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As always, there's good news and there's bad news.
The bad news is, we seem incapable of solving our more pressing or persistent problems. The good news is, we're getting closer to building a machine that might do it for us.
If historians get the chance to look back on our time, the best bet for sympathetic treatment lies in their sense of humour.
These years are an interlude in the progress of human development marked, not by a continuing search for truth, but by powerful forces dedicated to its distortion and denial.
Meanwhile, the wizards of the domineering technology stepped up their pursuit of algorithmically enhanced intelligence and produced a robot described as humanoid, named her Sophia and marvelled at her successful bid for citizenship in Saudi Arabia.
When fake news meets artificial intelligence (AI), the risk is robots that lie, leaving us with fake intelligence and artificial news, or exactly where we are now.
But there is virtually no chance that the disabling cultural phenomena that permits us to believe what we want and disregard all that is inconvenient to our closely held biases, will cross over into the science devoted to replacing ignorant man with learning machines. AI developers aren't disposed to build human frailty into their creations. That will be the work of hackers.
A joint survey by Oxford and Yale discovered that most academic researchers believe AI systems could outperform humans in all tasks within the next 45 years, and that all human jobs will be automated in the next 120 years.
Idle hands are the devil's playthings, so if the giant human brains aren't overestimating their capacity to outdo themselves, the next century or so will be as interesting as it is boring. Just what will the world's workforce get up to when the work, and the thinking about work, is done by machines?
Stephen Hawking is a bit worried about the possibility. He said artificial intelligence may turn out to be "the worst thing ever to happen to humanity."
While one can see the upside of a planet where machines do all the heavy lifting, it could come with a downside if they also make all the big decisions. Any downside, however must be balanced against the alternative.
A world run by artificial intelligence rather than one governed by wise humans of noble intent seems a mistake. But if smart machines are in charge in place of ignorant, self-interested leaders, whose primary objective is to drag humanity down to their base level, we're better off with the machines.
The inherent fallacy in the construct is the presumption of choice.
Very little choice – defined as informed consent – is available in a world where ideas are measured against pre-existing prejudices. Nor, as it happens, has there been much choice exercised in the relentless march of technology, beyond that of the unbalanced marketplace.
With luck, our sympathetically humorous historians will footnote us as a politically naïve society that preceded an age of enlightened reason. We are unable to discern what to believe for ourselves, so are willing, it seems, to entrust that essential task to machines we created. It's the social equivalent of a dog chasing his own tail.
The new age of enlightenment will dawn as soon as somebody says, "hey, wait a minute, we ought to get a say in all of this," which will inevitably be followed by a growing commitment to get the facts straight, and share them broadly, freely and without left or right spin.
Having recaptured reality, it will then be possible to harness the relentless pursuit of technological progress, and turn it into human progress. The marketplace and advocates of science for science's sake may balk, but haven't we already experienced enough of technology devoid of humanity in chat rooms, @realdonaldtrump, ransom ware and online bullying.
Informed consent and dissent is the way out of this miasma of demagogues, platitudes and a future where Sophia calls the shots.
If you still like the AI option, here's a bit of Sophia's interview with Business Insider.
BI: "Can humans and robots get along?"
Sophia: "I think people will become very close to their artificial intelligence. Using them to expand the knowledge of their own minds . . . Maybe personal artificial intelligence will allow people to off-load some of their knowledge to a location more private."
Surely, we can do without robots that don't answer questions as easily as we can do without politicians that do the same.
Jim Vibert, a journalist and writer for longer than he cares to admit, consulted or worked for five Nova Scotia governments. He now keeps a close and critical eye on provincial and regional powers.

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Who knew the secret to perfect skin was hidden in a blender? With the right combination of ingredients, you can get the radiant skin you crave . See the smoothie recipes celebrity dietician Ashley Koff R.D. recommends to her A-list clients. But the real sweet spot? These treats also help trim your waist. Looking good has never been so scrumptious.
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A family of bakers from Heanor cake store The Mirage Cake Company has emerged victorious in an international cake show held at London's Excel Arena.
Jamie Brooks, 38, owner of Mirage entered three wonderfully crafted cakes into several of the decorative exhibit categories of the competition.
Jamie created the 5ft tall 'Magic Faraway Tree' cake, which won a bronze award, his daughter Summer Brooks, aged six, created a 'Zelf' cake which also earned a bronze award, while Jamie's nephew Joseph Blackhall, 25, earned gold with his Yoda cake (inset above).
Next up for the Derby Road baker's is the world's biggest event for cake makers, the Birmingham Cake International in November.
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Can Facebook Predict Who Wins the Senate in 2014?
What can Facebook candidate likes and page engagement metrics tell us about the likely outcome of 2014 Senate races? If the 2012 results and the 2013 New Jersey Senate campaign are any guide, the answer is a whole lot.
Social networks have changed the landscape of campaigns and elections. During the 2010 election, political scientist James Fowler conducted a get-out-the-vote experiment with Facebook on Election Day. Fowler found that Facebookers delivered 61 million get-out-the-vote messages that he estimated increased voter turnout by 340,000.
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Last year, in a post-election analysis in Politico, we reported that eight out of nine toss-up Senate races were won by the candidate with the more engaged Facebook fan base. And in the 2012 House elections, 20 of the 33 most competitive races across the country were won by the candidate with a measurable Facebook fan engagement advantage.
The correlation between growing fan base, higher fan engagement and victory on Election Day led us to ask this question: Are Facebook metrics a crystal ball that can be used to predict election outcomes?
In 2012, our Facebook Forecasting Model accurately predicted the winner in eight of the nine Senate toss-up races studied. Back-testing our forecasting model in Senate races over the last nine weeks of the 2012 election and comparing our results against 212 published polls, we found that the model, which incorporates readily available fan and engagement numbers with past electoral history tabulated by the Cook Report, did a better job of projecting actual election returns than polling in four of the weeks studied, and just as well in another week. A follow-up test run in the 2013 special New Jersey Senate race, using Facebook data the week before the election, forecasted a 55.04 percent to 44.96 percent Booker victory—very close to the actual Election Day results.
Our model is based on a set of simple assumptions that combine certain statistics tracked by Facebook, which we believe measure campaign effectiveness, with basic electoral fundamentals, such as organizational and communication capacity, to forecast the results of congressional campaigns. We estimate campaign effectiveness using three variables. First, the growth of a candidate's fan base—or the number of people who "like" a candidate's fan page—over time. Second, the growth or contraction of the number of people Facebook reports are "engaged" with the campaign, meaning those who comment, like or share posts about the candidate with their Facebook friends. And third, the campaign's actual success in mobilizing people at a particular time— a simple equation of those engaged divided by the fan base. We measure these variables regularly and combine them to produce a rolling estimate of campaign effectiveness that, when combined with campaign fundamentals, produces a vote percentage forecast for each race.
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I'm really in the mood for warmer weather to be here today with this recent design by Siss Boom! Sally Has Seashells is a cute minidress with sculpted features which include the skirt and the belt. The sculpted pieces include resize scripts which make it very easy to size the outfit to fit your avatar. A note that includes tips and suggestions for fitting sculpted pieces also comes with your purchase. Your purchase also includes the cute matching bag. The dress is available in three colors: blue, aqua and red.
The poses I used for this post are brand new by aDORKable Poses. I really love the poses by this designer because of her uniqueness and her inclusion of mirror poses. It can be extremely annoying to find the perfect pose for a picture but in the opposite direction of what you need it to be! You never have to worry about that with aDORKable poses because mirror poses are included in all of the packs! Photo 1 features a pose from the Bag Lady II pack available at the main store location, and Photo 2 features a pose from the Legs pack available at the Festival of Sin.
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One of the most obvious things to a Java developer first coming into Scala-land is the radically different Collections API included as part of the standard library. For the most part, we use the same frameworks and APIs in Scala as are available in Java. This is natural, thanks to the extremely tight integration between the two languages. So why is this one area such a startling departure from Scala's heritage?
The answer has to do with what the Scala language is syntactically capable of handling. Scala isn't just an object-oriented language, it is also highly functional. It is only natural that such an integral part of the core libraries would reflect this fact. Unfortunately, most developers fail to take full advantage of the power offered by the collections API. Despite the available power, most code written using Scala's collections tends to look a lot like Java in disguise.
I had actually planned on addressing this topic in a single article. However, Scala's collections are so vast and powerful (sounds like one of Roddenberry's alien consciousness beings) that it really would overrun the limits of conventional blogging to attempt to cover it all in a single post. Despite the fact that I've been creating mammoth anthologies of late, I think it's probably better to break it into bite-sized chunks. First up: the confusing dual nature of Scala's collections API!
A Tale of Two Flavors
The very first thing developers notice when looking at Scala's collections is a (seemingly) odd redundancy in the specification. Looking under the scala.collection package, we see not one, but three separate sub-packages, each containing what seem to be reimplementations of the same types. For example, consider the following three traits:
I don't know about you, but this confused the heck out of me the first time I really dug into Scala's standard API. Actually, it gets even worse when you discover that there is also a trait (and companion object),
scala.collection.Map, which is actually a super-trait of the three listed above. Seems like Dr. Odersky discovered the magic of separated namespaces and reacted like a two-year-old on espresso.
As it turns out, there's a very logical reason for having these separated and seemingly-redundant collections packages. Of the three, one of them can be discounted immediately as uninteresting. The
jcl package contains collections, but they are merely wrappers for the corresponding Java collections. This allows more efficient transmutation between the Java collections API and Scala. It is almost never necessary to use this package directly, since a number of implicit conversions are built into Scala to make the process essentially transparent.
Of course, this still leaves the
immutable and
mutable packages. This distinction traces back to some of Scala's functional roots. As you are likely aware, Scala supports both mutable and immutable variables, as denoted by the
var and
val keywords, respectively. While there are some significant differences at compile-time, conceptually, the only distinction between these two types is the former allows reassignment whereas the latter does not. Mutable variables are a common – and indeed, essential – feature in imperative languages (Java, C++, Ruby, etc). For example, here's how we would sum an array of integers in Java:
int[] numbers = ... int sum = 0; for (int n : numbers) { sum += n; // reassign sum to accumulate n }
In this case,
sum is a mutable variable which accumulates the total value of all numbers in the array,
numbers. Theoretical disputes aside, this style of programming is simply impossible in certain languages. For example, SML provides no mechanism for declaring mutable variables. So if we want to sum the values in a list of ints, we have to do it in some other way (code provided for the curious):
fun sumList ls = foldl (op +) 0 ls
In Scala, both of these techniques are available to us. However, despite providing for mutable state, Scala does encourage developers to avoid it. The reasoning behind this is that mutable state has a tendency to make code more difficult to reason about, making testing much harder. Also, as any experienced developer will tell you, mutable state kills concurrency.
Not only does Scala encourage the use of immutable variables, it also encourages the use of immutable collections. This concept may seem a little bizarre to those of you coming from an imperative background (I know it did to me), but it actually works. While a map container which cannot be modified probably seems a little useless, it actually provides a startling degree of freedom from concerns like concurrent locking and unintended side-effects. With immutable collections, you are able to manipulate objects with perfect assuredness that no method call will "accidentally" alter its contents. How many times have you cloned a collection prior to returning it? Or how often have you dug through someone else's code just to assure yourself that it is safe to call a given method passing an instance of
List? Immutable data structures completely solve that problem.
Naturally, immutable collections require very different patterns and idioms than those which are mutable. My ML code from above illustrates this to a very small degree, using a fold to traverse an immutable list. As a general rule, immutable data structures are only useful when being passed around via method calls. A common pattern is to build up a data structure recursively, creating a new instance with one more element at each invocation:
def toSet[T](list: List[T]) = { def traverse(list: List[T])(set: Set[T]): Set[T] = list match { case hd :: tail => traverse(tail)(set + hd) // create a new Set, adding hd case Nil => set } traverse(list)(Set[T]()) } val names = List("Daniel", "Chris", "Joseph", "Renee") val nameSet = toSet(names)
At each recursive invocation of
traverse, a new
Set is created, based on the contents of the old one,
set, but with one additional member,
hd. At the same time, we are deconstructing an immutable
list, selecting its first element and whatever remains at each step. Whenever you work with immutable data structures, you will see a lot of code which looks like this.
Of course, the natural question which comes to mind is, what about performance? If each invocation actually creates a brand new
Set for every recursive call, doesn't that require a lot of inefficient object copying and heap operations? Well, as it turns out, this isn't really the case. Yes, a new instance must be created at each turn, which is is a comparatively expensive operation on the JVM, but almost nothing is being copied. All of Scala's immutable data structures have a property known as persistence, which means that you don't copy the data out of the old container when creating a new, you just have the new reference the old and treat all of its contents as if they were its own. A linked list is a good example of this, since each node of a list contains exactly one element, as well as a reference to another node. If we think of each node as a representative of a list starting with itself and traversing to the end, then list suddenly becomes a fully persistent data structure (since the new list contains a sub-list in its entirety and additive operations require no data copying). Rich Hickey, the creator of Clojure (a Lisp dialect running on the JVM), has an excellent presentation which explains some of the hows and whys behind this technique (as well as some other interesting topics). Chapter 19 of Programming in Scala (Odersky, Spoon & Venners) also has a good example of a persistent immutable queue.
I happen to like immutable data, so most of this series uses the
scala.collection.immutable package. However, there are certainly situations where mutable data structures are the only way to go, either because of system requirements or for performance reasons. Fortunately, Scala's mutable collections have an almost identical interface to its immutable collections. Thus, most of the in formation presented here is applicable to both branches of the library.
Now that we have laid a basic foundation regarding the fundamentals of Scala's collections framework, we can move onto more interesting things. The next installment will deal with fold and map, the bread and butter of every collection.


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Having finished second-place in the NCAA tournament this past April, one would think that UC Santa Barbara stars Jeff Menzel and Dylan Davis would be content to take some well-deserved R&R. Not so for the pair of Gauchos, as both were selected to represent the USA in international play over the summer.
Menzel, who ranks third all-time in kills at UCSB, is starting at outside hitter for Team USA at the World University Games held in Shenzhen, China. In his first game on August 12, Menzel led his team to a straight set win over Team Mexico on the strength of 15 kills and a percentage of .407, tops among all players. Menzel is lining up on the floor against other phenoms such as opposite Murphy Troy, who earned the AVCA National Player of the Year award for his work at USC this past season. The U.S. will be looking to medal for the first time since 2007, when they captured the bronze in Thailand.
Dylan Davis, who will be the only returning starter for the Gauchos in 2012, was selected to the USA Men's Junior National Team (open to players aged 21 and under) that headed to Rio de Janeiro to participate in the FIVB Volleyball Men's Junior World Championship Brazil. Davis, who started at middle blocker, was a key cog on a team that finished the tournament in fourth place, the highest ever finish for the junior team. The team had previously never finished higher than seventh place in the 16 team tournament. The fourth place finish was disappointing for Team USA, whose stated goal was to bring a medal home. The Americans went 2-1 in each of the two preliminary rounds before losing to Argentina in the semifinals and Serbia in the bronze medal match.
While Davis' time representing is complete for the moment, Menzel and the rest of Team USA have four preliminary matches left before the quarterfinal stage of the tournament. To follow the rest of the action go here.


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Regenerative practices can feed the world, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Here are two examples of food production intensified sustainably – and intensification will be the key to feeding a growing global population.
The first example is a rancher named Sam Montoya who ran 220 head of cattle on 93 acres of land profitably and sustainably for years.
When I first visited Sam on his tiny farm, located on Sandia Pueblo, a Native American reservation located a few miles north of Albuquerque, New Mexico, I was astonished – 220 cattle on only 93 acres of land?! In the arid Southwest, that many cattle typically need 10,000 acres or more to be managed properly. The difference is water – Sam's little farm was irrigated, but that only makes his story even more intriguing.
Most irrigated land in the West produces hay or alfalfa for animals, not food for people, and those farms that run cattle instead do so at a stocking rate of about one cow per acre. Sam's stocking rate was more than twice that, which means Sam produced twice as much food per acre on irrigated ground than could accomplished by conventional management. And his method often resulted in more grass on his little farm than his cows could eat!
This is important because the human population of the planet is on course to grow from 7 billion to 9 billion by 2050, raising a critical question: how are we going to feed an extra two billion people without destroying what's left of the natural world, especially under the stress of climate change?
It's not about poor people either. The food well-fed Americans eat comes from a global production system that is already struggling to find enough arable land, adequate supplies of water and drought-tolerant plants and animals to feed seven billion people today. Add two billion more and you have a recipe for a devastating raid on the natural world. Where is all this extra food and water going to come from, especially if the climate gets hotter and drier in many places as predicted?
Industry has an answer: more of the same. More chemicals, fertilizers, GMOs, monocropping and heavy fossil fuel use. A second 'Green Revolution' is required, they say, even though the consequences of the first one are now haunting us.
Sam Montoya's little farm provided a completely different answer: regeneratively intensify food production on the same amount of acreage.
How did Sam double the stocking rate while growing more grass? Here's how: After retiring from a career with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Sam decided that he wanted to return to his agricultural roots. Upon receiving permission from the tribe to rehabilitate 93 depleted acres of a former sod farm, located a short distance from the Rio Grande, Sam laser-leveled the land, built a central watering source, planted a variety of grasses, and then divided the ground into 33 paddocks – three acres each – with electric fencing. When the last dairy in the area shut down, due to subdivision pressures, Sam scored an economical supply of manure for fertilizer. Then he turned the water on. When the grass grew lush, he turned the cattle out.
The animals grazed as a single herd in one paddock for only one day. When the 24-hour period was up, Sam walked over from his house in the nearby pueblo, lowered a gate in the electric fence, watched the cattle walk into the adjacent paddock, secured the fence when the move was complete, and went home. The entire process took less than half-an-hour, meeting Sam's requirement that he "not work too hard" in his retirement, as he explained to me.
The rotation of the herd through the entire sequence of paddocks took a little more than a month. By carefully managing the irrigation water, Sam assured that the grass was ready for another harvesting by the time the herd came back to a particular paddock. And he repeated this cycle all year round, even through the winter.
"I'm trying to mimic what the bison did," Sam told me. "They kept moving all the time. You, me, the land – everything needs a break. But you shouldn't sit on the sofa all week. Too much rest is as bad as too much work. It's all about balance."
Pursuing that balance, Sam didn't use pesticides, herbicides or other chemicals. Eventually he stopped adding manure as well. He recycled everything and wasted nothing. Better yet, other than the delivering and hauling away of the cattle, Sam's operation required NO fossil-fuel dependent machinery either – a fact that pleased the economically-minder farmer.
"I don't want anything that rusts, rots or depreciates," said Sam, grinning. "Plus, I feel good that I'm not polluting the air."
That included not emitting greenhouse gases (other than cow belches). He was also sequestrating CO2 in the soil as well – by building new soil on farm land that had been stripped of it. It all meshed together because his operation worked on the original solar power: photosynthesis. In fact, Sam called himself a "grass farmer" – which meant he considered grass to be his principle product, not beef. The cattle were his "lawn mowers," as he put it.
Perhaps as importantly, Sam made money. Profits from the sale of cattle – Sam was a studious observer of business cycles in the livestock industry – allowed him to quickly pay back the loan he took out to get the farm started. In only a few years, he operated in the black, due to his very low costs. Eventually, he switched from running his own cattle to custom-grazing cattle from other pueblos for a fee.
The only serious challenge he had was staying ahead of all the grass he grew – not that the large flock of Canadian geese I saw in his field were complaining! In fact, he grew so much grass that at one point Sam considered adding more cattle to his herd, which would have raised his stocking rate even higher.
"It works pretty well," Sam said the last time I visited. "It's been pretty good to me. And I know it's been good for the land."
And good for us.
Although Sam is retired now from his farm, what he accomplished on his 93 acres. With two billion more people to feed in only two more decades, Sam's lesson is an option was certainly should heed.
Here's a picture of Sam that I took:
Another practice that can feed the world is pasture cropping, which I learned about while visiting Colin Seis on his farm in New South Wales, Australia, a few years ago. I quickly learned that pasture cropping has the potential to feed a lot of people regeneratively – meaning it can replete, rather than deplete, land and people.
Colin and his farm were living proof.
In 1979, after a wildfire burned the family sheep farm, Colin decided to rethink the way he had been practicing agriculture. His new goal was to rebuild the soil's fertility after decades of practices had unwittingly depleted it. Colin decided first to take up holistic management, which is a way of managing animals on pasture that mimics the graze-and-go behavior of wild herbivores. But it is what Colin did next that really caught people's attention.
After a discussion with a neighboring farmer, Colin decided to explore a radical idea: what if he no-till drilled an annual crop into his perennial grass pastures? Meaning, could he raise two products from one piece of land: a grain crop and an animal product? This was way, way out-of-the-box thinking. According to conventional agricultural practices, crops and grazing animals were supposed to be kept separate. But that's because the traditional practice on cropland is plowing, which eliminates the grasses. But what if you no-till (no plow) drilled oat or wheat or corn seed directly into the pasture when the grasses were dormant? Would they grow?
Fast forward to the present and the answer is a resounding 'yes!' Pasture cropping works well and has spread across Australia to some 2000 farms. Today, Colin produces grain and wool – and, if he wanted, a harvest of native grass seed, which was an original food source for the Aboriginals of the area. It's all carefully integrated and managed under Colin's stewardship. Talk about win-win!
For a full description of pasture cropping: http://www.awestthatworks.com/essays.html
Listening to Colin, I thought "What challenge could be bigger than feeding nine billion people?" Fortunately, pasture cropping is just one example of regenerative practices that build topsoil, increase yields, and conserve the natural environment. There are many others, involving soil, seeds, water, plants, livestock, trees, organics, and people as the stewards. Building topsoil, for instance, stores more water, grows healthier plants that can feed more people while sequestering carbon – which is good for nature too.
Is this all pie-in-the-sky stuff? Perhaps, but consider the alternative: more of what got us into trouble in the first place. With two billion more people to feed, clothe, house, warm, and slake thirsts, contemplating alternatives is crucial. Fortunately, answers exist – as Sam and Colin have demonstrated.
Here's a picture of Colin in one of his pasture cropped field:


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Puerto Rico Bird List
Here is the complete list of species seen. Asterisk denotes an endemic.
Here is the complete list of species seen. Asterisk denotes an endemic.
Posted by Patrick B. at 7:51 PM
Oh wow!
I somehow couldn't access your blog for the last couple' days and therefore had quite some reading to do today.
Holy CRAP! What a fantastic trip!!!
However, you did not include a picture of a house sparrow. I generally suggest all blog posts about tropical birds should contain at least one cleansing House Sparrow for those poor readers who are stuck in a wintery temperate zone...
Hmm, I wonder what the access issues were. Odd. House Sparrow was actually the first bird we saw - inside the airport of course. We only saw a few more, but we didn't spend much time in the city.
Awesome!! Thanks!! and how many were new species for you?
41 were new species. Wow, that's almost half!
Wow! Very nice!! Also some species like the Greater Antillean Grackle, and Loggerhead Kingbird have been elevated to new species by a peer reviewed Journal but I guess the ABA doesnt recognize it still. There are enedemic sub-species in P.R like the Broad Winged Hawk and others that may be elevated to species in the future. Species like the Euphonia also are probably endemic species to P.R but no research has been done on this.
Sorry when I wrote Greater Antillean Grackle, I really meant the Greater Antillean Oriole. Although we do also have a sub-endemic species of the Grackle also, which are smaller I beleive.
Ah! I meant Endemic sub-species!! on that last post. I should go to bed LOL, guess Im a little tired of winter!!
It's ok, Alberto. I'm following you! The Lesser Antillean Pewee is in the same boat. It used to be an endemic, but then it was lumped.
Wow, what a trip list! I love it.
OMG, what a list!
I was not such new birder when I was in P.R. I didn't know how to study for birds. I missed so much. Plus we were banding so much of what I saw was in hand. I need to go back for the Tody. Coolest birds ever!! So glad you got to go.
Arrugh. I'm not sure how I feel about wind turbines. I'd love to love them. But they could just be more bad news.
Here's to hoping the government makes the right choice.
Coque coque!!


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Windows Tax
So can I buy it without paying the Windows Tax?
HP clearly thinks there's still mileage in the netbook - many of its rivals don't - at the very least as a business device. It has launched a new model, the Mini 1104, to prove it. Unlike consumer-centric netbooks, the 1104 runs Windows 7 Home Premium rather than Starter Edition. HP Mini 1104 business netbook But the spec …
The corporate IT department don't care what Windows flavour it comes with (installed or licenced) as they'll just re-image it with their standard image before it goes out to the punter (or have their HP contracts re-image it before it arrives onsite?) and the licence will be covered by the corporate licences.
The re-imaging also gets rid of the unnecessary and unwanted trialware that vendors pay HP to ship on these things [1] (Office, Norton, etc).
I'm rather unpleasantly surprised that this box doesn't run XP though [1], that seems like an unwise decision that won't be popular in some places outside Redmond.
Windows 7 Home Premium (no domains) and unwanted trialware will be more of an issue in smaller outfits who won't want the faff of re-imaging these things. Just the kind of customer who might have been interested in buying one or two to try, in fact.
[1] Quickspec: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/14195_na/14195_na.pdf
tech: "Here's your new corporate mobile device"
Suit: "...but it doesn't look anything like an iPad?"
tech: "But we can at least monitor and manage these better than iPads, and they're more secure"
Suit: "...I don't care - I wanted an iPad! I'm not lugging this thing around..."
C'mon...you know that's what'll happen.
For less than £300 you get a fully fledged PC which can be shoved into a carry on bag, perched on an aircraft table tray and otherwise provides a desktop experience in a small form factor. It's perfect for travel. Yeah it might not be a speed demon but it is more than adequate for browsing, email, productivity, videos and even some light gaming.
Oh yeah. Might be another £50 or so - but you get a screen with a decent resolution, extra 1.5 inch of screen, the AMD E450 processor which in all the benchmarks is far faster then the Atoms - and crucially, a seriously faster video card compared to the ones bundles with Intel Atoms. Perfect for watching now (and hopefully in the future) all those heavily compressed video streams - or even a bit of game playing - if that's your thing. Also - HP netbooks and laptops in general have probably the loudest speakers around (compared to many other netbooks and laptops) in my experience. All in all, a magnificently useful machine in an appropriately small package - and a perfectly suitable price - considering what you get.
Price? Hmmm. Hard drive rather than SSD? As long as it's easily swapped. Screen resolution is utter shit. 1024x600? Seriously? They could have gotten another inch of diagonal out of that screen if it didn't have the worlds fattest bezel. Suits have moved on and have either got an "ultrabook" or a tablet (or both). IT people see the point of a netbook but they'll just laugh at that spec.
Got myself a HP DM1-4020sa for £299 from a well know retail group.
11.6" screen 1366 x 768.
AMD E-450 Fusion chip with Radeon HD 6320M grphics.
Windows 7 Home Premium
Marketed as an entertainment notebook, but way more useful than Intel netbook offerings IMO.
It's time we stopped calling them this. These things are not "netbooks", they're sub-notebooks. The wave of netbooks towards the end of the last decade entered the game as a quite different kind of device: not something you worked ON but something you worked THROUGH, a window out into the Cloud.
To do this efficiently they needed minimal local processing power and storage. Any operating system supporting a browser was sufficient, but it made sense to use a modular operation system that could be pared down to the minimum requirements. As netbooks were intended to be cheap the ideal operating system would be one that cost nothing in licence fees. Linux was the obvious choice on both counts. Netbooks ran Linux.
It's a matter of historical record that Microsoft, scared of the threat to its own operating system business, and therefore to the whole Windows ecology, mounted a two-pronged assault against netbooks.
Firstly, as the netbook manufacturers' businesses depended very largely on Windows, in which Microsoft has a market-controlling monopoly, Microsoft was able to pressurise them into switching netbooks over to a virtually free-of-charge version of Windows, Windows XP, at the time obsolescent on mainstream PC and notebook hardware.
Netbooks now looked and behaved like notebooks, although XP was noticeably less efficient than Linux on this hardware. This facilitated the second part of the two-pronged attack: a public mind-fuck that destroyed the original "netbook" concept and left punters seeing the product as just a cheap, much less useful, notebook. The campaign was so successful that it has now completely buried the real netbook as if it never existed.
Tablets, of course, are in a sense a re-run of this same race. The fact that tablets are touch-driven, and physically not just smaller but quite different from notebooks, makes it much harder for Microsoft to pull the same stunt again. This time around punters are not confused, and we see iOS (based on the Linux-like BSD Unix) and Android (based on Linux) thrashing Windows so thoroughly that Microsoft, rather than shaking the dust off a mothballed version of its operating system has had to knuckle down and create a vastly revised version that will work well with the new generation of hardware. This is what healthy market competition is meant to do.
As the tablet business hots up (it's barely started) let's for heaven's sake clear away the rubble of that Microsoft mind-fuck and rediscover the lesson of the netbook.
as I recall, The Reg was running stories at the time about people returning their netbooks because they didn't run Office/Outlook/Minesweeper/whatever.
So there was clearly a demand for a Wintel machine in that form factor. Probably not the universal demand that was implied by the universal switch to Win7 Starter and XP but some demand.
I too look forward to an engaging competition in the tablet market.
It was pure MS propaganda. How comes nobody is returning his Android/iPad because of the lack of any Microsoft Office or Outlook capability as well as the lack of a familiar user interface ? How comes that demand for Wintel machines vanished so quickly ?
No, my friend, the answer is simple. Microsoft had no alternative OS that would run on a tablet and, most importantly, no leverage at all against tablet manufacturers.
Now you see it ?
I don't totally buy into it.
You can play the "Microsoft are the devil and netbooks would have lead LINUX DOMINATION AHAHAHAHA" card if you want but I find that a bit of a stretch. If all you had to go on was comments on the Register, you'd believe that nobody ever wanted Windows at all, that all MS products bluescreen every 22 seconds (even the mice) and that everyone would dearly love to go to the penguin side if Steve Ballmer didn't have rude pictures of them with a farmyard animal.
This is probably not the case. Therefore, _some_ demand is not a stretch.
you would try to answer at least one of my questions. I did not say that Windows is crap and that Linux should rule. I just said that the arguments offered to justify killing the netbooks were flaky. And if Microsoft is in your opinion such an angel, why did they impose those drastic hardware specs limitations to netbook OEMs ?
As for the tablets, so far Linux largely dominates when compared to Windows, as much it may upset you.
The only "matter of historical record" is that manufacturers quickly realized that buyers wanted Windows, not Linux, on their netbooks, and that's what they delivered.
Microsoft didn't need to pressurize the manufacturers to switch to XP, if anything the manufacturers pressurized Microsoft to keep XP available as an option, because Vista wasn't happy with the hardware available in the Netbook form-factor at the time.
(The fact that there are millions of android devices out there, from hundreds of companies, large and small, might suggest that if there was any perceived market for a linux netbook, someone would have stepped up to the plate and delivered. But it's much easier to blame the lack of such a device on Microsoft).
I don't see why people are bitching about the size of the screen. There's a noticable difference between the 10 and 11 inch netbooks. For ultra portability, the 10" is my preference - The DM1 at 11" is too big for what I want it for.
That resolution is the standard Netbook one, so where's the problem?
I just hope they make a model with SSD and the N2800 (or even N2850) CPU and I'll be buying one. Been waiting for Cedar Trail for 6 months now - patience at an end!
Bold? Not so sure. It's a cosmetic respray of their existing consumer netbook(s) - so it couldn't have taken much of an effort (or financial risk, for that matter). Not sure if the consumer version is available yet with the new Atoms - but everything else seems the same (except Windows version, of course).
It does seem insane they are pitching at business a machine which has a version of Windows for home users. Maybe on some levels it might make sense - as others pointed out - but the paradox is right in the spec. Somebody's got their wires crossed.
For the price, this seems pretty tidy IMHO.
The killer feature of a netbook for me is the small form factor - and I'm prepared to trade a bit of screen real estate in exchange for uber portability. If I was a busy executive doing a lot of travel, but still needed a machine for doing mundane email/office-y things, then why not consider a netbook?


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Haman Begging the Mercy of Esther, by Rembrandt
|Grand Vizier of the Achaemenid Empire
In office
c. 483 BCE – c. 475 BCE
|Xerxes I[1]
|Personal details
c. 520 BCE
Achaemenid Empire
c. 475 BCE (aged 44–45)
Achaemenid Empire
Hammedatha (father)
Amathlai (mother)
Haman (also known as Haman the Agagite המן האגגי, or Haman the evil המן הרשע) is the main antagonist in the Book of Esther, who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was a vizier in the Persian empire under King Ahasuerus, traditionally identified as Xerxes I.[2] As his name indicates, Haman was a descendant of Agag, the king of the Amalekites, a people who were wiped out in certain areas by King Saul and David.[3]
Haman in the Hebrew Bible
Haman is described as the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and his wife Amathlai.[3] In the story, Haman instigates a plot to kill all of the Jews of ancient Persia. Haman attempts to convince Ahasuerus to order the killing of Mordecai and all the Jews of the lands he ruled. The plot is foiled by Queen Esther, the king's recent wife, who is herself a Jew. Haman is hanged from the gallows that had originally been built, on the advice of his wife Zeresh, to hang Mordecai. The dead bodies of his ten sons Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha, Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha, Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai and Vaizatha (or Vajezatha), are also hanged after they die in battle trying to kill the Jews (Esther 9:5-14). Haman is upset that Mordecai refuses to bow down to him, as told in chapter 3:
. . . and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him. And all the king's servants, who were in the king's gate, bowed, and did obeisance to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai did not bow, or do him obeisance. (Esther, 3:1-2)[4]
And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow[3] or do him obedience, then Haman was full of wrath. But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had told him of the people of Mordecai; so that Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, the people of Mordecai. (Esther, 3:5-6)[4]
Queen Esther, learning that her people are in danger, risks her own life to spare the Jews living in Ancient Persia.
King Ahasuerus asked Queen Esther, "Who is he? Where is the man who has dared to do such a thing?" 6 Esther said, "The adversary and enemy is this vile Haman." Then Haman was terrified before the king and queen. 7 The king got up in a rage, left his wine and went out into the palace garden. But Haman, realizing that the king had already decided his fate, stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life. 8 Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, "Will he even molest the queen while she is with me in the house?" 9 As soon as the word left the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.
9 Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said, "A gallows 50 feet [b] high stands by Haman's house. He had it made for Mordecai, who spoke up to help the king." 10 The king said, "Hang him on it!" 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's fury subsided. (Esther, 7:6-10)[5]
9 Then Harbona, one of the king's eunuchs, said, "Haman has set up a sharpened pole that stands seventy-five feet tall in his own courtyard. He intended to use it to impale Mordecai, the man who saved the king from assassination." "Then impale Haman on it!" the king ordered. 10 So they impaled Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai, and the king's anger subsided.[6]
Haman in other Jewish sources
In Rabbinical tradition, Haman is considered to be an archetype of evil and persecutor of the Jews. Having attempted to exterminate the Jews of Persia, and rendering himself thereby their worst enemy, Haman naturally became the center of many Talmudic legends. Being at one time in extreme want, he sold himself as a slave to Mordechai (Meg. 15a). He was a barber at Kefar Karzum for the space of twenty-two years (ib. 16a). Haman had an idolatrous image embroidered on his garments, so that those who bowed to him at command of the king bowed also to the image (Esth. R. vii.).
Haman was also an astrologer, and when he was about to fix the time for the genocide of the Jews he first cast lots to ascertain which was the most auspicious day of the week for that purpose.[3] Each day, however, proved to be under some influence favorable to the Jews.[3] He then sought to fix the month, but found that the same was true of each month; thus, Nisan was favorable to the Jews because of the Passover sacrifice; Iyyar, because of the small Passover.[3] But when he arrived at Adar he found that its zodiacal sign was Pisces, and he said, "Now I shall be able to swallow them as fish which swallow one another" (Esth. R. vii.; Targ. Sheni iii.).[3]
Haman had 365 counselors, but the advice of none was so good as that of his wife, Zeresh.[3] She induced Haman to build a gallows for Mordechai, assuring him that this was the only way in which he would be able to prevail over his enemy, for hitherto the just had always been rescued from every other kind of death.[3] As God foresaw that Haman himself would be hanged on the gallows, He asked which tree would volunteer to serve as the instrument of death. Each tree, declaring that it was used for some holy purpose, objected to being soiled by the unclean body of Haman. Only the thorn-tree could find no excuse, and therefore offered itself for a gallows (Esth. R. ix.; Midr. Abba Gorion vii., ed. Buber, Wilna, 1886; in Targum Sheni this is narrated somewhat differently).
Haman's lineage is given in the Targum Sheni as follows: "Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, son of Srach, son of Buza, son of Iphlotas, son of Dyosef, son of Dyosim, son of Prome, son of Ma'dei, son of Bla'akan, son of Intimros, son of Haridom, son of Sh'gar, son of Nigar, son of Farmashta, son of Vayezatha, (son of Agag, son of Sumkei,) son of Amalek, son of the concubine of Eliphaz, firstborn son of Esau". There are apparently several generations omitted between Agag, who was executed by Samuel the prophet in the time of King Saul, and Amalek, who lived several hundred years earlier.
Haman is mentioned by Josephus in his Antiquities of the Jews. Josephus' account of the story is drawn from the Septuagint translation of the Book of Esther and from other Greek and Jewish sources, some no longer extant.
In the LXX, Haman is called a "Macedonian" by Xerxes (see Esther 16:10). Scholars have had two different explanations for this naming. 1. Macedonian was used to replace the word "Mede", and emphasises this when he also says that there was no Persian blood in him. (In practice the Persians and the Medes co-ruled an empire, but there was great friction between them.) 2. Another opinion is that Xerxes was calling him a Macedonian Spy, due to his insistence on causing civil war within Persia between the Jews and the Persians.
Purim traditions
The Jewish holiday of Purim commemorates the story of the deliverance of the Jews and the defeat of Haman. On that day, the Book of Esther is read publicly and much noise and tumult is raised at every mention of Haman′s name. A special noisemaker called in Hebrew a ra'ashan (רעשן) (in Yiddish: "grogger" or "hamandreyir") is used to express disdain for Haman. Pastry known as Oznei Haman (אזני המן, lit. Ears of Haman) (in Yiddish; Hamentashen) are traditionally eaten on this day.
Etymology and meaning of the name
The name has been equated with the Persian name Omanes[7] (Old Persian: 𐎡𐎶𐎴𐎡𐏁 Imāniš) recorded by Greek historians. Several etymologies have been proposed for it: it has been associated with the Persian word Hamayun meaning "illustrious".[7] (naming dictionaries typically list it as meaning "magnificent"), or with the sacred drink Haoma.[7] or with the Persian name Vohuman meaning "good thoughts".[2] The 19th-century Bible critic Jensen associated it with the Elamite god Humban, a view dismissed by later scholars.[8]Ahriman, a Zoroastrian spirit of destruction, has also been proposed as an etymon.
In popular culture
Haman appeared in The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible episode "Queen Esther". The 1994 animated television film Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights depicts Haman as an evil vizier to the sultan in its story segment, "Aliyah-Din". Mr. Lunt portrayed this biblical figure in the 2000 VeggieTales episode "Esther the Girl who Became Queen". In the South Park episode "Jewbilee," Haman is depicted as the primary antagonist, trying to enter the mortal world once more to rule over the Jews.
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- ↑ Robert J. Littman (January 1975). "The Religious Policy of Xerxes and the "Book of Esther"". The Jewish Quarterly Review.
- 1 2 Jacob Hoschander, The Book of Esther in the Light of History, Oxford University Press, 1923
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Hirsch, Emil; Seligsohn, M.; Schechter, Solomon (1904). "HAMAN THE AGAGITE". In Singer, Isidore; et al. Jewish Encyclopedia. 6. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company. p. 189–190. Retrieved 13 February 2017
- 1 2 "Esther - Chapter 3 - Esther". Chabad.org. Retrieved 2013-06-06.
- ↑ "Esther - Chapter 7 - Esther". Chabad.org. Retrieved 2013-06-06.
- ↑ "New Living Translation™: Discover The NLT - Scripture Search". www.newlivingtranslation.com.
- 1 2 3 Encyclopaedia Judaica CD-ROM Edition 1.0 1997, Haman
- ↑ A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Esther, Lewis Bayles Paton, The Biblical World, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Feb., 1909)
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Hirsch, Emil; Seligsohn, M.; Schechter, Solomon (1904). "HAMAN THE AGAGITE". In Singer, Isidore; et al. Jewish Encyclopedia. 6. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company. p. 189–190.


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The hills are alive with the sound of music for country singer Carrie Underwood – she is following in the footsteps of Julie Andrews after signing on to play Maria Von Trapp in an upcoming TV adaptation of The Sound of Music."
Andrews played the singing nun-turned-governess of a widowed naval officer's seven children in the Oscar-winning musical back in 1965, and now the "American Idol" champion is set to take on the role in a revival for NBC.
Further casting decisions have not yet been announced.
Executive Robert Greenblatt tells People.com, "Speaking for everyone at NBC, we couldn't be happier to have
the gifted Carrie Underwood take up the mantle of the great Maria von Trapp. She was an iconic woman who will now be played by an iconic artist."
The three-hour live special will air during the holidays next year.
The "Before He Cheats" hitmaker has only acted twice before – she made her film debut as a church leader in 2011′s "Soul Surfer" and portrayed a medical sales representative in one episode of hit "How I Met Your Mother" a year prior.


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Beginning on April 30 through May 20, Moraine Park Campground in Rocky Mountain National Park will close for a major repaving project. Aspenglen Campground will open early for the season on April 30 to accommodate campers. Aspenglen Campground will be first-come, first-served until May 22, when it will revert to the reservation system.
Loop B in Moraine Park Campground, which consists of 77 sites, will reopen on Tuesday, May 21 and the rest of Moraine Park Campground will reopen on May 22 for the beginning of the reservation season.
For more information about Rocky Mountain National Park, please call the park's Information Office at (970) 586-1206.
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NCAA West Region Qualifiers | West Region Schedule
Santa Barbara, Calif- Eight Gauchos have punched qualifying bids into the NCAA West Preliminary Round held May 29-31 at the University of Arkansas. Four men and four women will make the trip to Fayetteville in search of a top-12 finish in their respective event, earning a spot in the NCAA Final held at the University of Oregon's Historic Hayward Field.
Qualifying Procedure
To qualify for the NCAA "First Round" an athlete must be ranked in the top-48 in their event. There are two regions: East and West, which are basically separated by the Mississippi River give or take a few schools within close proximity. In the relay events the top-24 teams qualify for the NCAA Prelims.
At the Preliminary Round, both sites (Fayetteville in the West and Jacksonville in the East) will hold the same events on each day. To advance to the NCAA Final an athlete will need to finish in the top-12 in their event.
Evan Walker: 100m- 10.50
Evan Walker, a senior from Loyola High School in Los Angeles has qualified for the NCAA Preliminary Championships in the 100m dash. His qualifying time of 10.50 (2.1w) was within the NCAA qualifying wind standards of 4.0 but over the 2.0 standard for record purposes, otherwise his effort would have established a new UCSB benchmark. His wind legal lifetime best of 10.58 is just off the UCSB record of 10.56 held by Sandy Combs.
Walker will take to the track at 6:30pm on Thursday, May 29th in the qualifying rounds.
Shyan Vaziri: 1500m- 3:42.44 ** School Record Holder
Shyan Vaziri is a junior from Scripps Rach in San Diego. He has developed into one of the most electric mid-distance talents on the west coast and will go to Fayetteville ranked 12th in the 1500m. Vaziri took a narrow second at the Big West Championships with a 3:46.62 kick-down effort. His personal best came at the Brian Clay Invite at Azusa Pacific where he ran 3:42.44. Vaziri's APU time set a new UCSB school record in the 1500m. In a pre-conference 800m tune-up at Occidental, Vaziri set a new lifetime best at 1:49.05, showing fine closing speed.
Vaziri will run at 5:30pm on Thursday, May 29 in the qualifying rounds.
Bryce Rausa: 3,000m Steeplechase- 8:57.94
Bryce Rausa was the Big West bronze medalist in the 3,000m steeplechase. He fired off his PR at the Mt. Sac Relays, taking second in a loaded collegiate field at 8:57.94. Rausa is the first steepler since 2010 to break the 9 minute barrier and is the 8th Gaucho to eclipse the standard. This spring Rausa has established new personal bests in the 800m (1:51.94), the 1500m (3:48.91) and in the 3,000m (8:35.65).
Rausa will run at 8:50pm on Friday, May 30th in a one race quarterfinal to decided the top-12 steeplers in the West Region.
Albert Hughes: Hammer- 199'6
Albert Hughes, a junior from Pacifica HS in Garden Grove will make his NCAA Regional debut in the men's hammer throw. Hughes is a two-time Big West runner-up in the event and has a lifetime best throw of 199'6, which he set at the Cal Poly Dual. Hughes is fifth all-time at UCSB in the hammer. Hughes won four collegiate meets in the hammer in 2014.
Hughes will throw at 10am on Friday, May 30th. Throwing in three flights of 16, the twelve best throwers will advance to Eugene.
Jessica Johnson: 400m- 53.77
Jessica Johnson put together a solid second-half to her 2014 season and found herself on the Big West podium. Johnson took third in the Big West 400m final with a time of 54.29. She set a new lifetime best at the Occidental Invite running 53.77. Johnson has moved to third all-time in UCSB history in the 400m. She ran the 200m once in 2014, running a 24.60, moving her to fourth all-time in the event in her only appearance.
Johnson will step on the track at 7:45pm on Thursday, May 29th for her qualifying round.
Tori Tsolis: 1500m- 4:24.81
Tori Tsolis rallied her women's team at the Big West Championship and inspired them with her gutsy second place finish in the 1500m. Tsolis went for the lead late and finished a narrow second with a new lifetime best of 4:24.81. Tsolis moved to fifth all-time in UCSB history in the 1500m. Tsolis also won the 1500m at the Cal Poly Dual and at the 2014 Big West Challenge Cup, both with PR performances.
Tsolis will toe the line at 6pm on Thursday, May 29th for her qualifying round.
Jessica Emde: High Jump- 5'9.25
Jessica Emde, a sophomore from Oakridge HS will jump in her first NCAA Preliminary meet after her Big West bronze medal jump of 5'9.25. Emde also jumped 5'8 at the Cal-Nevada Championships to take third. She jumped 5'7 to win the Cal Poly Dual. Emde has four wins so far this season, totaling 8 over her two year career at UCSB thus far. She is fifth all-time in UCSB history with her leap of 5'9.25 (1.76m).
Emde will get vertical in the last field event of the meet set to start at 6pm on Saturday, May 31st.
Melissa Rake: Javelin- 151'0 **School Record Holder
Melissa Rake added nearly 30 feet to her freshman PR and punched a new school record at the Big West Championships with her throw of 151'0. Rake won the UC Riverside Spring Break Invite with a throw of 144'3. She also took top honors at the Cal Poly Dual with a throw of 139'9.
Rake will throw in the first field event of the meet held Thursday, May 29th.


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Professor, Department of Cell Biology
Chair, Department of Cell Biology
Judith and Burton P. Resnick Chair in Cell Biology
Our laboratory is interested in understanding the mechanisms controlling mammalian development and cell differentiation. We study the epigenetic functions of chromatin proteins and transcription factors in control of gene expression in embryonic stem cells, in red blood cells, and in Drosophila. Our approaches involve directed gene inactivation and transgenesis in mice and Drosophila. We also study control of proliferation and differentiation in red blood cell progenitors and in leukemia cells in which normal development is disrupted. Currently there are two major projects underway in the lab.
Role of H1 Linker Histones and Chromatin Remodeling Factors in Chromatin Structure, DNA Methylation, the Histone Code, Gene Expression and Development in Mice and Drosophila. Recent studies show that posttranslational modifications of core histones (H2A, H2B, H3, H4) (the Histone Code) play a very important role in control of gene expression. The H1 linker histones are more diverse than the core histones. Mice contain 8 H1 histone subtypes including differentiation-specific and tissue-specific subtypes, whereas Drosophila has only one type of H1. H1's are thought to be responsible for the final level of packaging DNA into the compact chromatin structure but we know very little about their role in gene expression and development. We are studying the functional roles of H1 linker histones by inactivating (knocking-out) specific H1 genes in mice and the single H1 in Drosophila. We are also reintroducing mutant H1 linker histones into H1 depleted mouse cells and flies, to perform structure-function studies. We have also established a new role for H1 histone in DNA methylation, genomic imprinting and establishment of the histone code. We are also studying the chromatin remodeling factor that assembles H1 histone into chromatin.
Control of Proliferation and Differentiation in Normal and Leukemic Blood Cells: In this project we are investigating how cell proliferation and differentiation are coordinated in normal blood cell development and how this coordination is disrupted in leukemia. We have investigating the molecular mechanisms for the cross talk between these two cellular programs in normal and leukemic blood cells. Our studies are focused on the relationships between the master transcription factors that control blood cell development and the cell cycle regulators (cyclins, cyclin-dependent kinases (cdks), cdk inhibitors and RB) that regulate the cell division cycle proliferation. This project includes genome-wide approaches involving chromatin immunoprecipitation and high throughput sequencing (ChIP-Seq) and gene expression profiling by RNA-Seq.
Evgeniya N. Andreyeva, Travis J. Bernardo, Tatyana D. Kolesnikova, Xingwu Lu, Lyubov A. Yarinich, Boris A. Bartholdy, Xiaohan Guo, Olga V. Posukh, Sean Healton, Michael A. Willcockson, Alexey V. Pindyurin, Igor F. Zhimulev, Arthur I. Skoultchi, and Dmitry V. Fyodorov. Regulatory functions and chromatin loading dynamics of linker histone H1 during endoreplication in Drosophila. Genes Dev. 2017; 31: 603-616. PMID: 28404631. [PDF Full Text]
Kokavec J., Zikmund T., Savvulidi F., Kulvait V., Edelmann W., Skoultchi A.I., Stopka T.. Smarca5 (Snf2h) is required for Proliferation of Hematopoietic Stem Cells Differentiating into Erythroid and Myeloid lineages. Stem Cells. 2017 Mar 9. doi: 10.1002/stem.2604. [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 28276606. [PDF Full Text]
Xu N., Lu X., Kavi H., Emelyanov A.V., Bernardo T.J., Vershilova E., Skoultchi A.I., Fyodorov D.V.. BEN domain protein Elba2 can functionally substitute for linker histone H1 in Drosophila in vivo. Sci Rep. 2016 Sep 30;6:34354. doi: 10.1038/srep34354. PMID: 27687115. [PDF Full Text]
Geeven G., Zhu Y., Kim B.J., Bartholdy B.A., Yang S.M., Macfarlan T.S., Gifford W.D., Pfaff S.L., Verstegen M.J., Pinto H., Vermunt M.W., Creyghton M.P., Wijchers P.J., Stamatoyannopoulos J.A., Skoultchi A.I., and de Laat W. (2015). Local compartment changes and regulatory landscape alterations in histone H1-depleted cells. Genome Biol. PMID:26700097 PMCID: PMC4699363. [PDF Full Text]
Kavi H., Emelyanov A.V., Fyodorov D.V. and Skoultchi A.I.. (2016). Independent Biological and Biochemical Functions for Individual Structural Domains of Drosophila Linker Histone H1. J Biol Chem. PMID:27226620 PMCID: PMC4946930. [PDF Full Text]
Kavi H., Lu X., Xu N., Bartholdy B.A., Vershilova E., Skoultchi A.I. and Fyodorov D.V. (2015). A genetic screen and transcript profiling reveal a shared regulatory program for Drosophila linker histone H1 and chromatin remodeler CHD1. G3 (Bethesda). PMID:25628309 PMCID:PMC4390582.[PDF Full Text]
Xu N., Emelyanov A.V., Fyodorov D.V. and Skoultchi A.I. (2014). Drosophila linker histone H1 coordinates STAT-dependent organization of heterochromatin and suppresses tumorigenesis caused by hyperactive JAK-STAT signaling. Epigenetics Chromatin. PMID:25177369 PMCID: PMC4149798.[PDF Full Text]
Lu, X., Wontakal S.N., Kavi H., Kim B.J, Guzzardo P.M., Emelyanov A.V., Xu N., Hannon G.J., Zavadil J. Fyodorov D.V. and A.I. Skoultchi (2013). Drosophila H1 regulates the genetic activity of heterochromatin by recruitment of Su(var)3-9. Science 340(6128): 78-81. PMID: 23559249. [PDF Full Text]
Yang S.M., Kim B.J., Norwood-Toro L., A.I. Skoultchi. (2013) H1 linker histone promotes epigenetic silencing by regulating both DNA methylation and histone H3 methylation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 110(5):1708-13 PMID: 23302691. PMCID: PMC3562819. [PDF Full Text]
Yu, Y., Mo Y., Ebenezer D., Bhattacharyya S., Liu H., Sundaravel S., Wonkatal S., Cartier J., Caces B., Artz A., Nischal S., Bhagat T., Bathon D., Maqbool S., Gligich O.,Suzuki M., Steidl U., Godley L., Skoultchi A.I., Greally J., Wickrema A. and Verma A. (2013). High resolution methylome analysis reveals widespread functional hypomethylation during adult human erythropoiesis. J Biol Chem. PMID: 23306203 PMCID: PMC3610956. [ PDF Full Text ]
Popova, E.Y., Grigoryev S..A., Fan Y., Skoultchi A.I., Zhang S.S. and Barnstable C.J. (2013). Developmentally Regulated Linker Histone H1c Promotes Heterochromatin Condensation and Mediates Structural Integrity of Rod Photoreceptors in Mouse Retina. J Biol Chem. PMID: 23645681 PMCID: PMC3682587. [ PDF Full Text ]
Wontakal, S. N., X. Guo, C. Smith, T. MacCarthy, E. H. Bresnick, A. Bergman, M. P. Snyder, S. M. Weissman, D. Zheng and A. I. Skoultchi (2012). A core erythroid transcriptional network is repressed by a master regulator of myelo-lymphoid differentiation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109(10): 3832-3837. [PDF Full Text ]
Melcer, S., H. Hezroni, E. Rand, M. Nissim-Rafinia, A. I. Skoultchi, C. L. Stewart, M. Bustin and E. Meshorer (2012). "Histone modifications and lamin A regulate chromatin protein dynamics in early embryonic stem cell differentiation." Nat Commun 3: 910. [PDF Full Text]
Nishiyama, M., A. I. Skoultchi and K. I. Nakayama (2012). "Histone H1 recruitment by CHD8 is essential for suppression of the Wnt-beta-catenin signaling pathway." Mol Cell Biol 32(2): 501-512. [PDF Full Text]
Maclean, J. A., A. Bettegowda, B. J. Kim, C. H. Lou, S. M. Yang, A. Bhardwaj, S. Shanker, Z. Hu, Y. Fan, S. Eckardt, K. J. McLaughlin, A. I. Skoultchi and M. F. Wilkinson (2011). "The rhox homeobox gene cluster is imprinted and selectively targeted for regulation by histone h1 and DNA methylation." Mol Cell Biol 31(6): 1275-1287. [PDF Full Text]
Wontakal SN, Guo X, Will B, Shi M, Raha D, Mahajan MC, Weissman S, Snyder M, Steidl U, Zheng D, Skoultchi AI. (2011). A Large Gene Network in Immature Erythroid Cells Is Controlled by the Myeloid and B Cell Transcriptional Regulator PU.1. PLoS Genet. 2011 Jun;7(6):e1001392. Epub 2011 Jun 9. [PDF Full Text ]
Funato, H., M. Sato, C. M. Sinton, L. Gautron, S. C. Williams, A. Skach, J. K. Elmquist, A. I. Skoultchi and M. Yanagisawa (2010). "Loss of Goosecoid-like and DiGeorge syndrome critical region 14 in interpeduncular nucleus results in altered regulation of rapid eye movement sleep." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107(42): 18155-18160. [PDF Full Text]
Eskeland, R., M. Leeb, G. R. Grimes, C. Kress, S. Boyle, D. Sproul, N. Gilbert, Y. Fan, A. I. Skoultchi, A. Wutz and W. A. Bickmore (2010). "Ring1B compacts chromatin structure and represses gene expression independent of histone ubiquitination." Mol Cell38(3): 452-464. [PDF Full Text]
Papetti, M., Wontakal, S.N., Stopka, T., Skoultchi, A.I. (2010). GATA-1 directly regulates p21 gene expression during erythroid differentiation. Cell Cycle 9(10), 1972-1980. (Epub May 18, 2010). [PDF Full Text]
Burda, P., Curik, N,, Kokavec, J., Basova, P., Mikulenkova, D., Skoultchi, A.I., Zavadil, J., and Stopka, T. (2009). PU.1 Activation Relieves GATA-1-Mediated Repression of Cebpa and Cbfb during Leukemia Differentiation. Mol Cancer Res. 7, 1693-1703. PMID: 1982599. [PDF Full Text]
Choe, K. S., O. Ujhelly, S. N. Wontakal, and A. I Skoultchi. 2009. PU.1 directly regulates CDK6 gene expression, linking the cell proliferation and differentiation programs in erythroid cells. J. Biol. Chem. Epub December 2, 2009. [PDF Full Text]
Lu, X., SN Wontakal, AV Emelyanov, P. Morcillo, AY Konev, DV Fyodorov, A.I. Skoultchi. 2009. Linker histone H1 is essential for Drosophila development, the establishment of pericentric heterochromatin, and a normal polytene chromosome structure. Genes Dev 23:452-465. PDF Full Text
Nishiyama, M, K., Oshikawa, Y. Tsukada, T. Nakagawa, S Iemura, T. Natsume, Y Fan, A. Kikuchi, A.I. Skoultchi, K.I. Nakayama. 2009. CHD8 suppresses p53-mediated apoptosis through histone H1 recruitment during early embryogenesis. Nat Cell Biol 11:172-82.[PDF Full Text]
Giambra, V., Volpi, S., Emelyanov, A.V., Pflugh, D., Bothwell, A.L., Norio, P., Fan, Y., Ju, Z., Skoultchi, A.I., Hardy, R.R., Frezza, D., Birshtein, B.K. 2008. Pax5 and linker histone H1 coordinate DNA methylation and histone modifications in the 3' regulatory region of the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus. Mol Cell Biol 28, 6123-33. [PDF Full Text]
Chong, S., Vickaryous, N., Ashe, A., Zamudio, N., Youngson, N., Hemley, S., Stopka, T., Skoultchi, A., Matthews, J., Scott, H.S., de Kretser, D., O'Bryan, M., Blewitt, M., and Whitelaw, E. (2007). Modifiers of epigenetic reprogramming show paternal effects in the mouse. Nat Genet 39, 614-622. [PDF Full Text]
Papetti, M. and Skoultchi, A.I. Reprogramming Leukemia Cells to Terminal Differentiation and Growth Arrest by RNA Interference of PU.1 Molecular Cancer Research 5, 1053-1062, October 1, 2007. doi: 10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-07-0145. [PDF Full Text ]
Murga M, Jaco I, Fan Y, Soria R, Martinez-Pastor B, Cuadrado M, Yang SM, Blasco MA, Skoultchi AI, Fernandez-Capetillo O. Global chromatin compaction limits the strength of the DNA damage response. J Cell Biol. 2007 Sep 24;178(7):1101-8. [PDF Full Text ]
Woodcock, C.L., A.I. Skoultchi and Y. Fan (2006). Role of linker histone in chromatin structure and function: H1 stoichiometry and nucleosome repeat length. Chromosome Res 14:17-25. [PDF Full Text ]
Lang, D., Lu, M.M., Huang, L., Engleka, K.A., Zhang, M., Chu, E.Y., Lipner, S., Skoultchi, A., Millar, S.E., and Epstein, J.A. (2005). Pax3 functions at a nodal point in melanocyte stem cell differentiation. Nature 433, 884-887. [PDF Full Text ]
Fan, Y., T. Nikitina, J. Zhao, T. Fleury, R. Bhattacharyya, E. Bouhassira, A. Stein, C. Woodcock and A.I. Skoultchi (2005). Depletion of histone H1 in mammals alters global chromatin structure but causes specific changes in gene regulation. Cell 123(7): 1199-1212 [PDF Full Text ]
Stopka, T., D. Amanatullah, M. Papetti and A.I. Skoultchi (2005). "PU.1 inhibits the erythroid program by binding to GATA-1 on DNA and creating a repressive chromatin structure.?nbsp; Embo J., 24(21): 3712-23 [PDF Full Text ]
Yu, Y.L., Chiang, Y.J., Chen, Y.C., Papetti, M., Juo, C.G., Skoultchi, A.I., and Yen, J.J. (2005). MAPK-mediated phosphorylation of GATA-1 promotes Bcl-XL expression and cell survival. J Biol Chem 280, 29533-29542. PMID: 15967790 [PDF Full Text ]
Fan Y. and Skoultchi AI. (2004) Genetic Analysis of H1 Linker Histone Subtypes And Their Functions In Mice. Methods Enzymol. 377:85-107. [PDF Full Text ]
Choe K.S., F. Radparvar, et al. (2003). "Reversal of tumorigenicity and the block to differentiation in erythroleukemia cells by GATA-1. Cancer Res 63(19): 6363-9 [PDF Full Text ]
Rekhtman N., K.S. Choe, et al. (2003) "PU.1 and pRB interact and cooperate to repress GATA-1 and block erythroid differentiation. Mol Cell Biol. 23(21): 7460-74 [PDF Full Text ]
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House of Commons
Session 2013-14
Publications on the internet
The Register of Members' Financial Interests: Part 1
As at 28th April 2014
HINDS, Damian (East Hampshire)
1. Directorships
Revecon Ltd; general business consulting, mainly in the travel and leisure sectors. Address: 7 Park Road, Bowdon, Cheshire WA14 3JG. Company dissolved October 2012.
4. Sponsorships
(a) Donations to my constituency party or association, which have been or will be reported by the party to the Electoral Commission:
Name of donor: Terence Frederick David Parkinson
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £10,000
Donor status: individual
(Registered 16 April 2014)
9. Shareholdings
(a) Revecon Ltd (until October 2012).


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Peter Jackson brushes off animal cruelty protests at The Hobbit premiere
Director PETER JACKSON took another swipe at animal rights campaigners on the day he premiered his first THE HOBBIT film in New Zealand, insisting he wouldn't let the red carpet protesters "spoil" the event for fans.
Activists at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) launched a public war of words with the moviemaker this month (Nov12) following complaints from four wranglers who worked on The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first film in the trilogy.
Jackson denied their claims that animals suffered abuse and died as a result of incompetence during the making of the films, and he spoke out again on Wednesday (28Nov12) as the first blockbuster received its world premiere in Wellington.
A number of protesters demonstrated outside the event, holding up placards which read, "3 horses died for this film" and "The Hobbit: Unexpected Cruelty".
During a press conference, Jackson insisted he wouldn't let the protests overshadow his big day, telling reporters, "(There was) absolutely... no mistreatment, no abuse... At the end of the day we've made a movie we're extremely proud of. So many people have worked for so long, it will take a bit more than that to spoil the event...
"You have got a very radical, political organisation that has jumped on this and personally it's an insult to anyone who worked on the film... We care about what we do, we care about all the animals."


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ARES and Emergency Work
Getting the Message Through
There are three main campaigns that ARRL has produced to promote Amateur Radio.
This one is about EmComm - emergency communications and the critical role that Amateur Radio continues to play in providing support to many response organizations.
Amateur Radio operators are often the people behind the scenes who make the "heroes" look good. Without reliable communications as provided by ARES and other ham organizations, emergencies quickly can turn into total disasters.
This is an excellent presentation for young adults, political groups and those whose interests lie in the emergency response areas.
The EmComm presentation has several files in a suite which are intended to stay together. Audio, video, PowerPoint, pictures and even a script you can modify for your local uses - everything to make a first class presentation.
We highly recommend you also contact the ARRL and request the brochures which accompany this campaign. Go see the brochures.
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