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At times, global diplomacy is a lot like school: You get points just for showing up.
By attending an intergovernmental summit on the Thai island of Phuket this week, United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton can point to a stronger US commitment to Southeast Asia, a region that felt slighted by her predecessor's spotty attendance record and security-first mind-set. By contrast, Ms. Clinton has proposed a broader range of cooperation with a region of 570 million people.
While the US is still driven by security concerns, particularly over North Korea's nuclear program, Clinton's presence in Phuket sends a signal that Southeast Asia matters. It also comes at a delicate juncture for Burma (Myanmar), a longstanding irritant.
"On behalf of our country and the Obama administration, I want to send a very clear message that the United States is back, that we are fully engaged and committed to our relationships in Southeast Asia," Clinton told a press conference here on Tuesday.
Competing with China for influence
Behind the renewed US attention is the rising influence of China, which has assiduously courted the region since the late 1990s.
Increased trade and cooperation with China has raised questions over the staying power of the US, particularly in light of its financial woes. That suggests that Clinton may be playing catch-up in Southeast Asia after the summit fuss dies down.
"The US needs to do more than be engaged. It needs to give the region the sense that the dynamism is on the US side. Right now, it's on the Chinese side," says Michael Montesano, a visiting fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore.
The US remains the preeminent military power in Asia and the guarantor of open sea lanes that carry a significant share of trade in oil, food, and manufactured goods. Few expect that power to wane in the short term, despite the expansion of China's naval capacity.
On Wednesday, Clinton signed a Treaty of Amity and Cooperation with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which is hosting the summit. Its secretary-general, Surin Pitsuwan, said it was "a shift in strategy on the part of the new US administration toward ASEAN."
In reality, the treaty is largely symbolic, say analysts. China signed it in 2003, as have other major powers, but it's unlikely to bear much weight on potential flash points in the region, including sea boundaries between China and Vietnam and disputed islands such as the Spratleys.
As an example of cooperation, Clinton cited a 20-nation exercise in disaster relief held in the typhoon-prone Philippines in May. Thursday's forum of senior government officials also touched on common responses to the H1N1 virus that has sparked panic in Thailand.
Aung San Suu Kyi trial to resume
On Friday, the trial of Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is due to resume. Her plight, and doubts over the regime's promise to hold fair elections in 2010, has soured relations between ASEAN and its Western allies.
The trial has prompted the US to put on hold a mooted policy rethink toward Burma. Clinton said Wednesday that the release of Ms. Suu Kyi could lead to increased US investment.
Burma's political stalemate has also sowed discord within ASEAN: Indonesia's foreign minister has complained that military-ruled Burma is a drag on the region's global standing as it exposes its "democratic deficit." He also said Burma should release Suu Kyi ahead of elections in 2010.
Such plain speak is anathema to autocrats in the 10-nation group. The friction underscores widening divisions within ASEAN and suggests another reason why US attention has lagged recently. Last year, the group adopted a charter that included a human-rights body. But its remit has been narrowly defined, to the dismay of rights activists who fear Burmese meddling.
"It is held hostage by its own terms of reference," says Benjamin Zawacki, a researcher in Bangkok for Amnesty International. "[It] has no power to protect, and any decisions rendered by it must be reached by consensus – by definition with the assent and agreement of Myanmar."


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The Grace Academy homeschool program is built on Christian convictions. We encourage homeschooling parents to review the following statement of faith while making this very important decision about the education of their children.
The Grace Academy homeschool program statement of faith begins with the premise that the Bible is God's infallible written Word. We believe that it is fully inspired by the Holy Spirit and that it is without error in the original manuscripts. There is one God, existing in three persons — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ is God, the Living Word, who became flesh through His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit. He was born of a virgin. He lived a sinless life and atoned for the sins of people by dying on the cross as their substitute; He accomplished salvation for those who believe in Him by this action. He rose from the dead in the same body, though glorified, in which He lived and died. Men and women were originally created in the image of God, but they disobeyed God and are, thus, separated from their Creator. Man's nature is imperfect, and, apart from Christ, man is unable to totally please God.
It is the privilege of all people who ask God for salvation to be born again and thus be assured of their salvation from the instant at which they trust Christ as their Savior. This assurance is not based on any action on their part but by the action of God. Every believer is called to live a life that is in a process of being conformed to the likeness of God. This is only possible via the power of the Holy Spirit who strengthens the believer so that he will resist sinful temptations and will overcome sin to the glory of God. Jesus Christ will return to the Earth. We believe in the bodily resurrection of Christ, His imminent return, the resurrection of His people to life everlasting, and the judgment of the unbelieving world to everlasting punishment.
Many people believe that spiritual matters are just one part of an array of things that make up life. We believe that the entirety of life should center on spiritual matters! It shouldn't just be a facet of life. Our religious convictions should shape the rest of life, especially our education. With The Grace Academy homeschool program, homeschool students have the freedom to learn from a Christ-centered homeschool curriculum.


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Solid modeling technology has made big inroads into the CAD world over the last decade for several reasons. Solid modeling has been of limited use on the CAM side of the equation, however, because it didn't bring all that much to the table for someone who mostly just wants to create tool paths.
But that's changing rapidly now that some CAM developers are beginning to integrate the power of solid modeling with intelligent manufacturing applications that "know" how shops want to machine their parts. A good example of such technology is EdgeCam for Mechanical Desktop, recently introduced by Pathtrace Systems, Inc. (Ontario, California). The new CAM software comes fully integrated with Mechanical Desktop, Autodesk's parametric, feature-based solid and surface modeling system. This combination makes it possible to directly machine solid models and to automate much of the NC programming process, says the developer.
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Much of the automation capabilities stem from the system's ability to automatically extract manufacturing information such as features, material, volume and inside/outside references from solid models. Manufacturing operations can then be automatically applied to workpiece features, which reduces the time it takes to generate a part program.
A simple example of how this capability functions is a hole-drilling cycle. Once the user identifies a feature as a drilled hole, the system automatically picks up the hole diameter and depth from the model, selects an appropriate tool, and applies the correct feeds and speeds for the material being cut.
As features get more complex, the programming time savings grow more significant. For example, it had once taken over 20 operator instructions to program a threaded hole once all the tools and process parameters were selected for drilling, countersinking, counterboring, and tapping. Now that entire process can be programmed as a single operation.
The system includes knowledge-base libraries that help automate a range of machining processes. For example, tool libraries establish the cutting parameters used for tool path verification. A material library contains data for rough, medium and fine cuts, including depth of cut, chip load and suggested cutting speed (surface speed or rpm). An override feature provides compen-sation for material and fixture rigidity.
The system comes with a number of common manufacturing operations preloaded. But changes to the knowledge-base defaults can be made at any time so that processes can be made to conform to a shop's preferred methods.
Another advantage of integrating CAM with a solid modeler is a higher degree of data integrity, says the developer, because geometry is not filtered through a translator. Moreover, tool paths are saved with the model, so a single part file is used for all design and manufacturing data. Associativity allows tool paths to be automatically updated when changes are made to the model. This capability lends itself to concurrent engineering environments where companies want to determine manufacturability early in the design cycle, and also need to have a means to efficiently modify the manufacturing data as new designs are finalized.
The system can be used to verify the entire machining process. Verification displays not just the tool paths, but the stock, clamps and fixtures as solids, and solid tools interactively remove material from stock to identify collisions and gouging.
EdgeCam for Mechanical Desktop runs on Windows 95 and NT platforms. The standard package supports up to three-axis milling, two-axis turning and two-axis wire EDM. An advanced package supports up to five-axis milling, rotary and multiplane machining, four-axis turning (C and Y axis) and four-axis EDM.
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People are always sending me links — sometimes it's to a cogent rebuttal of lunacy, sometimes it's something advocating lunacy, and sometimes…it takes me a while to tell. For instance, here's this site called "The Truth of Genesis". I read this and thought for a moment that it was a site debunking creationism.
The biggest laugh comes from the "young Earth" teachers, who try to convince others that the Earth is only 6 000 to 10,000 years old. This is in direct conflict with scientific reality, and the true reading of Genesis. It's embarrassing to see them try to add up the years from Adam (who they think only lived 930 years), on down to Jesus, who was born in 7 BC. They deny the existence of humanity before Adam and Eve, which were formed from the dust of the Earth. So where do they put Cro-Magnon and the Neanderthals? They claim that there was "no death before Adam", but that is not found in scripture.
Those fools at Answers in Genesis who think the earth is only 6,000 years old! How ridicuolus! All those inconsistencies and their absurd methodology of toting up the ages of the patriarchs…but then I read on.
Adam was formed in about 7200 BC. The modern animals, along with the birds, were made in about 7100 BC, and Eve came along in about 7000 BC. I'm guessing that the animals lived in and out of the Garden, and Adam probably took Eve out on sight-seeing trips to lands surrounding the Garden. They did this for 2,733 years., until Eve ate of the evil tree in 4267 BC. It is then that the years of Adam's age begins to be counted, because that is when he "began to die". So from 7200 BC, till 3337 BC, when Adam died, Adam had lived for 3,863 years.
The reason the sequence of events in Genesis chapter one, do not agree with those in Genesis chapter two, is because Moses was writing about two different time periods. So actually, Genesis is declaring the existence of pre-historic man, which lived more than 60 million years before God made Adam and Eve. The world of science won't admit to mankind being on Earth any earlier than 10 million years ago., which shows how misinformed they are. Or is it that they are in denial?
I don't know about you, but I'm always impressed with the specificity of their dates, all derived from the land of making-crap-up.
It's good to know we've now found the one correct creationist, rather than all those other wrong creationists. Also a brave creationist, because he's going to reveal the truth to us at last.
Now, let us talk about the world of science. They are insane, because they would rather lie to the public, than to admit that there is a Creator. Yes, they lie, and they know it, because they have been withholding evidence from the public in order to not have to explain certain 'phenomena".
What is this evidence? You will be dazzled by it, but I'm afraid that as a mere biologist I am not qualified to even contemplate the author's vision. This one is for the physicists out there. Have at it:
Science refuses to come clean about comets, especially Shoemaker-Levy 9. They know good and well that comet was never "captured" by Jupiter. Captures of comets and satellites never occur, because their paths (orbits) obey the command of God. That is why the moon Metis, of Jupiter, does not crash into the planet, even though it is only 79,800 miles from Jupiter. Science calls it a "gravitational lock". There is no such thing.
Also, science tells the public that the nine planets of our solar system revolve around our Sun, because of the Sun's "gravitational pull" and centrifugal force on the planets (the same excuse for why our Moon doesn't "fall"). But that too is not the truth. If they came clean, their theory of stellar evolution, namely the origin of our solar system, would become suspect. Our planets are not really just orbiting the Sun. The Sun is actually following the planets, as they spiral around the Sun, as they all orbit the center point of our galaxy, the Milky Way, as the galaxy spirals around the center point of our "local group" of about ten galaxies. All of the stars (suns) that you see in our galaxy are moving with the rotation of our galaxy.
So when Halley's Comet orbits around the Sun, how does the comet know where our Sun will be 75 years later, since the comet leaves the solar system in the opposite direction of the Sun's orbital path (around the galaxy)? Where does it go? What causes it to come back? Certainly not gravity. How did comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 know where Jupiter would be two years later, when Jupiter had moved over 500 million miles since the comet's previous orbit of the planet? Its apojove was 32,313,600 miles, so again, gravity was not a factor. For more than 4 billion years, it obeyed the command of God, until its (Divinely) staged crash into Jupiter.
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Organisations in every industry are feeling the impact of disruptive technologies. With Intelligent Digital, we balance business understanding with technology innovation and human insight. We use cutting-edge technology to help solve our clients' complex needs, and strengthen trust and transparency with their customers and investors. You'll work in an environment that inspires you, and be given an active role in shaping the future of Assurance. You'll have an exceptional career experience working with and learning from experts in their fields. We embrace diversity, both in our people and the work you'll do. We drive change through innovation. It's this imagination and creativity, alongside the calibre of our teams, that mean we consistently win clients and projects, giving you the opportunity to work with market leading companies and leverage our global network.
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From June 7-18, 2010 the IMA will host an intensive short course designed to efficiently provide researchers in the mathematical sciences and related disciplines the basic knowledge prerequisite to undertake research in mathematical finance and economics. The course will be taught by Rene Carmona, Department of Operations Research & Financial Engineering, Princeton University, Nizar Touzi, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, and Guillaume Carlier, CEREMADE, University Paris Dauphine. The primary audience for the course is mathematics faculty. Some background in probability and stochastic processes are expected. Participants will receive full travel and lodging support during the workshop.
The course will consist of lectures on mathematical models for the energy and emission markets, stochastic differential equations, and optimal transport. There will be two lectures each day, with additional planned activities daily including guest lecturers. The tentative syllabus for the course is as follows:
Lecturer: Rene CarmonaTopic: Mathematical Models for Climate Change and the Energy and Emission Markets
Lecturer: Nizar TouziTopic: Backward Stochastic Differential Equations and Fully Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
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All creditors of the estate of KATHLEEN NEWSOME, deceased, late of Appling County, are hereby notified to render in their demands to the undersigned according to law, and all persons indebted to said estate are required to make immediate payment to me.
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Hey folks, hoping someone will respond to my last minute post..
I'm coming from Colorado (flight tomorrow morning!), and I'd love to to C2C sometime early next week.
Just wondering what I should pack .. I'll get microspikes for sure, but I'm wondering whether I'll need crampons, ice axe?
If yes, Is the trail upto the tram also going to need crampons and axe? I'm trying to avoid packing and carrying all that weight, but if I have to, I will.
Oh, and I've done C2C earlier, so I'm well aware of the distance, elevation etc. Thanks for the help!


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WASHINGTON (CNN) - Hillary Clinton supporter Harvey Weinstein threatened to cut off contributions to congressional Democrats unless House Speaker Nancy Pelosi embraced his plan to finance revotes in Florida and Michigan, three officials familiar with their conversation said.
Weinstein and Pelosi talked on the phone late last month, the sources said.
The three officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk publicly about the conversation.
They said Weinstein, a top supporter of Clinton's presidential campaign, appeared determined to buy Clinton more time in her battle against Sen. Barack Obama by pushing for the revote. He was also pressing Pelosi to back off her previous comments that superdelegates should support the candidate who's leading in pledged delegates in early June, the sources said.
Irene Brown May 8th, 2008 12:28 pm ET
It is completey un fare not to count delegates from Florida & Michigan. Florida could not hold an elction on time due to the Republicans. There are 50 states in this country. We all pay taxes, we all should be counted. On the Novemeber election we need a democratic Nomineee to beat Mc'cain. We will not go to vote on Novemeber if the delegates from Florida & Michigan are not counted now.
Bishal, Irene, Christine, Dawn, Kyle, Lynn, Dale, Sam, Corey, Mommy Norma, Rene, Anthony, Zackarre & Adam from Florida
Then all of you have earned the right to shut your mouths if McCain wins and you end up with more taxes, a bloodier Iraq, increased foreclosures, and $7.00/gallon gas.
Instead of you blaming the Democratic nominee, why don't you revolt against your state lawmakers who figured this Democratic race would be over by the time of their scheduled primaries and out of their own conceit, moved up their primary dates.
To show some respect to the party and the voters and your supporters just quit
I'm with your guy too....Irene Brown DNC need to count Florida and Michigan if they not count do not let Florida and Michigan vote in general
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- saturates13g
- carbs39g
- sugars27g
- fibre0g
- protein2g
- salt0.5g
- 100g caster sugar
- 100g very soft butter
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Ask a grown-up helper to turn the oven on to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Put a paper case in each bun hole.
Put the sugar and butter (it must be soft or you won't be able to mix it properly) in a bowl and mix it together. Sift in the flour.
Break the eggs into a separate bowl (spoon out any bits of shell that fall in) and add them to the bowl with the vanilla. Mix everything together.
Divide between the cases using a spoon, scraping it off with a knife. Ask a grown-up helper to put the tray in the oven for 20 minutes.
Mix the butter and icing sugar to make a creamy icing. Add colouring, if you like. Push an icing nozzle into an icing bag, then scoop in the icing.
Let the cakes cool completely in the tray. Pipe icing onto each cake and decorate with marshmallows or sprinkles, or whatever you like.


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Baked Chicken Milanese with Arugula and Tomatoes Recipe
Breaded chicken cutlets, baked in the oven topped with arugula, tomatoes and balsamic.
Whenever I go to this Italian restaurant by my house, I'm always tempted to order the not-so-skinny version of this dish. There is something about breaded chicken topped with arugula that really strikes my fancy. This lightened up version is much more figure-friendly, and perfect to make with summer's ripe tomatoes.
I originally posted this recipe many moons ago, but I remade it today with some slight modifications to the original. Mom my was over for lunch today and told me it was wonderful. Hope you enjoy!
Baked Chicken Milanese with Arugula Salad and Tomatoes
Servings: 6 • Size: 3 oz chicken with salad • Points +: 6 pts • Smart Points+: 6
Calories: 250 • Fat: 8.5 g • Carb: 17.4 g • Fiber: 3 g • Protein: 24.3 g • Sugar: 1.1 g
Sodium: 87.2 mg (without salt)
For the Salad:
1 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
5 medium ripe tomatoes, diced
1/4 small red onion, sliced thin
1 tbsp chopped fresh basil
kosher salt and pepper to taste
6 cups baby arugula
For the chicken:
24 oz (3) boneless skinless chicken breasts, sliced in half lengthwise
3/4 cup Italian seasoned breadcrumbs
1/3 cup grated Romano cheese (or parmesan)
1 lemon, juice of
1 tbsp olive oil
kosher salt
fresh cracked black pepper
olive oil spray (I used my misto)
In a medium bowl, whisk olive oil and balsamic. Add tomatoes, basil and onions; season with salt and pepper. and toss. Set aside at least 10 minutes so the juices combine.
Preheat oven to 450°. Place a large baking pan in the oven to get hot.
Combine breadcrumbs and grated cheese in one bowl. In another bowl combine olive oil, lemon juice, and pepper.
Lightly pound chicken breasts into cutlets, you should have 6. Wash and dry cutlets well with paper towels; season with salt and pepper.
Dip cutlets into lemon/oil mixture, then into breadcrumbs, pressing firmly to adhere.
Remove the baking pan from the oven and spray with cooking spray. Place the chicken on the baking sheets and spray with olive oil spray on top.
Bake chicken, turning once halfway through for about 15 minutes total, or until chicken is golden. Remove from the oven and top with arugula and tomato salad on top.
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Performances of L. Frank Baum's 1900 classic novel begin the weekend of February 7 at the school, 61-17 Grand Avenue.
Since the 2009–2010 school year, the St. Stan's Players have staged productions of Annie, Thoroughly Modern Mille, Cinderella and Aladdin with school alumni mother and director Annette Siguenza, who also ownes A Place to Dance, as well as producer and fourth grade teacher Maria Marrocco.
"Graduates have gone on to attend Fiorello H. LaGuardia School of Music and Art and Performing Arts," Marrocco said. "The program has created opportunities for students to develop and explore talents they might not have realized they had."
As the crew prepares for their upcoming performances, Marrocco said that students are also developing a sense of responsibility and teamwork.
Jesica Masi, a student at St. Stan's, has been in productions with the group for the last five years, and is playing Dorothy in this year's production.
"Five years ago, I had a tiny little part with a few lines," Masi said. "Being a part of the St. Stan's Players has been most rewarding."
Parent volunteers, students and alumni create the costumes, do makeup, and take on stage crew duties.
"From stage crew to supporting role, being part of the St. Stan's players for the past five years has been both challenging and rewarding," said eighth grader Nicholas Masi, who plays Uncle Henry in The Wizard of Oz.


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'Twas Morphine Poisoning
Doctors Casebeer and Winnett Also Agree.
The Nebraska State Journal, May 19, 1891
'Twas Morphine Poisoning
Doctors Casebeer and Winnett Also Agree.
The Nebraska State Journal, May 19, 1891
A Blow in the Dark
John Sheedy Dies at the Hands of an Assasin
Lincoln Herald, January 17, 1891
A Dreary grind
The Selection of a Jury Goes Slowly On
Lincoln Daily Call, May 6, 1891
A Great Crowd
Listens to Attorney Strode's Powerful Speech
Lincoln Daily Call, May 28, 1891
A Great Trial
The sheedy Murder Case Progresses Slowly
Lincoln Daily Call, May 20, 1891
A Hotel Fire
The Hotel Mack Scorched Last Evening by a Mysterious Blaze
Lincoln Weekly News, April 2, 1891
A Juror Sick
This Causes a Stop in the Arguments
Lincoln Daily Call, May 27, 1891
A Long Grind.
The City Fathers Work Until the Midnight Hour.
Lincoln Daily Call, February 17, 1891
Lincoln Weekly News, January 15, 1891
A Social Panel Drawn
Jurors for the Sheedy Murder Case
The Nebraska State Journal, April 25, 1891
A Startling Arraignment
Extracts from Hon. F.M. Hall's Argument.
The Nebraska State Journal, May 27, 1891
A Suspect in Limbo.
Monday McFarland in Custody for Sheedy's Murder.
Lincoln Daily Call, January 18, 1891
A Veteran Hotel Keeper
Half a Century in the Harness
The Nebraska State Journal, June 21, 1891
Lincoln Herald, June 27, 1891
Admitted the Confession
McFarland's Story Goes in Evidence in the Now Great Sheedy Trial
Lincoln Daily Call, May 14, 1891
After Life's Fitful Fever
John Sheedy Dies Of His Injuries
Semi Weekly State Journal, January 16, 1891 (Transcription)
After Life's Fitful Fever
John Sheedy Dies of His Injuries
Semi Weekly State Journal, January 16, 1891
All Rests With the Jury
Close of Argument In the Sheedy Case.
The Nebraska State Journal, May 29, 1891
All Rests With the Jury
[words unreadable] Argument in the Sheedy Case
Semi Weekly State Journal, June 5, 1891
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The first trailer for the new Matt Damon film "The Adjustment Bureau," has arrived, offering all kinds of creepy goodness like you'd want from a Philip K. Dick adaptation.
Damon plays aspiring politician David Norris, who's got his eye on a seat in the U.S. Senate, Emily Blunt is the beautiful ballerina, Elsie Sellas, he meets one day on the bus.
U.S. & World
As the two fall for each other, members of the "adjustment bureau," played by John Slattery and Terence Stamp come forward to put the kibosh on the romance.
"We are the people who make sure things happen according to plan -- we monitor the entire world," says Slattery menacingly.
Apparently Blunt is not part of the master plan meant for Damon, and so the adjustment bureau has been sent to set things back on course.
"If you stay with her, it not only kills your dreams, it kills hers," wants Stamp.
It's all very "masters of puppets," with lots of navel-gazing about the existence of free will, faith, destiny and all the stuff that Dick, a notorious druggie and paranoiac, loved to chew on.
The film finds Damon reunited with screenwriter and first-time director George Nolfi, who previously wrote "Ocean's Eleven" and "The Bourne Ultimatum."
New York City looks great, the music helps set the mood without dictating it, Terence Stamp does foreboding doom as well as anyone, Anthony Mackie is seen lurking about and it appears to be the new Yankee Stadium's film debut.
There are some signs for concern however, as the romance between Damon and Blunt looks fairly pain-by-numbers (read: dumb) and that hat he sports toward the end of the trailer is a we grating.
We're looking forward to seeing more of this and desperately hoping Damon can make us all forget about "Green Zone." The film was original to be released this summer, but has been pushed back to Spet. 17, which frankly makes more sense, 'cuz this does not have the look of a summer blockbuster.


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Researchers who have long promoted the cause of women in science view the incoming administration with a mix of optimism and we'll-see-ism. On the one hand, they said, the new president's apparent enthusiasm for science, and the concomitant rise of "geek chic" and "smart is the new cool" memes, can only redound to the benefit of all scientists, particularly if the enthusiasm is followed by a bolus of new research funds. On the other hand, they said, how about appointing a woman to the president's personal Poindexter club, the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology? The designated leaders so far include superstars like Harold Varmus, a Nobel laureate, and Eric Lander, genome meister.
The Rosalind Franklin Society, a group devoted to "recognizing the work of prominent women scientists," has suggested possible co-chairwomen for the panel. Its candidates include Shirley Ann Jackson, a nuclear physicist and president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Shirley Tilghman, a molecular biologist and president of Princeton University. Others have proposed Jacqueline Barton, a chemist and MacArthur fellow at the California Institute of Technology. Or, given the increasing importance of brain research, how about a prominent female neuroscientist like Nancy Kanwisher of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or Carla Shatz of Stanford University?
"People say, oh, we shouldn't have quotas, but diversity is a form of excellence, and there are plenty of outstanding women out there," Jo Handelsman, president of the Franklin society and a microbiologist at the University of Wisconsin, said in an interview. "You don't have to lower your standards in the slightest — you just have to pay attention."
Some would like to see novel approaches to treating systemic problems that often work against women's scientific ambitions. Mary Ann Mason and Marc Goulden of the University of California, Berkeley, have gathered extensive data showing stark male-female differences in the family structure and personal lives of academic researchers at the top tiers of the profession.
Surveying outcomes for 160,000 Ph.D. recipients across the United States, the researchers determined that 70 percent of male tenured professors were married with children, compared with only 44 percent of their tenured female colleagues. Twelve years or more after receiving their doctorates, tenured women were more than twice as likely as tenured men to be single and significantly more likely to be divorced. And lest all of this look like "personal choice," when the researchers asked 8,700 faculty members in the University of California system about family and work issues, nearly 40 percent of the women agreed with the statement, "I had fewer children than I wanted," compared with less than 20 percent of the men. The take-home message, Dr. Mason said in a telephone interview, is, "Men can have it all, but women can't."
From a purely Darwinian point of view, expecting a young woman to sacrifice her reproductive fitness for the sake of career advancement is simply too much, and yet the structure of academic research, in which one must spend one's 20s and early 30s as a poorly compensated and minimally empowered graduate student and postdoctoral fellow, and the remainder of one's 30s and into the low 40s working madly to earn tenure, can demand exactly that.
Nor do all young men in science accept the notion that their lab bench must double as a sleeping cot while their wives take care of the kids. In a new survey of 19,000 doctoral students at the University of California, Dr. Mason and her colleagues found that while two-thirds of the respondents either had or planned to have children, 84 percent of the women and 74 percent of the men expressed worry about the family-unfriendliness of their intended profession, and many had changed their plans accordingly. While 40 percent of the male science graduate students and 31 percent of the women said they had begun their Ph.D. programs intent on pursuing an academic career — still considered the premier path to science glory — a year or more into their studies, only 28 percent of the men and 20 percent of the women still hoped to become research scientists at a university.
Dr. Mason and other legal experts suggest that President Obama might be able to change things significantly for young women in science — and young men — by signing an executive order that would provide added family leave and parental benefits to the recipients of federal grants, a huge pool of people that includes many research scientists.
Whatever the impediments, women have made great strides in most areas of science. According to Joan Burrelli of the National Science Foundation, whereas 50 years ago women earned a piddling 8 percent of the science and engineering doctorates, by 2006 they claimed a 40 percent share. In 1973, only 6 percent of the Ph.D. scientists employed full time in academia, business or elsewhere were women; by 2006 the number had risen to 27 percent. Over that same time frame, women's share of full professorships in the sciences quadrupled, to about 20 percent. Yet the stats vary sharply from field to field: 26 percent of full professors in the life sciences are women, but in physics, 6 percent.
For many female physicists, the mystery of women's slow progress through their ranks is nearly as baffling as the research mysteries they confront in the lab. Of course, only 6 percent of physics professors are female; only 4 to 6 percent of the matter in the universe is visible. "Sound familiar?" Evalyn Gates, the assistant director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, said wryly.
She has urged her colleagues to attack the problem of low female numbers as they would any scientific problem, by systematically gathering data, checking their detectors, factoring out background noise. Yes, girls and women leak out of the pipeline in comparatively greater numbers than males for every scientific discipline, she said, but they fall out of physics first and fastest. Why should it be, she said, that almost half of high school students in Advanced Placement physics classes are girls, but women earn only a fifth of bachelor's degrees in physics? What turns girls away from physics so early?
Some have suggested that girls just can't handle the advanced math of physics. Yet in an analysis of high school students' performance on standardized math tests, published last summer in the journal Science, Janet Hyde and her colleagues found no gender differences in average performance, and even at the uppermost tails of achievement the discrepancies were minor and inconsistent: among whites who scored in the top 1 percent, there were two boys for every girl, whereas among Asian top scorers, there was one full girl for every nine-tenths of a boy. Besides, said Dr. Gates, female students earn half of the bachelor's degrees in another math-heavy discipline called — mathematics.
Others have insisted that women just don't like physics, perhaps because it seems cold and abstract, concerned with things rather than the flesh-and-blood focus of female-friendly fields like biology. But such reasoning, Dr. Gates said, cannot account for the fact that women earn half of the undergraduate degrees in chemistry, which is not quite plush toy material. "Something different is going on with physics, and we don't know what it is yet," she said. The culture? Bubble-headed television shows like "The Big Bang Theory," with its four nerdy male physics prodigies and the fetching blond girl next door?
The difficulties are not confined to America. Surveying some 1,350 female physicists in 70 countries, Rachel Ivie and Stacy Guo of the American Institute of Physics found that, worse than family balance issues or lack of day care options, was the problem of public perception. The women were passionate about their work. They didn't choose physics; physics chose them. Yet 80 percent agreed that attitudes about women in physics needed a serious overhaul.
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Residence: Crystal Lake
Hometown: Born in Paisley, Scotland, but grew up in Oswego and attended high school in Batavia
Family: Single
Education: Bachelor's degree in civil engineering, University of Illinois; master's in environmental engineering, University of Iowa
Favorite McHenry County restaurant? Bimbo's in McHenry. The red and white lasagna is amazing! I'm positive the tomato sauce cancels out any potential unhealthy aspect of the delicious béchamel sauce!
Favorite movie? "The Black Stallion" – best movie ever!
One word that describes you? Oldest-child
What is your job and what makes you so good at it?
I am an engineer and focus on municipal water and environmental systems. The "Dilbert" cartoons are somewhat accurate about engineers, believe it or not. However, what may be a little known fact is that engineers also need to be as good with people as much as they love a good spreadsheet. I truly enjoy working with people and helping them find solutions.
What accomplishments and innovations are you most proud of this year?
One of my favorite aspects of my job is working with and encouraging my staff in both of my departments. I am most proud when I see one of my people achieving something they didn't think they could do and I witness them excel in their own careers.
How do you give back to the community and what drives your service?
I try to be involved in community events. It's nice to feel like you're part of the bigger picture.
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Buy an Italian villa on "House Hunters International."
What is the best career advice you have received?
When my dad retired from his work as an engineer he sent out a message to all of his employees and he sent me a copy. There was one sentence in that email that I remind myself of often: Volunteer your thoughts, opinions, and time. This impacted me because I believe that succeeding in your career is more than meeting the minimum 9-5 requirements – it's about being involved in your company and dedicating your own time and not expecting anything in return.
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Sabres 4, Penguins 2
Thomas Vanek scored twice, Ryan Miller stopped 40 shots and the Buffalo Sabres edged the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-2 on Tuesday night.
Steve Ott gave Buffalo the lead for good when he batted a rebound out of the air past Pittsburgh's Marc-Andre Fleury with 2:34 left and Vanek added an empty-netter in the final minute.
Jochen Hecht also scored for the Sabres, who never trailed while snapping the Penguins' seven-game winning streak.
Chris Kunitz scored his 22nd goal for Pittsburgh and Jarome Iginla scored in his fourth straight game but it wasn't enough. Fleury made 29 saves but failed to pick up his 23rd win of the season.
Pittsburgh center Evgeni Malkin assisted on Iginla's goal to pick up a point in his return after missing four games with a lingering shoulder injury.
The Penguins, the Eastern Conference's top team, seemed to have things under control after Iginla tied the score 11:02 into the third period. Buffalo, already eliminated from playoff contention, kept battling.
Ott put the Sabres ahead to stay with his ninth goal of the season. Officials spent more than a minute reviewing the score to see if Ott's stick was too high.
The call stood and Vanek threw in an empty-netter to give the Sabres their second straight win over Pittsburgh.
The Penguins again played without center Sidney Crosby, who remains out with a broken jaw.
Still, Pittsburgh appeared energized by the return of the league's reigning MVP and dominated the early stages with Malkin looking in top form despite playing the first time in nearly two weeks. Buzzing the net with regularity, Malkin's teammates seemed intent on setting him up for his ninth goal of the season.
Instead, the Sabres, playing for little, struck first.
Vanek put Buffalo up 12:49 into the game with a one-timer from between the circles thanks to a pretty feed from behind the net by Cody Hodgson.
The momentum lasted all of 20 seconds, or as long as Kunitz needed to take a pass from Brandon Sutter then wrist a shot off Miller's glove and into the net to tie the score.
Buffalo appeared to go up 2-1 just over six minutes into the second but the referee waved off Andrej Sekera's goal after ruling Vanek interfered with Fleury. Vanek nearly got his revenge at the end of his penalty, streaking out of the box for a breakaway on Fleury only to see the goaltender get a piece of the puck with his glove to send it out of harm's way.
The Sabres did pull ahead when Hecht beat Fleury with a shot from just inside the left faceoff dot 6:11 into the third. The Penguins, with nothing to play for other than an outside chance of catching the Blackhawks for the league's best record, appeared ready to end a three-game in four-day stretch until Letang found Iginla standing by himself at the top of the left circle. Iginla responded with a slap shot that powered its way by Miller for Iginla's fifth goal with Pittsburgh since coming over in a trade from Calgary last month.
NOTES: Crosby, defenseman Paul Martin (upper body injury) and forward James Neal (concussion) all skated on Tuesday, though there remains no timetable for their return. Pittsburgh coach Dan Bylsma indicated earlier in the week Martin could be back before the end of the regular season on Saturday ... Pittsburgh plays in New Jersey on Thursday ... Buffalo ends the season at home against the New York Islanders on Friday.


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(Choose "Register for a Chess Tournament - then select the "US Chess Correspondence Tournaments" option then use the dropdown menu to select the tournament you want to enter.
One of the many benefits with being a member of the US Chess Federation (US Chess) is being able to participate in Correspondence Chess (CC) events which are all rated. We offer events which are played by exchanging moves with your opponent through the post office as well as events in which you correspond with your opponent using e-mail or web servers!
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If you enter an event which is played by sending moves through the post office but find that your opponent and you agree to use e-mail, you must exchange a clearly written agreement and notify the Correspondence Chess Director (CCD) in writing.
Newcomers are welcome for most events. We do ask that upon entry you estimate your playing strength so we can pair you accordingly.
Note: Sometimes pairing levels are broadened: 0000-1499; 1500-1799; 1800-2000+
We also offer a Master rating category which a player can achieve through actual CC play with USCF.
If you are an unrated player please estimate your approximate strength. You cannot choose Master level is you are unrated. You play one game with each one of your six opponents (three White/three Black) for a total of six games. Winner of the tournament receives a cash prize of $130.00 and a certificate signed by Victor!
2020 GOLDEN KNIGHTS CHAMPIONSHIP: (Entries open January 1, 2020 thru December 31, 2020)
Entry fee: $25.00; players cannot enter more than 10 times.
Enjoy the excitement of competing in our 73rd Annual Golden Knights Championship. This event can offer three rounds of competition for those who score 4 1/2 or more in each round. For those who score less than 4 1/2 in the Preliminary round will receive a gift certificate valued at $7.00. For those who do not score 4 1/2 or more in the Semifinal round receive a certificate suitable for framing. For the Preliminary and Semifinal rounds, if no player within the seven player group scores 4 1/2 or more, those with 4 are advanced. For those who complete all three rounds, no forfeit losses, they will receive a Golden Knights pin and can possibly win prize money depending on their weighted-point score.
To view the Special Rules for the 2020 Golden Knights Championship which is the US Chess 62nd Championship, please go to: Special Rules for 2020 Golden Knights.
2020 ELECTRONIC KNIGHTS CHAMPIONSHIP: (Entries open January 1, 2020 thru December 31, 2020)
Entry fee is: $25.00; players cannot enter more than 10 times.
To view the Special Rules for the 2020 Electronic Knights Championship which is the US Chess 17th Annual E-Knights Championship, please go to: Special Rules for 2020 Electronic Knights.
Rules for all of these events are posted here. They can also be obtained from US Chess, PO Box 3967, ATTN: Joan DuBois, Crossville, TN 38557.
You can enter these tournaments in our Online tournament and membership store. Payment can also be sent to US Chess. You can also call 1-800-903-USCF (8723) or fax your charge card order to: 931.787.1200 (US Chess office). If you have any questions related to these events, rules, game results, etc., please contact our Correspondence Chess Director Alex Dunne, PO Box 367, Sayre, PA 18840 or email Alex at: [email protected].


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The ICD-10 transition is inevitable, as the current ICD-9 coding system is very out of date. The ICD-9 coding set was implemented in the 1970s and contains information that is incompatible with current medical practice, according to a fact sheet from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Many other nations around the world have already made the switch to ICD-10 coding. The ICD-10 transition will bring more opportunity for code expansion and enabling physicians to provide accurate diagnoses.
Since so many players in the medical industry use the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) including physicians, nurses, health IT professionals, billers, coders, and insurers, moving forward to the most accurate set available today is essential.
Clearly, transitioning effectively to the new coding set is a necessity, which is why CMS offers a variety of resources to ensure a successful ICD-10 integration across the healthcare industry. The Road to 10 website, for example, provides a customized plan for physician practices to adopt the coding set and new technologies that are relevant to their needs.
Whether a hospital or clinic specializes in pediatric care, OB-GYN, cardiology, or internal medicine, the Road to 10 online resource offers tailored ICD-10 transition strategies for any and all medical facilities.
Additionally, CMS provided this flyer to educate providers, payers, and vendors on the ICD-10 transition. Vendors, especially, will need to work with healthcare providers to install and implement equipment that meets the requirements of the new coding set.
Since many other countries have already adopted ICD-10 coding, the World Health Organization (WHO) states that the release date for the next updated coding set, ICD-11, will be in 2017. WHO also offers ICD-10 training tools for providers and payers to become more educated in time for the October 1 deadline.
WHO reports that the ICD is being further advanced and developed through the next phase of ICD-11 in order to maintain the progress in medical care and among physicians. Due to the increasing capabilities of EHRs and health IT systems, the ICD-11 coding set will also be a useful addition.
The organization also states that entities will be able to access the ICD-11 coding set in multiple languages. Signs, symptoms, and definitions of disease will be reported "in a structured way" so as to improve accuracy.
ICD-11 will also be tailored for the transition to health IT systems and information networks. WHO also invites coding experts and other stakeholders to comment on the new ICD-11 developments through an online platform.
While the US healthcare system is still preparing to move forward with the ICD-10 transition, the WHO encourages experts across the globe to comment on and propose better classifications for ICD-11.
"The input from multiple parties will increase consistency, comparability and utility of the classification," the WHO stated. "This shared process will lead to a global consensus on how diseases and health-related problems are defined and recorded."


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On the Lofoten-Tromso road
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Bar Bache
Sunset at Bar Bache in Stavanger, Norway
Lofoten-Tromso Road
Literally a picture of the Lofoten-Tromso Road
The Glow of Svalbard
This was the sight that greeted our eyes when we dipped below the thick cloud cover into the home-fjord of Longyearbyen
Not LOLCAT, EISCAT. European Incoherent Scatter... something or other. It's a radar dish that studies the atmosphere. It's in Longyearbyen.
Beware of Polar Bear
The sign at the edge of Longyearbyen beyond which you may not venture on foot without a gun
Mushy snow, dogsleds, Longyearbyen.
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Open in case of Apocalypse
SAS Cleared for Takeoff
One of several daily SAS flights ready to take off from Longyearbyen airport
First Post Office
The first post office in Longyearbyen
Jets of Heat
SAS flight climbing out of Longyearbyen
A tripod-assisted, ultra-wide angle selfie taken atop a huge mountain/ridge of dirt excreted from an abandoned coal mine.
Coal Mine: Machine Shop
The machine shop of an abandoned coal mine
Coal Mine
An abandoned coal mine in Longyearbyen


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Just a few months after the release of his latest feature, Bernie, director Richard Linklater has already secretly wrapped his follow-up project. Word broke out last week that Linklater was in Greece working on a sequel to Before Sunrise and Before Sunset with actors/co-writers Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. Hawke, however, was quick to downplay the rumors as he insisted that they were simply developing a screenplay and "trying to see if it's worth filming."
Well it looks like Hawke was stretching the truth a bit, because Deadline now reports that they actually were filming the sequel, titled Before Midnight, and production has now wrapped. Hit the jump for more, including the first image from the film.
Before Midnight apparently just wrapped last night, but the film will be presented to buyers at the Toronto Film Festival, which kicks off this week. Before Sunrise centered on a young American (Hawke) and a young French woman (Delpy) who meet on a train and spend the night walking around Vienna getting to know each other. Before Sunset picked up nine years later and plays out in real time as the couple cross paths once again and spend an afternoon in Paris. For Before Midnight the encounter takes place in Greece, and here's the statement released by the trio about the film:
"It's great to be back together again, this time in beautiful Greece to revisit the lives of Celine and Jesse nine years after Jesse was about to miss his flight."
It's tough to get a movie made under the radar these days, and I applaud Linklater, Hawke, and Delpy for getting away with it almost unnoticed. Director David Gordon Green similarly succeeded earlier this year when he wrapped a secret comedy remake of Either Way called Prince Avalance with Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch in Austin. Keep an eye on Collider throughout the next week, as I'm sure we'll be reporting on Before Midnight securing distribution at the Toronto Film Festival.


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Volunteer has Life Changing Experience in Ghana
When people go abroad to volunteer it often makes a huge impact on their lives. This is certainly the case for Petra Oblak, who volunteered on a Care Project in Ghana in September 2009.
Petra worked at an orphanage in Accra, and while she was there she saw how some of the children moved out of the orphanage when they were adopted. Many volunteers comment about how they would have loved to bring a few of the kids home with them, however, for Petra, this became a reality when she returned many times to Ghana to go through the process of formally adopting one of the children she worked with.
In her most recent visit, Petra adopted 3 year old Kofi, whom she met during her very first days in Ghana. Petra and Kofi now both live in London but they plan to return to Ghana regularly.
Petra is now encouraging other people to volunteer and share the experience she had. She has set up the following website: www.humanbeingbest.com
We wish Petra and Kofi the very best for the future.


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Think Twice Before Cashing Out Your 401(k)
If you are thinking about cashing out your 401(k) when you change jobs, think twice. Or maybe three times. You might be about to forsake a financially secure retirement. We are using this Alert to educate investors to the potentially devastating impact cashing even a modest amount of 401(k) assets can have on retirement savings.
When you switch jobs before retirement, you usually can choose among several things to do with your 401(k):
- Leave the money in your former employer's plan
- Roll over the money to your new employer's plan, if the plan accepts transfers
- Roll over the money into an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) or
- Take the cash value of your account
It may be tempting to choose the last option and use the money to buy a new television, take a cruise or even to pay off a debt. And you would not be alone in thinking that way: A recent study indicates that 45 percent of employees cash out their 401(k) plans when they change jobs.1
But cashing out of a 401(k) before you are 59½ can cost you dearly, both immediately and in the long run:
- If you do not transfer your money to an IRA or your new employer's plan within 60 days of receiving it, your current employer is required to withhold 20 percent of your account balance to prepay federal taxes. The IRS has introduced a self-certification procedure if you inadvertently miss the 60-day time limit.
- If you keep the money, you must pay federal income tax on your entire withdrawal. In addition, you may also owe state tax on your distribution.
- Plus, the IRS will consider your payout an early distribution, meaning you could owe a 10 percent early withdrawal penalty on top of combined federal, state, and local taxes.
When all is said and done, you could end up with a little more than half of your original 401(k) savings! In addition, you will owe tax annually on any future earnings your lump sum generates.
The High Cost of Cashing Out
The repercussions of cashing out of your 401(k) could be enormous. For example, let's assume you are 30 years old, and have a 401(k) balance of $20,000. If you leave that money in a 401(k) or put it in an IRA, and your account averages a 6 percent rate of return over the next 32 years, your balance at retirement will be $129,068, even if you do not make any additional contributions during that time. Even if you have a shorter time horizon, you will forgo significant savings opportunities by cashing out your 401(k). For example, if you are 45, your $20,000 will grow to $53,855 in 17 years.
Keep in mind that even if you really need the money, you may be better off borrowing from your 401(k) than cashing it out. Depending on your plan's terms, you may be able to borrow at a lower rate from your account than you could from a bank or other lender, especially if you have a low credit score. At the very least, you should check with your plan administrator to learn whether this option makes sense for you before you cash out. To learn more about 401(k) loans, read Smart 401(k) Investing.
When you change employers, carefully examine the short and long-term consequences before cashing out of your 401(k) account. After all, when talking about tax-deferred savings plans, time is money.
For additional information on saving for retirement, read Smart 401(k) Investing.
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Inspired by and Featuring Works from Art Spiegelman's Personal Collection
Silent Pictures, running from September 1 through October 11 in the James Gallery, will focus on aspects of comic book structure and syntax that do not depend on words to advance an image sequence. The exhibition is inspired by artist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Art Spiegelman's personal collection of wordless comics and graphic novels -- mostly black and white rare artist books from the 1930s. The show will feature a selection of these books, as well as more recent "abstract comics," and a related film program -- all of which investigate essential qualities and aesthetics of this hugely popular medium. (Pictured: Woodcut from David N. Holzman's In the Gulf, 1989.)
The James Gallery is located off the lobby of the Graduate Center at 365 Fifth Avenue (between 34th & 35th Streets). Hours are Tuesdays through Fridays, 12–8 pm, and 12–6 pm on Saturdays & Sundays. Admission is free; for more information call 212-817-7138. An opening reception for Silent Pictures will be held on Thursday, September 10, 6-8 pm.
The abstract comics, compiled by art historian and artist Andrei Molotiu for a just released anthology, Abstract Comics (Fantagraphics Books, 2009), call attention to the formal mechanisms that underlie all comics. Where the earlier art collected by Spiegelman retains a narrative, often politically charged thrust, the comics gathered by Molotiu emphasize the dynamic graphics that lead the eye and mind from panel to panel, suggesting that these structural elements are fundamental to the emotional register of the medium. (Pictured: Andrei Molotiu, from The Panic, 2006.)
The exhibition will also feature a specially commissioned wall drawing by Renee French, a hand-drawn animated film by the British artist team Rachel Cattle and Steve Richards, and a new collaborative project for the Graduate Center's Fifth Avenue lobby display windows by Gail Fitzgerald and Carl Ostendarp. (Pictured: Renee French, Untitled (Plank), 2009.)
In addition, Columbia University art historian and film scholar Noam Elcott will curate a related film program titled "Comic-Film-Strip." To be installed in a small gallery-within-the-gallery, this program will feature mostly wordless, animated historic films, in which the frame-by-frame narrative parallels developments in the wordless comics that also emerged during the first half of the 20th century. "Comic-Film-Strip" will include selections of films by Emile Cohl, Walter Ruttmann, Norman McLaren, and Robert Breer, as well as a very early partially animated film by William Kentridge. Elcott will elaborate on "Comic-Film-Strip" in a public conversation to be held September 25, 6-7:30 pm in the Graduate Center's Skylight Lounge.
The Graduate Center is devoted primarily to doctoral studies and awards most of the City University of New York's Ph.D.s. An internationally recognized center for advanced studies and a national model for public doctoral education, the school offers more than thirty doctoral programs as well as a number of master's programs. Many of its faculty members are among the world's leading scholars in their respective fields, and its alumni hold major positions in industry and government, as well as in academia. The Graduate Center is also home to more than thirty interdisciplinary research centers and institutes focused on areas of compelling social, civic, cultural, and scientific concerns. Located in a landmark Fifth Avenue building, the Graduate Center has become a vital part of New York City's intellectual and cultural life with its extensive array of public lectures, exhibitions, concerts, and theatrical events. Further information on the Graduate Center and its programs can be found at www.gc.cuny.edu.
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Beautifully created Bowling Alley Art painting and print of humorous and challenging bowling lane in an imaginative setting of coral sea.Each print depicts the bowling lane and includes a humorous tongue and cheek caption on how one might have to pitch the ball under the extreme conditions.
Caption below the painting says:
Balls rolled here must be exclusively timed to the ripping tides and ocean currents that unexpectedly surge out from the beautiful coral formations that don the reef. To further complicate the pitch, uneven vortex's that are caused by friendly and not so friendly creatures of the deep who live there. Despite the problems bowling here, regardless of score, will be an amazing oceanic experience.
18" x 24" printed Giclee on luxurious art paper.
Shipped as a roll in a tube. Frame not included.
This will make a great addition to your Alleys decor, or make great gifts for your bowling friends and family, or make great league prizes. Get yours today!.
Loyal H. "Bud" Chapman who is famous for his creation of the 18 Infamous Golf Hole paintings, has now used his imaginative mind to do the same with the popular sport of bowling, with the creation of The Infamous Bowling Alleys!. Lanes have been put into unusual places and then added humorous tongue and cheek descriptions on how to play them.
He is sure that these Bowling paintings will help promote the game for all to enjoy, and may even change how and where we play in future.


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Four things about my four and a half year-old daughter are 1) she's "learning to cooperate," a line I fed her and she knows how to use in distressed moments of impending timeouts to signal her desire that she not receive the timeout, 2) she's begun to draw people and squiggles that sometimes magically become letters but she can't yet necessarily produce a letter on command—this morning that'd have been the cause to be reminded of number one, 3) she "reads" to herself everything from Spiderman to Maisy, and 4) she most certainly has a great deal of energy—and physical prowess.
That run-on sentence didn't include the fact that she's adopted. It's something that comes up—and then doesn't. While where we came from certainly matters deeply, right at the core, and while being adopted is a critical piece of that baseline truth, she doesn't lead with it—and most of the time for most people, it's not the leading thing about her, either. We visited her aunt—birth mother's younger half-sister, in the constellation—uncle and twin cousins. We had a lovely time. We admired the babies (okay, mostly I admired the babies). Saskia looked at books, ate a snack, filled in the crossword puzzle squares with those squiggles and did some chatting.
Later that night she asked me if she'd moved her hand around in my tummy before she was born. I asked, "Whose tummy were you in before you were born?"
"Auntie Cece's," she replied.
I said, "I got to feel your hand and your feet when I touched Auntie Cece's tummy. And you know what? I know you kicked a lot, because you're such a strong, active kid now." I paused and then added, "When you were teeny-tiny, too little to be able to hold your head up, you already could! Because, Saskia, you were always so strong."
And on we went.
Everything, including knowing where you came from, is a process.
Three things I'm glad about on this Tuesday: the constellation of love that shines over Saskia's sky; the softness of tiny hands I get to grasp—even when my smallest is now a "big gu-rl;" and glorious August days.
Three things to share:
Another reason our preschool rocks is that it's one of ten exemplary schools for helping engage diverse families. Read how.
In the process of preparing to interview Eileen and Marc Rosenthal, creators of two of the most charming picture books—about Bobo, the sock monkey, Bobo's pal Willy, and Willy's nemesis-slash-begrudged pal Earl the cat—I got to know the Bobo books and now Saskia will help me get to know them nightly! Here's my piece about Eileen and Marc for Rural Intelligence.
Five friends, same photo, every five years for 30 years; there's no way I can't share that. It's such an inspired idea. I love especially the power of reconnecting with people and how relationships build even when you don't live in the same place. I love the investment in each other. That's why when my dear friends couldn't visit this summer (really, there was just no way), I felt understanding—and sad.


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While Flyer Goodness correspondent Marco Huerta was able to catch this year's amazing Codex International Book Fair in Richmond, CA, I was unable to check out the 182 distinguished book artists and artisans, private presses, and fine art publishers. Fortunately, all of the photos in this post were shared by codexfoundation.org and their facebook and twitter pages. Also check out the gorgeous Monograph Series (featured at the beginning of this post) and other publications available for purchase at the Codex website.
I'll let Peter Koch, printer and director of the codex foundation, sum up Codex in his own words from their website:
"The Codex Foundation exists to preserve and promote the hand-made book as a work of art in the broadest possible context and to bring to public recognition the artists, the craftsmanship, and the rich history of the civilization of the book. There is no better place to find and collect the finest in contemporary artist books, typographic prints, and fine printing."


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He's a father of four, but Brian Shaffer can only dream of what millions of parents take for granted.
He'd love to be able to walk his daughter down the aisle when she gets married someday. Or climb into the bleachers to watch his son play football.
Right now, doing either would be nothing short of a miracle.
On Christmas Eve 2010, Shaffer was in a horrible car crash. It left him paralyzed from the waist down.
That's why today, Shaffer is helping develop cutting-edge high tech that helps paraplegics walk again. He's part of a test program for a new powered "exoskeleton" that functions like a robotic walking suit.
The advanced device allows people with severe spinal cord injuries to sit, stand, walk, and even climb stairs on their own. Designed for ease-of-use, the relatively light and compact system is worn over a patient's clothes. It provides a whole new level of movement, far and away better than what's currently on the market.
"My kids have started calling me "Ironman,'" Shaffer says - a reference to the movie by that name starring Robert Downey, Jr. as a scientist who wears a powered suit of armor that, among other things, allows him to fly.
"It's unbelievable to stand up again," Shaffer adds. "It takes concentration to use at first, but once you catch on, it not that hard. The device does all the work."
This walking suit is the brainchild of Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Of course, the school isn't doing this on its own. Vanderbilt has licensed this product to a big company that has the money and the marketing muscle to make it a commercial success. And talk about a perfect fit: Parker Hannifin Corp. (NYSE:PH) is a sprawling maker of motion and control systems.
The team believes their invention could be on the market as early as 2014.
This is a great example of how the latest high-tech breakthroughs can go from the lab to the market.
Many of the best tech advances do come out of colleges. Even though we focus on the investment angle to all these stories, I often tell you about seemingly "academic" advances, because I know that many such schools actively court licensing deals with companies. Either that, or the researchers go out on their own and start new firms.
These are just two of the ways in which we can invest in fascinating new technology.
The details on this device are just fantastic...
The Vanderbilt team says their system features improvements in robotics, microelectronics, and motors that allow the suit to work like an external skeleton. Motors controlled by a computer drive the hip and knee joints. To maintain their balance, patients use walkers or forearm crutches.
"You can think of our exoskeleton as a Segway with legs," says Vanderbilt Professor Michael Goldfarb. "If the person wearing it leans forward, he moves forward. If he leans back and holds that position for a few seconds, he sits down. When he is sitting down, if he leans forward and holds that position for a few seconds, then he stands up."
The system weighs just 27 pounds - about half the weight of current systems.
What's more, it's the only wearable robot with proven rehabilitative benefits. It incorporates something known as functional electrical stimulation (FES). Here's how it works. FES applies small pulses to paralyzed muscles, which in turn causes them to contract and relax. The process can improve bone density and circulation, as well as strengthen muscles.
Fact is, lack of mobility can give the wheelchair-bound serious issues with their urinary, respiratory, and digestive systems, among other problems. So the Vanderbilt device not only provides patients with newfound freedom, it also can improve their health.
In this case, I believe Parker Hannifin could have a winner on its hands. No doubt, it's looking at a big market. The U.S. alone has more than 230,000 people living with spinal cord injuries. About 155,000 of them are paraplegics. It costs well over $1 million to treat each patient over a lifetime.
It's hard to say what the market could be worth, but Thomson Reuters reported that ABI Research forecast a market of $320 million for bionic exoskeletons within 10 years.
One thing's for certain: This is a fast-moving field.
There's also Agro Medical Technologies Ltd. of Israel. It's now selling a version of its ReWalk unit for personal use in Europe. In the U.S., the ReWalk is approved for use in rehab clinics, but permission for home use is pending. And back in May, I told you about Ekso Bionics of Berkeley, Calif. The firm began with funding from a research arm of the Pentagon and now has its bionic suits working at several U.S. rehab centers.
As I see it, the fact that three firms have entered this field is a great sign of progress. It means we are reaching critical mass in our bid to restore motion to people with serious spinal injuries.
This is one of the reasons I love to write about the Era of Radical Change. It seems that every day I come across another new advance that has the potential not just to change the world but to improve people's lives on the most basic level.
I pay especially close attention to the field of spinal cord injuries for a deeply personal reason. When I was 19 or 20, I was out on my motorcycle one day when I came upon the scene of a crash involving another motorcycle. As fate would have it, I knew the crash victim. Chris and I had been friends since junior high. He survived but lost the use of his legs because of trauma to the spine. He's been confined to a wheelchair his whole adult life.
So don't be surprised if in the near future you see my friend Chris walking down the street in his own robotic suit.
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We were thrilled to collaborate with Astier de Villatte on this collection of serving pieces and objects. Sculpted from gray earthenware then finished with a porcelain glaze, each piece is both functional and decorative. These serving pieces look fantastic on the wall or on a table. The PATCH NYC for Astier de Villatte collection is made by hand in Paris. Dishwasher safe. 16.5" x 10"