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One of the things that earns praise for the New York Times crossword, under the editorial oversight of Will Shortz, is its clever use of common phrases and pop culture for clues. But despite Shortz's attempt to keep the puzzles relevant (and therefore, solvable without the help of a multivolume reference books), he occasionally runs into trouble with his readers.
Two weeks ago, the a group campaigning to "lose the I word" when discussing the legal status of immigrants, flagged the answer to a clue in the Thursday, February 15 puzzle. The word "illegal" was the answer to "one caught by border control." After Univision Immigration Editor, Juan E. Gastelum, wrote a letter to the Times in complaint, Shortz responded:
"At the time I wrote this clue (and yes, it was my clue), I had no idea that use of the word 'illegal' in this sense (as a noun) was controversial. It's in the dictionary. It's in widespread use by ordinary people and publications. There is nothing inherently pejorative about it.
Still, language changes, and I understand how the use of 'illegal' as a noun has taken on an offensive connotation. I don't want to offend people in the crossword. So I don't expect to do this again. Fortunately, there are many other ways to clue the word ILLEGAL."
Drop the I-word offers just a few other ways to describe immigrants' legal status—undocumented, unauthorized, and without papers—as well as good reasons why not to use the word. While interviewing Carmen Nanko-Fernandez last year, we learned of the phrase, "alternatively-documented," which we think is perhaps more accurate than calling someone undocumented.


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Take advantage of a wealth of unrivaled services and amenities at this Makassar hotel. A selection of top-class facilities such as airport transfer, restaurant, shuttle service, babysitting, and Wi-Fi in public areas can be enjoyed at the hotel.

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Cascade out and about – an update on project wanderings
It's been a busy few weeks for the project. First we submitted our baseline report to the JISC, which has now been synthesised into a sector summary report, forthcoming soon. Some of the key findings of the Exeter audit process are echoed nationally, while some are relatively unique. For example, the preference for public, third party, cloud and open source applications among researchers was echoed by the Vitae survey. The emergence of mobile and social technologies was also matched by other findings. All the surveys I have seen confirmed that technology adoption is overhwhelmingly self-directed and peer-supported. But projects differ in the groups of staff/students they are working with, and our focus on PGRs has given us some particular insights into how research practice is changing.
We have had a joint proposal accepted for the HEA conference, put together a proposal for the International Blended Learning Conference, and begun drafting a symposium proposal for the annual Association for Learning Technology conference in the autumn. In all of these we are working with other projects in our programme cluster. There is the possibility of a paper to Improving Student Learning as well.
Last week Dale and I travelled to Bristol to meet a group of projects, professional bodies, and one institution from outside the programme, to discuss the disciplinary aspects of digital literacy. This is an area of work we will be taking forward both through digital literacy profiles of the different subjects in which our PGR interns are situated, and through subject-specific case studies. We know that research practice is highly dependent on the subject and even the topic of research, so the skills researchers need are not well developed by generic programmes or techniques. This is something we will explore further at College level.
Finally I've been invited to speak on a Guardian panel, Developing Digital Literacy in Higher Education. This will be live on Friday 2nd March – if you are reading this post at a later date you will find a recording and summary online.


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Cloudy with a Chance of Eggs: Winners
POSTED ON: September 18, 2012
Cuteness triumphed in the annual Egg Drop, with the top prize going to an egg capsule made out of a stuffed animal dubbed "Mr. Snuffles" by team members Matt Kaufman, Eugen Sokolov and Dustin Atles. Sponsored by the Engineering Student Council, the Egg Drop attracted eight teams made up mostly of freshmen engineering students.
Constructed beforehand or on the spot each device had to carry a chicken egg approximately 30 feet straight down without violating the integrity of the ovum. A spreadsheet calculated the winner based on a formula that includes the weight of the device, the distance from the center of the target and, of course, the status of the precious cargo. The score gets multiplied by zero if the egg is broken.
Second place went to Alexa Orrico and Amy Chambers, both freshmen engineering students and the only all-women team. Their device, constructed primarily of disposable plastic plates and a drinking cup, gracefully lowered its precious cargo by creating wind resistance during the fall and performing a final flip to land upside down--its fragile payload in tact.
Asked how he felt about winning the event Matt Kaufman replied, "Fantastic!" Noting that the winning entry looked a little worse for wear he added, "We've got to fix Mr. Snuffles up, but he will be OK."


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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Jon Lester won his Oakland debut while pitching into the seventh inning and Jonny Gomes got two hits during an eight-run burst in his return to the Athletics as they beat the Kansas City Royals 8-3 Saturday.
Two days after being traded from the sagging World Series champion Boston Red Sox, Lester and Gomes teamed up to boost the club with the best record in baseball.
The 6-foot-4 Lester (11-7) instantly became an imposing presence on the mound in the pitcher-friendly Coliseum. Fans in the crowd of 30,097 cheered the lefty as he went through his warmup routine in left field, then Lester tipped his cap to a roaring ovation when he left after throwing 6 2-3 innings.
Back with the AL West-leading A's, Gomes delivered in an eight-run fifth inning. He singled and scored off Jason Vargas (8-5), then hit a hit a two-run single off Aaron Crow.


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March madness is over! We're moving into the second quarter of the year now (*insert obligatory "oh my god I cannot believe it!"*) and I'm actually back in my hometown at the moment, working remotely and overall trying to enjoy the company of hot Indonesian air. I am super, super STOKED that by the time I fly back to Melbourne at the end of April, it'll be wonderfully cooler. Hopefully. (I'm a winter person, y'all.) ❤
Reviewing-wise this month has been remarkably average—six books reviews, five of them 3-star and the remaining one 4-star. Am I the only one whose reviews are published about 2-3 weeks after I actually finish reading the book? I hope not! But anyway…
Book Reviews
- Risuko (ARC) by David Kudler | ★★★☆☆ | Not enough exposition. Strong female characters. Inspired by Japanese mythology!
- Future Perfect by Jen Larsen | ★★★☆☆ | Diverse characters. Lost focus for a bit. Overall a very interesting look at body positivity and self-acceptance.
- Firsts by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn | ★★★☆☆ | Made me think, and made me think a lot. Very interesting and refreshing perspective on sex before marriage and promiscuity. A flawed protagonist. Frustrating lack of resolution.
- The Last Leaves Falling by Sarah Benwell | ★★★☆☆ | Emotionally difficult. Really sad. Feels authentically Japanese, for some reason. Also lacks resolution.
- The Impostor Queen by Sarah Fine | ★★★★☆ | Strong, likeable protagonist that the author dragged through hell and back (sort of). Super awesome magic system and world-building.
- Fifteen Lanes (ARC) by S. J. Laidlaw | ★★★☆☆ | Really interesting cultural book with alternate perspectives. Eye-opening. At times uncomfortable and sickening. Unfortunately comes with storytelling flaws.
Book Looks
Miscellaneous Posts
- The Versatile Blogger Award | Also titled: Seven Quick Facts about Reg, Your Resident Blogger.
- Top Ten Books if You're in the Mood for Asian Culture | Bringing diversity into the blog a little bit!
- Top Ten Love Interests I Don't Really Get | The various things that would go wrong with various love interests in a real life setting.
- Let's Talk: The Elusive Five-Star Book | What makes a book five-star material to you, and how is it different from a four-star book? Asking the important questions here. 😉
Around the Blogosphere
- Ari from The Daydreaming Bookworm asks if book reviews are becoming irrelevant. Are they?
- Jess from Princessica of Books discusses whether blog theme (and therefore aesthetics) matters.
- Emma at The Talking Bookworm defends 'bad romance'… in this case, love triangles and insta-love.
- Sara from Freadom Library speaks out about reading books that were originally written as fanfiction and gives her recommendations.
- Joey from Thoughts and Afterthoughts shares five very, very important tips on how to Book Outlet like a boss.
- CW from Read, Think, Ponder talks about what she'd love to see in New Adult fiction. (Me too, CW, me too!)
- Stephanie from Adventures of a Bibliophile asks if who the author is matters.
- Jess from Jbelkbooks talks about book hype and the pros and cons of following it.
- Joséphine from Word Revel shares some tips on how to use instagram, focusing on content and consistency.
Most Anticipated Reads
A Darker Shade of Magic – V. E. Schwab
Kell is one of the last Travelers—rare magicians who choose a parallel universe to visit.
Grey London is dirty, boring, lacks magic, ruled by mad King George. Red London is where life and magic are revered, and the Maresh Dynasty presides over a flourishing empire. White London is ruled by whoever has murdered their way to the throne. People fight to control magic, and the magic fights back, draining the city to its very bones. Once there was Black London – but no one speaks of that now.
Officially, Kell is the Red Traveler, personal ambassador and adopted Prince of Red London, carrying the monthly correspondences between royals of each London. Unofficially, Kell smuggles for those willing to pay for even a glimpse of a world they'll never see.
I'm only jumping onto this bandwagon now, but hey, better late than never? 🙂
Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here – Anna Breslaw
Meet Scarlett Epstein, BNF (Big Name Fan) in her online community of fanfiction writers, world-class nobody at Melville High. Her best (read: only) IRL friends are Avery, a painfully shy and annoyingly attractive bookworm, and Ruth, her pot-smoking, possibly insane seventy-three-year-old neighbor.
When Scarlett's beloved TV show is canceled and her longtime crush, Gideon, is sucked out of her orbit and into the dark and distant world of Populars, Scarlett turns to the fanfic message boards for comfort. This time, though, her subjects aren't the swoon-worthy stars of her fave series—they're the real-life kids from her high school. Scarlett never considers what might happen if they were to find out what she truly thinks about them…until a dramatic series of events exposes a very different reality than Scarlett's stories, forever transforming her approach to relationships—both online and off.
Come on, who's surprised to see this book here? I'm expecting maximum geekiness from this one. 😛
The Rose and The Dagger – Renee Ahdieh
In a land on the brink of war, Shahrzad has been torn from the love of her husband Khalid, the Caliph of Khorasan. She once believed him a monster, but his secrets revealed a man tormented by guilt and a powerful curse—one that might keep them apart forever. Reunited with her family, who have taken refuge with enemies of Khalid, and Tariq, her childhood sweetheart, she should be happy. But Tariq now commands forces set on destroying Khalid's empire. Shahrzad is almost a prisoner caught between loyalties to people she loves. But she refuses to be a pawn and devises a plan.
While her father, Jahandar, continues to play with magical forces he doesn't yet understand, Shahrzad tries to uncover powers that may lie dormant within her. With the help of a tattered old carpet and a tempestuous but sage young man, Shahrzad will attempt to break the curse and reunite with her one true love.
Finally. Finally. ❤
How has your March been? Let me know in the comments or link me to your wrap-up post; I'd love to hear from you! 🙂


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6 Refreshing Ceviches Around LA
Summer in Los Angeles: sure, you can dismiss it as a "dry heat," but it's still plenty hot. That's where the refreshing ceviches from the multitude of Latin American cultures who call this city home step in, offering relief in the form of raw fish tossed with an acidic marinade. A good ceviche, however, is not always easy to find. Any compromise on the quality of the three core ingredients— seafood, acid, and salt— is glaringly noticeable. Luckily for you, we took a couple of mealy, over-acidified fish bombs to the gut, and narrowed it down to six ceviches around town that are all but guaranteed to keep you cool. ¡Provecho!
Corazón y Miel
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Corazón y Miel is one of the hottest Pan-Latin restaurant in Los Angeles at the moment. Chef Eduardo Ruiz and his team have garnered quite a following since his opening in the City of Bell, a Southeast LA community previously devoid of this kind of restaurant. And perhaps it's time we forget the little fact that he racked up his accolades working under Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo at Animal and focus entirely on his ceviche. Try the Ceviche de Corazón ($11), a supple shrimp and sliced octopus rendition inspired by Ruiz's days working in Baja. Just as some people crave Tapatio hot sauce on their ceviches, Ruiz craves soy sauce, peanuts, and ginger, piling them high and serving the whole thing with housemade tortilla chips. We suggest pairing it with one of several mezcal cocktails.
Córazon y Miel: 6626 Atlantic Ave, Bell, CA 90201 (map); 323-560-1776; corazonymiel.com
El Coraloense
As you make your rounds eating ceviche in this town, you'll notice that Mexican ceviches make up the majority of the offerings—usually some kind of mishmash including fish, tomatoes, cucumber, onion, and cilantro. In Mexico, where most of the produce is organic and the seafood is not whatever is cheapest at Restaurant Depot, that would suffice beautifully. But in LA, where previously frozen fishes like farmed tilapia and shrimp reign supreme, places like El Coraloense—who pride themselves in the freshness of their affordable ceviche, made from never-frozen halibut and meaty abalone—deserve a round of applause. It's a family operation started by Sinaloa-born Maria Curie and her Nayarit-born husband Leo Curie (pretty much the two ceviche capitals of Mexico). Opt for the Ceviche Sampler ($10.99) pictured above, which includes ceviches with marinated shredded carrot, fruit, and housemade aiolis. To wash it down, try a tall cup filled with their naturally dairy-free coconut milk horchata.
El Coraloense: 6600 Florence Ave, Bell Gardens, CA 90201 (map); 562-776-8800
El Huarique
El Huarique is the newest Peruvian ceviche player in town as of January, serving eight different "cebiches." The star here is the Cebiche Passion Fruit ($16.99), made with sashimi-thick slices of Pacific halibut, lime juice, the intensely fruity heat of fresh Limo and Rocoto aji peppers, and tart passionfruit pulp. It's topped with a sprinkling of scarlet quinoa seeds and served with Peruvian puffed corn and a couple of cubes of creamy yams. Huarique's unique location sets it apart—it's situated in a tiny hallway of a food court along the Venice boardwalk. If you're on a budget, get your ceviche with farmed "Basa/Swai" fish for $4 less. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 3-5 p.m., they offer ceviche happy hour with reduced prices, too.
El Huarique: 1301 Ocean Front Walk #10, Venice, CA 90291 (map); 310-452-1254
Chef Sergio Penuelas, who hails from Los Mochis, Sinaloa, has carved himself an intriguing niche in the Angeleno Mexican seafood world with a seasoned approach that rises above trendy foods and cheffy gimmicks. Penuelas first received citywide recognition for his smoky grilled whole snook fish at Mariscos Chente's in Mar Vista. Now he's working more seafood magic at Coni'Seafood in Inglewood, just minutes away from LAX. We're fans of his simple, fresh ceviche inventions, like this one: extra-lightly marinated raw shrimp and tender sea snails, mixed with crispy jicama that his sister-in-law imports from Sinaloa, sitting pretty atop a bed of smoked marlin pate on a tostada ($12). No fancy ingredients or tricks—just fresh seafood, as it should be.
Coni'Seafood: 3544 W Imperial Hwy Inglewood, CA 90303 (map); 310-672-2339
La Cevicheria
Blood clams, aka "Pata de Mula" clams, are a staple in many coastal Central and South American countries. La Cevicheria, in the outskirts of Koreatown, specializes in Guatemalan-slanted ceviches of this chewy, chocolate-colored mollusk. The Guatemalan influence comes in the generous use of fresh mint leaf, which compliments the briny clam meat superbly. Start off with the Bloody Clam Ceviche Mixed with Shrimp and Octopus ($17), and eventually move on to a version featuring only the plump, muddy clams. An honorable mention goes out to their tostada, a uniformally flat fried tortilla made with coarse-grained masa, providing a rustic crunch. They're sourced from a tortilleria in East LA that makes them multiple times a day.
La Cevicheria: 3809 W Pico Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90019 (map); 323-732-1253
El Sarape
In the world of ceviches, some attention must be paid to aguachiles, the blazingly spicy cousin of standard ceviches. We found an interesting and seemingly undiscovered aguachile/ceviche hybrid in an unassuming Mexican seafood shop in Boyle Heights called El Sarape. It doesn't look like much, but wander to the back patio, and in a moment a bowl filled with a complimentary fish ceviche amuse-bouche will magically appear. The owner is Maria Benitez from Tecuala, Nayarit, where it's common to add marinated shredded carrots to ceviches. We recommend her plate of Ceviche Mixto ($8), which comes with tender octopus, raw and cooked whole shrimp, and ripe avocado. If you find yourself gasping for air, it's because Benitez grinds in tiny, teardrop-shaped Mexican chiles that she grows herself. Go ahead and order a second glass of ice-cold agua fresca, or better yet, walk a block to the liquor store and pick up a six-pack of Pacificosto bring over. She's cool with it.
El Sarape: 2522 E 1st St, Los Angeles, CA 90033 (map); 323-415-0765
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When the Jitterbug first debuted several years ago, there weren't that many senior-friendly phones around to compete with it. Now it seems there is more than just a handful; we've seen the Doro PhoneEasy devices, the Clarity ClarityLife, and a couple of Pantech phones like the Breeze II and the Ease. As long as the phone is supereasy to use, with a bright display and simple controls, it can be considered a phone that's friendly for seniors.
Just 5 is yet another company making such handsets. We first noticed them at CTIA 2010, though they've been around for a while in Europe. Unlike some of the phones mentioned above, the Just 5 handset is available unlocked, so you can use it with any GSM carrier you want. For the U.S., that would be either T-Mobile or AT&T. The company's current model is the J509, which is as simple as a phone gets: there's no camera, no Bluetooth, and no music player. However, you can send and receive text messages, and there's even an FM radio. Though the J509 is certainly great for seniors, we think it would be good for kids or just anyone who wants a stripped-down basic phone. The Just5 J509 is available for $119.99, but that's without any contract.
The Just 5 J509 looks very much like a calculator at first glance, with its simple blocky design, small display, and big buttons. It measures 4 inches long by 1.9 inches wide by 0.8 inch thick, and it has straight sides with slightly curved corners. The back is also covered in a soft material that is pleasant to the touch. The overall design is minimalistic, yet playful, stylish, and functional. We're not surprised that the phone has won both an iF Product Design Award plus a Reddot design award.
The display, as we said, is quite small. It's around 1.8 inches diagonally, and it is monochrome with an orange backlight when not on standby. The default screen displays the time, date, signal strength, and remaining battery life. Though you can't adjust the font size, the text is very large already, so we don't think that's a problem. You can adjust the display contrast and choose either English or Spanish as the language.
Underneath the display are three large keys: the Send/OK key, an up-and-down toggle for navigation, and the End/Power key. To access the phone's menu, you press up. The menu consists of SMS, Call History, the PhoneBook, Settings, and that's it. You can then press the Send/OK key to select.
The number keys on the keypad are almost comically large, and reminds us a little of the toy phones that kids play with. The digits are nice and big as well, which is great for those with poor eyesight. The keys each have a slightly raised corner, which is great for dialing by feel, and they push down quite easily. If the phone is not on silent mode, it makes a very loud sound each time you press a button. If you want, you can also have the phone read out the numbers to you as you press them.
The three keys on the bottom (the asterisk, zero, and pound keys) have additional functions. The asterisk and pound keys can be mapped to speed dial numbers; just press and hold down those keys for it to activate. The zero key will toggle the speakerphone during a conversation.
Entering text for SMS messages requires you to enter in the letters one by one via the ABC input method. You can turn on predictive text, however, which will help for faster messaging. The message interface also has a few stock reply templates like "Please reply" and "I'm in a meeting."


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Left untreated, HIV almost always progresses to AIDS in humans, except in about one in 300 HIV-infected people who have an initial burst of viral replication, then control the virus and remain AIDS-free without the medications that have turned the disease from a fatal to a chronic one.
Understanding how these individuals, known as "elite controllers," suppress replication of a virus that rapidly adapts to the human immune response is a mystery that David I. Watkins, Ph.D., professor of pathology, and his team explain in a seminal study published September 30 in the journal Nature. The study, "Vaccine-induced CD8+ T cells control AIDS virus replication," determined that elite controllers suppress the virus by generating a potent "killer cell" CD8+ T response against just two or three small regions of the virus.
"By focusing on these selected regions the immune response successfully controls the virus," said Watkins, who with his colleagues at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, was recently awarded a $10 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to develop an HIV vaccine from the yellow fever vaccine. "Understanding this mechanism may shed light on how to develop an effective vaccine to eradicate the global HIV/AIDS crisis."
For the Nature study, Watkins and his collaborators, including the investigators in Brazil, home to the leading experts and producers of the majority of the world's supply of yellow fever vaccine, set out to pinpoint the link between known genetic determinants and the phenomenon of HIV control. As Watkins explained, about 70 percent of elite controllers have one of two genetic determinants, but not all people with those gene types control virus replication after HIV infection. So the critical question was: What is the link between the genetic determinant and the phenomenon of control?
To find the answer, Watkins and his team performed a simple experiment using an animal model that effectively mimics the naturally occurring elite controller phenomenon in humans. Approximately half of animals that express a particular genetic determinant will control the replication of the monkey equivalent of HIV without any drug intervention. The investigators vaccinated these animals that expressed this genetic determinant to induce CD8+ T killer cell responses against three small regions of the virus. The result: all vaccinated animals became elite controllers.
"What this likely means is that in humans these CD8+ T killer cells directed against small regions of HIV are responsible for control," Watkins said. "The next step is to find out why these particular killer cells are so effective."
In addition to Watkins and his collaborators in Brazil, the Miller School's Mauricio A. Martins, Ph.D., a post-doctoral associate in the Department of Pathology, was a co-author on the study. Other co-authors include researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Minnesota, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and the National Cancer Institute.
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Whilst making the vegetable filling for this raised pie, my heart sank a little as I was reminded in my head at the loss of my allotment plot. This time last year I had harvested a sprout tree and other vegetables from my allotment. This year that was not so, as all the vegetables on our plate were supermarket bought. I did attempt to grow some sprouts in my tiny garden plot specifically for Christmas, but most (if not all) of my Brassica family plants were ravished by the white cabbage butterfly. Oh well, such is life.
Once sliced open, the contents of the pie were revealed. The green baubles were surrounded by specks of orange. This hearty Brussels sprout pie was served with baked Parsley potato cakes shaped into Christmas trees.
Serves 6 – 8
1 medium onion, finely sliced
2 cloves garlic, crushed
2 tablespoon olive oil
500g carrots, cooked and mashed
75g Brazil nuts, ground
250g Brussels sprouts, steamed. Mince half of them and keep the other half whole
1 teaspoon caraway seeds
1 teaspoon yeast extract (Love it or hate it, I use Marmite)
Juice of ½ lemon
Salt and pepper to taste
First make the pie filling. Gently fry the onion and garlic in the oil until soft. Then mix in all the other ingredients and season to taste. Set aside and allow to cool.
For the hot water crust pastry
To line deep 7 inch spring form round cake tin
350g plain flour
Pinch of salt
½ teaspoon caraway seeds
1 teaspoon thyme
100g solid vegetable fat or shortening, chopped (I use Trex)
100ml water
Optional: Olive oil or beaten egg to glaze
Mix together the dry ingredients.
Melt the fat in the water and heat until about to boil. Add the liquid to the flour and stir with a wooden spoon until a dough is formed. Now you have to work very quickly, as the dough will get cold and be tough to work with. Keep some of the dough back for the lid, then roll out the rest quickly and line the tin, pressing down so that it is snug to the tin and in its grooves. Then fill the tin with the cooled filling. Press gently down with a spoon. Cut of excess dough around the tin and roll out again so that it fits the top of the pie filling as a lid. It will overlap, just cut off the excess with a knife to make it look presentable. Place the lid over the filling, then gently press or pinch into the side of the pie so it seals or with a fork.
Optional: Brush with egg wash or oil and make a small steam hole in each pie.
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Nominated in 1999 for an Emmy Award for his memorable role as Dennis Finch, the wise-cracking, power-hungry assistant on "Just Shoot Me," David Spade became a household favorite during his five-year stint as a cast member of NBC's "Saturday Night Live." The comedian was also nominated for a Golden Globe in 2000 and an American Comedy Award in 1999 for his work on NBC's "Just Shoot Me".
Spade will next release his memoir, Almost Interesting, through Dey Street Books on October 27, 2015. The book will cover Spade's personal life and stories as well as his career, spanning from his days on SNL until now.
Spade was most recently seen in the cult classic sequel JOE DIRT 2: BEAUTIFUL LOSER, directed by Fred Wolf, with whom he also co-wrote the script. Spade reprises his role as the hilarious and endearing "white trash" misfit. The film premiered on Crackle's streaming service on July 16, 2015 and has been streamed more than 2 million times, making it Crackle's most watched original program to date.
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On the small screen, Spade previously starred in the CBS comedy "Rules of Engagement", which ran for seven seasons from 2007 through 2013. The show was produced by Sony's Happy Madison Productions and centered around three men in different stages of their relationships: married, engaged, and single. The half hour situational comedy starred Spade as a content bachelor and serial dater and enjoyed excellent ratings and critical success throughout all seven seasons.
In 2012, Spade was heard as the voice of the 'Griffin invisible man' in the animated feature, HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA alongside Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez, Steve Buscemi, Kevin James, and Andy Samberg, among others. He will reprise his role in the film's sequel, HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2, which will release on September 25, 2015.
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RSA is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Editor for the Rhetoric Society Quarterly and a new Executive Director for the Association.
Susan C. Jarratt of the University of California at Irvine will become the next Editor of RSQ. Professor Jarratt is a renowned scholar whose work has had enormous impact on the field. The selection committee applauded Professor Jarratt 's long-standing leadership in the field and noted, "her reputation, seniority, administrative experience, professionalism, scholarly presence in both English and Communication, and record of successful mentorship of junior scholars all demonstrate qualities important for the editor of RSQ." Professor Jarratt's term will run from 2016 until 2019.
The Association also wishes to acknowledge the outstanding work of our current editor, James Jasinski of the University of Puget Sound, whose tenure as editor runs through until 2015.
Gerard A. Hauser of the University of Colorado will become the next Executive Director for RSA. Professor Hauser is a renowned scholar and former President of RSA. His work on rhetorical theory and notions of the public have had wide influence and his book, Prisoners of Conscience: Moral Vernaculars of Political Agency, won the 2013 RSA Book Award. The selection committee noted that not only has Professor Hauser been an exemplary scholar but he has also demonstrated his leadership serving both as president of RSA and as chair of his department in Colorado. Professor Hauser's term will run from 2014 until 2017.
The Association also wishes to acknowledge the outstanding work of our current executive director, Fred Antczak of Grand Valley State University, whose tenure as executive director ends this year.
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The Winter Pascha, Chapter 20: The Two Comings of Christ
The following is an excerpt from The Winter Pascha, by Fr. Thomas Hopko
During the Christmas prefeast season, the connection between the first coming of God's Son as the Suffering Servant, the Lamb of God who takes upon Himself the sins of the World, and His second coming as the triumphant King and Judge of the universe is not overtly stressed in any of the church services. But it is clearly implied in virtually all of the songs, hymns and lections. The Old Testament prophecies read at the hours, vespers and matins on the day before the Nativity quite specifically proclaim the messianic age which Jesus is born to bring, but which He will manifest in power only at the end of history. And several verses which are sung during the season directly refer to the interrelationship between the Master's two comings.
Christ our Judge commands us to be vigilant.
We wait expectantly for His visitation,
For He comes to be born of a Virgin.
At Your awesome second coming, O Christ,
Number me with the sheep at Your right hand,
For You took up Your abode in the flesh to save us.
At Your first coming to us, O Christ,
You desired to save the race of Adam;
When You come again to judge us,
Show mercy on those who honor Your Holy Nativity.1
The Christmas prefeast hymns, especially the canons, consciously refer to the hymns of the services of Holy Week before the springtime Pascha. In many of them, Easter paschal themes are replaced by Winter paschal themes, with just a few words being changed in each verse. Thus, what is effected at these services is a sort of "triple connection." Christ's Nativity, with His Epiphany in the Jordan, is referred to His Passion and Resurrection, which is then referreed to His Coming at the end of the ages. In making the triple connection, the entire Mystery of Christ is placed before the believers for their contemplation and communion.
Christians live between the two comings of Christ. They remember His first coming to be sacrificed. They anticipate His second coming to reign. This is vividly portrayed in traditional Orthodox church buildings where the "royal gates" of the icon screen in front of the altar table are flanked by the icons of the Theotokos and Child on the one side, and the Lord Jesus in glory on the other. To the uninitiated it may seem as though these are simply pictures of Mary and Jesus put on the same level. This is not so. The icons which frame the Orthodox altar are images of the two comings of Christ. Mary is not alone in her icon; she is holding the Christ Child, who is not shown as a baby, but as the Son of God incarnate "in the form of a slave... in the likeness of men" (Phil 2:7). This is the icon of Christ's first coming. And the icon on the right of the doors is not a picture of Jesus as He was on the earth. It is His image in glory as King and Lord, the icon of His second coming.
The two comings of Christ are held together in Christian thought, action, and prayer at all times. They cannot be separated. When they are, it is the end of Christian faith, life and worship. The first coming without the second is a meaningless tragedy. The second coming without the first is an absurd impossibility. Jesus is born to bring God's kingdom. He dies to prove His kingship. He rises to establish his reign. He comes again in glory to share it with His people. In the kingdom of God there are no subjects. All rule with the risen Messiah. He came, and is coming, for this purpose alone.
1Ode 9 of the canon of compline of the second day of the prefeast of the Nativity, December 21
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"The house of the Church" or the house of God and of the Christian community has always stood out as one of the special signs of holy Church herself, the Bride of Christ, present and on pilgrimage in the world.
The beauty and glory of a church and its fitting arrangement for liturgical celebrations have at various times been ordered by appropriate norms.
Among the churches of any diocese the cathedral church holds the first place and the greatest dignity. In it is placed the cathedra, the sign of the Bishop's teaching authority and power, as pastor of the same diocese and the sign of communion with the Roman cathedra of Peter. Next there are the parish churches, which are the homes of the various communities of the diocese. In addition, there are shrines to which the Christian faithful of the diocese or of other local Churches go on pilgrimage.
Among these churches and others of different categories are found some that have particular importance for liturgical and pastoral life. These may be honored by the Supreme Pontiff with the title of minor basilica, thereby signifying their particular link with the Roman Church and the Supreme Pontiff.
Norms concerning minor basilicas were established after the Second Vatican Council in the Decree Domus Dei promulgated on July 6, 1968 by the Sacred Congregation for Rites (Acta Apostolicae Sedis 60 [1968], 536-539).
Attentive to more recent liturgical documents and after the experience of the passing years, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments considers it opportune to adjust the aforementioned norms to present circumstances as follows.
1. A church for which the title of basilica is proposed must have been dedicated to God by a liturgical rite and must stand out as a center of active and pastoral liturgy, especially through celebrations of the Most Holy Eucharist, of penance, and of the other sacraments, which celebrations set an example for others on account of their preparation and realization according to liturgical norms and with the active participation of the people of God.
2. To further the possibility of truly carrying out worthy and exemplary celebrations, the aforesaid church should be of an appropriate size and with a sufficiently large sanctuary. The various elements required for the liturgical celebration (altar, ambo [lectern], celebrant's chair) must be placed according to the requirements of the restored liturgy (cf. General Instruction of the Roman Missal, nos. 288-318).
3. The church may enjoy a certain renown throughout the diocese, for example, because it has been constructed and dedicated to God on the occasion of some particular historical and religious event, or because the body or significant relics of a saint are reserved in it, or because some sacred image is there venerated in a special way.
The historical value or importance of the church and the worthiness of its art are also be considered.
4. So that, as the liturgical year progresses, the celebrations of the various seasons may be carried out in a praiseworthy manner, a fitting number of priests is necessary; they are to be assigned to the liturgical and pastoral care of the church, especially for the celebration of the Eucharist and penance (there should also be an appropriate number of confessors who at stated hours are available to the faithful).
In addition, a sufficient number of ministers is required as well as an adequate schola cantorum, which is to encourage the participation of the faithful with sacred music and singing.
Documents to be sent to the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments:
1. the petition of the local Ordinary, even if the care of the church is entrusted to some religious community;
2. the nihil obstat or favorable judgment of the national Episcopal Conference;
3. brochures or a report concerning the origin, history, and the religious activity of the church (its worship life and its pastoral associations and charitable works);
4. an album of photos illustrating the exterior and interior form of the church but particularly the arrangement of the sanctuary (altar, ambo [lectern], celebrant's chair) and the other places intended for carrying out celebrations (seats for ministers and servers; baptistery or baptismal font; the place for reserving the Eucharist and places designed for the celebration of the sacrament of penance);
5. Information about the church as indicated in the questionnaire supplied at the time and which must be completed and returned to this dicastery.
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Free-to-play games are all the rage these days. Many people while away their days playing Angry Birds, or Words with Friends before going home to watch Monday Night Football. Nerds — and, increasingly, "normal people" — do the exact same thing, except instead of watching football, we play games like Super Monday Night Combat. This summer, the remarkable viability of the free-to-play business model gained extra attention when Forbes reported that the most-played PC game in the world is now a free-to-play game called League of Legends. For those of you struggling to understand the profitability part, just take a look at League of Legends character Teemo (pictured left). I mean, seriously, who can resist purchasing all the adorable "skins" for him?! (Clearly, not me.)
Nevertheless, the business world of free-to-play gaming is not without its dark, seedy underbelly, where even the cute and cuddly characters are forced to work in digital sweatshops and sell virtual drugs on simulated street corners just to make ends meet. Well, ok, maybe it's not thatextreme. But as a recent (and bitter) dispute between game makers Zynga and Kixeye demonstrates, the gaming business can be just as ugly (and fascinating) as some of the game battles themselves.
You Know the Games, But Who Are the Players?
Zynga and Kixeye are both companies based in San Francisco that publish online social games for Facebook.
Most people know Zynga for their popular Facebook games like Words with Friends or Zynga Poker. Others know them for games like FarmVille where players can engage in make-believe farming with their friends. (Others know them for their reputation for aggressive firings and generally employee-unfriendly conduct…more on that soon.) And before you laugh about who in their right mind would want to engage in virtual agriculture, you should know that Zynga currently has more than 280 millionmonthly active users and that FarmVille 2 currently boasts more than 8.5 million users per day. That's one heck of a lot of digital manure.
Kixeye, by comparison, is a much smaller company, with just under a million daily average users.According to Kixeye's CEO, Will Harbin:
"Our games have little in common with the ones that Zynga is known for. We make synchronous, combat strategy games. They make asynchronous cow clicking games. We have 2 of the top 7 highest grossing games on Facebook. Why on earth would we want to emulate a business that has seen a 75% decline in share price since their debut? According to their S1 their games average $.06 ARPDAU. Our games generate up to 20x that. You do the math."
In terms of their markets, Zynga targets "casual gamers" whereas Kixeye targets "mid-core gamers" (i.e., gamer mini-geeks who are not quite geeky enough to be considered "hard-core").
Or at least that used to be the case. Zynga now appears to be making inroads into the "mid-core" market space, as evidenced by a recent acquisition. At the same time, Kixeye recently poached one of Zynga's employees, Alan Patmore, who ran one of Zynga's more lucrative games, calledCityville. (As a huge SimCity fan, I really can't make any jokes about the joys of being a virtual mayor. When my virtual citizens are happy, I am happy too.)
The (Inevitable) Lawsuit
About a month after Patmore left Zynga for Kixeye, Zynga sued him, claiming that Patmore misappropriated company trade secrets and breached his company confidentiality agreement by transferring over 700 documents from his work computer and backing them up online. Zynga then obtained a protective order preventing Patmore from accessing or using the files in any way, and subsequently amended its complaint to include Kixeye as a defendant in the lawsuit. Kixeye then turned around and counterattacked Zynga with a scathing cross-complaint.
In the cross-complaint, Kixeye alleges that while Zynga is struggling mightily in the marketplace and that "important talent [is] leaving the company in a mass exodus," Kixeye, by comparison, is doing quite well for itself. Kixeye further alleges that Mr. Patmore "responded to the lawsuit by cooperating fully with Zynga" and that "despite [his] cooperation and the fact that none of the forensic computer analysis done by Zynga show that he disclosed any documents containing trade secrets to Kixeye," Zynga nevertheless added Kixeye as a defendant in the lawsuit.
According to Kixeye, "Zynga's lawsuit has two aims…(1) to send a message to is employees about the consequences of leaving Zynga to work at Kixeye…and (2) to use the litigation as a Trojan Horse to gain access to Kixeye's own confidential, valuable information and trade secrets and bog Kixeye down in the wasted time and expense of litigation while Zynga tries to enter the midcore market." (Yup,there's that reputation for employee-unfriendly conduct.)
If that wasn't enough, Kixeye goes on, in excruciating detail, to explain its theory that Zynga is engaging in unfair competition, including a recitation of how Zynga employees allegedly described how Zynga's leadership openly admitted to copying its competitors internally. According to the cross-complaint, "One former Zynga senior employee recalled a meeting with Zynga CEO Mark Pincus, in which Pincus stated: 'I don't f***ing want innovation…. You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers." The cross-complaint goes on to discuss other interviews "where 'several former Zynga workers indicated that the practice of stealing other companies' game ideas — and then using Zynga's market clout to crowd out the games' originators — was business as usual."
To paraphrase a famous gaming meme, Kixeye essentially alleges that Zynga's business strategy is to go around to its competitors saying: "All your trade secrets are belong to us."
Can Zynga Do that?
Because the bar for obtaining discovery with respect to trade secrets is high, a company pursuing a strategy of "find the other guy's trade secrets by suing over your own" has a tough legal path to tread. In California, a party alleging the misappropriation of a trade secret has to "identify the trade secret with reasonable particularity" before it can obtain discovery from the other side. Even after identification of the trade secrets, there are a number of obstacles that can get in the way based on the circumstances of the case.
But in most of these cases between big fish and little fish, the real issue is the cost of litigation for the little fish. For smaller companies, it can be hard to compete with competitors (or soon-to-be competitors) that have Scrooge McDuck sized coffers, which are presumably used to host daily money swims. Even in this case, where Kixeye is going on the offensive and looks ready to fight tooth-and-nail, finances (or the lack thereof) will probably dictate exactly how long the fight will last.
This case is a good example of why it is particularly important to be careful when poaching valuable employees from competitors. As one might suspect, if there is even a hint of smoke, we lawyers are very, very good at making it look like there might be a fire. Even if Zynga's claim is ultimately bogus, as Kixeye contends, Kixeye may find itself feeling a bit like Leonard Hofstadter chasing fellow physicist Sheldon Cooper around in the ball-pit, trying to be the mature party, while Sheldon keeps frustratingly dodging Leonard, all the while shouting: "BaZynga!"


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Los Angeles - Steve Stricker is likely to miss the Match Play Championship next week because his older brother is awaiting a liver transplant at home in Wisconsin.
Stricker said his 50-year-old brother, Scott Stricker, has been in the hospital since January 6 and was transferred to the intensive care unit three weeks ago. Stricker said his brother has a history of health problems, but took a sudden turn for the worse after the holidays.
"He's walking a tightrope is what they're telling me," Stricker said on Tuesday after his daily visit to the hospital. "He needs a liver. He's holding his own, but this can't last forever. Hopefully, we get one soon."
He said the family thought his brother had a liver donor over the weekend, but the timing didn't work out.
Stricker said his brother caddied for him when he qualified for the Canadian Tour in 1989, and soon after had colitis that turned into Crohn's disease. Scott Stricker had emergency surgery last Thursday, and Stricker said he has been stable since then.
If he were to miss the Match Play Championship that would mean four of the top 12 players in the world ranking are not in the 64-man field at Dove Mountain. Tiger Woods, Adam Scott and Phil Mickelson already have said they would not play.
Stricker won the Match Play in 2001 in Australia, and he reached the quarter-finals a year ago. He has not officially withdrawn - players have until Friday to commit - but said it was not looking good for him to play.
"I was going to leave today to go to Phoenix for a few days, but that's not going to happen," he said. "It's going to be a long shot if I come and play. I'm practicing every day, but in the back of my mind, I feel like I'm not going to be there - unless something happens rather quickly, and they say it can. But if one comes available, I wanted to be around for the surgery."
Stricker has competed only once since the Presidents Cup last October - he played the unofficial World Challenge the first week in December - though he said he played a few rounds in Naples, Fla., after the holidays.
Last year he began a limited schedule to be at home more often. Stricker played only 13 times last year and finished No 3 in the FedEx Cup.


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Back in February, I posted about how my short Middle of Nowhere received a little attention by getting on Indy Mogul's blog page via their 5 Minute Movie House weekly film contest. That was cool, but even cooler is what they're now doing after posting 30 short films: an awards contest!
Registered Mogulers vote on various categories for the nominated films. Middle of Nowhere is up for four awards which include Best Picture, Best Horror/Thriller, Best Special Effects, and Best Technical Achievement. The special effects nom is the most curious as my only effects were muzzle flashes added in post. So far no one who has seen the short has spotted this, so anyone voting would probably wonder why I was nominated in the first place. A true compliment.
I'm not a big fan of open voting in film competitions (they're just tests of who has the largest pool of family and friends), but it's fun anyway. We all make movies because we want people to see them, and the 5 Minute Movie House is a neat (and not to difficult) way to help this happen.
Voting ends on Sunday. No prizes have been listed, but a trip to New York to meet the Mogul Staff and appear in a podcast would sure be cool. Wes? Erik? Steve? Thoughts?
UPDATE: We won! Middle of Nowhere took three of the four awards including Best Picture! It's always nice to add 'award winning filmmaker' to your resume, even if the award is a T-shirt!


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Forget Mars; Europa is where all the cool kids are going these days. Thought to possess lakes of liquid water under the Jovian moon's icy surface, the natural satellite may harbor one of our best chances at discovering life within our own solar system. That theory is at the heart of The Europa Report, a sci-fi picture starring Sharlto Copley (District 9) and Michael Nyqvist (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol) that centers on a research team of six astronauts who explore the titular moon. The first teaser trailer has dropped and it shows glimpses of a space station, the astronauts in question and what, unfortunately, looks like hints of a found footage type pic. No release date or distributor has been set as of yet. Hit the jump to check out the teaser trailer, along with a link to the film's viral site.
Check out the trailer below (via The Playlist):
Be sure to head over to the film's viral site, Europa Ventures LLC, which bears similarities to the Prometheus campaign, but doesn't appear to be quite ready to go live just yet.


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Here's a few other preschool things I've been working on to full our shelves during our morning table activities time. I saw this apple stringing activity somewhere. I went back to check on pinterest and I can't find it anywhere, so maybe that's not where I saw it. I know I didn't think it up. Maybe someday I'll be so clever.
Red pom poms get a brown plastic pony bead hot-glued on the top with a little green felt scrap. As long as you don't smoosh the bead down into the fluff when you glue it, a lace can run through the bead.
It's hard to keep anything pom pom or pipe cleaner made sitting out in our house. The cat think she's a dog and plays fetch.
I've been saving little plastic containers with screw top lids, I wasn't sure what I had in mind, but I was envisioning containers that could be filled and dumped and the lids screwed on and unscrewed and dumped again. I have several ready, but don't think this activity is ready to go yet. Bee and Lou have been playing with it though.
My dad sent me home from my last visit with four boxes of shells. He's a collector of things too. I turned a bunch into activities for school. Some medium shells became a stringing activity. A lot of them already had holes, from critters I guess. Others, I drilled holes in with a regular drill bit.
A bowl of rather smaller shells became a transfer activity with a set of tweezers/tongs.
The very smallest shells became a spooning transfer activity.
Some neat large ones became pieces for our loose items table at home. This is the favorite activity at home right now so I'm sure it'll end up at school sometime. I'll take some pictures of this for tomorrow.


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Visit the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, and you're guaranteed to see historic aircraft and spacecraft, from the original Wright 1903 Flyer to the Space Shuttle Enterprise. The Museum also boasts a multitude of artifacts large and small: engines, propellers, aerial cameras, more than 2 million technical drawings—even popular culture items such as Charles Lindbergh-emblazoned underwear.
At the time of the Museum's creation, Congress also mandated that one gallery be specifically dedicated to aerospace artwork. Recently Michael and Maureen Harrigan, of Kendall, New York, gave the Museum 42 prints by renowned aviation artist Robert Taylor, a collection acquired over some 20 years.
When Mike Harrigan's firm, the Harrigan Brady Paper Company, moved to its new location in 1988, Harrigan asked his (mostly female) staff for suggestions on how to fill the empty wall space. "They wanted paintings of daisies," he said, somewhat mournfully. Because of the company's proximity to the Greater Rochester International Airport, Harrigan suggested an alternative: pictures of airplanes.
The first Taylor print that Harrigan acquired was titled Home at Dusk, which depicts four P-51 Mustangs crossing the East Anglican coast on their way back to base. Harrigan's interest in aviation art grew from there; he eventually collected so many of Taylor's prints that his staff took to calling him "Imelda Marcos." When he ran out of available wall space, Harrigan wasn't deterred in the least—he hung the remaining prints in the men's room.
Harrigan's art collection began to gain a bit of fame in the Rochester area, with customers, postal carriers, and the random citizen showing up during work hours asking for a tour. Visitors were so frequent that "the girls suggested I start charging a fee, and we could have a party with the money," joked Harrigan.
As senior aeronautics curator Tom Crouch writes in our March 2010 issue, "Someone once asked Mike if he would ever part with the collection. His answer: 'Well, if the Smithsonian walked in, I'd have to consider it.' To make a long story short, we did, and he did."
When the Smithsonian crew came to package the collection for transport, Harrigan had one request: to wrap up Home at Dusk first, and to box up the final print he acquired, last. "There was a tear in my eye," Harrigan said, as he watched the crew package his collection, piece by piece. "All of the girls were crying. They knew how much those prints meant to me."
Part of the Harrigans' collecton can currently be seen on the lower level of the Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Once the new restoration wing is completed, in 2011, the collection will be displayed in its entirety. Click on the images below to take a closer look at a few prints from the collection.
The painting shown above, Morning Thunder, includes a note from the artist, Robert Taylor: "Sunday, December 7, 1941. Having taken six torpedo hits and two bomb strikes in the first-wave attack on Battleship Row, the West Virginia is ablaze, her bows already low in the water and decks awash. Ignoring the risk, crews push the Navy tug Hoga alongside with fire-fighting equipment and to pick up survivors. Overhead, Japanese Zeros swoop through the smoke, aiming the second-wave attack at installations on Pearl Harbor's Ford Island, to complete one of history's most devastating unprovoked declarations of war."
Fortress Under Attack
In Taylor's Fortress Under Attack, 22nd Bomb Group B-17s are under attack by Mitsubishi Zero fighters over Rabaul, on November 1942.


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F. Spoor and J. Reader.
Based on a quick reading of a text book or a short trip through a natural history museum, it's easy to think of the origin of modern humans as a linear trip through a series of progressively more human hominins. Biology is rarely that simple, so it's not really been much of a surprise that, over the past few decades, our picture of hominin evolution has changed as new fossils reveal a complicated tangle of overlapping species. Instead of a linear change where an entire population gradually transformed into a distinct species, hominins seem to have followed the pattern found elsewhere in biology, with new species arising as a subpopulation and coexisting with their relatives for long periods of time.
Today's issue of Nature will contain the latest example of some fossils that causes this sort of revision to our thinking, courtesy of a team that includes members of Kenya's Leakey family. First up is the fantastic skull shown at right. It's a nearly mature Homo erectus, and would be a fascinating find in its own right. It's shown on top of a more typical skull of the same species, which reveals that this individual was remarkably small for the species. This sort of variation is typical of gorillas, but does not occur in either humans or chimps. The authors suggest that it may represent a difference in size between the sexes.
The other unusual thing about the fossil is that it has features that are normally associated with Homo erectus fossils found in Asia. The study's authors argue that many of the characteristics that have been considered "Asian" are simply consequences of a difference in cranial size, rather than distinct features. Thus, they seem to be suggesting that all Homo erectus fossils belong to a single population, and that most variation within that population is simply due to differences in a single characteristic.
On its own, this fossil would be pretty notable, but it was accompanied by a jaw from a member of the species Homo habilis. Prior to these finds, habilis was thought to have gradually evolved into erectus on the population level, the sort of linear relationship termed "anagenetic" by scientists. Both of these fossils come with strong dating information, and they reveal that the two species overlapped in this region of Africa for at least a half-million years. This makes the linear relationship rather unlikely, and it suggests that erectus arose as an offshoot of the then-dominant habilis population.
Overall, it's hard to consider this revision a radical one. In most areas of biology, we've found that species originate by branching and diversification far more often than via an anagenetic process. The only reasons I can see for expecting entire populations to transform in a way that produces a linear progression of hominins lie in outdated notions of there being some sort of "progress" towards Homo sapiens.
Incidentally, for those of you wondering about the "hominin" designation, it's the modern term that arose once we realized that the orangutans and gorillas are outliers in the formerly used "hominid" group. Hominins exclude that branch, but include everything else along the route to both humans and chimps.
Nature, 2007. DOI: 10.1038/nature05986


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Is there any software available that can (semi)automatically convert between ASCII tablature (especially for guitar and drums) and sheet music? And the other way around?
I realise that there's not really a standardized method of writing tabs, so it might be pretty hard to write an automated coversion, but it wouldn't suprise me if someone has had a go.
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The philanthropist as a professional volunteer
Cathy Ostuw doesn't discriminate when it comes to her volunteerism. She works with immigrants, children, senior citizens, the terminally ill, and it doesn't stop there.
"She's basically a professional volunteer," said Mary Maarbjerg, a longtime friend and fellow volunteer. "She gets up and works 40 to 60 hours a week, volunteering for free."
The extensive list of organizations includes Person-to-Person, Neighbors Link, Domus Kids, the Girl Scouts, the Red Cross and St. Francis Episcopal Church. Ostuw also helps prepare tax returns through TaxAide and visits terminally ill patients at home.
"I keep adding new things and not dropping anything," Ostuw said during a recent interview at Neighbors Link on Selleck Street in Stamford.
Maarbjerg said she met Ostuw about 12 years ago when she became a board member for Person-to-Person, an organization providing emergency economic assistance to Fairfield County residents, where Ostuw served as executive director. She said they found a lot in common, including working on computers and volunteering with the Red Cross and TaxAide.
"She a very, very smart lady," Maarbjerg said. "I can't imagine what Cathy's IQ is, but it must be very high."
One of Ostuw's passions is serving as a hospice volunteer with Greenwich Hospital, visiting patients at their homes a couple times a week. Maarbjerg said her friend basically "cheers people up" and has done that for years.
"I think the one that's most rewarding is hospice, because that's very personal," Ostuw said. "Right now, I'm assigned to two families."
Ostuw said she's made strong bonds with patients. She said they let her into their lives and they talk, laugh and sometimes watch movies.
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"It could be that the family is working, or they just need a break," Ostuw said.
Catalina Horak, director of Neighbors Link, said she met Ostuw while they were both getting their master's degrees in management of non-profit organizations.
Together, they started Neighbors Link, a community center supporting Stamford's immigration population. They held meetings in early 2009 and opened in June 2011.
"Cathy was instrumental in starting those meetings and bringing the organization to becoming a reality," Horak said.
At Neighbors Link, Horak said, Ostuw does everything from writing brochures and annual reports to setting up the phone system. Horak said she's incredibly passionate and brings a lot of credibility to the organization.
"She's amazing," Horak said. "I always said, since I met her, I want to grow up to be Cathy Ostuw. She's so talented, she can do anything."
Neighbors Link, located in a giant warehouse, is open Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. and a half day on Saturday. Inside, it has a computer center, pool tables and more.
"From 9:30 to 11:30 in the morning it's crazy with people," Ostuw said. "Same thing goes on at night."
Ostuw grew up in New York and did some volunteering as a teenager. But it wasn't until her first husband was killed in a car accident in 1988 that she took stock of her life, left the corporate world and began volunteering full time with the United Way.
"It was eye opening," she said.
After a year, Ostuw went back to a regular job and got involved with another organization, the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Eventually, she decided to get her master's degree and took a position at Darien-based Person to Person.
In 2007, Ostuw retired and remarried. She now volunteers full time and travels with her husband.
Ceci Maher, director of Person to Person, said Ostuw's work has included camp registration, interviewing students for scholarships and setting up the computer system.
"She's helped us in numerous ways," Maher said. "When she stopped being the executive director, she started volunteering and has been volunteering for eight years.
Among Ostuw's favorite pastimes is leading a Girl Scout troop in Norwalk. When a friend's daughter asked her to get involved, she just couldn't resist. She said watching the girls grow up has been fulfilling.
When asked why she does it all, Ostuw said she likes helping people, but also likes learning new things, such as housing and immigration issues.
"She's dedicated her life to helping people," Maarbjerg said.