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Steve: Welcome to Science Talk, the podcast of Scientific American for the seven days starting June 14th. I am Steve Mirsky.This week on the podcast: an evolution update. We will talk to freelance reporter, Beth Baldwin, who recently attended a big Molecular Biology and Evolution meeting and Scientific American's paleontology and anthropology expert, Kate Wong will talk about some new wrinkles in human evolution that she found out about at another conference.Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news.First up, Beth Baldwin. She is an attorney, which may give her a special insight into evolution seeing as how Darwin called his presentation of the case "one long argument." Baldwin also closely follows evolution news. I met her at the Dover intelligent design trial and she reports on the subject for radio. I called her at her home in Erie, Pa.
Steve: Hi Beth, how are you?
Beth: I am good Steve. How are you?
Steve: I am fine. Good to talk to you. So, you just returned recently from the annual meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution and the specific conference was called Genomes, Evolution, and Bioinformatics, right.
Beth: That's right.
Steve: What really stood out for you at the meeting?
Beth: Well, there were a number of keynote addresses that were very interesting, but [the] first one was given by a recent contributor to Scientific American. He is actually a physicist, not a biologist. His name is László Barabási and he discussed biological networks. Biological network is a very hot topic because if you know the sequences of multiple genomes have just generated a huge amount of information and the amount of information that you can really manage at this point. So, in order to mind the data to make it usable, computer scientists and information scientists really need to corroborate with molecular biologists and evolutionary biologists and see if they can generate anything that anybody can do anything with.
Steve: So, it's just a way to try to deal with the massive amounts of data that the current technology enables you to generate.
Beth: You know, that's right and it's a specific way of dealing with it. Could you picture the difference if you can between a plain old roadmap that you see in any Rand McNally atlas and what you see at the back of an insight magazine where, you know, airlines show their routes, you really do see a hub-and-spokes kind of visual image in terms of, you know, Chicago or Dallas or Atlanta. It's just having a whole lot of connection—and some put out, you know, in the middle of the boondocks like Erie, Pa, you know, it doesn't have a lot of connections to it—and the nonrandomness of connections in those kinds of networks Barabási and others have analogized to the protein interaction that happens in biological system. So, there is a preferential connection between important proteins and those important proteins just are involved in as many papillaries.
Steve: That's really interesting. So, what's the connection between that and evolution?
Beth: That's a great question because really when you think about it, they are very intimately related. Single-cell wise is the master of metabolism. There are so many different ways that unicellular life forms make their living—everything from, you know, hydrogen sulfide metabolism to ammonia metabolism to, you know, ferrous iron metabolism. Multicellular life doesn't do that. If metabolism is very conserved that is not really the variety, but what necessary [thing] the life learned to do is to manage information and that's why network biology and biological networks is such a hot point now, because being able to manage genetic information within a cell so that off and on [is] when it needs to be turned off and on to develop, you know, the several hundred cell-type organism that we are is how necessary the life has being just naked DNA with the physiology that makes multicellular life cell-diverse and interesting.
Steve: That's great. What else jumped at you from the meeting that you saw there?
Beth: Well, Sean Carroll, a geneticist, who is both a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and for him I think regulatory changes as opposed to protein changes in DNA solve a big problem in biology and that is you may have, you know, heard the phrase the complexity catastrophe and that's the problem that happens when you have genes that have multiple effects. We all know that genes do play trophic effects, epistatic effects where genes interact with one another. How do you change protein sequence and not have it make huge problems throughout an organism if one gene is having many effects? It's sort of like how do you remodel 747 in flight? You are going to have problems. One of the ways to sort of circumvent that problem is the concept that's really hot now of regulatory evolution, but they are noncoding sequences that happen.
Steve: Let's explain: a coding sequence would be a stretch of DNA that actually codes directly for a protein for example and a noncoding sequence would be another stretch of DNA that in some way is involved in whether or not that other protein is going to get made.
Beth: That's exactly right. For example, a protein that makes melanin and does make pigmentation in a fruit's life versus that part of the DNA sequence that is pretty close to it, it may be, you know, hundred to thousands of nucleotide bases, but it's on the same chromosome. There are areas upstream and downstream is the lingo of gene where these regulatory regions lie and they are actually five to 10 bases long and they are bind inside. They are grooved sort of in the DNA where proteins known as transcription factors in certain cells [are found] and their presence, some people think it causes the DNA—the bands and loop and coil around—[OK? NOT REALLY SURE HOW TO DEAL WITH THIS PHRASE]so that the promoter sequences that actually start gene transcription get activated. This regulatory system is they are the couple from the protein sequences themselves. You get a lot of sort of combinatorial power. You can change a regulatory sequence that might control whether the protein itself, the melanin is expressed in a vein spot or in the veins that are outflow veins or the edge of a vein without changing the actual gene product.
Steve: You can have big evolutionary change without having massive genomic change because you can just turn on or turn off the genes for certain things, you know, just by analyzing the genome that only gives you so much info. There is a lot of other stuff going on in how the genome gets used.
Beth: That's exactly right. You probably heard the famous quote from Barbara McClintock. She won the Nobel Prize for her work on transposon[s]—those jumping genes. Her quote is that 'if you give me a fertilized male egg and I can control the timing, when genes are turned off and on, I can make an elephant,' you know—that's translation, but that's the concept.
Steve: I never heard that. That's great.
Beth: Yeah. The animal genome, the protein coding part of metazoan genome, is amazingly conserved and that it is featuring with when and where genes are turned off and on, but that's where we get the amazing morphological diversity that we see.
Steve: Beth thanks very much. Pleasure talking to you.
Beth: I really enjoyed it. Thanks so much, Steve.
Steve: The Barabási article for SciAm that Baldwin talked about was in our May 2003 issue. It's available at www.sciamdigital.com Baldwin told me that [at] the end of Sean Carroll's talk he put up a slide to illustrate the power of regulatory change. The slide featured this "give me one example that proves evolution, one example—you can't." The next slide then had the attribution for the quote "Tom Delay, House majority leader." The next slide then made the kind of tiny regulatory change that has major ramifications. It just added the letters "e," "x" so that Delay was now, which he is: the ex-House majority leader. Minor change big effect. Yes, it's ironic Delay famously said "our school systems teach the children, [that][OK?] they are nothing but glorified apes who are evolutionized out of some primordial soup." What's ironic is that Delay was an exterminator before joining Congress. He might have helped evolutionize pesticide-resistant insects. We'll be right back.
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Steve: Now it's time to play TOTALL.......Y BOGUS. Here are four science stories. Only three are true. See if you know which story is TOTALL.......Y BOGUS:
Story number 1: A genetic predisposition for becoming an entrepreneur. A study with identical twins shows that if one twin has a freelance-type career, the other has a significantly greater chance of also freelancing.
Story number 2: By using sounds decoded by the brain's higher learning centers, a new cell phone ring tone can only be heard by people with IQs over about a 120.
Story number 3: Another cell phone item: high cell phone usage among teenagers may be a sign of depression or anxiety.
Story number 4: Most millipedes don't really come close to the thousand legs their name implies, but a species of millipede with almost 800 legs has been rediscovered after not being seen for 80 years.
We'll be back with the answer, but first, Kate Wong. She is the editorial director of Scientific American.com and she is the magazine's resident paleo and anthropology expert. We talked at our offices in Manhattan.
Steve: Hey Kate, how are you doing?
Kate: I am doing well, Steve. Thanks.
Steve: And you just got back from a big meeting in Puerto Rico.
Kate: That's right. I was attending the annual meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society in San Juan.
Steve: What really jumped out at you at that meeting?
Kate: Well, one of the most exciting discoveries in recent years has been a set of fossils from a site called Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia, and this is where the oldest human remains outside of Africa have turned up and they are not at all what researchers expected to find.
Steve: And how are they not like what researchers expected?
Kate: Well, [the] fossil record indicates that humans evolved in Africa as many as seven million years ago and prior to the Dmanisi discovery, it looked as though hominids didn't make it out until around a million years ago. So, the conventional wisdom about this lengthy departure delay was that before humans could leave Africa, they needed to evolve long striding limbs and also invent relatively more sophisticated stone tools.
Steve: Because you got to walk and you got to do things on the way.
Kate: Right, need to butcher. So, the Georgian fossils—and these are representatives of the species Homo erectus,—they show that the migration actually began much earlier than that because they are around 1.8 million years old and they show that these first pioneers were in fact smaller and had more primitive tools than previously thought.
Steve: Primitive tools so they couldn't butcher necessarily or they were just good enough to butcher, but not good enough for anything else?
Kate: They were as good at butchering as the people who came later, who had fancier tools.
Steve: So, what is all this, tell us what's the new current picture of the picture long ago?
Kate: Well, all of this begs a question of, what finally enabled our ancestors to leave their native land and begin spreading across the globe? And at the meeting Marc Meyer of the University of Pennsylvania gave a talk that suggested language was the key.
Steve: Because if a bunch of people are on the move they need to be able to say to each other, "Hey, get over here. We are going that way."
Kate: Maybe. (laughs) So, researchers thought that Homo erectus lacked the ability to speak because it possessed a spinal cord that was too small to control, with sufficient precision, the muscles involved in the speech production. And this conclusion was based on what there, for a long time, [was] the only known Homo erectus vertebrae. These were found in the famous Kenyan fossil known as Turkana boy, and the vertebral canals—and we are talking about the holes in the vertebrae through which the spinal cord passes. The vertebral canals from this specimen were very constricted, indicating that the Turkana boy had a spinal cord that was really only about the size of a chimp's. But Meyer's analysis of the Dmanisi vertebrae and the Turkana one's showed that the Dmanisi people had vertebral canals that were just about as large as those of modern humans and this suggest[s] that they had moderate spinal cords that would have enabled precise control of the diaphragm, the abdominals and other muscles involved in the speaking. So, Meyer's work doesn't prove that Homo erectus communicated a decent language, but it raises the possibility that these guys could have and if so, maybe that's what allowed this species to become the trailblazer.
Steve: Right. So, the size of your vertebral opening down in your lower back is going to be related to your ability to construct the sentences that we are using right now.
Kate: That's right and that doesn't say anything about whether Homo erectus had this sort of symbolic capacities that modern humans have. So, we are only talking about whether they had the physical ability to produce speech.
Steve: So, the specimen with small openings in the vertebra, is that an anomaly? Is that a diseased individual? What do people think that was?
Kate: Well, Meyer thinks that the Turkana boy had a disease that constricted his spinal cord and so therefore he doesn't represent the norm for Homo erectus. What's additionally interesting about that is that the disease may have posed chronic health and locomotor difficulties in this individual that actually got worse as he aged and these problems could have included a spastic gait, numbness and weakness in his extremities and abnormalities in his reflexes. So, the fact that he survived beyond childhood with this debilitation hints that maybe other members of his group protected and provided for him and, interestingly enough, [is] another example of what possibly it could have been compassion that comes from that same Georgian site Dmanisi where last year excavators unearthed a skull of a very old individual who had lost all of his teeth while he was still alive. So, he may have had to rely on others for help processing food, just so that he could have enough to eat. So, Homo erectus was altruistic as these findings would suggest and that too may have helped facilitate that first migration out of Africa.
Steve: So, the physical evidence also gives you some clues about whole social relationships.
Kate: Exactly.
Steve: Interesting. There's also been, this wasn't at our meeting, but there was a big or a small new dinosaur discovery. What's the story on this new dinosaur that has been found?
Kate: That's right. Some paleontologists working in Germany found the remains of what appears to be a very small sauropod. Sauropods were the long-necked dinosaurs that include some of the largest animals ever to walk the earth: things like brachiosaurus that was 25 meters long and Europesaurus. This new find, it appears to have only been little more than six meters long.
Steve: And there is reason the folks who have found this new dinosaur, they think they know why it's so small relatively.
Kate: Right, they suspect that this animal evolved a small size because it lived on an island and the islands that it inhabited may not have been large enough to provide enough food for very large-bodied sauropods, so it's the dwarfism evident in this creature [that] appears to have been an adaptive response to limited food resources in its environment.
Steve: Well, thanks for the update, Kate.
Kate: You're welcome, Steve, any time.
Steve: For more on this small sauropod, check out Kate Wong's entry at our blog—that's blog.sciam.com—and Kate has an article on the Georgia research in a special human evolution anthology edition of Scientific American coming out in a couple of weeks. The issue is called "Becoming Human." We'll be right back.
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Steve: Now it's time to see which story was TOTALL.......Y BOGUS. Let's review:
Story number 1: Genetic predisposition toward becoming an entrepreneur.
Story number 2: New cell phone ring tone only heard by people with high IQs.
Story number 3: Lots of cell phone used by teens may be a sign of depression.
Story number 4: Long-lost millipede found.
And your time is up.
Story number 1 is true. Studies with identical twins show that if one twin has a freelance-type career the other has a greater chance of also having such a lifestyle. The study was done at the Twin Research Unit of St. Thomas' Hospital in London.
Story number 4 is true. The many-legged millipede called Illacme plenipes—which translates to plentiful feet—has been rediscovered in San Benito County in California, although possibly the leggiest of all millipedes it hasn't been seen since it was first identified in 1926. In large part because frankly no one was really looking for it and it's probably really, really fast.
That leaves out two cell phone stories, lots of use by teens being associated with depression or [a] new ring tone only audible by smart people. To clear up the mystery, here is a sample of that ring tone. [silence] Relax. You're smart, I am yanking. I didn't really play anything. The true story is that a study presented at the American Psychiatric Association meeting in May found a correlation between very high cell phone use by high school students and higher scores on tests for depression and anxiety, but even the lead author of the study thinks that perhaps the teens are just experiencing 'teenanxed,' which means that the ring tones only audible to smart people is TOTALL.......Y BOGUS. What's true, however, is that there is a new ring tone called teen buzz supposedly inaudible to most adults who lose the ability to hear very high frequency sounds, whereas many teenagers can still hear the sounds. The buzz was actually originally created to drive kids away from places that wanted an adult clientele, but kids have taken the sounds and co-opted it for their own purposes, allowing them to buzz each other in classrooms with the teacher usually remaining oblivious, said one student. Who can argue with that? We'll be right back.
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Steve: Couple of corrections. On the May 31st podcast I said that Jupiter's Great Red Spot is as wide as an earth diameter. Podcast listener, Tom Bassua—he is actually an old friend of mine—he wrote to point out that it's actually two earth diameters across. Thanks Tom. And, on the June 7th podcast we talked about the lack of any census of breeding bird pairs in Central Park. Marie Winn, who was on the June 7th program, wrote into say that there was in fact such a census done in the mid-90s and that although it sounds like there are thousands of robins in the park, there are probably only hundreds of breeding pairs, which is not surprising, since it's very expensive to find a place to live with a view of Central Park.
Well that's it for this edition of the Scientific American podcast. Our e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com, and also remember that science news [is] updated daily on the Scientific American Web site, www.sciam.com. For Science Talk, the podcast of Scientific American, I am Steve Mirsky. Thanks for clicking on us.
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The California Solar Rights Act allows for solar easements for solar energy systems on properties which are not owned by the owner. In other words, if the appropriate steps are taken, the solar host airspace above the P.V. system is guaranteed to be free of shade from vegetation growth, increased building heights as a result of: remodeling, and construction of new buildings on adjacent parcels can affect the amount of sunlight reaching a solar energy system in the future.
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Court rulings have established that an easement must be written to be enforceable. California Civil Code Section 801.5 specifies that "any instrument creating a solar easement" must at a minimum include the following:
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Now that I am halfway through my thirties, I definitely feel like I have some greater perspective when I look back on the life that I have lived so far. I am not one to say that I would go back and change a bunch of things if given the chance because I am a firm believer in the fact that my choices have made me into the person I am today. Even though I am not a finished product yet, I am happy with the person I am today.
Despite this, I was thinking back to my twenties the other day and I did think of 3 important things that I understand now that I wish I understood when I was in my twenties. I would like to share those 3 things with you today and hopefully we can all gain from them.
I wouldn't rush or wish my life away
When I was a freshman in high school, I wanted to be a senior in high school. When I was a freshman in college, I wanted to be a senior in college. When I was a rookie in the NFL with the St. Louis Rams, I wanted to be a 10-year NFL veteran. When I was in my first year of vet school at Iowa State, I wanted to be in my fourth year. You see the pattern. As humans we have a tendency to want to get to the end of the journey as fast as we can. The problem with that is that the real joy of the journey is in the journey and if we fast forward through the journey, we will miss it or certainly enjoy it less than we should have.
True life, a life worth living, is being present in every circumstance.
When I look back over all the different things I got to do and experience in those 10 years that consisted of my twenties, it really amazes me. So many different wonderful experiences. So many wonderful people. I was truly blessed, but I don't think I really appreciated it at the time.
I was so focused on reaching the next goal that I forgot to enjoy what was really happening. I guess the important thing is that I have come to a place in my life where I can appreciate it now.
I wouldn't be so arrogant
When I look back on how I lived life back in my twenties, I really was clueless about life! I really thought that it was all about me.
I was so busy thinking about how great I was that I missed how great the people around me were. God gave us two ears and one mouth for a reason. Sometimes we need to learn to shut up and listen.
As a very good football player, I felt entitled. I was narcissistic. I felt like the whole world owed me something, when in reality, it was I who owed God for all the blessings He had given me.
God loves us so much, He will orchestrate life in such a way that the arrogance will get beat out of us by people, circumstances, and pain. Thankfully, God saw fit to beat the arrogance out of me. While I did not like having to go through the beating, I am so glad that He cared enough to do that. Being on the other side has now opened my eyes to what is really important.
I would've appreciated people more
In my early twenties, I saw people for what they could do for me. I conditionally appreciated people. My theory was' "If you do this for me, I will do that for you." I saw people as a way to reach my goals. I used them, and they used me.
By God's grace, I now see people as valuable because Jesus died for them too. Just like He did for me. Jesus loves me with all his heart, but not just me. He loves all people. Other people are valuable to Him; therefore, they are valuable to me as well.
The way I see it, I had to go through the attitudes I had in my twenties so that I could get to where I am now. Don't get me wrong, I am very ashamed of many things I did and how I treated people when I was in my twenties. I think of some of the hurts I caused and it literally makes me sick to my stomach. Through it all, God had a plan for me. After God saw to it that I get knocked down a bit, to the point that I finally had to surrender to His control, He was right there to take me into His loving arms and help me get me back on my feet again. He set me down on my journey again, but this time I had my eyes opened and I could see what was really important.
This life is not about me or what I can get out of it. It is about what I can do for others. It is about me living a life where others can see the presence of God through me and see what a wonderful thing that can be. I am not here to save people. Only God can do that. I am here to tell my story though and how God saved me. If that helps others, then I guess that makes everything I have gone through in my journey worth it!


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LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland — The Rev. David Latimer thought it was a terrible idea. The streets of this Northern Irish city had burned in the Troubles. His Protestant church was firebombed by Catholics. Every summer, rival bonfires the size of small mountains still burn, and with them the flags and effigies of the other side.
Burning a 75-foot-tall pagan temple in a Republican Catholic enclave on the loyalist Protestant side of town to "bring people together" seemed, well, mad.
"How are you going to get my congregation to come to a Catholic area?" he asked the California artist who started erecting the temple this month. "How is fire going to have a productive outcome in a city where fire has always been about hating the other?"
"It worked in other parts of the world," said the artist, David Best, whose temples usually burn in the Nevada desert at the Burning Man festival.
Mr. Latimer, a former British Army chaplain accustomed to checking for bombs under his car, was unimpressed. "This part of the world," he said, "is not like other parts of the world."
Londonderry, or Derry to Republicans, may seem an improbable place to take inspiration from the modern-day hippies who flock to a temple in the desert to leave messages and mementos for those they have lost, and then collectively seek catharsis by watching it all go up in flames. As the mayor, Brenda Stevenson, a Catholic, put it: "For us, bonfires are associated with history, violence and the Troubles."
From the Siege of Derry in 1688, when the Catholic troops of James II tried to storm the Protestant-controlled walled city, to Bloody Sunday in 1972, when British soldiers killed 14 Catholics in a local civil rights march, bonfires have been at the nexus of Northern Ireland's violent tangle of religion and politics.
Every July, Protestants commemorating the victory of William of Orange over James II stack wooden pallets and rubber tires into towering structures and cloak them in gasoline-doused Irish tricolors. And every August, Catholics drape their own incendiary towers in the Union Jack.
"Of course, we knew it would be controversial," said Helen Marriage, founder of Artichoke, the British art events company that brought Mr. Best to Londonderry.
"We wanted to turn the logic of bonfires on its head," she said. "We wanted to bring people into the same physical space and share something that would normally divide them."
Mr. Best's mostly American temple crew helped train 57 youths, from Protestant and Catholic communities, in 3D design and carpentry to assist with building it. In their late teens and early 20s, some of them came from a shelter, others had a history of drug abuse or petty crime and all were drifting. Londonderry has one of the youngest populations in Western Europe, and one of the highest jobless rates in Northern Ireland.
"These kids will never show up at 8 in the morning," the social worker at the shelter had predicted. But they did. And for three weeks, this city, split down the middle by the River Foyle into a Protestant east bank and a Catholic west bank, watched nervously as an ornately carved wooden structure grew on a hill, until its spire towered far above those of the Protestant and Catholic cathedrals in the town below.
Senior clergy on both sides warned against idolatry and Satanism ("The Burning Man is linked to orgies and things," the Rev. Graeme Orr pronounced gravely last week). Then unseasonal blizzards hit the town, and it seemed that even the elements had conspired against the temple.
Security, of course, was a concern. A bomb was defused on Feb. 17, not far from the site in a Protestant area. Should the temple be insured? Hardly against arson, since "arson is what we're going for," Ms. Marriage said, but perhaps "premature arson?"
Should she trust the unloved Police Service of Northern Ireland, still a main target of attacks from dissident Republicans, to safeguard the site? One of the most common graffiti refrains across Catholic neighborhoods is "P.S.N.I. scum."
In the end, Ms. Marriage hired a private security company set up by former Irish Republican Army prisoners, whose staff includes loyalist ex-paramilitaries. "They're the best security company we've ever worked with," she said.
Still, when the temple opened to the public last week, inviting people to "leave the past behind and look towards the future," she worried that Protestants would not dare come.
As it turned out, the very first person inside the temple was Jeanette Warke, the 71-year-old manager of a loyalist youth club, who had lost her home in the Troubles and whose son joined the British Army when he was 18.
Kevin Strathern, a local architect who had helped build the temple, saw her wandering in, a "wee old lady" who soon burst into tears.
"Would you like a hug?" he asked.
"I most certainly would," she said.
Mr. Strathern's father, William, a well-known Gaelic football player, was shot dead on his own doorstep in 1977. Mr. Strathern, 8 at the time, was upstairs in bed with a toothache. "And here I was," said Mr. Strathern, now 46, "a Catholic whose father was killed by Protestants, purely because he was a Catholic, hugging a Protestant."
"We wouldn't have hugged 40 years ago," he added. "We might not have hugged 10 years ago."
Things are changing, he said. In 2011, a "peace bridge" was built across the river, giving Protestants and Catholics easy pedestrian access to one another's neighborhoods for the first time. The Ebrington army barracks, where soldiers would have plotted their Bloody Sunday deployment, have been turned into a venue for music and culture. Since 2013, when Londonderry was Britain's city of culture, members of both communities can be overheard referring to their city proudly as "Legenderry."
Over the past two years, the metal cages protecting windows along the dividing line from projectiles have gradually come off. There has even been talk of dismantling the 15-foot-tall fence that separates the two communities.
The mayor, Ms. Stevenson, said that "Derry leads the way in terms of reconciliation."
By the end of last week more than 60,000 people in this city of 108,000 had come to the temple and left their messages. "For a united Derry," pleaded one. "For the sake of our children," read another. There were grainy photographs, a ponytail of human hair, a knitted baby hat and at least two vessels with ashes of loved ones. A postcard quoting the poet Seamus Heaney, raised nearby, wished for life "on the far side of revenge."
Tony Doherty, who was asked by Mr. Best to help set the temple on fire, has spent most of his life hungering for revenge. His father was killed on Bloody Sunday, crawling for cover on all fours, unarmed. Mr. Doherty was 9. He later joined the I.R.A., and spent years in prison.
After he was released, he began lobbying the British government for a new inquiry. It would take six years until one was granted and another 12 until Prime Minister David Cameron stood up in front of rolling television cameras and formally apologized in 2010.
The soldier who shot his father was unrepentant when they came face to face in a court hearing. But if most Bloody Sunday families demand convictions to find closure, for Mr. Doherty "the score is settled."
More than 3,600 people were killed in the Troubles, and no clear accounting has taken place. Justice means different things to different people, Mr. Doherty said, and that, in a nutshell, is the problem 17 years after Northern Ireland made peace on paper with the Good Friday agreement.
"I'm very conscious that I'm both a victim and a perpetrator," he said. "I hope we will have a process where people like me can say what they did and hope for forgiveness."
Mr. Doherty has shunned the bonfires for years. But last Saturday, he lit the temple alongside Ms. Warke's son Graham, the former British soldier, and many others. Catholics and Protestants, some 15,000 of them, came and jointly watched it burn.
Also in the crowd was Mr. Latimer, his initial doubts allayed, happily quoting from the Gospels: "A light set on a hill cannot be hidden."


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2009 – 5 Trends That Will Change Media
Steve_Rosenbaum over at Always on wrote an amazing insightful post which I simply must share.
While some years I'll post some thoughts about what may or may not happen in the year ahead, this year – the changes are so clear and the drivers so much in place that I'm going to go out on a limb and say what WILL happen in 2009: trends you can bet on.
1. The Growth of the Curation Economy
As the cost of the creation of content continues to come down, more content creators will come online. This will create a huge influx of unfiltered material, and create a significant demand for filters and editors who can find/sort/select and recommend contextual quality content within verticals. This "Curation" function has the potential to give media enterprises whose current business models are under tremendous pressure a new and important role in the web media world. What makes the Curation Economy so powerful, and so disruptive, is that the core resource required to building a high-quality curated experience is not capital, but knowledge. This will drive an emerging class of content entrepreneurs – people who are able to turn their trusted personal brands into high-quality filtered content destinations. As the number of publishers grows dramatically, content consumers will hunger for new trusted sources. These many creators and consumers on the move will fuel whole new businesses and categories.
2. The Emergence of targeted CPA/ CPC as Contextual Content Revenues
The assumption has always been that as more and more users shifted their media consumption habits from print and TV to the web, big brand advertisers would come along and bring their wallets with them. Well, so far that hasn't been the case. As Bob Garfield wrote in his prescient "Chaos Scenario" http://adage.com/article?article_id=45561, mainstream cash just hasn't signed on to this whole 'new media' thingy. The result has web sites scrambling to invent new revenue sources, subscription fees, or simply close their doors. But wait – not so fast. Consumers ARE spending money on the web. They're arriving with intent, finding what they want, and swiping a credit card. This means there IS revenue – just not for big broad unfocused ads. So, watch 2009 as the year that Cost Per Action (CPA) and Cost Per Click (CPC) advertising starts to generate real revenues for content sites. And – don't count out pre-roll video either. One New York based media co is reporting $40 CPM's for their pre-roll ads, and they aren't one of the existing cable channels re-purposing content from linear TV to the web world. This is a real magazine co with original content for the web and a $40 CPM. Stay Tuned!
3. The Merging of eCommerce and Content
It used to be that video content (what was then called 'Television') was little more than material used to fill in the space around the ads and attract viewers. Ok, that may sound grim, but it's true. Content was there to draw 'eyeballs' so that large groups of people could be sold stuff. Yikes! That doesn't sound very nice. Well, a few things have changed. While this Holiday Season was the worse ever for retail, Amazon posted the best sales in their history. Really. So, how did that happen? Well it seems folks who knew what they wanted went to Amazon and searched, and then compared prices, and purchased. This idea of intent driving commerce, rather than advertising creating a 'demand' for a particular brand or product, is turning Madison Avenue on its head. But, at the same time – there is some evidence that ecommerce and content are about to switch roles. Sites like Thwoop.com have created children's destinations with free content, and given themselves a first crack at any purchases that the visitors might want to make. The idea that watching content is expressing 'intent' is both novel and explosive. My son likes Ben10, so he watches it on Thwoop.com, and then – well, he asks about buying a Ben10 lunchbox, or shirt, or dvd, or something. Content drives Commerce. Expect to see AmazonTV, EBayTV, LLBeanTV and tons more content channels from ecommerce biggies in 2009.
4. Digital Goods – Consumers begin to pay for content
Digital Goods is a broad concept for anything delivered in code. Music, eBooks, iPhone apps, photos – the list goes on and on. While we've seen the idea of 'shareware' on so many little bits of code for so long, the fact is that 2009 will be the year that Digital Goods will take off. Already the numbers from the iTunes store sales are dramatic – almost a million dollars a day in sale of iPhone Apps. That's huge. Sure, folks look at the free apps first – but it becomes clear quickly that a few dollars can often get you a much better product. Apple has created a safe, trusted micro-payment economy around iTunes and the fact that only software that is tested gets into their iTunes systems is evidence that the Curation Economy is at play here too. But in 2009 you'll see more video series, ebooks, photo collections, memberships, and subscriptions gain a foothold. There's some real world reasons for this – web based digital goods are a better value than their real world counterparts in many cases. And other than the legacy of the physical experience (the paper of The New York Times, the Album Covers of old records, the binding of books) the reality is that digital delivery is better for the planet, and has both the long-tail efficiencies and creative freedom that gives digital creators the ability to lower costs (and therefore price). Middlemen who don't add value should beware, Digital Goods delivery doesn't require both a wholesale and a retail seller.
5. Cottage Media Takes Off
Media is a good word. It gets confused with journalism and other more narrow words – but used properly it's a big tent that includes digital content in all its forms. Historically, Cottage Industries have been small mom and pop operations that run out of someone's home office. And already we can see the emergence of a number of new voices and sources that are essentially 'Cottage' operations. More of the brand name content creators we know and enjoy reading/watching are building their own brands while they remain employed by their big media publishers. In 2009 this will change. While advertising may not be jumping into pure UGC anytime soon, the idea of trusted content brands moving to self-publishing is likely to cause quite a stir. Om Malik was one of the first to make the move – though his operation is clearly much larger than a 'cottage' it's a whole lot smaller than his previous home at Forbes – his network of blogs has already become influential and respected. He's hardly alone in this regard. Fred Wilson (avc.com) Chris Brogan (http://www.chrisbrogan.com), Michael Arrington (Techcrunch.com) Howard Lindzon (http://www.howardlindzon.com) are all building "Cottage" media businesses, some with a journalism focus, others simply blogging a point of view or to built community or conversation.
2009 will be a year of gut wrenching, dramatic, roller-coast change. Big things will get smaller, or die. Little things will survive and start to grow. Consumers will become creators. Lurkers will become participants. The volume of voices will expand exponentially – and the need for clarity and trusted filters will go from being useful to being essential. Just as MP3s turned the music industry on its ear, and Craigslist turned newspapers upside-down, the emergence of personal publishing and new forms of both trusted and Community Curation will have an immediate and long-lasting impact on media, commerce, community and politics.
2009 will be a year of change. And change is, by its nature, full of surprises. Stay flexible. Stay curious. What's being constructed is a global knowledge eco-system that has world changing implications… for the better.
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Dating After College
By: MEgan Weimar
I call them The Wonder Years. No, I'm not talking about the 1980s social drama featuring that catchy Joe Cocker cover in the intro. The Wonder Years is that definitive era between effortlessly cartwheeling through college and the fiery demise of marriage and child-rearing. Twenty-somethings often find themselves cut loose from the ever-fruitful safety web of university advisors, family insurance policies, and co-ed extracurriculars and find themselves asking, "Where will I start my career?", "How do I manage my own health/car insurance?", "What type of viable living quarters exist outside of student housing?" It's tough at first; no more pre-determined schedules, no more assigned roommates, no more Thirsty Thursdays. That's right, no more Thirsty Thursdays.
So how do grown-ups manage to date without the constant social engagement of club promotions, Spring Breaks, and the oh-so-romantic Western Civ group project? Like Charlie Sheen's Facebook relationship status probably still says, "It's Complicated," but here are five cornerstone tips that will help you survive dating after college.
#1: You don't have to be subjected to unwarranted advice about your love life.
This rule is directed to your self-appointed wedding counsel. We all got 'em. Grandmothers, aunts, your boss' wife, your elderly neighbor, Susan from the IGA; they feel it is their own divine prophecy to constantly remind you that your biological clock is ticking and to introduce you to any and every loosely screened bi-ped with a soft pulse and a necktie. Let's get one thing straight: there is no greater time to be yourself and have some fun than after college. Maybe you let go of your high school sweetheart in college. Maybe you dated around or experimented a little. But things were simple then. You've been around the block now and you don't want a vodka cranberry from looky-loo in the Croakies and pastel Polo. Spread your wings, sample the fares, and trot the globe of the dating world to the voice of your own narrative.
#2: It's not going to be a cake walk.
Yeah, you heard me. Sure, sometimes the mega babe from the pharmacy next door cruises into your Starbucks, orders a Caramel Macchiato, loves how you spelled her name right and asks you out for Ruth's Chris and some froyo. But the lack of abundant social interface so easily provided by classes, clubs, and athletics can dry that wishing well right up. For a little while you can cling to the university watering hole while praying your dad's pattern baldness doesn't make an early appearance under your favorite Panama fedora. But soon enough the sad cadence of Ladies Nights and last calls will present the profound realization that bar-hopping freaking sucks.
Don't let it deter you. What are your interests? Outdoorsy folks looking to meet new people can find geo-caching teams, hiking groups and kickball or disc golf enthusiasts to jive with. Lovers of fine cuisine can find themselves surrounded by fellow foodies in exciting cooking classes, culinary excursions and sustainable gardening clubs. What about our literature-centered seekers? Most cities have several weekly themed trivia shows, book clubs, and board-game nights. Join a community-based gym like CrossFit or Orange Theory if you want a little encouragement and support with a side of hot bod. Religious groups are always willing to match like-minded worshipers if The Spirit moves you. Hey, and if you're looking for something a little more direct, there are always top singles events going on in your area.
Oops! Wrong blog. It's not 1999 anymore, everyone is plugged in now! We'll never be safe from creeps and cretins honestly, but tons of normal, awesome people use online dating websites these days. Let's refer back to #2 for a minute and let me remind you that dating can be a challenge, regardless of the ease of access we have these days, but that doesn't mean it can't be fun too.
Be realistic. Tinder and Grindr are mostly used for hook-ups. If that's what you're looking for, by all means, please proceed! However, if you are looking to date and get to know someone before throwing your cares to the wind and doing the horizontal polka, don't send the wrong signal by signing up for a site that lets you do or ditch someone based on their profile pic and their willingness to join a raunchy app.
While there are plenty of vultures on Plenty of Fish and OK Cupid, these free sites tend to have more serious lookers as well. It helps to join a couple of apps so you can see who's desperately trolling the web space and who's looking to meet someone outside of his or her 8-5 job. I had two gorgeous girlfriends after college who constantly dated on POF and OKC. Online dating sounded desperate to me. They were so attractive and smart, I couldn't see why they didn't just meet people out and about. They insisted there were plenty of normal, genuine people who were tired of the bar scene, and they were right. Teachers, close office staff, military personnel and those who work overnights are often stuck in routines where they never interact with people in the dating pool and these apps are great even for folks who are just plain shy.
And of course, Match.com and eHarmony can't go without mention here. These apps are inclined to present more people looking to weed out the womanizers and barflies and possibly settle down in the future. Members pay a premium to use these services and generally know what they are looking for in a mate. No harm in just perusing if you've had poor luck elsewhere, even if you just sign up to see what's out there first!
Here are some online dating website resources:
For your standard dating pool these sites serve well and offer a variety of services from free to subscription membership:
For more demographic-specific settings:
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#4: There are going to be bad ones.
This one doesn't come with much fluff. Some dates are going to tank. Between mama's boys and babes with baggage, there always remains space for halitosis, hoarders, and hypochondriacs to soil a perfectly good date. People are gross and weird, and sometimes you don't find out until the first or second date. It often starts out great; you'll find yourself waist deep in a captivating evening, playfully joking and enjoying the ambiance when suddenly a racist or sexist utterance escapes from his lips or she's downright nasty to the service staff. So be it. Consider this a valuable learning experience and let it teach you how to reject people. It only takes a few awkward instances to beef up your bull crap buzzer, so once you see the gold digging or the crotch talk coming up, excuse yourself from the scenario and tap out.
#5: Look out for Numero Uno.
There will be no other time in your life like this one to discover the elements of your existence and find whatever it is that paints the mural of your soul. Date around, find your soulmate, stay single, or fly by the seat of your pants. The post-college age is tantamount to autonomy and independence. Wander away to Burning Man. Join a sustainable commune in Hawaii. Shove off and drop anchor in a brand new city. The journey into adulthood can be magnificent and liberating, but you can't be naïve. Being away from campus does not mean you are safe from date rape, STDs, and unexpected pregnancies much less other standard horrors of the real world. Wrap it up, don't leave safe spaces with someone you don't know, and HAVE A BACKUP PLAN. There are many terrible people out there who endorse dangerous and malevolent practices and nothing says "buzzkill" like an avoidable tribulation or tragedy.
Unsuspecting romantics are susceptible to anything from scam artists and sociopaths to date rapists and sex traffickers but even in the rarest worst case scenario, notifying at least a couple of friends about who you are with and where you are going before you meet can be paramount. The use of tracking apps and personal safety armaments like mace or a small knife is definitely not out of the question. A couple of other really good details to provide your loved ones with include the following:
Lastly, do you have a friend recommending a blind date? Cool! Make it a double or let your buddy introduce you two somewhere neutral first. Do not subscribe to something you are unfamiliar and uncomfortable with, regardless of how awkward or rude it may seem to back out. Declining situations and making unpopular decisions is part of taking care of yourself. You don't have to be insensitive, but you do have to be safe.
Here are some safety resources that might be useful:
PC World and The Connection have a great list of "Watch over me" apps, which will report your live GPS location to a list of friends and family if you fail to answer a notification during a predetermined time period. Some of these applications allow users to immediately notify police of their location by opening the program and holding a button. Others establish periodic check-ins and even have features capable of alerting authorities in the event that someone else commandeers your phone in a crisis.
Sometimes dating dangers can occur after you've been seeing someone for a while. There have been many cases of stalking or forced entry after someone gets a little too into it and one party no longer wants the other around. These last two suggestions are last resort ideas that can help you get help discretely without audibly dialing 911 and having to describe your location.
NextDoor, which immediately sends alerts to dozens of people who are in your immediate vicinity, can be used to ask neighbors to people look out for someone or even send an SOS if you need help from someone close by.
Additionally, Waze, a navigation app, allows you to send your planned route and actual location to people on your friends list while traveling. Whether you're going on a date, a day trip, or a hike, you can disable sounds and let your parents and roommates know you're going to send them some pings throughout your trip. At the very least if you lose communication for whatever reason, your loved ones have an idea where you were going.
All-in-all, dating after college is a crapshoot. You win some, you lose some, and you drown some in whiskey and Whataburger. But regardless of all of the trial and error, the passion and pitfalls of your twenties helps pave the way for healthy relationships in the future. Most of us don't end up marrying the frat find from Thirsty Thursday. Get by with a little help from your friends and leave the lectures behind you—there is no syllabus to life and your biological clock comes with snooze, people!
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Sudersands SVIF hostel on Fårö
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A nice priceworthy youth hostel on Fårö. You have one of Gotlands nicest beaches just 200 meters away.
Fårö has an ability to affect. When the famous profile of film and theater, Ingemar Bergman, visited Fårö for the first time the encounter was overwhelming – "If you wish to be solemn you might say I found my home, my true home. If you whish to be amusing you can talk about love at first sight..."
Sudersands youth hostel are situated in a area with the nicest beaches on Gotland. The Holiday village has both cottages, apartment, a youth hostel and camp site.
In the area you have pool, restaurant and bike-rentals.
The hostel is open between May to September.
The youth hostel has 54 beds.
The room is in single, double and familyrooms (4-beds).
A kitchen for selfcatering. A TV room, common showers and WC.
Some of the rooms has their own entrance.
Facilities and services
General facilitiesLaundry facilities Physically disabled facilities Pets allowed Outdoor pool
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A student is considered international if they do not have citizenship in the U.S. Internationals include citizens of Caribbean countries. All internationals must obtain some sort of visa to enter the U.S. legally. Citizens of Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S.Virgin Islands are considered U.S. Citizens.
Yes and no. Permanent Residents can maintain their citizenship in another country while being a Permanent Resident of the U.S. As a Permanent Resident, the student can qualify for Financial Aid. A Permanent Resident can officially become a U.S. Citizen only when they complete the U.S. Naturalization process. This process can take a few years.
At Florida Tech, Permanent Residents are considered a type of international student. In Banner, Visa information and Nationality information must be entered in GOAINTL. Also, OR, PR, MA, FR, and US address types must be entered in SPAIDEN. A copy of a Green Card or Pending Green Card is required for the student file.
No. There are some guidelines and restrictions with certain visa types. When in doubt, always consult with ISSS (ext. 8053). They are the authoritative office on campus for international laws and regulations.
No. Visas are not required for international students taking Distance Learning courses from their home country or outside the U.S. In Banner, Visa information ("DL") and Nationality information must be entered in GOAINTL. Also, OR, PR, MA, and FR address types must be entered in SPAIDEN.
A copy of their passport is required for the student file. Additional required documentation will vary depending on what type of visa they hold. Please refer to the general rules and guidelines for visa types. For International students seeking to take Distance Learning classes and will never enter the U.S., no documentation is required for the student file. However, the admission office may want to request documentation to verify nationality information.
Names should be entered in Banner & SEVIS using title-case format (uppercase/lowercase letters). Never use all uppercase or all lowercase letters. Enter the legal spelling and format of the last name, using standard capitalization rules. Legal spelling can be obtained from the student passport and/or SS card. (If the last name legally requires a space, dash, or hyphen, it must be entered as such in Banner & SEVIS)
The required information in Banner will vary depending on what type of visa they hold. Please refer to the general rules and guidelines for visa types. For International students seeking to take Distance Learning classes and will never enter the U.S., GOAINTL must be populated with "DL" for visa type and the nationality information must be complete. OR, PR, MA, and FR addresses must also be completed in SPAIDEN.
The international holding the H1 or F1 visa, is the primary visa holder. Those holding the H4 or F2 are spouses or dependents of the primary visa holder.
SEVIS (Student and Exchange Visitor Information System) is a massive Internet-based database designed to electronically track foreign students and exchange visitors in the U.S. By August 1, 2003 all schools in the U.S. were required to register their currently enrolled international students in the SEVIS database. And all new international students must be registered in SEVIS prior to entering the U.S. for their initial attendance. Currently, Florida Tech SEVIS certification restricts certain visa holders to study only at the Melbourne campus.
Currently, F, M, and J visa holders along with their spouses or dependants are required to be entered in SEVIS. Since these internationals must follow strict guidelines, ISSS, Graduate, or Undergraduate Admission should only handle them.
Should American Born Dependents of F1 Students be included on the student I20?
No. In accordance with CFR regulations, F-2 visa status is reserved for dependents born outside of the US, holding non-US passports. It is therefore NOT necessary to include US passport holders on I20's. Therefore, effective immediately please no longer list American-born children of F-1 students on I-20's. This action will alleviate unnecessary paperwork for both our offices and the international student. ISSS – 06-08/2005
YES. Each student applying to take classes physically in the U.S., at any site, is required to demonstrate English Proficiency. Students who will never take a class physically in the U.S. are exempt. Also, 'active duty' U.S military officers from Puerto Rico applying for a SEGS program are exempt. (See the English Proficiency Requirements/TOEFL Exam section for details).
The international must present the following to a visa officer at the US embassy or consulate closest to his/her place of residence:
Obtaining Social Security Numbers for
International Students
The Department of Homeland Security and the Office of Social Security Administration have recently introduced more restrictive legislation regarding the issuance of social security numbers to international students.
If you are planning on hiring a new international student, OR an international student who has not yet obtained a SSN-- please take note of the following information:
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, --can a student begin working prior to obtain a security number? The simple answer is yes, they may. However they MUST apply for a SSN as soon as possible, and provide the number to the Human Resources Office as soon as it is received. Any further questions regarding the details of getting students into payroll should be directed to the Human Resources Office. Please contact ISSS (ext. 8053) if you have any other questions – they will provide this information to all new entering students.
Campus Ids for internationals, both students and non-students, attending Florida Tech on an F, J, or M visa must have a Banner generated ID. Before obtaining a campus ID from Campus Services, the international must be entered in Banner by Undergraduate Admissions, Graduate Admissions, or ISSS.
English Proficiency Requirements/TOEFL Exam
All graduate and undergraduate academic students, foreign or U.S. born, enrolling on-campus or at an extended-campus site, whose first language is not English, are required to take the institutional TOEFL to demonstrate level of English proficiency. (Students who will never take a class physically in the U.S. are exempt. This applies to VGC students and occasionally can apply to DL students only if all courses are taken outside the U.S. Also, 'active duty' U.S military officers from Puerto Rico applying for a SEGS program are exempt.)
The institutional TOEFL is given at the beginning of each semester by Florida Tech's Division of Languages and Linguistics (operated by the Department of Humanities). The exam helps to measure the student's competence of the English language.
Exemptions from the institutional TOEFL are granted only to those students who have demonstrated English proficiency by one of the following:
There are only 3 types of visa codes should be entered in GOAINTL for international applicants by an admission office (Ugrad, Grad, SEGS). All other Visa Type codes for international students are entered by ISSS after a student enrolls with Florida Tech and upon verification of the visa.
Visa Type Code:
The admission office must enter nationality information in GOAINTL for every international applicant. Nationality information is not required for U.S. Citizens born outside the U.S. Nationality information must be entered for each of the following student types:
Nationality information entered in GOAINTL must include:
How to enter international addresses in SPAIDEN
Every international applicant (regardless of visa type, on-campus, off-campus, or outside the US) is required have 4 address types entered in Banner. They include OR, PR, MA, and FR. In some cases data entry for each these addresses can be repetitive, however, each type has its own unique purpose. International students taking classes in the United States, on or off-campus are required to have an additional address type: US address.
Code Description
Explanation of Use
Data Custodian Office
US address is required when the student enrolls (however, please complete if known at time of application)
Exception: not required for Distance Learning international students that will not enter the US ( only students with DL visa type in GOAINTL do not require US addresses in SPAIDEN)
This address type should not to be used in any department address hierarchy for mailing
Admissions-during application process (if available). Registrar's Office & ISSS after student is enrolled.
FR: Foreign
Required for all international students
This address type should not to be used in any department address hierarchy for mailing
Admissions-during application process. Registrar's Office & ISSS after student is enrolled.
MA: Mailing
Required for all international students
Students mailing address for general correspondence and grades. This must be a mailable address.
Admissions-during application process. Registrar's Office & ISSS after enrolled.
PR: Permanent
Required for all international students
Student's permanent home address is required. Initially entered by Admissions and SEGS
Admissions-during application process, Registrar's Office & ISSS-after enrolled
OR: Original
Required for all international students
The student's originating address at the time of admission to Florida Tech. This is only used by Institutional Research and should never be changed. This address type is used for historical tracking.
NO CHANGES ALLOWED, unless an error is found, then the Custodian Office, which found error.
(Exception: for any student holding a F1, F2, M1, M2, J1, or J2 visa… addresses will be entered by ISSS, Graduate, or Undergraduate Admission only. Student on these visas are required to be registered with SEVIS and follow different guidelines)


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