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Raleigh, NC -- Today is an official day of mourning in North Carolina for the victims of the Virginia Tech shooting.
Governor Mike Easley also has asked North Carolinians to observe a moment of silence at noon in honor of the 32 people who were killed by a gunman this week on the university's Blacksburg, Virginia, campus.
North Carolina is joining at least 30 other states who are mourning the tragedy today.
In Charlotte last night, 800 Virginia Tech alumni attended a memorial service for the victims.
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An award-winning classical pianist before jazz intervened..., Houston native Helen Sung is blazing her own path. A Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance graduate, she went on to win the Kennedy Center's Mary Lou Williams Jazz Piano Competition and is now enchanting listeners everywhere with an imaginative, modern artistry that thoroughly captivates: her music swings, it's funky, intelligent, and utterly unique.
In addition to her first-rate albums and band, Sung currently appears with fine ensembles including the Mingus Big Band, T.S.Monk, and Terri Lyne Carrington's Grammy-winning Mosaic Project. Take the journey with this rising artist named by Wynton Marsalis as one of his 2011 "Who's Got Next: Jazz Musicians to Watch"!
"This concert is a fascinating document of an American presentation of Trinidadian calypso at a time when interest in the genre was spreading from New York City into the mainstream of popular music in the United States"
-- Donald R. Hill and John H. Cowley,liner notes of Calypso At Midnight [Rounder 1840]

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Ron Cain, Jr., Chair -
present Margaret Miller – Sanders - present
Everett ("Dick") Vreeland -
present Deane Driscoll -
Ron Soussa - absent Kevin Seidel, Alt. #2 - present
Jennifer Horowitz - absent Arnold Schancupp – alt #1 - absent
Alexander Kachmar - present
Township Committee: Jim
Sandham - present; Deb Nielson (alt)
- present
Planning Board Liaison: Tony
Speciale - absent
Environmental Commission: Monica Mianecki - absent
Township Staff:
Meghan Hunscher, PP -
Principal Planner - present
Meeting was called to order
at 8:10 a.m. by Ron Cain, Chairman.
BoA & Planning Board applications
update by Deane Driscoll - BOA and Tony Speciale - Planning Board
PB - Tony Speciale was
absent. Jim Sandham reported that there
was no meeting in December. Reorganization will occur in January.
BOA - Deane Driscoll
indicated that the BOA continues to hear the JCP&L application for a sound
wall to block noise from the transformers and a use variance for a day care
center on Park Ave
at Route 202 in Towaco.
Other updates
Jim Sandham handed out
minutes from the "Meet and Greet" held on December 1, 2011 with local businesses. He indicated that the function went very well
and the Township is making improvements to be more "customer friendly"
Mr. Driscoll would like the
EDC to make a firm commitment to "do something" in 2012 and move forward. Mr. Sandham suggested an open house for
brokers to view commercial properties.
Ms. Hunscher asked Ms. Miller if there ways that the Chamber of Commerce
could complement the work of the EDC.
Maggie indicated that there is a graphic artist who is a member of the
Chamber and may be willing to provide inexpensive assistance to create a
marketing brochure for the Township.
Deane indicated that he will
reach out to Vinny Costello, VP of Finance at Bayer, to see what movement if
any there has been to market the property.
Subcommittee Reports
1. New Business
Update regarding prospective businesses including
Ms. Hunscher indicates that
she will be following up with Mr. Larry Anderson, broker for proposed
grocer. They are currently looking to
purchase property between Changebridge and Route 202. She will have more information at the next
Overview of waiver list
Ms. Hunscher indicated that
there have been over 50 waivers this year, most approved and a handful
requiring full site plans. Despite the
economy, Montville
is still a desirable place to be located.
2. Business Retention
There was no discussion.
Overview of presentation by MCEDC speaker Mark
Waterhouse regarding economic trends in New
Jersey and importance of strategic plan
This was tabled and postponed
to a later date. Mr. Driscoll will reach
out the MCEDC to get a copy of the PowerPoint presentation.
Discussion regarding preparation of Montville EDC's "Strategic Plan"
This was tabled and postponed
to a later date.
Review of 2012 proposed dates and budget
Mr. Driscoll suggested a
start time of 8:15 a.m. instead of 8:00 a.m. to accommodate the "working
moms." The committee unanimously agreed
to this time change for 2012.
Jim Sandham showed the
committee a brochure from a town in North
Carolina that is used for business recruitment and as
a welcome packet. Maggie Miller
indicated that Boonton has a brochure for their Main Street. (Both brochures were passed
around) The committee decided that creating a similar packet for Montville was a good idea
and unanimously agreed to recommend an increase in the budget from $600 to
$3600 to cover expenses for the publication.
Discussion regarding "Community Insights" proposal
Ms. Hunscher asked the
Committee to decide whether or not to recommend to the Township Committee to
pursue proposals from Community Insights consulting firm for attraction of new
businesses. Ms. Miller indicated that
she recommends that the EDC first identify consultants located in town that may
be able to perform the same services, but perhaps at lesser cost. The members unanimously agreed to this
Ms. Hunscher indicated that
the Montville Diner and Bedroom
Place were invited, but they did not confirm and
were not in attendance.
Ron Cain asked Ms. Nielson
about the ombudsman position that the EDC recommended. Ms. Nielson indicated that the Township
Committee considered the recommendation, but felt that there are still
unanswered questions that need to be explored.
For example whether the position should be held by a volunteer, or be a part-time
or full-time position. The TC felt that
the position should be held by someone with a substantial level of expertise. There
were suggestions that perhaps additional greeters or a rack with forms in the
vestibule would also meet this need. The
item is still open for discussion. Ms.
Nielson indicated that the TC is also awaiting the recommendations of the Land
Use Advisory Committee, which are expected by January 2012 prior to making any
decisions on the matter.
Adoption of EDC minutes of
11-16-11 – Eligible: Ron Cain Jr.; Dick Vreeland; Margaret
Miller-Sanders; Deane Driscoll;
Jennifer Horowitz; Ron Soussa; Arnold Schancupp
On a motion made by Mr.
Driscoll, and seconded by Mr. Vreeland, the minutes were adopted as
There being no further
business to discuss, the meeting was unanimously adjourned at 9:45 a.m.
Respectfully Submitted,
Meghan Hunscher, Principal
Adopted at January 18, 2012
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Unlike the US, space politics is still in its infancy here in Europe. Back in the 70s the American L5 Society opened branches here, but the organizer departed to a good job in the states, taking all the membership records with him and without appointing any successor, so L5 in Europe died in 1979, even before its US parent merged with the US National Space Society. The writing was on the wall however, and in August-October '79, David Atkinson M.P., the late George Hay and I made arrangements for the formation in 1980, of the "All Party Space Committee" in the UK House of Commons, and the formation of the Free Space Society and Space Settlers.
Originally, Space Settlers was simply a society in support of our long term plan, and the Free Space Society was the space politics society, and a year later, it took over the European Space Promotion Organization, its predecessor, formed as a fan support organization for ESA, in the mid '70s. As virtually every member of Free Space was also a member of the Settlers , in a few more years they merged, and simply became the Space Settlers' Society.
Also in the eighties, a French Society was formed, "Union pour la Promotion de la Propulsion Photonique" which specifically favoured a light-sail race to the Moon. Together, with the various academic space societies, we did what we could to support ESA, The European Space Agency, which as everyone knows, is a combined space effort of nations across Europe, plus Canada.
Because of ESA's pan European nature, we believe the European Parliament, in conjunction with our Canadian friends, rather than the governments of individual European nations, should be responsible for the European space effort. We therefore seek contact with Members of the European Parliament, and all other groups and individuals across Europe and Canada who are interested in working with us on this, and from Africa, Asia, Australiasia, East Europe, the Orient, South America, the US and other nations for our long term plan.
Most European space societies and associations are charities. It is economic for such an organization to become one, but the laws of most European nations make it impossible for charities to campaign -some, even on a non-party basis- politically, so we have specifically avoided becoming a charity in order to leave the campaigning option open to us, though membership and most of our activities are strictly on a non-party basis.
Until very recently, so far as we are aware, we were the only specifically space politics oriented space society in the whole of Europe, so we are interested in forming branches in other European countries, and/or of course, working together for our common end with any other space politics societies or associations which do exist, and at least a couple now do exist, these are in this country, Space Age Associates, and based on the continent, the Greater Earth Initiative.
Greater Earth already has members in many countries, and we co-operated with them to at least some extent, for six months. In February 1999 Space Settlers joined and became a member organization of Greater Earth. Greater Earth has drawn up a pro-space political manifesto which we strongly support.
Pressing M.P.s at Westminster
We campaigned throughout the eighties, mainly on behalf of UK participation in the International Space Station, and we had considerable success, as our voter-postcard write-in system was at least partially responsible for persuading Maggie Thatcher to change her mind in favour of this on two occasions.
Unfortunately with the early '90s came John Major. He chopped Britain out of the venture with little warning and thereby gave no chance for us to organize a write-in. Major's Government also made it clear that the UK would contribute nothing to any manned space venture, and at the same time, froze ESA's science budget all across Europe, whereby due to inflation, the science budget becomes less and less in real terms, year by year.
Labour has never been all that keen on space, and Blair's Government at first seemed no better than Major's in this respect. Tony Blair has continued all of John Major's space policies, despite the fact that this will be appallingly detrimental to both continental Europe's and the UK's technological futures - if we have any, though recently, particularly as a result of appeals by US Astronaut Michael Foale, there are signs that this may be about to change.
So far, UK's nationalist parties don't yet seem to have space policies, and neither do the Liberal Democrats, though Paddy Ashdown, their former leader, is himself a member of "Spaceguard", the organization supporting the various scientific efforts to check out asteroids, comets etc., which cross Earth's path, and which thereby could cause a future Armageddon, and indeed, recently Lembit Opik, a LibDem M.P. managed to get Parliament to debate the Spaceguard proposition in Parliament, and the Minister concerned, did promise to give the matter his serious consideration. Subsequently, a task force has been set up to look into this - see below and the Settlers Report 2000 on our Society News Pages.
In view of this, and the fact that the Nationalists and Liberal Democrats are the fastest growing political forces in UK, it seems they offer Britain's main real chance left of ever having any future to speak of technologically. The Nationalists are rising so fast they look as if they are about to take over in Scotland, which will produce a whole new ball game. At the last election the Lib Dems gained a considerable number of seats in Westminster, and with proportional representation, they may well become part of the leading coalition in many future parliaments.
Accordingly, Settlers are presently trying to persuade these parties to back a return to UK support for manned space efforts, a restoration of ESA's science budget to its proper levels, and the establishment of a Space Studies Institute in Scotland.
Since the above was written, Lord Tanlaw has formed a new envoronmental space committee in both Lords and Commons, and with the support of Lembit Opik M.P., Spaceguard, Settlers and Space Age Associates, they have managed to persuade Lord Sainsbury, Blair's Minister of Science, to set up a U.K. Task Force to assess the asteroid threat and what the U.K. should be doing about it.
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Beyoncé Brings Sasha Fierce to Oakland
If you've never bought into the concept of people being born to do certain things, you've never seen Beyoncé live in concert.
The artist otherwise known as Sasha Fierce (the onstage alter-ego for whom her newest album is named) brought her "I Am" tour to the Oakland Arena Friday night and performed an electric two-hour set full of energy, emotion, and rock star attitude. After witnessing her nonstop show, it's impossible to imagine the former Destiny's Child frontwoman/current solo superstar doing anything else with her life besides dominating a crowd. Beyoncé was born to perform, period.
Wanderlust Ticket Giveaway
Wanderlust, a one-of-a-kind summer festival combining yoga, music and nature is just weeks away!
Pool Hunting: SF's Outdoor Pools, Found
We may not have LA's warm blanket of smog or Miami's awesome DayGlo beachwear, but we still do summer pretty well here in SF. And believe it or not, for those few treasured days of unadulterated sunshine, our fair city even offers some amazing outdoor (and even rooftop!) pools. Check out these surprisingly summery locales and you'll forget you're still in city limits—until the first foghorn sounds.
Bakar Fitness & Recreation Center
1675 Owens Street
Rogue Wave Gets into Yoga
Wanderlust is just weeks away, and joining the likes of Michael Franti, The Honey Brothers and Amanda Palmer onstage at the 3-day health and wellness festival are Bay Area boys, Rogue Wave. We chatted with lead singer, Zach Rogue, about staying healthy and getting inspired.
Where to Get Your Michael Jackson Tribute On This Weekend
If Michael Jackson's sudden, tragic passing yesterday left you too bummed to plan any upcoming outings, don't fret. MJ fans throughout the city are uniting on the dancefloor to pay tribute to the legendary entertainer. Here's a quick guide on where to moonwalk for some MJ love:
Guide to Pride: Prime Parade Spots, Parties, Beyonce's Little Sis and BoA
It can be fun to get lost in the crowds, but if you're looking for some semblance of a plan, here's our roundup of the top events this weekend:
King Tut Reigns Again at the de Young
It's official. The Boy King is back in The Bay. It's been 30 years since the record-breaking Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibit hit San Francisco, and now Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs is ready to reign supreme at the de Young.
SFJFF's New Media Initiative: Watch the Jewish Film Festival Online
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival has screened revolutionary films for 29 years, and now they're revolutionizing the way you learn about them. Just launched today, The New Media Initiative brings hundreds of rare, independent, international and archival Jewish-themed films straight to your laptop. The site also features downloadable podcasts and videos, streaming media, educational materials and social networking. Basically, if you've ever spent time geeking out on IMBD, expect to spend hours with the New Media Initiative.
Amanda Palmer's Love, Music, and Wanderlust
Amanda Palmer is in a good place right now. Not only is The Dresden Dolls singer riding the success of her 2008 solo album, Who Killed Amanda Palmer, but she's ready to release the record's accompanying book of photos, she's madly in love with the book's renowned author, Neil Gaiman, and she's gearing up to headline July's Wanderlust Festival with some of her best buds.
Ask Bruno Anything
Bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen's alter ego (well, alter-alter ego, considering Borat), is ready to cause more of a stir. Though his movie doesn't premiere until July 10, Bruno has been making headlines by disrupting fashion shows, crashing crotch-first into Eminem's face at the MTV Movie Awards, and posing nude on the cover of this month's GQ. And now's your chance to get inside the faux-Austrian television host's mind. On June 30, Baron Cohen will appear in all his Bruno glory on Digg.com's Digg Dialogg.


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Many of the NFL's quarterbacks go into the 2014 season well defined. But between the league's most venerable veterans and most intriguing young stars, there lies a few passers who are at crucial points in their careers. For all eight of these QBs, now is the best time to find out what they are really made of:
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Eight NFL quarterbacks at career crossroadsnfl May 21, 2014 3:10pm EDT May 21, 2014 11:52am EDT There are quarterbacks with nothing to prove, and there are those who are at a rubber-meets-the-road juncture. It's not all doom, but at least a few of this year's passers have some confidence building to do, writes Vinnie Iyer.
Many of the NFL's quarterbacks go into the 2014 season well defined. But between the league's most venerable veterans and most intriguing young stars, there lies a few passers who are at crucial points in their careers. For all eight of these QBs, now is the best time to find out what they are really made of:
2 Matthew Stafford, Detroit Lions
On the surface, Stafford seems to have it all: rocket arm, a pass-heavy offense, Megatron and a megacontract. But after Stafford's 2011 41-touchdown, 5,038-yard breakthrough that pushed Detroit to the playoffs, the last two years have been rocky. The lousy record as a starter against above .500 teams (2-27) is well documented. The more disturbing development is how his turnovers went up (21, 23) while his TD totals (20, 29) shot down.
Coach Jim Caldwell was hired to help make Stafford, 26, more accurate and efficient. The additions of wide receiver Golden Tate and tight end Eric Ebron are more means toward that goal. The targets are deeper, and the Lions' line has improved in pass protection. There are no more excuses.
3 Andy Dalton, Cincinnati Bengals
has started every game in his three-year career and led Cincinnati to the playoffs in each of those years. So why is a guy who threw 33 TD passes in 2013 — behind only Peyton Manning and Drew Brees — getting so much heat?
You know why: Three shaky performances in three playoff games, including the abysmal 27-10 home loss to San Diego (29-of-51, 334 yards, TD, 2 INTs) last postseason. Adding to the drama, the Bengals have not yet extended his rookie contract that expires after this year. They also just drafted a similar-styled QB, AJ McCarron, as insurance.
Dalton has A.J. Green, several diverse weapons and a strong offensive line. He also has a new, run-oriented offensive coordinator in Hue Jackson. Relative to most other QBs with his experience, Dalton has a good resume (30-18 records, 85.7 passer rating), but it's a critical time for him to show the Bengals if he can be great.
4 Sam Bradford, St. Louis Rams
The Rams resisted taking Johnny Manziel in the 2014 Draft, but that doesn't mean Sammy Football can feel comfortable with his starting position. He won't get a big push from rookie Garrett Gilbert, but Bradford is down to his last make-or-break chance.
He is owed about $27 million over the next two seasons before he becomes a free agent. He must prove capable of leading them longer-term by staying durable and taking advantage of his ever-improving supporting cast.
Although the receivers still aren't too exciting beyond Tavon Austin, the Rams have given Bradford a sturdier line (see Jake Long, now Greg Robinson), a power running game (see Zac Stacy, Tre Mason) and a mighty defense to ease his burden. St. Louis can't afford to be lapped at QB again with the talent it's building elsewhere.
5 Robert Griffin III, Washington Redskins
RG3 didn't have close to the worst sophomore slump of all time in 2013, but he faded in Year 2 compared to 2012 draft brethren Andrew Luck and Russell Wilson. While Luck and Wilson's teams upgraded to division champs and Super Bowl champs, respectively, Griffin and Washington freefell to the NFC East basement.
Looking at the film, RG3 missed a lot of throws. There was a tendency for him to force things downfield. As a result, his efficiency and accuracy took big hits in his return from major knee surgery. To get right again in 2014, he has the added challenge of an offense in transition.
Forming schematic and personal bonds with new coach Jay Gruden is vital, as those soured at the end with Mike Shanahan. As Gruden plans to go away from the zone-read wrinkles that helped RG3 early, Griffin will need to do it with his arm and not nearly as much with his feet. The pressure is on to take back control of his campaign as Washington's QB savior.
6 Ryan Tannehill, Miami Dolphins
There's a lot to like about Tannehill, but he's yet to produce the team and individual success of those in the 2012 class. In a twist, the Dolphins going away from the offensive coordination of his former Texas A&M head coach Mike Sherman will benefit Tannehill.
Enter Bill Lazor, fresh off thriving with Nick Foles and Chip Kelly's staff in Philadelphia. Tannehill comes with some decent polish but can benefit from the Dolphins letting him loose with a more wide-open and creative passing game. There have been signs of Tannehill putting it all together. We'll soon see if he's ready to handle every aspect of the game in Year 3. It's also key for Tannehill to emerge as the leader needed to get Miami into the playoffs.
7 Alex Smith, Kansas City Chiefs
Smith did what was expected of him in his first season in Kansas City: cleaned up the passing offense with steady, efficient play so their running game and defensive prowess could carry them into the playoffs.
But even though the Chiefs were an easy wild-card team at 11-5, it still felt they were a distant second to division and AFC champion Denver. Despite Smith playing well overall, they lost six of their final eight games — to three of the four playoff teams they faced all season. To have a shot to stay with Peyton Manning the Broncos and navigate through a tougher schedule, Smith has to be exceptional to stay in KC after 2014.
He earns a bargain $7.5 million this year, but wants a lot more soon. It will be difficult for the Chiefs to invest big in Smith (up to $17 million a season) unless they hit a higher offensive gear. Rookie Aaron Murray is a good fit for Andy Reid's scheme, giving the team a fallback successor in '15. Smith just turned 30, and it's a big year toward his future as a top starter.
8 Jay Cutler, Chicago Bears
They have given him the perfect offense and a mega contract extension. Now it's time for him to reward them with more durability and another playoff trip. Let's remember before he got his $126.7 million deal in January, there was talk of whether he should have regained his job from supersub Josh McCown in December.
The Bears have the right to expect huge things from Cutler, 31. He's well settled in Chicago with Marc Trestman, and throws to the best wide receiver duo in the NFL, Brandon Marshall and Alshon Jeffery. His line improved in 2013, too, with Jermon Bushrod, Kyle Long and Jordan Mills.
Just staying healthy would be a good place to start for Cutler after he's missed a dozen games over the past three seasons. The next is being able to outduel Matthew Stafford and Aaron Rodgers in key division games, critical to the Bears' playoff chances. This has become an offense-first team, catering to all of the quarterback's needs. Cutler needs to reach his elite potential, and it's now or never.
9 Eli Manning, New York Giants
Unlike the other quarterbacks on this list, Manning, 33, doesn't need to worry much about legacy with his two Super Bowl rings/MVPs. A couple years ago, following his second championship, it seemed Eli and "elite" was a slam-dunk combination.
Look back on the big picture of the past five years, however, and the Giants have made the playoffs in only the championship season of 2011. In 2013, Manning looked more like his pre-ring self as his numbers (57.5 completion percentage, 18 TDs, career-high 27 INTs, 39 sacks taken) contributed to a rookie-like 69.4 passer rating.
To help rejuvenate him for one more run comes new offensive coordinator Ben McAdoo, a smart hire to replace retired Kevin Gilbride. McAdoo just worked with Aaron Rodgers and the Packers' passing game, and the concepts he brings are tailored toward making Manning more efficient.
That means not forcing the ball downfield, throwing more short passes, and getting more targets involved (backs, tight ends). No. 2 wideout Hakeem Nicks is gone, but the Giants didn't waste any time in using a first-rounder on speedy Odell Beckham Jr. to pair with Victor Cruz. If Manning can't find close to his best again in 2014, it would mean little chance for ever getting that third ring.


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To the Editor.— In his interesting study,
Dr Ioannidis1 explores the factors contributing
to publication bias in clinical trials. Ascertainment of a differential publication
lag after the completion of trials in the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) field provides more evidence for publication
bias. Nevertheless, I have reservations about his suggestion that publication lag is a more exact term than publication
bias in efficacy trials. Stern and Simes2
identified the delay in the publication of studies with negative results as
an additional important factor in publication bias. In this context, I find
the efforts of Drs Jadad and Rennie3 to
coincide the term time lag bias to the findings of
Ioannidis' study, for a delay in publication of results, unfortunate. In an
open society, divergence of perspectives provides a healthy environment to
discuss the differences and is the main source for progression. However, in
scientific circles, the departure from a well-established and defined4 term, such as publication bias, should emerge from a real need for clarification. At present, publication
lag is a built-in feature for the time dimension of the term publication bias.
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Baby Wearing for Professionalshowtobeadad
Here's the thing. I'm not the best father in the world. Half the time, I have this feeling that I am the WORST dad on the planet. Some days I wonder if I am horribly disfiguring my son's mental state. Actually, let's call it daily. I love the guy so much and try moderately hard, but I know I have failings. And I try to work on them every day.
When we found out we were having a baby, I was elated. I'd wanted to be a father one day, but not because I thought I would do well at it. I wanted to correct things that I'd endured and give my son the same experiences that I cherish. I wanted to give someone unconditional love. Have my lineage, DNA or otherwise, time travel to the future.
That unconditional love transformed into baby wearing. I wanted to know everything about it. The difference between slings, carriers and wraps. What the hell is a wrap? How do I know if a sling fits right? Anyway, I'm not going to be all "helpful" in this post and give you any answers. That would be ridiculous of me.
Instead, I want to tell you to invest yourself. Invest yourself into your kid, knowing that you suck and that they may hate you, knowing that you might mess it all up yet still have someone sitting there that loves you back, unconditionally.
The above is what I tell myself, after I've practically scooped my brains out through my eye sockets from guilt and had the smarts to take a look at this photo below…
That photo reminds me of the job I have to do. To carry, protect, keep close and support my son. With or without a Moby wrap. It tells me there are things I can do, and do well. That my mediocre is better than most, better than the guys who are never around whose kids never got to know them.
Show them how strong you are. Hold that baby tight, men.
Read more of Charlie & Andy's blabbing at HowToBeADad.com.
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Following Patterns and Innovating
Published: April 22, 2013
For the past few years, it has been fashionable to point out faults in things like TV interfaces and interactions, while positing that innovative new hardware like smartphones and tablets would fix everything any minute now—but it hasn't yet.
For example, I chose my television programming service provider largely based on the service's usability and usefulness. Dish has a rather good remote and, for years, has had many of the features that popular articles insist we need to break out of our current mode of interacting with television programming. For instance, users can perform keyword searches. Our service provider even offers to connect the system to the Internet, so you can control it with any smartphone, tablet, or via the Web—and even watch TV on those platforms from anywhere in your house.
But there's a problem: There are issues of consistency that make it difficult to switch between the user interfaces. So, it's hard to pop open the app on my phone to find out what my DVR is recording while the TV is playing a show. And it's difficult to open my computer and tie a keyword search to my current viewing behavior, using its easier-to-type-on keyboard.
In a recent interview, Alan Kay spoke about providing devices like iPads in every classroom.
"I've used the analogy of what would happen if you put a piano in every classroom. If there is no other context, you will get a 'chopsticks' culture, and maybe even a pop culture. And this is pretty much what is happening.
"In other words, 'the music is not in the piano.'"—Alan Kay
The same is true in any context. Simply adding user interfaces such as touchscreens will not magically solve our problems with TV. Existing products on mobile phones and iPad haven't solved these problems. Adding any widget, feature, interface, interaction, or piece of hardware never automatically solves your problems with any information service or application. So how can we move the state of the art forward?
Best Practices
As UX designers, a set of best practices that we've inherited from prior work guides our work. Best practices have actually been proven to work. You should not confuse them with what I call common practice, which may be trendy and popular, but is still unproven—and may even be counterproductive or worst practices.
We generally organize best practices into broad categories by their applicability, for example:
Principle > Heuristic > Pattern > Template > Component
But there are other categories of best practices, and the bounds between them are open to much interpretation and argument. I won't try to define any of these here, because that would be a whole essay in itself. In fact, for simplicity, I'm going to use the word pattern a bit too broadly, so just assume that I mean to encompass principles and heuristics as well.
Patterns and Innovation
As far as I can tell, our reliance on using new types of hardware to solve our problems is tied inexorably to the belief that change is always good. Perhaps this arises from the way growth has become ingrained in modern business practices. I've even seen some people go so far as to assume that, if change is good, all that has gone before is bad. Or at least, that everything old has become pointless and irrelevant.
Last year, Rian van der Merwe wrote an article that outlined his argument for breaking design patterns. He began with this definition:
"A pattern—whether in architecture, Web design, or another field—always has two components: first, it describes a common problem; secondly, it offers a standard solution to that problem."
Then, he discusses breaking these standard solutions to come up with new, innovative ideas.
Taking another example, Stephen Turbek, writing for Boxes and Arrows, questions the value of pattern libraries as a whole:
"You cannot copy a UX pattern like you can copy a sewing pattern. Having someone read a pattern library will not make them a competent user experience designer. It would be akin to teaching writing by reading the dictionary—the whys are not answered."
These writings all seem to allude to using the wrong sort of pattern libraries. Indeed, if you assume that patterns are a specific set of solutions, they won't work. Patterns are not solutions like dress patterns, but constraints, guidelines, and examples. You use only the parts that apply, discarding others. All good pattern libraries provide variations on patterns and detailed explanations of when to use each variant.
Innovating Through Understanding
Most important, patterns provide an understanding of not just what the result should be, but also why. To stretch past current design best practices, you do not need to break patterns, but expand on them. This is something that comes up a lot as new technologies take over. Working in mobile, I see a lot of people who claim that it's all so new that we have to set everything aside—despite 40 years of mobile telephony, 25 years of PDAs, and at least a decade of smartphones.
I often rail against working in the old ways and assuming that all new things are scary. Scott Jenson said this fairly well in a Quora discussion in 2011:
"Mobile, of course, isn't really that hard. What makes it harder is that most people are coming from a desktop background, and they bring so much baggage to the table. The exact same thing happened when the Mac first came out, all sorts of DOS apps started to sprout 'gooeys' (GUIs), and it was comical. It just takes a while for an industry to shed its old ways."
As Bill Buxton said while channeling Brian Arthur, "There is a precedent for all new technologies. The importance and the creativity are reflected in the insight with which those precedents are explored, tested, and combined."
Applying Old Patterns
What I think is perhaps the most important facet of patterns—or principles or heuristics—is that they are generalized and are applicable to many situations, audiences, and platforms. In any discussion that devolves to innovation versus patterns, we should understand that new interfaces do not sweep aside patterns. Nor do new technologies change everything. They just change the importance and value of patterns and the way we apply them.
For example, at my very first, minimum-wage job, my office phone didn't ring. (Why they couldn't fix it I'll never know.) However, the phone did make a very subtle clicking sound. But for the first few weeks on the job—before I got used to that sound—I felt compelled to pick up the phone every minute or two just make sure no one was calling. This memory sometimes comes back to me when I think of annunciators and how our mobile devices notify us of status changes.
Doorbells, phone ringers, and the LEDs that tell us we have new text messages all fall under the same category of what we might consider ambient information. Our mobile devices inform us of states and status changes without our having to deliberately pay attention to them. You don't have to look out the window when someone rings your doorbell to see if someone is there, pick up the phone to find out if someone is calling, or read your mobile handset screen to see if there's a new message. Instead our world beeps, blinks, and rings to tell us something has happened.
We continue to stretch this pattern usefully to new situations. Today, my mobile device has differently colored LEDs for various notifications—encoding the annunciator with content and context. On my phone, blue is a tweet, purple is an SMS, and pale yellow means I've received a new work email. The LEDs attract my attention, then their color registers a moment later when I notice the type of notification and its importance to me, in the moment.
Patterns Recur
What goes around comes around. And very often we don't even need to study the history of a pattern—we just expand its scope because the right answer is sitting in some corner we simply aren't paying attention to.
Just a few weeks ago, I read an article that, in all earnestness, discussed how the new thing in mobile is using color. This is something you might miss only if you were paying attention to just a very narrow set of trends, because the use of color has always been a key principle in ordering and organizing information. While the visual hierarchies that designers use vary, this is the one I've always used:
Position > Size > Shape > Contrast > Color > Form
There it is. Humans have color vision, so why would a designer ever ignore that when trying to establish a complex hierarchy to communicate the priority of various pieces of information? Well, most designers wouldn't do that. Even when many iOS sites and apps were going for a monochromatic look, there was certainly use of color.
Patterns Are About People
Remember, patterns derive from principles and heuristics that are based on human physiology and cognitive psychology. Even as new technologies, user interfaces, and interactions arise, we base our designs for those new things on old, familiar patterns because they work for people. In interactive systems, tabs work regardless of whether they look like the tabs on file folders, because the concept of categories of similarly important information is important and universally valid. It is valid even for the tabs on folders inside file cabinets, which is why the original pattern came to be.
Principles of cognitive psychology apply to everyone. Whether someone is a business customer or a consumer, American or North African, we are all human. Sure, there are class and regional variations in people, but from working on products around the world, I've found that our similarities are much more striking than any differences.
This is why patterns exist and why they will continue to exist. We should all read and understand pattern libraries, even if we don't believe in strictly following the patterns themselves.
Patterns Are Universal
When I went to college at the dawn of the Interne—partly because no one told me about human factors and cognitive psychology until a few years later—I ended up with an art degree. I focused on printmaking—etching and engraving mostly—but also had to take painting and sculpture. In foundations classes for all of these media, I learned principles and what amounted to patterns.
I also took some design classes—and on graduating, actually made money as a graphic designer before moving into CD and Web design—in the days before we knew what to call it. I immediately noticed that the art-school patterns that have been passed down through generations and the design-school patterns, which are based on observation and scientific principles, are the same.
When I realized that we needed to codify the best practices and principles that guide whole teams of Web designers in the workplace, I found that practice areas like information design and human factors also had their own good guidelines. While our existing best practices and principles did not change at their heart, those from these new areas of practice meshed nicely with what we were already doing—and we added more as the practices of user experience, information architecture, and interaction design became more codified.
As we continue to look into other fields, we'll find that there are standard approaches—principles and patterns—to landscaping and literary criticism and everything else. I strongly encourage you to explore other fields, because when people create anything for human consumption or interaction, they strive to achieve many of the same goals as we do when designing a Web site or mobile app. To give you a slightly far out example: A favorite thing of mine is to read the accident reports that the National Transportation Safety Board publishes. They often go into great detail on human-factors issues, and I quite frequently learn new things about how people think and react to systems and situations.
Making the Best Experience
Breaking away from trends and stretching patterns can certainly lead to innovative experiences. But entirely breaking away from patterns and principles just leads to broken experiences.
I tend to think that design is actually a bit more like science than many believe. In both disciplines, we learn from the past and build on what we've learned to create new works in new spaces. In my view, UX works at the intersection of science and design—and in many ways, the two are not at odds with one another.
Patterns are not design trends. At their core, patterns are based on how human beings interact with things. In a discussion that I had with some other designers after a workshop on no-UI solutions, Xianhang Zhang said, "The art of predicting the future is knowing what hasn't changed." People don't change in fundamental ways, so our job as designers is to consider how humans might use new or evolving technologies, while never losing sight of the fundamental ways in which people work.
Though innovation involves some risk taking, it comes about through continuing evolution, not from setting aside and ignoring everything that has gone before.
Change and the Future
It is important to embrace change. As ideas like embodied cognition gain currency, even the very underpinnings of cognitive science may be about to change. But until we prove that idea or any principle, thereby necessitating change, it's best to employ our current models and patterns. There's no reason to simply ignore them in favor of your intuition.
Please, challenge the status quo and try new ideas. But do try them first. When you're innovating, you need to put your ideas in front of users and gather good data about them. Ideas and experiments are fine. But implementing innovative ideas or creating new patterns requires validation. This is the other side of building on prior work and is just as important. We all need to stretch the boundaries of what we know today to discover what we'll all learn tomorrow.
You should not just decide that you like a branched pattern or new pattern more than an old solution. You have to prove that it works well by doing some form of UX research. Usability testing or, at least, well-designed, analytical A/B tests must indicate that the new design adequately meets users' needs. Preferably, it meets those needs better than the solution that current best practice dictates.
One common complaint about pattern libraries is that they become stagnant. If so, it's our fault—and the fault of those who make us sign NDAs that prevent us from sharing best practices universally. The key to scientific advancement is that, when we prove a better idea, we must share what we've learned with everyone.
Ulaby, Neda. "Why Are TV Remotes So Terrible?" All Tech Considered, Technology News from NPR, March 26, 2013. Retrieved April 7, 2013.
Greelish, David. "An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay." Time, April 2, 2013. Retrieved April 7, 2013—"The music is not the piano" relates to questions that Alan Kay has gotten regularly for decades, every time a new computing device appears. Today, it's the iPad. He argues that the hardware doesn't matter as much as the interactivity, services, and availability of information across devices.
Van der Merwe, Rian. "Design Patterns: When Breaking the Rules Is OK." Smashing Magazine, June 6, 2012. Retrieved April 7, 2013.
Turbek, Stephen. "Are Design Patterns an Anti-pattern?" Boxes and Arrows, January 26th, 2012. Retrieved April 7, 2013.
Quora. "What Are the 'Standards' in Mobile UX Design?" Quora. Retrieved April 7, 2013—Though this is an interesting discussion in general, Scott Jenson's response—much more than I've quoted—is most illuminating.
Buxton, William A. "Innovative Interaction: From Concept to the Wild: Technical Perspective." Communications of the ACM, Volume 55, Issue 9, September 2012. Retrieved April 7, 2013—In addition to the quotation about innovation, this brief perspective also offers useful historical examples that are not unlike those that I've outlined in my article. If you have an ACM membership—and you should—it is worth reading and is only one page long.
Arthur, W. Brian. The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves. New York, New York: Free Press, 2009—Buxton's quotation in this article comes from this book, which I must admit, I have not yet read. But now that I've heard of it, I've added it to my reading list.
Pontin, Jason. "On Innovation and Disruption." MIT Technology Review, February 20, 2013. Retrieved April 7, 2013.
Krishna, Golden. "The Best Interface is No Interface." Cooper Journal, August 29, 2012. Retrieved April 7, 2013.
Hoober, Steven, and Eric Berkman. "Display of Information." 4ourth Mobile Patterns Wiki, December 13, 2011. Retrieved March 18, 2013—This chapter introduction reviews several principles that you can use in applying information architecture to interaction design and user interface design.
Borowska, Paula. "The New Mobile Design Trend—Colour." Designmodo, March 26, 2013. Retrieved April 7, 2013—Maybe I am becoming frail in my old age, but I was shocked when I read this. Not just that she said this so matter of factly, but that people seem to believe it. It's barely even true that designers don't use color in apps. Maybe not so much in iOS, which every screenshot in the article shows, but it's not that uncommon to use color even there. I see articles quite often that, like this one, confuse trends in narrow domains with broader principles or patterns.
National Transportation Safety Board. "Accident Reports." NTSB.gov, undated. Retrieved April 7, 2013—If you won't be overwhelmed by the fact that people die in almost all of the reported incidents, this is a good source for keeping up on human factors and seeing great analyses of how things that people use can go very wrong. Maritime reports tend to be pretty thin, but the others are quite long and well researched, so include references to academic research on attention, sleep patterns, vision, distraction, and things that I find I can apply in my everyday work, but haven't encountered elsewhere.
Madrigal, Alexis C. "iPhone 5? Yawn. What Will the 'Phone' of 2022 Look Like?" The Atlantic, September 13, 2012. Retrieved April 7, 2013.
Cooper. "What Good Is a Screen? A Cooper Parlor on Wednesday, September 19th." Cooper Journal, August 27, 2012. Retrieved April 7, 2013—See the article by Golden Krishna above. I attended this event, at which we discussed principles, and participated in a workshop to explore some of the ideas. I spoke with several people, including Don Norman, and got some good, quotable ideas.
Wilson, Andrew D., and Sabrina Golonka. "Embodied Cognition Is Not What You Think It Is." Frontiers in Cognitive Science, February 12, 2013. Retrieved April 8, 2013.
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Great article! I have built and used design patterns in various large enterprises, and I have found that you do not need to reinvent the wheel every time, especially when you are dealing with a family of products that solve similar problems, with the same user base and context.
On the same note, design patterns are as good as you build them. If you are not validating the designs that go into patterns through rigorous usability testing, you are in for trouble. A big effort with negative results. See my post on building Design Patterns.
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'Lower-income' apartments at Rocketts Landing?
Resolution would permit use of bonds for construction, but required terminology gives county officials some pause
A new mixed-use apartment building could begin to take shape soon at Rocketts Landing, but it may not come without some controversy.
The county's Board of Supervisors Jan. 22 will consider approval of a resolution that would allow the community's developer, WVS, to obtain construction funding for the 156-unit building through the sale of Virginia Housing Development Authority bonds.
Those bonds are designed in part to enhance the availability of lower-income housing in areas where such units do not current exist and where they likely would not otherwise be built by private developers.
The proposed five-story building would offer studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments for rent at prices ranging from $788 a month to $1,339 a month, as well as 11,000 square feet of commercial space, according to Henrico Community Revitalization Director Mark Strickler.
The building, expected to cost $18 million, would become the first at Rocketts Landing to feature rental units. The board's approval next month of a resolution designating the site of the structure, at Route 5 and Stancraft Way, as a revitalization area would clear the way for the use of VHDA bonds.
But during a Dec. 11 work session, County Manager Virgil Hazelett told the board that although he supported the resolution, he did have some hesitation about it. That's because the document must indicate that "private enterprise and investment are not reasonably expected, without assistance, to produce the construction or rehabilitation of decent, safe and sanitary housing and supporting facilities that will meet the needs of low and moderate income persons and families in the [a]rea." It also must assert that sufficient housing needed to support other development in the area does not currently exist.
Both could be challenging claims, Hazelett conceded, given that Rocketts Landing already is home to hundreds of people and a number of commercial and retail businesses and that the anticipated apartment rental costs may be too high to qualify as "low-income" housing.
The latter point could be particularly murky because of the way the VHDA defines income levels. Its guidelines for the bonds require that at least 20 percent of the units be rented to households that make less than 80 percent of the region's annual median income (AMI) – in this case, less than $60,500. Another 20 percent of the units must be designated for households that make between 90 and 120 percent of the AMI (less than $90,750). But the guidelines do not consider how many members a household includes, Strickler said.
So, although the bonds are designed to help provide housing to low-income households, "that may not always be true" in this case, Hazelett said. The implication: a single person making less than $60,500 per year, for example, would qualify as "low-income," as would a married couple making a total of $85,000 annually.
On the other end of the spectrum, board members wondered aloud how the implication of "low-income" housing at Rocketts Landing might be received by residents who already live in the community – many of whom paid a premium for luxurious condos and most of whom likely know nothing of the developer's proposal.
That's a concern that weighed heavy on the mind of Varina District Supervisor Tyrone Nelson initially, though he said that upon consideration, he believes it can be allayed.
"If it's explained properly, I don't see a big public outcry from the people who are already there," Nelson said. "I feel comfortable enough that I can support [the proposal]. I want to see the project move forward."
Passage of such a resolution would set a precedent for the board, which has never before approved one similar, Strickler said. That likely would encourage other developers seeking to build similar projects to ask the board for additional resolutions in the future, Hazelett said.
The Board of Supervisors approved a provisional use permit for the site of the proposed apartment building July 24, authorizing "an increase in building height limitations for residential townhomes, office and commercial buildings, and an increase in density for multifamily dwellings and residential townhomes," according to a planning report.
As part of that case, WVS presented a master plan for a larger portion of land at Rocketts Landing, which in addition to the apartment building also would include a 150-unit condominium building along the river; a 15,000-square-foot commercial building adjacent to the condos; and three nearby commercial buildings, totaling 105,000 square feet of space.
Incoming County Manager John Vithoulkas, who will take over for Hazelett next month, said that the impact of Rocketts Landing has been significant.
"It's been a very good project for Henrico County," Vithoulkas said.
Said Nelson of the proposal: "It will continue, I think, to move forward a project that is both beneficial to Henrico County and Varina."
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For a proper understanding of the processes which take place in living organisms, a precise knowledge of the chemical structures of the compounds that participate in these processes is required. It is therefore deemed essential to present, even if only briefly, an account of present-day ideas of the chemical structures of condensed phosphates, hitherto often known by the long-obsolete terms 'metaphosphates' and 'hexametaphosphates'.
1.1 The Structures of Condensed Phosphates
The first mention of condensed inorganic phosphates dates back to 1816, when Berzelius showed that the vitreous product formed by the ignition of orthophosphoric acid was able to precipitate proteins (Van Wazer, 1958). Graham (1833) described a vitreous phosphate which he obtained by fusion of Na[H.sub.2]P[O.sub.4]. Believing that he had isolated a pure compound with the formula NaP[O.sub.3], Graham named this as a 'metaphosphate'. Shortly afterwards, however, Fleitmann and Hennenberg (1848), working in Liebig's laboratory, demonstrated that the 'metaphosphates' having the general formula MP[O.sub.3] (where M is hydrogen or a monovalent metal) were mixtures of closely related compounds which differed mainly in their degree of polymerization. The numerous investigations which were carried out over the next 100 years (for reviews, see: Ebel, 1951; Karbe and Jander, 1942; Teichert and Rinnmann, 1948; Topley, 1949; VanWazer, 1958), although they provided a wealth of new data which shed much light on the structures and properties of this group of compounds, threw into perhaps even greater confusion both the chemical basis of the nomenclature of these compounds, and the names of the compounds themselves. This is perhaps hardly surprising, since these investigations were carried out with compounds of inadequate purity, using rather crude investigation methods. It was thanks to the work of Thilo (1950, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1962), Van Wazer (1950, 1958), Ebel (1951, 1952a-d, 1953a,b) and Boulle (1965) that the chemical structures and properties of this group of compounds were finally established, thus making it possible to bring order into their classification (Van Wazer and Griffith, 1955; Thilo and Sonntag, 1957).
According to the current classification, condensed phosphates are divided into cyclophosphates, polyphosphates and branched inorganic phosphates (or 'ultraphosphates').
1.1.1 Cyclophosphates
The true cyclophosphates (metaphosphates) have the composition which, since the time of Graham, has been incorrectly assigned to the whole group of condensed phosphates, i.e. MP[O.sub.3]. These compounds are built up from cyclic anions. Only two representatives of this group have so far been investigated in detail - the cyclotriphosphate, [M.sub.3][P.sub.3][O.sub.9], and the cyclotetraphosphate, [M.sub.4][P.sub.4][O.sub.12], shown in Figure 1.1.
The existence of mono- and dimetaphosphates has not been demonstrated in practice, and is theoretically unlikely (Ebel, 1951; Thilo, 1959; VanWazer, 1958). The possible presence of cyclopentaphosphates and cyclohexaphosphates in a mixture of condensed sodium phosphates was shown by Van Wazer and Karl-Kroupa (1956), followed by Thilo and Schülke (1965). In addition, more highly polymerized cyclic phosphates containing as many as 10 to 15 orthophosphoric acid residues have been observed in some samples of the condensed phosphates prepared by Van Wazer (1958). Furthermore, cyclooctaphosphate (Schülke, 1968; Palkina et al., 1979) and cyclododecaphosphate (Murashova and Chudinova, 1999) have been obtained in the crystalline state.
It should be pointed out that the term 'hexametaphosphate', which is frequently encountered in the literature, refers in fact to the compound known as Graham's salt, which is a mixture of condensed sodium phosphates containing cyclic phosphates (including cyclohexaphosphate), but which is mainly composed of highly polymerized linear polyphosphates (Van Wazer and Griffith, 1955; Thilo and Sonntag, 1957).
1.1.2 Polyphosphates
Polyphosphates (PolyPs) have the general formula [M.sub.(n+2)][P.sub.n][O.sub.(3n+1)]. Their anions are composed of chains in which each phosphorus atom is linked to its neighbours through two oxygen atoms, thus forming a linear, unbranched structure which may be represented schematically as shown in Figure 1.2. The degree of polymerization, n, can take values from 2 to [10.sup.6], and as the value of n increases, the composition of the polyphosphates, i.e. the cation-to-phosphorus ratio, approximates to that of the cyclophosphates, which explains the belief which prevailed until recently that 'polyphosphate' and 'metaphosphate' were equivalent terms. Polyphosphates in which n = 2-5 can be obtained in the pure, crystalline state (Van Wazer, 1958), but members of this series in which n has higher values have been obtained in appreciable amounts only in admixtures with each other.
In contrast to the cyclophosphates, they are designated as 'tripolyphosphates', 'tetrapolyphosphates', etc., although the mono- and dimeric compounds are still called by their old names of 'orthophosphate' (Pi) and 'pyrophosphate'(PPi), respectively. In addition, the highly polymeric, water-insoluble potassium polyphosphate (n ~ 2 × [l0.sup.4]), which has a fibrous structure of the asbestos type, is still called Kurrol's salt. We may mention in passing that the facile preparation of Kurrol's salt (by fusion of K[H.sub.2]P[O.sub.4] at 260şC), and the ease with which it is converted into the water-soluble sodium form by means of cation-exchange materials, has led to its frequent preparation and use in chemical and biochemical work as an inorganic polyphosphate.
Even better known is Graham's salt, the vitreous sodium polyphosphate (n ~ [10.sub.2]) obtained by fusion of Na[H.sub.2]P[O.sub.4] at 700-800şC for several hours, followed by rapid cooling. Graham's salt is a mixture of linear polyphosphates with different chain lengths. Fractional precipitation from aqueous solution by means of acetone (Van Wazer, 1958) affords less heterogeneous fractions with different molecular weights. For example, a sample of Graham's salt, in which the chains on average have 193 phosphorus atoms (i.e. n ~ 193), can be separated by this method, as shown in Figure 1.3.
As can be seen from this Figure, the sample contains molecules of different sizes. The fraction of highest molecular weight has n ~ 500, i.e. its molecular weight is of the order of 40 000. It is interesting to note that the reason for the failure of Graham's salt to crystallize is that it consists of a mixture of homologous chains differing only in their lengths. Since all of the components of the homologous series of polyphosphates closely resemble each other, crystallization cannot take place with ease because molecules of different dimensions seek to displace each other on the growing crystal, thereby bringing its growth to a stop. When the chains are very long (such as is the case in Kurrol's salt), this does not occur, since the individual chains pass through many elementary cells of the crystal, and the chain length is not an important factor in determining the lattice parameters of the crystal (Van Wazer, 1958).
A second factor which determines the maximum chain lengths of the polyphosphates which are able to crystallize is the increase in polarity of the molecules which takes place as the degree of polymerization increases.
Two factors thus appear to be responsible for the failure so far to obtain linear polyphosphates containing 6-200 phosphorus atoms in a crystalline state: (1) the difficulty of crystallization from a mixture of similar compounds, and (2) the effect of polar groups on the molecules.
In addition to linear polyphosphates, Graham's salt usually contains very small amounts of cyclophosphates (see Figure 1.3). For example, a sample of Graham's salt with n ~ 100-125 was shown by Van Wazer (1958) to contain 4% of cyclotriphosphate, 2.5% of cyclotetraphosphate, 0.8%of cyclopentaphosphate, 0.5%of cyclohexaphosphate, and fractional percentages of higher polymeric cyclophosphates. The compositions of two samples of Graham's salt obtained by Dirheimer (1964) are shown in Table 1.1.
The conformations of polyphosphate chains in the crystals depend on the nature of the metal cations. The period of the recurring unit changes depending on the charge, shape and electronic envelope structure of the metal cations. The structures of some crystalline polyphosphates with recurrence periods from 2 to 24 phosphate residues are shown in Figure 1.4.
1.1.3 Branched Inorganic Phosphates, or 'Ultraphosphates'
High-molecular-weight condensed phosphates which, unlike the linear polyphosphates, contain 'branching points', i.e. phosphorus atoms which are linked to three rather than two neighbouring phosphorus atoms, are known as branched phosphates (or 'ultraphosphates'). Such phosphates have a branched structure, a fragment of which is shown in Figure 1.5. In this type of structure, the individual polyphosphate chains are linked to form a 'network', which is the reason for the name given to this type of condensed phosphates. The existence of this group of phosphorus compounds was observed in some samples of both Kurrol's and Graham's salt, as identified by chemical methods (VanWazer and Holst, 1950; Strauss and Smith, 1953; Strauss et al., 1953; Strauss and Treitler, 1955a,b; Thilo, 1956, 1959; Van Wazer, 1958). In samples of Graham's salt with very long chains (of the order of several hundred phosphorus atoms), approximately one in every thousand phosphorus atoms is a branching point (Strauss and Smith, 1953; Strauss et al., 1953; Strauss and Treitler, 1955a,b). The presence of branching in polyphosphate chains, or in other words, the presence of a reticular structure, can be detected by the decrease in the viscosity of aqueous solutions which occurs following dissolving the compounds in water (owing to the rapid hydrolysis of the lateral bonds, which are very unstable). Figure 1.6 shows how the proportion of lateral bonds in Graham's salt increases as the chain length is increased.
Although branched phosphates have not yet been found in living organisms (perhaps as a consequence of their unusually rapid hydrolysis in aqueous solution, irrespective of pH, even at room temperature), it is believed that their presence in biological materials cannot be excluded.
Information on the chemical compositions of the condensed inorganic phosphates, together with descriptions of their chemical and physico-chemical properties, can be found in several papers, reviews and monographs (Thilo, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1959; Van Wazer, 1950, 1958; Ebel, 1951; Griffith et al., 1973; Ohashi, 1975; Corbridge, 1980). We shall dwell here very briefly on those properties of condensed phosphates that are useful for their identification and chemical determination in living organisms.
1.2 Some Chemical Properties of Condensed Inorganic Polyphosphates
Polyphosphates are salts of acids that, in solution, contain two types of hydroxyl groups that differ in their tendency to dissociate. The terminal hydroxyl groups (two per molecule of polyphosphoric acid) are weakly acidic, whereas the intermediate hydroxyl groups, of which there are a number equal to the number of phosphorus atoms in the molecule, are strongly acidic (VanWazer, 1958). Cyclophosphates do not contain terminal hydroxyl groups and, for this reason, the corresponding acids possess only strongly acidic groups which in solution are dissociated to approximately the same extent. Thus, titration of weakly and strongly acidic groups is a convenient means of determining whether a given condensed phosphate is a cyclo- or a polyphosphate. Moreover, this method provides a means of determining the average chain length of linear polyphosphates (Wan Wazer, 1950; Ebel, 1951; Samuelson, 1955; Langen and Liss, 1958a,b; Chernysheva et al., 1971) It is interesting that this was the method used by Samuelson (1955) in showing for the first time that Graham's salt was not a cyclophosphate - as had been believed for almost 100 years - but a mixture of linear polyphosphates.
All alkali metal salts of condensed polyphosphoric acids are soluble in water. Potassium pyrophosphate is especially soluble, with, for example, 100 g of water dissolving 187.4 g of [K.sub.4][P.sub.2][O.sub.7] at 25şC, 207 g at 50şC, and 240 g at 75şC. Exceptions to this rule are the water-insoluble Kurrol's salt (a macromolecular crystalline potassium polyphosphate), and the compounds known as Maddrell's salts (crystalline sodium polyphosphates of very high molecular weight). Kurrol's salt is readily soluble in dilute solutions of salts containing cations of univalent metals (but not [K.sup.+]), for example, 0.2 M NaCl. It is worth mentioning that Graham's salt dissolves in water only when it is stirred rapidly. Without stirring, the compound forms a glue-like mass in water. Polyphosphates of divalent metals such as [Ba.sup.2+], [Pb.sup.2+] and [Mg.sup.2+] are either completely insoluble or dissolve to only a very limited extent in aqueous solutions. The polyphosphates of certain organic bases such as guanidine are also sparingly soluble in water (Singh, 1964). Other solvents (liquid ammonia, anhydrous formic acid, and organic solvents such as ethanol and acetone) dissolve only trace amounts of sodium and ammonium polyphosphates. Low-molecular-weight polyphosphates dissolve readily in very dilute aqueous alcoholic solutions, but addition of alcohol to these solutions rapidly reduces their solubility. Figure 1.7 shows that an ethanol-water mixture containing 40% of ethanol is a very poor solvent for both potassium pyrophosphate and potassium tripolyphosphate (1.5 g per 100 g of solution).
Condensed phosphates, other than branched phosphates, are stable in neutral aqueous solution at room temperature. The hydrolysis of the P-O-P bond in linear polyphosphates such as Graham's salt liberates energy equivalent to approximately 10 kcal/mol (Yoshida, 1955a,b;VanWazer, 1958), i.e. the same amount of energy as is liberated in the hydrolysis of the terminal phosphoric anhydride bonds in the adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP) molecule. Hydrolysis of the cyclotriphosphate also liberates this same amount of energy (Meyerhof et al., 1953).
The branching points in branched phosphates, in which one atom is bonded through
oxygen to three other phosphorus atoms, are extremely labile.
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"Democracy. " "The History Boys. " "Shining City. " "Blackbird. " "The Lieutenant of Inishmore. " "I Am My Own Wife. " "Well. " What do these...
"Democracy." "The History Boys." "Shining City." "Blackbird." "The Lieutenant of Inishmore." "I Am My Own Wife." "Well."
What do these plays have in common? All were recent, nonmusical hit plays on London and New York stages, and have won or been nominated for major American (Tony Award, Pulitzer Prize) and/or British (Olivier Award) honors.
Oh, and one other thing.
Despite kudos elsewhere, these scripts — by writers famous (Martin McDonagh) and lesser-known (Christopher Shinn) — have not yet been seen at any of Seattle's three largest professional playhouses — Seattle Repertory Theatre, ACT Theatre or Intiman Theatre. And several were (or will be) produced on a quite modest scale at much smaller local companies, or at local colleges and universities.
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Used to be the big houses swiftly snapped up the plays with the greatest national buzz. But that has palpably shifted in recent seasons.
Example: Alan Bennett's "The History Boys" was acclaimed on Broadway and London's West End, and earned a 2006 Tony Award. The seriocomic play about striving British schoolboys and their unorthodox teacher seemed a shoo-in for a future Seattle Rep season.
And which company is presenting the Seattle premiere? Much to my own surprise, ArtsWest, a modest-sized (but ambitious and alert) West Seattle cultural hub.
ArtsWest is also producing the local debuts of the Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway hit "I Am My Own Wife," and in 2008-09, "History Boys" and recent Tony nominee "Well" by Lisa Kron.
Meanwhile, the scrappy Seattle Public Theater has introduced Off Broadway hits on its small-scaled stage at the Bathhouse Theatre, including Kenneth Lonergan's "Lobby Hero" and Richard Greenberg's "Three Days of Rain." Next season, SPT will mount Deborah Zoe Laufer's award-winning black comedy "End Days." Meanwhile, in Olympia, Harlequin Productions presents the area debut of Conor McPherson's Broadway success, "Shining City." And last year the University of Washington staged a student version of "Our Lady of 121st Street" — the first local production of a play by the very hot New York writer Stephen Adly Guirgis.
So what's the problem? As long as heavily touted plays get done sometime, somewhere, in the near vicinity, does it matter where?
Of course it does.
But before pondering why, let's consider the often-complex, decidedly unscientific process of how the regional theaters select the scripts they stage.
How it's done
The basics: The biggest regional theaters in a large city usually get first dibs on any contemporary hit play, because they can: 1) pay higher royalties to the author, 2) perform to larger audiences and 3) summon up more resources (financial and artistic) for the production.
Fine, but there can be complications. First of all, the rights to a touted new drama may be in limbo for years due to an extended New York run. Or held up by a planned national tour (which likely will not make it up to the northwest corner of the country). Or a pending movie or TV version.
When the rights are available, there's still the matter of taste — which there is no accounting for and never will be. Even if audiences and critics elsewhere lapped up the play, and the playwright won a mantel full of awards, the artistic honchos at the Rep, ACT or Intiman may simply not like it.
If they do, the next big concerns are financial. Many is the time that a major Seattle theater paying professional wages has passed on a play because the size of the cast, amount of scenery and number of technicians added up to a budget-buster. (Such fiscal concerns were a factor in the loss of numerous once-vital, mid-sized professional companies — Empty Space, Group Theatre, Bathhouse Theatre and Alice B. Theatre.)
There's also the behind-the-scenes financial pressure on artistic directors to conjure some magical "balance" in a season. It's a dubious attempt to control fate, but there's still pressure to schedule just the right mix of comedy and tragedy, classics and new works, familiar authors and obscure ones, riskier ventures (including world premieres of untried scripts) — a formula that would (theoretically) keep subscribers happy and pump up the box office.
Small and fringe troupes have fiscal worries too, but greater flexibility. Royalties on an acclaimed play will cost them less, the actors will earn less and the expectations audiences have in terms of production values may be lower. With lower financial stakes, a smaller theater can risk putting more of its own spin on a script, and there's a nice shot of prestige (and boost to ticket sales) if you're the first spot in town to snag a much-publicized work.
But what about the audience? Is "History Boys" going to be as good at ArtsWest as it might have been at ACT or Seattle Rep?
Seeing it will certainly be cheaper: The top ticket to the Rep is $59 these days (with assorted discounts for seniors, young people and subscribers). The best seat in the house at ArtsWest? $29.
Here's the rub: Can a smaller company match the artistic level of an A-class production at Intiman, the Rep or ACT?
Yes, with luck, pluck and creativity. And no, if the demands of the script are simply beyond a company's grasp.
The "little guys"
Consider "The History Boys." It requires a large crew of very well-trained, gifted and boyish male actors who can rip through the fast-paced, erudite dialogue and ace the South Yorkshire accents. Though one wishes ArtsWest well, the company's artistic record with larger plays is spotty.
On the other hand, Seattle Public Theater did a bang-up job on the smaller-cast "Lobby Hero." And the advanced drama students at University of Washington and Cornish College for the Arts, under their teachers' tutelage, have given first-rate interpretations of challenging new fare.
Now, with our larger theaters concentrating more on hatching new plays, and doing more (and more elaborate) classic dramas, maybe it's fine that the "little guys" are taking up the slack.
But our fringe troupes are in a great position to scout and take more risks on edgy young talent, and one hopes they grab that mandate. I also can't help but wish the Rep or ACT had a swing at "History Boys" first. And who should get first dibs on such current sensations as Pulitzer Prize-winner "August: Osage County" by Tracy Letts, Off Broadway's "Blackbird" by David Harrower and M. Elizabeth Osborn Award-winner "Gee's Bend" by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder? I hope they wind up on whichever stage can truly do them justice.
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Thursday, July 19, 2012
Dinner Tonight: Ranch Burgers with Avocado Ranch Sauce
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- Tia said...
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- July 19, 2012 at 8:00 AM
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Jennifer Hudson Heads Back To Work
December 11, 2008 05:00 PM by Paulene Hinds
American Idol contestant and Oscar winning movie star, Jennifer Hudson is going back to work next week. She has been in seclusion since the deaths of her mother, brother and nephew six weeks ago.
Jennifer Hudson is scheduled to begin filming a music video next week for her hit single, "If This Isn't Love," spokeswoman Theola Borden, for label J Records confirmed to the Associated Press. The video was put on hold after the tragic deaths.
The singer was nominated for four Grammy awards last week for her self-titled debut CD, while at the same time her estranged brother-in-law, William Balfour was charged in the family deaths.
Following the nominations, Jennifer Hudson released a statement to her fans, "It's been a childhood dream of mine to release an album, so to receive four Grammy nominations is truly a blessing," she said. "I am extremely honored and humbled by the nominations."
Jennifer Hudson is one of many American Idolalumni to create hit albums after leaving the show. Be sure you don't miss the new season of American Idolwhen it begins on January 13, 2009.
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The Aowin Suaman District Assembly in the Western Region has procured and distributed about 850 pieces of dual desks to some selected basic schools in a bid to improve education in the area.
This follows the government's pronouncement to ensure quality and accessible education at the basic level since it was the essential part of Ghana's education cycle.
The District Chief Executive, Oscar Ofori Larbi who made this known to Ghanadistricts.com, noted that several efforts are been made by his outfit to ensure that education in the district is raised to a preferred standard.
According to him, the assembly has done progressively well in terms of educational infrastructure development in the area, adding that Dadieso Senior High Secondary School has also benefited from a 6 unit classroom block to improve teaching and learning.
He added that similar of such projects have also been completed and currently in use at various schools within the district.
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BASEBALL - Moosic Mets Baseball will hold tryouts for players ages 8-17 at Electric City Baseball Academy, 733 Davis St., Scranton, at the following dates and times: ages 8-11 will be held Jan. 13 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. and Jan. 16 from 6-8 p.m.; ages 15-17 will be held Jan. 19 from 10 a.m.-noon and Jan. 23 6-8 p.m.; ages 12-14 will be held Jan. 20 from 2-4 p.m. and Jan. 24 from 6-8 p.m. Players need only attend one of the two tryouts per age division. Cost is $10. Additional information: www.moosicmets.net or firstname.lastname@example.com.
LITTLE LEAGUE - Jessup Youth Sports Association will hold registration for softball, baseball and T-Ball players at the Jessup borough building on Lane Street. Sign-ups will be Jan. 12, 10 a.m.-noon; Jan. 16, 7-8:30 p.m.; Jan. 26, noon-2 p.m.; Feb. 9, 10 a.m.-noon; and Feb. 16, 3-6 p.m. Girls ages 6-17 and boys ages 4-8 are eligible. Cost is $50 per player or $80 per family. Registration forms are available at www.eteams.com/jysa. Additional information: 687-4735 or 876-8053.
SOFTBALL - Valley Area girls softball league registration dates will be Jan. 19 and 26 and Feb. 2 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and Jan. 30 from 6-8 p.m. Snow date: Feb. 9 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. All signups will be held at the Blakely Borough Building. Girls ages 5-17 are welcomed. Additional information or anyone interested in coaching: Jim Coleman, 241-5817.
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