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Mother's Day is only a few days away. If your mom (or the special mom figure in your life) is a reader, why not consider a book as a gift? And don't forget to arrange for her to have some reading time to go with it. Here are a few new titles that might pique her interest:
On May 1, Terri Osburn of Virginia Beach released the third and final book in her Anchor Island series. In "Home to Stay," hometown girl and bartender Willow Parsons has sworn off romance, thanks to a disastrous past relationship. But when handsome Randy Navarro, her brother's best friend, determines to ferret out Willow's secrets, she must decide between the road and the safety of anonymity, or home and the promise of love. "Home to Stay" is available in print, eBook and audio at Amazon.com and other online retailers for about $9, $5 and $11, respectively. You can read more about Osburn and her books at terriosburn.com.
Photo lovers might enjoy "My Virginia Rivers" by author/photographer Will Daniel. According to the book jacket, Daniel traveled around Virginia for four years, snapping digital images of the state's rivers "from the storied Shenandoah Valley to Hampton Roads and the Chesapeake Bay." The resulting 140-page volume is filled with more than 250 photos that capture the beauty of our commonwealth's rivers. The 9-by-11-inch hardcover is available from publisher Schiffer Books, schifferpublishing.com, as well as major online retailers for about $30.
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Book series are hot with readers these days. Recently the booksellers at the Barnes & Noble in Hampton's Peninsula Town Center suggested these "first of a series" titles to their customers. Here, in their own words, are their recommendations:
"Dead Iron: The Age of Steam" by Devon Monk. Blending an exciting mix of western, this is an exciting novel for anyone looking for some variety in their steampunk. To add to the appeal of the story, the main character is a werewolf.
"The Blood Gospel: The Order of the Sanguines Series" by James Rollins. An archaeologist, a soldier and a priest are in a race against time to stop the destruction of the world. It is full of action and history. It's a must read.
"The Pillars of the Earth" (prequel to "World Without End") by Ken Follett. A masterful story during feudal England's 12th century about a monk who wants to build a wondrous Gothic cathedral in a small town. The author intertwines this story with betrayal, love, power and revenge.
"Darkfever: Fever Series Book 1" by Karen Marie Moning. The author combines fantasy and romance with a touch of humor. This series will draw you in and keep you enthralled to the end.
"Naked in Death" by J.D. Robb (alter ego of romance author Nora Roberts). Wonderful characters, good mysteries. As you continue to read more of the series, J.D. Robb pulls you into the character relationships. A not-too-far-in-the-future series that keeps you returning for the next book.
"Age of Ra (Pantheon Series)" by James Lovegrove. Each book in the series presents a unique take on the gods of myth and legend existing in the real world. 'Age of Ra' presumes the Egyptian gods won a divine war and have divided our world between them.
"Murder on Astor Place (Gaslight Mystery)" by Victoria Thompson. It is 1920 in New York City, and modern-thinking Sarah Brandt is a midwife with a mystery to solve. The book has great characters with a twisted ending.
"Article 5" by Kristen Simmons. This teen fantasy adventure read is a true page-turner that will get your attention from the very first chapter. Simmons weaves suspense, action, adventure and romance into a novel that will leave you dying to read book two, "Breaking Point."
Poetry news
National Poetry Month is officially over, but local poets are as busy as ever.
•On Thursday, Poetry Night at the Peninsula Fine Arts Center will feature poetry-inspired art. Woodside High School French teacher Najoua Benothmane, who previously challenged her students to interpret in art Charles Baudelaire's poem "The Eyes of the Poor," will present their work and read the poem in its original French translation. Benothmane will be followed by readings of ekphrastic (art-inspired) poetry and an open mic, time permitting. The event, which is free and open to the public, begins at 6 p.m. Pfac is located on the grounds of The Mariners' Museum Park, 101 Museum Drive, Newport News. Go to pfac-va.org for information.
•Friday, May 9 is the deadline to register for the 2014 Poetry Festival of Virginia which takes place Friday and Saturday, May 16-17 at the James City County Library, 7770 Croaker Road, Norge. The two-day festival is packed with workshops, readings, open-mike sessions and more. Go to poetrysocietyofvirginia.org to register.
Vote in poetry contest
Voting is underway for the Readers' Choice winner of the Daily Press Poetry Contest. View entries at dailypress.com/poetry. To vote, go to contests.dailypress.com and select "Daily Press Poetry" from the list. Voting ends at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, May 11. Meanwhile, Daily Press staff and guest judges are busy combing through entries to choose their top selections. The 2014 Daily Press Poet Laureate will be announced on Sunday, May 18. Good luck to all our entrants.
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Maybe sometimes Pauline Marois's dog whistle is too high-pitched for its signal to be heard by even the people for whom it's intended.
Even the Parti Québécois leader herself might not know that Julie Snyder, the "surprise guest" who introduced Marois at an election campaign rally in Montreal on Thursday evening, has made anti-English remarks.
As host on the Star Académie television singing contest last January, Snyder congratulated an Ontario-born contestant for speaking French well, unlike "anglophones in Montreal who don't speak a word of French, and they were raised in Quebec!"
Maybe Marois, along with what the PQ said were more than 2,000 supporters who packed the Metropolis nightclub (next attraction: The Cult), knew Snyder only as a television personality and the wife of Québecor media baron Pierre Karl Péladeau.
(Note to columnists at Péladeau's Quebec dailies: Be careful what you write about the boss's wife's party.)
The man in the crowd waving the radical nationalists' Patriote flag might not have noticed any political significance in the choice of musical entertainment at the rally.
It consisted of comfortably traditional-sounding songs, sung by old-stock Québécois — nothing "ethnic" reflecting the cultural diversity of the city where the show took place.
The party that believes in the assimilation of minorities rather than what it calls "Canadian multiculturalism" is ambivalent toward such diversity.
Maybe the crowd chanted "Lisée, Lisée," at the introduction of star candidate Jean-François Lisée, for reasons other than that he is behind a PQ campaign promise to disqualify newcomers to the province from seeking election if their knowledge of French or Quebec is deemed inappropriate.
And that Lisée is among those in the PQ who believe that speaking French as a second language is no longer good enough, and that only people with French as their mother tongue can be trusted to defend the language.
When Marois took the stage to speak, the audience might not have noticed an omission in her description of "full-fledged Québécois."
They could, she said, have "come from elsewhere." And whether "born in La Sarre (the name of the Abitibi town was misspelled in the text of her speech) or in Dakar (in the African country of Senegal), you are part of my 'nous.' You are at home here."
As models of assimilation, she named PQ candidates Djemila Benhabib and Maka Kotto (though even Kotto, who was born in the African country of Cameroon, fails his party's new mother-tongue test).
But Marois did not mention a long-established community that is also Quebec's largest minority: the English.
For even while adopting French (despite what Snyder had implied), the English have resisted assimilation.
And when Marois referred to Quebec's "400 years of existence," she ignored the aboriginals who had been here for thousands of years when the French arrived.
There could be no mistaking, however, who was included in the nation to which Marois pledged "my only allegiance."
"It is this people that speaks French and that has resisted for centuries that I have chosen to serve," she said.
To loud cheers, Marois repeated her defensive campaign line that "we don't have to apologize for being what we are." She didn't say who was asking for an apology.
She also said: "We have the right and even the duty to defend our language" with a "new Bill 101."
And "we have the right and even the moral obligation to assert our values" with a "charter of secularism." (Let's call the latter what it really is: an anti-hijab law.)
Marois didn't say against what or whom "our language" needed to be defended and "our values" asserted by a PQ government.
But it was clear enough: against the internal threat represented by minorities.
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Fr. Z is taking a poll. My personal favorite, the Missal of Blessed John XXIII isn't on the list. I think that if that caught on as the common name it would cause mental agony to those who brand the Blessed Pope as the great liberal who freed the Church from 1900 years of tradition and doctrine.
What Should the Pre-Vatican II Mass be Called?September 27, 2007
Things You Need to Celebrate a Mass in the Extraordinary FormSeptember 21, 2007
Now that Summorum Pontificum has been promulgated and you can celebrate a Mass using the missal of Blessed John XXIII you may be wondering what exactly you will need to properly celebrate the Mass.
Here is a complete list of items you will need to properly stock your sacristy. It's a long article so I will summarize it here.
First of all, you are going to need an altar missal for the older form of the Mass. This missal is actually the 1960 version with a sticker to insert the change made to the Canon in 1962 where St. Joseph's name was added.
Second, you are going to need to augment your vestment wardrobe with maniples and an amice and dalmatics if you have a deacon. You are also going to need to get rose and black vestments if you plan on celebrating the Extraordinary Form on Guadete or Laetare Sundays or All Souls' Day. Please note that many vestment sets come with matching chalice veils and maniples so you won't have to buy them separately.
For the altar you are going to need to get two additional altar cloths as the extraordinary form requires that the altar be covered with three cloths. You are also going to need to get chalice veils and burses in matching liturgical colors.
Other sanctuary appointments that you will need include Sanctus Bells, a censer (thurible) and boat.
If your parish doesn't already have servers vested in cassocks and surplices, you are going to need some of those as well (the cassocks and surplices, not the servers).
Finally, you are going to need patens for Holy Communion.
That about covers the physical items you will need. Apart from these you are also going to need:
- to understand and be able to correctly follow the rubrics of the 1962 Missale Romanum.
- to be able to properly pronounce Latin and have some understanding of what you are saying. For more on this I suggest reading Fr. Z's blog.
- a group of parishioners interested in assisting at a Tridentine Mass. Some bishops are trying to say that there must be 20-50 people who have been requesting the Extraordinary Form for a long period of time but there isn't anything in the actual document that points to such a requirement.
- a bishop open to the celebration of the 1962 Missal is also a very big plus even though it isn't required anymore.
Apart from these essentials, there are a few other things to take into consideration.
First, if you plan on celebrating a Mass in the Extraordinary Form you are going to be under intense scrutiny for the slightest mistake or anything that can be used to "prove" that the Old Form is inferior to the New Form. You should make every possible effort to show the beauty, reverence and sacred character of the Extraordinary Form so that there isn't anything that can be said against it.
Second, treat each celebration as if it were the model for the entire diocese to follow in its worship. Make sure that you and your servers are well versed in their respective roles. Find skilled musicians. Don't settle for volunteers who don't know how to sing and an organ that has more vibrato than an opera singer. Everything from the vestments, to the music to the celebration itself needs to reflect the beauty of the liturgy and show people that they are standing on the doorstep of Heaven. Jeffrey Tucker posted some more thoughts on this.
If you have a group of talented singers who would like to delve into Gregorian Chant, I suggest that you read this and this.
If you are looking for a place to participate in a Mass in the Extraordinary Form and your bishop has a Denethor complex, I suggest you put in for a transfer to St. Louis, Rockville Center, Hartford, Raleigh, Arlington, Springfield, Sioux Falls, Venice (FL), New York, or another like-minded diocese.
If you have a local Tridentine Mass and need a missal you should read our missal guide. We also carry veils and mantillas if you are interested in wearing one to Mass.
1962 Tridentine Missal SuppliesJuly 5, 2007
Well, it is official as of Saturday. The 1962 Missal promulgated by Blessed Pope John XXIII will again be allowed as a valid option throughout the world. If you are in need of supplies for this liturgy, including Tridentine missals, music, Latin resources or Tridentine vestments, we've got the goods.


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Kristen Stewart has done a complete 180 since getting her relationship back on track with Robert Pattinson.
SOMEONE'S changed their tune...
Despite previously always remaining VERY tight-lipped about dating her Breaking Dawn co-star, Kristen has basically now opened up about the couple's future baby plans.
When speaking about Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan, the 22-year-old said: "If I have a boy, I would want him to look like Hrithik Roshan, but with Rob's eyes."
YOWZA! That's a bit forward...
Kristen has been plagued by pregnancy rumours recently, with several US magazines claiming that she's already expecting her first baby with R-Pattz.
And her latest interview won't help the situation, especially after stating "If I HAVE a boy" (instead of 'if I HAD a boy'), which could be misconstrued has some sort of announcement - although we highly doubt it.
Kristen and Rob have been far happier to show off their formerly top-secret relationship following snaps of the star cheating on him with director Rupert Sanders during summer.
They were even pictured holding hands at the London premiere of Breaking Dawn: Part 2 last week, while Rob kissed her forehead at the Spanish premiere.
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Have You Tried Nehi Soda?
Nehi is a soda with a mid-60s Motown beat. It's a muggy summer night, dew on asphalt, the lights of an all-night diner. Lightning bugs in jars, honeysuckle nectar, parades. Nehi makes you nostalgic for the wholesome Southern childhood you never had.
It's a sugary time capsule from the days before Whole Foods and small-batch soft drinks, when "authentic" flavor was something to sweeten and color and dose with chemicals until it reached hard-candy levels of one-dimensional fluorescence.
Nehi nails the flavors of soda-fountain America. Nehi Grape tastes like "grape"like sweet cough syrupand Nehi Orange like creamsicle "orange." If you're only buying one bottle, make it Nehi Peach. It tastes very little like fresh peach, but it is loaded with bright, fizzy, peach-candy flavor.
Nehi is not groundbreaking here in the 21st century. It does not pretend to be. The glass-bottle packaging and vintage labels show that the people at Dr. Pepper Snapple, current owners of the 88-year-old brand, understand what they're selling: relics from the mid-century American refrigerator.
Try one with barbecue, or a white-bread sandwich. Try one with a burger and French fries. Try one while rolling down the road next summer, windows down. Sometimes, sweet, simple, and straight-up artificial hits the spot. And sometimes, flavor is secondary to good memoriesyours, or those of the country as a whole.
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Chris Tomlin's 'Burning Lights' Album to Top Billboard 200 Chart
Well-established Christian singer and worship leader Chris Tomlin looks to be on his way to break into the very top of next week's Billboard 200 chart, with his new album, "Burning Lights," raking in sales of between 60,000 to 70,000 copies and surging to the top of iTunes Christian and Gospel Albums Charts.
"Burning Lights," released on Jan. 8, is Tomlin's eighth studio album, but it would be his very first one to reach the top of the Billboard 200, The Associated Press reported. The "Les Miserables" Motion Picture soundtrack currently holds the top spot with 92,000 copies, but not many major albums are released in the first half of January, which will give "Burning Lights" the chance to take the top spot. The album's main competition next week will be "Notes From the Underground" by Hollywood Undead and "Wretched and Divine: The Story of The Wild Ones" by the Black Veil Brides.
Tomlin has performed in front of thousands around the world and is currently on a tour across America. He is also employed as a worship leader at Passion City Church in Atlanta, Ga., along with Louie Giglio. He has won several Dove Awards and a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album in 2012. Recently, Tomlin performed in front of 60,000 students at the Passion 2013 four-day conference in Atlanta, which was hosted by Giglio.
A detailed review by BreatheCast.com of "Burning Light"s gives the album a high score, and notes that it is a "landmark worship album not just in 2013 but in any year." The review projects that the songs on Tomlin's latest album "are going to be heard in churches over numerous languages across the world. But more importantly, just as Tomlin is a worshipper at heart, these songs will continue to transform us from being lovers of this world to be true worshippers of the Almighty God."
"Burning Lights" has also received largely positive critical reviews, with Kevin Davis of New Release Tuesday giving it a 5 out of 5 score and writing: "All of the songs are catchy, exciting and worshipful. After listening to the album, I am stirred with compassion to love people as Jesus loves us."
CCM Magazine rated the album 4 out 5, USA Today gave it 3 out 4 stars, and All Music ranked it 4 out of 5 stars.
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IL Follows Suit: Employers Right To Ask For Social Media Passwords Codified Into Law
from the digital-homes dept
Just a few weeks back we relayed the news that Washington State was seeking to codify into law an employer's right to ask for the social media passwords of their employees. I continue to be amazed both at why such a law was considered in the first place, as well as why there hasn't been more backlash against it. That said, I imagine the answer to the latter has something to do with the idea that employees and prospective employees could deny that request, so perhaps some people think that there's little to no impact overall. This, on its face, is obviously silly. Were there going to be no impact to denying the request, employers would never make it in the first place. You have to imagine that an employee, and to a larger extent an applicant, is going to face enormous pressure to give the key to their personal sites away, whether that pressure is real or imagined.
However, since the bill hasn't been challenged in the court of public opinion, others are now beginning to follow suit. Such is the case in Illinois, where the state House passed a bill this week, sponsored by Jim Durkin, that gives employers there the same rights. And, of course, it's all done in the name of protecting the workplace.
The Illinois House passed a bill today that would allow employers to request access to employees' personal web accounts used for business purposes, like Facebook and other social networking sites. As if people aren't paranoid enough already. To be clear, the bill does not mandate that employees supply the information, and no one could be fired or penalized for noncompliance. The idea is to allow employers the opportunity to investigate employee misconduct, protect trade secrets, and prevent workplace violence by monitoring online activities. Even without it being mandatory to share your login and password, you could imagine a boss putting a subordinate under some uncomfortable pressure.A challenge to everyone, if I may. If you were able to somehow catalog and characterize every single instance of employee misconduct, trade secret revealing, and workplace violence, exactly what percentage of them would you guess could have been prevented by proactive investigation of social media? Further, what percentage of such cases are such that the key evidence that would conclude any investigation into them would be only made available with a social media password? These are the kinds of answers with which I would expect proponents of such laws to be beating us over the head, yet you never seem to see any data in the reports. It all essentially comes down to, "We need to give employers the right to ask for social media passwords, because violence, scary internet, and children."
Do you know why we highlight when stupid criminals spurt their stupid juices all over the internet? Because they're the vast exception, not the rule. Creating the kind of animosity between employers and employees such as this bill will do is an awful over-reaction to those stories.
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According to Kourtney Kardashian, having to kiss an actor during her guest appearance on the soap opera "One Life to Live" left an impresson. Just not the most flattering one.
"I feel like a prostitute," she told Jay Leno during her "Tonight Show" appearance last night on NBC. "Being paid to kiss someone."
She then described herself as "a prude" and claimed she obsessively ate breath mints before the big moment.
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Here are the top national stories coming today from GateHouse News Service. Stories are available at http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/. Please submit stories below no later than 6 pm local time, unless you have breaking news that is changing significantly.
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POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS: GateHouse News Service and the Rockford Register Star have developed a national political contributions database to track what people have contributed to presidential candidates. If you're on Zope, the database is on your web sites. Basically, you can input the name of your town or your ZIP code, and you will find names of everyone in that area, how much they've donated and to whom.
BIG SPENDERS: Where some of the losers' money goes, with historical perspective and records to show examples. Does this change the way you'll think about writing a check? FITZPATRICK
Story coming 1.28.08 (release delayed until Monday) for publication 2.3.08 (before Super Tuesday)
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DRUNKOREXIC: You know you're going out for a drink to unwind after work or to a party later tonight. There will be booze and its accompanying calories, so you opt for a salad at lunch or dinner. Or you skip a meal entirely. Sound familiar? Rockford.
SAFE SUPPLEMENTS: Is there such a thing? Marion.
RAMBO REVIEW: 'Rambo' heavy on violence, light on everything else
DUNN: Economic stimulus checks.
GRANLUND: How economy stimulus checks will be spent.
GRANLUND: Rudy slipping in Florida.
GRANLUND: Cartoon on the only house not affected by the real estate slump -- the
BRITT: Obama vs. the Clintons: 'Godfather' style
WENDY MURPHY: Greedy grab or hush money? - As an advocate for fairness in the criminal justice system – not to mention a former New England Patriots cheerleader – few things infuriate me more than when an athlete gets a total pass, or a deep discount in punishment, after beating or raping a woman.
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CHARITA GOSHAY: Presidential rumors steer us away from matter at hand In an era when Internet postings are awarded instant credibility no matter how ludicrous, truth during a presidential campaign often ends up as roadkill on the Information Highway.
GARY BROWN: Addicted to home improvement. About this time each year I suffer hardware store withdrawal pains.
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ILLINOIS BASKETBALL: A story or notebook from coach Bruce Weber's press conference today. SUPINIE. Champaign. Illinois sports and Big Ten. Moving early evening.
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ILLINOIS BASKETBALL: In a short time as assistant coach, Illinois' Jerrance Howard helped recruiting with his energy and positive attitude. The former Illini reserve guard is building a vast network of connections. With box updating season?of Illini recruits. Serves as Illinois-Northwestern preview. Also with preview capsule. SUPINIE. Champaign. Illinois sports and Big Ten. Moving early evening.
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ILLINOIS BASKETBALL: Illinois vs. Northwestern. Game coverage. Tipoff 7 p.m. Game story with quotes and report card moving about 10.30 p.m. SUPINIE. Champaign. Illinois sports and Big Ten.
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AG SECRETARY: Former N.D. governor tapped by President Bush for cabinet post. DEVIL'S LAKE, N.D.
MCCAIN ROMNEY: In 2000, some of Sen. McCain's most fervent supporters – and one of his few and biggest primary wins (even after he was essentially eliminated from the race), trouncing George W. Bush 65% to 32% -- were in Massachusetts. But two years later, there was another GOP sherriff in town, Gov. Mitt Romney, as many Bay State Republicans threw their support behind him. Now the two men, Romney and McCain, are at each others throats. What are former McCain backers of 2000 throwing their support behind now, and why? Do they stick with their hometown governor or the out-of-state wonder? And could Mitt lose his "home" state?
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WORKWISE: Professional growth through community service.
WEB DETECTIVE: Mass. company's Web detective used in movie 'Untraceable' - Imagine a world where everything — the news, the banks, weapons systems — is digital. And picture the pandemonium that would ensue should someone bring it all down. CNC, Swart, 30 inches, on wire now
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December 22, 2013
CSAIL Principal Investigator Srini Devadas and three former students have been selected as the 2014 winners of the Most Influential Paper Award at a prestigious systems research conference.
Devadas, Edward Suh, Jae W. Lee, and David Zhang will be honored at next March's Nineteenth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), held in Utah.
The award is given annually to an ASPLOS paper from at least 10 years ago. The CSAIL team's 2004 paper, "Secure Program Execution Via Dynamic Information Flow Tracking," proposed a new approach to protecting against malware attacks that provides stronger security for programs that are traditionally more vulnerable. See this paper.
ASPLOS is the premier forum for multidisciplinary systems research spanning computer architecture and hardware, programming languages and compilers, operating systems and networking, as well as applications and user interfaces.
Devadas is the Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and belongs to the Computation Structures Group. His research interests include computer architecture, computer security, VLSI design, computer-aided design, hardware validation, network router hardware, and computational biology. Read more about Devadas' work.
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FDA to pregnant women: Eat more fish (but choose with care)
The Food and Drug Administration, underlining the potential health benefits to infants and young children of fatty acids found plentifully in fish, on Tuesday urged pregnant women and new mothers to consume more fish and to feed it more often to their youngsters.
The Environmental Protection Agency, which has long warned of the neurological dangers of mercury and other heavy metals in fish to pregnant women and children, on Tuesday added its endorsement. But the EPA cautioned that women should continue to avoid fish that can be laden with mercury, including shark, swordfish, king mackerel and tilefish from the Gulf of Mexico, and instead choose fish less likely to accumulate mercury in its flesh, including cod, tilapia, salmon, shrimp, pollack and catfish.
The agencies recommended that pregnant and breast-feeding women continue to limit their consumption of canned white tuna (usually referred to as albacore) to six ounces per week. Other cuts of tuna, including those most commonly found in canned form, need not be restricted.
The two agencies' joint announcement Tuesday marked the first time that federal officials have offered a recommendation setting a minimum level of fish consumption for better health. It was prompted by concerns that pregnant women and nursing mothers have been avoiding fish out of concern that it might prove harmful to their developing babies.
An FDA analysis of U.S. seafood consumption revealed that more than one fifth of pregnant women have consumed no fish in the past month, and that even those who do eat fish are consuming far less than would be beneficial to them and the babies they carry.
"For years, many women have limited or avoided eating fish during pregnancy or feeding fish to their young children," said Dr. Stephen Ostroff, the FDA's acting chief scientist. "But emerging science now tells us that limiting or avoiding fish during pregnancy and early childhood can mean missing out on important nutrients that can have a positive impact on growth and development as well as on general health."
The FDA recommended that pregnant women eat at least eight ounces and as many as 12 ounces of fish weekly (the equivalent of two to three servings). When consuming fish caught in local rivers, lakes or streams, the agencies urged women to follow fish advisories issued by local authorities. Where none are available, they recommended that pregnant women limit their weekly consumption of such fish to six ounces, and limit children's consumption to one to three ounces.
The new guidelines come against the backdrop of growing evidence for the health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids on developing brains and bodies. Epidemiological studies as well as clinical trials have demonstrated the value of the eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), a polyunsaturated fatty acid that is plentiful in fish, for preserving cardiovascular health, and of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) for fostering healthy brain development and preserving cognitive health.
Research evidence on these fatty acids' benefits has, however, been inconsistent. Still, positive studies have touched off aggressive efforts to market infant formulas and baby food supplemented with the omega-3 fatty acid known by its chemical name, docosahexaenoic acid (DHA).
The FDA's recommendations, however, are notable for their silence on the value of supplementation, and their endorsement of women and children's consumption of fish as a means of supplying omega-3 fatty acids.
"Fish as a whole food still seems better than supplementation," said Dr. Laura Jana, an Omaha, Neb., pediatrician and author of two books on nutrition published by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Fish, she added, "is unrivaled as a whole food," and a source of both general nutrition and specific nutrients.
Jana, who has worked with the National Fisheries Institute, said "something went terribly wrong" when the message of mercury in fish began to drive down fish consumption in pregnant women.
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A splash of Grand Marnier livens up this dreamy, chocolate-capped soufflé.
For the Soufflé
½ cup unsalted butter, plus extra for buttering the ramekins
1 cup sugar, plus 8 Tbsp. to coat the ramekins
⅓ cup all-purpose flour
1 cup whole milk
7 egg yolks
½ tsp. vanilla bean paste
½ tsp. orange extract
½ tsp. orange zest
Pinch salt
2 Tbsp. Grand Marnier
8 egg whites
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Spread butter onto the sides and bottoms of 8 1-cup ramekins. Add 1 Tbsp. sugar to each ramekin and swirl the camekin to coat the bottom and sides completely. Turn each ramekin upside down and tao gently to remove any excess sugar.
In a large saucepan, heat the ½ cup of butter over low heat until melted. Whisk in the flour. Continue whisking until the mixture is smooth and slightly thickened. Add the milk, raise heat to medium, and continue whisking until the mixture is very thick and starts to pull away from the sides of the pan.
Transfer the mixture to a large mixing bowl. Set aside to cool for a few minutes.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the egg yolks, vanilla bean paste, orange extract, orange zest and salt. Whisk in the milk mixture and Grand Marnier until smooth.
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, beat the egg whites on high speed until just foamy. Slowly add 1 cup of sugar in a steady stream and beat the meringue until it just holds stiff, glossy peaks. Stir one-quarter of the meringue into the yolk mixture to lighten it. With a large rubber spatula, gently fold the remaining meringue into the mixture until no white streaks remain. Spoon the batter into the ramekins filling them just to their rims. Use a small offset spatula to level the tops. Place the ramekins a few inches apart in a large glass baking dish and add enough hot water to the pan to reach halfway up the sides of the ramekins. Bake the soufflés in the middle of the oven for 20 minutes, or until they are puffed and their tops are golden.
For the Chocolate Crème Anglaise
1 cup half-and-half
4 egg yolks
¼ cup granulated sugar
1 tsp. vanilla bean paste
Pinch salt
1 ½ oz. bittersweet chocolate
In a large saucepan, bring the half-and-half to a simmer. While the half-and-half heats, in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, combine the egg yolks, granulated sugar, vanilla bean paste and salt. Beat the mixture on medium-low speed until it lightens and thickens. With the mixer running, slowly pour the hot cream mixture into the whisking yolks, carefully pouring it down the sides of the bowl to prevent the hot liquid from scrambling the yolks. Continue whisking until all the ingredients are combined. Transfer the mixture back to the saucepan and whisk over medium-low heat until the mixture thickens and coats the back of a spoon. Remove from heat and add the chocolate.
Allow the chocolate to sit undisturbed for a few minutes, then whisk to fully incorporate. Transfer the cream to a small metal bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Place over a pot of hot water that's just been taken off a simmer to keep warm.
To Assemble
When the soufflés are done, immediately transfer the ramekins to dessert plates. Using two forks, pull open the center of each soufflé and pour some crème anglaise into the opening. Serve immediately. Makes 8 individual servings.
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The Belgian machines sector faces some troubles in the construction-related segment. Italian machinery scores abroad, but not yet in the domestic market.
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Sector playing field: machines/engineering industry
Belgium: some issues, but still performing well compared to other teams
Demand for Belgian machines and engineering businesses is still affected by the difficulties some major buyer industries are facing (e.g. construction). The situation is not expected to improve in the short-term.
In general, the profit margins of Belgian machinery/engineering businesses remained stable over the past 12 months as companies were able to reduce their cost base. In the coming months margins are expected to remain stable or to slightly deteriorate, depending on the level of activity (order books). While competition is strong, high quality producers usually enjoy a competitive edge.
A major issue for the industry is that banks are in general still restrictive in granting financing. Businesses that do not have access to financing cannot perform in a sustainable way: gearing has always been high in the machinery sector due to the required investments.
That said, compared to other industries the credit risk and business performance of the machinery sector remains at an acceptable level.
Italy: mainly scoring at away games
The Italian machines/engineering sector has proved to be relatively resilient during the downturn of Italy´s economic performance due to its export orientation, high specialization and added value products in precision mechanics. Both specialization and quality help to preserve satisfying profit margins for many (export-oriented) businesses.
However competition is strong in the domestic markets, especially among small and medium-sized machinery companies dependent on construction businesses.
The still subdued domestic investment growth and the weakness of some end-markets suggest that specific subsectors will be impacted by reduced production, mainly smaller machinery businesses dependent on the domestic market. On the contrary, export-oriented businesses are expected to improve performance and cash generation.
Players to watch
Machinery for manufacturing and agriculture are performing quite well.
Machinery for the construction industry faces some trouble caused by subdued demand.
The machinery segment dependent on the manufacturing sector continues to benefit from export growth and from increased demand from the Italian manufacturing sector as the economic rebound continues.
The construction and road machinery segment performance is still hampered by weak construction performance in Italy.
The earthmoving machinery segment is highly dependent on public works and therefore exposed to structurally slow payments by public entities.
Demand for machinery related to the oil and gas sector is deteriorating.
Major strengths and weaknesses
Belgian machinery/engineering industry: strengths
Italian machinery/engineering industry: strengths
- Many businesses are part of large groups
- Many companies are flexible and used to managing ups and downs in terms of activity
- Suppliers of quality products
- High specialization and technological know-how
- Export orientation and good geographical diversification in end markets
- General sound financials of large engineering corporates
- Expected to benefit from the economic rebound in Italy
Belgian machinery/engineering industry: weaknesses
Italian machinery/engineering industry: weaknesses
- High fixed costs
- High competition
- Potential decrease of order books in the short-term future
- High number of small companies
- Low bargaining power
- Weakness of certain (domestic) end markets
Fair play ranking: payment behaviour and insolvencies
Belgian machinery/engineering industry
On average, payments in the Belgian machinery/engineering sector take around 60 days.
Payment experience is average, and the level of protracted payments has been low over the past couple of years.
Although still relatively low compared to other industries, the number of non-payment cases has increased over the past 9 months, and this negative trend is expected to continue.
The number of insolvencies in the industry is at a low level but is deteriorating slightly.
Italian machinery/engineering industry
Payment duration in the chemicals sector is about 100 days on average.
Payment experience has been good over the past two years, and the level of protracted payments is low. Non-payment notifications have decreased over the last 12 months, and are expected to decrease further in the coming months.
Machinery insolvencies have been stable over the past six months, and are expected to decrease in the coming six months.
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The "Men In Black" are coming back – again.
"Tropic Thunder" writer Etan Cohen will pen a third film in the Will Smith/Tommy Lee Jones franchise, according to Variety.
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The two stars have yet to sign on officially to the in-development sci-fi comedy, though it's reportedly "unlikely" that it would move forward without the pair.
1997's "Men In Black" earned over $250 million at the box office, making it Columbia Picture's highest grossing film at the time since "Ghostbusters." (The "Spider-Man" franchise would later eclipse that number for the studio.) A sequel, 2002's "Men In Black II," earned the smaller but still impressive sum of $190 million, though it faltered with critics, holding just a 38% rating on RottenTomatoes.com.
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We all want a happy ending, but for some of us that may not be how the story ends.
As a genealogist, I've learned it can be easy to track down an ancestor when they've passed away horribly or under terrible circumstances. Let me say, I wouldn't want that to happen to me or to anyone I know. But when someone's life turns into a series of unfortunate events, there are ways to research their story and turn it into a genealogical treasure.
Join the Fountaindale Public Library Genealogy Club as it hosts "It Is Well With My Soul – Finding Ancestors Amid the Rubble of Disaster and Misfortune" on Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 7 pm. This webinar-based program will be presented by Thomas MacEntee of High-Definition Genealogy. Thomas is a fantastic presenter who specializes in an array of technology and genealogy topics, so you won't want to miss this program!
"It Is Well With My Soul" is designed to teach researchers how to locate evidence of their ancestors experiences and how to add first-hand accounts to that body of evidence. This is a great program for genealogists and family historians of all experience levels.
This is a free drop in event. Light refreshments will be served. The room is open at 6:30 pm for socializing and discussion before the program. The Fountaindale Public Library is located at 300 W. Briarcliff Road in Bolingbrook, IL. Questions? Contact Debra Dudek at (630) 685-4201 for more information.
REMINDER: The Fountaindale Public Library Genealogy Club will not meet in December 2012. Enjoy your holiday season and get ready for a full list of genealogy programs in 2013!
ALSO: Don't forget visit Boardman Cemetery for it's annual Halloween Open House on Wednesday, October 31, 2012 from 5-9 pm! This event is hosted by the Bolingbrook Preservation Commission, and features trick-or-treating, live actor performances, cemetery information, and an opportunity to learn more about our early pioneer settlers.
Boardman Cemetery is located off Royce Road on Paxton Drive in the Heritage Creek Subdivision. Heritage Park is right across the street. The cemetery is accessible from Paxson Drive.
The Fountaindale Public Library Genealogy Club will have a table display and information regarding library events and services. Drop by and say hello!
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"Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever" (first 3 books)
- Lord Foul's Bane
- The Illearth War
- The Power that Preserves
This series dates back into the 1970's, as my dad recommended I read it when I was pretty young. He said if I liked Lord of the Rings, then I'd be blown away by this. I kinda wrote it off at the time (being a silly high schooler and thinking reading was bad) but then 3 years ago, I decided to give it a shot.
Written by Stephen Donaldson, this series has one of the best broken hero's I've ever read. It's about a man who contracts leprosy and loses everything - his wife, his son, his successful career as a writer. Everything. He's outcast from his community. He lives in a lonely shack in the woods. He spends every day checking himself for bumps, knicks, scratches - things that, for a leper, could be life ending. Life is grim for Thomas Covenant.
Then he gets transported to another a land. A land he refuses to believe is real. A land that holds a strange power to heal his sickness. A land that is slowly being eaten away at by a growing darkness, and a land that people see him as a prophesied hero.
"Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever" they call him. White gold wielder.
His power lies in the unstable wild magic that sleeps within his white gold ring. His white gold wedding band he never took off.
Honestly, a must read. A haunted man with nothing left to live for told he must save an entire land of people he knows nothing about and cares nothing for. So damn edgy.
If nothing else it's a wonderful character study. Pick it up - you won't be disappointed.
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Sandy Hook choir to sing at Super Bowl
NEWTOWN -- An anonymous donor has provided money so that as many as 26 members of the Sandy Hook Elementary School choir can perform "America the Beautiful'' at the Super Bowl on Sunday.
Talk of the invitation to the Superdome in New Orleans was circulating in the school district Wednesday, but school leaders were closed-mouthed about details.
Parents and staff not attending the game were expected to receive information on the choir's performance in the coming days.
Some students from Sandy Hook and other Newtown schools earlier this month teamed up with Grammy-nominated singer Ingrid Michaelson to record "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" for the one-month anniversary of the Dec. 14 shooting.
That recording, however, done privately through a local music program was not a school-sponsored choral event. The "Somewhere Over the Rainbow'' tune is now on YouTube.
The Superbowl invitation from the National Football League was for third- and fourth-graders at the school who will be rehearsing as a choir for the national sporting extravaganza between the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens.
Parents and school representatives said Thursday that the Superbowl event and the YouTube song are not related.
The Board of Education approved the donation for the Superbowl event as part of its consent agenda on Jan. 23. The amount of the donation was not in the minutes, and school officials interviewed this week were either unaware of the amount or unwilling to provide such details.
First Selectman Pat Llodra said Wednesday she knew about the invitation and donation but did not have details. She said she simply forwarded the contact to Schools Superintendent Janet Robinson, who then forwarded the information to the board, which approved the gift.
Messages left at both Sandy Hook School and for other school leaders, including central office administrators, were not returned Wednesday.
"It's an honor,'' one local parent, who did not wish to be identified, said of the invitation to perform at the Superbowl.
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The bottle was inspired by 19th-century pharmacy bottles. Streamlined and sober, almost masculine, it is crowned with a stopper that recalls a champagne cork, a clever nod to the sparkling woman who wears the fragrance.
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Stirring, velvety, unique.
The top notes start with a swell of roses chosen from the best families of this innumerable species. The heart blossoms with a touch of green hyacinth and passion fruit, symbols of temptation. The dry-down is upheld by sandalwood and patchouli on a bed of vanilla and tonka bean.
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I think it would've helped GREATLY had we seen a pre-TIE Fighter, TIE Fighter. I mean, honestly when you think about it the fighters we saw really didn't latch onto anything OT... The ARC-170 supposedly had that resemblance to an X-Wing, but speaking from an evolutionary standpoint, the two ships really don't seem to have much in common but physical shape... So do most airplanes on Earth, but that doesn't show "evolution" to me, and so there's no link.A pre-Empire TIE Fighter, maybe with squatter wings, bent, etc., would've gone a long way I believe. Really though, had they had that beat-up ship like the Twilight we're seeing in CW3D, that I think is the only way to lock that iconic ship status up. The Jedi's fighters could've filled the X-Wing slot I think, but they kept changing them. They needed to give us one, and only modify it SLIGHTLY for ROTS. They instead went with radical changes that ultimately just give you more ships, and more toys to buy. Coincidence? Eh, maybe, I dunno.
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Complex Systems
Tackling surprises in multi-component systems, from human behavior to robotic smarts
By Lee Michaelides and Karen Endicott
Cover art by Michael Austin
Don't worry if you're not sure what a complex system is. Even the people who study multi-component systems, such as the internet, communication networks, industrial processes, and interacting teams of robots, define complex systems in various ways.
Some see complex systems as having so many components that they are difficult or impossible to model. Others emphasize that interacting components produce unexpected emergent properties that make the overall system tough to model. Still others see complex systems as intricate interfaces between humans, nature, and technologies. One of Thayer's three research focus areas (the other two are engineering in medicine and energy), complex systems provides room for creative new ways of thinking about the world around us. Here we look at some of the complex system challenges that Thayer professors are trying to understand and solve.
Professor Reza Olfati-Saber
Six little robots that resemble football-sized beetles scurry around the floor of an empty room in Thayer's basement. They're small, but Reza Olfati-Saber's robots have a big job: simulating a transportation system that could change the way you drive — and maybe save your life.
According to the professor, the robots resemble a flock of birds. "A flock of birds is still capable of flocking, even if hunters shoot down some of the birds — nothing really happens," he says. "We're developing networked sensing and decision-making systems that are capable of working even if you start taking some of their parts away or wrecking some of their components." Moreover, he says, "We are trying to benefit from mechanisms that birds use to avoid collisions to create safer transportation systems."
The road to safer highways began with a new idea about math. In the mid-1990s, physicists started analyzing computer networks, insect swarms, and bird migrations and found a common element — networks. "The existence of this element of networks," says Olfati-Saber, was a "new way of looking at nature."
Olfati-Saber's work with complex systems, which he prefers to call "networked systems," dates back a decade ago when he was a post-doc at CalTech. "At the time, the Air Force was interested in creating unmanned vehicles that could coordinate with each other and collaborate for surveillance, reconnaissance, and combat operations," he says. One of the early problems Olfati-Saber sought to solve was how a network of agents — the technical term for birds, people, robots, ants, or anything that is part of the network — could reach a consensus when there is a difference of opinion. How is it that migrating ducks all go the same way and don't crash in mid-air? The paper he wrote "turned out to be the basis for a new theory called 'consensus theory' that turned out to be an incredibly simplistic framework for understanding networked systems, their behavior and properties," he says. "It was applicable to social networks, biological systems, robotics, and engineered systems."
In other words, whether you are studying a flock of birds, a swarm of ants, or a nation of Deadheads, "the math is the same for all of them — even for bacterial swarming. It is the same for traffic flows, for cars, and for pedestrians. One of the main features of systems science is to take a group of seemingly different applications or phenomena and create a unifying framework that explains all of them. This is one of the main features of systems science we emphasize at Thayer," says Olfati-Saber. "I'm trying to use all these theories, including the flocking theory, to create the next generation of transportation system."
Olfati-Saber says that his idea for safer highways differs from the safety systems now being pioneered by BMW and Mercedes that use sensors to warn drivers about potential collisions. "Our goal," he says, "is to communicate between vehicles."
How would it work? "Cars could use on-board sensors to communicate with other cars to detect when they would collide, and they could take over and react before the driver actually reacts," he says. The system would also help avoid traffic jams. One of the system's capabilities is estimating congestion on a given road. A central server, which is aware of all the cars in an area, could then tell your car about a faster alternative route.
Olfati-Saber and his team are now using those little robots to work out the system details. "The main computing challenge is to keep track of all the other moving objects around a car," he observes. The task will become more complex soon: his six robots will be joined by 15 more. The professor is trying to add more grad students or post-docs to his team as well. "Many of our innovative team coordination methods are inspired by nature," he says. "However, it takes the combination of a sophisticated set of tools from control theory, communications, physics, and computer science to make this inspiration a reality."
Laura Ray is trying to model a complex system we take for granted: how the human brain works. Then she wants to use that model to create robots that can make decisions on their own, recognize changing environments, and work in teams.
Autonomous robots are still a work in progress. "Robots used in the military and in first response are operated by a joystick or some keypad. They're not smart at all," says Ray. "We want to move away from that one robot, one operator paradigm." But before autonomous robots could substitute for humans in war zones or other dangerous situations, researchers like Ray need to figure out what competencies the robots need — and how to supply them. "Say a team of robots is on patrol. Maybe one robot has to patrol on water and another is patrolling on a road, and maybe they can only communicate two or three times a day," says Ray. "What kind of information should they communicate that makes them more effective? How do they model behavior of another robot when they don't see that robot over time?"
For answers, Ray turned to neuroscience.
Having spent a sabbatical auditing neuroscience courses at Dartmouth, Ray now collaborates with a multidisciplinary team, including Professor Richard Granger of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences (he's also an adjunct professor at Thayer). Building on his work on how the brain represents information, Ray says, "We're trying to model decision processes the way the brain would model them, which is by creating some kind of hierarchy. The thalamo-cortical circuits in the brain take the inputs and cluster and sequence them. You see a flower and think flower, then red flower, then rose. This kind of representation makes it easy to remember things. We're trying to apply this concept to problem solving with robots, and so far it's been pretty effective."
Ray is also drawing on studies of social cognition in other primates. "Groups of mammals can do some pretty spectacular problem solving in teams," she says. "One example is chimps that hunt monkeys in forest canopies. The chimps are faster on the ground, the monkeys are faster in the canopy. So the chimps have a number of roles. There's a chaser who climbs a tree under the monkeys and starts chasing them. The ambusher on the ground runs forward and climbs a tree in the direction of the chase, and blockers try to funnel the action. With just four chimps they're able to hunt.
"What social cognitive skills can we draw from this? The chaser is usually the youngest and least experienced, the blockers are more experienced, and the ambusher is usually older and has the most experience. The teams remain together, even when assembling into larger teams. The dominance hierarchies among teams and between teams are something we're trying to use in our robots. Instead of every robot acting as an individual in a large area, they form sub-teams to divide and conquer."
But robots are still a long way from being able to do many things that are easy for humans. "We can go out to the Green in winter, when it's covered in snow, or summer, when it's green, and know where we are. For a robot that's a really hard task to know this is the same place but a different season," says Ray. "We're currently trying to program competencies, so a robot with a camera can actually see some scene and be able to recognize that it's similar to some other scene that it has experienced."
With modeling of cognition still in its infancy, Ray would like to see more interaction between engineers and neuroscientists, maybe even a joint major at Dartmouth. "If you don't speak the language it's hard to work across the disciplines," she says.
Ultimately, making robots think more like humans — processing numerous inputs simultaneously, making inferences — will necessitate new methods of computing. "The von Neumann computer with its CPU and memory components is too compartmentalized," Ray says. She has her eye on "field programmable analog arrays that are completely different computing tools to replicate dynamic systems. I think they will close the gap between understanding how dynamic systems work and how we model them in electronics. It will be more like having a circuit that behaves identically to the dynamic processes. Then you can start stringing these circuits together and see what comes out of it."
On a computer screen in his office, Minh Phan watches dots representing a group of interacting robots that assemble themselves into an orderly V-formation. As they communicate their positions to one another, the robots are controlled by an algorithm that tells them to split into three small groups and reassemble afterwards. Next Phan watches robots that have a harder job: they have to figure out what they're supposed to do. "In the beginning they are swirling around because they're learning the algorithms themselves," he says. Guided by strategies that only set broad parameters, the robots have to fine-tune their own control algorithms. "When an obstacle shows up, they have to use the algorithms they learned to evade the obstacle and regroup afterward," he says.
Phan works on the theory side of robotic swarm control. "I'm showing that model predictive control, which is well understood for a single system, can be expanded to handle a complex system with many interacting components," he says. Future applications that depend on such control include space exploration and surveillance work. "Rather than using one expensive robot, you could use a large number of less expensive robots," he says. "If some of the robots don't make it you can still accomplish the task."
Minh Phan is working on a noisy complex systems challenge: modeling how sound waves travel through a complicated environment, such as a city core. "Sound can propagate through or around buildings and bounce off other buildings. It's a complicated path," he says. Modeling this multi-path propagation is computationally expensive. "To simulate how sound propagates through a dense city block with high-rise buildings in 1.6 seconds, it takes more than 11 hours on a high-performance 256-CPU computer. If you have to do this hundreds of times with different source data, it's too much," he says.
He uses system identification to simplify the process. "We run the supercomputer simulation once and collect data from that simulation, then process the data to arrive at a mathematical model that captures the physics of that specific environment. The model can be used to simulate the propagation of another sound source from that location. It is a simple model of a complicated model," he says. "My research group was able to develop techniques that take data from one run of the supercomputer and quickly arrive at a high-fidelity reduced-order model that can run on a laptop in minutes."
The sound propagation model has military, security, and surveillance applications, such as tracing the source of gunshots or bomb blasts. "If we know the dynamics of the forward model, we can produce an inverse model to recover the source signal and its location," says Phan. "My interest," he adds, "is in the creative side of research: inventing unconventional methods to handle unconventional problems."
Here's what keeps Mark Borsuk awake at night: Scientists cannot rule out the possibility that climate change could become so severe that human life is no longer sustainable. Traditional economic theory for making decisions under uncertainty recommends doing everything possible to avoid the risk of catastrophic outcomes. How much would people have to change their lifestyles to avert the collapse of humanity? If the threat doesn't seem imminent or likely, what would induce them to change to avoid risking calamity for future generations?
Borsuk is developing integrative assessment models to get a handle on these kinds of uncertainties. "The models represent how the Earth is likely to respond to climate change — global warming, rising sea levels, animal and plant extinctions — and what the economic consequences are likely to be," he says. "These models allow us to look at peoples' attitudes toward risk, how uncertainty is represented, how scientists think about climate damage — and what all that can tell us about what we should do."
One theoretical exploration takes a top-down approach. "If there were a global benevolent dictator," he says, "what should that person do to achieve the right balance between cost and benefits with regard to climate change? Obviously, this scenario is unrealistic, but in theory, if society as a whole could do something that was economically optimal, what would that thing be? It gives you perhaps an idealized target for where international negotiations should be headed."
Borsuk also takes a bottom-up approach. "It's an agent-based model: rather than a global dictator, we're looking at the various stakeholders who are emitting global warming gasses, how they currently make decisions that affect the climate, and what kind of incentives could be put in place to drive them toward behavior that is sustainable and socially optimal," he says. "Our basic question is: What kinds of institutional structures at the international and domestic levels can help promote a process of negotiation and feedback that is likely to lead in a direction that's globally optimal?"
His model "will have five or six agents representing the interests of the West, developing nations, former Soviet nations, and other regions of the world to see how different negotiation scenarios might play out," he explains.
Then the real challenge begins. "Once governments decide to do something about climate change, how do they get people to change their attitudes and habits?" he says. "We think that at least in the United States, where people have a large degree of freedom in their behavior and choices, getting to any sort of target with respect to global-warming gas emissions is going to entail incentives that allow people to draw upon things they already find important." His model will try to identify such incentives. "Will it require advertising or some sort of scientific breakthrough?" he asks. For answers, stay tuned.
Anyone who has ever checked luggage at an airport knows how frustrating it is when your suitcase goes to Miami but you're in New York. Or when you mail-order a medium-size green T-shirt and get a small pink one instead. These are the kinds of widely used complex systems that Robert Graves tries to improve.
In a recent project, Graves, co-director of Thayer's Master of Engineering Management program, worked with Vanderlande Industries, a Dutch company that makes automatic storage and order retrieval systems. Getting the right item from a vast, dense warehouse and ensuring that it reaches the right customer in the right timeframe is no easy task, especially when thousands of such fulfillments are on a daily docket. A disturbance in one part of the system — perhaps a malfunctioning conveyor or a worker on a break — may slow the entire system or shut it down altogether.
"Users of the systems complain about stoppages that necessitated rebooting the whole system. That's lost production time," says Graves. "The challenge for us was: Could we change the control philosophy and system drivers to meet the goal of being more fault-tolerant. Software controls the machines — the cranes in the warehouse, the conveyors, etc. How do you make everything operate as a team?"
The approach Graves took was to replace the control system with intelligent, interacting agent-based controls at all parts of the system, including work stations, totes, and conveyor links. "The agents will accomplish individual, cell-wide, and system-wide goals," says Graves. "You give a set of rules to an agent, and the agent decides which to use, based on conditions at that moment. For example, a tote arrives at the dispatch station section and announces, 'Here I am,' asking work stations to bid on where it should go. If the conveyor queue to a given work station is full, then that work station puts in a low bid. If the work station is empty, it puts in a high bid to attract the work. It's a very flexible and responsive system."
A demonstration of the agent-based system showed its efficiencies. Whereas the old system took six hours to fulfill 1,000 orders, the agent-based system completed the same task in four hours. For the same 1,000 order run: when operators were taken out of the system for 30 minutes — long enough to upset it — the agent-based system experienced less disturbance, continued to perform, and recovered faster than the old system. "These improvements were achieved with modifications to the least expensive part of the system: the software," says Graves.
Eugene Santos wants to understand the nature of human intelligence. To do so, he is trying to unravel the complex system of human behaviors. "I look at human behavior as: How do people make their decisions and take action. I want to explain the basis for why people do what they do."
Santos examines a wide range of factors that influence behavior, including beliefs and experiences. "I want to tie those influences together," he says. Behavior isn't just a matter of one influence per action. "It's more complex than that," he says. "It's a whole hierarchy or lattice of interactions. I want to figure out how to build such a lattice."
Santos uses the theory of probability to assess, quantify, and rank degrees of influence. "Our influences aren't deterministic," he says. "Just because I have a cultural experience, you can't say this cultural experience will always produce a particular outcome. But influence can make an outcome more or less likely, so I try to capture those elements of what's more likely and what's less likely. That gives me a baseline. Then once I see an action, I can go back through the influence structure, including what they've told me about their beliefs, their demographics, their personal history, to see how they got from their background to their final action."
Sounds like reverse engineering — because it is. "At this point the only way to understand a complex system is to reverse engineer it. To understand the system is to dissect it," says Santos.
To test his way of quantifying and ranking influences, he assessed voters' shifts from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic primary. "We looked at race, economics, whether they're conservative, et cetera," Santos explains. "We had these pieces of influences and key moments from the campaign, as when the black ministers endorsed Hillary Clinton. We also took information from the political pundits at the time. Our model was able to match the polling trends. Then we looked at precise points to see why Hillary was trending up here and down there, Obama was trending up here and down there. With quantitative models you can go in and say which values, perceptions, or events contributed to change. When we compared our results to post-election analyses, we were able to match up with them."
Santos' search for ways to model thought and behavior is leading him to rethink logic and rationality. "As I explore reasoning, I have to go beyond logical reasoning. It doesn't explain everything," he says. "People used to say people are irrational, and that's why you can't model it. No. They're misusing the term irrational. Rational to me means there is some basis, some axioms that all your behaviors follow from. Then irrational can be some sort of randomness or unpredictability. I'm trying to figure out how to capture these factors."
Santos points out that sometimes the seemingly irrational makes sense in its own cultural context. Citing the work of a colleague in Connecticut who studies the Palestinean-Israeli conflict, Santos looks at what drives suicide bombers. "The usual explanation is that they're attacking the West, the great Satan. But in at least one faction, people want to make the point that Hamas and the PLO have too much power. The reason the faction conducted suicide attacks is to show that there's competition for leadership. All of a sudden we have reasons that have nothing to do with the West. It's rational. My goal would be to take something like that, which doesn't seem to fit, and realize my model is missing something, which means I can now try to fill in those pieces."
His quest is hard, but Santos likes it that way. "It's the challenge," he says, "that keeps me going."
To most people, the internet is a mind-boggling resource for finding information, shopping, paying bills, staying in touch with friends, and entertainment. To George Cybenko, the internet is a vast storehouse of data about human behavior that can reveal everything from buying habits to hacker and other malicious activities — if you have the right kind of analytical tools.
Cybenko's development of such tools has evolved along with the continued growth of computational power and scope. Long involved in cyber security, he and colleagues recently developed a new approach — Process Query Systems (PQS) — to assess huge amounts of online information and data collected by acoustical, video, seismic, and other monitoring means. "We now have a tremendous amount of data coming at us; the question remains what to do with it," he and Vincent Berk, who is now an assistant professor at Thayer, wrote in a 2007 IEEE paper. Calling PQS "a new algorithmic and software paradigm," Cybenko and Berk say that it "models the dynamic processes that exist within a social network, not merely the static structural artifacts — such as who knows whom — of such a network. PQS can use the temporal nature of communications and transactions to extract processes." The method provides a way to watch for deviations from normal interaction or activities, which may indicate malevolent and other kinds of anomalous organizational and individual behavior.
Cybenko has also been working with Professor Eugene Santos on a growing area of social modeling called human terrain or human geography. Cybenko compares it to the kind of data available on Google Earth. "Google Earth shows you a lot of things about the imagery of the surface and the roads and the geographic features but it doesn't show you anything about the human layer," he says. "What kind of people live there? What do they do? This is sort of human geography digitalized."
The goal, Cybenko explains, is to build quantitative digital models of human behavior. Applications include computer security, insider threat detection, sensor network analysis, finance, social network analysis, marketing, political campaigning, and the military. "In areas of strife," says Cybenko, "you need to know what the population composition is, what the tribal relationships are if you are in a tribal area, and what the objectives and sentiments of different communities and groups are."
Cybenko is working with a Thayer team on a crucial step in human terrain research: developing a new computer language, Human Behavioral Modeling Language (HBML), to describe behaviors and processes. "Our current research suggests that a common framework for the systematic analysis of behaviors of people, networks, and engineered systems is both possible and much needed," team members wrote in a 2008 paper. HBML is a promising beginning, they add, for supporting "large-scale computational systems' behavioral modeling and analysis across a variety of domains."
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I recently published the article There is no Agile, in which I stated that the principles of 'Agile' are nothing more than "a collection of good ideas, based on years of collective experience, for improving how we do our jobs." As an example, consider testing. Thorough testing is a ubiquitous principle of 'Agile;' thus, by logical extension, writing tests is a fundamentally important part of writing software well.
In short, if you write software, and you're not writing tests, then you're not doing your job.
I don't mean not doing your job like a waiter who doesn't take your order quickly enough; I mean not doing your job like a surgeon who operates without washing his or her hands. As in completely unacceptable performance.
As a corollary, if you're not writing high quality tests, then you're doing your job poorly. If you don't achieve appropriate test coverage then you're doing your job poorly. If you focus excessively on verification, and ignore the other benefits that tests can provide, then you're doing your job poorly.
Several authors and accomplished software writers have cataloged the ways that thorough testing will lead to better design, the ability to refactor, improved resilience in the face of changing requirements, fewer defects, etc. In order to justify not writing tests the costs would have to overshadow these advantages.
I can't think of a valid argument for not writing tests, although I've heard many attempts:
- "It takes too long." Consider that around 75% of the time spent on average software projects is bug-fixing and maintenance.
- "This code won't change." It will. And it should.
- "I know my code works." Will it work with my code? With the code you write six months from now? When the functionality changes? (see above)
- "It's a prototype." Fine. Throw it out when you're done and use what you learned to write tested code.
- "It's not testable." Unlikely. Far more likely you simply haven't though of a way to test it.
- "That's what QA is for." This statement shows so little respect for the people you presumably work with it warrants no response.
- "I can't be bothered." McDonald's is hiring.
In my experience, people who denounce the value of tests are nearly always people with little experience writing tested code. It's time we stop allowing ourselves to determine how we do our job based on who has the biggest ego, who can shout the loudest, or who is the most resistant to change.
All this leads to the question that every single person reading this should be asking: writing high quality tests can be very difficult; how do we teach that?
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The percentage of college educated Americans who support legal abortion seems to have reached a new low among women under thirty and among the population as a whole, so it should be no surprise that states are passing laws to restrict safe abortions. Before performing any abortion Oklahoma's new 2010 law requires that the doctor do an ultrasound and describe to the woman the dimensions and gestational age of the embryo, cardiac activity if any, and appearance of external and internal structures. A vaginal transducer must be used when doing so will display the embryo more clearly than an abdominal transducer. Oklahoma's law thus requires doctors to perform an ultrasound that is not medically indicated and likely to be invasive. In this era of skyrocketing medical costs and overutilization of services the new law mandates more of the same while leaving the burden of payment to the women themselves.
U.S. law requires that informed consent be obtained for treatments and diagnostic tests. This means that accurate and relevant information must be disclosed to patients. If current standards of disclosure and informed consent apply then the description of the fetus must include evidence about embryology including clinical and scientific uncertainty about when consciousness, thoughts, sensations, and life begin. This is more than some of the other commentators who are in favor of the law are advocating. Providing abortion without truthful disclosure and informed consent violates existing laws, threatens the doctor-patient relationship, and jeopardizes medical professionalism. Mandating ultrasound, especially with out disclosing all the information -- especially where the law protects the doctor against deliberate failure to disclose -- means ignoring the need to obtain informed consent. One wonders how such a poorly crafted law ever reached the legislature. Indeed, as a result of legal challenges to the new law an Oklahoma judge has just granted a slight reprieve by delaying implementation for 45 days.
[Guest blogging this week is Cheryl Cox Macpherson, Ph.D., Professor and the Chair of Bioethics Center at St George's University School of Medicine (SGU) in Grenada where she enjoys teaching medical and graduate students from many nations and background.]


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April 15, 2013
Peter Baldwin helps WEBA board member Nancy Benjamin show the crowd the wrist bands being sold to raise money for Officer Peter Laboy and his family.
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WEBA Happy Hour raises funds for Laboy family.
The West End Business Association turned its April 4 monthly networking Happy Hour into a fundraiser for Alexandria Police Officer Peter Laboy and presented a check for $500 to Suzanne Laboy to kick off a year-long commitment to raise money for the injured officer and his family. "My family and I are overwhelmed at the generosity of the community," said Suzanne Laboy after being presented a check from WEBA president Peter Baldwin at the Hawthorn Suites Hotel.
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Ngaminya, from the suite Tjukurrpa Palurukutu, Kutjupawana Palyantjanya - same stories, a new way
Payu Napaltjarri
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In addition to showcasing the quality of Papunya Tula Artists as a whole, this suite of etchings emphasises the strength of each individual artist as they successfully translate their Tjukurrpa to the new medium of printmaking. Far from being a mere copy of their paintings in a different scale and medium each artists adapts their visual language to this new process with apparent ease, resulting in bold, confident works that are extraordinary in themselves, and when combined as a suite, are truly amazing.
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This etching depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Ngaminya, just south of the Kiwirrkura community in Western Australia. The rows of parallel lines in the etching represent the tali (sandhills) in the area around Ngaminya. In ancestral times a group of women camped at this site collecting the edible berries known as kampurarrpa, or desert raisin, that grow on the small shrub Solanum centrale. These berries can be eaten straight from the bush but are sometimes ground into a paste and cooked in the coals to form a type of damper. The rocky outcrop at this site is said to have been formed from huge mounds of these berries. Upon completion of the ceremonies at Ngaminya the women continued their travels east to Wirrulnga and then on to Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay).
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etching on Hahnemühle rag paper
33.0 x 25.0 cm platemark; 55.0 x 45.0 cm sheet
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signed l.r. beneath platemark, pencil "Payu". Not dated.
Purchased with funds provided by the Aboriginal Collection Benefactors' Group 2011
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House votes to rename flight center for Armstrong
The House has approved a bill to rename a NASA flight center in California for the late astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon.
The measure, which passed on a 394-0 vote, would rename the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base as the Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center.
Armstrong, who died in 2012, commanded the historic landing of the Apollo 11 spacecraft on the moon in 1969. He made "one giant leap for mankind" with a small step onto the moon. He was also a test pilot who worked at the center for seven years.
The bill would also rename the center's test range for the late Hugh L. Dryden, former NASA deputy administrator.
The measure goes to the Senate for consideration.


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On Monday, I spoke at the Visma Developer Days conference in Riga, Latvia, about some issues software companies have to address when migrating from developing on-premises software to Software as a Service.
One of the of the biggest changes is that the revenues are spread over the lifetime of customer – they pay on a monthly basis rather than an initial up-front payment. It becomes vital customers don't give up on using the software after only a short while, because you won't have earnt much income from that customer. If the software is difficult to use, and if users cannot find the answers to questions when they need them, there's a good chance they will stop using the software, and stop paying their subscription fees.
We're seeing a number of software companies changing their approach to providing user assistance (user documentation). More companies are thinking about it at the start of the project, so they can do a better job of delivering user documentation than they've done for on-premises software. They're seeing documentation as part of the customer journey, and part of the design process.
This is welcome news, although it requires development teams to combine product design with information design. I wonder if there'll be similar trends emerging at the next conference I'll be attending – MadWorld 2014.