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An inhibitor in your body might be sapping your strength, taking away your endurance, making you feel cold, and giving you diabetes. When scientists eliminated it, they unlocked the key to super strength in both mice and worms. Find out what's in your body that's making you weak.
Your worst enemy could be floating around your own body. It's keeping you from developing your muscles and it's making you sick, and its name is the NCoR1 corepressor. Scientists have been studying this little demon, known as an 'inhibitor,' and are scratching their heads over why we have it in the first place.
DNA isn't the be-all and end-all of what makes you a person. The information in DNA has to be translated into actual flesh, and different genes have to be expressed in different ways. Part of this process involves inhibitors, which do pretty much what their name suggests. They prevent certain parts of DNA from being made flesh. The degree to which they inhibit this expression varies, but taking out an inhibitor can have incredible effects. Recently, scientists genetically manipulated some mice into suppressing NCoR1, and spawned a generation of rodent Samsons. The muscle fibers of the mice were denser, the muscles were larger, and the muscle cells contained a larger amount of mitochondria, the little structures that provide energy for cell function. These muscles weren't just decorative. The mice were able to run twice as long as regular mice, run faster, and endure cold better.
That's not all. A different study showed that suppression of NCoR1 in fat tissues, instead of muscle tissues, did cause mice to become obese. Unlike mice that became obese from other means, though, these mice didn't suffer the diseases that other obese mice did. Instead they were normal mice with more fat. In fact, scientists have yet to see a single bad effect of shutting down NCoR1 in fat or muscle tissue. It's possible that NCoR1 was in muscle tissue in order to reduce frivolous energy consumption and prevent starvation, but there's no evidence suppressing it does any harm.
This alone wouldn't be cause for much fuss. A human isn't a mouse, and though mice can provide guides for exploration, they can't be thought of as an absolute indication. However, when scientists doing this study suppressed NCoR1 in nematode worms, they found similar effects. This indicates that NCoR1 might perform the same function across species. Doctors are interested in suppressing the inhibitor as a way of preventing muscle loss due to aging or healing traumatic injuries to muscles. It could be the beginning of human superstrength.
Can we afford not to take out this little inhibitor? I don't think so.


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Political and cultural commentary based on a world view shaped by the works of Plato, Aristotle, Confucius, Averroes, Maimonides, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Sartre and Bertrand Russell "What is the use of studying philosophy if all that it does for you is to enable you to talk with some plausibility about some abstruse questions of logic, etc., and if it does not improve your thinking about the important questions of everyday life, if it does not make you more conscientious."-Wittgenstein
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Betrayal Without Remedy: The Case of the Missing Wages by Thomas Riggins
Monday's Wall Street Journal tell's the story of how Hostess Brands, Inc., took its workers wages and used them to cover its own expenses ("Hostess Maneuver Deprived Pension" WSJ 12-10-12).
Hostess Brands (famous for Twinkies and Wonder Bread) has gone out of business after a lengthy bankruptcy process. During this process information has come out about how corporations can break their contracts with and steal from, their workers and yet escape prosecution for their actions. It is an object lesson on how the laws are written to benefit private property and capitalists at the expense of working people who are often denied equal protection.
Here is what Hostess did. It signed contracts with workers in which it was agreed that part of their wages would be diverted from their paychecks and be invested in their pensions. This was a contribution made by the workers independently of the contractual payments made to the pension funds by the company.
In 2011, due to the company's financial problems, Hostess announced that it would end payments to the pension funds. OK, that is one problem for the unions to deal with. But what happened to the worker's wages that Hostess was supposed to be putting into the funds? These wages were not payments coming out of the pockets of Hostess per se.
Well, Hostess did not start to include these payments in the worker's paychecks. Instead they just kept their wages for the company and used them to pay for their own expenses. During an interview the new CEO, brought in to oversee the liquidation of the company, said this was "terrible" but , "I think it's like a lot of things in this case. It's not a good situation to have." As to getting the money back-- C'est la vie.
The WSJ reports that "experts" say that since the money didn't come "directly" from the workers [?] no federal laws were violated ("probably"). Huh! The company says they will put the wages I earned into X and they divert it to Z and since I didn't have it listed as "deducted" from my paycheck it didn't come "directly" from me therefore it is really theirs!
The WSJ quoted a lawyer not involved in the case who said, "It's what lawyers call betrayal without remedy. It's sad, but that stuff does happen, unfortunately." Why then would any union sign contracts with companies to co-contribute to their pension funds and allow the companies to oversee the payments if they can just keep them and the workers are "without remedy." Is this gaping hole in federal law being addressed?
This betrayal only affected one of two major unions at Hostess: the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco and Grain Millers International Union. The Teamsters did not have this kind of arrangement with the company. The baker's union did because "This local was very aggressive about saving for the future," according to a union officer. This is just another example of the truth of the socialist adage that any future for workers under capitalism is problematic.
Update 1: The Kansas City Star reported on 12-10-12 that the National Labor Relations Board has found "that Hostess had failed to bargain collectively and in good faith with a union."
Update 2: Hostess Brands issued the following statement on 12-11-12: "At no time were these pension contributions paid as wages, so no funds were ever 'deducted from paychecks,' as one news outlet erroneously reported. Hostess Brands has at all times continued to pay its union employees' current wages in full compliance with its collective bargaining agreements.''
This statement from Hostess is a new low in the metaphysics of mendacity: since the wages were not first paid then deducted but went directly to the pension funds they were not wages. Caveat faber.
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When Preston Tucker launched his car company, a rumor persisted that the cars he was making could not back up. The production cars could - as seen in this video I shot of #46.
The oddball notion got started when a Chicago reporter went for a ride on a test chassis at the plant and the engineer told him that the chassis was incomplete. Among other things, it had no body. But, the transmission was likewise a work-in-progress with no reverse gear. When the story hit the papers, many people did not catch the nuance and soon, critics were claiming that "Tuckers can't back up!"
I wrote a book about these cars and the man who made them and that book will be out in July. If you want to see more footage of #46 and me and a Tucker expert discussing it, check this out.
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JDA Again Recognized as Supply Chain Innovator of the Year
Two leading Asian organizations recognize JDA for its accelerated innovation strategy focused on its Autonomous Supply ChainTM vision
JDA Software, Inc., today announced it has been recognized by two leading Asian organizations for supply chain innovation. For the second year in a row, JDA has been named Supply Chain Innovator of the Year by Supply Chain Asia, an award given to companies with a presence in Asia demonstrating innovative technology that is successfully applied and adopted with proven visible and quantifiable impacts on the supply chain and logistics industry. JDA was also recognized as Best Supply Chain Solution Company of 2018 by the Korean Society of Supply Chain Management (KSCM), which is designed to promote the companies that have achieved outstanding performance by defining SCM as a strategic business technology.
JDA has accelerated its innovation strategy this year as it focuses on its vision for the Autonomous Supply ChainTM which is self-learning, self-healing and self-driving. To achieve this, JDA is evolving its end-to-end supply chain portfolio to be intelligent, always-on, connected and convergent, bringing digital edge technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and analytics together to automate more profitable business decisions across customers' operations and teams. And, with Blue Yonder now part of JDA, organizations of all kinds can harness the power of AI/ML intelligence to streamline their supply chains, make more profitable business decisions, and deliver optimized customer experiences.
As further evidence of JDA's innovation, on average, the company submits at least one patent per month, and has filed 41 patents in 2018, an increase from 19 in 2017. This adds to JDA's more than 400 patents granted and pending, which represents the largest patent portfolio in the field of supply chain management technology for any company or institution.
"Innovation continues to be the bedrock of our culture, and we have significantly accelerated our efforts in 2018," said Amit Bagga, president, APAC, JDA. "We are extremely honored to be recognized by these two prestigious organizations for supply chain leadership and innovation, which underscores JDA's focus on enabling the next wave of digital transformation for companies to harness the power of AI/ML intelligence to streamline their supply chains, make more profitable business decisions, and deliver optimized customer experiences."
JDA was recognized at the KSCM annual conference in Seoul on November 13, for helping companies gain competitive advantage through JDA's innovative end-to-end supply chain technology. The Supply Chain Asia awards were announced on November 22 and are given out by an awards committee made up of industry leaders in various verticals, universities and industry institutes.
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MYOB chief executive Tim Reed on the six steps to help SMEs gear up for the silly season:
The weeks leading up to Christmas may be demanding for shoppers, but they're even more so for business owners and their staff. How can you increase the likelihood of a successful and happy selling season?
A great place to start is to review your operational performance and financials from last Christmas. Some key questions to consider are: did you have enough staff to manage the extra foot traffic? What products and promotions did well? Reviewing what worked and what didn't will help you prepare for this festive season. If you don't have the information around these aspects from last year, consider collecting them this year.
There's more competition for the shopping dollar during this time so businesses should plan a range of tactics for attracting customers. With more than 80 per cent of consumers researching online prior to making a purchase, consider selling your products and services online and include that sales channel in all marketing activity. It's no surprise our research shows SMEs with a website were 31 per cent more likely to see revenue rise last financial year.
I encourage business operators to start raising their profile now via targeted marketing, advertising and promotions to help gain a competitive advantage. This doesn't have to cost money - perhaps try public relations activities or strategic partnerships. Only 22 per cent of SMEs are looking to increase their marketing and advertising online and 16 per cent offline this year.
MYOB's six steps to help SMEs gear up for success in the silly season:
1. Review and learn from last year's activities
Take a look at the performance of the last festive season to pinpoint the positive and negative aspects. How well did each of your products, services and promotions perform? Other operational aspects? Did you cope with the boost to customer numbers? Think about what you can do this year to improve results, for example social media, new promotions, working a niche target group, changing the layout of your shop.
2. Get online
The internet has added a whole new dimension to shopping, with a vast majority of consumers shopping online on their smartphone, tablet or laptop. Establish a simple website or revamp your existing one as it's a powerful tool to help increase awareness and sales. An easy-to-use website builder such as MYOB Atlas helps you create an attractive website with its own .co.nz domain name and email in 15 minutes. It's free for the first year, pre-configured for Google searches, and includes e-commerce functionality via PayPal.
3. Shout from the rooftops
Don't be shy about making your business as visible as possible. Promote your unique selling points (most value or choice, best service, longest warranties, local, eco-friendly ) to remind loyal customers and attract potential ones. Consider adding limited-time discounts or expanding your sales/marketing channels.
4. Boost staffing resources if required
Hiring extra staff can certainly help with the extra volume of customers in the lead up to Christmas. Our research has shown that businesses investing more in staff have been more likely to improve revenue over the long recovery - so a little extra help may also be a boost to your bottom line.
5. Prepare your team to up the client service ante
Get your team ready via briefings on all store policies, service and complaint procedures, promotional stock and other important business aspects. Conduct training sessions to prepare them for the extra volume of customer and supplier interactions. They will be under more pressure than usual but this also applies to shoppers so a smile and a positive, helpful attitude will make the busy period more pleasant for all.
6. Keep your business house in order
There will likely be an abundance of gift wrapping paper, boxes and/or other packaging in your business as well as more paperwork. Get organised to reduce admin time and stress levels. Up to date accounting software, such as MYOB LiveAccounts or AccountRight Live, acts like a virtual assistant by automating many aspects of this. It also gives you a comprehensive snapshot of your business at any time to help you better control things like your cashflow, payroll, inventory and invoices.
After the hustle and bustle of Christmas, perform a business health check with your business advisor to help kick start your path to financial success in the New Year. Business tends to be quieter post-Christmas, so if possible, take some time off for a holiday to unwind and reinvigorate.
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A New Musical!
Visit the pages below for more details!
Tickets are now available for the workshop at Manatee School For the Arts in the Small Theater, 700 Haben Blvd. Palmetto, FL
November 15th-18th: call 941-721-6800, ext. 1095 to reserve!
Directions to MSA:
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|1. Merge onto US-301/FL-43 S via exit # 224 toward GAMBLE MANSION/ELLENTON/PALMETTO.
2.Turn LEFT onto HABEN BLVD. S
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|1.Turn onto 1ST ST/US-301 N/US-41 N. Continue to follow US-301 N/US-41 N.
2.Turn RIGHT onto HABEN BLVD.
Learn about the pieces in the show and how they came to be, and listen to some that have already been recorded at http://soundcloud.com/thedylanhjones!
Check here for information about upcoming performance dates, cast info, behind-the-scenes videos, and more! Everything leading up to the presentation November 15th - 18th, 2012!
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Faith Hill will debut a new song on next month's Country Music Association Awards.
The country star, a three-time CMA winner, hasn't performed on the awards telecast since 2006.
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A release from the CMA says Hill has a new album coming out early next year. It will be her first studio album since 2005's "Fireflies."
Hill joins a star-studded lineup that includes all five entertainer of the year nominees — Taylor Swift, Jason Aldean, Brad Paisley, Blake Shelton and Keith Urban.
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Other performers include Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert and The Band Perry.
Paisley, the reigning entertainer of the year, will host the awards with Carrie Underwood.
The show airs Nov. 9 on ABC from Nashville.
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1954 Chevy Truck - "Old-Skool" School
Learn By Doing
More times than not, even the simplest of plans turn into a full-blown outline on how to dismantle an atomic bomb. All it takes is that first step, and before you can say, "Steve Perry," you've already moved forward in leaps and bounds. Frank Quadrato knows a thing or two regarding this subject.
When Frank and his then 14-year-old son, Chris, set out to build this '54 Chevy longbed, the plan was short, simple, and to the point: teach the boy how to paint and do bodywork and then give him something to drive when freedom rings at the age of 16. Well, it wasn't too long before they decided to do this, which led to that, that in turn opened this door and, before they knew it, two years later there was a full-blown show truck in front of them.
Before any body lessons could take place, a few ground rules needed to be taken care of first-and it started with assembling the chassis. For starters, the frame was stripped down and cleaned up. From there, the straight-axle up front was tossed and Frank installed a Mustang II frontend and motor mounts to accommodate a V-8 transfer. Up front, the truck was dropped with spindles and new coil shocks, but the rear received a different treatment. To optimize road manners, airbags were set up in the rear of the truck for instant adjustment when needed. Once the frame was worked out, it was then disassembled and taken down to the powdercoaters. Giving the truck that much-needed hot rod sound, and some get up, is a 350 yanked from a Monte Carlo. The motor has been stroked for added horsepower-and a Holley carb helps the motor breathe fresh air. For ideal driving conditions in all areas, a Turbo 400 transmission was bolted up behind the motor.
With the underpinnings all wrapped up, Frank could move forward with his original plan: to teach Chris bodywork. For starters, they began by cleaning up the lines of the flowing '54. In order to accentuate the look of the truck, the first mission was to de-accessorize. All the chrome pieces on the truck were removed and the remaining holes were welded up. Then the door handles and locks were shaved, along with the cowl vents on the cab. Up front, the hood was shaved clean and the headlights were frenched. In the rear, the bumper was yanked and a roll pan was welded in. Instead of sticking with the stock taillights, two '59 Cadillac taillights were frenched into each rear fender. From there, Frank and his son worked the body smooth and clean, readying the truck for paint. They decided to give the truck an old-school, hot-rod feel with a traditional-styled flame job, but first the truck was shot in black by Rod Moore. Rod also laid down the yellow, red, and green flames. Adding to the paint scheme are opposite-colored scallops that follow the front and rear fenders. Along with that is a highly painted tailgate and a flamed firewall. Accentuating the old-school look are the chrome reversed wheels with bullet caps and whitewalls.
The inside of the cab was kept simple with a sleek and subtle black-and-gray cloth and vinyl theme. Carrying the flamed theme on the inside is the dash that has been flamed to match the exterior. Genesis Auto Upholstery also created some flamed door panels, too. Although things may have strayed from the original plan, it's safe to say that the truck turned out for the better.


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My birthplace, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is in the midst of papal frenzy. Pope Francis will visit the city of brotherly love on September 26-27, 2015. The city is excited, mostly, although many fear the expected crowds. But Philly Catholics are especially proud that the Pope chose the city as one of three stops on his first United States tour. For those of us that grew up Catholic in Philadelphia, we believe the history of our faith is intertwined with the history of our city. Now a new film will show that rich history – just in time for the Pope's visit!
"Urban Trinity: The Story of Catholic Philadelphia" will be shown at the September 2015 World Meeting of Families. It will also air as three 25-minute segments on WPVI-TV Channel 6 (for those in the Philadelphia viewing area) and later be available for viewing online (see below).
To summarize 300 years of Catholic history in the city, the story is divided into three parts. Part 1 (airs September 22 at 7:00 pm) examines the earliest history – despite William Penn's freedom of religion in his colony, most residents were outwardly hostile to Catholics. The first Catholic church in the city, Old St. Joseph's, was founded in 1733. The episode will explore how the earliest parishes were built and touch on the anti-Catholic riots in the 1840s.
Part 2 (airs immediately following Part 1) focuses on the growth of the church in the city and the birth of many parishes as a result of European immigration. During this time, in addition to new churches, many schools and colleges were built and new religious orders arrived in the city to help.
Part 3 (airs on September 27 at midnight) begins in the early 20th century when the archdiocese was at its zenith to the present day's declining numbers.
Although the documentary focuses on the city of Philadelphia, it follows the arc of the Catholic story and its history in the United States.
Full episodes will be available online on September 28 at http://www.historyofphilly.com/. Find out more info about the film here. The documentary overall is a part of the larger-scale project, Philadelphia: The Great Experiment.


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New Film – Operation Phoenix
Posted by Joshua Carter in Film Making on January 11, 2013
Here we are! Finally a new film after a whole year!
So theres been no filmmaking activity from us in a while?
Have no fear!
Again David came up with the EPIC idea for this one, and I filmed most of it and put it together. We make a good team!
We managed to convince friends of ours to have faith in our filmmaking skills to come and act in our Jason Bourne, MI6 spoof movie. They did a good job!
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY: David Selby
Edited by: Joshua Carter
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Too good to share
I've been avoiding my brother, a fellow craft beer lover, all week. After I opened the first bottle, I decided it was too good to share.
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Photoshop Madness: JULY Flags and other madness
PHOTOSHOP MADNESS is where you practically go mad trying to find the most useful stuff for Photoshop when you need real color advice. It's July again, so we thought there should be some flag waving Photoshop content out there. Funny because little has changed. We did the FIRST "flag face" Photoshop tutorial back in the early 1990s, using Photoshop 3.5. Yup -- used a displacement map. YES, and if you ever wanted to put a flag on your lips, we've even got two of those! Here we go :
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Rabbi Avraham Yosef's speech at the joint press conference with Mr. Adnan Oktar (May 12nd, 2011, Istanbul)
RABBI ABRAHAM JOSEPH: I open with a blessing for our hosts Mr. Adnan Oktar, together with his team, that received us with such graciousness. I hope that we will be able to host them in Jerusalem, Israel. King Solomon said a verse that is very, very instructive. "Like water shows the face to the face, so is heart shows man to the man". (Proverbs 27:19) If I wish to love someone, if I wish for someone to love me, the iniative must come from me. Just like if someone comes to look into a spring, and sees his reflection smiling, then it shows that he is smiling. If he sees his reflection angry, it shows that he is angry. As it is between man and man. If it appears to me that my friend is angry, then it must be that I contain some anger at him. If I love him, then surely he will love me. The initiative must come from me. Also, just as I must bend down (prostrate) to see my image in the water – it is not possible to remain standing and see my reflection – also between the heart of man and man, one must bend down (in humility) and show a happy face and to radiate love. In this way, journalists and educators, are required to install in the heart of humanity, love, brotherhood, peace and fellowship.
The Torah of Israel works to instill love and brotherhood, and to distance one from hatred. God selected the Jewish people from among the nations, not just to punish them whenever they sinned before Him, but also to declare the belief in One God, to declare good character, proper behavior, endearing respect, as we have learned as we have been taught "you should love your neighbor as yourself". (Leviticus 19:18)
In every religion there are commandments. The purpose of the commandments are not to degrade the other, rather to connect with God. God has no corporal nature and no body. It is impossible to measure His holiness. In order to connect with something infinite, it is necessary to have good deeds. In every religion, there is the connection it provides with God, that unites all the religions, unites all the worlds, and only through submission to Him in complete servitude, in cooperation between all the nations. Just as an army is made up of many division, the same is true with the religions, each has its difference approaches how to connect with and do good before God... Thank you.
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She's been blogging about the subject over at Just Bento since 2007, championing the bento as a tool for healthy, delicious, and affordable eating, making a good case for why a bento lunch is way more satisfying than brown-bagging it.
One look through The Just Bento Cookbook, Itoh's newly released guide to all things bento, will have you seriously reconsidering all those lunchtime PB&Js. Her lovingly assembled bentos employ a 1:1:2 (or more) carb:protein:vegetable ratio, making sure that they are balanced and good for you, but above all tasty and enjoyable.
Equal parts recipe book and bento how-to, The Just Bento Cookbook is an elegant guide to making lunch more fun. The recipes are broken up into two sections: Japanese-style bentos and not-so-Japanese Bentos, both of which are filled with lovely boxed lunch ideas that can be made for one or more, depending on how many lunches you plan on packing. And to make sure you have the optimal bento experience, Itoh has assembled a list of 10 bento rules, covering everything from planning and food safety to bento composition.
This week we are going to packing our own bento lunches with recipes from The Just Bento Cookbook including Chicken Kara-age, Tofu Nuggets, and Edamame Hummus.
Win 'Just Bento'
Thanks to the generous folks over at Kodansha Ineternational, we are giving away five (5) copies of The Just Bento Cookbook this week. All you have to do is tell us about what you would put in your lunchtime bento in the comments section below.


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I am back after my Diwali vacation. Last year, I shared my first poem related to Diwali, New year wishes. Nena Pidheya Modhala Kavana? and also Rangoli This time yes, few Rangolis I will share. However this post is not about that
I visited Bhagawat Vidyapith at Ahmedabad. Let me share a nice picture, from entrance of Bhagawat Vidyapith. Here is a translation for international readers. This poster describe important qualities that one should cultivate in life. These qualities, practices are like our parents, siblings, friends and our real asset. So I gave title to this article Family.
Self dependency (doing our own work), practice (study), contentment, trust, detachment, religion (duty) are as important as our father. Mother: Goddess Sarswati (goddess of knowledge, wisdom and music), Goddess Gaayatri (Saavitri), cleanliness, service and surrender. Discrimination, self control, rules, convincing and discipline (punishment) are like our brothers. Who are our true friends? The scriptures, good company (company of an enlighten person), good qualities, intention to do good work, hard work and physical exercise. With such family members one can earn the true assets like: SAADHANA (regular spiritual practice), good intention, good intelligence, TITIKSHA (burning desire with patience), peace, devotion, faith and forgiveness.
So I pray for you all of the above on this festival of light (Diwali). All the best.
Digital Photography
I attended a 3 days event FOSS-IN 2006. http://foss.in/2006/ One of the sessions was on about digital photography where the speaker Klayan shared his experience, gave some tips and suggested some steps to improve the photograph. Klayn Varma is a wild life photographer. His work can be seen at http://kalyanvarma.net We got year 2007 desktop calendar, which contains excellent wild life photographs taken by him.
He suggested some open source tool Gimp, f-spot, g-thumb etc. He did live demonstration, he took our audience photograph, transfer to PC. He suggested to take the photo in raw format. Never take in auto format. Because, with auto format if camera does some adjustment then it can not be revert back. Gimp has some plug-ins to read row format files. Alas, the entry level digital camera model does not support raw format. Raw format means how the camera sees without any correction or optimization. When we saw on PC. The photo was very ugly. He explained the steps to make it better.
- Optimize the brightness. He demonstrated photos with different exposure and advised that in case of over exposed, some portion is saturated and we loose data. It is always better to underexpose and then increase the brightness.
- Adjust the saturation.
- Adjust the white balance.
- Adjust the contrast.
- Now adjust color level. Optimize the temperature. The Red and Blue color balance is called temperature.
- Optimize the green color.
- Last do the sharpening of image if required. The sharpening number should be between 20 to 30 (may be in the Gimp tool).
- Save the image as JPEG with compression ratio 96%. The default may be 75%, where we loose some data in the image. The default setting for Nikon camera is 95% He demonstrated that with from 96 to 95% the reduction in file size is very less. From 97 to 96%, the significant file size decrease without much impact on quality of photographs. So thus with trail and error he found this magic number 96%
Few Tips.
- He reminded us that aspect ratio for camera is 2:3 Monitor is 3:4 we should keep this thing in mind. One person added for movie it is 16:9
- While cropping the image, always maintain this 3:2 golden ratio.
- If the original photograph has poor focus, and we want to improve the sharpness, off course we can use tools. However it will increase noise in picture. He suggested one better way. Increase the picture size by several % and then decrease it to its original size with help of photoshop. The decrease size algorithm will try to detect the edge, that will improve the sharpness.
- jhead is a command line tool, used to see the meta data of the photographs. One should save the meta data along with photograph.
- We have heard about SLR cameras. He suggested one more better lense cost around 5000, it is '50mm Aperture F 1.8 prime lense'.
- He also highlighted some issues with proprietary file format and support from the vendor for old cameras.
- Yes we do all kind of color adjustment, however when we see the print, the colors are different!!. We did adjustment for RGB, printer works on CMYK. We need to know and apply the printer's color profile, also know as ICC profile. People also goes upto the extent of matching the paper's white color, ink's color etc. He himself bagged to G.K.Wale for ICC profile of the printer, but... :(
At last we had interactive question answer session. We collected his e-mail ID email@example.com
One person from the audience was from analog photography world. He added some relevant information, like 'dourge and burnt' tool at Gimp, here this phrase originally came from analog photography and what does it mean in the roll development process. Klyan also confesses that yes, he do not know much about analog photography. He himself was carrying big size of cameras. He was explaining its feature, outside of the conference hall. Overall it was quite interactive, informative and useful session.
You can download the slides at : https://foss.in/2006/cfp/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=58
1 Year of My blog
So today, our blog "Express YourSelf!" completed one year successfully. :) It could survive with new articles consistently. Yes, I am not frequently blogging. It is not daily or weekly, may be fortnightly. Let's recall this First Post on my blog. As the name suggests, I started this blog, to express myself.
And I do confine this blog to any specific topics or theme. It has its pros and corns. It is difficult to get advertise, as this blog is about everything. It is easy to attract traffic from Google. As this blog appears in search result for many keyword. Few articles like FOSS.in 2008, Securing Wireless Cellular System and articles with Art of Living labels are refereed by Google search engine. 362 hits came via Google search engine. An evening with a legendary Yoga Guru Dr B K S Iyenger This article also got enough publicity through word of mouth and social media. Let's look at few more statistics. 27 articles. 1891 hits in a year is 158 hits per month. Recently it increase to 200+ visitors. Average time on site: 2 Min. Visitors from 65 countries, 445 cities. I am leaving in a small global village :)
Writing a blog is a new trend nowadays. So me too.... At the end one year, I can see, many articles about event reports. Yes, I used to write about musical concert to my friends. Later on, I started uploading them at my homepage. Now on blog. Few friends, inspired me to write. Thomas L. Friedman inspired me with his book The World Is Flat. Now, there is not traditional model of journalist, editor, media. An individual can cover any event OR take celebrities' interviews, with his/her mobile, post it at blog and form a community around it.
In addition to event report, I wrote about my poems, my technical learning, my thoughts on science and spirituality, festivals, music, culture, traditions, Google gadgets, book review etc. Much more to come. I am keep modifying this blog's design. On my Birthday, I kept sideshow for B'day pictures. However I avoided sharing about my birthday gifts. I received three unique special gifts, this year on my birthday.
So let me address your feedback. I did it with Aap Aur Ham - 1 After that, not much comments. One day workhard read many of my articles and my friends' blog also. Sudhir, workhard and Hiral appreciated Concave Mirror. Thanks. It is similar to my earlier article Music of Mind. I covered Hans-Peter Dürr's speech at We Experience More than We can Grasp post. Abhay Suggested it to post at Yes+, while and Parth and Hiral discuss further on the topic.
Suresh and Hiral appreciated my poem Ashaadhsya Prathame Divase Thanks. I wrote few tiny articles with just a photograph. Best from the waste and Shiva = Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh…. waaahhh! were such articles. Hiral and Himanshu both liked that butterfly picture from Forum Shopping mall. I wrote about IPSec. It is about security protocols. Technical, datacom and telecommunication. Santosh appreciated but, few readers felt it is over simplified. Well, I am planning one more article on LTE. I will make sure to make it complex :)
So far, you all readers have encouraged me. Thanks to all. Now, let this blog enter to second phase. Now I will make sure, more articles, frequent articles, useful and diversify content. Generally blog provides a platform to discuss some issue/topic and collaborate. I wish to collaborate for writing. I am inviting readers to be author or co-author for this blog. I will also write on other's blog. You will see join ventures very soon.
So keep reading this blog, keep commenting and off course, keep smiling. :)
My Poems
|Good Morning, Have a good day, DIN HUVA Begin and Keep Smiling
Let's laugh at some bitter realities of life.....EVU CHHE EM NE? (Oh it is so!! is it?)
Also Let's discriminate between important and trivial matters SUPADU
I have Small Small Dreams...Do u want to know about them??? DIL HAI CHOTA
Let these dreams remain dreams only. Dreams are always sweet if they remain as dreams.
Faith + Eagerness + Patience = SHABARI (A famous character of RAMAYANA)
Just imagine for a while, if God sitting at temple, can speak....Then what he will say?
CHITKAR !! and Sigma- Our school life, sorry sorry, our college life !! Listen MAADI !!
YAADEN Unforgettable College Life memories of our class IC-98 DDIT
A Rose, Mera Unase Yahee Sawaal Hai..... and Heart Protocol -- Valentine Day Specials
BATEKU CHHOLATI PRIYA - A humorous note. Description of cooking.
Gulab Zal Nu Pani!!! Too much redundancy...A tribute to R.T. Anjaanaa Andekhaa Koi
AB... HAVE...and Move Aah Se Aahaa Tak- Hindi Poems. I recited them at Hindi Kavi
SAMELAN. Watch it.
BreathLess by Shankar Mahaadevan Watch it !!
Just visit My Poems blog for all my poems


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Ok Ladies and Gentlemen, back to the bad… here they are. The worst of the worst. Five actors who really stank the joint out in 2012. Mail in jobs, scenery chewing, charisma-free outings… these five guys have all the bad acting bases covered.
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Nic Cage
"Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance"
Nic Cage has earned a reputation for terrible, scenery chewing performances of late. But the worst part of it is that he occasionally gets the green light to do it on purpose… and you can tell. Somehow, here, Cage was supposed to act "Crazy Cage" and couldn't pull it off. You could tell, he was trying too hard. So how bad a job do you have to do when you have the go signal to act badly and still fail?
Eddie Murphy
"A Thousand Words"
In "A Thousand Words", Murphy plays a man cursed with a limitation on the number of words he can speak before he dies. Thus he spends half the movie mugging and miming and gesturing frantically in order to get his point across. The last 1/3 is more a dramatic role… in fairness, he was pretty good there, but I can't figure out if part of that is because I was so relieved he stopped trying to be funny.
Adam Sandler
"That's My Boy"
What kind of a sad statement on Sandler's career is it that I can say with all seriousness that this is his funniest role in years, yet in the same sentence call it one of the worst performances of 2012, and have both statements be totally true? Sandler is terrible here, and yet still this is the funniest he's been in quite a while. In "That's My Boy", he offers us a horrible character, boorishly acted. True Sandler.
Ben Stiller
"The Watch"
Stiller turns on the cruise control, and makes no effort whatsoever to disguise it. Acting as if he cared would be 100% more acting than he actually did here. This schtick is rote for him, and it shows. In order to find his motivation for this particular character, he drew from a place of deep boredom and disinterest. I'm pretty sure I didn't laugh once, although I know I winced often enough.
Sam Worthington
"Man on a Ledge"
Worthington plays the titular "Man on a Ledge", and I spent half the movie wondering if anyone would even notice if he jumped. If Worthington were a color, he'd be a bland shade of camouflage. Not something you want in a lead. Who were talking about again? Oh yeah, Worthington. The poor man's store mannequin. At least it seems as if Hollywood has wised up and stopped handing him franchises, thankfully.
There they are boys and girls. Five actors who reached into your pockets, took your cash and just walked away. They clanked lines off the rim, put you to sleep, and made you cringe with their grating characters.
Which one do YOU think was the worst? Anyone here I should have spared my wrath? Did I forget anyone? Anyone upset I passed over Taylor Kitsch for recognition? Who else?
Let us hear it!


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First came the "Hangover 2" spoof, then the "Green Lantern" spoof, and now, at long last, we have the official full-length trailer for "The Muppets."
It's got pretty much everything you'd want in a "Muppets" trailer: Kermit, Miss Piggy, Animal, and the rest, a bunch of celebrities, a little song-and-dance and a few laughs.
Jason Segel stars in the film, which he also co-wrote with Nicholas Stoller, about the Muppets reuniting to throw a fundraiser in an effort to save their old theater. Judging from all the trailers, fake and otherwise, Segel, Stoller and director James Bobbin have nailed the tone, capturing that distinctive Muppets blend of sweet, funny, stupid, zany, smart and just a teensy bit mean.
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The human cast is lead by Segel and Amy Adams, and includes Mila Kunis, Zach Galifianakis, Emily Blunt, Ed Helms, Rashida Jones, Jack Black, Neil Patrick Harris and a few thousand more.
"The Muppets" opens Nov. 23.


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TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Israel's defense industry is under scrutiny for not being particular enough about its customers amid allegations it exploits the West Bank to develop security systems.
"A key component of the militarized state is the drive to increase the production and export of weapons while also becoming a global security-services provider," former Central Intelligence Agency officer Philip Giraldi said.
"This has led to a certain recklessness about who is being trained, where the arms wind up and what sensitive technology might be exposed in the process.
"The Pentagon has long been nervous about the freewheeling Israeli consultants and arms dealers operating worldwide, particularly as those weapons and expertise command the highest prices in areas of armed conflict," Giraldi, now executive director of the Council for the National Interest in Washington, wrote in The American Conservative.
"The United States, as the primary source and funder for advanced weapons for Israel, most definitely has a horse in the race as the arms flow frequently produces political instability, and the technology that is sold or bartered can endanger U.S. security."
In July, Israeli Comptroller Joseph Shapira reported serious flaws in the supervision of arms-exporting companies, which suggested there had been abuses.
In doing so, Shapira was taking on the Defense Ministry, one of the most powerful state bodies in Israel's highly militarized social system. It issues all defense export licenses and regulates the recipients.
Shapira's report cited poor enforcement concerning the export of sensitive technology, which is often developed with U.S. funding.
The report did not cite any specific violations. But Shapira's criticism has focused attention on an industry that includes 6,800 licensed arms dealers.
Weapons systems and other defense equipment constitute Israel's main exports. Its 2012 export total of $7.5 billion, a record, ranks it the sixth largest in the world by volume, but, as Giraldi observes, No. 1 in terms of a percentage of the overall Israeli economy.
"As in Turkey and the United States, the business is largely run by retired senior officers," he wrote in the American Conservative.
"Unlike Turkey and the United States, there have been a number of scandals connected to Israeli weapons development and sales, including the arrests of Israeli weapons dealers in Latin America and Africa."
Israel has also been involved in illegal transfers of restricted U.S. technology, in particular the sale to China of F-16-derived avionics that had been intended for use in the ill-fated Lavi fighter jet.
That was Israel's first effort to build an indigenous combat aircraft, but the prestige Lavi program, based on the Lockheed F-16, was scrapped in 1987 because the Americans, who'd invested $1.3 billion in the project, had re-export concerns. They also didn't want a competitor for the F-16.
Even so, in 2002, the Chinese unveiled their Jian-10 multirole, single-engine tactical fighter, based in considerable part on Lavi technology.
In March 1997, despite denials by Israeli officials, the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence reported in its unclassified Worldwide Challenges to Naval Strike Warfare that U.S.-derived technology from the canceled Lavi program was being used in China's F-10 fighter, the export version of the J-10.
In 2000, the Americans blocked the $1 billion sale of Israel Aerospace Industries' Phalcon AWACS to China because it included U.S. technology.
Three months ago, a British government report said Israeli arms were exported to several Muslim countries -- Pakistan, Egypt, Algeria, the United Arab Emirates and Morocco -- in 2008-12.
Israel denied that. But there have been persistent reports of discreet diplomatic and intelligence contacts between Israel and Pakistan, as well as Arab states like the Emirates and Saudi Arabia because of their common opposition to Iran.
In August, the documentary "The Lab" by Israeli director Yotam Feldman argued Israeli defense companies have turned the occupied West Bank into a laboratory for developing and testing new security systems.
These are exported by Israeli companies that are major players in the international security industry, and dominate the global airline security sector.
"The occupied territories are crucial as a laboratory not just in terms of Israel's internal security, but because they have allowed Israel to become pivotal to the global homeland security industry," Israeli analyst Jeff Halper said.


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Bitch I am not talking about what had happened to you! Should my poor loved ones ever be misguided enough to ask for my advice I always begin with, "Well, I remember the time that…" They roll their eyes and probably wish they had kept their problems to themselves. But the truth is, I am listening, this is just how I relate. Stories are how I make sense of the past, and how I navigate the present. Perhaps you were wondering if you should go on a date with one of your co-workers and when you happen to run it by me for some reason I have to launch into the story of the time I almost quit the fourth grade talent show, but instead we rocked out some of the finest Michael Jackson lip-syncing any one clad in a pink tutu could have pulled off . . . ever. And this relates to you how, you wonder. Because! I am trying to tell you to take a risk, to go for it; I just always have to get there through a story. Annoying, I know.
"Past is prologue," my beloved English teacher was fond of quoting. Well, I was all over that. When was I ever present? I was always that girl with my head in the clouds, or in books, or scribbling in notebooks. I lived in the past, recalling events and hashing and re-hashing their meaning. And like a neurotic soothsayer I was always trying to tell the future based on a story of the past.
Somebody somewhat important once said, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I don't know about all that, but the point is I have certainly examined mine. And yours. And his and theirs. I am girl ruled by her feelings. The following are but a few of the stories that shaped my feelings on the big things, like love and happiness.


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With the year coming to a close, it's a good time to think back and ask yourself, how the hell is my old hooptie still on the road?
I know a thing or two about keeping a car alive, since I pretty much killed my own car and brought it back to life. I think the most important lesson I learned this year is that when it comes to car maintenance, the easy way is usually the wrong way.
For instance, my right front tire kept going flat on my Baja Bug. At first I just assumed it was a leak in the tire, so I got a new one. That one kept going flat. So then I did the right thing and took my car to a tire shop, they checked for leaks and found out that the wheel itself was cracked. If I had done my due diligence in figuring out the problem properly, I'd have saved myself $90 in a needless tire.
Well, I hadn't quite learned my lesson. Figuring that I could just fix the cracked wheel, I took it to the neighborhood of chop shops out in the shadow of Mets stadium and got the wheel welded for $80.
Their weld was so bad that the leak actually got worse.
That's when I did what I should have done months ago and bought a new set of wheels. That fixed the problem once and for all.
Well, not quite. I didn't quite learn my lesson, since the wheels I bought were the cheapest I could find. $50 for a set of four. They're the same style as my old ones, but they're a different color, and they're wider. Specifically, they're inch too wide and now my front tires rub at full lock.
So the takeaway is invest up front. Do things right the first time, even if it seems like the hard way, and you'll save money, time, and effort down the line.
What lesson did you learn in 2013 that will help keep your car alive all the way through 2014?
Photo Credit: Raphael Orlove


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Press Release:
Join us on Saturday, March 8, at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery as we celebrate the publication of Tony Millionaire's Sock Monkey Treasury with an art exhibition, book signing, and music concert.
Tony Millionaire's Sock Monkey is one of the great all-ages comics of the new millennium. The precocious sock monkey Uncle Gabby and his innocent pal Mr. Crow are the heroes of this endearing new collection. Millionaire will also sign copies of his latest strip collection Green Eggs and Maakies, blending vaudeville-style humor and a breathtakingly beautiful line that recalls the glory days of the American comic strip.
The festive show on Saturday, March 8, from 6:00 to 9:00 PM features 15 original Millionaire drawings and music by Ashley Eriksson. As a child in Los Angeles, Eriksson sang on the Ren and Stimpy Christmas Album; as an adult she sings "Island Song," the closing credits for Cartoon Network's cult-sensation Adventure Time. On Saturday she'll sing from her recent K Records release Colours.
This event coincides with the lively Georgetown Art Attack featuring visual and performing arts presentations throughout the historic district. Don't miss this chance to meet one of the truly extraordinary artists of our time.
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is located at 1201 S. Vale Street, just minutes south of downtown Seattle. Open daily 11:30 to 8:00 PM, Sundays until 5:00 PM. Phone 206.658.0110.


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MEXICO CITY: Six American men detained for weeks in Honduras accused of violating weapons laws were released from prison Thursday, a U.S. congressman said.
U.S. Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick, a Republican from Pennsylvania, said in a statement that the six men were �in the process of traveling back to the United States and being reunited with their families.�
Fitzpatrick said he visited the men in Honduras on Monday and had been involved since May in efforts to release them. He said one of the men, Devon Butler, is the son of a constituent.
Butler�s mother, Rosemary Carroll of Bucks County, was quoted in the statement as saying, �We are grateful to all who have supported us through this lengthy and difficult ordeal.�
The crewmen from Florida-based Aqua Quest International were put in a prison in Puerto Lempira on May 5, after Honduran police and sailors raided their newly arrived 65-foot vessel and found a weapon, according to the shipwreck salvage and research company.
The company said the crew was working on a project with aid workers and officials in the town of Ahuas to help local lobster divers, who can suffer permanent damage from dives as deep as 150 feet (45 meters).
Ahuas is a Miskito Indian town in an impoverished Honduran region often exploited by drug traffickers. The area has been targeted by joint U.S.-Honduran anti-drug missions.
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Miguel de Cervantes is without doubt the most international Spanish writer. Therefore, there could not be a better name for a mission to the International Space Station with so much Spanish involvement. The Cervantes Mission will contribute to further internationalizing Spanish science and technology.
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President Obama's speech in Jerusalem Thursday was appropriately delivered to a largely youthful audience, because in many ways the president's tone and message were those of a father expressing unconditional support – even as he prods with lessons of tradition, compassion, and justice.
Mr. Obama went further than he ever had, perhaps further than any US president, in asserting America's bonds with Israel. But having once established those unshakable links, he went on to admonish his listeners, as any father has his children: He urged them to have the strength and an ancestral sense of right to be even better human beings and correct the wrongs around them.
Obama's admonitions in large part focused on Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories and the limitations that occupation would, in the long run, place on Israel's fulfillment as a democratic Jewish state.
"Put yourself in their shoes – look at the world through their eyes," Obama told his Israeli audience – again, with a line any father has used. He went on to list the ways that Israel's occupation "is not right" and is as damaging to Israelis as it is to Palestinians.
The speech set a tone that was appropriate, some analysts say, given Obama's audience and his objectives.
"It is a speech in a fatherly mode, but the Israelis, and I would say the Palestinians, do need to put themselves in the other's shoes," says Doron Ben-Atar, a history professor at Fordham University in New York. "So what he did was absolutely necessary."
Professor Ben-Atar, an Israeli-born American, says he heard as Obama's central theme "his call for the people of the region to force their leaders to make peace."
But Obama's particular approach, others say, was to convince young Israelis that while "peace is hard" – as Obama put it a day earlier – they can make the hard choices for peace because it is "just." And because America will always have Israel's back, he said.
"I would call it the 'blank check' speech. Obama essentially told Israelis that they have unconditional support from America in perpetuity," says Daniel Levy, a former Washington-based Middle East analyst who is now director of the Middle East and North Africa Program at the European Council on Foreign Relations in London. "But like any unweighted unconditional gift, used wrongly the blank check could be ruinous."
From there, Mr. Levy says, Obama made "the case for peace from a different angle." He warned Israelis that without ending the occupation and making peace, "you will over time have less security;... you will not realize your full economic potential ... because absent peace and security, [Israel] will not become a true regional hub and global magnet;... you will become isolated, [and] finally ... you will not live up to your own traditions, your own standards, your own humanity," Levy said.
What struck Levy as really "new" in the speech was Obama's "direct appeal to the Israeli public ... to push their leaders to take risks for peace."
Should Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expect a surge of pressure to take on the peace issue? Maybe not, if Obama's history of high-profile speechmaking is repeated. The president's much-touted Cairo speech in June 2009 was meant to launch a new relationship between America and the Muslim world. But if anything, that relationship is even more broken now.
Still, the basic question of "Will it make a difference?" hangs over the Jerusalem speech. Some very early barometer-reading is expected to take place Saturday, when Secretary of State John Kerry returns to Jerusalem from Jordan – the last stop of Obama's four-day trip – to see what, if any, steps might be possible toward relaunching peace talks.
"My hunch is that Kerry will be tasked to come up with a plan that would eventually be presented in public if Obama decides at some stage in the coming year or more to go back to the Israeli public and to invest some capital in putting forward something concrete," Levy says.
Two elements that Levy says he would expect to see as part of any renewed initiative: reconfirmation by Obama of the parameters for territory and security that he laid out in May 2011, and some restatement by Arab countries of the Arab peace initiative. Obama made passing but notable references to both elements in a Jerusalem press conference Wednesday, Levy notes.
But any new effort could hinge on whether the publics – Israelis and Palestinians – change course and begin to pressure their leaders to make peace a priority.
Most regional analysts are not optimistic. Palestinians view the decades-old "peace process" as a disaster that has allowed Israel to gobble up growing chunks of their land, they say, while many Israelis see their tumultuous neighborhood and favor hunkering down over reaching out.
"It's true the Israelis are very much in their own shoes; they feel besieged," says Ben-Atar of Fordham, referring to Obama's call for Israelis to see the world from another perspective. "I don't think there's any doubt [Obama] redefined his relationship with Israel ... but we'll have to see if something changed beyond that."


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Another weekend, another day of the dogs running around like fools.
Even though the water was icy it was irresistible.
All of this playing means a quiet ride home.
Interesting pillow, Luka.
There is knitting in the house!
A new pair of socks.
And a new….something. 🙂 I broke my yarn diet to buy this yarn. It has a purpose though, and I have started swatching. Pictures will come later when the project has been started.
Finally…the answer to a question I sometimes get: "Why do you have such a huge sectional couch when you live alone?"
ETA: Many of the knitting blogs I read are hosted by Blogger. If you use Blogger please be aware that the word verification aspect of comments is not functioning. Even though I enter the correct phrase, Blogger says it's wrong and won't let me comment. I'm sure I'm not alone in this.


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For the past five hundred years, we've been looking out at the universe and assuming that we, with our little planet and our little solar system, were nothing special. And then we sent out a probe to measure the cosmic microwave background. It gave us some data that makes it seem like we might be a bigger deal than we thought.
In the beginning was a bang. That bang gave off a lot of light. Over the years, and over the length of the light's travel through an expanding universe, that light got stretched out. It started out as high frequency radiation, like gamma waves. Eventually it stretched into visible light. And after over thirteen billion years of travel, it got pulled into microwaves. These microwaves form, from Earth's perspective, the background to the entire universe. And as far as we could see, they were fairly consistent all the way through.
This fit what we call the Copernical Principle. It reflects the mindset that has taken over astronomy since Copernicus knocked the Earth out of the center of the solar system. The Earth we live on, and our corner of the universe, is not positioned in any special way. It's not the center of the universe. It's not in and special part of the universe. It's just another mediocre speck. This isn't a scientifically proven fact. It's just a good way to dispel human ego, and it hasn't steered us wrong so far.
And then WMAP went up. Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe took a good look at the anisotropy cosmic microwave background. Although the CMB signal is pretty much the same everywhere, it has lumps of high strength and low strength. If it were perfectly even in all directions, it would be called isotropic. The fact that sometimes parts of the signal seem to vary in certain directions makes it anisotropic. The variations aren't a worry to scientists - a little variation in the entire universe wouldn't be surprising. But every little difference is worth studying. It is our only chance to look at the big bang.
One of those odd clumpings of signal strength has given people pause. There seems to be a strong signal forming a circular band around the universe. And that circle seems to be in line with the ecliptic of our solar system. The rings that the planets describe around the sun are miniature versions of that strong signal.
Looking out at the sky, we see galaxies and exoplanets orbiting their stars along planes in all directions. Why should this signal be so similar to the plane of our solar system? And how does that jibe with the principle that has been helping humble astronomers for half a millennium? In the end, we don't know. It's possible that, if this is a major force in the universe, being aligned would be more common than being unaligned, and so the Copernical Principle is in no way compromised. Some think that it was just some wrong turn in interpreting the data. It's also possible that WMAP took some other energy source - a source specific to this solar system - to be the cosmic microwave background. Whatever it is, it remains a mystery. Are we special? I'm guessing no, but it would be a kick to be proved wrong.
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Romney's "inelegant" comments about the 47 percent who don't pay taxes is regarded by the mainstream media as the equivalent of "You didn't build that," but one wonders how the argument might come across if it were put more elegantly. Well, we can turn to the always elegant Alexis de Tocqueville—I was reading him again over the weekend preparing for my Monday evening seminar on American Political Economy at Ashland University this fall—who has this to say in his chapter in Book 1 entitled CHARGES LEVIED BY THE STATE UNDER THE RULE OF THE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY:
It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already produced; it dries up the source of riches, while it usually respects acquired property. Freedom, on the contrary, produces far more goods than it destroys; and the nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.
My present object is to compare free nations with one another and to point out the influence of democracy upon the finances of a state. . .
Let us now suppose that the legislative authority is vested in the lowest order: there are two striking reasons which show that the tendency of the expenditures will be to increase, not to diminish.
As the great majority of those who create the laws have no taxable property, all the money that is spent for the community appears to be spent to their advantage, at no cost of their own, and those who have some little property readily find means of so regulating the taxes that they weigh upon the wealthy and profit the poor, although the rich cannot take the same advantage when they are in possession of the government.
In countries in which the poor have the exclusive power of making the laws, no great economy of public expenditure ought to be expected; that expenditure will always be considerable either because the taxes cannot weigh upon those who levy them or because they are levied in such a manner as not to reach these poorer classes. In other words, the government of the democracy is the only one under which the power that votes the taxes escapes the payment of them.
In vain will it be objected that the true interest of the people is to spare the fortunes of the rich, since they must suffer in the long run from the general impoverishment which will ensue. . .
Here we should observe that Tocqueville inclines toward supply-side economics. To continue:
Again, it may be objected that the poor never have the sole power of making the laws; but I reply that wherever universal suffrage has been established, the majority unquestionably exercises the legislative authority; and if it be proved that the poor always constitute the majority, may it not be added with perfect truth that in the countries in which they possess the elective franchise they possess the sole power of making the laws? It is certain that in all the nations of the world the greater number has always consisted of those persons who hold no property, or of those whose property is insufficient to exempt them from the necessity of working in order to procure a comfortable subsistence. Universal suffrage, therefore, in point of fact does invest the poor with the government of society.
The disastrous influence that popular authority may sometimes exercise upon the finances of a state was clearly seen in some of the democratic republics of antiquity, in which the public treasure was exhausted in order to relieve indigent citizens or to supply games and theatrical amusements for the populace. It is true that the representative system was then almost unknown, and that at the present time the influence of popular passions is less felt in the conduct of public affairs; but it may well be believed that in the end the delegate will conform to the principles of his constituents and favor their propensities as much as their interests.
But then Tocqueville provides the remedy that is missing from Romney's rhetoric—how opportunity and social mobility, rather than redistribution, is the better road to advancement:
The extravagance of democracy is less to be dreaded, however, in proportion as the people acquire a share of property, because, on the one hand, the contributions of the rich are then less needed, and, on the other, it is more difficult to impose taxes that will not reach the imposers.
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