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OSU coach's criticism fails to rile Aggies' Sherman
A&M boss: Team's conditioning was not the problem.
Updated 1:00 pm, Tuesday, September 27, 2011
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M coach Mike Sherman said he only takes criticisms personally if they're about his family, so he vowed a peer's parting shot after a hotly-contested game on Saturday "doesn't bother me."
"He's entitled to his opinions," Sherman said Monday of Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy. "I know what type of shape my team is in."
Gundy's OSU squad had just defeated A&M 30-29 at Kyle Field when Gundy offered, "I thought our team was in better physical condition. By a longshot."
On Monday, Sherman countered that unique conditions existed in the third quarter that caused his defenders to cramp time and again — and essentially fail to keep up with the Cowboys' high-octane offense.
"The way we practice — we're in shape, I promise you," said Sherman, 0-4 against Gundy. "We didn't stress their defense the way they stressed our defense. It had nothing to do with being in shape or out of shape. Some of the most conditioned athletes still cramp.
"I can't say we hydrated properly in hindsight, but we didn't anticipate 37 snaps (on defense) in the third quarter. You're going to cramp on a 95-degree day when you play that much."
OSU overcame a 20-3 halftime deficit with three third-quarter touchdowns, aided by A&M's inability to hold on to the ball offensively (two interceptions and a fumble in that span). The Cowboys led 24-20 after three quarters in consistently relying on screen passes against a lagging, often-gasping A&M defense.
"Clearly we should have been more prepared," said defensive coordinator Tim DeRuyter, later adding, "the biggest issue we had was not being physical at the point of attack."
Sherman and DeRuyter said it wasn't just the quick tosses in the flats that were giving the defense fits — it was where OSU quarterback Brandon Weeden was firing passes that consistently caught the Aggies off guard.
"Our guys were looking to the sideline and then trying to get lined up, and OSU was already throwing the screen to the other side of the field," Sherman said. "You can't run those kinds of screens in the NFL because the receivers will just get blown up. But (OSU) did a good job. They nickel-and-dimed us with that and changed the tempo."
On Monday night, A&M held a celebration to announce the Aggies' entrance into the Southeastern Conference in 2012. Future SEC foe Arkansas is their next opponent in the third installment of the Southwest Classic, which begins at 11 a.m. Saturday at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.
DeRuyter said the Aggies have made adjustments in the days since the OSU game to get calls in quicker to the defense — lest the Razorbacks employ the same quick-play scheme so effective for OSU.
"We now have a better and simpler system for communicating to the players," DeRuyter said. "It's difficult to defend when players are looking for a call, and a pass is to the other side."
The Aggies will face the Razorbacks in a climate-controlled setting on Saturday, then follow with a night game at Texas Tech on Oct. 8, so any temperature-related problems likely are behind them.
But senior safety Trent Hunter said the heat wasn't as big a factor for the Aggies as their failure to adjust quickly enough to OSU's up-tempo offense.
"We practice (outside) during two-a-days, so the heat wasn't anything new," Hunter said. "Their tempo got to us more than the weather."


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"As Donald Trump Denies Climate Change, These Kids Die of It."
That's the title of an article written last week by Nicholas Kristof, op-ed columnist for the New York Times. For the article and related video, Kristof travels to Madagascar, the enormous island off the coast of eastern Africa, pictured as a lush paradise in the popular animated children's movie series. Now, southern Madagascar is little more than a desert wasteland. Major rivers are reduced to muddy puddles. Forests and farm fields are now dust spotted with cactus, where starving children nibble around sharp thorns to put something in their bellies.
So, meet two little boys, Fokandraza and Foriavi, among the millions now dubbed "climate orphans" – their parents having left long ago to find work and money in desperate hopes of feeding the family. They live with their aunt, who can't afford to feed her own children, let alone Fokandraza and Foriavi.
"If I were smart, I'd go and find a better life," says the starving boys' aunt. "But these kids are so sweet, I can't leave them."
Kristof asks the boys: "Have you eaten anything today?"
Fokandraza's stick-thin arms hang limply at his sides. "No."
Kristof: "Have you drunk water today?"
Foriavi can't even stay awake during the interview.
Kristof: "I don't blame the aunt. The situation is more my fault than hers. Here's the paradox of climate change: It's mainly caused by affluent people. People like us. And those who suffer the most are the poor and vulnerable."
So maybe we don't care all that much about climate change here in affluent America. Our president elect certainly doesn't, and has promised to gut all global and national efforts to deal with the crisis. But now we know Fokandraza and Foriavi, the faces of a world facing runaway climate chaos.
Remember their names: Fokandraza and Foriavi. We will certainly hear them again, when the Son of Man comes again in his glory. "What you did for Fokandraza and Foriavi, you did for me. And what you did not do for them, you did not do for me." (Adapted from Matthew 25: 31-46)
How will we answer, brothers and sisters? How will we answer?
What to do? For starters, go to the Climate Caretakers website and take the climate pledge — to learn, pray and act on climate. Every week, you'll receive an email helping you in your prayers. This week, you'll be praying for Fokandraza and Foriavi, and for Donald Trump.

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Knost wins Fort Smith Classic
Published 7:00 pm, Saturday, May 10, 2008
Former amateur star Colt Knost won the Fort Smith Classic Sunday, shooting a 5-under 65 to edge Darron Stiles by a stroke.
Knost, the U.S. Amateur winner last year at Olympic, finished at 12-under 268. Stiles, who won this Nationwide Tour event two years ago, shot a 71 on Sunday and finished at 11 under.
Matt Weibring, who led after the third round, shot a 75 Sunday to finish at 8 under.
Knost, a former SMU player, shot the low score of the day on the 6,783-yard course at Hardscrabble Country Club. He won despite a bogey on No. 18.
Stiles made the turn Sunday at 14 under but shot a 38 on the back nine, including three bogeys and a double bogey. He made four bogeys and no double bogeys through the first 63 holes of the tournament.
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Chelsea from Shameless Cones writes:
My husband told me about poor Pixie. If she needs a cone for more than a week, please email me your address, and we will send you one of our Pixie-sized, Sunflower Shameless Cones, gratis.
And then they sent us one! Doesn't Pixie look lovely as a sunflower? Make no mistake, though: she still smells like dog.
Thanks, Chelsea and Benjamin from Shameless Cones!
If you had to wear a cone — shameless or otherwise — what design would you want on it? Sunflower? Planetary rings? Shuriken points? Rainbows? Sun rays? Octopus tentacles? Sea urchin spines? Polka dots? Plaid? 8 Ball?
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CHEYENNE — New Jersey's biggest newspaper has a message for the least populated state in the nation: Butt out.
The Star-Ledger newspaper in Newark published an editorial on Tuesday telling Wyoming to mind its own business.
The editorial came after Wyoming last week asked the U.S. Supreme Court for permission to submit a brief on behalf of itself and 18 other states supporting a New Jersey man who is challenging that state's concealed weapons law.
John M. Drake is challenging a provision in New Jersey law that says people seeking concealed carry permits must prove that they have a justifiable need.
Wyoming and other states are concerned that if the law survives federal review, the court ruling could threaten their less-restrictive concealed carry laws.
The Star-Ledger reported last week that Drake, of Fredon, N.J., is a business owner who owns and services ATMs. He told the paper he sometimes carries large amounts of cash.
Tuesday's editorial in The Star-Ledger said that a strong majority of people in New Jersey supports strong gun laws and that others in the state have lost similar court challenges to the state's concealed carry law.
"Most New Jerseyans don't want to have to worry that the guy they're fighting with over a parking spot might be packing heat," the editorial stated. "That's why you need to show justifiable need to carry a handgun here."


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I have to wait until the end of June before I can get an upgrade, but I'm really looking forward to the upgrade. Maybe I'll see if any of the stores have one that I can go fondle.
I like my Titan I, but the camera sucks on it. It works fine for daylight stuff, but low light is terrible. The one scenario that I always seem to have trouble with is when I want to take a picture of a document. That doesn't happen very often, but it needs to work right when I need it. Hopefully the Lumia works half as well as they say it does.


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It's maddening to try and motivate people who are burned out. And disheartening to see what's happening to the team when burnout spreads like a virus. Still, It's easy to ignore the first signs of burnout.
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That's why you can't overcome burnout by tweaking schedules, changing deadlines, reorganizing the workload. In terms of ending burnout – these are band-aids that can only give temporary relief. To really beat burnout – you need to get behind the symptoms of burnout and stoke the fire of passion and purpose at its source.
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Some leaders are afraid of having people think about their core values
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Clinton looks back at tenure
Kerry officially sworn in after Clinton lauds America's leadership
Updated 7:46 am, Saturday, February 2, 2013
WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton formally resigned Friday as America's secretary of state, capping a four-year tenure that saw her shatter records for the number of countries visited. John Kerry was sworn in to replace her.
In a letter sent to President Barack Obama shortly before she left the State Department for the last time in her official capacity, Clinton thanked her former opponent for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination for the opportunity to serve in his administration. Clinton said it had been an honor to be part of his Cabinet.
"I am more convinced than ever in the strength and staying power of America's global leadership and our capacity to be a force for good in the world," she said in the letter.
Her resignation became effective at 4 p.m. when Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan swore in John Kerry as the top U.S. diplomat. The former Massachusetts senator and 2004 presidential candidate is the 68th secretary of state.
"I'm just very, very honored to be sworn in and I'm very anxious to get to work," Kerry told reporters after the private ceremony at the Capitol. "I'll be reporting Monday morning at 9 o'clock to do my part," he said, but he refused to say what global hotspot he would visit first.
In the State Department's main lobby, Clinton pushed through a throng of American foreign service workers who clamored for handshakes and smartphone photos with her and gave an emotional goodbye speech.
She told them to continue to "serve the nation we all love, to understand the challenges, the threats and the opportunities that the United States faces and to work with all our heart and all of our might to make sure that America is secure, that our interests are promoted and our values are respected."
Clinton, however, also left office with a slap at critics of the Obama administration's handling of the September attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya. She told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday that critics of the administration's handling of the attack don't live in an "evidence-based world," and their refusal to "accept the facts" is unfortunate and regrettable for the political system.
Clinton told the AP that the attack in Benghazi was the low point of her time as America's top diplomat. But she suggested that the furor over the assault would not affect whether she runs for president in 2016.
Although she insisted that she has not decided what her future holds, she said she "absolutely" still plans to make a difference on issues she cares about in speeches and in a sequel to her 2003 memoir, "Living History," that will focus largely on her years as secretary of state.
Clinton spoke to the AP Thursday in her outer office on the seventh floor of the State Department less than 24 hours before she walked out for a final time as boss. She was relaxed but clearly perturbed by allegations from Republican lawmakers and commentators that the administration had intentionally misled the public about whether the attack was a protest gone awry or a terrorist attack, or intentionally withheld additional security for diplomatic personnel in Libya knowing that an attack could happen.
An independent panel she convened to look into the incident was scathing in its criticism of the State Department and singled out four officials for serious management and leadership failures.
But it also determined that there was no guarantee that extra personnel could have prevented the deaths of the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three other Americans. Clinton herself was not blamed, although she has said she accepted responsibility for the situation.


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Articles in INDYCAR
By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor
It's best to let the AJ Allmendinger situation resolve itself before getting too carried away with righteous indignation, scorn or sympathy. But it's not too early to say this: The hope here is that Sam Hornish Jr. makes the most of the opportunity which has been regrettably made his.
Hornish got […]
The IZOD IndyCar Series has a new points leader and a new top team as Ryan Hunter -Reay of Andretti Autosport won the Honda Indy Toronto on Sunday to give him three straight victories and a sizable lead in the season standings.
Hunter-Reay inherited the lead on lap 57 at the Exhibition Place street circuit when […]
By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor
This has been a season of high-profile firsts for the IZOD IndyCar Series. Almost a complete rebirthing season in terms of people, places and things. And while some of the newly launched nouns have to be considered success stories, there have been some that have caused rebirthing issues.
One thing that […]
Dario Franchitti will start Sunday's IZOD IndyCar Series even in Toronto from the pole.
The Target Chip Ganassi driver, who won this year's Indianapolis 500, edged Will Power of Team Penske to get the pole. The pole was the 29th of Franchitti's career and third in a row.
"That was a really hard-earned pole," Franchitti said. "Track […]
By John Sturbin | Senior Writer
Push-to -pass returns to the IZOD IndyCar Series with this weekend's Honda Indy Toronto, and defending event champion Dario Franchitti can't wait to hit-the-switch on the Streets of Exhibition Place.
"It's going to be very interesting, you know, with that push-to-pass, how much power are we actually going to get," Franchitti […]
By John Sturbin | Senior Writer
The 2012 IZOD IndyCar Series schedule will remain at 15 races, with the season-finale at the 2-mile Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., to be expanded by 50-laps/100 miles to a 500-miler.
INDYCAR, the series ' Indianapolis-based sanctioning body, has been looking for a potential replacement event since June 13, when […]
Andretti Autosport had a big – and late – night at Iowa Speedway Saturday as driver Ryan Hunter-Reay and teammate Marco Andretti finished first and second respectively there in the Iowa Corn 250 IZOD IndyCar Series Race.
Hunter-Reay's second consecutive short track victory was reason enough to celebrate. Closing to three points of IZOD IndyCar Series […]
Dario Franchitti, who qualified for the Fast Eight heat race during the final seconds of practice, passed Marco Andretti on Lap 8 of 30 to claim pole position for Saturday night's IZOD IndyCar Series Iowa Corn Indy 250.
Franchitti's pole on the 0.894-mile Iowa Speedway oval in Newton followed his P1 effort at The Milwaukee Mile […]
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But in the wake of the lead-up, and then the […]
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INDYCAR's top cop has acknowledged that the sanctioning body erred when it issued a drive-through penalty to Scott Dixon during the Milwaukee IndyFest presented by XYQ at The Milwaukee Mile.
Dixon, of Target Chip Ganassi Racing, finished 11th in Saturday's IZOD IndyCar Series event won by Ryan Hunter-Reay of Andretti Autosport […]


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Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Trepal's court: According to an opinion that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued today, "In 1991, a Florida jury convicted Trepal, a sophisticated chemist and Mensa member, of murdering his neighbor Peggy Carr and attempting to murder six other members of Carr's family. Trepal poisoned the victims by adding the toxic element thallium to bottles of Coca-Cola in the Carrs' home."
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"Pfizer Paid $896 Million In Prempro Settlements": Jef Feeley of Bloomberg News has this report.
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"School chaplaincy program is 'constitutionally invalid': High Court." The Sydney Morning Herald has this news update.
And The Associated Press reports that "Australia court rejects gov't-funded chaplain work."
You can access Wednesday's ruling of the High Court of Australia at this link. The court also issued this summary of its ruling.
"How Much Should Judges Be Paid? An Empirical Study on the Effect of Judicial Pay on the State Bench." James M. Anderson and Eric Helland have this article in the May 2012 issue of the Stanford Law Review.
Posted at 10:42 PM by Howard Bashman
"Gene patent rematch: Myriad, ACLU and DOJ file new briefs." Alison Frankel's "On the Case" from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report.
Posted at 10:37 PM by Howard Bashman
"Avoiding Confrontation with DNA": Brandon L. Garrett has this post at "ACSblog."
And at "The Confrontation Blog," Richard D. Friedman has a post titled "Thoughts on Williams, Part I: Reasons to Think the Impact May be Limited."
"How Much Will the Ruling in the Health Care Case Matter?" Orin Kerr has this blog post at "The Volokh Conspiracy."
Update: And, a short time later, he also has a post titled "If You Wanted to Read the Tea Leaves of Justice Ginsburg's Speech at the ACS."
"The Supreme Court Is Not American Idol": Former Third Circuit Judge H. Lee Sarokin has this blog entry at The Huffington Post.
Posted at 04:32 PM by Howard Bashman
Reuters announces plan to live-blog forthcoming U.S. Supreme Court decisions: As announced on Twitter earlier today, Reuters has unveiled a web page promising live coverage of U.S. Supreme Court rulings.
Posted at 03:50 PM by Howard Bashman
But have they gone duck hunting together? In the latest entry in "Summary Judgments for June 19," Carlyn Kolker of Thomson Reuters News & Insight notes a recusal order entered yesterday at the direction of a judge serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Posted at 03:40 PM by Howard Bashman
"The G.O.P.'s Abortion Problem": Jeffrey Toobin has this blog post online today at The New Yorker.
Posted at 02:33 PM by Howard Bashman
"Scalia and Garner Release 567-Page Tome on Legal Writing": Richard Brust has this post at the ABA Journal's "Law News Now" blog.
Posted at 01:37 PM by Howard Bashman
In deciding whether to certify a class action, when should a federal district judge defer, based on principles of comity, to colleague's earlier ruling denying a motion for certification of a similar class? Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner considers the answer to that question in an opinion that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued today.
Of course, Judge Posner's opinion takes a close look at the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last Term in Smith v. Bayer Corp.
"Georgia Supreme Court grants new malpractice trial in disabled girl's 1998 birth at St. Mary's": This article appears today in The Athens Banner-Herald.
And in today's edition of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Bill Rankin has an article headlined "Court says disabled child can attend trial" that begins, "The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday ruled a judge was wrong to exclude a girl from a trial out of concern her physical and mental disabilities could sway the jury."
You can access yesterday's ruling of the Supreme Court of Georgia at this link.
"Senators Urge Supreme Court to Allow Live Broadcast of Health Care Decisions": Todd Ruger has this post at "The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times."
And The Hill has a blog post titled "Sens. Leahy, Grassley call on Supreme Court to televise healthcare ruling."
You can view the letter at this link.
"High Court Pares Right to Challenge Lab-Test Evidence": Jess Bravin has this article today in The Wall Street Journal.
And online at The Atlantic, Andrew Cohen has an essay entitled "The Supreme Court Splinters Apart Over the Confrontation Clause."
"Federal judges defend Maui conference as cost-effective": FoxNews.com has this report.
And The Hill has a blog post titled "9th Circuit: Hawaii trip needed to foster 'personal interaction' among judges."
"Why Are Americans Losing Trust in the Supreme Court?" Law professor Barry Friedman has this essay online at The Nation.
Posted at 08:52 AM by Howard Bashman
"Immigration ruling won't be end of the road": Joan Biskupic of Reuters has this report.
Posted at 08:50 AM by Howard Bashman
"Millions still go without insurance if law passes": The Associated Press has this report.
Posted at 08:47 AM by Howard Bashman
"WA state budget cuts divide 9th Circuit": Terry Baynes of Reuters has this report on an order denying rehearing en banc that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued yesterday.
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It seems that sometimes you just have to be there. Being in direct contact with the subject of research (termed "in situ" observations) has its benefits.
Amateur astronomers lined up telescopes and hundreds of people watched the LCROSS impact on the internet. Although not visually as exciting as many hoped for, the data obtained seems to have justified NASA's methods of "bombing the Moon" as so many media outlets described. If you were underwhelmed by LCROSS, hold onto your hats because NASA is at it again. And this time it's shooting for the stars. Or star, actually: our Sun.
NASA's "Solar Probe Plus" (SPP) is slated for launch in 2018 and involves sending an unmanned probe into the Sun's atmosphere (the corona) in order to better study its properties. The probe itself will be roughly the size of a small car and as you might imagine, will face scorching temperatures during the planned 6 year, 321 day mission.
To protect the SPP from such intense temperatures, the probe will be equipped with a revolutionary carbon-composite heat shield to protect it during its fiery orbits. This material will be similar to that which protects the Space Shuttle from the heat of atmosphere reentry. The probe itself will be solar powered, getting its electricity from liquid-cooled solar panels that can retract behind the heat shield whenthe sunlight becomes too intense.
Before the science can begin, the Solar Probe Plus has a journey ahead to bring it into an oval orbit around the Sun. This involves 7 "fly-by" approaches to Venus to adjust its orbit. This can be seen as the opposite of the traditional "gravity assist" where probes like Cassini have orbited planets to increase their speed so as to reach further out into the Solar System. When we send spaceprobes towards the Sun, they are greatly accelerated by the Sun's gravitational well and so they must be slowed down to enter into a useful orbit. As the schedule stands, the SPP would make its closest approach to the Sun in late 2024. During its 24 orbits of the Sun the probe comes ever closer to the Sun so that at its closest position it will be well within Mercury's orbit, about 8.5 solar radii or 3.7 million miles from the Sun's surface. This is 7 times closer than any previous spacecraft.
Another first will be its speed of orbit: on its closest approach the SPP will be flying past the sun at a speedy 125 miles per second (450 000 mph, 724000 km/h).
That's fast. Roughly 3 times as fast as any other space probe has travelled. Compare with the Space shuttle and International Space Station which orbit the Earth at approximately 17,500 mph (28000Km/h).
Five scientific experiments have been selected for the mission and range from counting the most abundant particles present in the solar wind to a telescope that will make 3D images of the Sun's corona.
So why the Sun? Don't we already know a lot about our closest star? The answer is yes – and no. Some important questions which scientists studying the Sun (heliophysics) have been searching for answers to for decades remain.
Two of the most important of these questions may be answered by NASA's Solar Probe Plus mission:
- Why is the sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, so much hotter than the sun's visible surface? (the coronal heating problem)
- What drives the solar wind – the streams of highly energetic particles that blow out at speeds of a million miles an hour, affecting the Earth and entire Solar System
In addition, during its time orbiting the Sun, the SPP is likely to encounter several "solar storms". Researchers suspect that many of the most dangerous particles produced by solar storms are energized in the corona—just where Solar Probe Plus will be. The spacecraft will have an up close and personal view of these Solar Energy Particle (SEP) events, enabling scientists to better understand, characterize and forecast the radiation levels that might threaten the heath and safety of future space explorers.
I go into some of the science involved below. This is without doubt an exciting mission and the first time humankind has dared to rendezvous with a star. In itself that makes this adventure quite remakable.
Some of the science behind the mission
The first of the two questions stated above arises when we look at the Sun's composition:
The Sun's Core is at a temperature of approximately 13.6 million Kelvin (~25 million degrees Farenheit). The optical surface of the sun (the photosphere) is known to have a temperature of approximately 6,000 K ( 10340 degrees Farenheit, 5700°C). Above it lies the solar corona, rising to a temperature of 1,000,000–2,000,000 K.
Herein lies the problem: how can the corona of the sun be millions of kelvin hotter than the lower surface of the sun (photosphere)?
The second law of thermodynamics can be stated in the form attributed to Rudolf Clausius:"Heat generally cannot flow spontaneously from a material at lower temperature to a material at higher temperature."
In other words, heat would normally be unable to flow from the solar photosphere to the hotter corona, so we must conclude that something other than direct heat conduction must be responsible for the high temperatures in the corona.
At present the two theories considered the most likely involve
1) Wave heating
Several different types of waves can exist in the Sun's plasma environment and are similar to sound waves in air. Two specific types of waves: Alfvén waves and magneto-acoustic waves could potentially carry energy from the Sun's photosphere up into the corona. However, magneto-acoustic waves seem unable to carry enough energy upwards into the corona without being reflected back to where they came from due to low pressure.
And Alfvén waves may reach the corona but dissipate energy far too slowly and insufficiently to account for how much heating we observe.
We've also seen quite a lack of direct observations of uniformly energetic waves in the Sun's corona so far — which we'd expect if the theory holds true.
2) Magnetic reconnection (nanoflares)
This theory relies on the Sun's magnetic field present in the Corona. In fact, as well as the magnetic field loops we associate linking active parts of the Sun, we now know that the Sun's entire surface contains small "patches" of magnetic fields. A patchwork of small magnetic fields and loops, now dubbed the "magnetic carpet", can appear and disappear again on timescales on the order of ~40 hours (see figure below).
A magnetic field induces an electric current (as we see in generators). Sometimes in a plasma, their electric currents "collapse" and the magnetic field lines which were maintained by those currents "reconnect" to other poles and energy is released as waves and heat.
No one really knows what could produce these magnetic patches, which vary on such short timescales. Professor Edward Spiegel from Columbia University has suggested that the patches are produced by small dynamos located just beneath the surface of the Sun. But there is no proof so far.
It is also possible that a combination of these theories provides the answer.
The second question that the Solar Probe Plus hopes to shed light on is that of how the solar wind is driven. The solar wind streams off of the Sun in all directions at speeds of about 1 million miles per hour (400 km/s). Originating in the corona, the temperature of the solar wind helps it escape the sun's gravity. Determining how the corona is heated is important in also understanding how and where the coronal gas is accelerated to such high velocities. Additionally the solar wind is NOT uniform and has both slower and faster components. Determining the mechanisms for both the slow and fast components of the solar wind is of great scientific interest.
In both problems, the fundamental role of the sun's magnetic field in shaping dynamical processes on all scales has become very apparent.
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On this website we are sharing information about locations that some of the various contributors to this site have gone to. All of us find out about these mineral locations from various sources. Many locations have been talked about in every media format available, some published locations are so well known it is common to run into another collector at any time, some of the locations published are visited less than a couple times a year, if at all. By media, I mean, printed in magazines, books, club newsletters, posted online in forums, websites, on homemade video, on professional video and on television. Some collectors will grumble that all this publicity will make the location run dry. It makes local officials either look forward to increased tourism, or look for ways to restrict access, as if rockhounding was a hobby that allows one to retire early (on public gains!), rather than typically be retired to enjoy! Mineral collecting is a truly patriotic hobby! Knowing and understanding minerals and the deposits has always been a matter of national security, public knowledge and scientific outreach.
While many websites will tell you about what tools you need and speak of rock hammers, backpacks and boots, our #1 tool is knowledge. First hand, published and in modern mythic tales, obtaining information about locations is something that is the first step to find out as much as possible about a location before ever visiting it.
Field Guides are a great resource, as well as magazines focused on rockhounding, from now all the way back into the beginning of the 20th century! Old magazines like "Rockhounds" and "The Mineralogist" are great resources, as well as old and current issues of "Rocks and Minerals" and "Rock and Gem". All of these can be found for sale on eBay and at various mineral shows around the united states. You never know when you are going to come across a great article about a location you had JUST heard about! One of the most amazing online databases is the complete run of "American Mineralogist" on http://www.minsocam.org/msa/ammin/toc/
The older issues have articles that have lead me to locations that might have been completely forgotten about.
Mindat.org is an amazing database that many of you are already familiar with, however, we often forget to think about just how amazing this database is, including lists of references for corresponding articles and books about the subject.
Geology Departments of the state you live in or adjacent to you, has produced several state reports on mines and minerals, which will often include information that can be very useful now. In the early 1900's, feldspar was an important commodity, unlike now. Knowledge of mineral deposits will tell us commercial feldspar deposits also had garnets and schorl tourmaline, sometimes quartz or even topaz. Often an entire hardcover book has been produced, detailing the minerals and the locations they are found, across the state. California has at least THREE editions of this kind of text and I'm sure there are several people planning the next edition.
Road Atlas are great to have when you are planning and while you are en route. I personally love the DeLorme series, nice large print maps that have helped guide me to countless locations. The BLM has a program you can use, the LR2000, but my personal favorite database is the MRDS, Mineral Resource Data System, detailing the principal and secondary ore and location of all working, placed and closed mines and mineral locations. Just load the map and locate your location. I think you'll be surprised what you might not know about the mines in your proximity. While traveling through Utah and Colorado, our Road Map was invaluable, showing BLM land that was open for public camping.
Clubs are a real mixed bag, but as such, you will inevitably come across information from all directions. Both of my favorite beach and fossil collecting spots were told to me by a lady at the Searcher's Rock Club in Anaheim California. Right now in 2013, I'm cleaning minerals and going field collecting with a friend I made from attending the Culver City Club back in 2004. That is a collecting friend who has gone on dozens of collecting trips with me over 9 years. I've learned about so many parts of this hobby from mineral clubs and it has been an enlightening experience in many ways. You can get a complete list of mineral clubs here.
We loved this idea so much, we made it. The Mineral Search Page located Right Here on WheretoFindRocks.com, is something that we made from our LOVE of the general searches for states, countries and forms on eBay. The idea behind this is that if you check out the eBay results for your state, or general area, you'll come across people who have gone out collecting at public locations and put something on eBay. This can easily lead you to general areas to collect minerals. It is a great first step in researching current producing locations.
Museums and local collections are great resources. You'll find the museums thing to be easy, if not a long term task. Searching out collections, both old and current, are wonderful sources of information. For instance, if you wanted a good run down of California locations, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles has an entire wall devoted to very beautiful representations of our state, as well as the California Mining Museum in Mariposa. I LOVED the Wagner Free Institute which had this amazing OLD collection, untouched for a century. In the same vein, the Natural History museum of Prague featured minerals that had not been updated in decades, revealing a great deal of history that is so often removed from the more mainstream commercial museums. Local collections require a bit more finesse and luck. For example, getting to visit private collections can be mind expanding, as many long time private collectors have seen things that were so common for a small amount of time and now virtually unheard of. However, without some sort of recommendation from someone of some sort of personal relation ship with a private collector, most of them are not exactly looking for random visitors. However, if you had been a member of the Mineralogical Society of Southern California, you would have had the chance to visit with several outstanding collections belonging to members of that club. Which takes us back to Mineral Clubs, and why it is a wise idea to be involved with at least one of them.
Going to mineral shows is a great source of information, as the display cases often reveal locations that are open to collection. In fact, the name tags in the cases often match up to the club member's name tags, the people running the mineral show, and often you can strike up a conversation about their display case.
Libraries all around have lead me to some wild collecting adventures. Your local library is going to have a couple things for sure, often books about the geology of the area, as well as a collection of the state's publications on geological topics. A great for instance is back in the very beginning of my collecting days, some friends of mine discovered the 1962 edition of "Mineral Collecting in Pennsylvania", which drove us in a search for the "Azurite" included quartz crystals of Kunkletown. The book was wrong, but there is nothing wrong with Anatase included Quartz, which we found. My most recent discovery of Lawsonite on the beaches of Southern California due to a geological sand sample report. You can read all about that in my upcoming blog entry.
Google Maps and Google Earth are to powerful tools that everyone has at their fingertips. You can do amazing amounts of research with both of these tools, locating mineral locations right down to their visible mine tailings! Understanding the various uplifts, errosion patterns, depressions and faint roads to nowhere are very useful for today's mineral collector. A simple test, pick your favorite collecting area and look at it on google earth. You will see things you might have never noticed on foot.
Now, my secrets are revealed to you. I hope you use them wisely!
I want to leave you with this note, written by Rock Currier in the publication, "About Mineral Collecting" released by the Mineralogical Record.
Field collectors are a remarkable and accomplished breed. They are perhaps the rarest and purest kind of mineral collectors. They hearken back to the very beginnings of what we now call the earth sciences, and in many ways they embody the simple thrill and youthful joy of the treasure hunt. If you look you will find them "out there" trekking over just one more mountain, digging down just another foot, and hoping for just a little bit longer that they will find something. But remember, the first law of field collecting states: "The best to be found is still in the ground and the best that has been found has be ground!" (that is, ground up into powder in the mill and processed into metal)


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Romantic Double Room Verona Center
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Floor No.1(with elevator)
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It is situated only 300 meters away from Romeo and Juliet's House and Piazza Erbe, old lively city market, nowadays the nightlife centre of the city. Its also close from the ancient Roman gate "Porta Leoni", from which it starts the pedestrian area where you will meet Verona's wonders: the Arena, Piazza Brà , the Scaliger Castle.
You will find double rooms, with the possibility of adding a single bed; 2 bathrooms with shower and bathtub; a spacious kitchen with microwave, kettle for tea and coffee machine for breakfast.
Each guest will receive his/her own keys to be free to access the property whenever he/she needs to.
The shown prices are per double room, breakfast included.
In Verona you have a city tax (imposed by Verona City Hall starting from the 1st of August 2012) corresponding to €2,50 per person per night.
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CHECK-IN IS IN ANY CASE ON PREVIOUS AGREEMENT AND BETWEEN 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM
LATE ARRIVALS: after 8:00 PM, 20€ will be added to the balance due to the b&b.
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Grazioso e spazioso appartamento proprio dietro l'arena e a due passi dal centro storico. Provvisto di tutto anche per lunghi soggiorni. Silenzioso (apparte il cane del piano di sotto). Il wi-fi funziona benissimo quindi da consigliare assolutamente.
My boyfriend and I stayed in the apartment for about 7 days and had a wonderful time there. The room and the whole apartment was clean and tidy, we had enough room to put our stuff away, as well as access to a fully equipped kitchen.
There are shops and restaurants around the corner, bus stops nearby, but we mostly used the bikes (around 15 minutes ride to the center).
Nicolo and Giulia are very helpful hosts and we can recommend a stay in their apartment and might come back in the future.
Buena ubicación, muy cerca de la Arena y del centro histórico. A unos 20 minutos andando de la estación de tren. Amplio, con todo lo necesario para una estancia vacacional. La persona que nos recibió fue agradable y nos dio indicaciones de lugares que visitar y donde comprar o cenar.
Como aspecto negativo, la calle es un poco ruidosa.
Vielen Dank für die nette Unterbringung. Die Wohnung ist schön, komfortabel, mit einem schönen Blick auf den Fluss und die Stadt und man kann sehr gut das Zentrum erreichen.Perfekte Unterkunft.
Wie beschrieben.
Gerne wieder.
Full marks to Guilia and Nicolo for the help and service they provided between them. We loved Verona and at La Lupa appreciated the fact that the apartment was open and very light and airy with the balcony being a bonus.Our hosts are right to say that a car is preferable as it took us approximately 30 minutes from the apartment to the centre of Verona via public transport.For those mainly selfcatering, as we were, the addition of a microwave,toaster and one or two more saucepans in the kitchen would be very welcome! Also although when we arrived Nicolo took lots of time to explain things to us and did give us written information about the buses, a written information pack in the apartment to be able to refer to during the stay would be really helpful.So glad to have discovered Verona-thank you!
The apartment is on the third floor. One has to be in condition (I'm 63 years old), because there is no elevator. It's a cosy and clean apartment, nearby the old city. Nicole and Giulia gave us excellent advices about Verona. We enjoy our stay in Verona very much.
Location was a little further out than expected but the area was lovely with plenty to do. Lots of great restaurants.
Apartments hosts were excellent, very helpful and attentive.
The apartment itself was clean with everything we needed to enjoy our stay.
Really enjoyed our holiday.
Giulia is a very nice host. She gives you all information you need for your stay. Even pick up is offered. The apartment is located right in the center, practical for any city trip to Verona. Everything was perfect - except of the cleanliness! The table was full of bread crumbs and the bathroom was dirty...
Thanks for the nice accommodation.
Already on arrival we were provided with maps and necessary information on Verona and its surroundings. Not enough, the hosts have also the necessary transport links declared in the center and to Venice, pointed to certain sights, free parking in the city, the Veronacard and the traditional local and plotted on the map.
Localization and this itself was more than we expected. A surprisingly warm welcome. Thank you!
The apartment is traffic-technically very well connected, has everything for a holiday with children is needed, spacious, with a large balcony, from the living room, the kitchen and the bedroom foot traffic. Unusually quiet, both in the exterior and in the interior, which can not necessarily be expected in a city apartment. The technical equipment is well, a heater that can govern itself, a coffee maker, hair dryer, ... and all the devices are in good condition, fast wireless internet, everything has to work perfectly. The car can be in front of the house parking and if I heard right off even in an underground car park at no extra cost.
A shopping center is in the immediate vicinity within easy walking distance.
We enjoyed our stay and can only recommend the apartment.
Thanks again for the relaxing, culturally interesting and beautiful Easter.
Family Derflinger
Vielen Dank für die nette Unterbringung.
Schon beim Eintreffen wurden wir mit Kartenmaterial und nötigen Information über Verona und die Umgebung versorgt. Nicht genug, die Gastgeber haben uns auch die nötigen Verkehrsverbindungen in das Zentrum und nach Venedig erklärt, auf bestimmte Sehenswürdigkeiten, freies Parken in der Stadt, die Veronacard und die traditionellen Lokale hingewiesen und auf dem Stadtplan eingezeichnet.
Die Lage der Unterkunft und diese selbst war mehr als wir erwartet haben. Ein überraschend freundlicher Empfang. Danke!
Die Wohnung ist verkehrstechnisch sehr gut angebunden, bietet alles was für einen Urlaub mit Kindern notwendig ist, geräumig, mit einem großen Balkon, vom Wohnzimmer, der Küche und dem Schlafzimmer betretbar. Ungewöhnlich ruhig, sowohl im Außen- als auch im Innenbereich, was in einer Stadtwohnung nicht unbedingt erwartet werden kann. Die technische Ausstattung ist bestens, eine Heizung, die man selbst regeln kann, eine Kaffeemaschine, einen Föhn,... und alle Geräte sind in einem guten Zustand, schnelles W-Lan, alles hat zu bestens funktioniert. Das Auto kann man direkt vor dem Haus Parken und wenn ich richtig gehört habe sogar in einer Tiefgarage ohne zusätzliche Kosten abstellen.
Ein Einkaufszentrum ist in unmittelbarer Nähe leicht zu Fuß erreichbar.
Wir haben unseren Aufenthalt genossen und können die Wohnung nur weiterempfehlen.
Nochmals vielen Dank für die erholsamen, kulturell interessanten und schönen Ostertage.
Familie Derflinger
The apartment is beautiful, comfortable, with a nice view of the river and city.
Julia was very helpful in trying to make the stay pleasant trying to meet our needs.
To friends and acquaintances who for various reasons have to stay in Verona, definitely we suggest this opportunity instead of hotel accommodation.
Giuliano and Marisa
L'appartamento è bello, confortevole, con una bella vista sul fiume e sulla città.
Giulia è stata molto disponibile nel cercare di renderci il soggiorno piacevole cercando di soddisfare le nostre esigenze.
Ad amici e conoscenti che dovranno per vari motivi soggiornare a Verona, sicuramente suggeriremo tale opportunità invece della sistemazione in hotel.
Giuliano e Marisa
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Keep it Simple, Stupid.
Simple is smarter. Simple is better. Many people know this. Many people think they know this. Others know this, but don't practice it. Ensuring that something is simple is not an easy task.
There was probably no one better at simplification than Dieter Rams. His tenth principle of good design is the most reflective that simplicty is better.
"Is as little design as possible – Less, but better – because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity."
What's so amazing about the information in this video, is that the extrapolated data that proves there is money in simplicity. And that people are willing to pay upwards of 4% more for a more simple process, product and design.
Looking at the top US brands, Publix is #5. If you've spent any extended amount of time in the south east, you already know that Publix is the best supermarket. Hands down. I dream of the day that they head west and open their first shop in southern California. My mouth is watering, just thinking of an American sub, on white, with extra yellow mustard.
The presentation for this video is up here. Interesting information.
And to quote John Berger:
"Like all information, it is either put to use or ignored; information carries no special authority within itself."
Element Keep Discovering—Chile
Element has sent me to some pretty amazing places to art direct photo shoots—Alaska, Seattle, New York and more. Although I had never been to Seattle or New York. Alaska was seemingly a long shot. The Last Frontier. It was a wild idea that worked perfectly into the campaign at the time, so it all worked out. Here are some pictures from my two trips up there. The scouting trip, by myself and the trip for the photo shoot. This is still one of my favorite photos I've ever taken. It's still my desktop image.
Then, last year, the talks started to go to Chile. To shoot the Keep Discovering campaign. With the regular crew of knuckleheads and misfits.
I had been to South America one other time. To Peru, to visit my better half—Tracy–when she was there for 3 months, teaching and traveling. I got a good taste of the culture and the itch had been there to go back. Luckily, this trip came along.
We were in three parts. The cities of Santiago and Valpariso, for the skating side of things. Then into an area of the Andes, Yerba Loca.
Santiago was nice, but Valpariso and the Andes were by far my favorite parts of the trip. Valapriso is the San Francisco of Chile. Costal, hilly, bright victorian style houses. Great food and site seeing. It was so good, we made two separate trips there from Santiago. There was a two hour drive—each way. If that says anything about the beauty of the place.
The parallels between Valpariso and SF were amazing, we couldn't help but continue to comment about the similarities while we were. The most surprising though, was that both cities were hit with devastating earthquakes in 1906. So similar, that the death tolls were almost identical. Pretty eerie.
This was a trip of trips. The cities, the people, food and mountains were all incredible.
Last week, Element released the video from the trip, edited by Kirk Dianda and Mark Stewart and filmed by Kirk and Cole Mathews. The photos from the shoot by Brian Gaberman.
Enough of my chatter … check out the video and photos.
Sailboat Logos
It's been about a year since I started sailing… I've been on a race team, sailing the seas of Long Beach almost every week. But my fondness for all things nautical started long before that. My grandfather was a sailor—which I guess makes me a Son of a Son of a Sailor—and I always admired him for it and his sense of adventure.
This stack of Sailboat Logos, by C116Man is incredible. A day could be had just staring at all things that are great here.
via { Draplin
On a related sailing note… if you haven't seen Deep Water yet, I suggest you put it to the top of your queue and watch it. Intense movie.
A Colorful Weekend
I read Josef Albers' incredible book on color theory, The Interaction of Color. And it was an incredible and expansive way of thinking about the learning of color and color theory… then followed that up with Radiolab's newest episode Colors.
The book is not short on amazing passages and it's also not short on mind-bending theories and concepts. One of my favorite quotes from the book is:
Colors appear connected predominantly in space. Therefore, as constellations they can be seen in any direction and at any speed. And as they remain, we can return to them repeatedly and in my ways.
Reading Albers book for the first time—yes, a little late to the party on this one—has me leering at the full version with the 150 silkscreened plates that illustrate the theories… but now, I'm thinking I might get a pack of Color-Aid and re-read the book completing the exercises the next time through.
If you haven't read Interaction of Color yet, I would highly suggest it.
Today, looking around some more about these theories, I came across this nicely done video from Dwell about Albers and the Albers Foundation.
Glue-less Binding Technique
This is an incredible, glue-less printing technique that uses quarter-folded paper… Great simplification and execution.


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Five months ago, when Lucy decided to become a vegetarian, I swore that I wouldn't be making two dinners. Paul suggested I lighten up and be supportive. I harrumphed. The only time I like change is when I suggest it. That's hard to admit, but it's true. Anyway, she is still a vegetarian and mostly, I do not cook two meals. Instead, we eat vegetarian meals. Really, it's not a bad thing. We all know it's cheaper. And better for us. But then there are the dishes we love, including but not limited to cheeseburgers, barbeque, fish tacos, and stews where the meat just melts in your mouth on a cold winter's night. Some of this stuff you just can't make as a vegetarian meal. I mean, maybe a vegetarian stew but veggie barbeque? No way.
I bought a big hunk of meat for the first time since Lucy announced her change in eating habits. I'd been thinking about a friend's description of Posole, a South American stew. Mostly, the thing that got me was the stuff you put out on the table to stir into the bowls of stew: avocado, cilantro, lime and when she mentioned radishes… thin slivers of cool, crunchy radish to stir into warm, spiced soup, well, I was sold.
Here at my house, I made this to accommodate meat eaters and vegetarians alike. I put the pork roast into the crock pot, cooked it with the tomatoes and chile, shredded it and kept it separate, letting people add it to their bowls at the table. I used vegetable broth instead of pureeing the pork broth for the soup. The recipe below is how I would make it, if there wasn't a vegetarian in the house. One more thing, there are lots of different ways to make Posole (a Mexican stew, really) but all of the recipes I have seen have one thing in common: hominy. It's corn, available in a can in the South American section of the grocery. The corn is treated with lime (or lye) and changes the texture to make it sort of puffy. It was done traditionally as a preservation method. I suppose you could make this with regular corn, but it's worth searching out the hominy.
Posole with Pork and Black Beans
1 pork roast (mine was about 1 1/2 lbs)
1 large, ripe tomato, chopped
1 dried ancho chile, stem removed
canola oil
1/2 white onion, chopped
3 garlic cloves, peeled and chopped
1 14 oz can black beans, drained and rinsed
1 14oz can hominy, drained and rinsed
1 t. cumin
pinch of cayenne
sea salt and black pepper to taste
For the table: diced avocado, shredded Mexican cheese (we used Monterey Jack), sour cream, slivered radishes (don't forget the radishes! they make the dish), pumpkin seeds, hot sauce, and warm corn tortillas to scoop everything up.
In the morning, put the roast, tomato and chile in a crock pot. Add just enough water to cover the pork. Cook on high for 6 hours.
When you are ready to prepare the soup, heat a little canola oil in a large pot and cook the onion for a minute or two, until soft, then add the garlic. Cook for another minute, then add the beans and hominy. Remove the pork from the liquid. Skim a bit of fat from the broth and use an immersion blender to puree the tomato and chile. Add the liquid to the pot of vegetables. Use two forks to shred the pork and add that to the pot as well. Season with the spices and add salt and pepper, tasting as you go. Serve hot with the accompaniments. Makes great leftovers.


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You'll Have Had Your Hole (Modern Plays)
A play from the author of Trainspotting
Within the sound-proofed walls of a disused recording studio, a score is being settled. Two inner city low-lifes take the law into their own hands to satisfy their craving for fun, fear and a freakish sense of justice. "You'll Have Had Your Hole" premi red at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and toured internationally - although it was banned in Belgium.
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text: > Also, the code to walk the hierarchy properly would be _very_ unsimple. > (Primarily because you can have _far_ more pathname components - ie, > directories you have to walk down and back up through - than you have > file descriptors available. File descriptor limit seems to be 344 on > the system I have handy, but MAXPATHLEN is more like 10K, meaning you > can need up to 5K pending directories.) It is difficult to monkey with ".." links if you aren't already superuser, so it might be sufficient to keep track of just the current directory, as long as you don't descend through symbolic-links-to-directories. (Hmm, no there's still a race: leave a directory, let find stat it, remove it and create a symlink, let find call chdir; it's just a very very narrow window. I guess find could stat "." after the chdir to see if it has been hosed.) Perhaps an unlink variant which takes a file handle (typically inode/device/ generation number) plus an entryname to remove would help. Exchanging a directory for a symlink should cause the operation to just fail (well, I guess it would work spuriously as often as one time in 4 billion, on a UFS filesystem). The NFS server already uses such a primitive, it should be easy to expose it. (It needs to be priveleged, of course, since it bypasses any directory protection leading from / down to the directory in question!)


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Carson Gets England Chance
Former Owls loanee Scott Carson has been called into action for the England B side tonight after third choice 'keeper Robert Green was stretchered off during the game against Belarus.
The Liverpool stopper came on after 53 minutes when Norwich City's Robert Green was carried off after collapsing when taking a goal-kick.
Green had been on the field just five minutes after replacing David James at half-time, but is now likely to miss the World Cup after rupturing his groin.
It means former Leeds United man Carson is likely to get the nod to travel to Germany with the England squad as third choice goalkeeper behind David James and current number one Paul Robinson of Tottenham Hotspur.
Owls boss Paul Sturrock is currently chasing a season-long loan deal for Carson - who spent two successful months at Hillsborough. Wednesday lost just one game in their final nine while Carson was at S6.


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Search Results for "renewal"
What We Saw Upon Awakening
First New York show by Afghani artist Lida Abdul. Her work depicts the devastation of war and a sublimation of healing. Curated by Pieranna Cavalchini. Through November 17, 2007.
Project Description: In the four-month residency and online project go_HOME, Bosnian artist Danica Daki and Croatian artist Sandra Sterle will explore physical, cultural, and psychological dislocation and strategies for rebuilding and renewal.


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5th International Workshop on Ice Caves
Event Type: Conferences and Workshops
When: 16 September 2012 to 23 September 2012
Where: Barzio and Milano, Italy
IWIC is a series of workshops devoted entirely to ice cave research. After meetings in Romania, Slovak Republic, Russia, and Austria, Italy now hosts this unique workshop. We offer a place to examine the state-of-the-art, discuss ongoing research efforts, and boost international cooperation. We will explore interest for future research projects and define a general strategy for ice cave studies and management.
IWIC-V is an ideal opportunity to widen communication among interested researchers and highlight important research results. IWIC-V is organized under the auspices of the Glacier, Firn, and Ice Caves Commission of the International Union of Speleology, and the Italian Glaciological Committee.
We welcome contributions related to any aspect of ice cave research, and particularly:
- Ice cave climatology and the relationship between hypogean and epigean environments
- Morphology and mass balance of cave ice deposits
- Stratigraphy and internal structure of cave ice deposits
- Ice sampling methods
- Cave ice crystal fabric
- Chemical and isotopic studies of cave ice and its fluid inclusions
- Applications of radiometric methods
- Palynology, dendrochronology and other biology-related studies applied to ice cave research.
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Pope Benedict the 'Orwell of our time'
December 30, 2010
Writing in the latest edition of a British conservative quarterly, Theodore Dalrymple reflects on Pope Benedict's recently apostolic journey to England and Scotland.
Dalrymple, who is not Catholic, states:
A great deal of the hostility to the Pope's visit was likewise caused by his having been right, at least in some things, such as the insufficiency of consumerist materialism as a basis for a satisfactory existence. There are few human types less attractive, surely, than failed materialists, which is what the British, or at least so many of them, now are. They consume without discrimination what they have not earned: which is why many of them are so grotesquely fat as well as so deeply indebted … A nation that behaves thus is quite without honour or self-respect, collective or individual. All this Benedict XVI has seen with a perfectly clear eye; and if what George Orwell once wrote, that we have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men, we might even call the Pope the George Orwell of our time.
"He lays down a ethical challenge to our utilitarian ways of thinking; in other words, he is a heretic to be excommunicated from the Church of Righteous Liberalism," Dalrymple adds. "Given that so intelligent a man as Professor Dawkins, and others like him, were so clearly illogical on the matter of the Pope's visit, are we not entitled to suspect a deep emotional confusion within them: for example, one caused by a robust and unaccustomed challenge to a brittle Weltanschauung?"
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Dec. 30, 2010 9:56 PM ET USA
For those who check the link to the Salisbury review we see Dalrympole brilliantly expose the sloppy and hypocritical thinking of the British intellectual establishment.To an extremely intelligent, disinterested but caring outsider like our present Pope this was obvious and his presence could not help but draw attention to it: what Dalrympole called a "restatement of the obvious." This is one of the reasons the Pope is so hated and feared by intellectuals like Dawkins, both here and England.
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Dec. 30, 2010 9:50 PM ET USA
I don't know about George Orwell, but isn't this what any of the successors to Peter's chair try to get us all to understand? Materialism known as greed or avarice comes from original sin and cannot promote humanity and is bound to fail.
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Dec. 30, 2010 6:04 PM ET USA
At least somebody gets it. Perhaps there is hope.
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Dec. 30, 2010 9:51 AM ET USA
I am not sure that I would compare George Orwell to Pope Benedict, the essense of what the author is saying is spot on. In a world where common sense and logic is turned on it's head, this article speaks clearly to what the Pope's mission is about.


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It has not been the great start to the season that the Boston University men's basketball team set out to have when they walked into Matthews Arena Nov. 9 to take on the Northeastern University Huskies.
But the team will have another chance to snap its winless streak Tuesday when it travels to New Brunswick, N.J., to take on the Scarlet Knights of Rutgers University.
That first Friday night against Northeastern, the Terriers (0–3) fell to the Huskies on a buzzer-beater 3-pointer after leading for almost the entire game.
The opening loss was followed by another road loss against Canisius College. For the first time, the Terriers had to play from behind, and after closing the gap to three with a few minutes remaining, their shooters went cold and could not get the job done as the team fell 83–75.
The cold streak continued for the Terriers Saturday afternoon when they faced George Washington University for the 2011–12 season's home opener at Case Gym.
In front of 1,007 fans, BU seemed as if it was going to start off hot when they took a 2–0 lead following tip-off. Things then went from bad to worse as the Terriers tried to get it started from deep and could not hit shots, while the Colonials (2–1) continued to score.
About two minutes into the second half the Terriers were at their lowest point of the season as they trailed the Colonials by 20.
Despite a valiant effort in the second half, the early deficit was too much to overcome and BU lost 72–59 to fall to 0–3.
"The big thing we have to do is make better choices at the rim," said BU head coach Joe Jones. "We need to kick it out more, make better decisions. The great thing for us is that we weren't as big as GW, but we were faster. I feel we had poor shot selection sometimes. We need to play better together consistently, the times we did that, we played well."
BU will have a chance to build on that Tuesday against the Scarlet Knights (2–1), and needless to say, the matchup against Rutgers is going to be a tough one for the Terriers.
Right out of the gate there are noticeable differences between the two teams.
The first is the difference in conferences. The Scarlet Knights belong to the Big East Conference, which is known for its competition with other teams including Syracuse University, the University of Connecticut and Villanova University.
Then comes the difference in players. One of the problems BU will face all season — and especially against Rutgers — is a difference in height. To put it simply, the Scarlet Knights are just a much bigger team. Six of them are at least 6-foot-8.
BU dealt with a similar issue against the Colonials. Fortunately for BU in that game, it only came in the form of one player, Joseph Armwood. Armwood, a transfer from Villanova, had a field day against the Terriers offense, recording a career-high eight blocks while grabbing 12 rebounds and scoring six points.
This only leads spectators to believe that Terriers will have their hands full when outsized across the board against Rutgers, a team with multiple Joseph Armwoods.
There is a way to combat this problem. Something the Terriers did against George Washington that helped close the large deficit they faced was switch to a full-court press. The BU backcourt includes freshman Maurice Watson Jr. and junior D.J. Irving, arguably two of the fastest players in the country.
Their tenacity on defense on while running the full-court press Saturday helped force turnovers, which created opportunities for BU on the other end. While it brings on a lot more fatigue, the Terriers could switch to a full-court press to put pressure on the Scarlet Knights, utilizing the fact that they are undersized in comparison.
"We're not going to be a pressing team, but we will use the press," Jones said.
This game is also not a guaranteed victory for the Scarlet Knights. Although Rutgers is a bigger team in a better conference, the Terriers are hungry for a victory. Also, Rutgers has a young team, with seven sophomores and just two seniors.
Some speculators are comparing this game to BU's game against Boston College in 2011 when it went to Chestnut Hill and beat the Eagles, who are in the competitive ACC conference.
"We need to get smarter with fouls, play better defense and share the ball more," Jones said of what his team needs to do on Tuesday. "That's what hurt us."
Tuesday night's game will be shown on ESPN3 and begins at 7:30 p.m.


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Sergei Zubov looked pretty good out there in practice today, but Tippett said he's doubtful for today's game against the Loss Angeles Kings. Oh well. There's always hope we'll see him Sunday night against Anaheim. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if it's just a choice of keeping him out of the L.A. game so he's good and ready on the second half of this back-to-back. Why throw him in for the Kingies if not completely necessary. And it shouldn't be necessary.
Then again, I thought that game would be a cakewalk for the Stars last Saturday, so that shows what I know.
Philippe Boucher said he felt fine after last night's game. Little tight, little rust, but that's it. Not a whole lot else to report, so we'll see you tomorrow.