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Bickering among the backers of two competing tax-hike initiatives spilled into the public realm this week - possibly to the detriment of both.
The fight centers on two competing proposals on the November ballot.
They are similar but just different enough that the two sides couldn't manage to overcome the modest chasm to settle on a single proposal.
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Proposition 30, led by Governor Jerry Brown, features a quarter cent increase in the sales tax and up to two percent more in personal income taxes for the wealthiest Californians. With a life of seven years, the proposition looks to bring in about $8 billion annually, dedicating most of the money to public education.
Proposition 38, organized by wealthy civil rights attorney Molly Munger, centers on income tax increases for almost all Californians along a sliding scale of between .4 percent and 2.2 percent, with wealthier Californians paying the higher amounts. It would raise about $10 billion annually for twelve years.
The stakes are high because without the passage of at least one of these initiatives, California's public schools will be forced to shut down three weeks early next spring.
At first, the two sides were mutually respectful.
But over time and increasing concern of failure at the ballot box, coexistence has given way to pointed criticism. Each camp is now blaming the other for their inability to gain more public support.
The latest poll, released by Pepperdine University last week, shows Proposition 30 with about 57 percent support, and Proposition 38 with about 45 percent support.
That might sound good, but most experts believe it's not a strong enough lead to hold until November.
No one can be happier about this development than the anti-tax groups opposed to both propositions.
For the moment, all they have to do is step aside as the competing propositions implode.
All of this could have been avoided, had the two sides been able to find common ground last spring. But common sense was trumped by huge egos, increasing the likelihood that California's students will be the real losers in the end.
Larry Gerston teaches political science at San Jose State University and is the political analyst for NBC Bay Area.
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Synthetic marijuana and cathinone stimulants known as "bath salts" were both included in a Lenawee County Emergency Order issued a week ago to prevent "imminent danger to health or lives" to county residents.
The order was issued by the Lenawee County Health Department and made public by county prosecuting attorney R. Burke Castleberry, Jr.
The order prohibits the sale, trading, giving, bartering and making available of the products because area emergency rooms are reporting an increase in the number of persons suffering serious health effects from use of synthetic marijuana.
The health department release says that synthetic marijuana will produce paranoia, panic attacks and giddiness in some users. It can also cause an increased heart rate and increase in blood pressure.
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The state public health code empowers the health department inspect or investigate any person, premises or vehicle. Violation of the order can lead to imprisonment for not more than six months and/or a fine of not more than $200.


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Ulster Unionist leader Robin Swann has branded comments from his DUP counterpart, Arlene Foster, as "arrogant" ahead of talks between the two later today on electoral pacts.
Mr Swann said the DUP leader's "attitude" in "drawing red lines" ahead of the talks were not helpful.
He had been responding to an article written by Mrs Foster in which she ruled her party out from standing aside in favour of an agreed unionist candidate in South Belfast in the forthcoming General Election. Mrs Foster also highlighted the overall popularity of the two parties, pointing out that "in Belfast alone we have five MLAs to the UUP's one" in her article, published by the Belfast Telegraph.
Responding to those comments, Mr Swann said: "It strikes me as a bit arrogant."
Speaking on BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme earlier today, the UUP leader continued: "I had hoped to go into this as the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party with some sort of hope for unionism, some sort of hope of coming to an agreement, but look, I'm still open to have the conversation, I'm still happy to go to the meeting. Unionism suffered at the March election. I was hoping there could have been a way forward - I still hope there is. I'm willing to talk. That attitude isn't helpful at this moment in time."
The UUP have also agreed not to run candidates in three constituencies - West Belfast, North Belfast and Foyle.
Mr Swann explained: "It's not about giving anything to anybody else. Our executive met on Saturday and we decided we wouldn't be running in three constituencies.
"What I would like to see in return is as many Ulster Uninoist MPs as possible. We're open to pacts, we're going to do pacts. We're willing to talk to people at this stage. I think that's what we've made clear, as have a number of other parties across Northern Ireland. The SDLP say they're open to pacts with Alliance, Sinn Fein and the Green Party. We're seeing the same across the water as well because this is a very fluid election."
Asked about specifically about Mrs Foster's comments, Mr Swann said: "It's a strange way to start any conversation, by putting down a red line so firm and so adamant before we've even sat down to discuss if we're going to have a pact or not."
He continued: "I think that's a misconception out there - today's meeting, under my process, was to see if we were actually going to look at the possibility. If Arlene is already ruling out seats and putting up red lines it's going to make any conversation a bit more difficult."
Asked by presenter Chris Buckler whether the three constituencies where the UUP have already agreed not to run "might be the height of it", Mr Swann said: "I'd be disappointed if that's where it finishes up. I'm willing to have a conversation with the DUP leader today to see if there's anything that can be done to maximise the number of Northern Ireland MPs taking their seats in Westminster. I think that's a crucial thing coming into this General Election. The people of Northern Ireland have to realise, we need representation on those benches. We need Northern Ireland voices in Westminster at this time because of the forthcoming negotiations in regard to Brexit. If Northern Ireland isn't represented on those benches, we're losing our voice over there. Absentee MPs at this time will not serve the people of Northern Ireland."


text: In Barcelona in 2006, oceanographer Sylvia Earle received an international award for her storied career as an ocean explorer. Also honored that day was John Hanke, developer of the now-famous Earth visualization tool Google Earth. Smiling slyly, Dr. Earle commended John for creating an amazing new way to view the world, then asked, "When do you plan to finish it? You've done a great job with the land—'Google Dirt.' What about the ocean?" Thus challenged, John asked Sylvia and her team to help him fix this oversight and in early 2009, we unveiled Ocean in Google Earth, offering earthlings a global view of the ocean's vast bathymetry. This story illustrates a truth about how many of us think (or more accurately, don't think) about the ocean. Though half the world's population lives within 50 miles of a coast, the cliché "out of sight, out of mind" describes the way most of us relate to the expansive, interconnected ocean that covers 70 percent of Earth's surface and contains 97 percent of its water. This blue planet is indeed a water planet, yet incredibly, over 90 percent of the ocean remains unexplored and unseen by humans. In a world that's increasingly tamed and cataloged, it's astounding to learn that until last year, only two human beings had been to the ocean's greatest depth: Challenger Deep, off the Mariana Islands. That epic descent occurred in 1960—before we'd even ventured into space! Just last year, one more explorer made the voyage: renowned filmmaker James Cameron piloted a new craft, Deepsea Challenger, there and back. I suspect we'll soon be treated to some spectacular footage of a world we understand less than we do the planet Mars. Experts believe that up to two-thirds of the plant and animal species in the ocean may still await our discovery, with as many as one million species of non-bacterial sealife yet to be identified. In other words, we've only scratched the ocean's surface. Scientists, poets and philosophers have referred to the ocean as our planet's life-support system, its blue lungs. Our air, weather, freshwater, climate and much of our food are ultimately regulated, moderated or provided by the sea's seemingly limitless bounty. Over 2.6 billion people rely on the ocean for their primary source of protein. And we count on the ocean to absorb more than 30 percent of the climate-changing carbon dioxide (CO2) we produce. Yet for all these benefits (called 'ecosystem services' by ecologists), the ocean cannot sustain our unrelenting onslaught. We put in too many bad things, take out too many good things, and reconfigure its shores, chemistry and balance. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists have calculated that the ocean absorbs and stores 50 times more CO2 than the atmosphere, yet it's no secret that atmospheric levels of this greenhouse gas are rising at an alarming rate and now routinely approach 400 parts per million; at this rate, we are poised to double pre-Industrial Revolution CO2 levels in the next few decades. And, in case you're wondering, human-influenced climate change is no longer mere theory, as if it ever were. In a review of 12,000 papers published in research journals, 97 percent of the authors—atmospheric scientists who seldom agree on anything—concur that it is directly attributed to human activities. Against this gloomy backdrop, one might ask, "What hope is there?" In my view, there's plenty. We have never known so much about aquatic systems and the delicate interplay between them. We've doubled the area of our National Marine Sanctuary system over the past decade. We have a National Ocean Policy and a nascent implementation plan, the first in our nation's history. Whether in fisheries management, ecosystem thinking or product life-cycle planning, we're learning from our past and planning a better future. Here at National Aquarium, we value the conservation of aquatic treasures—by which we mean habitats and inhabitants, human and non-human, individual and community. By definition, treasures are worth protecting. World Oceans Day is one way of celebrating such oceanic treasures. This year, I invite you to embrace a thought, one shared by all of us who commit our lives to the sea: the ocean matters to me and to those I love. With every drop of water you drink and every breath you take, you are connected to this complex ecosystem, whether you live on the coast, in the mountains, in a city or a desert. Simply by existing, the ocean gives us the gift of life. It's time we returned the favor. Tags: Conservation, deep-sea-exploration, from-the-ceo, google-earth, james-cameron, national-aquarium-2, national-aquarium-ceo, national-aquarium-experts, ocean-conservation, ocean-research, sylvia-earle, world-oceans-day Categories: Animals, Conservation, News Previous Post Next Post


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As part of my ongoing effort to bring you interesting and informative personal-finance information, I subscribe to several magazines, including Smart Money. Smart Money isn't my favorite money magazine, but it has some useful articles.
In 2005, I paid $20 to subscribe to Smart Money for two years. In 2007, I paid $20 to subscribe for another two years. Today I received my latest issue, which included this wrap-around "cover" announcing that "as part of our Continuous Service program, your subscription will be automatically renewed unless you tell us to stop":
This is annoying, but it's an annoyance I can live with. Some periodicals (especially newspapers) automatically renew subscriptions. For a variety of reasons, people are more likely to accept the state in which they are required to do nothing. If the default is "the subscription will expire if you do nothing", people will generally let the subscription expire. But if the default is "your subscription will automatically continue if you do nothing", people will generally let the subscription renew.
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As I say, this is annoying, but I can deal with it. What made me cranky, however, was this bit at the bottom of the renewal notice:
Smart Money wants to automatically renew my subscription for one year at $20. But I was previously paying $20 for a two-year subscription. They want to use this automatic renewal to double my rate. This is bullshit.
I did some research to see if subscription rates have increased since 2007. They have not. At the official Smart Money subscription page, I found the following deals:
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- Two years for $18
Apparently my reward for being a "preferred subscriber" is that I will pay more for one year of the magazine than new subscribers pay for two years. That sounds like dumb money to me. It gets worse. Using Google, I found an even better deal, also from the official page:
- One year for $11
- Two years for $18
- Three years for $24
And Amazon has an even better price: 24 issues for just $14!
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Armed with this info, I prepared to unleash my righteous indignation on a customer service rep. I dialed the phone number on the wraparound cover. But I couldn't reach customer service — only an automated answering system, which offered two choices:
- Stay in the "continuous service" program and renew the subscription.
- Be removed from the "continuous service" program and cancel the subscription.
I didn't want either one. I wanted option three: give me back my lower rate. I gave up and tried the web.
Smart Money actually has a website that purports to let you manage your account. Fine. I clicked on the link to renew my subscription and saw this:
This clearly says: "Fill in the form below to access your subscription account." I understood this to mean: "When you enter your information, you will be able to perform various actions on your account." But no. That's not what it really means. I entered my account number and was greeted with this screen:
That's it. A blank page with the command: "renew your subscription". Can any of you tell me what this means? Checking a different page on the site revealed that by entering my account number, I had actually agreed to renew the subscription.
I hate crap like this. I hate it when businesses treat me like a commodity. Usually when these things happen, a business loses me as a customer forever. (No joke.) But I can't just pretend Smart Money doesn't exist; it's an important part of the financial media. Argh!
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How much does this bother me? So much that I've spent an hour processing images and writing this post. So much that I cancelled my subscription — and then re-subscribed for two years for $14 through Amazon. And so much that I'm going to give away free subscriptions to GRS readers — for Smart Money's competitors.
Six commenters on this article (chosen at random) will receive a one-year subscription to the personal-finance magazine of their choice from those reviewed in these two articles:
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In Kozmo.com's Failure, Lessons for Same-Day Delivery
The rash of retailers and Web companies pushing into same-day delivery would be wise to recall the meteoric rise and sudden fall of venture capital darling Kozmo.com Inc. more than a decade ago.
The Web courier went belly up in 2001, less than four years after it introduced its service promising to deliver to customers' doorsteps just about anything they wanted in about an hour. Kozmo raised more than $250 million in financing from venture-capital firms, and from heavyweights including Starbucks and Amazon.com, en route to a planned initial public offering before falling under the weight of an overly ambitious expansion.
Kozmo had been an overnight sensation. By eschewing delivery charges or minimum order sizes, Kozmo drew a wide swath of customers, including some wanting, say, a lone DVD or candy bar to satisfy the late-night munchies. The company sold brand-name products from its own distribution centers.
But Kozmo expanded into too many markets too quickly, said Kozmo co-founder Joseph Park, now the chief executive of Bluefly Inc., a designer clothing website.
"The one disadvantage that e-commerce has versus shopping in a physical store is instant gratification, at least for physical products," says Mr. Park. "Today, it's still a compelling idea that you could get all the benefits of online shopping and combine that with the one of the most important aspects of offline shopping: getting your merchandise immediately."
Kozmo also was slow to implement delivery fees and minimum order sizes, Mr. Park said. When it eventually did, Kozmo charged $2 per delivery with a minimum of a $5 order. But it was too late.
Kozmo's costs far exceeded its revenue. When the company filed for an initial public offering in March 2000, it revealed revenue for the prior year was $3.5 million with losses totaling $29 million.
"The question remains: 'How do you do this profitably?'" Mr. Park said.
That's a question eBay Inc Wal-Mart Stores, Amazon.com Inc. and a host of startups will have to answer as they roll out same-day delivery services in cities like San Francisco, New York, Chicago and Seattle.
Under eBay's model, known as eBay Now, couriers pick up merchandise at area stores like Target and Macy's and deliver them to customers within an hour. That means, unlike Kozmo, it won't have to maintain costly warehouses, but will instead have to profit from the $5 delivery charges. The minimum order is $25, and eBay pays the couriers about $12.50 per hour, plus 55 cents per mile driven. For eBay Now to be profitable, its couriers will likely have to deliver several items per hour.
Today, eBay Now is operating only in New York and San Francisco, but the company has said it may introduce the service in other cities and could extend it to the concert t-shirts, action figures and other ephemera that made eBay famous.
Wal-Mart, of course, has thousands of stores across the U.S. serving as possible warehouses and has the expedited same-day delivery service -- for $5 to $10 per order -- in only a handful of cities. Amazon, which has offered same-day delivery since 2009 in a few select cities, has said it hasn't figured out how to feasibly roll out same-day shipping on a broad scale.
David Puck, 35-years-old, who worked as a courier for Kozmo in Chicago from 2000 to 2001, says he thought the company might have survived if it hadn't expanded so rapidly. "The company's vision was dead-on," he said. "They just got too big.
"They got caught up in the whole dotcom bubble and probably were just in the wrong place at the wrong time" he said. "Customers really loved it."
Kozmo also paid its messengers handsomely, Mr. Puck says, noting the $9-per-hour paycheck, plus $1 for each delivery, as well as health insurance, 401(k)s and pricey Columbia brand jackets, gloves and pants to help withstand the Chicago winters. In its later stages, Kozmo furnished its messengers with scooters and began selling cigarettes.
"The worst days were Sunday mornings when you'd have people ordering a gallon of milk, orange juice and donuts," says Mr. Puck. "When you have four of those orders on your back, it gets pretty damn heavy."
Still, he says he recalled delivering single packs of gum to some customers who were curious about the service. Mr. Puck made a delivery nearly every day to one customer who ordered a DVD and various snacks. "He would offer to tip me with a [marijuana] joint," says Mr. Puck.
"It was a good job for a 22-year-old," says Mr. Puck.
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Real Salt Lake (0-0-0) vs. San Jose Earthquakes (0-0-0) at Buck Shaw Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.
All-time record: San Jose leads the series, 3-2-4 (2-1-2 since the Quakes were reborn in 2008)
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What's at stake?
It's Real Salt Lake's first match wearing the bull's-eye affixed to every defending champion, and a chance to work on last season's poor 2-11-2 mark away from home. San Jose, meanwhile, needs to prove to its fans that all the work the team has put into fixing its defense has actually paid dividends.
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Real Salt Lake came from behind to secure a 1-1 draw in second-half stoppage time despite being down a man. Arturo Alvarez had put San Jose up in the 63rd minute, but Yura Movsisyan broke in on a desperate RSL counterattack, and his ball trickled off Earthquakes defender Chris Leitch for a game-tying own goal.
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Bobby Convey vs. Kyle Beckerman: They won't necessarily be going head-to-head, but the stars of each team's midfield reflect the importance of the battle between the two groups. Beckerman and RSL will want to dominate play centrally, while the Quakes feel they must get the ball outside to Convey, now at his most natural position on the left wing, and Alvarez, who's expected to start wide right. If the ball stays up the middle, San Jose's offense could be short-circuited.
Ike Opara vs. Robbie Findley: Findley is coming off a 12-goal season for RSL and is even more of a focal point now with Movsisyan having decamped for Denmark. Opara, meanwhile, is trying to establish himself as the Earthquakes' catch-all in central defense despite spending an inordinate amount of time in the air. The No. 3 overall pick in this year's SuperDraft has to go back to Wake Forest for classes until at least late April.
Stat that makes you go, "Hmmm"
RSL coach Jason Kreis is still tied for his club's record of lifetime goals against San Jose, with two.
He said it
"I do read the newspapers, and Soccer America, some of these things. When they say our midfield is the 14th best, it's frustrating when you look at Bobby Convey, Arturo Alvarez, Javier Robles and André Luiz. I think that's a pretty good midfield in this league." -- San Jose general manager John Doyle


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Englewood girl beaten to death, dumped partially nude under bridge
The 22-year-old man appeared disoriented.
He was walking back and forth on the 300 block of West Lehow Street in Littleton late Thursday night, Dec. 8, 1983.
Neighbors called police, who found the man around 11:30 p.m.
The man had reported his 17-year-old live-in girlfriend Melissa Lou Chase missing hours earlier.
He had walked into the Englewood Police Department headquarters and filed the missing person report at 8 p.m., according to an article in The Independent.
He led police to Chase's partially clothed body. She was not wearing anything from the waist down.
Her body was on top of a foot of snow beneath the Lehow Bridge near South Delaware Street on the west bank of the Big Dry Creek.
In news reports of the day, the young man was never named.
He was only referred to as Chase's boyfriend. Chase lived in an apartment with her boyfriend and his father at 4050 S. Bannock St.
According to some news reports her face was beaten beyond recognition. Police indicated that it appeared she had been kicked in the head.
Littleton police questioned the man before releasing him.
The last time Chase had been seen alive was on Dec. 7, 1983 around 5:30 p.m., after she finished her shift at Phillips 66 service station at Union Avenue and Broadway.


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Dita Von Teese Gossip
Dita Von Teese gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Zac Posen: MET Gala 2014
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For the theme of this year's MET Gala, Zac Posen's designs were particularly apt. Balls gowns. Awesomely big ball gowns. Not necessarily my flavour but for the occasion, these were totally perfect. You really can't hate. Especially not Maggie Q in a dramatic full skirt that seems to detach at the waist. Full Story
Evan & Alex in NYC
Evan Rachel Wood and Alexander Skarsgard both turned up in New York last night but at different events. Evan was at Cipriani for Fashion Group International's Night of Stars. Alex was much more casually dressed with a hole in his shirt at Sienna Miller's After Miss Julie opening. Coincidence or conspiracy? As I reported on Monday Full Story
Dita & AJ???
Dita von Teese was reportedly snuggling with A.J. McLean at Clive Davis's pre-Grammy party on Saturday night. Translation: Dita von Teese has been hired to get caught snuggling with A.J. McLean. After all, didn't Backstreet's new album suck the sh*t? Like Dita would ever, ever deal with AJ if she wasn't getting paid for it. Full Story
Becks in Africa, Posh in Paris
While her husband David Beckham gives back in Africa on a UN Children's mission, playing with kids in Sierra Leone and doing something less frivolous for a change, his wife Victoria is exactly where she should be: front row at a fashion show in Paris. Orange and puckered and posed, here's Posh with Dita von Teese and Claudia Schiffer at Roland Mouret, the designer of her famous Moon Dress. Full Story
On Dita Von Teese
But first – Richard Branson, in person… kind of a fox! And a little anecdote about Chad Kroeger of Nickelback at the very, very end. Dita is tiny but not tiny, does that make sense? She's very short, maybe 5 ft 2 and slender but not emaciated and when she gets naked her legs are surprisingly cut – great muscle definition, no little twigs supporting a pair of huge knockers and in spite of that corset 16 inch waist thing, she's actually very well proportioned. Full Story


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Thirty-five years ago, a science series called "Cosmos" premiered on PBS and captured the imagination of the nation while earning big ratings, accolades, and Emmy and Peabody awards. Hosted by the late astronomer Carl Sagan, it introduced a generation to space exploration and the history of Earth, our place in the universe, the origin of life — and the question of intelligent life existing elsewhere.
Three decades later, "Cosmos" is getting a new millennium update in a 13-part series premiering March 9 on Fox and March 10 on National Geographic Channel, airing on respective Sundays and Mondays thereafter. Subtitled "A Spacetime Odyssey," it benefits spectacularly from CGI visuals and the impeccable pedigrees of the talent behind it: Sagan's widow and collaborator, Ann Druyan, serves as writer, producer and director, while executive producer Seth MacFarlane supervised the animation elements, and renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is the host, guiding the viewer through our galaxy and beyond.
The new "Cosmos," says Druyan, "is about opening the door to the widest possible audience, to entertain them, to uplift them, to make them feel the great, the awesome power of the scientific perspective. When Carl Sagan was alive, we weren't trying to preach to the converted. We wanted to evoke in people, who might have even had hostility to science, a sense of wonder … to excite people who thought that science was just too challenging to dream about the universe of space and time. We have to translate that in a way that is accessible to everyone, without cutting any corners on the science, without lying, without dumbing it down. We're telling the great story of nature and of life and of space, and that can be said in the plainest of words."
Animation and comedy creator MacFarlane ("Family Guy," "American Dad," "Ted") seems like an odd fit for a science documentary, but he was instrumental in bringing it to Fox. "I had always been a fan of 'Cosmos.' I had seen it as a child, and then, when I was in high school, saw it again and was able to process it in even more. I met Neil through an organization called the Science & Entertainment Exchange and found out he was working with Ann on doing a new 'Cosmos.' I asked if he wanted to have lunch, and astonishingly, he said yes."
Tyson's connection to Sagan pre-dates "Cosmos." They met when the high school senior was applying to colleges, and Sagan graciously invited him to his home and became his mentor, exerting a lifelong influence. Today, Tyson is the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the astrophysicist version of a rock star, with an infectious enthusiasm and the ability to make complicated subjects fun and comprehensible for the average person.
"People view our challenge as 'how do you make it interesting?' My claim is that it's inherently interesting; we've just failed at revealing that fact over all these previous decades," Tyson opines. "We've sifted through the universe to find those elements that are inherently interesting and inherently deep so the words not only affect you intellectually but emotionally. There's real science wit all the rigor that you might expect but presented in a way that I think my colleagues and I have failed to do in the past."
He figures that his "persistent awareness and exposure to the public gives me some sensitivity to how people think and what they care about and why they care about it." And his kid-in-a-candy store wonder and enthusiasm is contagious. "I think too many of us forgot how to be excited about what we love. You reach a point where you end up taking it for granted, and I never take anything for granted. I still look at my smartphone and say, 'Damn, this is following me on the surface of the Earth communicating with satellites orbiting 500 miles up. That's awesome!' "
While he was initially resistant to join the Twitter-verse, Tyson realized, "I have random fun thoughts every day that I would just keep to myself. Now I share them. My Twitter stream is the embodiment of my enthusiasm for everything that tickles me as I walk through the day." His 1.66 million followers are paying attention — his opinions about physics errors in the movie "Gravity" made the national news. For instance, an un-tethered George Clooney wouldn't have drifted away. "I think science, if you want to go there, ought to be held to the same standards that any other storytelling elements are held to when someone finally analyzes how good was that movie," Tyson reasons.
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan's widow.
Back in 2006, he was blamed for the demotion of Pluto from ninth to "dwarf" planet, but says that brouhaha is bygone. "People who at the time were third-graders and are now in high school with other hormonal priorities, so they're completely off my back. The next generation was born into the fact we have eight planets, not nine."
Tyson is himself the father of two teenagers "who like science and are scientifically literate. That was the house rule. But my daughter is into Far Eastern languages and cultures. There's no rule they have to be scientists," he says.
Would Tyson, who is seen traveling through the "Cosmos" in a CGI space pod in the series, want to go into space for real? "Only if I can assure there's budget to bring me back! Then I would consider it," he quips, turning a bit more serious in speculating about the nature of life in outer space.
"The history of exploration is such that the culture with the more advanced technologies enslaves or slaughters or otherwise completely exploits the culture they encounter. If aliens are actually that much smarter than us, there's no reason for me to think that they would care at all about what we think or how we behave, any more than when you walk down the street and see a worm, think, 'Gee I wonder what that worm is thinking about?' We might not even be as smart to them as dogs are compared to us. They might completely exploit us. In fact they might have already done so, and Earth is one of their terrariums or one of their zoos!"
As for the future of our own planet, "Earth will be here long after we're extinct. Am I optimistic about the future of humans on Earth? Yes, only in the sense that dystopian storytelling presumes that things slide and there are no restoring forces at all and it hits rock bottom. But in the real world there tend to be restoring forces. People see how bad it is getting and correct for it, either politically, culturally, economically. I have some positive outlook. I remain hopeful."
Tyson is similarly optimistic that "Cosmos" will educate, enlighten and entertain. " 'Cosmos' is a story not simply of the moving frontier of science. It's primarily a story of why science matters and why this new understanding of the world continues to affect us deeply as an individual, as a nation, as a species. I want viewers to recognize that science is not some other thing that they can step around or step over or dig under. Science is a cherished activity of the human mind that has transformed who we are, how we live and what our place is in the universe. That's the takeaway from 'Cosmos.' "
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Starbucks Is Testing Coffee Delivery Using UberEats
The future is now! Starbucks is testing out delivery. You heard that right, UberEats users in southern Florida can now get their java delivered to them as the coffee chain began testing delivery through the app.
Starbucks customers in Miami-Dade and Broward counties can now place orders through UberEats from more than 100 Starbucks stores in those areas and have their favorite Frappuccinos, sous vide egg bites and more delivered.
"We're in the initial stages of testing a new way for customers to enjoy Starbucks with UberEats, currently available from more than 100 participating stores in the Miami area," a Starbucks representative told The Daily Meal. "We're always testing new products and experiences for our customers and look forward to hearing their feedback - and we look forward to sharing more details at a later date."
Hopefully those details include nationwide delivery! We want our pumpkin spice lattes delivered ASAP.
According to Miami.com, J.P. Restrepo, general manager for UberEats in Florida, said that the Starbucks deliveries take less than 30 minutes from the time the order is placed - and that the option to order Starbucks will only show up on the app if the store is close enough to deliver the coffee hot. But what will they do about iced beverages to keep them from getting diluted? Justice for iced coffee! So far, UberEats' most popular Starbucks delivery order has been a chilly blended caramel Frappuccino, so it mustn't be too big of an issue. Clearly South Floridians don't care that a frapp is one of the unhealthiest drinks at Starbucks.


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Topic: iSuppli
Teardown finds Samsung Galaxy S4 more costly to build than Apple's iPhone 5
05/09/2013, 02:05 pm
An analysis of parts found inside Samsung's new Galaxy S4 has concluded the flagship smartphone is more costly to build than Apple's iPhone 5, with a price tag of $237 for the 16-gigabyte model.
Google Nexus 7 parts estimated to cost $152
07/11/2012, 03:07 pm
The parts that make up Google's new $199 Nexus 7 tablet have been estimated to cost $152, suggesting the company could eke out a small profit after development costs are accounted for.
Apple expected to spend $27 billion on semiconductors in 2012
05/22/2012, 10:05 pm
A new analysis expects Apple to remain the the world's biggest chip buyer this year, projecting $27 billion worth of semiconductor purchases from the company in 2012.
Estimate claims Apple bested Samsung by 3M to remain top smartphone vendor
04/27/2012, 08:04 am
Two conflicting estimates paint very different pictures of Samsung's smartphone sales in the March quarter, as the company did not publicly disclose exactly how many smartphones it shipped.
iPhone 4S breakdown estimates same $188 cost as iPhone 4
10/19/2011, 09:10 pm
A new teardown analysis of the iPhone 4S claims that the parts for the 16GB version of Apple's iPhone 4S cost $188, or just 50 cents more than the iPhone 4.
Apple becomes world's leading smartphone vendor ahead of new iPhone debut
10/04/2011, 12:10 pm
Apple now sells more smartphones than any other hardware maker in the world, and the company's sales are only expected to increase with today's introduction of the next iPhone.
Led by iPhone & iPad, sales of wireless semiconductors to top PCs in 2011
08/12/2011, 02:08 pm
Sales of CPUs, memory and other semiconductors will be greater for wireless connected devices, like Apple's iPhone and iPad, than for traditional PCs this year, a new analysis has found.
2011 iPad shipment forecast cut to 40M as Apple faces 'the mother of all backlogs'
04/22/2011, 08:04 am
Apple's struggles to meet demand for the iPad 2 in the second quarter of fiscal 2011 were allegedly due to production problems and quality concerns with components, including LCD panels and speakers. That has prompted one research firm to cut its 2011 sales forecast by 4 million units, to 39.7 million.
Japanese disaster could leave Apple with shortage of five key iPad 2 components
03/18/2011, 08:03 am
Investment and research firms this week continue with their efforts to quantify the effect the recent Japanese earthquake will have on Apple and its capacity to manufacture its top-selling products, with the latest report identifying five core iPad 2 components likely sourced from the region.
Supply issues estimated to drive cost of Apple's iPad 2 touchscreen up to $127
03/14/2011, 08:03 am
Components for the touch display on the new iPad 2 are estimated to cost Apple $127 for each device, an increase of more than $30 from the first-generation iPad.
iTunes tops movies; $10M in fake iPhones, iPods seized; Jobs' mansion nears demolition
02/08/2011, 01:02 am
Sales figures for 2010 show that Apple's iTunes Movie Store remained on top with 64.5 percent market share among competing Internet video services in the US. Also, more than $10 million worth of counterfeit iPhones, iPods and other items have been seized by the Los Angeles Port Police. Finally, officials say the physical permit allowing Apple CEO Steve Jobs to raze the controversial Jackling mansion will be issued soon.
iSuppli bucks trend, increases 2011 Apple iPad sales forecast to 43.7M
10/19/2010, 09:10 am
As many prognosticators rethink their iPad sales predictions after Apple's quarterly earnings report, iSuppli has gone against the grain and increased its 2011 shipment forecast to 43.7 million units.
Costliest of Apple TV's $62 in components is $17 A4 processor
10/05/2010, 03:10 pm
The new, low-priced Apple TV has an estimated component cost of $61.98, and manufacturing reportedly adds about two more dollars to the total expenses.
Materials cost for Apple's sixth-gen iPod nano estimated at $43
09/28/2010, 01:09 am
A breakdown of the sixth-generation iPod nano's parts by iSuppli places the estimated material cost at $43.73.
Apple assails iSuppli iPhone 4 part cost estimates
07/20/2010, 10:07 pm
Apple sniped a shot at the component cost estimates published by iSuppli in its latest conference call report, suggesting that the estimates were not very close to reality.
iSuppli: Apple's iPad the "Tickle Me Elmo" of 2010, boosts forecast
07/20/2010, 04:07 pm
Market analysts at iSuppli have revised their iPad sales forecasts for 2010 from 7.1 million units to 12.9 million, writing that "product demand [is] expected to vastly exceed available supply" and calling the new mobile computing appliance "the 'Tickle Me Elmo' of the 2010 holiday season."
Limited iPhone 4 stock viewed as 'competitive risk' for Apple
06/29/2010, 11:06 am
If Apple wasn't saddled with iPhone 4 production constraints, launch sales could have gone as high as 2.5 million, one analyst believes. And if limited stock continues, it could open Apple up to a "competitive risk," according to a new analysis.
Components of 16GB iPhone 4 estimated to cost Apple $188
06/28/2010, 01:06 pm
A breakdown of the components that make up Apple's iPhone 4 has found that the most expensive item in the device is its high-resolution Retina Display, with an estimated price of $28.50.
iSuppli: Apple was only US PC maker to outgrow market in Q1 2010
06/04/2010, 03:06 pm
The greatest growth in the PC industry in the first quarter of 2010 came from overseas computer manufacturers, with one exception in the U.S.: Apple.
Apple edges Motorola with 3% global cell phone market share
05/17/2010, 09:05 am
Apple moved ahead of rival Motorola in unit sales in the first quarter of 2010, with the iPhone taking a 3 percent share of the total cell phone market.


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What is Mathematics?
The Most Misunderstood Subject
© Dr. Robert H. Lewis
Professor of Mathematics, Fordham University
For more than two thousand years, mathematics has been a part of the human search for understanding. Mathematical discoveries have come both from the attempt to describe the natural world and from the desire to arrive at a form of inescapable truth from careful reasoning. These remain fruitful and important motivations for mathematical thinking, but in the last century mathematics has been successfully applied to many other aspects of the human world: voting trends in politics, the dating of ancient artifacts, the analysis of automobile traffic patterns, and long-term strategies for the sustainable harvest of deciduous forests, to mention a few. Today, mathematics as a mode of thought and expression is more valuable than ever before. Learning to think in mathematical terms is an essential part of becoming a liberally educated person.
-- Kenyon College Math Department Web Page
"An essential part of becoming a liberally educated person?" Sadly, many people in America, indeed, I would have to say very many people in America, would find that a difficult and puzzling concept. The majority of educated Americans do not think of Mathematics when they think of a liberal education. Mathematics as essential for science, yes, for business and accounting, sure, but for a liberal education?
Why do so many people have such misconceptions about mathematics?
The great misconception about mathematics -- and it stifles and thwarts more students than any other single thing -- is the notion that mathematics is about formulas and cranking out computations. It is the unconsciously held delusion that mathematics is a set of rules and formulas that have been worked out by God knows who for God knows why, and the student's duty is to memorize all this stuff. Such students seem to feel that sometime in the future their boss will walk into the office and demand "Quick, what's the quadratic formula?" Or, "Hurry, I need to know the derivative of 3x^2 - 6x + 7." There are no such employers.
What is mathematics really like?
Mathematics is not about answers, it's about processes. Let me give a series of parables to try to get to the root of the misconceptions and to try to illuminate what mathematics IS all about. None of these analogies is perfect, but all provide insight.
When a new building is made, a skeleton of steel struts called the scaffolding is put up first. The workers walk on the scaffolding and use it to hold equipment as they begin the real task of constructing the building. The scaffolding has no use by itself. It would be absurd to just build the scaffolding and then walk away, thinking that something of value has been accomplished.
Yet this is what seems to occur in all too many mathematics classes in high schools. Students learn formulas and how to plug into them. They learn mechanical techniques for solving certain equations or taking derivatives. But all of these things are just the scaffolding. They are necessary and useful, sure, but by themselves they are useless. Doing only the superficial and then thinking that something important has happened is like building only the scaffolding.
The real "building" in the mathematics sense is the true mathematical understanding, the true ability to think, perceive, and analyze mathematically.
Ready for the Big Play
Professional athletes spend hours in gyms working out on equipment of all sorts. Special trainers are hired to advise them on workout schedules. They spend hours running on treadmills. Why do they do that? Are they learning skills necessary for playing their sport, say basketball?
Imagine there are three seconds left in the seventh game of the NBA championship. The score is tied. Time out. The pressure is intense. The coach is huddling with his star players. He says to one, "OK Michael, this is it. You know what to do." And Michael says, "Right coach. Bring in my treadmill!"
Duh! Of course not! But then what was all that treadmill time for? If the treadmill is not seen during the actual game, was it just a waste to use it? Were all those trainers wasting their time? Of course not. It produced (if it was done right!) something of value, namely stamina and aerobic capacity. Those capacities are of enormous value even if they cannot be seen in any immediate sense. So too does mathematics education produce something of value, true mental capacity and the ability to think.
The hostile party goer.
When I was in first grade we read a series of books about Dick and Jane. There were a lot of sentences like "see Dick run" and so forth. Dick and Jane also had a dog called Spot.
What does that have to do with mathematics education? Well, when I occasionally meet people at parties who learn that I am a mathematician and professor, they sometimes show a bit of repressed hostility. One man once said something to me like, "You know, I had to memorize the quadratic formula in school and I've never once done anything with it. I've since forgotten it. What a waste. Have YOU ever had to use it aside from teaching it?"
I was tempted to say, "No, of course not. So what?" Actually though, as a mathematician and computer programmer I do use it, but rarely. Nonetheless the best answer is indeed, "No, of course not. So what?" and that is not a cynical answer.
After all, if I had been the man's first grade teacher, would he have said, "You know, I can't remember anymore what the name of Dick and Jane's dog was. I've never used the fact that their names were Dick and Jane. Therefore you wasted my time when I was six years old."
How absurd! Of course people would never say that. Why? Because they understand intuitively that the details of the story were not the point. The point was to learn to read! Learning to read opens vast new vistas of understanding and leads to all sorts of other competencies. The same thing is true of mathematics. Had the man's mathematics education been a good one he would have seen intuitively what the real point of it all was.
[Added January 4, 2011] Sadly, the memorizing-vs-understanding problem comes up all the time in mathematics classes. Many times in teaching, say, the Chain Rule in Calculus, I see students who just want me to tell them what to memorize. They don't see why I insist that they understand it. That's like refusing to learn to read in first grade, and just wanting to memorize the name of the dog.
The considerate piano teacher.
Imagine a piano teacher who gets the bright idea that she will make learning the piano "simpler" by plugging up the student's ears with cotton. The student can hear nothing. No distractions that way! The poor student sits down in front of the piano and is told to press certain keys in a certain order. There is endless memorizing of "notes" A, B, C, etc. The student has to memorize strange symbols on paper and rules of writing them. And all the while the students hear nothing! No music! The teacher thinks she is doing the student a favor by eliminating the unnecessary distraction of the sound!
Of course the above scenario is preposterous. Such "instruction" would be torture. No teacher would ever dream of such a thing, of removing the heart and soul of the whole experience, of removing the music. And yet that is exactly what has happened in most high school mathematics classes over the last 25 years. For whatever misguided reason, mathematics students have been deprived of the heart and soul of the course and been left with a torturous outer shell. The prime example is the gutting of geometry courses, where proofs have been removed or de-emphasized. Apparently some teachers think that this is "doing the students a favor." Or is it that many teachers do not really understand the mathematics at all?
Step high.
A long time ago when I was in graduate school, the physical fitness craze was starting. A doctor named Cooper wrote a book on Aerobics in which he outlined programs one could follow to build up aerobic capacity, and therefore cardiovascular health. You could do it via running, walking, swimming, stair climbing, or stationary running. In each case, he outlined a week by week schedule. The goal was to work up to what he called 30 "points" per weeks of exercise during a twelve week program.
Since it was winter and I lived in a snowy place, I decided to do stationary running. I built a foam padded platform to jog in place. Day after day I would follow the schedule, jogging in place while watching television. I dreamed of the spring when I would joyfully demonstrate my new health by running a mile in 8 minutes, which was said to be equivalent to 30-points-per-week cardiovascular health.
The great day came. I started running at what I thought was a moderate pace. But within a minute I was feeling winded! The other people with me started getting far ahead. I tried to keep up, but soon I was panting, gasping for breath. I had to give up after half a mile! I was crushed. What could have gone wrong? I cursed that darn Dr. Cooper and his book.
I eventually figured it out. In the description of stationary running, it said that every part of one's foot must be lifted a certain distance from the floor, maybe it was 10 inches. In all those weeks, I never really paid attention to that. Someone then checked me, and I wasn't even close to 10 inches. No wonder it had failed! I was so discouraged, it was years before I tried exercising again.
What does that have to do with mathematics education? Unfortunately a great deal. In the absence of a real test (for me, actually running on a track) it is easy to think one is progressing if one follows well intentioned but basically artificial guidelines. It is all too easy to slip in some way (as I did by not stepping high enough) and be lulled into false confidence. Then when the real test finally comes, and the illusion of competence is painfully shattered, it is all too easy to feel betrayed or to "blame the messenger."
The "real test" I am speaking of is not just what happens to so many high school graduates when they meet first-year mathematics courses. It is that we in the U. S. are falling farther and farther behind most other countries in the world, not just the well known ones like China, India, and Japan. The bar must be raised, yes, but not in artificial ways, in true, authentic ones.
Cargo cult education.
During World War II in the Pacific Ocean American forces hopped from island to island relentlessly pushing westward toward Japan. Many of these islands in the south Pacific were inhabited by people who had never seen Westerners; maybe their ancestors years before had left legends of large wooden ships. We can only imagine their surprise and shock when large naval vessels arrived and troops set up communication bases and runways. Airplanes and those who flew them seemed like gods. It seemed to the natives that the men in the radio buildings, with their microphones, radios and large antennas, had the power to call in the gods. All of the things brought by the navy, radios, buildings, food, weapons, furniture, etc. were collectively referred to as "cargo".
Then suddenly the war ended and the Westerners left. No more ships. No more airplanes. All that was left were some abandoned buildings and rusting furniture. But a curious thing happened. The natives on some islands figured that they, too, could call in the gods. They would simply do what the Americans had done. They entered the abandoned buildings, erected a large bamboo pole to be the "antenna", found some old boxes to be the "radio", used a coconut shell to be the "microphone." They spoke into the "microphone" and implored the airplanes to land. But of course nothing came. (except, eventually, some anthropologists!) The practice came to be known as a "Cargo Cult."
The story may seem sad, amusing, or pathetic, but what does that have to do with mathematics education? Unfortunately a great deal. The south Pacific natives were unable to discern between the superficial outer appearance of what was happening and the deeper reality. They had no understanding that there even exists such a thing as electricity, much less radio waves or aerodynamic theory. They imitated what they saw, and they saw only the superficial.
Sadly, the same thing has happened in far too many high schools in the United States in the last twenty five years or so in mathematics education. Well meaning "educators" who have no conception of the true nature of mathematics see only its outer shell and imitate it. The result is cargo cult mathematics. They call for the gods, but nothing happens. The cure is not louder calling, it is not more bamboo antennas (i.e. glossy ten pound text books and fancy calculators). The only cure is genuine understanding of authentic mathematics.
Confusion of Education with Training.
Training is what you do when you learn to operate a lathe or fill out a tax form. It means you learn how to use or operate some kind of machine or system that was produced by people in order to accomplish specific tasks. People often go to training institutes to become certified to operate a machine or perform certain skills. Then they can get jobs that directly involve those specific skills.
Education is very different. Education is not about any particular machine, system, skill, or job. Education is both broader and deeper than training. An education is a deep, complex, and organic representation of reality in the student's mind. It is an image of reality made of concepts, not facts. Concepts that relate to each other, reinforce each other, and illuminate each other. Yet the education is more even than that because it is organic: it will live, evolve, and adapt throughout life.
Education is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more an education than a heap of stones is a house.
An educated guess is an accurate conclusion that educated people can often "jump to" by synthesizing and extrapolating from their knowledge base. People who are good at the game "Jeopardy" do it all the time when they come up with the right question by piecing together little clues in the answer. But there is no such thing as a "trained guess."
No subject is more essential nor can contribute more to becoming a liberally educated person than mathematics. Become a math major and find out!
So What Good Is It?
Some people may understand all that I've said above but still feel a bit uneasy. After all, there are bills to pay. If mathematics is as I've described it, then perhaps it is no more helpful in establishing a career than, say, philosophy.
Here we mathematicians have the best of both worlds, as there are many careers that open up to people who have studied mathematics. Real Mathematics, the kind I discussed above. See the Careers web page for a sampling.
That brings up one more misconception and one more parable, which I call:
Computers, mathematics, and the chagrinned diner.
About twenty years ago when personal computers were becoming more common in small businesses and private homes, I was having lunch with a few people, and it came up that I was a mathematician. One of the other diners got a funny sort of embarrassed look on her face. I steeled myself for that all too common remark, "Oh I was never any good at math." But no, that wasn't it. It turned out that she was thinking that with computers becoming so accurate, fast, and common, there was no longer any need for mathematicians! She was feeling sorry me, as I would soon be unemployed! Apparently she thought that a mathematician's work was to crank out arithmetic computations.
Nothing could be farther from the truth. Thinking that computers will obviate the need for mathematicians is like thinking 90 years ago when cars replaced horse drawn wagons, there would be no more need for careful drivers. On the contrary, powerful engines made careful drivers more important than ever.
Today, powerful computers and good software make it possible to use and concretely implement abstract mathematical ideas that have existed for many years. For example, the RSA cryptosystem is widely used on secure internet web pages to encode sensitive information, like credit card numbers. It is based on ideas in algebraic number theory, and its invulnerability to hackers is the result of very advanced ideas in that field.
Finally, here are a few quotes from an essay well worth reading by David R. Garcia on a similar topic:
Americans like technology but seldom have a grasp of the science behind it. And the mathematics that is behind the science is regarded as even more mysterious, like an inner sanctum into which only initiates may gain entry. They see the rich and nourishing technological fruit on this tree of knowledge, but they see no deeper than the surface branches and twigs on which these fruits grow. To them, the region behind this exterior of the tree, where the trunk and limbs grow, is pointless and purposeless. "What's the use of math?" is the common query. "I'll never use it." When a nation's leaders are composed primarily of lawyers, administrators, military men and stars of the entertainment industry rather than statesmen, philosophers, the spiritual, and the men and women of science, then it should be no surprise that there is so little grasp of the simple reality that one cannot dispense with the trunk and limbs and still continue to enjoy the fruit.
What is it that would cause us to focus only on this external fruit of material development and play down the antecedent realms of abstraction that lie deeper? It would be good to find a word less condemning than "superficiality", but how else can this tendency be described in a word? Perhaps facing up to the ugly side of this word can stir us into action to remedy what seems to be an extremely grave crisis in Western education.
The first step toward [progress in crucial social problems] is to recognize the deceptive illusions bred by seeing only the surface of issues, of seeing only a myriad of small areas to be dealt with by specialists, one for each area. Piecemeal superficiality won't work.
Teaching is not a matter of pouring knowledge from one mind into another as one pours water from one glass into another. It is more like one candle igniting another. Each candle burns with its own fuel. The true teacher awakens a love for truth and beauty in the heart--not the mind--of a student after which the student moves forward with powerful interest under the gentle guidance of the teacher. (Isn't it interesting how the mention of these two most important goals of learning--truth and beauty--now evokes snickers and ridicule, almost as if by instinct, from those who shrink from all that is not superficial.) These kinds of teachers will inspire love of mathematics, while so many at present diffuse a distaste for it through their own ignorance and clear lack of delight in a very delightful subject.
Note Added January 3, 2011:
Around December 19, 2010, this essay was "discovered" somehow and attracted an enormous amount of attention. For many hours, the web page was getting a hit every second! This is very gratifying, and I am grateful for the overwhelmingly positive response. Many people said it is the best thing they have ever read on the subject of mathematics education.
Let me address a point that has come up. This essay was first developed around 1993 and appeared online in 1999. By January of 2000 it contained all of the "parables" except "Cargo Cult Education", which was added around 2002, and "Step High", which was added around 2008. The reference to the essay by David Garcia was added sometime around 2000. Therefore, any similarity to more recent essays by others is either convergent evolution, or must be explained by those others. Also, someone pointed out to me that Richard Feynman mentions "cargo-cult science" in one of his books. I am not aware of ever reading that passage in his books, which I greatly admire.
The first time I ever read a clear description of training vs. education was in an essay by Peter Hilton in one of the MAA journals. I believe that appeared in the mid 1980s.
The comments that were emailed to me by readers can be found on my site.
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That being said, you will also notice some slight variations in the scores at the end of this article. Of course, we must consider a game's native environment when assigning our ratings and while consoles are inundated with action platformers, the PC is starving for a good one. Our scores must then reflect Prince's more significant presence on this platform -- plus this game is just a wee bit better. But then all that will be explained in brief at the end of this article.
If you are, however, simply wondering if this particular version of Two Thrones is identical to the others in terms of content and also functional, wonder no longer: The games are clones of one another and this one works just fine.
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To appease the lowbrow demands of 100 million casual gamers unwilling to spend cash for Ubisoft's brilliant Sands of Time game, the company took Warrior Within into the more digestible realm of "action" and away from the realm of "thinking-man's platformer."
Swords and shadows! Dirt and "bitches!" Warrior was to be Ubi's sinister, consumer friendly modification of the fundamental Sands mechanics that were ever so thrilling and critically acclaimed. But despite best efforts and a healthy dose of hard rocking, Warrior Within cheesily fell short of the amazingly high bar its predecessor set. In trying to appeal to more folks by lining the game with more stuff, much of the original magic was lost. Indeed, an excess of scantily clad women, shadowy beasts and heavy riffs made Warrior Within ordinary, for when all is dark and grimy, even the dark and grimy become bright. A good rule of thumb is to understand when one more stroke is too many and when an excess of magic is drab.
Sadly, it seemed back then that a title of Sands of Time's caliber would just not come, given the new path laid down by Warrior Within for the Prince series. Boy does it ever feel good to be wrong! I'm dazzled. Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones is Sands of Time reborn.
Music, art, acting, acrobatics...story! Each universally applauded part of Ubisoft's first marvelous foray into the Sands of Time trilogy has been recreated here with care and cunning, save for the scarred and craggy, battle-hardened face of our champion. And yet, while this third game offers so much indisputable greatness, it still grips tight to the failing philosophies of Warrior Within in just enough key areas. Two Thrones also suffers slightly from an imposing holiday deadline and the preposterously lofty expectations fans of Sands carry with them at all times.
Narrated now by the somber and knowing Empress of Time in a way that neatly ties the end of Two Thrones to the beginning of Sands, this Prince's journey begins much like Warrior Within or Shadow and Flame, in sea and turmoil. Approaching his home port of Babylon with Empress Kaileena under arm and the Dahaka defeated, the Prince looks forward to rest and comfort, though the smoking ruin of his city will give him none. With his land besieged, his vessel burned, his woman bound, and his house in ruin, the Prince sets out to free his love, reveal his enemy, punish his rivals, and put his home to rights. But even champions are subject to the whims of fate. Along the way the Prince will encounter old friends, older relations and new foes. His story will unwind backward and at once spring forward into a climatic choice between light and dark -- the Two Thrones, one of self-serving indulgence and personal achievement, and the other of unbridled heroism despite consequence.
Reforming the Prince into his original shape was a bloody good idea! Genteel as he is, Yuri Lowenthal's Prince of Persia in The Sands of Time is far preferable to Warrior Within's Wolverine Clone #818. The gruff, self-serving madman who sought to stop the Empress's Sands at any cost was not the young royal plagued by distrust and delusions of glory we all loved. #818 was simply out of place in such a fairytale. So being back in Yuri's shoes just feels right.
Ubisoft also expertly balances Yuri's third Prince between two lines of starkly contrasting motivation, or the two thrones. Throughout the course of this adventure, the Prince must decide what's truly important. He must confront his Dark self as it struggles to gain a foothold on his conscious and he must also fess up to past crimes and move past them regardless of hardship (while listening to awesome music).
By linearly forcing the game on a railroad ride to an inevitable conclusion, and not focusing on the paradoxical "Superman can now fly around the Earth backward real fast" time traveling mechanic to undo old problems and create new ones, Ubi has done away with backtracking and also recaptured the sense of urgency and achievement that were so prevalent in Sands.


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Thursday, October 17, 2013
Ask en español {GIVEAWAY}
I have a great giveaway today from Cricket en español! They sent me a few copies of their most recent issue of Ask en español (and a few others) to look over and I must say they are phenomenal, as you'll see from the snapshots below.
Okay, it's true. I said I wasn't going to focus on giveaways and I really, really am trying to get away from them, but at the same time, if I'm approached about a giveaway that I think you would love and benefit from, well...you know what that means.
And today's giveaway is lots of fun and SUPER educational. (That's my favorite combo, you know!)
I've written before about Cricket's new line of Spanish language magazines for kids, and I know you all loved discovering them because there really aren't any other magazines like these for kids. They are high-quality mags that are worth every penny of their subscription.
This month's issue of Ask en español is especially great because the whole issue is pretty much dedicated to bones. (Ask is Cricket's magazine for kids ages 6 - 9. It focuses on STEAM - SCIENCE, technology, engineering, ARTS, and math - stories.) Your kid will learn all about the bones in her body, what happens when you break a bone and how it heals, the different types of skeletons found in nature, and even learn about Día de los Muertos and its view of death and skeletons (i.e., not scary, just a natural part of life). There's also a section on archaeology and what archaeologists learn from bones. Honestly? There's actually a lot more than just this, but you'll have to wait to learn about it until you get your own copy! And can you believe that it is all in Spanish? They are really targeting bilingual families, and I think that's cool.
Cricket en español has generously offered a 1-year subscription to Ask en español to THREE (3!) MommyMaestra readers. Each subscription includes both a digital and print issue, so you can read it however works best for your familia.
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Hi guys!
I, with everyone in the staff, would like to greet you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Year End. We dealt with lots of issues this year and had successfully implemented few changes that will make great impact in the years to come.
Most of all, we've had challenges which called out even members who are silently assisting OS. I thank everyone for staying in our site and not giving up on us even though we have only few achievements this year.
I hope you all have a great holiday and may we all look forward to what new year will bring us...in and out of OS.
Happy holidays guys! All hail OS! All hail our community!