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FSM presents the definitive edition of a pivotal Jerry Goldsmith sci-fi score: Outland (1981), for Peter Hyams's suspenseful "space western" set on an Io mining station in orbit of Jupiter. This 2CD set features the complete score as heard in the film, the 1981 LP configuration released by Warner Bros. Records, and never-before-heard alternates and outtakes.
Outland was written and directed by Peter Hyams, whose 1978 Capricorn One had featured a sensational score by Goldsmith. Sean Connery stars as O'Niel, a Federal marshal whose investigation of suspicious deaths throws him into conflict with the mine's corporate administrator (Peter Boyle). Something of a cross between Alien (minus the monster) and High Noon (transplanting the conflict to outer space), the stylish film is one of Hyams's best.
Goldsmith had made a mark on Alien in 1979—a film that Outland resembles in its hardware and atmosphere—and applied many of the same suspenseful textures to Outland. The score oozes menace and mood, evoking not only the dangerous environment of the space station, but the suspense-thriller human relationships (in which nobody is up to any good). Goldsmith's musical modernism is perfectly tailored for the action scenes, especially a bravura chase through the station ("Hot Water") which is treated with a Stravinsky-like pulse.
Outland has long been available in a 40-minute album program, but that sequence (recreated for disc 2 of this release) includes alternate takes—and omits many notable cues. Disc 1 of this album features the complete score as heard in (or intended for, in the case of unused cues) the finished film, including such Goldsmith cues as the film's "Main Title" and action moments in "Stiffed" and "The Bags."
Disc 1 also interpolates the work of two other composers, who stepped in when Hyams requested changes but Goldsmith was unavailable: Morton Stevens, who adapted Goldsmith's thematic material for the film's climactic fight on the exterior of the station ("The Last Battle [Broken Hose]"), and Michael Boddicker, who wrote and recorded the film's rec room source music. Disc 1 also features a bonus section including Goldsmith's original versions of these sequences as well as other alternates.
The deluxe 24-page booklet features liner notes by Jeff Bond and Lukas Kendall including new interview comments by Hyams and an essay from Boddicker. Goldsmith's score has been newly restored by Mike Matessino from the three-track stereo film mixes, with Boddicker personally remixing his tracks. The entire 2CD set has been mastered by Bruce Botnick, Jerry Goldsmith's longtime recording engineer.
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Music Composed and Conducted by Jerry Goldsmith
Performed by The National Philharmonic Orchestra
*Leisure Club Music Composed by Richard Rudolph and Michael Boddicker, Performed by Ganymede
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Total Time: 12:52
Total Disc Time: 76:39
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The Web Is Dying; Apps Are Killing It
Tech's Open Range Is Losing Out to Walled Gardens
Christopher Mims
Updated Nov. 17, 2014 2:53 p.m. ET
Phil Foster
The Web—that thin veneer of human-readable design on top of the machine babble that constitutes the Internet—is dying. And the way it's dying has farther-reaching implications than almost anything else in technology today.
Think about your mobile phone. All those little chiclets on your screen are apps, not websites, and they work in ways that are fundamentally different from the way the Web does.
Mountains of data tell us that, in aggregate, we are spending time in apps that we once spent surfing the Web. We're in love with apps, and they've taken over. On phones, 86% of our time is spent in apps, and just 14% is spent on the Web, according to mobile-analytics company Flurry.
This might seem like a trivial change. In the old days, we printed out directions from the website MapQuest that were often wrong or confusing. Today we call up Waze on our phones and are routed around traffic in real time. For those who remember the old way, this is a miracle.
Everything about apps feels like a win for users—they are faster and easier to use than what came before. But underneath all that convenience is something sinister: the end of the very openness that allowed Internet companies to grow into some of the most powerful or important companies of the 21st century.
Take that most essential of activities for e-commerce: accepting credit cards. When Amazon.com made its debut on the Web, it had to pay a few percentage points in transaction fees. But Apple takes 30% of every transaction conducted within an app sold through its app store, and "very few businesses in the world can withstand that haircut," says Chris Dixon, a venture capitalist at Andreessen Horowitz.
App stores, which are shackled to particular operating systems and devices, are walled gardens where Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon get to set the rules. For a while, that meant Apple banned Bitcoin, an alternative currency that many technologists believe is the most revolutionary development on the Internet since the hyperlink. Apple regularly bans apps that offend its politics, taste, or compete with its own software and services.
But the problem with apps runs much deeper than the ways they can be controlled by centralized gatekeepers. The Web was invented by academics whose goal was sharing information. Tim Berners-Lee was just trying to make it easy for scientists to publish data they were putting together during construction of CERN, the world's biggest particle accelerator.
No one involved knew they were giving birth to the biggest creator and destroyer of wealth anyone had ever seen. So, unlike with app stores, there was no drive to control the early Web. Standards bodies arose—like the United Nations, but for programming languages. Companies that would have liked to wipe each other off the map were forced, by the very nature of the Web, to come together and agree on revisions to the common language for Web pages.
The result: Anyone could put up a Web page or launch a new service, and anyone could access it. Google was born in a garage. Facebook was born in Mark Zuckerberg 's dorm room.
But app stores don't work like that. The lists of most-downloaded apps now drive consumer adoption of those apps. Search on app stores is broken.
On phones, 86% of our time is spent in apps, and just 14% is spent on the Web, according to mobile-analytics company Flurry. Bloomberg News
The Web is built of links, but apps don't have a functional equivalent. Facebook and Google are trying to fix this by creating a standard called "deep linking," but there are fundamental technical barriers to making apps behave like websites.
The Web was intended to expose information. It was so devoted to sharing above all else that it didn't include any way to pay for things—something some of its early architects regret to this day, since it forced the Web to survive on advertising.
The Web wasn't perfect, but it created a commons where people could exchange information and goods. It forced companies to build technology that was explicitly designed to be compatible with competitors' technology. Microsoft's Web browser had to faithfully render Apple's website. If it didn't, consumers would use another one, such as Firefox or Google's Chrome, which has since taken over.
Today, as apps take over, the Web's architects are abandoning it. Google's newest experiment in email nirvana, called Inbox, is available for both Android and Apple's iOS, but on the Web it doesn't work in any browser except Chrome. The process of creating new Web standards has slowed to a crawl. Meanwhile, companies with app stores are devoted to making those stores better than—and entirely incompatible with—app stores built by competitors.
"In a lot of tech processes, as things decline a little bit, the way the world reacts is that it tends to accelerate that decline," says Mr. Dixon. "If you go to any Internet startup or large company, they have large teams focused on creating very high quality native apps, and they tend to de-prioritize the mobile Web by comparison."
Many industry watchers think this is just fine. Ben Thompson, an independent tech and mobile analyst, told me he sees the dominance of apps as the "natural state" for software.
Ruefully, I have to agree. The history of computing is companies trying to use their market power to shut out rivals, even when it's bad for innovation and the consumer.
That doesn't mean the Web will disappear. Facebook and Google still rely on it to furnish a stream of content that can be accessed from within their apps. But even the Web of documents and news items could go away. Facebook has announced plans to host publishers' work within Facebook itself, leaving the Web nothing but a curiosity, a relic haunted by hobbyists.
I think the Web was a historical accident, an anomalous instance of a powerful new technology going almost directly from a publicly funded research lab to the public. It caught existing juggernauts like Microsoft flat-footed, and it led to the kind of disruption today's most powerful tech companies would prefer to avoid.
It isn't that today's kings of the app world want to quash innovation, per se. It is that in the transition to a world in which services are delivered through apps, rather than the Web, we are graduating to a system that makes innovation, serendipity and experimentation that much harder for those who build things that rely on the Internet. And today, that is pretty much everyone.
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Good news for all you mac-loving, liberal arts grads (and everyone else, of course): you can now prepare for your computer-based GRE without ever having to look at a Windows operating system. Yes, that's right. ETS has finally put out a version of PowerPrep II for Mac. Once you've downloaded and installed the program, open it up and you'll find a program that looks like, feels like, and even smells like an actual GRE test.
On The Record: Q&A with BC Alum Crystal Forde
Today we're continuing our Q&A series with Bell Curves alumni who are currently pursuing or just recently finished their MBAs. Our last On the Record post was a Q&A with Goreleigh Willis. This time around Crystal Forde shares some of her insights and advice on the 1st year MBA experience.
Crystal is currently an MBA candidate at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, where she is focusing on Health Sector Management and Strategy. At Fuqua she is a cabinet member of the Healthcare Club and a daytime MBA blogger, and has led a Global Academic Travel Experience Trip to India and co-chaired the Admitted Students Weekend. Prior to business school she spent five and a half years in various sales roles at Pfizer and AstraZeneca, where she had a strong track record of transforming territories by increasing market share and exceeding sales goals. Crystal holds a BBA in Marketing with Honors distinction from Oakwood University.
What's the most surprising aspect of your first year in an MBA Program?
Taking the GMAT: Not So Radical
As anyone who has taken or prepared for the GMAT realizes, there is a finite amount of general knowledge that we must do our best to master. There are however countless manifestations of questions that test this knowledge and therefore exposure to lots of questions from each general topic is highly beneficial to our preparedness for the as-of-yet-unseen manifestation we will surely encounter come test day.
In algebra, the more we practice with manipulating equations, simultaneous equations and quadratics, for example, the more likely we will be to recognize when the given information is sufficient to solve for x or not. In a geometry question, we are more apt to be able to solve for the area of a triangular region within a mixed shape if we've trained ourselves to spot vertical angles, similar
triangles, the diagonals of squares or whatever the case may be for the particular scenario. And on the list goes. We also know that certain topics are tested more often that others and thus, though all topics matter, spending more time on the higher frequency areas gives the most payoff come test day. The two key words here are knowledge and recognition. Those two components allow us to execute most effectively.
When I took my most recent official exam in June 2013 (click here to read Amphibious Assault, a post about my water-logged testing experience), one question caught my attention. The question caught my attention not because I got it right or wrong, but because I knew I wasn't answering it as effectively as possible. This problem is a classic example of how the GMAT is not only a challenge to your knowledge but also about how well you recognize when the knowledge you have is being tested. The lesson for you here is that even someone like me, who has been teaching GMAT non-stop for 4 years and scores in the high-700s, will get stumped on the occasional problem. The key is to not let one problem prevent you from getting your best score, and to always use your knowledge AND recognition in concert!
SAT QOTD: Modifiers and Ray Allen
Since of course you're doing the College Board QOTD every day, you should focus on learning as much as you can from doing those questions. Prepping for the SAT is not just about learning rules and facts, but it's also about learning what the SAT likes and what the SAT tests. Knowing what the SAT will test most frequently will give you an edge and make you more efficient on the test.
The Question of the Day from June 14th, 2013 was a great example of a common rule the SAT loves to test: modifiers! If you understand modifier rules, you'll easily be able to pick up 4 – 8 questions every test, and that could translate to 80 more points for your Writing score.
Amphibious Assault: A GMAT Testing Experience
Editor's Note: Bell Curves periodically enlists our teachers to take the official GMAT to keep themselves sharp, help them better inform their students about current testing trends and procedures, and provide additional insight for materials development and instruction. Recently, one of our teachers did just that. Today's post comes from Hany ElDiwany, one of our NYC-based instructors. Below, he provides some insights on overcoming different hurdles to make your GMAT test day experience a success. Keep an eye out for his next post discussing some keen insights gleaned from a particularly challenging Quant question he saw.
Friday, June 7th, 2013, the date I had scheduled for my GMAT exam, was an incredibly rainy day in New York City. Despite breaking down and finally buying one of those high quality umbrellas that don't buckle and break after the first gust of wind (this after almost five years of living a predominantly pedestrian lifestyle and being exposed to the elements on a daily basis) , my shoes, socks and bottom of my pants were nonetheless thoroughly soaked by the time I reached the exam center in mid-town Manhattan. I guess sometimes rain just comes at you sideways and, well, maybe the can of leather waterproofer I used to spray my shoes was a lemon.
Getting Past Your GMAT Score
So you took the GMAT and are not happy with your score.
First and foremost, you should not be feeling depressed by your score, even if that score is not what you wanted or what you expected. The GMAT is often difficult to do well on. Take the next few days to assess what you did to prepare, whether you did as much as you could or should have, and how you could have done more to ensure you have the score you wanted. Assess whether the course you took or tutor you worked with was really in line with your learning style and whether you should have recognized that earlier and done something to make the course or tutoring more effective. Finally, stop beating yourself up if you did not get what you wanted or expected. It often takes a couple stabs at the test before you settle down enough to achieve your best score. To provide you some perspective, the arithmetic mean (a little GMAT speak for you) score is 544 and 78% of test takers score below 650, according to the Graduate Management Admission Council.
On the Record: Q&A with BC Alumni Goreleigh Willis
Last year we posted several Q&As with former Bell Curves students (Lauren Sickles, Gabe Perez, Rhomaro Powell, Denitresse Burns, and Radina Russell) in which they shared their experiences in business school and how it benefited their careers. The insights were well-received, so we decided to conduct a few more with a slightly different focus. This time around we were interested in hearing from MBAs that recently completed their first year.
For our first offering in this installment, Goreleigh Willis shares his experiences and insights.
Prior to pursuing his MBA at Cornell University's Johnson School, Goreleigh was an Associate with the Private Bank at J.P. Morgan in New York City. For five years, he worked with families to manage their wealth, as a Banker Analyst, and more recently as a Trust Officer. Previously, he spent four years in management consulting within the firm. At Johnson, Goreleigh is a Vice President of the Old Ezra Finance Club. He is also the Vice President of Alumni Affairs for the Black Graduate Business Association and a Vice President of the Johnson Soccer Club. Goreleigh will be an investment banking Associate at Lazard this summer.
Goreleigh holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science with Honors distinction from Swarthmore College.
What was the most surprising aspect of your first year in an MBA Program?
The most surprising thing for me was the pace of Johnson. Many of the core courses are 8 weeks long, so there is no time to fall behind. Even though I heard from the second year students beforehand, it was still a challenge to balance academic work with recruiting. Efficient time management is crucial!
Mind Bumps: Proceed With Caution
The human brain is a miraculous organ. Neurons and synapses firing so quickly, processing so much in the tiniest fractions of a second that even the most powerful of computers still have not matched its complex computing capability (even if IBM's Watson can kick the best human butt at chess and Jeopardy). Together with your experience, your brain can be a powerful tool to avoid traps and tricks on the GMAT. That is, if you let it.
I tutor and teach and counsel hundreds of GMAT test-takers every year. And I'm consistently amazed by how often students ignore "warning signs" their brains are frantically trying to flag. I call these warning signs "mind bumps." A mind bump occurs whenever you read something that, at first or second glance, strikes you as strange, odd, or nonsensical. Given that they're almost always rooted in reading (just reading, not Reading Comprehension per se), these mind bumps are ubiquitous on the GMAT, occurring with enough regularity on both the Quant and Verbal that they should be used as a valuable tool to improve your score.
Test Prep: A few tricks to beat the test?
I'm always stunned by the lack of clarity that people have about what test prep is and what test prep isn't. Many people seem to believe that test preparation involves sprinkling pixie dust on a test-taker and waiting for the score to soar to new heights. Think about how often you've heard of "tricks" to "beat the test." Now don't get me wrong, I know it's largely the test preparation industry that sold the nation this bill of goods (thanks Joe Bloggs), but the impact of this thinking is being compounded by the current atmosphere in education of over-testing, misuse of testing, and over-reliance on test results. This post will clarify "once and for all" what test prep is and what it isn't. I hope after this post that I'll never again hear the phrase "just a few tricks" combined with "get me a great score."
"I just need a few tricks to boost my score."
ACT vs SAT: The Amazing Race
In our continuing ACT vs SAT series (if you've not been following you might want to click this link and check out the others), we break down the difference in pacing on the two tests. We'll help you make sense of pacing and timing on the SAT versus the ACT. You've probably already read or heard that the ACT is a faster test than the SAT, and we're here to give that a little more context and help you figure out what that means to you.
When people say "The ACT is a faster test" what they really mean is that the ACT overall allots less time per question.


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In this photo taken Friday, May 17, 2013, ballet master Eriberto Jimenez, right, gives instructions during practice in a dance studio in Miami. These dancers could be among the young talent of any ballet company, but for the moment they are something else: Immigrants in the United States trying to land dancing opportunities while navigating cultural differences and learning English. The ballerinas fled from the Cuban National Ballet while on tour in Mexico in April, and crossed the border into Texas. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
MIAMI (AP) — They practice in the back of a dance studio next to a Wendy's restaurant in a strip mall. Six ballet dancers leap across the floor, hidden from view from the mothers watching their daughters in pink leotards in a front room.
"Uno, dos, tres," ballet master Eriberto Jimenez calls out.
The dancers move in sets of two, their pointed toes and outstretched hands a hint of the grand stages where they have performed. In the background plays a recording of "La Bayadare," the French choreographed ballet they are practicing.
These dancers could be among the young talent of any ballet company, but for the moment they are something else: Immigrants in the United States trying to land dancing opportunities while navigating cultural differences and learning English. The ballerinas fled from the Cuban National Ballet while on tour in Mexico in April, and crossed the U.S. border into Texas.
Pedro Pablo Pena, himself a Cuban exiled dancer, has taken them under his wing, providing a place to stay, practice and perform. In May, they made their U.S. debut in a special performance with Pena's Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami.
Now they are trying to determine their next steps. They arrived after ballet company auditions for next season had already taken place, and arts organizations around the country are grappling with tight budgets.
Just one of the ballerinas has signed a performance contract.
"It's a tough time," said Octavio Roca, a dance critic who wrote a book about Cuban ballet.
Still, they say they have no misgivings about defecting.
"I'm going to start a new life now," said 20-year-old Arianni Martin, speaking in Spanish.
The journey of these dancers, and many ballet defectors before them, started in Havana, where each rose through the island's selective ballet schools to earn spots in the Cuban National Ballet, widely regarded as one of the best classical companies in the world.
The ballet is led by Alicia Alonso, 92, a former prima ballerina who danced well into her 70s. Alonso founded the company in 1948 and has managed to steer it forward even during periods of great economic strife. She's accomplished that in no small part with the support of the communist regime; Alonso has been closely aligned with Fidel Castro and the ballet is a source of national pride.
Despite the company's prestige, dancers defect during every international tour. The first defections occurred in 1966, when 10 dancers fled while performing in Paris. During the early years of Castro's government, dancers who defected would cite political reasons for their decision.
More recently, dancers who have defected, including the ones who arrived in April, have cited political, economic and artistic reasons for their departure: They want freedom of expression, in speech and on the dance floor, and more opportunities to support their families. Cuban ballet dancers earn no more than $30 a month.
"I would have been stuck," Martin, a pretty, petite brunette with brown eyes said.
So many Cuban ballet dancers have fled through the years that they now dance or teach at nearly every major U.S. ballet company. Their collective influence is comparable to that of the Soviets in the 1970s and 80s, Roca said. For the Russians, that influence was seemingly natural, as they hailed from a large and populous country with a long and storied history of successful ballet. But Cuba is a small and isolated Caribbean island of just over 11 million people.
"There's no reason why that tiny country should have that kind of influence, but there you are," Roca said. "Obviously, Alicia was doing something right. And even as she loses dancers."
In April, a group of 70 dancers were sent to Mexico to perform Giselle, a classic and frequently danced piece in the Cuban ballet's repertoire. Martin was selected to dance the part of Giselle's friend in the second act.
Before leaving, Martin shared her plans to defect while on tour with her family. Though difficult, they supported her decision. She wouldn't escape alone; a close friend in the ballet and both of their boyfriends, also dancers, would join.
The four ballerinas did not mention their plans to anyone in the company until after their final performance in Chetumal, Mexico. To leave, they would need their passports, which an assistant traveling with the group held.
Martin pulled the woman aside that evening and asked for hers back. The assistant told her and the others to go to her room early the next morning.
"We were nervous the whole time," Martin said. "We didn't know what was going to happen."
The friends knocked on the assistant's door at 5 a.m. She handed them their passports and wished them well.
"Write me," she said.
The four ballerinas met up with three other dancers as they exited the hotel. Initially, the seven dancers stayed together as they made their way north. Later, one decided to stay in Mexico and two others charted separated paths to the U.S.
Martin and her friends first took a bus to Cordoba, and then to Laredo, where they crossed a bridge on foot into Texas.
As they crossed, they walked in silence, fearing their Cuban accents might be a giveaway to a thief looking to steal their passports. Cubans who arrive in the U.S. are generally allowed to stay under the "Wet-foot, Dry-foot" policy, while those stopped at sea are usually returned home. Mexicans and other Latino immigrants do not receive the same treatment; Most caught at the border are returned to Mexico.
Immigration authorities questioned the dancers for an hour "about everything," Martin said.
When they were allowed to enter the U.S., they embraced and were received by a relative of Martin's friend. They took a van to Miami, home to America's largest Cuban community.
A friend put them in touch with Pena, the founder of the Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami and a former ballet dancer. Pena started the company six years ago, more than two decades after fleeing Cuba during the Mariel exodus of 1980, in which more than 100,000 Cubans were permitted to leave by boat amid rising economic and social tensions on the island. Pena saw the need for a company to help recently defected Cuban dancers stay on point until they landed a contract.
He bought and renovated a deteriorated but historic house along the Miami River. The ballerinas stay in small rooms on the third floor named after famous Cuban artists. On the second floor are practice rooms with pianos and ballet barres.
In May, they performed at the Fillmore Miami to mixed reviews.
"Cuban defectors show promise in debut," read the headline in The Miami Herald. The review said three of the dancers had "excellent prospects," while the other three were "less than exceptional."
One of the dancers, Edward Gonzalez, will perform next season with the Sarasota Ballet. The others have been practicing, giving classes and discovering life in America. On their Facebook pages, they've shared photos standing next to a U.S. flag, shopping at a Ross clothes store and hugging each other.
Martin and her friend are amazed at how many foods come canned and can be easily heated up in a microwave.
"It's incredible. We don't have to do anything," Martin said.
Miami, as Gonzalez put it, is like "a developed Cuba." He's looking forward to going to Sarasota, about 230 miles northwest of Miami.
"That's really the U.S.," he said, speaking in Spanish. "There I'm going to have to learn English."
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City Releases Pools Draft Master Plan, Asks Community to Weigh In
The public will be able to comment on the Berkeley citywide pools master plan—out today (Friday), a week later than it was originally scheduled to be released—starting Saturday at a community workshop at the James Kenney Recreation Center.
The master plan seeks to renovate the crumbling infrastructure at the Willard Middle School lap pool and build new pools at King Middle School and West Campus, including a warm water pool for the East Bay's disability community, which currently uses the warm pool at the Berkeley High School Old Gym. The Old Gym is scheduled for demolition in June 2011 to make room for athletic facilities and 15 classrooms.
A task force put together by the City of Berkeley and the Berkeley Unified School District, as part of a resolution to find a site and draw up plans for the warm pool and possibly other pools, came up with three options for the master plan, all of which include new pools at King and West Campus—the proposed site for the new school district headquarters—and renovated facilities at Willard Middle School.
The draft states that while preparing the plan, the task force was determined to maintain the current distribution of neighborhood pools, particularly in the underserved neighborhoods of West and South Berkeley since a "reinvigorated neighborhood pool system would contribute to a more close-knit community."
It adds that the new and renovated pools would also stimulate the city's economy by bringing in revenue.
The proposed improvements at King and Willard are the same in all three options. The West Campus site would have different pool dimensions and pool configurations in each option.
• Option 1 would provide a new 25-yard by 25-meter competition pool at King, a renovated lap pool and a dive pool converted into a shallow play pool with a slide at Willard and a 2,790-square-foot, 92 degree indoor warm water pool at West Campus for a total cost of $19.5 million.
• Option 2 proposes the same idea for King and Willard but throws in a 2,600-square-foot, 86 degree indoor lap pool along with the warm pool. The total cost for this plan is an estimated $26.3 million.
• Option 3 keeps the King and Willard plans intact, but decreases the size of the warm pool to less than half, 1,200 square feet, and increases the lap pool to 4,190 square feet, for a sum of $26.7 million.
At King, all three options would include removing the existing instructional and dive pools and constructing a new competition pool in its place, upgrading the locker rooms and adding new decks, fencing, outdoor lighting and landscaping for $4.8 million.
According to the draft blueprint, one of the reasons the task force opted for King as the site for a new competition pool was because Berkeley Unified hopes to provide, and potentially expand, swimming programs at King and Willard middle schools.
Also, it states that the new state-of-the-art facility will open up opportunities for the city to host swim meets and allow the Berkeley Barracudas and other local swim teams to train in competition-size pools. The city is investigating off-site parking requirements for King since the school district lacks additional sites for on-site parking.
If the final master plan is approved, Willard will get a renovated swimming pool and convert its existing dive pool into a shallow play pool with a waterslide, an idea the task force feels will attract more children and create a welcoming environment for families. Lockers and decks on the campus will get a facelift and new underwater lighting will be installed. Capital costs for this project is $4 million.
At West Campus, all the three options developed by the task force would get rid of the existing instructional and dive pools and construct a new LEED certified building to house the indoor pools—which would include an energy efficient lobby and administrative office, common changing rooms and privacy shower cubicles, assisted dressing rooms and abundant deck space for viewing, wheelchairs and attendants.
Task force members explained that since West Berkeley was a relatively neglected part of the city, a new pool in addition to the warm water pool would help neighbors to get involved in exercise and recreation programs.
Capital costs for a new single warm water pool, as underlined in the draft master plan option one, would cost $10.6 million. It would be used primarily by seniors and the disabled, unlike entire pool complexes which would attract a more diverse crowd. The total cost for a new warm pool and an additional lap pool, as proposed in option two, is estimated to be $17.4 million. The third option for West Campus, which reduces the size of the warm pool and expands the lap pool, would cost $17.9 million.
The cost of operating all the pools is still being chalked out, city officials said.
After including community feedback in the draft master plan, the task force will forward it to the Berkeley City Council and the Berkeley Board of Education in March for approval, following which it will be subject to environmental review.
The city's Disability Commission, Youth Commission, Commission on Aging and the Parks and Recreation Commission will also weigh in on the plan as part of the environmental review process, which is expected to last from May 2009 to Jan. 2010.
Once the City Council and the school board adopt a final citywide pools master plan—expected to take place in January and February 2010—the City Council will probably put it on the ballot for the June 2010 election to fund pool improvements.
To view a copy of the citywide pools draft master plan visit: www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/ContentDisplay.aspx?id=28522
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In Bihar despite some progress made in some infrastructure, relative poverty has actually increased and millions of people live on less than a dollar a day. There is little industry and much subsistence farming. Opportunities to earn are scarce. As a result children go hungry and parents cannot afford to send them to school and through lack of education the cycle is perpetuated.
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Ashton Kutcher is blasting off — and not just in his career.
The actor has been confirmed to have shelled out $200,000 to book a suborbital flight to outer space on Virgin Galactic's rocket plane, alternately dubbed the SpaceShipTwo and the VSS Enterprise.
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"I gave Ashton a quick call to congratulate and welcome him," Branson said in his blog. "It's great to have him on board."
Kutcher is the 500th person to sign up for the space flight, which will take passengers 62 miles up — the internationally accepted boundary for outer space, according to MSNBC — to let them check out the otherworldly view and the weightlessness of space.
It could be another year before the spaceship begins commercial service, though. Branson has plans first to take his family on an inaugural trip — for Christmas, he hopes.
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in ancient Greek mythology, sea nymphs, the 50 daughters of "the old man of the sea," Nereus. Hesiod named the Nereids, and many of the names reflect the various qualities of a calm, tender, playful sea. The best-known Nereids are Amphitrite, wife of Poseidon, and Thetis, mother of Achilles. In Slavonic mythology, the inhabitants of the "watery kingdom" (bylina [epic folk song] about Sadko) were similar to the Nereids.
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MANILA/JAKARTA (Reuters) - Hackers claiming links to international activist group Anonymous defaced dozens of websites belonging to Australian businesses and Philippine government agencies on Sunday.
A group calling itself Anonymous Indonesia posted on Twitter a list of more than 100 Australian sites it had hacked, saying the action was in response to reports of spying by Australia.
The websites, defaced with a message reading "Stop Spying on Indonesia", are mainly owned by small Australian businesses and seemed to have been chosen at random.
News of Australia's role in a U.S.-led surveillance network could damage relations with Indonesia, Australia's nearest Asian neighbor and an important strategic ally.
Reports that the Australian embassy in Jakarta was being used for spying prompted Indonesia to summon the Australian ambassador on Friday.
China demanded an explanation from the United States after the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reported Australian embassies across Asia were part of the U.S. operation.
In a separate incident, a group calling itself Anonymous Philippines said on Facebook it had hacked Philippine government sites with a message seeking support for a protest demanding the abolition of "pork barrel funds" - money activists say is used for political patronage.
"We apologize for this inconvenience, but this is the easiest way we could convey our message to you, our dear brothers and sisters who are tired of this cruelty and this false democracy, tired of this government and the politicians who only think about themselves," read the message.
A scandal over lawmakers' misuse of public funds has become the biggest crisis of President Benigno Aquino's three-year rule, tainting his carefully crafted image as a corruption fighter and undermining his ability to push economic reforms.
National and local government agencies and the website of the Philippine embassy in Seoul were among those hacked.
Last week, an Internet video by someone claiming to be part of Anonymous threatened to bring down key infrastructure in Singapore to protest against new licensing rules imposed on websites there.
A blog section of the pro-government Straits Times newspaper was hacked on Friday morning and temporarily carried a statement complaining about how the paper had reported the hacking threat. The paper referred the matter to the police.
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Central to quantum theory, the wavefunction is a complex distribution associated with a quantum system. Despite its fundamental role, it is typically introduced as an abstract element of the theory with no explicit definition. Rather, physicists come to a working understanding of it through its use to calculate measurement outcome probabilities through the Born Rule. Tomographic methods can reconstruct the wavefunction from measured probabilities. In contrast, I present a method to directly measure the wavefunction so that its real and imaginary components appear straight on our measurement apparatus. I will also present new work extending this concept to mixed quantum states. This extension directly measures a little-known proposal by Dirac for a classical analog to a quantum operator. Furthermore, it reveals that our direct measurement is a rigorous example of a quasi-probability phase-space (i.e. x,p) distribution that is closely related to the Q, P, and Wigner functions. Our direct measurement method gives the quantum state a plain and general meaning in terms of a specific set of simple operations in the lab.


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ONLY SCOTTIES All puppies are ALREADY PLACED. Raised IN my home with their parents. NO cages, barn, or kennels for our little Scots! Families rave about their temperament and intelligence. A.K.C ONLY.
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Premier breeders of Scottish Terriers for 60 years, many repeat clients and many famous clients, we board and groom if you live locally. We have an on staff veterinarian and very socialized puppies.
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We are just a hobby breeder. We love the Scottie . Our dogs are family pets been raised with small children with lots of love. All puppies will be vet checked. ACK registered.Puppies available!
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We Currently have a 3 year old black male Scottie available. He is neutered and up to date on his shots. Very nice boy. If you are interested in him, just drop us a note!
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We have been breeding for over 30 yrs....we continue because Scottie dogs are a wonderful in many ways! We want to continue this breed!!
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I offer AKC puppies with sweet dispositions & beautiful colors from champion bloodlines. My Scotties are part of the family and not kept in a kennel. I only breed Scotties. Next breeding:2 in 8/20
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"The life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest life for man" - Aristotle
"The unexamined life is not worth living" - Plato
"The unlived life is not worth examining" - Anonymous
The business of philosophy is to think clearly and logically about the deepest and broadest questions: What is the nature of Reality? How can we distinguish right from wrong, and truth from falsehood? How should we organize society and act toward one another? How much can we know about these, and other issues?
When you study philosophy here at the University of Maryland, you will be studying the best efforts, both old and new, to make progress towards philosophy's aim, which is a clear and systematic view of who we are, where we stand, and where we should be going.
Because philosophy deals with the big issues, and uses reflection (taking thought about our situation) as one of its main methods, it is sometimes confused with religion, or psychology, or mystical experience. Philosophy does indeed aim to reach an overall vision; this is an impulse which it shares with all the religions. But philosophy proceeds only by plain hard thinking, and tests everything by the rules of ordinary reason alone.
All thought and action is carried on within some general framework of ideas about nature and about human life. In that sense you already have a philosophy, even if you are not yet aware of it. One of the ways studying philosophy contributes to intellectual life is by uncovering the unstated assumptions behind scientific and social life, and testing the validity of those assumptions. Another is that knowing some philosophy is worthwhile for its own sake; it's part of being an educated person.
To get the best out of your study of philosophy you will need some patience and some perseverance; without them you may feel that you are not progressing fast enough towards getting answers to philosophy's big questions. Students often feel that the way we pay close attention to the details of ideas, and analyze arguments so carefully, holds them back from reaching deep and satisfying conclusions. Philosophy is a discipline: it requires us to hold haste and hope in check, even, and especially, when it comes to really significant matters.
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- it helps with discovering for ourselves who we are and what manner of world we are in.
- philosophy expands our horizons by enabling us to see beyond the world as it presently exists and to develop awareness of how things might be.
- it develops our ability to reason clearly and to distinguish between good and bad arguments. It improves our capacity to sort out complicated questions, and to write clear, readable prose. These are abilities which stand anyone in good stead.
- studying philosophy makes available to us some of the world's great literature, making us aware of how greatly scientists and artists, statesmen and theologians have been influenced by the work of philosophers.
- philosophy also develops intellectual skills and attitudes which are crucial in today's post-industrial world. For example, a recent study by psychologists looked at the correlates of success in the kinds of important reasoning tasks at which many people - even well-educated people - perform poorly. As you might expect, they found a correlation between success and IQ. But even when that was factored out, there remained a substantial correlation with certain intellectual dispositions (or qualities of character) - such as a willingness to 'step back' from one's own beliefs and consider other points of view, a capacity to think abstractly in a 'decontextualized' fashion, and so on. But these are, in fact, the very dispositions which philosophy develops! It is no wonder that many professions, such as law, are keen to recruit people with philosophical training.
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embrace her Atlantic, legs
long enough to take in moon
silvered walks near waves
colored by night.
A neck sensitive enough to
know a mineral caress,
fingers eager enough to
siphon gritty warmth and hold
smooth treasures gifted by the sea.
Hers, a heart wild with
passion where ocean
blurs sky.


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Conservation and Environment in Costa Rica: Monthly Updates
Monthly Updates from 2010
December is always a month for finishing things off, I think that's true for everyone around the world, we all want things to be done for one year so we can start the new year with no backlog of work still hanging over us from the year that has just passed.
As we near the end of the year we are getting increasingly busy working on details for next year's projects and ensuring we get all the information we need for this year to complete the end of year reports.
The closer we get to the end of the year the more we are working to get things finished for this year and ready for 2011. Many of the investigation projects we will be continuing in one way or another next year and we will be starting a few new ones too!
As I mentioned last month we have been setting up and running a few new projects in Barra Honda over the last few months. Another of these projects is the Intensive Search Project, which is running along-side our three main projects - bat identification, mammal identification and butterfly identification projects.
August was another busy month for us here in Costa Rica with another big group of volunteers staying with us for half the month. With lots of work to do in general we kept everyone very busy!
I'd like to start this update by making a quick apology for not letting you know what we did during June. It has honestly been the busiest time ever here (we have never had so many volunteers). So we have all been super busy!
The crazy weather is still with us here in Barra Honda but now we know that it's here we have adapted our routine slightly so that we aren't getting soaked every 5 minutes.
April has been a very strange month for us at Barra Honda, the weather suddenly turned on us and for the first time in almost 30 years the wet season came in the last 2 weeks of the month and it hasn't left yet, nor does is look like it will!
As with every month so far this year, March has been another brilliant time for us at Barra Honda, we've had many volunteers with us for the last couple of months and we couldn't be happier with them, hard workers, good company and always asking good questions about our time together in Barra Honda, what more could we ask for?
Although I am slightly biased to everything that happens in the park, I have to admit that February has probably been the most exciting month ever in the Barra Honda national park. We have had new sightings, new reports, restarted old projects, started new projects and really made huge progress with old projects!
After a slow December, January has been such a change for us here at Barra Honda, that we have been rushed off our feet! We always planned that January 2010 would be big time for us, refining many of our investigation projects and starting many more projects around the area.


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Why is there something rather than nothing? This question is often the last resort of the theist who seeks to argue for the existence of God from science and finds all his other arguments fail. In his 2004 book Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing, philosopher Bede Rundle calls it "philosophy's central, and most perplexing, question." His simple (but book-length) answer: "There has to be something."
Clearly, many conceptual problems are associated with this question. How do we define nothing? What are its properties? If it has properties, doesn't that make it something? The theist claims that God is the answer. But, then, why is there God rather than nothing? Assuming we can define nothing, why should nothing be a more natural state of affairs than something?
In fact, we can give a plausible scientific reason based on our best current knowledge of physics that something is more natural than nothing! Of course, that requires providing a physical definition of nothing. Can I imagine a physical system that has no properties? Yes, as long as you do not insist on playing word games with me by calling the lack of properties a property.
Suppose we remove all the particles and any possible non-particulate energy from some unbounded region of space. Then we have no mass, no energy, or any other physical property. This includes space and time, if you accept that these are relational properties that depend on the presence of matter to be meaningful.
While we can never produce this physical nothing in practice, we have the theoretical tools to describe a system with no particles. The methods of quantum field theory provide the means to move mathematically from a state with n particles to a state of more or fewer particles, including zero particles. If an n-particle state can be described, then so can a state with n = 0.
Let us start with a monochromatic electromagnetic field, which is described quantum mechanically as system of n photons of equal energy E. The mathematical description of the field is equivalent to a harmonic oscillator whose quantum solution is a series of energy levels equally spaced like the rungs of a ladder by an amount E, each rung representing a field with one more photon than the field represented by the rung below. Stepping down the ladder you find that the bottom rung corresponding to a field of zero photons is not zero energy but rather E/2. This is called the zero-point energy.
This result is true for all bosons, particles that have zero or integral spin. On the other hand, fermions that have half-integral spin, such as the electron and quark, have a zero-point energy of -E/2 (negative energy is no problem in relativistic quantum mechanics; in fact, it is required by the simple mathematical fact that a square root has two possible signs).
In the current universe, bosons outnumber fermions by a factor of a billion. This has led people to conclude that the vacuum energy of the universe, identified with the zero point energy remaining after all matter is removed, is very large. A simple calculation indicates that the energy density of the vacuum is 120 orders of magnitude greater than its experimental upper limit. Clearly this estimate is wrong. This calculation must be one of the worst in scientific history! Since a non-particulate vacuum's energy density is proportional to Einstein's cosmological constant, this is called the cosmological constant problem.
Instead of using numbers from the current universe, we can visualize a vacuum with equal numbers of bosons and fermions. Such a vacuum might have existed at the very beginning of the big bang. Indeed this is exactly what is to be expected if the vacuum out of which the universe emerged was supersymmetric-that is made no distinction between bosons and fermions.
This suggests a more precise definition of nothing. Nothing is a state that is the simplest of all conceivable states. It has no mass, no energy, no space, no time, no spin, no bosons, no fermions-nothing.
Then why is there something rather than nothing? Because something is the more natural state of affairs and is thus more likely than nothing-more than twice as likely according to one calculation. We can infer this from the processes of nature where simple systems tend to be unstable and often spontaneously transform into more complex ones. Theoretical models such as the inflationary model of the early universe bear this out.
Consider the example of the snowflake. Our experience tells us that a snowflake is very ephemeral, melting quickly to drops of liquid water that exhibit far less structure. But that is only because we live in a relatively high temperature environment, where collisions with molecules in thermal motion reduce the fragile arrangement of crystals to a simpler liquid. Energy is required to destroy the structure of a snowflake.
But consider an environment where the ambient temperature is well below the melting point of ice, as it is in most of the universe far from the highly localized effects of stellar heating. In such an environment, any water vapor would readily crystallize into complex structures. Snowflakes would be eternal, or at least will remain intact until cosmic rays tear them apart.
What this example illustrates is that many simple systems are unstable, that is, have limited lifetimes as they undergo spontaneous phase transitions to more complex structures of lower energy. Since "nothing" is as simple as it gets, we would not expect it to be completely stable. In some models of the origin of the universe, the vacuum undergoes a spontaneous phase transition to something more complicated, like a universe containing matter. The transition nothing-to-something is a natural one, not requiring any external agent.
As Nobel Laureate physicist Frank Wilczek has put it, "The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that 'nothing' is unstable."


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Campaign 2012: Marriage Equality Is STILL Threatened!
One year ago, marriage equality was enacted in New York State.
There was much jubilation among the LGBT community, as now loving and committed same-sex couples could now legally marry and be recognized...at least in New York State and that handful of states that have also legalized equal marriage.
Unfortunately, equal marriage is not a done deal. To overturn it in New York State, it would simply require an anti-gay majority ( i.e., the GOP ) to gain control of the State Assembly and the State Senate and put forth a bill to repeal it. And there are plenty of Republicans and quite a few Democrats who would do this.
The State of Maine very briefly had marriage equality on the books; it was repealed by a referendum vote with a majority of 30,000 opposing marriage equality. Mainerds are still working to overturn THAT referendum three years later!
This means that the supporters of equality AND the LGBT community must remain vigilant and seek to re-elect those officials who supported equality. Even in New York State!
Case in point: Peterson Vazquez, Republican candidate for the 138th State Assembly district!
On candidate's night at the Maplewood Neighborhood Association on October 3, the question about repealing marriage equality in New York State was posed. The Honorable Harry Bronson and the Honorable Joe Morelle, Democratic State Assemblymen for parts of Maplewood and tireless fighters for human dignity and equality both stated that they would NEVER vote for repeal. Republican State Senator Joe Robach refused to answer it, as did Vazquez, who is running against the Honorable Harry Bronson.
Vazquez DID treat us to how he grew up in Rochester and fled the city to Henrietta for the "better schools" there. He also stated that he ended up putting his children into private schools. Since Maplewood IS in Rochester and private schools are beyond the price range of most Rochesterians, this went over as well as a lead balloon! There is nothing we like better than being patronized by suburban politicians.
I changed my party affiliation to Democrat the next morning!
On Saturday, October 20, Vazquez finally made a stand on something!
In Washington Square Park, in downtown Rochester ( from which he fled, remember? ), draped in the American Flag, the Constitution and the Sign of the Cross ( common enough costume for most Republicans and Tea Partiers, whether they really believe it or not ), Vazquez came out AGAINST marriage equality! THIS was a religious gathering opposing abortion, and Vazquez certainly geared himself to it. Just like in a scene from "Elmer Gantry!"
One wonders why he did not have the courage of his convictions at Maplewood barely two weeks previously.
Here is the link to the video, which can be seen on youtube:
If there was ever any doubt for the LGBT community, the supporters of equality AND of human dignity that the Honorable Harry Bronson should be, nay, NEEDS to be, re-elected to office, Vazquez provided it for himself in this video. All that was lacking was Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker and Anita Bryant!
And, Mr. Vazquez, were the slaves freed, women given the right to vote and segregation ended in the South accomplished by popular vote? No, they weren't.
The GOP is no longer the party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Eisenhower.
And the LGBT community had better be vigilant. VERY vigilant! AND get out there and vote!


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