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SUNY Canton Releases Two New Television CommercialsTuesday, December 3rd, 2013
SUNY Canton is airing two new commercials emphasizing real-world educational opportunities.
"Our programs demonstrate the same techniques used in professional careers," said SUNY Canton Acting Director of Public Relations Travis G. Smith.
Both of the commercials are designed to show a glimpse of the overall experience of participating in SUNY Canton's signature majors. One was developed to demonstrate the hands-on technology available within engineering technology programs.
"We are emphasizing our strong link with science, technology, engineering and math through our marketing by highlighting many of our career driven programs, such as Alternative and Renewable Energy Systems and Mechanical Technology, among others," Smith added.
The two spots were filmed in high-definition over the course of two days. Aerial footage was obtained using a camera mounted to a remote-control drone. Almost all of the footage was obtained exclusively for the new format, and the music was selected specifically for the new 30-second spots.
The new advertisements feature current students in typical classroom settings unique to SUNY Canton. Students also provided the voice-over messaging. Some of the commercials' backdrops consist of its unique footbridges as well as the turf field, fitness center and the Grasse River Suites residence hall.
The College contracts the Plattsburgh-based production company Media Central to film and edit the commercials. They will appear throughout the state and on local North Country channels. The videos are also posted to the College's YouTube channel and are available at: http://www.canton.edu/public_relations/video.html
About SUNY Canton
SUNY Canton is Northern New York's premier College for career-driven bachelor's degrees, associate degrees and certificate programs. The College delivers quality hands-on programs in engineering technology, health, management, and public service to students in the North Country, New York State, and beyond. Faculty members are noted for their professional real-world experience in addition to their academic credentials. SUNY Canton OnLine offers hundreds of flexible and convenient courses as well as eight exclusively online bachelor's degrees. The College's 14 athletic teams compete in state-of-the-art facilities as provisional members of the NCAA Division III and the USCAA.


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Beijing, China — The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today (October 24,. 2013) announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the agency and the People's Bank of China (PBOC) designed to extend their effective international working relationship in the areas of deposit insurance and resolution. The purpose of the MOU is to develop and expand the interaction between the FDIC and the PBOC and to demonstrate a shared commitment to cooperation among banking agencies.
The MOU also seeks to enhance cooperation in analyzing of cross-border financial institution recovery and resolution issues, and planning for potential recovery and resolution scenarios, including appropriate simulations, contingency planning and other work designed to improve preparations to manage troubled institutions with operations in the United States and the PBOC. The agreement was signed by FDIC Chairman Martin J. Gruenberg and Governor Zhou Xiaochuan of the PBOC and updates an existing MOU that was signed on August 2nd, 2007.
FDIC Chairman Gruenberg said, "There is a long history of close collaboration and cooperation between the PBOC and the FDIC, and I am honored to have the opportunity to build on this strong foundation through this MOU. China and the U.S. have a shared interest in maintaining and expanding our interaction on economic and financial issues, particularly in the areas of deposit insurance and cross-border resolution issues.
Among U.S. financial regulators, the FDIC is uniquely positioned to engage and offer our experience with deposit insurance and resolution issues internationally. I welcome this expanded agreement with the PBOC and would like to thank our Chinese hosts, particularly Governor Zhou and the officials at the PBOC, for accommodating the delegation from the FDIC."
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NWChem 6.2
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- Multi-reference coupled cluster approaches
- GPU enabled version of CCSD(T)
Gaussian basis DFT & TDDFT
- Minnesota exchange-correlation functionals (M08, M11)
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- Calculations with fractional numbers of electrons
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- Latest set of basis sets in the Basis Set Exchange have been added to the NWChem basis set library.
- Nudged Elastic Band of Jonsson et al.
- Zero temperature string method of Vanden-Eijnden et al.
- Python scripts to run parallel in time simulations
- MPI must be installed to compile NWChem
- Python scripts to post-process UV/Vis and core spectra
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- Default ARMCI_NETWORK value changed from SOCKETS to MPI-TS (This might lead to performance slowdown in intra-node runs)
Gaussian Basis Sets and ECPs
- A complete list of the Gaussian basis sets and ECPs available in NWChem is now available in the basis set section.
Bug fixes
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Final Day of NEA Representative Assembly Showcases Educators Creating Opportunity
Educators pay tribute to the Teacher of the Year and to Executive Director John I. Wilson
July 05, 2011
By Will Potter
Collaboration is the key to success in public education, and the NEA Priority Schools Campaign has been at the forefront of bringing educators, administrators, and parents together to transform schools.
This hard work often goes unrecognized. But on the final day of the 2011 NEA Representative Assembly in Chicago, examples of these innovative approaches to education reform were highlighted before 8,000 NEA delegates.
Des Moines Education Association President Melissa Spencer discussed recent success at North High School, a NEA Priority School site. With help from a federal School Improvement Grant, and teachers' voices in the discussion, Spencer said "we went from dead-last place in our state assessments to the number two position in just under a year."
The importance of collaboration was also echoed by national Teacher of the Year Michelle Shearer and NEA member, who recognized the difficulties that educators face every day, and the toll it takes on them personally. Though the attack on teachers and public schools have deflated morale, "We have to find ways to stand strong for our students," she said.
She asked the delegation: "How long will we continue to envy other countries and how they respect their teachers… before we start to do it here?"
(Please visit Shearer's profile on Classroom Superheroes, and leave a comment supporting her work!)
NEA members paid tribute on Sunday to another one of their own, who has championed these issues and many others throughout his career. Since coming to NEA, John Wilson has fought for a minimum salary of $40,000 for every teacher and a living wage for Education Support Professionals (ESP). He also launched an NEA initiative to engage the best teachers in sharing ideas on staffing high-poverty, low achieving schools with the most accomplished teachers, and chaired the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.
Wilson, a long-time special education teacher, will step down as executive director of the National Education Association in September to be replaced by Deputy Executive Director John Stocks. But Wilson, who was surrounded on stage by family and friends, told cheering delegates he won't stop fighting for students.
"Bureaucrats and politicians need to stop spending so much precious time and energy on the 1-2% of teachers who need to be in a different careers," he said, "and start supporting the 98% of teachers in America who put their students first every day that they enter the classroom."


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Kudos to the Mets for hearing the voice of the people — with Mets Police as ever flicking on the microphone so that voice could resonate loudly and clearly — and changing Banner Night, which had been Banner Day, back to Banner Day. For those of you who missed it or aren't immersed in hashtags, the Mets had scheduled Banner Day for a Sunday afternoon in late May. ESPN, as is its wont, printed up a banner that read, essentially, WE DON'T CARE, and plucked that game in particular for a Sunday night cablecast. Banner Night is not unprecedented if you know your Mets history, but it's not an ideal platform for a promotion just refinding its mojo after an eternity of inactivity.
The Mets' first reaction to ESPN's bedsheet bullsheet, judging by their inertia, was no reaction. Then a sizable segment of the fan base that lives on Twitter got energized. That doesn't always mean anything, as a sizable segment of anybody can be energized over anything on Twitter for five minutes. But this movement had legs. Enough #Mets fans made enough noise that the Mets responded. They came up with three dates (two afternoons and the transplanted night) and polled the delegation on when it wanted to fly its banners. Next thing ya knew, Banner Day was rescheduled to Saturday afternoon, May 11. Personally, I think the second weekend in May is a tad too early in the season for us to know who and what to hail on our placards, but the people spoke, and I say huzzah that we were heard.
All hail Mets democracy! All hail our benevolent management for occasionally putting its customers first! All hail something that works!
Someday, how about hailing the return of the Banner Day Doubleheader?
The Mets did the right thing, but it still isn't quite right enough for my tastes. I was thrilled to have Banner Day back in 2012 and am glad it maintained its foothold for 2013, yet I don't believe it will ever flutter in full glory as merely a pregame jaunt. Banner Day before a day game is better than Not Banner Day at all, but not as good as it could be.
Spirit wasn't missing from the Banner Day celebrants last year. What was AWOL was an audience. Hardly anybody was in the stands at 11:30 in the morning and SNY's cameras were still in their off position. The Mets' network of record was busy airing a crucial infomercial, while most of those who held tickets for the Mets-Padres matinee were still getting in their cars or on their trains. I made a point of showing up at Citi Field early and I still missed the initial portion of the procession.
Banner Day is simply more festive when it features more people. People striding with banners. People watching from the stands. People watching from their couches. People already in a Mets lather from having watched one Mets game and preparing to watch another.
Only an act of God or ESPN can create a doubleheader these days, but as noted a couple of years ago in this space, there is modern precedent for reviving a staple from the past. The Oakland A's received special dispensation from the Players Association to schedule a doubleheader in advance because it seemed novel and likely to attract a crowd (which it did). There's also the Patriots Day precedent in Boston. There, once a year, they start a game well before noon because it's their tradition.
Our tradition — a tradition too strong to die, even after sixteen years of dormancy — is Banner Day…the Banner Day Doubleheader. The stuff of legends. The stuff of extra-inning openers that kept the banners rustling in the wings for as long as it took. The stuff that kept Channel 9 must-see TV between games. The stuff that a stadium full of Mets fans stood to applaud when it was done.
The Banner Day Doubleheader: that's the stuff. It's good that Banner Day has returned. It will be even better when it's whole.
Meanwhile, the management of Banner Day Press proudly invites you to march triumphantly to Amazon and order The Happiest Recap: First Base (1962-1973), where you can read about classic placard parades and so much more.


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THURSDAY, Sept. 17, 2009 (HealthDay News) -- Children with health insurance coverage are more likely to miss necessary health-care services if their parents are uninsured, new research shows.
These children are at greater risk of having difficulty seeing a doctor, getting dental care and accessing prescription medications than kids in families where children and parents are insured. They're also less likely to receive counseling on healthy eating, routine exercise, use of a safety or booster seat, and use of seatbelts and bike helmets, the study found.
The findings highlight the need to improve the current model of extending health insurance to children, but not necessarily to their parents, the study authors said.
"We've been incrementally covering more and more kids, and that's important, but we can't stop there," said study lead author Dr. Jennifer E. DeVoe, an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland. "We need to make sure that families are covered -- kids and parents."
More than one in four children in the United States -- 29 percent -- have health coverage through either Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), according to the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Currently, some 29 million children are enrolled in Medicaid, and another 7 million are covered through CHIP, the foundation said.
While these public programs are considered vital for improving children's health, they are only part of the solution, experts say.
"In the public-policy arena, there is often a tendency to consider children a 'deserving' population who should have greater access than adults to publicly sponsored health insurance," said Shana Alex Lavarreda, a research scientist for the Center for Health Policy Research at the University of California, Los Angeles, and director of health insurance studies. CHIP is a prime example, she explained.
"But if you really care about improving access to health care for children, their parents' needs for health insurance coverage shouldn't be ignored," Lavarreda said.
For the study, DeVoe and her colleagues pooled five years of data from a national survey of U.S. households. The sample included more than 43,000 children ages 2 to 17.
To assess children's access to health care, the researchers looked at a number of variables, including gaps in coverage over the previous 12 months, no usual source of care, no doctor visits in the past year, fewer than yearly dental visits, and other problems accessing health care and preventive counseling services.
Not surprisingly, uninsured children had the highest rates of unmet health-care needs. But the study also showed an association between parents' insurance status and children's access to health care.
"Parents who are themselves uninsured may have other constraints on whether they can get health care for their children," Lavarreda noted. They may not be able to take time from work to take their children to the doctor, for example, she said.
"Additionally, parents who are uninsured may have difficulties navigating the health-care system and may be unfamiliar with how to obtain services," Lavarreda said.
The authors found no significant difference in preventive counseling services by race or ethnicity. Hispanic children were actually less likely to miss out on preventive counseling compared with non-Hispanic whites. DeVoe said she suspects that these families are accessing care through community health centers, where nurses, nursing assistants and other non-physician clinicians are spending time counseling families.
Even in families where the parents and children are insured, significant percentages lack preventive counseling, which suggests that the problem isn't just one of insurance status. The model of care can also make a difference, the researchers said.
"The way that care is set up in the majority of clinics across the country is the child checks in for their visits, sees a physician for a very short period of time and, increasingly, there's more and more counseling and medical information that's required to be communicated to the family," DeVoe said.
The study findings were published in the September/October issue of Annals of Family Medicine.
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Petrography and Petrogenesis of a Mid-Ocean Ridge Lava Suite
Skills and concepts that students must have mastered
1. Students should have basic petrographic skills using a polarizing light microscope, including the ability to identify the following minerals, at a minimum: olivine, plagioclase, and clinopyroxene. Other minerals identification of use includes pigeonite, orthopyroxene, and zircon. One part of this investigation involves students optically estimating plagioclase feldspar compositions.
2. Students should have a basic, qualitative understanding of ternary phase diagrams.
3. Students should be able to plot bivariate data on an x-y plot (preferably using Excel or another spreadsheet/graphic analysis program)
How the activity is situated in the course
Content/concepts goals for this activity
1. Investigate magmatism in a mid-ocean ridge environment
2. Examine petrography and mineralogy of tholeiitic igneous systems
3. Relate observed textures and mineral phases to relevant basalt phase diagrams and magma evolution
4. Correlate observed mineralogic changes with magma chemical evolution
5. Investigate how chemical variations may correlate with MOR/tectonic environment.
Higher order thinking skills goals for this activity
Other skills goals for this activity
Description of the activity/assignment
After some initial background information on basalts, the MOR environment, and the study area students investigate four thin sections, beginning with typical basalts and ending with a dacite. They are led through a series of directed questions that help them gain familiarity with commonly occurring minerals and textures in mid-ocean ridge lavas. Questions direct students toward the interpretation of quench-related textural features and crystallization sequence, as well as a few other textural observations and petrographic techniques. After proceeding through the initial four thin sections and associated questions student are then asked to undertake "full thin-section descriptions" of the remaining two samples.
After investigating the thin-sections and determining a possible crystallization sequence from the petrographic data gathered (plagioclase followed by olivine followed by augitic clinopyroxene followed by pigeonite), students examine a P-T phase diagram to constrain possible pressures of formation. Discovering that crystallization pressures were low (less than ~ 0.75 GPa) students then examine a phase diagram of the olivine-plagioclase-augite-quartz system (olivine-quartz-augite ternary, projected from the plane of plagioclase saturation) [Walker, 1979]. Students draw 2 possible liquid lines of descent (LLD) onto the diagram, and then use their petrographic observations to qualitatively plot the samples along that LLD, determining a relative sequence of chemical evolution for the suite of samples. Lastly, given those determinations, student graph the major element data for the lava suite to infer paths of chemical evolution and the effects of fractional crystallization (possibly coupled with magma mixing).
Determining whether students have met the goals
1. Identify the mineral phases occurring in this lava suite
2. Recognize petrographic evidence of magma quenching
3. Predict which minerals should be crystallizing at any point on a ternary phase diagram.
4. Predict the chemical evolution of major element oxides with changing MgO in tholeiitic systems
5. Have a better understanding of the environment of mid-ocean ridge volcanism
Teaching materials and tips
- Activity Description/Assignment (Microsoft Word 20MB May23 07)
- Instructors Notes (Microsoft Word 10.6MB May24 07)
- Solution Set (Acrobat (PDF) 689kB May23 07)
Other Materials
- Major Element Data file (Table 1 of Assignment) (Excel 16kB May23 07)
- Brief step-by-step tutorial for plotting scatter diagrams in Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Word 30kB May23 07)
- PDF version of student assignment (Acrobat (PDF) 1.1MB May23 07)
Supporting references/URLs
A detailed reference list is included in the investigation. A few helpful references regarding the Juan de Fuca Ridge and mid-ocean ridge volcanism in general are included below.
Morse, S.A. (1980) Basalts and Phase Diagrams, Springer-Verlag, New York.
Natland, J.H. (1980), Crystal morphologies in basalts dredged and drilled from the East Pacific Rise near 9N and the Siqueiros Fracture Zone. In Init. Repts. DSDP, vol. 54 edited by Rosendahl, B.R., H'kinian, R., et al., Washington (U.S. Govt. Printing Office), 605-634.
Perfit, M.R., (1999). Earth's Oceanic Crust. in Encyclopedia of Geochemistry, C.P. Marshall and R.W. Fairbridge, eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston ;179-182.
Perfit, M.R., (2001). Sea-Floor Spreading- Mid-Ocean Ridge Geochemistry and Petrology. in Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, J. Steel, S. Thorpe and K. Turekian, eds., Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 1778-1788.
Perfit, M.R., and Chadwick, W.W. Jr., (1998). Magmatism at mid-ocean ridges: Constraints from volcanological and geochemical investigations. in Faulting and Magmatism at Mid-Ocean Ridges, ed. W.R. Buck, P. Delaney, and J.A. Karson. Geophys Monograph 92., Amer. Geophys Union, Washington D.C., 59-115.
Perfit, M.R. and Davidson, J.P. (2000). Plate Tectonics and Volcanism. in Encyclopedia of Volcanoes, H. Sigurdsson ed.. Academic Press, San Diego, CA. 89-113.
PetDB-The petrological database of the ocean floor (n.d.), Data retrieved in January, 2006 from http://www.petdb.org.
Smith, M. C., M.R. Perfit, and I. R. Jonasson (1994), Petrology and geochemistry of basalts from the southern Juan de Fuca Ridge: controls on the spatial and temporal evolution of mid-ocean ridge basalt, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 4787-4812.
Stakes D. S., M. R. Perfit, M. A. Tivey, D. W. Caress, T. Ramirez, and N. Maher (2006), The Cleft revealed: Geologic, magnetic, and morphologic evidence for construction of upper oceanic crust along the southern Juan de Fuca Ridge, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 7, Q04003, doi:10.1029/2005GC001038.


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Sony Ericsson has announced that its LiveView Android Bluetooth wearable accessory will be available for around £60.
The 1.3-inch accessory garnered a good deal of attention when it was showcased by the company, bringing a remote control that means your phone can stay in your pocket for some of the simple tasks like checking mail, social networks and seeing who's ringing you.
Waiting for update
With the LiveView only working with Android 2.0 handsets and above, Sony Ericsson will delay until it has updated its Xperia X10 to a later operating system.
The news of a possible November release date – and the European pricing of €69 was unveiled on French site Journal Du Geek.
We're all for novelty phone accessories, but we're still not sure if we'll be wearing this on our wrist, around our necks in some kind of uber-geek pendant method or, most likely, we'll end up losing it down the back of the sofa and going back to more traditional phone usage.


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Last week I began a short two-part series about contributing factors to my success as well as my failures. This is part two of that series and below I will highlight practices that have resulted in personal failure from my perspective. I hope you can learn something from my mistakes and maybe take some time to self reflect as well. Cheers!
Always present yourself in a manner suitable to meet someone new. I dress slovenly on Mondays because I sit in an office and work on a computer. However, what happens if a representative of a company I'd like to work for comes in to visit the dean in the office I work at? It's happened more than once and I continue to fall back on bad habits. If only I would've taken the extra half hour to clean up before leaving my apartment, who knows how many more connections and opportunities I could have had in my academic career?
Forgetting to leave time for myself. I used to have hobbies that included running, lifting weights, biking, and swimming. I took on so much in school that I left no time to pursue these activities. Needless to say, I "let myself go" and caution others to leave time to take care of themselves before caring for the masses. "When asked "What thing about humanity surprises you the most?", the Dalai Lama answered:
"Man…. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived."
Falling into a routine.
Spending time on the wrong things. I spent a lot of my time early on at NIU trying to make other people happy. I took myself out of my way to offer an extra hand, brain, and set of eyes to people and more often than not, I was left with minimal if any reciprocation. You have to understand that like in the stock market, there are certain investments you don't make because there is little to no ROI. Although you're not losing your life savings in the stock exchange of life, you're investing your time in these people and projects. Time, as I understand it, is the most important thing you can give; unlike money, you can't get it back. Make sure you're spending your time on the right people and projects otherwise you'll find that frustration, stress, and confusion may find its way into your heart…and believe me, no one needs that.
Being busy. There's a friend of mine at the college of business who never refrained from challenging me to be better. Regardless of the conversation, this individual always made me feel like what I was doing wasn't good enough and although this sounds depressing, I welcomed the motivation. If I had a surplus of free time, he'd ask why I wasn't busy. If I was busy, he'd tell me that there was a difference between being busy and being productive. Really think about that for a second……go ahead, take your time.
Being busy vs. Being productive. How profound and self explanatory. I'll leave it at that and let you make of it what you will.
Again, these are just a few points that I can recall from my experience at NIU. Now we'll ask you…what has contributed to you failing and what could you do better? Leave your input in the comments below! 2.0out


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Mark Flowers is the Young Adult Librarian at the John F. Kennedy Library in Vallejo, CA. He reviews for a variety of library journals and blogs and recently contributed a chapter to The Complete Summer Reading Program Manual: From Planning to Evaluation (YALSA, 2012). Contact him via Twitter @droogmark


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Watertown leaders consider first lady's visit 'priceless'
City has won best water in Wisconsin twice
Final preps are underway right now in Watertown for Thursday's visit from first lady Michelle Obama.
City leaders told WISN 12 News reporter Kent Wainscott they consider the event priceless in terms of promoting Watertown's greatest resource.
The first lady's visit is front page news in Watertown, and at there's a buzz at the high school, where it will all happen.
"There's been a lot of excitement around here this week," Watertown High School senior Colton Schellinger said.
But it's also meant a lot of work to get ready.
"Logistically, it's been incredible. The amount of details, as you can imagine, are incomprehensible," Watertown School Superintendent Cassandra Schug said.
Obama is kicking off a national campaign urging people to drink more water, but even the mayor wondered, "Why here?"
"That was one of my first questions," Watertown Mayor John David said.
Actually the reason for launching the water campaign there is two-fold. On one hand, it's the name of the town. On the other hand, it's the quality of the water in Watertown.
The mayor said he pointed that out to the first lady's advance team.
"We've won the best water in the state award twice, and they were like, 'You're kidding,' you know?" David said.
Water is such a big deal in Watertown that the high school even has hydration stations instead of soda machines.
"You never see kids walking around with soda here," Schellinger said.
So Watertown may be a perfect fit for the First Lady's message, and that message may be the perfect fit for Watertown's image.
"This is like a 30-second ad before the Super Bowl," David said. "It's literally priceless to us."
Obama will be joined in Watertown by actress Eva Longoria and a number of health advocates as she launches that nationwide water campaign.


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But it's not like he says, Hire a decorator. We're talking old posters and lights and bee zappers. And I can't find any of it.
It's a great holiday. Anyway, he says, there's a holiday and I think you should forget about work, forget about blogging, just settle into our new home and chill with me awhile.
Would you refuse such an offer? Of course not.
So although I love you guys, you're on your own for a few days. And pardon the extra editions of the last post. I don't know what happened there, why it came out more than once for email subscribers.
Anyway, to keep you busy, you get the monthly or whatever it is between posts send up of bloggers who linked to me recently. You've got nothing else to do, right?
I'm starting with the latest thing in personal development blogging. A personal development blogger named Priscilla took the time to develop a community. Years ago, my machutin's brother, Steve (a machutin is a guy whose son married your daughter) told me that he built communities on the internet. He put people with common interests together.
That was cool, but it was like, uh, sure. Then I see it actually happens! Priscilla made a list of almost 500 such bloggers. Those of us on this list are flying around the blogosphere like Harry Potter in Albania (wait, he never did go to Albania, did he? I'm not intentionally spoiling if he did, I'm in the last 100 pages)
Most of us get our personal development in front of the tube. So do I have to thank each and every one of these bloggers? It seems like a terribly complicated thing to do. But I'll mention a couple of you, and post the list below. I'm also trying to add you people to Technorati favorites when the website cooperates (and it doesn't). In no particular order, Creation Thoughts also lists the whole list, as in, If You're a Personal Development Junkie, and A Writer's Words, An Editor's Eye also goes at it and delivers cool stuff about writing if you're into that.
This list even made it into Totally Fabulous, also fabulous, and Mum'sHaveLive's Too. There's a wonderful Yogi on it with a truly yogish name that has many letters, mostly consonants. Check out DNA (that's what I'm calling him for short.
Enough personal development. We prefer regression, right?
We've got Furious Seasons who raves (as in disses) certain psychopharmaceuticals. I'm telling you now, if you're taking one of them, don't stop just because you heard it on the blogosphere! Please! If you bother with this, read my comment.
For more on psychobabble, we've got Bipolar Blast, who spleens the label. My take on that is if you don't like the label, then you certainly don't need the social security disability benefit that comes along with it. With all dues respect, BB.
Okay, back to reality.
The Skwib is only mildly bizarre, and talks pirate on command.
MOVIE bloggers include the movie guru, ProductionBlog:Film Junkie yes, I know we don't use that word junkie lightly, but here it is twice in one post. Then there's Mr. Nehring's film blog, always great.
History bloggers would be Walking the Berkshires and Life Lessons of a Military Wife
For MOMMY blogging (we need at least a couple, come on) tag stay at home mom. Sometimes the graphics on these things makes them worth the trip. Same goes with Adventures of a Super Mommy and Spit Up Boy: Saving the World Before NapTime.
There's a blogger out there who actually feels you should be health conscious.
And a certain SURGEON (Weird AL?) No, not weird Al, it's Unbounded Medicine, check it out. FD would say that it must be a relief to feel unbound practicing medicine these days.
Another blogger thinks it might be cool to Find Religion, like your mother didn't tell you, and personal blogger liza, let's her hair down on the mountaintop.
The BEST Jewish blog of the week is about forgiving people publicly on the Internet. Other good ones include Esser Agarot (10 agarot amount to maybe one cent) and the Judaic Journal, which might actually be written by a young teenager. If so, he's amazing. He's amazing in any case.
And Rubicon3 is full of interesting non-sequitors, as a blogger should be. IsraelPlug plugs into John Cleese as an anti-semite (so funny). And let's NOT forget Rafi G., Life in Israel, one of the original Israel blogs and still one of the best. The balabustah isn't your mama's balabustah, and Yehudah is still gaming and blogging when we KNOW he's got better things to do. (as in?)
Odds and ends include Guilty Secret (love that title, don't you?) and The Witch and the Princess, talk about splitting the personality
Here's that list of personal development bloggers, as if you didn't have enough on your plate.
I'm going to hang around my succah.
All the best,
Aaron Potts at Today is That Day
Adam Alexander at Adam's Peace
Adam Kayce at Monk at Work
Adam Khoo at Adam Khoo's Philosophies and Investing Insights
Adebola Oni at Life Lessons
AgentSully at Life Learning Today
Al at 7pproductions.com
Alan Torres at Made to Be Great
Alex Shalman at AlexShalman.com
Alexander Kjerulf at The Chief Happiness Officer
Alexys Fairfield at Unraveling The Spiritual Mystique, and Speak The Speech
Albert Foong at urbanmonk.net
Albert Lee at My Journey to Living an Exceptional Life
Alvaro at Sharp Brains Blog
Amber at Amber Waves
Amber at Random Mangus
Amel at AmelsRealm
Amie Ragan at Psychology of Clutter
Amit Sodha at The Power of Choice
Amy Hedin at There is no Maximum to Human Potential
Andrea Learned at Learned on Women
Andrea J. Lee at Money, Meaning, and Beyond
Andrew Brunelle at Andrew Brunelle.com
Andy Wibbels at AndyWibbels.com
Anita Pathik Law at Power of Our Way
Anmol Mehta at AnmolMetha.com
Ann at A Nice Place in The Sun
Anna Farmery at The Engaging Brand
Antonio Thornton at AntonioThornton.com
April Groves at Making Life Work For You
Argancel at C'eclair (for those who speak french)
Ariane Benefit at Neat & Simple Living
Ash aka Mr. Biggs at One Powerful Word
Ashley Cecil at The Painting Activist
Ask Lucid at Ask Lucid Spiritual Development
BK Diva at Bklyn's Finest
Barb Lattin at Feels Like Magic
Barb Melloh at The Law of Attraction Info
Barbara Curtis at Mommy Life
Barbara Sliter at Creatorship
Bea Kunz at Bea's Beatitudes
Belle Wong at Abundance Journal
Ben Casnocha at Ben Casnocha: The Blog
Ben Yoskovitz at Instigator Blog
Benjamin at WOWNDADI
Beth at Butterfly Thoughts
Bill Perry at Lucid Blog
Billy Smith at The Organic Leadership Blog
Blogfuse at LifeDev
Bluskygirl at LifeGoddess.com
Brad Isaac at Achieve It
Brett Farmiloe, James Whiting, Noah Pollock and Zach Hubbell at Pursue The Passion
Brian Clark at Copyblogger
Brian Kim at briankim.net
Brian Lee at geniustypes.com
Brightfeathers at this time-this space
Brooke at Plain Advice
Bob at everyeveryminute
Bob Crawford at Bob Crawford Online
Bolly at Motivational Corner
Boston Gal at Boston Gal's Open Wallet
Byron Katie at Byron Katie.com
Cam Beck at ChaosScenario
Cara Lumen at The Success Magnets With Cara Luman and Your Second Wind Blog
Cardin Lilly Routh at OptimistLab
Carlon Haas at Possess Less Exist More
Carol Skolnick at Soul Surgery
Catherine Carter at Continuum Wellness
Cheif Family Officer at Cheif Family Officer
Chris at The Philosophy of Change
Chris at One is All and All is One
Chris Brogan at Chris Brogan.com
Chris Cade at Spiritual Short Stories
Chris Cree at SuccessCREEations
Chris Marshall at Martial Development
Chris Melton at Soupornuts.com
Chris Owen at Pink Apple
Christina Katz at Writer Mama
Christine Kane at ChristineKane.com
Christine Valters Painter at Abbey of the Arts
Christy Z at Totally Fabulous
Clyde at Feeling Good
Colin Beavan at No Impact Man
Colleen Wainwright of Communicatrix
Conceive, Believe, Achieve at Conceive, Believe, Achieve
Confessing at 7Confessions
Cooper at Wonderland or Not
Corrine Edwards at Personal Growth with Corrine Edwards
Corey at Cooking With Corey
Crabby McSlacker at Cranky Fitness
Craig Harper at Motivational Speaker
Craze at Crazedreamer's Thoughts
Curt Rosengren at Occupational Adventure
Cyres at Cyres Matters
Damian Carr at Soul Terminal
Daniel Roach at Daniel Roach.org
Daniel Sitter at Idea Sellers
Danny Kohn at Be Inspired Everyday
Daria Black at Figmeant Writing Studio and Community
Darlene Siddons at Spirited Boutique
Darren Rowse at Problogger.net
Dave Pollard at How to Save the World
Dave Schawbel at The Personal Branding Blog
Dave Schoof at Engaging the Disquiet
Davers at Language Trainers Blog
David Allen at The David Allen Company
David Bohl at Reflections on Balance
David Finch at David Finch.com
David Richeson at 360 Degree Success
David Rogers at How to Have Great Self Confidence
David Seah at David Seah.com
David Zinger at Slacker Manager
Dawn and Ann at Twisted Sister
Dawn Goldberg at Write Well Me
Dawn Vinson at Daydreaming on Paper
Dawud Miracle at dmiracle.com
Daylle Deanna Schwartz at Lessons from a Recovering Doormat
Dean Lacono at Law of Attraction for Beginners
Deb at Mind Body and Solar
Deb2012 at Fibromaylgia and Wellness
Debbie Call at Spirit In Gear
Debbie LaChusa at 10 Step Marketing Collection
Deborah aka Zephry1 at Climate of Our Future
Debra at 28 Years Later
Debra Moorhead at Debra Moorhead.com
Denise Mosawi at Destineering.com
Derrick Kwa at Sui Generis
Desika Nadadur at Desika Nadadur.com
Devlyn Steele at Tools To Life Guide
Diane Cese at Everything Yoga
Dick Richards at Come Gather Round
Dominic Tay at Personal Development for Winners
Don Simkovich at Hey Don
Donald Latumahina at Life Optimizer
Donald Trump and others at The Trump Blog
Donna Karlin at Perspectives
Donna Steinhorn at Rethinking
Douglas Eby at Talent Development Resources
Dr. Charles Parker at The Core Psych Blog
Dr. Hal at Northstar Mental fitness blog
Dr. Michael Shea at From Pain to Personal Gain
Dr. Tim Sharp at The Happiness Institute
Drew Rozell at Drew Rozell.com
Dwayne Melancon at Genuine Curiosity
E Murphy at The Active Life
Edward Mills at Evolving Times
Edward Smith at Bright Moment
Edith Brown at JETEAK PRESS WRITER BLOG
Edith Yeung at Dream Think Act
Elizabeth Badurina at Modern Gypsy
Elle Mgee at Ever Hopeful, Ever Thankful
Ellen Weber at Brain Based Business
Ellesse at Goal Setting College
Elly Jolly at Jolly Life Coaching
Emily G. W. Lilly at The Science of Waldorf Education
Emmanuel Lopez at The Adventures of Motivatorman
Enoch Tan at Mind Reality
Eric Boehme at The Blogging Boss
Eric Napier at Quotation Collection
Erin Pavlina at Erin Pavlina.com
Ev Nucci at My Life is Murphy's Law
Evelyn Lim at Attraction Mind Map
Evelyn Rodriguez at Crossroads Dispatches
Evolving Excellence at Evolving Excellence
Farouk Radwan at 2KnowMySelf
Frank at Re/Transformation
Frank Kanu at Frank Uncovers Excellence in Leadership
Frank Roche at KnowHR Blog
Galba Bright at Tune Up Your EQ
Garr Reynolds at Presentation Zen
Gary at Personal Strategic Plan
Gary Evans at Good to Feel Good.com
Gerri at Absolutely True
Gilad Buchman at Sigsug
Gleb Reys at Personal Development Ideas
Glenda Watson Hyatt at Do It Myself Blog
Grayson at Modern Worker Blog
Greg Butler at holistic-personal-development.com
Greg Frost at ChargedAudio.com
Geoff R at Gearfire.net
George Vasu at 360
Golbguru at Money, Matter, and More Musings
Gretchen Rubin at Happiness Project
Gustav at Success-is-in-you.com
Guy Kawasaki at How to Change the World
Gyanish at Diethack
Halina Goldstein at The Inner Travel Journal
Hatter at Dreaming to Infinity
Hilda Carroll at Living Out Loud
Heather Goldsmith at A Creative Journal
Helgi Pall Einarsson at Everyday Wonderland
Henrik Edberg at The Positivity Blog
Holly Jo at Evolving Blueprint
Holly Sumner at The Abundance Place
Honman at Open Your Mind to Prosperity
Hueina Su at Intensive Care for the Nurturer's Soul
Ilyria at Finding Norway
Inkedmn at The Cranking Widgets Blog
Irene Becker at Just Coach It
Isabella Mori at MoriTherapy
Isha at Isha Yoga
Itzy Sabo at Email Overloaded
JC at Job Life Upgrade
Jacin Steele at Jacin Steele.com
Jack Vinson at Knowledge Jolt with Jack
Jackie at The Painted Veil
Jackie Ford at The Vegan Diet
Jacklyn Ker at Inspiring and Empowing Lives
James and Karen at visualized.Feel.Abundance
Jarle Husefest at The Personal Development Blog
Jason and Michael at Black Belt Productivity
Jason Ivers at A Miracle a Day
Jason Womack at Fit and Effective
Jay White at dumb little man tips for life
Jean Browman at Transforming Stress Into Power and Cheerful Monk
Jeane Michelle Culp at Binding Ink
Jeanne May at Aspirations Plus
Jeannette Maw at Good Vibe Coaching
Jeanie Marshall at Empowerment and Meditation Blog and DailyAffirm: Positive Affirmations Day by Day
Jeff Davidson at Breathing Space Blog
Jeff Lilly at Druid Journal
Jeffrey Phillips at Think Faster
Jenna Glatzer at Hot Diggity
Jennifer at Goodness Graciousness
Jennifer Mannion at Heal Pain Naturally
Jenny Ryan at Using My Powers For Good
Jenny and Erin at Jenny and Erin
Jeremiah Owyang at Web Strategy by Jeremiah
Jerry Hart at Blue Print to emarketing
Jerry Lopper at Personal Growth
Jessa at clairvoyantGuidance.net
Jessica Hagy at Indexed
Jim and Emma at Go Smell The Flowers
Jim stroup at Managing Leadership
Jim Walton at Black In Business
JoLynn Braley at The Fit Shack
Joan Schramm at Accelerating Momentum
Joanna Young at Coaching Wizardry
Joanne at I'm Happy Fish
JodeeB at You Already Know This Stuff
Joe Vitale at Dr. Joe Vitale at Zero
Joel at Fearless Dreams
Johann at Johann The Dog, The Days of Johann, and Rescue Me
John Allison at Technology for Living
John Chow at John Chow Dot Com
John Pratt at John Pratt International
John Place at John Place Online
John W. McKenna at The Leadership Epidemic
John Wesley at Pick The Brain
Joi Sigers at Self Help Daily
Jon at Join The Secret
Jon King at The Effective Life
Jon Willis at Self Happiness
Jonathan at Smart Wealthy Rich and Freelance Folder
Jordan at The Abe Blog
Jory Des Jardin at Pause: Meaningful Work
Josh Bickford at Reach For Magnificence and Reach for Magnificence
Josh Kaufman at The Personal MBA
Joshua Denny at Catalyst for Change
Judy Martin at The Work/Life Monitor
Julia Rogers Hamrick at Julia's Blog: Journal of the Journey Home to Eden
Julie Bonner at Declutter It
Kailani at An Island Review
Kammie Kobyleski at Passion Meets Purpose
Kara-Leah Masina at Be Conscious Now
Karen at Journey with Water Learner
Karen at Square Peg People
Karen Lynch at Live The Power
Karen Putz at A Deaf Mom Shares Her World
Karen Wallace at The Clearing Space
Karl Moore at Karl Blog.com
Karl Staib at Karl Staib.com
Kathy Mallary at Coaching Biz Tips
Keith Ferrazzi at Never Eat Alone
Kelly at Kellymentology
Ken Dow and Martin Cooper at Creativity Happens
Kenton Whitman at kentonwhitman.com
Kevin Kinchen at Creative Power of Thought
Killeris at Attitude, The Ultimate Power
Kim and Jason at Escape Adulthood
Kim George at Doing What You Can Do
Kimber Chin at Client K
Kirk Nugent at Kirk Nugent.com
Krishan Singh at Kundalini Yoga Blog
Kirsten Harrell at Ipopin
Krishna De at Biz Growth News and Todays Women in Business
Kristen King at Lively Women
K.L. Masina at Be Conscious Now
LJW at Heavenly Inclinations
Lauchlan Mackinnon at Think Differently
Laura at Heaven is Inside
Laura at Orgjunkie
Laura Howard West at Cafe Entrepreneur
Lawrence Cheok at A Long, Long Road
Laura Young at The Dragon Slayer's Guide to Life
Leah Maclean at Working Solo
Leigh at The Lab
LeisureGuy at Later On
Lee Nutter at bmindful
Leo Babauta at Zen Habits
Lianne at Excessively Diverted by Divine Mojo
Liara Covert at Dream Builders
Life Reflection at Universe in a Single Atom
Lilifixt at Feel Happy
Lillie Ammann at A Writers Words, An Editor's Eye
Linda Hernestal da Silva at Daily Power Walk
Linda Salazar at Awaken The Genie Within
Lisa Braithwaite at Speak Schmeak
Lisa Gates at Design Your Writing Life
Lisa Haneberg at Management Craft, Two weeks to a Breakthrough Blog, and Chile Pepper High
Lisa McGlaun at LifePrints - Good News for a More Compassionate World
Lisa Mills at Work at Home Mom Revolution
Lisa Q at 40s Singleness-Dating in Your 40s
Lisa Van Allen at Finish Strong
Liz at Internet Marketing Strategies
Liz Strauss at Successful Blog
Lodewijkvdb at How to be an Original
Lola Fayemi at Real World Spiritual and Personal Development
Lori Grant and Debbie at Smart Lemming
Lorie Marrero at The Clutter Diet Blog
Lorraine Cohen at Powerfull Living
Luciano Passuello at Litemind.com
Lucid at Spiritual Suggestions
Lumosity at Brain Health Blog
Lyman Reed at Creating a Better Life
Lyndon Antcliff at LyndonAntcliff.com and Cornwallseo.com
Lynn McTaggert at Living The Field
Lynne Morrell at Lynn Morrell.com and Musings From The Edge
MT at MindTWEAKS
Madame X at My Open Wallet
Maddy at Illuminated Minds Want to Know
Maki at Dosh Dosh
Malathy Badri at Laws of Universe
Malcolm Campbell at The Round Table
Mallika, Gotham, and Deepak Chopra, and Shekhar Kapur at IntentBlog
Manny at Success Books
Maria Gajewski at Never The Same River Twice
Maria Garcia at Get Organized Now
Maria Palma at The Good Life
Marianne Williamson at Journal
Marion at Herbal Connection
Marilyn Jenett at Feel Free to Prosper and Feel Free to Prosper Ryze Network
Marney K. Makridakis at Artella
Mark at The Naked Soul
Mark Forster at Get Everything Done
Mark LaPierre at The Winding Path
Mark McManus at Build Your Life To Order
Mark Sanborn at Mark Sanborn.com, and You Don't Need a Title to Be a Leader
Mark W Shead at Productivity 501
Martin Avis at Kickstart Daily
Mary K at Becoming Your StellarSelf
Matthew Cornell at Matt's Idea Blog
Matthew M. Costello at The Winning Attitude
Max Coutinho at Max
Meg Haworth at Life Lessons From Your Soul
Melanie Benson Strick at The Success Blog
Merlin Mann at 43 Folders
Mert at Almost Somewhat Positive
Meryl K. Evans at Meryl.net
Michelle at aMusing My Genius
Michelle at Binding INK III
Michelle Moore at Happiness Blog
Michael Port at The Think Big Revolution
Michael Vanderdonk at TOACH Performance
Michael Werner at Dream Jobs Dialog
Mike Janssen at Opgestroopte Mouwen
Mike Kemski at BANABU
Mike St. Pierre at The Daily Saint
Millionaire Mommy Next Door at Millionaire Mommy Next Door
Mimi Lennox at Mimi Writes
Mizzy Bohemia at Miz BoheMia's Rhapsody
Mona Grayson at Question The Mind
Monte Ladner at Fitness Rocks
Moneymonk at Moneymonk
Mr.Wang at Mr Wang Says So
MsJayy at Jackie Young Writes
My Everyday Planner at My Everyday Planner
My Mind on Books at My Mind on Books
Mystical Monkey at One Mystical Monkey
NCN at No Credit Needed
Nancy Mills at The Spirited Woman
Nancy Tierney at Unconditional Confidence
Neal Donald Walsh at Conversations With God
Neil Patel at Quick Sprout
Nic Askew at Monday 9AM Blog
Nick Smith at Life 2.0
Nita at Moments
Nneka at Balanced Life Center
Ordinary Mystic at The Ordinary Mystic
Organize-It at Organize-It
Pamala Slim at Escape From Cubicle Nation
Pamm Larry at My Secret Spiritual Dance
Patrick Combs at Good Thinking Co.
Patricia Klingler at Remarkable Women Speak
Patricia Singleton at Spiritual Journey of a Lightworker
Patti Digh at 37 Days
Paul at Paul's Tips
Paul Piotrowski at Self Help Wisdom
Paula Kawal at Paula Kawal.com
Peggy Payne at Peggy Payne's Boldness Blog
Penelope Trunk at The Brazen Careerist
Peter at I Will Change Your Life
Peter Aldin at Great Circle
Peter Haslem at Necessary Skills
Phil Gerbyshak at Make It Great
Philip J Eby at Dirt Simple.org
Philippe Matthews at Shockwealth
Pia at Courting Destiny
Polli at Polliwog's Pond
Prem Rao at People at Work and Play
Priscilla Palmer at Personal Development Demands Success
Priya Florence Shah at Soul Kadee
Quint Jensen at Win Your Mind
Ray Dotson at Fresh Blog
Raymond Salas at Zenchill Powertools
Real Modern Man at Real Modern Man
Reg Adkins at ElementalTruths
Rhonalala at The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Am
Ricardo at Wake Up Tiger
Rich Schefren at Strategic Profits
Rick Cockrum at Shards of Consciousness
Rick Cooper at The PDA Pro
Ririan at Ririanproject
RivKaz at Waterlearner
Rob at 7Breaths
Rob Cooke at Leave the Office
Robert at Compassionate Council
Robert at Myselfdev
Robert Ashcroft at PDSS Online
Robert Hruzek at Middle Zone Musings
Robin Skeen at Robin's Reflections
Robin Yapp at Yapp 3.0
Robyn McMaster at Brain Based Biz
Roger Von Oech at Creative Think
Rolf F. Katzenberger at Evomend
Rosemary at Parkinson's Disease and Peripheral Neuropathy
Rosa Say at Managing With Aloha Coaching
Ryan Marle at The Alpha Project
S.J. Yee at Personal Development for the Book Smart
Sam at Aquire Wisdom and Live with Passion
Sammy Simpson at The Tune In.com
Sandee at Comedy Plus
Scott Adams at The Dilbert Blog
Scott Andrew Bird at Scott Andrew Bird.com
Scott Berkun at Berkun Blog
Scott Bernadot at Keeping The Secret
Scott Ginsberg at Hello, My Name Is Blog
Scott H Young at Scott H Young
Scott McArthur at McArthur's Rant
Secret Simon at The Secret of Life
Self Pursuit at Self Pursuit
Senia at Senia.com Positive Psychology Coaching
Seth Godin at Seth's Blog
2 Know My Self at 2KnowMySelf
Shane Navratil at Zoomstart
Shaun Boyd at LifeReboot.com
Shauna Arthurs at Breathing Prosperity and Follow Your Path
Shaheen Lakhan at GNIF Brain Blogger
Simone at Dynamic Living
Simone and Mandy at Outfit Inspirations
Single Ma at Single Ma's Fabulous Financials
Slade Roberson at Shift Your Spirits and Spiritual Blogging
Sleeping Dude at How to Wake Up Early
Sonora Jayne Case at Positive Realities Coaching
Sophiagurl at Life is Just Around the Corner
Spike at Organize It
Spiritlifter at Intentional Abundance
Stacy Brice at Virtualosophy
Start Up Coach at Take Charge of Your Life
Stay at Home Mom at Insanity's Oasis
Stephanie and Jeffrey at Brains on Purpose
Stephen at HD bizblog
Stephen Hopson at Adversity University
Stephen Shapiro at Stephen Shapiro.com
Steve Beisheim at Jumping Ship Happens
Steve Grossman at Why I failed
Steve Harper at The Ripple Effect
Steve King at The Green Geek
Steve Moore at Personal Development Blog
Steve Olson at Steve-Olson.com
Steve Pavlina at stevepavlina.com
Steve Roesler at All Things Workplace
Steven Aitchison at Change Your Thoughts
Success Current at SuccessCurrent.com
Sue Ann Edwards at Always Embraces All Ways
Sunny Schlenger at SunCoach.com
Surjit at Gurushabad
Susan at Got2BeGreen
Susan R. Meyer at Life Work Cafe
Susan Sabo at Productivity Cafe
Susie at The Accidental Environmentalist
Susanna Kompogiorgas at Flowing Chi
Suzanne Bird-Harris at Learning Curve Coaching
Suzanne Falter-Barns at Discover Your Joy
Takeshi at Nakayima
Takuin Minamoto at Takuin.com
Taylor at Mom's Out There
Ted Demopoulos at Blogging For Business
Teesha Moore at TeeshaMorre.com
Tejvan at Sri Chinmoy Inspiration
Terry Starbucker at Ramblings From a Glass Half Full
Therapy Doc at Everyone Needs Therapy
Thom Quinn at Qlog
Titus-Armand at Project Armand
Tiffany at Little Red Suit
Tim Ferris at 4-Hour Workweek and Lifestyle Design Blog
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Including Livistona chinensis var. subglobosa and Livistona chinensis var. boninensis
There are three natural forms of Livistona chinensis formally known as Livistona chinensis (Jacq.) R.Br. ex Mart., Hist. Nat. Palm. 3: 240 (1838). from the Chinese mainland, Livistona chinensis var. subglobosa (Hassk.) Becc., Webbia 5: 16 (1920). from the Ryukyu archipelago of Japan & Taiwan, and Livistona chinensis var. boninensis Becc., Webbia 5: 12 (1921). from the Bonin Islands of Japan. However, these names have recently been taxonomically revised where Livistona chinensis var. subglobosa has been reduced to the species level as Livistona chinensis (Jacq.) R.Br. ex Mart., Hist. Nat. Palm. 3: 240 (1838). and Livistona chinensis var. boninensis is now Livistona boninensis (Becc.) Nakai, J. Jap. Bot. 11: 222 (1935).
Livistona chinensis var. subglobosa is perhaps justifiably not deserved of subspecies status, as the morphological differences are slight when compared with the Chinese mainland form. The main noticeable difference is to be seen in the size and shape of the seeds. The mainland China form, which is the commonest form in cultivation around the world produces a typically elongate, smaller seed (15 – 9 mm) than the Japan/Taiwan form which produces a larger, more globose seed (18 – 12 mm).
Livistona boninensis has had a much longer natural isolation, and differs in the height of the trunk being 18 m or more tall compared to 12 m for L. chinensis. Livistona boninensis' seeds are also larger but seldom ever as globose as L. chinensis var. subglobosa.
As I mentioned the mainland China form is by far the commonest form in cultivation with the main sources of seed being India, Pakistan, the USA and Europe. Livistona chinensis var. subglobosa from Taiwan and Japan is quite uncommon in cultivation outside of Taiwan and Japan, but is by far the most widespread and commonest form in the wild today. The former name of L. chinensis var. subglobosa was most useful as the indicator of provenance of the two main forms, and therefore identifying it as the Japan/Taiwan form and the most cold-hardy of the two (Zone 8b) (-6.7 to – 9.4). L. boninensis is equally as hardy.
Natural distribution of Livistona chinensis today
Livistona boninensis a palm native to Ogasawara-shoto or Bonin Islands (typical oceanic islands, located 1,000 km south of Tokyo, Japan), is endemic to several of the islands and introduced to the nearby Iwo (or Volcano) Islands. The Bonin Islands is a scattered archipelago of 20 or more rugged volcanic islands with many additional islets and rocks. The archipelago extends from the island of Mukojima in the north to the Iwo Islands in the south. The Bonins can be divided into three main clusters of islands: the Mukojima, Chichijima, and Hahajima-rettos groups. The native range of L. boninensis today is the Hahajima-retto group.
The climate of the islands is subtropical, with a marked seasonal temperature variation, ranging from a sea level mean of 18°C in February to 25°C in July and August. A regular dry season occurs from January through March; sometimes there is also a secondary dry season in July and August.
The basal rocks of the Bonins were formed during the Tertiary 65 to 1.8 million years ago by submarine volcanic activity. Boninite, an andesitic volcanic rock rich in magnesium oxide, chromium, and silicon dioxide, is widespread, and is overlain in some areas by volcanic breccia. Most of the islands drop sharply to the ocean, with sea cliffs ranging from 50 to 100 meters in height.
The primary subtropical broad-leaved evergreen forest that remains on the islands can be classified into 3 major types. The palms occupy a dry forest on rocky slopes where the palm is a second dominant and is associated with Pandanus boninensis and Ochrosia nakaiana.
Livistona chinensis on the mainland of China no-longer has any truly natural wild stands of trees in any number. Small populations can still be found around Guangdong and on the island of Hainan. Although naturalised populations of the palm can be found in other areas of China and other South-East Asian countries, as well as some South Asian countries and Hawaii. The palm is commonly planted as a street ornamental throughout warm-temperate regions of the world.
Livistona chinensis var. subglobosa is naturally distributed from Taiwan through the islands of Okinawa and as far north as Kyushu, Japan, where it grows along shores washed by the warm Kuroshio current. However, due to it's lowland habitat no wild populations exist in Taiwan today. In Japan, so called virgin L. chinensis forest is now found only on the islets of Aoshima and Tsukishima in the Miyazaki prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. The islet of the gods on Aoshima is the extreme northern limit of the species, and this is also officially recognised as the largest single population of the species in Japan consisting of 4000 individuals.
However, I report here, for the first time that by far the largest virgin population of Livistona chinensis var. subglobosa is to be found on a tiny island called Uotsurijima (Japanese) or Diaoyudao (Chinese). This is the largest island of the Senkaku Islands (钓鱼岛及其附属岛屿) or what we know as the Pinnacle Islands. Uotsurijima or Diaoyudao Island located at 25°44'39"N 123°28'26"E has an area of 4.3 square kilometres (1.7 sq mi) and a highest elevation of 383 metres (1,260 ft). L. chinensis is the dominant tree species on this island and I estimate this population to be over 100,000 individuals.
The Pinnacle Islands are a group of disputed, uninhabited islands currently controlled by Japan, but also claimed by both the Republic of China on Taiwan and the People's Republic of China as part of Taiwan Province. The island group is made up of five small non-volcanic islands which sit on the edge of the continental shelf of mainland China, and are geologically separated from the Ryukyu Islands by the Okinawa Trough. Japan argues that these islets are part of the Ryukyu Islands. They are 170 kilometers (106 mi) north of Ishigaki Island, Japan; 186 km (116 mi) northeast of Keelung, Taiwan; and 410 km (255 mi) west of Okinawa Island.
The dispute appears to date from the 1968 announcement by two Japanese scientists that there may be large reservoirs of oil under the continental shelf below the islands. From the end of World War II until 1972, the United States occupied Okinawa, and controlled the islands, whose ownership was undisputed until 1970, when both China and Taiwan began to claim that the disputed islands were given to Japan in the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895 and should therefore be returned to Taiwan (after the end of World War II in 1945, all "unequal treaties" forced on China were declared void, including the Treaty of Shimonoseki, concluded in 1895). In 1971, the US expressed its intention to hand over the occupied territories, including the disputed islands, to Japan. Both the China and Taiwan governments protested and reiterated their claim to sovereignty over the islands. Taiwan made the official announcement on 11 June 1971, followed by China on 30 December. However, the United States handed over the disputed islands to Japan in 1972, even though they have not taken a definitive position on the sovereignty of the territory, considering the islands an "administrative territory" of Japan.
After losing the First Sino-Japanese War, Qing China signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki on 17 April 1895. This Unequal Treaty ceded Taiwan, Okinawa and its surrounding islands to Japan. The Chinese governments see the disputed islands as having been included in the islands ceded to Japan by the treaty, even though the Treaty did not explicitly enumerate all the islands ceded under it. On this basis, they argue for Chinese sovereignty over the islands for two reasons. First, that all the Unequal Treaties are null and void and thus the islands are still part of Taiwan Province of China. Secondly, that since the disputed islands were ceded along with Taiwan in 1895, therefore when Japan returned to China all territories it had obtained from China since the First Sino-Japanese War at the end of World War II, the disputed islands were returned along with Taiwan to China.
The first frustrating issue regarding this dispute is that no scientist can get anywhere near the island to evaluate the palm population or any of the other flora & forna. The Senkaku mole (Nesoscaptor uchidai) is an endemic mammal to the island and could, for all we know be extinct now. The second frustrating issue is regarding the feral goat population on the island, which is totally out of control. A sum total of 3 domestic goats were deliberately introduced to the island in 1978. There is now an estimated 300+ animals devastating the juvenile palm population, and due to the dispute over the island no government is prepared to send in hunters to eradicate the goats.
Natural distribution of Livistona chinensis in the past
The historical distribution of Livistona chinensis was certainly much more widespread than it is today. It is known to have occurred on Tsushima island (at latitude 34°N) located to the south of the Korean Peninsula. Evidence also points to the species being much more numerous on all the islands it occurs on today.
When haplotypes from the amplified DNA band patterns of the Japanese distribution of the species were compared by Japanese scientists they concluded the true origin of the species points to northern Taiwan, Iriomotejima, Ishigakijima and Okinawa in Japan. These same scientists also supported the hypothesis that natural distribution throughout its range in the islands occurred through oceanic drift of seeds on the Kuroshio current. I totally disregard this hypothesis based on the facts that viable seeds do not float even on salt-water, and that salt-water quickly kills the developing embryo within the seed.
Therefore, we need to look for lower sea-levels during the ice ages to see how distribution of this palm occurred. The current interglacial that we are currently enjoying started about 12,000 – 10,000 years ago when the planet warmed and the ice-caps started to melt making the sea-level rise. That last glaciation lasted roughly 100,000 years, where the Glacial Maximum occurred about 20,000 – 18,000 years ago, and it was at this time that the sea level was at its lowest, roughly 120-150 m lower than it is today.
As you can see from the map the lower sea-level explains how Livistona chinensis extended from Taiwan to Japan and Korea in the north, and to Hainan China in the south. However, this does not explain how the palm spread throughout the islands of the Ryukyu Archipelago of Japan. Nor does it explain how Livistona boninensis reached the Bonin Islands of Japan. For the palm to be able to reach, and spread through the Ryukyu from Taiwan the sea-level would have needed to be at least 400 m lower than today. To reach the Bonin Islands would have required a sea-level at least 1500 m lower than today. If we go back even further in time to evaluate even earlier Ice Ages then the Ice Age preceding the last occurred about 145 million years ago between the Jurassic and Cretaceous. But this Ice Age was not as cold, and did not produce very low sea-levels. Besides, we have not been able to find any palm relatives in the fossil record which date older than about 115 – 120 million years.
We have already mentioned that the Bonin Islands were formed during the Tertiary 65 to 1.8 million years ago by submarine volcanic activity. This same is true for the entire Philippine Arc of volcanic islands, which includes the Batan Islands of the Philippines and the Ryukyu Archipelago. The island of Taiwan is even younger and was formed less than 6.5 million years ago by the Luzon Volcanic Arc crashing into the Chinese continental margin and in doing so forced the land mass of Taiwan up from the sea bed.
The Pacific Rim, of which the Ryukyu is part was much hotter and far more active in the past, and during the last 1.8 million years has been rapidly cooling. With this the Ryukyu Archipelago and the Bonin Islands of Ogasawara-shoto have been sinking in a process called Ridge Subduction. Newly created, hot rocks are buoyant on the mantle, and therefore rise, displacing the seawater above it. Thus making shallow seas. As the rocks cool over time they sink further into the mantle. Making deep water above them. The full extent of the elevation they once were and the amount they have sunk is too difficult to quantify. But 1000 – 2000 m is not impossible, and this could be the answer we are looking for. Failing this the only explanation could be that seeds have been carried there by humans or birds, or that the seeds got there by floating on oceanic debris.
Conclusion: Livistona chinensis possibly occurred in the northern Taiwan area around 1.8 to 20 mya., but could have arrived there as late as 20,000 – 90,000 years ago. The species reached its maximum around 20,000 years ago when the sea-levels were 120 m lower than they are today. During this time its distribution stretched from southern China to Korea and as far north-east as Tokyo Japan. We assume that the islands of Ogasawara-shoto and Ryukyu Archipelago were much higher than they are today, and that 20,000 years ago they were still high enough to form a land bridge. Livistona boninensis became isolated at a very early stage, and Livistona chinensis has been slowly declining in numbers in recent times.


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For a while I've been meaning to put together a post discussing my experience using Scala successfully in a large commercial product.
First, a bit of background: the company I work for, Capital IQ, delivers fundamental and quantitative research and analytics software to the investment management, banking, corporate, and academic communities. Our flagship quant product, ClariFI, supports asset managers at every stage of the quantitative investment process: building and backtesting of factors, portfolio optimization, simulation of trading strategies, performance and risk attribution, overall data management (including organizing huge amounts of time series data pulled from a diverse set of raw sources), and lots more. In addition to ClariFI, though, we have started serving up some of our analytics to the Capital IQ web application.
How did we end up using Scala? About a year and a half ago we had a legitimate business case for rewriting—or at least substantially redesigning and refactoring—the core analytics backing our portfolio attribution (PA) workflow. I was slated to be the person doing this rewriting/redesign, and as my boss Scott was describing to me how the existing ModelStation PA worked, it became clear to me that a functional language was a natural fit for the domain. I'd been pushing for a while for us to try using languages other than Java—at least for some projects that were more isolated from the rest of our codebase—and this project seemed like the perfect opportunity. After doing some additional research we settled on Scala.
The decision to write in Scala implied this would be a true rewrite and I would be totally unencumbered by the previous architecture. Rewrites aren't always a bad idea, though. Our new Scala-backed PA exceeded the functionality of the old codebase, using about a third of the code of the old Java implementation, with comparable memory and speed footprints. The new codebase was more generic (components developed to support PA are now being reused elsewhere), more modular (the core PA engine itself is now being accessed by two completely different front ends), and much more testable. I made extensive use of ScalaCheck—an absolutely huge boon that dramatically cut down on the time and effort needed to find and fix bugs. In developing the new PA, Scott and I had conversations in which I would ask him for a property to specify a piece of code I needed to write, and then I would transcribe his description, fairly directly, into a ScalaCheck property. Originally, we were thinking of porting over Scott's old hand-made test cases from the previous PA, but we didn't end up doing this because our properties gave such good coverage. Having such an extensive set of tests also gave me a lot more confidence to make later changes to tweak the design, knowing I was not breaking anything in the process.
Part of the reason the code was so testable was that close to 100% of the Scala I wrote was purely functional, exceptions being the occasional use of local state whose effects did not escape function boundaries and "benign" uses of state that preserved referential transparency, like memoizing a function. Writing stateless code, especially within the analytics layer of our product, is extremely natural and doesn't require any contortions. And stateless code is very easy to test.
Scala is an interesting language. It doesn't really impose any particular view on you of how to write software. Everything from higher-order functional code to low-level imperative programming is well-supported and moving between these paradigms is seamless. On the other hand, there's so much to the language, and the features aren't all totally orthogonal, that it sometimes feels a bit clunky to me. But it is without a doubt an exceedingly practical, powerful language. Let me highlight a couple aspects of Scala I think have been important for us:
- Integration between Scala and Java is trivial: If you were so inclined you could write "Java in Scala" and have it compile to essentially the same classfiles that Java would compile to. You can set breakpoints in Scala, step into Scala code from Java, call any Scala method as if it were a Java method and vice versa, profile Scala code using the same tools you'd use for profiling Java code, etc. This level of integration was important for us since we were interfacing our Scala code with a large Java application.
- Basic functional idioms: Without a doubt, there's simply a huge productivity boost that comes with having access to first-class functions, convenient syntax for annoymous functions, and the various list processing functions like map, filter, fold, zip, etc. Scala's Option type is extremely useful as well, as are for-comprehensions.
- The type system: It's quite good. I'm still exploring its limits. In particular, though, Scala's generics plus implicit parameters enable powerful libraries like ScalaCheck and SBinary, both of which we have used extensively.
- Optional non-strict evaluation: One of our projects involved running a whole series of memory-hungry calculations whose results were then encoded as XML and streamed across the network. We couldn't construct all the results up front as that would consume too much memory, and we didn't want to rewrite the producer and/or consumer to have to tightly coordinate with the other. By constructing the results lazily via judicious use of Scala's by-name function parameters, the producer (the calculation) and consumer (the xml writer) remained ignorant of one another, and memory usage was nearly the same as if the producer code and consumer code were explicitly interleaved. Not that this was news, but laziness really can improve modularity.
- At the time of this first project, the only developed IDE support was the Eclipse plugin which was extremely buggy and limited in functionality. Workable, but not good. Since then the situation has improved considerably.
- In Scala 2.7.1 (the version we used up until about 6 months ago), Scala's parameterized types did not show up as Java parameterized types. This was actually rather annoying to deal with, especially given that I made frequent use of parameterized classes and methods. It wasn't until Scala 2.7.4 that generics support was actually bug-free enough for us to use. Even still, though, Java's lack of both type aliases and type inference makes dealing with generic types extremely painful.
- Scala's type inference, while better than nothing, is quite limited. Method parameters always require type annotations. Higher-kinded type parameters are not inferred (although I've heard that there might be some form of inference of these parameters in 2.8). The inference algorithm seems unpredictable to me... my usual strategy is to start without type annotations, try compiling, fix errors by adding annotations, repeat (of course, I sometimes annotate types for clarity anyway). To be fair, the situation here is still much better than Java, but not nearly as nice as (say) Haskell.
- Functions aren't curried by default, and I find working with curried functions kind of cumbersome in Scala. There are also some language warts that make it pretty much impossible to program in a point-free style (namely, the somewhat arbitrary distinction between methods, defined using
def, and function values which implement one of the
FunctionNtraits). This might not be so terrible if you didn't have to fully annotate parameter types in method definitions, but you do, and it can get kind of annoying. Again, we are still much better off than we are in Java, but it's possible to do better (for instance, Haskell).
- The standard library is kind of uninspiring and is missing some basic stuff. It also has some warts—for example, the function
zipis defined for List but not for all sequences, there's no
zipWithfunction, no
scanlfunction, etc. Of course, you can write these functions yourself, and we did. The collections library is also getting revamped for 2.8 and a lot of these things are getting cleaned up. There's also an interesting project, Scalaz, that we haven't gotten around to using in any production code—but it's a nicely structured library that fills in a lot of the gaps in Scala's standard lib. In general, I don't want to dwell on this issue too much since every language's standard library has warts and Scala's is still certainly much saner than Java where they overlap in functionality (sensing a theme here?).
Typeful programming is a huge win, but it does take some getting used to. When I started on this first Scala project, I'd used Haskell for some toy projects but otherwise didn't have much experience with statically typed functional languages. There is a certain sort of brain-rewiring that occurs as you become proficient with the type system in a language like Scala—you reach a point where types become ingrained in how you think about and structure code, and the type system becomes something you work with, rather than against. Types are also an extremely concise way of communicating and documenting designs.
Another takeaway is that (no surprise), good design takes a while and is extremely hard, in particular getting the details right. Scott and I had a vague sketch of a design after a few hours of whiteboarding, but nailing down the details took much longer. There are always a lot of small design decisions beyond what you uncover whiteboarding. In general, I've become a lot less trusting of whatever initial ideas pop into my head when working on a design, and I prefer now, where possible, to give myself time to marinate on a problem. Several times I've had the experience of realizing something, months after the fact, which had I realized several months prior would have saved me a ton of work and made the code much simpler. This is very humbling, and it's why I think doing prototyping and giving yourself time to explore the problem domain often yields greater productivity in the long run.
Finally, I'd like to scrutinize the folk wisdom that rewrites are generally a bad idea. The argument goes that old, battle-tested code has accumulated scores of bugfixes, corner-case handling, and so forth and rewrites mean throwing away all of this instantiated knowledge. Rebuilding this knowledge in the new codebase is often more time-consuming than it's worth.
The experience with rewriting the PA has led me to suspect that this argument is more applicable for code that is underspecified and difficult to test. When code is testable and well-specified, the cost of discovering bugs and handling corner cases drops substantially... to the point where they are no longer such a huge time sink. I think this myth arises because most code is not very testable—such code tends to result in bugs being discovered much later in the development process when the cost of investigating and fixing them is much higher. When considering a rewrite of some codebase that has been this costly and time-consuming to battle-harden, it's easy to assume you will have to incur the same costs when developing the new codebase. But this is only true if you keep using the same old, busted development strategies.
Rewrites aren't always good: if you are going to rewrite code using substantially the same design, using the same language and tools, just to "clean up the code", then you are just code polishing and are not really adding any value. But if you are redesigning the code with an eye for making future work much easier, then you are simply trading off some current throughput for an increase in long term productivity. And this is a completely sensible thing to do.


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