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We read the books, attend the lectures, ask advice from professionals and those with experience, and still, there are things in parenting that catch us completely off guard. I was caught off guard today. I tried to brush it away, to dip into the knowledge acquired from books, lectures and discussions with professionals. I ended up yelling a little, expressing my disappointment and largely tried to avoid thinking about it. And now, when everyone is asleep, the clock is showing about 2 a.m. and I am scrambling, as usual, to find that piece of paper that I absolutely need, it hits me and I start crying.
In the grand scheme of thing it really is not that important. It could be one of those things I will not recall a few years from now. But it still eats at me. My daughter, my lovely, kind, bright, absolutely delightful daughter has failed her Hebrew test, and she failed it miserably. I knew there were problems in this subject; I spoke with the teacher several times. DD has been having academic issues this year, but eventually math and English have picked up. Hebrew - not so much. And even though I was aware of it, nothing seals the fact that my child is not succeeding in school like seeing the failing grade on top of the test paper. It sits there, along with the note that DD needs individual help in this subject, and I can feel it accusing me of somehow letting this happen, of being a bad, irresponsible, neglectful mother.
Rationally I know that I can't fault myself for every bad grade and I definitely shouldn't beat myself up over it. Yet I can't help but feel guilty: for being such a disorganized mess, for quite possibly passing this on to my kid either through genes or through observation, and possibly both. For working full time and not being at home enough to help her out or organize her studying time better. For not having enough patience when I do help out. For not having the means to hire a tutor and for not really knowing the subject myself. For taking time to myself when I could've been studying with her. It feels that it wasn't the test that she failed, it feels like I failed her in some major way.
I have always been a proponent of the very sound advice on homework: make it a kid's responsibility. My own parents never checked my homework and helped only when asked. It was never spoken, but I knew that school work, academic success and studying were solely my responsibility. And even though I was a disorganized mess as far as I can remember myself, the first time I struggled academically was at the age of 12 or 13. Even then, the onus of figuring it out was on me, with help available if asked for. And it worked; as far as I can remember, I have never failed a test. And I didn't expect my daughter to either, at least not at 7. Armed with my personal experience and all the advice from all the books I read, I planned to employ the same approach to my kids' academics as my parents. And it worked, until it no longer did.
It was apparent that I had to take over homework, in some way. DD obviously needed someone to explain what she missed in class, help her focus and organize her work, check answers and drill, drill, drill, But mainly help her focus and get organized. Ladies and gentlemen, how can someone struggling her entire life with organization and focus teach her child those same things? How can I help her fight the monsters I haven't conquered myself? Somehow I was always, or almost always, able to wing it, improvise, come through at the eleventh hour, which allowed me to compensate. I don't know how to teach that. I don't know whether I should.
I am not in despair. I am not upset at DD. Well, I try not to be even though it drives me up the wall seeing how easily she loses focus. We have a plan of how to improve. Isn't what this life is all about - improving? I should put getting organized on top of my "to do" list. Heck, it's been there as far as I can remember myself. But I must get better, and sometimes it is easier to improve for someone else than for myself. And now I have that reason.


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I recently read an interesting case made by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (decision 2014 – 014) stating that under subsection 5(3) of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) that the employer's purposes for disclosing the employee's personal information regarding his medical leave were not appropriate in the circumstances and were not necessary for the organization to meet its employee schedule management needs in the context of its work environment.
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Originally appearing on the XBox in 2008 and developed by one of the guys behind Newgrounds, which was the flash minigame site du jour in the early 00's, it's been ported onto the Playstation and now onto Steam for Mac gamers to join in the ruckus.
Taking the pick of 4 colour coded knights with unique abilities and playing solo with one knight or in multiplayer co-op you'll battle through forests, dungeons, volcanoes, deserts and plenty of the titular castles to the rescue your coordinatingly attired princess and save the world from a maniacal wizard.
Each knight has its own special magical attacks to dispatch the hordes of enemies that plague you through each level; Blue knight freezes, Red knight electrocutes, Green knight poisons and Orange knight flames them to a pile of ashes. Although preference essentially comes down to which is your favourite colour, for me Red has been and always will be the best. Experience points earned by levelling up can be spent on strengthening your offensive and defensive attributes as well as a plethora of animal companions and an eclectic arsenal of weaponry to allow for a greater degree of customisation. Cartoonish enemies ranging from typical fantasy orcs and goblins to the more ridiculous panda bears, demonic cats and dragons with sock puppets on their claws pour into the screen in groups and it's up to you and your allies to chop, slice, behead and disembowel while you march onward to the final fight.
While light on story, Crashers is chock full of anarchic energy and humour. If you're old enough to have enjoyed multiplayer classics such as Golden Axe, Battletoads or the X-Men and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade games then there'll be much here familiar to you, however you don't need to be an expert on the genre to pick up a gamepad and play. The difficulty curve is perfectly tweaked with each level requiring just a little more effort than the last, and while you can get by in the early stages by mashing the attack buttons you'd struggle to get by the badder enemies without whipping off a few well timed combos and using your power-ups with precision. You'll need to keep your head in battle too; fights are frantically paced and too often once the smoke has cleared you'll find you've been hacking away at thin air if you haven't been paying full attention.
Every element of the game is hand drawn and wonderfully designed – the development team have made visible efforts that every character, background and dissected enemy gut drips humour and charm as much as they do blood. Some parts are properly laugh-out-loud funny – one of my favourite moments is when you escape from a gargantuan monster on the back of diarrhetic Bambi. As long as you're not looking for anything too serious there's loads to love.
Whether you're a gamer who remembers the classic side-ways scrolling beat-em-ups or just looking for some frantic multiplayer fun, Castle Crashers will storm your keep and slice you to pieces.
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For a game that's technically 4 years old Crashers holds up impressively well. There's been a few reports of framerate and microphone issues, which the developers have already marked for fixing in a forthcoming update, but on my 2010 iMac I experienced nothing that hindered my enjoyment of a great game. I did occasionally have some trouble finding a game for co-op that wasn't already full – what this game really needs is a drop-in-drop-out option that would allow players to join games without quitting back to the main menu.
While the game can be enjoyed as a single player campaign, often resulting in quicker levelling than in multiplayer, it's in the hectic hack-n-slash of a co-op game that the game really excels. What better way to build on or lose friendships than in the chaos of the battlefield? Surviving through wave after wave of enemies takes teamwork and skill, and you'll be relying on your friends to save you when the going gets rough. If you're not playing multiplayer you're not playing the game.
Two playable characters are currently available as DLC, and though not essential both have abilities and styles that may make them preferable from the default and unlockable characters depending on taste. Like if you had a taste for pink knights, that's covered. All proceeds from DLC purchases go to charity.


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Botanical Name :: : Aegle marmelos
Indian Name :: Bel and Siriphal
Other English Names :: Stone Apple and Bengal Quince
The bael occupies an important place among the indigenous fruits of India It is a woody and smooth food which is 5 to 15 cm in diameter. It has numerous seeds, which are densely covered with fibrous hairs and are embedded in a thick aromatic pulp The flesh is either eaten fresh or dried.
Origin and Distribution
The bael tree is indigenous to India. The history of this tree has been traced to Vedic period-2000 BC – 800 Be. The mention of bael fruit has been made in Yajur Veda. The tree has great mythological significance, and it abounds in the vicinity of temples. It is held sacred by the Hindus and according to Hindu customs, the leaves of the tree are traditionally used as sacred offering to Lord Shiva, who is believed to live under bael tree.
The bael fruit is grown throughout India as well as in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Burma, Thailand and most of the south east Asian countries.
Food Value
An analysis of the bael fruit shows it is rich in mineral and vitamin contents. The sherbet made out of this fruit has all the important nutrients and health growing ingredients. It should be thick and syrupy enough to be taken with spoon and it should be thoroughly masticated. If taken hurriedly, it may produce heaviness in the stomach. The bael fruit should also not be taken in excess at a time as excessive intake of bael may produce a sensation of heaviness in the stomach and may cause gastric discomfort.
Bael Fruit*
Food Value
Minerals and Vitamins
|Moisture – 61.5%
|Calcium – 85 mg
|Protein – 1.8%
|Phosphorus – 50 mg
|Fat – 0.3%
|Iron – 0.6 mg
|Minerals – 1.7%
|Vitamin C – 8 mg
|Carbohydrates – 31.8%
|Small amount of Vitamin B Complex
|Fibre – 2.9%
|* Values per 100 gm's edible portion
|** International Unit
|Calorific Value – 137
Natural Benefits and Curative Properties
The bael tree is one of the most useful medicinal plants of India Its medicinal properties have been described in. the ancient medical treatise in Sanskrit, Charaka Samhita All the parts of this tree including stem, bark, root, leaves and fruit at all stages of maturity has medicinal virtues and has been used as traditional medicine for a long time.
The fruit is of considerable medicinal value when it just begins to ripen The ripe fruit is aromatic, astringent which helps construction of skin, coolant and laxative The unripe or half-ripe fruit is astringent, digestive stomachic which improves appetite and anti scorbutic, i.e. which helps to fight scurvy caused due to vitamin C deficiency.
1. Constipation
Ripe bael fruit is regarded as best of all laxatives It cleans and tones up the intestines. Its regular use for two or three months helps evacuate even the old accumulated faecal matter from the bowels. For best results, it should be taken in the form of sherbat, which is prepared from the pulp of the ripe fruit. After breaking the shell, the seeds are first removed, and contents are then taken out with a spoon and passed through a sieve Milk and little sugar may be added to make it more palatable. The pulp of the ripe fruit can also be taken from the spoon without the addition of milk or sugar About 60 gm's. of the fruit will suffice for an adult.
2. Diarrhea and Dysentery
The unripe or half ripe fruit is perhaps, the most effective food remedy for chronic diarrhea and dysentery where there is no fever. Best results are obtained by the use of dried bael or its powder The bael fruit, when it is still green, is sliced and dried in the sun. The dried bael slices are reduced into powder and preserved in air-tight bottles. The unripe bael can also be baked and taken with jaggery or brown sugar The fruit appears to have little effect in acute dysentery when there is definite sensation to defecate but instead of significant amount of faeces, blood and mucus alone are passed The powdered drug is specially recommended in this condition. Its beneficial effect is, however, most evident when the condition has become sub-acute or chronic After the use of the fruit in these conditions, the blood gradually disappears and the stool assume a more feculent and solid form. The mucus also disappears after continued use for some time It is also a valuable remedy for chronic dysenteric conditions characterized by alternate diarrhea and constipation.
3. Peptic Ulcer
An infusion of bael leaves is regarded as an effective food remedy for peptic ulcer. The leaves are soaked overnight in water. This water is strained and taken as a drink in the morning The pain and discomfort are relieved when this treatment is continued for a few weeks. Bael leaves are rich in tannins which reduce inflammation and help healing of ulcers. The bael fruit taken in the form of beverage has also great eating properties on account of its mucilage, i e sticky or viscous content This substance forms a coating on the stomach mucous and thus helps in the healing of ulcers.
4. Respiratory Affections
A medicated oil prepared from bael leaves gives relief from recurrent colds and respiratory affections. The juice extracted from bael leaves is mixed with equal quantity of sesame oil and heated thoroughly A few seeds of black pepper and half a teaspoonful of black cumin are added to the hot oil It is then removed from the fire and stored for use when necessary. A teaspoonful of this oil should be massaged into the scalp before a head bath Its regular use builds up resistance against colds and coughs.
A common practice in south India is to give the juice of bael leaves to bring relief from wheezing and respiratory spasm. The leaf juice, mixed in warm water with a little pepper, is given as a drink.
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Can one ever have too much of a good thing? Having spent a good part of the day in Beijing's Botanical Gardens, Xuefei suggests we should ask her friend Songkai if he would mind showing us around the gardens of The Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences – just across the road from the Botanical Gardens.
The IOB has over 500 staff members, about 80 percent of whom are scientific researchers. Songkai is one of these researchers and, it turns out, he is more than happy to show us around.
He meets us at the Botanic Gardens exit and steers us across the road to the Academy entrance.
The Institute of Botany started life as the Fan Memorial Institute of Botany and the Botanical Institute of Beiping Academy of Sciences, set up in 1928 and 1929 respectively. The two institutions were then merged into the Institute of Plant Taxonomy in 1950 and given its present name in 1953.
The IOB is mainly engaged in research into the eco-environment, modern agriculture, sustainable utilization of plant resources and the systematic evolution of national strategic needs. It has eight Research Centres, 10 field stations and a number of laboratories.
Perhaps it's most famous for its herbarium – one of the oldest in China and the largest in Asia which goes back over 80 years to the original herbarium of the Fan Memorial Institute in 1928.
We walk round the main buildings and into a wooded area – so different from the manicured gardens we have just vacated across the road.
We walk past a sign depicting a map of the Academy grounds. Apparently if you enter from the direction we came from, no one stops you as it is assumed you have business in the Academy.
But should you care to enter the grounds from the other end, you are charged the princely sum of 10 kwai as you are obviously just a rubberknecker. Many people get totally confused, pay their entrance fee to get in and only then discover they really should have crossed the road first to get into the real Botanic Gardens which is what they came for in the first place!
Some visitors, however, are oblivious to such niceties and prefer to snooze away the afternoons…
The Academy has developed into a national centre for Chinese plant collections and is the largest research centre for plant taxonomy in Asia. It contains more than 2.6 million specimens, ranging from fossils to seeds, mosses, ferns, and seed plants, with more than 17,000 type specimens involving more than 6,000 taxonomic names.
But unlike the pristine conservatory across the road in the Botanic Gardens, the greenhouses here are quite definitely showing their age.
But one has to remember that these are fully working research houses, rather than a display for visitors.
In one of the glass houses there are even bananas growing high above our heads
And though the facilities are not designed with visitors in mind, there are still plenty of explanatory signs dotted around the place.
My favourite area is the collection of cacti, especially the round "furry" ball types…
And on another cacti succulent, people have carved graffiti onto the leaves over the years
Songkai also shows us a Ficus religiosa specimen, presented to China by India. This was grown from a cutting taken from the "botree", the tree under which Buddha is said to have sat when he attained enlightenment after meditating for three days and nights.
In this motley collection, there are also numerous bonsai trees
as well as this gorgeous furry-fluffy-plant whose name escapes me (anyone able to tell me?).
But it is the outside gardens that are the most captivating within the grounds of the Academy. It was here that China's last emperor – Puyi – worked when he became a commoner … not in the Botanic Gardens across the road that many people mistakenly believe. Apparently he was very much into tending the orchids here.
Throughout the gardens there are little paths that lead you down unexpected avenues of trees, or plants, or beside pools…
In fact there are five pools in the gardens, though this one is by far the prettiest and most interesting.
Those plants in the middle are Victoria Regia water lilies – named after Britain's Queen Victoria – and originally a native of the shallow waters of the Amazon River basin. Some specimens have been known to be as large as three metres in diameter, though they are more normally found in cultivation up to around 40 cm. Their flowers are white the first night they are open and become pink after the second night.
Further along from this pond is an experimental vine garden into which visitors are not admitted.
But tragedy strikes. Within the grounds is a museum which I have never seen listed on the web. My blog fans know that I'm very much in to going round Beijing's museums.
Here is a museum that is devoted to displaying pressed wild flowers. Oh wow. I want… I want… But Songkai informs us that only researchers at the institute are allowed inside.
OMG – so near and yet so far! What a way to end our visit – knowing that I am to be denied setting eyes on such a collection. A new challenge has been thrown in the direction of your favourite blogger. Watch this space!


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Funded in FY2018 through the National Fish Habitat Action Plan.
The most substantial eelgrass bed remaining in any New York harbor is located in Coecles Harbor, Shelter Island. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is working with partners to improve the extent and quality of this nursery habitat by reducing the impact of traditional boat moorings on the remaining eelgrass. Traditional boat moorings use a block and chain design, which creates scour, removes eelgrass, and fragments and degrades habitat and water quality. Some of these moorings will be removed and replaced with conservation moorings, whose bungee-like design reduces impact to the bottom, allowing for eelgrass recovery and increased resiliency.
Please note, the mooring of boats and the establishment of mooring fields in seagrass beds is generally recognized as a significant source of damage to these important ecological communities across their range. As such, the Atlantic Coastal Fish Habitat Partnership only provided support to specific remediation actions at this and other designated project sites, which address historic damage caused by the scouring effects of traditional chain and block-anchor mooring systems. ACFHP does not support installing conservation moorings in healthy seagrass beds.
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Gov. Cuomo: Bronx teen is first New Yorker to die from vaping-related illnessPosted: Updated:
Gov. Andrew Cuomo confirmed Tuesday that a 17-year-old boy from the Bronx is the first New York resident to die from a vaping-related illness.
The boy was taken to Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx where he was pronounced dead.
Officials say the teen was hospitalized at Montefiore Medical Center in early September and readmitted later that month before succumbing to his illness last week.
The Bronx teen's death brings the national vaping death toll up to nearly two dozen.
Gov. Cuomo says, "This vaping is a public health crisis. It is affecting our young people. It has been marketed to young people. The federal government should act. The president had talked about taking action. I don't know how many people have to die before he takes action, but the state is already taking aggressive action."
The New York State Department of Health says, as of Tuesday, they have received 110 reports of severe pulmonary illness among patients who were vaping. The CDC says, as of Oct. 1, more than 1,000 cases of vaping related illnesses have been reported nationwide.
The CDC also reports products containing the marijuana compound THC appear to play a role in the outbreak of vaping or electronic cigarette related illnesses. But the specific chemical exposure causing e-cigarette lung injuries remains unknown.
The CDC adds that users may not know what is in their e-cigarettes. Many of the substances can be modified by suppliers and can bought in stores or off the street.
The state Department of Health says the flavored aerosol that vape users inhale is not harmless water vapor, but actually contains toxic chemicals. The state has moved to ban the sale of flavored vapes, a case now pending in courts.
Gov. Cuomo says it is illegal for cigarette manufacturers to target young people, but because tobacco companies own many vaping companies, they are able to get around the law.


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Rupert Guinness | June 16, 2009
WALLABIES winger Drew Mitchell is desperate to make the best of the guaranteed dry conditions expected in Melbourne for the second Test against Italy on Saturday night and prove he is the electric finisher for whom coach Robbie Deans is looking.
After earning a tick against his name for his kicking game against Italy in Canberra at the weekend, the 25-year-old with 30 Test caps knows that with so much competition among the outside-backs he can't afford to have a weakness in his game.
Against Italy, in the frost and cold, Mitchell was just one back who impressed, putting boot to ball to control where the game would be played - which for the most part was in Italy's half. Yet because of the conditions and the way the game panned out, Mitchell found himself short of opportunity to show off his finishing finesse and flare.
But he hopes to make up for it when the Wallabies play Italy at Etihad Stadium in Melbourne.
Thanks to the stadium having a roof that closes, the conditions are guaranteed to be dry and far more conducive to the Wallabies playing a running game.
First, Mitchell must be picked in the 22-man Wallabies squad to be named today. If that is the case, he realises that he will have to make the best of every opportunity that arises.
Breathing down his neck in the selection battle are Lote Tuqiri, who is desperate to fight back into the side after playing his last two games of rugby in the Shute Shield, and Peter Hynes, who is almost certain to come into the selection frame when he returns from injury. Fullback James O'Connor scored three tries on Saturday while five-eighth Matt Giteau and outside-centre Stirling Mortlock scored Australia's other two tries.
Yet Mitchell feels the Wallabies backs have much more to offer with the ball.
"The conditions [in Canberra] weren't too inviting to throw the ball around a great deal. I don't think any of the outside-backs saw too much ball attacking-wise," Mitchell said. "They were just the conditions, and we played to them. The boys in the midfield kicked really well which meant we played the ball right down the field most of the time.
"If anything, if we can manage to hold on to the ball and retain the ball, then I will be trying to have a bit more impact around the ground a bit more and get more involved."
Mitchell, who made his Test debut in 2005 against South Africa in Sydney, said that Deans wanted strong finishers, but "not just someone who waits for the ball. The big thing for the back three is for everyone to be seeking involvement and chasing the ball around".
Mitchell knows that Deans rates kicking as imperative in the big picture of the Wallabies' 2011 World Cup campaign.
"I hit a couple pretty well one down there in the corner, and my high ball came off pretty well as well," he said. "It's something you put a lot of attention into during the week.
"It's good that come game time when the pressure is on, you know you can rely on the work you have done through the week. Everyone who put foot to ball kicked quite well."
Mitchell said the rewards come from making countless kicks at training to make the discipline second nature under pressure.
"It's about trying to get hip to the target, squaring up and kicking through the ball," he said. "There are little cues we have been told by our kicking coaches. It makes sure that come game time you are aware of those little things."


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Has Bernanke learned an important lesson?
COMMENTARY Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke seems to have learned an important
lesson: Don't promise too much.
Bernanke on Wednesday told the House Committee on Financial Services that the central bank's Federal Open Market Committee, which sets monetary policy, does "not anticipate further substantial
declines in the unemployment rate over the course of this year. Looking beyond
this year, FOMC participants expect the unemployment rate to continue to edge
down only slowly toward levels consistent with the committee's statutory
Bernanke added that "participants agreed that strains in global financial markets posed significant downside risks to the economic outlook." There were other cautionary statements as well. That is quite a change from his pronouncement in 2009 that the Fed was seeing "green shoots" in the economy at the time, along with the many other optimistic statements about the prospects for recovery the Fed chief would go on to make. Time and again, the green shoots withered and policy ended up in catch-up mode rather than out in front of the economy, as it ought to be. Policymakers were consistently behind.
Bernanke stands by plan to keep record-low rates
Bernanke to face pressure on interest-rate policy
Tug of war at the Federal Reserve
I don't think either monetary or fiscal policymakers have been aggressive enough throughout the crisis, and I have also worried that policymakers in Congress and at the Fed would withdraw support for the economy too soon and harm the recovery. There's little chance that policy will match the aggressiveness I believe is called for, especially this late in the game. I'm still very worried about Congress turning to budget balancing before the economy is ready to handle it. Premature austerity could damage our recovery prospects.
But I'm becoming less concerned that the Fed will withdraw support too soon. It has committed to keeping interest rates low through the end of 2014, an extension of an earlier pledge to maintain them at that level through mid-2013. However, that commitment has wiggle room, and there are voices on the Fed who are calling for interest-rate increases now.
But as Bernanke made clear today, the Fed as a whole remains cautious, and monetary policymakers are not ready to conclude that our troubles are over. I think that's exactly the right stance to take -- hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. In the past, the Fed let its hopes interfere with its preparation, but this time does indeed appear to be different.


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Christian Fantasy And Magic
Three Stories Filled With Magic
The Rescue
The mob pushed closer to the house, beating on the doors and windows. It was only a matter of time before they broke in and killed us—or worse. One of the strangers stood and walked toward the door. He nodded, and the door burst open. He casually raised his hand and a blinding light radiated from it like a shockwave, leveling the men outside. They screamed, clutching at their eyes while blindly stumbling over one another in an effort to flee.
The Wizard
Priests danced around the fire, muttering dark enchantments. Nothing happened—no fire, no divine light—nothing.
Finally, the wizard stood up. The corners of his mouth twitched with mirth. "Need a little more practice, my friends?"
One of the older priests flung a curse in his direction.
"My, my! There's no need for that. Don't bite unless you have teeth. Here, let me show you how it's done." The wizard raised his staff into the air and closed his eyes. Two heart-beats later, the sky answered. Lightning, wrapped in flames of blue and green, struck the stones behind him. The lifeless bull, the rock altar, the water—all were gone—vaporized by the power of his God.
The Victory
A figure draped in a black robe wreathed with ebony flames stood guard by the stone—invisible to the onlookers. Invisible to all except me. He hovered just above the ground like some disembodied shadow barring my way. Despite their ignorance, the others reacted to his presence—weeping, beating their chests, wailing loudly as if the din alone could make him flee. No, that wouldn't do it. What lay inside was his, and he would not give it up so easily.
I felt the Power rise within me, and the dark sentinel immediately blanched. From somewhere within his robes his eyes zeroed in on me. He trembled, giving more life to the dark flames. I held out my hand and took a deep breath. One word burst into my mind. I couldn't hold it back and shouted it like a battle cry.
The stone split in two and fell away from the cave entrance. Like a stream of dust before a gale, Death was driven up over the mountain and into the open sky, shrieking as though I had dealt him the final blow. But no, that battle was still to come. With a clap of thunder, he was gone.
I let my eyes fall back to the cave. My friend stood in the dusty entrance, bound hand and foot by tattered strips of grave cloth.
"Take those off and let him go," I ordered those standing nearest me. "He is alive."
What should the Christian author's attitude toward magic be? In the Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis writes much of magic. There's the Deep Magic, the Deeper Magic, the enchantments of various magicians and witches, the curses of dragons, star magic—you get the picture. I have read that not all Christians at the time looked with kindness on his fictional amalgamation of the secret arts and Christianity. I guess this shouldn't surprise me. Even now, with such a literary giant as our forebear, how many people squirm when we Christian Fantasy writers show them our stories? After all, magic has connotations of supernatural power derived from somewhere other than God. But does it have to?
In my mind, Lewis, and others of his caliber (Tolkien, Lawhead, etc.) redeemed magic to its higher, nobler form—the creative display of God's power through his children to further the Kingdom. A brief glance at Aslan, Gandalf, or Merlin's power is all it takes to see how authors can elevate magic from darkly arcane, to holy and vibrant. Of course, to make ourselves feel better, we call this sort of holy power "miracles" when we discuss it in Sunday School. But in reality, the definitions for both magic and miracles include the same core element—supernatural power altering the course of normal events. And when we read Biblical accounts of God intervening in the world, we shouldn't lose sight of how "magical" they would've appeared to those experiencing them—hence the examples above.
I know, I know: I embellished the details. But honestly, I didn't change the stories that much. Isn't it reasonable to think an angel would have telekinetic powers, that Elijah would have been viewed as a wizard by the ignorant, or that Jesus would've seen into the spirit world while raising Lazarus from the dead?
Okay. Great. So what?
I'm glad you asked. When God moves to spread the gospel among unreached people groups, there are frequent displays of supernatural power . . . even in our modern times. Want some proof? Check out Craig Keener's Miracles, which is one of the first encyclopedic, rigorously researched forays into the reliability of modern miracle accounts. I have both volumes and they are HUGE and chock-full of corroborating evidence. His goal was to methodically catalog for the Western church what the Body of Christ in other parts of the world already knows: God still works miracles and pretty frequently. Displays of supernatural power further the gospel. Who wouldn't be impacted by a true, genuine healing?
Therefore, if we are writing Christian fantasy, and our goal is to reflect something of God's truth through our craft, shouldn't we take a page out of the Holy Spirit's playbook and portray the power of God as it actually is—amazing, miraculous, magical? I think so. If we left magical elements out of our stories, we would not represent God as he presents himself to us in the Bible. And it is, after all, THE archetypal fantasy story.
So, Christian Fantasy writers everywhere: hold your heads high when next you write of good magic. You're in impressive company.
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Nathan grew up in the woods of Alabama, where he spent his time exploring, hiking, and dreaming up stories. Now, as a child/adolescent therapist and author, he's teaching kids and teens how to redeem their stories using Biblical principles. He still lives in Alabama, where you will find him with his wife and three kids every chance he gets.
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Those were powerful vignettes. What a great way to remind us that we're drawing inspiration from the greatest myth–as Tolkien described it–the story of Jesus!
Those examples were fabulous. *applauds*
I usually shy away from overly-miraculous things in my stories, simply because of personal preference, but I may try some experimentation now.
Trying to equate Elijah with a wizard seems like much the same problematic comparison some make in equating the Holy Spirit with the Force in Star Wars. There are a few outward similarities, but even greater differences, and those differences are very important.
The main difference is in the idea of who has control, either real or apparent. In the magical view, if the user says the right words, makes the right gestures, uses the right tools, and so on, then the user gets the desired result. The magic user is the one in control. But the point of the biblical view of God is that we are not in control, we come to Him as petitioners, but He is free to act as He sees fit, and even to act when we would rather He didn't or not act when we desperately wish He would.
And that's one reason trying to equate "miracles" with "magic" is questionable.
Perhaps to better understand most people's wariness of magic in stories, some parallel examples might help. Could we imagine a Christian story set in a world in which adultery was morally ok? Or one in which child sacrifices were a holy sacrament?
There are things that cannot be salvaged. The best that can said about them is that they are perversions of the truth–adultery is a perversion of marriage, child sacrifice is a perversion of the sacrifice of Christ. Magic isn't the same as the miraculous, it is a perversion of it.
And yet Gandalf, called a "wizard," behaves much more like a miracle-working prophet than the stereotypical mage character who does not serve a Power higher than himself.
I think the key issue has to do with this phrase: "…magic has connotations of supernatural power derived from somewhere other than God. But does it _have_ to?" If we follow the suggestions in this article, we'll write magic that is clearly supernatural power derived from God. The problem is, then we're making statements about what kind of power comes from God. If we're not careful, this can result in problems like the you one pointed out – magic is generally presented as being under our control, yet we know that the power from God manifested in miracles is totally under His control.
This is one reason I like logical, naturalistic magic systems, for lack of a better term – powers that are presented as just another part of the world, with nothing particularly supernatural about them. They still derive from God's power, of course – but in the same way the whole world works by His power. Magic is something to use for good or ill the same as any plants, animals, natural laws, resources… You can avoid some of the problems of making statements about the nature of God's power, because you aren't creating a new type of power derived from God; your magic is just another variation of the existing power manifest in God's creation.
Anyways, I think you raise some very good points, Audie, but they are not insurmountable obstacles to writing theologically sound magic.


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I am so happy to tell you that my B1/B2 visa interview went well, and my application was approved in the embassy! I would like to help you, who are thinking to apply or have an appointment already and want to get ready for the visa interview!
1. step: Find out, if that is the right visa for you
A B1/B2 visa is good for people who want to travel to the USA for up to 6 months, or who has some business-related meeting, conference, etc. The tourist visa is the B2 and the business is B1, but usually, they give it together,
2. step: Apply for the visa online
You have to go to the US Government site, and fill out the DS-160 form. Here is the link to the form: https://bit.ly/2GlgOg8
You will need a passport photo, which has very strict restrictions, read them here before you start the application: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/photos.html
After you fill out the form, you have to book a visa interview appointment. To book the appointment, you need to visit the website of the US Embassy in your country. For me, the wait time was more than a month, so think about to apply for the visa in advance! By the way, the cost for this is $160, and you have to pay
3. step: The B1/B2 visa interview
You must bring the followings with you:
-DS-160 form
-application confirm page
Other than these, you should bring documents, that support your case to get the visa. For example bank statements, to prove that you have enough money to travel, invitation letter, trip plan, documents that showing a strong connection to your country(marriage certificate, children, property ownership, evidence of employment, monthly bills, and so on…)
In my case, they didn't ask for any of these, but that doesn't mean, they won't ask for them in anybody else's case!
At the interview, the consul asked me some questions: What is the purpose of my traveling, how long I'm gonna be staying, where I'm gonna stay, do I have a current employer, did I go to the States before, and what did I do for living there. (Because I've spent 2 years in the US before.)
All together it takes about 5 minutes to get through, then he said a few days and they will inform me when the visa is ready. In the same day afternoon, I got the email, that my passport is ready to pick up!
4. step: Get a plane ticket!
Yayyy! Now you have your tourist visa, you can buy your plane ticket and fly to the beautiful America! Don't buy your tickets or make hotel reservations, before your visa is approved. Once you have the visa in your hand, you can make plans and travel to the US!
Important notice: Usually they give you the tourist visa for 10 years, BUT you can only stay up to 6 months at a time. At the border security, when you enter the country, they will stamp or write a date, when you have to leave the country. Do NOT overstay your time, because you will become illegal and this may affect your future entries to the US.


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BBC launches Enhanced Search
Earlier this week we began a phased roll-out of our new site search. New features include:
- A brand-new search which intelligently tailors the display to the specific query the user enters
- The addition of featured content to search result pages
- Improved links to non-BBC content
- More accurate results through improved meta-data creation
Our aim in designing this new search experience has been to present search results in a way that makes sense of the huge variety of content available on bbc.co.uk. It should be effortless to find a specific piece of content and enjoyable to explore everything that we have on a subject.
The richness and diversity of the BBC's internet content (News, Blogs, iPlayer, Weather, Sport, Recipes and so on) places demands on site search that are different from more focused websites and this led us to explore original solutions to enterprise search.
As you will see in this post, our solution is a major departure from traditional enterprise search designs. So, for the rest of this post, I'd like to give you some insight into how we reached our decision to make such a significant change to the way we deliver our search results.
As always we would love to hear your views on these changes.
The challenge of site searchLast year, Erik Huggers challenged our team to "deliver a step-change" in the quality of site search.
This was a daunting challenge, but as always the first thing to do was to define the problem. This meant analysing what users are searching for and which results they are clicking on.
To explain what we found, consider this list of the 50 most popular searches in December 2009.
The third column shows the click-through rate (%CTR) for each term, i.e. what percentage of people who searched for that term actually decided to click on a result. The higher the %CTR the more satisfied we believe users to be.
Notice that I have colour coded the different search terms. Green are searches where the user is looking for something specific: usually a part of the BBC website (iPlayer, the Weather website, Bitesize) or a named programme (EastEnders, Top Gear, Doctor Who). Red ones are searches where the user is looking for something about a topic - a particular person, a country or city, a subject or news event.
Look what happens when you average the %CTR for these two types of search:
Looking for something specific 83.86%
Looking for something about a topic 63.91%
As you can see when you want to get something specific, the BBC site search is pretty effective. But if you want to find things about a person, place, subject or event the experience is patchy.
So we began to re-develop site search to improve this type of search, which I call Topic Searches.
To start with we asked "why are Topic Searches less successful?" The answer is surely that the intentions of the person doing this type of search are less clear. When you search for merlin or top gear or travel news the intended results are easy to predict. But when you search for iran, what do you want? The latest news about Iran? Some background information on the country? A programme that's available on iPlayer?
What about searches for Delia Smith? Do you want to know when her next programme is being broadcast? Do you want to follow one of her recipes?
Results display: the problem with search result listsWe then looked at how the results were being presented and whether this was hindering users' understanding and therefore depressing the click through rate.
The traditional way to present search results is as a single list ordered by relevance to the search term. This has been our approach up until now. But it has never been great for topic searches. Here is what one interviewee said during some research we carried out:
"The search just throws everything at you, you would have to spend ages just looking through the pages to find what you need."
There are two big problems that make a single list approach very difficult:
- You need to understand what the user means to know what relevance scores to give to their results. Two searchers may want two different things but use the same search term - one user may search for swine flu looking for a description of the symptoms whereas another may use exactly the same search term but be interested in news about the latest outbreaks.
- Different types of content are relevant for different reasons. The most relevant news article is the most recent one (unless of course someone is looking for a specific article). Whereas for archive programmes or background articles date is much less important, the most relevant thing is the one "most about" the subject.
This means that when you try to produce a homogenised, "relevance ranked" list of results you need to add biases and boosts to different types of content to get the right results to the top of the list. With the diverse content on offer on bbc.co.uk, this is nearly impossible.
(It's worth noting that the major search engines have also been moving from a single list view to a more modular set of results over the last few years. Google for instance include modules of results from their verticals - News, Video, Blogs, Maps and now Tweets - blended into their Web results. Google's Marissa Mayer laid out their strategy in a post in 2007, Danny Sullivan has a great explanation too.)
So our solution rejects the single list approach and instead introduces "Smart Zones".
The New, Enhanced BBC Site Search: Smart ZonesThis is a close-up taken from the results page I got when I searched the new system for David Cameron on Friday.
As you can see, the results are split up into sections or "zones" - in this case: News, iPlayer and Knowledge (the zone which holds background and in-depth content). The content in each zone is ordered in the most appropriate way - so that you see the latest News but the most relevant Knowledge items.
Of course zones are nothing new in search result pages but - this is the clever bit - these zones order themselves on the page depending on the search query, the matching content available and what we think users find most important. So every time you search you will see the best possible ordering of available results.
For example, compare the results above with a search for David Cameron I did on Sunday morning just after he had been interviewed on The Andrew Marr Show. You can see that the News and iPlayer zones have swapped places as the system has calculated that the interview is likely to be the most popular result.
When I searched for Ryan Giggs, the Sport zone appears in the results.
Searchers can see all zones or focus in on one particular zone. Here I have searched for Jonathan Ross and I have selected to expand the News zone to see more News content (note all the other zones are still available on the right of the screen reminding you that other relevant content is available).
Other Enhancements to Search: Highlighted ContentThis is a search for George Orwell. As well as search results we also show profiles for certain people. In this case it is from the BBC History site.
Likewise, a search for India returns the BBC Country Profile and the latest weather forecast. (Note that no new content is being produced here, we are just finding new ways to draw attention to our best web pages). We will be working to increase the amount of highlighted BBC content over the coming months and highlighting the best content from other websites.
Other Enhancements to Search: Extra results from around the webHere I have highlighted another zone that appears for most searches - Around the Web. This shows relevant content from other news providers. In the image below the search was for Simon Cowell.
Other Enhancements to Search: Extended query termsHere is a close-up of a section of the results for a search for Prince Charles. Some journalists will refer to the Prince as Prince Charles, others as The Prince of Wales. Our system knows this and automatically includes synonyms of your search terms (as shown in the detail below).
Other Enhancements to Search: Better results through added content structureOne of the advantages that site searches have over internet web search engines is that we can influence the way content is produced to improve the quality of our search results. We have put a system in place that uses search to suggest the most relevant tags for BBC content. Content producers accept or reject these tags before they are committed to the system. The tags are then used to influence the results that are returned when you search the website.
Note this system is in its infancy so it will take some time before the improvements in result relevance are apparent for every search.
Other Enhancements to Search: Addressable search resultsAll search result pages have unique and persistent urls. This makes it very easy for people to link to everything that the BBC has about a topic. In time public APIs will allow other systems to request feeds of content about a topic.
Phased Roll-outThe roll-out will be phased. We'll be monitoring our metrics (usage, click-throughs etc) and the feedback we receive to tune the product during the deployment cycle.
At the moment only about 11,000 search terms will return the enhanced results detailed above.
Over the coming weeks more and more searches will return the enhancements until every search works in this way. There will be additional zones added into the results and we have a slate of new features that are in development.
We will also be using the technologies we have built here to produce exciting new applications. One of the objectives we are focusing on is how we can use these tools to make you aware that there is new content about things that are of interest to you as soon as it is published. Watch out for something special when the BBC Homepage re-launches in the very near future.
Matthew McDonnell is Head of Search, BBC.
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Comment number 1.At 18:04 13th Jan 2010, SheffTim wrote:
'Google' and 'Facebook' may be in your list from user attempts to reach those sites.
Would you put links to external sites in your results?
Comment number 2.At 18:20 13th Jan 2010, Matthew McDonnell wrote:
You are quite right SheffTim, a lot of people search for external sites and we should give them links to those sites as the first result. We will be rolling out this feature soon and have chosen not to enhance results for searches for 'Google' and 'Facebook' until it is in place (the existing search does carry external website links though not as prominently as I would like).
Comment number 3.At 18:22 13th Jan 2010, Josh wrote:
@SheffTim: Could it not be that people were searching for, say, news articles about Google and Facebook, rather than the sites themselves?
Comment number 4.At 18:27 13th Jan 2010, Matthew McDonnell wrote:
@saxsux: You are also right. This is the idea that we are trying to bring out in the new design - if you are just looking to navigate to Facebook then here is the link; if you want to read about facebook then here is the related news, programmes and so on.
Comment number 5.At 19:02 13th Jan 2010, Frankie Roberto wrote:
Do you take into account the page that the user is searching *from*? For example, if I'm searching from the BBC News website, then I'm more likely to be interested in BBC News articles, and so you should show that module more prominently, in the same way that if you're searching from iPlayer, you're more likely to be interested in iPlayer content (which is currently all you get).
Comment number 6.At 19:18 13th Jan 2010, Matthew McDonnell wrote:
Frankie Roberto - it currently doesn't but it almost certainly will in the future. It is too valuable a clue to the user's intention to ignore. The question is *how much* should the location you search from influence the result mix? We need to balance it right so that if the most interesting thing we have is not from the section of the site you have come from, it is not lost in the mix.
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Comment number 10.At 02:57 14th Jan 2010, Charles Knight wrote:
Requesting permission to republish this article with full attribution.
House rules prohibit giving my blog URL or my contact information?
Contact Us page was uneventful.
Comment number 11.At 07:29 14th Jan 2010, Matthew McDonnell wrote:
Charles Knight: republishing with attribution is fine. Sorry you had such trouble.
Comment number 12.At 08:40 14th Jan 2010, Nick Reynolds wrote:
Hi Charles - the house rules shouldn't stop you linking to your blog in a comment. It would depend on whether you were spamming or not!
Why not simply use an extract from Matt's blog and then link to the full text?
Comment number 13.At 09:00 14th Jan 2010, Keith wrote:
Hopefully some of the URLs will tidied up so that eventually they all use /search, as some URLs still refer to the /topics beta. It's nice to see more of the site are getting integrated into the search. Would be nice if in time it could eliminate the secondary search box which appears on some sections of the BBC (eg. h2g2).
Comment number 14.At 09:26 14th Jan 2010, Matthew McDonnell wrote:
Keith: The /topics URLs and the the equivalent /search URLs return the same results. This is to retain the integrity of any links people might have made to the Topic Pages we created last year. In time we will probably retire the /topics URLs and redirect them to /search.
The next aim of this project is to harmonise all the different search experiences on the BBC website. This will address the two search boxes issue among other things. I will post in more detail once our plans are firmed up.
Comment number 15.At 14:59 14th Jan 2010, John99 wrote:
It allways helps to give the user more options to customise a search, I guess the difficult part is trying to make it easy enough for the majority of users to be able to see and utilise the additional features.
It does seem to be an improvement from a cursory glance at the blog and a quick trial of some search terms.
You compare with google, they of course also have an 'advanced search' option from a link adjacent to the search field expanding the customisation even more for those making the effort, will you be considering anything similar
Comment number 16.At 15:03 14th Jan 2010, Charles Knight wrote:
Matthew and Nick:
Thank you. Using an excerpt and linking to the original article is indeed the way to go.
Charles Knight, editor
Comment number 17.At 15:06 14th Jan 2010, John99 wrote:
Your top ranked search term is 'iPlayer'
Some users may want to search the iPlayer MessageBoards. Is the search facility of that going to be improved. (either within the messageboard or within the main BBC search) For example how about the ability to search the message board thread titles, surely a useful idea.
Currently the messageboard host suggests using an external search engine ! if searching the threads. The help/faq section of the iPlayer messageboard is searchable but it is pretty basic.
Comment number 18.At 15:12 14th Jan 2010, John99 wrote:
On the subject of iPlayer this time the programme search.
This often seems to give slightly unexpected results, is this going to be made to work well, and/or enhanced also.
Comment number 19.At 18:24 14th Jan 2010, Matthew McDonnell wrote:
John99: Three good points.
You are right about getting the balance right between catering for the casual user and the more active user. Our plan is to enable zone-specific filters to allow active users to specify exactly what they want.
Messageboard searching is on the roadmap for development.
Have you an example of the unexpected iplayer results you were seeing? iPlayer search is something we are always aiming to improve so any specific problems are very good to know about.
Comment number 20.At 21:06 14th Jan 2010, John99 wrote:
Matthew: Thanks for the reply
"Have you an example of the unexpected iplayer results you were seeing?"
Not sure I remember last one that I cam e across, but one I did post a reply about was the difficulty of finding the R4 programme called Today. Which is not returned when 'today' is typed in (I just tried it it still does not work) see thread where you will note the original poster was complaining that this is a re-occurring problem.
I am sure you will find many other threads about similar problems, but we need to use search engines to try to find them at present!
How do I put quotes in, 'quote' tag used in iPlayer mb does not work neither did 'q' or 'blockquote', or maybe I got syntax wrong.
Comment number 21.At 11:52 15th Jan 2010, Matthew McDonnell wrote:
John99: Re Today search in iPlayer. I am looking into this. In the meantime a search on the main BBC site brings back the right result - https://search.bbc.co.uk/search?go=homepage&scope=all&q=today&Search=Search
Nick Reynolds may be able to help you with the iPlayer messageboard problem.
Comment number 22.At 13:37 15th Jan 2010, John99 wrote:
Anyone : general enquiry re use of this blog
Are quotations from other comments used on these blogs, if so how do I enter them? (Is any method standard across most BBC blogs now ?)
I asked above [msg # 20]
"How do I put quotes in, 'quote' tag used in iPlayer mb does not work neither did 'q' or 'blockquote', or maybe I got syntax wrong."
My wording was rather clumsy. On the iPlayer mesageboard the recommended method as in this link often used by posters on that mb is the 'quote' tag. I only know how to to use bold or very small on this blog to try to make a quote stand out.
@Matthew [msg #21]
Thanks for reply, I was giving an example as you requested, & chose a current problem.
Comment number 23.At 00:23 16th Jan 2010, John99 wrote:
Typo msg#24 corrected link
Comment number 24.At 03:10 17th Jan 2010, mikehill33 wrote:
Kudos on an extremely innovative approach to search. Your ideas of relevance and content grouping are light years ahead of your time.
would love to know what is on your bookshelf and who is in your Twitter feed.
I am an Information Architect and am just embarking on proposing a radical search experience, and am definitely using your site as a solid example of a site that "gets it".
Good luck on your data tuning, I will definitely be watching!
Comment number 25.At 04:17 18th Jan 2010, onlinewill wrote:
I searched there, but for the terms that I am searching, I see good results, however, it says for UK visitors only. And it does not give any RSS opportunities as google search does.
Comment number 26.At 13:55 18th Jan 2010, Matthew McDonnell wrote:
John99: I have been meeting this morning about the problem with the Today Programme not appearing in iPlayer search results. Our engineers have a fix in place but rolling it out may take some time due to the pressures the iPlayer team are currently under. Rest assured, "Today" will be at the top of the results in iPlayer in the near future.
mikehill33: Thanks so much for your comments - it is great to get positive reactions from someone who works in this area and clearly knows the challenges of site search. I hope your radical search experience gets adopted by your clients and implemented. I think site searches around the web are in desperate need of some fresh ideas.
onlinewill: Where did it say "for UK visitors only"? There are some types of BBC content that are not cleared for international use (some iPlayer programmes for instance", did you see that message when you clicked on an iPlayer result? We are planning to adjust to take account of international rights limitations in the future.
RSS feeds of search results is a top priority that you should start to see pretty soon.
Comment number 27.At 11:50 25th Jan 2010, SheffTim wrote:
The new search makes it harder to locate the BBC Webwise online course materials. (I work in a learning centre.)
The first link to anything actually related to the Webwise course is #9, near the bottom of the page.
Even then it takes a further click to get to the course start page, if you know where to look.
It seems strange that Webwise isn't the top result (try it); it would certainly help those new to the Web if it were (hint), which it should be.
Comment number 28.At 19:03 25th Jan 2010, Matthew McDonnell wrote:
SheffTim: What search were you running?
Learning content (including webwise) isnt yet included in these search results. we are working on this at the moment and the results will cover all BBC output very soon. In the meantime traditional search is still available.
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Comment number 30.At 15:48 2nd Apr 2010, Kim Gjerstad wrote:
A happy reader is one that complains: please setup RSS for search results. We've been waiting. :-)
Comment number 31.At 13:59 16th Apr 2010, Matthew McDonnell wrote:
Kim: sorry for the delayed response. RSS feeds are in development and on their way soon. I'll post when they are available.
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Astronomers peering out into the clear Antarctic sky appear to have found a key missing piece of the puzzle to our universe.
Embedded in radiation from the Big Bang they found the signature of gravitational waves, first predicted by Einstein nearly a century ago. The discovery also validates an extraordinary model for the birth of the universe known as "inflation", which was proposed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist Alan Guth in 1980. The team headed by John Kovac from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics delivered their news at a press conference at Harvard University on 16 March.
"The significance of these new findings is enormous," Guth told MIT News. "As far as we know, there is nothing other than inflation that can produce these waves."
Inflation is a refinement of the Big Bang theory, which says that the universe underwent a period of prodigious growth in the first fractions of a second after its birth. Belgian Catholic priest and cosmologist George Lemaître proposed the Big Bang theory in 1931 to explain how all the galaxies in the sky seem to be moving away from us. His theory gave the universe an original birth moment at which its density was infinitely large and its size infinitely small, conditions that couldn't help but cause a very big bang. Refinements of the theory in the 1970s added to the picture.
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For its first 380,000 years, the universe was a hot, seething soup of particles impenetrable to light. As it cooled, several things happened. The particles coalesced to form atoms, the soup cleared, and for the first time light was able to travel out through the universe. That ancient light is still echoing around the cosmos 13.8 billion years later, stretched and cooled a thousand-fold by the universe's expansion. Today it is a faint glow that pervades the entire sky, known as the cosmic microwave background (CMB). One characteristic of that ancient afterglow is that wherever you look in the cosmos its intensity appears to be the same. And according to the Big Bang theorists' calculations that ought not to be the case.
Guth's solution was to propose that during the Big Bang, the universe went through a faster-than-light expansion he dubbed "inflation". He calculated it began a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth (10-36) of a second after the birth of the universe when it momentarily fell into a weird state dominated by a repulsive form of gravity which, instead of pulling things together, pushed everything apart exponentially.
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Thanks to the muscular efforts of BICEP2, the last element of Einstein's theory of relativity has now been vindicated. The historic result comes after 13 years' work for the team. A succession of custom-designed telescopes have hunted for B modes: BICEP1, which operated from 2006 to 2008, BICEP2, which ran from 2010 to 2012 and the current Keck Array of five telescopes. All were located in Antarctica to take advantage of the dry, thin atmosphere, which gives a clear view of the sky.
When the signal was first detected by BICEP2, the team thought it was just noise in the data, says Bock. But then the newer, more sensitive Keck Array came online, and the same signal could be seen.
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Although the pattern seemed to match, the signal seemed almost too strong to be true. So the astronomers drew up a list of possible sources of false signals and worked their way through the list, discounting them one by one, said Bock. "For the last three months, we compared the data from the three experiments, and they agreed, so we were pretty confident."
The ability to measure primordial gravitation waves provides an amazing window back to the first moments of the universe, says Bock. "The fact that we have seen this signal is going to usher in a new era that we can mine for all it's worth by measuring the fluctuations on the whole sky. So, that'll be the work for the next decade."
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Ogunyemi said: "We are dissatisfied with the way government is handling issues that concern education in this country. Government must not make promises that it cannot fulfill.
"At the last Memorandum of Understanding we had with the government in 2013, it promised to release N30 billion in two tranches and the balance in 2017 as part of our fund for revitalisation.
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"I want to state that this is a serious matter in the circle of ASUU.''
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"Just last week, we heard reports that a group of lecturers who are loyal to the management and who are not recognised by the national body but call themselves ASUU were paid this EAA, excluding our members who are qualified for it.
"We want to express our dissatisfaction over the development while we wait on government to look into the issue and come out with an acceptable solution."
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