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By Quentin Fottrell
Status updates are the new public-service announcements.
Facebook this week encouraged its 850 million users to declare themselves organ donors, a move experts say could prompt social-media companies to take on roles once reserved for government agencies.
The site rolled out a new feature Tuesday allowing members to publicly share their "organ donor status." By the end of the day, Facebook says 100,000 people added "organ donor" to their timelines and, of those, 10,000 clicked through a link to sign up with state donor registries. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he included the feature on the site because 114,000 people in the U.S. alone are waiting for heart, kidney or liver transplants. Facebook may prove more effective than the government in getting people to become organ donors, experts say.
"I love this initiative," says Richard H. Thaler, professor of economics and behavioral science in the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. The social network is creating a "prompted choice," he says, creating an environment in this case where donation is the norm — or de facto choice — rather than a difficult option.
This use of social media gets people more actively engaged than traditional advertising, experts say. "I wouldn't be surprised if government-sponsored public service announcements started appearing on social networking sites like Facebook," says Daniel Post-Senning, great-great grandson of the grand dame of etiquette Emily Post. This isn't the first time Facebook has taken the lead in encouraging social change. In 2010, Zuckerberg added "in civil union" and "in a domestic partnership" to options for relationship status.
However, some are skeptical of Facebook's efforts to get people to share the kind of personal information that was once the preserve of state ID cards. "I fear this is a kind of a digital Trojan horse," says Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit privacy advocacy. He says the organ donor initiative obviously fulfills a public need, but says it could also be used for marketing and advertising purposes. (Facebook declined to comment on the new option.) People should be careful about posting anything relating to their financial and health status on Facebook, he says. Facebook has become a giant social experiment on how much privacy people are willing give up, investment adviser and blogger Jason Kelly says. "Why stop with organ-donor status? Let's display the age we lost our virginity,"
But those concerns aside, many experts say there's great potential for harnessing social media to change behavior. SmartMoney.com asked a panel of social commentators and analysts to suggest other government advocacy efforts that might be better accomplished on Facebook.
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Anyone familiar with Andrew Hill's music will find the cover to Andrew!!! a little bizarre, to say the least. Hill was one of the most intense and cerebral musicians on Blue Note's roster, incorporating avant-garde and modal techniques into his adventurous post-bop. The cover to Andrew!!! apparently is an attempt to humanize Hill -- it's a soft-focus close-up of a smiling Andrew Hill, who looks more like a teen idol than a serious jazz musician, and the first-name title is adorned with no less than three exclamation marks and a subtitle, "The Music of Andrew Hill," which suggests that it's an album of romantic, easy-listening standards. It's not. Andrew!!! is just as adventurous and challenging as any of his other albums, which is to Hill's credit. The pianist leads tenor saxophonist John Gilmore, vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, bassist Richard Davis, and drummer Joe Chambers through a set of six original songs. Often, the music has a floating, hypnotic quality, which only makes Hill's dissonance, unusual voicings, and complex arrangements more compelling than usual. Andrew!!!, if anything, is even less accessible than the previous Point of Departure, but its restless, searching quality and endlessly provocative music makes it just as successful. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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Groped by the Kingslayer
Cameron Diaz is still working on The Other Woman in New York. I feel like her entire wardrobe in this movie is white. Am I crazy? Anyway, today's scene involved her being groped in public by Nicolaj Coster-Waldau, the Kingslayer in a neck brace. That's not entirely acting, is it? Maybe it is...
Is that Spanx? Are we supposed to be seeing her Spanx here? This makes me crazy. That we live in a world where even Cameron Diaz has to wear Spanx. WHYYYYYYY does Cameron Diaz have to wear Spanx? She doesn't. I don't wear Spanx. Not because I don't have to -- there are rolls, I assure you there are rolls -- but because I refuse to be that uncomfortable. And if I had her body? Sh-t, you couldn't pay me with Prince Harry to put on Spanx. (OK, fine, maybe Prince Harry, only because he's a kinky motherf-cker.) But you see, you see in this world, for whatever reason, even Cameron Diaz thinks she has to wear Spanx. Goddamn, will it ever stop?
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Stitchcraft Mktg necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 40 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
We are marketing consultants to the yarn industry and developing a new website called Yarndealer.com. The purpose of the site is to offer a platform for retail yarn shop owners to manage several aspects of their business including social media posting, e-newsletter management and buying discounted yarn from the manufacturers. It is a subscription-based site.
The target audience is YARN SHOP owners. This demographic is 99% women, average age is 43-55, white and affluent. They are NOT tech savvy, so this design needs to communicate the idea of the site in the graphic, clean, simple.
We need a logo design for our new business to business website, yarndealer.com. A simple clean, classy design is what will win here. Earthy and rustic might be favorable as well.
Image: Obvious graphic associations (the ubiquitous yarn ball) are acceptable, but we don't want the run-of-the-mill images of yarnballs! No tired cliches (writing the name in yarn) Absolutely no clip art please!
This is a cutting-edge platform, so we're seeking something innovative and different WITHOUT being cryptic or overly complicated.
Text: Easily read by 45-55 year old eyes! Nothing small, tiny or otherwise difficult to read. Clean typeface preferred. Serif and sans both considered.
Colors: Prefer 1-2 colors and one of them being an earth tone or neutral would be great. No wild, rainbow designs, Classic, not jazzy or flamboyant
Shape: We'll consider all designs, no limitations.
Some logos in this realm we like:
http://www.thewoolwideweb.com (yarn ball as globe also)
http://www.ravelry.com (red yarn ball clever, different plus clean text)
Final format: We want something that will easily translate to an avatar and a favicon and will expect both in the final materials.
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Bengaluru (PRWEB) March 29, 2012
Accor Hotels in India proudly introduce the newest ibis hotel in Bengaluru. ibis Bengaluru Hosur Road is the second ibis hotel in Bengaluru, following the successful launch of ibis Bengaluru Techpark. ibis is well known globally for the modern yet affordable hotels that are key part of the Accor group. ibis now aims to expand their brand across the South Asia region and especially in India.
ibis Bengaluru Hosur Road is situated on Hosur Road, the business suburb of Electronics City, Bannerghatta and the Koramangala Business Districts. It is currently the only worldwide hotel brand in South Bangalore serving the economy segment. The 185-room hotel offers a convenient and comfortable stay for guests inclusive of fully equipped in-room facilities and amenities. These modern and well-designed standard rooms are available with a queen size bed, or alternatively 2 single beds which can also be converted into a king size bed. Rooms are complete with a large work station, LCD TV plus satellite international channels, in-room Wi-Fi access, tea-coffee maker, digital safe and multi-pressure shower units.
The city of IT has never been more accessible. While guests may come for business, they will soon discover a world of gastronomy at ibis Hosur Road. The freshest ibis in Bengaluru prepares traditional and continental all-you-can-eat breakfast to serve from 6.30 a.m. to 10 a.m. For the early birds, a selection of pastries, cookies and drinks will be available from 4.00 a.m. while the late risers can enjoy fruit and snacks from 10.00 a.m. until midday, ensuring guests don't miss the chance to enjoy an ibis exclusive breakfast. No matter where guests travel in the world, they get to explore the local delicacies from ibis's kitchens. At Spice It Restaurant, the concept of "You Create, We Cook" is born. The interactive cooking environment lets guests explore their culinary skills whilst dining in one of the most vibrant and energetic restaurants in town. Spice It opens for breakfast at 6 a.m. until midnight late supper daily. To wind down and relax for the day, visit The Hub bar for refreshment and chit-chat with loved ones, friends and colleagues. A wide selection of beers, wines, spirits, and cocktails are available to pair with exotic snacks served from 11.00 – 23.30 hrs Monday – Sunday.
Bengaluru, or Bangalore as it is also known, is the capital of Karnataka and is the fifth largest city in India. Due to its culture and traditions Bengaluru has many aliases such as the Garden City of India, the Silicon Valley of India, Pub City, the IT Capital of India and even Pensioners' Paradise. Parks and gardens can be found everywhere in this green city, offering a pleasant respite from the vibrant IT industry that thrives there. Entertainment is never far away as the city offers almost everything imaginable from parks, movie theatres and shopping complexes to historical monuments. It currently ranks as India's most developed city and one of the world's fastest growing urban areas.
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Digital economy makes for safer transactions and eliminates hassle of currency exchanges
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LUXEMBOURG, Feb. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Hosting.co.uk, the UK-based web hosting provider, has announced the addition of BitCoin as an eligible payment method for its services. BitCoin offers numerous advantages over traditional bank transfers or credit card transactions, security and privacy being the most noteworthy. The BitCoin network also simplifies the processing of international sales. Hosting.co.uk hopes to reach even more new clients with this foray into the startup digital economy of digital coins.
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BitCoin works around the world. As an all-digital network not backed by any government or bank, there are no exchange rates to consider. For merchants, accepting digital coins is a way to make purchases easier for international customers. Because it's also less costly than traditional payment methods, BitCoin offers a chance for businesses to increase profit with no additional investment.
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Though a few of the movies vying to be among the Top 5 summer blockbusters are already in area theaters — "Iron Man 3," "The Great Gatsby," "Star Trek: Into Darkness" — here are five upcoming films that should be on the top of moviegoers' lists this summer. Release dates are subject to change.
June 14
Hard to believe it's been 25 years since Christopher Reeve wound up a four-movie stint as Superman. "Steel," starring relatively unknown Henry Cavill, is expected to do for Superman what "The Dark Knight" trilogy did to reignite the Batman franchise. I'm betting it generates more excitement than 2006's "Superman Returns" did.
June 21
We've waited more than a decade to see the monster comedy team of Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) and Sully (John Goodman) reunited. This prequel, set in their college years, should be the most highly anticipated animated film this summer, despite two other high-profile sequels demanding your attention — "Despicable Me 2" and "Smurfs 2."
July 3
OK, I know Westerns have not exactly thrived in the past 30 years, so this reboot might have more of an uphill battle than Superman, but with Johnny Depp cast as the Lone Ranger's Comanche partner Tonto, this seems like a sure bet for a good time. "Ranger" is hoping to do for Westerns what "Pirates of the Caribbean" did for pirate movies.
July 5
Not interested in all the big blockbuster action, sci-fi and animated films dominating the summer theater season? Try this low-budget, coming-of-age film starring Sam Rockwell, Steve Carell and Toni Collette, about a 14-year-old boy who bonds with the owner of a local water park. It was the favorite at the Sundance Film Festival and could be the sleeper hit of the summer.
Aug. 9
Director Neill Blomkamp, who delivered the thought-provoking "District 9," returns with another sci-fi action entry exploring class issues. Set in 2159, it shows an Earth divided into the rich, who live aboard a high-tech space station, and the poor, trying to survive on a dying planet. Stars Jodie Foster and Matt Damon have good track records for picking high-quality work.


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Someone told me Saturday that the guy who invented the F-16 died 2
weeks ago in Fort Worth. It triggered some memories and I googled
some things.
Harry Hillaker was the head of the little team that dreamed up the
F-16 in secret. I was in school with his son Eric from first grade
through high school graduation in 1969. I never really knew Eric at
all, but I just now found out that the Hillakers went to Holy Family
Catholic Church in Fort Worth. My best neighborhood friend from the
time I was about 5 went to Holy Family Church and school and was the
same age as Eric and I.
I spent a year as the only Protestant in the Catholic boy scout troop
at that church. I don't remember if Eric was a scout or not.
Sometime in the 60 or 70s when the F-111 was in the middle of big
controversy about it's failures, Harry Hillaker and a few others
started dreaming up a simple, highly maneuverable, cheap, easily
maintained fighter. When the brass found out, they tried to kill it,
but someone recognized the genius in it.
They had a competition and two fighters came out of it, the F-16 and
the F-17, which became the F-18.
When the 80s came, as part of a conscious strategy, Reagan decided to
pit the production capacity of a free economy against the planned
economy of the Soviets. General Dynamics cranked out thousands of
F-16s at $20 million apiece, improving them continuously, with Harry
Hillaker running the team. And McDonnell-Douglas cranked out the
It worked, along with the prayers of millions and the efforts of the
pope and lots of other things. The evil empire fell. Lockheed is
still in business, and everyone in the world still wants an F-16,
including me.
(I don't mean to start a political argument, but I won't back down
from that characterization. I once sat across the table from Anthony
Flew at a small meeting. Anthony Lewis, the New York Times columnist,
had just published a column excoriating Reagan for calling it an
"evil empire." Anthony Flew said, in his inimitable way, "I'd like to
ask Tony, does he think it's not evil, or that it's not an empire?"
My father and I laughed about that for years after hearing it.)
And I just drove over and looked at the little house where Harry
Hillaker lived, and where his widow still lives.
No one did more to bring down the most evil and destructive political
system that the human heart has ever devised than this guy whose
family called him Daddy-O. Many did just as much, but no one did more.
Harry did his part. I said thank you to him tonight, but he wasn't
looking down at me, he was looking up.
What's most amazing in this story? This guy waited until his 6th
child before he named one after himself. He must have said to the
family, "O.k., alright, I'll name one after me, just to get you all
to give it a rest."
The other day I was walking the dog and a beautiful little storm
tumbled over me with lightning in it, but no thunder that I could
hear. I said, "Hey, where's the thunder?"
Then 2 F-16s came up from the naval air station and thundered by.
This happened before I heard about Harry.
Remembering Daddy-O
Feb. 16th, 2009 by Sarah (Harry's granddaughter)
Harry James Hillaker, 89, father of the F-16 Fighting Falcon, died
peacefully at home Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009, with his wife, Betty J.
Hillaker, holding his hand and surrounded by 29 family members.
Funeral: 11 a.m. Friday at Holy Family Catholic Church. Interment:
Greenwood Memorial Park. Visitation: 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at
Thompson's Harveson & Cole Funeral Home.
Memorials: The family requests donations to the Ovarian Cancer
Research Fund (www.ocrf.org) to support research for a cure of the
ovarian cancer that lead to the untimely death of Harry's daughter,
Stephanie Hillaker McDaniel.
Harry was born May 9, 1919, in Flint, Mich. A graduate of Flint
Northern High School, he studied aeronautical engineering at the
University of Michigan. He began working for Consolidated Aircraft
(later General Dynamics) in San Diego in 1941 as a draftsman/design
engineer. In 1942 he was transferred to the company's newly
established Fort Worth division, where he was involved in the
preliminary and advanced design of every major aircraft produced
until his retirement in 1985. He married Betty Jo Devaney of Fort
Worth on Oct. 2, 1943, and they raised six children.
To the world, Mr. Hillaker will be remembered mainly as an
aeronautical engineer. He was one of the main members of the "Fighter
Mafia" that conceived and developed the F-16, and he led the design
team at General Dynamics (now Lockheed Martin) for the innovative
lightweight fighter jet. He was the chief project engineer for the
advanced versions of the F-16 and became vice president and deputy
program director for the F-16 XL in 1980. He was elected to the
National Academy of Engineering in 1990 and served two terms as
chairman of the aerospace vehicles panel of the U.S. Air Force's
Scientific Advisory Board.
To his friends and family, Mr. Hillaker will be remembered as a warm,
friendly, kind and generous man with sparkling blue eyes, bushy
eyebrows and a keen sense of humor. He was known to his family as
Daddy-O. He loved golfing and traveling, and his close-knit family
remained the most important thing in the world to him.
Mr. Hillaker's eldest child, Stephanie McDaniel of Albuquerque,
preceded him in death in 2007.
Survivors: His beautiful bride of 65 years, Betty; son-in-law, Dillon
McDaniel of Albuquerque, N.M.; daughter, Victoria Harrell and
husband, Howard, of Conroe; daughter, Deborah Currier and husband,
Phil, of Del Mar, Calif.; son, Eric Hillaker and wife, Susan, of Fort
Worth; daughter, Missy Gillespie and husband, Jack, of Fort Worth;
son, Harry Hillaker Jr. and wife, Michele, of Des Moines, Iowa; 27
grandchildren; 16 spouses of grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren;
and brother, John Hillaker of Fort Worth.
San Diego Union-Tribune
Harry J. Hillaker; military jet engineer was 'Father of F-16'
By Bob Cox
2:00 a.m. February 15, 2009
It was a chance meeting in a bar with a loudmouthed Air Force fighter
pilot that set Harry J. Hillaker on a path that led to the design of
the F-16 fighter jet, arguably the best military airplane of the jet
Mr. Hillaker, an aeronautical engineer at General Dynamics for 44
years and known to many as the "Father of the F-16," died last Sunday
at his home in Fort Worth. He was 89.
As a senior engineer at General Dynamics' Fort Worth aircraft plant
in the 1960s, Mr. Hillaker led a design team that worked, secretively
at first, with a small group of Pentagon insurgents to turn a
collection of ideas, theories and concepts into what would become the
Their success is evident in that four decades later, the plant, now
part of Lockheed Martin, is still producing F-16s. More than 4,400
have been built and delivered worldwide. At the peak of production in
the 1980s, close to 25,000 people were working on the program.
"Harry's legacy is an incredible aircraft that has become the
mainstay of 25 nations and continues to be in demand today after 30
years of production," said Ralph Heath, president of Lockheed Martin
Aeronautics Co. "The early F-16 versions paved the way for tens of
thousands of jobs, over $100 billion in sales and customer
relationships that are the cornerstone for Lockheed Martin's
transition to the future with our new aircraft programs."
Any success has numerous fathers, and the F-16 is no different. But
people close to the F-16 program say Mr. Hillaker's engineering
expertise, open-mindedness and loyalty to a concept originally known
simply as the "lightweight fighter" were critical.
"Without Harry, I don't think anything close to the F-16 would have
come to fruition," said Jay Miller, an Arlington, Texas, aviation
Mr. Hillaker, born in Flint, Mich., and educated at the University of
Michigan, went to work for Consolidated Aircraft in San Diego in
1941. A year later, he was sent to the company's Fort Worth plant.
With Consolidated, which became General Dynamics, Mr. Hillaker worked
on most of the company's major projects, including the B-36, B-58 and
F-111 bombers built in Fort Worth.
One night in 1962 at the Eglin Air Force Base officers club, Mr.
Hillaker was introduced to Maj. John Boyd, an abrasive and cocky but
highly intelligent fighter pilot. Informed that Mr. Hillaker had
worked on the F-111, then under development, Boyd launched into an
expletive-laden tirade about what a poorly designed, underperforming
aircraft it was fated to be.
According to numerous reports of that meeting, Mr. Hillaker quickly
realized that Boyd knew far more about airplane design and
performance than most pilots and invited him to sit. Soon, the two
men were exchanging ideas and formulas on cocktail napkins.
In the years that followed, Boyd, assigned to the Pentagon, argued
the cause for a lightweight, highly maneuverable and affordable
fighter plane, the polar opposite of the F-111. He gained a few
adherents, notably fellow fighter pilot Col. Everest Riccioni and a
civilian Pentagon official named Pierre Sprey.
The Fighter Mafia, as the three became known, concocted a scheme to
covertly begin work on just such a plane. Covert, because top Air
Force brass were largely opposed to the concept and were spending
billions to develop the new F-15 jet.
In 1969, Riccioni wrote a vaguely titled budget request and received
$149,000 for performance and design studies. General Dynamics and
Northrop were selected to work on competing design concepts.
Mr. Hillaker, who since getting to know Boyd had quietly guided some
internal lightweight fighter design work, was General Dynamics' point
man for the program. On numerous occasions over the next two years,
he secretly flew to Washington and met with Boyd, Sprey and a few
others to hash out theories and share data and design concepts.
Mr. Hillaker, Sprey said, meshed well with the mercurial Boyd and
"was very open-minded. Among designers in the aircraft business, that
was very rare."
The lightweight fighter incorporated a number of advanced
technologies, in particular fly-by-wire controls, all aimed at making
it the most agile and lethal aircraft and capable of winning
one-on-one dogfights against the best Soviet-bloc aircraft of the day.
Top civilian Pentagon officials, at the urging of Boyd and Sprey,
eventually gave their blessing to the program, and contracts were
given to two teams to design and build prototypes. A fly-off, under
stringent conditions demanded by the Fighter Mafia, was held in 1974.
General Dynamics' YF-16 was a clear-cut winner over Northrop's YF-17.
Sprey says Mr. Hillaker and his team were due a large share of the
"I can practically run down the things that wouldn't have been in the
airplane if it wasn't for Harry," Sprey said.
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Pattern: Lalaloopsy Inspired Rag Doll
She fits all lalaloopsy clothing and shoes, which is convenient for buying new fashions if you're not really into sewing all the little outfits yourself. A great short cut if you are a lazy sewer like me. You can also customize her to be male. The doll is an easy project, but the hair takes a very long time if you do it out of yarn. I sell this doll pattern as a printable pdf file for you computer. It's available at my etsy shop.
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The only mention of Israel in Egyptian texts, and the earliest mention of Israel anywhere outside the Bible, is a seven-foot tall granite monument from the mortuary temple of Pharaoh Merenptah. A hieroglyphic inscription celebrating the Pharaoh's recent victory over Libya, it ends by referring to an earlier campaign in Canaan. A portion of the record states:
Israel is wasted, its seed is not; And Hurru (Canaan) is become a widow because of Egypt.
Called the Merneptah Stela (stela is Greek for an inscribed monument) and today kept in the Egyptian museum, it was discovered at Thebes by Flinders Petrie in 1896. Pharaoh Merenptah reigned from 1212 to 1202 BC and his campaign to Canaan took place around 1210 BC. As of today, we have no Egyptian record of Israel living in Egypt. But the Biblical description of the Ten Plagues, Exodus and Reed Sea crossing might suggest why. Egyptian monuments were to impress their gods or their enemies; and the story of the Israelites would do neither. Using the Bible's own chronology, Merenptah's reference dates to the book of Judges when Israel was settling in Canaan. Putting Israel in the right place at the right time makes this an important historical reference. But don't forget that Merenptah's declaration of Israel's destruction was inaccurate; Israel continued to live in and control Canaan for the next 600 years!
Bryant G. Wood, Pharaoh Merenptah Meets Israel, Bible and Spade 18.3 [2005]: 65-82.
Michael Hasel, Merneptah's Reference to Israel: Critical Issues for the Origin of Israel in: Critical Issues in Early Israelite History. Edited by Richard S. Hess, Gerald A. Klingbeil, and Paul J. Ray Jr. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2008, 47-60.
Kenneth A. Kitchen, The Physical Text of Merenptah's Victory Hymn [The "Israel Stela"], The Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 24 [1994]: 71–76.
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With a debut that was awash with blissful harmonics, smothered vocals and flickering guitars, Denver noise-poppers Gauntlet Hair have never shied away from mining the same deep well of influences as their contemporaries. However, unlike their peers, they've often lost sight of the melodious and rhythmic elements of their sound, disfiguring it under a flood of reverb - a creative choice which divided opinion, leaving what was an ostensibly talented band to serve as 2011's indie also-rans.
For their follow-up, Stills, Craig Nice and Andy R have moved away from their native city, recording in the depths of a overcast Portland winter. This time they've taken cues from the production of Marilyn Manson and White Zombie and offering the promise of exploration into bolder and darker territories: new avenues of sound which might help to unlock what lies beneath their diverting swathe of sonic fuzz. So, it's disappointing when the album opens with little more than a flat homage to the strangled vocals and dirty, industrial grind of Trent Reznor on 'Human Nature', a track which retains an avant-garde pop aesthetic, but speaks more of time spent indoors listening to New Order with the curtains closed and the lights off, than the music of Rob Zombie.
Thankfully when Stills does hit its stride on 'Simple', it brings with it an inspired slice of harmonic pop, one which walks the line between intrigue and obfuscation, coming across like a downbeat Prefab Sprout, played on a cassette that's lost its tension. Bass loops swirl and choral synths harp, as heavy filters add effect to (but never threaten to consume) the vocals. They swiftly follow this with the single 'Bad Apple' and the pleasing 'New To It', and all of a sudden it feels like Gauntlet Hair are letting their guard down. Both tracks skilfully blending the distant shudder of processed drums, the jangle of guitars and a brooding funk that shows, given time, the duo have an ability to enthral without losing coherence.
Unfortunately, by the midway point cracks are beginning to show through the gloom, as these brief highs serve to be an exception, not a rule. 'Obey Me' bleeds into 'Heave', the muffled ambient drone of the former washing over the latter's choppy guitars before losing itself in a haze of distortion. A beguiling hubbub that marks the moment where the album finally runs away with itself, leaving the remaining three tracks to become more indistinguishable with each passing note, songs converging at a point where tenebrous atmosphere and static contortion are mistaken for greater substance.
Stills should have been a vindication for the duo's sound. One which drowned out the polite but uninspiring golf applause that ushered in their debut. Somewhere under all this reverb and murk, Gauntlet Hair may yet have the makings of a fine band, but the album burns out long before they have an opportunity to reveal wether this is true. Instead, it only furthers their position as a frustrating drop in an ocean of more accomplished noise-pop.
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Keeping up with the Kardashians as they get gorgeous is no frugal feat. While celebrities have deep pockets for tucks and tweaks, the average Josephine doesn't.
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Wrinkles can be smoothed down or puffed up with fillers such as Botox, Dysport and Juvederm, to name a few. The price for these injections is typically between $300 and $700 per area (such as the space between the eyes, called "the elevens" after the two vertical grooves that often appear) and results last a few months.
Swollen lips are also ultra popular, ("trout pouts" are practically contractual on the Real Housewives franchise). For a few hundred bucks, they can be inflated with collagen, hyaluronic acid or other products pushed though a needle.
If cash is tighter than your skin, Houtan Chaboki, a board certified facial plastic surgeon at Potomac Plastic Surgery in Washington, D.C., says injectables can be enhanced with strategic placements. "A lot of patients want the smile lines filled because that's what they see on TV, but instead we can use one or two in other areas for a more natural look and to reduce the cost."
Communicate both what you want done and your financial parameters with the needle holder. It's easy to overdo freezing and filling, and not just to the detriment of your expressions, but also to your wallet. Because these procedures are highly lucrative for the practice or spa, some will push more than you need or want. Beware the hard sell and honor your limit.
Weigh the short-term nature of shots against their longer-term counterparts, as well. Spending more on a pricier procedure in the beginning can save thousands in the end. For example, says Chaboki, "It's very common to have injections in the cheeks for a fuller look, but it's about $1,000 per treatment, twice a year. Cheek implants are about $5,000, just once." Economically speaking, the implants win out in about three years.
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More dramatic and lasting adjustments -- from a nicer nose to a tighter tummy -- mean going under the knife, operations which start in the thousands.
Resist the temptation to cheap out, however, as a bargain basement doctor can cost far more if he botches the job. Think the stock market is risky? Try bad cosmetic surgery. Tara Reid's torso should scare you into prudence.
"From a financial perspective, if you have to have the same surgery performed twice, the second time just to correct the first surgery because the doctor was not trained as a plastic surgeon, what makes the most sense?" asks Marcel Daniels, a Long Beach, Calif., board certified plastic surgeon.
Instead, Dr. Daniels says, save up for the best in the field. Make sure that person is board certified, too, as it proves exceptional expertise in a particular specialty.
To find that doctor and plan for the price, conduct your research with a respected online community like RealSelf.com, where you can learn about medical-beauty treatments. "We only allow board certified doctors to be on the site," says Alicia Nakamoto, RealSelf.com's vice president of community and marketing. "So if you get a Groupon and you can't find them here, they aren't board certified. Avoid them."
The site lists the average national fees for virtually every procedure, as well as what they're going for in your city. You'll quickly see that one woman paid $7,000 for a facelift in Savannah, Ga., and a New Yorker spent $5,800 on liposuction.
Another useful feature is the "worth it" ratings system. Every treatment has a score of 1 to 100%. Low numbers can be used as an immediate "don't do it!" indicator, whereas a high score can give a green light. For instance, the average fee for a Lifestyle Lift (currently running aggressively on the infomercial landscape) is $5,850 but only garners a 53% rating. The traditional facelift averages $11,125 but has an 86% rating.
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Are cutting and poking too extreme or expensive? There's no shortage of topicals to explore. The Global Industry Analysts report projects we'll soon be spending $114 billion on creams and anti-aging products.
But if you're hoping to gain the flawless complexion of the stars like Halle Berry (voted best celebrity skin by TotalBeauty.com), accept the truth that even the priciest serums don't perform miracles.
Philadelphi-based beauty blogger Yolanda Kiel writes about the industry on Fashion & the Steal, and because she was diagnosed with eczema at the age of 5, has spent thousands on skincare. "There's been many times where my budget was blown to pieces," says Kiel. "I did the credit card thing, put it all on there. You get caught up and convince yourself that you need it."
Eventually she realized that luxe lines harmed her finances and her epidermus. "Commonly used preservatives and emulsifiers were irritants," says Kiel. She began to save money and her skin by focusing on what was in the jar rather than the label.
Consumer savings expert Andrea Woroch, who has a background in such beauty brands as Sephora, agrees. "Get a recommendation from an esthetician to look for ingredients," says Woroch. "It's easy to overspend on products that aren't as good as drugstore brands."
When visiting a department store, be skeptical. Commission-based sales staff can make wild claims, so always request a sample to try before you buy. Sephora will squeeze just about anything out in a to-go container, says Woroch, who also suggests ordering minis from Misterfreestuff.com.
Salon and spa services: hair, tans, nails and facials
Sure you'll get gleaming hair with a Brazilian blow out (around $200) and glowing skin from facials (usually $100 on up), but make them routine and your bank account can suffer.
Cherie Corso, a former model and co-creator of G2 Organics is a personality on the new reality show Working Wives of Westchester, and reports that (shock!) her fellow cast members were spa and salon-aholics. "In one scene where we were having coffee first thing in the morning after dropping the kids off at school, one of the girls just spent $1,500 for hair extensions," says Corso. That's a mortgage payment plus some groceries for many Americans.
If you're going to splurge, be selective. Corso recalls wasting $350 on a silly procedure that began with a ground coffee scrub, and was supposed to slim five to six inches from her frame. "I was then asked to turn over on the table while they put white tea to help bloat, green tea to calm and black tea ... oh, it was all loose tea!" Eventually she was raincoated and sent to sweat in the sauna. The inches remained, but her skin was stained and bank balance lightened.
Still, many treatments are beneficial and economical (a super durable pedicure may be worth the $30) and bargains exist.
"Sites like Groupon and Dealery feature tons of beauty treatment deals of up to 75% off," says Woroch. "My sister recently purchased a discount voucher for laser hair removal for just $200, a whopping $1,000 in savings!"
You can find almost any spa and salon service on such sites, but read online reviews to gauge quality. And before clicking "buy," be sure the shop is within reasonable driving distance and mind the expiration date.
Finally, don't ignore the fact that products sold within a spa or salon are subject to heavy markups. You can typically find the same product online for a fraction of the cost. So before you buy, search the web first. Just make sure the site you purchase from is reputable and the products aren't just cheap imitations packaged in look-alike tubes and containers.
Budget your beautification
There's nothing wrong with improving your physical self, says Deborah Hightower, a financial consultant from Atlanta, unless you descend into debt doing it. "I had a client who spent many thousands per year on Botox, spas and things like that and used a combination of savings and credit cards." The indulgences led to debt, so Hightower put the kibosh on that behavior.
The trick is to budget for beauty. Sound spending plans should always have an allowance for nonessentials built in. That's a percentage of your income that you can spend on anything you want, "whether it's a boob job or Christian Louboutins," says Hightower, an admitted shoe aficionado.
What about financing these discretionary prettifiers? Hightower shakes her head, pointing out that even when the interest rate is low, you're still paying extra. That's cash you could be using on the procedures you really want. "Putting Botox on a credit card makes no sense because it's not asset based," says Hightower. "But if you use discretionary money, that's yours to spend as you like." Echoing Dr. Daniels, your best bet, she says, is to start saving.
In the end, moderation is generally best, for both spending and sculpting. Just refer to Heidi Montag, whose infamous 10 plastic surgeries in a day cost over $30,000. Heidi who, you ask? Exactly.
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He's the quintessential modern day, young farmer: cell phone in one hand, explaining tobacco harvesting instructions in Spanish, and office phone in the other, explaining spraying information for cotton in English.
Hard work, innovation and gritty determination have helped Linwood "Lyn" Vick get where he is today with his family's farming operation — but having the right gene pool didn't hurt a bit. In his case, the apple truly didn't fall far from the tree.
His mother and father, Jerome and Dianne Vick, started the farming operation with 15 acres of land near Wilson, N.C., and headquarters for Vick Family Farms remains near that original farm.
Today, however, the farming operation encompasses more than 6,000 acres.
Over the years, the Vick family name has been associated with the country's top producers of tobacco and sweet potatoes. In the late 1980s, they added cotton to their farming roster, and have been equally successful growing fiber.
Lyn's sister, Charlotte, who is still actively involved in the farming operation, made her mark early at Vick Farms as a cotton scout. "I often remind Lyn of how much he didn't like growing cotton back in those days," she laughs.
Today, Lyn not only likes growing cotton, he's very good at it. His achievements in cotton production and his use of environmentally sound practices have earned him recognition as the Farm Press/Cotton Foundation 2013 High Cotton Award winner for the Southeast region.
He and winners from the Delta, Southwest, and Western regions will be honored at a special awards breakfast at the Beltwide Cotton Conferences at San Antonio, Texas.
North Carolina State University Extension Agent Norman Harrell, who nominated Vick for the award, says, "Lyn and his family continually push the edge of technology, and do it in a way that helps them produce both high yielding and high quality cotton crops year after year. The entire family is always open to working with us in any way they can to help us develop meaningful information that could help other farmers."
The Vicks started out growing conventional cotton in 1987 — back in the era when he didn't like it so much.
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"We had a big problem with soil erosion," Lyn says. "Early in the growing season especially, our conventional cotton was literally sandblasted by the fine, sandy soils on much of our farm.
"When Roundup Ready cotton came along, we switched to all no-till for cotton, soybeans, double-crop soybeans, and wheat. Our tobacco and sweet potatoes are grown with conventional tillage, so going no-till on cotton and soybeans helped improve the tilth of our soil and helped with erosion problems."
Much of his cotton is in a four-year rotation with sweet potatoes, tobacco and soybeans. On some land not so well-suited to these crops, he uses a three-year rotation, which sometimes requires back-to-back years of cotton.
Having sweet potatoes and tobacco in their cotton rotation is a bit unusual, but he says it has been a blessing in battling glyphosate-resistant pigweed.
For example, cotton is grown one year, followed by tobacco. "We're using different chemicals for weed and grass control," Lyn notes. "Plus, we're deep plowing and bedding our tobacco land, and in some cases hand hoeing and pulling weeds.
"Thus, we're able to reduce the seed bank for pigweed. Other than soybeans, we plant wheat on all our land. We've found that with a thick cover crop on the land over fall and winter months, we have less weed pressure.
"Even after Roundup Ready cotton came on the market, we continued to use yellow or white herbicides, so we never got the real buildup of pigweed that so many other growers are battling now.
"I remember the long battle we went through to get rid of boll weevils, and now we are facing as big, if not bigger, problems with herbicide-resistant weeds."
Another advantage of the unusual cotton rotation, Lyn says, is suppression of nematode problems. Most of their tobacco and sweet potato land is treated with Telone and Lorsban, so they are carrying out practices as a part of their normal farming operation that gives a side benefit of reducing nematode populations.
Both sweet potatoes and tobacco are labor-intensive crops, and Vick Farms is a pioneer in using legal, H-2A labor.
"Having adequate labor on hand for these crops can be a big advantage in our cotton operation," Lyn says. "If we get in a situation where we can't get in a field with the right herbicide, we can always use some of our labor to clean up those fields."
Each member of the Vick family speaks Spanish. The farm has 10 full-time employees, and all but two speak Spanish.
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"It's a tool that's important in our farming operation," he says. "Whether or not I'm fluent in Spanish, I don't know, but I can explain to any of our H-2A workers what I want them to do and how I want them to do it. Lack of communication should never be an excuse on our farm for not getting things done right."
Lyn didn't just grow up on a farm, and he didn't just grow up working on a farm — he grew up working hard and smart on Vick Family Farms. He graduated from the prestigious North Carolina State Agriculture Institute in 1997, then came back to begin learning the farming business from his parents and with his sister.
He was in charge of fieldwork on the farm, working primarily with cotton and soybeans. Charlotte was scouting cotton for the family farm and for other cotton operations in the area, as well as beginning to take over marketing of family-grown crops.
The learning process was moving along on schedule for Lyn, but in 2002 fate stepped in and his learning curve became much steeper.
During a trip to Mexico, Jerome Vick contracted a rare virus that resulted in Guillane Barre Syndrome. Though he has made a good recovery from the disease, he spent 165 days in Duke University Hospital — in a coma for a while, and paralyzed from the neck down for a much longer while. This adversity struck in the midst of the 2002 cropping season.
"I remember standing in the emergency room at the hospital, when one of the doctors told my father he had Guillan Barre and asked Dad what he did for a living.
"'I'm a farmer,' Dad replied, "and the doctor told him he'd have to take a year off from farming. After the doctor left, I told Dad, 'That doctor doesn't know us very well — we don't let things like this slow us down.'"
For several months, Jerome's job was survival and Dianne's job was helping him. Running the sprawling farming operation fell to Lyn and Charlotte, who by that time had added 'Mom' to her resume.
Jerome missed the 2002 cropping season, but Lyn didn't. That year the farm produced some of its best crops, and when his father returned home from Duke University Hospital, the farming operation was bigger and more productive than he left it.
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At the time Jerome became ill, Vick Family Farms was about 3,500 acres. In the decade since his return to the farm, the operation has almost doubled in size.
In the past few years, Vick Family Farms has won numerous national, state and local awards. Among them are the North Carolina Farm Family of the Year, National Young Farmer of the Year, and designation as a North Carolina Soil Conservation Farm.
A visit to the farming headquarters makes it evident that doing things right is a high priority. Not only the crops are kept in pristine condition, but also the equipment, the sweet potato packing operation and tobacco barns, and even the headquarters building and grounds.
"We were taught to do things right, and to do things timely," Lyn says. "If we do everything we can for a crop and for our land, then Mother Nature will treat us right when she can."
In the future, farming in general and cotton farming in particular will present many challenges to growers, he says.
"The great thing about farming is that we have the ability to make changes in our operations to overcome these challenges — most of the time."
Asked about the ultimate challenge of feeding 9 billion people on Planet Earth by 2050, Lyn says, "Bring it on! If we can get the right political support, farmers can feed the world — and clothe it too."


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Several generous donations in the past week helped The Aegis Empty Stocking Fund move past the $30,000 mark in fundraising for this year's drive to help needy Harford County children and their families during the Christmas holidays.
As of Monday, the Empty Stocking Fund had raised $32,500, but is still well short of its $80,000 goal. This year, the Empty Stocking Fund, which also accepts new, unwrapped toys, expects to help 364 families with 831 children.
Among recent donations received are $1,126.58 from Freedom Federal Credit Union employees and customers; $1,200 from Randall and Gina Pace; and $2,500 from Dr. Han Sohn and family.
Donations also have been received from Dottie and Bill Sewell, $100; Greg and Amy White, $100; Greg and Anne Fox, $200; and Friends of Harford Inc., $200.
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Hertzsprung–Russell diagram
The Hertzsprung–Russell diagram, abbreviated H–R diagram or HRD, is a scatter graph of stars showing the relationship between the stars' absolute magnitudes or luminosities versus their spectral classifications or effective temperatures. More simply, it plots each star on a graph measuring the star's brightness against its temperature (color). It does not map any locations of stars.
The diagram was created circa 1910 by Ejnar Hertzsprung and Henry Norris Russell and represents a major step towards an understanding of stellar evolution or "the way in which stars undergo sequences of dynamic and radical changes over time".
Historical background
In the nineteenth-century large-scale photographic spectroscopic surveys of stars were performed at Harvard College Observatory, producing spectral classifications for tens of thousands of stars, culminating ultimately in the Henry Draper Catalogue. In one segment of this work Antonia Maury included divisions of the stars by the width of their spectral lines.[1] Hertzsprung noted that stars described with narrow lines tended to have smaller proper motions than the others of the same spectral classification. He took this as an indication of greater luminosity for the narrow-line stars, and computed secular parallaxes for several groups of these, allowing him to estimate their absolute magnitude.[2]
In 1910 Hans Rosenberg published a diagram plotting the apparent magnitude of stars in the Pleiades cluster against the strengths of the Calcium K line and two Hydrogen Balmer lines.[3] These spectral lines serve as a proxy for the temperature of the star, an early form of spectral classification. The apparent magnitude of stars in the same cluster is equivalent to their absolute magnitude and so this early diagram was effectively a plot of luminosity against temperature. The same type of diagram is still used today as a means of showing the stars in clusters without having to initially know their distance and luminosity.[4] Hertzsprung had already been working with this type of diagram, but his first publications showing it were not until 1911. This was also the form of the diagram using apparent magnitudes of a cluster of stars all at the same distance.[5]
Russell's early (1913) versions of the diagram included Maury's giant stars identified by Hertzsprung, those nearby stars with parallaxes measured at the time, stars from the Hyades (a nearby open cluster), and several moving groups, for which the moving cluster method could be used to derive distances and thereby obtain absolute magnitudes for those stars.[6]
Forms of diagram
There are several forms of the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram, and the nomenclature is not very well defined. All forms share the same general layout: stars of greater luminosity are toward the top of the diagram, and stars with higher surface temperature are toward the left side of the diagram.
The original diagram displayed the spectral type of stars on the horizontal axis and the absolute visual magnitude on the vertical axis. The spectral type is not a numerical quantity, but the sequence of spectral types is a monotonic series that reflects the stellar surface temperature. Modern observational versions of the chart replace spectral type by a color index (in diagrams made in the middle of the 20th Century, most often the B-V color) of the stars. This type of diagram is what is often called an observational Hertzsprung–Russell diagram, or specifically a color-magnitude diagram (CMD), and it is often used by observers. In cases where the stars are known to be at identical distances such as within a star cluster, a color-magnitude diagram is often used to describe the stars of the cluster with a plot in which the vertical axis is the apparent magnitude of the stars. For cluster members, by assumption there is a single additive constant difference between their apparent and absolute magnitudes, called the distance modulus, for all of that cluster of stars. Early studies of nearby open clusters (like the Hyades and Pleiades) by Hertzsprung and Rosenberg produced the first CMDs, antedating by a few years Russell's influential synthesis of the diagram collecting data for all stars for which absolute magnitudes could be determined.[3][5]
Another form of the diagram plots the effective surface temperature of the star on one axis and the luminosity of the star on the other, almost invariably in a log-log plot. Theoretical calculations of stellar structure and the evolution of stars produce plots that match those from observations. This type of diagram could be called temperature-luminosity diagram, but this term is hardly ever used; when the distinction is made, this form is called the theoretical Hertzsprung–Russell diagram instead. A peculiar characteristic of this form of the H–R diagram is that the temperatures are plotted from high temperature to low temperature, which aids in comparing this form of the H–R diagram with the observational form.
Although the two types of diagrams are similar, astronomers make a sharp distinction between the two. The reason for this distinction is that the exact transformation from one to the other is not trivial. To go between effective temperature and color requires a color-temperature relation, and constructing that is difficult; it is known to be a function of stellar composition and can be affected by other factors like stellar rotation. When converting luminosity or absolute bolometric magnitude to apparent or absolute visual magnitude, one requires a bolometric correction, which may or may not come from the same source as the color-temperature relation. One also needs to know the distance to the observed objects (i.e., the distance modulus) and the effects of interstellar obscuration, both in the color (reddening) and in the apparent magnitude (extinction). For some stars, circumstellar dust also affects colors and apparent brightness. The ideal of direct comparison of theoretical predictions of stellar evolution to observations thus has additional uncertainties incurred in the conversions between theoretical quantities and observations.
Most of the stars occupy the region in the diagram along the line called the main sequence. During the stage of their lives in which stars are found on the main sequence line, they are fusing hydrogen in their cores. The next concentration of stars is on the horizontal branch (helium fusion in the core and hydrogen burning in a shell surrounding the core). Another prominent feature is the Hertzsprung gap located in the region between A5 and G0 spectral type and between +1 and −3 absolute magnitudes (i.e. between the top of the main sequence and the giants in the horizontal branch). RR Lyrae variable stars can be found in the left of this gap. Cepheid variables reside in the upper section of the instability strip.
The H-R diagram can be used by scientists to roughly measure how far away a star cluster is from Earth. This can be done by comparing the apparent magnitudes of the stars in the cluster to the absolute magnitudes of stars with known distances (or of model stars). The observed group is then shifted in the vertical direction, until the two main sequences overlap. The difference in magnitude that was bridged in order to match the two groups is called the distance modulus and is a direct measure for the distance (ignoring extinction). This technique is known as main sequence fitting and is a type of spectroscopic parallax.
Diagram's role in the development of stellar physics
Contemplation of the diagram led astronomers to speculate that it might demonstrate stellar evolution, the main suggestion being that stars collapsed from red giants to dwarf stars, then moving down along the line of the main sequence in the course of their lifetimes. Stars were thought therefore to radiate energy by converting gravitational energy into radiation through the Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism. This mechanism resulted in an age for the Sun of only tens of millions of years, creating a conflict over the age of the Solar System between astronomers, and biologists and geologists who had evidence that the Earth was far older than that. This conflict was only resolved in the 1930s when nuclear fusion was identified as the source of stellar energy.
However, following Russell's presentation of the diagram to a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1912, Arthur Eddington was inspired to use it as a basis for developing ideas on stellar physics. In 1926, in his book The Internal Constitution of the Stars he explained the physics of how stars fit on the diagram.[7] This was a particularly remarkable development since at that time the major problem of stellar theory, the source of a star's energy, was still unsolved. Thermonuclear energy, and even that stars are largely composed of hydrogen (see metallicity), had yet to be discovered. Eddington managed to sidestep this problem by concentrating on the thermodynamics of radiative transport of energy in stellar interiors.[8] So, Eddington predicted that dwarf stars remain in an essentially static position on the main sequence for most of their lives. In the 1930s and 1940s, with an understanding of hydrogen fusion, came a physically based theory of evolution to red giants, and white dwarfs. By this time, study of the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram did not drive such developments but merely allowed stellar evolution to be presented graphically.
See also
- Asymptotic giant branch
- Galaxy color–magnitude diagram
- Hayashi track
- Henyey track
- Hess diagram
- Red clump
- Stellar birthline
- Stellar classification
- Tip of the red-giant branch
- Color–color diagram
- ↑ A.C. Maury; E.C. Pickering (1897). "Spectra of bright stars photographed with the 11-inch Draper Telescope as part of the Henry Draper Memorial". Annals of Harvard College Observatory. 28: 1–128. Bibcode:1897AnHar..28....1M.
- ↑ Hertzprung, Ejnar (1908). "Über die Sterne der Unterabteilung c und ac nach der Spektralklassifikation von Antonia C. Maury". Astronomische Nachrichten. 179 (24): 373–380. Bibcode:1909AN....179..373H. doi:10.1002/asna.19081792402.
- 1 2 Rosenberg, Hans (1910). "Über den Zusammenhang von Helligkeit und Spektraltypus in den Plejaden". Astronomische Nachrichten. 186 (5): 71–78. Bibcode:1910AN....186...71R. doi:10.1002/asna.19101860503.
- ↑ Vandenberg, D. A.; Brogaard, K.; Leaman, R.; Casagrande, L. (2013). "THE AGES OF 55 GLOBULAR CLUSTERS AS DETERMINED USING AN IMPROVED $\Delta V^{m HB}_{m TO}$ METHOD ALONG WITH COLOR-MAGNITUDE DIAGRAM CONSTRAINTS, AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR BROADER ISSUES". The Astrophysical Journal. 775 (2): 134. arXiv:1308.2257. Bibcode:2013ApJ...775..134V. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/775/2/134.
- 1 2 Hertzsprung, E., Publ. Astrophys. Observ. Potsdam, Vol. 22, 1, 1911
- ↑ Russell, Henry Norris (1914). "Relations Between the Spectra and Other Characteristics of the Stars". Popular Astronomy. 22: 275–294. Bibcode:1914PA.....22..275R.
- ↑ The Internal Constitution of the Stars A. S. Eddington The Scientific Monthly Vol. 11, No. 4 (Oct., 1920), pp. 297-303 JSTOR 6491
- ↑ Eddington, A. S. (1916). "On the radiative equilibrium of the stars". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 77: 16–35. Bibcode:1916MNRAS..77...16E. doi:10.1093/mnras/77.1.16.
- Casagrande, L.; Portinari, L.; Flynn, C. (November 2006). "Accurate fundamental parameters for lower main-sequence stars". MNRAS. 373 (1): 13–44. arXiv:astro-ph/0608504. Bibcode:2006astro.ph..8504C. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10999.x.
- Porter, Roy (2003). The Cambridge History of Science. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 518. ISBN 978-0-521-57243-9.
- Sekiguchi, Maki; Fukugita, Masataka (August 2000). "A Study of the B-V Color-Temperature Relation". The Astronomical Journal. 120 (2): 1072–1084. arXiv:astro-ph/9904299. Bibcode:2000AJ....120.1072S. doi:10.1086/301490. Retrieved 2008-09-14.
- Smith, Robert (1995). Observational Astrophysics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 236. ISBN 978-0-521-27834-8.
External links
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.
- Omega Cen H-R animation of a Hertzsprung–Russell diagram created from real Hubble data
- JavaHRD an interactive Hertzsprung–Russell diagram as a Java applet
- BaSTI a Bag of Stellar Tracks and Isochrones, simulations with FRANEC code by Teramo Astronomical Observatory
- Leos Ondra: The first Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
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It took the effort on several people to help Sarah into her dress...but this was my favorite shot of the lacing of the back.
This was going to be an out-take due to the glass glare behind them...but then I thought of a clever title to this picture: "The Bride So Beautiful She Was Blinding"
My first wedding to have Irish men in their proper attire.
Gotta have a nice ride!
"Excuse me, Do you have any Grey Poupon?" said the driver.
Bet you've never seen a Groom cut a cake like this!
The toasts were especially interesting. The Father of the Groom said that he could tell his son was in love because he had the same look in his face "At one with the world" as he did as a baby while laying in the sun, naked, with a rash. Surprisingly, it was a very touching speech.
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John Boehner says, "We. Will. Repeal."
The White House says, "It's. The. Law"
And one unnamed Tweeter says, "Atlas WILL Shrug."
As the House got ready to take its 37th symbolic vote to repeal President Obama's controversial health-care overhaul Thursday, the latest thing lighting up the Twitter universe was the hashtag #ObamaCareInThreeWords, which asked Twitterati to describe the 2010 legislation in, well, three words. The hashtag reportedly was trending No. 2 worldwide, generating 200 tweets a minute and more than 35,000 at last count.
Initiated by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and California Congressman Darrell Issa, both Republicans, tweets were firing in at a blistering pace. The number of tri-worded expletives, impassioned statements and witticisms easily ran into the thousands, with a seemingly larger share coming from opponents. Among them:
Lee Ritz says, "Redistribution of Health." Red in NJ pens, "Wait in Line." Invoking a famous line from "Star Wars," one Tweeter under the moniker "Darth Vader" writes, "It's a trap!"
Here's another:
Pass the formaldehyde. #ObamaCareInThreeWords
— Tony Turner (@wbtonyturner) May 16, 2013
Not surprising that most of the tweets came from opponents since the pot was originally stirred by Cantor, who started things off when he tweeted "Run by #IRS" and Issa, who said, "Premiums Will Rise."
But the other side didn't back down, as Obama retweeted the popular refrain, "It's. The. Law." from the White House's account. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius echoed that statement as well.
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Others, like David Phillippe said, "Reduces the deficit," while Nicholas Rotolo, apparently a recent college graduate who still can get coverage through his parents, said "Graduated. Covered. Thanks."
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