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To the Fayette County Board of Education: I write as a concerned former Fayette County band student parent, a citizen, and a business owner in Fayette County. I understand you will be voting on a proposal to possibly eliminate fifth-grade band programs and all high school assistant band and orchestra director positions on April 15. I write to voice adamant opposition to what would be a near-sighted approach to fixing budget problems in the school system.
Music education is one of the most valuable tools available to parents, students and our society for providing training in the disciplined pursuit of performing extraordinarily complex tasks.
One piece of evidence to this is that a primarily engineering focused curriculum university such as Georgia Tech maintains a fierce loyalty and commitment to, yes, its music programs.
It is why hundreds of Georgia Tech students, pursuing non-music degrees, spend hours of time each week practicing music for very little college credit. It is why Tech provides multiple performing ensemble opportunities to undergraduate students and offers master's and Ph.D. degrees in music disciplines.
One thing that should be noted is that the quality of education at the high school level, which ultimately prepares students for the process of a disciplined pursuit of extraordinarily complex tasks, begins at the lower grade levels.
Simply maintaining the fifth-grade programs that mean so much to this process is vital to this enriching experience.
Also, maintaining the multiple levels of support and instruction at the high school level must be protected with no loss of director jobs. Why, one might ask?
Nature Neuroscience magazine: "Students in high-quality school music education programs score higher on standardized tests compared to students in schools with deficient music education programs, regardless of the socioeconomic level of the community."
From 2010, Scientific American: "Studies have shown that assiduous instrument training from an early age can help the brain to process sounds better, making it easier to stay focused when absorbing other subjects, from literature to tensor calculus. The musically adept are better able to concentrate on a biology lesson despite the racket in the classroom or, a few years later, to finish a call with a client when a colleague in the next cubicle starts screaming at an underling. They can attend to several things at once in the mental scratch pad called working memory, an essential skill in this era of multitasking."
Students of the arts continue to outperform their non-arts peers on the SAT, according to reports by the College Entrance Examination Board. Data from the College Board, Profile of College-Bound Seniors National Reports from 2006–2010 show that students enrolled in fine arts courses score from 11 to 13 percent higher than students not enrolled in any fine arts courses.
Armed with studies and data such as these, one could make the case that high quality and consistent music training is the most important spoke in the well-rounded-education wheel.
Our Fayette County-based business of 15 years, SoundAround Audio/Video, LLC, provides services to the Georgia Music Educator's Association, the fourth largest music education association in the U.S.
GMEA and their programs are held up to the national spotlight each year as beacons of excellence – Georgia is known nationwide as one of the best places to receive a good foundation in music education.
This has not happened with the wave of some magic wand. It occurs because communities in Georgia such as Fayette County have traditionally seen the wisdom in continuing to invest in music education. At SoundAround we are so committed to this proposition, that we offer four scholarships to worthy GMEA students heading into college. We put some of our very limited funds into growing the music education process.
I might also point out that our small business adds to the tax base for Fayette County, as will the tremendous new complex being designed now for our county that will be devoted to the visual and culinary arts by Rivers Rock and Pinewood Studios.
If I understand the long-term plans, this will also attract Savannah College of Arts and Design to our area and others to help Fayette County build its reputation around the globe for music and the arts.
In the many articles that have been written about this, the quality of Fayette County life is heralded as one of the largest contributing factors to the decision of building this complex here. Our schools providing superior, well-rounded educational experiences are an integral part of that equation, as I believe you will all agree.
I urge you not to remove even one brick from the structure of this wonderful local resource — a high quality music education program in our schools. High quality music education does come with a price, but it is a price that we must be prepared to pay for the instruction that is so vitally important to our students, our community, our culture and our society. Please say no to cutting our music and arts programs any further.
Jim Gauntt
SoundAround Audio/Video Recordings, LLC
Fayetteville, Ga.


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The Big Invisible/
People usually get the really big ideas wrong. That's why you can't crowdsource signals to invest in venture capital--because most people don't see big things coming. Few people ever thought that there would be a need for a personal computer in the home. Yet, the Segway was supposed to change our world as we knew it. Lots of people thought Twitter was a pretty dumb idea, too.
We seem to do a pretty terrible job predicting the nature of big ideas--over and over again. Yet, that's what VCs are supposed to do, right? Pick out the big idea that returns the fund. That's pretty hard to do when you've got two layers of people to explain your choices to--your partners and your own fund investors. The more people you need to make a reasonable argument in front of to support your decisions, the less likely you're going to be early to the next big thing. The next big thing will seem completely unreasonable at first. Sign up to have strangers live in your house? Crazy!! Get a group of people to throw money at a creative project with no financial return? Sounds pretty small.
The first time I saw a Makerbot, I thought the market for it was about 300, total. Not surprisingly, the first investor in, Jake Lodwick, is a guy who has naked pictures of himself on a tractor up on the Internet--ie he's not exactly a boxed thinker. The next set of investors, "people with balls" according to another VC I know--Shana Fisher, Kal Vepuri... Individual investors who didn't really need to talk it over in a Monday morning partner meeting before investing. It wasn't until the third layer of cash came in that an institutional fund "got it".
That's why I'm so excited about my investment in Windowfarms, along with Joanne Wilson and Charles Smith--because a) other professional investors don't totally get it and b) people love the product. It's a way for every apartment dweller with no patch dirt to start participating in the sustainable agriculture movement. I don't see why everyone in the world in a city couldn't be one day be using farming hardware connected to an online community of other indoor food growers.
Crazy, perhaps, but every single person in the room thought Makerbot was incredibly cool when I first saw it. In fact, I don't know anyone who doesn't think it's cool. I don't know anyone who doesn't think Kickstarter does something great or who didn't find AirBnB to be a great experience. Not everyone saw their investment potential though--even though there weren't a lot of things that would stand in the way. The common thread among many of the big ideas today are that they didn't really overcome a lot of big hurdles--it's just that nothing great ever seems like that much of a sure thing. It all just seems really hard--but when it's a little crazy and hard at the same time, it seems too risky. If anything, crazy is just a measure of potential return--because when crazy works, it's game changing. If something is going to be hard (risky) it's probably not worth it unless it is, in fact, a little crazy.
I hope to do a fair amount of crazy stuff out of my fund--because a diversified portfolio of crazy has a better shot at great returns.

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Minor Planet Named for Texas State Park
NEEDVILLE, Texas — Brazos Bend has always been a Texas state park offering plenty to see and do. Now, it's also a minor planet orbiting within our solar system.
"Brazos Bend" is the official name recently accepted by the International Astronomical Union to designate a minor planet discovered through telescopes located inside Brazos Bend State Park at The George Observatory, a satellite facility of the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
Joseph Dellinger, Max Eastman and Bill Dillon are a team of volunteer researchers at the George Observatory who spent four years observing the minor-planet Brazos Bend before it was eligible to receive its name.
"There's typically a delay between when you discover a minor planet and when you get to name it," said Dellinger.
The asteroid, originally designated as HC67, was first discovered in April 2001. According to Dellinger, it's not an easy task to find an asteroid that hasn't already been mapped. To acquire the naming rights for a minor planet, a great deal of time and observation is required.
"You don't get credit for just spotting an asteroid one night," said Dellinger. "You usually have to get another observation recorded within the next couple of days, and this is usually when most asteroids are lost."
Fortunately HC67 was not lost, and Dellinger and his team tracked the asteroid further.
"You have to keep following it for a month or two if you want to be able to spot it again the next year. Then, you have to cover it from year to year until you have the orbit so well nailed down that one observation in a century will be enough. This usually takes about four years of observation," he said.
At the point that a minor planet's orbit is determined well enough, the asteroid is given a permanent number. HC67 was designated 63387, meaning it is the 63,387th asteroid to receive a permanent number since the first time an asteroid was numbered in 1801.
After years of tracking asteroid number 63387, Dellinger and his team offered the honor of naming this piece of the sky to Brazos Bend State Park, since the park has been home to the observatory for many years.
"I thought it would be a nice gesture to the park," said Dellinger. "It's one of our better discoveries."
Brazos Bend State Park Superintendent Steve Killian thought giving the minor planet the namesake of Brazos Bend was only fitting.
"The [park] staff and I thought it was a great way to showcase our great park, home of the George Observatory," said Killian. "We really have a hand-in-glove relationship with the observatory. We're partners, and it is really a wonderful opportunity to have the observatory inside the park. It allows our neighbors from the Houston metropolitan area to really see a night sky. The stars are big and bright in Texas, and here especially, you can see that."
Brazos Bend, however, is not so easy to spot. The minor planet's intensity of brightness is measured at a magnitude of 15. Stars of the big dipper are a magnitude 3. The greater the magnitude number, the dimmer the star appears. The dimmest star visible to the naked eye is a magnitude 6.
"The brightest [asteroids] were all taken before we even got started," said Dellinger. "We're always discovering things at the outer limits of our capabilities. If it was easy to find, someone already discovered it."
Still, the night sky over Brazos Bend's 5,000 acres offers an unobstructed view of the stars unlike any other in the Houston area.
Twenty-one years ago, when Brazos Bend was still a fairly new state park, Halley's Comet returned to the night sky. Droves of Texans flocked to Brazos Bend to get a better look.
"Thousands of people visited the park in 1986, and the idea of an observatory inside Brazos Bend became quite popular," said Barbara Wilson, director of the George Observatory. "In 1989, we opened the observatory."
Today, the George Observatory offers a number of educational opportunities. On Saturday evenings, it is open to the public for a small fee. An available 36-inch Gueymard Research Telescope is one of the largest telescopes in the nation open to public use.
In addition to stargazing at the observatory, Brazos Bend State Park has plenty of other outdoor opportunities.
"The park has ecological habitats of tall grass coastal prairies, live oak slope forests, bottomland hardwood forests, ponds, lakes, creeks and the Brazos River. This diversity is what makes Brazos Bend a special place to view abundant wildlife," said Killian. "Our best known viewable resident is the American Alligator. We have more than three hundred that are greater than six feet in length."
In addition to wildlife viewing, the park has fishing, picnicking and camping opportunities and more than 34 miles of hiking, biking and equestrian trails.
"It's a great place to get out and experience a natural part of Texas." Killian said.
Now, with a minor planet orbiting above, "out-of-this-world" is not only a figurative description for Brazos Bend, but a literal one as well.
Brazos Bend State Park is located approximately an hour's drive southwest of Houston. The park is open all week, year-round, from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday through Sunday.
More information on Brazos Bend State Park can be found on the Texas Parks and Wildlife Web site, and additional information on The George Observatory can be found through the Houston Museum of Natural Science Web site.
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- http://www.hmns.org/see_do/george_observatory.asp
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Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake return in an all-star sequel to DreamWorks Animation's 2016 musical hit: Trolls World Tour. In an adventure that will take them well beyond what they've known before, Poppy (Kendrick) and Branch (Timberlake) discover that they are but one of six different Troll tribes scattered over six different lands and devoted to six different kinds of music: Funk, Country, Techno, Classical, Pop and Rock. Their world is about to get a lot bigger and a whole lot louder.
A member of hard-rock royalty, Queen Barb (Rachel Bloom), aided by her father King Thrash (Ozzy Osbourne), wants to destroy all other kinds of music to let rock reign supreme. With the fate of the world at stake, Poppy and Branch, along with their friends — Biggie (James Corden), Chenille (Caroline Hjelt), Satin (Aino Jawo), Cooper (Ron Funches) and Guy Diamond (Kunal Nayyar) — set out to visit all the other lands to unify the Trolls in harmony against Barb, who's looking to upstage them all.
Cast as members of the different musical tribes is one the largest, and most acclaimed, groups of musical talent ever assembled for an animated film. From the land of Funk are Mary J. Blige, George Clinton and Anderson .Paak. Representing Country is Kelly Clarkson as Delta Dawn, with Sam Rockwell as Hickory and Flula Borg as Dickory. J Balvin brings Reggaeton, while Ester Dean adds to the Pop tribe. Anthony Ramos brings the beat in Techno and Jamie Dornan covers smooth jazz. World-renowned conductor and violinist Gustavo Dudamel appears as Trollzart and Charlyne Yi as Pennywhistle from the land of Classical. And Kenan Thompson raps as a hip-hop newborn Troll named Tiny Diamond.
Trolls World Tour is directed by Walt Dohrn, who served as co-director on Trolls, and is produced by returning producer Gina Shay. The film is co-directed by David P. Smith and co-produced by Kelly Cooney Cilella, both of whom worked on the first Trolls. Trolls World Tour will also feature original music by Justin Timberlake, who earned an Oscar® nomination for his song for 2016's Trolls, "Can't Stop the Feeling!," and a score by Theodore Shapiro (2016's Ghostbusters, The Devil Wears Prada).
Animated Musical Adventure
Cast: Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, J Balvin, Rachel Bloom, Flula Borg, Kelly Clarkson, James Corden, Ester Dean, Jamie Dornan, Gustavo Dudamel, Ron Funches, Caroline Hjelt, Aino Jawo, Kunal Nayyar, Ozzy Osbourne, Anderson .Paak, Anthony Ramos, Sam Rockwell, Betsy Sodaro, Karan Soni, Kenan Thompson, Charlyne Yi, with George Clinton and Mary J. Blige
Director: Walt Dohrn
Producer: Gina Shay
Co-director: David P. Smith
Co-producer: Kelly Cooney Cilella
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Intro, Part II.
The moment came about two years ago, in the middle of a lecture on biologically-inspired algorithms (EC, ant-colony optimization, etc.) My attention had strayed so very briefly – and yet the material immediately ceased to make sense. It seemed obvious that continuing to follow the proof on the board was futile – the house of cards inside my head had tumbled down. Dark thoughts came: if my train of thought is so easily derailed, what am I doing in the thinking business? The answer "nothing else has come remotely close to making me happy" won't pay the bills. Floor, ceiling, and proofy whiteboard swirled together as I continued in this misery. It was then that I suddenly realized exactly what had led me to pick up programming when I was young, and to continue studying every aspect of computing I could lay my hands on. It was the notion that a computer could make me smarter. Not literally, of course – no more than a bulldozer is able to make me stronger. I thirsted for a machine which would let me understand and create more complex ideas than my unassisted mind is capable of, in the same way that heavy construction equipment can let mediocre biceps move mountains.
What, exactly, has the personal computer done to expand my range of thinkable thoughts? Enabling communication doesn't count – it makes rather light use of the machine's computational powers. From the dawn of programmable computing, AI has been bouncing back and forth between scapegoat and media darling, while IA steadily languishes in obscurity. It is very difficult to accurately imagine being more intelligent than one already is. What would such a thing feel like? It is easier to picture acquiring a specific mental strength, such as a photographic memory. The latter has been a fantasy of mine since early childhood. Improving long-term memory would give me a richer "toybox" for forming associations/ideas, whereas a stronger short-term memory might feel like an expanded cache.
Before the lecture was through, I had formed a very clear picture of the mythical photographic memory simulator. With only a few keystrokes, it would allow me to enter any thought which occurs to me, along with any associations. The latter set would be expanded by the program to include anything which logically relates to the entry in question. As the day went on, the idea became less and less clear in my mind, until what once appeared to be a thorough understanding of the problem and its solution had mostly vanished. All that remained was a set of clumsily scribbled notes.
Later, I discovered that the idea was not new at all. This did not surprise me. What surprised me was the fact that none of the attempted solutions had caught on. What I found ranged from the hopelessly primitive to the elephantine-bloated, with some promising but unfinished and promising but closed-source ones mixed in. None of the apps featured expandability in a homoiconic language, even by virtue of being written entirely in one. From my point of view, the lack of this feature is a deal-killer. I must be able to define programmatic relationships between datums, on a whim – plus new sytaxes for doing so, also on a whim. There must be no artificial boundary between code and data, for my thoughts are often best expressed as executable code – even when entirely unrelated to programming.
Thus I began work on Skrode – named after the combination of go-cart and artificial short-term memory used by a race of sentient plants in a well-known novel. The choice of languages came down to Common Lisp vs. Scheme, as the Lisp family is the only environment where I do not feel caged by a stranger's notions of what programming should be like. I've always felt CL to be ugly and bloated with non-orthogonal features. Scheme, on the other hand, is minimal to the point of uselessness unless augmented with non-standard libraries. Neither CL nor any of the existing Schemes seemed appetizing. What I needed was a Lisp system which I could squeeze into my brain cache in its entirety – thus, practically anything written by other people would not fit the bill.
By this time, I had come to believe that every piece of information stored on my computer should be a first-class citizen of the artificial memory. The notion of separate applications in which arbitrarily divided categories of data are forever trapped seemed more and more laughable. Skrode would have to play nicely with the underlying operating system in order to display smooth graphics, manage files, and talk TCP/IP. Thus I set to work on a Scheme interpreter, meant to be as simple as possible while still capable of these tasks. This proved to be a nightmarish job, not because of its intellectual difficulty but from the extreme tedium. None of the mature cross-platform GUI libraries play nicely with the Lispy way of thinking about graphics. (Warning: don't read Henderson's paper if you are forced to write traditional UI code for a living. It might be hazardous to your mental health.) I learned OpenGL, and found it to be no solution at all, for the same reasons.
My concept of the system expanded from that of a hierarchical notebook to a complete programming system. Yet I knew that it could not satisfy me if it contained any parts not modifiable from within itself. Emacs would stand a chance, were it not for its C-language core. Then I discovered that system-level reflection is not an unreasonable demand. I found out that instant documentation and source access for any object known to the user/programmer is a reasonable thing to expect. That it is possible to halt, repair, and resume a running program. And, depressingly, that one could do these things on 1980s vintage hardware but not on modern machines.
The wonders of the Lisp Machine world and the causes of its demise have been discussed at great length by others. The good news is that CPU architectures have advanced to the point where the fun can start again, on commodity hardware. I have worked out some interestingly efficient ways to coax an AMD Opteron into becoming something it was never meant to be.
Skrode remains in cryostasis, and awaits the completion of Loper – an effort to (re)create a sane computing environment.
Learning an API does not have to feel like dealing with a Kafkaesque bureaucracy.
And that is enough hot air for the time being. The next post will speak only of usefulness. Such as how one might build an OS where yanking and re-inserting the power cord results in no tears. And other outlandish yet very practical things.
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Sounds like you might be kind of a douche. Ever thought about redesigning the car? Because driving with my feet always made more sense that these hands on a clumsy wheel.
Hey, on the off chance you're the next Linus Torvalds though, more power to you. Just don't burn yourself out before you make it to the final test: was the redesign worth it?
I lol'd hard at this:
"Scheme, on the other hand, is minimal to the point of uselessness unless augmented with non-standard libraries."
If there was ever a language with standardized libraries then it is Scheme (google for SRFI).
I stopped reading after that comment.
And yet, http://www.r6rs.org/final/r6rs.pdf states:
'While it was possible to write portable programs in Scheme
as described in Revised5 Report on the Algorithmic Language
Scheme, and indeed portable Scheme programs were
written prior to this report, many Scheme programs were
not, primarily because of the lack of substantial standardized
libraries and the proliferation of implementationspecific
language additions.'
better?, suck?
hrrm, language design is pretty subjective in this area. people still use fortran for a reason, it was designed to do what it does. you should really take a look at squeak's design if your'e interested in an OS design that is centered entirely around a single language. this has been the paradigm in smalltalk since it's inception, and as you pointed out symbolics used to produce hardware, so it's not entirely new. but i would suggest that UNIX is the most popular OS design atm, and i suspect that most people at some point conclude that UNIX is also a very decent language design (assuming you look at it from this viewpoint).
it sounds like your main focus is on Intelligence Amplification in environment and i would first and foremost strive to not lose focus of that goal while delving into the details of implementation. stick your head up every once in awhile and make sure you're heading in the direction you want to be. good luck
Please change your links to something that doesn't require payment. For example the Henderson papers can be found on his own site:
So, what you hoped for was "that a computer could make me smarter. Not literally, of course – no more than a bulldozer is able to make me stronger. I thirsted for a machine which would let me understand and create more complex ideas than my unassisted mind is capable of, in the same way that heavy construction equipment can let mediocre biceps move mountains." To achieve this, you must first study the Gestalt laws and learn to Gestalt-program your own mind. For, we are self-programming Gestalt-computers, Stanislaw. Relax and look at these five patterns while sensing their perceptual force. Note how they are self-defining in any language. Through perceptual induction they govern all the logical deductions that you will ever be able to make:
Modus Ponens is made of this… To achieve mastery of Gestalt self-programming you must start using the method of mentat computation (after Frank Herbert, of course) that I describe in the paper in this link: http://iro.on-rev.com/Statistical_masking.htm. Then you can return to using electronic computer programming languages, after having established your own Gestalt logical basis.
I've found your article about interfacing to the SID 6581 (http://www.loper-os.org/vintage/parallelsid/parasid.html) and I liked the sample you played – http://www.loper-os.org/vintage/parallelsid/mp3/ussr.mp3 Could you be so kind to email me with the original .sid file or the raw SID command dump (address-data) of this melody, if that's possible?
Thanks in advance,
Have you heard of Anki? It's a flashcard program that presents you the cards just are you are about to forget them. It's super useful for remembering anything you want to know.
Where are you with this goal today? I thirst the same thing as I want the machine to tell me what I *could* have associated if I had enough operational memory capacity. And not even on the global level… just on the personal level of the things I've read and saw in the past.
Will I remember that I wrote this and the accompanying thoughts so poorly expressed in these words? Will I remember enough of your writings that I read today to consciously (and thus, maybe, more effectively) inform my thoughts in the future? And why would I need to read all of them instead of just associating Stanislav's output to be included in my association machine? RSS is such a poor substitute.
Have you looked at TIddlyWiki. It's been good enough for me. It's in Javascript though.
Hi, I think this might be very much in the line of LoperOS: a Lisp implementation on the metal level. Still just Verilog, but could be implemented in silicon any time now:
Seems like you might like Urbit: http://urbit.org/
Just now after reading all the comments, I'm begining to wonder if maybe I want the same thing just coming from another direction. For some time I've wanted a web browser that would remember what I read, when I read it, and how I found it; would keep track of anything I said in response; would let me search through all of that; and would be usable from wherever.
I'm interested in this. I'll read your progress reports. Do you have pages of things others could potentially do to help?
You should also have a Look at the FORTH Systems around. Power of lisp, but without all the ugly braces…
Make sure to have a Look at Colorforth and this one here:
Firstly, please excuse typos as I'm typing this one handed after a shoulder injury.
To my comment, have you looked at Plan 9, and more specifically, Inferno running one the Dis virtual machine? I'm quite interested in your thoughts on this as I've consdered a similar idea from a different angle and as far as I managed (not very experienced in this realm) it seemed like one of the best engineered and modifiable systems out there. Oberon is also very interesting in this reggard and fits the entire system ncluding graphics text, networking in less than 10k LOC, it aalso doesn't consider code or text or anything as separateentities. code is merely text that has been executed.
I'm mainly inerested in your thoughts on Inferno and Dis, but I've noticed a common thread running through all of these systems.
I think it's time for you to seriously consider the possibility that you're not going to usher in a profound renaissance in computing, and further, the possibility that you're not nearly as smart or creative as you currently think you are.
My expectation is that the level of utility you'll actually provide through releases (as opposed to grandiose statements of intent) will be less than, say, a totally average Javascript library. And that's only because this hypothetical Javascript library has the important advantage of existing.
Hello Stanislav, I came across your blog yesterday and couldn't stop reading. I'm mostly a hobbist programmer with no much practice. Once in a while, I read someone saying how lisp languages are that wonderful, but I never got quite interested. Now your articles seem quite clarifying and convincing in terms of identifying what is wrong with modern personal computing and how to fix it, so I'm interested again in giving lisp a try. What lisp language would you recomend nowadays especially for a beginner? I already know a little of Common Lisp and Racket, and upon searching a bit, I came across this article, would like to know if you agree with him:
In case I go for Common Lisp, are there good learning materials besides http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ ?
Have you considered opening a croud funding to sponsor the manufacturing of a ship more suitable to your ideas, e.g. one that processes high level instructions? I would donate a little.
Hi, well, maybe there are many people who want it, but haven't yet manifested that publicly, so we simply haven't met them, e.g. you didn't meet me until I posted here…
I feel your pain. Inspired by mix of science fiction, old research papers (Engelbart, Bush, Licklider, Kay ..), I too wanted an intelligence Amplifier in the form of the personal wiki, information manager and later, a whole programming environment.
I am in walking similar direction, but on the path of Smalltalk like, or more precisely, Self like system. You should check it out. It is not in good shape, but definitely worthy inspiration.


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|Jane Elder (Jennie) Tannahill Morton
Jane Elder Tannahill and Benjamin Ellis Morton
Benjamin Morton had returned home and upon visiting with William's family, had fallen in love with his daughter, Jane and they were married on Dec. 7, 1865.
After Benjamin and Jane were married they lived in Iowa until 1871 when they moved to Marshall Co., Kansas near some of his relatives. They stayed there one year then moved on to Phillips Co., Kansas in 1872 where they located on a claim in Freedom township about ten miles northwest of Phillipsburg. They experienced many hardships of pioneer life as one of the first settlers and with their growing family. A granddaughter, Icle, remembers their home on the farm. Part of the house was made of sod and an addition of frame. There was a step or steps from the living area and the soddy sleeping part. The one thing she remembers most was the feeling of "warmth and hominess" in Grandma's home.
The community soon grew and was made of Union soldiers many from Iowa volunteer companies, hence the name of Iowa Union Community and Cemetery. There are 13 Civil War soldiers buried there. Aunt Jennie and Uncle Ben as they were affectionately called, with their neighbors and relatives organized a Sunday School and a congregational Church which met in the Iowa Union Schoolhouse. The church organization as such, ceased after some years but the Sunday School was an active one for well over 50 years, with various denominations furnishing full or part time ministers.
Jane Elder (Jenny) Tannahill Morton Obituary, "Phillips Co. Review" July 17, 1924
" Jennie E. Tannahill was born in Huntingdon, Canada, September 18, 1826 and passed from earthly life in Lincoln, Nebraska, July 8, 1924, aged 77 years, 9 months and 21 days.
When nine years of age she moved with her parents to Iowa, where she grew to womanhood. In December, 1865 she was _____in marriage to Benjamin E. Morton. The that union nine children were born, seven of whom _____William J. of Salt Lake City, Utah; Mrs. Belle M. Thomas of Lincoln, Nebraska; Bert B. and Roy R. of Basin, Wyoming; Jay T. of Stockton; John O. of Goodland and Henry of Tooele, Utah. One preceded her in death in infancy and Alvin H. passed to the Great Beyond about seven years ago. Her husband was taken from this life in March, 1890.
In the year 1872, with her family, she came to Phillips County, locating on a homestead in the present Iowa Union neighborhood, that present Iowa Union cemetery being a part of that homestead.
She was very active in the religious training in the "Little Brown Community" in Which her lot was cast. Having received her childhood religious training in the "Little Brown Church in the Vale" which has been immortalized in song, she sought to reproduce its ideals in the new community. In 1875 or 1876, she became a member of the Congregational church, organized in her community, but on its disorganization she became a member of the Presbyterian church of Phillipsburg, where her membership remained until the time of her death.
Her later years were spent in the homes of her children. For many years she was with her sons in Utah, and her last days were with her daughter in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Besides her immediate family, she is survived by two brothers, William of Bellwood, Nebraska, George of Vernon, Kansas and one sister, Belle M. Morton of Moscow, Idaho, and many other relatives and friends."
She has gone from us, but the influence of her life and service remain in the life of the church and community which she helped to organize and mold.
Funeral services were held Saturday morning, July 12, in the Presbyterian Church of Phillipsburg, conducted by Rev. L. A. Kerr, pastor of the church assisted by Rev. McDonald, pastor of the Christian church of Stockton. Interment was made in Iowa Union Cemetery.
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Retailers are looking to staff up ahead of the holiday shopping season, according to the findings of a recent survey that suggests that the industry is betting on stronger sales this year.
The majority of retailers surveyed by consulting firm Hay Group said they are planning to hire either the same amount or more seasonal help for the holidays.
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Half of US smartphone owners have no idea which mobe to buy next
What was that about platform lock-in?
Were "ecosystems" of apps and developers ever the clincher in the smartphone wars? The conventional wisdom is that once users are locked in an online software store they will never leave. Perhaps this stickiness has been oversold.
Now 44 per cent of 1,500 smartphone owners surveyed by MKM Partners in the US aren't sure which mobe manufacturer they will upgrade to next. Good news for Nokia and BlackBerry* perhaps? Only up to a point.
The ones who could make up their mind are split between Samsung (19.6 per cent) and Apple (17.7 per cent); 5.9 per cent want their next phone to be a Blackberry, 4.4 per cent want a Motorola device, 3.7 per cent want something from HTC, 3.1 per cent desire an LG phone - and only 0.7 per cent said their next smartphone would be a Nokia.
The majority of the sample didn't realise either BlackBerry OS 10 or Windows Phone 8 had even been launched.
On the bright side for Blackberry, according to the poll, if you double the number of people who have a BlackBerry, you get the number of people are considering buying one of its phones - suggesting it's a novel new platform that's caught some attention.
33 per cent of the sample own an iPhone, and 28.3 per cent a Samsung device. Which suggests, in your correspondent's opinion, that Apple has educated the market and primed consumers, only for Samsung to clean up. The South Korean giant offers far more variety at a wider range of price points - and Apple hasn't really added much to its software design since it launched iOS six years ago.
It must make grim reading for BlackBerry and Nokia, who have the most interesting designs in a me-too market. But they'll take heart from the conclusion - and it's a valid one - that platform lock-in may be hugely overrated.
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Despite winning five of its first six games, Kentucky couldn't win one more to qualify for their first bowl since the 2010 season. That's what the SEC will do to you, as the Wildcats are well aware of. Still there are a number of positives to look at going into 2015. Linebacker Bud Dupree went in the first round of the NFL Draft in becoming the first UK first-rounder in 12 years. Of the players still on the Wildcats, talented quarterback Patrick Towles is an asset few teams coming off a 5-7 record have. Ryan Timmons is a capable #1 receiver, followed by a host of rising threats. Stanley "Boom" Williams had a tremendous true freshman season of over 1,100 all-purpose yards last year and has the running game locked down. Dupree and fellow draftee Za'Darius Smith on the other end of the D-Line leave a defense that was just 95th in the FBS in scoring defense. But there is former four-star recruit Jason Hatcher, ready to shine now with his position finally open. Look for coach Stoops to mess with an experienced yet ineffective secondary, including inserting four-star safety Marcus Walker. The Kentucky Wildcats operate under head coach Mark Stoops at Commonwealth Stadium in Lexington. UK is looking for its first winning season since 2009 and first double-digit win season since 1977. The most thrilling season in the last generation of Wildcats fans has to be 2007, the only season they've been ranked at any point since 1984. But still they were one of the greatest stories of the college football season, defeating #9 Louisville and #1 LSU at home to reach the #8 ranking twice. Kentucky has sent 163 players to the NFL including George Blanda, Randall Cobb, Tim Couch, and Jacob Tamme. The school won the 1950 national title but has won just two conference titles all-time. UK shares rivalries in conference with Tennessee, Vanderbilt, and Mississippi State, an inter-conference rivalry with Louisville (the Governor's Cup), and a dormant one with Indiana. 2015 home opponents include Louisiana-Lafayette, Florida, Missouri, Eastern Kentucky, Auburn, Tennessee, Charlotte, and Louisville. Make sure to get your Kentucky Wildcats tickets from Gold Coast today!
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Forget about the wood-panel liquor cabinet and bar. We have something a bit classier here with the Corvette Car Bar. It has a glass top for slinging drinks and talking imitation car furniture with all of your imitation car furniture enthusiast buddies. The bar would go great with the Corvette couch and barbecue grill you already own, of course.
The body of the Corvette bar is made from fiberglass; a real Corvette was not sacrificed during its production. It includes lights, is available in red or black and measures in at 72-inches by 30-inches by 50-inches. Even better, it's currently on sale for $1,780, down from $3,560. Spread the word.Corvette Car Bar via Bornrich]


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The Houston Museum of Natural Science was founded in 1909 – meaning that the curators of the Houston Museum of Natural Science have been collecting and preserving natural and cultural treasures for a hundred years now. For this yearlong series, our current curators have chosen one hundred exceptional objects from the Museum's immense storehouse of specimens and artifacts—one for each year of our history. Check back here frequently to learn more about this diverse selection of behind-the-scenes curiosities—we will post the image and description of a new object every few days.
This description is from Dirk, the museum's curator of anthropology. He's chosen a selection of objects that represent human cultures throughout time and around the world, that we'll be sharing here – and at 100.hmns.org – throughout the year.
Bodmer print showing American Indian dancer
When studying American Indian culture, the drawings made by Karl Bodmer (1808-1893) are of great importance. This Hidatsa warrior is wearing a headdress identifying him as a member of the Dog Soldier Society. Items like these provide us with context, essential to come to a better understanding of the objects in the collection. In this case, the print is on display next to a case holding a similar headdress.
Explore thousands of years of Native American history in the John P. McGovern Hall of the Americas, a permanent exhibition at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
You can see more images of this fascinating artifact – as well as the others we've posted so far this year – in the 100 Objects section at 100.hmns.org


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Your Family History – Pass It On!
Biff Barnes
You've traced your lineage back ten generations. You know who came over on the Mayflower, or crossed the Middle Passage on a slaver, or came steerage to Ellis Island. You have all the details documented to the highest possible level of proof. How do you pass the product of your years of diligent research on to the next generation?
Put it in a book!
Think about the people with whom you want to share your knowledge of the family's history. They are your book's intended audience. What will they want to know? Think about how you can chronicle the family history in a way that will engage them – even the grandchildren.
It means looking beyond the vital records and pedigree charts to tell the family stories. Why did your ancestors leave the old country to come to America? What did great-great- grandfather do when he fought in the Civil War? What was it like when dad graduated from high school in 1930 and the country was slipping into the Great Depression? Give your audience a visit to the world your ancestors lived in.
Have you ever watched a child looking at a book? What's the first thing they do? Look at the pictures. (Incidentally, so do adults.) So make your family history an illustrated book. Choose the best of the family photo collection to include. Enhance them with historical photos or images of family memorabilia and documents.
The good news is that digital printing has dramatically reduced the costs of publishing a family history. The days when authors who wanted to publish privately for family and a few friends had to pay a high price for hundreds of copies are gone. Print-on-demand publishing has made it possible to print a single copy of a bookstore-quality book. Online bookstores make it possible for each family member to order their own copy of your book.
Marty Daniels, whose great-great-grand-aunt Mary Boykin Chesnut's Civil War journal was called "…one of the half dozen or so most important diaries in all literature…" by Reid Beddow of the Washington Post Book World, said when she donated Chesnut's papers to the University of South Carolina, "We're just the custodians of a few threads. It's our challenge to pass it on."
Your family history book will do that for generations to come.
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HAVELOCK � Richard McFall has some pep in his step and there�s a good reason why.
HAVELOCK � Richard McFall has some pep in his step and there�s a good reason why.
A month ago, the 72-year-old Navy veteran walked into the Havelock Senior Center and announced that his own family had put him out on the streets.
McFall was homeless, destitute and depressed.
That has all changed, though, thanks to the kindness and generosity of Havelock residents, he says.
McFall now has an apartment, furnishings, benefits and perhaps most important of all, new friends that have restored his sense of dignity.
�It�s a good feeling not to be in the situation I was in,� McFall said recently at the Havelock Senior Center. �The people have really helped me out. That�s for sure. So much has changed.�
A.D. Brady has seen it.
�From the first time I met him to today, he�s a completely different person. He�s cheerful. He�s got his confidence back, and now he knows that people do care for him,� said Brady, director of the Havelock Senior Center. �The most important thing that has to be said is that when a person is evicted, it made him quite depressed, but now he�s a changed man.�
When McFall showed up at the center, his head was hanging low. He looked like a man with only a few dollars in his pocket.
Bob Branscome, janitor at the Senior Center and member of the committee for distressed veterans for the local chapter of the Disabled American Veterans, took McFall home so he could wash his clothes. He fed him and spent time with him. Bob Warren, chaplain for the same organization, also took him home. The DAV got McFall a room at the Sherwood Motel.
Brady then called the Havelock News, which featured the downtrodden man on its front page on Thanksgiving Day in a story on homelessness in Havelock.
�Once that article came out, people were just overwhelming, going up to his hotel room and leaving cookies and cakes and just showing that they care,� Brady said. �Some people just came by to say thank you for your service. It says Havelock has a lot of caring people in it.�
People have come from all over to help. McFall got a good deal on an apartment to rent. The VFW made a large contribution towards his rent and deposit.
�The knitting group has kind of adopted him and gotten him a lot of things that he needed,� Brady said. �The (Senior Center) Advisory Board has gotten a lot of things that he needed.�
Winter jackets, socks, toasters, microwaves, televisions, anything McFall needed, started showing up.
�The material things have been just overwhelming,� Brady said. �People have been coming out and giving him so many items that now we�re kind of screening them for him to keep him from getting duplicate items.
�They may not be the most luxurious, but he has his basic needs met right now and that�s a wonderful thing.�
Not only were the material things important, socialization and the outpouring of kindness were priceless, Brady said.
�We got in contact with Social Services to get him signed up for food stamps. We put him in for a pension with the Veterans Administration because his income was so low,� Brady said. �We did a lot of things that we normally do for veterans that are in distress.�
The Senior Center staff made sure McFall had a meal every day.
�After a while, he started smiling,� Brady said. �He�s a very cheerful fellow. He�s different from the day I met him to what you see today. He�s just completely different. Before he was hanging his head down and was very humble, and now he�s perked up a little bit so that part was important also.�
McFall said many Marine wives came out to help him.
�Everything has really changed for me,� he said. �The people have really come together to help me. They really have. All of them show that they care.�
Brady said that the effort says a lot about the people of Havelock.
�It says a lot about this town to come together in the time of need of one person who is in distress,� Brady said. �We will not leave a veteran on the streets. We�re going to make sure that he has the tools and the benefits that he�s entitled to, and if he doesn�t, then we�ll put in the paperwork for him to get those benefits.
�Everybody just came together and just saw the need. They came together as a group and as a neighborhood. It says a lot for what kind of city this is. I know it would have never happened where I grew up. We had one goal in mind, make this person whole again.�
McFall had a hard time finding words to express his appreciation.
�I can�t really express the thanks that I have for them, the way that they have helped me and the stuff that they have donated,� he said. �They gave their time to get everything that I needed � a place to live. I can�t really explain the thanks that I have for them.�


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The Black Diamond Museum Gives a great guided tour of the Franklin townsite.The tour is free and done one saturday a month I believe.
i have recently heard of Franklin ad I am very interested in photographing it for a project I am working on. I Noticed in the description of it that permission has to be obtained from the Gun Club or Gas drilling company that is active on the land. Does anybody know the name of the club or the company so I can talk to them. I would like to start shooting the pictures as soon as possible.
Thank you for any Information,
The Black Diamond Museum Gives a great guided tour of the Franklin townsite.The tour is free and done one saturday a month I believe.
The company is Palmer Coking Coal. The museum has done a tour of Franklin, but i don't believe once a month, in fact they did one recently. Depending on which way you come from, you either can drive in to a certain point (once you've gotten permission though) and walk to the mine... or i think the other way you can only walk in. i haven't been in that way myself though. Let me know if I've been any help!
If you park along the road by the Green River Gorge Bridge, you can walk in to the site without any need for permission, as the acess and site itself are on King County Parks property. That's the route I took to visit Franklin a couple of years ago.
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Hey, can anyone post a bit more about this place? I'm going to be out on the west coast and down into the south-west this coming summer and I'd like to see if I should put this on my itinerary
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There is a number of errors in the Franklin listing. One, the accident was a fire in the mine, which happened on August 24th 1894. Two, the town did not close until about 1920 when it became easier to live in Black Diamond, and work at Franklin thanks to cars. Coal mining continued into the 50's, I think. Third, the foundation shown at the bottom of the page was the power plant. Four, most of the land is owned by Washington State Parks. It's actually not part of Hanging Gardens, but its own seperate park, according to the park ranger at Flaming Gyser State Park. The only part that is not on public property is the north part of the town site, which is owned by Palmer Coke and Coal, which bought out much of the Pacific Coast Company land when they went into receivership in the thirties. Since the site is on Washington State Parks land, no motorized vehicle use is allowed. Parking is a bit of an issue. When I visit, I park by the cemetary just off the Green River Gorge road (which has a nice view into the gorge, by the way), then walk to the trailhead. The town was orginally built by the Oregon Improvement Company sometime in the 1880's, and was badly managed until Pacific Coast Coal Company bought it and did a good job managing it. The mismanagment of OIC was partly to blame for the deaths resulting from the fire, as they shut off the fan to save the coal and the miners suffocated. There has been speculation that the fire was delilberatly set by one of the miners that was killed. You can find head stones in the cemetary dating to the fire.
Last edited by Davidw; 02-05-2009 at 12:51 PM. Reason: Clarification
I was told that all the buildings were covered over by trees and shrubs and are just mounds of dirt that are now the shape of the structures. Is this true or was I in the wrong place???
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As we count down the days to training camp, Around the League will examine one player from every team set for a breakout campaign in 2012. Next up: the Seattle Seahawks.
There is no bigger jump at the pro level than from trendy, promising backup to franchise quarterback. Matt Flynn will try and follow in the footsteps of Matt Schaub rather than Kevin Kolb. We think he can pull it off.
Making the Leap: Matt Flynn
It doesn't make a big difference whether Tarvaris Jackson takes the first snap of training camp. It doesn't make a difference that rookie Russell Wilson will compete for the starting spot. (Although Wilson will be a factor in the future.) The Seahawks gave Flynn a healthy amount of guaranteed money because they want to see what he can do. The money matters, no matter what Pete Carroll says.
Flynn will get a chance to start this year, and we'll be stunned if its not in Week 1. He has the game to take advantage of the opportunity when he gets his shot.
In one of the final days of my former professional life, I watched every Matt Flynn snap possible. I won't repeat myself here, but Flynn was accurate, composed and threw the ball well under pressure. That pocket presence gives him an edge over guys like Kolb, Matt Cassel and Jackson.
In many ways, Flynn didn't look like a young quarterback. He was very good before the snap. He moved safeties with his eyes. He responded to his bad plays.
Flynn doesn't have to carry the Seahawks. They have a solid running game and a stronger defense. He has a chance to be an average starter sooner than later. That's a big upgrade for the Seahawks and that may be all they need to make the playoffs in 2012.


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Boost Drink Debuts New Taste, Bottle Design
Getting all the vitamins and minerals needed to fill the nutritional gaps in adults is easier with the next generation of Boost Complete Nutritional Drink from Nestle Health Science, Florham Park, N.J.
Boost has a new look and an enhanced bottle design, which is grip-friendly, light weight and features a no-foil, easy-to-open top.
With a new taste, 26 essential vitamins and minerals and 10g of protein, Boost Drink is a great way to help meet daily nutrient needs. Great as a mini-meal or a snack, varieties include: Rich Chocolate, Very Vanilla and Creamy Strawberry.
Inadequate intake of nutrients is common, particularly in older adults, who have trouble eating enough nutritious foods or are in need of extra nutrition to maintain an active lifestyle. "As we get older, changing tastes, decreasing appetite and lower energy levels can make preparing and eating healthy meals more challenging. But good nutrition is essential to staying strong and active as you age," says Carol Seigel, head of medical affairs for Nestle HealthCare Nutrition. "Boost Drink is a convenient way for older adults to accomplish their daily nutritional goals while maintaining their busy lifestyle."
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Identifying gems and minerals on Earth and on Mars
It'll be a snap to identify gemstones once Robert Downs finishes his library of spectral fingerprints for all the Earth's minerals. Downs is almost halfway there. So far, the associate professor of geosciences at The University of Arizona in Tucson has cataloged about 1,500 of the approximately 4,000 known minerals using a technique called Raman spectroscopy. The effort is known as the RRUFF Project.
"We're developing a tricorder," Downs said, referring to the instrument used on the "Star Trek" television show that could be waved over materials to identify their chemical composition.
Downs' work is destined for space. Although Downs' current Raman spectrometer takes up an area the size of a tabletop, his colleague M. Bonner Denton, a UA professor of chemistry and of geosciences, is developing a pocket-sized Raman spectrometer to be used on the 2009 Mars rover.
Downs is collaborating with George Rossman of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena to develop the database of minerals.
The technology being developed for Mars will help create handheld instruments for use on Earth.
One use for a hand-held instrument would be the identification of gemstones. Downs and Denton will both give presentations on that aspect of the project on Sunday afternoon, March 12, at the 57th Annual Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (PITTCON 2006).
Their presentations will be part of the symposium, "Gemstone/Mineral Analysis: Developing Non-Destructive Analytical Methods and Assessment Standards for Identification and Classification," held in room 222A of the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla..
Denton's 2:55 p.m. presentation, "The Present and Future Potential of Raman Spectroscopy in the Characterization of Gems and Minerals," will be followed at 3:15 p.m. by Downs' presentation, "The RRUFF Project: Creating an Integrated Database of Oriented Raman Spectra, X-Ray Diffraction and Electron Microprobe Analyses of Minerals."
Other ways to accurately identify minerals, such as X-ray diffraction and electron microprobe, require grinding a bit of the sample to powder or polishing the sample in a specific manner.
However, such rough treatment may not be the method of choice to determine that a glittering gemstone is truly a diamond, rather than just a piece of cubic zirconia.
Unlike other methods of identifying minerals, a Raman spectrometer does not require destructive sampling. It shoots a laser beam at the sample. The laser excites atoms within the sample, which then emit a very weak light of a wavelength in a pattern characteristic of the material.
"It's like a fingerprint," Downs said.
The technique is named after Sir C.V. Raman, who won a 1930 Nobel Prize for figuring out the underlying physics.
But no Raman spectrometer, big or small, can conclusively identify Mars rocks or any other kinds of minerals without the kind of comprehensive database Downs is creating.
When an unknown material is analyzed with a Raman spectrometer, it can be identified by comparing it with reference information from a database.
RRUFF Project: http://rruff.geo.arizona.edu
Source: University of Arizona
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The (free) Justified Gallery extension is a grid based gallery which adapts to the screen size dynamically. The gallery supports images with different sizes and aspect ratios, the images will automatically be re-arranged based on the available space.
This extension uses Miro Mannino's Justified Gallery jQuery plug-in: http://miromannino.github.io/Justified-Gallery/
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