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- Inside the Philosophy Factory said...
I agree -- we need to figure out how to have a system that doesn't pretend adjuncts are simply folks who love the discipline and have a partner who pays the bills etc.
A system of multi-year, renewable appointments is probably the way to go. Universities resist tenure-track positions for a variety of reasons, and primary among those reasons is the permanence of the hire. We've all known the RWT (retired while tenured) folks who get tenure and then barely pull their own weight. We've also seen the rise and fall of demand in particular disciplines -- so, maybe permanent jobs don't make sense.
What does seem to make sense is to attract faculty members who are interested in making an investment in their workplace AND giving them a reasonable assurance that their investment will pay off -- both for them and the college as a whole. Something like 3 year, renewable positions seem to do that.
- July 6, 2010 at 12:33 PM
- Tim O'Keefe said...
Actually, at my school (Georgia State) we have such slots--they're called "lecturers." Basic deal: higher teaching load (4/4, instead of the usual 2/2 for TT folks) and no research expectations. Somewhat lower pay than TT, but a lot better than adjuncting, and it comes with the usual health and retirement benefits. After 5 years, you go up for promotion to 'senior lecturer,' which isn't tenure, but carries the presumption of continued long-term employment. GSU has moved to having a lot of its teaching done by these lecturers, while cutting down on the number of adjuncts.
Inside Higher Ed had an article on it several years ago.
- July 6, 2010 at 12:52 PM
I agree. I don't really care whether tenure is preserved or declines, but I do care about having a modicum of job security and a living wage--especially since we don't have much choice about where we end up living.
I'm happy to be an itinerant but, as a PhD student, I must confess that the prospect of balancing a teaching load of 10+ courses a year (for survival) in addition to research (so that I can get hired again the year after) is not that I'm relishing. In fact, it's terrifying.
Usually, that kind of work has some sort of reward, or gives you a measure of control; the absence of either one is a hard pill to swallow.
What makes it slightly worse is the common assumption that university faculty earn enormous salaries--just the other day, my stepsister said--in all seriousness--that I couldn't forget my family (i.e. taking care of them financially) when I finally got those three hallowed letters added to the end of my name. When I explained the reality, she was unable to believe me. I can only imagine that the general public perception is about the same, and thus the public will to change the situation won't ever be there.
- July 6, 2010 at 1:34 PM
Part-time academic work isn't too bad if you can get a gig that is regular and very flexible. That kind of part-time academic work can be a great source of extra income to supplement income from somewhere else.
With the recession and the collapse of the academic job market, my view of academia has changed.
I used to think of getting my PhD as giving me a way to get a nice, full-time tenure track job. Even though I am at a good Leiter school, I don't think that that is going to happen. The job market is just too horrible, and I don't see it recovering any time soon.
As such, with the increasing trend towards part-time and adjunct work, I now view academia as a place to get easy part-time contract work to boast whatever income I get from another non-academic job.
Right now, I teach part-time on a regular basis while I am finishing up my PhD, and its a great source of extra income. The school I teach for is super flexible and lets me teach online and at night, so that I can do other things during the day. Once I finish my PhD I plan on changing careers and going to school for something else (in particular nursing school, since the medical field is the only area with job growth), but continuing my part-time teach on the side while I change careers.
Once I switch careers, I'll try to continue my part-time teaching to have a nice source of extra income in addition to my non-academic job.
The key to the part-time/adjunct trend is to find a way to make it work for you. In my case, my view is just to accept the fact that I probably won't get a tenure track job and to start making plans right now to change careers when I finish my PhD, and then to teach part-time on the side for a while to have a flexible and easy way to make extra money.
- July 6, 2010 at 4:48 PM
I was a lecturer at a pretty well funded private school. The idea was that I'd teach 4/4. There were no research expectations (which means, of course, no money for things like travel, no computer, actually ended up bringing in my own desk so I wouldn't have to share the crappy computerless computer stand another lecturer was using). When my fifth year rolled around and I was supposed to get the senior lecturer position with raise, I didn't get any raise or promotion. Turned out that this was at the discretion of the dean and the dean decided that they didn't need to give me the promotion or the raise, but I could stay on without a raise if I wanted. So, after four years, I was able to land a TT position at the last minute. Started at 32,000 and left at 32,500 after four years. It was better than being an adjunct and it still sucked.
- July 6, 2010 at 6:38 PM
Here's the problem as I see it. The only reason schools are able to rely on so much part-time (slave) labor is that the people working those jobs are chasing the tenure carrot. They all hold out hope that one day they'll get that tenure track job, so they put up with adjuncting/one-years/etc. This is the way it will be as long as tenure still exists, even if only 10-20 % of faculty is tenured. But if tenure was actually abolished entirely, there is no way people would still put up with that part time work.
So I see two possible ways for this to play out:
1) Tenure is effectively abolished. In order to incentivize people to go into and remain in the professoriate, some other form of job security (e.g. renewable long term contracts) will be instituted.
2) Tenure never becomes effectively abolished, but remains as scarce as it is. Nothing changes because those doing the temp. thing still have the (unrealistic) hope of tenure.
I would welcome 1), frankly. But I'm afraid we are stuck with 2), at least for a very long time.
Then there is always the possibility of 3), in which tenure actually becomes a real thing again. But that's sort of a pipe-dream at this point I think.
- July 6, 2010 at 7:58 PM
Look, I am a lecturer somewhere nice. I get some benefits, and I could keep my job forever. But I also only get 24k a year. My problem is making ends meet, even before finding time for research. Let's not delude ourselves that if only our contracts were defined upfront as non-TT and for x-amount-of-time all our problems would have been solved. Non-TT also means very little money. (Yeah, I know TT is not millions, but it is better than 24k in a big city).
- July 6, 2010 at 8:17 PM
4:48, it's 1:34 here.
Sounds like a good plan to me--I like it. I've been contemplating trying to find a similar solution for myself, but have run into the problem that the other options I think of are also hard-put for jobs. The healthcare industry does seem like a good idea, and I've always contemplated being a doctor, like everyone else in the family. Nursing isn't all that far off. I'll give it a look!
- July 6, 2010 at 9:43 PM
- Tim O'Keefe said...
Whether a lecturer position is decent, or still-sucks-but-is-better-than-adjuncting, will depends on the particulars of the position--just as with TT jobs. Most obviously, there is the pay--pretty much any lecturer position will pay less than TT at the same place, but there is a huge difference between 24K and 42K. But also, does the department treat you with respect as a long-term colleague, by giving you your own office and a computer, allowing you a say in departmental decisions, etc.?
- July 7, 2010 at 6:48 AM
Hey 1:34, 4:48 here:
Let me quick lay out some of my reasons why nursing is my back-up plan I am exploring more at this point.
First, the job market for nurses is great for the foreseable future. I read an article on CNN the other day that said that if EVERY school cranked out nurses at full-capacity in the United States, by 2020 there is STILL going to be a shortage of nurses in the USA.
Second, the entry level salary for a nurse is 50-60k. If you go on to get your MA in nursing to become a nurse practitioner, you can make over 100k.
Third, there are many accelerated 18 month second degree BSN in nursing programs out there. If you already have a BA in a non-nursing field, you can enroll in one of these programs and, after you get your pre-reqs out of the way, in 18 months you have your BSN in nursing.
To get your RN at say a community college only takes 2 years as well.
Fourth, getting your RN in nursing is very cheap. At the community college near me, for $6k you can get your RN and after 2 years start off making that 50-60k as an entry level nurse. Even those accelerated 18month second degree BSN programs aren't too bad when compared to say law school. Right now at many private schools they are around 50k-60k. That's more pricey, but way cheaper than law school, and, plus, you are guaranteed a job in nursing. The law market sucks right now just as bad as the academic market, which while I am scared about using law as a back up.
Fifth, I think it's important to realize nursing isn't all glory. You are wipping people's butts, dealing with blood and vomit, etc.. So the career does have drawbacks. But I am getting to the point where I just want to get into a field with stable job security and good pay and nursing seems to be it, so I am willing to put up with those costs.
Also, many people want to go to nursing school. So sometimes you get waitlisted and have to wait say a year or two before you get into the program. So during that time you typically take pre-reqs to get them out of the way. Thus, it's important you have some income coming in during that time you are waiting to get into your program. That's why I am setting up part-time teaching gigs now, so I can have that income in the event I need to wait to get into nursing school after I finish my PhD. Also, in just 3 weeks you can get your Certified-Nursing-Assistant degree and do very entry level nursing stuff. It's not glorious, but it can be a source of income while you are waiting to get into a nursing program, and, plus, having that experience many people say helps getting a job as a nurse.
- July 7, 2010 at 7:00 AM
- Mr. Zero said...
Tim O'Keefe's second comment mentions what I think is a key factor: people in temporary positions typically play no role in departmental decision-making processes. People complain about faculty meetings and stuff, but those meetings are important in their own right, and serve to distinguish the main permanent faculty from the secondary, temporary, adjunct, auxiliary faculty who have no voting rights.
If there were some non-tenure career track that involved departmental voting rights, a level of job security that would protect my academic freedom, and which represented a long-term mutual investment by both the employee and the university, I'd be all for it. But that's pretty close to tenure.
- July 7, 2010 at 7:15 AM
Lots of good comments here so far; I agree with most. There are non-sustainable and exploitative aspects of adjunct positions; those positions have serious problems, certainly. But then, just how bad they are depends on context and position.
There's an aspect of this issue that remains unclear to me, but which is still important. There are many non-tenure/tenure-track positions that are out there, but which are every bit as fulfilling, remunerative, autonomy-respecting, and valuable as tenure-line positions at the same schools. Some of these are quasi-administrative. At my PhD institution, two faculty positions were non-tenure line, but involved moderate teaching loads (inc. graduate), research, and good pay. These were a grad program coordinator and undergrad advisor.
Likewise, there was one position I considered this year that was permanent, but not tenure-line, largely b/c of the type of work necessary. I considered it a better position than other tenure-line positions for which I interviewed and/or received offers. There are lots of these kinds of things popping up at centers/institutes, etc.
Another institution where I interviewed had several teaching-line positions that were permanent, had promotions, etc., but research was pedagogical and they weren't tenured. Again, given the seriously onerous tenure requirements at that school, those positions looked great.
Now, these positions decrease the percentage of jobs that count as tenure-line, but they increase the percentage of good jobs. I'd like to have a more nuanced breakdown of the positions out there. That would be more meaningful that merely tenure-line vs. non-tenure-line.
PS. Re: nursing. Good for you--seriously, that's a really cool and often rewarding path. Kudos too if you're male, b/c the ridiculous cultural bias that nursing is feminine ends up harming nurses (in terms of pay/prestige) and patients (by downplaying nurses' expertise). Also, if you have any inclination to do applied ethics, there's a great deal of work to be done around nursing-related stuff.
- July 7, 2010 at 8:11 AM
Anon 7:58 hits it on the head. So long as we have tenure, we'll have people who come to graduate school believing that tenure-track positions are the only option, because they will have faculty and advisors who believe that anything less is for suckers. If the future - hell, if the present - of academic work is contract, then we need to work for *better contracts*. While I can see that it's highly likely that those in short-term contracts or lecturer positions would be marginalized and treated similarly to adjuncts, there are some places in which lecturers play an active role in the department if they wish to, and they actually make more money than tenured faculty (not that we're in it for the money, Thales and the olive-press, blah blah). At any rate, tenure does not play a neutral role in this, it is actively not helping.
- July 7, 2010 at 9:01 AM
- R. Kevin Hill said...
I continue to hear from non-academics that there is something unreasonable about obsession with tenure. I repeatedly have to explain that (1) failure to receive tenure from a TT also means being fired, with stigma, and more often than not means that you will never work in academia again (thus it is functionally closer to being disbarred than merely let go), and (2) most one year jobs are nonrenewable where most non-academic white collar work is at-will and continuing. When you consider that not even tenure protects you from an institution's financial meltdown, and that in the non-academic world, if you are doing your job for a few years without incident, firing for minor lapses is pretty rare, it becomes clear that academics merely want the same level of job security that most white collar professionals already have. But non-academics will never believe you.
- July 7, 2010 at 11:25 AM
I strongly suspect that tenure will be out the door soon. It will come first in the state systems, where legislatures have the purse strings and no love for theoria. The big research schools will hold out longer than the smaller ones. Eventually it will become the norm. Also, I suspect, the 1/1 and 2/2 positions will be phased out of the state schools (3/3 or 3/2 might stay). Liberal Arts will lose research jobs first, because most people don't think research in philosophy is real research -- we don't build stuff.
It might be better for us, if this leads to more full time at-will jobs. I think it might, again starting with the states, I don't think they will want their flagship schools or local college filled with part-timers. But that is probably too optimistic
- July 7, 2010 at 2:16 PM
Speaking of TT positions, does anyone plan to apply for the Kalamazoo College position? Currently it is a 2-person department in....well...Kalamazoo, Michigan. I predict a pool of 500 applications given the current state of the job market.
- July 8, 2010 at 9:46 AM
This year I landed a non-TT faculty full-time faculty position in a department that has both TT and non-TT positions. To be honest, I do not envy the TT faculty. My salary is equivalent if not more than the average starting TT assistant professor (just about 60k a year when I work in the summer; upper 40's when I am only here for fall and spring; the cost of living here is reasonable too), my research expectation is almost nothing, and I teach a 2/2. I get full medical, vacation and retirement benefits also.
So, what is the big difference between TT and non-TT faculty here? The TT people have to focus on research while the non-TT are to focus on teaching. From what I have experienced thus far, it is a model that works extremely well, and I think more departments might go in this direction. Those departments that opt to hire adjuncts are basically abusive. I was an adjunct for years, and it was a heinous gauntlet to run. Any department in which there were a lot of us who were adjuncts was a department without much positive identity that suffered. I think the students suffered also because they could never do independent studies or directed readings with us (who often were younger and much more specialized than the older, tenured faculty members).
If tenure not only wanes, but dies, my hope is that departments opt for full-time faculty positions that are year-to-year, but with the stipulation that when a person is hired, she is being granted full benefits with the expectation that her position is a permanent one (not dependent on the whim of knee-jerk decision-making).
- July 8, 2010 at 12:49 PM
This thread is a real downer. Remember that some of you will end up landing TT positions.
I always try to discourage undergrads from going to grad school, and early-stage folks to consider whether they want to stay in academia. But if you're well into it and plan on finishing the degree, you've got to stay optimistic. Giving up too early or giving up hope is a sure way not to end up TT.
And I'll agree, kudos if you want to go into nursing.
- July 8, 2010 at 3:05 PM
In response to Xenohphon's comment:
"But if you're well into it and plan on finishing the degree, you've got to stay optimistic."
My reply is that this is being dishonest.
I am in a good Leiter rated programs, and I have friends with good dissertations, strong committees, good letters of recommendation, and multiple publications in good journals and they were on the market for several years and have not landed a TT position, or, in fact, any good position at all.
I, myself, am finishing up my dissertation and its hard to see those facts and remain optimistic. I feel like that is just being dishonest with reality. I feel like it's a better strategy just to bite the bullet, give up hope, and make plans to change careers as soon as I finish my PhD.
If you have any advice on how to remain optimistic, however, I would be open to hear it. But when you are surrounded by negative facts, constant reports in places like the Chronicle of Higher Ed and Leiter's blog with the horrible nature of the academic job market, as well as constant reports about the overall bad status of the American job market, I just can't bring myself to feel optimistic.
Again, I would love to feel optimistic, but I just don't know how to do it in the face of all of the negative data.
- July 9, 2010 at 6:32 AM
Anon 6:32,
Here's one reason to remain optimistic: there will be jobs every year. And the people who get them are the ones who appear upbeat and excited during job interviews. If you want to be one of those people, you can either try to fake being upbeat or you can try to actually be upbeat. Interviewers are like dogs, they can smell fear. Be optimistic and you'll appear that way, and then you've got the best chance of landing one of the positions. So it's self-fulfilling.
Maybe that's not what you want to hear, but it's the best I've got. I don't think it's dishonest to be optimistic; it might be dishonest to be wildly optimistic, but that's not the situation we're in. No one knows the statistics, but let's say half of all recent grads will get a full-time (not necessarily TT) position in academia. That sucks, because half won't, but 1 in 2 is pretty good odds in a lot of contexts.
As for giving up, everyone needs to know when they need to go to plan B. It seems to me that if you've gone through the five or ten years to get a PhD, you should give it at least two years after that before you give up. Some people might only give it one year, some might go four or five, but giving up right away seems too early.
That's not to say you shouldn't start thinking about alternatives, and using your time to position yourself to go another direction. It's also reasonable to start pursuing other avenues, for example applying for alternate jobs (publishing or whatever) or interning rather than doing nothing but waiting for the phone to ring. If something else works out that you're happy with, fine, but it doesn't hurt to continue applying for jobs for a couple of years, and continuing to write on the side.
Don't get me wrong, if you drop out then there's less competition for me. But without knowing your personal circumstances, I'd discourage you from giving up as soon as you've got the diploma in hand. It just seems like a waste.
- July 9, 2010 at 8:48 AM
I just left the academic market after being lucky enough to get a job in software engineering. (The difference between the job markets was shocking--I got a job in 3 weeks after trying academia and non-profits for 2 years). Believe me, I thought about nursing.
Part of the reason I left is personal--I've been living apart from my partner four 4 years, and we need to settle down / make a living.
But a big part is just what this thread raises: the gap between tenured and non-tenured faculty. It's truly ridiculous, especially when some senior profs are making 300k. I see no reason for tenure besides academic freedom. This is valuable, but in today's market, I don't see how it can be sustained. The problem is that once you set these systems up, they're hard to change (like social security).
I really like the suggestion by Tim O'Keefe, but I see few schools implementing it in the short term. If they can't pay adjuncts, how will they pay lecturers?
This is a long-term problem that has reached a moment of crisis. I'm glad to have gotten out while I could. My PhD was a huge factor in getting my job, and I can't say I regret it. But I would definitely disagree with Leiter and advise prospectives: just don't go.
- July 13, 2010 at 7:06 AM
7:06AM - can you elaborate more on how your PhD helped you in getting a software engineering job. Did you have undergrad experience in the computer industry or previous work experience in that field?
Part of what is depressing with a philosophy PhD is that it's just hard to see what else outside of academia you can do with it in terms of aiding in getting a job. So I'd be interested in hearing more about your experience using your philospohy PhD to get a non-academic job.
- July 13, 2010 at 9:03 AM
Maybe it would be useful to have a system where pay was related to research performance and teaching. So a Full Prof who did not publish anything for a few years would have to take a pay cut and/or do more teaching.
The danger of change though is that if we head to a system more like that of the regular labour market , the laws of supply and demand are against us. There are so many PhD's chasing so few jobs, that wages etc may get driven down even further.
- July 15, 2010 at 5:16 AM
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Question: How many of you that read this blog would take this job?
Tenure Track at a SLAC in the Mid-west, close to a city of 3 Million, small department in a small college, 4-4 load with extra for summer, great health care, very small retirement match (2%), 26K a year.
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Here in Utah we take ours to a waste water treatment plant that collects methane from their Anaerobic Digester.
They add our glycerin to the raw sewage and have found that increases the anaerobic activity which in turn increases the methane production.
We do not remove the methanol from it; they want it still in there.
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In the deep south, weeds grow FAST...I've heard it works great along fence lines.
De-meth it, then let the cows at it! They love it, & we've been in the worst drought in 50 years these past 2 years. Hay bales (4x5, big round bales) have been going for $90 when they're normally $35. Glycerin in moderation is an excellent feed suppliment. Anyone in central Texas that wants to 'dispose' of their glycerin in my direction are welcome to contact me to 'properly' dispose of it.
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I burn it half a liter at a time in a heavy 1/4" plate steel box about 4.5" x 4.5" x 10" in my airtight, EPA rated woodstove. Along with wood of course. Without the wood it doesn't work. Hot-n-clean. The glycerin has be de-methed.
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I got a private email about this, & thought everyone might benefit from the answer. Basically the question was how do I feed it out, do I mix with hay, or what?
First, note that I demeth the glycerin. We lost one cow way back before we started demeth'ing it, so protect your animals & don't even think about this if you're not willing to properly demeth the glycerin. Note, we were just pouring it on the ground back then, so it could be that one sucked down a nail or something, but I wouldn't even think about taking a chance like that again.
I don't mix things. We have round bales of hay set out, & I use buckets for the glycerin. I started with just putting the glycerin in 5 gallon buckets, but the cow would literally fight for access to the bucket. I now just put out a few 25 gallon tubs (they are the plastic tubs that protein feeds for cattle come in, I use them because a few cows can eat out of one & they are 'free').
The cows won't eat all of it at once. It took them a little while when I first put it out to develop a 'taste' for it. Now, they come over & lick on it for a little while (few minutes), & wander off. They are basically just regulating their feeding themselves. As there is lye in the glycerin, too much might upset their stomachs, but cows are smart enough to know when is 'enough'. I can't say what sheep would do, you would need to monitor them.
But like I said, they've developed a taste for it. No need to 'sweeten' the glycerin, I just put it out with maybe 20 gallons in each tub, & over a few days they suck it down.
Note that they will spill some & it will kill the grass around it. So you probably don't want to do this around trees. If others are doing this, I'd like to hear how they do it & what else works. I'm satisfied with my method for now.
Gday.Thank you Texas Tony for answering my email via the forum.I have lambs 6 months old that i will try some demethed glycerine in troughs that are cut down tractor tires.Also they will have a round bale of hay and a self feeder with barley near the glycerine.When i make bio i use KOH.I dont know if the residual caustic will be a problem but i will inform the forum when i have any results. regards westwinds
Here is a collection of links I have on feeding the glycerol to ruminants. Figured this would be a good place to interject it.
Biodiesel Glycerol for ruminants University of Ohio
Uni of Missouri
NC State Uni
Australian Study
** Biodiesel Glycerine Soap - The Guide
- on 5 continents helping people make & sell soap from the Biodiesel Glycerine.
Thanks Tony and Legal for this valuable info. I have several friends with dairy farms in the area who I will share this with.
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Gday;I have 40 litres of glycerine in a 200 litre plastic that i cut lenthway and folded it outwards for lambs to acces when they eat barley from a self feeder.The glycerine has been out for over a week and the lambs are not interested in it.I am not disappointed as they have a round bale of pasture hay and have not touched it either.I believe the glycerine will be eaten by adult sheep during the next drought which come around fairly regulary.regards westwinds
After recovering the methanol it goes into a very loarge compost pile that incorporates sawdust from my sawmill and green wastes from my wife's greenhouses.
We have set aside some for soapmaking but have not done anything with it yet.
I am real interested in the glycerine burner offered by AltHeat but they have not replied to my inquireies about the unit.
The smell of my exhaust makes me hungry!
Thanks for getting the ball rolling Graydon. We do need to dispose of this responsibly.
Short answer: I burn it, too.
Long answer: I burn it, but differently than Troy. This our first year of seriously using it as a fuel for household heating in a wood stove. The firebox is insulated and air-circulation is managed so that the stove produces a hot, clean fire when used properly.
Basically the glycerine byproduct (w/methanol is OK) is mixed with wood shavings and saw dust. The mixture is made, stored and burned in half-gallon milk/juice cartons. (Smaller cartons are about the same amount of work for less fuel.) Thus, 3 different wastes are combined to make a fine fuel. My batches are typically 50-60 at a time. Takes under
an hour these days.
After the starter fire has warmed the stove, we start popping these G.A.S. (Glycerine And Sawdust)logs in along with the wood.
I do have photos and am mid-way through a short YouTube vid. (don't hold your breath). My suggestion to you if you have these 3 waste products is:
1. Check out JourneyToForever web site:
http://journeytoforever.org/bi...l_glycerin.html#burn for the basic idea and start some testing.
2. Make multiple GAS logs at a time by packing the cut-open milk cartons together in a large (strong!) cardboard box. The stuff is a lot heavier than the bananas or apples or whatever was in there before...
3. There is no right ratio of wood to glycerine, but I err on the side of too much saw-dust/shavings. I don't really want a goopy carton tipping over on the back porch or the living room. In a half-gallon carton, I shoot for about a quart of byproduct. The methanol burns too. They do not explode in the wood stove.
4. The heat from the stove will increase noticably with GAS logs in there. It burns _super_ hot.
5. Emissions are not an issue when burned hot. You should learn about acrolein gas to understand this. The most risky thing is to add another log when one is burning because opening the fire box could release gases into the house.
6. I checked the chimney after 100 GAS logs had been burned and it looked GREAT. No cleaning necessary.
7. The residue from burning glycerine fuses the wood ash together into a clinker, which continues to oxidize with later fires which help break them up. The alternative is to break it up with the fire poker and shovel it out.
So now, I have a final waste product: the ash and clinker! I am trying it as a mulch/fertilizer in high concentrations on select beds of shrubs. So far all plants are as vigorous as their un-ashed neighbors.
- lifesamountain
homebrewin' in the humid Northwest
I make soap and give it to my friends, they all use it and speak very highly of it.
Pennsylvania State College has done extensive research on composting it. I don't have a link but if you look for it, you'll find it...
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I give it to my glycern slave and he brings me back methanol. Then he leaves with a equal amount of bd.
We use the KOH reacted glycerin for fertilizer on the farm. Mix it 30/1 with water and put in in our sprayer. Haul it behind the tractor spraying the fields. Our fields are a foot taller than the neighbors
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2006 VW Jetta TDI
both on B100
Soap and storing up for the winter. We will burn it in our furnaces.
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Mixed with VO sludge and sawdust and burned in the woodstove
Thermal mass for the greenhouse
Hand cleaner
Bathroom cleaner
General cleaner around the VO processor
Might keep an eye on your soil pH. It could slowly become caustic.
I would generally recommend neutralizing with a phosphate or nitrogen containing acid. I have not done it myself, but I know this is being done. I'll bet someone on here knows more about this.
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Helping Hand, I'd be slow to recommend neutralizing with nitric acid. Sulfuric acid is found in most commercial kitchens. It's not likely to be an issue, but it IS possible to get highly exothermic.
I don't know how to make nitroglycerin explosive, but I'd be real cautious about mixing nitric acid with glycerin just in case I made some by mistake --- kaboom!!
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DRUID Working papers Emner "knowledge, creation, technological policy, technological paradigm"
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A Paradigmatic ApproachLlerena, Patrick; Matt, Mireille (Frederiksberg, 2000)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The main objective of the paper is to provide an analytical framework based on evolutionary arguments, explaining the role and rationale of technology policies based on inter-organisation cooperations. We try to combine different arguments developped in the literature in order to define a coherent approach of technology policies : organisational, failure and paradigmatic approaches. We will argue that the role of technological policies and their design are contingent on whether knowledge creation emerges in an existing technological paradigm or will be at the origin of a new one. In the first part of the paper, we will define two broad kinds of cooperative policy : one (pre-paradigmatic) devoted to create radically new knowledge by exploring new avenues in order to initiate a new technological paradigm and the other (paradigmatic) devoted to create new knowledge by using exploitation mechanisms in order to maintain technological options and variety, inducing innovation and reducing negative lock-in effects. We specify also for each situation the kind of intervention (coordination, institutional structure) compatible with the objective of the policy. In the second part of the paper, we will illustrate our theoretical arguments by focusing on two types of cooperative programme : one devoted to create a new knowledge base in a pre-paradigmatic phase (the development of a digital switching system in France) and the other more devoted to foster knowledge in existing paradigms (the case of Brite-Euram). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8084
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Mumps Update – Indiana and the United States, 2006
Indiana Epidemiology Newsletter
August 2006
Wayne Staggs, MS
Vaccine-Preventable Disease Epidemiologist
As of August 18, the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) has reported 10 cases of mumps in 2006. Two of the cases are classified as confirmed (both by PCR assay) and eight are classified as probable cases. Five of the cases were in children ranging in age from 2-15 years, and five cases were among adults ranging in age from 20-48 years. All cases had symptom onset in the months of March (2 cases), April (4 cases), and May (4 cases).
The ISDH Immunization Program has investigated many reports of suspected mumps cases this year. Since April 24, 2006, oral fluid and/or urine specimens have been collected from 108 persons and analyzed. Two (1.8%) of those 108 persons were confirmed as having mumps by RT-PCR analysis at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Laboratory. Outbreaks or significant clustering of confirmed, probable, or suspect cases has not been identified in Indiana. In addition, none of the cases investigated in Indiana had a known direct link to a case from the multi-state outbreak, which began in Iowa and subsequently spread to several other states (see Immunization Works article on page 5).
Several issues and concerns arose during the multi-state outbreak:
The source of the outbreak was not identified, but it may have been connected to a large outbreak that has been occurring in the United Kingdom since 2004. Molecular studies indicate that the Iowa epidemic strain was the same as the one seen in the U.K.
Contributing Factors
Multiple factors may have contributed to this outbreak and its spread, including: 1) close contact in college and dormitory settings (many of the Iowa cases were college students); 2) lack of two doses of vaccine in college-age individuals and other adults; and 3) delayed recognition, diagnosis, and reporting of cases.
Vaccination Efficacy
A large proportion of the cases reported having a history (either one or two doses) of immunization against mumps. Since mumps vaccine does not provide protection to all persons and because high coverage levels exist in the United States, it would be expected that most cases would be among vaccinated persons. One dose of mumps vaccine is estimated to have an efficacy of 70-80 percent. Preliminary data from ongoing studies in current and past outbreak areas suggest that two doses of mumps vaccine provides an improved efficacy of 90 percent. It is believed that high coverage levels in exposed populations kept this outbreak from becoming much larger.
Laboratory Testing
Problems interpreting serologic tests for mumps complicated the investigation and epidemiologic analysis of the outbreak in Indiana as well as the outbreak states. Comparison with viral culture and PCR performed at the CDC and the Iowa State Laboratory revealed that serologic (IgM and IgG) testing had poor predictive value for the detection of mumps cases. Therefore, early this summer, the ISDH Laboratory recommended that health care providers collect buccal swabs and/or urine specimens for viral culture and PCR testing, rather than serology. Studies to define the sensitivity and specificity of mumps IgM antibody tests are in progress at the CDC Laboratory. As information becomes available, the ISDH will reevaluate the use of serologic analysis for routine diagnostic testing of mumps disease.
Revised ACIP Guidelines
On June 1, 2006, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) published revised recommendations for the control and elimination of mumps. Major emphasis was placed on vaccination of health care workers, school-age children, college students, and international travelers. Those revisions can be found at: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5522a4.htm?s_cid=mm5522a4_e
Key revisions to the 1998 ACIP recommendations are as follows:
Acceptable Presumptive Evidence of Immunity
- Documentation of adequate vaccination is now two doses of a live virus vaccine instead of one dose for:
- School-aged children (i.e., grades K-12)
- adults at high risk (i.e., persons who work in health-care facilities, international travelers, and students at post-high school education institutions)
- Routine Vaccination for Health Care Workers
- Persons born during or after 1957 without other evidence of immunity: 2 doses of live mumps vaccine
- Persons born before 1957 without other evidence of immunity: consider recommending 1 dose of live mumps virus vaccine
Indiana Response and Guidelines
As stated above, Indiana received over 100 reports of suspected cases of mumps since the onset of the multi-state outbreak, most of which were ruled out. Each case was investigated, and most had appropriate laboratory specimens collected and analyzed. The ISDH issued revised guidelines for the reporting, clinical diagnosis of mumps, laboratory submission of specimens, prevention through immunization, and other information needed to control mumps disease transmission. These guidelines can be found on the ISDH Web site at http://www.IN.gov/isdh/ (click on Health Professionals and then Disease Information).
During the next few months, the ISDH will issue revised mumps control guidelines and recommendations.
As noted in the August 2006 issue of Immunization Works (published by the CDC National Immunization Program) the multi-state mumps outbreak is subsiding. The entire Immunization Works newsletter can be found at: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/news/newsltrs/imwrks/index.html
Immunization Works – August 2006
Mumps Outbreak Subsides: The mumps outbreak that began in Iowa in December 2005 appears to be subsiding, as over 98% of cases had onset dates from January 1 through June 30. From January 1 through July 22, 2006, a total of 4908 cases of mumps were reported to the CDC from 15 outbreak-affected states. The majority of cases, 4894 (98 percent) were reported from eight states (Iowa, Kansas, Illinois, Nebraska, Missouri, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) that had endemic, in-state transmission (i.e., outbreak states). An additional 14 cases associated with travel to, or temporary residence in, an outbreak-affected state were reported from seven states (Colorado, Minnesota, Mississippi, New York, New Mexico, Michigan, and Texas). It is expected that once the outbreak is over, the number of cases being reported each week will be higher than in previous years, due to improved mumps surveillance.
The age-group-specific incidence was highest among persons 18-24 years old (32 per 100,000), reflecting transmission in college and university settings. While most cases occurred among persons who had received two doses of mumps-containing vaccine (the vaccine has an estimated efficacy of 90 percent), preliminary data suggest attack rates were higher among persons who had received only one dose of vaccine. In July, the American College Health Association (ACHA) distributed a letter to universities and colleges across the United States. The letter encouraged the vaccination of enrolled students with two doses of MMR vaccine before returning to school. State and local health departments are encouraged to remain vigilant for mumps cases, especially among college and university students when they return to school in the fall. For more information about mumps, please visit the CDC's mumps website at: https://www.cdc.gov/mumps/.


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Boston Architectural College
Ted Landsmark, BAC President; Donald L. Stull, NCARB, FAIA of Stull and Lee; Jane Thompson, AICP of Thompson Design Group; Wilson F. Pollock, FAIA; M. David Lee, FAIA of Stull and Lee; Julia Halevy, BAC Provost and Academic Vice President.
The Boston Architectural College was proud to honor members of our design community at the 2011 Commencement on Saturday, May 28 at Old South Church in Copley Square. The College presented honorary degrees to M. David Lee, FAIA, and Donald L. Stull, NCARB, FAIA, Founding Partners of Stull and Lee, Boston, along with Jane Thompson, AICP, President of Thompson Design Group, and Wilson F. Pollock, FAIA, Founder and Former President of ADD Inc. David Lee provided the Commencement Address.
David Lee, Principal of Stull and Lee, Boston, is engaged in a wide range of planning, urban design and architectural projects. He has been a leader in civic visioning, and an outspoken advocate on behalf of underrepresented participants in the design process. David Lee exemplifies the best of what it means to be a successful architect as an advocate for improved architecture and urban design that serves those too often neglected in our cities, and his work leaves a legacy of beauty and pride that will inspire generations to come.
His work in Boston includes the Savin Hill MBTA Rapid Transit Station and the John D. O'Bryant African American Institute at Northeastern University. He is also known for his urban planning initiatives throughout the country, especially his involvement in reviving the Lower Ninth Ward and Holy Cross neighborhoods in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina and designing of a memorial to the victims. He is currently leading a master plan update for a lakefront neighborhood on Chicago's Southside as well as his firm's effort to create a master plan for Pittsburgh's Hill District neighborhood.
David Lee has taught widely and served on numberous public commissions and boards. He chaired the Citizen's Advisory Committee appointed to create the highly acclaimed civic vision and guidelines for the strategic development of air rights over the Massachusetts Turnpike in Boston, which received a national American Institute of Architects Honor Award for urban design. He is Past President of the Boston Society of Architects and received the organization's Year 2000 Award of Honor.
He received his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Illinois and his Master of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Along with his business partner, Donald Stull, he was awarded the National Organization of Minority Architects 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Donald Stull is the Founding President and Partner in the firm of Stull and Lee, Boston, and has designed and managed a wide range of architectural and urban planning projects. His thoughtful work leaves a lasting mark throughout our region, and particularly in areas where great design has brought beauty, pride of place, and a stronger sense of community to residents and users of public places. He was an early innovator in prefabricated building component design, and is a pioneer in development of procedures for stakeholder inclusion in inner city neighborhood planning and design of public buildings.
He is a member of the College of Fellows in the American Institute of Architects, serving 12 years on its National Design Committee, past member of the Visiting Committee of the National Architectural Accreditation Board, and twice elected to the Board of Directors of the Boston Society of Architects. He has received much formal recognition for his work, which in Boston includes the interior development of South Station and the urban planning and building design of Boston Police Headquarters and Roxbury Community College.
He has served on a number of Federal, State and local entities with responsibilities related to design excellence within the public realm. These include his appointment in 1978 Boston Civic Design Commission where he served for eleven years, as well as his more recent two-term appointment to the Massachusetts Port Authority Designer Selection Panel. His extensive community service efforts have included memberships on boards and panels of civic, cultural and institutional organizations, especially related to the arts and the quality of urban life.
He received his Bachelor of Architecture from Ohio State University and his Master of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
As an urbanist for more than thirty years, Jane Thompson has contributed to the success of many cities both nationally and internationally, planning and designing places with reference to their individual physical, social, commercial and economic factors. She has had as great an impact on changing our design tastes as has any designer in America, and is the chief chronicler of the enterprise that presented us with a modern attitude toward life, the retailer Design Research, which was founded in 1953 by her husband, Architect Ben Thompson. Throughout her career, she has pioneered concepts for reinvestment in urban contexts across the globe, and specialized in the development of under-utilized urban and industrial land to reconnect cities to their waterfronts. Her projects include Chicago's Navy Pier, Boston's Faneuil Hall Marketplace and Times Square Center in New York.
Jane Thompson is currently President of Thompson Design Group where she directs a team on the planning, design and implementation of waterfronts and urban places, addressing not only physical organization and environment, but also inherent human issues of social exchange, commercial exchange and economic vitality. The firm's recent projects include an interdisciplinary collaboration with the environmental engineers CH2M Hill of Florida on the complete reinvention of the one-mile waterfront of West Palm Beach, and the completion of a preliminary master plan for Brooklyn's Fulton Street Mall, designed to establish this core business zone as the leading public realm of downtown Brooklyn.
Jane Thompson was educated in the fine and applied arts at Vassar College with graduate work at Bennington College and New York University Institute of Fine Arts. She has been recognized with Institute Honors from the American Institute of Architects, and with a Personal Recognition Award by the Industrial Design Society of America for a lifetime's contribution to the field of Design.
Wilson Pollock is the Founder and Former President of ADD Inc. where he spent more than 34 years leading the firm to the forefront of commercial architecture and interior design. He is a visionary who is grounded in the realities of providing clients with more than they thought they wanted, and exemplifies how collaborative design, strong business practices, a commitment to educational excellence, and balance between one's professional life and one's need for personal reflection combine to produce great design, business success, and personal satisfaction. With growth to over $20 million a year in revenues, as many as two hundred employees, and offices in Massachusetts, California, and Florida, the success of ADD Inc. is a testament to Wilson Pollock's leadership. The firm has been recognized for design excellence and client service, outstanding business achievement, community outreach and sustainability efforts.
He is a past Board Member, Overseer and has served on the External Affairs and Development Committee of the Boston Architectural College. In providing direction to the BAC's initial institutional advancement and development efforts, Wilson Pollock brought order, an insistence on achieving clearly defined outcomes, and client sensitivity to his volunteer work. The College is indebted to him for achieving those values, as we are indebted to his mentorship of scores of BAC students and alumni he has employed at ADD Inc. over the years of his leadership.
Wilson Pollock has also served as Chairman of the Editorial Board of Architecture Boston and for many years as Vice President. He is a Past President of the Boston Society of Architects, and a former member of both the Boston Society of Architecture's Corporate Advisory Council and the American Institute of Architects Large Firm Roundtable.
In 2004 Wilson Pollock received the CoreNet New England Outstanding Service Provider Award. He was a jurist for the 2000 Business Week/Architectural Record Awards and an Advisory Board member of the Boston Foundation for Architecture. He is currently a member of the Emeritus Circle of the Board of The Jackson Homestead Museum and serves as a Senior Consultant for PSMJ Resources, Inc.
Wilson received his Master of Science degree in Architecture from Columbia University and his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Pennsylvania State University where he was elected to honorary arts and architectural societies and received a 1991 Alumni Achievement Award.


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ORLANDO, Fla. — Boston Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington was voted The Sporting News baseball executive of the year following the team's worst-to-first turnaround.
The award, based on a vote of 31 major league executives, was announced Monday night at the annual GM meetings. Voting ended before the postseason, when the Red Sox went on to win their third World Series title in 10 years and first since Cherington succeeded Theo Epstein as general manager in October 2011.
Cherington received 15 votes, followed by Pittsburgh's Neal Huntington (nine), Kansas City's Dayton Moore (four) and Atlanta's Frank Wren (three). Boston won the award for the fourth time, following owner Tom Yawkey (1946) and GM Dick O'Connell (1967 and `75).
Founded in 1886, TSN ended its print edition at the end of last year but remains available online.
"Definitely unexpected," Cherington said. "I consider this to be an award for the organization, not for me. Coming off the year we had in 2012, I also sort of see it as usually an award that goes to an organization that does work over a period of time and not necessarily in one year."
Following a late collapse in 2011, Boston was decimated by injuries last year and went 69-93 under first-year manager Bobby Valentine, its poorest record since 1965. A roster turnover began in August 2012 when Adrian Gonzalez, Josh Beckett, Carl Crawford and their big-money contracts were traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers in a deal that saved Boston just more than $261.66 million through 2018.
Valentine was fired after the season and replaced by former Toronto manager John Farrell, Boston's pitching coach from 2007-10. The Red Sox restocked during the offseason by signing seven major league free agents for contracts of three years or fewer at a total of $100.45 million, a group that included Mike Napoli, Shane Victorino, Jonny Gomes, Koji Uehara, Stephen Drew, David Ross and Ryan Dempster. They helped Boston win the AL East, return to the playoffs for the first time since 2009 and help the city heal following the Boston Marathon bombings in April.
Drew, Napoli and Jacoby Ellsbury turned down Boston's $14.1 million qualifying offers Monday, and the Red Sox would receive additional draft picks at the end of the first round in June if they sign elsewhere. Cherington said the Red Sox continue to talk with the three along with free-agent catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia.
"There's real interest, but nothing more than that," Cherington said.
For Cherington and his staff, the 2013 title is an accomplishment to savor, but it's also in the past already.
"I think by now everyone has forgotten the World Series," he said, "and it's on to the offseason work."
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October 26, 2005
LOS ANGELES - UCLA Chancellor Albert Carnesale announced today the formation of a new center partnership between the Richard S. Ziman Center for Real Estate at UCLA Anderson School of Management and UCLA School of Law. The center's new name is the Richard S. Ziman Center for Real Estate at UCLA and marks the first such venture between top-tier schools of business and law.
The partnership reflects the growing interdisciplinary focus of the UCLA Ziman Center and of UCLA as a whole. These changes take effect immediately.
Carnesale made the announcement after approving a recommendation for the collaborative center by UCLA Anderson School Dean Bruce Willison and School of Law Dean Michael Schill.
"Few current issues can be addressed by one discipline alone," Carnesale said. "Interdisciplinary collaboration is essential and is a top priority at UCLA. This partnership between UCLA Anderson and the School of Law will strengthen the Ziman Center's role in an industry that makes an enormous contribution to the economy of Southern California. Collaboration will enhance opportunities for interdisciplinary research and curricular development, along with UCLA's community outreach in the field of real estate."
The reestablished Ziman Center will continue to work to offer students a full range of coursework that considers real estate and its significance in the economy and urban environment. The center's recently established Faculty Research Fellows Program includes faculty members from seven academic departments at UCLA, including the UCLA Law School.
"UCLA has always steadily maintained and enhanced an interdisciplinary approach to legal studies," said Dean Schill, a national expert on real estate and housing policy, deregulation, finance and discrimination. "Through courses and research integrated across campus, this partnership will offer all of our students and faculty a more holistic view of the real estate subjects and issues that interest them."
UCLA Anderson's Dean Willison said: "We're eager to bring together experts from the Law School and other key academic disciplines to create a real estate program that is grounded in interdisciplinary research and teaching, along with practical application principles. This joint center's influence will benefit not only UCLA students and faculty, but also our vast network of alumni, many of whom work in real estate and related industries."
"We'll also continue to create and maintain alliances with key corporate and community partners who have a stake in this evolving industry," Willison added.
The Richard S. Ziman Center was established in 2001 with a mandate to create and manage UCLA Anderson's academic activities in the field of real estate, including curriculum development, research and outreach to a diverse group of organizations and professionals involved in the vast and ever-changing real estate industry. That mandate is now being extended across the UCLA campus.
The center was founded with a substantial endowment from a group of visionary leaders in the real estate industry led by the center's founding chairman, John S. Long, founder and CEO of Highridge Partners. Namesake Richard S. Ziman, chairman and CEO of Arden Realty Inc., gave a leadership and naming gift of $5 million.
"Where we live and the quality of our future personal and business lives will be determined by the planning, design and development of our urban environment," Ziman said. "I believe we can meet that challenge if the vision begins at institutions like UCLA, working in tandem with business and political leaders to take us to each successive level of innovation."
John Long described the joint center as "a fulfillment of a core goal to fully utilize the resources of the entire university to create a robust and integrated platform. The expanded resources will provide more valuable and relevant research and programs for industry and community."
Founding members of the Ziman Center board include John E. Anderson, Topa Equities Ltd.; Victor J. Coleman, Arden Realty Inc.; Jordan L. Kaplan, Douglas Emmett and Co.; John S. Long, Highridge Partners; Mary L. Ricks, Kennedy-Wilson International; Eugene S. Rosenfeld, ForestLane Group; D. Michael Van Konynenburg, Secured Capital Corp.; Mark A. Walsh, Lehman Brothers; and Richard S. Ziman, Arden Realty Inc.
Archie Kleingartner, professor of management and policy studies at UCLA Anderson School and School of Public Affairs, will serve as the first director of the joint center, reporting to Willison and Schill.
Recently appointed managing director and chief operating officer of the center Tim Kawahara will oversee the development and implementation of the center's courses, programs, activities and relationships.
The Ziman Center will remain physically located in the UCLA Anderson complex.
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management is perennially ranked among the top-tier business schools in the world. Award-winning faculty renowned for their research and teaching, highly selective admissions, successful alumni and world-class facilities combine to provide an extraordinary learning environment. Established in 1935, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,400 students enrolled in full-time, part-time and executive MBA programs and doctoral programs.
UCLA Anderson's faculty includes outstanding educators and researchers who share their scholarship and expertise in such fundamental areas as finance, marketing, accounting, business economics, decision sciences, operations and technology management, human resources and organizational behavior, information systems, strategy and policy.
Recognizing that the school offers unparalleled expertise in management education, the world's business community turns to UCLA Anderson School of Management as a center of influence for the ideas, innovations, strategies and talent that will shape the future.


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Welcome to my blog and the place where I will post my photos and musings from my life as an ultrarunner. My nickname "Shining" was given to me by a group of very special students after I finished my first 100-miler, the Massanutten Mountain Trails 100. They were the inspiration that enabled me to finish this awesome race, and I try to live each day with a "shining" attitude!
Sunday, January 4, 2009
My goals for 2009
In no particular order:
Train more effectively and efficiently by using the RunningAhead training log and by trusting my coach!
Rest more.
Break 15 hours at Hellgate 100K, weather permitting.
Improve my time at Grindstone 100.
Break 9 hours at Bull Run Run.
Spend more time with my kids, my hubby, my sis, my mom, and my friends.
"Let it go, let it roll right off your shoulders." (RT)
Be mindful and live in the moment.
Pay attention to what people are saying and not saying, and really listen.
Give more, take less.
4 comments:
- farmgirl said...
Well it's about time...
Just kidding, thanks for coming out today, I really love the Golden photos.
Finn keeps talking about how excited she is to eventually have Jack as her best buddy... :)
Have a good week.
- January 4, 2009 at 10:07 PM
- Thomas Bussiere said...
I like your goals - Achievable, realistic, and will make you and someone else a better person.
- January 4, 2009 at 10:51 PM
- Andrew Speidel said...
Very cool...
Happy New Year! Are you running the Promise Land 50K this year?
If I can get healthy (Piriformis-like symptoms are back) I'd like to give that one a try! I got this nifty running GPS, and I can barely use it.
OK, so one of my goals this year should definitely be to stretch more.
- January 5, 2009 at 2:01 PM
- Sophie Speidel said...
Thanks, everyone!
I thought ten goals for the year was enough. I actually am glad I posted them in public b/c today I found myself reminding myself to "let go" of something that's been bugging me and to be mindful. So it's all good to put it out there.
Andy---I am NOT running Promise Land 50K this year b/c both Chape and Carter have big lax games that day. I would urge you to run it next year when I can do it with you, and instead consider the Bull Run Run 50 in NoVa on April 18. I am going to try to get in, and I have run it twice. Great race, all-VHTRC, runnable trail. Give it a thought!
- January 5, 2009 at 7:29 PM


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- hafencity university subway stationMunich-based lighting company Pfarre Lighting Design is reinventing the lighting systems of European subway stations, and the firm's latest work in Hamburg has a chic, futuristic aesthetic. The new Hafencity University Subway Station was designed by Raupach Architekten and synthesized by the designs of Pfarre Lighting Design. The station is lit with creative colors, materials, and most of all, energy-saving LED lights.1
- hafencity university subway stationThe design of this subway station is industrial in nature. The modern ambiance of the station is created by the gravity defying installation of multiple six ton boxes above the platform.2
- hafencity university subway stationThese boxes are made from steel frames and translucent panels. They are designed to be the same size as a standard shipping container, and as if mimicking the subway trains themselves they hang perfectly spaced in a row.3
- hafencity university subway stationEach box is illuminated by 280 individual RGB LED emitters, giving both energy efficiency and diversity of color to the lighting design. The lighting within the station can change to create an ambiance that reflects the season, time of day, or even the subway station manager's mood.4
- hafencity university subway stationBrilliant blues, oranges, purples, and reds help to give life and light to what could have been just another mundane subway station.5
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- hafencity university subway station The new HafenCity subway station's design is industrial in nature, and the gravity-defying installation of 6-ton boxes above the platform create a modern ambiance. The light boxes are made from steel frames and translucent panels. They're designed to be the same size as a standard shipping container, and as if mimicking the subway trains themselves they hang perfectly spaced in a row....

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Rated: PG-13 for sequences of horror violence, terror, disturbing images and language.
Release Date: 2009-05-29
Starring: Ivan Raimi, Sam Raimi
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Sam Raimi's 'Drag Me to Hell' is a deliberately funny, horror film, which is neither too funny nor too scary. It's definitely not a classic, but a refreshing return to a format that has seen many successes in the decade of the 80's. This film is not meant to be taken seriously at all; you're supposed to laugh at the funny parts, and as a nice surprise, you'll occasionally be on the edge of your seat with suspense. What you should expect is to be grossed out by a myriad of scenes. Raimi is obviously looking to make you feel uncomfortable.
The plot is simple and straightforward – a loan officer is cursed by a gypsy for not helping her keep her home and now she needs to try and stop evil spirits from dragging her to hell.
I must admit, I was caught off guard with the intentional hilarity of the film. I'm so conditioned to laugh at today's horror films because of how bad they are that this one almost tricked me. Cinematically, this movie is not good. The acting is bad, the dialogue is comical and the pacing is off. Fortunately for me, I understood what the Raimi was trying to do here and it made me enjoy the rest of the film. Sam Raimi, known for his three Spider-Man films, is no neophyte to the horror/comedy genre, actually he's known in many circles as the guy who created it with his series of 80's cult movies – Evil Dead.
It's funny to me though, how much the Spanish language and Hispanics (Mexican's really) have integrated themselves within Hollywood storylines. The opening 5-8 minutes of the movie are spoken completely in Spanish with a Mexican couple trying to save their son from the clutches of the devil. The Oscar nominated Mexican actress Adriana Barraza (Babel) plays an enchantress who wants revenge on the devil. She goes on this Spanish spell monologue without subtitles which makes it difficult for non Spanish speakers to understand, but advantageous for us bilinguals to appreciate.
Overall, 'Drag Me to Hell' serves as a senseless night out with friends looking to laugh and be grossed out. I particularly wouldn't pay New York City prices for it ($12.50 a ticket), but a good $5-7 ticket buy wouldn't be out of the question for a fun time at the flicks.


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@elonmuskConsidering trying to bring upper stage back on Falcon Heavy demo flight for full reusability. Odds of success low, but maybe worth a shot.https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/847882289581359104
Hi all,Now I just cant imagine a tube flying aerodynamically through the atmosphere without grid fins, theres no way S2 wont have grid fins will it? Can grid fins survive reentry without burning up, imagine grid fins covered in pica-x.
Why does it need to quickly de-orbit and land. That requires lots of fuel mass.What about doing something the new sats are doing?Like putting on some small lightweight ion engines and a ring of solar cells somewhere on the stage?Would there be a problem taking months to get into a de-orbit situation?
My maths and physics is very rusty but...According to Wikipedia[1], the Merlin 1D can throttle to 360 kN (81,000 lbf).According to Space Launch Report[2], the F9 second stage dry mass is ~4.5t We know F=m.a[3] where F=force in N, m=mass in Kg and a=acceleration in m/s/sWe also know g=acceleration-due-to-gravity=9.8m/s/s so at 1g F=4500.9.8/1000=44kNand 360/44=8.16so it seems that a Merlin 1Dvac could land a second stage with an ~8g hoover slam.Two question for the experts on NSF: 1) Is this calculation correct?2) Could the stage survive 8g?
Quote from: NX-0 on 03/31/2017 07:03 pm@elonmuskConsidering trying to bring upper stage back on Falcon Heavy demo flight for full reusability. Odds of success low, but maybe worth a shot.Any ideas how they might go about achieving this? Parachute landing, or propulsive landing? Deployable heat shield, or ablative-covered tanks? Probably going to need some serious heat protection as Stage 2 will need to re-enter at much faster than LEO speeds if it's sent a sat to GTO. Will need bigger batteries and maybe other consumables, too, to be able to still have power 4.5 hours or so after launch when it will be re-entering from a GTO mission...
@elonmuskConsidering trying to bring upper stage back on Falcon Heavy demo flight for full reusability. Odds of success low, but maybe worth a shot.
Elon MuskCompte certifié @elonmusk 13 hil y a 13 heuresEn réponse à @BadAstronomerWe can def bring it back like Dragon. Just a question of how much weight we need to add.
Because of the time constraints, I proposed that they could try a system on the Falcon Heavy Demo mission with 4 legs in the payload fairing. Splay them out and perform re-entry from LEO. Spreading the heat over the larger area would be interesting and might inform the development of a fairing/heat-shield combo to protect the second stage. It might be something like a 3 part fairing with two parts recoverable and the 3rd part sliding into position downward to protect the stage. How it would land? Deployable paraglider 'chute like the fairing onto a "bouncy castle" (air-bag like) barge.
If i'm visualising this correctly, it puts too much surface area ahead of the centre of gravity, and the stage would be extemely unstable and want to fly backwards.


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|From: Lee Spector (lspector at hampshire.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 10 22:50:36 EDT 2009
Thanks for the speedy and helpful responses. F1, which I didn't know about previously, will help a lot. It doesn't show the arglist right in the programming environment, and it only helps for built-in definitions, but within these limits it provides pretty quick access to the arglist and documentation. "cmd /" (yes, I'm on a mac) provides symbol completion -- not what I had asked about, but also handy. Getting to definitions from Check Syntax -> control-click -> Jump to Definition also seems to be useful, although I'm having a hard time experimenting with it at the moment because I haven't yet fully grokked PLT namespaces, so my cross-file definitions aren't working as I expect. ("#lang scheme/load" makes file loading work in the way that I expect but then Check Syntax no longer provides the arrows/menus... I know I need to read about namespaces.) In any event I'll keep this in mind as I move forward. Thanks again, and if anyone knows of a way to get more complete arglist-on-space behavior (that is, in the programming environment and for all functions) I'd love to hear about it. -Lee PS Mike: glad to hear you've seen the GP stuff, some of which will inevitably migrate to Scheme as I spend more time writing Scheme code... On Aug 10, 2009, at 8:50 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > For the arguments, DrScheme doesn't really do that (altho, as always, > patches are welcome), but th next best thing is to hit f1. That'll > send you to the docs, searching for whatever is around the insertion > point in the editor. > > For the other, you have to run check syntax first and then you can > jump directly to the definition of any function (no matter where it is > defined-- check syntax re-uses the compiler to get its lexical > information so you can be sure you're jumping precisely). > > Robby > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Lee Spector<lspector at hampshire.edu> > wrote: >> >> Is there any way to get "arglist-on-space" behavior in DrScheme or >> any >> editor working with PLT scheme? What I mean by this is that when >> you type >> the name of a function and then a space the argument list for the >> function >> appears in a mini-buffer (or anywhere -- I just want to see it). >> I'd be >> happy to have this functionality either in an editor (e.g. the >> DrScheme >> definitions pane) or listener (e.g. the DrScheme interactions pane) >> or both. >> >> I am a DrScheme/PLT newbie, adopting it for a course I'm teaching >> in the >> fall, but I'm a long-time Common Lisper and this is one of things I >> miss >> most from my favorite CL environments. Next on my list would be a >> way to get >> from a function name to the definition of the function with a >> couple of key >> strokes, rather than searching in files. Both of these things >> require the >> runtime environment to keep information around that maybe PLT isn't >> keeping >> around... but I don't know. >> >> Thanks, >> >> -Lee >> >> -- >> Lee Spector, Professor of Computer Science >> School of Cognitive Science, Hampshire College >> 893 West Street, Amherst, MA 01002-3359 >> lspector at hampshire.edu, http://hampshire.edu/lspector/ >> Phone: 413-559-5352, Fax: 413-559-5438 >> >> Check out Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines: >> http://www.springer.com/10710 - http://gpemjournal.blogspot.com/ >> >> _________________________________________________ >> For list-related administrative tasks: >> http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme >> -- Lee Spector, Professor of Computer Science School of Cognitive Science, Hampshire College 893 West Street, Amherst, MA 01002-3359 lspector at hampshire.edu, http://hampshire.edu/lspector/ Phone: 413-559-5352, Fax: 413-559-5438 Check out Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines: http://www.springer.com/10710 - http://gpemjournal.blogspot.com/
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VIDEO: How couples feel the impact of anti-marriage laws on Tax Day
April 15, 2014
Today is Tax Day, the deadline for when families from all across the country must file their taxes. For many families, it's a headache of a day - but for married same-sex couples living in states where same-sex couples do not have the freedom to marry, it can be extraordinarily challenging.
Now that the central part of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act has been struck down, married couples living in any state across the country must file their federal taxes together, as married couples. However, in 31 states (every state besides the 17 marriage states, Missouri, and Oregon), these same couples must file their state taxes as single, unmarried individuals.
It's a confusing process that requires couples to lie about their families - to lie about their lives.
A new video by filmmaker Karla Murphy tracks the impact that these laws have on gay and lesbian couples by focusing on one couple - Meg and Sarah, who live in North Carolina and are married.
"Filing taxes, of all things, has become a complicated day," the narrator explains, with the couple adding (beginning at 2:40), "We've been through so many iterations of this. We used to file separately, before we were married. Then we could file in Massachusetts together but not federally. Then, we had to file separately because we were in North Carolina and DOMA was still in place. Now, we can file federally but not in North Carolina. It seems like a practice of the absurd. It's like, 'When are we going to get the equation right?' I want to get to the place where we don't have to lie about who we are."
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