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Sharon Day, a Costa Mesa High product, ran hot and cold on Friday on her first day of the seven-event heptathlon at the Olympic Games in London.
Day, 27, sits 18th overall with 3,740 points after four events. Jessica Ennis of Great Britain leads the field with 4,158 points, while American Hyleas Fontain is fifth with 3,900.
Day began the day with a personal record of 13.57 seconds in the 100-meter hurdles. She finished fifth in her heat, but posted the 17th-best time, good for 1,040 points.
Next came the high jump, the event in which she competed at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, where she finished 12th in the qualifying round with a mark of 6 feet, 2 1/4 inches.
The 2005 NCAA high jump champion as a sophomore at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and a two-time CIF State champion in the event while at Costa Mesa, Day had cleared 6-4 3/4 coming in. But she managed only to clear 5-9 3/4 on Friday, nearly four inches shy of the mark she posted at the U.S. Olympic Trials, where she finished second overall to Fontain. Day's mark Friday was 19th-best in the field and produced 941 points.
Day managed another personal record in the next event, the shot put, producing a mark of 46-8 1/2 good for 813 points. Her mark at the trials was 43-11 3/4, so Fridays' effort, in the event that had been her biggest nemesis, marked a significant increase. It was the seventh best mark in the field.
She completed the first day by running 24.36 in the 200 meters, seventh in her heat and 18th-best in the field. It earned her 946 points, but was slightly off the pace of her mark in the trials (24.26).
Day ran 13.71 in the hurdles at the trials, where she produced personal heptathlon records in the long jump (20-0 1/2), and the javelin (147-9) and posted a personal-best overall score of 6,343. She will hope to continue that upward trend in those events Saturday, when she will also compete in the 800 meters.
Also Friday, women's discus thrower Seema Antil, coached by Newport Harbor High throwing guru Tony Ciarelli, just missed advancing to the 12-person final.
Antil, 29, who had been training in Orange County with Ciarelli for months, posted a mark of 203 feet, 1.4 inches.
Ranked No. 24 in the world, she was in the No. 12 position until the final round, when AmericanStephanie Brown-Traftonuncorked a throw of 212-10.72 to move into the final.
Antil's mark was nearly two feet shy of the 204-11.44 posted byFrance'sMelina Robert-Michon, who qualified No. 12.
— From staff reports
Newport Harbor High product April Ross and partner Jennifer Kessy won their round of 16 match in women's beach volleyball on Friday to advance to Sunday's quarterfinals.
Ross and Kessy, the No. 4 seeded entry, defeated the No. 11-seeded Swiss tandem of Simone Kuhn and Nadine Zumkehr, 21-15, 12-19, on Friday.
Ross, who missed seven serves and did not have an ace in Thursday's Group D triumph, had five aces in Friday's win. She had four service errors against the Swiss, who were eliminated.
Ross had 12 kills, seven digs and one block, while Kessy produced 14 kills, eight digs and one block.
In four matches thus far in the tournament, all victories, Ross, a first-time Olympian, has 58 kills in 94 attack opportunities (a .617 efficiency rating). She also has 10 aces, 33 digs and four blocks.
Ross and Kessy have outscored opponents, 191-164.
The Americans could meet the No. 5-seeded Brazilian duo of Maria Antonelli and Talita Antunes, who are 3-0 entering Saturday's round of 16 clash against Kristyna Kolocova and Marketa Slukova of the Czech Republic (2-1).
Also in the round of 16 Saturday, No. 3-seeded Misty May-Treanorand Kerri Walsh Jennings (3-0) square off against Marleen Van Iersel and Sanne Keizer from the Netherlands (1-2).
Through three matches, May-Treanor, another Newport Harbor graduate, has 47 kills in 115 attack opportunities (a .409 efficiency rating), with 50 digs. She has three aces and no service errors.
— From staff reports
The U.S. women, including backup goalie and Corona del Mar High product Tumua Anae, as well as assistant coach Dan Klatt from UC Irvine, defeated China, 7-6, Friday to close out Group A play.
Team USA finished tied atop the group with Spain (both 2-0-1), but lost the goal-differential tiebreaker and will be the No. 2 seed from Group A. The Americans lost a 9-6 lead in the final minutes of a 9-9 tie with Spain in their group clash.
This means that if the Americans can get past Italy (1-2 in Group B) in Sunday's quarterfinals, it would likely face Group A winner Australia, considered a gold-medal co-favorite with the U.S., in Tuesday's semifinals.
Australia (3-0 in group play) will face China (0-3) in the quarterfinals. Spain will meet Great Britain (0-3), while Russia (2-1) faces Hungary (1-2) to round out the quarterfinals.
Italy, the 2012 European champion, lost to Australia, 10-8, in group play. It also lost to Russia, 7-4.
The Americans rallied from a sluggish start against China, which held Team USA scoreless the first 11 minutes on its way to a 3-1 lead. China led, 3-2, at halftime, but suffered its own scoreless stretch of 14 minutes to allow the Americans to pull ahead and lead, 6-3, early in the fourth quarter.
Team USA scored all three third-quarter goals. The Americans were led by Maggie Steffens, who had three goals to give her 11 for the tournament. Four other U.S. players scored one goal apiece, while goalie Betsey Armstrong made six saves.
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March 12, 2014 + On the Interpretation of the Psalms (Part 4)
THE LETTER OF ST. ATHANASIUS TO MARCELLINUS ON THE INTERPRETATION OF THE PSALMS (Part 4)
And herein is yet another strange thing about the Psalms. In the other books of Scripture we read or hear the words of holy men as belonging only to those who spoke them, not at all as though they were our own; and in the same way the doings there narrated are to us material for wonder and examples to be followed, but not in any sense things we have done ourselves. With this book, however, though one does read the prophecies about the Saviour in that way, with reverence and with awe, in the case of all the other Psalms it is as though it were one's own words that one read; and anyone who hears them is moved at heart, as though they voiced for him his deepest thoughts. To make this clear and, like Saint Paul not fearing somewhat to repeat ourselves, let us take some examples. The patriarchs spoke many things, all fitting to themselves; Moses also spoke, and God answered; Elijah and Elisha, seated on Mount Carmel, called upon the Lord and said, The Lord liveth, before Whom I stand. [ See for Elijah I Kings 18: 15, 19, and for Elisha II Kings 2: 25 and 3: 14.] And the other prophets, while speaking specially about the Saviour, addressed themselves also at times to Israel or to the heathen. Yet no one would ever speak the patriarchs' words as though they were his own, or dare to imitate the utterance of Moses or use the words of Abraham concerning the great Isaac, or about Ishmael and the home-born slave, as though they were his own, even though like necessity oppressed him. Neither, if any man suffer with those that suffer or be gripped with desire of some better thing, would he ever say as Moses said, Show me Thyself, [Ex 33:13] or If Thou remittest their sin; then remit it; but if not, then blot me out of Thy book that Thou hast written. [Ex 32:32] No more would any one use the prophets' words of praise or blame as though they were his own, or say, The Lord lives, in Whose sight I stand today. For he who reads those books is clearly reading not his own words but those of holy men and other people about whom they write; but the marvel with the Psalter is that, barring those prophecies about the Saviour and some about the Gentiles, the reader takes all its words upon his lips as though they were his own, and each one sings the Psalms as though they had been written for his special benefit, and takes them and recites them, not as though someone else were speaking or another person's feelings being described, but as himself speaking of himself, offering the words to God as his own heart's utterance, just as though he himself had made them up. Not as the words of the patriarchs or of Moses and the other prophets will he reverence these: no, he is bold to take them as his own and written for his very self. Whether he has kept the Law or whether he has broken it, it is his own doings that the Psalms describe; every one is bound to find his very self in them and, be he faithful soul or be he sinner, each reads in them descriptions of himself.
It seems to me, moreover, that because the Psalms thus serve him who sings them as a mirror, wherein he sees himself and his own soul, he cannot help but render them in such a manner that their words go home with equal force to those who hear him sing, and stir them also to a like reaction. Sometimes it is repentance that is generated in this way, as by the conscience-stirring words of Psalm 51; another time, hearing how God helps those who hope and trust in Him, the listener too rejoices and begins to render thanks, as though that gracious help already were his own. Psalm 3, to take another instance, a man will sing, bearing his own afflictions in his mind; Psalms 11 and 12 he will use as the expression of his own faith and prayer; and singing the 54th, the 56th, the 57th, and the 142nd, it is not as though someone else were being persecuted but out of his own experience that he renders praise to God. And every other Psalm is spoken and composed by the Spirit in the selfsame way: just as in a mirror, the movements of our own souls are reflected in them and the words are indeed our very own, given us to serve both as a reminder of our changes of condition and as a pattern and model for the amendment of our lives.
Venerable Theophanes the Confessor of Sigriane
By a flood of tears you made the desert fertile and by your longing for God you brought forth fruits in abundance. By the radiance of miracles you illuminated the whole universe. O our holy Father Theophan, pray to Christ our God to save our souls.


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Graduate Research Symposium 2010
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Biology/Physics Building Room 130, 9:00am to ~ 4:00pm
The EEB Graduate Student Symposium is an all day event where graduate students present their research to other graduate students and faculty. Any EEB graduate student can present: BSMS, masters, PhD, old and new students. New graduate students usually present research ideas or preliminary data, while those more 'seasoned' students present their most recent results, often in preparation for upcoming spring and summer meetings.
New Schedule
|Coffee & Tea (drinks only)
|Debra Kendall
|Welcome address by the associate dean for life sciences and for research and graduate education
|Susan Herrick
|Temporal patterns in calling behavior of syntopic anurans.
|Elizabeth Wade
|Microsatellite and gene discovery using 454 sequencing in the cicada genus Kikihia
|Jessica Budke
|Examining the gametophytic calyptra and its role in sporophyte development using the cord moss (Funaria hygrometrica).
|Kerri Mocko
|"Service to the plant": Solar tracking and leaf shape in Pelargonium
|Chris Owen
|Diversification of the Australian cicada genus Pauropsalta
|Morning Break - Drinks and Fruit
|Alejandro Rico
|Hummingbird feeding mechanics
|Tobias Landberg
|Ontogeny of escape swimming performance in spotted salamanders and survival with fish predators
|Brian Klingbeil
|Season-specific responses of bats to landscape structure in Amazonia
|Kristiina Hurme
|Antipredator behavior in schooling tadpoles
|Lunch - Sandwiches and Salad
|Lori Hosaka LaPlante
|Keynote Address: Seals, Saints and Salamanders
|Geert Goemans
|The cicada tribe Zammarini: trying to untangle the taxonomic mess
|Karolina Fučíková
|Cryptic diversity of tiny green thingies: To barcode or not to barcode?
|Yu Fan
|Are you over-partitioning?
|Nic Tippery
|It's Greek to me, but Latin to you: Notes on nomenclature
|Frank Smith
|The evolutionary developmental genetics of wing number in insects.
|Diego Sustaita
|The beak of the shrike: variation in form and a story about function...
|Speed Talks
|Lori Benoit
|Hydrilla highlights
|Maria Pickering
|Highlights from a Collecting Trip in Vietnam
|Nic Tippery
|Best Grad/Postdoc Webpage - 2010
Susan Herrick
Temporal patterns in calling behavior of syntopic anurans
Phenotypically similar species are hypothesized to adjust their behavior when they coexist to decrease competition. Pond-breeding frogs constitute an ideal system to address this hypothesis because multiple species may compete for noise-free periods to call for mates. American bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana) and green frogs (R. clamitans) commonly co-occur in breeding ponds. Males of both species vocalize to defend territories and attract females. However, bullfrogs call more aggressively than green frogs and are expected to control access to the limiting acoustic resources. I predicted that green frogs increase chorusing activity in periods of bullfrog inactivity and that these patterns can be detected at both diel and seasonal scales. I used automated acoustic software to identify bullfrog and green frog vocalizations through two breeding seasons. Temporal partitioning occurs on a seasonal time scale. Bullfrog and green frog calling rates are both high early in the season in late May but then diverge. Bullfrog calling rate peaks in mid-June and drops sharply thereafter. In contrast, green frog calling falls to low levels in June but then rebounds when bullfrog calling declines, so that green frog calling reaches a second peak in late June and tapers off thereafter, ceasing in early August. There is no evident temporal partitioning on shorter time scales. Both species call most from midnight until 0600. However, the diel timing of bullfrog calling is predictable, whereas green frog calling is more variable. These results suggest green frogs are responding to reduced bullfrog activity by adjusting their calling effort.
Alejandro Rico
Hummingbird feeding mechanics
Modulation of feeding behavior in hummingbirds, the most important vertebrate pollinators, has been demonstrated to affect the persistence of many kinds and number of plants, and subsequently the interactions and services provided by entire ecosystems. Similarly, composition and concentration of floral nectars has been shown to influence which flowers hummingbirds feed at, and their rate of movement among flowers. To date, our understanding of feeding behavior in hummingbirds is based on the theory that they use capillarity in order to feed on nectar. It is widely accepted as fact that hummingbirds feed by moving nectar up their tongues in the same way that water moves up a tiny capillary glass tube. Our entire understanding of the nature of the interaction of hummingbirds and plants has been based on this concept of the mechanics of feeding. My previous work on the structure of the hummingbird tongue suggests that the capillarity model of feeding in hummingbirds may be wrong. Preliminary results point to a novel and radically different nectar trapping mechanism; if true, our ideas about how external factors affect the rate at which hummingbirds gain nectar from flowers would change. In this presentation I document the process of nectar uptake using high-speed video and microscopy capabilities describing the fluid mechanics of tongue loading, discussing the implications of this new perspective at several different levels ranging from biophysics to ecology and evolution.
Jessica Budke
Examining the gametophytic calyptra and its role in sporophyte development using the cord moss (Funaria hygrometrica).
In bryophytes (mosses, liverworts and hornworts) the diploid sporophyte is small, unbranched, and physically attached to the maternal haploid gametophyte. One of the major maternal influences in moss plants is a cap of gametophyte tissue (the calyptra) that covers the sporophyte's apex during early developmental stages. Previous studies indicate that the calyptra functions mechanically to influence sporophyte development and is necessary for spore formation. Sporophytes without their calyptra wilt at the apex; they survive only when placed in a high humidity chamber. These observations stimulated the hypothesis that the maternally derived calyptra functions as a waterproof cap, preventing desiccation of the developing sporophyte's apex. In plants the cuticle, an external layer of lipids and waxes, maintains internal hydration. To explore this hypothesis, I am using scanning and transmission electron microscopy to examine cuticle morphology and development of both the calyptra and sporophyte in the moss Funaria hygrometrica. Results for this species indicate that the calyptra's cuticle is thicker and more complex than other gametophyte tissues; the cuticle is also present on the calyptra throughout sporophyte development. These observations support the calyptra as a specialized maternal gametophyte structure and provide a mechanism by which the calyptra prevents harmful water loss during critical sporophyte developmental stages. Sporophyte development is directly related to reproductive output and thus evolutionary fitness in mosses. The maternal care provided by the calyptra and its cuticle may have been a critical innovation for the evolutionary success of the ~12,500 moss species worldwide.
Karolina Fučíková
Cryptic diversity of tiny green thingies: To barcode or not to barcode?
The taxonomy of green coccoid algae traditionally has been limited by their character-poor morphology when solely using light microscopy. Alternative methods, especially the use of molecular sequence data, often reveal cryptic diversity and help clarify phylogenetic affiliations of green coccoids. The present study focuses on the genus Pseudomuriella Hanagata and its phylogenetic relationships to morphologically similar genera. Newly-discovered, morphologically cryptic diversity of the genus Pseudomuriella is reported here and examined using molecular markers – barcodes – from the three cellular compartments: the plastid rbcL gene, the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer 2, and the mitochondrial cox1 gene. The utility of the three markers is discussed using a comparison of their performance in species-level resolution within the Pseudomuriella clade, while also considering the ease of their use. All three genes examined were found to contain variation usable for species-level resolution, and provided largely consistent phylogenies. A joint use of the three markers may be the ideal tool for barcoding cryptic green algal species, but rbcL appears to be the most practical combination of good phylogenetic signal and ease of use.
Beth Wade
Microsatellite and gene discovery using 454 sequencing in the cicada genus Kikihia
Genomic information for non-model organisms is becoming increasingly easier to obtain. Next generation sequencing is revolutionizing whole genome and transcriptome sequencing by providing large amounts of data relatively cheap. Traditional techniques for obtaining nuclear loci for population genetics studies, such as microsatellites and SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) are labor intensive and expensive. In addition, nuclear loci for phylogenetic analyses tend to be limited to a few loci with conserved primers that are used on a wide range of taxa. I have used 454 Life Sciences technology to whole genome sequence nine species of the New Zealand genus Kikihia in an attempt to isolate microsatellites and SNPs for population genetics analyses for this genus and protein-coding genes for systematic studies in the cicada family. In this presentation, I will briefly overview next generation sequencing technology and present my preliminary findings on the cicada genome.
Nic Tippery
It's Greek to me, but Latin to you: Notes on nomenclature
The classical languages of Latin and Greek have trickled down to us through a variety of historical uses, from simple transmission of ancient texts to entirely new uses of the languages by speakers of modern languages. Although as scientists we all embrace the necessity of a certain familiarity with Latin and Greek, ever fewer people are actually familiar with the origins and meanings of the words they use. I will present a brief overview of these classical languages as they are used by scientists today, including the different grammatical forms of words, derivation of some popular names, and the ever-important and often-overlooked question of how to tell if a word construct is of Latin or Greek origin (yes, they are different languages!).
Kerri Mocko
"Service to the plant": Solar tracking and leaf shape in Pelargonium
Solar tracking in plants describes the temporary and reversible movement of leaves in response to light. Darwin recognized that this phenomenon provided a "service to the plant" that has since been studied by ecophysiologists, most extensively in arid environments. Under cool temperatures and non-water stressed conditions, plants display diaheliotropic movements that maintain leaves perpendicular to incident light, maximizing photon flux density to achieve high photosynthetic rates throughout the day. Under hot, dry conditions, paraheliotropic movements parallel to solar incidence reduce photon flux density to prevent thermal damage and enhance water use efficiency. Examined mostly in species with pulvini and pinnate leaves, there has been little direct attention to the effect of leaf shape on the extent of solar tracking. Leaf energy exchange with the environment depends on the physical properties of a given leaf shape such that an entire leaf has a thicker boundary layer and less heat transfer with the environment than a highly dissected leaf. Therefore, dissected leaves are predicted to maintain temperatures closer to ambient. However, energy budgets for any shape of leaf can be influenced by changes in leaf angle. We measured diurnal changes in leaf inclination and azimuth of two closely related co-occurring geophytic Pelargonium species of contrasting leaf shape. While both species tracked the sun during the course of the day, there was more movement in highly dissected leaves. Under winter growing conditions, leaves of the dissected species moved to intercept more solar radiation and heat up more quickly than the non-dissected species. Between species, differences in leaf shape and solar tracking combined to result in similar maximum leaf temperatures. Thus the full extent of Darwin's "service to the plant" results from the synergistic effects of leaf movement and morphology.
Yu Fan
Are you over-partitioning?
Partitioned analyses have been routine in recent Bayesian phylogenetics because of three reasons. First, automated sequencing has made it feasible to sequence large amounts of nucleotide data. Second, genes or codon positions may endure different selective pressures, and models need to account for the resulting differences in substitution rates and/or pattern of substitution. Third, it is necessary to partition the data due to intrinsic differences; for example, molecular and morphological data can only be reasonably combined if a different models can applied to each separately. It is always a challenge, however, to avoid unnecessarily complex partitioning schemes. The Bayes Factor (BF) has been demonstrated to be a good model selection criterion, but its usage relies on the accurate estimation of the marginal likelihood of each model. The Harmonic Mean (HM) estimator of marginal likelihood is a computationally fast approach, and has been widely used in Bayesian phylogenetic research. However, it is known to be biased, which causes it to favor more complex (e.g. more highly partitioned) models. Here, we propose a new method of marginal likelihood estimation, the Stabilized Stepping-Stone () method, and apply it to a simulation study. 200 nucleotide data sets of various sizes (number of taxa and sites) were simulated from an unpartitioned General Time Reversible model with Gamma rate heterogeneity (GTR+G), and later analyzed by both unpartitioned and partitioned (with 2 equal subsets) models.The BF calculated from HM (HM-BF) and (-BF) showed very different results, not only in magnitude but also in repeatability, despite the fact that both HM and analyses were based on samples of equal size. The HM-BF method chose the more complex partitioned model 21.5% of the time, compared with 0.5% for the -BF method. The method was strikingly better than HM in terms of repeatability. Pairs of independent analyses had regression 0.9991, whereas for pairs of HM analyses was only 0.1636.
Kristiina Hurme
Anti-predator Behavior in Schooling and Non-schooling Tadpoles (Anura, Leptodactylidae)
Tadpoles developing in temporary ponds must grow quickly to reach metamorphosis before the pond dries; these tadpoles must be more active and spend more time foraging than tadpoles of species developing in permanent ponds, but are also more susceptible to predation. Tadpole schooling may allow individuals to reduce predation risk by finding safety in numbers, and achieve foraging rates that would be too risky for individual tadpoles. While maximizing growth rates, schooling tadpoles might sacrifice their ability to escape from predators since individuals cannot maximize both growth rate and burst swimming speed. If tadpoles are unable to escape from predators, they may avoid capture by remaining inconspicuous within the selfish herd and avoiding detection. This strong selection for not being an "odd" individual can minimize variation in growth and behavior among individuals, and may result in stereotyped anti-predator behaviors. To determine if schooling tadpoles experience depressed anti-predator behavior, I performed predation trials with both schooling (Leptodactylus insularum) and non-schooling (Physalaemus pustulosus) Leptodactylid tadpoles. For each predation trial, I recorded the activity levels of 10 tadpoles before and after the addition of a lethal insect predator. I found that schooling tadpoles exhibited significantly higher activity levels and were more vulnerable to predation than non-schooling tadpoles were. I will also test to see if schooling tadpoles experience a higher encounter rate with predators.
Tobias Landberg
Ontogeny of escape swimming performance in spotted salamanders and survival with fish predators
Development of escape swimming behavior begins in spotted salamanders well before hatching. The escape response reaches peak levels early in the larval period when predation rates are thought to be highest. Trials with lethal fish predators strongly supports this hypothesis. Survival time with lethal predators is shortest at the point in ontogeny when escape performance is highest. Survival time is negatively correlated with movement and escape rates. Both escape swimming performance and survival time with lethal predators is positively correlated with relative tail area. These results support the hypothesis that predation by fish relies on visual cues (body size and movement rate) and that high relative tail area and escape performance is a response to this form of natural selection.


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Silver Spring, MD (July 28, 2011) – Furthering their efforts to provide support to pulmonary hypertension (PH) patients, the Pulmonary Hypertension Association (PHA) has entered into a partnership with MedicAlert Foundation that will offer PHA members a discount on MedicAlert membership. By joining MedicAlert, PHA members will benefit from MedicAlert's unique, live 24/7 emergency response/family notification services should an emergency arise. Additionally, PHA members who join MedicAlert will have the ability to store and manage an online Emergency Medical Information Record (EMIR), which allows them to maintain updated health information, medications, test results, and physician contacts. The MedicAlert EMIR has been designed in conjunction with the American College of Emergency Physicians to contain the critical information needed by first responders and hospital emergency departments. MedicAlert membership provides medical and emergency response staff with swift access to patients' key health information, enabling them to quickly recognize patients with pulmonary hypertension and administer proper treatment.
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Of all sports, I think I like the aesthetics of skateboarding best. I like the graceful gymnastics of top level boarders. I like the come-as-you-are aesthetics of their (un-)uniforms. I like the exhuberant thrashing and driving basslines of their music. And I like the synergies between skateboarding and graphic design that seems as old as the sport is. Skateboarding magazines, logos, and deck designs have been around for decades. Maybe it's a SoCal thing, just like car customization, another grass roots aesthetic movement.
My boy, Jack, turned 11 last week. He has given himself a fine birthday present this year by painting the underside of his board with a group portrait of his favorite cartoon characters in various states of debauchery. Jack worked fairly long and hard on this piece, drawing the design, then transferring it onto the board by scribbling pencil on the back of his drawing, then carefully painting the whole thing in acrylics and then polyurethaning the whole thing to preserve it against New York puddles. Our pal, Tom Kane, provided technical advice and encouragement.
When we went to the skateboard store to get trucks and wheels, the staff was incredulous that this little kid had created such a great board. Now Jack is busy scratching and scraping his masterpiece on the rough asphalt of Washington Square Park.


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GAO: FCC Gives Preferential Treatment To Lobbyists, Company-Sponsored Data
from the par-for-the-course deptIt's well known that folks at the FCC have a rather chummy relationship with the telco industry. After all, many of them either worked in the industry at one point or (more importantly) expect to get lucrative jobs in the industry after they leave the FCC. So it probably should come as no surprise to find out that the FCC tends to favor industry lobbyists and industry data to that of the consumers whose interests the FCC is supposed to be safeguarding. This is according to the GAO who has been doing a fantastic job highlight questionable government activity -- specifically with the FCC. In this latest report, there are two key things, both of which are quite troubling. First, the FCC often reveals important information to industry lobbyists, including information on new rulemaking efforts, votes and even how Commissioners intend to vote. This information is often not equally shared with consumer advocates, leaving them at a tremendous disadvantage. Second, in doing research for rulemaking, the FCC often relies on the data submitted to them, by industry representatives. And we all know how trustworthy that is likely to be. It's also probably worth pointing out that the GAO provided a draft of the report to the FCC and asked for comment, to which the FCC replied "no comment." Indeed. It appears no comment is really needed.
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Uppu huli dosa is a very popular dish in Mangalore and Udupi and is usually eaten for breakfast. This does not require any fermentation and so the dosas can be made right after the batter is prepared.
First rice is soaked and then ground with spices, tamarind and red chillies, giving it its fiery red color. In Kannada Uppu means salty and huli means sour. So this delicious dosa is a combination of salty sour spicy and sweet. It can be eaten as is, with butter or with coconut jaggery mixture.
- 1 cup raw rice (I use sona masuri rice)
- 3-4 dried red chilies
- 2 tsp coriander seeds/dhaniya
- Juice of 1 golf size tamarind
- 1 tsp cumin seeds/jeera
- ? cup scraped coconut
- ? tsp jaggery
- Salt to taste?
- In several changes of water first clean the rice. Then soak rice in enough water for 4 to 5 hours.?
- After that in a small pan, heat about 1 tsp of oil and fry the coriander seeds, jeera and red chilies on low flame. Set aside.
- Now grind the above along with soaked rice, tamarind, coconut, jaggery (optional) and water. The consistency should be that of dosa batter.? Add salt to this and mix well.
- Keep the batter aside for 20-30 minutes. At this point you can make dosas right away as it does not require any fermentation.
- Making dosas:
- ?Heat a tava, pour a ladleful of batter and spread into a thin circle (make dosas the regular way).? Add oil around edges, on top and roast on both sides. Proceed to make dosas with the remaining batter.
- Note: You can make some yummy dish with the left over dosa batter, recipe will follow next.
- ?This is traditionally eaten with sweet coconut-jaggery mixture.


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It's a Shakespearean story of courage, faith and loyalty: A young man must leave his rebellious ways behind and learn how to be king. For the first time, two plays—Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V—will be staged for the free annual Shakespeare Festival in Forest Park. "We wanted to do two plays that were so epic in scope and epic in storytelling that it would make this an event for St. Louis and our audience," says Shakespeare Festival St. Louis executive director Rick Dildine.
It has taken more than four years to put all the right pieces of the puzzle together, but it's been a labor of love that Dildine says will be well worth the journey. Most of the cast members will undertake the daunting challenge of performing dual roles in both plays, led by Tim Ocel and Bruce Longworth—two of the best directors of Shakespeare productions in the country, Dildine notes. "With their deep understanding of his text and stories, they are passionately collaborating on the projects together." And set designer Scott Neale was charged with creating a single set that fits both the intimate family drama setting of Henry IV and the sweeping epic production of Henry V in 14th-century Europe.
Longworth, who has been teaching Shakespeare to Webster University theater students for 30 years, returns to the director's chair to once again collaborate with veteran local actor Jim Butz. The pair worked together during the festival's 2010 production of Hamlet. "Jim is a tremendously talented actor with a huge heart," Longworth says. "He's very exciting to work with because he's entirely present in the process."
The cast currently maintains an intense rehearsal schedule of eight-hour days, six days a week. Butz, who must carry the arc of his character over the two shows—as Prince Hal transforms into King Henry V, has a deep love for all things Shakespearean. "It's the quality of the writing, and the richness of the story and characters. And there's something very special about the Shakespeare Festival in the Park, as one of our cultural institutions, being a free gift to the community that is a collective experience of listening to these century-old plays." Butz's character is conflicted throughout the productions, making for a demanding role. When Prince Hal's father, Henry IV, usurps the throne from King Richard, Hal becomes the next English heir. "That's a pretty huge mantle to have placed upon you," Butz notes. "He knows he should buck up soon because he's going to be the King of England, but he rebels against that."
With two dynamic plays this year, Butz says the festival has something for everyone. "It's an action-packed, sweeping drama, with a lot of humor, good fight scenes, and some questions of morality, as well." And Dildine is most looking forward to seeing how attendees react to the first-time staging of back-to-back performances. "We're sharing something very unique and unprecedented with our audiences. This is a chance for them to experience something rarely seen in the country or the world."
WHEN: 8 p.m. May 17-June 15 (except Tuesdays); Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 - alternating nights beginning May 17, Henry V - alternating nights beginning May 24; Double feature performances of Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 and Henry V on June 7 & 14; Green Show at 6:30 p.m. before each mainstage production
WHERE: Shakespeare Glen in Forest Park
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In Comparison, Other College Grads Not as Enthusiastic about Their Jobs
New York -- New teachers are eager and enthusiastic about their career choice, but they admit they are unprepared for the realities of the classroom, according to a study issued today by the nonpartisan, nonprofit Public Agenda.
Almost all of the new public school teachers surveyed (96%) say they are doing work that they love to do, and about 7 out of 10 (68%) say they are getting a lot of satisfaction from it. But 60% believe most new teachers take over classrooms without enough experience and more than half (56%) also say that their preparatory programs emphasized education theory at the expense of practical classroom challenges.
The study, entitled A Sense of Calling: Who Teaches and Why, comes at a time of great concern over how qualified teachers are, how many will be needed in coming years, and whether higher salaries will attract better candidates. While the report does not evaluate the academic credentials of new entrants, it counters the notion that teaching is an undesirable field that people enter by default.
People concerned about the caliber of individuals entering teaching should be reassured that most of them approach their work with a rare idealistic fervor, said Public Agenda President Deborah Wadsworth. At the same time, many of them note that all the enthusiasm in the world cannot make up for their own poor practical training or the difficulty of working with kids who may be unmotivated and poorly prepared.
The report explores teacher morale, preparation, certification and attrition from the points of view of four important groups: public school teachers with five years of experience or less, their counterparts in private schools, public school administrators, and other college graduates in their twenties who have entered other fields. It was funded by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation and the Open Society Institute.
A Sense of Calling can be downloaded at no cost until June 15 from Public Agenda Online (www.publicagenda.org). Selected highlights of the study will remain on the Web site indefinitely. Public Agenda Online also has a wealth of survey results and factual information on education and other public policy topics.
New teachers enthusiasm shows up clearly when contrasted to attitudes held by other college graduates. Only about one-fifth of new teachers (19%) say they will probably change careers at some point, but more than twice as many non-teaching college grads (50%) say the same about their jobs. There was never anything else I was going to do, a New Jersey teacher said. One in Maryland put it this way: I wanted to be a teacher for as long as I can remember.
Room for Improvement
What would lure more college grads into teaching? Money is not the only answer. Given a list of potential drawbacks to the profession, about four-fifths of college graduates (78%) say that teachers are seriously underpaid. But the image of a classroom as dangerous or chaotic also deters college grads: 89% say that teachers often have to worry about personal safety. And of graduates who express a keen interest in teaching, a large number (54%) say that they would be a lot more likely to consider the field if their students were well-behaved and eager to learn.
As for individuals who have already entered the field, low salaries are disheartening but do not govern their decision to teach in a particular school. Three-quarters of new public school teachers (75%) say that they are seriously underpaid. Half (52%) say that increasing salaries would be very effective in improving teacher quality. But even more 86% say that reducing class size would achieve the same end. Indeed, working conditions count for a lot: 86% would choose a school with well-behaved students and supportive parents over one where they would earn a significantly higher salary.
View from Above
School administrators also see new teachers as dedicated to their work but often fall short when it comes to managing a classroom. Almost all of the superintendents and principals (98%) say most recent recruits are highly motivated and energetic. Most school administrators say the quality of beginning teachers has improved (52%) or stayed the same (39%) compared to past years.
But only 44% say new teachers have well in hand the skill to maintain orderly classrooms, and 68% fault preparation programs for not teaching disciplining techniques enough.
While the government and the media have drawn attention to a looming teacher shortage, most school administrators say they are primarily feeling the pinch for minority teachers or for teachers of certain subject areas. Cities are particularly hard hit: 26% of urban administrators say they are facing a widespread shortage, compared to 11% of suburban officials. But of those administrators who are facing shortages, about three-quarters (76%) say the problem is serious but manageable and only 24% call it severe and hard to overcome.
Sample Sizes
The surveys were conducted by telephone from February through April of the following groups: 664 public school and 250 private school teachers who have taught five years or less; 511 superintendents and principals of public schools; and 802 college graduates under the age of 30. In addition, Public Agenda conducted six focus groups and interviewed 25 experts and practitioners.
The margin of error for the public school teachers is plus or minus four percentage points; for private school teachers, plus or minus six points; and for school administrators, plus or minus four percentage points. The college graduates were selected two ways: 312 of them through a random dialing technique, with a margin of error of plus or minus six points. The other 490 were pulled from a self-selected list. However, there are no substantive differences between these two groups of college grads.
Public Agenda, located in New York City, is well respected for its influential public opinion polls and its balanced citizen education materials. Founded in 1975 by Cyrus R. Vance, the former U.S. secretary of state, and Daniel Yankelovich, the social scientist and author, its mission is to inform leaders about the public's views and to inform citizens about government policy.


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Rtl8187 wireless
This page describes how to get the rtl8187 wifi-driver working
Note: The rtl8187 driver is in the kernel (thus the driver comes with the linux package)
The rtl8187 chip is made for usb-cards/dongles
It supports 802.11(a)/b/g and the following encryptions: WEP, WPA and WPA2
The driver's source is released under the GPL
- 1 Using and testing the driver/Troubleshooting
- 2 What to do if your connection always times out?
- 3 Misc Links
Using and testing the driver/Troubleshooting
Make sure that you have loaded the rtl8187 module with
modprobe rtl8187
Then run
dmesg | grep rtl8187
You should see some output like this
usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187
If you see that line everything should be OK
Using the driver
If everything is right, you should have two new interfaces: wlan0 and wmaster0 If you do not see wlan0 just run
ifconfig wlan0 up
To list all available wifi-networks just run
iwlist wlan0 scan
For more information about configuring your wifi-network see here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Setup#Setup_and_Boot
What to do if your connection always times out?
The open source driver suffers from a lot of tx excessive retries and invalid misc errors for some unknown reason, resulting in a lot of packet loss and it keeps disconnecting, some times instantly.
Adjusting with iwconfig options
Lowering the rate
The solution can be found in this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=299642
Just set the rate to 5.5
iwconfig wlan0 rate 5.5M auto
Fixed option should ensure, however, it doesn't change the rate on its own, thus making the connection a bit more stable:
iwconfig wlan0 rate 5.5M fixed
Alternativelly find the $POST_UP option and append the above options to your profile config file:
POST_UP="iwconfig wlan0 rate 5.5M fixed"
Try various rates until you get the optimal setting, with no disconnection. In this case 12Mbits, as shown bellow:
POST_UP="iwconfig wlan0 rate 12M fixed"
Now calling;
netfcg2 -c <wireless profile>
and choosing your profile works without extra commands.
Lowering the txpower
You can try lowering the transmit power as well. This may save power as well:
iwconfig wlan0 txpower 5
or even as low as 0. Valid settings are from 0 to 20, auto and off for the stock kernel driver.
Setting rts and fragmentation thresholds
Default iwconfig options have rts and fragmentation thresholds off. These options are particularly useful when there are many adjacent APs or in a noisy environment.
The minimum value for fragmentation value is 256 and maximum is 2346. In many windows drivers the maximum is the default value:
iwconfig wlan0 frag 2346
For rts minimum is 0, maximum is 2347. Once again windows drivers use maximum as the default:
iwconfig wlan0 rts 2347
The Linux Wireless project provides frequent stable releases of patched drivers for the latest kernels. These drivers fix the "fixed-channel -1" issue, whilst providing better injection. For further information and installation procedures please read the Wireless_Setup#compat-wireless-patched article.
Using Ndiswrapper
If everything else fails, then you are left with using Ndiswrapper. Ndiswrapper takes Windows RTL8187 drivers and uses them to enable your card.
Install ndiswrapper
pacman -S ndiswrapper
Download the Windows drivers
wget http://db.tt/4NB0HbF6
Extract the drivers
unzip ndiswrapper.zip
Unload the rtl8187 module
modprobe -r rtl8187
Remove any previously installed drivers (if any)
ndiswrapper -r net8187b
Install the new drivers
ndiswrapper -i ./ndiswrapper/net8187b.inf
ndiswrapper -m
depmod -a
Make sure that it is installed
ndiswrapper -l
Try now loading the module
modprobe ndiswrapper
Kernel log shouldn't indicate any errors
dmesg | tail
If all steps are successful it should be visible now in the iwconfig interfaces list
Add ndiswrapper to the MODULES array in /etc/rc.conf
MODULES=(... powernow-k7 ndiswrapper ...)
Blacklist rtl8187 in /etc/modprobe.conf.d/rtl8187.conf
blacklist rtl8187
Proceed to connect as you normally would.


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jutaylor needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 69 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
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Description – We are creating a show for female entrepreneurs that challenges the stereotypes surrounding women in business. The show presenter is very feminine and the style of the show is entertaining, feminine, even somewhat girly, but we are also powerful and serious about what we are doing. I would like to see that reflected in the logo.
What I Want – 'Ladylike?' is the show title. I'm thinking a butter-yellow background, with the logo itself in black swirly lettering, think feminine swirly handwriting. I would like the black question mark (same font as text) to be contained in the middle of a small white or pastel-colored 'card' (like a little notecard a lady would use) and to be held at the end of the word 'Ladylike' by a dainty, long-fingered, black-gloved hand. My inspiration for this idea is the cover of a book - 'The Little Lady Agency' by Hester Brown. I like quirky, classy, imaginative, feminine, out-of-the-box creations.
What I Don't Want – Nothing corporate-looking or boring. No blocky letters. While the show is fun and feminine, it is not silly in any way, so please don't go that way with your designs."
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Dendritic cell infection
Posted 28 September 2009 - 02:30 PM
I need the cells alive for an activation assay. thanks.
Posted 30 September 2009 - 06:53 PM
Can anyone help me please...it's quite urgent. I have tried infecting dendritic (derived from macrophages isolated by MACS CD14) cells with GFP- Mycobacterium. FACS stains of the 'infected' cells showed that not only was the infection partial even at MOI's ranging from 1,10 and up to 50, but all the cells that appeared positive for GFP also stained in the dead cell channel. This should be a straightfoward protocol so I think I'm doing something wrong. Has anyone got a really detailed protocol that's so basic that it tells you what plates/tubes etc you need to use and exactly how to use them. Please help me!!!
I need the cells alive for an activation assay. thanks.
Hm, I know that high numbers of Mycobacteria can kill DCs. Maybe try lower MOIs?
Also: did you fix your cells before facsing? (we need to if there's mycobacteria in there). In this case you need to use fixable live/dead dyes like the ones from invitrogen, otherwise all your cells will show up dead.
I don't think we ever saw 100% infection of DCs with GFP-BCG, but a lot of our GFP postitive DCs were alive. Do you need all of your DCs to be infected? Then you might have to infect them and then sort the GFP+ ones.
Other consideration: if you don't want any mycobacteria sticking to your DCs from the outside for your assay, you will have to wash really, really throuroughly and I think our technician also uses percoll gradients to get rid of the sticky guys.
Hope that helps a bit.
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Thanks again.


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Mazda let fly with a press package on its new Sassou urban minicar concept, which the company will unveil in Frankfurt. Based in part on the Japanese "Shoji principle of hiding and revealing, the Sassou has a body design only a planar geometrist could love, with three independent lines that barely overlap. A set of novel LED headlamps and indicators are virtually invisible until lit, and frameless side windows increase the interior daylight quotent. In a nod to young techies, the car's interior features make extensive use of USB ports and related accessories, with a "USB stick key" controlling all interior systems, storing navigation and other information and interfacing with the driver's home computer (or is that user?). Oh the engine? a turbocharged, direct-injection 1.3-liter three-cylinder, hooked to a twin-clutch six-speed automatic with paddle shifters.
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Demo08: "We're Not Just Conference Producers, We're Consumers"
The first session at Demo08 was labeled "We're Not Just Conference Producers, We're Consumers" and conference host Chris Shipley talked about how individuals were driving innovation on the Internet, and how what we use in our personal lives is impacting what we expect from business applications.
Here are the first products shown:
TimeTrade Systems showed TimeDriver a self-service personal appointment scheduler. Timedriver is a web site that lets you emded a "schedule now" button in emails or web pages that lets the people you invite schedule meetings with you. It also lets you schedule ad-hoc appointments, and sends email confirmations and reminders. It links into your Google or Outlook calendar. The company already sells an enterprise scheduling products, but this looks like a great opportunity for a small business or an individual business user.
Iterasi has a product that solves the problem that bookmarks tend to take you to a start page, not a detail page on an AJAX-based web site. They have a toolbar that lets you "notarize" pages so that the specific page you want is saved as an HTML page in Iterasi's service. This lets you get back to specific information you have found, or even save receipts rather than printing them. You can schedule a "notary job" to grab a specific page on a regular schedule. It's a very nice idea. I'm not sure that I need another web toolbar, but I definitely will give this a try when the beta comes out.
Liquid Planner is a SaaS project planning system . Unlike other products, it focuses on "managed uncertainty" in which you pick a range of time for a task, instead of a specified one. When you do this with a lot of tasks and people, the company believes it gives a more realistic view of a product than a traditional project management program, which typically have fixed deadlines. The big advantage tends to be with lots of tasks and projects over a long period of time. It allows project teams to manage documents, lists of participants, etc. It sounds very good but it will need to compete with a lot of entrenched project management systems.
Citiport is a web site where travelers or locals indicate their favorite places, and which lets you connect with other people on the site. The idea is that locals know the city better than anyone. People can post pictures, recommendations, etc.; and travelers can plan out their trip from sightseeing to restaurants. It looks ok, but there are a lot of travel sites, and I'm not quite sure how this stands out.
Leapfrog showed its Tag Reading System, a new twist on devices design to help children learn to read. The TAG is like the company's LeapPad, but with all the smarts in the pen. (It looks like a variation on the pen shown by....) This lets you work with physical books; and you download information to the pen, which then keeps track of what the child is doing with the pen. For instance when you type on words, it says the word, or can read the story aloud, etc. The demo included some phonics-based and time-based activities, and you can store the information for a number of different books on the pen at one time, then go back to a web site to download more content for more books. The device will cost $50 with books costing $14 each when it comes out this summer. It looks like a lot of fun.
Skyfire is a free, downloadable mobile browser that promises the full web on mobile phones. As such it will compete with products like Opera Mobile. It has support for Flash, AJAX, Java, and web video. The first version, soon to be in beta, will support Windows Mobile, with a Symbian version following. The Demo showed a Facebook slide show working in their browser, which looked quite good (as contrasted with Pocket IE, Opera Mini, or the iPhone.) PC Mag's Sascha Segan looked at it here: For Skyfire's Mobile Web, The Secret's in the Server
Fabrik, known as an external storage company, introduced a service called Joggle that tries to bring together all the pieces of your digital life - from multiple sites - into one page. It's a desktop application (for Mac or Windows) that uses Adobe AIR. It lets you combine information from all sorts of sites. And it has tools to let you share information via email or by embedding images and music in a widget that can be embedded in MySpace, blogs, or other social networking sites. The service isn't available yet, but you can sign up to put your name on a beta list. It looks good, but there are a lot of sharing sites and services.
SpeakLike is a chat system designed for communications among people who speak different languages. It uses both automated and human translation - sometimes immediately and sometimes with a slight delay (for human translation), to balance accuracy, speed, and cost. As a result, it can translate things like slang and IM acronyms. The demo showed a chat in English, Spanish, and Chinese. It looks very interesting, though it's still in beta, and I don't know the pricing yet.
STEP Labs is an acoustic software company that showed Stepware Auto, software for cars that allows voice activated command and control for dialing phones and making phone calls. What makes it special is a special camera and microphone to allow much better noise cancellation. A lot of people claim to reduce noise, but the demo looked very nice, even if it showed a fair amount of audio clipping.
NotchUp is another job site, this one with an unusual twist: it pays people to interview for jobs. You set a price at which you are willing to be interviewed; can import LinkedIn profiles; and it lets you block out certain domains so you're current employer won't see your profile. In showing profiles, it only has member numbers, not real names to protect privacy. For recruiters, it's less expensive than using a search firm. The company saves they already have gotten 50,000 members and over 400 companies interested in the last couple of weeks. I'm not looking for work, but it does seem like an interesting concept.
Education.Com is an site with lots of information on education, and that hopes to be the education equivalent of WebMD. They have partnered with a number of non-profits and universities, and written a lot of unique content, trying to get a lot of trustworthy information. In particular, the demo talked about a product called SchoolFinder, with information like test scores, district boundaries, and information on the community, after-school products, etc. The site is still in beta, and SchoolFinder isn't up yet, but I'm looking forward to taking a look at it.
800 PBX has an "800 Genie" service is a toll-free "internet genie" personalized voice service so you can get weather information or your mail from your phone. It can read your messages via text-to-speech and lets you respond by voice. You can call a toll-free number and have the voice call immediately placed on your blog. Unfortuantely, the text-to-speech didn't sound that good.
I'll check many of these out in more detail later, but it was a pretty good start to the show.


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HiddenCounter wrote:bigstrads wrote:RobDIKUM wrote:I think the kid meant Psychic, but spelled it and now is questioning physics! haha, and if he is , he'll be on the losing end of that one.
Typical..........Oaklands stupidity has always been "Finite"
I think we must have the little kid back here again, instead of the older, slightly more intelligent person he used to post under the guise of "Hiddencounter" when he first joined.Oaklandfnatic wrote:Physics can not exist because there are finite universes with finite amount of possibilities.Oaklandfnatic wrote: And the fact that there is finite amount of possibilities makes it impossible to predict.
I meant finite, I didn't mean infinite. Although what I was talking about (Multiverse) is what we perceive to be infinite is finite.
Dont try and wriggle out of that, just because you can enter "Finite" into google and find the meaning of the word.
Did you read what "Finite" means? and then how you used it?
Finite means something is completely measurable!!! something that has "bounds and limits".............and you used the word talking about the universe and possibilities.
So you were saying that the Universe is measurable and has limits, and that there are limits to possibilities.
Face it child, either you or whoever writes these posts for you these days, slipped up.


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John Lennon's Tooth Used in New Sculpture
We find the oddest uses for things now and then don't we. Just ask Alberta dentist Dr. Michael Zuk, who purchased a tooth, from the mouth of John Lennon, for over $32,000. The doc's sister, artist Kirsten Zuk, has used a piece of the molar in a clay sculpture of the famed Beatle.The tooth was bought at a Stockport, England auction in November.
The artist half of the siblings told the Edmonton Sun, "I love John Lennon. I've been a huge fan all my life." adding, "This is like a time-capsule. It will contain his DNA!" The molar in question was apparently given, by Lennon, to his one time housekeeper, Dot Jarlett in the late '60s, and somewhere along the way, landed in the hands of Creation Records founder Alan McGee. The man behind Oasis, Biff Bang Pow and many more sold the Lennon tooth in a rock memorabilia auction.
"Once I heard (the tooth) was up for sale I had to have it," Dr. Zuk told the BBC. The artist resides in Canada, which is where the sculpture is currently on display, as part of the Edmonton Fringe Festival. She has hopes the sculpture will help raise awareness, and donations, for a charity called Smile Train, which helps underprivileged children get free access to cleft surgery.


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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Spinning the news
I can't believe how bad it is, it's now without doubt one of the worst newspaper sites on the web. I simply don't understand how anybody involved can think it's better than the one it replaced.
I'll get to the real post in a minute, which was triggered by a story in the India news section of today's Gulf News.
That section extends over four full pages, about a dozen stories.
What does the website give us in the India news section? Three of today's stories, then it travels back in time to old stories from earlier issues.
So much for the modern, up-to-the-minute, instant internet.
I tried searching for the story I want but: "Sorry your search did not find any results"
A dozen of today's stories are considered worth publishing in the paper but for the website only three are deemed worthy, and old stories dominate.
Anyone else as frustrated with it as I am? How about a petition to encourage them to scrap it and go back to the sensible, useable design?
And so to the real post.
There's an interesting example of how spin is put on stories, how facts are presented very differently, an example of why getting our news from one source is dangerous. A demonstration that we need to get information from a number of sources and use our brains to work out what's really happening.
The stories relate to a survey of over 6000 students from eight countries, including 1,100 from India, conducted by IDP Education.
Gulf News uses a wire story from PTI, the Press Trust of India, headed:
"Australia could see 50% fall in Indian students"
The spin on the PTI report is transparent if you give it any thought at all, or if you balance it against other reports.
It begins "In the backdrop of a spate of racial attacks in Australia, Down Under could witness a 50 per cent drop in Indian students in the next session."
Immediately you get the way they're going with this.
It goes on to claim the CEO of IDP Education: "...felt the fall in numbers might be entirely due to safety issues, global slowdown could also play a part in it."
That's followed immediately by what he actually said: "We have the GFC (global financial crisis), which has obviously impacted upon families in India and that's evident by the fact that the applications for other countries are way down, particularly the US."
What he said and what they say he said are two totally different things.
The GN PTI report itself ends with another quote from the CEO, basically contradicting its own spin on the story. It says: "The somewhat surprising result and indeed promising result is that they believe Australia to be the safest destination of all the English speaking destinations - and by quite a margin."
In Oz the story says:
"Australia tops poll for student safety.
Despite media coverage here and overseas of violent attacks on Indian students, nearly 40 per cent of respondents ticked Australia as the safest place when asked to choose from a list comprising Australia, the US, Britain, New Zealand and Canada. The US ranked last for safety, with 4.3 per cent.
IDP Education chief executive Anthony Pollock said the findings in relation to Indian students reflected the 'private opinion of students which may be a little better disposed towards Australia than the public opinion in the press'.
He said IDP was expecting a 50 per cent drop in Indian student enrolments next year because of negative media coverage in India of attacks on Indian students, the global economic squeeze and a government crackdown on bad practices in the international education industry."
Same story about the same research but two very different impressions given.
Thanks to the failings of the new Gulf News website I can't give you a link because the story isn't there. I can give you a link to a different site which has part of the PTI story though, so I'll do that.
You can find a story based on the PTI report here.
The alternative interpretation is here.
5 comments:
- ~PakKaramu~ said...
Pak Karamu visiting your blog
- October 14, 2009 12:39 pm
- Jad Aoun said...
I agree with you on the GN website change. When I first read the 'paper' article about how great GN employees think their new website is (I hate self glorification), I decided to visit it myself. After a quick glance, I thought that I had typed in the wrong address - I couldn't see anything great. The old website had everything current on the front page. True it made for a very long page, but I didn't have to click 7 or 8 times to get to today's news.
- October 14, 2009 3:00 pm
- Anton said...
I totally agree with you on this. Not only has browsing through sections become complex, the whole mish mash of content gets you more confused than ever. its like being lost in of all places, a webportal.
I wish they'd just bring back the old format.
- October 15, 2009 9:19 am
Reading the GN website used to be something I enjoyed. No so anymore.
- October 15, 2009 9:41 am
I also agree. After not visiting the site for 2 weeks as I was on holidays, i typed in the address and I thought I had the wrong website? Trying to navigate around this is a nightmare, I really enjoyed the old version =(
- October 16, 2009 12:53 pm


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Accident Closes Garden State Parkway in Egg Harbor Township
The Garden State Parkway is running smoothly again, but not before some serious delays earlier this morning.
Motorists dealt with a closure in the northbound lanes earlier today after a an accident triggered a car fire.
It happened on the Garden State Parkway in Egg Harbor Township near Exit 38 for the Atlantic City Expressway. Officials tell us the scene is now cleared and things are back to normal.
It's still unclear if anyone was injured in the crash, but we'll let you know just as soon as we find out.


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GULLANE, Scotland — Funny thing, Adam Scott likes this spot even better.
A year ago, Scott took a four-shot lead to the final round of the British Open, only to throw away the claret jug with four straight bogeys at the end. It was a crushing loss, one that earned the Aussie a place among the greatest choke jobs in major championship history.
Well, the sting was softened greatly in April when Scott finally won his first major title with a nerve-racking playoff win over Angel Cabrera, removing any doubts about whether he could deal with the pressure of a high-stakes game.
And, now, Scott goes to the final round at Muirfield as the chaser rather than the chasee.
Scott shot a 1-under 70 on Saturday, quietly keeping himself in contention for his second major title, quietly giving himself a chance to finally get his name on one of golf's most venerable awards — just one line lower than he knows it should've been.
"It's a good feeling to sit here in this position. Absolutely," Scott said. "It's completely different. I go out there tomorrow not carrying the weight of the lead or not having won a major. It's a different feeling. Hopefully I can play enough quality shots to give myself chances to be in the hunt at the end."
On a crusty course that is playing extremely tough despite the un-Scottish-like weather — three straight days of warm, sunny conditions, with a forecast for more of the same Sunday — Scott has yet to shoot in the 60s.
But he's played as solidly as anyone, avoiding the sort of major mistakes that can ruin the entire tournament on one hole.
Scott opened on par with a 71, followed up with a decent-enough 72, and kept himself right in the mix with his best score yet Saturday — a 70 that totaled out to a nice, even 213 — just three strokes behind leader Lee Westwood, with only two other guys between Scott and the top spot on the board.
Scott was trying not to get too far ahead of himself.
"It's a long way off," he said. "The course, it can turn around on you in a heartbeat out there, if you're not careful. I'll be treading cautiously."
While Scott was praised for the gracious way he handled his horrendous defeat at Lytham, it's obvious the pain of that moment has stuck with him. Not even a green jacket can totally erase the sting.
"I haven't thought about the entirety of it at all," he said. "I thought it's best not to. Just take a couple of bits that I wanted to and leave it as an experience. The way I remember it is only a great week. I'm done with that."
He's learned there's no substitute for patience.
While others have raced up — and down — the leaderboard, Scott has stuck to his plan. He's content to make pars, gone for the birdies when the chance presents itself, tried to limit the sort of brutal holes like that one that finished off Martin Laird — a 9 at the par-4 third when he was one shot off the lead Saturday.
Scott's card is remarkably clean through 54 holes: eight birdies, eight bogeys, the rest pars.
"I'm just kind of plodding along at even par for most of the week," he said. "The lead was 6 under early, so I was well off the radar. But the course is playing tougher every day, so I've somehow crept back into it."
It helps having Steve Williams on the bag.
The veteran caddie was there with Tiger Woods for 13 of his major titles. After they had a nasty falling-out, Williams hooked up with Scott and proved to be an invaluable resource helping him get his first.
"His experience is there in these events where par is a good score," Scott said. "He prides himself on keeping his man at par or better, no matter how hard the course is. And we play it in a way according to that. So we're right around the mark. At times when you want to push, he's there to pull the reins in, if need be. He knows it's 72 holes and it can't be won on the sixth on Friday. He's got the big picture in mind when it comes to the 72-hole outcome."
From the looks of things this week, that perspective has certainly rubbed off on Scott.
"Absolutely," he said, "to the point where I think we just walk out there with almost the same mindset now. And it's proven to work, as well. My results have been good the last couple of years with Steve in the big events, and my scoring average has been a lot better."
Who knows?
Maybe the guy at the top of the leaderboard will feel the sort of burden that weighed down Scott a year ago. Westwood has never won a major title, despite being a perennial contender.
Scott doesn't have to worry about that anymore.
"I feel like I've got, well, nothing really to lose and majors to gain," he said. "That's certainly a nice feeling, whereas before in some ways it was getting to the point where you're hoping it was going to happen. It is absolutely a weight off your shoulders to have the first one."
Now, it's time to go back for seconds.
"It would be a fairy tale if that were to happen," he said. "But they do occasionally happen."


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How do you detect a "Real Orb"?
Posted 30 November 2004 - 01:21 AM
As you can see it was snowing , so the fireworks are not too clear.
My question..
I would like to know how people come up with having "orbs" in their photos ?
I am not saying I do not believe in these , but these are all 100% snow flakes but how does a person know the difference ?
Now if this were taken in a cemetary woud a person say these were "orbs" ?
Posted 30 November 2004 - 09:25 AM
Posted 30 November 2004 - 11:08 AM
I am not looking to find orbs in my photos , just curious to know the difference..
As far as lens...I do not think there was dust on lens , but water as it is kind of hard to keep it dry while snowing ...
But thanks for cleaning tip.....
Posted 30 November 2004 - 11:20 AM
Posted 30 November 2004 - 02:16 PM
When you see things such as dust and pollen, you get a very thin, whispy looking "orb" the really doesn't have very much "body" to it. Also, they are not very bright. They are usually very dull looking.
When you get a real paranormal orb, they are very full of body and usually bright. Often times they will be moving and that will also be evident by some sort of blurring.
When you pick up multiple orbs at once like in your photo above, you need to be very wary. It is not likely that you will see more than one orb in a shot most of the time. When you see hundreds, it is not likely to be paranormal at all. Usually you will only get one, sometimes two.
I hope that this helps but there is no substitute for experience and also using what you are feeling at the time for feedback as to whether or not it could be paranormal.
Posted 30 November 2004 - 04:58 PM
I know for sure these are not orbs , unless you call all little round things (in photos ) orbs as you would use a word as circle..
I just do not understand...I heard that a spirit has to be gone for a long time before they can get enough engery to become a full apparation.
So....Is an orb like a start...comparing to an egg or something that begins in death as to life ?
I think....If I were to come back , I will wait and save up all my engery and be a whole.....something or other and not a little ball....
Posted 30 November 2004 - 07:12 PM
An orb is a spirit at rest. It is their most basic relaxed form. When they gather more and more energy they are able to transform into an apparition. It is not like being a baby or starting out. It is just how spirits are in their relaxed natural form.
I didn't include this before because I just thought you wanted to know how to tell a real orb from a piece of dust.
Posted 30 November 2004 - 08:14 PM
Dust orbs can indeed appear dull and transparent and in multiples, as in this picture I had taken of an investigation of the haunted Cleveland Agora Theatre....
...but they can also appear solid, bright and quite pretty, as in this singular dust orb captured in the attic of a former mortuary:
Here is another example of bright dust orbs, taken at a haunted bridge in Norton, Ohio:
Dust or debris on the lens can also cause an orb effect, as in this picture taken of a Crybaby bridge in Boston Heights. This can happen even when no flash is used:
Condensation also has a tendency to appear more solid and bright, as shown in your snow photo, and as shown in this picture I captured of a Native American burial ground in Cuyahoga Valley, taken as it was lightly raining:
Of course, let's not forget bugs, which are also quite bright and can produce the illusion of an "orb in motion":
Sidenote: I don't think that "multiple orbs" is a reliable rule of thumb. First, that's like throwing the baby out with the bath water because a perfectly good orb could be happily dancing in the dust. Shoot, if I were a smart ghost who enjoyed her privacy, I would just make a point of hanging out in dusty places. Also, the multiple orb theory is a good example of why there is no workable guideline....because they all look alike!
Posted 01 December 2004 - 12:05 AM
Starla, there is a definite difference and if you would like to email me I can show you many pics that will teach you the difference.
Posted 01 December 2004 - 02:21 AM
Krc, you've never been on a hunt with me, and you probably haven't visited my website, so, you my not fully understand my style. FYI, I do not do "eye candy." Yes, I am a skeptic, for the most part. But, I also do not hastily pass judgment on whether a particular site is haunted or not. I'm not out to prove or disprove the existence of a haunting, and don't go into an investigation with an agenda. Instead, I research and investigate and take an objective perspective, present my results, and leave it up to the better judgment of the readers to decide for themselves. Shoot, I have even uncovered historical facts on some sites that actually support a particular haunted legend.
With regard to my photos, I am very careful...I do not shoot multiple photos with reckless abandon. I take each picture slowly, purposefully, and deliberately, being sure to observe my surroundings. This can be frustrating for others who are with me, since I take a long time, but there is a method to my madness. Lol!
To give you some background on this case:
At the time this picture was taken, the owners had invited me to a private group exploration. What you don't see in the picture are about 15 other people who were walking around this attic. While taking these particular photos, there were dust and dirt particles that I could visibly see floating in the air when the flash went off. I had taken three photos of this area, a few seconds after an older couple had walked away from this spot. I was shooting as I was moving closer to the windows. The photo that I posted was the second one.
Here is the first photo, shot from a longer distance. You can see multiple orbs, but you'll also notice a nice, bright little pretty one on the right. It is similar to the one I posted, but on a smaller scale. There are also some smaller, less intense dust orbs. Here is the photo, with highlights (as you can see from the floor, the place is really quite dusty ):
Nice, huh?
Oh, on my first investigation, it was completely private...just myself, Ken (MurdockPSB, as he is known on GV), my hubby and the owner, who all stayed by the stairs as I shot photos. And it was taken during the day. Not surprisingly, without so many people moving around and stirring up dust, I didn't get nearly as many orbs. Ken was also present during the second investigation, but I honestly do not recall if he captured any anomalies.
Sidenote: The third photo is junk. For some reason, it came out black and nothing is really visible in it. I suspect the auto focus wasn't working on that shot....one of the downsides of working with a digital camera like this one. :rolleyes:
Oh, krc, did you notice the dust photos in pic #1 and #3? There were some bright ones in those, too. I especially like the bright yellow one on #3 (look to the right).
For anyone interested, here is a link to my write up on the warehouse:
Posted 01 December 2004 - 10:18 AM
I am glad that you don't do eye candy either. Just as I don't. I am only after the real thing. I am also very careful about my shots and yes, I have been to your website.
Pic #1 is obviously dust since there are a multitude of them on the shot. That looks like obvious stirred up dust. Plus when you look at the surroundings the area is covered in dust. These are how dust appears on film.
Concerning pic #2, if there were 15 other people walking around in this attic that would stir things up. I would never take that many people on an investigation since that is way too many to keep control of while collecting evidence. The other "orbs" in that pic are dust for sure. The one on the left I am not too sure about since dust doesn't film that way under those conditions anyway.
Pic #3, there are several yellow objects being illuminated by the sun in that one but again, there are multiples in this shot. Could be pollen in the air but the reason that they are showing up in this pic is due to the sun.
There are many factors to look at when taking paranormal pics. When you have experience you can learn to tell the difference and learn when and why something shows up like it does. Dust doesn't photograph in the lighting conditions of the attic like the left-hand bright one. Plus who is to say that a ghost can't be in a place where there is dust. Isn't it possible to capture both in one photo?
That's ok, I conduct very professional and very careful investigations and my evidence is real. If you don't agree, that's ok, it doesn't really matter to me one way or the other.
Starla, I again offer if you would like to learn just email me and I will show you how to tell the difference between real and not real orbs.
Posted 01 December 2004 - 11:27 AM
Regarding the third pic, that was taken at dusk. The light you see is from the flash of the camera, not the sun.
I think these are excellent examples of how flash photography can illuminate small particles in the air.
Krc, can you post some of your pics here and explain to us how you can tell the difference between good orbies and bad orbies?
Posted 01 December 2004 - 11:43 AM
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Buffalo Springfield
Posted 01 December 2004 - 11:52 AM
Posted 02 December 2004 - 11:08 AM
I was telling krc that in the past , when I looked through books , sites and so on...I would tend to overlook the orb shots as i thought them boring.
I see them with a different out look and understand more of what to look for .
And krc...you should post your comparrision pics as they show quite a lot of "real/not"
I know more of the phyisical aspect of these , but still puzzled on the emotional state ...
Are spirits that linger the spirits that are discontent , in denial of death , unfinished business ect.... ?
If so , I wonder how do they go into this relaxed state , and if or after becomming aparations....what is the emotional state....
Anyway I enjoyed all and also reading on the history as I find this cool to know what things were like and who and what lived there , and still "does"
I wonder....as we enter into this dimension...do you think we will want to be more heard , seen to make this easier for the 'Ghosthunters " to observe and learn...
Thanks for sharing....Have anymore....love to see , read......
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|By Ardamir. (Help; more articles)
The Dúnedain (S: "west-men", pron. [ˈduːnedaɪn]), singular Dúnadan (pron. [ˈduːnadan]), were the the Men of Númenor and their descendants who peopled Arnor and Gondor in the Second and Third Ages.
Some of them fled Númenor just before its destruction with Elendil and his sons, while others had settled around the haven of Pelargir before the Downfall. This name was reserved to those Númenóreans who were friendly to the Elves: the other, hostile survivors of the Downfall were known as the Black Númenóreans.
The Dúnedain formed the Realms in exile of Arnor and Gondor, around the Middle Men who were ruled by Númenórean lords and divided in the Dúnedain of Arnor and the Dúnedain of Gondor.
After the fall of Arnor and then Arthedain, some of the northern Dúnedain became the Rangers of the North. The surviving Dúnedainic population of Arnor retreated to the Angle south of Rivendell. In the mean time the southern Dúnedain, the Men of Gondor, intermarried more and more with so-called Middle Men, except in some regions (such as Dol Amroth).
In the Fourth Age, the Dúnedain of Gondor and Arnor were reunited under king Aragorn II Elessar (who was also called the Dúnadan).
They are also called the Men of the West and the Men of Westernesse (direct translations of the Sindarin term) and comes from dûn and adan.
The Quenya name was Núnatan (pron. [ˈnuːnatan]), pl. Núnatani (pron. [nuːˈnatani]).
The Westron name for Dúnadan was simply Adûn, "westerner", but this name was seldom used.


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That must be the Democrats' reaction to the new videotape by al Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri. Much as Osama bin Laden's video, released just before the 2004 election, embarrassed Democrats' by its close tracking with their talking points as articulated in Fahrenheit 9/11, down to My Pet Goat, Zawahiri's latest shows a keen awareness of the Democrats' election themes. I haven't been able to find a full transcript, but this site has a little more information than most:
To U.S. President George W. Bush, Zawahiri brands him a "deceitful charlatan" and liar, and questions: "why don't you tell them how many million citizens of America and it's allies you intend to kill in search of the imaginary victory and in breathless pursuit of the mirage towards which you are driving your people's sons in order to increase your profits?"
No blood for oil!
He questions his motives for initating the War in Iraq, ridiculing the false prexets under which it was conducted. To this end he cites the purported links of Saddam Hussein to al-Qaeda, and the presence of weapons of mass destruction. He also addresses the capture of Khalid Shaikh Muhammad and questions that if it helped in the "war on terror" then "why are your troops retreating in secret from the south and east of Afghanistan?
Zawahiri knows that because of the incompetence (or worse) of American journalists, he can ridicule the idea of connections between al Qaeda and Iraq, even though he himself attended, according to multiple reports, a conference of Islamic extremists in Baghdad in 1999.
It's interesting to think about the possible explanations for the fact that al Qaeda's leaders believe that their most effective public relations strategy is to repeat the Democratic Party's talking points.


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