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text: David, 32 compute nodes per rack is just good practice, but of course not the maximum if you are willing to cut corners and do somewhat nonstandard and potentially riskier power (i.e. L21-30 208V 3phase). Where do your power cords go, and how many PDU's and cords do you have going to each rack? Our 32 node racks have only two L21-20 cords for the nodes and comply with national fire and electrical codes that limit continuous loads on a circuit to 80% of the breaker rating. The extra space in the rack is dedicated to the remaining cluster infrastructure, i.e. 2U headnode, switches, LCD-keyboard-tray, storage, and room to run cables between racks. The additional infrastructure is not powered by the two L21-20 but fits on a separate single phase 120V circuit, typically a UPS to protect headnode and storage, or just a plain 1U PDU. That means 32 compute nodes and headnode and storage and LCD/keyboard together are fed by a total of 7 120V 20A phases of your breaker panel, utilizing three cords that go to your rack. Michael Will David Kewley wrote: > I totally agree with Michael. > > Except I'd assert that 32 nodes per rack is not a fully populated rack. :) > Twenty-four of our 42U racks have 40 nodes apiece, plus 1U for a network > switch and 1U blank. It works fine for us and allows us comfortably fit > 1024 nodes in our pre-existing room. > > At full power, one 40-node rack burns about 13kW. Heat has not been a > problem -- the only anomaly is that the topmost node in a 40-node rack > tends to experience ambient temps a few degrees C higher than the others. > That's presumably because some of the rear-vented hot air is recirculating > within the rack back around to the front, and rising as it goes. There may > well be some other subtle airflow issues involved. > > But yeah, initially Dell tried to tell me that 32 nodes is a full rack. > Pfft. :) > > In case it's of interest (and because I'm proud of our room :), our > arrangement is: > > A single 3-rack group for infrastructure (SAN, fileservers, master nodes, > work nodes, tape backup, central Myrinet switch), placed in the middle of > the room. > > Four groups of 7 racks apiece, each holding 256 compute nodes and associated > network equipment. Racks 1-3 and 5-7 are 40-node racks (20 modes at the > bottom, then 2U of GigE switch & blank space, then 20 nodes at the top). > Rack 4 is 16 nodes at the bottom, a GigE switch in the middle, a Myrinet > edge switch at the top, with quite a bit of blank space left over. > > In the room, these are arranged in a long row: > > [walkway][7racks][7racks][3racks][walkway][7racks][7racks][walkway] > > And that *just* barely fits in the room. :) > > One interesting element: Our switches are 48-port Nortel BayStack switches, > so we have a natural arrangement: The 7-rack and 3-rack groups each have > one switch stack. The stacking cables go rack-to-rack horizontally between > racks (only the end racks have side panels). > > David > > On Friday 28 April 2006 14:22, Michael Will wrote: > >> A good set of specs according to our engineers could be: >> >> 1. No side vending of hot air from the case. The systems will be placed >> into 19" racks and there is no place for the air to go if it's blown >> into the side of the rack. Even if you take the sides off then you still >> will have racks placed next to each other. Airflow should be 100% front >> to back. >> >> 2. Along with that, there should be no "cheat holes" in the top, bottom >> or sides of the case. All "fresh" air should be drawn in from the front >> of the chassis. Again, the system will be racked in a 19" rack and there >> is no "fresh air" to be drawn in from the sides of the case (see 1 >> above) nor will the holes be open when nodes are stacked one on top of >> the other in a fully populated rack (32 nodes per rack). >> >> 3. There should be a mechanical separation between the hot and cold >> sections of the chassis to prevent the internal fans from sucking in hot >> air from the rear of the chassis. >> >> 4. The power supply *must* vent directly to the outside of the case and >> not inside the chassis. The power supply produces approximately 20% of >> the heat in the system. That hot air must be vented directly out of the >> chassis to prevent it from heating other components in the system. >> >> 5. The system should employ fan speed control. Running high speed fans >> at less than rated speed prolongs their life and reduces power usage for >> the platform as a whole. Fan speed should be controlled by either >> ambient temperature or preferably by CPU temperature. >> >> 6. The system must have a way of measuring fan speed and reporting a fan >> failure so that failed fans can be replaced quickly. >> >> Michael Will / SE Technical Lead / Penguin Computing >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] >> On Behalf Of Bill Broadley >> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 2:55 PM >> To: beowulf at beowulf.org >> Subject: [Beowulf] Opteron cooling specifications? >> >> >> I'm writing a spec for future opteron cluster purchases. The issue of >> airflow came up. >> >> I've seen a surprising variety of configurations, some with a giant >> rotating cylinder (think paddle wheel), most with a variety of 40x28 or >> 40x56mm fans, or horizontal blowers. >> >> Anyone have a fan vendor they prefer? Ideally well known for making >> fans that last 3+ years when in use 24/7. >> >> A target node CFM for a dual socket dual core opteron? >> >> A target maximum CPU temp? I assume it's wise to stay well below the >> 70C or so thermal max on most of the dual core Opterons. >> >> Seems like there is a huge variation in the number of fans and total CFM >> from various chassis/node manufacturers. A single core single socket 1u >> opteron I got from sun has two 40mm x 56mm, and 4 * 40mm x 28mm fans. >> Not bad for a node starting at $750. >> >> Additionally some chassis designs form a fairly decent wall across the >> node for the fans to insure a good front to back airflow. Others seem >> to place fans willy nilly, I've even seen some that suck air sideways >> across the rear opteron. >> >> In any case, the nature of the campus purchasing process is that we can >> put in any specification, but can't buy from a single vendor, or award >> bids for better engineering. So basically lowest bid wins that meets >> the spec. Thus the need for a better spec. >> >> Any feedback appreciated. >> >> -- >> Bill Broadley >> Computational Science and Engineering >> UC Davis >> _______________________________________________ >> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org To change your subscription >> (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org >> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >> -- Michael Will Penguin Computing Corp. Sales Engineer 415-954-2822 415-954-2899 fx mwill at penguincomputing.com

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Paramedic From Connecticut Rapes 22-Year-Old Woman While She's Strapped To The Stretcher In An Ambulance!
"paramedic is accused of raping a woman who was strapped to a stretcher. "Paramedics, police officers, firefighters are in positions of tremendous trust. These allegations are a severe breach of that trust," said Hamden Police Chief Thomas Wydra. A 22-year-old Hamden woman was being transported to Yale-New Haven Hospital in an American Response Ambulance after she fell on around 3 a.m. on Christmas. She was unconscious at the beginning of the trip, but claims when she woke up en route to discover that she was being sexually assaulted. The victim contacted police after she was discharged from the hospital. " - 8 news
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Megadeth Bassist David Ellefson's Older Brother Eliot Dies of Cancer at 51
Sad news to report from the family of Megadeth bassist David Ellefson. The legendary musician's brother Eliot Gordon Ellefson has passed away at the age of 51 after a two-year battle with cancer.
Eliot was David's older brother, so we can't imagine the sadness Megadeth's bassist must feel after losing a member of his family he looked up to. David Ellefson wrote about Eliot in the his 2013 autobiography, 'My Life With Deth.'
"I loved the farm [where I was raised, about six miles north of Jackson, Minnesota], but I didn't love farming quite so much, so my brother, Eliot, was always the one who was going to take it over from my father when the time came," writes Ellefson. "He showed an aptitude for farming from a very young age. When I started getting into music at eleven or twelve, Eliot was focusing on being disciplined and working around the farm." [via Blabbermouth]
David Ellefson memorialized his late brother in a Facebook post:
We'd like to extend our deepest condolences to our friend David Ellefson and all the family and friends of Eliot Gordon Ellefson.
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Bitdefender Security for Windows 8 Released
Do You Need It?
Given that Windows 8 has built-in antivirus protection that's turned on by default, do you actually need a third party antivirus? Catalin Cosoi, Chief Security Researcher at Bitdefender, certainly thinks so. "I don't know how many security researchers they have at Microsoft," said Cosoi, "but I don't think it's nearly as many as we have at Bitdefender." He noted that the built-in antivirus relies on signatures for known threats, so a zero-day threat will slip through.
"Internet Explorer 10 is very good at blocking the bad websites," added Cosoi, "but Windows 8 offers no similar protection for Firefox or Chrome." He concluded that Windows 8 is definitely safer than previous versions, but users still need to add third-party security.
The Windows 8 product offers the same array of protective features found in Bitdefender Internet Security 2013 and adds a number of features specific to Windows 8. It uses Microsoft's ELAM (Early Launch Anti-Malware) technology to start protection early in the boot process, before any malware can launch. A built-in scanner specifically analyzes your Windows 8 apps and warns if any have been compromised. And its "scan boost" technology speeds scanning using whitelisting and cloud scanning, among other techniques.
Bitdefender Insight
Bitdefender Insight, a Modern UI app, will be available for free from the Windows 8 store as soon as Microsoft approves it. Running standalone, all it does is keep you posted with news and alerts from Bitdefender. However, once you install the actual security suite it serves as the user interface when you're not in desktop mode.
When linked with the suite, Bitdefender Insight continues to present news and alerts but also tracks your overall security status. You can use it to start a scan, check for updates, or launch Bitdefender's SafePay secure browser, all while staying in the Modern UI.
Bitdefender Security for Windows 8 is available directly from the company's website. A one-year license costs $59.95. You can also get three licenses for $74.95, or five for $119.95. As noted, the Bitdefender Insight Modern UI app will be a free download from the Windows 8 store.
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Alice Marwick Dissertation Abstracts
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My dissertation looks at how people use social media to boost their social status.
When social media technologies, or "Web 2.0," emerged, scholars and technologists hailed them as a new era of participatory, egalitarian culture. This dissertation examines three status-seeking techniques enabled by social media-micro-celebrity, self-branding, and life-streaming-to provide an alternate view. I argue that Web 2.0 originated in the Northern California technology community, influenced both by counter-cultural movements which positioned new media as a solution to structural deficits of government, business, and mass culture, and the Silicon Valley tradition of entrepreneurial capitalism used as a model for neoliberal development world-wide. These status-seeking techniques constitute technologies of subjectivity which encourage people to apply free-market principles to the organization of social life. Drawing from discourses of celebrity, branding, and public relations, I describe three self-presentation strategies people adopt within social media applications to gain status, attention and visibility.
Based on fieldwork in the San Francisco technology scene from 2006-2009, I identify and describe these status-seeking techniques, how they are experienced, and their implications. Micro-celebrity involves creating a persona, performing intimate connections to create the illusion of closeness, acknowledging an audience and viewing them as fans, and using strategic reveal of information to maintain interest. Lifestreaming is the process of tracking and digitizing personal information and broadcasting it to a networked audience, creating a digital portrait of one's actions and thoughts. In a group of lifestreamers, the digital instantiation of personal information through social media creates a rich backdrop of social information to be scrutinized. Self-branding is the strategic creation of identity to be promoted and sold for enterprise purposes, promoted by self-help gurus and career strategists. These self-presentation strategies involve the creation of an edited self that can be safely viewed by a networked audience consisting of friends, family members, and co-workers. This self requires constant self-surveillance and monitoring and has real emotional affects, which constitute immaterial emotional labor.
Social media is thus undergirded by the neoliberal values of the Northern San Francisco tech scene. I argue that the prevalent myths of entrepreneurship and meritocracy are deeply gendered and contribute to a systematic devaluation of women's experiences, further undermining claims of egalitarianism and democracy.
Alice Marwick - Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity & Self-Branding in Web 2.0
I'm teaching a new class at Fordham called "Social Media." I spent a ton of time trying to figure out what was most important to cover, and ultimately I could probably teach a 2-year class on the subject. Here's what I came up with (with class policies, grading rubics, etc. snipped):
Social Media | COMM 3307
Class blog: http://socialmedia3307.tumblr.com/
Course Description
This class examines the relationship between society and the current crop of computer-mediated communication technologies known as "social media," including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and more. These technologies are often regarded with fear or awe; the purpose of this class is to break down the mythologies of social media and develop methods of analysis and critical understanding. To do this, we will draw from a broad range of social theory including science and technology studies (STS), communication theory, linguistics, cultural studies, and media anthropology to critically evaluate the impact of social media on relationships, activism, branding, politics, news media, and identity. We will focus on the "sociotechnical," or the relationship between the technical affordances of a website/technology and the social norms of a user community, and how to use this to understand emerging technologies (and social media that doesn't exist yet!). Students will also gain basic practical social media skills: understanding the landscape, learning "best practices," and using different social media technologies throughout the class to create and propagate content.
Classes are subject to change based on the interests of class and direction in which class proceeds. Please make yourself aware of all changes to the schedule. If you miss a class, it is your responsibility to learn of any changes.
Readings and other assignments are due on the date listed.
Date Topic (reading due by class date)
Friday 8/31 Introductions & Course Overview
Class objectives
What is social media?
Tuesday 9/4 Key Concepts
Nancy Baym "New Forms of Personal Connection" Chapter 1
Terms: interactivity, temporal structure, social cues, storage, replicability, reach, mobility
Blog Assignment: Set up Tumblr account. Post an example for one of the key terms. Include a photo, video or audio file, and a link.
Friday 9/7 Social Media in Context
Tom Standage, "Codes, Hackers and Cheats" and "Love over the Wires" (from The Victorian Internet)
Hafner & Lyon, "Email" (from When Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet)
What's similar about these previous forms of media? What's different?
Blog Assignment: Pick a pre-web technology and compare it to one of your favorite websites, apps, or games (e.g. record player vs. Spotify). Hint: What's the difference between the internet and the web?
Tuesday 9/11 History of Social Media
Baron, "Language Online: The Basics" (from Always On)
Boyd & Ellison, "Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship"
Terms: Asynchronous, synchronous, one-to-one, one-to-many, bi-directional, uni-directional. Take note of the different technologies mentioned in these chapters; you will be seeing them again.
Friday 9/14 Introducing Theory
Gillespie, "The Stories Digital Tools Tell"
Baym Chapter 2, "Making New Media Make Sense"
Terms: Technological Determinism, social construction of technology, social Shaping, utopian, dystopian, interface
How are new technologies represented in the media?
Blog assignment: Pick a news story about social media and post it. Analyze whether you think the claims and evidence presented in the story are correct.
Examples: NYT, Washington Post
Tuesday 9/18 Computer-Mediated Communication
Baym, Chapter 3, "Communication in Digital Spaces"
Baron, Chapter 4, "Are Instant Messages Speech?"
Terms: reduced social cues, social presence theory, media richness theory, flaming, immediacy cues, mixed modality, intonation unit, conversational scaffolding, utterance break
Blog Assignment: Pick a politician's Twitter account. Analyze his or her speech. What features of CMC does he/she show, or not? Compare this with the account of a musician or celebrity like @kimkardashian or @rihanna.
Tip: Find your hometown Senator or Representative: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
Friday 9/21 Affordances
Norman "The Psychopathy of Everyday Things"
Latour, "Where are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts"
Terms: Affordance, delegation, anthropomorphism, re-inscription
What is an affordance?
How does this play into social construction or technological determinism?
Blog post: Go back to your politician's Twitter account. What affordances does Twitter have? How does the politician use them (or not)?
Note: In order to vote in the Presidential election in NYC, you must be registered 25 days before the election. This weekend is a great time to sign up! Register in NY (if you choose to vote in your home state, check http://www.longdistancevoter.org to find out how to cast an absentee ballot, and http://www.countmore.org to decide whether to vote there or in NYC. Many states have registration deadlines for the beginning of October).
Tuesday 9/25 Online Communities
Baym, Chapter 4, "Communities and Networks"
Ellison, N. Steinfield, C. & Lampe, C. (2007). The benefits of Facebook 'friends': Exploring the relationship between college students' use of online social networks and social capital.
Terms: community, speech community, norms, social capital, bonding capital, bridging capital, maintained capital, network support, emotional support, esteem support, informational support, networked individualism
Blog Assignment: Pick an online site that you participate in (something smaller than "Facebook" or "Twitter," e.g. a particular Facebook community, or a fan forum for a sports team). Do you consider it a "community"? Why or why not?
Friday 9/28 Norms
Garfinkel, "Studies of the Routine Grounds of Everyday Activities" (warning: This is a difficult piece. Concentrate on the experiments and how Garfinkel's students responded to them.)
Marwick & Ellison, "There Isn't Wifi in Heaven!" Negotiating Visibility on Facebook Memorial Pages
Sandvig, "Social Media Breaching Experiments"
Terms: social norms, context collapse, impression management, persistence, scalability, searchability
Blog Assignment: Return to the online site you participate in. What are its norms? Talk about one or two in a short post.
Tuesday 10/2 Online Identity
Baym Chapter 5, "New Relationships, New Selves"
Mendelson and Papacharissi, "Look at Us: Collective Narcissism in College Student Facebook Photo Galleries"
Terms: Disembodied identities, identity cues, self-presentation
Assignment #1 due: Social Media Breaching Experiments
Friday 10/5 Aspects of Identity
Marwick, "Gender, Sexuality and Social Media"
Nakamura, "Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet"
Manjoo, "How Black People Use Twitter"
Carter, "A Response to Farheed Manjoo's "How Black People Use Twitter"
Nakamura, "Don't hate the player, hate the game: The Racialization of Labor in World of Warcraft"
Terms: disembodiment hypothesis, cyborg feminism, oversharing, otherness, identity tourism, passing
Last day for designating a course Pass/Fail
Blog Assignment: Find a news article on a popular site like CNN.com or HuffingtonPost.com that deals with gender, race, sexuality, class, nationality, religion, or another aspect of identity. Read and analyze the comments—what views are expressed? How do commenters respond to each other? Do you think this is different from face-to-face conversations? Why?
Tuesday 10/9 Relationships
Baym, Chapter 6, "Digital Media in Relational Development and Maintenance"
Gershon, "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover" (from Breakup 2.0)
Terms: early idealization, relational development, relational maintenance, "friending," idioms of practice, media ideologies, second-order information
Find/form midterm study groups (no blog assignment)
Friday 10/12 Midterm
Tuesday 10/16 Creativity and Culture
Shirky, "Gin, Television, and Cognitive Surplus" (from Cognitive Surplus)
Davidson, "The Language of Internet Memes"
Schifman, "Anatomy of a YouTube Meme"
Blog assignment: Peruse knowyourmeme.com's Meme Database for a half hour or so. Pick a meme (either one you found there or one you were previously familiar with) and write a quick analysis of what the meme involves.
Friday 10/19 NO CLASS – ALICE AT CONFERENCE
Watch We Live in Public (Ondi Timoner, 2009) 90 mins. This movie is available on Netflix (DVD only, not Instant), Hulu Plus, Amazon Video On-Demand ($3.99) and on reserve at Walsh library. I highly encourage using the blog to coordinate viewing parties. (Fun!!!) Note that having technical difficulties is NOT an excuse for not seeing it, so don't wait until Sunday night to try accessing the movie.
Blog assignment: Movie review (feel free to give a grade or a star rating). (due Monday 10/22 at 5pm)
Activism, Politics & News
Tuesday 10/23 What was the role of Twitter in the Arab Spring?
Grossman, "Iran Protests: Twitter, the Medium of the Movement"
Morozov, "The Google Doctrine" (from The Net Delusion)
Doctorow, "We Need a Serious Critique of Net Activism"
Stepanova, "The Role of Information Communication Technologies in the Arab Spring"
Blog Assignment: What's your perspective? How do the theories of technology we discussed earlier in the semester (technological determinism, social shaping of technology, utopian/dystopian, etc.) play into these accounts?
Friday 10/26 How has social media changed online news?
Rosen, J. "The People Formerly Known as the Audience"
Starr, "Goodbye to the Age of Newspapers (Hello to a New Era of Corruption)"
Braun & Gillespie, "Hosting the public discourse, hosting the public: When online news and social media converge."
Guest Speaker: Joe Weisenthal, Editor, BusinessInsider.com
Peruse BusinessInsider.com and write a list of questions for Joe. Bring them to class. More about Mr. Weisenthal: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/magazine/joe-weisenthal-vs-the-24-hour-news-cycle.html?pagewanted=all
Tuesday 10/30 What impact has social media had on civic engagement?
Knight Foundation, "What are the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy?"
Johnson et. al, "United We Stand? Online Social Network Sites & Civic Engagement"
Claire Cain Miller, "How Obama's Internet Campaign Changed Politics"
Friday 11/2 Branding
Clemons, "The complex problem of monetizing virtual electronic social networks."
Ivey, "Domino's Pizza Case Study."
Dash, "How to Fix Popchips' Racist Ad Campaign"
How can companies engage well on social media?
Blog assignment: Post an example of a company you think is doing it "right" or "wrong." Why or why not?
Tuesday 11/6 ELECTION DAY – NO CLASS. GO VOTE!!!
Assignment #2 DUE by 5pm 11/5 over email or Blackboard. How has (candidate of your choice) used social media in this election?
Friday 11/9 Legal Aspects of Social Media
Lessig, "Property" (from Free Culture)
Zittrain, "Tethered Appliances, Software as Service, and Perfect Enforcement" (from The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It)
Talk about final paper assignment
Tuesday 11/13 Privacy
Cashmore, Facebook Founder on Privacy: Public Is the New "Social Norm" (watch video too)
Kirkpatrick, "Why Facebook is Wrong About Privacy"
Boyd & Hargittai, Facebook Privacy Settings: Who Cares?
Blog Assignment: Given what we learned about norms and affordances earlier in the semester, do you agree with Zuckerberg, Kirkpatrick, or neither?
Optional: How are your Facebook privacy settings set? Why? Log out and try to view your profile. Were you correct about how you had set your settings?
Friday 11/16 Alice out of town – class cancelled
Thesis statement & outline of paper due over email at 5pm!
Tuesday 11/20 Transgression and Deception
Coleman, "Freaks, Hackers and Trolls: The Politics of Transgression and Spectacle"
Donath, "Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community"
Blog assignment TBD
Alice returns thesis/outlines with comments
Friday 11/23 THANKSGIVING – SCHOOL CLOSED
Tuesday 11/27 Limiting Internet Speech?
Benkler, "A Free Irresponsible Press: Wikileaks and the Battle over the Soul of the Networked Fourth Estate" (LONG article)
Bosker, "Randi Zuckerberg: Anonymity online has to go away"
boyd, "Real Name Policies are an Abuse of Power"
Blog Assignment: What has the US government's response been to Wikileaks? Do you think it's reasonable or not? Should there be limits on internet free speech?
Friday 11/30 Opting Out & Non-Participation
Portwood-Stacer, "Media refusal and conspicuous non-consumption: The performative and political dimensions of Facebook abstention."
Marwick, "If You Don't Like It, Don't Use It. It's That Simple. ORLY?"
Alice out of town – Dr. Laura Portwood-Stacer (NYU) substitute professor
Very rough draft (not graded) due at 5pm
Tuesday 12/4 Who Benefits from Social Media?
Hargittai, Digital Na(t)ives? Variation in Internet Skills and Uses among Members of the "Net Generation"
Gray, "Online Profiles: Remediating the Coming Out Story." (from Out in the Country)
Marwick, "Status, Social Media, and the Tech Scene" (from Status Update)
Blog Assignment: Choose a social media technology we've never discussed in class. Post a brief analysis of its affordances and norms, and how it may impact social or political issues. (The point of this assignment is to show that you can use the tools developed in this class to discuss technologies that we can't even imagine yet!)
Friday 12/7 Last Day of Class: Wrap-Up
Baym, Conclusion
Class objectives: achieved?
Paper Q&A
Blog assignment: What worked in this class? What didn't work? What would you alter and change if YOU were teaching the class?
Alice returns rough drafts w/ comments
Sign up for one on one paper review slot
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by Ken Horner
The Chestnut Hill Community Association's Pastorius Park concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 22, will feature a performance by a funk-infused blues outfit called the Deb Callahan Band.
The Philadelphia-based band, led by frontwoman Deb Callahan, has been a staple in the mid-Atlantic music scene since the late 90's and has released four albums since its inception — the most recent being "Tell It Like It Is" in October 2010.
The four-piece band's music has been praised for its unique and creative spin on the blues that injects upbeat rhythms to complement singer/songwriter Callahan's rich, soulful voice, which many have described as a wonderful balance between grace and grit.
Originally from the Boston area, Callahan, who cites musicians like Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, and Ray Charles as influences, gained a deeper sense of the blues genre after years of doing social work in impoverished areas of Philadelphia.
This experience has given Callahan and her band's music an authenticity and honesty that truly resonate with audiences, making for powerful and emotional live shows.
The band's debut album, "If the Blues Had Wings," was released in 2002 to critical acclaim and was featured in an issue of Blues Revue Magazine. A Blues Revue critic went as far as to proclaim Callahan as the next Bonnie Raitt.
"The Blue Pearl," the Deb Callahan Band's 2004 sophomore release, marked the first collaboration between the band and Philadelphia-based producer/songwriter Chris Arms. The album produced a successful blend of the timeless aspects of blues with more contemporary elements of funk and rock music.
The band's third album, 2008's "Grace and Grit," was released to rave reviews, received significant airplay on stations around the country, and debuted on the Living Blues Radio Charts for November 2008 at #16.
The album featured original music as well as a cover of Ray Charles' "Hallelujah I love Him So" and helped propel Callahan and the band into a more rigorous touring schedule up and down the east coast and even in festivals in the Midwest.
Now roadtested, the band, which also features guitarist Allen James, bassist Garry Lee, and drummer Tom Walling, has been touring in support of its fourth release, 2010's "Tell It Like It Is." Once again produced by Chris Arms, the album was recorded at Studio 4 in Conshohocken by Grammy Award winning producer/engineer Phil Nicolo.
"Tell It Like It Is" includes nine original tracks and covers of both Tina Turner's hit "Funkier Than a Mosquita's Tweeter" and Bob Dylan's "Cold Irons Bound." The songs on the album can be described as a mix of blues, gospel, soul, rock and jazz that tackle themes of "love and joy, finding spirituality and giving voice to the experience of homeless children without family support," according to the band's website.
The Deb Callahan Band's performance promises to be a unique combination of the hard-hitting realities of the blues and the high-energy sounds of funk, gospel and rock that is sure to leave those attending the Pastorius Park concert series feeling satisfied.
The Pastorius Park Concert Series is sponsored by the Chestnut Hill Community Association, The Chestnut Hill Community Fund and Chestnut Hill Hospital.


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Jay S. Hammond Wilderness
IntroductionThe United States Congress designated the Jay S. Hammond Wilderness (map) in 1980 and it now has a total of 2,619,550 acres. All of this wilderness is located in Alaska and is managed by the National Park Service.
DescriptionHere the Aleutian Range meets the Alaska Range in the Chigmit Mountains, an area known as Alaska's Alps. The Lake Clark Wilderness was renamed the Jay S. Hammond Wilderness in 2018 to commemorate Alask'a fourth governor. The mighty rain forest along Cook Inlet rises to alpine tundra and sparkling lakes sheltered by mountain fastnesses. Drainages plunge thunderously down hundreds of waterfalls. Vast numbers of moose, brown and black bears, wolves, wolverines, red foxes, Dall sheep, and caribou make their home here. Slender and 50 miles long, Lake Clark itself reflects tall ragged spires of rock, and salmon and trout run in great numbers. Originally a national monument, Lake Clark's status was changed to National Park and Preserve in 1980, and about two-thirds was designated Wilderness.
Three Wild and Scenic Rivers offer excellent opportunities for travel in the area: 11 miles of the gorgeous Chilikadrotna River with sections of wild white water; 22 miles of the shallow Mulchatna River flowing out of a jewel called Turquoise Lake; and 51 miles of the unsung Tlikakila River, which runs through one of the most fabulous glacial valleys in America. Tlikakila's waters eventually shed into Lake Iliamna, just outside the Wilderness boundary, the only place in the United States where inland seals live.
Two active volcanoes dominate the landscape, visible from the Kenai Peninsula across Cook Inlet: Mount Iliamna (10,016 feet) and Mount Redoubt (10,197 feet). In 2009 Redoubt erupted, spewing ash across Anchorage.
A visitor center exists on Lake Clark itself in the settlement of Port Alsworth, but you'll find no facilities or trails within the Wilderness. Once just a trickle, the number of backpackers has been increasing. Visitors will find few experiences to parallel Lake Clark.
Planning to Visit the Jay S. Hammond Wilderness?
- Print a fact sheet
- General things to consider when visiting any wilderness
- Regulations
- Contact the National Park Service
- Other recommended websites
Leave No TraceHow to follow the seven standard Leave No Trace principles differs in different parts of the country (desert vs. Rocky Mountains). Click on any of the principles listed below to learn more about how they apply in the Jay S. Hammond Wilderness.
- Plan Ahead and Prepare
- Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces
- Dispose of Waste Properly
- Leave What You Find
- Minimize Campfire Impacts
- Respect Wildlife
- Be Considerate of Other Visitors


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When the answer to our economic well being depends on consumers being more willing to spend, the last thing you want to do is hide your product, or subtract from its appeal. But that is precisely what the State of Vermont is doing by suspending its Seal of Quality program.
The program is being suspended because the state's agriculture department doesn't have the resources to monitor the program. At present all a Vermont food producer needs to do is to send in a check for $20 and the seal is granted.


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As the tart bakes, some of the beet juice will color the custard and the goat cheese, giving each slice a pretty, almost marbleized look. Since the flavors are a riff on the classic beet, walnut, and goat cheese salad, this tart pairs especially well with greens tossed with a bright vinaigrette. A small slice also makes a somewhat unusual but delicious side dish to grilled lamb chops or any full-flavored meat, as it won't shy away from bold-tasting foods.–Gordon Hamersley
Goat Cheese, Roasted Beet, and Walnut Tart
- Quick Glance
- Makes 1 10-inch tart
- For the pastry
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 10 unsalted butter, cut into small cubes and well chilled
- 4 to 5 tablespoons ice water
- For the filling
- 2 to 3 small beets
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 1 medium onion, thinly sliced
- 2 tablespoons dry white wine
- 3 large eggs
- 3/4 cup heavy cream
- 4 ounces fresh goat cheese
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- 1 tablespoon walnut oil (optional)
- About 2 tablespoons chopped flat-leaf parsley leaves
- Make the pastry
- 1. In a mixing bowl, combine the flour and the salt. Quickly cut the butter into the flour, using a pastry blender or your fingers, until the butter pieces are the size of large peas. (Alternatively, cut the butter into the flour by pulsing it 8 to 10 times in a food processor, being careful not to overheat and overmix the butter.)
- 2. Dump the mixture out onto a clean surface and make a well in the center of the flour. Pour the ice water into the well. Using just your fingertips and working quickly, combine the flour mixture and the water. Work just until the water is absorbed. The dough will be ragged but should hold together when you squeeze it. If it seems dry, sprinkle on a few more drops of water. Form the dough into a log shape about 8 inches long and parallel to the edge of your work surface. With the heel of your hand, push down and away from you all along the line of dough. With a pastry scraper, gather up the dough, shape it back into a log, and repeat the smearing action. This technique, known as fraisage, will form sheets of butter in the dough, creating a light crust almost like puff pastry. With the pastry scraper, gather the dough up into a ball; it's fine if the dough does not come together completely at this time.
- 3. Wrap the dough well in plastic wrap, flatten it a bit, and let it rest in the refrigerator for at least a half hour before rolling. The dough will keep in the refrigerator for up to 2 days. You can also freeze the dough, well wrapped; allow it to defrost for a day in the refrigerator before using it.
- 4. On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough so it is slightly larger around than the 10-inch tart mold and about 1/8 inch thick. If your rolling yielded something unlike a circle, use a knife to trim the raggedy edges, but keep the size of the circle larger than the tart pan. Carefully lift the dough over the tart pan and allow it to fall into the pan, centering it fairly well. Gently ease the dough into where the sides of the pan meet the bottom. If necessary, lift the dough that's hanging over the edge and bring some of the excess down into the pan to ensure that the dough is following the pan's contours. Once the dough covers the entire bottom of the pan, fold the excess dough over into the pan to make thicker walls. Press the dough into the edges of the pan and build up the wall of dough slightly so that it's a bit higher than the edge of the pan. Refrigerate the dough for at least 30 minutes before baking.
- 5. To blind-bake the tart crust heat the oven to 375°F (190°C). Line the mold with aluminum foil, and then fill the foil with baking weights, dried beans, or rice. Bake for 12 minutes. Remove the foil and beans and continue to bake until the crust is well browned. Remove from the oven and let the crust cool a bit before assembling your tart.
- Make the filling
- 6. Heat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Wash the beets and dry them with a paper towel. Place the beets in a small ovenproof pan, drizzle them with the olive oil, and season with a little salt and pepper. Cover the pan with aluminum foil. Bake until the beets are tender when pierced with a paring knife, about 1 hour. Allow the beets to cool. Peel the beets using a small knife and cut them into a medium dice. (Be careful, as beet juice can stain counters, towels, and even your hands; you may want to wear gloves for this step.)
- 7. Heat the butter in a saute pan over medium heat. Add the onion, season with a little salt, and cook, stirring every few minutes, until the onion is just tender, about 7 minutes. Add the white wine and cook for another minute, scraping up any browned bits stuck to the bottom of the pan.
- 8. Heat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Toss the beets and onion together and put them into the blind-baked tart shell. Whisk together the eggs and cream, season well with salt and pepper, and carefully pour over the beets and onion, letting the cream seep evenly into the beets. Dot the goat cheese all over the top of the tart. Put the tart on a baking sheet and bake it for 20 minutes. Sprinkle the chopped walnuts on top of the tart and drizzle the walnut oil over it, if using. Return the tart to the oven and bake until just set, an additional 15 to 20 minutes. Sprinkle the tart with the chopped parsley and let it rest for at least 5 minutes before serving.
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.comment: Coming Kicking and Screaming Into Digital Photography
Making Pictures
Photography has always been among my passions. When, nearly 35 years ago, my father was in the hospital (dying, though I didn't know it), I took the pictures to illustrate his outdoor conservation page in the Sunday newspaper. And when he did die, I took refuge in the newspaper's darkroom, processing everybody's film and printing the pictures for the day's paper. Nobody asked what a 13-year-old kid was doing there instead of being in school for those few days; everybody knew. The Columbia Daily Tribune had a sense of community, of family, in those days. The photographers there, from the young hotshots who were studying photojournalism at the University of Missouri to the longtime pros, were all eager to impart their knowledge and skill to this kid who stuck around even after his dad's formal relationship with the paper had ended.
As a result, I ended up with a lot of knowledge of silver-based photography. I've made pictures that have won awards and that have appeared in all sorts of national publications. Taking pictures is delightful, but, especially in black and white, the artistry takes place in the darkroom, which has always been a place of refuge to me anyway. I have a well-worn copy of David Vestal's "The Craft of Photography," and the familiar phrase about prying something out of one's cold, dead fingers applies to it and me.
For the longest time, I took a dim view of digital photography. This was easy at first, because it was either not very good or very expensive -- have you priced Kodak's digital back for a Nikon? -- so it wasn't really worth considering, and besides, it was sacrilege. Instead of the artistry of the print, there was now the sleight-of-hand of removing unwanted power lines, of altering the image to produce the desired effect. (Yes, there has always been photo manipulation, but digital photography makes it easy to change the actual content of a picture.) Seeing was no longer believing.
Recently, though, practical considerations have, as practical considerations will, altered my view a little. My wife's chief passion is horses, particularly horses that travel courses jumping over various obstacles, with her aboard. The potential for very dramatic photographs of this is obvious. So is the cost of 10 rolls of film plus processing-related expenses, for a typical weekend. Added to this is the fact that she likes (I do, too) to send the results to friends and family via email. There are ways of doing this with silver-based photography, adding a scanner to the increasingly lengthy path from click of shutter to delivered image, but it seemed as if I was now deliberately choosing the longest distance between two points, going to Newark from New York via Sydney.
Just as I achieved this realization, a local outfit had a really good sale on the Sony Mavica MVC-FD95, which offers single-lens-reflexish viewing, a decent zoom lens, and, most important, writes its images to floppy. Having heard horror stories from friends who have had a hard time getting their pictures out of USB cameras and into the computer, I very much liked the idea of a camera that writes jpegs to a floppy -- it's compatible with everything. In anticipation of the summer horse show season, I got one, figuring that within a month I will have more than recouped the cost, compared to camera-and-film photography.
I gave it its first sea trial last month, when my sister-in-law was married. There would be a professional wedding photographer there, so there was no real pressure to produce great pictures. And those that did come out nicely could be sent around via email, instantly.
Some notes on the camera: It takes a little getting used to. I still haven't mastered the arcana of the shutter release, such that it will capture the moment and not the aftermath. It can apparently be done, and I'll have to learn how (otherwise, I'll have the world's largest collection of pictures of horses that have just jumped over a rail), but it's not obvious. It takes a little longer to write to floppy than I'd like -- if Sony had utilized the built-in memory a little better, it would be possible to do a nice sequence at, say, eight frames per second. As it is, it's three seconds per picture (and, oddly, longer if a memory stick and floppy adapter are used, which is why I purchased neither of these expensive accessories). The flash is all but useless, and while there's an accessory shoe it's not a hot shoe and the cable connector is nonstandard. And if you haven't taken a picture for three minutes, the camera turns itself off -- a nice power-conservation feature that ought to be user defeatable.
On the other hand, you can fit about 30 640x480 images on a floppy, changing "film" is really quick, and the medium is both cheap and reusable. There are several resolutions available, from 1600x1200 (which can be printed as actual photographs, but you can fit only four of 'em on a floppy), to 1024x768, to 640x480, which for computer display is just about right. It's a nifty gadget, and I expect to learn a lot more about what it can do as the summer unfolds. And, because it uses 52mm accessories, all my Nikon filters will work with it (though I discovered that I needed to use a wide-angle lens hood to avoid vignetting; I always use lens hoods, the solid, screw-in kind, because they're a lot cheaper to replace than is a lens -- my pristine 85mm f2 Nikkor would be in rough shape if it hadn't been the hood that took the beating when I climbed the tower at the Northeast Gate in Guantanamo while on an assignment a few years ago).
At the end of the festivities I had 10 floppies full of images (I'd packed 50). Now, what to do with them?
- Skip Ahead
- 1. Making Pictures
- 2. Making Pictures
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One of America's most seminal books is William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience, in which he argues that the subjective experience of the divine can be understood only by the believer. I have just been finding out how true this is. You hear all the time that America is an intensely religious nation, but what you don't hear is that there are almost as many religions as there are believers. Moreover, many ostensible believers are quite unsure of what they actually believe. And, to put it mildly, the different faiths don't think that highly of one another. The emerging picture is not at all monolithic.
People seem to be lying to the opinion polls, as well. They claim to go to church in much larger numbers than they actually do (there aren't enough churches in the country to hold the hordes who boast of attending), and they sometimes seem to believe more in Satan and in the Virgin Birth than in the theory of evolution. But every single time that the teaching of "intelligent design" has actually been proposed in conservative districts, it has been defeated overwhelmingly by both courts and school boards. A fascinating new book, 40 Days and 40 Nights, describes this happening in detail in the small town of Dover, Pennsylvania. Its author, Matthew Chapman, is the great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin, which helps make Dover the modern version of the Scopes "Monkey Trial," in Dayton, Tennessee, in 1925, with the difference that this time the decision went the other way. A Republican-appointed judge described the school board's creationist effort as "breathtaking inanity."
Could there be a change in the Zeitgeist coming on? I think it's possible. A 2001 study found that those without religious affiliation are the fastest-growing minority in the United States. A generation ago the words "American atheist" conjured the image of the slightly cultish and loopy Madalyn Murray O'Hair. But in the last two years there have been five atheist best-sellers, one each from Professors Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett and two from the neuroscientist Sam Harris. As the author of the fifth of these books, I asked my publishers to arrange my book tour as a series of challenges to the spokesmen of the faithful, and to send me as far as possible to the South. The following is an account of some of the less expected moments of the trip.
April 22, Little Rock, Arkansas: I leave the Vanity Fair party, given at my apartment after the White House Correspondents' Dinner, at 4:30 a.m. to catch the red-eye from Washington to the Arkansas Book Fair. My last memory of the D.C. bash is of Justice Antonin Scalia debating some of the sharper points of Catholic doctrine with California attorney general Jerry Brown. I decide against wearing my black-tie evening attire for the day-trip. On the road from the Little Rock airport is an enormous black-and-yellow billboard bearing the single word jesus: this is just how people like to imagine Dixie. My book isn't even technically published, yet there's an overflow Sunday crowd. I start by mentioning the sign. I know the name, I say, and I have used the expression. But on its own the word "Jesus" seems to say both too much and (somehow) too little. This gets more of a laugh than I might have predicted. At the end of the event I discover something that I am going to keep on discovering: half the people attending had thought that they were the only atheists in town.
May 1, New York City: An evening at the Union League Club, sponsored by the conservative David Horowitz. A full house of upscale right-wingers who at least agree with me on the single issue of fighting Islamic jihadism. A generally receptive and friendly audience as I am interviewed by the publisher Peter Collier. He's just closed the meeting when a man in a clerical collar puts up his hand. In a magnanimous mood, I say, Fair enough—let's extend the event for a man of the cloth. This turns out to be Father George Rutler of the Church of Our Saviour, who announces that he's on the committee of the club and will make sure that I am never invited there again. There's some shock at this inhospitable attitude, but I think: Gosh. Holy Mother Church used to threaten people with eternal damnation. Now it's exclusion from the Union League Club. What a comedown. In a brisk exchange near the elevator, the good father assures me that I shall die a Catholic. Why do people think this is such a good point?
May 3, New York City: To the Lou Dobbs show, on CNN—Mr. Middle America at prime time. Mr. Dobbs displays a satirical paragraph from my book, about the number of virgin births that all religions have always claimed. He tells me off-air that he quit Sunday school as a very small boy, and that he's raised all his children without religion. He lets me bang on a lot. At the end, he refers to my new American citizenship, the oath of which I swore at the Jefferson Memorial on April 13 (Mr. Jefferson's birthday, and mine). I get to try out my latest slogan, echoing what Jefferson said about the "wall of separation" between church and state: "Mr. Jefferson—build up that wall!" Mr. Dobbs leans over and, on-camera, pins an American flag to my lapel. Patriotism and secularism in the same breath, on middle-class TV. It can be done. As I leave, Dobbs says wryly that he'll now have to deal with all the e-mails. I promise him that they will be in his favor and ask to have them forwarded. The mailbag eventually breaks about 70-30 in support, though one woman does say that she'll never tune in to CNN again.
May 7, New York City: To the New York Public Library to debate Al Sharpton, a man who proves every day that you can get away with anything in this country if you can shove the word "Reverend" in front of your name. To a question about Mormonism and Mitt Romney, I reply that it's high time the governor was asked about the official racism of his Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: a policy of exclusion that persisted until 1978. Sharpton responds that the "real" Christians will be numerous enough to defeat Romney next year: a remark which earns itself a 24-hour media life. I notice again how much the Christians love one another, and I get the chance to go back to Lou Dobbs and say so on-air.
May 11, Washington, D.C.: In the studio of The Christian Science Monitor to debate with Pastor Stephan Munsey, leader of a mega-church in Indiana, plus a Baptist theologian from Wake Forest University. The Baptist theologian rather astonishes the host by saying that he basically agrees with me, and Mr. Munsey rather astonishes me by announcing that the good lord cured his daughter of Hodgkin's disease (though he waited until she had lost most of her hair and her body weight before deciding to do so). Hodgkin's disease is actually much more easily cured these days, largely owing to advances in stem-cell research which will now be halted or delayed to please the faithful.
May 14, Austin, Texas: A phone-in with WPTF ("We Protect the Family"), a conservative talk-radio station in North Carolina. The questions are very civil until the end, when I am asked if I know the anti-Christian works of Friedrich Nietzsche. I say that I have my differences with Nietzsche, but that I know his stuff. Am I aware, inquires the questioner, that when he was writing that very stuff he was suffering from terminal syphilitic decay? Slightly baffled, I reply that I have heard as much but don't know it to be true. Do I think, comes the next question, that there is a similar explanation for my own work? Should have seen that coming. My response is that I obviously can't be the best judge but that it's very compassionate of him to ask.
In the evening to debate with Marvin Olasky at the L.B.J. Library. Olasky is the man who coined the term "compassionate conservatism" and helped evolve Bush's "faith-based initiative." He's a convert from both Judaism and Communism. He tells the audience that his record as a married man improved after he became a Christian. I'm ready to believe it. He also mentions many nice people who do good things because of their faith. I reply that I am ready to believe that too, as long as it's admitted that many people behave worse because of their religion. My challenge: name an ethical statement or action, made or performed by a person of faith, that could not have been made or performed by a nonbeliever. I have since asked this question at every stop and haven't had a reply yet.
Olasky's book on presidential morality (which sadly was written before this president took office) says that George Washington won the Revolutionary War because he forbade drinking and swearing in the ranks of his army, whereas the British forces were awash in immorality. I argue that the war was won largely by the French, who were not strangers to wine or oaths, and that the American troops at Valley Forge were much inspired by Thomas Paine, who may not have cursed all that much but who never left the brandy bottle alone and who thought that Christianity was a joke. Moreover, the Brits—indicted by Olasky for their indulgence in adultery and even buggery—did manage to hold on to Canada, India, much of the Caribbean, and much of Africa in spite of divine disapproval. "God on Our Side" is one of the oldest and weakest arguments in human history.
May 15, Raleigh, North Carolina: At the airport, strangers approach to say, "Thanks for coming to take on the theocrats." Apparently the good folks at WPTF announced after my appearance on their show yesterday that I was going to hell. This doesn't prevent a huge crowd from showing up, which in turn means that Quail Ridge Books has to move the event into a neighboring Unitarian church. (The rector whispers to me, "I ought not to say this, but the church has never been this full before.") My opponent tonight is the very courteous Dr. Adam English, from the religion department at Campbell University. He's another Baptist, but when I ask if he believes Calvin's teaching about hell and pre-destination, he doesn't love the question. Southern hospitality is rightly famous, and he may think it would be rude to condemn a visitor to hellfire. Then again, he can easily tell that the audience is not with him. Many southerners are annoyed by the presumption that they are all snake handlers and shout-and-holler artists, and the most critical questions all go to Dr. English, who has unwisely told the local paper that he'll win the argument because god is on his team. Again I notice two things: the religious types are unused to debate and are surprised at how many people are impatient with them, or even scornful.
Jerry Falwell—another man who managed to get away with murder by getting himself called "Reverend"—dies without being bodily "raptured" into the heavens. Indeed, his heavy carcass is found on the floor of his Virginia office. The cable shows start to call and I have a book to sell: maybe someone up there does love me after all.
May 16, Atlanta: My publishers had at first told me that I couldn't find a debater in this great city, but the Margaret Mitchell House now asks if I can do not just one session with an opponent but two sessions back-to-back, in order to accommodate excess demand. The museum and library are magnificent and show a picture of the young Martin Luther King Jr. in the little-boys' choir at the opening night of Gone with the Wind. I consider myself free of superstition, but I have to confess that I still find that quite arresting. The defender of the faith on this occasion is Timothy Jackson, a professor of Christian ethics at Emory University, and he cheerfully agrees to do the "second house." He's by far the best yet, and obviously enjoys the argument, but is clearly surprised by the roars of applause that greet any of my attacks on Falwell. (One sees the same pinched and flabby look on the faces of Sean Hannity and the other TV hosts who want me to say at least a compassionate word about this departed fraud. At one point, Hannity wheels out Ralph Reed as a mourner, as if unaware that ostentatious grief from the friends of Jack Abramoff is exactly what the Christian right might have wanted to avoid at this moment of bereavement.)
The motto of the Confederacy was Deo Vindice, or "God on Our Side." Atlanta was burned to ashes by people who thought that the deity took the other view. I basically implore the audience to get over it, and to consider the strong possibility that heaven takes no side at all in human affairs. I know that this is still a minority position, but it's quite easy to defend and very difficult to disprove, as I think the devout Dr. Jackson might agree.
May 17, Coral Gables, Florida: I owe an apology. It is absolutely not true, as urban legend has it, that Orthodox Jews conduct sexual congress through a hole in the sheet. I should never have mentioned this slander, even in passing, in my book. (It won't appear in the reprint.) At the Temple Judea, a Reform synagogue that seats a thousand people, I make this concession in an exchange with Nathan Katz. But when I go on to attack the Jewish prayer that thanks god for not making you a woman or a Gentile, I get quite a bit of applause. As well as featuring Katz, the panel of my critics contains a Muslim woman scholar, a Buddhist nun, and a charismatic Catholic. What if all these people were to walk into a bar at the same time? Surely the barman would ask if it was some kind of joke.
The Second Presbyterian Church in New York puts up a sign in big letters, reading, christopher hitchens doesn't know what he's talking about. These are the people whose early dominance of America was described by Jefferson as witchcraft and inquisition. As against that, my book is climbing the best-seller list and is outselling the Pope's volume on Jesus Christ.
June 5, Los Angeles: A three-hour debate with the Reverend Mark Roberts, senior pastor of Irvine Presbyterian Church, in Orange County, on Hugh Hewitt's conservative Christian chat show. Very nice of Mr. Hewitt. The Rev doesn't accuse me of not knowing what I'm talking about: indeed, he's very civil about the book. At one point I ask him if he believes the story in Saint Matthew's Gospel about the graves opening in Jerusalem at the time of the crucifixion, and the occupants walking the streets. Doesn't it rather cheapen the idea of resurrection? He replies that as a Christian he does believe it, though as a historian he has his doubts. I realize that I am limited here: I can usually think myself into an opponent's position, but this is something I can't imagine myself saying, let alone thinking.
June 7, Seattle: A host on the local Fox radio station says he's appalled that I can't find a debate partner for this evening's event at Town Hall. After all, Seattle is the home of the Discovery Institute: powerhouse of the "intelligent design" movement. We go on to debate matters on-air, and when I say that I also can't find any Catholic who really believes in the Virgin Birth, he responds that he jolly well does. No you don't, I reply, not really. Yes I do, he insists. I believe in the Immaculate Conception of Jesus Christ. I have to break it to him that the Immaculate Conception and the Virgin Birth are two different things: it was Mary who, according to a Vatican dogma dating back only to 1854, was immaculately conceived. I run into this kind of thing all the time: what else do people imagine they are believing? And hasn't it come to something when I have to tell Catholics what their church teaches?
June 10, Washington, D.C.: It's been weeks on the road, and after a grueling swing through Canada I am finally home. I tell the wife and daughter that's it: no more god talk for a bit—let's get lunch at the fashionable Café Milano, in Georgetown. Signor Franco leads us to a nice table outside and I sit down—right next to the Archbishop of Canterbury. O.K., then, this must have been meant to happen. I lean over. "My Lord Archbishop? It's Christopher Hitchens." "Good gracious," he responds, gesturing at his guest—"we were just discussing your book."
The archbishop's church is about to undergo a schism. More than 10 conservative congregations in Virginia have seceded, along with some African bishops, to protest the ordination of a gay bishop in New England. I ask him how it's going. "Well"—he lowers his voice—"I'm rather trying to keep my head down." Well, why, in that case, I want to reply, did you seek a job that supposedly involves moral leadership? But I let it go. What do I care what some Bronze Age text says about homosexuality? And there's something hopelessly innocent about the archbishop: he looks much more like a sheep than a shepherd. What can one say in any case about a religion that describes its adherents as a flock?
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DelPen wrote:The players got an extra jump after Kunitz was tossed. Agree or disagreement that should have even been a penalty no one can agree that it deserved a major. NHL better rescind the game misconduct as its clear Bailey initiated the contact. If Bailey doesn't try to pick Kunitz then he doesn't get hit. That was just as much interference on him than checking from behind on Kunitz.
Gaucho wrote:Sorry, but I don't know how anyone could or would argue with the call.
Gaucho wrote:It wasn't vicious or anything, but it was a check from behind.
Henry Hank wrote:I'm not sure I see the difference between a hit and "body on body contact."
I think it's a penalty. It basically is a hit from behind and it could be called interference as much as anything. He came in at enough of an angle and it was far enough from the boards that I think a major, game misconduct, and any additional discipline is overboard. At real speed I guess I could see how a ref would be inclined to go with the major especially since the player didn't get up right away, which he all know affects these things. No suspension. If it were closer to the boards and/or the force of the hit was completely from behind then I'd agree on a major plus suspension.
pens2005 wrote:As much as I loved Morrow with Neal and Malkin, Iginla Neal Malkin was that much better.
I actually think Brenden Morrow has been everything and more for this team. He's exactly what I had expected.
I think he will kinda get lost in the discussion because of the Jarome Iginla trade, but Morrow is gritty as hell and I love it.
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-Matt Cooke earned his entire 2013 paycheck yesterday. If that Matt Cooke shows up in the playoffs (I keep forgetting that he wasn't there last year), our bottom six will be a nightmare to play against.
columbia wrote:DB needs to remember to dress 4 centers in the future.
DelPen wrote:Gaucho wrote:It wasn't vicious or anything, but it was a check from behind.
There's some debate but does anyone agree it deserved a major?
"I'm sitting here looking across the room and thinking, 'Man, that's Jarome Iginla!'" defenseman Matt Niskanen recalled. "I mean, when you're on a team with Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, you might not think that would happen. But that's Jarome Iginla."
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Investors are betting Indian bonds are set for their biggest rally since the global financial crisis, wagering that a government at risk of losing its investment-grade rating will put fiscal discipline ahead of election largesse.
The key date is February 28, when the 2013/14 budget is unveiled. If Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram announces a net borrowing figure of Rs 5 lakh crore or less for the year starting April 1, analysts say a 30 basis point drop in yields over the past two months could triple this year.
"Our base-case scenario is a rally in Indian bonds in 2013/14," said Rohit Arora, emerging market rate strategist at Barclays Capital. He expects the benchmark 10-year bond yield to fall to 7.25 percent this year, from above 7.80 percent currently.
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Analysts came to a net borrowing figure of around Rs 5 lakh crore by allowing for Rs 95,000 crore in debt redemptions due in the next fiscal year and factoring in an ambitious fiscal deficit target of 4.8 percent.
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"If the net borrowing is above Rs 5 lakh crore, the market will not be in too much of a hurry to buy bonds," said Vivek Rajpal, rates strategist at Nomura in Mumbai.
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Optimism the government can limit the increase in net borrowing to about 5 trillion rupees is at odds with history -since 2006/07, net borrowing has risen by an average of 28 percent a year - and more so as it is the main platform to introduce major spending programmes ahead of elections in 2014.
For example in 2008, Chidambaram, in a previous stint as finance minister, included a 600 billion rupees farm loan waiver scheme in his budget as the government looked to shore up support ahead of the 2009 elections.
"The market has typically been highly sceptical of the government being able to meet its targets, and most of the time that scepticism has been warranted," said Kenneth Akintewe, portfolio manager at Aberdeen Asset Management Asia.
Both Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor's cut India's credit ratings outlook to "negative" last year, criticising fiscal policy. The risk of a cut to "junk", which would raise the cost of borrowing, seems to have caught the government's attention.
Chidambaram has pledged India will not breach its fiscal deficit targets, and has followed through with unpopular measures to signal he means what he says, including allowing state retailers to set diesel prices and slashing spending.
As a result, the government has an estimated cash balance of more than Rs 1 lakh crore, a critical cushion even if it were to increase spending later this year.
"We would like to give the government the benefit of doubt and reiterate that the FY14 budget will see the finance minister walk the tightrope adroitly between the need for welfare and the urgent quest for fiscal consolidation," Deutsche Bank analysts said in a report.
The fall in bond yields already seen has been spurred by a combination of the faith in the government's fiscal discipline - which would cut the supply of bonds - and on expectations that official interest rates will fall this year.
Indeed, wholesale inflation fell to a three-year low of 6.62 percent in January, and the RBI cut its policy interest rate on January 29.
But the RBI's cautious outlook and previous criticism of fiscal policy has analysts thinking it is waiting to see the government's budget plans before acting more aggressively.
That makes the budget an important set-piece for a market that has priced in Chidambaram delivering on his promises.
"We think softening inflation and RBI's growth-supportive monetary policy are key positives for bonds. With the finance minister committed to fiscal consolidation, government's attempts to limit its market borrowing will also support bonds," said Nagaraj Kulkarni, South Asia senior rates strategist at Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore.
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SAN DIEGO -- One of baseball's best bullpens got another weapon Saturday when the Padres landed left-handed reliever Troy Patton from the Orioles for catcher Nick Hundley and cash considerations.
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SAN DIEGO -- One of baseball's best bullpens got another weapon Saturday when the Padres landed left-handed reliever Troy Patton from the Orioles for catcher Nick Hundley and cash considerations.
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"They had a catching need and we had a catching surplus," Byrnes said.
The Padres have played the entire season with three catchers to this point. Yasmani Grandal and Rene Rivera will now share catching duties. Grandal got the start Saturday against the Cubs.
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"Here's a guy that you look at the little bit of track record that he's had over the past three years, overall it's been pretty good work," Padres manager Bud Black said. "He's done a nice job against left-handed hitters and he's capable of getting the right-handed hitters out. He complements Torres.
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Patton has a career 3.28 ERA in 143 big league games over six seasons with the Astros (2007) and Orioles (2010-14). He has an 8.10 ERA in nine appearances this season.
In December, Patton was suspended for the first 25 games of the season after his second positive test for amphetamines. He was reinstated from his suspension May 1.
This wasn't the first time Patton landed on the Padres' radar, Byrnes said.
"We actually talked a little bit about him during the offseason, when we were rebuilding our left-handed depth. It turned out this is where it matched up. Patton, I think, will be a good fit for us as a second lefty back there," Byrnes said. "With the current state of affairs with the injuries, we wanted an experienced arm."
Patton's best season with the Orioles came in 2012 when he posted a 2.43 ERA in 55 2/3 innings over 54 games. He had a 3.70 ERA in 56 games a year ago.
The Orioles needed a catcher after Matt Wieters landed on the disabled list on May 11 with a strain of the right elbow.
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The Padres reportedly sent less than $2 million of the $4 million Hundley is owed this season. The Orioles will have a $5 million club option on Hundley to decide on after the regular season.
Patton is making $1.1 million this season and is still under team control for two more seasons.
Patton joins a bullpen which has the second-lowest ERA (2.17) in the Major Leagues going into play on Saturday, trailing only the Nationals (2.13).
Corey Brock is a reporter for MLB.com. Keep track of @FollowThePadres on Twitter.