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Danny Masterson is messing with Jenny From the Block?
The former That '70s Show star has actually taken a swipe at Jennifer Lopez's new 24-year-old boyfriend, Casper Smart.
Not to his face mind you, but on—what else?—Twitter.
READ: Jennifer Lopez Parties With New Dancer Beau
"Whoa!," Masterson tweeted to his 1.4 million followers over the weekend. "When did JLo start dating vanilla ice?"
The diss (at least we don't think it was meant as a compliment) was accompanied by a shirtless shot of Smart wearing a baseball cap and black sunglasses taken during his and Lopez's Thanksgiving vacation in Hawaii.
When one of Smart's followers asked if he saw Masterson's tweet, he replied he had, tweeting about the pic, "In the sun, but still pale...LOL."
Good to know the guy has a sense of humor, but fingers crossed Lopez tweets about Masterson's new wife, actress Bijou Phillips.
Wouldn't that be meowful!
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A judicious selection from primary sources to illustrate the growth of ideas in early imperial times. Teachers and students will welcome these readable translations of passages drawn from Han writings that are not widely known and which add depth to existing views of Chinese ways of thought, religious practices, and means of government. --Michael Loewe, University of Cambridge
"This reader is an incredibly rich resource. It fills a crucial pedagogical gap, and will no doubt become a standard textbook in the teaching of early Chinese thought to non-specialists. The depth of annotation and notes for further reading also make it rich hunting ground for advanced students and specialists in the field, who have much to learn from Csikszentmihalyi's breadth of scholarship and lucid analysis of the world of thought and practice in the Han." --Edward Slingerland, University of British Columbia
"The selections are judiciously chosen, insightfully introduced, and fluidly and accurately translated. At Hackett's budget-conscious list price, the book is an obvious choice for the classroom, and ranks as one of the most important sourcebooks in Chinese civilization to have appeared in recent decades. . . . Virtually every aspect of Han philosophy and religion is represented between these covers."
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Arsenal came from behind to book a place in the fourth round of the FA Cup with a 2-1 win at West Ham.
Both managers had one eye on their respective Barclays Premier League campaigns at opposite ends of the table with their team selections.
West Ham took the lead in first-half stoppage time when Alessandro Diamanti beat the offside trap, but the Gunners turned things around with late goals from Aaron Ramsey and Eduardo.
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A Holiday Wish
I know that this year has been challenging for so many on so many different levels. However, my wish for all is that the feeling that follows a tragedy, where people are just a little more appreciative, a little more flexible, and a little more understanding permeates throughout the New Year and beyond. Far too often these feelings dissipate with time. I am as guilty as anyone of allowing that to occur. Still, I challenge myself and each and every one of our exceptional faculty and staff members to hang onto the sense of community that has been so palpable this past week. We have much to be appreciative for, and to celebrate, even in the face of trying times. We have the chance to come to work each and every day and make a difference in the lives of our students. What an honor.
Please take advantage of the break to spend some time relaxing and recharging the batteries amongst family and friends.
I wish you and your family a wonderful holiday season and a peaceful New Year.
Warmest regards,
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Auditory Sequential Processing Skills
Digit Spans
Improved digit spans are a key to improving functional intelligence. The terms "sequential processing," "sequencing," and "digit spans" are all referring to the same mental ability. The excerpts here are from the Einstein Syndrome list as parents of children with Down syndrome come to grips with this concept.
|What Are They?
What Are Digit Spans and Sequencing?
Kay explains:
What we are concerned about is short term memory—auditory processing. It is a measure of how many pieces the individual takes into short term memory, (auditorily or visually), and manipulates mentally. This affects maturity level, understanding what is being said, following directions, reading using phonics.
A child that is one year old should process 1 item, an average two year old will process 2 items, three year old 3, four year old 4…up to about 6 to 7 for most adults. For adults, if it is 10 or better, we consider the individual very intelligent. If an individual processes at the 5 to 6 level, they only get part of our conversation, and we would judge them as being a little spacey.
Significantly, if the individual only processes 1, 2, or sometimes 3, he can be labeled "retarded" or mentally handicapped. It is very important to understand that the fact that an individual can only process 2 items has nothing to do with the potential or intelligence of the individual. But the world will call that individual retarded simply because he can't process what is going on around him.
Well, since we have such an important thing going on here—the ability to process in short term—let's jump all over this and try to improve it on purpose…and that's exactly what we do.
Importance of Digit Spans
Miriam writes:
If your child is not at least at an auditory processing level of two, then potty training is really, really hard. Three is much better for potty training success.
On reading…if you teach using phonics it requires an auditory digit span of 5-6 because of the need to process 3-4 sounds per word plus remember the rules. If we start phonics before that, then they will just get frustrated.
Linda Kane's experience:
I remember when Scott started getting sixes right. It was absolutely a changing point in his life. Without reaching a six digit span, he would never be enjoying his pretty independent (although semi-independent) lifestyle.
Keep the motivation and rewards going. WHATEVER IT TAKES!!! I believe seven is the mark where the opportunity for independence begins.
Margaret asks:I have a question about pretend play. Sean (3 1/2, Down Syndrome) is just starting to do this—is this way behind or normal for kids with Down Syndrome?
Miriam delightedly responds:
This is wonderful! As far as when this is developmentally "normal" I think that there is a whole spectrum of this. Kids start just mimicking everything they see adults doing (like clapping hands, walking, smiling…), they begin to play with "toys" the way they see us playing with our "toys" because they are mimicking us. When you are cooking, they want a bowl and spoon to "cook" too. When this officially becomes "pretend play," I don't know.
I think the complexity of their play follows their auditory and visual processing skills. And the higher their auditory and visual sequencing abilities, the more complex their thinking (and play) becomes. You will probably get sick of hearing me harping on digit spans, but I think all this comes down to digit span.
From the Brain Builder manual, "What Brain Builder Does, and Why?" by Bob Doman:
If sequential processing capacity is limited, it's a little like not having enough RAM in your computer. Some things work just fine. Others work, but s-l-o-w-l-y, or more crudely. And certain things become impossible—resulting in frustration.
[The result of increasing processing] is less confusion and better communication. You'll have less need to reread information or hear it repeated. You'll enjoy the ability to respond faster and more accurately to real-life or academic problems.
Evaluating Short Term Memory
Jo says:
Andrew can do a two step command and he talks mainly in 2 to 4 word sentences with a few 5 word sentences thrown in. What are some ways I can figure out where he is?
Kay explains:
One way to test the ability to hold things in short term memory is to use a digit span test. If I say a sequence of numbers to you about 1 and 1 seconds apart, in a monotone, for instance, 7-3-9-2 and you can say them back to me in that order, then you can do a digit span of 4.
But this is true for anything you take into short term memory and immediately output. If you give a child directions like "touch your head and your nose" and that child can do 2 steps and not 3 steps, then we put that child's auditory processing level at 2 and work at 2 to 3 to get the child to the next level.
I have actually backed away from using digits so much, especially with auditory processing. What I find is that children with auditory processing problems usually develop very good visual processing. Then, when we give that child auditory numbers, he learns to visualize them, writing them on the "board of his mind," and we don't truly work on auditory processing.
An extreme of this is Cathy Steere's son who she wrote about in her book Too Wise to be Mistaken, Too Good to be Unkind, who can do 15 now visually. (Drew used to be autistic) When she tested his auditory function in a way that he couldn't visualize the sequence, he could only do 5! She thought he was up to 8 or 9.
To test visual processing, just hold a card up with a sequence of numbers or pictures on it, have the child look at it for three seconds, hide it and then have the child repeat from left to right what was there.
A mom writes:
How do you test auditory function so they can't visualize the sequence?
Kay Ness responds:
To test auditory function when we were sure the children were visualizing, one of my clever colleagues came up with a "conceptual word list"—a list of words that you cannot visualize…easily. Articles: the, to, for. Words like: love, glory, turn, much, etc. Very interesting what we are finding. And we are getting real progress in auditory processing with some of those high visualizers that we weren't getting before.
Barbara writes:
I tried the digit spans with Mark when he was about nine or ten when I first heard of it. He might have been a little younger, I don't remember for sure. (He's twelve now.) He repeated 7 numbers back to me the first time. I was very surprised and tried to repeat it. But ever since that day he won't do it and says it's "stupid." Maybe it was just a one-time thing and he isn't able to do it all the time. I don't know. Is this possible? (seems like it would be—sometimes I remember things very well, and sometimes not)
My question is: how could he do the 7 numbers on his first try?
Kay Ness responds:
You raise some excellent points and you are wonderfully observant of your son. Digit spans with numbers is very boring. Is there a little stubbornness in this Mr. Mark by any chance? Also, it could be a one-time thing…he could have visualized them and then otherwise, it is too hard for him…or associated it with a phone number or something? I don't know. You can casually test him in other ways. But you can see how important raising processing levels is!
Increasing Processing Levels
Judy writes:
My son (11, Down Syndrome) has been on a NACD program for three years. He started out at digit span of 2, quickly moved to 3 and has been there ever since. We cannot budge him. He occasionally gets a 4, but it is really a struggle for him. I have been wondering if there are kids who top out at a certain level and never improve? Could it be a function of his brain being capable of so much and no more? We haven't really tried too hard to work on it with other stimuli (except in terms of expecting him to speak in longer sentences), so that could be a factor. I also feel that he sort of turns off after a certain amount of info because he knows it will be difficult for him. Any ideas would be appreciated!
Kay Ness encourages:
Some children get stuck at a certain point and it seems like they'll never move forward then…something clicks. When stuck, check intensity and how bored the child is with a particular exercise. Numbers get very boring unless parents get very clever. That's why I add words, games, etc.
Also, check ears, hearing. Lots of language, persistence, prayer and constant re-evaluation of how things are working. Let us know how things go.
Miriam writes:
Mary's auditory processing stalled at a digit span of 4 for two years, (actually getting to 5 previously and regressing and getting stuck at 4). Since we treated her thyroid, her auditory digit span has increased to 6.
Update: A number of children with Down syndrome are showing breakthroughs after beginning supplementation with gingko biloba. Lots of information at the Changing Minds Foundation, plus some impressive video evidence.
Kay Ness suggests:
With a very young child, if he is doing one step, I love Dr. MacDonald's way of matching the child and then showing the child the next step—getting him to 2. Once the child is doing 2, start showing him the next step to 3. You can do this in so many ways: adding a word to phrases (Daddy's car, dog runs, etc.), learning body parts: touch nose, head, ears (3 sequence). Pick up the socks, the pencil, the card…. I went to the store and bought: meat, apples, read, etc.
Make it games not just numbers, because the numbers are very boring after a while unless you can get the child in a competitive mode…competing against himself…very difficult.
Barbara chimes in:
He calls it progressive matching. If the child makes a gesture or sign, you do it then make a sound or give them one word. If the child says one word, you say one or two words. Then work your way up to sentences and conversations, always doing just a little more than what the child can do. This makes it easier for them to imitate or at least try to imitate what we say. (Our long sentences are too difficult in the beginning stages of speech.) This doesn't have to be done all the time, but doing it often is very helpful, I found.
Miriam shares:
Mary is now at an auditory sequence of 4-5. She is six years old. We have worked about a year on each increase in her sequencing abilities. This does not come overnight. When Mary was beginning to use words we began to work on stretching those to two word phrases. Whenever she said a word, we would turn it into a phrase. (This takes place throughout the day, not during a designated "teaching" time.) I asked her Sunday School teacher and other adults in her life to do the same. If Mary said "paper," we said "color paper" (which was what she was actually thinking, standing there with a crayon in her hand). If she said "drink" we said "drink juice." It became second nature to convert her ideas into a two word phrase for her to hear. Input. Then one memorable day she said "eat", climbed into her highchair, said "pancake" and after much prodding, and several tries, with her saying "eat, eat" or "pancake, pancake", she put the words together: EAT PANCAKE!!! A month or so later it was commonplace for her to use two word phrases. Then we started the same process with three words.
I recommend the First Impressions video Opposites for work on couplets.
Kay Ness agrees with Miriam:
Turning a single word into a couplet in the context of how you are interacting with the child is very helpful….very much what Dr. MacDonald advocates. Showing the child the next step with a particular word: baby (for doll), baby sleeps (put the doll to bed), etc. Juice—juice cold, drink juice, etc. He did a workshop in Cincinnati that I attended. There is a video tape of this seminar which is six hours long and quite helpful. His methods are much more effective with many children than simply demanding language. It has been especially helpful with the more sensory children.
Barbara relates:
Now I'll just tell everyone something I have done with him that I think helps auditory processing and memory—bedtime stories (or daytime stories too!). I don't do this much anymore because he is older, but he still sometimes asks me to. The stories were always ones I made up and became more and more detailed and complicated as he grew up. The room was always dark because I wanted him to go to sleep (which he always did) so there were no pictures to look at. He had to listen carefully to catch the story. I used his favorite characters from movies and books. For example, Peter Pan flew to the Hundred Acre Wood and played baseball with Pooh and his friends. Or Clifford the Big Red Dog went to visit Curious George the monkey and they went to see the 101 Dalmatians. Then they all had some adventures. Stories like that. Mark loved them. Then the next night I would say, "I forgot what last night's story was. Do you remember?" He always remembered better than I did. He can still tell me about stories I told him years ago and wants me to retell them.
Maybe some of you would like to try this idea. I think giving our children high-interest subjects like this gives them auditory processing and memory practice in a more pleasant way than digit spans.
Kay Ness again:
The way we raised processing levels in the old days was by doing processing —listening to speeches and sermons, talking to each other, engaging in conversations and discussions and debates, listening to debates, reading a lot for learning and entertainment. Go back and look at the sermons of 200 years ago. We couldn't process those today. I imagine the average digit spans of our forefathers was 12 or so.
Anyway, I love the Charlotte Mason narration activities—making the children listen and respond. We use this on programs a lot as a supplement to doing digits. I use words, games, etc. Listening to books on tape into the dominant ear—right for right-handed, left for left-handed, helps a lot. There is some supposed controversy about whether left-handed people should be left eared but with hundreds of lefties on our caseload, we can say with good authority that this is the most efficient model for long-term memory.
Barbara decides:
I think I'll stick with stories and word games to expand Mark's processing and memory. I'm happy to see that you recommend this too, and not just the digit spans. It seems that since humans talk with words and not in numbers, that is the way to go. (Only my opinion, of course, but it seems more natural to me) We read a lot together and discuss what we read too. I think this is helpful.
Nelda writes:
For some time now, Karissa has been getting harder and harder to motivate to do digit spans. She is just "tuning me out," and refuses to do it.
Miriam suggests:
Here are some ideas for auditory processing. I am assuming that you are working on 4s.
1) Ask her to get a shirt, shorts, underpants and a hat for her younger sister. As she is working, keep going over the list, asking her to remember.
2) Ask her to get the ketchup, mustard, salt, and napkins for the table. As she is working, keep going over the list asking her to remember. As you carry on your conversations, say things in fours.
3) Read to her. Lots and lots of stories and books. You know how all those studies about smart kids show that kids who were read to end up smarter? And they always say how important it is to read to your kid? I am convinced that the reason those kids are smarter is that all that listening to books results in a higher level of auditory processing. Talk about the stories you read to "translate" them to her lower processing level, and then also read them at the higher level on which they were written.
4) Watch Blue's Clues. The main stuff in that show is in groups of three. I think the processing level is at 3-4-5.
5) If she gets a 4 right she gets to go to the park.
6) Whenever she is highly motivated to do something, make getting a 4 right the ticket to getting permission. For example, Mary is now working on 5s. She loves to practice riding her bike and when she asks for permission to go and practice I tell her that she may if she gets four 5s right. Intensity is high, then. If she wants to watch a certain video, she needs to get a 5 right to proceed.
A mom asks:
What are reverse auditory digits? And what are auditory objects?
Miriam explains:
Reverse auditory digits work like this. You say 7 – 3 – 2 – 5 – 1 and your child tries to repeat back 1 – 5 – 2 – 3 – 7. Auditory objects substitutes an object for the digit like this: cow, pig, tree, house, cat. For auditory object sequences the child tries to repeat the sequence. For reverse objects, the child reverses the list of words.


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10 minutes prep, 60 minutes cook
2 12-oz package fresh cranberries2 cups Port, (ruby)1 cup honey1/2 teaspoon brown sugar, packed2 medium onions1 orange, zested1 cup red wine, (cabernet)1 teaspoon rosemary, minced1 cinnamon stick1/4 teaspoon salt1/4 teaspoon pepper
Use a 4-quart Dutch oven (not aluminum) to combine the cranberries, port wine, honey, brown sugar, red wine, onions and cinnamon sticks. Bring to a boil and reduce to simmer. Continue to simmer until the berries pop and let the onions candy (approximately one hour). Cool and add rosemary, orange zest and salt and pepper. Makes 18 1/3-cup servings of relish
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Boy, 5, Killed In Accidental Shooting At Nuevo Home
Police Wednesday said a shooting that killed a 5-year-old boy at his Riverside County home was accidental.
Sheriff's Deputies Investigate Accidental Shooting Death Of 5-Year-Old In Nuevo
Riverside County sheriff's deputies Tuesday were investigating the accidental shooting death of a 5-year-old child.
Man Charged With Murdering Mother And Daughter, Man Walking Dog In Riverside County
A Perris man accused of killing a man walking his dog and a mother and daughter out for a walk nearly two months later has been charged with three counts of murder.
Suspect Sketch Released In Nuevo Mother, Daughter Slayings
Riverside County Sheriff's have released the sketch of a suspect wanted in connection with the murders of a mother and a daughter who were killed Monday while walking in Nuevo, a rural community east of Perris.
Mother, Daughter Murdered While Walking In Riverside County Neighborhood
A mother and a daughter were attacked and killed Monday while they were walking in a rural community east of Perris.
3-Year-Old Girl Killed, 8 Injured In 2-Vehicle Crash
A three-year-old girl was killed and eight other people injured in a two-vehicle crash in Nuevo, according to authorities.
Public's Help Needed In Finding 2 Would-Be Child Predators In Lake Elsinore, Nuevo
Authorities are asking for the public's help in finding two men suspected in separate attempted kidnappings of children in Nuevo and Lake Elsinore.
93-Year-Old Woman Pistol-Whipped During Home Invasion Robbery
Authorities Saturday were on the hunt for a suspect they say pistol-whipped a 93-year-old homeowner after breaking into her home in a rural area east of Perris.
2 Men Busted For Allegedly Stealing 800 Pounds Of Copper Wire
Officials said two men were arrested after they were found with more than 800 pounds of stolen copper wire.
Prosecutors Review Footage Of Alleged Puppy Throwing
Riverside County prosecutors are reviewing security video that shows a man allegedly slamming a puppy to the ground, breaking its leg.


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HSBC "lift" by Grey London
Agency: Grey London
Rating: 5.0
By John Reynolds, marketingmagazine.co.uk, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 08:00AM
The fast-food chain is supporting its Grilled BBQ Rancher range with a viral ad featuring comedian Jenny Bede.
The tongue-in-cheek clip (below) considers the justifications women might use for eating unhealthy food, such as "It doesn't count if it's from someone else's plate".
Viewers will be encouraged to share their "It doesn't count if…" stories on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Twitter users can also follow KFC's @Doesnt-CountIf feed.
Jennelle Tilling, UK and Ireland vice-president for marketing at KFC, said: "Our first major social campaign provides us with a light-hearted mechanic to engage directly with young adult females, and gives us a chance to change their perception of KFC."
The campaign was created by digital company Fabric Worldwide.
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There is not a lot you can do with tablet design it usually would be a flat screen with ether rounder or square edges with varying screen ratio.
A Dusseldorf, Germany regional court has partly lifted a preliminary injunction issued last week banning Samsung from selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Europe, the day after Webwereld noticed inconsistencies in Apple's injunction filing. Now Europeans (save those living in Germany) won't need to trek to the Netherlands to get their Tab fix -- at least until a verdict is issued after Samsung's August 25th appeal hearing. Sales of the device were originally banned following an Apple lawsuit alleging patent infringement, but were permitted to resume after a realization that a German court may not have the authority to halt sales of a South Korean company's device outside of Germany. Since the judgement didn't affect devices that had already been distributed to retailers, it's unknown whether or not the week-long ban has had any effect on sales.


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At its quarterly meeting held in New York City on December 13, 2012, Carnegie Corporation of New York's Board of Trustees approved 24 grants totaling $26,911,500.
Brief descriptions of each board-approved grant are provided below.
International Program
Alliance for Peacebuilding, Washington, DC
24-month grant of $300,000 for support of a consortium to advance peacebuilding evaluation.
Aspen Institute, Inc., Washington, DC
12-month grant of $600,000 for the work of the Congressional Program On U.S. Policy Challenges in South Asia.
University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Western Cape, South Africa
36-month grant of $2,700,000 final grant for postgraduate training and research programs to advance scholarship and improve the retention of African academics.
International Peace Institute, Inc., New York, NY
24-month grant of $313,800 for support of research, dialogue, and outreach on peacebuilding in Africa.
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY
12-month grant of $200,000 for support of a project on wartime history and the future of the United Nations.
Truman National Security Institute, Washington, D.C.
24-month grant of $500,000 for its leadership development, education, and Capitol Hill programs.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC
36-month grant of $800,000 for the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project.
National Program
Charter Fund, Inc., Broomfield, CO
36-month grant of $3,000,000 for identifying, incubating, and scaling promising next generation learning school designs.
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
12-month grant of $1,500,000 for continuing implementation of the Opportunity Equation report's recommendations for improving mathematics and science education.
The Regents of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
24-month grant of $200,000 for a project to engage university administrators and develop inclusive practices that open educational opportunities for immigrant students.
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
24-month grant of $250,000 for a study examining the integration of immigrants into American society.
National Association of State Boards of Education, Arlington, VA
12-month grant of $319,000 for preparing state level decision makers for the adoption and implementation of the Next Generation Of Science Standards.
National Center for Civic Innovation, New York, NY
36-month grant of $5,718,700 for the launch and development of the Springpoint Institute as a new school design intermediary.
National Immigration Law Center, Los Angeles, CA
15-month grant of $500,000 for a national legal implementation strategy team to support undocumented immigrant youth applying for deferred action.
Our Piece of the Pie, Inc., Hartford, CT
12-month grant of $300,000 for developing a blended-school design for over-age and under-credit youth.
Public Interest Projects, New York, NY
12-month grant of $5,000,000 for support of the Four Freedoms Fund, a donor collaborative on immigrant integration at the state level.
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, New York, NY
24-month grant of $350,000 for increasing student and system capacity for college success using the Academy For College Excellence model.
Summit Institute, Redwood City, CA
24-month grant of $500,000 for the development of a fund that encourages and supports innovative next generation learning strategies.
Turnaround for Children, Inc., New York, NY
18-month grant of $600,000 for general support.
Special Opportunities Fund
Central European University, New York, NY
24-month grant of $210,000 for support of its Richard C. Holbrooke Center For Conflict Resolution And The Prevention of Genocide.
National Public Radio, Inc., Washington, D.C
12-month grant of $40,0000 for reporting on international affairs.
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, New York, NY
12-month grant of $500,000 as a one-time grant for a series of centennial programs exploring how shared ethical and moral values can be incorporated into global action to confront international challenges.
Carnegie Dunfermline Trust, Dunfermline, Scotland
12-month grant of $150,000 for support of three initiatives: a Carnegie Legacy Exhibition, the Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum Exhibition upgrade, and the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust Community Project.
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
24-month grant of $2,000,000 as a final grant for the World Digital Library in honor of Carnegie Corporation's centennial.


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Halley Diary — February 2006
A few words from Alex Gough - Winterer for 2006.
Blimp Flight - weather haven construction � Frances Williams - Feb 17
Blimp - Test Flight and Dismantle � Frances Williams - Feb 20
Major Incident Scenario � Simon Coggins
Raising The AIS � Jules Rix
Back on the Shack � Simon Coggins outgoing winterer
Winter has Started � 28th February
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A few words from Alex Gough - Winterer for 2006.
Well, everyone's about to leave us in peace. Almost everyone went early on Saturday morning, but five or six spare summerers remain until the second and final exodus on Monday morning. If all keeps going to plan, I'll drive to the ship with them, wave them off, then drive back to the base without them.
A few days ago I managed to get off the base for a few hours for the first time (bar the quick trip in the hairy-plane). Me and a couple of meteorological types headed off to a radio microbarograph site to dig it out of the snow and raise it by a meter or so, ready to work for another year. This involved a lot of futile digging, as we weren't sure where the box with the instrument in was, but eventually we managed to find it and haul it to the surface. It was fantastic to have a little ride out on a skidoo over virgin snow on a beautiful day. The sun was shining through holes in advancing clouds, picking out spots on the plateau behind a darkened base, and all was unusually quiet. Until the music we took with us was turned on, of course.
The twin otter that's lived here over the summer left a couple of days ago, with many people down at the airstrip to wave the pilot and mechanic on their way. After taking off they turned, gave us a quick fly by, then headed off to Rothera and eventually the UK where they'll get serviced ready for next year.
I've declared my leg healed, so feel much better now that I can go out and kite in the setting sun. Last night was magical, with a scattering of low clouds, a thin crescent moon and a planet sparkling just above the horizon.
Digging out the microbarograph
Pointing the transmitter at the base
Twin Otter kicks up snow as she flies off
Sun setting behind the Laws building
Moon hanging above the Simpson
Blimp Flight - weather haven construction � Frances Williams
Friday, February 17, 2006
This year we're trying to collect data from an 'Ozone Depletion Event' (ODE). This is when the formation of sea-ice destroys low-level ozone. We hope to fly a small blimp through the ozone-depleted air and measure how thick this layer is. We will attach a normal sonde and an ozone sonde to the blimp line. A sonde is a small, light piece of equipment that measures wind speed, direction, pressure, temperature and humidity. The ozone sonde will measure the amount of ozone. We will fly the blimp during our springtime- September/October, when the sea ice is breaking up and reforming again. But first we have to practice using the equipment.
To save helium and preparation time we will keep the blimp inflated between flights. To keep it from flying away (it gets very windy here) we have a weather haven to store it, and the helium that will inflate it. We've borrowed this particular weather haven from a site in Berkner where some other BAS scientist were drilling a very long ice-core for studies on past-climate. Fortunately our intrepid Field Guide, Simon spent a season there and instructed us in putting it up.
Two banks of 16 helium cylinders each are kept inside this box-on-a-sledge. The box also has light and heat. We will be doing these blimp flights at very cold temperatures so the area surrounding the helium banks needs to be warmed up before they're used. This box will also go in the weather haven but for today's exercise we kept the box outside of the tent.
The bottom frame. We've labelled all the bits up with different coloured electrical tape to help us do it in the cold and dark. The whole tent is 14x28foot.
Constructing the frame. The whole operation took 2 hours. The Bart (where we launch weather balloons from) and the Laws (main platform) are in the background.
One end of the weather haven has a large door that the blimp should easily fit through. The other end has a small door.
Craig, Ness, myself, Simon and Kirsty (Andy had gone in to do a Met ob).
The team outside the finished weather haven. Craig, Ness, myself, Simon and Kirsty (Andy had gone in to do a Met ob).
Next... a test flight.
Blimp - Test Flight and Dismantle � Frances Williams
Monday, February 20, 2006
There was an aircraft due in today and because of safety reasons, regulations say that we aren't allowed to fly the blimp on one hour either side of the aircraft's ETA. This meant that we wouldn't do a proper flight all the way up to the boundary layer (400m or so), but we did do a good test of the entire system. It was a little slow to begin with, we had trouble with the regulator from the Helium banks to the tube, and then some of the tubing was blown off- but we got it all sorted. Inside the sonde set-up was a little slow as well, but this will just take practice. Eventually we were at the point where the blimp was full and the sondes were transmitting data... we were ready to fly.
Kirsty with the two sondes. The one on our left is the ozone sonde. This measures local ozone concentrations, the one on the right is a Rusonde and measures general meteorological data like wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity and pressure. Photo by Alex Gough
Taking the Blimp out of the weather haven. A bit of a squeeze, but we managed. Photo by Alex Gough.
Me and Ness faffing with bits of blimp string.... careful to not let go now... Photo by Alex Gough.
The blimp in it's resting place with the Laws behind it.
The manual winch is behind Craig on the left and the automatic winch in the foreground in front of Liz. The BART (where we launch our balloons is on the right of the picture). Photo by Julius Rix.
The blimp had to squeeze out of the weather haven but there were many curious hands to help, so there weren�t any problems with that. We put the blimp on its resting rope before contacting comms to notify them of our flight (however brief). Then we set the automatic winch off, had someone at hand on the manual winch and put it up 10m or so. Then we attached the sondes, which were happily whirring away. The flight went well. Very well, there were hardly any hiccups and it was all good practice for the real data flights this spring.
The blimp with the sondes attached. Photo by Julius Rix.
In the spring when we're (hopefully) measuring an Ozone Depletion Event we will be doing all of this in the bitter cold for hours on end. We will be measuring wind speed, wind direction, pressure, temperature, humidity and ozone concentration.
Major Incident Scenario � Simon Coggins
At the beginning of the month most of the base was involved in a major incident scenario, designed to test our response to a serious accident involving multiple casualties. Down here you can't just call 999 if things go wrong so everyone must be trained and know what to do. John and Vicky have been very busy over the last few weeks improving the procedures and planning the details of the event. The scenario took the form of a plane crash at the skiway, leading to serious injuries to the pilot and three passengers. Here are some pictures from the event (mostly taken by Bryn).
The fire alarm was sounded and a call went out over the radio to get everyone to muster at the Laws platform.
John using the tag board to account for everyone.
The scene of the incident. The unfortunate victims were crushed by fuel drums.
Martin seemed remarkably happy considering he had a bit of bone sticking out his arm.
Vicky the doctor treating one of the victims.
Lowering the pilot out of the cockpit of the plane.
A makeshift hospital was set up in the summer accommodation building, manned by the advanced first aiders who did their best to keep the patients alive until the doctor arrived.
Hugh was diagnosed with internal bleeding, so had to be moved to the surgery on the Laws platform. Yes there is a person in there somewhere!
Preparing Hugh for surgery. Lucky for him the scenario ended before he went under the knife.
The next day the AIS transmitter masts were raised. These are the tallest erections in Antarctica and are 46.3m above the snow surface after they were raised this year. There are two masts that hold a Log-Periodic antenna curtain between them. Because they are so high, raising them took two days. The mast erectors Fish and Jacko took it in turns to climb the masts and Bryn and I, were the other climbers. Bryn is the outgoing AIS engineer and I am taking over from him. On the first day Fish and Bryn climbed the west mast.
The AIS masts with Bryn and Fish at the top. The snocat on the left is K21, the dream teams relief snocat (see previous entries).
In order to raise the masts you have to fit a new 10 foot section of mast to the top. So you drop the antenna curtain onto the ground. Get a pulley onto the top of the mast. You then haul a gin pole (long pole that fits to the top of the mast) with another pulley on it and fit that to the top of the mast, you can then pull things higher than the current top of the mast. You then haul the new section up and fit it to the top. The next day it was mine and Jacko's turn to climb. It was a beautiful day and we raised the mast by lunch time.
The view looking down from the top. The smallest blobs are people, the next size up blobs are skidoos and the largest blogs are sledges.
Jacko the mast erector at the top. The spanner thing on the right is called a podger and has a tapered handle. Podgers are really useful for locating holes and tightening the nuts afterwards. Dropping stuff at 45 m is not good.
Once you have raised both masts you can then raise the antenna curtain again. The antenna had to be checked as it is raised and there was a bit of damage between insulators and the dipole wires. However we fixed everything and it all worked well later. While we were doing all this work other people were invited to climb the masts as it is not often that you get an opportunity to climb them (they are transmitting a lot of the time with 10kW pulses 250 times a minute at wavelengths about the same size as a large human). Only one person apart from Bryn, Fish, Jacko and Me got to climb and that was Kirsty. She was just lucky and was there when we weren't too busy. So she is only spectator to have been up the largest constructions in Antarctic this summer.
Back on the Shack � Simon Coggins outgoing winterer
Sunday 26 February 2006
We left the base early on Saturday morning for the long drive to N9. The vehicle mechanics had already been up for hours getting the vehicles warmed up, and setting off in the slower vehicles - a bulldozer and crane which were being sent back to Cambridge for a full service. We left Halley just after 8:30am in a convoy of seven sno-cats, each one towing a sledge full of cargo or waste.
Sledges of cargo loaded and ready to go.
The drive to N9 took us about five hours so we arrived just in time for lunch. Since the ship has come from the north they had a plentiful supply of fresh fruit and vegetables and I was able to enjoy a salad for the first time in a year.
It's getting rather late in the year for a ship to be this far south, as the temperatures begin to drop rapidly now the sun is starting to set. During the journey to reach us the ship sailed through some rough seas and in these temperatures the spray freezes on impact, causing up to 4 inches of ice accretion onto the hull in places.
Ice accretion on the hull of the ship.
The temperature dropped to -20C last night, and we were able to stand on deck and watch the sea freezing in front of our eyes. First the surface becomes waxy then ice crystals form and start sticking together. These patches grow in size and the constant motion of the tides pushes them against each other to form flat, circular lumps known as pancake ice.
Pancake ice forms on the sea as it begins to freeze.
Another sign that the sea is freezing is the sight of sea smoke. This was the first time I had seen it close up and it is amazing - the whole surface of the water appears to be evaporating and any wind creates swirling vortexes much like the way it plays with spindrift at Halley.
With all these signs of the approaching winter, the captain is no doubt keen to get underway and return to warmer waters. The second wave of sno-cats (carrying the remaining passengers and cargo) is due tomorrow, then on Tuesday we will sail along the coast to a nearer Creek to say one last goodbye to the new wintering team before heading northward.
Winter has Started � 28th February
It was a strange and yet exhilarating feeling driving back last night from the ship. We are going into winter now, only 16 of us for the next 10months! Right on cue as we left the weather started to get worse, when we did eventually arrive back on station the visibility was low, there was blowing snow and it was pretty cold. I�m sure someone must have flicked some magical weather switch as we drove away from the ship���welcome to the Antarctic winter folks!
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UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) - The Prince George's County Council will take up the nominations of seven leaders of agencies and departments.
County Executive Rushern Baker III submitted the names Friday.
The Council must hold public hearings on the nominations, and must approve or reject the names within 45 days of their submission.
The list includes Police Chief Mark Magaw and Marc Bashoor, chief of the fire and EMS department. Baker also submitted names of leaders for the county department of housing and urban development, the office of finance, the office of management and budget, the office of central services and the department of environmental resources.
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Investigation results for electromagnetic radiation emission induced by strong Langmuir turbulence driven by a microsecond relativistic electron beam are presented. The radiation is associated with a plasmon-plasmon merging process, which generates photons at a double plasma frequency in the range of few hundreds GHz. An original radiometric system for radiation spectrum and power measurements is described.
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From books to theater to music to the Amazing Maize Maze, it's another busy weekend in the Lake Norman area. Summit Coffee's Songwriter's Showcase is Thursday, featuring Nashville folk artist Hannah Miller, Paul Finnican, and host Rob McHale with special guest Shantell Ogden of Nashville. The Lake Norman Beer Festival is Saturday at Kenton Place. The 48th anniversary Festival in the Park is Friday through Sunday in Charlotte, with food, live music, artists' booths and kids' activities. Cornelius Presbyterian Church's Bluegrass and BBQ music fest continues Saturday morning with Rusty Knox and Michael Reno Harrell. Warehouse Performing Arts Center in Cornelius opens a production of the "black-hearted" comedy "Smell of the Kill" Thursday through Sunday and the Davidson Farmer's Market is on Saturday morning.
Meanwhile, Our Town Cinemas in Davidson has "Beasts of the Southern Wild," "Last Ounce of Courage," "End of Watch," "Trouble with the Curve" and "Lawless" on the schedule. See the movie showtimes at right. Read the full story


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The Sports Network
DATE & TIME: Wednesday, January 30, 7 p.m. (et)
FACTS & STATS: Site: Worthen Arena (11,500) -- Muncie, Indiana. Television: None. Home Record: Toledo 4-2, BSU 5-5. Away Record: Toledo 2-8, BSU 3-5. Neutral Record: Toledo 1-0, BSU 0-0. Conference Record: Toledo 3-3, BSU 2-4. Series Record: Toledo leads, 42-39.
GAME NOTES: Both sides hope to build some momentum as the Toledo Rockets visit Worthen Arena for a Mid-American Conference bout with the Ball State Cardinals on Wednesday.
Although Ball State is 25-13 against the Rockets in Muncie, Toledo holds a 42-39 all-time series edge. The Cardinals have won three of the past four meetings over the past two seasons.
Toledo coasted to a 75-62 decision over Bowling Green on Saturday to end a three-game slide. Dominique Buckley scored 20 points to lead four Toledo players in double figures. Julius Brown finished with 14 points and seven assists, Rian Pearson added 14 points and nine rebounds and Nathan Boothe chipped in 10 points to help the Rockets stop their rapid decline. The victory boosted Toledo to a 7-10 overall record and to the .500 mark in the league standings.
Toledo is the second worst squad in the MAC defensively with an allowed average of 69.7 ppg. Its inability to limit the opposition was not apparent versus BGSU, as the Falcons shot 42.4 percent from the field to net just 62 points. Toledo was nearly perfect from the charity stripe, converting 26-of-27 free-throw tries to go along with a .468 field goal percentage in the tilt. The Rockets also outrebounded the Falcons by a 37-25 margin and dealt out 14 assists to 13 turnovers.
Leading the way offensively for Toledo is Pearson (16.5 ppg, 6.5 rpg), who is the MAC's fifth leading scorer. Brown is 13th in the league with 13.0 ppg and second with 7.2 assists per contest, but he is shooting a rather pedestrian 39.3 percent from the floor. Buckley's recent scoring streak has put hi just below a double-digit scoring average as well. The Rockets are at their best when they are attacking the rim and getting to the foul line, as they lead the conference and rank among the national leaders in free- throw percentage (.835).
The Cardinals snapped their own four-game losing slide over the weekend with an 82-62 rout of Miami-Ohio on the road, which improved them to an 8-10 standing and a 2-4 in the MAC record. Majok Majok tallied 21 points and eight boards in the win and Jesse Berry added 20 points. Chris Bond posted 16 points, seven boards, five steals, and four assists. Jauwan Scaife chipped in 14 points and seven assists to round out the collective effort.
Majok and Berry are tied for the team scoring lead at 12.6 ppg, followed by Scaife, who nets 12.2 per contest. Majok also leads the conference and ranks 17th nationally with 10.1 rebounds per tilt. Despite the trio's production, Ball State is scoring just 63.1 ppg to the 66.2 ppg it allows.
Both these teams have developed three-headed attacks that will serve them well throughout the rest of the season. Toledo is a much more potent offensive unit, but Majok makes BSU a tough team to compete with on the glass. The Rockets can steal one on the road if they continue to attack the rim and take advantage of their charity tosses.
Sports Network Predicted Outcome: Toledo 68, Ball State 65


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Margaret Irene Lemmon, age 71, of Erwin, passed away on Sunday, January 12, 2014 at the Bristol Regional Medical Center.
She was a native of Unicoi County and a daughter of the late Donald and Fay Lewis Lemmon. Margaret operated a daycare in her home for over 50 years in which she loved and helped guide many children. Her greatest loss was one of her dear children that she cared for was Lyndsay McInturff who went to be with the Lord at an early age. She was a member of Ninth Street Baptist Church.
Margaret Irene Lemmon has left behind to cherish her memories: Three Brothers: Ira Lemmon and his wife Cynthia of Jonesborough, Gerald Lemmon of Erwin, Bill Lemmon and his wife Cecilia of Erwin; Sister: Becky Thompson and her husband David of Jonesborough; Beloved Nieces and Nephews and Great Nieces and Great Nephews; Special Friends: Kathy Ensor of Knoxville and Debi McInturff of Unicoi.
A visitation period to share memories and offer support to the family will be at 6:00 – 8:00 PM, Wednesday, January 15, 2014, in the Chapel of Valley Funeral Home and at other times at the home of Gerald Lemmon, 215 New Ave., Erwin, TN
The family will attend a private service at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, the family has asked that donations be made to the Niswonger Childrens Hospital, please send to: Mountain States Foundation, 2335 Knob Creek Road, Suite 101, Johnson City, TN 37604, and please indicate who the memorials are for.
Condolences and memories may be shared with the family through our website at www.valleyfuneralhome.net
These arrangements are made especially for the family and friends of Margaret Irene Lemmon through Valley Funeral Home, 1085 N. Main Ave., Erwin, TN, 423-743-9187.


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For a while, it refuses to be provoked. Instead, it awes me with its engine. Every little thing you do to the accelerator brings an answer, a mix of brutal force, coiled-spring urgency and impossibly delicate precision - the sort of thing that, even in 2012, only natural aspiration can bring. And with that the noise, a foot-mixed blend of bellicose exhaust, yowling intake and the tingling polyphony of the V12's rotating and reciprocating mechanisms. This engine is a special joy in itself, but, on top of that, because it hardwires tractive effort into your brain, it should open a window to new layers of cornering control.
Well, sort of. It starts out understeering. On the way into every bend, the front washes wide. That "Will it understeer in the Hammerhead?" line you hear from Jeremy every week isn't some hammed-up piece of TV jeopardy. It's very real. Most cars do, and the Lambo really, really does. It takes a solid, lengthy lift of the accelerator to get the car settled and pulling with all four, at which point it's hugely effective and full of feel. Fun, and, of course, the best solution for the road, but a bit one-dimensional on the track. (Later, I mention it to Jeremy, and he says Aventadors don't understeer. Then I jump in with him as he tries this one and agrees it does.)


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One of the oldest theaters in the West Village. I love the lady in the lower left of the frame smoking a cigarette. She seems lost in her own world, like some noir femme fatale, her mood perfectly reflecting the old neon signage.
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I love the 'nightlife' in this image.
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Nice scene, Ken....
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EAST village
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Try monochrome and it would be a French Film Noir Excellent.
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Church leaders have spent a decade wondering why the Seeker-Relevant-Saddleback-Mega-church model that works so well for upwardly mobile people 35 and older, is not working for people under 30. I believe the answer is deceptively simple: The world changed.
Ask yourself, "What world-shaking event occurred when today's 25 year olds were early teenagers?" The answer: 9/11.
On 9/11 our fundamental understanding of what life was like changed. Forever.
Put yourself in the mind of an over 35 year-old: In the formative years of those over 35 the world was a pretty nice place. A safe place. We knew that if we worked hard and got an education we would have a good job, make money in the market, move up the social and economic ladder, and retire comfortably on our 401k, the appreciation of our homes and Social Security. We were confident. Our viewpoint: The world was our friend.
Take a 25 year old today: In their formative years the world was not a very nice place. They do not remember an America that was not at war. People they have never met want to bomb their buildings and crash their airplanes. If they work hard and get a good education, they may work at Starbucks and will spend 20 years paying off student loans. The market is a risk and home ownership might be a loser. How can they risk being tied to a home with fluctuating value when they will have to change careers and locales multiple times? There will not be a pension. Their 401k is a crap-shoot. Social Security will be bankrupt. Will they ever retire? Their viewpoint: The world is not their friend.
The "Seeker" movement works for the 35 year old specifically because it is based on the premise that the world was our friend. On that premise we built churches modeled on the best the world had to offer – it was the church as Christian subculture: a shinier, happier version of everything secular. Think of what we imitate in our "relevant" church models: coffeehouse, concert hall, comedy club. They are all based on the idea that the secular world is a friendly place. Since, for 20-somethings, the world is definitely NOT their friend, we really shouldn't be surprised when that secular model is not a big winner for them as "church."
Author Dan Kimball noticed the beginnings of this cultural shift ten years ago in "Emergent Church." In an attempt to reach the unchurched in Santa Cruz, California he assembled focus groups. He took them to different church environments. He found consistently that young adults wanted a church that was "churchy"…Ancient. Quiet. Solid. Holy. A place unlike the world. A place of "otherness." Those things whisper stability in an unpredictable, ever-changing world. Kimball's young adults were actually surprised that the older crowd preferred "relevant model" churches. Their take: "If I wanted to go to the mall, I'll just go. I want church to be church."
How do we engage the post-modern 25 year old? Certainly it isn't easy. They are very conflicted. On one hand they distrust large events. On the other, they flock to things with momentum -in Phoenix that is PhoenixOne, a gathering of 20-something "young professionals." In existence for 18 months, it is now attended by more than 1000 young adults.
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HSBC "lift" by Grey London
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Rating: 5.0
By Ian Darby, campaignlive.co.uk, Thursday, 10 January 2013 08:00AM
Hennessy was previously the global creative director on HSBC at JWT. He will work closely with the founder Nick Hastings across all Krow's clients.
Hennessy has also worked for agencies including Leo Burnett and the McCann Worldgroup shop Momentum Worldwide, where he was the executive creative director.
Le Roy joins from Ogilvy & Mather, where she worked in Hong Kong as the regional business director on Dove and on the Shangri-La hotel group account. Le Roy was previously an account director at Bartle Bogle Hegarty.
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Mon, 08/01/2005 - 11:13 — Mark Overmann
Concerns about the perception of the United States in Latin America led Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN), Chair of the House International Relations Committee's Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, to conduct an internal assessment of U.S. diplomacy in that region over the last two weeks. "We're talking about perception down there," Burton told representatives from the State Department, the Organization of American States (OAS) and other outside witnesses at a hearing last Wednesday to discuss diplomacy in the region.
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I walked deep into the middle and with each uneven step I seemed to descend from where I had started at street level. I could no longer see the horizon; all I could see were gray stones surrounding me, towering over me. Under my feet was a grid pattern which seemed to simulate the larger grid I was lost in. I looked up to the sky for some orientation, but the indistinct, overcast sky provided no texture for me. From the screams and laughter in the distance I knew I wasn't alone, but for that moment I felt alone, completely and utterly alone.
Worldviews are often muddled – we each have our own perspective based on our experiences. Much like the varied ways we look at the world, the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin is also a kaleidoscope of views and opinions. It has been a center of controversy in Berlin since it's opening in 2005. Memorials are something that is seldom agreed upon – have you ever seen or heard of a memorial that everyone agreed upon? One where everyone stood there and said, "That's an absolute perfect depiction of the pain and loss each person felt." No, because pain and loss is personal – very personal. The American born architect, Peter Eisenman, had a vision and continued forward with it despite the controversies – and his vision was far from straightforward. And it's the abstractness of the site that tends to throw people – however for me, it's what I loved about the site.
For some, the memorial and the pillars evoke no correlation to the murdered Jews of WWII – there are no names, plaques, or religious markings at all on the site. However if you free your mind you can see and feel all sorts of meaning and linking to the Jewish history. Novelist Sara Quigley wrote,
"Standing on an uneven piece of land, the stelae almost fall into the centre of the site, rising up again towards the edge, forming a myriad of uneven stone corridors. Walking down one of these passages is disorientating, and scary; you can't see who is approaching you, nor who is behind. The tilting ground and lack of vision offers some small idea of the Jewish experience from WWII: your past snatched away, your future insecure, little hope of escape."
From the first moment I saw pictures of the memorial in a magazine back in 2005, it has always looked like modern, scattered graves to me. It evokes a feeling of simple yet chaotic. The Landscape of 2,711 pillars called stelae are open 24 hours a day but are closely guarded by security personnel who have one rule – you cannot sit, stand, or climb on the stelae. However running, laughing, playing are all ok. This is what surprised me the most about seeing the memorial in person – the magazine photo was enough to get me to travel to Berlin to see it, but the life and noise coming from the memorial can only be experienced in person. And this is what makes the memorial unique to me. I've never ever been to a memorial that is so full of laughter and joy.
As I walked through the undulating maze of pillars I heard hushed tones of serious talking mixed with the sounds of footsteps running around me accompanied with laughter and often screams of excitement. The kids looked at the memorial as a huge playground, a maze to get lost in and run around. They would hide around pillars and scare their friends or challenge their parents to find them. Some feel that the memorial should be a serious place, a place where laughter and joy is not allowed, but I think the beauty of the memorial is this diversity of experience. As I watched the children running around enjoying themselves it reminded me that this generation has not felt the pain that their grandparents felt – they don't have memories of the war – reminding me that the only for sure thing in life is that time marches on. After all, memorials are for remembering, but they are also for living.
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Walking tours are available, however it's nice to just wander through the maze.
It is located one block south of the Brandenburg Gate, in the Friedrichstadt neighborhood.
Visitors center (located underneath the memorial) is free but lines can be long. Apr-Sept: Tue-Sun, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. (last admission 7.15 p.m.) Oct-Mar: Tue-Sun, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. (last admission 6.15 p.m.); Closing days 1 Jan., 12 to 26 Nov., 24 to 26 Dec.; free of charge; Field of Stelae: accessible 24h a day
More information on the free museum below the memorial via Oh-Berlin.com- The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin
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The contrast between the dark moodiness of your photos and your description of what it felt like to be there is remarkable. Berlin is high on my list of places to visit, and before this post I probably would have skipped the memorial. No longer. Thanks.
I LOVE the first picture. I'm not sure if that person is someone you know or if you caught that person, but it's stylically the best picture of the best. I can't place why. The contrast of colors, of pillars, of innocence, of so much.
Wonderful photos. That monument is a very disorienting place–it's kind of exhilarating to walk into it and then after a few minutes you're desperate to get out. I love how every post you've written over the last few months has gotten more and more thoughtful. This is one of my favorite blogs!
Surely one of the world's most moving memorials – so different yet so poignantly capturing one of world history's lowest points
This post and photos brought back some lovely memories…
Thanks and really well done for the photography work!
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Hamlet is a British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, directed by and starring Sir Laurence Olivier. Hamlet was Olivier's second film as director, and also the second of his three Shakespeare films. It is the only one of Olivier's directorial efforts to be filmed in black and white.
Olivier's Hamlet is the Shakespeare film that has received the most prestigious accolades, winning the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor. However, it proved controversial among Shakespearean purists, who felt that Olivier had made too many alterations and excisions to the four-hour play by cutting nearly two hours worth of content. Milton Shulman wrote in The Evening Standard "To some it will be one of the greatest films ever made, to others a deep disappointment. Laurence Olivier leaves no doubt that he is one of our greatest living actors...his liberties with the text, however, are sure to disturb many.
Olivier played the voice of the Ghost himself by recording the dialogue and playing it back at a reduced speed, giving it a haunted, other-worldly quality.
The movie was edited by Helga Cranston.
The film follows the overall story of the play, but cuts nearly half the dialogue, and includes an opening voice-over that represents Hamlet's fundamental problem as indecision.
The film begins with a narrator quoting some of Hamlet's lines from Act I Scene IV:
The narrator then breaks from Shakespeare's words to inform us "This is the tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind."
The action begins on the battlements of Elsinore Castle, the royal estate of the Danish monarchy, where a pair of sentries, Bernado (Esmond Knight) and Francisco (John Laurie) are met by a ghostly apparition of the late King Hamlet. Prince Hamlet's friend, Horatio (Norman Wooland), joins the sentries, and demands that the ghost speak. The ghost vanishes then, without a word.
Inside the Great Hall of the castle, the court is celebrating the marriage of Gertrude (Eileen Herlie) and King Claudius (Basil Sydney); old King Hamlet has died under mysterious circumstances and his wife, Gertrude, has, within a month of the tragedy, married the late King's brother. Prince Hamlet (Laurence Olivier) sits alone, refusing to join in the celebration, despite the protests of the new King. When the court has left the Great Hall, Hamlet fumes over the hasty marriage, muttering to himself the words "and yet, within a month!" Soon, Horatio and the sentries enter telling Hamlet of the ghostly apparition of his father. Hamlet proceeds to investigate, and upon arriving on the battlements, sees the ghost. Noting that the ghost beckons him forward, Hamlet follows it up onto a tower, wherein it reveals its identity as the Ghost of Hamlet's father. He tells Hamlet that he was murdered, who did it, and how it was done. The audience then sees the murder re-enacted in a flashback as the ghost describes the deed - Claudius is seen pouring poison into the late King Hamlet's ear, thereby killing him. Hamlet does not at first accept this as the truth, and then prepares to feign madness, so as to test Claudius' conscience, without jumping to conclusions.
This feigned insanity attracts the attention of Polonius (Felix Aylmer) who is completely convinced that Hamlet has gone mad. Polonius pushes this point with the King, claiming that it is derived from Hamlet's love for his daughter Ophelia (Jean Simmons). Claudius, however, is not fully convinced, and has Polonius set up a meeting between the two. Hamlet's "madness" is constant even in this exchange, and Claudius is convinced.
Hamlet then hires a group of wandering stage performers, requesting that they enact the play The Murder of Gonzago for the king. However, Hamlet makes a few alterations to the play, so as to make it mirror the circumstances of the late King's murder. Claudius, unable to watch the play, calls out for light, and retires to his room. Hamlet is now convinced of Claudius' treachery. He finds Claudius alone, and has ample opportunity to kill the villain. However, at this time, Claudius is praying, and Hamlet does not seek to send him to heaven, so, he waits, and bides his time.
He instead confronts Gertrude about the matter of his father's death and Claudius' treachery. During this confrontation, he hears a voice from the arras, and, believing that it was Claudius eavesdropping, plunges his dagger into the curtains. On discovering that he has in fact, killed the eavesdropping Polonius instead, Hamlet is only mildly upset, and he continues to confront his mother. He then sees the ghostly apparition of his father, and proceeds to converse with it (the Ghost is uncredited in the film, but is apparently voiced by Olivier himself). Gertrude, who cannot see the ghost, is now also convinced that Hamlet is mad.
Hamlet is deported to England by Claudius, who has given orders for him to be killed once he reaches there. Fortunately, Hamlet's ship is attacked by pirates, and he is returned to Denmark. In his absence, however, Ophelia, goes mad over Hamlet's rejection and the idea that her own sweetheart has killed her father, and drowns, supposedly committing suicide. Laertes (Terence Morgan), Ophelia's brother, is driven to avenge her death, as well as his father's. Claudius and Laertes learn of Hamlet's return, and prepare to have him killed. However, they plan to make it look like an accident. Claudius orders Laertes to challenge Hamlet to a duel, wherein Laertes will be given a poisoned blade that will kill with a bare touch. In case Laertes is unable to hit Hamlet, Claudius also prepares a poisoned drink.
Hamlet meets Laertes' challenge, and engages him in a duel. Hamlet wins the first two rounds, and Gertrude drinks from the cup, suspecting that it is poisoned. Whilst in-between bouts, Laertes rushes Hamlet, and strikes him on the arm, fatally poisoning him. Hamlet, not knowing this, continues to duel. Hamlet eventually disarms Laertes, and switches blades with him. Hamlet then strikes Laertes in the wrist, fatally wounding him. Gerturde then submits to the poison, and dies, warning Hamlet not to drink from the cup. Laertes, dying, confesses the whole plot to Hamlet, who flies at Claudius in a fit of rage, killing him, before finally expiring himself. Horatio, horrified by all this, orders that Hamlet be given a decent funeral, and the young prince's body is taken away, while the cannons of Elsinore fire off a peal of ordinance in respect.
Olivier excised the "political" elements of the play (entirely cutting Fortinbas, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern) in favour of an intensely psychological performance. He played up the Oedipal overtones of the play, to the extent of casting the 28-year-old Eileen Herlie as Hamlet's mother, opposite himself (aged 41) as Hamlet. Film scholar Jack Jorgens has commented that "Hamlet's scenes with the Queen in her low-cut gowns are virtually love scenes. In contrast, Jean Simmons' Ophelia is destroyed by Hamlet's treatment of her in the nunnery scene: ending with her collapsing on the staircase in what Deborah Cartmell calls the position of a rape victim.
According to J. Lawrence Guntner, the style of the film owes much to German Expressionism and to film noir: the cavernous sets featuring narrow winding stairwells correspond to the labyrinths of Hamlet's psyche.
|Best Actor in a Leading Role
|Laurence Olivier
|Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White
| Roger K. Furse
Carmen Dillon
|Best Costume Design, Black-and-White
|Roger K. Furse
|Best Picture
| J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Film
(Laurence Olivier, producer)
|Best Actress in a Supporting Role
|Jean Simmons
|Best Score
|William Walton
|Best Director
|Laurence Olivier
As of 2006, Hamlet is the only film to have won both the Golden Lion and the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Pauline Kael has asserted that
In North America, Olivier's Hamlet has been released on DVD as part of the Criterion Collection, which has also released his film versions of Henry V and Richard III on DVD.


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Linux kernel oops
Linux kernel oops on SPARC.
In computing, an oops is a deviation from correct behavior of the Linux kernel - one which produces a certain error log. The better-known kernel panic condition results from many kinds of oops, but other instances of an oops event may allow continued operation with compromised reliability. The term does not stand for anything, other than that it is a simple mistake.
When the kernel detects a problem, it prints an oops message and kills any offending process. Linux kernel engineers can use the message to help debug the condition which created the oops and thus to fix the programming error which caused it.
The official Linux kernel documentation regarding oops messages resides in the file Documentation/oops-tracing.txt[1] of the kernel sources. Some logger configurations may affect the ability to collect oops messages.[2]
Once a system has experienced an oops, some internal resources may no longer be in service. Even if the system appears to work correctly, undesirable side effects may have resulted from the active task being killed. A kernel oops often leads on to a kernel panic once the system attempts to use resources which have been lost.
kerneloops software can collect and submit kernel oopses to a repository such as the www.kerneloops.org website.[3] It provides statistics and public access to reported oopses.
For a person not familiar with technical details of computers and operating systems, an oops message might look confusing. Unlike other operating systems such as Windows or OS X, Linux chooses to present details explaining the crash of the kernel rather than display a simplified, user-friendly message.[citation needed]
See also[edit]
- kdump (Linux) – Linux kernel's crash dump mechanism, which internally uses kexec
- System.map – contains mappings between symbol names and their addresses in memory, used to interpret oopses
- ^ http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
- ^ "DevDocs/KernelOops". madwifi-project.org.
- ^ "kerneloops(8) - Linux man page".
Further reading[edit]
- Linux Device Drivers, 3rd edition, Chapter 4.
- John Bradford (2003-03-08). "Re: what's an OOPS". LKML (Mailing list). Retrieved 2006-05-22.
- Szakacsits Szabolcs (2003-03-08). "Re: what's an OOPS". LKML (Mailing list). Retrieved 2006-05-22.
- Al Viro (2008-01-14). "OOPS report analysis". LKML (Mailing list). Retrieved 2008-01-14.
- Kernel Oops Howto (the madwifi project) Useful information on configuration files and tools to help display oops messages. Also lots of other links.
External links[edit]
- oops.kernel.org, a public service collecting kernel oops reports


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for some reason, SSI isn't working and i have no idea why. the page
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i didn't put this in the file myself -- the config file came from debian
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the server just seems to be totally ignoring the SSI stuff, and i'm not
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anyone have suggestions on why SSI may not be working?
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