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We can chant the names of the five pranas as switch words. They are very important to our life. Chant their names, "PRANA APANA VYANA UDHANA SAMANA". It will help your pranic body.
In death-bed
Particularly among these five pranas, UDHANAN is very important. It does not mean that others are less important. If UDHANAN is not activated, when the time comes for death, the person will not die and will be bedridden, prolonging the dying process.
For this, activation of UDHANA is very important. When UDHANAN works in the body, the prana goes out of the body. If UDHANAN is not functioning properly, the person will be in the death-bed for longer period of time.
How to activate these pranas?
Chant the mantra, "PRANAYA SWAHA, APANAYA SWAHA, VYANAYA SWAHA, UDHANAYA SWAHA, SAMANAYA SWAHA".
Swaha means to prostrate.
Vyana is our gene. It is sitting in the pranic field.
When you're stuck in a problem situation
If you are stuck in a problem then it means Udhana is not working properly. Be in Adi Mudra (thumb has to touch the base of the little finger, and it has to be closed by other four fingers, on both hands) and chant the switch words. From any problem – you will be able to come out of it.
When Udhana is not active – let us understand the principle here. When it is not active you are in the bed, that is, it is not coming out of the body. Like that when you are stuck in the problem you are not coming out of it. So your Udhana is not active. At that time with Adi Mudra, you can chant the mantra.
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The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing … there are times when the simple dignity of movement can fulfill the function of a volume of words. There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself. This is the dancer's justification for being, and his reason for searching further for deeper aspects of his art.
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text: Blue Badge July 21, '07 Comments [177] Posted in Musings | Microsoft Sponsored By I'm going to work for Microsoft. There, I said it. I'm going to work for ScottGu's team in the Developer Division. Someone once showed me a diagram that looked something like the one at right. Most of us spend our time over in the red circle doing stuff someone will pay us to do. If you're lucky, you spend your time in-between them, doing stuff you're good at also. Sometimes something comes along that puts you right in that sweet spot and you have to go for it. Will this be my dream job? Could be, I don't know, but if it's not, it might get me a lot closer. What's this mean for this blog and the podcast? Fortunately, nothing. The blog is still mine. The podcast is still Carl's and mine, and while having a Blue Badge will get me access to more interesting people to interview (Hopefully some smarties in Microsoft Research. Maybe Bill, or that elusive Ray Ozzie interview...he's only turned me down twice, and he was very nice about it) as well as, hopefully, some exclusives. I'm still going to talk about what I want to talk about. ScottGu and team were very cool and explicit that the blog and podcast are mine. Will the voice of this blog change? If it does, then I'm doing something wrong. I've been an advocate for some things Microsoft for years, while other things, not so much. That's why I'm going to work for the DevDiv (Developer Division) and not Marketing. I might be a fanboy, but I'm not evil. All the blog stuff, the articles, the podcasting, screencasts, etc, that I've done over the years have been done on my own time, usually very late at night for no money save what I can get from Google Adsense and a few advertisers that pay for my hosting. When someone is a starving artist, they paint for the love of it. They starve, and paint, and starve and paint, and lament that no one will pay them for their art. Then one day, a benefactor comes along and says, "You're brilliant! I'll give you $ if you paint me 10 more just like it, with these small changes, and have those done by Tuesday, m'kay?" And the painter sometimes regrets it. Everyone that I've talked to has been totally up front and cool about things and while my job will be to Spread the Good Word, it's not like I wasn't already doing that anyway. However, no one will be editorializing my content and I'll likely get into trouble occasionally. What's my job? The HR title is a nice generic one like "Program Manager" (I was thinking to get this on my business card - Scott Hanselman - progman.exe, what do you think? ;) ) but in essence I'm going to talk about .NET and Visual Studio - the whole of DevDiv, including ASP.NET, WinForms, WPF, Silverlight, CLR, LINQ, IIS, DLR, .NET CF, everything. This means videos, screencasts, podcasts, maybe some Channel 9 stuff, doing articles, wikis, speaking at conferences and large events (invite me!), creating starter kits, samples, as well as my regular hobby of plugging things into other things. I'll also be working on understanding our community (that means you, Dear Reader) thr ough conversations, visits, and trying to bring some big picture analysis (the kind of stuff I do now, again) to the .NET 3.5 and .NET Futures stack. I am also obsessed with getting my new Apple Newton Messagepad 2000 to sync with Outlook 2007, so watch for that. What about Corillian/Checkfree? The combination of CheckFree and Corillian promises to change the way people manage their money online, and I gave careful and serious consideration to the opportunities I had to continue to contribute to that vision. There's rarely a good time to leave a company, especially one that you love, but this was as close to a "it's not you, it's me" kind of breakup as one can have. I've been spreading the Computer Zen on the side for five years now. I've been speaking as part of INETA, doing the MVP and RD thing for years. While there's huge opportunity at Corillian/Checkfree right now, the bosses (and my friends) made it clear that I could be a big part of the future, this opportunity just happened (at Foo Camp, actually) to come together in such a cool way that I decided I wanted to move out of my comfort zone and take a leap of faith. I've grown to know ScottGu and many of the folks in MSFT Building 42 and have decided that they are good people. Sure, there are some odd decisions that are made in the big house, but now I'll be on the inside, trying to make sense of them, and hopefully I'll be able to influence things for the better. What's next? Stewardship is defined many ways, but I like these two: "Taking responsibility for the survival and well-being of something that is valued, such as a natural resource" and "an individual's responsibility to exercise care over possessions entrusted to him or her" If you trust me, you know that I'm not evil, and that I'm going to Microsoft in order to bring additional trust into the relationship between developer and platform. There needs to be a sense of stewardship and a deep valuing of the trust that developers put into their tools. All this said, I've gone ahead, Dear Reader, by creating a Hanselborg image for you, in the interest of saving you the time of doing it yourself. I now return you to your regularly scheduled blog. « Task: Remove a Programmatic Crutch | Blog Home | WPF Sample in IronRuby talking via C# to... » About Scott Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. 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STEM Hubs Emerge to Bolster Math, Science Ed.
For Emmely Briley, a high school chemistry and physics teacher, working in the rural logging community of Molalla, Ore., for the past 13 years has at times felt isolating.
While students 30 miles north in Portland had access to STEM fairs and camps, Ms. Briley's students have historically had few such programs for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics closer to home. Although Ms. Briley would have liked to make her classes more authentic—by bringing in scientists as guest speakers or having her students conduct experiments in the community, for instance—she wasn't sure how to go about forging the connections to do so.
"I've felt cut off from some opportunities," she said. "I always wanted somebody I could call up at Xerox and say, 'Hey, we want to take a tour,' but I didn't know how or who to call."
Now, Ms. Briley says, that's changing. The 2,400-student Molalla River school system, where she works, is one of many districts across the state involved in a regional STEM hub—essentially a coalition of K-12 schools, universities, businesses, and community organizations, such as nonprofits and museums, that work together to improve education in the STEM fields.
These sorts of coalitions are popping up in many places around the nation—from Oregon and Washington State to Michigan, New York, and Ohio—as a way to catalyze and better connect STEM education efforts in local communities.
Last month, the Oregon Education Investment Board, chaired by Democratic Gov. John Kitzhaber, awarded $2.8 million in grants to six regional hubs across the state.
"The idea behind the regional STEM hubs is we need to connect these isolated pockets of excellence across the state," said Mark Lewis, the STEM director for the board. "We've got to create a more dynamic culture of exchange."
Across the country, establishing such hubs has become a common strategy of statewide STEM education networks and councils that are looking to advance student engagement in science, technology, engineering, and math.
Excited and Engaged
The South Metro-Salem STEM Partnership is made up of 15 Oregon school districts, including Molalla, serving a total of 120,000 students. Six postsecondary institutions and 20 businesses and community organizations are also involved.
The backbone organization for the hub, which received $600,000 in the OEIB grant process, is the Oregon Institute of Technology, based in Klamath Falls. Lita Colligan, an associate vice president at the university and the co-chair of the Salem hub, said she began focusing on forming partnerships in 2012 when Oregon Tech opened a satellite campus in Wilsonville and was looking to build a pipeline of students.
"We didn't feel like we were connecting enough with schools and teachers and kids," she said. "We convened a group of partners and community organizations and said, 'What do we need to do to help get more kids excited about and engaged in and going into science?' "
The Salem STEM hub now has three initiatives: providing professional development for teachers, connecting organizations and schools through an online network, and bringing more college-level courses to high schools. Ms. Colligan said that while she's been working on the partnerships for nearly two years, the formal hub is still in the early stages, working on "figuring out how to go across silos."
For their part, industry partners are interested in getting involved both to engage their employees and help develop the STEM workforce, said Craig Hudson, the co-chairman of the Salem hub and an engineering team leader at the satellite-navigation company Garmin, which has an office in Salem.
"Every business is thinking about how to grow and how to manage what talent pool we draw from," he said. "It makes more sense to educate kids that are local. We get some nice diversity when we bring kids in from out of state, but if they don't have a strong family connection here, they're not likely to stay here for the long term."
Mr. Hudson said he is hopeful that the online network will help businesses connect with classrooms in a way that's more meaningful than, for instance, simply dropping by a school for a career fair.
"Ideally, we'd like to be able to partner with them to build something tied to the curriculum, so a relevant speaker can come in and say, 'This is what I do,' and show there are jobs connected back to that particular strand in the Common Core [State Standards]," which Oregon and the majority of other states have adopted.
The hub's success will be gauged by a variety of measures, Ms. Colligan said, including changes in scores on standardized tests, the number of hours of math and science instruction in schools, how many students participate in voluntary STEM activities, and the number of college-credit courses available to K-12 students. However, she emphasized, the returns won't come quickly.
"To see real educational change, I think you're talking like 10 years," she said.
Portland Partnership
The Salem hub is taking a horizontal approach, said Ms. Colligan, trying to reach as many teachers and schools as possible for STEM training.
Meanwhile, the Portland Metro STEM Partnership, another grant recipient and the oldest of the groups, having begun about four years ago, is conducting both broad outreach and some deeper work focused on individual schools.
Led by William Becker, the director of the Center for Science Education at Portland State University, the Beaverton, Ore.-based hub includes four school districts serving 116,000 students and 40 community partners, such as Vernier, Intel, and the Oregon Zoo. In addition to facilitating professional development and industry connections, the group is working with seven STEM "transformation" schools "to do essentially a makeover" using an improvement model based on research by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, said Mr. Becker.
The transformation schools "want to build their programs and help the student body establish an image of being successful at STEM," Mr. Becker explained. "We've taken a look at various models the school might adopt, and had the very hard conversations with the faculty and principal about where they want to make investments. They've developed and created, with our help, a STEM investment plan—a road map for how they see themselves moving forward."
"They've been real thought leaders out there," said Mr. Lewis of the OEIB about the Portland hub. "Their model is an implementation program model, not as much high-level policy coordination."
Yet even under the nascent and more horizontal Salem model, classroom teachers are starting to feel the hub's effects. In fact, experienced science teachers are the ones organizing and leading the professional development sessions.
"This is all grassroots-driven," said Ms. Colligan of Oregon Tech.
And for Ms. Briley of Molalla, who serves on STEM work groups and has been integral to the hub's development, being involved with the coalition has helped her make those previously missing connections.
"I now know people all over the place—engineers and college vice presidents—and they're all very passionate about something I've been passionate about," she said. "It's exploded the amount of information and connections available for our school district."
In fact, prior to getting involved in the hub, Ms. Briley did not even know Oregon Tech's newest small campus in Wilsonville existed. "Thirty-five minutes away, there were all these opportunities and yet our little district out here in rural isolation had no idea," she said.
Vol. 33, Issue 27, Pages 1, 20Published in Print: April 2, 2014, as Local STEM Hubs Emerge to Bolster Math, Science Ed.
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Broadcast on CNN, the July 1, 2003 installment of "Larry King Live" was a sight to behold. The program, in King's words, explored "the incredible events of 56 years ago at Roswell, New Mexico." What most likely crashed at Roswell in 1947 was a government spy balloon, but the panel of guests assembled on King's show preferred a more lurid version of events. Jesse Marcel, Jr., son of a Roswell intelligence officer, claimed that just after the crash, his father showed him bits of debris that "came from another civilization." Glenn Dennis, who worked at a Roswell funeral home at the time, said a military officer called him to ask about the availability of small caskets (i.e., for dead aliens). Later Denis, obviously a UFO enthusiast, observed out of nowhere that the pyramids in Egypt had recently been "[shut down] for three or four days and no tourists going out there on account of the sightings."
King's program didn't merely advance the notion that an alien spacecraft crashed at Roswell in 1947. It also hawked the DVD version of a recent Sci-Fi Channel documentary, "The Roswell Crash: Startling New Evidence," clips of which appeared throughout the hour. A breathy and sensationalizing take on the events of 1947, "The Roswell Crash" first appeared as a tie-in for Sci-Fi's fictional miniseries Taken, a Steven Spielberg production tracing the impact of UFO abductions on three generations of American families. Other Taken tie-ins that thoroughly blur the line between fact and fiction include a documentary titled Abduction Diaries, a Roper Poll finding that Americans are ready for the discovery of extraterrestrial life, and even the launching of the Coalition for Freedom of Information, an advocacy group devoted to unearthing classified government documents about aliens. Sure enough, King's July 1 guests included two people with Sci-Fi ties: Leslie Kean, a left-wing journalist turned UFO investigator who works with the Coalition for Freedom of Information, and Dr. William Doleman, a University of New Mexico archaeologist contracted by Sci-Fi to excavate the Roswell crash site. Doleman admitted to King that his dig had not yet yielded any definitive evidence, but added that the "results" of his analysis will be aired on Sci-Fi in October—as opposed to, say, being published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
Sci-Fi is an entertainment network, and can arguably air whatever it wants, including pseudo-documentaries hyping the Roswell myth. But Larry King is different. King regularly interviews senators, former presidents, and heads of state. One would expect him to hew to basic standards of journalistic rigor and balance. On July 1, however, King presided over a thoroughly biased discussion of the Roswell question that eschewed historical accuracy and gave a big boost to Sci-Fi's paranormalist marketing strategies. One Roswell expert, New Mexico physicist and mathematician Dave Thomas, observed to me by e-mail that King's program failed entirely to explain why Project Mogul, a secret government program to develop spy balloons, counts as such a strong candidate for the source of the Roswell incident.
Does CNN, the "most trusted name in news," take responsibility for the factual content and balance of "Larry King Live"? This article—a double-length installment of my monthly "Doubt and About" column—attempts to answer that question. After all, King's July 1 Roswell program was no aberration. King has hosted uncritical shows about UFOs in the past. Not only that: He probably devotes more air time to spiritualist mediums like John Edward, Sylvia Brown, and Rosemary Altea than to America's UFO obsessives. No other serious cable news anchor treats the paranormal in the consistently promotional way that Larry King does, which more resembles the approach of a Montel Williams or Jerry Springer than that of a trusted journalist.
In researching this article, I interviewed four leading skeptics who have appeared on "Larry King Live," seeking their perceptions of why the program consistently promotes the paranormal, sometimes without airing any critical perspective at all. I also attempted to contact King or his producers to seek a response to the skeptics' criticisms. My request, however, went unmet. As a result, I have been left with no choice but to privilege the skeptical perspective, which views "Larry King Live" as a depressing example of the way that marketing values and the demand for viewers can trump journalistic responsibility. This process leads otherwise trustworthy media outlets to inflate the reputations of psychics and promoters of the paranormal because they draw in hordes of credulous viewers. CNN may be a respected news network, but in its irresponsible presentation of paranormal topics and themes, "Larry King Live" belies and compromises that reputation.
On CNN's website, Larry King's impressive personal page presents the sixty-nine year old anchor as a true lion of journalism. King, the page notes, hosted the famous 1993 debate between Ross Perot and Al Gore over the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement, which broke CNN
records by drawing in some 16 million viewers. King also conducted "award-winning jailhouse interviews" with Karla Faye Tucker and Mike Tyson, and has won journalism accolades ranging from the Allen H. Neuharth Award for Excellence in Journalism to the George Foster Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting. Indeed, over the years King has conducted interviews with pretty much anybody who's anybody, celebrities and politicians alike. Some top tier interviewees include Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev and Vladimir Putin, and Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher.
You might be surprised to hear that someone so decorated could be guilty of repeatedly treating a certain topic—the paranormal—in a fashion that betrays virtually all journalistic standards. If you cast a glance back at King's various shows over the years, however, you will find titles like "Is the End of the World at Hand?", "Paranormal Warfare – A Secret Military Power?, "Is Exorcism Real?", and "Are Some Persons Programmed for UFO Contact?" interspersed with more serious programs. Sometimes these shows have included interviews with a skeptical figure. But King frequently devotes entire programs to paranormal topics with nary a skeptic to be seen, as was the case with the July 1 Roswell program. In fact, a study by Matthew Nisbet found that even in one case where King included skeptics on his program, these doubters were granted dramatically fewer total seconds of speaking time than the paranormalists.
Possibly the most troublesome aspect of King's promotion of the paranormal involves spiritualism, the contacting-the-dead movement that began in the 19th century with the "rappings" of the Fox Sisters and evolved into the televised psychic mediumship seen today on programs like Crossing Over with John Edward (a Sci-Fi production that originated after the channel's president saw Edward on "Larry King Live"). Prior to his July 1 Roswell program, King's most recent foray into the paranormal was a May 16 interview with popular psychic Sylvia Browne, whose website attests that she is "truly on a mission from God," and who frequently dispenses explicit health advice despite her lack of medical qualifications. An excerpt from the show transcript demonstrates just how low these programs can go, and how willingly King plays along:
KING: Do you believe in angels?
SYLVIA BROWNE, PSYCHIC: Oh, yes.
KING: What are they?
BROWNE: They're actually the (UNINTELLIGIBLE) that was made by God to protect us. I mean, they're not…
KING: Bad people have angels?
BROWNE: You know, bad people, I've never seen bad people have angels. That's interesting you should ask that, because I've never seen angels around bad people.
KING: Do they look like the drawings of angels?
BROWNE: Yes.
KING: They do?
BROWNE: And I didn't think they had wings. I thought that was just some stupid…
KING: Sylvia, Sylvia, come on. You see people with wings?
BROWNE: Yes. I used to tell people they didn't have wings, Larry. And then I saw one with wings, and then I had to go back up on stage and say, I'm sorry, I lied. They have wings.
KING: Why do you see them and I don't?
BROWNE: I don't know. You probably could see them if you wanted to. You have four of them around you.
KING: To what, to protect?
BROWNE: To protect.
KING: We have four them around us?
BROWNE: You have four.
KING: I have four.
BROWNE: You have four. Some people have two.
KING: I'm a good guy?
BROWNE: Well, that's it.
KING: I've got connections, right?
BROWNE: You've got connections.
Browne appeared alone for the entire hour. Throughout much of the show, King allowed her to take phone calls and attempt to contact listeners' dead loved ones—a process greatly facilitated by a palpable will to believe on the part of these desperate, bereaved callers. A Nexis search shows that King has invited Browne on his show on several other occasions during the last few years. In fact, Browne has repeatedly promised, on the air, to allow magician James Randi to test her psychic abilities in a rigorously controlled setting, but she has not yet submitted to the test. On his website Randi maintains a "Sylvia Browne Clock" that keeps track of how many days it has been since Browne accepted his challenge. King, however, has shown little interest in learning whether Browne can actually do what she claims.
And if King's promotion of Browne rankles, it's just the beginning. Another psychic superstar of King's program is John Edward, who has appeared repeatedly, both alone and with other guests (including occasional skeptics). As CSICOP paranormal investigator Joe Nickell and others have documented, the techniques used by Edward to convince "Larry King Live" callers that he can contact the deceased turn out to be quite mundane. Using a process called "cold reading," Edwards essentially goes fishing for information. Talking quickly, he throws out common causes of death and other vague data, and then waits for callers to take the bait and suggest he's on to something. Edward also asks questions, makes educated guesses, and feeds off reactions for more information. His statements are often wrong, and when they're right it's only in a vague way. But the willingness of callers to seize upon Edward's "hits" and ignore his "misses" makes these antics seem believable.
King's uncritical presentation of spiritualists like Browne and Edward, as well as James Van Praagh and Rosemary Altea, reached such a pitch in 1999 that two leading skeptics, CSICOP's Paul Kurtz and Joe Nickell, sent a complaint letter to King and one of his producers. "We must protest," wrote Kurtz and Nickell, "your repeated promotion of 'spiritualism'…without providing a contrary view," continuing:
One must wonder if people would really want the touted "communications" from their deceased loved ones if they knew the facts about spiritualism's history of fraud and deception, or even that the techniques used by mediums on your several shows are well known and easily discredited.
If spirit communications are not genuine, we are often asked, nevertheless what harm is there in the solace provided by the pretense? The answer is that falsehoods have consequences. Magician Harry Houdini catalogued many of them—"the suffering, losses, misfortunes, crimes and atrocities"—of spiritualistic deception. We have personally witnessed the consequences to people's self-respect when they realized their most sacred beliefs had been manipulated and trivialized.
Kurtz and Nickell concluded by noting that while "we do not advocate censorship, we do invite fair-minded journalism."
According to Kurtz, the letter resulted in a telephone "shouting match" between Kurtz and King's producers, who defended their presentations on the grounds that, in Kurtz's words, "everybody knows it's entertainment." Kurtz disagreed, explaining to me that since Larry King has a reputation as one of TV journalism's leading figures, even his treatments of the paranormal will inevitably be taken as "authoritative and newsworthy." Indeed, it's almost as if the sheen from King's interviews with senators and former presidents rubs off on the UFO-promoters, psychics, and quacks.
So what's going on at "Larry King Live"? Why are psychics, mediums, and UFO believers permitted to speak without interruption to King's vast audience? Among the skeptics I interviewed, all of whom have appeared at one time or another on "Larry King Live," a consistent theme emerged: That the quest for ratings is the only possible explanation for King's journalistic transgressions. "Having the spiritualists on must be for him very popular shows. Whatever he uses for feedback to tell him this, it must really work. Otherwise he would drop it like a hot potato," said Nickell. Magician James Randi was even more explicit: "This is a marketing thing. They want sponsors, they will get sponsors and they will keep sponsors if they put this kind of material on, because it attracts viewers. That's the bottom line."
Michael Shermer, of Skeptic magazine, has also appeared on "Larry King Live" and confirms the views of Kurtz, Nickell, and Randi. Of King's presentation of the paranormal, Shermer notes: "I've actually asked Larry about this. Specifically, 'Do you believe this stuff?' And he said, 'For the most part, I'm a skeptic like you,'" recalls Shermer. "And I've asked his producers, 'Why do you put this stuff on?' And they said, 'Cause it gets great ratings, it's good television.'" Since ratings inevitably drive the media's presentation of the paranormal, Shermer argues, it's incumbent upon skeptics to create programs that stand an equal chance of drawing large audiences. Shermer's own show, "Exploring the Unknown," presented a skeptical perspective for 65 segments on the Fox Family Channel. And with Showtime's late night show "Penn & Teller: Bullshit!", the Discovery Kids Channel's "Mystery Hunters," and the Discovery Science Channel's "Critical Eye" (produced with the help of CSICOP and Skeptical Inquirer), the skeptical perspective does seem to be finding its way onto television more frequently than it did during the paranormal-obsessed 1990s.
Shermer's strategy certainly describes one way of combating the paranormal messages spread on "Larry King Live" and other programs. But should ratings alone dictate the treatment of the paranormal on a television news network like CNN? Shermer opines that "Larry King is not in the news department, he's in the entertainment department, so he's not required to have any journalistic ethics, and he doesn't." But there are problems with this response. For example, "Larry King Live" will sometimes transition back and forth between news reporting and paranormal "entertainment" within the course of the very same program. When this happens, how are viewers supposed to tell the difference?
In any case, Shermer's recollection of his conversation with King and his producers seems consistent with Kurtz's account of his own interaction with King's producers. Still, I wanted to be sure these first-hand accounts accurately represented the institutional view of "Larry King Live." So I contacted King's publicist, Erin Sermeus, identifying myself as a writer with the online version of Skeptical Inquirer magazine. Sermeus returned my initial call, and in our conversation I summarized for her the criticisms of "Larry King Live" that I had been hearing from leading skeptics.
Besides noting—correctly—that shows devoted to psychics comprise only a small percentage of total "Larry King Live" programming, Sermeus did not provide much substantive response. However, said she would get back to me in a few days with something more thorough. She never did. An e-mail, a follow-up phone call, and a call to Sermeus's cell phone all went unreturned. After waiting a week beyond my original article deadline, I decided to go ahead with this piece without a formal response from "Larry King Live." If this article presents a very negative view of the show, it's partly because that was the only viewpoint I actually heard.
Where does that leave things? If the past is any indication, we will continue to see unbalanced presentations of paranormal topics on "Larry King Live," sometimes with token skeptics included, sometimes not. Barring a sudden change of heart at CNN, things will proceed as usual.
At this point, Michael Shermer's suggestion—that skeptics try to create their own programs to get their messages into the media—does sound pretty attractive. Granted, it basically concedes that skeptics have lost the moral argument about proper journalistic practices. And yet, these practices themselves are not set in stone. After all, who knows how our culture's approach to the paranormal—both journalistic and otherwise—will change?
We have already seen skeptic-friendly media programs. Perhaps one day the skeptic movement will produce a media personality of sufficient stature to appear on "Larry King Live" for a whole hour uninterrupted, the way Sylvia Browne and John Edward currently do. Then maybe Larry and the skeptic will exchange a few jokes at the expense of psychics and UFO believers. Indeed, perhaps the skeptic will even ask King to repent for his show's previous transgressions, and King will go along. An on-air confession: Now that would make for great ratings.


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CHICAGO – March 19, 2014 – Giordano's Famous Stuffed Pizza and the Chicago Fire Soccer Club are excited to announce Giordano's as the new exclusive and official pizza of the Fire. To "kick" things off, the organizations will celebrate with a pizza party today for Chicago Fire Department firefighters of Engine 42 at 55 W. Illinois in Chicago.
Both Giordano's and the Fire are well-known across the city and surrounding suburbs for delivering fun to families, and are committed to providing memorable experiences to their passionate supporters and winning over new fans, as well. The Fire's 2014 season home opener on March 23, presented by Giordano's, marks the beginning of many exciting integrations and promotions between the collaborating brands.
"Giordano's and the Chicago Fire are united by a commitment to hospitality," said Giordano's CEO Yorgo Koutsogiorgas. "We both enjoy creating a vibrant energy and environment and serving people of all ages. From families and young adults to lifelong soccer fans, Giordano's and the Chicago Fire look forward to bringing customers back for more, week after week, all year round."
Through the partnership, both Giordano's and the Fire aim to expand awareness of their brands and fully assume their roles as leaders in their respective categories, with the shared goal of making an impact on the city and owning the soccer conversation in Chicago.
"Chicago is known for its deep-dish pizza and sports, so it makes perfect sense for Giordano's and the Fire to partner up," said Chicago Fire Chief Operating Officer Atul Khosla. "We couldn't be more excited and are looking forward to working together to deliver an exciting and authentic soccer experience for our fans."
To jumpstart the partnership, Giordano's and the Fire are delivering pizzas today to Chicago Fire Department firefighters across downtown Chicago as a small token of appreciation for the city's first responders and their brave work and sacrifice to keep the community safe. Sparky, the Fire's Dalmatian mascot, will lead the effort.
Additionally, Giordano's announced that restaurant locations across the city will run a promotion: Any person who orders a pizza at participating Giordano's restaurants between March 19 and 22 will be entered to win a Giordano's- and Fire-branded soccer ball and two tickets to the season opener.
Giordano's is looking forward to joining the party that is thrown by the Club on game days at Toyota Park. Its signature deep-dish pizza will be available to Fire fans at the home opener on March 23 via the Giordano's Food Truck during FireFest – Chicago Fire's interactive pre-game festival. The Food Truck will return to Toyota Park throughout the season at select games.
Another focal point of the partnership is that Giordano's will be the presenting sponsor of an upcoming locally broadcast, regular season Fire home game. The agreement includes brand visibility on printed and digital platforms, recognition in Fire commercial spots leading up to the game, logo projection on the video board clock-wrap for the entire match, sponsorship of the halftime t-shirt toss, and pre-game ceremony participation. Giordano's also will deliver pizza to a lucky row in the stadium that day.
Per the terms of the partnership, the Chicago Fire will advertise Giordano's in many ways – on LED screens, in social media, on the Club's website, in printed collateral and distributed coupon books, in agreed-upon promotions, and through visibility during FireFest.
Additionally, Giordano's will be a supporting sponsor of the Chicago Fire Rec Soccer League, receiving branding on select league collateral, the right to distribute coupon offerings to league participants, and field branding at the Chicago Fire Soccer Center, the Club's new practice and training facility set to open in Roscoe Village this summer.
The Chicago Fire announcement is part of a series of recent Giordano's business developments, which have included a menu refresh, the launch of a Giordano's food truck, the opening of the 41st Chicagoland location in the South Loop, and a partnership with the Chicago Cubs. Additional expansion plans will be announced later this year.
The Giordano's brand and its famous stuffed pizza recipes are owned and managed by Victory Park Capital, a Chicago-based asset-management firm committed to the community, and whose continued investments in Giordano's have repositioned the company as an iconic brand for generations to come.
Giordano's Famous Stuffed Pizza kicks off partnership with Chicago Fire Soccer Club
CHICAGO – March 19, 2014 – Giordano's Famous Stuffed Pizza and the Chicago Fire Soccer Club are excited to announce Giordano's as the new exclusive and official pizza of the Fire. To "kick" things off, the organizations will celebrate with a pizza party today for Chicago Fire Department firefighters of Engine 42 at 55 W. Illinois in Chicago.


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Good grief
Notice how this wonderful woman deals with the sick grief-mongering reporter in this video which is now making the rounds. "Oh, I know exactly what happened," the woman says as the reporter shamelessly angles for tears, or at least some self-pity.
Then we have a story from Grand Forks where a high school student was killed in a motorcycle accident. The accident is news. This is not. Grief is not news. Interviewing the grieving and turning their grief into a news story is mawkish yellow journalism.
Voter Fraud is a Fraud
The Ohio Secretary of State ordered that any suspicious ballot out of the 5.6 million cast in Ohio be investigated. They found only 135 suspicious ballots, and those votes weren't organized in favor of one party or another. The entire notion that there is massive voter fraud is false. Republicans used the fear of fraud to introduce voter ID measures designed to decrease voting amongst minorities and the very old, as well as college students. It was a cynical, diabolical ploy to win elections by denying people they don't like the right to vote. These facts were known all along, but the Republican propaganda machine ginned up the voter ID issue to the extent that many of their more gullible followers still think voter fraud is an actual problem.
Another point: Of the 135 suspicious ballots cast in Ohio and the 110 cast in the Franken/Coleman contest, another election where every ballot and registration was studied, not a single one of the wrongly cast ballots would have been prevented by the proposed voter ID measure.
People who supported this measure were duped. There is no rational basis for voter ID laws beyond what we have now. And it is unconscionable to deliberately make it more difficult for minorities, the poor and the elderly to vote.


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Realty Bites: Agents Face Off Against Zillow, Trulia and Realtor.com
The Internet has forever changed the newspaper industry, the music business and travel agencies.
Now it's real estate's turn.
Or at least that seems to be the case in what could be a developing feud between real estate agents and online listing services such as Zillow, Trulia and Realtor.com.
As these sites have risen in prominence, real estate agents are starting to push back, especially as they find it difficult to live without them.
In protest, a small number of agents have started to pull their listings from the sites. (In one case, an agent rambled on about the issue in a seven-and-a-half minute video on YouTube.)
A new white paper issued this week suggests that the topic is gaining momentum.
The report, written by VHT, which sells photography and video services to agents, concluded that agents are no longer competing against each other. The competition, rather, is "the fast-growing, third-party ecosystem of listing aggregators, online publishers, virtual tour providers, advertising networks and media companies that are dominating search engine results in order to capture online leads."
It goes on to suggest that the remedy is for real estate agents to become savvy online marketers, and to drive sales leads through their own Web sites, rather than advertising on Zillow or Trulia.
A Zillow spokeswoman says only one brokerage so far has pulled its listings — the same one that produced the YouTube video — and a Trulia spokesman said they've "only seen a couple" of agents remove listings.
Seattle-based Zillow went public in July, raising $70 million; San Francisco-based Trulia is expected to seek an IPO sometime this year. Realtor.com which is operated by the National Association of Realtors, is owned by Move, Inc., a publicly traded company.
"We are not their competition," said Trulia's spokesman Ken Shuman. "We are a marketing outlet with 20 million unique people coming ever month who are looking to buy or to rent a home."
So, while the practice does not seem to be widespread, agents are increasingly vocal about the shift in power that has occurred over the past decade from real estate agents to online Internet providers.
Indeed, Zillow, Trulia and Realtor.com do get the majority of online traffic.
In January, Zillow controlled 37 percent of online visits; Trulia controlled 27 percent; and Realtor.com controlled 25 percent, according to the report. The remaining 11 percent was split among dozens of brokerage firms, such as Century 21, Coldwell Banker, Keller Williams, Prudential and many others combined.
"As an industry, brokerages have done a poor job of making themselves and their Web content visible to search engines," wrote VHT's CEO Alex Zoghlin, who authored the report.
But to understand what's going on, it requires some basic knowledge of how the industry works, so let's step back for a moment for a brief overview.
The Multiple Listing Service (MLS) is a list of most homes for sale in the U.S.
Real estate brokers receive the list and can post it on their Web sites. But other sites, like Zillow and Trulia, are not brokers and therefore don't have access (unless they strike agreements with the different MLS divisions across the country).
Up until now, Zillow and Trulia have used a mix of sources, including agents, who volunteer to post their listings on their Web site for free.
Zillow and Trulia then make money, in part, by selling advertising to agents, who want leads for home buyers and sellers.
But it's not exactly clear what has some agents so upset, and more importantly, it's difficult to separate fact from fiction.
ARG Abbott Realty Group broker and president Jim Abbott, who recorded that YouTube video, lists a number of reasons for pulling his listings from the sites. He says the information is often display incorrectly, or is out-of-date; other claims he makes include theft of intellectual property and poor customer service.
What Abbott didn't come right out and say is that he is not happy with the shift in power, or that the sites are profiting off the information that agents give them.
But late last year, Edina Realty of Edina, Minn., was willing to say it: The company said it pulled its listings because it was unfair that the agents are giving up their listings for free to the sites, which were then profiting off those same agents.
But according to Zillow's spokeswoman Cynthia Nowak, that is not entirely true.
"What many agents don't understand is that it is completely free to receive prominent placement on their listings," Nowak said. "All they have to do is sign up for a free Zillow profile and verify their contact information, and their name, picture, contact info, etc. appears at the top of their listings."
Still, to pull a listing off Zillow or Trulia at this point is somewhat anti-homeowner. The home's seller is usually looking to reach the largest possible audience in order to sell their home — and is not interested in the politics of placing listings online.
An agent in Phoenix Jay Thompson, who goes by the handle "The Phoenix Real Estate Guy," sided with Zillow. In a long blog post, Thompson broke down each one of Abbott's points and explained why he disagreed.
On one point, Abbott said that syndication sites use peer pressure to sell advertising to agents.
Thompson's response: "If you don't like the fact that syndication sites sell advertising, that's fine. Don't buy it. Peer pressure? Put on your big girl panties and stand up to the peer pressure and do what YOU think is right."
But who knows if his statements were entirely unbiased? Two months later, Zillow hired The Phoenix Real Estate Guy as its director of industry outreach and social media.
But at least one part of his blog post is true, no matter where he works.
He asked, "Is there an 'anti-syndication movement' afoot in the real estate vertical? Maybe. Maybe not. Only time will tell where this is headed."
Indeed, it is not clear. After all, this might be another example of an industry playing catch-up with the Internet.


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People preaching their point of view seem awfully sure of themselves. But we often try hardest to persuade when our confidence has been shaken, suggests an October study online in Psychological Science. In the experiment, volunteers wrote essays aimed at strangers about their views on animal testing or dietary preference. When the subjects' confidence was first challenged by recalling experiences that made them feel uncertain or having to write with their nondominant hand, they wrote longer essays. Because we define ourselves largely by our beliefs, the researchers say, we try to shore up our self-confidence by convincing others to see it our way. Supporting this idea was the finding that when the volunteers were given a different opportunity to reaffirm their attitudes before writing their essays, such as making a list of their music and movie preferences, the effect disappeared.
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When we feel uncertain, we work harder to win others over
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The comparative economic burden of mild, moderate, and severe fibromyalgia: Results from a retrospective chart review and cross-sectional survey of working-age US adults
– Source: Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy, Jul 2012
By Arthi Chandran, et al.
[Note: The full text of this article is available free here. 'Indirect costs' are the value of the patient's lost earning ability and unpaid caregiver time. 'Direct costs' are costs of health resources used. According to these data the median yearly total cost of FM ranges from $9,452 for mildly affected patients and $10,520 for moderately affected individuals to $16,276 for severely affected cases.]
Background: Patients with fibromyalgia report persistent widespread pain, fatigue, and substantial functional limitations, which may lead to high health resource use (HRU) and lost productivity. Previous analyses of the U.S. population have not examined the direct and indirect costs of fibromyalgia by severity level.
Objectives: To assess:
a) HRU, direct and indirect costs associated with fibromyalgia in routine clinical practice in the United States using a patient-centric approach, and
b) The relationship of fibromyalgia severity level to HRU and costs.
This study recruited a nonprobability convenience sample of 203 subjects aged 18 through 65 years between August 2008 and February 2009 from 20 U.S. community-based physician offices.
Subjects had a prior diagnosis of fibromyalgia by a rheumatologist, neurologist, or pain specialist; received treatment at the enrolling physician's practice for at least 3 months; experienced widespread pain for at least 3 months; and experienced pain in the previous 24 hours.
Subjects completed a 106-item patient questionnaire that included 5 validated health-related quality-of-life instruments and study-specific questions about demographics; clinical history; overall health; treatment satisfaction; and impact of fibromyalgia on cognitive function, daily activities, and employment status.
Subjects also self-reported:
• Hours of unpaid informal caregiver time because of inability to perform daily activities (e.g., housework, child care),
• Out-of-pocket expenses for medical and nonmedical services,
• And lost productivity related to fibromyalgia…
…for the previous 4 weeks.
The 20-item Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire total score was used to stratify subjects into fibromyalgia severity groups:
• 0 to less than 39 = mild,
• 39 to less than 59 = moderate,
• 59 to 100 = severe.
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Staff at each site recorded clinical characteristics, health resource use (HRU), and medication use attributable to fibromyalgia on a paper clinical case report form (CRF) based on a 3-month retrospective medical chart review.
Unit costs for 2009 were assigned to the 3-month HRU data reported on the CRF and 4-week subject-reported lost productivity.
Costs were then annualized and reported in the following categories:
• Direct medical,
• Direct nonmedical,
• And indirect.
Differences across severity levels were evaluated using the Kruskal-Wallis test (continuous measures) and Pearson chi-square or Fisher's exact tests (categorical measures) at the 0.05 alpha level.
Of the 203 subjects, 21 (10.3%) had mild, 49 (24.1%) had moderate, and 133 (65.5%) had severe fibromyalgia.
For subjects with mild, moderate, and severe fibromyalgia, respectively:
• The number of fibromyalgia-related medications (3-month means [averages]: 1.8, 2.3, and 2.8, P = 0.011)
• And office visits to health care providers (3-month means: 2.7, 5.2, and 6.9, P less than 0.001)…
…significantly differed across severity levels.
Across severity levels, total medical and nonmedical out-of-pocket costs also differed (P = 0.025).
• Mean [median] 3-month total direct costs (including payer costs for HRU and out-of-pocket costs for medical and nonmedical services) were $1,213 [$1,150], $1,415 [$1,215], and $2,329 [$1,760] for subjects with mild, moderate, and severe fibromyalgia, respectively (P = 0.002);
• And mean [median] 3-month indirect costs (including subject-reported absenteeism, unemployment, disability, and the estimated value of unpaid informal care) were $1,341 [$0], $5,139 [$1,680], and $8,285 [$7,030] (P less than 0.001).
• Mean total indirect costs accounted for 52.5%, 78.4%, and 78.1% of mean total costs for subjects with mild, moderate, and severe fibromyalgia, respectively.
• Direct and indirect costs related to fibromyalgia are higher among subjects with worse fibromyalgia severity.
• Indirect costs account for a majority of fibromyalgia-related costs at all fibromyalgia severity levels.
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"I don't really believe in "authentic" and I think everything is "fusion." I mean, who am I? That's my identity."
If you're the sort who likes to boat, farm, fish, clam and make good food, it's kind of hard not to be taken over by a green-eyed monster when chatting with Anita Lo. The executive chef and owner of Annisa in the West Village pulls out contemporary American cuisine from her wide base of knowledge, has a cookbook, was the first woman to win an Iron Chef showdown (against Mario Batali, with mushrooms as the secret ingredient) and had a later stint on Top Chef Masters.
But what really makes her eyes light up? And how did a feeling of "otherness" and a degree in French literature lead to the kitchen?
Before you went to study Escoffier French cooking, you got your BA in French literature. How did that start? I've always been a fan of language in general. On some levels I think that literature is the highest art—it excites the imagination, which had no borders to it. So that's exciting for me. I wanted to learn about other cultures. We traveled a lot when I was a kid, so it was interesting for me to look at culture through language.
Before you studied cooking there, was there something about Paris that made it feel like you were home? I grew up in the midwest with a feeling that I was unlike anyone else: a feeling of "otherness." So I don't know that anything was really home, ever. But at least in France you could be with a bunch of people that were more traveled. It was different. Breathless.
How did that feeling of otherness as a kid lead to changing your path and studying food there? When I was a kid we traveled a lot, and my family was really a foodie family. Everywhere we went we would try to get the culture through the cuisine. France is just so steeped in food culture—it's hard to avoid—and so it just brought everything together: what I was studying and what I was passionate about.
Where did that come from with your parents? They had a traveling bug.Wwhile other families were going to Disney World on their vacation, we were going to places like Iran.
There's a lot of international influence on your food. How would you categorize it? With the debate of "authentic" cuisine versus "fusion"... See, I hate both of those words. I don't really believe in "authentic," and I think everything is "fusion." I mean, who am I? That's my identity. My stepfather was white. I had African American nannies and one Hungarian nanny, so I grew up with a lot of Hungarian cuisine. Food was so important: we'd talk about dinner while we were eating lunch. And sometimes, on Sundays, we'd sit around making dumplings together. But we didn't celebrate the Chinese New Year; we had Christmas. I was sort of a WASP.
Do you think it's necessary that people in the media or chefs themselves try to put banners on their food? Well, you have to have words to describe things. But on some level words mean different things to different people. I describe my cuisine as "Contemporary American," and what's great about that is it's an enormous category that befits a country that's a melting pot of people.
Do you think New York is a good setting for "Contemporary American" food? Is there something unique about the city that works for you? People are very sophisticated here, and I need them to not be afraid of some of the things that I put on the plate. And it is a better experience if you have even a small understanding of where I'm coming from.
More on labels: I don't want to talk generally about "women in the kitchen," and I normally don't even bring it up because it can be a bit condescending... ...you put people in a category but, the thing is, you have to talk about it.
Exactly. Because it does exist, and we're women, and we're human beings, and these are our jobs. I believe that gender is a social construction and I do my very best to eschew any myths about my gender and those roles. I do think it's nice to have solidarity because we are in a minority category and it is harder for us. I think it's important to talk about it so that people will ask themselves that same question: "why am I approaching this person differently because of their gender?"
Has there been a moment though where being a female chef particularly got you down or even empowered you? I don't know, I'm old. I do see people come in this kitchen with a very macho edge and a chip on their shoulder. And I think that makes it very hard for anybody that that doesn't come naturally to. It can be threatening because there is a power imbalance between genders. But was there a point where I felt, wow, this is great? I get a lot of attention because I'm one of few female chefs and they want to write stories about that. And I have an event in the fall for SHARE—a breast and ovarian cancer support group—of all female chefs. So that's great, it's fun.
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Property the government does not need is considered surplus. Personal property includes assets ranging from commonplace office equipment and furniture to more select products like scientific equipment, heavy machinery, airplanes, vessels, and vehicles. If this property cannot be donated to a state or public agency, or nonprofit organization, it is sold to the general public.
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Getting to Know Uncertainty
A. The short answer is that estimation of uncertainty may be required for certification according to International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC) 17025, General Requirements for Competence of Testing and Calibration Laboratories, or demanded by a customer. ASTM International test methods are not exempt from such requirements.
To briefly introduce uncertainty, it is a part of a report for a test result. For example, the percent moisture of a sample might be 3.56 ± 0.23. The test result itself is the 3.56. The 0.23 coming after the ± sign is the uncertainty. It gauges how far from the true value for that sample the test result might be. This form of reporting is a longstanding practice in science. ASTM E2586, Practice for Calculating and Using Basic Statistics, includes definitions and examples of standard error and confidence intervals.
There are standard formulas for standard errors and confidence intervals applicable to the parameters of common distributions, such as the normal, binomial, Poisson and chi-square.
In metrology, measurements are often at the end of a long calibration chain. Errors of the calibration must also be accounted for in any realistic estimate of uncertainty. From the 1950s, the management of the National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology) in the United States required uncertainty for calibrations that they provided. In 1993, the Guide to Uncertainty of Measurement (GUM), now maintained by the Joint Committee for Guides in Metrology, was published. When ISO/IEC 17025 was adopted in 1999, it included a requirement that the testing laboratory apply procedures for estimating the uncertainty of measurements they make.
Previous DataPoints articles have described repeatability, reproducibility and intermediate precision. The first two, in particular, are required to be determined through interlaboratory trials for every test method. The effort that goes into their determination is part of what makes ASTM test methods of such high quality, so that the values published in the test methods are valuable guides to the user.
Uncertainty is subtly different from precision. E2655, Guide for Reporting Uncertainty of Test Results and Use of the Term Measurement Uncertainty in ASTM Test Methods, was developed in an attempt to clarify them. When you determine a method's precision, you characterize the performance of the test method by the variability of results. When you provide uncertainty with a result, you are addressing how close the true value is likely to be to the reported one for that particular result. For example, suppose we have a method with no bias and precision standard deviation . Now, we repeat the determination n times for the same sample using the method and average them (assuming they are all independent). The standard error is the uncertainty (standard error) that would be reported for that sample. In conventional statistical theory, this is explained using the fact that is the standard deviation of a population of average results (of which we have only one), which is again a measure of variability of results, or precision.
It is therefore an entirely reasonable question to ask: Why can't the precision values given in ASTM test methods fulfill the role? Reproducibility, in particular, would seem to be suitable, since results for different laboratories on a test material are certainly independent.
The outcome of considerable discussion within ASTM committees has been that repeatability and reproducibility results given in ASTM test methods are not suited to be quoted in place of uncertainty. Recall, uncertainty is a measure of how close a particular test result, the product of one laboratory, is to the true value. There is no assurance that any laboratory using the test method will have the same precision and accuracy; some will be better and some worse. Specifications of apparatus and materials in test methods attempt to control uncertainty but cannot guarantee a value. Reproducibility is an average. Therefore, the ASTM policy is given in Form and Style for ASTM Standards, or Blue Book, as follows:
A22.2 It is neither appropriate for, nor the responsibility of, the test method to provide explicit values that a user would quote as their estimate of uncertainty. Uncertainty values must be based on data generated by a laboratory reporting results using the test method.
Form and Style then provides recommendations for test methods to include guidance on uncertainty. Some ASTM test methods now provide a section on how to calculate and report uncertainty for that particular method. For an ASTM test method that has such a section, you would follow it for the particular analysis.
There is also a common general approach, useful in some cases. In this approach, uncertainty is estimated using the site precision standard deviation (long-term within-laboratory standard deviation), such as would be available from the use of check samples. This is neither repeatability nor reproducibility, but a type of intermediate precision. ASTM International Committee D02 on Petroleum Products and Lubricants uses this as general guidance on measurement uncertainty for test methods under its jurisdiction in D6792, Practice for Quality System in Petroleum Products and Lubricants Testing Laboratories. ASTM E2554, Practice for Estimating and Monitoring the Uncertainty of Test Results of a Test Method in a Single Laboratory Using a Control Sample Program, describes an equivalent procedure.Peter Fortini, Pfizer, Andover, Mass., is vice-chairman of ASTM Committee E11 on Quality and Statistics and a technical contact for E2655.


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In the 50 years since Princeton University's Engineering Quadrangle was built, engineering at Princeton has expanded while integrating seamlessly within one of the world's finest liberal arts institutions.
This video tour of Princeton's engineering neighborhood is narrated by H. Vincent Poor, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and filmed by Michael Wood, who graduated from Princeton with a degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering in 2008.
The engineering school is a place "of ideas and progress … where we imagine a better world through innovation," said Poor, who is also the Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering.
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I am new to this forum only having joined today.
I am having a problem with my version of abcexplorer.
I have downloaded many folk and bluegrass tunes from various sites into abcexplorer and have learnt to play them thanks to the sheet music that the abc files produce and the ability of the player to alter the speed of the tune to suit my musical notation reading level. Once I know the tune I am then able to play along to the tune at its full speed.
PROBLEM: recently my computer told me I had little disc space remaining and advised me to get rid of programs infrequently used which I did.
When I came to use abcexplorer again I found that the part of the split screen that showed the notation or sheet music was blank each time I loaded a tune. I tried downloading new abc files but the result was the same - no sheet music.
I fear that during my disc spring clean I may have inadvertently erased some important part of the software that translates the abc files into notation.
Any suggestions as to what I can do to restore the sheet music facility of abcexplorer?
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