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The Central Park Five
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
Sarah Burns and David McMahon, who produced, wrote, and directed the documentary "The Central Park Five," along with filmmaker Ken Burns, talk about the film, about five young men who were wrongfully convicted of the 1989 rape of a jogger in Central Park. The filmmakers are joined by Raymond Santana, one of the five men who is featured in the film. "The Central Park Five" is playing in NY at the IFC Film Center and at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas and will be playing on demand December 7.
Central Park Five Documentary Subpoena
Friday, October 05, 2012
Sarah Burns, filmmaker and author of The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding, and David McMahon, filmmaker and producer, discuss the NYPD's attempts to subpoena outtakes from their forthcoming documentary (with Ken Burns) on the Central Park Five.


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Thank Jordan Salinsky, age 13 for coming up with one wonderful idea for the Wisconsin Humane Society.
She recently had her Bat Mitzvah and her Mitzvah project is this: She's hosting a dog play date Sunday May 3 from noon to 2 p.m. at the Congregation Sinai synagogue 8223 N.Port Washington Road in Fox Point. Dogs will get to romp and socialize and the admission price is merely the donation of a dog toy for the Wisconsin Humane Society. .You can even buy a toy at the synagogue.
Jordan has the making of a first class Dog Person, not to mention a great People Person, and a whopping Animal Magnetism Shout-Out goes out to her today!

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Schepel, Harm (2004) The Enforcement of EC Law in Contractual Relations: Case Studies in How Not to 'Constitutionalise' Private Law'. European Review of Private Law, 12 (5). pp. 661-675. ISSN 0928-9801. (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)
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In two very different contexts, the ECJ has effectively held that national private law is to be set aside where it impedes the effectiveness of certain EC law values. This article analyses these instances in order to try and make sense of the concept of the European 'constitutionalization' of private law. It argues, on the one hand, that EC law values should only be imposed upon national private law where they can be translated into subjective rights and, on the other, that the application of EC law provisions on private parties should be limited to cases where these can reasonably be said to carry responsibility for the implementation of those provisions. To enforce EC law in contractual relations beyond these limits not only leads to fragmentation and uncertainty but also, it is submitted, defeats the purpose of enhancing the effectiveness of EC law.
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n is the number of intervals or something like that I suppose?
How do you get this formula?
Yes, n is the number of intervals. The formula is derived in a lot of books. I am not that big on memorizing proofs or derivations so I do not recall it offhand. What is important for numerical work is the error estimate and the fact that it works!
This is known as the Trapezium Rule. Proving it can be done as follows.
It can be shown that
where U(f,P) and L(f,P) are the lower Darboux sums of f with respect to the partition P, defined by
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* Did Tom Donohue, the head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, vow that his organization will work to "get rid" of any House Republicans who don't vote to raise the debt ceiling? Sure sounds like it, according to a well respected Atlanta blogger who watched Donohue give a local talk:
In one of the funnier moments during his Rotary talk, Donohue was asked if Congress was going to raise the debt ceiling.
Yes, it will be raised, Donohue answered, mainly because the country can not afford to not pay its bills. To those newly-elected representatives who say they aren't going to raise the debt ceiling and will shut down government, Donohue said the U.S. Chamber has its own message: "We'll get rid of you."
He seems to be joking, but man, that is one telling joke.
* E.J. Dionne has a useful guide to what you should watch for in tonight's GOP debate, including this:
The whole crowd will be attacking President Obama again and again and again. How effective will these attacks be? Who sounds like the most effective opponent? Whose criticisms have the best chance of appealing beyond the Republican base? And how well does the Democrats' instant response team take apart the criticisms?
* For a taste of what's to come tonight, note T-Paw's claim that tax cuts "almost always" raise revenues "if you just isolate the effect of the tax cuts."
* In saying that, T-Paw has outed himself as a supply sider who's entirely wrong about taxes and revenues.
* Sam Stein scoops an internal memo laying bare how Obama's reelect team is trying to hang on to top donors by making them feel like they're "being heard."
* Obama, in an interview with NBC set to air tomorrow, says Weiner should go, according to the release:
I can tell you that if it was me, I would resign. Because public service is exactly that, it's a service to the public. And when you get to the point where, because of various personal distractions, you can't serve as effectively as you need to at the time when people are worrying about jobs and their mortgages and paying the bills, then you should probably step back.
* But Peter Beinart says those demanding that Anthony Weiner resign are reading from an outdated booklet of sexual etiquette.
* Josh Marshall seconds it: Anthony Weiner must stay.
* Mitt Romney's new video suggesting Obama called high and chronic unemployment a "bump in the road" is hilariously misleading.
* The people representing the unemployed in Romney's video are all from demographic groups that will be key to Obama's reelection.
* And are we finally seeing that pivot to jobs we've been hearing so much about?


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Poroshenko urges Rada to consider Shokin's resignation
Feb. 19, Pres Poroshenko asked Rada to give its consent to the dismissal of Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.
However, Rada can give its consent only in 3 weeks, since it is in a 3-week recess.
Meanwhile, the leaders of Batkivshchyna (Yulia Tymoshenko) and Radical party (Oleh Lyashko) sent a litter to Speaker Grojsman, demanding the resumption of Rada sessions on Feb. 23.
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It's a joke for any government agency, especially one says they're in the enforcement versus the supervision business, to defend an approach that allows the entity found guilty of wrongdoing to select the consulting firm that tells them how bad they were and how much they have to pay for the bad behavior.
The agencies – Treasury, the banking regulators, the General Accounting Office, the Federal Reserve, and the SEC – already have procurement teams that contract with professional services firms on a direct basis all the time. The process, controls, and the rationale for direct contracting is already in place. One only has to look at the assistance that all the Big four audit firms - and lawyers and other consultants - provide to the Federal Reserve Bank, The SEC and the Treasury on the TARP program and related initiatives as a result of the crisis.
And let me assure OCC spokesperson Evers that audit firms like PwC will not look at the regulators as their clients instead of the banks unless someone makes them. They know where their bread is buttered and where their next meal is coming from.
The SEC and the PCAOB, the audit industry regulator, have said so.
Auditors are, after all, paid by the clients they are charged with policing. As in other professions, auditors want to advance in their chosen profession which often means keeping the client happy and growing their business.
Auditor independence requirements serve as counterweights to those forces…The purpose of this rule is to keep auditors singularly focused on the quality of their audits and not on nurturing a relationship that will make management more receptive to cross-selling efforts.
Despite those requirements, PCAOB inspection reviews of partner evaluation and compensation processes find examples of seemingly unrestrained enthusiasm — in partners' self-evaluations, in their supervisors' evaluations of their performance, and in agreed performance goals — for selling services to audit clients...
The self-assessments required by the banks' Consent Order with the OCC, OTS, and the Fed are due September 30. According to HousingWire's Jon Prior, the reports of the reviews will not be made public. Would it be possible keep the reports secret if the regulators had contracted for the reviews directly?
I think not.
On June 13, the Huffington Post's Shahien Nasiripour disclosed that New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman had turned up the heat on Bank of America and other banks, servicers, and trustees of the mortgages that were securitized.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has targeted Bank of America, the biggest U.S. bank by assets, in a new probe that questions the validity of potentially thousands of mortgage securities and their associated foreclosures, two people familiar with the matter said.
There's a movement by all the state attorneys general to force a global settlement on the banks to remedy the wrongs of the crisis, in particular with regard to bad documentation and unjust foreclosures.
William Greider in The Nation on June 28: The AGs first suggested a settlement of $20–25 billion—even though the true public loss would probably be much greater—plus a commitment from the banks to clean up their procedures. In exchange, the AGs would agree to release the banks from potential liabilities that states might pursue. The banks' counteroffer was a trivial $5 billion, which suggests that they are not taking the AGs too seriously.
In January, Bank of America settled with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over repurchases. The Walnut Place bondholders are challenging the settlement that was announced on June 29. The Financial Times FT Alphaville blog reported:
…the expected $8.5bn settlement reached between the bank and the aggrieved parties, and earlier this morning BofA confirmed the details in a statement.
The key driver of the expected loss is the representations and warranties provision of $14.0 billion, including $8.5 billion for the settlement agreement on legacy Countrywide mortgage repurchase and servicing claims, and an additional $5.5 billion increase in the company's representations and warranties liability for non-GSE exposures and, to a lesser extent, GSE exposures. The company also expects to record $6.4 billion in other mortgage-related charges in the second quarter of 2011…
It's pretty clear the Bank of America board was either lying or incompetent when they rebuffed the coalition of institutional investors led by the New York City Comptroller in March.


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ATLANTA — Officials say they had no reports of major damage as strong storms moved through north Georgia, which had been under the threat of possible tornadoes as a large weather system pushed through the state.
Much of north Georgia was under a tornado watch for several hours Wednesday evening, but dangerous storms never materialized. The Rome News-Tribune reports that firefighters were called to a lightning strike at a house on Morrison Campground Road, but it didn't cause any major problems.
The National Weather Service said more thunderstorms are possible Friday morning through Saturday evening across north and central Georgia, and some of the storms could be severe.


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Hey guys I would really like some help. I have been reading a whole bunch of forum posts and I cant seem to find a consensus on what the priority is for hunters? Or what to reforge to for that matter. Raid is coming out today i feel like my gear is ready but not so much my dps. I'm only pulling about 48-55k in five man heroics but everyone else in equal gear ( Im talking other classes) pull 70k easily. Here is how i usually start a fight rotation:
ES> BA> SS> AS> GToss> fervor > ES> then I get lost when its time to use cool-downs .. I find my self looking at the bars too much and second guessing my self. I was wondering if you guys could give me some pointers on some stuff. Here is my armory link . Also my server is limited for enchants right now so i had to enchant with what was available. All help is appreciated:
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I walked today – and I was careful
This chronicling my new found attempt to get into shape has not gotten off to the start I had hoped for. There are bumps in the road of new exercise programs. Particularly if one has lived a sedentary life for about five years – and has begun the steep descent into the depths of aging.
My previous posts are beginning to show a pattern. I get a good plan, start working on it, begin to feel good about my health, then I overdo it – and I have to quit exercising for several days to recover.
Most people who know me think I am pretty smart. I had to laugh when I wrote that sentence. In the past two months I have risked my life for pride – and nothing else – how smart is that? It shows that behavior is both influenced by our intelligence and by our emotional state of mind. Smart sometimes loses.
My pride is fierce. My humility weak. The desire to achieve, to be better than the program calls for, coupled with a fundamental lack of patience and tolerance, has caused much grief in my life. I know this. I can articulate the dichotomy of pride and intellect – but altering my behavior is very difficult.
I walked today. My 200 x 100 rule was in effect. That means I walk 200 yards and jog 100. I forced myself to follow my rules today. Today saw two miles in 32 minutes. That was pretty good for me. A good sweat told me the walk was a success. 30 minutes every day should be enough – but I know myself – 'should' does not work very well for me.
Smart people who are entering an exercise program will set down a plan with graduated physical challenges, and just try to meet the milestone objectives.
I am revising my plan.


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Today we have a conference preview from Nora Z. Favelukes and Leslie Gevirtz, who tell us about a fascinating trip they took to Argentina, as well as the Torrontés grape variety and the amazing wines it produces in Argentina.
In March 1987, I found myself in a small car with the son of Arnaldo Etchart, the producer of some amazing, prize-winning wines from Bodegas Etchart. The young man was speeding up over rock formations and roaring through canyons while I held on for my dear life, keeping one eye open just to see the breathtaking scenery. We were heading to the Calchaqui Valley – Salta's main winemaking area. I was going there to coordinate a visit for the television producer Burt Wolf in advance of a video project of his.
Two-and-a-half-hours later, we arrived at Cafayate, a charming town with cobbled streets, low-rise houses painted white on the outside and topped with red roofs, a main square with the Church on one side and the City Hall on the other – typical of colonial times.
Guided by Jose Luis Mounier, Etchart's winemaker at the time, I was formally introduced to Torrontés, Salta's specialty and the favorite white wine of most Argentineans. As we visited vineyards and toured the wineries, I became enamored of this highly aromatic, delicious wine. The highlight of the visit was a 6-years-oak-aged Torrontés, an experiment Jose Luis was working on to evaluate the effects of oak and aging on this grape. I was pleasantly surprised and intrigued.
From then on, I was hooked. I love their intense sweet aromas of jasmine, lychee and stone fruits. The wines have a high acidity; spiciness and they're dry. It is a tricky wine, Torrontés – it captures you with the sweet aromas of fruit and it awakens your palate with its acidity, powerful flavors, and dry finish.
Truth be told, I really only preferred the ones from Salta for the elegance, the high acidity, and the intensity of the aromas. The Torrontés from the other regions were OK, but nothing to write home about. They were rustic and the bitter notes at the end of the palate were more pronounced. However, things improved during the 1980's with the modernization of the Argentine wine industry, new vineyard management techniques, and new technology; and the quality of Torrontés improved significantly.
For me, my "Aha!" moment came over five years ago when Alberto Antonini, one of Argentina's most prominent flying winemakers, introduced the Nieto Senetiner Reserva Torrontés in New York City. It was "Helloooo".
It had the fruitiness, the acidity, and the complexity that I love in what is a fun wine. So when I tasted it and saw that this wine was from Mendoza, I jumped! I knew that the levels of wine making and vineyard management had hit new heights.
I have also been continually amazed by the techniques that winemakers are mastering. Every year as part of my duties for the Wines of Argentina, I travel with sommeliers to Argentina – and every other year we go to Salta. So over the last eight years I have seen the evolution of this uniquely Argentine varietal. It is a natural crossing of Muscat of Alexandria and Criolla Chica – a grape brought by the Spanish in the 16th century. There are three different clones: the Riojano, Sanjuanino and the Mendocino. Of the three, the Riojano is the most widely planted and produces higher quality wines.
Again as part of my duties, I coordinate a Comprehensive Tasting of Argentine Wines with Stephen Tanzer at the Argentine Consulate in New York. We generally taste 400 wines – and it is what I call a democratic tasting. It is open to all the wineries – big and small. They are all given the same chance to be tasted by Tanzer.
Now, I consider it my duty to taste the wines before Tanzer, just to make sure they are correct. But with some wines, I like to taste a little longer, so to speak. With so many wines, I usually just do it by the aromas. If the nose is good, the wine is good. And, if the aromas are superb I give it my full attention… and that happened with Colomé Torrontés 2014. This one was different. It was good, as it usually is, but something was different from its previous vintage, more interesting in a good way. So, I called the winery to find out what was going on. It seemed that for the first time they were blending Torrontés grapes from two vineyards at different altitudes. And, the effect was very noticeable, the wine was extremely aromatic and at the same time, had a new complexity.
Then last November, I tasted Susana Balbo's Barrel Fermented Torrontés and I was just floored. I knew then that I had to do a seminar on Torrontes. I have to show, not tell. So, we are going to have the wine in my seminar because I have to teach about this. Torrontes showed me that the stereotype – as being always young and fresh and fruity – was shattered. This is coming from someone who doesn't usually like wood in white wine. I usually find that the oak overpowers the fruit, but here it does something magical. The oak treatment is so subtle, adding to the elegance a new complexity and texture.
So now that Torrontés has matured, I want to re-introduce and share this evolution with my fellow members of the Society of Wine Educators Conference 2015. It's almost a revolution.
Nora Z. Favelukes is the founder of QW Wine Experts, an international consulting company based in the United States dedicated to brand building, strategic marketing and public relations of imported fine wines. For the past seven years, QWWE has been responsible for the Wines of Argentina branding account. Nora also teaches on classes on South American and Iberian Peninsula wines at New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY. In 2006, she received the "Outstanding Industry Professional Award" by New York City College of Technology. Nora is also a member of SWE's Board of Directors.


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Work on the new Nashville Electric Service substation — now fully underway in the shadows of the Music City Center in SoBro — is tentatively slated to be operational by July 1, officials said Thursday.
The project is on schedule and now seeing the installation of a gas insulated switchgear (GIS) system manufactured by South Korea-based Hyundai. The installation begin Wednesday and will require about 70 days, according to David Sinker, the substation site project manager representing Carrollton, Ga.-based Aubrey Silvey Enterprises Inc.
Sinker said the July 1 operations start date of the substation, located between Sixth and Seventh avenues along Korean Veterans Boulevard, is realistic but dependent on testing.
"If there are any problems, that could delay [the effort]," he said.
Mike White, MCC project manager, said the installation of the GIS system is an "important part" of Phase I of a two-phase effort.
"Phase I involves everything it will take to flip the switch and discontinue the usage of the current station [fronting Demonbreun Street at Sixth and Seventh avenues]," White said.
White said the compact design of the GIS system, a technology now about eight years old, is needed given the limited ground space on which it will operate.
I don't know why Metro decided to build this new substation at what would be a prominent corner on Korea War Boulevard. Seems like there were better, more obscure locations... but that's government for ya'.
It was in a more obscure location. This expense was done in order to have the convention center overtake those city blocks. No one in "leadership" really cares about the appearance or usefulness of anything south of the southernmost wall of the convention center. Nice of them to now display the boundary so we all know where we stand.


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St. Petersberg Times - Iraq's fate awaits Bush exit
By PHILIP GAILEY
Published May 6, 2007
May I interrupt the clamorous political debate raging in Washington over Iraq to set the record straight? Contrary to what his critics say, President Bush does have a timetable for ending the war. He plans to hand the disaster over to his successor at high noon on Jan. 20, 2009.
If Iraq is going to have an ugly ending, as it almost surely will, Bush is determined to see that it doesn't happen on his watch, and there's not much the Congress can do to foil him short of cutting off funds for the war, a step Democrats apparently are not ready to take.
Bush will keep asking for more time and money. As long as American forces are in Iraq, as long the fighting goes on, the war cannot be labeled a failure, at least in Bush's mind. To admit defeat, to acknowledge that they blundered and destroyed a nation in the process, and maybe set the stage for even greater mayhem in the Middle East, is not the way of the swaggering pseudo-cowboy from Texas or his delusional and treacherous vice president.
Iraq is an immense human tragedy and major foreign policy debacle, and Bush's troop surge only delays the terrible day when this fact must be faced. At this point, what happens in Iraq is far more consequential than what happens in Washington, and there is little reason to expect much good news from Iraq in the coming months. So far, the main result of the troop surge is a painful spike in U.S. casualties. It has not quelled the violence or moved Iraq's sectarian factions closer to political reconciliation. There is no reason to believe the Shiite-dominated Iraqi government, even if it wanted to, is capable of reaching a political accord acceptable to the minority Sunni insurgents, who are inflicting most of the U.S. casualties.
Other than the cost in American blood, does it really matter whether we start withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq on Oct. 1, as the Democrats called for in the bill Bush vetoed last week, or after the next presidential election? The outcome is likely to be the same - bloody chaos as sectarian factions slaughter each other and settle scores. Is postponing that awful day of reckoning worth the lives and the limbs of hundreds or even thousands more American soldiers?
The president talks about a "way forward" in Iraq; Democrats are talking about a way out of Iraq, and most Americans are with them. But Bush continues to defy both.
Bush is as stubborn as he is cocky, and he has made it clear that public opinion be damned, he's going to hang tough until Iraq becomes his successor's problem. He must know that the next president will have a popular mandate to end the war, whatever the consequences for Iraq and the region.
There is another reality closing in on the White House, the fact that the U.S. combat role in Iraq cannot be sustained much longer without breaking the back of our severely stressed military. How long can we maintain current troop levels before exhausting our soldiers, many of whom are on their second and third tours of duty in Iraq? Some units are being deployed to Iraq without adequate training or equipment, often with fatal consequences for underprepared troops. The Army has lowered its recruitment standards and increased retention bonuses to meet its manpower needs.
Last month, two Army units were sent back to Iraq after less than a year at home, compared with the two years units traditionally enjoyed. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has extended combat tours for active-duty troops from 12 to 15 months. Repeated deployments, a Pentagon panel said last week, are taking a toll on the troops' mental health - one-third of the soldiers and veterans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Equipment is wearing out faster than our troops. Ninety percent of Army National Guard units are rated "not ready" because of shortfalls in equipment, but they're sent into combat anyway.
This cannot go on much longer. Something will have to give before we are left with a broken-down Army in a dangerous world.
Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, recently told Congress that it would be September before we know whether the president's troop surge is working. He promised lawmakers an "honest assessment" this fall, something we haven't had from this administration.
Let's hope that Petraeus, one of the Army's most respected generals, gives it to us straight. He should remember that while his duty as a military officer is to obey his commander in chief's orders, he has a higher duty to the American people - to speak the truth. He owes nothing less to his troops and his country.


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by John Critelli
Can machines have souls?
Scott Draves thinks they can.
"Computers and robots started out as literally mechanical," he says, "but as they develop, they are getting more subtle and more magical."
"Magical" certainly describes Drave's project Electric Sheep.
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Electric Sheep is, at first glance, just a screen saver. But it may be the first step in bridging the gap between humans and machines. Draves says the project's goal is to create an electronic life form that lives on a computer network.
But he needs help from thousands of fans.
"Electric Sheep is not a self-contained system," he says. "It has porous borders, and what leaks into the machine and tweaks the algorithm is human."
Users create vibrant animations, called "sheep," which are uploaded to the Electric Sheep server. Those sheep become part of the screen saver, and other users vote for their favorites. Popular sheep get to "breed" with each other, creating all-new, computer-generated animations.
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Draves sees this as a combination of evolution and intelligent design. He calls the process "creative amplification," and hopes this amplification will continue until Electric Sheep reaches a "supercritical" stage.
At that point, the program will understand what people like well enough to create beautiful sheep on its own – without the voting process.
"That's a milestone of the path from inanimate to alive," Draves says.
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Computers with souls
And he believes that once computers are alive, they can have souls. Not in the religious sense, but in the sense that they can achieve consciousness and self-awareness. In fact, he thinks computer consciousness is inevitable.
"For me it's an issue of 'when' and 'how' more than 'if,'" he says.
Draves tackles the "how" part with Electric Sheep.
"Some configurations of matter are more inviting to 'soul,'" he says.
In this case, the configuration he refers to is Electric Sheep's "distributed computing" system. It uses processing power from over 450,000 computers, most of which belong to ordinary people who just decided to install the screensaver. Each computer renders a small part of the animations, collectively producing something that would be almost impossible with a single machine.
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The Flame algorithm
The animations are rendered with Draves' Flame algorithm, which he developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He made the most progress in 1991, during an internship in Tokyo, Japan. He says the internship gave him "access to a graphics supercomputer and lots of free time."
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But he still didn't consider himself an artist, partly because digital art wasn't popular at the time. Instead, he saw the Flame algorithm as a reaction against the computer graphics industry, which he says "was about realism and storytelling."
Conversely, "Flame was about abstraction and emergence," he says.
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The algorithm creates patterns called fractals – shapes that contain many smaller versions of themselves. However, Draves doesn't see himself as a fractal artist. He prefers to be called a visual and software artist.
"Most people who consider themselves 'fractal artists' are just turning a few knobs on software they've downloaded, so it's not that creative or meaningful," he says. On the other hand, he adds, "my work with Flame and Electric Sheep has a philosophy. They are engaged in conversation with our culture at large."
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Life outside of Electric Sheep and the Flame algorithm
Draves had what he calls a "pretty normal" childhood in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
"I was into math as a kid and discovered computers in 1978, taught myself to program, and have been obsessed ever since," he says.
He graduated from Brown University in 1990 with a Bachelor of Science in Math, then went on to get a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science. In 1997, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he worked for a series of tech startups, including DreamWorks Studios.
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But he continued to work on his art, and moved to New York City in 2005 to pursue it full time.
"That was going great until the financial crisis hit," he says. "I wanted a family, so I decided to get a day job again." Now he works for Google, ensuring the quality of Google Maps. And he has the family he always dreamed of.
"I am married to a brilliant and beautiful woman and we have three young children," Draves says. "I get up at about 6:30 with the baby, get my older son to school at 8:00, then bike to work on the Hudson. I work for the man until 6:00, then go home and help get the kids to bed."
This routine doesn't leave much time for art.
"I get about 3 hours of work on my art before bed at midnight," he says. "Weekends are when I can sometimes get a real block of time and accomplish something."
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But Draves gets a lot done, even with limited time. He recently worked with several programmers to develop a mobile version of Electric Sheep for Android Phones.
"We use the Live Wallpaper feature so it runs behind the icons on your home screen," he says. "We developed some special tech so it plays smoothly without effecting your battery."
He's also working on a mobile game version for the iPad, which should be out this summer.
Click here to download the Android version of Electric Sheep, or click here to download the screen saver. Finally, read below for our full, unabridged interview with Draves.
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AiOP: What is the significance of the name "Electric Sheep?"
Draves: It's a reference to the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Philip K. Dick. The trope is that to fall asleep you count sheep. But this is a screen-saver that runs on a computer, so when you computer goes to sleep the screensaver comes on, and your computer dreams, and it counts "electric sheep." My art isn't about the book (or the movie based on it, "BladeRunner") but I really enjoy both of them.
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AiOP: Could you tell us a bit about your upbringing and personal life?
Draves: I had a pretty normal youth in the suburbs of Pittsburgh [Pennsylvania]. I was into math as a kid and discovered computers in 1978, taught myself to program, and have been obsessed ever since. Even back then I played the same game I still do: how can I write a program that surprises even me?
My personal life is quite blissful and chaotic depending on when you look at it. I am married to a brilliant and beautiful woman and we have three young children.
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AiOP: Can you give us some background on your education and career?
Draves: I got a [Bachelors degree] in Math from Brown where I worked in Andy van Dam's Computer Graphics Group and wrote visualization software for Thomas Banchoff. That was back in 1990. Then I went to the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science and got a PhD under Peter Lee doing research in metaprogramming for media processing. In 1997 I moved to the [San Francisco] Bay Area and worked for a series of tech startups from chips (Transmeta) to streaming media to DreamWorks, the animation studio. All this time I had been doing art on the side, and it was getting more serious as time went by. So I started doing art full-time, and moved to [New York City] in 2005. That was going great until the financial crisis hit and I wanted a family, so I decided to get a day job again. So now I work for Google. They have been really supportive of my art though what I do for them is much more practical; right now it's visualization for maps data quality.
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AiOP: What's a typical day like for you?
Draves: I get up at about 6:30 with the baby, get my older son to school at 8, then bike to work on the Hudson. I work for the man until 6, then go home and help get the kids to bed. Why they resist so hard is a mystery. Then my wife and I have dinner and I get about 3 hours of work on my art before bed at midnight. Weekends are when I can sometimes get a real block of time and accomplish something.
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AiOP: What inspired you to create the Flame algorithm? Were you influenced by other digital art?
Draves: In the late [1980s] I had been playing with the equations behind it for several years, experimenting with different visualizations and techniques. Due to the complexities of the math, I had to make major approximations in order to get any results. The results were interesting and I kept at it. Then in [1991] I ended up on an internship in Tokyo with access to a graphics supercomputer and lots of free time. I went back to that code and, freed by the supercomputer from the constraint of time, was able to reveal the beauty and subtlety of the equations. I was amazed and knew immediately that I had something new.
At that time I didn't consider myself an artist and there wasn't much digital art out there. Computer graphics and animation was an established industry though, and I knew a lot about that. This was a reaction against that field, which was about realism and storytelling. Flame was about abstraction and emergence. There was also a hacker culture. By no means was I the only one doing this kind of thing, but a lot of it was unpublished and just transmitted by word of mouth and late night demo sessions. This was before the web and before search engines but there were some newsgroups and email and people knew each other personally. A lot of that was lost, and now that the art world has became interested in computers it's being rediscovered with a new sensibility.
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AiOP: Why did you feel it was important to make Electric Sheep an open-source, interactive project? [Author note: Open source is a philosophy that allows all users to access the source code of a program. That's why Electric Sheep users can design their own animations.]
Draves: Open source has been part of who I am since the [1980s]. I started using GNU tools and was especially impressed by Emacs, the text editor by [Richard Stallman]. I read about the [Free Software Foundation] and the [General Public License] (one of the two legal foundations of open source), and I got on the bus. So part of what I'm trying to do with the Electric Sheep is move our culture in that direction by showing people what collaboration among many people can accomplish. The software has gone way beyond what I could do by myself, and that's important to me too: exceeding my boundaries.
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AiOP: What appeals to you about fractals?
Draves: Well there are two answers to that. What most people call "fractal art" I don't like, and I certainly don't consider myself a fractal artist. The fact is, they just don't have that much variety, so pretty quickly you get bored. Most people who consider themselves "fractal artists" are just turning a few knobs on software they've downloaded, so it's not that creative or meaningful. Most of what people call fractals are more like the Mandelbrot set, which is nothing like the Flame algorithm. It looks different and the algorithm is different.
What I do is not the same thing as "fractal art" because, for one I am writing the software myself and fractals are only a small part of it. The Flame algorithm has become its own genre, thanks to plug-ins everywhere, as well as the standalone programs like Apophysis, which were developed by others, building on my open source code. In many ways it's like a particle system, but on such a large scale that it becomes painterly. Most particle systems have thousands of particles. We use billions.
But the most important distinction is that my work with Flame and Electric Sheep has a philosophy. They are engaged in conversation with our culture at large. Electric Sheep is not a self-contained system, it has porous borders, and what leaks into the machine and tweaks the algorithm is human. What is the difference between man and machine and can the line be crossed? Can you make a live organism out of a network of computers, code, people, and art? The Electric Sheep were designed to be a self-supporting, network-resident life-form. I'm exploring the boundary between the artificial and the organic using algorithms, crowd-sourcing, and evolution, and expressing the solution in art.
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AiOP: Similarly, why did you feel it was important for the sheep to "breed" and evolve on their own?
Draves: Part of what I'm doing is making the computer creative and the genetic algorithm is a powerful part of that. Obviously it works great in the real world, in the form of Darwinian natural selection that created all life as we know it. But not every translation of breeding from real biology to computer code works equally well. And it happens to combine well with the human "intelligent designers" as well as the audience voting. In fact the system's evolution is always interactive in this way, I don't have it set up to go "on its own." The inclusion of breeding wasn't a conceptual statement by itself, it's a means to the generativity, a form of creative amplification. In Can a machine do anything new, Alan Turing wrote:
One could say that a man can "inject" an idea into the machine, and that it will respond to a certain extent and then drop into quiescence, like a piano string struck by a hammer. Another simile would be an atomic pile of less than critical size: an injected idea is to correspond to a neutron entering the pile from without. Each such neutron will cause a certain disturbance which eventually dies away. If, however, the size of the pile is sufficiently increased, their disturbance caused by such an incoming neutron will very likely go on and on increasing until the whole pile is destroyed. Is there a corresponding phenomenon for minds, and is there one for machines? … Adhering to this analogy we ask, "Can a machine be made to be supercritical?"
The genetics algorithm is important because it brings the system closer to that supercritical stage. See http://draves.org/aoae07/ for an analysis of this.
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AiOP: Electric Sheep has been called "Excellent for meditation, relaxation, and visual dreaming." Is your goal with Electric Sheep to alter or enhance the way people think? If so, how?
Draves: I definitely hope it's enlightening conceptually. And though it wasn't a design goal, I've gotten a lot of feedback that it has some practical benefits as well. I've heard it's great for calming babies and even treating chronic pain. Those are just anecdotes, but I would love to study those questions formally.
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AiOP: Why do you think Electric Sheep has become the most popular of your projects?
Draves: It has a viral/internet aspect that has been a good curve to ride. It was really early and so it's had time to grow. Plus, still there's nothing like the Flame algorithm, and I think people appreciate that level of sophistication and subtlety at the visual level.
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AiOP: You once said that computers can have soul. Can you explain and elaborate on this?
Draves: Ultimately, yes, I think so. We have a long way to go of course. And I could be wrong, but that is my thesis. Of course you have to ask what a soul is, and I don't use that word in a traditional religious sense. I mean, consciousness and self-awareness. And I believe it is somehow generated by a pattern in the behavior of the atoms and fields of our bodies. And I believe matter and electricity follow the laws of physics which can be defined mathematically and hence simulated on a computer. Inevitably you end up with the Strong AI hypothesis. For me it's an issue of "when" and "how" more than "if".
Computers and robots started out as literally mechanical, but as they develop, they are getting more subtle and more magical. Some people say consciousness is everywhere and I agree, though I don't think it's equally distributed. Some configurations of matter are more inviting to "soul". The Electric Sheep is trying to give us an intuitive understanding of this possibility.
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AiOP: A mobile version of Electric Sheep is now available. What can you tell us about that?
Draves: We've been working on them for over a year and we're really excited to release them. The Android version is out and iPad is almost done. On Android we use the Live Wallpaper feature so it runs behind the icons on your home screen. We developed some special tech so it plays smoothly without effecting your battery. Please check it out and spread the word: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotworks.electricsheep. The iPad version uses the bigger screen to be more of an interactive game, and should be out this summer.
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AiOP: Your art was recently featured in Madrid. You got some very high-profile guests, correct?
Draves: Yes, the Crown Prince and Princess of Spain came to the opening. It wasn't just the opening of our show, it was of the opening of the exhibition space itself as well, in Telefonica's headquarters building, and the company brass was there of course. There was all kinds of security and the cameras were flashing like fluttering butterfly.


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Ariane, a proud single judge with strict morals, is pregnant. But she has no memory of it happening! After a few failed attempts to find the father, Nolan reveals to be the father. Yes, that Nolan, the burglar, the repeat offender accused of eating the eyes of his victims. Oh boy sparks will fly between these two!
Sandrine Kiberlain and Albert Dupontel form a duo exploding with comic talent: she as an inflexible puzzled judge and he as a crazy funny unpredictable criminal. The supporting roles are handled with equal, delicious comedic sparks, like Nicolas Marié in the part of the stuttering defense lawyer or Philippe Duquesne as the rather startling coroner.
With his play on words ("Qui vole un oeuf bute un veuf") and his caustic dialogues, Albert Dupontel "soaks his acerbic pen into rose water and achieves the perfect cocktail between zany burlesque and tenderness" (Gwenola Trouillard).
"With 9 Months Stretch he [Albert Dupontel] sentences you to fits of laughter without parole" (Alain Spira).
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text: Not many people are fans of all white hats, but NEW ERA defies what you think and makes you believe that theres only one hat you will want to add to your collection. This Cincinnati Bangals snapback is simply amazing. First, pay homage to the Bangals "B" on the front with the Navy Blue/Orange spikes to add swag to the front. Then move to the rear of the cap, and you will find the team name stitched in what seems to be a Navy Blue thread. To off-set the all white cap, theres a Navy Blue Bill, a Navy Blue button top, and more than likely a green under-bill. Let's not forget about the New Era signature logo to the left of the cap. See more of this cap below, and gets yours by clicking the "BUY NOW" tab to the bottom of the page.


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All quotes by Robert Passikoff
(38 quotes found)
"She used to be the queen in the castle on the hill, looking down on everyone else in the valley, ... Now she's in the valley with everyone else, fighting it out on a level terrain."
"If Martha goes to jail, this company will be hit but it won't fall apart, ... It could still compete in all the categories because it has a life of its own now and it's not as reliant upon Stewart to sustain financial viability. Sure, it will become a different company, with a different brand strategy, in need of a new leader."
"The damage was done a long time ago. The competitive landscape is so dramatically changed from two years ago."
"The fact is that you don't want the consumer to get bored with your product or they'll easily substitute it with something else."
"Martha brought added value to the product. Consumers bought a 100 thread count sheet that was blessed by Martha. If you remove her name, the product still exists. Consumers may buy it but maybe won't pay the premium price for it,"
"This company, as it is configured today, is unsuited to compete in the marketplace with its brand taken away, ... This is no longer the same company that we knew 10 minutes ago or even 22 months ago."
"A lot of names that were country-based, especially from France, have now become accepted and articulated and pronounced correctly by consumers,"


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Mitt Romney, writing in National Review, offers his latest exercise in presenting Romneycare as a Tea Party freedom solution of sorts:
If I were president, on Day One I would issue an executive order paving the way for Obamacare waivers to all 50 states. The executive order would direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services and all relevant federal officials to return the maximum possible authority to the states to innovate and design health-care solutions that work best for them.
As I have stated time and again, a one-size-fits-all national plan that raises taxes is simply not the answer. Under our federalist system, the states are "laboratories of democracy." They should be free to experiment. By the way, what works in one state may not be the answer for another.
Romney is under fire from conservatives because the health care plan he passed as Governor of Massachusetts is built around the dreaded individual mandate, which is now widely viewed on the right as a profound threat to American liberty — making it an even graver threat to his presidential hopes.
Romney's solution to this problem, as shown above, is to argue that the mandate on the Federal level is unacceptable, whereas on the state level it's acceptable, as long as states are free to "experiment" as they see fit. Thus his vow to immediately grant each state a waiver from "Obamacare."
The problem for Romney, however, is that he has explicitly suggested that Romneycare should serve as a model for efforts to reform our health system on the Federal level.
Earlier this month, in another context entirely, CNN dug up an old quote from an unaired 2009 Romney interview with the network that illustrates this clearly — and this quote is especially relevant in light of Romney's new waiver stunt. In that 2009 CNN interview, Romney said:
"I think there are a number of features in the Massachusetts plan that could inform Washington on ways to improve health care for all Americans. The fact that we were able to get people insured without a government option is a model I think they can learn from."
Emphasis mine. The plain truth is that Romney was proud of his achievement in Massachusetts, and thought it could — and should — help influence policymaking on the Federal level. Such were Romney's policy instincts, and this latest effort to wriggle off the Romneycare hook with a 50-state waiver vow won't do a thing to change it.


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Revista chilena de nutrición
versión On-line ISSN 0717-7518
VASQUEZ M, Sandra Milena; SUAREZ M, Héctor y ZAPATA B, Sandra. USE OF ANTIMICROBIAN SUBSTANCES PRODUCED BY ACID LACTIC BACTERIAS ON MEAT CONSERVATION. Rev. chil. nutr. [online]. 2009, vol.36, n.1, pp.64-71. ISSN 0717-7518. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-75182009000100007.
The use of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) for food bio-preservation has taken great importance nowadays due to its capacity for controlling pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms. Application of bi-o preservative strains as well as extracts and metabolites produced by them have demonstrated to control diverse undesirable microorganisms improving the enlargement of foods shelf-life and safety against bacteria that can affect the consumerís health. This review involves aspects of food bio-preservation and specifically of meat and meat products susceptible of alterations and attacks of diverse microorganisms. Bio-preservation methodologies of common use in foods are detailed as well as more outstanding aspects of metabolites produced by LAB, making special emphasis on bacteriocins, antimicrobial substances that have demonstrated its effectiveness to control diverse microorganisms and have had successful application on foods. The use of bio-preservation is revised, considered as a technology barrier that combined with other conservation methods like refrigeration and joint to good manufacturing practices can be an interesting option to diminish the addition of chemical preservatives, providing safe foods naturally preserved.
Palabras clave : biopreservation; lactic acid bacteria; bacteriocins; meat; conservation.


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AU Press Releases
AU western equestrian team wraps up regular season; 10 riders qualify for regionals
Senior Kristen Kovatch (Lansdale, PA/North Penn) was named champion high point rider of the first show after placing first in both reining and open horsemanship.
Freshman Kristin Eklin (Bovey, MN) placed first in novice horsemanship in the opening show. Senior Lauren Pfeifer (Livonia, NY/Livonia) was second in reining; sophomore Kaitlyn Bentley (Jamestown, NY) was second in intermediate horsemanship; and junior Peter Metz (Syracuse, NY) was second in beginner horsemanship.
In the second show, senior Nick Munch (Freeville, NY) earned Alfred's lone first-place ribbon with a win in intermediate horsemanship. Placing second for AU were Kovatch in reining, Eklin in novice horsemanship, and Metz in beginner horsemanship.
Alfred finished third in the team standings in Intercollegiate Horse Show Association (IHSA) Zone II, Region II, with Kovatch earning Reserve High Point River honors for the region. She advances to compete in reining and open horsemanship at the regional championship show March 17 at Cazenovia College.
Other AU riders advancing who have qualified to compete at regionals are: Pfeifer in reining; senior Alicia Pickett-Hale (Concord, NH/Concord) in advanced horsemanship; Eklin, junior Hannah Certis (Varysburg, NY), and senior Michelle Applebaum (Applegate, CA/Maidu) in novice horsemanship; junior Brittany Biegel (Ridge, NY/Longwood), sophomore Kate LeSuer (Edinboro, PA/Cambridge Springs) and senior Charity Chaffee (Auburn, NY/Auburn) in intermediate horsemanship; and Munch in beginner horsemanship.


text: >Number: 21462 >Category: kern >Synopsis: mr driver should be replaced by gtp in -release >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: kern-bug-people >State: open >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: net >Arrival-Date: Mon May 05 19:56:00 UTC 2003 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: George E Sollish >Release: NetBSD 1.6.1_STABLE >Organization: George E Sollish Chief Engineer Auto Gear Equipment Project Manager The Payne Lake Project >Environment: System: NetBSD cabot.autogear.net 1.6.1_STABLE NetBSD 1.6.1_STABLE (CABOT) #3: Fri May 2 19:52:35 EDT 2003 firstname.lastname@example.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/CABOT i386 Architecture: i386 Machine: i386 >Description: The mr driver for the Gemtek/Guillemot Maxiradio PCI FM radio card was imported without trial from OpenBSD. When OpenBSD discovered it did not work, OpenBSD replaced the driver with the gtp driver. The gtp driver replaced the mr driver in NetBSD -current in September -02, but it has not replaced the mr driver in -release. I have been running the gtp driver in 1.6rc3 and 1.6.1 with success. I am requesting that it be incorporated in 1.6.1. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: In /usr/src/sys/dev/pci remove maxiradio.c and install gtp.c-1.2. In /usr/src/sys/dev/ic remove tea5757.*-1.1 and install tea5757.*-1.2. In /usr/src/sys/dev/pci/files.pci under "Guillemot Maxi Radio FM 2000 Card" replace instances of "mr" with "gtp". In the kernel conf-files replace instances of "mr" with "gtp". Versions of gtp.c and tea5757.* above 1.2 may not work (kernel-compile failed with gtp.c-1.4 and 1.5 against -release of May 2). >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:


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Well after the traditional gray-whale-watching season that has become a staple of San Diego tourism, Capt. Kenny Manzoni last week ferried visitors from Texas offshore in search of a much bigger prize.
Blue whales — the largest creatures on Earth — have taken to lolling in coastal waters so reliably in recent years that some companies have extended their outings nearly year-round to take advantage of their allure. Their regular presence from mid-June into October is tied to larger cycles of oceanography, and it has injected money into local ventures and complemented other local draws, such as SeaWorld.
"To be out on the water with an animal of that size … is just a remarkable thing," said Manzoni, who owns Adventure Rib Rides at Harbor Island. "It has become a wonderful phenomenon here in the summer months."
For many people, the repeated appearance of blues offers the chance of a lifetime — an opportunity to see the biggest animal ever known and one that remains endangered worldwide. Blue whales famously grow longer than 100 feet, with the biggest ones typically found in the Antarctic. Locally, they are closer to 85 feet — more than three times longer than Manzoni's rigid inflatable boat and about twice as long as the legions of grays that migrate through the region.
For San Diego, the blue whale business is something of a return to the future. In the 1950s, San Diegans pioneered the whale-watching industry and inspired imitators around the world. At the time, the excursions cost $1 and were advertised tongue-and-cheek as "whale hunts." Today, outings typically cost $35 to $100.
Manzoni started his tours in 2005 and has seen a steady increase in blues virtually every year so that today he figures 50 reside offshore at any one time during summer months. He often finds the whales gathering at Nine Mile Bank off Point Loma, near where the coastal shelf drops off to the deep ocean. They graze so methodically that boat captains often follow a group of them day after day.
"We are getting whale-watching right now like we have never had before," said Capt. Scott McDaniels on Sea Adventure 80 at H&M Landing in San Diego.
In the past two seasons, blue whale cruises out of H&M have carried about 2,500 passengers and generated roughly $160,000 in revenue for two boats. Company officials said the extra work has buoyed the vessel income during soft sportfishing seasons. H&M boats rely on volunteer naturalists from the San Diego Natural History Museum to narrate blue whale ventures, which were scheduled to launch for the season on Sunday.
Marine experts say the animals' overall count along the West Coast doesn't appear to be increasing rapidly, so something else likely is behind the uptick in local sightings.
"We are currently in a cooler water cycle," said Capt. Frank Ursitti on Ranger 85 at H&M Landing. "As a result of deep-water upwellings, these cooler water temps are nutrient-rich and set the stage for massive plankton blooms, which in turn provide ideal conditions for krill to flourish in the region."
Bruce Mate, director of the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University, also links the phenomenon to food, for which blues can swim 140 miles a day. Eastern Pacific blues winter in the waters off Mexico and points south, then forage their way north.
"In recent years, there have been a lot of blue whales at the Coronados due to an abundance of krill, which they do not pass up," Mate said. "One good El Niño — when the upwellings that produce krill fail — and blue whales in good body condition will be hard to find as they extend their ranges trying to find high concentrations of food."
McDaniels typically sees three or four blues munching on krill, but on magical days there might be two dozen blues and fin whales gorging themselves when the ocean turns orange with the shrimplike creatures. Sometimes he can idle for 20 minutes or more until "the whales will start acting like dolphins; they roll over on their sides then look up at you."
Said Ursitti: "Sometimes the whales themselves are as curious with us as we are with them,"
The current population size of blue whales in the eastern Pacific Ocean is unknown because budget constraints at the National Marine Fisheries Service mean the agency hasn't done a ship-based survey since 2008 and it's not clear when the next one will be. Jay Barlow, a biologist at the fisheries service in La Jolla, said he noticed blues sticking around through the summer starting about five years ago, as they would "fill up their tanks."
He said 2,000 or 3,000 transit the California coast each year, making it one of the largest concentrations of the species on the planet. Those numbers are still far below what they were in pre-whaling days (commercial whaling for blues was banned internationally in 1966), but local blues aren't as hard-hit as they are in other parts of the globe. In the southern hemisphere, scientists figured the pre-exploitation counts were as high as 200,000 and in recent years the numbers have been pegged at about 1,400.
Today, the biggest threats known to blues include being hit by ships, the subject of much research and concern in California. They also may be snagged in commercial fishing gear.
Blue whales give away their location by spouting a column of water 30 feet into the air. The spray is visible from miles away and is distinguishable from other whales because the water is expelled in a tighter column than that of humpbacks and other species. Manzoni said the June gloom actually makes it easier to see whales because the water is typically calm enough so that white caps don't mask the spouts.
On one outing last week, he didn't see any blues or their telltale spouts at Nine Mile Bank. It's one of the captain's favorite spots because plankton and krill are pushed toward the surface in a process known as upwelling that fuels the entire marine food web.
The bank was teeming with other marine life. A pod of large dolphins, some more than 12 feet long, swam under the bow of Manzoni's boat. Minutes later, a minke whale surfaced, leaving a series of fluke prints on the roof of the ocean.
"The whale kept on going under the water and coming back up," said Insha Madhani, 8, who was aboard with her sister Imaan Madhani, 11.
The National Marine Fisheries Service asks boaters to stay 100 yards from marine mammals and avoid getting in between whale mothers and their calves. Otherwise, the agency encourages excursions in search of blues — as long as they linger. The U.S. Climate Prediction Center has issued an El Niño watch, saying there's a 50 percent chance one will develop this year, and that could ultimately alter local blue whale abundance.
"We can't really predict where they will be next year," said Barlow at the fisheries service. "Take advantage while they are here. Go out and take a look."


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New York City? Forget the skyline. Photographer Navid Baraty, who has captured an impressive view of NYC from leaning off skyscrapers rooftops 50 floors above ground, recently had his unusual snaps adorning the walls of the Bowling Green subway station. As Baraty told Fast CoExist: 'You feel the energy and flow of the city — the constant stream of yellow taxis lining the avenues, the waves of pedestrians hurriedly crossing at the change of traffic signals, little figures disappearing into the subway stations, the chorus of honking horns and sirens.' Looking at these pictures, you know he has quite a point.
Via Fast Coexist


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Website from the manufacturer Medtronic sponsoring the US trial for renal denervation in resistent hypertension. This device is available for use in Australia, Canada and Europe, but not yet approved in the US. The trial Symplicity HTN-3 is a US Pivotal trial for American patients with resistant hypertension defined as blood pressure greater than 160 despite at least 3 maximum dose medications including at least one diuretic. The trial section http://www.symplifybptrial.com/candidate/ gives patients an opportunity to see if they are candidates fotr the trial.
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text: Dear Radek Paul Fertser wrote: > Radek Polak <psonek2 at seznam.cz> writes: > >> we had quite big troubles with andy-tracking kernels that have >> CONFIG_ANDROID_LOW_MEMORY_KILLER option enabled. >> > > I think since android folks need some custom tweaks to the kernel > anyway, it wouldn't be much harm by disabling it. Moreover .31 that > Lars is preparing most probably won't have any android-specific > patches (at least in the beginning). > I have just prepared the android patches for 2.6.31. > I think Michael can give some details on this particular option and > why it might be needed. > The lowmemory killer is basically used on android and it's present in driver/staging/android/ in the mainlike kernel. I don't know why is activate by defualt in your configuration, but I prepare a couple of patches. Michael


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Re: Date's First Great Blunder
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 11:35:40 -0300
Message-ID: <pan.2004.04.21.14.35.39.215496_at_dutra.fastmail.fm>
Em Tue, 20 Apr 2004 23:02:07 -0700, Neo escreveu:
> If NULLs are not necessary and increase complexity too much, why doesn't
> Date drop the chapter on NULL/Missing Information?
From which book?
Anyway he has to deal that NULLs exist on SQL.
Furthermore, NULLs do not equal missing information. He does deal with missing information quite nicely, with the proposal to include special values into each domain needing them.
> Within the common scope where reality provides all the values for a tuple,
> no NULLs are incurred. For cases where, reality can't provide all values
> of a tuple, a NULL would be incurred unless that column is moved to a
> seperate table. In the extreme case, reality could fail to provide a value
> for any column, thus all columns of a relation would need to be in
> seperate tables to avoid NULLs. The net result: NULLs are common and are
> impractical to avoid in RDM implementations.
Looks like you never understood the special values proposal.
>> Special values in the relevant domains do the trick quite nicely.
> Suppose you have the special values "UNKNOWN", "UNAVAILABLE", etc. If
> john's age is the special value "UNAVAILABLE" and mary's age is the
> special value "UNAVAILABLE" is john's age equal to or not equal to mary's
> age? Since the values are the same, some would say they are equal. Since
> the values indicate unavailable, others would say the answer is unknown,
> thus resulting in 3VL.
The first ones would have a simple, but not quite correct system.
The second ones would have a more complex system than 2VL, but still much simpler and more consistent than one using NULLs.
I could be missing something here, been sometime since I've been reading on this.
> Per Date, Intro to Db Sys, "3VL suffers from the very serious
> ('showstopper') problem that it does not match reality - that is, results
> that are correct according to 3VL are sometimes incorrect in the real
> world. NULLs and 3VL undermine the entire foundation of the relational
> model."
I do think he's mixing things here.
3VL does indeed complicate things a lot, but isn't incorrect in itself, obviously. The problem with NULLs is that it is not even 3VL, it is not flexible -- quite like XML, OO, hierarchies and networks vis-à-vis graphs.
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Music News!
My very first album cover! A 1993 live recording of Portland's own Dead Moon – at the equally infamous Satyricon.
I'm thrilled to have the chance to be a part of this. I said it before, but I'll say it again – this is my absolute dream job. I LOVE album covers; the size, the format. They completely shaped my adolescent world. I'm so happy that I got to do at least one in my life. … or maybe two?
Available starting Record Store Day, April 18t – Voodoo Doughnut Recordings
Tags: album covers, dead moon, deadmoon, portland, satyricon


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Making spaghetti and meatballs brought back a memory of my time in Rome. I was eating at the house of a native Roman family and they served a first course of pasta with red sauce. I was seated next to the little Italian grandmother and as I began to eat my pasta she let out a horrified gasp and slapped my hand. In a loud and adamant voice she said "You twirl!! Never cut!" Yes, I had committed the cardinal spaghetti sin of cutting my pasta into manageable bites with my fork. The grandmother then demonstrated the proper twirling technique…she expertly swirled the noodles around her utensil for so that each unruly strand submitted to her will and tucked neatly around her fork. I was properly admonished.
I'm willing to bet, however, that that little Italian grandmother would enjoy our spaghetti and meatballs (even though spaghetti and meatballs is not a native Italian dish!) The meatballs are flavorful and juicy and the sauce is rich and complex (the result of hours of simmering.) So, I challenge you to channel your own inner Italian grandmother and make this dish!
Katryn's Wine Pairing: Les Trois Chemins, Cotes Du Rhones
Rating: 7.0 out of 10.0
I tried to find a "Skull Splitter" wine to match Nathan's beer but couldn't. I had to settle for this red blend wine that ended up being a pretty solid pairing for the pasta. The wine had a strong berry taste that contrasted well with the savory flavors of the spaghetti and meatballs.
Nathan's Beer Pairing: Skull Splitter Ale, The Orkney Brewery
Rating: 7.0 out of 10.0
This strong ale was certainly an interesting beer. I figured, how can you go wrong with a beer that has a Viking on the label!? A Viking would probably enjoy the toasty malt characters with a slightly sour undertone which is much like a brown ale. The sour and malt flavors manage to balance each other out well but then the flavor just sort of disappears on your palette.
Spaghetti and Meatballs
1 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 yellow onion, chopped
6 cloves garlic, 4 minced and 2 whole
½ cup Portobello mushrooms, chopped
2 28-oz cans Italian plum tomatoes (get San Marzano brand if possible)
¼ cup chopped fresh Italian parsley
¼ cup chopped fresh basil
1tsp. onion powder
1 tsp. garlic powder
1/2 tsp. red pepper flakes
1 can tomato paste, 6 oz.
¼ cup Kalamata olives, chopped
¼ cup roasted red peppers, chopped (I used a jarred variety)
Salt and pepper, to taste
1 lb ground beef (at least 16% fat)
3 mild Italian sausage links
4-6 slices bacon, chopped
2 cloves garlic, crushed
2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh Italian parsley
2 eggs
¾ cup unseasoned bread crumbs
¼ cup grated parmesan-romano cheese blend
2 teaspoons sea salt
2 teaspoons fresh ground black pepper
1 Tbsp olive oil
Prepare the sauce. Heat olive oil in 4-5 quart pot on medium-high heat. Add onions and cook for 2 minutes. Add garlic and cook for 1 minute. Add mushrooms, blend together for 2 minutes. Add canned tomatoes, stir together. Add basil, parsley and red pepper flakes and stir tomatoes with a potato masher until sauce starts to thicken about 5 minutes over medium high heat. Add tomato paste, stir to blend. Add olives and red peppers and reduce heat and simmer for 2-3 hours on low heat.
After the sauce has simmered, prepare the meatballs. Mix by hand in a large bowl beef, Italian sausage, bacon, garlic, parsley, eggs, breadcrumbs, cheese, salt, and pepper until well mixed. Use a tablespoon measure to form 1-inch round meat balls. Roll and compress into tight balls.
Heat frying pan on high heat. Add olive oil. Sear and brown meat balls on all sides. About 2-3 minutes. Depending on pan size you may need to brown two batches of the meatballs. Do not crowd the pan by stacking the meatballs. Cook in a single layer. Do not over-cook.
Add meatballs to sauce, gently stir. Simmer sauce and meatballs for 30-45 minutes, stirring occasionally. Salt and pepper sauce to taste.
While the sauce is simmering cook pasta according to package directions (or make your own fresh pasta like we did! We used this recipe.)
To serve place pasta on a plate, add sauce and meatballs, sprinkle with grated parmesan-romano cheese.