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Hockey India and Hockey Andhra Pradesh, aiming to strengthen the technical department in Andhra Pradesh, with the support of Anantapur Sports Academy (ASA), organized a two day Hockey Umpire and Technical Officials Seminar in Anantapur Sports Village (ASV), Andhra Pradesh. Hockey India stalwarts including internationally renowned hockey umpire, RV Raghuprasad, Manager Technical and Development and BJ Kariappa, Manager High Performance (South India) led the two day seminar on the 15th and 16th March, 2017.
A total of 28 aspiring umpires from both the Telugu speaking states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, alongside ASA's senior hockey girls and boys attended the seminar. The participants were excited to attend the seminar delivered by RV Raghuprasad, the golden whistle recipient from the International Hockey Federation (FIH) for officiating 100 international matches, which includes the 2014 Hockey World Cup, 2012 London Olympics and Men's Junior World Cup 2013, to name a few. It was equally motivating for the participants to be in the presence of BJ Kariappa, who came to Anantapur after helping Kalinga Lancers to win the championship in the recently concluded Coal India Hockey India League (HIL) 2017.
The seminar was designed to train the participants in the basic concepts of umpiring, including umpire roles and responsibilities, applying the basic hockey rules followed by a few fundamental concepts related to positioning during the various phases of the game, but not limited to penalty corners and penalty strokes. The participants were also taken through the signals and were offered a detailed explanation which would help their decision making on the turf with regards to offering advantage, giving cards, etc.
Alongside the theoretical concepts, Raghuprasad ensured the participants were supported by practical learning as well. The participants were divided into groups and each group was given a specific situation that might arise during a game and were allowed time to discuss among themselves. Later, the group members presented their explanation to the remaining groups regarding their umpiring decision pertaining to that situation. On both the days, participants were taken to the hockey ground to put their learning to test.
Raghuprasad, upon being asked about their objective behind holding the seminar and participants response, said "Our sole objective was to share our knowledge with the upcoming umpires in India and strengthen our technical department of hockey umpiring. Using these seminars, we would like to encourage youth to take up hockey umpiring as a career and identify the ambitious youth. Initially, the participants were a bit hesitant but by the end of the seminar we have seen a gradual progress with regards to their contribution within the seminar."
Vijay Babu, Secretary of Hockey Anantapur and an avid supporter of ASA's hockey program, which recently celebrated 10 years of developing lives through hockey in Anantapur, mentioned, "We would like to improve the standard of umpiring in the lower level competitions. Also, with the gradual downfall in the number of registered women as umpires in India, we are keen on promoting girls to take up umpiring as a career. We would like to thank RV. Raghuprasad, BJ Kariappa, G. Harsha Vardhan, Chairman – Technical Committee, Hockey Andhra Pradesh and Anantapur Sports Academy for organizing this seminar and we are already planning on organizing more seminars in the coming future."


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It might have been a slow weekend, but "The Social Network" managed to claw out another victory at the box office. Someone crank out some appletinis.
The much-hyped David Fincher-directed film managed to fend off newcomers to own the top spot in the second weekend of its release, taking an estimated $15.5 million, for a total of $46 million after 10 days in release.
It squeaked over the Katherine Heigl-Josh Duhamel rom-com "Life as We Know ($14.6 million) and over the feel-good horse flick "Secretariat" ($12.6 million).
The impressive box office has been aided by one key viewer -- Mark Zuckerberg himself. The Facebook founder had said previously that he was going to avoid the movie, which portrays him as a complicated, socially-awkward genius.
But late last week Us magazine reported that Zuckerberg took his staff out to a screening of the film. They celebrated afterwards in the same fashion as the movie-version of Zuckerberg celebrated previous Internet success -- he took the crew out for apple martinis.
"To celebrate a period of intense activity at Facebook, we decided to go to the movies. We thought this particular movie might be amusing," a rep told the mag.
And why not? He should embrace the depiction. First of all, it pays the highest compliment of extreme intelligence. More importantly, he should embrace it because there's nothing else he can do. "Network" is officially a runaway train. This movie is going to be around for a long, long time. Might as well hitch a ride and smile.
When we spoke to the movie's star, Jesse Eisenberg, earlier in the year, he said he hoped that the Facebook guru would see the movie.
U.S. & World
"I'm hoping if (Zuckerberg) sees the movie that he appreciates the depiction," Eisenberg told PopcornBiz. "The is not some kind of expose. It's just an interesting story."
"I have great reverence for Mark because he created this really interesting thing," said Eisenberg. "He's brilliant."
"He created something that revolutionized socialization."

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10 Creative Uses for a Two-Mile-Long Wedding Dress
Last week, the world record for longest wedding dress was set in that most romantic of European countries — Romania. With a train that goes on for 1.85 miles, you can bet this gown is a real pain to lug around when you're going from table to table, thanking your guests for coming.
There are plenty of benefits of wearing the dress, though. Judge for yourself:
1. If you're Kim Kardashian, you can chop off parts of the train to make your next few wedding dresses.
2. You can use the train as a tablecloth for all the tables at the reception. Not to mention the reception for the wedding at the other hall in town.
3. And you can use what you have left over to make a tent if you're having an outdoor wedding.
4. You can hide under it when your creepy uncle comes over to congratulate you on getting married.
5. You can use it to fold up all your gifts and carry them home.
6. It's a way to make sure people won't be more focused on how hot your bridesmaids are.
7. The attendants who carry it down the aisle can take heart knowing the walk will offset all the cake they're going to eat.
8. It'll be easy to catch the bride if she decides run away at the altar.
9. You can hold up the end and make the dress double as the finish line should a spontaneous race break out.
10. The bride's father can use it in lieu of a box of a tissues when he gets the bill for the wedding.


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Google is making life a little bit easier for busy BART commuters.
The Mountain View-based search giant will give Bay Area train riders BART's schedule when they do a simple Google search.
The partnership is part of Google's Live Transit updates services, where users are given schedules, real-time departure updates and service advisories.
The new service furthers a relationship between the agency and Google. Last month, Google was negotiating with BART to give its employees reserved parking at the transit agency's Milbrae station.
BART riders can also mobile apps to get real-time updates and even Twitter.
Google Adds Live Transit Updates
Google is making life a little bit easier for busy BART commuters.


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Dec. 12, 2008
Contact: Judith Ingram
Communications Director
(202) 523-3240, ext. 127
Although there has been some reduction in violence in Iraq since the Commission"s last report on the country in May 2007, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) remains seriously concerned about severe violations of religious freedom there. The situation is dire for Iraq"s smallest religious minorities, including ChaldoAssyrian Christians, other Christians, Sabean Mandaeans, and Yazidis, who face a threat to their very existence in the country. While there has been some reconciliation between Shi"a and Sunni Iraqis, there are still concerns regarding attacks and tense relations between these communities. There also continue to be serious, religiously-motivated human rights abuses against women and girls, Muslims who reject orthodox interpretations of Islam, homosexuals, and academics.
USCIRF Commissioners will hold a press conference on Tuesday, Dec. 16, at 10:30 a.m. to release its newest report. Policy Focus Iraq presents a detailed exploration of the conditions bearing on the freedom of thought, conscience, and religion or belief in Iraq and sets forward comprehensive policy recommendations for the incoming U.S. Administration, including in the areas of ensuring safe and fair elections, making prevention of abuses against religious minorities a top priority, addressing religious extremism, and improving the conditions for refugees and internally displaced people.
Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) will make remarks at the press conference.
What: Press Conference on Release of USCIRF Report on Religious Freedom Conditions in Iraq
When: Tuesday, Dec. 16, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Where: Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2322


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International Communist Meeting Calls for United Front
|Written by Christian Gomez
| Monday, 27 December 2010 20:30
Twenty years later and an ocean away, Hall's declaration has found meaning among today's current disciples of Marx, Engels, and Lenin. December 3 to 5, 2010, marked the 12th International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties, held in the city of Tshwane, South Africa. The three-day international conference was hosted by the South African Communist Party (SACP) and was attended by "102 delegates representing 51 participating Parties from 43 countries from all continents of the world," which came together under the theme of "The deepening systemic crisis of capitalism," according to the SACP website.
The Communists declared their objectives as being for the "defence of sovereignty, deepening social alliances, strengthening the anti-imperialist front in the struggle for peace, progress and Socialism." Building on the analyses previously outlined at the 2008 Sao Paulo and 2009 New Delhi international Communist meetings, they asserted that "despite pre-2008 capitalist illusions to the contrary," the current global economic crisis was the byproduct of the "systemic tendency," which "capitalism cannot escape."
From the ruins of capitalism, they pledged themselves to go back to their respected countries "in a common struggle for socialism which is the only alternative for the future of humankind." Furthermore, they vowed to "resolutely fight anticommunism, anti-communist laws, measures and persecution; to demand the legalisation of CPs where outlawed," and to "defend the history of the communist movement, the contribution of socialism in advancing human civilisation." Among other things, all the delegates present pledged their solidarity for the release of the Cuban Five, members of the DGI (Cuban intelligence) who attempted to infiltrate anti-Communist Cuban-American organizations in the United States. The Five were arrested and convicted in Miami on charges of espionage and conspiracy to commit murder. In addition to their support of the Castro government, the international Communist attendees also agreed to support the claims of the North Korean government, declaring that there is "enough evidences to endorse the declarations of Pyongyang that it had nothing to do with the sinking of the Cheonan-vessel last summer," as stated by the communist Workers Party of Belgium, which was also in attendance at the meeting. The Workers Party of Belgium continued to take swipes at "imperialist" U.S. military efforts abroad. Pointing to the U.S. 7th Fleet as being part of a U.S. ploy "geared towards the weakening and encirclement of China," the Workers Party of Belgium concluded that "North Korea is not the final target — it's China." Aside from condemning the United States and uplifting its enemies, the meeting also served as a platform for various speeches from the various participating countries.
Among the attendee were elected officials such as MP Sergey V. Gordienko of the Communist Party of Ukraine, which currently supports initiatives for Ukraine to join the Customs Union. Aside from Gordienko, who addressed the conference, The Times of South Africa also reportedaccording to the Guardian. that South African President Jacob Zuma made an appearance and gave a speech. Zuma, elected as a member of the African National Congress (ANC), is a self-described socialist who has received the "backing from the unions and the Communist party," in South Africa, The Times quoted President Zuma as urging a call for unity: "A majority of communists part ways because once they believe in something they have a culture to believe in it seriously. Unity is crucial."
President Zuma's call for Communist unity was well received and reechoed amongst the many foreign party delegates present. The Communist Party of Brazil relayed Zuma's message, declaring: "Given this situation, the PCB is proposing to build an anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist front, which can cope with the difficulties of organizing workers, to overcome the hegemony of the bourgeoisie and carry forward the revolutionary process in Brazil and worldwide." The same message was reiterated by the Communist Party of Canada, which identified itself as having "long spoken of the necessity for such a global democratic and anti-imperialist front of struggle, to defend national sovereignty, to maintain regional and world peace, and to counter imperialism's economic and military aggression around the world." In addition to Zuma's remarks, G. Marinos, member of Politburo of the Communist Party of Greece, addressed the conference. "We are not any of party," Marinos declared, "Communist parties and we have a specific mission. We must organize the working class struggle, class struggle to overthrow the system operator in each country and building the new society, the socialist-communist society."
Marinos added that the "need for revolution, the overthrow of capitalism and the construction of the new communist socio-economic formation is determined by the balance of power developed in one or another historical moment but by historical necessity of resolving the fundamental contradiction between capital and labor, the abolition of the exploitation of man by man, the abolition of classes." Looking back at the "overthrow of socialism in Soviet Union and other socialist countries," which occurred from 1989-1991, Marinos declared that the time has come to correct that mistake, asserting that with the current economic global crisis as the pretence that now is the "time of transition from capitalism to socialism." The solution, according to Marinos and the Communist Party of Greece, is for communists to come together and foster the revolutionary overthrow of existing governments in order to "abolish all private property" and to place the means of production under the regimentation of the state in the form of a command economy. Less individualism and total government control of the economy is the communist proposal to relieve the global economic crisis, which, they claim, is the direct result of capitalism gone wild in the West.
Marinos and the ideas of the Communist Party of Greece were well received by the other foreign Communist and Working Party members present. Taking this into account, it comes as no surprise that Athens, Greece, was named the location for the 13th International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties, to be held in 2011. The fall of the Berlin Wall did not signal the fall of Communism; it may have retreated but it has not fallen — it is poised to continue its march toward world revolution, and is committed to the overthrow of republican government and free-market capitalism.


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Whilst reading about search patents and stuff like that over at Spideyman's I decided what the heck, and took this little quiz…
You are Green Lantern
|Hot-headed. You have strong
will power and a good imagination.
Apparently Green Lanterns all have power rings, this definitely makes sense, especially when viewed from a nice curry and few pints of Stella Artois perspective. 😀


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Our Carlton, Norwich, Wellington and other faux columns will add balance, grace and stature to any setting. Simply put, they will rise to the occasion, bringing all the elements of your exterior design together.
All the columns are built in compliance with safety regulations in case of impact, and they're tough and resilient to harsh weather and other forms of wear and tear.
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Fender Artist Series Eric Johnson Stratocaster Sunburst Electric Guitar (pre-owned)
Model - Eric Johnson Stratocaster
Colour - 2 Colour Sunburst
Year - June 2009 (Neck Stamp)
Weight - 7.25 lbs
Serial - EJ01000
Case - Eric Johnson Deluxe Blonde Hard Shell Fender Case
Condition - 90%
Extras - Complete with all Case Candy
Eric Johnson Stratocaster
The long-awaited Eric Johnson Stratocaster guitar arose from Johnson's express wish to give something back to the collectors, players and fans who've supported him throughout his career.
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Designed by Johnson himself with his own personal features and preferences, this signature model has a highly contoured two-piece alder body with a very thin nitrocellulous lacquer finish. The one-piece quarter-sawn maple neck has a V-shaped profile, 12 Inch fingerboard radius and 21 polished frets. The staggered vintage-style machine heads eliminate the need for a string tree, and the custom pickups are wound to Johnson's specs. Other features include a parchment '57-style pickguard, four-spring vintage tremolo, silver-painted block and '57-style string recess with no paint between the base plate and the block.
Model Name: Eric Johnson Stratocaster
Model Number: 011-7702-(Colour #)
Series: Artist Series (803) 2-Colour Sunburst, (Thin Nitrocellulose Lacquer)
Body: 2-Piece, Deep Contoured, '57 Style Lightweight Alder Body
Neck: 1-Piece Quartersawn Maple, Soft 'V' Shape, (Nitrocellulose Lacquer Finish)
Fingerboard: Maple, 12 Inch Radius (305mm)
No. of Frets: 21 Highly Polished Medium Jumbo Frets
Pickups: 3 Special Design Eric Johnson Pickups with Countersunk Mounting Screws (Neck/Middle/Bridge)
Controls: Master Volume,
Tone 1. (Neck Pickup),
Tone 2. (Bridge Pickup)
Pickup Switching 5-Position Blade:
Position 1. Bridge Pickup
Position 2. Bridge and Middle Pickup
Position 3. Middle Pickup
Position 4. Middle and Neck Pickup
Position 5. Neck Pickup
Bridge: American Vintage Synchronized Tremolo with 'Ash Tray' Bridge Cover
Machine Heads: Fender/Gotoh Staggered Vintage Style Tuning Machines
Hardware: Nickel/Chrome
Pickguard: 1-Ply Parchment, (8 Hole)
Scale Length: 25.5 Inch (648 mm)
Width at Nut: 1.650 Inch (42 mm)
Unique Features: 1-Piece Quartersawn Soft 'V' Shape Vintage Tinted Maple Neck, Extra Smooth Neck to Headstock Volute, Special Neckplate with Engraved EJ and Kokopelli, 2-Piece Deep Contoured '57 Style Lightweight Alder Body, 1957 Style Body Cavities, 12 Inch Radius Fingerboard, Countersunk Holes in Pickguard for Pickup Mounting Screws, Height Staggered Vintage Style Tuners which Eliminate the Need for String Trees, Vintage Tremolo with Silver Painted Block and '57 Style String Recess (No Paint Between Base Plate and Block),
5 Tremolo Springs and No Back Tremolo Cover Plate
Strings: Fender Super 250R, Nickel Plated Steel, Gauges: (.010, .013, .017, .026, .036, .046), p/n 073-0250-006
Accessories: Deluxe Blonde Hardshell Case with Black Ends (Black Interior), Strap, Cable
Case:Deluxe Blonde Hardshell Case with Black Ends (Black Interior)
Introduced: 1/2005
All our pre-owned guitars and basses are sold freshly set-up & fully serviced in our state-of-the-art guitar workshop. The pre-sale service includes a 21 point check, including:
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The Absolute multi point pre sales service & setup is free with every pre-owned guitar. Also included is a 12 month warranty*. We provide a 7 day no-quibble money back guarantee on all our used instruments, so you can buy with confidence.
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Ronnie Fieg and Kith have officially unveiled the Ronnie Fieg x PUMA Disc Blaze OG "Cove" ahead of its highly anticipated Black Friday launch.
18 months ago I took a trip to Boston to meet with the very talented PUMA product team to start working on a project. When I was asked what my dream project would be, the obvious answer was the Disc. The PUMA Disc is one of my all time favorite sneaker silhouettes, when it dropped in 1992 it way ahead of it's time, supplying the sneaker market with a new closure system. I was always a fan of the concept and my only beef with the OG model was the asymmetrical toe box. At first I was hesitant to ask if I could create my own upper but I realized throughout the meeting that the product team was extremely receptive to new ideas and in this industry I've learned how rare that could be. After an hour or so I asked about creating my own toe and within a few minutes we started working on sketches. Once we altered the moc shape and finalized the toe sketch we began working on other concepts which included the "mud guard", a strip of leather added to the vamp and quarter panel which was applied to the final sample.
This project means so much to me, the spin on this release is a little different from the rest. I was able to tweak one of my all time favorite sneaker concepts into what I believed would look best in today's market. The outcome? The Disc OG "Cove", one of my favorite projects to date.
The Ronnie Fieg x Puma OG Disc "Cove" will be available online at KithNYC.com November 23rd, 2012 at 11am EST. in limited numbers for $140 USD. The sizes range from 4-12 US. Information for the in-store release coming soon.


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Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Congressman Ron Paul fears that a staged incident exploited as a pretext to attack Iran may be the precursor to a national draft, as he responded to Sy Hersh's astounding report that Dick Cheney proposed faking a Gulf of Tonkin style incident by killing Americans in the Straits of Hormuz and blaming it on Iran.
"The influence is still there that they want it to happen, they probably themselves don't have a day set to do it but they're waiting for an opportunity and something will come along," Paul told the Alex Jones Show.
"They're capable of doing anything," said Paul, refering to the consideration unveiled in the Downing Street Memo, where Bush and Blair discussed painting a U2 spy plane in UN colors and goading Saddam to have it shot down as a pretext to invade Iraq.
Asked about Cheney's proposal to kill Americans as part of a false flag attack to be blamed on Iran, Paul responded, "The sad part is a lot of people won't be surprised….it's tragic, it's sad, all we have to do is have one our ships hit and a bunch of Americans killed and one or two news stations say it was the Iranians and the country's going to be ready to go to war, they'd even be willing to call a draft to say we have to go to save Israel, we have to march in, so we need a draft – that's the worst part that I fear," said the Congressman.
Back in January 2007, Paul voiced his fears on the House floor of a "contrived Gulf of Tonkin style incident that may well occur to gain popular support for an attack on Iran."
During an appearance on the Alex Jones Show last month, Congressman Paul said that a strike on Iran has already been green lighted, judging from what his contacts in and around Congress were telling him.
"It is still totally bewildering to me when I see men and women in the Congress that I know and like doing this just to get along. Most of them will say "I agree with you on all you say but the Iranians are bad people and they might attack us some day… I hear members of Congress saying 'if we could only nuke them'," said Paul.
During an event at the Campus Progress journalism conference earlier this month, journalist Sy Hersh detailed how a meeting took place in Dick Cheney's office on the subject of "how to create a casus belli between Tehran and Washington," part of an ongoing effort to provide an excuse to attack Iran.
"There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war," Hersh explains. "The one that interested me the most was why don't we build — we in our shipyard — build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up."
Keith Olbermann covered the story on his Friday show.
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T171 .G42 G49x 1903-1906
Lyman Hall Laboratory of Chemistry
Date: 1905?
Image of the Lyman Hall Laboratory of Chemistry.
From the 1903-1906 Announcements: The Lyman Hall Laboratory of Chemistry, which is in the shape of a T, is
of brick with limestone trimmings, and is two stories in height, with a full basement. Each floor has an
approximate area of 5,600 square feet. The lecture-rooms, stock-rooms, library, offices, gas analysis
laboratory, photographic and spectroscopic rooms occupy the front, and the laboratories the rear wing.
Especial care has been given to lighting and ventilation, the laboratories being lighted on three sides.
For the removal of noxious gases, they are amply provided with hoods, each of which has a separate flue
leading to a tight wooden fume-box loaced just under the roof. This box communicates with the outer air,
and can be provided with forced draught if necessary.
The Chemical and Physical laboratories have been fitted up with reference to practical work, and such
addition will be made from time to time as may be required for experimental research. The apparatus and
appliances are of the newest and best forms, and will be increased as occasion may demand.


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And Upon Further Review…
In football, instant replay makes sense. Even with a team of seven officials covering each play, sometimes you just can't be in the right place at the right time to make the right call when 22 guys are flying around at super-human speeds. What's more amazing is how often they get the call right despite those circumstances. When it's unclear whether or not they get it right, though, instant replay is there to confirm or overturn the call. The game goes on.
Reviewing close plays in baseball is a little more contentious. Generally I'm in favor of the evolution of the game, especially in contrast to my friend, Mr. Lung, who would prefer that all baseball players wear wool uniforms and be issued a chaw of chewing tobacco prior to the playing of the Star Spangled Banner. But official review is one place where I'm not so sure.
The problem is, baseball is already a slow-paced game. If you open it up to review, even that flow gets messed up. Even the limited official review capacity that now exists for home runs seems ridiculous. Either you make all plays reviewable or none at all. Honestly, although I'm all for baseball's future facing development, review is not an area where I think that makes sense.
Review does make sense in the American Democratic system, though. Last week's Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act proved that. More surprisingly, John Roberts showed himself to be a model Chief Justice in his Constitutional application and limited justification in the majority opinion. For me, it's telling that although most Republicans are angry that the law was upheld, they're not angry at Justice Roberts. In fact, he basically made it clear in his decision that although he may not agree with the policy aspects of the law, that it met the necessary threshold to be held constitutional.
That's one of the beautiful things about our sometimes maddening and often baffling system of government. Laws get checked at three points by three different bodies and only after that process runs it course does the law go into effect. Granted, the application of the same system to baseball would mean that individual games could continue indefinitely but that's why the choice of arbiter is so important. The Supreme Court doesn't hear every single case that comes up through the courts or face challenges to every single law passed by Congress. It only deals with the game-changers, events that can redefine precedent or application or laws that are unclear.
Football is similar. Coaches choose when to throw the challenge flag and generally save it for events that are unclear, that could change the complexion of the game or that seem completely erroneous to them. They don't always win but they at least have the option to challenge the initial ruling.
That's one of the big areas where review in baseball fails. Yes, it's not awful to review homeruns to make sure they were fair or be absolutely certain that a fan didn't interfere. I'm sure there are quite a few Baltimore Orioles fans who wish that review had been in place in the 90's. But what about that phantom final out of Armando Gallaraga's almost perfect game? If Leyland had been able to challenge the ruling, Gallaraga would have had the mark and we wouldn't still be talking about it. But, if you start making plays like that reviewable, it's not long before you have to start making called strikes, check-swings and everything else reviewable, too. The fact of the matter is, it just isn't feasible and if you can't do it right, you shouldn't be doing it all.
Here's how I'd call it. Review: good for football, great for government but bad for baseball.


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After hearing emotional testimony from Newtown families who spoke movingly about the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle voted to begin the process of debating a gun bill. NBC's Kelly O'Donnell reports.
A new gun control law cleared a major Senate hurdle Thursday, with 16 Republicans voting with most of the chamber's Democrats to begin the process of moving one of President Barack Obama's top domestic initiatives through a long, legislative slog.
Senators voted 68 to 31, with a handful of Republicans joining most Democrats, on a procedural measure to begin consideration of a proposed gun law that would expand background checks for gun sales, and strengthen mental health and school safety programs.
The vote is just the opening step, though, of a debate that could stretch out for weeks and encounter any number of obstacles – namely, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives – before reaching Obama's desk.
Thursday's vote comes on the heels of a bipartisan Senate agreement on Wednesday on expanding background checks, the centerpiece of gun control advocates' effort to strengthen rules on firearms following the December 2012 shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.
Two senators – Democrat Joe Manchin from West Virginia and Republican Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania – struck an agreement that would extend existing background check rules to gun sales made online, and at gun shows. (Manchin and Toomey said their plan would be offered as the first amendment to the underlying gun bill which senators called up today.)
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Sen. Joe Manchin speaks on the phone outside the weekly Democratic policy luncheon on April 9 in Washington.
While their accord prompted renewed hope of bipartisan action to advance new gun laws for the first time in years, their proposal (along with several other gun measures slated for consideration by Congress) still face stiff resistance from conservative Republicans and the influential gun rights lobby, the National Rifle Association.
The NRA released a letter late Wednesday saying it was "unequivocally opposed" to the new gun rules, including the Manchin-Toomey proposal. Their declaration may weigh heavily on lawmakers seeking the NRA's support – or, at the very least, avoid being targeted by the group – in their re-election efforts next fall.
"Given the importance of these issues, votes on all anti-gun amendments or proposals will be considered in NRA's future candidate evaluations," wrote their chief lobbyist, Christopher W. Cox, in a letter to members of Congress.
And a group of Republican senators have vowed to slow down the legislation by offering a multitude of amendments to the gun legislation, and exhausting the hours of debate to which they are entitled for each amendment. Those conservative lawmakers are backed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who voted Thursday against even beginning formal debate on gun legislation.
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"The senators who have vowed to filibuster this bill should be ashamed of their attempt to silence efforts to prevent the next American tragedy," said 33 family members of Newtown victims in a joint statement. "Their staunch opposition to sensible gun reform is an affront to the 26 innocent children and educators who were murdered in Newtown."
The Senate bill could also be undone by so-called "poison pill" amendments which Republicans could attach with the help of a few swing-state Democrats, but risk making the whole bill unacceptable to most other Democratic senators.
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., highlighted a provision that would require states to recognize concealed carry permits from other states as an example of one such poison pill.
Nonetheless, the coming Senate debate will provide an exercise in posturing – both on the central proposal dealing with background checks, but also additional measures that are all but certain to fail, like a proposed renewal of the ban on assault weapons, and a ban on high-capacity magazine clips.
The debate will play out as new poll data showed that a majority of Americans generally favor stricter gun laws. A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday found that 55 percent of Americans favor gun laws, versus 34 percent who prefer to keep the laws as they are now. Nine percent of Americans prefer less strict gun laws.
Pia Carusone, Executive Director of Americans for Responsible Solutions, says they support a new background checks bill put forth by Sen. Pat Toomey and Sen. Joe Manchin.
The popularity of these proposals has been a key point of emphasis in the administration's demand that these measures receive a vote in Congress.
"I know that some of these proposals inspire more debate than others, but each of them has the support of the majority of the American people," Obama said on Monday in Connecticut. "All of them are common sense. All of them deserve a vote."
But even if these proposals were to successfully emerge from the Senate, gun legislation faces an uncertain future in the House, where Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has not pledged to bring up any Senate-passed bill for a vote.
"I think it's important for the Senate to do its work, and once they do their work we'll be happy to review it," he said Wednesday on Capitol Hill.
At the same time, though, a bipartisan pair of House members is working on legislation which will mirror the Manchin-Toomey proposal, in hopes of winning organic support for this legislation in the House.
This story was originally published on Thu Apr 11, 2013 11:34 AM EDT


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Examining the Reformation's Claims
Saturday Book Pick: If Protestantism is True: The Reformation Meets Rome
While an undergraduate student, I was fortunate to study under the renowned Catholic apologist Peter Kreeft. At the time, I — like many of my fellow classmates — was a Protestant, and we would frequently ask Dr. Kreeft questions about the differences between Protestants and Catholics. He would always begin with the same provocative statement that I imagine he has used for decades to frustrate earnest Protestants: "The Catholic Church makes claims much greater than any Protestant church. So if they are wrong, the Catholic Church is very arrogant, idolatrous, bad, and the old-fashioned anti-Catholicism is right. But if the claims are true, then everybody should be a Catholic."
In his new book, If Protestantism Is True: The Reformation Meets Rome, Devin Rose examines the claims of the Church and proves that they are both great and true.
If Protestantism Is True begins as an examination of history. For Rose, the former atheist-turned-evangelical, now a Catholic, the first and most logical starting point is to examine the claim that Christ established "one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church." If this is true, then everything else taught by the Church must also be so. Rose provides a compelling analysis of both sacred Scripture and writings from the early Church Fathers to settle various matters of history and doctrine.
After concluding that Christ did indeed establish the Church as one, unified Church on earth, with apostolic succession, he moves on to other doctrinal matters often considered suspect by Protestants. He examines the authenticity of the canon of Scripture, the sacraments, devotion to Mary, papal infallibility, the communion of saints, purgatory and the Church's moral teachings on matters of marriage, contraception, divorce and others. In essence, he is weaving together a multilayered, full tapestry that gives evidence to the consistency and unity of Church teaching.
For those suspicious of the authority of Rome, If Protestantism Is True serves as a mirror that demands an examination of the claims and history of other traditions. Why, after 1,500 years, at the time of the Reformation, did one man have the authority to question centuries of settled teaching?
Rose reminds his readers that Luther, Calvin, Zwingli and others could not come to an agreement on many matters of faith and simply had to engage in a game of picking and choosing to string together their own set of beliefs. This is a dangerous business that has regrettably yielded 500 years of disagreement and disunity among Protestants. Even with such criticism, Rose maintains an attitude of charity that is necessary to win over any skeptic.
If Protestantism Is True is an equally accessible read for both the well catechized and the young faithful. Rose has produced an invaluable book full of Church history and teaching that will prove resourceful to cradle Catholics in reaffirming their faith, as well as sincere and earnest Protestants or nonbelievers who simply want to better understand the teachings of the Church.
They should be forewarned, however, that truth is compelling — and they will likely be won over.
Christopher White writes from New York.
The Reformation Meets Rome
By Devin Rose
Unitatis Books, 2011
162pages, $12.99
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Technology (from Greek τέχνη, techne, "art, skill, cunning of hand"; and -λογία, -logia[1]) is the collection of tools, including machinery, modifications, arrangements and procedures used by humans. Engineering is the discipline that seeks to study and design new technologies. Technologies significantly affect human as well as other animal species' ability to control and adapt to their natural environments. The term can either be applied generally or to specific areas: examples include construction technology, medical technology and information technology.
The human species' use of technology began with the conversion of natural resources into simple tools. The prehistoric discovery of how to control fire increased the available sources of food and the invention of the wheel helped humans in travelling in and controlling their environment. Recent technological developments, including the printing press, the telephone, and the Internet, have lessened physical barriers to communication and allowed humans to interact freely on a global scale. However, not all technology has been used for peaceful purposes; the development of weapons of ever-increasing destructive power has progressed throughout history, from clubs to nuclear weapons.
Technology has affected society and its surroundings in a number of ways. In many societies, technology has helped develop more advanced economies (including today's global economy) and has allowed the rise of a leisure class. Many technological processes produce unwanted by-products, known as pollution, and deplete natural resources, to the detriment of Earth's environment. Various implementations of technology influence the values of a society and new technology often raises new ethical questions. Examples include the rise of the notion of efficiency in terms of human productivity, a term originally applied only to machines, and the challenge of traditional norms.
Philosophical debates have arisen over the present and future use of technology in society, with disagreements over whether technology improves the human condition or worsens it. Neo-Luddism, anarcho-primitivism, and similar movements criticise the pervasiveness of technology in the modern world, opining that it harms the environment and alienates people; proponents of ideologies such as transhumanism and techno-progressivism view continued technological progress as beneficial to society and the human condition. Indeed, until recently, it was believed that the development of technology was restricted only to human beings, but recent scientific studies indicate that other primates and certain dolphin communities have developed simple tools and learned to pass their knowledge to other generations.
- Definition and usage 1
- Science, engineering and technology 2
History 3
Paleolithic (2.5 million YA – 10,000 BC) 3.1
- Stone tools 3.1.1
- Fire 3.1.2
- Clothing and shelter 3.1.3
Neolithic through classical antiquity (10,000 BC – 300 AD) 3.2
- Metal tools 3.2.1
- Energy and transport 3.2.2
- Medieval and modern history (300 AD – present) 3.3
- Paleolithic (2.5 million YA – 10,000 BC) 3.1
Philosophy 4
- Technicism 4.1
- Optimism 4.2
- Skepticism and critics 4.3
- Appropriate technology 4.4
- Competitiveness 5
- Other animal species 6
- Future technology 7
- See also 8
- References 9
- Further reading 10
Definition and usage
The use of the term "technology" has changed significantly over the last 200 years. Before the 20th century, the term was uncommon in English, and usually referred to the description or study of the useful arts.[2] The term was often connected to technical education, as in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (chartered in 1861).[3]
The term "technology" rose to prominence in the 20th century in connection with the Second Industrial Revolution. The term's meanings changed in the early 20th century when American social scientists, beginning with Thorstein Veblen, translated ideas from the German concept of Technik into "technology". In German and other European languages, a distinction exists between technik and technologie that is absent in English, which usually translates both terms as "technology". By the 1930s, "technology" referred not only to the study of the industrial arts but to the industrial arts themselves.[4]
In 1937, the American sociologist Read Bain wrote that "technology includes all tools, machines, utensils, weapons, instruments, housing, clothing, communicating and transporting devices and the skills by which we produce and use them."[5] Bain's definition remains common among scholars today, especially social scientists. But equally prominent is the definition of technology as applied science, especially among scientists and engineers, although most social scientists who study technology reject this definition.[6] More recently, scholars have borrowed from European philosophers of "technique" to extend the meaning of technology to various forms of instrumental reason, as in Foucault's work on technologies of the self (techniques de soi).
Dictionaries and scholars have offered a variety of definitions. The [10]
Technology can be most broadly defined as the entities, both material and immaterial, created by the application of mental and physical effort in order to achieve some value. In this usage, technology refers to tools and machines that may be used to solve real-world problems. It is a far-reaching term that may include simple tools, such as a crowbar or wooden spoon, or more complex machines, such as a space station or particle accelerator. Tools and machines need not be material; virtual technology, such as computer software and business methods, fall under this definition of technology.[11] W. Brian Arthur defines technology in a similarly broad way as "a means to fulfill a human purpose".[12]
The word "technology" can also be used to refer to a collection of techniques. In this context, it is the current state of humanity's knowledge of how to combine resources to produce desired products, to solve problems, fulfill needs, or satisfy wants; it includes technical methods, skills, processes, techniques, tools and raw materials. When combined with another term, such as "medical technology" or "space technology", it refers to the state of the respective field's knowledge and tools. "State-of-the-art technology" refers to the high technology available to humanity in any field.
Technology can be viewed as an activity that forms or changes culture.[13] Additionally, technology is the application of math, science, and the arts for the benefit of life as it is known. A modern example is the rise of communication technology, which has lessened barriers to human interaction and, as a result, has helped spawn new subcultures; the rise of cyberculture has, at its basis, the development of the Internet and the computer.[14] Not all technology enhances culture in a creative way; technology can also help facilitate political oppression and war via tools such as guns. As a cultural activity, technology predates both science and engineering, each of which formalize some aspects of technological endeavor.
Science, engineering and technology
The distinction between science, engineering and technology is not always clear. Science is the reasoned investigation or study of phenomena, aimed at discovering enduring principles among elements of the phenomenal world by employing formal techniques such as the scientific method.[15] Technologies are not usually exclusively products of science, because they have to satisfy requirements such as utility, usability and safety.
Engineering is the goal-oriented process of designing and making tools and systems to exploit natural phenomena for practical human means, often (but not always) using results and techniques from science. The development of technology may draw upon many fields of knowledge, including scientific, engineering, mathematical, linguistic, and historical knowledge, to achieve some practical result.
Technology is often a consequence of science and engineering — although technology as a human activity precedes the two fields. For example, science might study the flow of electrons in electrical conductors, by using already-existing tools and knowledge. This new-found knowledge may then be used by engineers to create new tools and machines, such as semiconductors, computers, and other forms of advanced technology. In this sense, scientists and engineers may both be considered technologists; the three fields are often considered as one for the purposes of research and reference.[16]
The exact relations between science and technology in particular have been debated by scientists, historians, and policymakers in the late 20th century, in part because the debate can inform the funding of basic and applied science. In the immediate wake of World War II, for example, in the United States it was widely considered that technology was simply "applied science" and that to fund basic science was to reap technological results in due time. An articulation of this philosophy could be found explicitly in Vannevar Bush's treatise on postwar science policy, Science—The Endless Frontier: "New products, new industries, and more jobs require continuous additions to knowledge of the laws of nature ... This essential new knowledge can be obtained only through basic scientific research." In the late-1960s, however, this view came under direct attack, leading towards initiatives to fund science for specific tasks (initiatives resisted by the scientific community). The issue remains contentious—though most analysts resist the model that technology simply is a result of scientific research.[17][18]
Paleolithic (2.5 million YA – 10,000 BC)
The use of tools by early humans was partly a process of discovery and of evolution. Early humans evolved from a species of foraging hominids which were already bipedal,[19] with a brain mass approximately one third of modern humans.[20] Tool use remained relatively unchanged for most of early human history. Approximately 50,000 years ago, the use of tools and complex set of behaviors emerged, believed by many archaeologists to be connected to the emergence of fully modern language.[21]
Stone tools
Human ancestors have been using stone and other tools since long before the emergence of Homo sapiens approximately 200,000 years ago.[22] The earliest methods of stone tool making, known as the Oldowan "industry", date back to at least 2.3 million years ago,[23] with the earliest direct evidence of tool usage found in Ethiopia within the Great Rift Valley, dating back to 2.5 million years ago.[24] This era of stone tool use is called the Paleolithic, or "Old stone age", and spans all of human history up to the development of agriculture approximately 12,000 years ago.
To make a stone tool, a "core" of hard stone with specific flaking properties (such as flint) was struck with a hammerstone. This flaking produced a sharp edge on the core stone as well as on the flakes, either of which could be used as tools, primarily in the form of choppers or scrapers.[25] These tools greatly aided the early humans in their hunter-gatherer lifestyle to perform a variety of tasks including butchering carcasses (and breaking bones to get at the marrow); chopping wood; cracking open nuts; skinning an animal for its hide; and even forming other tools out of softer materials such as bone and wood.[26]
The earliest stone tools were crude, being little more than a fractured rock. In the Acheulian era, beginning approximately 1.65 million years ago, methods of working these stone into specific shapes, such as hand axes emerged. The Middle Paleolithic, approximately 300,000 years ago, saw the introduction of the prepared-core technique, where multiple blades could be rapidly formed from a single core stone.[25] The Upper Paleolithic, beginning approximately 40,000 years ago, saw the introduction of pressure flaking, where a wood, bone, or antler punch could be used to shape a stone very finely.[27]
The discovery and utilization of fire, a simple energy source with many profound uses, was a turning point in the technological evolution of humankind.[28] The exact date of its discovery is not known; evidence of burnt animal bones at the Cradle of Humankind suggests that the domestication of fire occurred before 1,000,000 BC;[29] scholarly consensus indicates that Homo erectus had controlled fire by between 500,000 BC and 400,000 BC.[30][31] Fire, fueled with wood and charcoal, allowed early humans to cook their food to increase its digestibility, improving its nutrient value and broadening the number of foods that could be eaten.[32]
Clothing and shelter
Other technological advances made during the Paleolithic era were clothing and shelter; the adoption of both technologies cannot be dated exactly, but they were a key to humanity's progress. As the Paleolithic era progressed, dwellings became more sophisticated and more elaborate; as early as 380,000 BC, humans were constructing temporary wood huts.[33][34] Clothing, adapted from the fur and hides of hunted animals, helped humanity expand into colder regions; humans began to migrate out of Africa by 200,000 BC and into other continents, such as Eurasia.[35]
Neolithic through classical antiquity (10,000 BC – 300 AD)
Man's technological ascent began in earnest in what is known as the Neolithic period ("New stone age"). The invention of polished stone axes was a major advance because it allowed forest clearance on a large scale to create farms. The discovery of agriculture allowed for the feeding of larger populations, and the transition to a sedentist lifestyle increased the number of children that could be simultaneously raised, as young children no longer needed to be carried, as was the case with the nomadic lifestyle. Additionally, children could contribute labor to the raising of crops more readily than they could to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle.[36][37]
With this increase in population and availability of labor came an increase in labor specialization.[38] What triggered the progression from early Neolithic villages to the first cities, such as Uruk, and the first civilizations, such as Sumer, is not specifically known; however, the emergence of increasingly hierarchical social structures, the specialization of labor, trade and war amongst adjacent cultures, and the need for collective action to overcome environmental challenges, such as the building of dikes and reservoirs, are all thought to have played a role.[39]
Metal tools
Continuing improvements led to the Nineteen Eighty-Four Some of the most poignant criticisms of technology are found in what are now considered to be dystopian literary classics, for example
Many, such as the Luddites and prominent philosopher Martin Heidegger, hold serious, although not entirely deterministic reservations, about technology (see "The Question Concerning Technology"[47]). According to Heidegger scholars Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Spinosa, "Heidegger does not oppose technology. He hopes to reveal the essence of technology in a way that 'in no way confines us to a stultified compulsion to push on blindly with technology or, what comes to the same thing, to rebel helplessly against it.' Indeed, he promises that 'when we once open ourselves expressly to the essence of technology, we find ourselves unexpectedly taken into a freeing claim.'[48]" What this entails is a more complex relationship to technology than either techno-optimists or techno-pessimists tend to allow.[49]
On the somewhat skeptical side are certain philosophers like Herbert Marcuse and John Zerzan, who believe that technological societies are inherently flawed. They suggest that the inevitable result of such a society is to become evermore technological at the cost of freedom and psychological health.
Skepticism and critics
Optimistic assumptions are made by proponents of ideologies such as transhumanism and singularitarianism, which view technological development as generally having beneficial effects for the society and the human condition. In these ideologies, technological development is morally good. Some critics see these ideologies as examples of scientism and techno-utopianism and fear the notion of human enhancement and technological singularity which they support. Some have described Karl Marx as a techno-optimist.[46]
Generally, technicism is a reliance or confidence in technology as a benefactor of society. Taken to extreme, technicism is the belief that humanity will ultimately be able to control the entirety of existence using technology. In other words, human beings will someday be able to master all problems and possibly even control the future using technology. Some, such as Stephen V. Monsma,[45] connect these ideas to the abdication of religion as a higher moral authority.
The 20th century brought a host of innovations. In industries have arisen to support and develop succeeding generations of increasingly more complex tools. Modern technology increasingly relies on training and education — their designers, builders, maintainers, and users often require sophisticated general and specific training. Moreover, these technologies have become so complex that entire fields have been created to support them, including engineering, medicine, and computer science, and other fields have been made more complex, such as construction, transportation and architecture.
Starting in the United Kingdom in the 18th century, the Industrial Revolution was a period of great technological discovery, particularly in the areas of agriculture, manufacturing, mining, metallurgy and transport, driven by the discovery of steam power. Technology later took another step with the harnessing of electricity to create such innovations as the electric motor, light bulb and countless others. Scientific advancement and the discovery of new concepts later allowed for powered flight, and advancements in medicine, chemistry, physics and engineering. The rise in technology has led to the construction of skyscrapers and large cities whose inhabitants rely on automobiles or other powered transit for transportation. Communication was also greatly improved with the invention of the telegraph, telephone, radio and television. The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw a revolution in transportation with the invention of the steam-powered ship, train, airplane, and automobile.
Innovations continued through the Middle Ages with innovations such as silk, the horse collar and horseshoes in the first few hundred years after the fall of the Roman Empire. Medieval technology saw the use of simple machines (such as the lever, the screw, and the pulley) being combined to form more complicated tools, such as the wheelbarrow, windmills and clocks. The Renaissance brought forth many of these innovations, including the printing press (which facilitated the greater communication of knowledge), and technology became increasingly associated with science, beginning a cycle of mutual advancement. The advancements in technology in this era allowed a more steady supply of food, followed by the wider availability of consumer goods.
Medieval and modern history (300 AD – present)
The invention of the wheel revolutionized activities as disparate as transportation, war, and the production of pottery (for which it may have been first used). It did not take long to discover that wheeled wagons could be used to carry heavy loads and fast (rotary) potters' wheels enabled early mass production of pottery. But it was the use of the wheel as a transformer of energy (through water wheels, windmills, and even treadmills) that revolutionized the application of nonhuman power sources.
According to archaeologists, the wheel was invented around 4000 B.C. probably independently and nearly simultaneously in Mesopotamia (in present-day Iraq), the Northern Caucasus (Maykop culture) and Central Europe. Estimates on when this may have occurred range from 5500 to 3000 B.C., with most experts putting it closer to 4000 B.C. The oldest artifacts with drawings that depict wheeled carts date from about 3000 B.C.; however, the wheel may have been in use for millennia before these drawings were made. There is also evidence from the same period of time that wheels were used for the production of pottery. (Note that the original potter's wheel was probably not a wheel, but rather an irregularly shaped slab of flat wood with a small hollowed or pierced area near the center and mounted on a peg driven into the earth. It would have been rotated by repeated tugs by the potter or his assistant.) More recently, the oldest-known wooden wheel in the world was found in the Ljubljana marshes of Slovenia.[44]
Meanwhile, humans were learning to harness other forms of energy. The earliest known use of wind power is the sailboat.[42] The earliest record of a ship under sail is shown on an Egyptian pot dating back to 3200 BC.[43] From prehistoric times, Egyptians probably used the power of the Nile annual floods to irrigate their lands, gradually learning to regulate much of it through purposely built irrigation channels and 'catch' basins. Similarly, the early peoples of Mesopotamia, the Sumerians, learned to use the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for much the same purposes. But more extensive use of wind and water (and even human) power required another invention.
Energy and transport
dates to around 1400 BC. steel (about 4000 BC). The first uses of iron alloys such as brass and bronze such as alloys Native copper does not naturally occur in large amounts, but copper ores are quite common and some of them produce metal easily when burned in wood or charcoal fires. Eventually, the working of metals led to the discovery of [41] times (about 8000 BC).Neolithic, were such early metals. The advantages of copper tools over stone, bone, and wooden tools were quickly apparent to early humans, and native copper was probably used from near the beginning of lead, and silver, copper, Gold [40]. And, in Faust by Goethe, Faust's selling his soul to the devil in return for power over the physical world, is also often interpreted as a metaphor for the adoption of industrial technology. More recently, modern works of science fiction, such as those by Philip K. Dick and William Gibson, and films (e.g. Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell) project highly ambivalent or cautionary attitudes toward technology's impact on human society and identity.
The late cultural critic Neil Postman distinguished tool-using societies from technological societies and, finally, what he called "technopolies," that is, societies that are dominated by the ideology of technological and scientific progress, to the exclusion or harm of other cultural practices, values and world-views.[50]
Darin Barney has written about technology's impact on practices of citizenship and democratic culture, suggesting that technology can be construed as (1) an object of political debate, (2) a means or medium of discussion, and (3) a setting for democratic deliberation and citizenship. As a setting for democratic culture, Barney suggests that technology tends to make ethical questions, including the question of what a good life consists in, nearly impossible, because they already give an answer to the question: a good life is one that includes the use of more and more technology.[51]
Nikolas Kompridis has also written about the dangers of new technology, such as genetic engineering, nanotechnology, synthetic biology and robotics. He warns that these technologies introduce unprecedented new challenges to human beings, including the possibility of the permanent alteration of our biological nature. These concerns are shared by other philosophers, scientists and public intellectuals who have written about similar issues (e.g. Francis Fukuyama, Jürgen Habermas, William Joy, and Michael Sandel).[52]
Another prominent critic of technology is Hubert Dreyfus, who has published books On the Internet and What Computers Still Can't Do.
Another, more infamous anti-technological treatise is Industrial Society and Its Future, written by Theodore Kaczynski (aka The Unabomber) and printed in several major newspapers (and later books) as part of an effort to end his bombing campaign of the techno-industrial infrastructure.
Appropriate technology
The notion of appropriate technology, however, was developed in the 20th century (e.g., see the work of E. F. Schumacher and of Jacques Ellul) to describe situations where it was not desirable to use very new technologies or those that required access to some centralized infrastructure or parts or skills imported from elsewhere. The eco-village movement emerged in part due to this concern.
In 1983 a classified program was initiated in the US intelligence community to reverse the US declining economic and military competitiveness. The program, Project Socrates, used all source intelligence to review competitiveness worldwide for all forms of competition to determine the source of the US decline. What Project Socrates determined was that technology exploitation is the foundation of all competitive advantage and that the source of the US declining competitiveness was the fact that decision-making through the US both in the private and public sectors had switched from decision making that was based on technology exploitation (i.e., technology-based planning) to decision making that was based on money exploitation (i.e., economic-based planning) at the end of World War II.
Technology is properly defined as any application of science to accomplish a function. The science can be leading edge or well established and the function can have high visibility or be significantly more mundane but it is all technology, and its exploitation is the foundation of all competitive advantage.
Technology-based planning is what was used to build the US industrial giants before WWII (e.g., Dow, DuPont, GM) and it what was used to transform the US into a superpower. It was not economic-based planning.
Project Socrates determined that to rebuild US competitiveness, decision making throughout the US had to readopt technology-based planning. Project Socrates also determined that countries like China and India had continued executing technology-based (while the US took its detour into economic-based) planning, and as a result had considerably advanced the process and were using it to build themselves into superpowers. To rebuild US competitiveness the US decision-makers needed to adopt a form of technology-based planning that was far more advanced than that used by China and India.
Project Socrates determined that technology-based planning makes an evolutionary leap forward every few hundred years and the next evolutionary leap, the Automated Innovation Revolution, was poised to occur. In the Automated Innovation Revolution the process for determining how to acquire and utilize technology for a competitive advantage (which includes R&D) is automated so that it can be executed with unprecedented speed, efficiency and agility.
Project Socrates developed the means for automated innovation so that the US could lead the Automated Innovation Revolution in order to rebuild and maintain the country's economic competitiveness for many generations.[53][54][55]
Other animal species
The use of basic technology is also a feature of other animal species apart from humans. These include primates such as chimpanzees, some dolphin communities,[56][57] and crows.[58][59] Considering a more generic perspective of technology as ethology of active environmental conditioning and control, we can also refer to animal examples such as beavers and their dams, or bees and their honeycombs.
The ability to make and use tools was once considered a defining characteristic of the genus Homo.[60] However, the discovery of tool construction among chimpanzees and related primates has discarded the notion of the use of technology as unique to humans. For example, researchers have observed wild chimpanzees utilising tools for foraging: some of the tools used include leaf sponges, termite fishing probes, pestles and levers.[61] West African chimpanzees also use stone hammers and anvils for cracking nuts,[62] as do capuchin monkeys of Boa Vista, Brazil.[63]
Future technology
Theories of technology often attempt to predict the future of technology based on the high technology and science of the time.
See also
- Critique of technology
- Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century
- History of science and technology
- Knowledge economy
- Law of the instrument - Golden hammer
- Lewis Mumford
- List of years in science
- Niche construction
- Science and technology in Argentina
- Technological convergence
- Technology and society
- Technology assessment
- Technology tree
- -logy
- Technological superpowers
- Theories and concepts in technology
- Appropriate technology
- Diffusion of innovations
- Human enhancement
- Instrumental conception of technology
- Jacques Ellul
- Paradigm
- Philosophy of technology
- Posthumanism
- Precautionary principle
- Singularitarianism
- Science and technology
- Strategy of Technology
- Techno-progressivism
- Technocentrism
- Technocracy
- Technocriticism
- Technological determinism
- Technological evolution
- Technological nationalism
- Technological revival
- Technological singularity
- Technology management
- Technology readiness level
- Technorealism
- Transhumanism
- Economics of technology
- Energy accounting
- Nanosocialism
- Post-scarcity economy
- Technocracy
- Technocapitalism
- Technological diffusion
- Technology acceptance model
- Technology lifecycle
- Technology transfer
- Technology journalism
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This category has kind of slipped through the cracks for a long time. Most of these pages were created in 2006, and many of them aren't very notable under current wiki standards.
The description of the category said: "Presidents, vice presidents, advisory board members, educational consultants, and others involved in the Children's Television Workshop or its current incarnation, Sesame Workshop." -- which pretty much opens the door to every single person who's worked for CTW/Sesame Workshop in the last 40 years.
I just changed the description to specify that the category is for people "who have contributed significantly to the development of Sesame Street."
There are some people here who clearly belong in that category. Joan Ganz Cooney, Edward L. Palmer, Gary Knell, Rosemarie Truglio, Anna Jane Hays and Christopher Cerf have nice pages. I think that Lewis Bernstein, Gerald S. Lesser and Jane O'Connor are all interesting people who could be built up at some point by somebody with the time and inclination to do so. Now that Street Gang has been published, we've got a lot more material that can help us flesh out some of the key contributors.
But some of the people in this category have pages just for the sake of having pages. I would say these are the unnecessary pages:
- Nina Elias Bamberger: Producer/executive producer on a lot of specials and videos. She's worked on a lot of projects... but is that a significant contribution worthy of a page? I'm ambivalent. Andrew created this page.
- Robert A. Hatch: Helped to solicit financial support in the early days; became VP for public affairs in 1972. I think Nick created this page in 2006 based on an obituary, because Hatch had recently died.
- Anna E. Housley-Juster: Created by an anon, reads like an official bio. Part of the research team.
- Nancy Kanter: Producer on a couple direct-to-video specials, now Senior VP at the Disney Channel. Created by Nick; I don't see why we care.
- Valeria Lovelace: Assistant VP of Research. Created by an anon.
- Jodi Nussbaum: Group VP of Television, Film and Home Video. Created by George.
- Joel Schneider: Content director for Square One TV, page reads like an official bio. Created by an anon.
- Sherrie Rollins Westin: Executive VP and Chief Marketing Officer. Created by Nick.
Any objections to deleting these extra pages? -- Danny (talk) 06:22, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
- Well, if you read Bamberger, you'll see she also created Big Bag, which regardless of one's thoughts about the actual show, is pretty relevant and not insignificant (she also story edited or wrote various segments thereof; I stumbled upon a tape from the first season somewhere in my mountainous pile from a single summer, so at some point I can add specifics). I'm pretty sure I have a lot more to add, it's just not a page I've looked at in ages. But Category:Producers is a different discussion anyway, with pages of varying relevance (I know a lot of those were created just because of a redlink, for example, and includes some which are "line producers" and so on). George added the category. My feeling is if they don't have a specific creative contribution that fits in another category, or they're one of the pioneering figures where we have a lot of information and specifics on precisely how they shaped Sesame Street (and not necessarily CTW as a larger organization), they're not relevant. -- Andrew Leal (talk) 06:25, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
- I think it's less about digging the page than that it is a tangible contribution to a Muppet/Creature Shop/Henson show. We have pages for a lot of creators and writers, some with about as much info (and a couple short but decent paragraphs isn't exactly nukeworthy in my view), even if someone else hates the show in question (and somewhere, I have some quotes about her work on the Sesame videos, since the "executive producer" credit literally meant she conceived and spearheaded several of those series). I'll try to dig up that old discussion on production crew, though, since it really comes down to which of these are essentially equivalent to the hair dressers, but with Phds or VP titles, in terms of what they actually did (if we ever find out that somebody, say, also wrote a documentary about Cookie Monster and body acids, that would justify a page much better). As long as we're on the subject, the same applies to Category:Henson Company Staff, started for the same reason, but with similar "So and so was VP in charge of this for this period" pages. -- Andrew Leal (talk) 06:41, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
- It's tricky, because really, it's not about judging the individual person or the job that they do. I want to be careful about that, because I don't want to be disrespectful to a person who probably does a fantastic job that we know practically nothing about. I'm sure that as Executive VP and Chief Marketing Officer, Sherrie Rollins Westin has done a lot of really interesting things, and made important decisions that affected things that we care about. But right now, we don't have access to that information, so we're left with a very boring four-sentence page, only one of which is about Sesame.
I looked up the 2007 discussion on Miscellaneous Crew positions, and added it to Policies and Guidelines. I think the staff situation is pretty clear.
Producers and writers are more tricky, since we said in the Misc Crew discussion that "creative" jobs get pages. But like you said, some of the producers pages are just based on one credit, and not relevant. Should we have a big discussion about "people" pages? If so, should we move this to Current events? -- Danny (talk) 20:20, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
- Moving to Current Events is fine, though I'm not sure if it affects anything other than Henson Staff and producers necessarily, in terms of a widespread thing. A lot of the writer and director pages can stand to be improved, but they generally have a lot more that can be expanded in terms of careers, quotes, interviews, etc. Some of the producers are shadowier figures, but it's something we can examine a case by case basis. Also, this didn't occur to me before, I think because of the way this conversation started, but while we'd probably want to set standards, the simplest solution to Sesame Workshop "staff" that don't fit in otherwise, would be just to create a list. Directors in charge of research, VPS of whatever, etc., and we can merge their staff bios there. Since we had decided to prioritize tangible creative jobs, and I think that still makes sense (and doesn't disrespect anyone who just doesn't fit), *but* you're right in that most of these folks are more important than the wardrobe mistress pages we had back then. I'm not sure it would work with the Henson issue, since with many of those, they were hired and fired and "in charge of development" without anything really emerging, in which case we have no idea whether they could have been working on something Muppety or Creaturey, or some proposed live action sitcom. -- Andrew Leal (talk) 22:39, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
Sherrie Rollins Westin
Sherrie Rollins Westin is currently the Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Sesame Workshop.
The US Senate unanimously confirmed Westin as the first Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
As of 1992, Westin was Assistant to the President for Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs. This made her one of the highest ranking women under the President George Bush Sr.'s administration.
In 1994, Westin became Executive Vice President of Network Communications at the ABC Television Network, a position she held until 1998.
Joel Schneider
Dr. Joel Schneider joined CTW in 1983, beginning as a project director in the software division. In 1987, he became the content director for Square One TV, a daily children's television series on math.
Schneider, who was born in Lebanon, Pa., began his career studying mathematics. While teaching mathematics at Pennsylvania State University, he started working with prospective elementary school teachers which led him to concentrating on mathematics education. Joel Schneider passed away of cancer at the age of 61 on September 12 2004.
CTW has established the Joel Schneider International Research Fund for Global Health to honor his passion and work on the Workshop's global health initiative.
Jodi Nussbaum
Jodi Nussbaum serves as Sesame Workshop's Group Vice President of Television, Film, and Home Video. Her biography at Sesame Workshop's official website describes her as "responsible for overseeing development and production on new and existing properties at Sesame Workshop."
Nussbaum has worked for Sesame Street, Dragon Tales, Sagwa The Chinese Siamese Cat, and Out There. She started out at Children's Televsion Workshop as a producer for the live-action series Ghostwriter.
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Valeria Lovelace
Valeria Lovelace was the assistant vice president of Sesame Street Research and the Children's Television Workshop.
Nancy Kanter
Nancy Kanter is Senior Vice President, Original Programming, Disney Channel, since October 2004.
She was the co-executive producer of Elmo's Musical Adventure: Peter and the Wolf, and executive producer of Elmo Says BOO! and Elmopalooza. In addition, she has produced Afterschool Specials for ABC and won an Emmy Award for film editing.
Anna E. Housley-Juster
Anna E. Housley-Juster has been a part of the Education and Research team at Sesame Workshop for over 5 years. She currently serves as Assistant Content Director where she writes the curriculum for Sesame Street and oversees content for the Sesame Street brand. Ms. Housley-Juster works closely with producers and writers to ensure that the curriculum objectives are effectively incorporated into all aspects of Sesame Street. Ms. Housley-Juster has her Masters degree in Developmental Psychology from Teachers College at Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tufts University in both Child Development and English. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Early Childhood and Elementary Education at New York University.
Robert A. Hatch
Robert A. Hatch (1931-2006) was a journalist and public relations liaison who served as account executive for Children's Television Workshop in 1969. In that capacity, he helped solicit financial support for Sesame Street. In 1972, he became CTW's vice president for public affairs.
Charlotte Cole
Dr. Charlotte Cole is the Vice President for International Education, Research and Outreach at Sesame Workshop in New York. She oversees the research and curriculum development for the International Sesame Street co-productions. Working with educators and production teams throughout the world, she has most recently been engaged in projects in Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Israel, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, West Bank/Gaza.


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