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of Lemurs (Prosimians)
The Lemurs of Madagascar are one of the most critically endangered and one of
the oldest species on Earth. This
WORLD currently features three species/subspecies of Lemurs.
Common Name: Red
Ruffed Lemur
Genus/Species: Varecia variegata rubra
The island of Madagascar.
Natural Habitat:
Red ruffed lemurs are restricted to the forests of the Masoala Peninsula in
northeastern Madagascar. They are separated from the black-and-white ruffed
lemur population by the Antainambalana River. The ruffed (both red and
black-and-white) lemurs are tree dwellers and are the most arboreal of the true
Physical Appearance:
Physical appearance may slightly vary depending on geographic area. Red ruffed lemurs are among the larger of the true lemurs, weighing about 8
pounds. They have a long bushy tail, a neck ruff or mane, a fox-like muzzle and
thick fur.
Red ruffed lemurs can give birth to up to 5 young, but two to three are more
common. They breed seasonally, and gestation is just 102 days. The female does
not carry her infants but rather builds a nest where she stays with them for
almost two weeks. If the female needs to
move the infants, she does so by carrying them
in her mouth.
STATUS in Natural Habitat:
Classified as Critically Endangered since they have a limited geographic
distribution and none of their habitat is protetected.
Cool Fact:
Field studies suggest that red ruffed lemurs, like black-and-white ruffed
lemurs, may be found in monogamous pairs or in loosely organized groups.
Individuals scattered about the dense forest communicate through loud booming
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Competing With the Ayatollah
Whenever I need to escape, I like to think about Iran and our wonderful 3 decade long competition. What's impressive is that since the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979, there have always been new ways to exploit the tension, both politically and artistically.
Of course the most famous of these exploitations has to be the years of enmity between Hulk Hogan and the Iron Sheik. The two went back and forth, always finding a new way to up the ante in their ongoing feud. It wasn't just entertainment, it was sport for a country looking for a villain and a hero.
That's one of the beautiful things about sports in America. We tend to be really good at them so no matter how things may be going geo-politically, we can always come back to our athletic achievements. That's part of the reason why the Olympic basketball loss to the Russians in 1972 was so devastating. It's also why the 1980 Lake Placid "Miracle on Ice" was so satisfying. It's probably also why we really don't even pay attention during the World Baseball Classic.
But recently we had another one of those moments of pride and it once again involved wrestling and Iran. There was no grandstanding for the crowd this time, though. Just a simple non-look that says "I owned you."
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(Gray News) – Ford is recalling almost 1.5 million pickup trucks in the United States and Canada because the transmissions can suddenly downshift.
"Depending on vehicle speed, a downshift to first gear without warning could result in a loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash," Ford said in a statement.
"Ford is aware of five reports of accidents, including one report of 'whiplash' potentially related to this condition."
The recall covers 1.48 million F-150 trucks – approximately 1.26 million in the U.S. and federalized territories and approximately 221,000 in Canada – from the 2011 through 2013 model years with six-speed automatic transmissions.
Dealers will update the powertrain control software to fix the problem. Owners will be notified by mail starting March 4, the Associated Press reported.
Ford's F-Series pickup is the top-selling vehicle in the U.S.
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- Bob Greene: We all hate a meddling boss closely watching you work over your shoulder
- CourseSmart provides electronic books and monitors students' work for professors
- Before you know it, he says, U.S. businesses will adapt software to the workplace
- Greene: Then, bosses can look over their employees' shoulders 24/7
How much do you hate it when some meddling boss is leaning way-too-close over your shoulder, micro-checking and second-guessing every bit of work you do?
Well, if you think you hate it now, get ready.
Because, as annoying as it can seem today, every indication is that, as far as the stress of bosses hovering over your shoulder goes, these may soon be regarded as the good old days.
The first signs of what is coming can be seen at nine U.S. colleges this spring. At those schools, a pilot program designed by CourseSmart, a Silicon Valley company that distributes electronic textbooks, is under way.
The shift from print to digital, as we all know, is picking up velocity everywhere, including at colleges and universities. Soon enough, just about all textbooks will be digital.
Which is where CourseSmart comes in. Not only does the company provide the electronic books -- it is offering professors and administrators the opportunity to do something previously impossible with books printed on paper.
CourseSmart keeps track of, and provides to professors, real-time data about how each student is using his or her digital textbooks, "including page views, time spent in a textbook, notes taken, highlights made, bookmarks used, and whether or not the student even opened the book," according to Alexandra Tilsley of the online publication Inside Higher Ed.
CourseSmart says that this is all designed for the ultimate good of the students, because its software allows faculty to "identify 'at risk' students based on engagement with assigned course materials" -- meaning: We know if you really studied the book last night.
Tracy Hurley, dean of the school of business at Texas A&M University-San Antonio, told reporter David Streitfeld of The New York Times: "It's Big Brother, sort of, but with a good intent."
Maybe the intent is, indeed, worthy, as far as college classes are concerned.
But you just know that, as soon as CourseSmart perfects the software and launches it into widespread use, American business and industry are going to glom onto it and adapt it to the workplace.
This is the tool that corporations everywhere have been waiting for: a way to stand over the shoulder of every employee, 24 hours a day, and keep track of exactly how much time he or she is really spending on his or her work.
The technology would allow bosses to oh-so-casually tell their subordinates: "If you're not too busy, why don't you go over this report again tonight?"
And then, the next morning, say:
"Did you get a chance to work on that report?"
"Yes, sir, I went over it at home on my iPad, and it looked fine to me."
"Funny thing, Smithers -- our software indicates that the last time you even looked at the report was two days ago."
Oh, the possibilities are endless. It's Big Brother, all right, corporate edition. Employees will be judged not just by the quality or creativity or ingenuity or precision of their finished work, but will be electronically stared at -- smothered with second-by-second scrutiny -- as they do the work, wherever they are.
Already we have willingly given up the distinction between office time and home time; e-mails and cellphones and text messages have erased that line. Employees are always on call.
And like it or not, Americans have become accustomed to being constantly observed. Those key cards that corporations issue allow them to find out exactly when their employees were and weren't in the building; the security cameras that dot America's streets and malls and factories have so quickly become ubiquitous that the startling thing is not when something is "caught on video" -- but when something somehow isn't.
This, though -- the CourseSmart experiment at those nine colleges, and what it could lead to in the business world -- is the beginning of the next phase.
"You all set for the presentation tomorrow, Johnson?"
"I am -- I've been going over the numbers at home all weekend."
"Have you, Johnson? Because that's not what our software program shows."
Of course, the employees of the future, the working stiffs, could always object to this -- could demand to be judged on their finished work alone, could insist not to be electronically spied on, could tell their bosses that when they leave the office for the day or for the weekend they're off the clock and off duty, and thus will not be available to be tracked remotely via their tablets and smartphones and laptops.
They could take a bold and principled stand and say that.
It would make for an amusing anecdote to tell the person in front of them in the unemployment line the next week.
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Baden is a remarkable wine region. Shielded by the Odenwald hills and the Black Forest on one side and the Vosges mountains on the other, it enjoys the sunniest and warmest climate in Germany, with temperatures that are almost mediterranean. This balmy climate and fertile soil have given rise to some of the best vineyards in Europe. Outstanding wines, delicious food and a warm welcome are the hallmarks of the Baden experience. The region is a magnet for those with refined tastes.
Baden is the third-largest wine region in Germany. 40 per cent of its vineyards are planted with red wine grapes, with pinot noir the most popular variety. The remaining 60 per cent grow white wine grapes. More than half of all German pinot noirs are produced in the region, which makes it one of the world's leading producers of the wine. Baden is the land of the pinots: the majority of its vineyards cultivate pinot noir, pinot gris or pinot blanc varieties. Great importance is also attached to white wines made from riesling and müller-thurgau grapes, while chasselas is a Badensian speciality.
Baden and its nine wine-growing areas occupy a narrow belt of countryside that extends 400 kilometres from Lake Constance in the south to the Tauberfranken vineyards in the north. The region stretches out over a rich variety of landscapes, which is reflected in the diverse soil compositions: the heat-retaining morainic gravel, chalk, clay and marl from the Tertiary period, massive loess deposits, volcanic minerals, weathered granite, shell limestone and sandstone. The rich diversity of soils carries through to the wine itself and makes the Baden region especially exciting for connoisseurs.
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Most family-run vineyards in the Baden region belong to a cooperative that produces wine from their grapes in accordance with strict quality criteria. 77 of these cooperatives produce 80 per cent of Badensian wines. But there are still 400 independent wineries that make their own high-quality wines and market them privately, adding to the incredible variety of Badensian wines and raising the kudos enjoyed by the region. In each of the nine wine-growing areas, the microclimates that result from the greatly varying landscapes influence the character of the individual wines.
Blessed by charming countryside and a near mediterranean climate, it's no surprise that people in the Baden wine region have such a sunny disposition. Locals are warm and friendly, and they know how to enjoy themselves. That's good news for visitors too: the region is famous for its joie de vivre. Nowhere else in Germany are there so many Michelin-starred restaurants, but even those establishments that have not won awards are excellent examples of the Badensians' passion for pleasure.
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I am trying to get involved with a homeschool group in my area, but being the only male doing it, I am having problems settling in. I have found that I'm excluded at many group activities because I have the wrong plumbing. My kids participate, but when the ladies start talking, they move away from me. I don't think I'm a scary guy, rather, I think it's that they want to talk 'girl-talk'. So, I'm not included. As a result, my family is not involved in a homeschool group.
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Everything Related to the Steelpan Instrument and Music
Legendary American jazz standout pianist and composer Randy Weston recently held a special forum called "Symposium in the drum - from Africa to the New World" at the New School in New York.
Weston brought in some heavy hitters for the panel discussion and demonstrations, including panist, educator, composer and performing artist Khuent Rose on double second steelpan.
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What's with this Facebook thing?
It's a question answered by more and more plan sponsors, according to a new study from Cogent Research.
Nearly two-thirds (63%) of defined contribution plan sponsors are using social media as a regular source of information for 401(k) plans and the providers that serve this market, the company finds.
While many providers continue to dedicate more time and money to more traditional forms of communication and outreach, such as e-mail or direct contact with an advisor or firm representative, plan sponsors are more often linking to plan providers through websites or blogs (39%), LinkedIn (24%) and Facebook (22%) to share or seek news and opinions related to 401(k) plans and providers.
The findings, included in the fourth annual Retirement Planscape 2013 study recently released by Cogent, are based on a representative survey of more than 1,500 DC plan sponsors across all plan sizes and industries.
"The prevalence of social media activity among DC plan sponsors is much higher than we anticipated," Linda York, practice director of syndicated research at Cogent Research, said in a statement. "These results indicate that a social media strategy, if it hasn't already, should be an integral component of any provider's overall communication plan."
The use of social media for 401(k) information was highest among midsize plan sponsors, who represent plans with total assets of between $20 million and $100 million. Within this segment, 77% of plan sponsors utilize some form of social media for 401(k) informational purposes, with nearly half (47%) reporting regular use of provider websites or blogs. LinkedIn is the second most popular channel among midsize plan sponsors, cited by 39% of respondents.
Cogent's study found the use of social media among 401(k) sponsors was lower among plans with higher asset levels, with just half of plan sponsors representing plans with greater than $100 million utilizing social media for information related to 401(k) providers.
"The difference in social media usage by plan size points to the need for targeted communication strategies for each segment," York added. "The larger, more established plans require a different level and type of outreach, often requiring more personal and direct communication."
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Boekenoogen family
Boekenoogen was a family which originally lived in West Flanders in Belgium. Joos Bouckenoghe (Boekenoogen), head chaplain at Bruges and priest of the Roman Catholic Church at Ledeghem, was converted to the Mennonites and settled at Haarlem in the Netherlands as a weaver about 1580. His son Willem was also a Mennonite, but most of Willem's children became Quakers; one of them, Jan, immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1684 and was one of the first settlers of Philadelphia. Five of the children of Tanneken Symons B. (d. 1670 at Haarlem) were Quakers though she herself was apparently a Mennonite. The children of Jan B., a son of Willem and a velvet weaver, were, however, Mennonites about 1731, first in Amsterdam and afterward in Haarlem.
A grandson of this Jan Boekenoogen, called Jan Gerrit Boekenoogen, b. at Haarlem 1802 and d. at Beverwijk 1877, married to Johanna Overbeek, studied at the Mennonite Theological Seminary at Amsterdam and became a ministerial candidate in 1826; he served the Mennonite congregations of Ouddorp 1826-1827 and Wormerveer-Zuid 1827-1863. His son Lucas Fredrik Boekenoogen (1830-1909) was a manufacturer of vegetable oils at Wormerveer and became very well-to-do. He was married to Agatha Maria van Gelder. Jan Gerrit Boekenoogen and Gerrit Jacob Boekenoogen were their sons.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Boekenoogen family." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1953. Web. 23 Sep 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Boekenoogen_family&oldid=141047.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. (1953). Boekenoogen family. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 23 September 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Boekenoogen_family&oldid=141047.
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Best Practices with JPA and Beans Binding
by Jan Stola.
NetBeans GUI builder (since NB 6.0 release) provides support for JSR 295 Beans Binding. Synchronization of the application's data model with the information displayed in UI components is usually a daunting task when coding a new GUI. Beans Binding simplifies this process by providing an easy way to connect two properties. Hence if your data modelis based on JavaBeans specification, e.g. if it has
get<Attribute> and
set<Attribute> methods for all its important attributes,
then it is simple to use NetBeans binding support to bind your model to Swing components. You may argue that many Swing components are not beans with nice attributes/properties(for example the model property of
JTableis quite complex),
but you don't need to worry about that. Beans Binding improves the behaviour of some Swing components (e.g. adds property changenotification when text of
JTextComponentis modified) and
adds few handy artificial properties where standard componentslack them - like elements property of
JTablethat allows you
to set the table model in terms of collection of JavaBeans.
The data processed by the application are stored in a relational database frequently. So, you need to load the data somehow and create bean wrappers to be able to use beans binding. Java Persistence API (JPA) is ideal for this purpose. JPA is a standard object-relational mapping for Java e.g. it is a technology that does exactly what we need, it maps Java objects to corresponding data in the database. JPA started in, but is not specific to J2EE world. There are already several implementations available for standalone applications as well. The NetBeans distribution includes one of them: TopLink - JPA implementation by Oracle.
The easiest way to start with NetBeans beans/data binding support is to create a Java Desktop Application/Database Application Shell. You can find it in the New Project ... wizard. This wizard creates a skeleton of simple CRUD (create, read, update and delete) database application with master/detail view. In the sequel we assume that we have an applicationcalled CustomerApp created from
CUSTOMERmaster table and {PURCHASE_ORDER}
detail table.
Let's examine the generated application. The most importantclass is
CustomerViewthat contains the GUI of the application's main window. If you select the
detailTablethen you can
see the properties of this table in Properties window. The Binding section of this window contains information about bound properties.You can, for example, see that the
elementsproperty of
detailTableis bound to {${selectedElement.purchaseOrderCollection} } expression of masterTable. The binding source (e.g.
masterTablein this case)
represents a context in which the binding expression is evaluated whenever sychronization is required (for example when selection in the masterTable changes). The binding expressions are usuallysimple properties (
${foreground}) or property paths ({${selectedElement.address.street}}),
but they can be arbitrary EL expressions known from JSP(
${firstName} ${lastName}or {${selectedElement != null}}).
The Advanced tab of the binding customizer allows you to affect additional binding aspects: coverter (when the types of bound properties do not match), validator (to avoid corruption of the source of the data) etc.
Besides the main view (CustomerView.java), about dialog (CustomerAboutBox.java) and the application main class (CustomerApp.java) the project contains two data access classes (called entities): Customer.java and PurchaseOrder.java. The annotations in these classes help JPA to map the data from DB tables and columns to the corresponding entities and fields/properties in the entities.
The entities for our application were generated when the project was created, but you can generate additional entities for other DB tables using Entity Classes from Database wizard (accessible through Persistence category of New File dialog).
If the DB tables that we would like to access have some foreign keys e.g. if the corresponding entities have some relations (many-one, one-many etc.) then it is important to generate all the entities together to make sure these relations are correctly expressed in generated classes. For example, if you generate PurchaseOrder entity without Customer entity thenthe
customerIdfield that represents the relation between these entities
will have type int (instead of Customer) or will not be generated at all.
When the entity classes are used with beans binding then it is necessary to add property change support into them. Firstly, the entity shouldhave
addPropertyChangeListener()and {removePropertyChangeListener()}
methods for (un)-registration of property change listeners. Secondly, every setter(
set<Property>{()} method) should notify all registered listeners
about the preformed change. The GUI builder attempts to add this support for you whenever it is needed, but you should not depend on it. It is sometimes not possible to determine that automatically. Therefore double check your property change support whenever you encounter a problem in sychronization done by beans binding.
By default, it is necessary to set (value of) field/property that correspond to the primary key before the data can be stored into the database. This may be fine if your primary key makes sense in real world (e.g. it is a social number of the customer), but it is annoying if the key should be just a unique number (possibly generated from some sequence). If your DB provides this support then you can utilize it in your entities as well. It is sufficientto add something like
@GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.IDENTITY)just below
@Idannotation next to your primary key.
Embedded Database
Usually the application's database is located on some DB server that is accessible over network, but there are some cases when it is preferable to have the DB locally for each installation of the application - for example when the application manages the set of your music records or books. It is ideal to use embedded DB in this case. You can use for example free lightweight embedded DB provided by Derby/Java DB. The usage of this DB is similar to the usage of network DBs. You just have touse
org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriverinstead of {ClientDriver}.
Of course, you don't need to specify hostname and port in DBurl. It is sufficient to include the DB name e.g.
jdbc:derby:mydb. Derby will look for DB called
mydbin a working directory.
If you want to create the DB in case it doesn't exist already (for example, during the first start after installation) then you can do that by setting create parameterin DB URL to true e.g.
Don't be confused if you don't see the data (or even tables) when you run your application in spite of the fact that you can see them in Services window of NetBeans. Recall that Derby is looking for the DB in the working directory and the working directory of NetBeans is different from the working directory of your project.
The create parameter ensures creation of the DB only. It doesn't help you with the creation of DB tables. Hapilly, you can utilize one nice feature of JPA. JPA is able to create missing DB tables that correspond to entity classes in your application. Open persistence.xml file in META-INF directory of your project. This file contains configuration data used by your JPA provider. If you change Table Generation Strategy to Create then missing DB tables will be created automatically for you.
Do not forget that Embedded DB requires the whole DB engine on the classpath. So, it is not sufficient to use derbyclient.jar that contains the driver only, you have to use derby.jar.
Finally, I would like to mention few FAQs whose answers didn't make it into the above text:
How to specify an additional binding source?
The binding source combo box in the binding customizer offers the list of components added into the form (e.g. the components that you can see in Inspector window). Sometimes it is necessary to specify another binding source, for example your application model that is not added directly into your form. In this case,it is the best to add a getter for this object e.g.
getModel()into the form class. After that you can use
Formas the binding source and
${model.yourOriginalExpression}as the binding expression.
Why do my bound list/table/combo box is not updated when I add a new object into the corresponding list?
Standard JDK collections are not observable e.g. it is not possible to by notified about their changes. Fortunately, Beans Binding provides a set of observable collections that can be used as wrappers. Hence if you encounter the described problem then make surethat you wrap your list using
Even when you use this wrapper you must ensure that you don'tmodify it directly using methods of the underlying
You must add/remove elements through methods of the wrapper only (to allow the list to generate correct events).
Why do my entities show old values?
It might be due to TopLink's session cache. I will not delveinto technical details, but it may help to call
on your entity. If you find this annoying then you cantry to set
toplink.cache.shared.defaultproperty to {false} in
persistence.xml. See http://weblogs.java.net/blog/guruwons/archive/2006/09/understanding_t.html
for details.
How can I bind Date objects to some UI component easily?
Use JFormattedTextField and its value (not text!) property.Finally use property editor for
(of the formatted field) to customize the date/time format.


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This weeks incoming
As usual a serious amount of new material has been delivered here at Aural Delights HQ over the last week so there has not been much time for considered reviewing.
Three pre-release tracks from the new Sallie Ford album "Slapback" have arrived and they sound fantastic. The sound is a little more raw and increases the anticipation for the full release on October 13th.
I finally got around to purchasing the excellent album from My Little Brother "If we never came down" which is marvellous. I featured the band on the radio show a couple of years back and i've been meaning to get hold of the release – glad I did it's fantastic.
My appreciation of the new Trojan Horse album "A World Turned Upside Down" is reflected in an interview with Nick Duke from the band on the Studeo Blog. Suffice to say that the quartet have overcome the "difficult second album" hurdle with some ease and have created something genuinely groundbreaking. Links and stuff are in the review in the other place. I also put together a special podcast to celebrate the album launch which features old and new material from the band as well as each band members musical favourites plus a few of my own choices to break up the mix.
Aural Delights Podcast reaches it's 100th edition in a couple of weeks so I've been putting my mind to how I might celebrate that milestone – pending that here is the latest edition
The new metal and garage music keeps flowing and there have been some remarkable releases which I just have not had chance to write about so I'll let the Sonic Attack Podcast tell the story – although I will point out the new OHHMS album as a bit of a highlight
And here's some quick one-lines on the rest of the new material…..all of which should be appearing on future podcasts at some point…..
Cable35 – Coconut Supply (Single) Free Download from Website – Out Now
Taken from the Fungus EP which was out earlier in the year. Fresh neo-grunge sound with a hint of Sonic Youth, Excellent
Roses Never Fade – Devil Dust (Album) Neuropa – Out Now
Remarkable mix of ambient textures and moody acoustic strumming with dark, brooding vocals. Featuring Ancient Wisdom's Nathan Opposition, The Way To Light's Austin Rathmell and Pale Creation's Nick Fiction. Impressive.
Godflesh – A World Lit Only By Fire (Album) Avalanche Records – 6th October 2014
Slightly disappointing in that there is nothing new of note. The usual industrial metal tropes are here and it's all delivered very well but I could have done with a bit of development maybe.
Positronik – Better Late Than Never (Album) German Shepherd Records – 17th October 2014
Post split compilation of the majority of their recordings. High quality soul-pop with electronica elements.
Dope Body – Lifer (Album) Drag City – 20th October 2014
Impressive second outing for this Baltimore Quartet. Excellent rock/punk and contender for album of the year.
Annhilated – XIII Steps to ruination (Album) Unique Leader – 28th October 2014
Debut, full length intense and unforgiving death metal with some technical elements
Atomzero – Surface (Single) Analogue Trash – release date unknown
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Monster Jaw – Monster Jaw (EP) Cobra Kitten Records – 27th October 2014
Pop flecked ear-worm in an indie package – vocals seem a bit low in the mix, but good for all that
Surburban Myth – Crashed and Burned (Single) Self Released – 31st October 2014
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Public Service Broadcasting – The Race for Space (Album) Cargo – 23rd February 2015
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In a new area of study, researchers explore how brain mechanisms for memory retrieval differ between adults and children.
Neuroscientists from Wayne State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered that while the memory systems are the same in many ways, the aging process appears to impart important differences in how we learn and respond to education.
Noa Ofen, Ph.D., an assistant professor in WSU's Institute of Gerontology and Department of Pediatrics, says that cognitive ability, including the ability to learn and remember new information, dramatically changes between childhood and adulthood.
This ability parallels with dramatic changes that occur in the structure and function of the brain during these periods.
In the study, Ofen and her collaborative team tested the development of neural foundations of memory from childhood to young adulthood.
Researchers did this by exposing participants to pictures of scenes and then showing them the same scenes mixed with new ones. They then and asked them to judge whether each picture was presented earlier.
Participants made retrieval judgments while researchers collected images of their brains with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Using this method, the researchers were able to see how the brain remembers. "Our results suggest that cortical regions related to attentional or strategic control show the greatest developmental changes for memory retrieval," said Ofen.
This finding suggests that older participants use the cortical regions of the brain to retrieve past memories more so than younger participants.
"We were interested to see whether there are changes in the connectivity of regions in the brain that support memory retrieval," Ofen added.
"We found changes in connectivity of memory-related regions. In particular, the developmental change in connectivity between regions was profound even without a developmental change in the recruitment of those regions, suggesting that functional brain connectivity is an important aspect of developmental changes in the brain."
Researchers say this study is unique as it is the first time that the development of connectivity within memory systems in the brain has been tested.
Findings suggest the brain continues to rearrange connections to achieve adult-like performance during development.
Future studies by Ofen and her research team will focus on modeling brain network connectivity, and applying these methods to study abnormal brain development.
The team's findings are published in the Journal of Neuroscience.
Source: Wayne State University
Nauert PhD, R. (2018). Memory Connections Change from Childhood to Adulthood. Psych Central. Retrieved on September 28, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/news/2012/07/25/memory-connections-change-from-childhood-to-adulthood/42218.html
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Archives for September, 2011
Needs a paint
Not sure if I've posted a picture of this bridge before: It's over the Thames between Cookham and Bourne End where I went for a wander this morning. If they painted it it would look quite nice.
Big Value
For some reason Tesco are currently selling 4.25kg boxes of "big value" Persil non-bio washing powder cheaper than the otherwise identical 2.5kg boxes. Stock up now!
Holiday Camp
I've been in Norway for a few days for our annual company conference thing. We stayed at this Butlins-esque convention centre on the coast about an hours drive from Oslo. The chalets are very cute. Weather wasn't great but at least it wasn't -20°C like last time.


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Ending a weeks-long nationwide drought of James Franco that has left our starved mental plains cracked and sere, TV Guide has confirmed that James Franco will once again fold in upon himself to play the mysterious performance artist "Franco" on General Hospital—a role that is, in itself, an act of mysterious performance art. Franco returns to the daytime soap on September 20, picking up a storyline about his "hopelessly mad crush on beefy hit man Jason Morgan" in what's being described as a "long-term" arc, despite the fact that the show's L.A. shooting schedule seemingly conflicts with his commitment to Broadway's Sweet Bird Of Youth, his role in Oz The Great And Powerful, his upcoming biopic on Sal Mineo, his plans to develop films based on the writings of Cormac McCarthy and William Faulkner, his course on James Franco, his ongoing pursuit of two separate doctorates, and the period set aside for the general dispersal of his molecular structure through all the elemental forces of nature, as has been so since time immemorial. As with previous appearances on General Hospital, Franco will handle this conundrum by just not being very good.
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30 September
- Ian O'Neill at Discovery.Com discusses the SpaceX plan to use rocket power to recover the Dragon spacecraft, as well as both the first and second stages of the Falcon 9 rocket.
29 September
- China successfully launched the TianGong-1 Space Laboratory module on live television today.
- International Launch Services (ILS) have launched their Proton-M rocket on Thursday, on a mission which is marking their first ILS launch since the Russian workhorse returned to flight. Launch was on schedule at 18:32 GMT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with the Proton tasked with deploying the QuetzSat-1 telecommunications satellite for SES, after what will be nine hours of flight.
- Planetary scientists at Brown University and participating institutions have discovered vast, smooth plains around Mercury's north pole that were created by volcanic activity more than 3.5 billion years ago.
- Aerojet announced today that along with NASA and Orbital Sciences Corporation, the team conducted a successful ground test firing of an AJ26-62 flight engine that will power Orbital's Taurus II medium-class space launch vehicle.
- Scientists have released most accurate and detailed large cosmological simulation run to date. The Bolshoi simulation focused on a representative section of the universe, computing the evolution of a cubic volume measuring about one billion light-years on a side and following the interactions of 8.6 billion particles of dark matter. It took 6 million CPU-hours to run the full computation on the Pleiades supercomputer
28 September
- China's first space lab module Tiangong-1 is scheduled to be launched between 9:16 p.m. and 9:31 p.m. Thursday, a spokesman for China's manned space flight project said on Wednesday.
- A Minotaur 4 rocket successfully launched a small military communications satellite on Tuesday. The Orbital Sciences Corporation Minotaur 4+ lifted off from the Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska at 8:49 AM Phoenix time (1549 UTC).
- Feast your Eyes on the Fried Egg Nebula
27 September
- NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) have recommended that NASA personnel embedded at commercial companies should be rotated, in order to avoid them "going native", which they fear threatens rule bending as the teams' working relationship becomes closer over time.
26 September
- A Zenit-3SL successfully launched a communications satellite Saturday on the first mission for the Sea Launch company since it completed bankruptcy reorganization. The Zenit-3SL lifted off at 4:18 pm EDT (2018 GMT) Saturday from Sea Launch's mobile launch platform on the Equator at 154 degrees west in the Pacific Ocean.
25 September
- Super Earth exo-planets are the subject of both the Kepler mission and the Swiss-led HARPS mission.
24 September
- A NASA spacecraft launched 20 years ago reentered late Friday night, although the exact reentry locations was unknown as of Saturday morning. The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) reentered some time between 8:23 PM Phoenix time Friday and 10:09 PM (0323 and 0509 UTC Saturday).
23 September
- After years of delays, fledgling rocket company Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is ready to launch NASA's first commercial cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) this fall. But that opportunity may continue to elude SpaceX for a while longer, as a recent Soyuz launch failure could prompt yet another schedule slip.
- Rand Simberg takes apart Rory Cooper's criticism of NASA. The blame really lies with Congress and Pork.
22 September
- Japan has launched a new Information Gathering Satellite (IGS) known as Optical-4, via their H-2A (H-IIA) launch vehicle. Given the military nature of the payload, only amateur footage of the launch was available, although it did show the vehicle successfully lifted off from the Yoshinobu Launch Complex at the Tanegashima Space Center (TNSC) at 04:36 UTC on Friday.
- Europe's Ariane 5 ECA heavy-lift rocket successfully placed two telecommunications satellites — one carrying the first commercially hosted payload for the U.S. Air Force — into geostationary transfer orbit Sept. 21. The satellites' owners reported that both spacecraft were healthy in orbit.
21 September
- Place your bets on where the UARS satellite will fall.
- A Proton-M rocket carrying a military satellite was successfully launched from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome early Wednesday.
20 September
- Aviation Week discusses the procurement announcements and processes for the Space Launch System.
- The clock is ticking for the first Soyuz flight from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. The rocket, which will carry the first two satellites of Europe's Galileo navigation system into orbit, is being prepared for launch on 20 October.
19 September
- A monster rocket, or just a monster? Jeff Foust weighs in on the Space Launch System heavy lift rocket.
18 September
- The Orlando Sentinel discusses the dangers facing NASA and the new Heavy Lift rocket mandated by the Senate. Severe doubts exist that NASA can meet their own 2017 first flight deadline, and few think the Congress will provide enough funds.
- As NASA's defunct Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite (UARS) continues to head towards its death – which will result in re-entry around September 23 – NASA managers have discussed ways of improving their fragmentation models for future returning spacecraft, with the aim of reducing the the debris footprint for hardware which may threaten to survive entry.
17 September
- The Senate Appropriations Committee this week approved a $17.9-billion budget for NASA that includes funding for exploration programs, commercial crew development, and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
- Eric Burger interviews Norm Augustine in Houston about NASA's new Heavy Lift rocket program.
16 September
- JPL has released new images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft map the giant asteroid's varied landscape in unprecedented detail, closing in on equatorial grooves, a deep depression on the south pole and its colossal mountain.
- NASA Rover finds a rare Mars rock with clues of ancient water.
- The Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft carrying ISS crewmembers Andrei Borisenko, Alexander Samokutyayev and Ron Garan landed at a designated area in Kazakhstan approximately at 08:00 AM Moscow time (0400 UTC).
15 September
- The Space Frontier Foundation called Wednesday's announcement by NASA that it will attempt to build Congress's giant monster rocket a disaster that will devour our dreams for moving humanity into space. Rather than breathing life into a dying space program, it may well kill new initiatives to greatly expand US space exploration and settlement efforts.
14 September
- NASA announced details of its new Heavy Lift rocket, which has been mandated by the Senate. What is lacking in this whole story is exactly what NASA will do with this big rocket. Missions to asteroids, Mars etc. are often tossed out by NASA representatives – but no timeline whatosever has yet to be presented – not even a "notional" one. Nor has an overall strategy or architecture been issued or any idea what the cost would be for the things that would actually fly on these rockets.
13 September
- U.S. satellite television provider DirecTV will launch two satellites aboard Europe's heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket, with the first launch in 2014, and has booked options for two other launches with the European company for satellites yet to be named.
12 September
- The existence of Methane in the Martian atmosphere has been the subject of much controversy over the past decade. Astrobiology magazine reports on the various observations made from Earth and spacecraft orbiting Mars.
11 September
- If all tests go according to plans, Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) 'Megha-Tropiques', an Indo-French advanced tropical climate monitoring satellite will be launched on October 12 at 11.00 am from Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradesh
10 September
- A Delta 2 rocket successfully launched a pair of NASA spacecraft that will study the Moon's interior. The Delta 2 7920H lifted off from Launch Complex 17B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, at 1308 GMT during the second of two one-second launch windows available Saturday. The rocket's upper stage deployed the twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft a little over an hour after liftoff. The two spacecraft will enter orbit around the Moon in four months, where they will map the Moon's gravity field.
- Alliant Techsystems (ATK) successfully carried out Thursday the third test of a five-segment solid rocket motor that could be used for NASA's Space Launch System and a commercial rocket.
9 September
- Russian officials said Thursday that a one-time "production fault" caused the failure last month of a Soyuz rocket carrying a Progress cargo spacecraft to the ISS. The Soyuz rocket's upper stage engine shut down during the August 24 launch, causing the Progress M-12M spacecraft to fall to Earth, crashing in a remote region of Siberia. Officials said that a fuel line became clogged because of a unspecified accidental production fault, which led to the engine shutdown. The Russian space agency Roskosmos has not indicated when it expects the launch vehicle to return to flight, although NASA officials said this week they were optimistic it would be able to launch a crewed Soyuz spacecraft before the ISS has to be decrewed in mid-November.
- Gusty upper-level winds forced NASA to postpone Thursday's scheduled launch of a lunar orbiter mission by a day, and technical concerns will delay it at least an additional day. NASA had planned to launch the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft on a Delta 2 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Thursday morning, but high winds in the upper atmosphere scrubbed the launch.
8 September
- Operators of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are resuming use of the mission's highest resolution camera following a second precautionary shutdown in two weeks. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) instrument powered off on Aug. 27 and again on Sept. 6. In each case, commanding for an observation was not properly received by the memory module controlling one of the instrument's 14 electronic detectors (CCDs, or charge-coupled devices).
- Key senators accused the Obama administration Thursday of artificially inflating the cost of a heavy-lift rocket designed to reach asteroids and Mars. The heavy-lift rocket, the capsule it will carry and the launch facilities to send it into space are forecast to cost $26 billion by 2017.
- The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Wednesday it successfully conducted a test ignition of the space probe Akatsuki's main engine to prepare for a reattempt to send it into orbit around Venus in 2015 after its failure to do so last December.
7 September
- Amateur astronomers: Grab a pair of binoculars and look skyward. With a little luck, you might be able to see a supernova or exploding star in the sky tonight. No fancy, inaccessible, high-tech, NASA-type telescopes needed. The supernova in question, known in the astronomy world as SN 2011fe, was discovered in the Pinwheel Galaxy about two weeks ago by astronomer Peter Nugent, a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
- A stellar newborn has turned up on Earth's doorstep. Named AP Columbae, the star is so young it has yet to spark its main nuclear flame, and it's so nearby—a mere 27 light-years from Earth—that scientists might be able to glimpse the glow of orbiting planets still cooling off from their formation.
6 September
- The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Monday it will ignite the engine of the space probe Akatsuki twice this month to check if it can enter orbit around Venus, after its failure to do so late last year.
- China rescheduled the launch of its first prototype space station module in the wake of last month's launch failure. Named Tiangong 1, which means heavenly palace, the 19,000-pound module will be launched on a Long March 2F rocket. The launch will be delayed because the Long March 2F rocket belongs to the same series as the vehicle that malfunctioned on 18 August.
5 September
- Like its sister probe Voyager 2, the Voyager 1 spacecraft has been an instrumental force in our continued push to gain a better understanding of our solar system. From its encounters with Jupiter and Saturn, to its ongoing mission to explore the outer boundaries of the solar system, Voyager 1 stands as the farthest man-made object in our solar system and will eventually gain the distinction of being the first man-made object to enter interstellar.
4 September
- With less than one week to go before the launch of the twin GRAIL lunar satellites from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, NASA has completed the pre-launch flight readiness reviews for both GRAIL and the veteran Delta II rocket which will propel the spacecrafts into their cruise to Earth's only natural satellite. The launch is scheduled for Thursday, 8 September at 05:37.06 or 06:16.12 Phoenix time.
3 September
- Opportunity, NASA's long-lived Martian robotic workhorse, has started a new round of studies at a place unlike anything seen before on Mars. Poised on the rim of a large crater called "Endeavour, Opportunity has been examining a rock with an unusually high concentration of zinc, among other targets. On Earth, such rocks usually mean they've spent time in water, typically warm water.
- A NASA-backed team of scientists and engineers is set to map the Moon's gravity—and internal structure. The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (Grail) mission will track minute changes in the distance between two satellites in the same orbit caused by changes in the density of the terrain below.
2 September
- Blue Origin, the private entrepreneurial space group backed by Amazon.com mogul Jeff Bezos, has reported a failure in its suborbital rocket development plans. "Three months ago, we successfully flew our second test vehicle in a short hop mission, and then last week we lost the vehicle during a developmental test at Mach 1.2 and an altitude of 45,000 feet," Bezos wrote in a statement posted to the Blue Origin website.
- America's National Research Council has finally heeded warnings from spaceflight experts, telling NASA it is not doing enough to address the hazards posed by the space debris that it and other space users leave in orbit. In a 1 September report (pdf) on space junk, the NRC says NASA "has not kept pace with increasing hazards posed by abandoned equipment, spent rocket bodies and other debris orbiting the Earth".
1 September
- Two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut living aboard the International Space Station are scheduled to return to Earth on 16 September, leaving the outpost with a three-person crew until Russia can resume crewed launches of the grounded Soyuz rocket.


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ACUSHNET — A 19-year-old rookie firefighter at his first serious fire helped rescue a Coulombe Street woman from her burning home Sunday night.
ACUSHNET — A 19-year-old rookie firefighter at his first serious fire helped rescue a Coulombe Street woman from her burning home Sunday night.
Once word got out that Adam Hebert, with six months as a call firefighter under his belt, had done such a thing, the Boston and Providence news media descended on him and his fellow firefighters Monday.
Hebert matter-of-factly described the scene when he was among the first to arrive. "I could see smoke. I could see the flames. I saw heavy smoke and the fire coming out the second-floor window."
A candle had likely set fire to a bedroom, fire officials said.
Hebert and fellow firefighter Paul Frysinger, 32, his first cousin, along with firefighter Thomas Farland, quickly put on their breathing gear and laid out a fire hose into the house.
"The skills I learned at the academy and in departmental drills I was able to use," Hebert said. "I was the second guy on the line. He (Frysinger) was on the nozzle and I had his back."
"Using the rescue skills I learned, we were able to locate the victim and get her out."
It was a close call. Frysinger said the two encountered flames halfway up the stairs and had to knock them down to proceed. The fire was too intense for them to search the entire floor, and the victim told them she was alone as they carried her to safety.
With no visibility in the heavy smoke, Frysinger said they called out to the victim to keep calling to them so she could be located.
Chief Kevin Gallagher said that the bathroom door that had been her only protection had been nearly burned through when the victim was found.
Traditionally, Gallagher said, the chief will take rescuers out for a drink to toast their achievement. But in this case, Hebert is going to have to wait a couple of years so he can have that drink legally.
"In the meantime, I'll buy him an iced coffee," Gallagher said.


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Move over, "The Tortoise and the Hare." There's a new tortoise who has been all about town and is now starring in her own children's book.
Lucy the Tortoise — the reptile that was on the lam in Boulder County back in 2010, ending up at a feed store in Lafayette before reuniting with her owners — is the inspiration for a new children's book titled "Lucy the Tortoise: My Big Adventure."
On the cover, the word "turtle" is crossed out because Lucy is often mistaken for a turtle. Tortoises, unlike their reptilian cousins, the turtles, don't fare in well in water — which spelled a bit of trouble for Lucy. After she went missing, she sniffed her way back to her Westminster home, where a mover found her before her owners did. He took her to Lafayette and dropped her off in a lake.
Eventually, a bus driver spotted her near the feed store and recognized her from news coverage. She was ultimately reunited with her owners, Sheila and Robin Rockley, of Westminster.
"She was so happy to see us, she came running to us," recalls Sheila Rockley.
(Well, running may be a bit of an exaggeration. But as far as tortoises are concerned, Lucy was moving at lightning speed).
Her owners were worried that anybody who found her might not know how to properly care for her. After all, she's from the desert and requires a heat lamp.
And while she enjoys snacks like corn and apples, those are the equivalent of tortoise candy. She fares better on a diet that's mostly hay and grass, mixed with "tortoise bites" that have vitamins and minerals in them, according to her owners.
Lucy, a Sulcata tortoise who responds to her name when she's called, weighs roughly 30 pounds and will grow up to 100 pounds, said Robin Rockley. She'll continue to grow and could live to be 120. Her owners got her from a rescue organization and estimate she's about 10 years old.
"We'll have to include her in our will," Sheila Rockley quipped.
The tortoise's brother, Rizzo, is a cat.
The last major writing assignment that Sheila Rockley took up was her dissertation on health care. So she got some editing help from a freelancer who writes for National Geographic to make the book kid-friendly.
The book is inspired by Lucy's adventure, but some parts are fictional. Her tale helps impart lessons for children about nutrition and stranger danger. (Lucy isn't allowed out in her backyard without supervision anymore).
In the book, Lucy has a chance encounter with a mischievous bunny that leads her on an escapade out of her backyard and into an unknown world where she loses her way, gets into some deep water, learns lessons and becomes a feature on the local news. She encounters a praying mantis and plays hide-and-seek with a prairie dog on her path back home.
On a recent afternoon, Lucy scooted around her owner's Rockley Arts in Westminster, enjoying her time in the spotlight while wearing a glittery purple headband … er, shellband?
Lucy made a special guest appearance at Rockley Arts to pose for photos as Sheila Rockley signed copies of the book on her behalf, as the tortoise followed kids around the store, paying special attention to brightly colored shoes.
Sheila Rockley said she's planning a second book about a fictional trip that Lucy and Rizzo the cat take to France, where there's a large tortoise rescue organization.
Myah Wolfe and her sister are among Lucy's fan club and were given copies of the tortoise's book.
"It makes me want a tortoise," said Myah, 6, an animal lover who has two dogs and two guppies at home.
Where you can find "Lucy the Tortoise: My Big Adventure"
Amazon.com has the book and the eBook.
For those who live in Colorado, the book can be purchased at Rockley Arts, 13640 Orchard Parkway in Westminster, or at Rockley Music, 8555 W. Colfax Ave. in Lakewood. The books from the Rockley locations are signed.
Visit LucyTheTortoise.com for more information about Lucy's story.


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