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If you didn't get your fill of the debate about the best ways to evaluate and compensate teachers from the strike in Chicago, you can now tune in to hear similar arguments in Idaho.
Voters there are going to decide the fate of three different state laws that would phase out tenure, offer financial incentives to top-performing teachers and strip teachers of collective bargaining rights.
All of these laws are being challenged by what are known as popular referendums: when citizens challenge laws that have already been passed by the legislature and signed by the governor.
About half of the states allow popular referendums.
They are distinct from ballot initiatives, which are shepherded from start to finish by citizens or interest groups outside the legislature. These amount to vetoes by the public.
This year, there are popular referendums touching on labor issues, redistricting, immigration and gay marriage.
"It was clear where the public was on these issues, and yet the Legislature still disregarded the public will and moved ahead with it," says Idaho state Rep. Brian Cronin, a Democrat who is working to repeal his colleagues' handiwork on education policy.
All told, there are 12 citizens' vetoes on ballots nationwide this November. That doesn't sound like a lot, but it's the most seen in any year since 1920 and double the number in either 2008 or 2010.
It's not clear why this tool has been rarely used until now, but it's a clear expression of voter anger (even though not all veto measures pass).
"The increase in the use of both the recall and popular referenda are symptomatic of the political polarization that we're seeing both in American government and the electorate," says Jennie Bowser, who tracks ballot measures for the National Conference of State Legislatures. "The popular referendum is the tug back in that game of tug of war."
In certain states, voters are used to making and unmaking public policy at the ballot. That makes it difficult for legislators to craft laws, particularly on the most contentious issues, says Howard Cody, a political scientist at the University of Maine. It's hard enough summoning the political will to raise taxes, for instance, if you know the voters might just overturn such laws.
"It tends to cow the legislators and also the governor," Cody says. "They're always walking on eggshells. When they're working out a deal, they have to wonder if someone is going to object to this and set up a referendum and try to overturn it."
That happened last November in Ohio, where a measure to block collective bargaining for public employees was rejected by voters. Repealing a Michigan law that gives "emergency managers" the power to rewrite contracts for local government workers "is one of labor's national priorities," says Josh Goodman, a reporter at Stateline, an online news service sponsored by the Pew Center on the States.
Still, although the use of popular referendums is increasing, it's still rare, with just the 12 examples this year in the face of thousands of new laws. "It's not like we're talking about this huge revolution of the masses against the legislatures," says Gary Moncrief, a political scientist at Boise State University.
Moncrief suggests that citizens vetoes happen when a state is dominated by one party. Unchecked, big legislative majorities can pass bills that go beyond what the average voter may want, whether it's conservative legislation in Republican Idaho or liberal laws in solidly Democratic Maryland.
"The reasons there are so many questions on the ballot, in my opinion, is this General Assembly is out of touch with the voters of this state," says Rep. Pat McDonough, one of just 43 Republicans in the 141-member Maryland House. "They're passing radical policy positions that are out of touch with the people of Maryland."
McDonough is supporting a popular referendum that would overturn the Legislature's decision to grant in-state tuition rates to illegal immigrants who were brought to the state as children.
Marylanders may also block a new law granting same-sex marriage rights, as might voters in Washington state. In Maine, voters used a popular referendum to block a gay marriage law in 2009, but polls indicate a ballot initiative to allow gay marriage might pass this November.
Voters nationwide have consistently approved ballot measures to ban gay marriage. Some observers think things will be different this year.
But in the few states where the legislature has granted marriage rights, it's not wholly surprising that there would be attempts to give voters the chance to repeal them.
"We only have to do this because the career politicians in Olympia passed a bill that would redefine marriage," says Chip White, communications director for Preserve Marriage Washington, which is leading the citizens' veto effort in that state. "Thanks to the signatures of nearly 250,000 Washingtonians, the referendum is on the ballot."
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By Carol Clark
Avani Wildani, an Emory assistant professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, got her first computer when she was three years old. A TI-99 from Texas Instruments, it was the first 16-bit personal computer and known for its eccentricities.
"It spoke to you in this very robotic voice," Wildani says. "It was a really hot thing at the time for the computer to talk to you."
Wildani was born in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, to immigrants from the state of Gujarat in India. The oldest of three children in a close-knit family, she did not start speaking English until she began school.
Biology fascinated her from an early age, particularly mysteries of how the brain works. "I'm interested in how we think about things," she says, "and what information means for the mind."
One focus of her current research is the looming problem of information storage: The disconnect between our growing ability to gather digital information – on everything from human genetics to deep space – and our limited technology and resources for keeping and managing all of that data.
Wildani originally aspired to be a physician, like her father. "He steered me into a more sedentary direction," she says.
Her father realized that she needed a job where she could sit because she was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disease. The disorder causes bones to break easily and Wildani endured hundreds of breaks and countless medical procedures as a child.
In September, she was hit by a car while crossing an Atlanta pedestrian crosswalk in her wheelchair, an incident that fractured her legs in seven places. She continued to work while recovering in her Druid Hills home.
Light streams into the modernistic home through large, plate-glass windows, which look out onto wooded terrain. Evidence of Wildani's many hobbies is strewn about the house – a full set of drums, a telescope that she built from scratch, her pencil sketches, photos of her kayaking adventures. As she settles in for an interview in her home office, she offers a visitor a tray of Indian pastry sweets.
Below are some excerpts from the interview.
Q. What was it like to spend so much time in hospitals as a child?
Wildani: It wasn't that bad. It would take me about 20 to 30 minutes a day to do my school homework, and I could still keep up. So the rest of the time I got to lie around, eat ice cream, and read. In fourth grade, I got through all of Nancy Drew.
It was probably harder on my parents. As a child, I just took it for granted that my parents would be at the hospital at 3 am with Indian food because I didn't like American food. My mother would make me treats like khandvi – chickpea flour mixed with lemon and yogurt, rolled out and fried. It's super good! Gujartis are like the Southerners of India: We fry everything.
Playing computer games "allows you to try something and fail in a safe way," says Wildani, who also plays the drums.
Q. Did you also spend a lot of time on a computer?
Wildani: Yes, I started learning about programming as soon as I learned to read, at age 3. I used LOGO, an educational programming language for children. It's all about drawing pictures. In fact, the first time I taught Python to college students I had them integrate it with LOGO to make flowers for their mothers on Mother's Day. People really loved that assignment and ran with it. They did all sorts of amazing animations.
Growing up, I also enjoyed computer games. I played a lot of King's Quest, an early strategy game designed by Roberta Williams, who is one of my inspirations. King's Quest was full of puzzles and the puzzles were hard. It teaches perseverance.
Q. So you don't consider computer games a waste of time?
Wildani: No, not at all. They inspire a lot of people. I would say that everybody I knew during my college years played a lot of computer games as a kid. Even if you don't go into computer science or technology for a career, computer games allow you to try something and fail in a safe way. You don't die and you keep getting better the more you try. It also teaches team building. I think playing computer games is in some ways like playing a sport. I would be interested in studies that look at how the motor cortex changes if you play a lot of computer games.
Q. Maybe all those computer games you played account for the can-do spirit you embody in your real life.
Wildani: I'm not afraid to try things. I fail sometimes, but I have a really supportive family. I have a pretty solid mat to fall on when I screw up.
Q. How does your interest in the human brain relate to your research into computer data storage?
Wildani: Your brain can store all of your experiences at some level. It doesn't store every detail. In fact, it forgets things on purpose, pruning data and keeping what you need to make sense of the world, stringing together related ideas and forming memories that it can then retrieve. One theory is that the hippocampus acts like a kind of card catalogue where the brain can look up the place where it has stored different pieces of data.
The brain does all this using very little power, only around 60 watts, and with a high fault rate. Neurons are dying all the time and synapses are breaking down. In fact, stroke patients can lose a significant part of their hippocampus and still function.
If we can get a better idea of how information storage and reductionism work in the brain, perhaps we could translate that to a computer framework. We're using vision classification as a bio-model to run simulations and try to figure out how the brain makes tradeoffs between network size, power and reliability.
"We're losing information about hidden things that we don't already know to look for," Wildani says. "That's why it's critical now to come up with new ways to store large volumes of data."
Q. Why is it important to understand this?
Wildani: People are creating entire digital identities of family photos, emails, receipts – all kinds of data. Some of it is data that people want to keep and some of it is just stuff that gets saved unintentionally. You can think of all our personal collections of data like junk-filled closets that we store in "clouds."
But what many people don't realize is that the clouds are actually physical computer-data centers. And they require space, electricity and people to maintain them and to run them.
The centers house the physical storage devices for all the data. Disks, for instance, save data using tiny dots, called bits. But there is a limit to how close these dots can be, based on physics. They can only go to a certain resolution and no lower. Flash drives don't rely on that sort of density, but they are not as reliable. And a disk only lasts about five years. So you have to have a plan to move data around between different devices.
We make a lot more information than we have anywhere to put it. Right now, Internet traffic is annually generating zetabytes of information and that's projected to go up to yottabytes by 2020. [A yottabyte equals 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes.]
We have this huge mess of data collected across time. How do we decide what's important and what's not? How long should we keep it? Who will pay for keeping it over time? There are things we archive with intention, like family photos, and things that we archive without really meaning to, like random receipts and emails.
Q. Could it just be a matter of everyone throwing out their digital "junk" and making space?
Wildani: The issue is much bigger than that. We can't always know what is going to be important in the future. The tapes of the early "Dr. Who" episodes, for example, got written over years ago because the BBC didn't think they were important.
In the future, if you get sick with something, it might be useful to pull up the medical records of your great grandparents. Or maybe not. You might also want to store a genome analysis of your family for the future.
My favorite example of "junk" data that became useful is a photograph that was taken in 1900 of a random patch of sky. Decades later, cosmologists found this photo in a drawer and saw that it contained a pre-supernova. By comparing it to modern-day photos of the same patch of sky, they were able to compute a more exact rate for the expansion of the universe.
We have much more powerful telescopes today but not enough storage to save all the data these instruments are capturing. The same is the case for CERN, home of the Large Hadron Collider, which is gathering large datasets on sub-atomic particles. CERN is only able to save the data that is being experimented on now.
We're losing information about hidden things that we don't already know to look for. That's why it's critical now to come up with new ways to store large volumes of data.
Q. How do you feel about the scarcity of women in computer science?
Wildani: When I was an undergraduate, I would have felt more comfortable if there had been more women in the room when I was asking a basic, technical question. But I had no choice. I was the only female in most of my computer science classes. And the default assumption for women is that you're not competent. You have to prove yourself.
The traditional image of a computer science major is a guy with a beard who drinks a lot of Mountain Dew and spends a lot of time ranting on online forums. There are definitely some people who fit that personality type, but also many people who don't. And some of them are so far from it that they don't feel welcome and they leave.
I knew a woman in graduate school who was great at computer science, great at math, but she was also tall and blonde. She got tired of dealing with harassment and people who thought she was the receptionist. Eventually, she decided to go into a different field.
And yet, we need more people and different perspectives in computer science. The salaries for computer engineering are high because there are not enough people to fill the jobs.
I developed a web site (Project Hypatia) to highlight important research by women in computer science. I think it's important to make it clear that women are not just asking for equality, but leading teams, doing impressive science and getting results.
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I'm trying to do a regression on my panel data. Say I have T=3500 days of data and N=125 firms.
Since Matlab get's major memory issues (which I try to prevent by the usual solutions as seen on the Mathworks site), because my panel was too big, I decided to only look at 700 days of data and to take averages of a number of firms to get N=5.
I discovered that the way I take these averages/medians heavily influences my regression results. If I first sort the firms on the size of the dependent variable and then make 5 groups to average them, I'll get less significant results than when I used another (default) sorting (almost alphabetic).
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In 1862, Jerry Thomas would have been happy to make you a Whiskey Smash and it would have gone something like this:
2 ounces of whiskey
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1/2 TBSP sugarStirred to mix, poured into a small bar glass two-thirds full of shaved ice, garnished with two sprigs of mint ("same as in the recipe for a mint julep").
Twenty-nine years later, William "Cocktail Bill" Boothby would have served you something similar. In fact, the recipe in his 1891 book American Bar-Tender consists entirely of "A small Whiskey Julep, with the rum flavor omitted. (See Juleps.)" In other words:
"Fill a large goblet with fine ice and pour a jigger of whiskey over it; then take several sprigs of young, tender mint and place them in a medium-size mixing-glass with a dessertspoonful of bar sugar and just enough water to nearly fill the goblet, in which you have already placed the fine ice and whiskey. Press the mint with a muddler until the sugar is all dissolved and the water is well-flavored with mint, strain into the goblet of ice and whiskey, ornament with fruits and a few sprigs of mint which have been moistened and dipped in sugar, and serve with straws.
Jump forward half a century, to W.C. Whitfield's 1941 book Here's How and little has changed.
"Use Old Fashioned cocktail glass. Dissolve 1 lump of sugar in a few dashes of carbonated water. Add four sprigs of fresh mint and crush slightly. Fill glass with cracked ice. Add 1 jigger of rye or bourbon. Decorate with lemon peel and slice of orange.
Another leap, to 2002, and Dale DeGroff's take on the drink, and we've only gotten a little juicier:
With the same basic recipe Jerry Thomas used 140 years earlier, include two lemon pieces in your muddling and, unlike Whitfield, let the mint serve as the entire garnish.
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I have a problem with a molecular biology question; I don't understand how DNA 3' labelling works. I took a diagram from my lesson and tried to understand with it; this is what I understood. If I'm wrong, please tell me and correct me.
We take a restriction enzyme which will cut both strands. The bottom strand will be a 5' end. So, the top strand is shorter than the bottom strand.
We will add a Klenow fragment which, with its polymerase activity, polymerizes in the 5'->3' direction the missing part of the top strand, with dNTP α 32P (labelled by a radioactive phosphate in the alpha position).
We get two strands which have the same size, of which one will be strongly labelled.
We finish with a terminal transferase which will catalyse the addition of dNTP α 32P on the 3'OH ends of both DNA strands (in order to label these ends).
But, if I'm right, could you explain the necessity of the last step; why label both ends since we have already labelled the top strand?


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Some of us are old enough to remember differential pricing by region. Before the 1970s, ads in national magazines often listed two prices for clothing or appliances—one a general price and the other for purchases made "West of the Rockies." Those mountains formed a remarkable barrier to commerce, and historians found crossing them daunting as well.
At the dawn of the last century, when most of America's universities were located east of the Mississippi and transcontinental travel was slow, a West Coast historian would need two to three weeks to attend an annual meeting of the still-young AHA. Western AHA conferences like this past winter's meeting in beautiful San Diego were unheard of. In fact, before World War II, the AHA met only three times in cities touched by the Mississippi—New Orleans in 1903, St. Louis in 1921, and Minneapolis in 1931—although Midwestern venues like Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Indianapolis, Ann Arbor, and Madison often attracted the AHA. From the earliest years of the Association, members bravely traveled to meetings throughout the northeastern quadrant of the United States in the dead of winter.
Recognizing that the association was one of American historians, not simply of United States historians, the AHA expanded its scope, meeting in Toronto in 1932. Clearly, East Coast bias was not the reason why no meetings were scheduled outside the region. Travel inconvenience for the majority of members—Easterners and Midwesterners—was more likely at play.
The West Coast hosted its first annual meeting only after air travel became common and affordable. San Francisco lured the AHA in 1965 and six more times since then. Soon, Los Angeles, Seattle, and San Diego welcomed the AHA. The AHA has changed in many ways during the past century—how strange the opening salutation of George Bancroft's 1886 presidential address to his "Brothers of the American Historical Association" would sound today—and geographic diversity is among those changes. In all, almost 25 percent of AHA annual meetings since 1965 have been in West Coast cities, and historians from around the country and the world have been able to travel to AHA meetings throughout North America.
The Pacific Coast Branch of the AHA owes its birth in 1903 to the AHA leadership's decision to launch an auxiliary for West Coast historians who could not easily attend annual AHA meetings. But even after air travel made attending the AHA meetings easy, the PCB has continued to thrive as an organization. As the second oldest (after the AHA, of course!) ongoing historical association in the United States that encompasses every historical era and world region, we continue to redefine ourselves for the 21st century. We have significant ties to the AHA, but also an independent executive office (Executive Director Peter Blodgett) and an excellent scholarly journal,Pacific Historical Review. The PCB awards two book prizes, two article prizes (the Koontz and the Turrentine Jackson), and a dissertation prize each year. This year, we initiated a new award, the PCB-AHA Presidents' Graduate Student Travel Award, to assist graduate students who are presenting papers at the conference.
AHA members in the 22 states west of the Mississippi and four westernmost Canadian provinces are members of the PCB—as are subscribers to Pacific Historical Review who reside outside the region. Welcome to all of you who may not have known of your membership in the PCB! We hope you'll join us next August in Seattle, and invite your friends and colleagues from outside the region to PCB-AHA meetings. The conference will take place August 11-13, 2011, and its theme is Horizons of Change: The Unexpected, Unknown, and Unforgettable. Please see the PCB website at https://pcb.cgu.edu for the Call for Papers.
The PCB has continued to expand its scope in recent years, and this year's annual meeting, hosted by Santa Clara University from August 12 through August 14, had 56 panels and roundtables on US, Asian, European, Middle Eastern, Latin American, and African history. Environmental, feminist, diplomatic, cultural, religious, immigration, labor, borderlands, and economic historians presented papers, and two Presidential Panels were dedicated to the work of leading historians Asunción Lavrín (Latin America) and Rachel Fuchs (France). Although PCB conferences have tended to focus more on the history of the modern era, this year's conference boasted a remarkable five panels on medieval history.
Scholars from throughout the United States and Canada as well as Europe, South America, and New Zealand are contributing to this year's program. And, as always, we welcome the Western Association of Women Historians, who hold a luncheon and lecture in conjunction with the PCB AHA meeting.
As I hand over the presidency to Janet Fireman (editor-in-chief, California History), I look forward to ever more fruitful ties with the AHA and to expanding our base of active members in the western region of the United States and Canada.
(Santa Clara Univ.) is president of the Pacific Coast Branch of the AHA for 2010.
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790 doesn't give a shit about all the taxes there because all his gardening work is under the table, of course.
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MILAN — The historic lagoon city of Venice exists on the edge of a double threat: As it sinks, the seas rise.
That reality became more stark this week when Venice was hit with its worst flood in over 50 years, caused by a nearly 1.9 metre (6-foot) tide that sent waist-high water flowing through St. Mark's Square, cast the city's world-famous gondolas onto walkways, and threatened its medieval, Baroque and Renaissance art and architecture.
Damage to the City of Canals from the second-worst flood ever recorded was put at hundreds of millions of euros.
Against the backdrop of the disaster, a corruption-riddled underwater barrier system that was supposed to protect the city still is not operational after more than 16 years of construction and at least 5 billion euros of public funds. It was supposed to be working by 2011.
"It has been a generation of panels and engineers that have been working on it. No one can actually tell if it will actually be operational," said Mechtild Rossler, director of the UNESCO World Heritage Center in Paris, which lists Venice as one of its legally protected World Heritage sites because of its cultural and historical significance.
Called Moses — from the Italian acronym for experimental electromechanical modules, but also a nod to the biblical figure who parted the Red Sea — the system of 78 underwater barriers is designed to be raised as needed to block openings to the lagoon and hold back tides of 1.1 to 3 metres.
That would still leave exposed the lowest areas of the city, or about 12% of its area, including St. Mark's Square.
Though nearly completed, the project still has not been even partially tested, and some parts have already started to corrode. It has also been marked by bribery scandals and overruns. Its initial costs were projected at 1.6 billion euros.
Even with the emergency, Moses won't be operational before the end of next year.
At the same time, the threats to the city of a quarter-million people are growing.
While the latest round of flooding has been attributed mostly to a combination of high tides from a full moon and high winds pushing water from the shallow Adriatic Sea into Venice, climate scientists note that exceptional tides — those over 1.4 metres — have become much more frequent in the past two decades.
Of the 20 exceptional tides recorded from 1936 through Tuesday's, more than half have occurred since 2000.
"It is a long-term issue. It is not the issue of one flood, we restore, and we go back to normal," Rossler said.
Climate scientist Stefan Rahmstorf of the University of Potsdam estimates that one-third of Venice's increasing vulnerability is due to global warming, which has raised the sea level.
"The rest is mostly man-made," he said.
The 1,600-year-old city is built on uncompacted settlement, which is sinking. Venice's Tide Office said the net effect of the sinking and the rising sea has been a 30-centimetre (12-inch) drop since record-keeping began in 1873. About 10 to 11 centimetres of that took place since the last big flood, in 1966.
Venice is being monitored for inclusion on a list of World Heritage sites in danger, which serves as a call to action to the international community.
Other problems threatening the city include large numbers of tourists, which put stress on a city where even something as simple of trash collection must be done by boat, and the passage of cruise ships through St. Mark's Basin.
The vessels release pollution, displace water into the city and carry other safety risks. Over the summer a cruise ship crashed into a boat and a dock.
The historic flooding only underscores the urgency to resolve Venice's problems.
Even opponents of Moses, who have complained that it is technically flawed, too costly and damaging to the environment, now see it as the only expedient solution.
"We have to be pragmatic. Moses is almost done," said Toto Bergamo Rossi of Venice Heritage, a non-profit focused on conservation.
"Maybe it is the wrong project, but we have spent 5 billion euros, a number I cannot count. They have to finish, they have to rush to finish," he said. "I hope this kind of catastrophe will finally give the right attention to Venice, because this city needs to be treated in a different way.
Karl Ritter and Giada Zampano contributed from Rome.


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The city where Christ raised to life the widow's son (Luke 7:11-17). The Midrash (Bereshit rabba, 88) gives the significance "agreeable" to a place called Naim in the territory of Isaachar, in Galilee. Eusebius and St. Jerome (Onomasticon) place Naim south of Mount Thabor, and not far from Endor. Now, opposite to Thabor, and a mile and a half north of Endûr (doubtless the biblical Endor), lies a village called Naîn ("pleasantness"). It is situated on the northwestern ridge of Jebel Dahy, the Little Hermon, and commands a magnificent view. There are traces of ruins beyond its boundary to the north, but no sign of fortifications. "The gate of the city" (Luke 7:12) might have belonged to a wall of enclosure, built to protect the place against marauding tribes, as was often the case in the East. A steep path leads up to the village, passing by the site of an ancient church which has been converted into a mosque, "Moukâm Lidna Aisa" (Oratory of the Lord Jesus). The mosque, having fallen into ruins, was replaced by another in the vicinity. In 1880 the Franciscans bought the ruins of the first building, and erected thereon a chapel. Not far away may be seen Jewish rock-tombs. Thus the details of Naim's graphic story find an easy localization.
APA citation. (1911). Naim. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10672b.htm
MLA citation. "Naim." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 10. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10672b.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Christine J. Murray.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) announces a fifth year of a program on collaborative research and education in the area of Scalable Nanomanufacturing. This program is in response to and is a component of the National Nanotechnology Initiative Signature Initiative: Sustainable Nanomanufacturing - Creating the Industries of the Future (http://www.nano.gov/node/611.) Although many nanofabrication techniques have demonstrated the ability to fabricate small quantities of nanomaterials, nanostructures and nanodevices for characterization and evaluation purposes, the emphasis of the Scalable Nanomanufacturing program is on research to overcome the key scientific and technical barriers that prevent the production of useful nanomaterials, nanostructures, devices and systems at an industrially relevant scale, reliably, and at low cost and within environmental, health and safety guidelines. Competitive proposals will incorporate three elements in their research plans:
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· A compelling research plan with clear objectives and approaches to overcome the identified research issues.
The mode of support is Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams (NIRT).
Proposals submitted to this program should consider addressing aspects of the nanomanufacturing value chain:
· Novel scalable processes and techniques for large-area or continuous manufacturing of nano-scale materials and structures and their assembly and integration into higher order systems;
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· Design principles for production systems leading to nanomanufacturing platforms; identification of metrology, instrumentation, standards and control methodologies needed for process control and to assess quality and yield.
Competitive proposals are expected to address the training and education of students in nanomanufacturing. An inter-disciplinary approach is strongly encouraged. Disciplines could range from mathematics to the physical sciences to engineering. While not required, the involvement of an industrial or small business partner or partners is encouraged. These collaborations have the potential to significantly strengthen a proposal.
Other research and education projects in nanoscale science and engineering will continue to be supported in the relevant programs and divisions.
Please see requirements for submitting proposals for collaborations; a single proposal with sub-contracts must be submitted for collaborations and the submission of separate proposals from multiple investigators for collaborative projects ('collaborative proposals') is not allowed.
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Children have great imaginations, and they use it in every aspect of their lives. Play is a huge part of children's lives and they create imaginary scenarios with their toys all the time. If something is going on in a child's life, one of the best ways to discover their true emotions is by watching them play.
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A safe space called a playroom is created. This allows the child to play with specially chosen toys, encourages them to express their feelings and helps them develop healthier behaviors. A a variety of techniques such as drama, storytelling, sandplay, painting, drawing and creative visualisation can be used.
Who can benefit from play therapy?
– Children who are constantly aggressive and willfully disobedient.
– Children who are ill or grieving
– Children who have depression, anxiety or attachment problems
– Children who are involved with fostering or adoption
– Children with conditions like autism and speech problems
Here are some ways play therapy helps children:
1. It helps them heal from past traumatic experiences- When children go through traumatic events, the negative experiences can create emotional and behavioral problems. Play therapy helps them make sense of the traumatic experience, by using their imagination to express themselves through toys. For example, a child who has witnessed domestic violence may make his toys fight each other. Play helps the child unpack emotions, understand the experience better and heal.
2. It enhances creative thoughts and ideas- During play, children use their imagination and creative skills to learn through play. During play therapy, children get to create different scenarios with different endings. This gives them a better understanding of what's happening in their lives, and helps them cope.
3. It helps them deal with difficult emotions and situations- Play therapy involves activities that helps the therapist discover how the child deals with difficult emotions and situations and help the children address these difficulties. For example, a child may feel like they caused their parent's divorce by being naughty. The therapist can help correct this wrong belief and help to eliminate feelings of guilt by encouraging positive thoughts.
4. It gives the child emotional support and helps them communicate their problems and concerns with others- In play therapy, children learn to work through difficult feelings and memories that they may not know how to put in words by expressing themselves symbolically with the use of toys. This helps the adults in their lives understand what children need in order to provide the right type of help and support.
Play therapy is quite beneficial to children, and kids who go through play therapy show great
improvement and display a higher level of confidence. Working through difficult feelings through play can be deeply restorative for children.
If you would like your child to see a play therapist, please contact me to book a session.


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SCENE III. A street.
Enter DOGBERRY and VERGES with the Watch
Are you good men and true?
Yea, or else it were pity but they should suffer
salvation, body and soul.
Nay, that were a punishment too good for them, if
they should have any allegiance in them, being
chosen for the prince's watch.
Well, give them their charge, neighbour Dogberry.
First, who think you the most desertless man to be
Hugh Otecake, sir, or George Seacole; for they can
write and read.
Come hither, neighbour Seacole. God hath blessed
you with a good name: to be a well-favoured man is
the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.
Both which, master constable,–
You have: I knew it would be your answer. Well,
for your favour, sir, why, give God thanks, and make
no boast of it; and for your writing and reading,
let that appear when there is no need of such
vanity. You are thought here to be the most
senseless and fit man for the constable of the
watch; therefore bear you the lantern. This is your
charge: you shall comprehend all vagrom men; you are
to bid any man stand, in the prince's name.
How if a' will not stand?
Why, then, take no note of him, but let him go; and
presently call the rest of the watch together and
thank God you are rid of a knave.
If he will not stand when he is bidden, he is none
of the prince's subjects.
True, and they are to meddle with none but the
prince's subjects. You shall also make no noise in
the streets; for, for the watch to babble and to
talk is most tolerable and not to be endured.
We will rather sleep than talk: we know what
belongs to a watch.
Why, you speak like an ancient and most quiet
watchman; for I cannot see how sleeping should
offend: only, have a care that your bills be not
stolen. Well, you are to call at all the
ale-houses, and bid those that are drunk get them to bed.
How if they will not?
Why, then, let them alone till they are sober: if
they make you not then the better answer, you may
say they are not the men you took them for.
Well, sir.
If you meet a thief, you may suspect him, by virtue
of your office, to be no true man; and, for such
kind of men, the less you meddle or make with them,
why the more is for your honesty.
If we know him to be a thief, shall we not lay
hands on him?
Truly, by your office, you may; but I think they
that touch pitch will be defiled: the most peaceable
way for you, if you do take a thief, is to let him
show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
You have been always called a merciful man, partner.
Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more
a man who hath any honesty in him.
If you hear a child cry in the night, you must call
to the nurse and bid her still it.
How if the nurse be asleep and will not hear us?
Why, then, depart in peace, and let the child wake
her with crying; for the ewe that will not hear her
lamb when it baes will never answer a calf when he bleats.
'Tis very true.
This is the end of the charge:–you, constable, are
to present the prince's own person: if you meet the
prince in the night, you may stay him.
Nay, by'r our lady, that I think a' cannot.
Five shillings to one on't, with any man that knows
the statutes, he may stay him: marry, not without
the prince be willing; for, indeed, the watch ought
to offend no man; and it is an offence to stay a
man against his will.
By'r lady, I think it be so.
Ha, ha, ha! Well, masters, good night: an there be
any matter of weight chances, call up me: keep your
fellows' counsels and your own; and good night.
Come, neighbour.
Well, masters, we hear our charge: let us go sit here
upon the church-bench till two, and then all to bed.
One word more, honest neighbours. I pray you watch
about Signior Leonato's door; for the wedding being
there to-morrow, there is a great coil to-night.
Adieu: be vigitant, I beseech you.Exeunt DOGBERRY and VERGES
Enter BORACHIO and CONRADE
What Conrade!
[Aside] Peace! stir not.
Conrade, I say!
Here, man; I am at thy elbow.
Mass, and my elbow itched; I thought there would a
scab follow.
I will owe thee an answer for that: and now forward
with thy tale.
Stand thee close, then, under this pent-house, for
it drizzles rain; and I will, like a true drunkard,
utter all to thee.
[Aside] Some treason, masters: yet stand close.
Therefore know I have earned of Don John a thousand ducats.
Is it possible that any villany should be so dear?
Thou shouldst rather ask if it were possible any
villany should be so rich; for when rich villains
have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what
price they will.
I wonder at it.
That shows thou art unconfirmed. Thou knowest that
the fashion of a doublet, or a hat, or a cloak, is
nothing to a man.
Yes, it is apparel.
I mean, the fashion.
Yes, the fashion is the fashion.
Tush! I may as well say the fool's the fool. But
seest thou not what a deformed thief this fashion
[Aside] I know that Deformed; a' has been a vile
thief this seven year; a' goes up and down like a
gentleman: I remember his name.
Didst thou not hear somebody?
No; 'twas the vane on the house.
Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this
fashion is? how giddily a' turns about all the hot
bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty?
sometimes fashioning them like Pharaoh's soldiers
in the reeky painting, sometime like god Bel's
priests in the old church-window, sometime like the
shaven Hercules in the smirched worm-eaten tapestry,
where his codpiece seems as massy as his club?
All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears
out more apparel than the man. But art not thou
thyself giddy with the fashion too, that thou hast
shifted out of thy tale into telling me of the fashion?
Not so, neither: but know that I have to-night
wooed Margaret, the Lady Hero's gentlewoman, by the
name of Hero: she leans me out at her mistress'
chamber-window, bids me a thousand times good
night,–I tell this tale vilely:–I should first
tell thee how the prince, Claudio and my master,
planted and placed and possessed by my master Don
John, saw afar off in the orchard this amiable encounter.
And thought they Margaret was Hero?
Two of them did, the prince and Claudio; but the
devil my master knew she was Margaret; and partly
by his oaths, which first possessed them, partly by
the dark night, which did deceive them, but chiefly
by my villany, which did confirm any slander that
Don John had made, away went Claudio enraged; swore
he would meet her, as he was appointed, next morning
at the temple, and there, before the whole
congregation, shame her with what he saw o'er night
and send her home again without a husband.
We charge you, in the prince's name, stand!
Call up the right master constable. We have here
recovered the most dangerous piece of lechery that
ever was known in the commonwealth.
And one Deformed is one of them: I know him; a'
wears a lock.
Masters, masters,–
You'll be made bring Deformed forth, I warrant you.
Never speak: we charge you let us obey you to go with us.
We are like to prove a goodly commodity, being taken
up of these men's bills.
A commodity in question, I warrant you. Come, we'll obey you.Exeunt


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May bank-holiday weekend brings sunshine as UK prepares for mini heat-wave
The end of May bank-holiday weekend (29-31 May) is to bring sunny skies, as the UK prepares for a mini-heatwave from 1 June.
Most of the country is to enjoy a dry weekend, in a month which has seen more rainfall already than usually falls across the entire month.
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The Met office said to expect "mainly fine and settled conditions" across the UK from Friday, with temperatures "feeling locally warm in southern and central areas".
However, the Met office did stop short of confirming reports of a heatwave in June, it said "confidence is low for this period" but added: "it is most likely that largely dry weather will continue across much of the UK".
Temperatures around 24C
The burst of sunshine comes before the reported fortnight long heatwave the country should expect from 15 June.
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S'mores Swirl Brownies
makes 4 very large brownies (8x8 pan)
1/2 c. butter, melted
1 c. granulated sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/3 c. unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 c. all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking powder
3/4 c. chopped chocolate chunks (I used milk chocolate)
1 c. marshmallow fluff
3/4 c. graham cracker crumbs
Note: I think these brownies would be great with all types of chocolate, for example Hershey's Kisses or dark chocolate. Get creative!
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Grease or line with parchment paper an 8x8 square pan. Chop your chocolate.
Melt the butter. Beat in sugar, eggs and vanilla extract. Once the mixture is combined, add in the cocoa powder, flour, salt, baking powder and blend until smooth. Fold in the chocolate chunks. Pour batter in to pan and spread evenly.
Melt marshmallow fluff in a microwavable safe bowl for 10-20 seconds or until it is drizzle consistency. Drizzle the fluff over the brownie batter. Then sprinkle graham cracker crumbs over the marshmallow fluff. Using a toothpick, swirl the marshmallow and graham crackers together.
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Deutsch, Babette, 1895-1982
Dates Of Existence
- Existence: 1895 - 1982
Donald Finkel Papers
Identifier: MS-MS-ms045
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By Ralph Nader
The Trump Gang, hardly two weeks in the White House, is giving strong, petulant signals that it is hijacking the checks and balances of our democratic institutions. Coupling the Boss's easily brusiable ego, marinated in infinite megalomania, with ideologues harboring objectives that would have frightened Nixonites and Reaganites alike, a runaway train is leaving the station.
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Looking at the Trump regime clinically, there is a method to their madness. Striving to govern early by a stream of poorly written Executive Orders (dictates), their basic message to all is "get with the program or get out." Building on past precedents of presidential lawlessness, Trump wants to rule by directives and tweeted dictates against any challengers. Temperamentally, he has little patience for governing in a democracy and thinks he can rely on showmanship, bluster and bullying.
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One terrorist attack in this country and Trump becomes a bellowing monster throwing rules of law, free speech and other serious protections of health and safety for the people to the winds.
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Where will the restraints on him come from? Presumably from his Secretaries of Defense, State and Homeland Security backed by a vocal professional civil service with no ax to grind. Already a thousand U.S. diplomats at embassies abroad have signed a petition pointing to the dangers of his Executive Order.
Trump is constantly attacking the media, sometimes as a general institution, other times naming reporters in his disfavor. He's gotten about as much juice out of that regular eruption as he can. The mass media made him with staggering amounts of free airtime and print space. He then turned on them, because for The Donald, "Enough is never Enough." Bruised, some of the media will cower. But many will assert themselves with penetrating coverage.
He'll give them plenty of material with his lawless Presidential actions and his conflicts of interest (plus violation of the Constitution's Emoluments Clause). And his unyielding ownership of business assets in the U.S. and around the world present countless potential conflicts of interest.
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Lunging from one eruption and outrage to the next, it seems that the Trumpsters are grabbing the country and racing together toward the cliff. The question is: Who goes over the cliff first?
– Ralph Nader is a consumer advocate, lawyer and author of Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us! Visit: Nader.Org.