end game, nobody wants to risk ruining the sale with a real debate. Even without pre-screened questions, the candidates seem perfectly capable of answering around the questions or answering some
That isn't exactly how a debate should be run. It should be listening to facts and debating about opinions unfortunately, there lacks a good source to get facts, and even the presidential debates are more or less set up to keep us more in the dark.
I hope that Google will require sources to be cited.
Religious Verse: A knol of the dogma of Islam: "Allah is great, Allah says he is great, therefore Allah is great! Nobody debates Allah!" Nuff said
Actual Debate: 2008 Presidential Election Policy Debate: Long-winded in writing! That is a policy debate for you!
The American Enterprise Inst. is a right-wing business think-tank. The Cato Inst. is self-described as a libertarian think-tank.
Where are organizations such as the Democratic Socialists of America, or the anarchist-syndicalist IWW? If you're going to have spokespeople for the extreme right, why not for the actual *left* - and please, do *not* give me the abysmally ignorant, brainwashed US argument that confuses the wimps, er, liberals, with the real left, and socialists. Doing so only demonstrates to those
"This is lemma 1.1. We start a new chapter so the numbers all go back to one." -- Prof. Seager, C&O 351


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A man with a tattoo at a market in downtown Bangkok on March 9. On June 2, Thailand ordered a crackdown on foreign tourists having religious images tattooed on their bodies while visiting the kingdom, official media said.
The AP reports from Bangkok:
Thailand's Culture Ministry says foreign tourists should be barred from getting Buddhist tattoos while visiting because the practice is culturally insensitive.
Culture Minister Niphit Intharasombat said in a statement that his ministry has been receiving complaints from residents that tattoo parlors are etching sacred images of Buddha and other religious images onto the skin of non-Buddhist visitors across the country.
"Foreigners see these tattoos as a fashion," Niphit said in the statement posted on his ministry's website Thursday. "They do not think of respecting religion, or they may not be aware" that it can be offensive.
Thailand is mostly Buddhist, and Buddha statues and images here are considered sacred objects of worship. Millions of foreigners visit the Southeast Asian nation annually.
Niphit said his ministry had called on tattoo parlors nationwide to halt the activity. According to the country's government news agency, NNT, he also asked provincial governors to "inspect tattoo studios and seek their cooperation."


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On all modern computer hardware, you can set timers in single-shot mode for any duration you want, with microsecond to nanosecond timing accuracies. So how come we are still using periodic timers, apart for truly periodic phenomena such as round-robin scheduling without any external timing disturbance ? Is it so costly to set up timers this way in terms of CPU cycles or power consumption ?
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"So how come we are still using periodic timers...Is it so costly to set up timers this way in terms of CPU cycles or power consumption ?"
Knowing you, you've probably already read this but it might provide some insight here.
The APIC timer is dependent upon the bus & CPU frequency, which modern systems can adjust on the fly depending on CPU load. The PIT has a reliable independent clock however I know from experience that the PIT IS expensive to re-program. It does seem that the timer API was designed for the PIT, so it wouldn't surprise me that there are legacy reasons for keeping the periodic timer design.
In theory an OS should be able to use APIC timers and recompute the appropriate timer scaling factors on the fly as the CPU changes frequencies. However therein might lie the problem, I think the CPU sleep/scaling functions are often controlled in System Management Mode, whereas the system timers are controlled by the OS. This lacks a needed citation on wikipedia, but...
"Since the SMM code (SMI handler) is installed by the system firmware (BIOS), the OS and the SMM code may have expectations about hardware settings that are incompatible, such as different ideas of how the Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (APIC) should be set up."
Also using variable-rate timer references may result in timer drift that does not occur with the PIT. Not that I think it should matter so much, in my opinion though typical consumer software should never really need such fast & precise timing anyways.


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here [swin.edu.au] is the actual press release, which (unlike that article) doesn't skip over what they actually did.
The press release is almost as bad, providing only one paragraph that actually mentions in extremely general terms what they did (something about observing galaxy and cluster distributions).
Also, the distinction not made here is that confirming the accelerating expansion of the universe is not the same thing as confirming the existence of dark energy. (And that's aside from "supporting evidence" not being the same as "confirming evidence".) There may be some other phenomenon at work here (e.g., something occurring off-brane and affecting our universe from outside, if the brane world theory turns out to be right), and observations of the structure of matter in the universe may not be sufficient to distinguish between dark energy and other possible phenomena.
That is exactly what dark energy is. Something that causes the universe to expand, but we really don't know what it is. It doesn't matter what specifically is, it is still called dark energy. Just like we have no idea what dark matter is, but it almost certainly exists.
If you use the term 'Dark Energy' for a place-holder of sorts, as many people popularising the concept still do, you're right, but the term has become more than that (which I guess leaves you semi-right)
There are basically three, maybe four classes of hypothesis about dark energy.
1. There's an original set of hypothesis that was based on some estimates about the amount of normal matter in the universe and the amount of dark matter and dark energy there would need to be to make the universe just barely closed, based on the raw data astronomers had about 1994-95.
2. There's a second set of them, based on more current data, circa 2005-10. These are based on their being a lot more visible mass in the universe than we once thought in the 90's, but still a lot less (an order of magnitude, at the very least) than needed to close the universe.
3. Maybe there's a simple explanation, one that requires only a single type of dark matter and a single force for dark energy..Maybe there's even a single theory.that will tie both of them together. But all the types of hypothesis considered for that role are in the area of far from mainstream physics. They all have a certain flakey side to them, almost like the electric universe hypothesis. (And no, I'm not saying that electric universe is a valid contender for a theory to explain dark energy - it does not appear to be at all - I'm just saying that the third group of hypothesis are every bit as strange as E.U.).
4. There's the occasional really weird hypothesis, that doesn't even worry about whether it predicts the universe is flat, doesn't seem to support a simple, single form of dark matter either, and is basically baroque in its elaboration, quirky in its math, and filled with ad-hoc assumptions where we are hoping that instead we will be able to derive some of the fundamental constants from simpler basics..There's a lack of elegant symmetry to the maths, and a certain amount of 'just because' to the underlying concepts. These models look like long-shots to most of the physics community, but if one of them gains traction, we would need to quit worrying about the relative flatness of the universe and why it might be expanding - for many of these models, expansion now doesn't necessarily mean the universe ever had an actual big bang, or an initial inflationary period either, and you can probably relax about the big rip too.
posting anonymous because i burned all my mod points in this thread. out of interest, would you care to provide any examples for (3) and (4)? i'd imagine that with (3) you're thinking things like chaplygin gases, but how about (4)?
you're also missing at least the following
1.5) The hypotheses between 1997 and 2005, which are very similar to the current hypotheses. Given that SN1a data came along in 1997 and the Lambda CDM model was pretty much immediately adopted as standard, with various "dark energies" soo
At one point, I read an article that refuted dark matter. (i'm certain i found it here on Slashdot) Dark matter was necessary to marshall the galaxy into its spiral shape. But these researchers realized that as the galaxies rotated, the stars at the outside edges of the galaxy were moving at a significant fraction (like 1 or 2 percent) of the speed of light. Relativity then causes the apparent mass of these stars to increase. Due to the squared term, 1% only leads to a 0.01% increase in appearent mass,
So hopefully others can find it
From my submission last week (the 19th), http://slashdot.org/journal/265330/Dark-energy---real [slashdot.org]
http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2948 [arxiv.org]
""We present precise measurements of the growth rate of cosmic structure for the redshift range 0.1 z 0.9, using redshift-space distortions in the galaxy power spectrum of the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. Our results, which have a precision of around 10% in four independent redshift bins, are well-fit by a flat LCDM cosmological model with matter density p
What they did is in fact rather easy to explain. First, the background. The early universe, right after its birth, was so small that sound waves could propagate thru it in so-called baryon acoustic oscillations. Concentrations of matter caused gravitational collapses that rebounded in radiation-forced implosions, creating bubbles - roughly spherical voids surrounded by matter. Since everything happened at once, the bubbles were of the approximately same size (think opening a soda can - you don't get inch-di
Segfault on untrusted data input? Sounds like a security vulnerability to me. Better patch that - you wouldn't want somebody to exploit your brain and take control. What privilege level do you run your grammar parser at? Also, what instruction set does it use? Is there already a shellcode available for it?
Segfault on untrusted data input? Sounds like a security vulnerability to me. Better patch that - you wouldn't want somebody to exploit your brain and take control.
Yup, there are a few exploits reported in the wide, that use specially crafted texts to inject malicious payloads, and turn non-patched brains into raving maniacs :
The Bible, the Quran, various books about Dianetics, the biography of Michael Jackson....
(Not disagreeing with the result, but the einstein-fanboying in TFA is a little irritating)
fanboying einstein is better than fanservicing einstein
I know someone who wrote a fan service about Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton...
She is an odd one.
TFA has that quote in it, so I guess you're doing einsteinfanboying if they are.
That is the core of the joke being made after all.
Yes. The reason that it was a mistake is that relativity predicts that the universe must be contracting or expanding. Because Einstein thought that the universe was static, instead of actually making the prediction, he added a fudge factor of gravitation repulsion that would keep the universe from collapsing under its own gravity. So he was wrong, because the universe is in fact expanding.
The reason it was the biggest mistake of his life is that adding gravitational repulsion to gravity produces an unstable equilibrium, so it would not have resulted in a steady state even if he was right. All matter would have had to have been equally distributed across the universe, and any perturbation would have caused local clumps that would collapse under gravity. So he incorrectly added his incorrect fudge factor. He was very, very wrong.
There's a reason he called it his biggest mistake. He made an obviously wrong prediction instead of correctly predicting the expansion of the universe. The fact that we now detect a repulsive force has nothing to do with Einstein's prediction except that it's also a repulsive force. It's just coincidence.
I'm a bit murky. I last read an Einstein biography about 8 months ago...
Was it that Einstein believes the universe wasn't expanding or that he capitulated to the common held belief that the universe wasn't expanding? In one case you had Einstein believing wrong and the other had Einstein kowtowing to the status quo.
It's not *that* much of a leap of physical intuition. On the one hand if you look at relativity as a collection of partial differential equations it crops up inevitably as an integration constant that would otherwise be *assumed* to be zero. So in principle it's there at the outset and is just arbitrarily removed.
On the other hand if you view relativity in any other way the "cosmological constant" emerges one way or another -- as the constant term in a Laurent expansion of a more accurate Lagrangian density
Even if the percentage when he was right was a lot higher than most everyone on this planet. He made plenty of mistakes. Furthermore, stop thinking of him as an old man with the funny hair. He was still young when he did his important work, while most of the mistakes came later.
Correct, at one time he was a young man with funny hair.
Correct, at one time he was a young man with funny hair.
Are Y'oo Serious?
what if dark matter goes all the way up to eleven?
That may be the reason it goes off the charts. Calibrating it for dark matter will make it quite wrong for detecting dark energy.
and current theory uses dark energy to explain
The most popular current theory does - there are competitors as well. But, yeah, this is useful because those working on all the theories can keep on going, knowing that they're more likely to be on the right track than they were yesterday.
They didn't confirm DARK ENERGY, they provided a bunch of data that confirms the universe is expanding AS EXPECTED PER CURRENT THEORY (and current theory uses dark energy to explain).
You inverted cause and effect. There's no theory for the expansion of the universe by itself, dark energy is a theory that was created to explain the *measured* expansion. The problem with it is that it's ad hoc, dark energy is not predicted by any other effect that we have observed.
The press release was skimpy on details, but if I got it right it has demonstrated that dark energy is a good fit to the observed distribution of visible mass in the universe.
If you instead propose that the universe oscillates in size, then it would become obvious that expansion will first be accelerating then decelerating, sinusoidally. Dr.Randall Mills proposes that the acceleration is caused by the stars "burning" matter into energy, uncurving space. Eventually matter will all turn to energy or black holes, black holes will over time capture all the energy and by becoming more massive will cause space contraction. Then something magical will happen and the black holes will ex
The Verse is expanding, we don't know why, so we call it "dark energy", would it be better to call it "boom"?
Lots of theories, few proofs.
I guess the Wiggles [wikipedia.org] are really taking their child education program seriously. You spelt Wiggles wrong, btw.
I wish I could find the reference, but I remember a few years ago of an astronomer(?) calling some celstial objects B1 and B2 after Bananas in Pyjamas. So the Wiggles are justplaying catchup.
It does prove (again) that there is something that causes accelerating expansion, they call it dark energy because they don't know what it is.
Yes. This is correct. The Einstein field equations without a cosmological constant fail to describe the universe. Thus those equations are incorrect or incomplete. However, when we add a cosmological constant, the resulting equations do correctly describe the universe. We don't know, on a microscopic level, what sort of effect produces the term in the equations called the cosmological constant, but we do know some very general features of what sort of microscopic phenomena could produce that term. Mor
So you know, for example, that there is nothing that has mass and doesn't interact with photons? How do you do that, divine revelation?
And, yes, the current theories don't work with observable matter and energy, much as pre-quantum physics couldn't account for things like black-body radiation. When that happens, physicists come up with wacky "what-if" ideas, such as the idea that light (known to be a wave) could only come in packets of a certain "size". Other physicists start playing with those ideas,
Ok It seems they proof the universe was expanding at an accelerating rate. But does/why it proof the dark energy existence ?
Because dark energy is defined as a substance (quantity, thing, whatever) that causes accelerated expansion of the universe.
It sounds goofy but this is legitimate in science, especially physics. For instance, what is a wave function? Well, it's the variation over time and space of "some quantity". What quantity? What IS it? We don't know, however, we can do math on it and arrive at s
Dark energy refers to a specific general relativistic situation. While we don't know why that situation occurs, we have done measurements (including this one) confirming that the particular inputs we put into the equations of GR reproduce the characteristics of the universe to within theoretical and experimental uncertainty.
There are lots of ways that one could construct an alternative theory that would also describe a universe expanding at an accelerating rate that would not agree with our observations.
When I was a kid, TV shows had songs about the alphabet and counting. Apparently, The Wiggles are doing children's edutainment about theoretical physics? Wow...
The cat in the box goes 'round and 'round...
Round and round
Round and round
The cat in the box goes 'round and 'round...
Now let's see if it's dead!
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WTF has Einstein to do with this?!
Of course studies of dark energy are deeply conneted to general relativity. But don't throw names like you pretend you know what you are doing.
This is becoming ridiculous, this is like "Well, I drove 100Mi at 50MPH and it took 2 hours, looks like Newton is right again"
WTF has Einstein to do with this?!
I assume TFS was referring to the cosmological constant [wired.com] - some have figured that Dark Energy is the mechanism behind the lambda* in Einstein's equations.
*someday Unicode will work on Slashdot...
Einstein added the cosmological constant because he felt at the time that the universe should be steady state, it shouldn't have an identifiable end. The cosmological constant was meant to exactly cancel out the force of gravity at cosmological scales so that the universe could effectively last forever. We know now that this is most likely not the case, eventually the expansion will accelerate so rapidly that individual subatomic particles will be torn to pieces by it. So really, Einstein was right in th
As far as I know, Einstein added the cosmological constant because the equations he was solving hod true for any value of it. Then he choosed some value different from zero because he wanted to make the universe static.
Dark energy and dark matter have not yet been observed or measured in any way.
Measuring the expansion of the universe is measuring dark energy. Perhaps you meant that they haven't been directly measured (that is what the "dark" implies, after all), although there are problems with that adjective: most things in physics these day are only ever indirectly measured.
Oh my yes, there's a huge range of how directly something is measured. Dark matter and energy are highly indirect, although with this result, there's more strength behind dark energy.
But then, physicists don't going around thinking that they've proven that there's this "stuff" out there called "dark matter". Only Slashdotters think that. They're not "things", they're words to refer to the gap between two observations. Those gaps happen to both be mass-like if we make the world fit a model that seems quite r
If it's a force, why is it called energy? Shouldn't it be Dark Force, or Dark side of the Force?
1 - Dark energy is the name of whatever causes the universe to expand.
2 - A team of researches confirm that the universe is expanding.
1 & 2 -> A team of researches confirm that dark energy (whatever it is) exist.
It's a multifaceted calibration.
There are stars with predictable brightnesses that are close enough to exhibit parallax.
Those same stars in other galaxies then give us a distance to other galaxies.
There are other events, supernovas etc that are known to have an upper limit in brightness. From that we can estimate distances to far away galaxies.
Or we can use redshift to estimate the same distances.
Of course there are wide error bars. But it's not just a random guess.
And what is this "mathematical models with
Which is great but have we ever correlated redshift to distance or speed with actual observations or just mathematical models? I'm all for mathematical models but when they don't have actual observational support I wonder a tad...
There are a number of techniques for determining distance based on relative luminosity (stars classed Cepheid variables were originally used by Hubble to determine the distance of objects). The technique originally used to determine that the expansion of the universe was actually accelerating used Type Ia supernova, which pretty much all have exactly the same luminosity. Since the luminosity of those objects is a known quantity, the distance is easily determined. So, yes, there is plenty of observational
Slashdot posts these articles about dark energy every 6 months, but nothing ever makes it to consumers. Let me know when Dark Energy generators are available at my local Home Depot, then I'll be interested.
...the *power* of the dark side.
Matter cannot be created or destroyed, nor can it be returned without a receipt.


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