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Just in case Santa needs ideas...I've come up with a few suggestions for stocking stuffers. All items are from etsy and most are under $20. And by the way, if Santa happened to leave any of these in my stocking that would be just fine ;).
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I am in love with this arrangement. Not just because "love is in the air" because Valentine's Day is just around the corner, either. I love the varied sizes of blooms, the complimenting but not matchy-matchy colors and I love that it cost me $15.
I love that it is not a "perfect" looking bouquet. I strongly believe that flowers should look as natural as possible - they really are more beautiful that way. The natural beauty of the flowers really comes out when they are arranged casually, instead of tightly constructed.
I was shocked how beautifully these roses opened up. The different sages of blooming give them a "real" garden rose look.
Here is what the roses looked like when I got home from the store.
I trimmed each stem, then stripped it mostly of their leaves - leaving only a few at the very top of each.
Here they are all trimmed up and ready to go.
The rule of threes applies to almost everything in the design world - flowers are no exception. So, I grouped the flowers in stems of threes, then put them together. Grouping each color is a more pleasing look - you don't want the arrangement so homogenous that it looks polk-a-dotted. You want it to seem like you gathered it in the garden.
Then I add three more groupings around the first set - placing the unlike colors next to each other.
One more set.
Trim the ends of the flowers. They will need to be shorter than you think.
Then, switch vases. Oops! After I made the arrangement, then set the table, I decided I wanted to change the vase to make it less modern and more romantic. Amazing what a little switch like that can make.
I made this arrangment to be the centerpiece of our Barefoot Contessa "Foolproof" Valentine's Day Dinner - see the menu and more details, here!

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Full article available here.Today it is prosaic to say that "feminism is dead." Far from being moribund, feminist legal theory is breaking from its somewhat dogmatic past and forging ahead with new vigor. Many modern feminist legal scholars seek innovative ways to better the legal, social, and economic status of women while simultaneously questioning some of the more troubling moves of second-wave feminism, such as the tendency to essentialize the woman's experience, the turn to authoritarian state policies, and the characterization of women as pure objects or agents. These "neofeminists" prioritize women's issues but maintain a strong commitment to distributive justice and recognize that subordination exists on multiple axes. In defining "neofeminism," this Article examines how the troubling nature of certain second-wave feminist principles engendered new schools of feminist thought. It then illustrates this process in the domestic violence law reform context. The Article concludes that recognizing a new and vibrant progressive feminism can counter exaggerated claims of feminism's demise, the belief that feminism has been devastated by postmodern critique, and the appropriation of the feminist label by conservative women's groups.


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While we are currently in the midst of the early year lull in big name games it's worth taking looking ahead to see what plastic platters we'll be spinning in our consoles later this year. This year looks to be another solid year for the industry as there are a lot of of big name games hitting shelves all during the calendar year.
To do this we queried the Gaming Nexus staff about what games they were looking forward to most this year. This list contains the games we know are coming out this year as well as a few games that we hope come out this year (seriously Valve, it's time for another Half Life game dammit).
Russell Archey
Bioshock Infinite
- Bioshock 1 and 2 were incredible games (although the final boss of the original was quite easy and not as satisfying as I would have hoped), I'm really curious as to what they plan to do with Bioshock Infinite. I will say with B2 however, my attempts at Multiplayer didn't go so well, but that may have just been me, so hopefully if Bioshock Infinite has MP (honestly can't recall), it's worthwhile to check out.
Diablo III
- Yeah, huge Diablo 2 fan here who's been waiting for D3 since before it was even announced. While the whole thing about not worrying about consuming a ton of potions will be a change, it's a nice change. I hated dying in battle because I ran out of potions, which typically consumed a decent chunk of my inventory. I can't wait until this comes out.
Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance
- Unfortunately, I have never had the chance to fully get through a Kingdom Hearts game. A shame, I know. I have Chain of Memories on the GBA, and I do like the card battle system to an extent, but I'm greatly stuck at Hades. I was going to pick up either Re:coded or 358/2 Days, but have been holding out for Dream Drop Distance. Gotta do something to build my 3DS library. :D
Nathaniel Cohen
Mass Effect 3
- Because I've been in love with BioWare for years and have been in double-love with the Mass Effect franchise since I first read about Mass Effect. BioWare + sci-fi = gaming heaven for me.
BioShock Infinite
- Because I love first person shooters and desperately wish there were more single-player focused, story driven FPSs. In the absence of a new Half-Life game, another BioShock entry is as good as it gets.
Grand Theft Auto V
- I know it's a stretch putting it in the "out next year" category, but since we have no release window, I'm putting it in. GTA IV was a revelation for me. Before that I was never the biggest GTA fan. I know a lot of old fans hated the darker, more mature direction Rockstar went in, but I am not one of those people.
Max Payne 3
- Because I'm still in love with bullet time and don't care how it's been over-used and abused. Plus, Max Payne's bullet time has always been the king.
Bonus niche pick: Cyanide's
Game of Thrones RPG
. I know licensed properties made by small, relatively obscure developers often don't turn out well, and Cyanide has already turned out one mediocre GoT adaptation, but just the idea that I'll get to explore Westeros in a visual medium that isn't tied to the TV series via the books leaves me a bit breathless. Also, maybe we fans will finally get a taste of Casterly Rock, the seat of House Lannister, and the most important place yet to be seen. (jeez, I'm gushing about GoT again....)
Jeremy Duff
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
- I cannot wait to see what High Moon Studios does with the Transformers license now that they have a clean slate with no expectations on their shoulders. Tasking them with the movie tie-in of the Dark of the Moon stunted their creativity and love of the series, this year they are going to get a chance to shine like they did with War for Cybertron.
Street Fighter X Tekken
- I loves me some fighting games! Capcom appears to be preparing their most robust fighting package yet with the new game and the amount of variety being packed into the game with the roster and improved tag mechanics could make this the best fighter of the year. Plus, I am really anxious to see some of Capcom's takes on the traditional Namco / Tekken characters.
- Build it, share it, and blow that stuff up! I wasn't sure what to think about Starhawk when I first laid eyes on it but now that I have personally experienced it for myself, it has moved up to the top of my list for most anticipated games for 2012. Unfortunately, I am not at liberty to say more than that... yet.
- If I could only have one game for 2012, SSX would be it. I have been waiting for a next-gen entry in the series since this generation started. While I was skeptical about the new direction the series was headed in, the gameplay footage and developer diaries that have been released have put my mind at ease and given me the assurance that at the core, this will be classic XXS through and through.
Travis Huinker
Diablo III
- Blizzard has a proven track record of producing some of the most polished and deep experiences in the gaming industry. After only spending a few minutes with the Diablo III beta, it is evident that hack and slash clickers will be instantly addicted to countless quests through dungeons searching for the best loot. There has not been any other game able to replicate the perfected formula of adventure and loot gathering that Diablo has offered players in the past. Once Diablo III hits shelves in 2012, all commitments and other games will instantly lose importance in favor of dungeons and loot.
Grand Theft Auto V
- Ever since playing its first iteration on the PS2, I've been completely hooked to each game in the series. Revisiting Liberty City in Grand Theft Auto IV was an unforgettable experience that offered amazing graphics with polished gameplay. Now, Grand Theft Auto V will allow players to revisit Los Santos and its surrounding cities with the polished graphics and updated gameplay of the new engine. Other open world games may try to replicate its gameplay, however, there is only one true Grand Theft Auto.
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
- Each year is host to a plethora of role-playing games that differ greatly in terms of content and presentation quality. From the beginning, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning has set itself apart by taking many design choices to produce a game that aims above else to be fun. Many role-playing games lose themselves in the development stage by adding too many features or creating a massive world without any depth. With each new development video exploring the gameplay concepts, Reckoning looks to become one of the best role-playing games released in 2012.
Guild Wars 2
- The first Guild Wars was revolutionary for offering a massively multiplayer online experience that didn't include a monthly fee. However, the amount of content and gameplay depth was lacking when compared with other massively multiplayer online games. Guild Wars 2 has greatly increased the amount of content along with a massive boost to the gameplay depth. Best of all, the game is still being promised to release without a monthly fee to players. With a massive following from the past game and promised features of the sequel, Guild Wars 2 is shaping up to be the best bet for players that need the next great massively multiplayer online experience.
Dan Keener
The next Rock Band
- Harmonix took a break from the Rock Band series in 2011, releasing only DLC during the year and Mad Catz RB3 instruments near the holidays. In 2012, I am looking forward to what the plans are for the franchise. I think additional instruments have been tapped out, but there is a plethora of bands and artists that were exclusive to the other guys (Van Halen) or haven't even been remotely tapped. The big three are U2, Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin in my mind, so any get with these guys would be fantastic. As for improving the gameplay, I believe the game mechanics are fine, but a creative overhaul to the storyline may be just what the doctor ordered.
Skyrim DLC
- So this isn't really a "game", but I believe that any DLC for one of the best games I have ever played will only further enhance its status as GOTY. Although Oblivion was panned a bit for the horse armor, the Orrey was a nice add on, and the Shivering Isles and Knights of the Nine were excellent, but brief quests and areas. I think Bethesda learned from this and put forth an effort with Fallout DLC that should be the base line for what we can expect for Skyrim DLC.
Grand Theft Auto V
- Although I never actually finished GTA IV, I am a huge sandbox gamer and the innovations from that game that carried into Read Dead Redemption as well as L.A. Noire have me salivating for more GTA. I expect more groundbreaking gameplay, as well as one of the best looking games graphically that we have seen on a console.
Other games I am looking forward to include
Guild Wars 2
Diablo III
assuming I have a PC worthy of running them.
Matt Mirkovich
- Hands down my most anticipated game of the year. After SSX 3 I thought EA could do no wrong and then they dropped stuff like On Tour and Blur on SSX fans. But with previews and trailers abound showing off some really slick gameplay, I'm back on believing that the SSX reboot (anyone else getting tired of this trend in gaming yet?) is going to be a massive success. If that's not the case, I just might have to give up on playing video games.
Grand Knights History
- I've been paying attention to this game ever since it was but a twinkle in George Kamitani's eye. A new game from Vanillaware always gets me excited, and this game is no exception. A traditional JRPG on my PSP might seem like a waste of time, but with multiplayer (bwah?!), and that oh so gorgeous Vanillaware art that I love, I expect this game to just take up permanent residence in my PSP.
- Even with the recent hullabaloo about Alex Ahad's art style for the game, and the fighting game community's desire to white knight the hell out of this game for being 'sexist' (yet managing to completely look away when Dead or Alive enters the picture). I still look forward to Skullgirls on the principle of it being a solid fighting game. The bits I have played over the year have had me more and more excited to pick up a game that hopes to also teach me how to be a better player (because honestly, I suck at cross-ups and I don't even know why).
Dragon's Crown
- Another Vanillaware title? Yep. This brawler looks to be the main reason why I pick up a Vita when it comes out. And even though this spot could just as easily be filled with something like Final Fantasy XIII-2, I'd like to think that Vanillaware is working just a little bit harder on delivering a game that will demand my attention for weeks on end.
Tyler Sager
Diablo III -
I just can't seem to get enough of this style of game, and Blizzard's track record with the Diablo series (for me, at least) is perfect. Once this hits, I don't envision my computer playing much else for a few months.
- It's been too long since I had my snowboarding fix, and SSX is shaping up to be everything I'm hoping for.
Mass Effect 3 -
I'm almost frothing at the mouth for the final chapter in this series. Did I make the "right" choices in the previous titles? I almost can't wait to find out...
Xenoblade Chronicles
- Why on earth would anyone think North American players wouldn't want a crack at a title like this? I relish the thought of dusting off the WiiMote for this local release.
John Yan
Mass Effect 3
- I'm John Yan and Mass Effect 3 is one of my most anticipated games of 2012 on the Citadel. From what I saw at E3, the combat has just been tuned to a point where it looks fluid and very fun to participate in. Shepard's story is coming to a conclusion and it looks to be one fun ride to the end. BioWare's done a great job at planning out the trilogy so I'm really looking forward to see how the story finishes up.
Diablo III
- Stay a while and listen as the long awaited sequel to one of the best games ever produced finally arrives. The demo was a ton of fun and there''s some great updates to the classic gameplay that is popular to this day. I'm chomping at the bit to play with a few friends. Diablo 1 and 2 stole a ton of my time and I'm sure the third game will as well with its addictive gameplay and fun story.
BioShock Infinite
- Ken Levine skipped the second game but he's back in a big way with Infinite. I was in awe watching the play through at E3. The action is fast paced and jumping from rail to rail looks really cool. The reality warping holds a lot of potential and the world seems really, really interesting. It's not Rapture, but Columbia has the potential to be just as engrossing.
Charles Husemann
Since I'm the one putting this article together I'm going to cheat a bit with my picks. (EIC privilege). Instead of piling on the platitudes for the previously mentioned games (because I want Mass Effect 3 and Diablo 3 like everyone else), I'm going to add a few other games that should be on your radar.
Torchlight II
- When people talk about the delays in Diablo III, I always route them to Torchlight. Great game, lots of fund, random dungeons, great art style, runs on any computer...seriously the game is the Nutella of the game industry. The folks at Runic also showed how that kind of game could work on the console as well. I'm excited about Torchlight II because it's more Torchlight and now I can play with my friends. I loved what I saw at E3 and I think people are going to be surprised at how good the game is once they get a chance to play it.
End of Nations
- RTS + MMO = Awesome. I'm not sure why people aren't talking about End of Nations more but the game plays like a massive version of World of Conflict. With persistent tech trees and a persistent world this game has the chance to surprise a lot of people.
The Last of Us
- I have great faith in the story telling of the folks at Naughty Dog and I'm hoping the deliver a new take on the zombie/disease outbreak game with something fresh and new. The first trailer showed some serious potential and I'm hoping they can deliver something that good. This game might not make it out this year .
Mechwarrior Online
- Giant Robots with big guns shooting it out online. 'Nuff Said. OK, well here's a little bit more. Read the online journals, read the developer diaries and tell me you can't feel the passion of the developers behind this game. I'm hoping that passion creates another great Mechwarrior Franchise as we can always use more giant fighting robots in our lives.
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Last month, Eric Pickles, the communities secretary, agreed to intervene in the case of Nottinghamshire County Council, which has cut its voluntary sector grants budget by 34 per cent after having its own government grant cut by 8 per cent.
Pickles will intervene because the decision appears to contravene the Best Value Statutory Guidance, a one-page document published by the Communities and Local Government department last September. It says local authorities should "seek to avoid passing on disproportionate reductions by not passing on larger reductions to the voluntary and community sector and small businesses as a whole, than they take on themselves". In his foreword to the guidance, Pickles says all central government departments have signed up to the standards it sets out.
When the document was published, Kevin Curley, then chief executive of the umbrella body Navca, said it could form the basis for a legal challenge to Nottinghamshire County Council if the cuts were not addressed through other means.
But the document, dubbed the 'Pickles pledge' by some, is a piece of guidance, rather than law. How much legal force does it have, and could it be an effective form of legal recourse for charities whose funding is cut?
The guidance has already been used to challenge Derby City Council in a move by Community Action Derby that resulted in 16 local charities having their grants extended. CAD warned the local authority that it might have contravened a section of the guidance that says councils should consult organisations when planning to decommission services.
But lawyers are divided about its value in other situations. Alex Rook, an associate solicitor at the law firm Irwin Mitchell, says it is crucial. "A local authority can deviate from the best value guidance only if it can show there is a good reason to do so," he says. "It is hard to think of a scenario where there would be a good reason, and I'd imagine the courts would take an unsympathetic approach to anything a council tried to come up with to show that there was."
Rook says he has won previous legal cases in which he has accused authorities of breaching statutory guidance, and is confident that the document could be effective. "You would apply for a judicial review of the council's decision to cut the funding, arguing that it had not given appropriate consideration to the guidance," he says.
Rook acknowledges that a council could argue, as Nottinghamshire's did, that it had cut its voluntary sector budget disproportionately because it had to prioritise its statutory obligations. "That may seem like a powerful argument," he says. "But you could challenge the council over whether it has met its statutory obligations in the most cost-efficient way."
Ravi Low-Beer, a solicitor at the Public Law Project, is more cautious about the guidance. "I think you'd need a bit of creative lawyering to use it effectively," he says.
Low-Beer says the best value guidance is particularly useful outside the context of legal action. "It is potentially a tool to negotiate for better decision-making by authorities," he says. "If a charity was confident that disproportionate cuts were being made without good reason, they could use it for pre-decision lobbying and post-decision challenge - and the challenge wouldn't need to be in the courts. For most voluntary sector groups, going to court risks being too expensive."


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Sucking on a pacifier may be beneficial for infants because it's linked to a lower risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) (although it's not clear why). But after 6 months, pacifier use is less helpful and more of a habit. Some doctors say 6 to 12 months is a good time to wean your child from the pacifier, especially if your child is prone to to ear infections.
The American Academy of Pediatrics and American Academy of Family Physicians recommend limiting or stopping pacifier use after your baby is 6 months old to reduce the risk of ear infections. After that, using a pacifier is linked to increased ear infections, especially among 2- and 3-year-olds.
But that's not a hard and fast rule. Many children use a pacifier well into their toddler and even preschool years, and they typically stop on their own between the ages of 2 and 4.
For these kids, the pacifier may serve as a so-called transitional object: It relieves stress and helps them adjust to new or challenging situations, like starting daycare or taking a long car ride. If your child takes great comfort from his pacifier, you can let him continue to use it for a while longer.
But if your child shows no sign of quitting, eventually you may need to help wean him off the pacifier when he's about 3 or 4. Long-term pacifier use can cause your child's upper teeth to tip forward toward the lip, leading to dental problems.
There's no evidence that pacifiers cause permanent damage to baby teeth – they usually shift back into place after a few months of not using a pacifier. The bigger concern is permanent teeth, which start coming in around age 4 to 6. It's a good idea to mention your child's extended pacifier use to the dentist so she can check his teeth and jaw.
Even if your child has no trouble with ear infections and the dentist doesn't see any potential problems, you might want to consider banishing the binky sooner than later. A pacifier habit can be difficult to break.
Some experts think pacifiers could interfere with speech development. If your child often has a pacifier in his mouth, he may be less likely to babble and practice talking, or the pacifier may distort his speech.
When the time comes to wean your child from the pacifier, do it gradually. Many parents find it easiest to start by limiting daytime use, then work their way up to phasing it out of the nighttime routine. Starting a new bedtime ritual can help.


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I spoke to representatives from three different laboratories around the country about the latest in laboratory technology. We discussed various trail-blazing tests, and what symptoms or situations were indicated for each. Ask your doctor about these eight lab tests so you can truly practice preventative health care.
Looking for Osteoporosis
Once you hit 35, gradual bone loss is inevitable. This trend is accelerated by smoking, poor diet, lack of exercise, genetics or race and may eventually result in osteoporosis. Full-blown osteoporosis is painful; losing bone is not. While we should all take steps to prevent or slow bone thinning, you may want to take extra precautions if you're an unusually fast bone loser.
Special X-rays are usually used to detect brittle bones. However, this pricey test isn't sensitive enough to see if or how rapidly you're losing bone. By the time bone loss is noticed it may be too late.
Fortunately, labs like Meridian Valley Clinical Laboratories in Kent, Washington now offer a simple, inexpensive (around $70.00) urine test that measures a bone loss protein called Type I collagen. The higher your levels, the faster you're losing bone.
Bone is continually breaking down and rebuilding itself, says Karen Wissinger, Meridian Lab's Administrative Director. In 10 days, the osteoporosis or NTx test tells your doctor how fast you lose bone, not merely how much is gone. Prevention against further bone thinning can then be taken.
The NTx test should be performed on women (or men) 30 years and older who are at high risk of developing osteoporosis. This establishes a baseline reading. The test can be repeated every year or two to see if bone loss rate has changed. Treatment effectiveness can also be assessed by repeating this osteoporosis test six to eight weeks--the time it takes for bone loss patterns to change--after the initial NTx.
The Parasite Test
About five to 10 percent of the general population have parasites, estimates Dan Lukaczer, ND, Assistant Director of Educational Services at Great Smokies Diagnostic Laboratory in Ashville, North Carolina. This is much higher than what most conventional doctors report.
Increased world travel and a rise in immigration to this country may explain why pinworms, giardia, disentamoeba and other protozoan parasites or worms are more common. "Or it might be parasites have been prevalent for a long time but not detected before," suggests Lukaczer. Unlike conventional doctors, inquiring about parasite-like symptoms is standard protocol among many natural health physicians.
Diarrhea, cough, itching, skin rash, bloody stools, unexplained fever and abdominal pain all strongly suggest an intestinal parasitic infection. However, these bugs can launch symptoms like headaches, chronic fatigue and joint pain too. Food allergies and autoimmune disease may stem from parasites. You can also be infected and feel nothing unusual.
Most laboratories offer parasite testing. But at Great Smokies, specialists in digestive lab tests, searching for parasites is a passion. "Our lab techs are well trained and well versed in these bugs," says Lukaczer. "We do around 500 parasite tests per week, much more than the average lab. In addition, we run extra specialized tests that the normal reference lab doesn't. So we pick up infections not normally detected."


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In mid January, Chad Orzel didn't like some hype about a "proposed solution to the cosmological constant problem":
The quotes from other researchers in this are all too diplomatic and leave me wanting a post on it from @skdh https://t.co/E1qYwasjY2— Chad Orzel (@orzelc) January 19, 2017
An article in the Physics World promoted an April 2016 paper by Josset, Perez, and Sudarsky recently published in PRL
Dark energy as the weight of violating energy conservationthat has claimed the the apparently observed cosmological constant is just the accumulated amount of energy that was created when Nature violated the energy conservation law – and that's supposed to make things more natural.
The 97% crackpot Lee Smolin praised the idea as a speculative approach in the best possible sense that is revolutionary if true. The 60% crackpot George Ellis said that the proposal was viable and no more fanciful than what's being explored by contemporary theoretical physicists – his English isn't as good as mine so I had to improve this man's prose.
Orzel found these comments too diplomatic and, as a "progressive" (a far left whacko), he decided to look for the best possible debunker with the only politically correct number of penises (zero) who should debunk this stuff: Sabine Hossenfelder.
Unfortunately, the politically correct number of penises often has additional consequences that Orzel must have overlooked. So instead of debunking the stuff, Hossenfelder wrote an essay saying
Yes, a violation of energy conservation can explain the cosmological constantYes, geniuses in the NASA basements could have constructed a self-propelling spaceship, too. None of these two closely related claims sounds convincing, however. It's not surprising that Hossenfelder's attitude isn't too far from Smolin's – after all, the two happily collaborated for quite some time.
I think that these cheap ideas show the deterioration of the kind of "theoretical physics surrounding quantum gravity" that is manifested whenever the researchers are allowed not to be experts in string theory. Without string theory, thinking about the physical phenomena going beyond the effective field theory picture almost unavoidably reduces to pure speculation and random sacrifices of cherished principles. These people may be good at throwing important things to the trash can – string theory, energy conservation law etc. – but they never have anything good to replace the things they have thrown away with.
What are Josset et al. doing? First, Einstein's equations of general relativity say\[
R_{\mu \nu} - \tfrac{1}{2}R \, g_{\mu \nu} + \Lambda g_{\mu \nu} = \frac{8 \pi G }{c^4} T_{\mu \nu}.
\] It's an equation for a symmetric tensor. Cannot these components be split to several pieces? Yes, there is a natural enough way to split the equations into two pieces: the trace and the rest. The rest is the traceless part.
If you take the trace of Einstein's equations above, i.e. its product with \(g^{\mu\nu}\) summed over the two indices, you will get\[
R(1-D/2) + D\Lambda = \frac{8\pi G}{c^4} T
\] where the spacetime around us has \(D=4\). Here, \(R\) and \(T\) are the traces of \(R_{\mu\nu}\) and \(T_{\mu\nu}\), respectively. You may calculate the traceless part by subtracting \(g_{\mu\nu}/D\) times the trace from the original Einstein's equations. For \(D=4\), we get:\[
R_{\mu \nu} - \tfrac{1}{4}R \, g_{\mu \nu} = \frac{8 \pi G }{c^4} (T_{\mu \nu} - \tfrac{1}{4} Tg_{\mu\nu})
\] You may derive the trace and traceless part of Einstein's equations from the principle of least action. How? You simply consider separate variations of \(g_{\mu\nu}(x^\alpha)\) that preserve the determinant of the metric at each point (you get the traceless equations in this way); and the variation of the scalar factor (that's how you get the equation for the trace).
Fine, the "reduced" Einstein's equations where you only discuss the traceless tensor – from varying the metric while preserving its determinant – is known as unimodular gravity.
Great. So the cosmological constant doesn't appear in the traceless part at all. It only affects the trace part. The covariant derivative (or divergence) \(\nabla^\mu\) of the original Einstein's equations is identically zero. Note that the covariant derivative of the metric (and therefore the cosmological constant term) is identically zero, much like the covariant derivative of the Einstein tensor. The covariant derivative of the stress-energy tensor vanishes if the equations of motion for the matter field are obeyed.
But when you treat the trace and traceless equations separately, this automatic vanishing of the covariant derivative disappears. So you may decide not to impose the trace part of Einstein's equations (which contains \(\Lambda\)) at all. Instead, you may try to derive this condition from \(\nabla^\mu T_{\mu\nu}=0\). But once you have this continuity equation, you may change it to\[
\nabla^\mu T_{\mu\nu} = J_\nu = \nabla_\nu Q
\] There's a current \(J_\nu\) which measures the violation of the energy conservation law and you may also decide that it should be equal to some gradient of some scalar \(Q\). Great. There is of course no justification for any of these things. You are just randomly abolishing some equations of physics. There is no good conceivable source for any nonzero \(Q\) – Josset et al. therefore enumerate some of the crackpots' most popular ways to bastardize physics, namely modifications of quantum mechanics and spacetime discreteness at the Planck scale.
None of these things is really consistent, let alone well-defined according to some known rules, so these excuses are equivalent to enumerating some tooth fairies and Harry Potters, but they don't care.
You can see that the effect is nothing else than some hypothesized contribution to \(T_{\mu\nu}\) that, after some time, becomes equivalent to some component of some \(Q\).
There is a way to improve this whole theory and eliminate all the nonsensical "violations of the physical laws" while keeping the predictions exactly the same. You just postulate that \(\Lambda\), the cosmological constant, is no longer constant. Instead, it is some variable field – quintessence, if you wish – whose value may evolve due to the very same effects that were driving \(Q\) above. Great, so some mysterious effects – tooth fairy, violations of postulates of quantum mechanics, global warming, discreteness of the spacetime, or any pseudoscience that your New Age religious cult considers fashionable right now – just make the current value of the vacuum energy density \(\Lambda\) equal to \(10^{-123}\) in the Planck units.
Have you solved anything? I don't think so. You have just parameterized the problem in some way and added some implausible supernatural phenomena as "possible" explanations of the problem. But you haven't actually made any steps towards proving that the problems have been solved in any way. And you haven't provided the readers with any evidence that your additional hypotheses are right. So you have just confined yourself into a less likely axiomatic system than you started with. The problem is worse than it was before you tried to do something.
If I quote Feynman's famous cargo cult commencement speech:
There is also a more subtle problem. When you have put a lot of ideas together to make an elaborate theory, you want to make sure, when explaining what it fits, that those things it fits are not just the things that gave you the idea for the theory; but that the finished theory makes something else come out right, in addition.That's exactly what Josset et al. – and many others – don't achieve. They determine that if a tooth fairy is behind the cosmological constant, she must have \(10^{123}\) times longer teeth than her legs. But it's just a parameterization of the pre-existing problems within a particular framework that makes extra assumptions: nothing new comes right from the "theory". The theory is scientifically worthless – it's just a way to decorate the numbers and problems with some arbitrary new words and visions. But science must also produce results, i.e. reduce the number of unexplained independent mysteries or parameters or observations.
At Hossenfelder's blog, Haelfix wrote:
It's not entirely settled whether Unimodular gravity differs from GR's prediction at the quantum level. This goes back and forth endlessly in the literature.Amen to that.
At the very least, its not clear what you gain when trying to solve the cosmological constant problem. There is still a finetuning problem, the difference is -they say- that there is only one number to explain, and not an entire renormalization tower of unknown physics which tends to drag you (order by order) towards a Planckian value.
It's questionable whether you may separately modify the trace and non-trace at all, especially in quantum gravity. Needless to say, you need a really consistent theory of quantum gravity to approach any such question really meaningfully. String theory – the only known and probably the only mathematically possible framework that achieves that – doesn't allow you to treat the trace separately from the rest – there is no "unimodular gravity" according to string theory. Outside string theory, there are no well-defined rules which is a way to understand that the people answering these questions without string theory can't agree about the answer.
(All the "critics" love to say all the nonsense about string theory's making no predictions. Unimodular gravity is just one example among many: Without string theory, you can't say anything about its validity. With string theory, you can make things sharp. If string theory is right, unimodular gravity is not. String theory answers all such qualitative "are you allowed to modify this or that" questions.)
But Haelfix pragmatically measures the "progress" in the second paragraph. The fine-tuning problem for the cosmological constant isn't really solved because you haven't explained why the apparent cosmological constant has converged to the observed tiny value after all these uncontrollable violations of the conservation law. And when the cosmological constant problem is approached consistently, it differs from problems with non-renormalizability of theories because the vacuum energy term is maximally "relevant" (dimension zero operator) so it doesn't produce a tower of high-dimension operators.
In effective field theory, you just need to adjust one term, the bare cosmological constant, and everything is fine. It's still true that you need such an adjustment in the fairy-tale by Josset et al. They haven't improved anything that is linked to the predictions. The ultimate question is why a theory that goes beyond the effective field theory – e.g. string theory – where the cosmological constant isn't adjustable is predicting the value we are observing. The story by Josset et al. isn't helping to solve this actual problem at all. It just parameterizes the problem in terms of some specific hypothesized tooth fairies that don't seem to be helpful in making things better.
By the way, Hossenfelder gave a "cute" response to Haelfix's comment:
And, yes, what Haelfix says above is correct, there is a long back and forth in the literature about whether or not quantizing unimodular gravity helps with the cosmological constant problem by taming vacuum fluctuations, but the calculations in the paper above doesn't depend on the quantization.Calculations in a paper may be independent of effects in quantum gravity but if quantum gravity prohibits assumptions or results of the calculation (such as unimodular gravity as an allowed inequivalent theory), then the calculations in the paper are clearly irrelevant for or inapplicable to our Universe which follows quantum, not classical, laws at the end. In other words, the paper is strictly worthless because the approximation it uses breaks down for the purpose where it's used.
I feel some deja vu. When the cosmological problem was considered the hottest problem in physics around 2000, many solutions were proposed and the "violation of the energy conservation" was probably one of them. I can't remember who proposed it at that time and I don't think it's important or he or she deserves some credit. But this is just another example showing that if someone is trying to do research of physics without looking for any actual "laws", and without taking some "laws" seriously enough, he won't see any progress. He will just randomly oscillate back and forth – without any way to determine the positive and negative directions – in the landscape of speculations. This is not what science should do which is why all the people should be expected to know the state-of-the-art framework to address all such questions, namely string theory. Even if someone could find "something else" or a "problem with string theory", it could still be possible. But no one should be supported for some Brownian motion in the landscape of speculations.


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Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has revealed the five songs that get him motivated before a big game.
The 34-year-old centre back picked '99 problems' by Jay Z as his first track, revealing the song is up-beat with a good tempo and a bit of aggression to get the players in the mood.
UK grime artist Wiley got in the mix with his song 'Gangsters', followed by two of the biggest names in US rap history, with the collaboration 'Two of Americaz most wanted' by 2-pac and Snoop Dogg getting the nod.
'Maybach Music' by American artist Rick Ross was next on the list, followed by Drake's song 'Lord Knows'. The final track, which also features Ross, has a good vibe and Ferdinand is a fan of the lyrics.
Whether Ferdinand's Manchester United teammates let him have control of the stereo in the dressing room is unclear, but the #5 magazine star certainly likes his tracks rough and ready.
Check out the video below, and let us know which songs you like to listen too to get in the mood for a big game…


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Actress Susan Sarandon, born a Catholic, has a love-hate relationship with the church. The "love" times surely include winning an Oscar for portraying Sister Helen Prejean in "Dead Man Walking"; narrating an Oscar-nominated documentary short, "School of Assassins," about a priest who led the annual marches outside the Army's School of the Americas; narrating a 1999 PBS documentary on church frescoes funded in part by the Catholic Communication Campaign; and even letting her picture be used for a billboard campaign in the St. Louis area to promote vocations to religious life.
But then there are the "hate" times. One of those surely included returning an award she had won from The Catholic University of America, which she had attended, in the late 1980s to protest the university's firing of Father Charles Curran for his writings on sexual ethics.
And one must also surely include the Oct. 15 remarks she made about how she had given a copy of the book "Dead Man Walking" to the pope. Sarandon hastened to add that the pope to which she had given the book was Blessed John Paul II, "not this Nazi one we have now," meaning Pope Benedict XVI.
It's been well-documented that Pope Benedict was registered into the Hitler Youth while a teen in his native Germany, but he never went to meetings, and his lack of participation resulted in hardships for his family. But you can't let context get in the way of a good quip.
But pushback against Sarandon has emerged from both Catholic and Jewish circles, condemning the remarks and demanding an apology.
Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. bishops, in a posting titled "Cheap Shots" on his blog "The Gospel in the Digital Age," gave his thanks to the New York Daily News for publishing an anti-Sarandon editorial. He said the newspaper was "probably right that Sarandon will face no public fallout for her remarks, 'because so very often the Catholic Church is considered fair game for anything.'"
Bill Donohue of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights said Oct. 17, "Sarandon's comment is obscene. Sadly, it's what we've come to expect from her." He added that, upon Pope Benedict's election in 2005, "Rabbi David Rosen, director of interreligious affairs for the American Jewish Committee, said it was 'rubbish' to maintain that Ratzinger chose to belong to the Hitler Youth."
Abraham Foxman, head of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, also called on Sarandon to apologize. "We hope that Susan Sarandon will have the good sense to apologize to the Catholic community and all those she may have offended with this disturbing, deeply offensive and completely uncalled-for attack on the good name of Pope Benedict XVI," he said. "Sarandon may have her differences with the Catholic Church, but that is no excuse for throwing around Nazi analogies. Such words are hateful, vindictive and only serve to diminish the true history and meaning of the Holocaust."
And Rabbi David Wolpe of Temple Sinai in Los Angeles, writing Oct. 19 in the Washington Post's "On Faith" blog, said, "The Holocaust is not a stick with which to beat those who disagree with us." He added, "There are many ways to be objectionable without being a Nazi. Calling other people 'Nazi' is one of them. Susan Sarandon knows better, or should, and however much she may dislike the pope or what he stands for, she owes the pope, as well Catholics all over the world, a genuine apology."


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A benefit will be held for Sara Michaels on Saturday, Jan. 25 from 1 to 6 p.m. at the Black Walnut Legion. There will be food and drinks, music by Joan DeGaramo, a basket raffle, a coin pitch, a variety of crafts, Pampered Chef items and Thirty-One products. Anyone interested in donating a basket, making bake sale items or donating items to give away for the coin pitch, it would be greatly appreciated. The dropoff points will be at the Thirty- One office by the Children's Center in Wyalusing, Who Knew? Consignments in Wyalusing and B.Z. Michaels's Beauty Shop in Laceyville. Presale tickets are available at the drop-off locations listed above.
Monthly Breakfast at the Herrickville Fire Hall, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014, 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. All you can eat: pancakes, French toast, ham, sausage, eggs, home fries, sausage gravy and biscuits, coffee, orange juice, real maple syrup and sugar-free syrup. Adults, $7; children to 12 years, $3; preschool, free. Benefit: Herrick Twp. Vol. Fire Co. - Dept. 4.
All-You-Can-Eat Breakfast, Sunday, Jan. 19, 8 to 11 a.m., Towanda Elks Lodge, 929 Main St., Towanda. All welcome. Need not be a member. 570-265- 6998
On Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014, the monthly Vesper Service continues at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, corner of Church and Chestnut Streets, Montrose at 5 p.m. Special music provided by Sisters Cottam and Oveson. A simple supper is served in the parish house.
The Wysox Sewing will hold their monthly dinner at noon, Tuesday, Jan. 14 in Ferguson Hall of the Wysox Presbyterian Church, Rt. 187N, Wysox. Roast pork and stuffing will be featured on the menu with mashed potatoes, gravy, cole slaw, assorted vegetables, gelatin salads and a delicious variety of homemade pies. Everyone is welcome. Take-outs upon request—call ahead. Reservations are available, but not necessary. Please call 570- 265-6119 and leave message for reservations. R1c
Pancake Supper at the South Auburn Grange Hall on Jan. 11, serving starts at 4 p.m. Chicken and Biscuit Dinner, Sunday, Jan. 12, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., LeRaysville Social Hall. Adults, $8. Benefit: LeRaysville Pike Vol. Fire Co. R1c
New Era United Methodist Church community dinner will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 15 at 11:30 a.m. Escalloped turkey plus more. Free-will offering. For more information, call 570- 363-2496. All ages welcome.
Ham and Potato Dinner: Friday, Jan. 17 from 4 to 7 p.m. in St. Basil's Hall, Dushore. Baked ham, scalloped potatoes, string beans, cole slaw, applesauce, dinner roll, homemade desserts, coffee, tea, milk and water. Adults, $8; children, 6-12, $3; under 6, free. Take-outs available. Everyone welcome. Proceeds benefit local activities. Sponsored by Knights of Columbus, Dushore, Wyalusing and Mildred Council 12406. R1- 2p/S2p
Wyalusing Public Library is putting on a Trivia Night, Saturday, February 22nd 7 p.m at the American Legion in Wyalusing. This event is sponsored by Niemiec, Smith & Pellinger Law Firm and all proceeds will benefit the Wyalusing Public Library. Tickets are $10 per person.
Ham and Turkey Party at VFW Post 6824, Haigh's Pond, Rome on Feb. 8. Doors open 6 p.m. Games start at 7. Games, prize wheel, Showdown, dice games, 50-50 and others. Food available starting at 6. No one under 18, please.
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Bradford County Pennsylvanians for Human Life will have a Pro-Life Rally and Walk on Sunday, Jan. 19 at 2 p.m. beginning at the Bradford County Courthouse in Towanda. The group will then proceed to SS Peter and Paul Church on Third Street in Towanda for an nondenominational worship service. Light refreshments will be served.
A documentary video, "The First World War, 1914-1918: An indepth look into the War to End All Wars" on Thursday, Jan. 16 at 1 p.m. at the Bradford County Library, Rt. 6, Burlington.
A Dining with Diabetes program starts Jan. 21 at 1 p.m. at the Stevensville Community Hall. The program is for adults with type 2 diabetes. Contact Penn State Extension to register by Jan. 17 online at the following address: http://extension. psu.edu/ health/ diabetes/ events or call toll-free 1- 855-394-7534.
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AA Meeting—Wednesdays at 8 p.m. in the basement of the Wyalusing Presbyterian Church. Open meeting, nonsmoking.
S.O.S. Al-Anon—Family Group will meet on Fridays at 7 p.m. at St. John's Lutheran Church, Hopkins Street, Sayre.
TOPS PA #1134—Laceyville, meets each Tuesday evening at the Braintrim Baptist Church in Laceyville. Weigh-ins from 5:15 to 6 p.m., meeting from 6-7 p.m. For more information, call 570-965-2493 or 570-869-1834. Toll-free 1-800-932-8677.
Recovery House Meetings— AA Group of Towanda meets Mon.-Fri., noon; Mon., Thurs., Fri., Sat., 8 p.m., Sun., 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. NA meetings are held Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Speaker meeting every first Sunday, 8 p.m. All meetings at 205 Main St., Towanda (please use rear, lower entrance).
Compassionate Friends—of the Endless Mountains will hold their meetings on the second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. in the Endless Health Community Center, Montrose. TCF is open to all families who have lost a child from any cause at any age. There are no membership dues or fees of any kind. For more information, call 965-0901 (evenings) or 278- 1658 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
MOPS—Mothers of Preschoolers meet every first and third Wed. of the month from 9 to 11 a.m., September through May. Meetings are held at the First Presbyterian Church, 5 Court St., Towanda. All mothers of preschoolers are welcome. Child care is provided for children, ages infant through five years old. For more information, contact the church at 570- 265-5575.
Diabetes Support Groupmeeting the first Thursday of every month at the Guthrie Clinic office in Towanda beginning at 5:30 p.m. There is no charge and all diabetics and family members are welcome. For more information, call Dawn at Guthrie Clinic at 570- 265-6165 during regular business hours.
The Wyalusing Masonic Lodge No. 618 meets at 7:30 p.m. on the third Monday of each month at the Lodge Hall, 158 Church St., Wyalusing. For more information, call 570-721- 0008.
Memorial Hospital's monthly bereavement support group schedule for 2014 will continue to meet on the last Tuesday of each month from 3 to 4:30 p.m., located in the library on the lower level of Memorial Hospital, Towanda. The group follows the book by James Miller, "What Will Help Me?" and other authors' writings related to grief and loss. The support group is open to those who have experienced loss and is facilitated by Trudy Ventello, LSW, a social worker with Memorial Hospital's Hospice program. For more information call (570) 268.2233.
Towanda-Wysox Kiwanis Club meets every second and fourth Wednesday of each month at the Weigh Station Café at 7:30 a.m. in Towanda. They find ways to help the children in the community. Contact Eileen Sheets at 570-265-2350 for more information.
Addictions to Victory—Faithbased support for addictions. Program will be held the first and third Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. at New Generation Church, Milan, 570-888- 1967.
MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) group meets the second and fourth Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m. in St. Peter's Church, 3832 State Route 6, Tunkhannock. For more information, visit www.mops.org or www.stpetestunkhannock.org. Call 570-836-2233.
AA meeting–Friday evenings at 8 p.m. at the Standing Stone Vesper Church spiritual building, River Road, Standing Stone Township. Open meeting, nonsmoking.
Endless Mountains Model Railroad Club will meet Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014 at 6 p.m. at the club building, 7837 Route 29, Dimock. A work bee will start at 4 p.m. Visitors and new members are always welcome. For more information, see the we site at the following address: http://emmrrc.wix.com/trains.
Al-Anon meetings on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. in the upstairs kitchen of the Wyalusing Presbyterian Church. Open meeting, non-smoking.
Caregivers' Support Group sponsored by the Law Office of Leslie Wizelman and the B/S/S/T Area Agency on Aging meets at noon the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at the Library at Memorial Hospital Personal Care Home in Towanda. Anyone taking care of a family member or loved one, be it at home or as a resident of a long-term care facility welcome. For information, call Donna Benjamin at the Law Office of Leslie Wizelman, 570- 746-3844 or Carol Dieffenbach at Area Agency on Aging, 570-265- 6121. The next meeting will be on Tuesday, Jan. 14.
Attention: American Legion Auxiliary Unit #534 — Due to the cold weather and snow flurries, there will NOT be a meeting on Jan. 9. The next meeting will be held on Feb. 13 unless inclement weather sets in again. Members are reminded that their 2014 membership dues are now due and payable.
The Wyalusing Senior Citizens will meet at the fire hall on Tuesday, Jan. 21 at 11:30. Bring a dish to pass and place setting. All persons 55 and over are welcome.
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Penny Social, Feb. 22, Laceyville Fire Hall. Items needed are: Kids' toys, glassware, knick-knacks, flower pots, video games, movies, CDs, curtains, jewelry, framed pictures, TVs, radios, magazines, books, housewares, holiday decorations, silverware, dishes, casserole dishes, candles, cookbooks, baby items, tins, tools, baskets, old records. Questions and drop-off locations, call Luella at 570-833-5522.
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Front and Rear Suspension System - The $400 All-Purpose XJ: Part 2Posted in How To on October 1, 2010
We don't really cover Jeeps too often at OFF-ROAD Magazine. Instead we leave those to our other dirthead magazines, and we hit hard on fullsize trucks and prerunners in our pages. That being said, we cannot deny the absolute beauty of an all-purpose off-road vehicle-no matter what type it is. But if we're building a Jeep, it's going to have to be either a fullsize Jeep (FSJ) or a unibody. Classic Cherokees (XJs) with unibodies (or unit bodies) can be found going fast in the dirt, climbing over rocks, and charging through the gnarliest off-road terrains. That's why it was an easy choice to start on my all-purpose XJ build that I picked up for $400. Last month we concentrated on the Hesco head and other engine modifications and updates that Jeeps R Us made to my non-running Cherokee. Not only did Jeeps R Us get it running again, the crew there also added more power and fuel efficiency to boot.
With my XJ purring wonderfully (save for that crack in the exhaust manifold), I headed over to T and J Performance Center in Orange, California, to get started on some chassis stiffeners and a Rock Krawler front-and-rear long-arm suspension system.
Cherokees are notorious for bending if given some over-exuberant love in the dirt, so chassis stiffeners were a must to keep mine healthy as long as possible. Cherokees are also notorious for wrapping the rear passenger side leaf spring up and warping it, so I was excited to be linking the rear of this one with a Rock Krawler kit.
I'd also ordered a set of 33-inch Cepek F-C II tires and some DC-1 wheels to shoe this XJ. The 33s are not going to stuff completely without some fender trimming, but for now I want to concentrate on getting the suspension installed and mounting my new rolling stock.


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About 4.5 miles of residential streets to be rehabilitated
City Mayor Coleen J. Seng and the City Public Works and Utilities Department encourage citizens to report potholes that need to be repaired. Potholes are created when water seeps into cracks in the pavement, freezes and expands. Recent snowfall has increased soil moisture and could contribute to new pothole formation on City streets.
"We had a mild winter, but there are still potholes that need to be repaired," said Mayor Seng. "We want to keep our streets in good condition, so when you see a pothole, please report it so the City can get it repaired." The City's goal is to have potholes repaired within 24 hours of when they are reported.
Citizens can report potholes and other street problems in three ways:
"This is the first year we have the ACTION system in service to give citizens another way to report potholes," said Mayor Seng. "The ACTION system allows residents to report potholes 24 hours a day and to track the resolution of their requests."
Typically, Public Works repairs about 13,000 potholes every year, using about 650 tons of patching material. Public Works officials say there may be fewer potholes this year due to the mild winter.
Mayor Seng urged motorists to drive carefully in those areas where crews are making street repairs. Seng said this construction season, the Public Works and Utilities Department will rehabilitate about 4.5 miles of residential streets. The project areas include:
For more information on street rehabilitation projects, contact the Engineering Services Division at 441-7711.


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The parents of Martin William Richard, the youngest victim of the Boston Marathon bombings, said their final goodbyes to their 8-year-old son in a private funeral Mass on Tuesday.
In the quiet of the morning, away from the public glare, the parents and other close family mourned young Martin, whom classmates recall as someone who told a mean knock-knock joke, always won at math games, and stuck up for friends at school.
In a popular photograph, Martin was shown holding a sign that read: "No more hurting people. Peace."
"We laid our son Martin to rest, and now he is at peace,'' Martin's parents, Bill and Denise Richard, wrote in a brief statement issued after the service.
The grieving parents expressed their thanks to those who have reached out to them after terrorists killed their son and seriously wounded Denise Richard and Martin's sister Jane.
Bill Richard, a respected figure in his Dorchester neighborhood, was with his family when the bomb detonated. He survived with shrapnel damage to his legs.
"The outpouring of love and support over the last week has been tremendous,'' Bill and Denise Richard said in the statement. "This has been the most difficult week of our lives, and we appreciate that our friends and family have given us space to grieve and heal.''
The family said the service Tuesday was private and celebrated with immediate family. A public memorial service is being planned for a later date, the family said, "to allow friends and loved ones from our community to join us for a celebration of Martin's life."
In photos that became public after the April 15 attack, the Richard family can be seen standing near barricades on Boylston Street, close to where one of the bombs was dropped, allegedly by two brothers from Cambridge.
Soon after Martin's death, the family was engulfed with an outpouring of public prayers, support, and tears. Mourners have left bouquets, balloons, and stuffed animals in tribute to Martin's memory. More than a thousand people gathered with candles in a playground in Dorchester shortly after Martin died.
On social media, people circulated a photograph of Martin, smiling with one prominent big-boy tooth, holding the peace sign, which became an international emblem of the day's horror. On Sunday, ministers across this city recalled Martin and the other bombing victims.
Martin's funeral Tuesday was the final service in a somber week of tributes and goodbyes to those who were killed.
In Stoneham, mourners wept at the private funeral service for MIT police Officer Sean Collier in St. Patrick's Church. An honor guard from the two police departments where he once worked stood guard over the casket of Collier, a 27-year-old Wilmington resident who was attacked near Kendall Square in Cambridge in what Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis has called a "vicious assassination."
Hundreds gathered in Medford Monday to recall the life of 29-year-old Krystle Marie Campbell, who grew up in Medford and had lived in Somerville and Arlington. She was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Also on Monday, 600 people paid tribute to 23-year-old Lingzi Lu, a native of Shenyang, China, and a graduate student at Boston University who was recalled as a young woman who worked hard, played the piano, and dreamed of romance and a happy life.Brian Ballou and John R. Ellement of the Globe staff contributed to this report. Meghan Irons can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @meghanirons.


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Looking Ahead: 2nd Annual LSS Rookie Of The Year Award
At the end of the 2011 season, Lonestarstruck started a new tradition with our first annual Rookie Of The Year Award.
We nominated the top five rookies we felt where deserving of the honor:
- Bruce Carter – linebacker
- Kevin Kowalski – center
- DeMarco Murray – running back
- Tyron Smith – tackle
- Dan Bailey – kicker
When writing the article, I thought to myself this would be an easy contest and that DeMarco Murray would win by a landslide. However, as many fans would agree after reflecting on the season, rookie free agent Dan Bailey won by a slim margin. Bailey made the most of his opportunities ending the season with an impressive 86.5% of his kicks.
With all the talent on our roster last season, you wouldn't think of a kicker winning the award but when the game is tied with seconds left on the clock the kicker has the weight of the world on his shoulders. Bailey proved be can handle the pressure and that he has the talent.
With pre-season almost coming to an end, we want you to keep an eye on the rookies and then chime in on who you think could possibly be nominated for our 2nd Annual Rookie of the Year award.


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Decades after hurricanes first got formal names, some blizzards in the United States will get their own names this winter.
The Weather Channel will assign the names. It is the first time a national organization in North America will proactively name winter storms.
Most of the names will have a Greek/Roman theme. For example, the first three names on the list are Athena, Brutus and Caesar.
The formal hurricane naming system began in the mid-1950s. Male names were added to the lists in 1979.
To avoid confusion, none of the Weather Channel's 26 winter storm names has been on any of the lists of hurricane names.
The Weather Channel hopes the new blizzard names will help raise public awareness about winter storms. Officials said an average of about eight to 10 storms will probably be named each winter.
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BRADFORD actress Hannah Midgley landed her first television role at the age of 18 months, and now she's playing a schoolgirl mum in a new Kay Mellor drama.
The six-part BBC1 series, In the Club, which started this week, centres on a group of pregnant women who meet at parentcraft classes. The cast includes Hermione Norris, Tara Fitzgerald, Jill Halfpenny and Will Mellor,
Hannah, 21, plays Rosie, a troubled teen with a secret pregnancy. It was an emotional audition that landed her the role.
"I was really nervous as I saw something in Rosie that I could connect with. I understood her," said Hannah. "When I went in, I could feel a lump in my throat and I burst into tears. Kay said, 'Let's do this scene' and I was sobbing the whole way through. I got to the end and looked up, and Kay was streaming. I thought even if I don't get the part I can be proud of myself, as it was a good audition."
Writer Kay Mellor revealed that Rosie's dilemma reflects her own experiences of being pregnant at 16. "I was five months pregnant before I told anybody other than my boyfriend," said Kay.
"My mum took me to a clinic where I was told to attend a slide show. I sat in a room with nine or ten older women, I was too young and shy to talk to anyone.
"If I was frightened before I saw the colour slide show, I was absolutely terrified after! As I walked home the inevitability sunk in - that was going to happen to me in a couple of months. I felt like throwing myself down a quarry."
Hannah, who had a dramatic birth scene in this week's first episode, said Kay gave her valuable advice.
"She told me quite a bit, to understand what a 15-year-old would go through when giving birth," said Hannah. "It's so important for me to do it justice for her."
Hannah's first TV role was as a baby in police drama A Touch of Frost. Aged three she joined Emmerdale as Jack Sugden's daughter, Victoria, and appeared in some dramatic storylines. Her character was in a bus crash, caught up in a bitter custody battle, and ended up mute after the trauma of discovering her brother's torrid affair with their sister-in-law.
A former pupil of Blakehill Primary School in Idle, and Debut theatre school in Shipley, Hannah told the Telegraph & Argus in 2006, when she was 12, that she had to keep storylines secret from her pals.
"My friends know I'm not allowed to say anything, they just find out what happens when it's on TV," she said.
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Wally Tunes 'an Absolute Blast'by Steve Charles • February 24, 2014 Share:
Rousing performances by bluesmaster Gordon Bonham '80, acclaimed world music performer James Makubuya, award-winning composer and singer Phillip Seward '82, and experimental electronic music pioneer Peter Hulen topped off Friday's celebration of music at the Fifth Annual Alumni-Faculty-Staff Symposium, Wally Tunes: Music and the Liberal Arts.
But the emotional highlight of the day was the world premiere of 3 Phantasies, composed by B. Allen Schulz '87 especially for the symposium. Played beautifully by cellist by Kristen Strandberg and pianist Diane Norton, the piece honored Norton, Schulz's piano teacher during his Wabash days, and her late husband, Fred Enenbach, and earned a standing ovation.
"The symposia we've had the last five years have been special in their own way, but none more so than this one," said Alumni and Parent Programs Director and Interim Dean for Advancement Tom Runge '72. "Those who missed it missed an absolute blast. And Gordon Bonham's blues on guitar and banjo at the conclusion of the event worked better than any anti-anxiety medicine you can find. You simply couldn't listen and not decide life is good!"
The concert in Salter Hall followed an afternoon of presentations on topics including violin making in the 21st century, the economics of the pop music industry, insights on creating a rock band, Duke Ellington at Wabash, musical storytelling, the role of music in the student movement of the 1960s, and a closer look at the lyrics to the songs of that era.
Members of the Wabash faculty made presentations along with luthier Andrew McKone '07, Indianapolis Symphonic Choir and Butler University Chorale Conductor Eric Stark '88, Chicago-based Pioneros Misticos keyboardist Rick Fobes '72, and Bonham, who spoke about and demonstrated his efforts, funded by an Indiana Arts Council grant, to adapt the five-string banjo to the blues.
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We want a logo design that uses the XA.net as the major part of it, is somewhat simple but also conveys a sense of technology, of possibility, and that we are making something that is usually complex for them, much simpler and more effective. Past images we have used have included the cog/gears motif to show we are making a lot of stuff work, connect, integrate and also creating new value for them. In terms of color choices, we think we want to stay with the existing palette but are also open to new color choices if they make sense for the brand. I don't think we want any tagline embedded in the logo, just the XA.net with some kind of icon/image as needed as part of it.
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For weeks it has been practically impossible to ride a bus or read a billboard without being made aware that Tom Cruise would be doing something of apparently great import today. The ubiquitous ads for ''Days of Thunder,'' Mr. Cruise's new car-racing film, have flatly declared that Mr. Cruise would be ''like thunder,'' as if he didn't even need a verb.
Since Tom Cruise at this stage of his career is so powerfully attractive that audiences will show up even to watch him mix drinks (''Cocktail''), that assumption is at least partly understandable. But it's one thing to market a film solely on the strength of its star. It's quite another to go ahead and make the film that way.
''Days of Thunder'' has been envisioned to mean many things, few of which will filter through to the people who actually pay to see it. ''It is a film about the difference between courage and bravery,'' said Don Simpson, who co-produced it with Jerry Bruckheimer and who also plays a small role. ''We hoped to create a very powerful story of personal growth.'' Robert Towne, who wrote the screenplay, has said the film's story ''becomes the struggle of a driver to replace his belief in his own infallibility with the true courage of a man who recognizes that even if some things are beyond his control he must go on to face them if he is to race, to win, to live his life.''
What this boils down to, in practical terms, is Cruise and cars: a lot of cars, and a lot of noisy free-floating enthusiasm for the world of stock-car racing. Although that enthusiasm runs so deep that the film's production notes include a racing glossary (with terms like ''magnaflux'' and ''rear-steer'') and cite the exact lengths of 16 different well-known tracks, it has not been effectively translated into coherent storytelling. The typical scene in ''Days of Thunder'' is one that has screeching brakes, pounding drums, roaring engines, crashing fenders and someone shouting at the top of his lungs.
Tony Scott, who also directed Mr. Cruise in ''Top Gun,'' does his utmost to pump up the audience's adrenaline at all times, which means that the film's big moments - the races, the crashes, the news that someone needs brain surgery - don't seem that different from the small ones. Most of ''Days of Thunder'' plays like a commercial for an unnamed product, a commercial replete with waving flags, cheering fans, picturesque rural Americana, filtered blue light and other nice-looking touches. Another of Mr. Scott's trademarks is the use of enough upbeat sound track music to generate toe-tapping in the dead.Continue reading the main story
Mr. Cruise plays a driver named Cole Trickle, whose name is the first of many problems with the screenplay (the story was co-written by Mr. Towne and Mr. Cruise). With a history that is explained away in only a sentence or two, and with no particularly memorable traits except his love of driving, Cole appears on his motorcycle in a cloud of dust and becomes the protege of a car builder and crew chief named Harry Hogge (Robert Duvall), who coaches him on the racing circuit.
The film doesn't have a strong story, but it does have what might be called (and probably were called, at some stage of this process) three acts. Act I: Cole arrives, begins to race, gets in a wreck. Act II: Cole meets beautiful Dr. Claire Lewicki (Nicole Kidman), who gets him back on his feet again and also gets him off his feet on other nonprofessional occasions. Act III: Cole returns to Daytona International Speedway and races once again.
The racing scenes, integrated with film of real races, are indeed exciting, but they lack a certain edge. So much jargon is shouted over the drivers' and pit crews' headphones that the race episodes become confusing. And Cole's rivalry with a driver named Rowdy (Michael Rooker) is so unexplained that it fails to give these scenes the competitive energy they need, which is why Rowdy so effortlessly evolves into Cole's best friend later in the story. Becoming Mr. Cruise's best friend in a movie, incidentally, is almost always dangerous to a character's health.
Mr. Cruise is extremely charming whenever he has the chance to be, and not quite as interesting when bobbing intently behind the wheel of a rocketing race car. Among the excellent and mostly underused supporting players, in addition to Mr. Rooker, are Randy Quaid as the businessman who becomes Cole's sponsor and Mr. Duvall as the redoubtable Harry.
It is Harry who must explain to the stern Dr. Lewicki, after her first run-in with Cole, that Cole mistakenly thought she was a prostitute because he, Harry, had lately hired one to impersonate a state trooper and frisk Cole for concealed weapons. Mr. Duvall generates considerable sympathy as he tries to explain why he really needs Dr. Lewicki's help.
Also in a boys-will-be-boys vein is the fun ''Days of Thunder'' finds in Cole's love of racing and wrecking vehicles even when he's officially off duty. In one scene, he playfully rents a car and then demolishes it. In another, Cole and Rowdy race their wheelchairs through a crowded hospital corridor. In a third, Cole is annoyed by a taxi driver and deliberately bumps his cab, creating a grudge match that plays itself out on city streets. In the middle of this, the cab conveniently disappears. Only in the movies.
''Days of Thunder'' is rated PG-13 (''Special Parental Guidance Suggested for Those Younger Than 13''). It has occasional profanities and one brief bedroom scene.
Days of Thunder
Directed by Tony Scott; screenplay by Robert Towne; story by Mr. Towne and Tom Cruise; director of photography, Ward Russell; edited by Billy Weber and Chris Lebenzon; music by Hans Zimmer; produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer; released by Paramount Pictures. Running time: 105 minutes. This film is rated PG-13.
Cole Trickle . . . Tom Cruise
Harry Hogge . . . Robert Duvall
Tim Daland . . . Randy Quaid
Dr. Claire Lewicki . . . Nicole Kidman
Russ Wheeler . . . Cary Elwes
Rowdy Burns . . . Michael Rooker
Buck Bretherton . . . John C. Reilly
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Volkswagen of America is in the midst of a new marketing campaign built around an online hub that houses stories submitted by Volkswagen owners and fans, along with brand content produced by the company. Volkswagen will also incorporate content shared online through the "Why VW" campaign into its display at auto shows in the coming months, an example of how a brand can use online marketing programs to fuel traditional face-to-face events.
"The two are obviously very symbiotic. The idea behind it was sparked from all of the events we go to. People would be coming up to us and telling us these great stories, and we'd say, 'That's awesome. I wish we could tell some other people,'" said Justin Osborne, Volkswagen's general manager for product marketing. "Obviously, with the advent of digital becoming more sophisticated and easier to use, we can now take that idea of capturing those stories and putting it in the digital space to give it scale. The digital helps the experiential, and, obviously, the experiential helps the digital."
The "Why VW" campaign launched in mid-September and exists both on its own Web site and also on VW's Facebook page. Content is divided into two sections—values and stories. The values section uses five two-minute films produced by the company to educate visitors about its values of quality, safety, environment, and performance. The stories section is built on user-generated stories, photos, and videos. Volkswagen reviews each submission prior to posting and will reward some participants with prizes related to VW-sponsored events, such as concerts, sporting events, and ride-and-drives.
This summer, Volkswagen invited members of Poptent, a community of videographers and producers, to submit videos of people telling their VW stories. The company selected some of the best ones, and those became the first stories on the site. "When we launched the campaign, we had to have some content up there already as an example of what we like to see," said Osborne.
The digital campaign will be incorporated into Volkswagen's exhibits at auto shows around the United States. The company is creating an interactive display where consumers can explore the "Why VW" content; the value videos will be shown on a continuous loop; and iPads will be available for show attendees to access WhyVW.com and learn how to upload their own content.
In addition to promoting the campaign through its social networks and fan groups, Volkswagen created a new commercial to drive viewers to the digital platform. "Smiles" is the name of the 30-second commercial that shows people of all ages and nationalities laughing to represent "the joy that comes with driving a Volkswagen," said Osborne. A company news release said the TV ads are airing primarily during political programming this fall "to deliver a lighthearted break from the serious tone of the election cycle."


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Wednesday, February 9, 2011
22 comments:
- Kelly said...
She looks very proud of that blue balloon, as she should be. I love the whispering of, "mine." So sweet.
I just love Meg.
- February 9, 2011 at 7:51 AM
- BugginWord said...
I've just hit this phase of my life, too. Gimme a balloon.
- February 9, 2011 at 8:15 AM
- Wanna Bee said...
she is awesome!!
- February 9, 2011 at 9:13 AM
- Tracy Lynn said...
I loved it when my nieces and nephew were this age. So much fun. And screaming.
- February 9, 2011 at 9:26 AM
- Amanda said...
Thanks Lib, he is a great kid - and it is fun to watch him interact with your great kid.
I did laugh long & hard about her defiance when she was saying dammit. Even when being a devil, she is irresistible.
- February 9, 2011 at 9:39 AM
- Leslie said...
I used to work in a day care room of one year olds, and it was so cute and hilarious watching them maneuver peas on a spoon. They would get like 4 peas on the spoon, and by the time it got to their mouth, one was there. They would eat that one and be uber proud of themselves.
- February 9, 2011 at 12:39 PM
- Erin said...
Did you delete the post right before this one...? :-) It's showing up in my reader but not on your blog. I wanted to comment because I am someone who is "peeing on everything" and taking my temperature and month after month: nothing. It amazes me when my friends get pregnant, especially the ones who are supposedly trying not to get pregnant, which I admit actually makes me want to punch them in the face.
- February 9, 2011 at 1:01 PM
- LL Cool Joe said...
She is such a sweetheart.
Yes, cherish this time because it goes so fast Libby, it really does. Although you love the fact they are gaining independence, it's still so hard to let them go.
You have a while yet though, so enjoy every moment.
- February 9, 2011 at 2:17 PM
- Kim said...
She'll be picking out her clothes way before the teen years-- Megan is almost four and already has a shoe collection to rival Imelda Marcos. Given your penchant for plastic footwear, I'm thinking this will be a saving grace for her.
- February 9, 2011 at 3:46 PM
- G said...
Great milestones in the young lady's life.
She is definitely kewlness personified.
- February 9, 2011 at 3:54 PM
- Riot Kitty said...
What a great picture! "Mine!" I love it!
- February 9, 2011 at 5:13 PM
- for a different kind of girl said...
I think I totally want to hang out with Meg and eat peas and yogurt. I'm not a big balloon fan, but I promise that if we come across some, she can have mine. In fact, I'd ask for one just to give it to her because that independent little face you've pictured there is amazing! What a joy you so clearly have!
- February 9, 2011 at 8:42 PM
- Dual Mom said...
19 months, wow! It was just last week we were reading about you taking her home.
Libby, she's absolutely breathtaking. She gets more beautiful every day. How is that possible?
- February 10, 2011 at 5:44 AM
- Me, You, or Ellie said...
She doubles in size every day.
And I *love* the mess a spoon and yogurt cause -- go for it! It's free entertainment!
- February 10, 2011 at 6:50 AM
- The Vegetable Assassin said...
The look on Meg's face in that photo? The same look I get on mine when I open the fridge and there's CAKE.
- February 10, 2011 at 7:12 AM
- youwannawhat said...
what a great pic of her...she looks so pleased with herself!...time goes by too fast...i agree
- February 10, 2011 at 10:18 AM
- Summer said...
Awe. What a great kiddo! It was always hard for me when my kids went through these stages. When they're sick, really cranky,or have hurt feelings... well, that's when all three want their mommy.
- February 10, 2011 at 11:01 AM
- Jen said...
So beautiful Meg is!! I love these updates.
- February 10, 2011 at 7:05 PM
How delighted is she?? I love it. Souds like all is going well. I love Luke's sense of dedication and chivalry.
- February 10, 2011 at 8:50 PM
- Rassles said...
Gawwwwww, PUPPY.
- February 11, 2011 at 5:22 PM
- Waiting Lisa said...
Jayden was sitting in my lap as I read this. He always loves pictures of babies and young children, but I am pretty sure he was just flirting with the picture of Meg. He has good taste already.
She is becoming so grown up!! What a sweet guy Luke is. It's great that they have each other.
- February 14, 2011 at 4:49 PM
- Sam said...
19 months! How did that happen? I love that balloon shot. You are nicer than me to allow your child to have balloons. I will have to blog about my balloon problem. :)
- February 15, 2011 at 9:11 AM


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Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Roman centrepiece
Bloody hell
More infographia by the inglés conquistadors
This jolly centrepiece from Richard Burgess at the Independent on Sunday
Printed on the 13 September, its got the lot
Illustration, diagrams, maps, photo, cut-outs, film grabs and a timeline
Again, why read the report when you can enjoy the infographic
Beautiful tones, sympathetic to one another
My only note is that typographically, it is flat
No size or weight dynamic
But still its a joy to hold and read
And fantastic piece of work
Infographic caviar!
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Labels: independent on sunday, infographics, richard burgess
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Beautiful work! congratulations.ReplyDelete
I'm excited to see this kind of work at english papers again.
As Chiqui Esteban points out in his excellent infografistas blog,
many spanish artist were inspired by the works of british pioneers like Peter Sullivan, so is inspiring to see this kind of diagrams again.
Data visualization and analytical graphics are great, but a publication benefits greatly of varied graphic approaches and narratives
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Concealer is one of those must have items for most ladies, even those with perfect skin normally need a bit of conceaer, under the eyes, around the nose etc.
Cle De Peau is one of those concealers that are the stuff of legends.
Let me tell you I love concealer and have many many many many many…what was I saying? Oh I have a lot of concealers. A lot. (I feel a concealer special coming on!! What do you think ladies?)
The first I had heard of Cle De Peau's concealer was when I heard that Chinnifer Aniston uses this. I bought one…yonks ago. I don't even remember how long I have had this baby for but now that I've found it again, I will replace my Urban Decay 24/7 pencil, which is just ok, with this in my make up bag.
Anyway, to the concealer:
This comes in only 3 shades – ivory, ocher & beige. I have Ocher – the colour range is just ok, it doesn't seem to cover darker skintones.
It comes in a stick – nothing special but quite heavy and well made.
Even though the texture is fairly opaque, I seriously think it is very very creamy and soft – this is just a light swipe:
It comes off like buttah, you see? If you have very dry skin this may feel dry to you, my skin is combination and can be dry on the cheeks and this concealer has always glided like silk one me. It also has opacity without being too heavy- I have found concealers that are opaque, like RMK's Basic Concealer and Laura Mercier are extremely dry and need mixing with some cream. Not this one.
The price is high – it's £55 for 5grams which goes without saying – this is pricey. It would put be off for sure but the one thing about this concealer is that it really is a geniune muli use product.
I find that i need something lighter and more brightening under the eyes, and something dry around my nose and something inbetween on the cheeks. With this product, I can use it under my eyes (even though the colour isn't a bit lighter which is what I normally prefer for circles) – around my nose, on my cheeks. It blends without a PROBLEM. No streaking, no dryness, just rub and go.
I have been spoilt I suppose, with so many concealers around that I haven't had the chance to marvel at this product recently. (I have been using IPSA and Armani under the eyes lately). Cle De Peau's concealer requires the LEAST work, the LEAST amount of efforts for a great result.
Is it worth it? Pah, I can't say it's necessarily worth such a huge amount of money, but then I would probably spend it on an eyeshadow palette – and if there's anything you should invest in make up wise, its your base products.
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As a prophet once said, the questions always come in groups of three; my next, third and last for today is related to the most usable IDE for Lisp. Is there a best choice?
I am looking for an IDE that will guide me through choosing the right program structure and the right LISP functions for my tasks. Again any recomenndations based on good experiences are welcome.
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Whether you are a physicist or just (a bit!) interested in physics, then do join us at one of our events. They are not restricted to members - on the contrary, we warmly welcome everyone!
If you live in Lancashire and Cumbria, we are your local friendly physicists!