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Judith is a Certified Scrum Master and the Vice President of Product Operations for CDC Software, a provider of enterprise software products. Judith has had responsibility for taking the entire product engineering organization Agile.
As businesses today demand more options and greater flexibility in how they source technology, enterprise software companies are making significant changes in their delivery models.
Many are opting for a multi-modal or hybrid software delivery model that incorporates elements of both SaaS and traditional on-premise software. These vendors understand that organizations will both continue to require that some applications and data remain behind their firewall, while also leveraging the benefits of hosted solutions in the cloud in other areas.
This fundamental shift in the way software is delivered, however, requires new approaches to software development, delivery, and maintenance. The inherent differences in how on-premise software and cloud applications are delivered are significant. And the complexity of developing and maintaining a variety of applications on different platforms demands more agility and control over process.
In the past few years, many software companies have adopted Agile methodologies to respond more efficiently to growing customer demands. Agile methodologies have helped hundreds of technology companies — including those that offer hybrid solutions — achieve very aggressive market delivery targets while maintaining cost structures that are optimized to the current economic climate.
But the secret to building and maintaining a successful hybrid software delivery model is not just introducing Agile methodologies. Success predicates on how these techniques are used — and how they are combined with other lean principles to achieve fast, flexible, and resilient delivery processes that speed up time-to-market and help development teams achieve higher levels of quality assurance.
A Self-Management Philosophy
One of the many advantages Agile has over the traditional waterfall approach to development is that Agile is a "pull" rather than a "push" system. So where most waterfall systems are very much command-and-control in nature, with Agile it's the actual development team that heads the effort, pulls the work and commits to what it will get done within a certain iteration.
This self-managing philosophy is a critical distinction between Agile and waterfall methodologies. At the same time, Agile requires a new way of thinking that calls for greater individual and team responsibility. Teams have to take ownership. They have to start thinking about things such as collaboration, communication and business goals.
Keeping Projects Focused with Scrum
The Scrum methodology, in particular, has been a key component of our organization's Agile initiative. One of the biggest benefits of Scrum is that it uses the actual progress of a project to plan and schedule releases. Projects are divided into defined blocks called sprints, which are typically two weeks in duration. At the end of each sprint, stakeholders and team members gather to determine how the project is progressing, to make adjustments and to plan next steps.
By evaluating progress on an ongoing basis and at short intervals, the team and other project stakeholders can make decisions based on completed worth rather than on gut feel or speculation.
Test-Driven Development Maintains Project Focus and Software Quality
Another Agile technique that's essential for development teams who work on hybrid software solutions is test-driven development. With this approach, the team needs to first determine what specific tests that code will need to pass before any coding begins.
Rather than spending months in design work, a few more months coding, and then another three months going through quality assurance, you instead spend time up front deciding what exactly you'll be testing for. This is a significant departure from waterfall, since it enables you to have potentially deliverable software at the end of every iteration.


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PHOENIX – Mike D'Antoni started irritating his brother, and the reasons had nothing to do with what upset Laker fans for the past two seasons.
No, Dan D'Antoni's dissatisfaction had little to do with the Lakers' struggles, his brother's offense or the team's consistently poor defense. Dan had rented a Manhattan Beach home with his brother Mike after his unexpected hire with the Lakers soon morphed into Dan joining him as an assistant.
This season, things are different with the duo having their own Manhattan Beach residences.
"If somebody was young and had that pad we had, they'd be going strong," Dan D'Antoni told this newspaper. "But for us, it was just a place to sleep and watch film.
"He's probably happier. I'm happier."
The Lakers entered their game Wednesday against the Phoenix Suns at U.S. Airways Center losers of 11 of their past 12 games. They have too many injured point guards to count. But Dan said he and his brother have found satisfaction with coaching a group of players that likely wouldn't start on many NBA rosters a season after fielding an Hall-of-Fame roster riddled with competing agendas.
"It's a different type of pressure," Dan D'Antoni said. "There's a winning pressure regardless. You always want to win. The biggest difference is this is a fresh group trying to learn how to win.
"Last year was a bunch of guys who had won and you're trying to mesh them. This year, you're trying to create a winning atmosphere and last year we were trying to manipulate it."
An odd two seasons for Dan D'Antoni to witness, yet his career path always took twists and turns.
He started his coaching career as an assistant at Marshall University, but he also crossed off some unusual items off his bucket list. That included running an ice cream shop, two restaurants, a bumper-boat pool (D'Antoni likens it to bumper cars on water) and saw John F. Kennedy speak on the campaign trail in Mullens, W. Va.
Years later, Dan D'Antoni organized and raised funds for the Beach Ball Classic, a summer pro-am league that has featured cameos from Kobe Bryant, Antawn Jamison and Raymond Felton, among others. After coaching for 28 years at Socastee High in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Dan D'Antoni dropped everything to join his brother's staff in Phoenix in 2004. He has stayed with Mike D'Antoni ever since in stints with New York and the Lakers.
"I gave up things I enjoy," D'Antoni said, "but it was always our dream to come work with each other. I dropped everything and left."
Injury update
Guard Steve Blake said he has progressed in recent days dribbling with his right hand with and without the brace that protects his hyperextended right elbow. He isn't expected to return until sometime in February, but he's spent most the past five weeks performing dribbling and shooting drills with his left hand.
"I know it will be better. But once I'm able to use my right hand again, in game situations will I instinctually use it?" Blake asked rhetorically. "You don't know. We'll see."


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Six more American boxers have qualified for the Olympics with winning performances at a qualifying tournament in Brazil, allowing embattled USA Boxing to send an impressive nine fighters to the London Games.
Including three boxers who qualified last year, the U.S. currently has the second-largest men's team headed to London.
That's more fighters than any nation except Australia, which will send a boxer in each of the 10 men's weight classes. It's more than traditional amateur powers Cuba and Russia.
Light welterweight and American team captain Jamel Herring qualified this week at the AIBA Americas Olympic Qualifying Event in Rio de Janeiro. He says the performance is a message to the amateur world that USA Boxing isn't finished.
Americans have won just one gold medal in the past three Olympics.


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The opening Hope College Orchestra concert for the 2011-12 season will feature work by Sullivan, Mozart and Brahms on Friday, Sept. 30, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
To open the program, the orchestra will perform the Overture to the "Mikado," by Arthur Sullivan. The orchestra will next perform "Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550," by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. To close the program, the orchestra will perform "Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a," by Johannes Brahms.
The Hope College Orchestra is directed by Richard Piippo, associate professor of music.
Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located at 277 College Ave., on College Avenue at 12th Street.


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Who Can Kill a Child?
Yes, the title got me.
I knew almost nothing about Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's 1976 movie ¿Quién puede matar a un niño? except that it was a horror movie, and I figured a horror movie with a title like that ought to at least be interesting. And it is that.
The film has had other titles over the years -- Island of Death, Death is Child's Play, Lucifer's Curse, Los Niños, etc. -- but Who Can Kill a Child? is apparently the original one, and is the one used on the 2007 DVD from Dark Sky Films, the edition I watched. It's provocative, but it's also perfectly accurate for the movie.
The story is fairly simple: a nice British couple visit Spain and travel to a small, secluded island the husband had visited twelve years before. When they arrive, the island seems deserted. The husband says the people often went to festivals on the other side of the island. Eventually, he and his wife discover the truth: the children of the island have, for mysterious reasons, killed almost all of the adults. And enjoyed it.
The film would be a somewhat routine (if surprisingly well directed, acted, and filmed) story of demonic children and people trapped somewhere dangerous if Ibáñez Serrador didn't have more on his mind than just shocking an audience. He did have more on his mind, though, and it is that more that makes the film fascinating -- fascinating both for its content and for what seems to me to be a contradiction between its construction and its theme.
Who Can Kill a Child? doesn't begin right off with its story. Instead, the first ten minutes presents images of dead or dying children in concentration camps and war zones. A voiceover tells us that in war and in disasters caused by humans, children are the greatest victims. Millions and millions of children have died because of adult actions.
From this disturbing black and white imagery, we move to the bright sunlight of Spain and a happy British couple, Tom (Lewis Fiander) and Evelyn (Prunella Ransome). Evelyn is pregnant with their third child. They enjoy their time in a coastal city, but it's noisy and crowded, so they head off to the island Tom, a biologist, spent time on more than a decade before. The sunny happiness slowly gives way to sunny anxiety, until Tom and Evelyn discover the secret of the children. The last third or so of the film is thus all about their attempt to escape, and, naturally, that escape raises the title's question, since it's clear that the only way to escape is to kill some kids.
From the opening sequence and from some statements Ibáñez Serrador has made, it's obvious that part of his intention is to make us realize how hypocritical we adults can be about the killing of children -- most people believe it is absolutely wrong to kill children, but in war children are "collateral damage" and even in peacetime millions of children die from easily-preventable illnesses, so obviously we don't really believe it's unforgiveable to kill them. In Who Can Kill a Child, the childrens' behavior is never definitively explained, but there's some talk of evolution and adaptation, and in an interview on the DVD, Ibáñez Serrador seems to indicate that, for him, the explanation is that the children have realized (subconsciously, maybe even genetically) that the biggest threats to their existence are adults, and so they are wiping out the threat. From the opening sequence, Ibáñez Serrador seems to want us to understand that it is in some way or another understandable that children should want to kill adults, since adults kill them so wantonly.
That would certainly be a provocative theme for a movie to develop, but this movie does not really develop it. Our sympathies as viewers are focused on Tom and Evelyn, while the children are not the least bit sympathetic except for the fact that they are children. Though she spends at least half of the movie trying to prove she is utterly ignorant of the world and everything around her (presumably because the only way Ibáñez Serrador could think of to make the film long enough was to make at least one of the characters really stupid so lots of time can be spent explaining things to her), Evelyn is by the last part of the movie someone whose welfare we have begun to care about, and Tom seems like a nice enough guy. The story has mostly been presented through their point of view, making their interpretation of the world is the one the spectators identify with. What suspense there is in the movie comes from our not wanting them to be harmed.
We don't have any access to the children's inner lives at all and very few of them are named or even differentiated from each other for us. The boys behave like sullen, petulant brats and the girls giggle and cry, and so all of the children are little more than the most annoying stereotypes of annoying kids. When Tom and Evelyn are driving all over the island in a Jeep, we're cheering for Tom to just plough through the kids who stand in his way. Go, Tom, go! Splat, kid, splat!
Maybe this is the point -- we, the spectators, are put in the position of rooting for children to be killed. But if Ibáñez Serrador's point is that we should recognize that it would be rational for children to want to kill adults, shouldn't our sympathies instead be with the homicidal kids? The children in the movie are nothing more than sadistic little demons. Wouldn't Ibáñez Serrador's point have been made more profoundly and more complexly if we had been brought to see the little demons as sympathic and justified, while the adults deserved their fate?
In the interview on the DVD, Ibáñez Serrador says he thinks the one mistake he made with the film was putting the opening sequence at the beginning rather than the end. Ending with those scenes of atrocity would have certainly been jarring, and might, indeed, have worked better: we would have been happily cheering on the killing of children, maybe a little uncomfortable at the thought, but nonetheless content that it was all "just a movie" and then we would have had proof that no, in fact, our willingness to kill children is not confined to killing the demonic ones in movies.
Or the effect might have been for us to be annoyed at the false analogy, and to see the film's manipulations as exploitative, sensationalistic, and ridiculous.
Whatever our conclusions about the film's theme, though, it's nice to see a horror film that's thought through the purpose of its violence, even if a bit more thought might have led to a more complex and rewarding experience overall.


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Newsroom :: News :: 2012 :: MFF RSC pushing forward - 'Resilience, Climate Change and the Private Sector in Sustainable Coastal Management'.
Top coastal experts from Asia and representatives of private sector organizations from Karachi met in the RSC learning event to discuss the ever-increasing roles and responsibilities of the private sector and businesses towards protecting coastal areas and maintaining their ecological integrity.
This half-day event offered businesses a chance to gain knowledge on key coastal issues, innovative and effective approaches to managing associated risks and building brand value through partnership opportunities that contribute to sustainable development in coastal areas. It was an opportunity to share the best practices, experiences and lessons learnt and to gain insights on practical solutions and strategic approaches to CSR. The aim was to help companies effectively deal with sustainability challenges in coastal areas, especially as risks are exacerbated by the impacts of climate change.
With reference to climate change induced economic impacts in Pakistan, Malik Amin Aslam, Regional Councilor, IUCN said, "The costs of dealing with climate triggered impacts is going up, and according to assessments, could be in the range of US$ 6 to 14 billion per year for Pakistan. Climate triggered natural disasters have cost Pakistan's economy 10 billion dollars in 2010 and 7 billion in 2011, pushing Pakistan into the list of countries severely impacted by climate change".
Javed Jabbar, former Vice President of IUCN commented, "The recent partnerships have demonstrated a growing business interest in biodiversity and have put forward an increasingly sophisticated business agenda on environmental sustainability and responsible resource use".
The private sector is a major stakeholder in terms of coastal resource extraction and use in the form of food, oil and gas reserves, naval trade, and carbon storage. It is now becoming increasingly evident that business and private sector commitment towards safeguarding the coasts is vital. This is critical in the wake of recent climatic catastrophes the world has witnessed, where the scale of devastation was so huge that governments alone have found it challenging to mitigate the impacts.
Mangroves can play an important role in protecting billions of people living in coastal areas from disasters if managed effectively.
Leena Wokeck, Director, CSR Asia stressed, "It is important to emphasize that CSR and strategic investment in coastal ecosystems and communities are not the same thing as philanthropy, corporate charity, or being a caring company that gives back to society. CSR is not about the nice projects companies undertake with parts of the profits they make - it's about how they make these profits in the first place. It's about how they manage the environmental, social and economic impacts of every aspect of their operations, value chains, products and services".
Gulzar Firoz, Chairman Standing Committee on Environment, The Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry speaking on the problem of waste disposal in coastal areas said, "The effluent that is being dumped on the coasts is ours, as is the responsibility to do all it takes to safe guard them. In Karachi, the public and private sector stepped up with help from the Dutch Government to set up an effluent treatment plant in 2007. This plant is treating affluent from 120 Tanneries in Korangi Industrial Industry, sector 7A. It is a rare example of a successful partnership. We are in dire need of more examples like this."
Today, MFF focuses on building resilient communities, which in turn translates to resilient coastal ecosystems. This involves protecting coastal zones from erosion and other threats associated with the impact of climate change. The strategic interest of business in MFF's goals is most closely aligned in the tourism and fisheries sectors, but also includes the Oil and Gas sector, extractive industries operating in coastal areas, ports and harbors, as well as operators and investors in other infrastructure in coastal areas.


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Round 6
Commandos - Apollyon
The commander grabs der Kaiser by the ankle, trying to pull him down the stairs.
But der Kaiser spins around and kicks his hand away.
The commander crit fails his attack roll, but is resilient enough to withstand der Kaiser's counter.
The riot trooper legs it.
The psionic trooper channels his abilities...
"Oh look, a pretty little bird."
The flamer lights up the bunched up Himmelsjäger. They don't die, but they're still on fire.
Brittanian League - Silverdream
The commando slings her rifle over her back and takes the automated laser emplacement and a katana.
The withering fire from the autolaser takes out a Himmelsjäger and forces the others to hide behind their shields.
Inquistadores - Zupponn
"Joder! Me cago en todo lo que se menea!"
Pissed off beyond all belief, Angelica crawls out from under the tank.
She attempts a feat and leaps...
A critical success means she's able to commandeer the Hyena!
"Vengeance WILL be mine!"
Operating the last working weapon on the Hyena, she blows off a militia's head with so much force it simply vaporizes.
The Jaguar can't move around anymore, but he reaches for more rubble...
and throws it...
The rubble hits the Schattenlaufer, but it merely glances off the armour.
Third Army - theblackdog
While he duels the commander, the Kaiser focuses the Farce on Manly Santa...
He falls down, losing an HP.
The Himmelsjäger attack an elf and the flamer. Both stand their ground.
The Schattenlaufer turns...
He jumps onto the walkway, machine guns rattling...
and puts an end to the Psi trooper and the Brittanian commando.
A Jaeger is resurrected.
The heavy continues his trek.
Space Pirates - piltogg
The space pirates keep firing on the Terrorkhan, killing none.
Valeera slays one and stabs a second with her armblade, which glances off the armour.
Immortals - heavyfishcannon
The Terrorkhan run into position despite the withering fire and gun down two militia.
The one faced with Valeera pulls his bayonet and engages her in melee, but Valeera deflects it with her armblade.
She then slashes her powerblade over his defenses, into his skull.
"You're the last remaining officer, then? Maybe you'll provide more of a challenge..."
Fort Garrison - Scratch
This assault trooper finds something interesting among the rubble.
To his shame, he sees the heavily damaged Hyena is already hijacked.
His companions then open fire on the thing.
Smoke and electric sparks sizzling out of the bullet holes, the Hyena collapses.
Angelica: "@&#§%!"
The assault trooper delights in the sound of bullets on metal as he fires the minigun at the Jackal, but that's all he gets from it.
Johnny Blitzkrieg addresses his final soldiers. "This is what I've been training you for men! Now that the moment is finally here, are you going to back down like a bunch of pansies?"
"Uhh, yes?"
"You haven't trained us..."
(Critical fail, soldiers lose their action)
Johnny, oblivious, attacks anyway.
Sadly for him Terrorkhan are tough bastards even when they get the 'Plasma Zerreiser to the face' treatment.
The medibot is more successful, raising a guy that was previously cut in half with a crit.
Manly Men - lawmaster
Manly Santa makes use of the opportunity to shoot der Kaiser, but his two 1's don't impress the ruler of Neo-Prussia.
The Elves are ineffective, but Psycho Dad shoots another Himmelsjäger.
Psycho Dad: 1/2 HP
Commando: 1/2 HP
Angelica: 2/3 HP
Manly Santa 2/3 HP
Crocodile 1: 1/2 HP
The Siege of Reichingrad (Round 6)
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You are faced with door what do you do
I use my flamethrower
wait what you can't do that
Sure I can see
*door catches fire*
I use my flamethrower
wait what you can't do that
Sure I can see
*door catches fire*
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Not this time, the (npc'd) was a leftover from the last round (I copy the codings from there because it's faster and because I'm senile and can't remember the colours). It's been taken care of.
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Man this is intense.
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Adopt a gluten-free Blogger: September 2010 Edition Sign-up
Welcome to the September edition of the Adopt a gluten-free Blogger Event! Last month Shirley of Gluten-free Easily hosted a record number of adoptions, to the order of TWENTY participants. The quality of photos, baking and food styling of adopting participants quite frankly blew me away and reminded me again of the amazing talent represented in the gluten-free blogging community. Gluten-free food is GORGEOUS, and I am so proud that this event has been such a success and continues to bring gluten-free bloggers together. Shirley has inspired me to jump back into hosting, and I hope to see all of you commenting and adopting your very own gluten-free bloggers. This is a great excuse to make those gluten-free recipes you've been eying- so don't hold back! Adopt!
Here's how you participate.
1) Pick a gluten-free blogger whose recipes you admire and adopt them by commenting on this post with your name, blog name and their name and blog name.
*Blogger's recipes must all be gluten-free or have a way to sort and read ONLY gluten-free recipes
*Please pick a different blogger every time you participate
*Please pick a blogger that has not been adopted yet this month!
2) Pick one (or two!) of your gluten-free blogger's recipes to try.
3) Make the recipe, photograph it and write a post in your blog introducing the blogger and their recipe.
*Follow the recipe as written, as closely as possible. And, please don't print their recipe on your post- just provide your reader a link to their original recipe.
*Provide a link to this event announcement page
4) Email me at adoptaglutenfreeblogger[at]gmail[dot]com with your photo of the recipe, the URL of your post, name of the recipe and the URL of the original blogger's recipe post.
*Note: This is a new email set up just for this event. Hopefully this will make it easier to keep track of entries. If you have general questions, please don't email me at this address but post them here so everyone can read the question (and answer). Companies are NOT welcome to email me at this address, unless a representative is planning to adopt a blogger and write about it. ;)
5) Post YOUR POST's URL in a comment to this post, and if possible please try to visit two other blogger's posts that are posted here (and comment!).
*The goal is to make this event more interactive and fun!
Sign up BEFORE September 28 (loose deadline; late sign-ups are ok)
Post your Review and Email me by October 5 (firm deadline, no foolin')
If you don't have a blog, you are still welcome to adopt a gluten-free blogger. Sign up to adopt a blogger, write a review of one of their recipes, including your name (or pen name), the recipe URL and recipe title. Then take a photo of the completed recipe (if you can) and EMAIL ME the review and photo. I will create a special page just for our non-blogging participants and post it for you.
I'll start the adoptions by adopting Thomas of the GFCF Experience. Sorry ladies! He's all mine this month!
Adoption Sign-Up Sheet:
1) Thomas of the GFCF Experience (adopted by Sea of the Book of Yum)
2) Sea of the Book of Yum *blush* (adopted by Valerie @ City|Life|Eats)
3) Ricki from Diet, Desserts and Dogs (Adopted by Maggie of She Let Them Eat Cake)
4) Jenny Manseau of Creatively Gluten Free (adopted by Shirley of Gluten-free Easily)
5) Heidi of Adventures of A Gluten Free Mom (adopted by Jenny of Creatively Gluten-free)
6) Allyson of Manifest Vegan (adopted by Deanna of the Mommy Bowl)
7) Shirley of GFE (adopted by Cheryl of GF Goodness)
8) Jeanne of four chickens (adopted by Kathleen of I Made Toast)
9) Amy of simply sugar and gluten free (adopted by Tia of Glugle Gluten Free)
10)Scrumptious at in my box (adopted by Wendy of Celiacs in the House)
11) Maggie from She Let Them Eat Cake (adopted by Amy of simply sugar and gluten free)
12) Ellen at I Am Gluten Free (adopted by Alta of Tasty Eats at Home)
13) Jenn, from Jenn Cuisine (adopted by Kim-Cook It Allergy Free)
14) Karina the gluten free goddess (adopted by selene @veganlicious)
15) Debbie at Gluten Free Adventures (adopted by Thomas of the GFCF Experience)
16) Kate of GF Gobsmacked (adopted by Michelle of Gluten-free Smiles)
17) Brian at fire and salt (adopted by Sheila from my natural gluten-free)
18) wendy from celiacs in the house (adopted by Jamie of cranky little redhead)
19) Jenn of Cinnamon Quill (adopted by Zoe of Z's Cup of Tea)
20) Nancy of The Sensitive Pantry (adopted by Lisa)
21) Theresa of Gluten-Free Comfort Food (adopted by Debi of HuntersLyonesse)
22) You pick!
If you sign up and cannot complete this event by October 5th for any reason, please email me immediately at adoptaglutenfreeblogger[at]gmail[dot]com and let me know. Please ONLY use this email account for Adopt a Gluten-Free Blogger relevant emails.
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SPIRES' Guide to the Review Literature in HEP
We are often asked, how do I find a review of a certain topic in high-energy physics? In this guide, we index by topic the review papers that have a significant number of citations in the SPIRES-HEP database. These papers include all of those with at least 100 citations by June 2004, but other papers are added as well. We update this listing annually.
Each paper appears in the one subject category that we find most appropriate. A general review of supersymmetry in particle physics might appear either in category Ie1 or IIIc1, depending on its orientation.
It is possible to search more generally for review papers in SPIRES-HEP by using the search term `scl r'. For example, find a wilczek and scl r finds all review papers written by Frank Wilczek.
Please note that the selection of papers by citation count brings in many older references, some of which are classics but others of which may be out of date. We do not necessarily recommend the papers found with this tool, but we feel it is useful to bring them to your attention.
On the other hand, if there is an exceptionally useful review paper that is not included in this listing, please let us know. For example, many sets of summer school lecture notes are indispensible to students but are not often cited. (Also, before the creation of the eprint archive, SPIRES did not track the citations of lecture notes.) Please write to us at email@example.com to nominate papers that should appear in this listing. No self-nominations, please.
This list is compiled and classified by Michael Peskin and Travis Brooks, SLAC.
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T. I. list members and blog readers have shared so much fabulous information I never knew about the U.S. Air Force art program. Earlier this week my friend Ken Steacy sent an email on the subject. As we look at many more examples from the May 1960 issue of National Geographic, here's Ken's take on the topic...
"I'm really enjoying these posts," writes Ken, "I actually have the original NatGeo article, which I had bound along with numerous others on the subject of aviation. The USAF art program is indeed vast, and examples are scattered throughout bases and museums across the country, notably at the USAF museum in Dayton, Ohio and the Air & Space Museum in Washington."
"About twenty years ago, the Smithsonian released a series of laserdisks with their aviation photo archives, including shots of everything in the USAF art collection to date. Each disk had 60-100 thousand images at low to medium resolution, which I laboriously transferred to DVDs during my most recent downsizing effort!"
"NASA also has an art program (of which I was a part, tho I never got an assignment) but they suspended operations for a few years after the Challenger disaster."
"Much of their collection is on display at the visitor's centre in Cape Canaveral, which I got to see after the Star Wars convention this past summer."
"It's a must-do-before-you-die for anyone interested in the space program - just standing under the business end of a Saturn V is worth the price of admission!"
And for those who didn't read the comments on the last post, Chuck Pyle shared some additional info regarding the program. Chuck wrote, "Leif, each chapter or subset of the Society has its regional Air Force Artists Program. Google it as the Air Force has a decent online record of the collection."
"I have had the great pleasure of being on a few of these trips, including being on the flight line as the first Space Shuttle landed. Wow!"
"Other programs include the US Forest Service, and the other service arms of the military."
"One of the great things about the AF Program is that there is NO pressure put on the artists on the events that they cover."
Many thanks to Ken and Chuck for sharing their personal anecdotes about this fabulous program. I'm so impressed that it's been going on for more than half a century!
* Once again, here's a link to the Air Force Art Program's Collection
Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Friday, November 12, 2010
More from the Air Force Art Program
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Good assortment of illustrations this week!I especially like the jungle rescue painting,and the Alex Ross one.I remember them from the Illustrators In America book.It's a treat to finally see them in color.ReplyDelete
Thanks Steve; I'm glad I was able to share this stuff because I agree - it is great to see the variety of work by so many well known illustrators ( and some less well known but still terrific). As mentioned at the beginning of the week, its all thanks to my 11-year-old nephew, Will, who rescued the magazine from being used as cut-and-paste material - *whew* - many thanks, Will! :^)ReplyDelete
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Saturday morning, June 21, the Sioux Falls police and fire departments responded to a water rescue call at Falls Park.
According to reports a caller said that a man had jumped off a railroad bridge into the Big Sioux River. Emergency personal checked all the bridges in the area and both sides of the river but did not find the caller or any sign of someone in the river.
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Teva Mountain Games start with a splash
RED CLIFF-On Thursday, 46 kayakers from around the world raced, crashed, and rolled down Homestake Creek for $7,000 in prize money to start the Teva Mountian Games. –
This event, the Bud Light Lime Steep Creek Championships, attracted a continuous line of spectators along the shore of the quarter-mile course outside of Red Cliff riddled with Class V rapids. The women's race only featured nine competitors and Martina Wegman, from the Netherlands, gained a solid victory over the field in the women's competition. The men's competition concluded a tight race between Mike Dawson, from New Zealand; Dane Jackson, from Tennessee; and Sam Sutton, from New Zealand. Dawson, a New Zealand 2012 Olympic team member, took first place by 2 seconds.
"It's a really fun course, but it was hard to piece all the lines together," said Natalie Anderson, eighth place finisher and the only Coloradan in the women's field.
Dawson from Tauranga, New Zealand, won the men's competition with a combined time of 3 minutes, 58.06 seconds. This counts as Dawson's third – or second-and-a-half win, if one is very technical – win at the Homestake. His first win came in 2009. Last year, he tied for first with Honza Lasko in 3:34.62, exactly.
Dane Jackson, the elder son of Jackson Kayak's Eric Jackson, finished second. His podium finish Thursday marks an event that was a long time coming. He has competed in this event for eight years in a row and broke into the top 10 when he claimed 10th-place last year. Also in the race was his father, better known as E.J., who placed fifth.
The top prizes were swept by international paddlers but the field included of local and national paddlers, also.
From Minturn, Jace Crane has been competing in this event for the past four years and practicing down the creek once a week leading up to the competition. Nate Krehbiel, from Avon, got caught on the rock right about a waterfall called "Sunshine." Getting unstuck cost him his paddle, splitting a hole through the fiberglass to the wood core. He will have an opportunity to redeem himself when he competes in the Bud Light Lime Down River Sprint at Gore Creek on Saturday-the first event in the GNC Ultimate Mountain Challenge. –
"I was having a great line until then," he said.
Stateside, paddlers as far as the East Coast came to compete. Dave Fuseli from Strattawurke, Penn., comes from the old river worn smooth from more years than the Rocky Mountain rivers. He had a split time of 2:11.61 run followed by a 2:06.32 run for 12th place overall.
"That was as good as I could have done," he said.
Louise Jull, who won second place in the women's competition, hails from New Zealand. She believed the bottom section of the course was the more difficult.
"If you mess up the bottom, you could really mess up the race … I messed up the bottom," she said.
Low-water levels this year revealed extra boulders and points of rocks lurking beneath the surface of the water that made the course especially technical to navigate. Lower water meant slower times, too.
"Lower is just scarier," said JP Griffiths of Denver who placed 21th overall.
The next kayak competition will be the Bud Light Lime Kayak Freestyle, which is a judged competition where kayakers have 1 minute to impress both judges and spectators, at International Bridge/Vail Whitewater Park today and Saturday.
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Ole Miss head coach Andy Kennedy talks about the addition of assistant coach Tony Madlock and the new-look roster for the upcoming season, among other topics, on the SEC Summer Men's Basketball Coaches Media Teleconference Monday. Here are the highlights:
Ole Miss head coach Andy Kennedy (starts at 1:24:00 mark)
Opening statement:
It's been a productive summer so far. We have had all our guys on campus, which has allowed us to get to know them a little bit better, especially the five incoming guys, and I have been excited about what I have seen so far.
On filling out his coaching staff:
I still have a spot open. I'm really in no rush to fill that in as it is. My focus has been on this group. Now that the NCAA has allowed us to have our hands on the guys during the summer, it's been great for me to get to know these new guys and see our returners continue to mature and grow as they get more experience in the program.
Tony (Madlock) has been a tremendous addition. He's a Memphian. He played at Memphis, grew up in the area, and he is certainly very, very familiar with the SEC, having been with Tony (Barbee) the last four years at Auburn. He's been great. He's brought a new focus and a new energy, and I'm really pleased to have him as part of our staff.
On the 13-player scholarship limit:
We're going to be there in August. Derrick Millinghaus has transferred to Southeastern Louisiana. Demarco Cox is trying to finish up his degree this summer, so that he can enroll at Georgia Tech in the fall. Janari Joesaar has left and he has signed with Texas-Pan American. Jerron Martin has left, and my belief is that he has intended to go to a junior college as opposed to sitting out. As all those numbers line up, we'll be at our 13 when we need to be in the fall.
On the newcomers, including two post-graduate transfers and two junior college transfers:
It's really a different dynamic. I have never done this before. We brought in two fifth-year guys in Terence Smith from UT-Martin and M.J. Rhett from Tennessee State. That, coupled with the three returning seniors who have matriculated through our system in Jarvis, Snoop and AJ, gives us five seniors.
And when you talk about Anthony Perez and Martavious Newby, who are going to be juniors this year, along with Terry Brutus, who is in his third year, even though he will be a redshirt sophomore because he's coming off an ACL injury last year, and you couple that with Stefan Moody from Kilgore and Rod Lawrence from South Plains, 10 of our 13 guys will be juniors or seniors in the program. From an experience standpoint, we have never been as experienced. With that, we hope comes a real focus and sense of urgency that you like to see out of upperclassmen.
On the trip to the Bahamas and how it might impact things next season:
First and foremost, I'm looking want to work on my tan... I'm hoping to look a little healthier. Now that we can practice guys in the summer, a lot of the allure of having a foreign trip and having the 10 days to practice isn't quite as important as it once was but I am looking forward a chance to put together a semblance of a team so that we can go over and play some outside competition with the new guys that I'm anticipating making a huge impact on our program. It will give get a chance to see what they're able to do and start formulating an identity as it relates to how we want to play.
I don't know if (the quality of competition) is that important for us. More than anything, it's integrating the new guys and making sure older guys understand their roles. It's a matter of putting a team together and seeing how we can formulate our identity.


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Gland, Switzerland, 4 July 2004 (IUCN)-The World Conservation Union. The Red Data Book of the Mammals of South Africa: A Conservation Assessment is the first ever conservation assessment of every terrestrial and marine mammal in South Africa, using the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species criteria at regional level. A previous assessment published in 1986 covered only a subset of species.
This new book is a major achievement, updating current scientific knowledge on the status and threats facing the country's mammals, whilst highlighting the species in greatest danger of becoming extinct. It also makes recommendations for the strategic conservation and management of threatened mammals and their habitats. Undoubtedly a major milestone in South African mammal conservation, it has been possible thanks to the hard work of nearly 90 of the country's mammal specialists over the past two years.
Of the 295 mammal species and sub-species evaluated, 57 (19 %) are considered to be threatened in South Africa, because they were assigned to one of the three "at risk of extinction" categories.
* 10 species, including seven endemic species, have been classified as Critically Endangered (considered to face an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild):
Black rhinoceros - arid ecotype Diceros bicornis bicornis
De Winton's golden mole Cryptochloris wintoni
Juliana's golden mole Neamblysomus julianae (Pretoria subpopn.)
Ongoye red squirrel Paraxerus palliatus ornatus
Rendall's serotine bat Neoromicia rendalli
Riverine rabbit Bunolagus monticularis
Rough-haired golden mole Chrysospalax villosus
Short-eared trident bat Cloeotis percivali
Van Zyl's golden mole Cryptochloris zyli
Visagie's golden mole Chrysochloris visagiei
* A further 18 mammals, including six endemic species, are classified as Endangered (considered to face a very high risk of extinction in the wild):
African wild dog Lycaon pictus
Antarctic "true" blue whale Balaenoptera musculus intermedia
Cape mole-rat Georychus capensis (KZN subpopn.)
Damara woolly bat Kerivoula argentata
Four-toed elephant-shrew Petrodromus tetradactylus
Gunning's golden mole Neamblysomus gunningi
Hartmann's mountain zebra Equus zebra hartmannae
Indian ocean bottlenose dolphin Tursiops aduncus (migratory subpopn.)
Marley's golden mole Amblysomus marleyi
Oribi Ourebia ourebi
Robust golden mole Amblysomus robustus
Samango monkey ssp. Labiatus Cercopithecus mitis labiatus
Sclater's forest shrew Myosorex sclateri
Southern elephant seal Mirounga leonina
Swinny's horseshoe bat Rhinolophus swinnyi
Tonga red bush squirrel ssp. Paraxerus palliatus tongensis
Tsessebe Damaliscus lunatus lunatus
White-tailed rat Mystromys albicaudatus
* The remaining 29 threatened species are classified as Vulnerable (considered to face a high risk of extinction in the wild).
The main threats to many mammals are habitat loss and land use changes, as well as hunting and pollution. Habitats under greatest threat which support the highest number of threatened mammals are savannah, grasslands and forests.
This publication will without doubt be a vital tool for setting conservation and management priorities in South Africa, by directing conservation action towards species in greatest danger. The baseline data on all mammals will also allow population trends in both common and threatened species to be monitored over time, with the potential to measure the success or failure of conservation programmes.
A copy of the book, which is over 700 pages, can be obtained as a paper copy or on CD-ROM from Ms Yolan Friedmann, Conservation Manager, Endangered Wildlife Trust. Email: [email protected]; Tel. + 27 (0)11 486 1102 / (0)82 990 3534.
This project would not have been possible without the dedication, time, effort and enthusiastic participation of all the scientific contributors, their organizations, the Endangered Wildlife Trust, the Conservation Breeding Specialist Group of the IUCN's Species Survival Commission and the SSC Red List Programme. Invaluable was the support of Vodacom, the Lomas Wildlife Trust and the National Research Foundation.
Further information
Anna Knee or Andrew McMullin, IUCN/SSC Communications Officers, [email protected] or [email protected]; Tel +41 (0)22 999 0153


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I love a good Saturday, don't you?
We picked our first tomato from the garden this week. It's not really related to Saturdays, other than I can see it on my counter on this Saturday afternoon.
I also prepped and froze some mushrooms last week. Again, not related to Saturday, but I felt like sharing. I've never done that before but when I found them at 8 oz. for $1, I stocked up. Yes, you can stockpile fresh & healthy foods. That's part of the way that we eat healthy while maintaining our budget.
If you're still in need of zucchini recipes, I've highlighted a bunch of them on my Facebook page this week. Tomorrow, bring your zucchini recipes there for a link-up! And, if you absolutely can't wait until tomorrow, check out these zucchini link parties:
- Zucchini Recipe Roundup at Amy's Finer Things
- Zucchini Ultimate Recipe Swap at Life as a Mom
Finally, the Fairy Hobmother from Appliances Online stopped by my friend Katie from This Chick Cooks. {As an aside, you MUST check out Katie's blog… she's a great cook and she has a fun weekly Wednesday link party too!} Anyway, the Fairy Hobmother goes around and blesses bloggers with gifts, like a $30 Amazon gift card. Want your chance to have the Fairy Hobmother visit you? Just leave a comment on this post for your chance to win a visit.
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The Patriots have ruled cornerback Alfonzo Dennard (knee) out of Sunday's game at Houston, the club announced Saturday night.
Dennard played 21 snaps in the Patriots' comeback win vs. the Broncos on Sunday, recording one tackle. He has notched 35 tackles, defended seven passes and picked off one pass in 10 games (eight starts) for New England in 2013. He missed the Patriots' Week 11 loss at Carolina with a knee ailment before returning six days later against Denver.
With Dennard out, Kyle Arrington could get the call at right cornerback on Sunday at Houston. Arrington, who's questionable with a groin injury, has started the last two games on the right side for 8-3 New England, which has a three-game lead in the AFC East.


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Museum staff Bailey, Niedrach, and Landberg took several field
trips to nearby cliffs in Douglas and Weld County to study the
golden eagle circa 1935. They suspended bird blinds to photograph
the nest with young chicks. Imagine using the bumber of this
1938 Chevy Suburban for an anchor. With great difficulty one
can see "Denver Museum of Natural History" hand-lettered on the
door of the car -- which would be worth being in a museum itself
were it still around.
Check back in a week to see what we find next!
Catalog # IV.0090-1557 Hoisting the photographer's blind
into place. Photo by F.G. Brandenburg
Catalog # IV.0090-1581 Fieldworkers at Golden eagle
nesting site, OK Ranch, May 5, 1938. Photo by F.G.
Catalog # IV.0090-1641 Robert Niedrach and young golden
eagle, 7/17/1937.
Catalog #Golden Eagle Erecting eagle blind, Douglas Co.,
Colorado, April 1937. Photo by F.G. Brandenberg
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Voter fraud complaint filed against Fla. Democrats
State law enforcement officials are reviewing allegations of voter registration fraud against the Florida Democratic Party.
The Florida Department of State on Friday confirmed that it has forwarded complaints about voter registration fraud that have been filed against the Democrats, as well as two other groups – the Florida New Majority Education Fund and La Raza/Democracia USA.
Neither agency would comment on the extent of the allegations or how many voter registration forms it involves.
A party spokeswoman said that the Democrats were unaware of any complaints that they had registered someone who was ineligible. But Brannon Jordan said that party volunteers go through extensive training.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement earlier this week launched an investigation into alleged fraud involving a company hired by the state's Republican Party.


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Budget Battles
Medicare for All Isn't a Top Priority for Most Americans. Here's What Is.
Chart of the Day: 2019's Lobbying Leaders
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Some economists see America's large and growing budget deficits as a problem requiring urgent attention, but Bloomberg's Katia Dmitrieva and Liz McCormick say that to many investors, the fiscal gap...
Dem Economists Push Back Against Debt WorriesBy Michael Rainey
Just how worried should we be about the rapidly rising national debt? Last week we told you about a budget watchdog group's effort to raise the alarm over "debt denialism" that has taken hold in some...
Watchdog Group Warns of Dangers of 'Debt Denialism'
The Treasury Department forecasts that the federal budget deficit will surpass $1 trillion this year, adding to a $22 trillion national debt. Policymakers have been relatively unperturbed by the debt...
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The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center held a symposium Wednesday to discuss the new book titled "Fiscal Therapy: Curing America's Debt Addiction and Investing in the Future" by the Tax Policy Center'...
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The Government Accountability Office on Wednesday issued its third annual report to Congress on the nation's fiscal health, again warning that the federal government's current path is unsustainable...
Month After Month, Our Politicians' Poor Financial Decision-Making ContinuesBy Sheila Weinberg, The Fiscal Times
With the first quarter of the year now behind us, let's take a moment to remember just how rocky a start it was. The federal government entered the year with a whimper, as a shutdown paralyzed...
Chart of the Day: The Mountain of US DebtBy The Fiscal Times Staff
Global debt grew by "only" $3.3 trillion last year, raising the total to more than $243 trillion, according to a report released this week by the Institute of International Finance. Total U.S. debt,...
Cracking Down on Tax Cheats: An Easy Fiscal Fix?By Michael Rainey
With the federal budget deficit expected to rise to nearly $900 billion this year before crossing the $1 trillion mark in 2022, lawmakers and policy wonks have been looking for ways to generate more...
Sen. Mike Enzi: Senate Budget Is a First Step to Strengthen America's FutureBy Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY)
This week the Senate Budget Committee will consider a budget plan that will reduce deficits by half a trillion dollars over the next five years. The budget does not presume to solve all of our fiscal...
The US in Decline: What Americans Fear for the Future
A Pew Research Center report published Thursday shows how staggeringly pessimistic Americans are about where the country is heading. "When Americans peer 30 years into the future, they see a country...
60% of This Year's Deficit Is the Result of Tax Cuts and Other Recent Legislation: CRFB
The federal deficit for fiscal 2019 is projected to climb to around $900 billion, or $118 billion more than last year, according to estimates from the Congressional Budget Office . Most of that total...
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Time after time in recent years, Republican budget writers have tried harder than Olympic gymnasts to achieve balance. In a sometimes quixotic-seeming quest to wipe out the federal deficit within 10...
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President Trump unveiled his 2020 budget blueprint on Monday, proposing to spend a record $4.75 trillion next year while also cutting $2.7 trillion is spending over 10 years. Here's the big picture...
Unchecked Federal Spending Is Leading Us to Fiscal CalamityBy Alison Acosta Winters
President Trump cheered the strong economy in his State of the Union address and proposed big ideas from border security to curing cancer. What he did not mention was the deteriorating fiscal health...
Why Trump, the 'King of Debt,' Is Set to Change His Tune on the Deficit
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NEWTOWN, Conn. -- A Danbury woman driving with a 4-year-old child in her car led police on a chase through Southbury Thursday night that ended when she crashed into a police cruiser and a tractor trailer in Newtown, according to state police.
The woman and the child passenger were taken to Danbury Hospital and charges are pending, state police said.
At around 9:10 p.m. police in Southbury were dispatched to a possible vehicle in a snowbank on Southford Road. When Southbury officers arrived and freed the car from the snow, the driver, later identified as 34-year-old Yavonda Bradley of Danbury, drove away at a high rate of speed, according to state police.
Bradley engaged Southbury officers in a pursuit on Route 67 in Southbury, but the pursuit was broken off when police realized there was a child in the vehicle, and the driver had been identified, police said.
About five minutes later, her car was spotted driving north on Route 67 and started to merge onto I-84 east at exit 15, entering the highway in the wrong direction, police said. Bradley then corrected herself, came down the ramp and entered I-84 westbound at exit 15 the right way, according to police.
Three Southbury officers followed Bradley onto I-84, and were joined by a Connecticut State Police cruiser, but were not pursuing the vehicle, police said.
Bradley then sped up and struck a Southbury Officer John Jaskolka's cruiser on the passenger side, police said. She then lost control of her car and struck the rear of a tractor trailer. The accident occurred on I-84 near exit 11. Bradley and the child were taken to the hospital, and the incident is under investigation.
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Craig Silverman's devotion to the correction as a literary form dates to 2004, when the Montreal-based writer launched his Web site Regret the Error, which traps and displays journalism's best (and funniest) corrections, retractions, apologies, and clarifications.
Silverman's essential site spawned an equally essential book last fall titled Regret the Error: How Media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil Free Speech, which tells you everything you need to know about the history of journalistic fallibility and the culture of corrections. Proving that he can take a correction as well as the next guy, Silverman includes in Regret the Error an "Error Report Form," inviting readers to submit goofs in his book for posting on Regret the Error. (Disclosure: I'm a Silverman fan and am treated extraordinarily well in the book's pages.) I dove into my copy of the book the day it arrived in the mail, spotted two trivial errors in a single sentence, and scored the first published correction on Silverman's site, beating Reuters' Robert Basler by a day.
Silverman isn't the first book author to showcase his errors on the Web. He credits journalist Seth Mnookin as a pioneer for publishing on the Web the corrections to the hardcover edition of Hard News that appeared in the 2005 paperback. But Silverman, who calls corrections "constructive criticism," seems to be the most aggressive solicitor of his own blunders in journalism. In the book's "Statement of Accuracy," he not only offers to publish to the Web all the errors uncovered but to make them available via an RSS feed or through a free e-mail subscription.
"Corrections work when people know about them, can easily find them, and can choose to receive them in a convenient manner," Silverman writes in an e-mail interview.
At present, Silverman has filed 10 corrections for Regret the Error on his Web site. He has rejected only one request for correction, made by a reader who quarrels with a word choice that he still stands by. Silverman offers to appoint me third-party adjudicator of this particular dispute—that's the sort of fair-minded guy he is—but I must decline.
Asked if there was any pattern to his errors—were all the faulty passages written late at night or composed in the days before the deadline approached?—Silverman explains that all were "entirely preventable."
"None of them were the result of a source being incorrect or other circumstances. They're 100 percent my fault," he writes. He had access to the correction information or—worse yet—knew it.
One of the inherent flaws in the existing correction architecture, Silverman notes, is that readers don't learn of corrections made to articles they've read unless they monitor the publication's correction box every day or happen to stumble upon the correction-appended copy later. He wishes Web publications took better advantage of technology to notify readers of errors in the articles they consume, suggesting error-notification schemes for individual articles. That sounds like a lot of bother. Some publications, such as Slate, provide an RSS feed for its correction column. Isn't that enough?
On the long shot that the Kanadian King of Korrections is onto something, allow me to accommodate his wish, at least temporarily. Here's a hand-built RSS feed that will ring every time Slate runs a "Press Box" correction. If you're so obsessive that you require immediate e-mail error notification of errors in this specific column, type the word Silverman in the subject head of an e-mail message and send it to email@example.com. If I err and own up to it, I'll send you a Web link to the correction.
I'll continue making these micro-notifications until whim, boredom, or too many confessions of correction force me to cancel them.
Whenever I write on this topic, the correction jinx lands on my ass and causes me to commit an error. (See the "Related in Slate"box below.) Send consolations to email@example.com. (E-mail may be quoted by name in "The Fray," Slate's readers' forum, in a future article, or elsewhere unless the writer stipulates otherwise. Permanent disclosure: Slate is owned by the Washington Post Co.)


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joint(joynt), [TA]
joint(joint) the site of junction or union between bones, especially one that allows motion of the bones.
jointSubstance abuse A popular term for a cigarette made from dried marijuana, Cannibas sativa leaves, which is 'toked' to produce a 'high' and, if smoked in excess, 'get stoned'. See Hallucinogen, Marijuana, Substance abuse, THC receptor.
Synonym(s): arthrosis (1) , articulation (1) , junctura (1) .
joint(joynt) [Fr. jointe, fr L. junctio, a joining]
Joints are also grouped according to their motion: ball and socket (enarthrodial); hinge (ginglymoid); condyloid; pivot (trochoid); gliding (arthrodial); and saddle joint.
Joints can move in four ways: gliding, in which one bony surface glides on another without angular or rotatory movement; angulation, occurring only between long bones, increasing or decreasing the angle between the bones; circumduction, occurring in joints composed of the head of a bone and an articular cavity, the long bone describing a series of circles, the whole forming a cone; and rotation, in which a bone moves about a central axis without moving from this axis. Angular movement, if it occurs forward or backward, is called flexion or extension, respectively; away from the body, abduction; and toward the median plane of the body, adduction.
Because of their location and constant use, joints are prone to stress, injury, and inflammation. The main diseases affecting the joints are rheumatic fever, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, and gout. Injuries comprise contusions, sprains, dislocations, and penetrating wounds.
acromioclavicular jointAbbreviation: AC joint
amphidiarthrodial joint
ankle jointAnkle.
arthrodial joint
ball-and-socket joint
biaxial joint
bilocular joint
bleeders' joint
Budin jointSee: Budin joint
cartilaginous joint
Charcot jointSee: Charcot, Jean M.
Chopart jointSee: Chopart, François
Clutton jointSee: Clutton joint
cochlear joint
compound joint
condylar jointEllipsoid joint.
condyloid joint
cracking joint
craniomandibular joint
diarthrodial joint
dry joint
elbow joint
ellipsoid joint
enarthrodial jointBall-and-socket joint.
facet joint
false joint
fibrous joint
flail joint
ginglymoid joint
gliding jointArthrodial joint.
hemophilic jointBleeders' joint.
hinge joint
hip joint
immovable jointSynarthrosis.
intercarpal joint
irritable joint
knee joint
midcarpal joint
movable joint
multiaxial jointBall-and-socket joint.
pivot joint
plane joint
polyaxial jointBall-and-socket joint.
joint protection
receptive jointSaddle joint.
rotary jointPivot joint.
sacroiliac joint
saddle joint
shoulder joint
simple joint
spheroid joint
spiral jointCochlear joint.
sternoclavicular joint
stiff joint
subtalar joint
sutural joint
synarthrodial jointSynarthrosis.
synovial joint
talocrural jointAnkle.
tarsometatarsal joint
temporomandibular jointCraniomandibular joint.
trochoid jointPivot joint.
ulnomeniscal-triquetral joint
uniaxial joint
unilocular joint
articulationa contact between two separate bones. There are various types in humans: hinge, e.g. knee, elbow, fingers; ball and socket, e.g. hip; universal, e.g. atlas vertebra; sliding/gliding, e.g. wrist; fixed, e.g. skull sutures; slightly movable: vertebrae.
jointskeletal articulation
abnormal joint motion increased or decreased range of joint motion (e.g. due to disease, local trauma, pain) leading to abnormal orientation and function of it and adjacent joints
joint assessment part of overall musculoskeletal system assessment; joints are assessed for ease, range and quality of motion, signs of local inflammation, presence of crepitus with movement, deformity or malalignment
ball-and-socket joint e.g. hip joint, talonavicular joint
biaxial joint joint with two axes of motion, e.g. midtarsal joint
fibrous joint bones united by fibrous tissue, e.g. inferior tibia and fibula
hinge joint ginglymus, e.g. lesser metatarsophalangeal joints
joint mice intra-articular loose bodies
joint misalignment increasing malalignment of adjacent bones (see Table 1)
joint space narrowing loss of normal joint space (e.g. in late-stage arthritis)
joint stiffness characteristic feature of joint dysfunction, e.g. intra-articular or local soft-tissue pathology
synovial joint joint capsule is lined with synovial membrane and lubricated by synovial fluid
|Type of modelling
|Chondral modelling during bone growth
|Rate of ossification of cartilaginous precursor of bone/articular cartilage/epiphyseal plates depends on imposed load during development
Joint incongruence within normal range: load inequality across articular cartilage causes remodelling and restoration of maximal congruence, via negative-feedback loop
Joint incongruence beyond normal range: load inequality across articular cartilage causes remodelling adapting to abnormal load, and loss of maximal congruence, via positive-feedback loop
|Metaphyses and epiphyses
|Where abduction and adduction forces about a joint (e.g. knee) are equal, resultant transverse force across the joint is of zero magnitude
Where adductor force > abductor force:
• Soft-tissue anomaly causes soft-tissue positional genu valgum and increases force on lateral articular surface/epiphyseal areas
• Rate of bone growth at lateral areas increases; that of medial areas remains normal
• Joint congruence is restored, and the horizontal force is restored to zero magnitude, but soft-tissue genu valgum deformity persists as bone deformity
|Articular surfaces
|Minor incongruence between articular surfaces within a synovial joint causes large changes in forces acting at different parts of articular surface, e.g.
• Absent subtalar joint inversion/eversion causes trochlear talus to undergo reactive twist within ankle mortise, and compression at articular areas remaining in contact
• Excess loading at these sites reduces local bone growth; unloaded areas continue to grow at normal rate
• Shape of articular surface gradually changes, adapting to abnormal loading pattern, and maximum congruence is achieved, but trochlea becomes rounded (rather than pulley-shaped) and ankle joint forms ball-and-socket, rather than hinge, joint
triaxial joint.
biaxial or
condyloid joints.
biaxial joints.
joint(joynt) [TA]
Synonym(s): articulation (2) .
Patient discussion about joint
Q. I've been having joint pain for the last two months or so, do I have arthritis? I'm a 32 year old dancer, and those pain affects my work and my life.. What can it be and what can I do with it? Is there a way to ease the pain?
I have a pain combination that includes an anti dpressant(light)Opana,and a parkinsons med as well as a breakthrough pain med.... works and so can I,limited but almost pain free.
Q. What is the treatment for "hip joint mice"? Thanks!
Q. Past few months from now my mom is facing a severe pain in the joints of her ankle.not even able to walk now Hi All, Something happened like this my mom was attacked by sever cough and an x-ray was taken and Doctors confirmed that there was some infection in lugs and it got cured.Later she got fever and after few days wen fever went off she found it difficult to move bcz of swelling in her ankle and tightened joints,large pain when tried to walk and a bit of swellin in figures too.Am very much confused abt wat this disease is and y is this happened suddenly. Is der any disease vch can bring down the mobility in one week. Doctors at my place are completely ignorant abt such situation and are claiming this can not be cured and should be faced through out the life. I took my mom to a good city hospital and Doctors here have categorized it as Rheumatoid arithritis. Am really worried and completely ignorant abt this Kindly help me.
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Iceland's Volcano and Climate Science: Will there be a Silver Lining to the Ash Cloud?
The eruption of Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland could mean some good news for those of us concerned with understanding the science of climate change.
As volcanoes go, this is small stuff. The last volcano to have a substantial effect on global climate was Mount Pinatubo which erupted in the Philippines in 1991. Volcanoes affect global climate largely because the sulfur gases that they emit oxidize in the atmosphere to form sulfate aerosols (fine particulate matter), which stay around in the stratosphere for at least 12 months, and act as a strong cooling agent. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Mt. Pinatubo caused global temperatures to dip by about 0.5 degrees Centigrade for a year. The ash, which has been of concern to airline passengers in Europe and many others across the globe recently, generally has only a small and local effect on climate –it tends to fall to earth in a matter of weeks.


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In Minneapolis, taxi service companies, vehicles, and drivers are licensed by the city. The Licenses and Consumer Services Division works with taxicab service companies to provide a fleet of safe taxis, trained drivers, and competitive fares. Vehicles are inspected each year before a license is issued. Additionally, drivers must provide a criminal background report and earn a Taxi Driver Training Certificate.
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Has Africa outgrown Aid?
Africa's emergence is the new consensus. For the second time in a just few months, a major international journal has run a cover illustrating newfound optimism about the continent. After The Economist's mea culpa (correcting its previous assessment of a "hopeless continent"), TIME magazine just re-ran an earlier title: "Africa rising".
This is no fluke: Africa's economies are growing and the continent is much wealthier today than it ever was – even though, collectively, it remains the poorest on the planet. Many African nations (22 to be precise) have already reached Middle Income Country (so called "MIC") status and more will do so by 2025. Today, Africa includes a diverse "mix" of countries, ranging from the poorest in the world to the fastest growing; from war-torn countries to vibrant democracies; from oil-rich economies to ICT champions, and the list goes on.


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If anyone attempted to log on to InformationWarriors on Sunday (3/31/13) and encountered some problems, or was notified that the board was down, that was me tinkering behind the scenes.
We are currently preparing to transition from vBulletin to phpBB. While vBulletin is a staple in the forum world, once they rolled out vBulletin 4.0 (which in our opinion is not as reliable and stable as vBulletin 3.8.5 which we are currently running) they slowly started cutting off support. We've looked at other options, and because I'm a huge proponent of the GPL and Open Source software, we've likely selected phpBB as our new software to use.
There might be some growing pains, and I'm trying to make it as seamless a transition as possible to our users... I already have it installed on the same domain for testing (on my end) as well as I'm working on setting it up on my desktop at home to convert the vBulletin database (and continue to test).
So, in advance - thank you for your patience, and expect that sometime in the next couple of weeks you'll log in and the software will have a slightly different look... However, most of the features will remain the same - and we'll be installing Tapatalk, flashchat, and paypal donation features as soon as we get the base board up and running.


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Mention gambling and glitzy images of Las Vegas come to mind. But you'll be surprised to know Americans are not the world's biggest gamblers. In fact, the world's biggest gambling nations include plenty of unlikely candidates.
The rankings are based on data from H2 Gambling Capital, a consultancy based in London. They take into account average gaming losses (the amount bet and never recovered) in a year divided by the adult population in over 200 countries. The numbers include money lost on all types of betting including horse racing, poker machines, lotteries and casinos during 2010.
Read on to find out the countries with the biggest losers and the boldest gamblers.
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