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Биография Revolution Mother
"My first show ever was seeing Black Flag in 1984. That night was really the beginning of the rest of my life. I decided whatever I did from that point on I was going to do it with that kind of intensity." Mike Vallely (AKA Mike V) vocalist of Revolution Mother definitely resembles the word intense. A towering, bearded lightning bolt who delivers raw punk venom in his vocals. All of the members of Revolution Mother have an image that reflects their music, an amalgam of greasy biker rock and charging skate punk. Vallely clarifies "At the end of the day we are just a rock n roll band. We have hardcore, punk and metal influences but really we're just playing overdriven blues." Capturing the fury of their live performances the band's second album Rollin' With Tha Mutha (Ferret Music) delivers on the promise that the debut album held. "I think we really found our groove as a band with the last three or four songs we recorded on the last record and we definitely found our groove live playing two sets a day on the Warped Tour (2007)." Vallely is used to performing, being an iconic pro skater for the past 23 years and counting. The band is rounded out by Jason Hampton (guitar), Brendan Murphy (drums) and Colin Buis (bass) some of Orange County, Californias most notorious punk and hardcore veterans including past members of Mean Season and Outspoken. Revolution Mother formed in 2005 as the outgrowth of the hardcore project band Mike V And The Rats that Vallely and Hampton were doing for fun. "I hadn't been in a band since I was 14 which I was kicked out of for skateboarding too much. I always intended to go back to music but it wasn't until some twenty years later that my skate career was deep rooted enough to a point where I had some free room to pursue something else just as passionately. People were really reacting well to Mike V And The Rats so we thought let's do this for real -- full on and see where it takes us and that's when we started Revolution Mother." The band quickly built up a rapport with the audience completing U.S. Tours with Tiger Army, Bad Religion, Social Distortion, Every Time I Die and Danzig as well as a European Tour with Funeral For A Friend. When we play live shows people want to hate us at first for sure -- our look, our vibe, our style doesn't fall into a quickly definable category so it's hard for the more narrow minded to get their heads around it. However people back off and when they realize that we are deadly serious and always willing to back it up. We play pissed off rock and roll, but it's got a groove and really we just want to have a good time and rock an audience full out. But if you want to fight, we can do that too, I just don't recommend it." That energy seeps through the music "from our new album I think the song Born To Rock N Roll sums it up. It presents a lifestyle and an attitude of doing it your own way and doing it to the limit. We write the kind of music we want to hear, that gets us fired up. It's the kind of music you'd play before going to the ring for a fight -- but it's bigger -- it's the soundtrack for the fight that is this life..." http://myspace.com/revolutionmother
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Monday, December 03, 2012
Moose Lessons
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ago Canadian news told of a large moose that
wandered into a residential area in Calgary, Canada.
The moose ended up on the lawn of a lady who called
the Fish and Wildlife agency. An officer was
dispatched to try to coax the magnificent animal
back into the wild. After two hours of absolutely no
progress, the officer finally shot the moose with a
tranquilizer dart and the moose eventually collapsed
on the lawn.
The reporters who had been following this event
interviewed the woman at the house. They asked her
what she thought about the moose which had passed
out on her lawn. "I'm surprised," she answered, "but
not as surprised as my husband will be. He's out
moose hunting."
Her husband had gone out looking for moose and a
large moose had come to him. That is the message of
Christmas. While humanity spends its time wanting to
find God, God comes to us.
I know we can sometimes wonder where God is. We can
wish he would do more to make himself known in these
days as he did in the past. We wouldn't be the first
to wish that. Even the Old Testament prophet Isaiah
prayed: "Oh, that you would
burst from the heavens and come down! How the
mountains would quake in your presence! As fire
causes wood to burn and water to boil, your coming
would make the nations tremble. Then your enemies
would learn the reason for your fame! When you came
down long ago, you did awesome deeds beyond our
highest expectations. And oh, how the mountains
quaked!" (Isaiah 64:1-3)
Isaiah is lamenting that too many years have come
and gone without a sign of God's presence. He was
longing for God to make himself real in some
tangible way. Have you ever been there? Like Isaiah,
have you ever wondered where God is? Have you tried
to pray and felt nothing, seen nothing, or sensed
We cry out to God to "burst from the heavens and
come down" to give us some evidence that he is real
and present. But most of the time, we feel as if God
is hiding from us.
Maybe the problem is with us? Maybe because we have so many other
voices, noises in our life, God would have to shout to be heard?
Maybe God's preferred way to come to us is more often in a whisper
rather than shaking the earth or tearing open the skies? Maybe it's
easy to miss God's voice when it comes to us!
Like the teenager with the loud booming car or the one with head
phones too loud, they slowly damage their hearing to the point they
miss the subtle sounds of creation near them. If we are never free
from the blare of the world around us, if we are constantly being
bombarded with racket, we can become numbed to quiet voices. And in
the middle of the noise and commotion, God comes down only to be
This Christmas could be different. You could experience God if you
wanted. It would mean pulling away from all the noise. You'll have
to place yourself in an environment where God has your attention.
Maybe you could attend a Christmas worship service this year? After
all, God has said, "Be still, and know that I am God." (Psalm
46:10) That seems to put the next move in your court.
[Ron Otto, Lincoln Christian Church]
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Do you have any idea if there is motorhome parking somewhere within walking distance of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City? Or do you know someone who would know?
From: DearMYRTLE
Let me refer you to my friend Marianne Collier, who has served for a number of years at the Family History Library with her husband. She knows this sort of stuff. :)
From: Marianne
To: Kim and DearMYRTLE,
Kim, there is motorhome parking Downtown Salt Lake, it is on North Temple about 1 1/2 miles from downtown. There is free transportation from the park to Temple Square through the Temple Square Van which travels every hour. Many visitors to the RV park use it to go to the library. The RV park is the KOA Park at 1400 West North Temple. Their phone number is 801-328-0224. When you get here either look for me at the library or here at the park.
Here's DearMYRTLE's Map of Salt Lake City with 1400 West North Temple added at the bottom. It also includes directions for drug stores and other items of interest to those doing research at the Family History Library.
Happy family tree climbing!
Myrt :)
Your friend in genealogy.


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Carey, NY Philharmonic headline All-Star Concert
Central Park's Great Lawn to host charity event on Saturday, July 13
NEW YORK -- Culminating one sweet day in the parks during All-Star Week, Mariah Carey will join with the New York Philharmonic on Central Park's Great Lawn for the 2013 MLB All-Star Charity Concert benefiting Sandy Relief on Saturday, July 13.
Major League Baseball announced on Monday that Carey, in a "special guest appearance" by the multiple Grammy Award winner, will perform a select number of her classic hits mixed with tracks off her new album. The New York Philharmonic, led by music director Alan Gilbert, will perform two sets of New York and baseball-themed music, including Randy Newman's suite from "The Natural" and the world premiere of Mark Isham's suite from "42."
The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. ET and is free to the public, but a ticket is required for each attendee and can be obtained starting at 10 a.m. on Wednesday at AllStarGame.com/Concert. Earlier on that Saturday, MLB will host the All-Star Game 5K & Fun Run benefiting Sandy Relief presented by Nike in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.
MLB is dedicating that full Saturday to the same cause, and in conjunction with the concert, it will make a $1 million donation to Sandy Relief efforts. Including that donation, MLB has committed more than $5 million to various national and local charities as part of the Midsummer Classic.
"Major League Baseball is committed to leaving a lasting legacy in the community that hosts the All-Star Game. This concert will provide a great opportunity for Major League Baseball to not only raise funds but remind people not to forget about those who still haven't recovered from the devastating impact of Superstorm Sandy," Commissioner Bud Selig said. "This concert will provide another opportunity for our fans to enjoy an All-Star experience in the spectacular setting of Central Park's Great Lawn."
When the Yankees hosted the Midsummer Classic in 2008, Bon Jovi played the first All-Star Charity Concert at the same Great Lawn setting, adding a raucous new dimension to All-Star Week. It was so successful that it was followed a year later by Sheryl Crow's performance under the Arch in St. Louis, and Carey and the New York Philharmonic bring it back in 2013.
As part of this year's concert, MLB executive vice president of baseball operations Joe Torre will make a special appearance and read the classic baseball poem "Casey At the Bat," which was written by Ernest Thayer and first published 125 years ago. Torre played for the All-Star host Mets from 1975-77 and managed the team from 1977-81, and later managed the Yankees from 1996-2007, winning four World Series titles.
"I am really looking forward to celebrating the All-Star Game with this fun program," Gilbert said. "Music might be my main game, but I love baseball, and it's always exciting when the All-Star Game is hosted in New York. It's a thrill to be conducting on this special occasion. It is particularly gratifying to be part of this event that will help support those whose lives were affected by Hurricane Sandy. They are our neighbors, and we're glad we can be there for our community in whatever way we can."
Carey is among the best-selling female artists of all time, with more than 200 million albums sold and a ground-breaking career total of 224 No. 1 Billboard hits, including an unprecedented 18 No. 1 Hot 100 singles, the most of any solo artist in history. Her new single, "#Beautiful," a collaboration with Miguel, is No. 1 in more than 30 countries.
All concert-goers will be screened at security checkpoints before entering the concert grounds. Fans who have tickets can enter on Central Park West and West 72nd street (Western General Admission) or Fifth Avenue and East 72nd street (Eastern General Admission).
No backpacks, alcohol, glass or metal containers, pets or blankets are permitted. A full list of prohibited and acceptable items is available at AllStarGame.com/Concert.
The 84th All-Star Game will be played at Citi Field on July 16. It will be televised nationally by FOX Sports; in Canada by Rogers Sportsnet and RDS; and worldwide by partners in more than 200 countries via MLB International's independent feed. Pregame ceremonies will begin at 7:30 p.m. ESPN Radio and ESPN Radio Deportes will provide exclusive national radio coverage of the All-Star Game. MLB Network, MLB.com and Sirius XM also will provide comprehensive All-Star Week coverage. For more information, please visit allstargame.com.


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John Maples' abrupt decision this week to retire as chief of operations for Wayne Township schools has led to revelations of other alleged misconduct.One source tells me complaints about Maples' activities to the Indiana State Police and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Indianapolis have been ignored in the past. Will they finally start taking this case seriously?
District Spokeswoman Mary McDermott-Lang told Fox59 News that Maples' retirement becomes effective December 31st and he is currently on hiatus. Simultaneously, the district is investigating a sexual harassment complaint lodged against a supervisor by an employee.
A source familiar with operations in Wayne Township schools tells Fox59 News that it is common knowledge within the district that Maples often carried on inappropriate relationships with teenage girls, including visits to his home, Florida vacations, signing students out of classes to accompany him on his rounds and, in at least one case, provided a graduating student with a job within the operations department.
"Everybody knew about it. Former employees and people went to the administration several times and nobody would do anything," the source claims.
This source also indicates that Maples would utilize district employees and contractors to make improvements to his personal property and pad purchase orders to provide furnishings to relatives.
This source also claims some of these allegations have been known to Superintendent Tony Thompson who recently announced his plans to retire. District spokesperson Mary McDermott-Lang told Fox59 News that Thompson said he was unaware of the allegations.
Our source says many employees were afraid to speak out against Maples because of his perceived power in the district and his close relationship with Thompson.
When Fox59 visited Maples' home Thursday, a woman emerging from a recreational vehicle in the driveway said Maples was not there.
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Friday, November 19, 2010
Scandal Rocks Wayne Township Schools
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- Marycatherine Barton said...
The things the high and mighty muckety mucks in Marion County get away with!! Thanks to Fox News and AI for this exposure.
- Innocent until proven guilty said...
I am in disbelief! I know this man and he and his wife are good people. They are generous and has helped many a students. I don't believe all of these allegations against him.
I worked with him and his wife and I was around many times when students were in their company and never once have I thought of any wrong doings.
This is the kind of stuff that comes up after people can not get their way.
John,keep the faith and don't let this foolishness change you from being the wonderful person that you are. During these times you will see who really are your friends. That is including the good old boy crew you would eat lunch with daily (you know who they are)


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Area Catholics 'shocked' at Pope Benedict's resignation
Catholics across Long Island, including their spiritual leader, Bishop William Murphy, reacted with surprise and even shock Monday to Pope Benedict XVI's decision to retire, but many also praised the move as farsighted and courageous.
"It was out of the clear blue," said Lee Marshall, 76, as she walked into a noon Mass at St. Agnes Cathedral in Rockville Centre. But, "I think if he feels he is not up to the job, he is doing the right thing. Most people won't admit decline."
Dennis McCarthy, a longtime parishioner at Our Lady of the Snow Roman Catholic Church in Blue Point, said, "I didn't know it worked that way -- I thought you had the job for life."
But, McCarthy added, "It's certainly the right thing to do. He's probably trying to make a step in the right direction for a more forward-looking church."
Troy Baydala, 66, a parishioner at St. Agnes, said the pope's decision to step down was "courageous."
Murphy, spiritual leader of the 1.4 million Roman Catholics in the Diocese of Rockville Centre and a Vatican insider, said he was stunned by the news.
Murphy said he learned of the pope's decision early Monday morning as he went through his typical routine of checking the Italian press before his morning prayers. He saw headlines such as "flash" and "alarme" and called friends at the Vatican, including two stunned cardinals who had just left a meeting with the pope and confirmed the news.
Murphy said he called Cardinal Timothy Dolan in New York, who asked, " 'Is it true?' I said 'Yes.' "
Murphy's voice trembled briefly as he read the English translation of the pope's letter to journalists at the parish center of St. Agnes Cathedral.
"I have a very, very deep love for the man," Murphy said, his voice trembling again. He added that he regarded the pope "with great gratitude."
"He has the great gift of saying profound things simply and beautifully, in a way people can understand them," Murphy said.
Dolan himself has been mentioned by some as a possible candidate to be the next pope.
Monday, outside St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, Anna Ballantyne, 55, of Rio de Janeiro, said she and her friends were taken aback by Benedict XVI's sudden announcement. "Now we'll have to see who becomes the next pope," Ballantyne said.
Phyllis Zagano, a senior research associate at Hofstra University, said she doubted Dolan will become pope, and that odds are it will be a European.
McCarthy said he would like to see the next pope hail from Africa or Latin America, where the church is growing fastest.
Rosario Bucalo, an immigrant from the Philippines who attends Mass at Holy Name of Mary Church in Valley Stream, said Benedict should have remained in his post. "I'm sad and surprised," she said. "He should stay forever," until he dies, like most other popes.
But Sister Mary Hughes, prioress of the Dominican Sisters in Amityville, said, the pope's decision "is one that required wisdom, humility and courage. The decision reflects his deep love for the Church."
With Joseph Mallia
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In a letter to me posted in a recent Dr. Dobb's Update Newsletter, Mr. Ralph Kelsey from the Computer Science department of Ohio University objects in rather aggrieved terms to my comment that "TDD is corrupted by writing tests after code." Says he, "This is about as extreme as the Taliban. Testing is good. Write [tests] before, during, and after." Well, it's easy to agree that in most cases, more testing is good. But that has virtually nothing to do with TDD. TDD is not a way to more-thoroughly test code, although it might have that result. But if you're doing TDD so that you'll gain better test coverage, you have not only misunderstood TDD, you've misunderstood testing as well.
Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a practice designed to force developers to think about their code before writing it. This is done in small increments in which the developer must identify increasingly more-complex interfaces to other objects as well as build up the functionality of the object under development. Frequently, a developer must create a shim to represent other objects not yet coded so as to continue writing tests and code. These shims, known in the trade as stubs and mock objects, find their interfaces designed incrementally as other objects that rely on them build them up. By this means, developers are forced to think about interactions and interfaces before banging out their own code. As they do this, they design both their own objects as well as the objects they depend on. And design is wired into the coding and testing. This cycle, which depends entirely on writing tests before code, is pure TDD. It delivers thoughtfully designed code as well as the tests that prove its functionality (at a unit level). Not bad.
If we accept Mr. Kelsey's comment that it's not important whether the tests are written out before coding, we quickly see how TDD dissolves into nothing but an orientation towards unit tests. If the code is written first, then it's ipso facto not test-driven, nor does it have the benefit of the TDD design approach of incremental integration. The code might be designed using other valid techniques, but then what passes for after-the-fact TDD is simply validation of the code. This approach is certainly workable — even mainstream — but it's categorically not TDD.
On a personal level, I prefer this approach to TDD. I think TDD has some limitations; namely, the organic growth by tiny increments, the constant throwing away of tests when the code is refactored, and — most importantly — the very high premium TDD puts on code refactoring skills. Many courses on TDD fail to take this last aspect into account. I think they ultimately do a substantial disservice to neophytes because they give them a powerful technique that they cannot properly use. In my view, TDD instruction should invariably be preceded by a thorough course on refactoring. Until you can complete the excellent Refactoring Workbook, TDD should not be your aim.
Returning to my main point: I understand the source of the confusion. Dave Astel's otherwise very approachable work on TDD, Test-Driven Development — A Practical Guide, seems to imply that tests are the principal goal of TDD. And I'm sure other instructional sources do, too. However, Bob Martin gets it right and states it unambiguously in his master work, Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices: "The act of writing a unit test is more an act of design than of verification." The importance he attaches to this view is signaled by it being the first sentence of his chapter on testing.
So, in response to Mr. Kelsey, when I say that writing tests after writing code is a corruption of TDD, this is not extremism, but a statement of first principles.


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OTTAWA — A senior Environment Canada bureaucrat who publicly defended the federal government's plans to slash funding and eliminate "redundancy" within the country's ozone monitoring programs, privately approved a briefing note that concluded there was no duplication in its network, Postmedia News has learned.
The controversial plan to cut funding for atmospheric monitoring in Canada was revealed by the British scientific journal, Nature, in September as scientists were cataloguing a record-breaking hole above the Arctic in the ozone layer — a protective barrier that protects life on Earth from the sun's harmful radiation.
Karen Dodds, an assistant deputy minister from Environment Canada's science and technology branch, told Postmedia News at the time that there was no need for "the same level of redundancy that we have now" in monitoring of ozone, which is also a smog-causing pollutant in the air people breathe. But less than a week before making those comments, she approved a briefing note, dated Sept. 16, which told a different story about the two technologies used to measure ozone levels in the lower and upper atmospheres.
"These methods measure different characteristics of the atmosphere and thus complement, but do not duplicate each other," said background advice included in the briefing material approved by Dodds and released through access to information legislation.
The briefing material was produced under the heading "Ozone monitoring cuts," contrasting with Environment Minister Peter Kent's explanation that the government is "optimizing and streamlining" the way it collects and records ozone data.
Thomas Duck, an atmospheric scientist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, suggested the note calls into question the Conservative government's "media blitz" in defence of its plans to cut the monitoring programs.
"It's shocking," said Duck. "The briefing note says one thing and what (Dodds) told the public was quite another."
According to computer models, it could take up to 40 years for the ozone layer to recover from depletion caused by substances released prior to an international agreement — signed in 1987 in Montreal — to phase them out of products such as spray cans and refrigerators. Scientists say there is uncertainty in the predictions partly because of the ongoing release of some ozone-depleting substances that can be tracked through the existing monitoring and measurements.
As countries gather Monday in Bali, Indonesia for a new round of negotiations on the existing treaty, Duck said the onus is on Kent to come clean on what he plans to do with the monitoring network and how those changes could affect human health.
The advice described one of the networks, which uses weather balloons, as "one of the largest and most important in the world," that had produced a "precious" record of data unmatched by any other country.
It also noted that ozone can affect weather, while acting as a smog-causing air pollutant in the lower atmosphere that is hazardous to human health.
"Smog is a mixture of ozone, particulate matter and other pollutants," said the advice. "For these reasons, we also measure ozone in discrete locations as part of our broader air quality monitoring across Canada."
The briefing note said the current plan was "to optimize and integrate" its existing networks "to deliver sound science within budget," while meeting "minimum requirements" for ozone monitoring.
A senior Environment Canada scientist, David Tarasick, told Postmedia News in October that the ozone monitoring network already has limited resources, and could wind up doing less monitoring work if it saw its budget slashed.
"I don't think we're wasting a penny," said Tarasick, who has received a letter from the government that his position could be eliminated. "Could we get by on less money? Well, we could do less with less money. We could do more with more money."


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Starting August 14, the City of Portland's Permitting and Inspections Department will offer the opportunity for customers to meet with a Plan Reviewer for 30 minutes and ask questions. Appointments are available from 9 AM to 12 PM every Tuesday morning. Anyone interested should contact 207-874-8703 or email email@example.com to schedule.
Questions should be related to building or life safety code requirements for a specific project. Questions may be related to a specific building permit application that is currently in the permitting process, or for an application not yet submitted.
"This follows our successful 'Ask the Code Officer' effort, which we launched late last year and met with more than 100 people," said Michael Russell, Director of the Permitting & Inspections Department. "The goal of this effort remains the same as before, to provide accessible customer service by helping applicants understand code requirements and facilitating the plan review process. We're hoping this opportunity will be extra beneficial for those customers with smaller projects. "


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This school year 564 English Learner (EL) students were reclassified as English proficient students. On Thursday, April 27th, an event was held to recognize these students for their dedication and hard work to get to this point. The keynote speaker was Hemet Elementary's Assistant Principal Melina Serna. Serna shared her story of being an EL student and the struggles that came with that. In addition to Serna's speech, a senior from Tahquitz, Eric Urena, discussed his challenges of learning English. He and his family moved to the United States when he was in fourth grade. He spoke of the difficulties of learning a new language and a new culture. He said he was embarrassed that he could not speak English and decided to turn to reading. He found that reading helped him tremendously and was able to become proficient in the language and was then reclassified.
The event was full of celebrations as families cheered for the children that were able to reach this difficult goal. Students would smile as they heard their name called over the loudspeaker and walked to receive their ribbon of recognition. A first grade student at Whittier Elementary School, Noah Bazaldua, said he felt great and was happy to receive an award for the hard work he put into becoming English proficient. He also thanked Miss Johnson, Whittier's EL Site Lead, for helping him. Gilbert Rosiles, a tenth grader at Hemet High School, said he was happy to have made it to this point, laughing and saying, "finally."
In order for a student to be reclassified from EL to English proficient, students must meet certain requirements. They must score proficient in the California English Language Development Test (CELDT) and meet grade point average requirements. Students need a passing test score in Language Arts on their MAP or Lexile test, a four of better on their Teacher Evaluation Form, and their parent must agree their child is ready to advance from the English Language Development program.
The number of students reclassified to English proficient continues to grow every year. Due to the extensive programs offered to English Learners, more students are able to advance in their English language proficiency. Each school site has an English Learner Site Lead to monitor the EL programs at that site. For EL students in middle school, we are implementing English 3D, a program that targets Long Term English Learners (students that have been in the program 5 years or more) who need additional support in reaching English proficiency. We also implement Imagine Learning, which is a computer-based program that individualizes instruction and targets the needs of English Learners. Imagine Learning is available to all elementary and middle school students.
Students are monitored for two years after their reclassification to English proficient. If a student is struggling with the curriculum, plans are put in place to ensure the continued success of the student. In fact, data shows reclassified students have outperformed English-only peers on state tests.
Congratulations to the students who were reclassified as English proficient. One of Hemet Unified's main goals in the Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) is for EL students to acquire English proficiency in no more than five years. Due to programs that have been implemented through the LCAP, we are confident we will continue to prepare our EL students to become English proficient.


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What about pets? Humans are not the only things born on Leap Day!
When sending in pictures of a Leap Day Pet please include their name and date of birth. You may include info along with the pet. Your name and contact info are optional.
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Hallway born February 29, 2016
Born 29th February 2016 Skater lives in Sri Lanka
This is Leapin Laird Boston Creme Pi
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Member Sue Barratt of Wigston, Leics, England, UK born 1952 and her Leap Day Dog, Maddy, was born Leap Day 2004 which makes her extra special to me being a Leap Day Baby myself (1952). She lives up to her name MAD by name and MAD by nature!
The reasoning behind her name is, she was from a litter of just two. Her brother was called Robin Hood and Maddy was naturally called Maid Marion. According to legend Robin Hood had a pet name for Maid Marion which was Maddy. It also means, in Old English, My Lady, which she is.
Member William Kennedy of Louisiana, USA born 1988.
My dog, Fang, was also born on Leap Year Day, just like me! 2-29-00 is his and 2-29-88 is mine. Is that not weird!?"
Boston "Creme Pie" Russell a Leap Day Dog. Boston was born 29th February 2012. He is a rescue dog and came to his 'forever' home at around 5 months old. He is a crossbreed (Jack Russell Terrier/Hungarian Vizsla). He is a registered Therapet and very much a puppy at heart!
Info is expected soon.
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CHP Shutting Down
Just heard on the radio that the Christian Heritage Party is closing down.
It was pretty much inevitable after Graham Capill's antics.
The one good thing about CHP was that it made United Future look good, UF probably wouldn't have succeeded if CHP did not exist, as they would have copped the flack CHP did.
One wonders what will now happen to the Destiny party that has also been very quiet after the last election.


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Seann William Scott, best known for his role as Steve Stifler in the "American Pie" movies, has finished his stint at a treatment facility, his reps confirmed to Access Hollywood.
"Seann William Scott has completed a successful treatment program, and he is looking forward to beginning production next month on 'American Reunion' for Universal Pictures," the 34-year-old's reps said in a statement to Access on Wednesday.
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The actor entered a treatment facility last month.
At the time, his reps released a statement to Access, saying, "Seann William Scott has voluntarily admitted himself for proactive treatment to address health and personal issues."
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The location and details of his treatment were not disclosed.
As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com. Seann will reunite with the original "American Pie" gang for a fourth installment in the popular franchise.
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Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (341) 3550 - 350
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Curriculum Vitae
|PhD Palaeolithic Zooarchaeology,
University College London, UK
Dissertation: A contextual approach to the study of faunal remains from Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites in Britain.
Supervisors: Dr Louise Martin and Mark Roberts (University College London). Examiners: Prof. Clive Gamble (University of Southampton); Prof. Thijs van Kolfschoten (University of Leiden).
|MSc Human Palaeoecology (distinction)
University College London, UK
|BSc Archaeology (upper second class honours)
University College London, UK
Academic Positions
|Sept 2017-ongoing
|Post-Doctoral researcher
(Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA), Leipzig, Germany)
Post-Doctoral researcher recording, analysing and interpreting the faunal assemblages from the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic sites of Ranis (Germany) and Bacho Kiro (Bulgaria).
|March 2016-Aug 2017
|DAAD Post-Doctoral Researchers International Mobility Experience fellow
Project: Key transitions in hominin subsistence behaviour: A zooarchaeological comparison of subsistence behaviour in the Eurasian Lower/Middle Palaeolithic and African Early/Middle Stone Age
Collaborators: Dr Teresa Steele (UC Davis); Prof. Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser (University of Mainz).
|Oct 2015-Feb 2016
|Parental leave
|June 2015-ongoing
|Visiting professor
(Lanzhou University, China)
|Feb 2012-Feb 2015
|Post-Doctoral researcher
(MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre)
Project: Neumark Nord 2 (Germany): Exploring an Eemian Interglacial Landscape.
PI: Prof. Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser (MONREPOS) & Prof. Wil Roebroeks (University of Leiden)
Awards and Funding
|DAAD PRIME 18-month postdoctoral fellowship
€ 80,000
|University of Nevada Scholarship
for Society for American Archaeology Conference
|DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Conference Award
to present in Greece
|The Prehistoric Society Research Fund (UK)
for fieldwork at Oosthoven (Belgium)
|Society of Antiquaries (London) Funding
for fieldwork at Oosthoven (Belgium)
|Quaternary Research Fund (Quaternary Research Association)
for La Cotte de St Brelade
Professional Involvement
|Elected Regular Board Member: European Society for Study of Human Evolution (ESHE)
- Reviewer for
- Journal of Human Evolution
- Journal of Archaeological Science
- Quaternary International
- Quartär
- British Archaeological Reports
- Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (Springer)
- Environmental Archaeology: the Journal of Human Palaeoecology
- Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (PIA)
- Environmental Science and Paleobiology (Springer)
- Member of
- the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution (ESHE)
- the International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ)


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Introduction to Mössbauer Spectroscopy: Part 1
The Mössbauer Spectroscopy Group has now been closed. For any enquiries please contact our Networks team.
Mössbauer spectroscopy is a versatile technique that can be used to provide information in many areas of science such as Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Metallurgy. It can give very precise information about the chemical, structural, magnetic and time-dependent properties of a material. Key to the success of the technique is the discovery of recoilless gamma ray emission and absorption, now referred to as the 'Mössbauer Effect', after its discoverer Rudolph Mössbauer, who first observed the effect in 1957 and received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1961 for his work.
This introduction to the theory and applications of Mössbauer spectroscopy is composed of four sections. First the theory behind the Mössbauer effect is explained. Next how the effect can be used to probe atoms within a system is shown. Then the principal factors of a Mössbauer spectrum are illustrated with spectra taken from research work. Finally a bibliography of books and web sites is given for further and more detailed information.
Nuclei in atoms undergo a variety of energy level transitions, often associated with the emission or absorption of a gamma ray. These energy levels are influenced by their surrounding environment, both electronic and magnetic, which can change or split these energy levels. These changes in the energy levels can provide information about the atom's local environment within a system and ought to be observed using resonance-fluorescence. There are, however, two major obstacles in obtaining this information: the 'hyperfine' interactions between the nucleus and its environment are extremely small, and the recoil of the nucleus as the gamma-ray is emitted or absorbed prevents resonance.
In a free nucleus during emission or absorption of a gamma ray it recoils due to conservation of momentum, just like a gun recoils when firing a bullet, with a recoil energy ER. This recoil is shown in Fig1. The emitted gamma ray has ER less energy than the nuclear transition but to be resonantly absorbed it must be ER greater than the transition energy due to the recoil of the absorbing nucleus. To achieve resonance the loss of the recoil energy must be overcome in some way.
Fig1: Recoil of free nuclei in emission or absorption of a gamma-ray
As the atoms will be moving due to random thermal motion the gamma-ray energy has a spread of values ED caused by the Doppler effect. This produces a gamma-ray energy profile as shown in Fig2. To produce a resonant signal the two energies need to overlap and this is shown in the red-shaded area. This area is shown exaggerated as in reality it is extremely small, a millionth or less of the gamma-rays are in this region, and impractical as a technique.
Fig2: Resonant overlap in free atoms. The overlap shown shaded is greatly exaggerated
What Mössbauer discovered is that when the atoms are within a solid matrix the effective mass of the nucleus is very much greater. The recoiling mass is now effectively the mass of the whole system, making ER and ED very small. If the gamma-ray energy is small enough the recoil of the nucleus is too low to be transmitted as a phonon (vibration in the crystal lattice) and so the whole system recoils, making the recoil energy practically zero: a recoil-free event. In this situation, as shown in Fig3, if the emitting and absorbing nuclei are in a solid matrix the emitted and absorbed gamma-ray is the same energy: resonance!
Fig3: Recoil-free emission or absorption of a gamma-ray when the nuclei are in a solid matrix such as a crystal lattice
If emitting and absorbing nuclei are in identical, cubic environments then the transition energies are identical and this produces a spectrum as shown in Fig4: a single absorption line.
Fig4: Simple Mössbauer spectrum from identical source and absorber
Now that we can achieve resonant emission and absorption can we use it to probe the tiny hyperfine interactions between an atom's nucleus and its environment? The limiting resolution now that recoil and doppler broadening have been eliminated is the natural linewidth of the excited nuclear state. This is related to the average lifetime of the excited state before it decays by emitting the gamma-ray. For the most common Mössbauer isotope, 57Fe, this linewidth is 5x10-9ev. Compared to the Mössbauer gamma-ray energy of 14.4keV this gives a resolution of 1 in 1012, or the equivalent of a small speck of dust on the back of an elephant or one sheet of paper in the distance between the Sun and the Earth. This exceptional resolution is of the order necessary to detect the hyperfine interactions in the nucleus.
As resonance only occurs when the transition energy of the emitting and absorbing nucleus match exactly the effect is isotope specific. The relative number of recoil-free events (and hence the strength of the signal) is strongly dependent upon the gamma-ray energy and so the Mössbauer effect is only detected in isotopes with very low lying excited states. Similarly the resolution is dependent upon the lifetime of the excited state. These two factors limit the number of isotopes that can be used successfully for Mössbauer spectroscopy. The most used is 57Fe, which has both a very low energy gamma-ray and long-lived excited state, matching both requirements well. Fig5 shows the isotopes in which the Mössbauer effect has been detected.
Fig5: Elements of the periodic table which have known Mössbauer isotopes (shown in red font).
Those which are used the most are shaded with black
Armed with the Mössbauer effect and a suitable isotope how can we use these properties to investigate a system? This will be explained in Part 2.
Introduction to Mössbauer Spectroscopy: Part 2
Fundamentals of Mössbauer Spectroscopy
Introduction to Mössbauer Spectroscopy: Part 3
Hyperfine interactions at work
Introduction to Mössbauer Spectroscopy: Part 4
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Customer Service Task Force: Choose the top service providers from each department and explain the service goals that you are trying to attain. If they are in agreement and understand your service guidelines, invite them to become a member of your customer service task force. This team of service experts will be re-sponsible for revamping your facility's service standards.
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Remember, anything worth doing usually takes some work. Make the process fun for your employees by raffling off prizes along the way. Give them a specific goal to achieve and reward them for their accomplishments. Improving the service provided at your facility takes time, but your staff, your members, and your business will all benefit from your efforts.
Questions for the Customer Service Interview
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The new Hubble findings close a decade of speculation and debate as to the true nature of this ancient world, which takes a century to complete each orbit. The planet is 2.5 times the mass of Jupiter. Its very existence provides tantalizing evidence that the first planets were formed rapidly, within a billion years of the Big Bang, leading astronomers to conclude that planets may be very abundant in the universe.
The planet now lies in the core of the ancient globular star cluster M4, located 7,200 light-years away in the summer constellation Scorpius. Globular clusters are deficient in heavier elements because they formed so early in the universe that heavier elements had not been cooked-up in abundance in the nuclear furnaces of stars. Some astronomers have therefore argued that globular clusters cannot contain planets. This conclusion was bolstered in 1999 when Hubble failed to find close-orbiting "hot Jupiter"-type planets around the stars of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. Now, it seems that astronomers were just looking in the wrong place, and that gas-giant worlds orbiting at greater distances from their stars could be common in globular clusters.
"Our Hubble measurement offers tantalizing evidence that planet formation processes are quite robust and efficient at making use of a small amount of heavier elements. This implies that planet formation happened very early in the universe," says Sigurdsson.
"This is tremendously encouraging that planets are probably abundant in globular star clusters," says Harvey Richer of the University of British Columbia. He bases this conclusion on the fact that a planet was uncovered in such an unlikely place, orbiting two captured stars -- a helium white dwarf and a rapidly spinning neutron star -- near the crowded core of a globular cluster, where fragile planetary systems tend to be ripped apart due to gravitational interactions with neighboring stars.
The story of this planet's discovery began in 1988, when the pulsar, called PSR B1620-26, was discovered in M4. It is a neutron star spinning just under 100 times per second and emitting regular radio pulses like a lighthouse beam. The white dwarf was quickly found through its effect on the clock-like pulsar, as the two stars orbited each other twice per year. Sometime later, astronomers noticed further irregularities in the pulsar that implied that a third object was orbiting the others. This new object was suspected to be a planet, but it could also be a brown dwarf or a low mass star. Debate over its true identity continued through the 1990s.
Sigurdsson, Richer, and their co-investigators settled the debate by at last measuring the planet's actual mass through some ingenious celestial detective work. They had exquisite Hubble data from the mid-1990s, taken to study white dwarfs in M4. Sifting through these observations, they were able to detect the white dwarf orbiting the pulsar and measure its color and temperature. Using evolutionary models computed by Brad Hansen of the University of California, Los Angeles, this allowed an estimate of the white dwarf's mass to be made. This in turn was compared to the amount of wobble in the pulsar signal, allowing the astronomers to calculate the tilt of the white dwarf's orbit as seen from Earth. When combined with the radio studies of the wobbling pulsar, this critical piece of evidence told them the tilt of the planet's orbit too, and so the precise mass could at last be known. With a mass of only 2.5 Jupiters, the object is too small to be a star or brown dwarf, and must instead be a planet.
The planet has had a rough road over the last 13 billion years. When it was born it probably orbited its youthful yellow sun at approximately the same distance Jupiter is from our Sun. The planet survived blistering ultraviolet radiation, supernova radiation and shockwaves, which must have ravaged the young globular cluster in a furious firestorm of star birth in its early days. Around the time multi-celled life appeared on Earth, the planet and star were plunging into the core of M4. In this densely crowded region, the planet and its sun passed close to an ancient pulsar, formed in a supernova when the cluster was young, that had its own stellar companion. In a slow-motion gravitational dance, the sun and planet were captured by the pulsar, whose original companion was ejected into space and lost. The pulsar, sun, and planet were themselves flung by gravitational recoil into the less-dense outer regions of the cluster. Eventually, as the star aged it ballooned to a red giant and spilled matter onto the pulsar. The momentum carried with this matter caused the neutron star to "spin-up" and re-awaken as a millisecond pulsar. Meanwhile, the planet continued on its leisurely orbit at a distance of about 2 billion miles from the pair (approximately the same distance Uranus is from our Sun).
It is likely that the planet is a gas giant, without a solid surface like the Earth. Because it was formed so early in the life of the universe, it probably doesn't have abundant quantities of elements such as carbon and oxygen. For these reasons, it is very improbable the planet would host life. Even if life arose on, for example, a solid moon orbiting the planet, it is unlikely to have survived the intense x-ray blast that would have accompanied the spin-up of the pulsar. Regrettably, it is unlikely that any civilization witnessed and recorded the dramatic history of this planet, which began at nearly the beginning of time itself.
The full team involved in this discovery is composed of Brad Hansen (UCLA), Harvey Richer (UBC), Steinn Sigurdsson (Penn State), Ingrid Stairs (UBC) and Stephen Thorsett (UCSC).
The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), for NASA, under contract with the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA).


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I have created a list of food items that I keep on hand in my pantry, refrigerator, freezer, etc. I did this for a friend of mine about a year ago when she asked me what I eat to stay healthy. She also asked me how I always seem to have to have the ability to have a dinner ready in a pinch – even if I didn't just step out of the grocery store.
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Cisco's Q4 sales fell short last week and Brocade followed suit with its Q3 earnings, missing analyst forecasts and lowering its revenue expectations for its fiscal year. But why?
Some industry insiders think customers are biding their time as they watch how the whole converged networking/unified fabric push plays out.
In a statement regarding Brocade's (NASDAQ: BRCD) earnings, CEO Michael Klayko said, "Q3 was another solid quarter for Brocade in which we achieved better-than-expected results from our storage area networking business and continued to make progress in our Ethernet go-to-market initiatives. As we look to Q4, we expect a strong finish to our fiscal 2010. Despite operating in a challenging global economy with variable IT spending patterns, we are confident that our sales and marketing strategies as well as our product portfolio are aligned well with customer imperatives."
Cisco's (NASDAQ: CSCO) CEO John Chambers also cited uncertainty in the economy as well asmixed signals in the market and customer expectations as the reason for Cisco's Q4 sales miss. However, Chambers said he's confident that Cisco will succeed by continuing to "aggressively move into new areas where the network is becoming the platform."
Brocade's Numbers:
- Q3 revenue was $504 million, increasing approximately 1% sequentially and 2% year-over-year.
- Q3 GAAP EPS (diluted) was $0.05, sequentially level, and increasing from a loss in Q3 2009.
- Q3 non-GAAP EPS (diluted) was $0.13, sequentially level, and increasing 8% year-over-year.
- Q3 non-GAAP operating margin was 17.3% versus 20.5% in Q2 2010 and 20.3% in Q3 2009.
- Q3 effective GAAP tax rate was (220)%; non-GAAP effective tax rate was 0.2%.
- Q3 Adj. EBITDA was $102 million, down from $116 million in Q2 2010 and $119 million in Q3 2009.
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For more earnings news, check out Dave Simpson's blog on NetApp's Q1 bonanza.
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Dr. Joanne Stewart, professor of chemistry at Hope College, is co-editor of a book focused on making college science education more effective and engaging.
"Connected Science" which was published in June in the "Scholarship and Teaching" series of Indiana University Press of Bloomington, Ind., calls for an interdisciplinary approach that stresses integrative learning and engaging students through open-ended inquiry, compelling real-world questions and data-rich experiences.
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Dr. David W. Oxtoby, who is president of Pomona College and a physical chemist, has called "Connected Science" "A significant contribution to science pedagogy and to the scholarship of teaching and learning," noting that the book "will be of interest to researchers in the area of science education and to college and university faculty members who seek to improve their teaching."
Stewart, who also co-authored one of the book's chapters, has been active at the national level for more than two decades in efforts to enhance science education. She has held or administered multiple grants, from agencies and organizations including the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), for projects focused on science education nationally as well as on the Hope campus. Through the years, she has made presentations on cooperative learning at off-campus workshops sponsored by Project Kaleidoscope, the NSF and the Pew Mid-States Consortium, among others.
"Connected Science" developed from her participation as a 2005-06 Carnegie Scholar in the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL), which engaged 21 college and university faculty in projects that explored the integration of learning across courses, over time, and between campus and community life. Many of the faculty who contributed chapters to the book were also in the program.
Since 2007, she has been part of the leadership team of the national online resource "IONiC: Transforming Education Through Collaborative Development of Materials at the Frontiers of Inorganic Chemistry." She is also a Teagle Pedagogy Fellow in the "Lattice for Pedagogical Research and Practice" program developed by the Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) to enhance student learning and achievement.
Stewart has been a member of the Hope faculty since 1988, and her professional interests include chemistry research as well science teaching.
In 1996, she was one of the first two recipients of the college's "Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching" (now the "Janet L. Andersen Excellence in Teaching Award"). In 2009, she was chosen to speak through the "Last Lecture Series" organized by the college's chapter of the national Mortar Board honorary society. She has mentored more than 50 undergraduates in collaborative research, in both her current initiatives and in her work in synthetic inorganic chemistry.
Stewart was one of four science educators serving as co-editor of "Connected Science." The others were Dr. Tricia A. Ferrett, who is a professor of chemistry at Carleton College and founder and former director of the Carleton Interdisciplinary Science and Math Initiative; Dr. David R. Geelan, who is a senior lecturer in science education at Griffith University in Australia; and Dr. Whitney M. Schlegel, who is an associate professor of biology and founding director of the Human Biology Program at Indiana University.


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World's youngest MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional)
With every new generation, you see people achieving great successes and accomplishments at an earlier age than the previous generations. This is a natural part of evolution and also partly due to technological advances that enable people to access information and get exposed to different kinds of opportunities earlier in their lives. You might have read about the 9-year old wonder kid from Pakistan, who recently became the world's youngest MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional).
I got a chance to meet with this wonder kid – Arfa Karim Randhawa earlier this week. She is a 5th grader who visited us at Microsoft for a few days along with her father. I had a lot of fun in meeting Arfa and getting a chance to understand what motivated her to strive for such an accomplishment at such a young age. She definitely has some clear ideas about the kinds of scenarios she envisions technology can enable in the future.
My hats off to Arfa's parents for nurturing her passion and talent and providing her with opportunities to learn and excel. I wish Arfa all the very best in her life and hope that her passion for learning and more importantly "dreaming big" enables her to do great things in her life.


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Undersea dispersant lingered in deepwater plume -- study
A core ingredient of the dispersant injected deep underwater at BP's runaway oil well remained trapped in an undersea plume of oil, methane and other hydrocarbons, resisting decay even as it became vanishingly dilute, scientists reported yesterday in the first detailed study of undersea dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico.
During the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the government and BP PLC injected some 771,000 gallons of dispersant directly into the stream of oil and gas erupting from the Macondo well, more than a mile underwater. The injections, which ended in mid-July, were an attempt to break apart the oil, keeping it far removed from sensitive shorelines while also increasing the amount of crude available for a bacterial feeding frenzy.
While a large portion of the oil and gas escaping from the well stayed in the dark deep -- subsequently consumed by microbes and spread thin over the Gulf's vastness -- it remains uncertain whether dispersants, or simple physics, caused this plume. And while that question remains unresolved, it is now clear that the dispersants stayed put, closely following the hydrocarbon plume's southwest tack, some 3,600 feet below the surface.
During this snaking undersea voyage, at least one dispersant component, a complex surfactant essential to divvying up oil, seems to have resisted microbial decay for several months, instead spreading in practically undetectable concentrations up to 180 miles from the well, according to Liz Kujawinski, a chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and lead author of the study, to be published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
The surfactant's stubborn refusal to degrade -- which could be as much a function of its low numbers as its biochemistry -- came as somewhat of a surprise to Kujawinski, who, like most of the public, she said, "had the impression that the dispersant was supposed to have degraded faster."
When Kujawinski began to review past research, however, she saw few studies looking at the degradation of her chosen surfactant, dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate, or DOSS, and none of those related to the cold, alien landscapes of deep water. What studies did exist were conflicting. "Turns out," she said, "there's not a whole lot of data out there on what should have happened."
"This was a pretty classic example of not having relevant scientific studies to base our expectations," added Dave Valentine, a geochemist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who co-authored the dispersant paper. "Yet everybody [had] expectations."
Gathering data
Valentine led scientific expeditions into the Gulf during early June and September, those trips providing grist for a series of previously published papers finding that nearly all of the hydrocarbon gas -- methane, ethane, propane -- escaping from BP's well remained underwater, digested by microbes over a few-month span. And while Valentine focused on the gas, he made sure to sample for dispersants, too.
Over several months, Kujawinski analyzed samples taken during Valentine's June trip, which stayed close to the spill's center, comparing the surfactant concentrations to methane. As Valentine's work has shown, methane did not begin to degrade until some days removed from the wellhead. The two chemicals moved together in concentration, and this ratio, among other comparisons, indicated that nearly all of the DOSS remained underwater in amounts that hewed closely to the average reported injection rate.
By Valentine's second trip to the Deepwater Horizon site, in September, U.S. EPA was reporting that it could no longer find any undersea dispersants. More than a month after their last application, they had effectively disappeared. It was a fair assessment to make at the time, Kujawinski said, since EPA's coarser, high-speed tools focused on detecting hazardous thresholds, rather than minute concentrations.
Using advanced lab-based imaging, however, Kujawinski found that DOSS remained in the September water samples, lingering in the parts per billion, 1,000 times below any known effects likely to prove toxic to undersea life. (By September, all the methane had vanished.)
While DOSS only constitutes some 10 percent of the dispersant, Corexit 9500A, used at the wellhead, it is one of the more toxic ingredients, and extrapolated dispersant concentrations also fell below safety thresholds, Kujawinski said.
This drastic reduction in DOSS -- the highest level Kujawinski measured in June was 12 parts per million -- was driven largely by simple dilution, rather than bacterial degradation.
Comparing her figures to the concentrations expected from known water dynamics and the steady undersea currents measured by Woods Hole researchers last summer, Kujawinski estimated that the surfactant would hit such low numbers without any of the bacterial assistance seen in degrading methane and oil, she said.
There are several reasons the bugs could have demurred, Valentine said. Unlike the gas and oil seeps that pepper the Gulf floor, surfactant is a largely foreign compound, so few microbes would have been primed to attack it. And the DOSS was in such low numbers that it may not have warranted the energy needed to adapt to it.
Microbes are smart consumers. "It has to be worth their time," he said.
Good news, bad news
For man and bug alike, the surfactant's complex structure also made it a difficult subject, for dining or study.
Half of the molecule likes to be in oily substances, while the other half likes to be in water, Kujawinski said. It cannot easily be separated from samples, like traditional liquids or gases, and it will stick to Teflon-lined containers.
You wouldn't want your dispersant to behave otherwise, Valentine added. "These are the same properties that make it effective in breaking up oil droplets," he said.
As for whether the deepwater dispersants did their job and caused the oil to divide? That's a physics question, Kujawinski said, outside the bounds of her study. (Using high-resolution video, several physical scientists are tackling the problem.)
The dispersant could have been taken up in methane and missed the oil completely, or it could be associated with the small oil droplets in the deepwater plume.
Both dispersant scenarios seem plausible, she said.
Kujawinski does not want to raise alarm with her study, which will likely provide the baseline calculations for future measures of what effect, if any, dispersants had on life in the Gulf's deep waters. While concentrations were low, the length of exposure hasn't been seen in past toxicity work, and needs to be considered, she said.
"The good news is that the dispersant stayed in the deep ocean after it was first applied," Kujawinski added in a statement. "The bad news is that it stayed in the deep ocean and did not degrade."
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I can't believe how fast time passes! After a super fun and creative Fashion Week Brunch, The Mending Circle is meeting again tonight, from 6.30 – 9PM at the Textile Arts Center. I'm looking forward to new exciting mending projects and meet all of you with sewing/altering/mending and/or creative skills.
I thought I would leave a teaser of inspiration mending projects… Hope to see you all tonight!
Cardigan mended with bird-shaped patches
(via thimblythings)
Mending buttonholes and holes on sweatters
(via Martha Stewart Livings)
Crocheted patches
(via Craft magazine blog)
Mended Sweater by Esther K. Smith, part of Mend Exhibition at Proteus Gowanus, 2008-2009


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In an ongoing effort to highlight developers who push the boundaries of game creation, we recently caught up with John Cooney, whose work at Armor Games (and now Kongregate) has generated some pretty remarkable things. He's responsible for more than 90 gaming titles working on all the game design, programming, artwork and sound engineering. John will also be speaking at the upcoming Flash Gaming Summit in San Francisco if you'd like to meet him in person. In the meantime, we wanted to share our conversation about his inspiration, where he thinks the gaming industry is going, and more. Enjoy!
How did you get started as a developer?
Back in high school, I was really interested in animation and wanted to become an animator. The high school computers all had Flash installed and I was hooked from the first animation I produced. I started to freelance game development and formed my own company to help pay for college and living. When approached by Daniel McNeely (founder of Armor Games) to join his company, I jumped on board. All this happened over about five years, and by that time Flash was HUGE for games.
Do you have any advice for burgeoning developers?
Share your successes and failures. The best way we learn is to bounce ideas, send out works in progress, and collaborate when we need help. Your audience, fellow developers, and you will gain a lot from it!
What inspires you and your work?
I find most inspiration just in daily life. A game about traffic lights comes from the long commute home. A game about dinosaurs on treadmills came from a moving walkway at the airport. Ideas are everywhere. They just need testing and coaxing to get moving in the right direction.
You've worked on a lot of titles so far. What's the project that you're most proud of, and why?
I have a lot of projects I'm proud of, but the project I am probably the happiest about is Coinbox Hero. The game is about a floating box that you shoot, punch, and kick to rattle out coins. Coins pay for even more expensive items and weapons to further abuse the box for. The game is made entirely in Flash.
I began by trying to understand the technology requirements of this game. There would be a lot of coins, as many as I could render would be the ultimate goal. Using bitmapData and copyPixels, I managed to draw about 5,000 coins at a time without taxing the computer too much (this was at a time when Stage3D wasn't available, so everything was on the CPU). This was REALLY impressive for the time. And since it's Flash, I could use vector objects as well, so I rendered all my menus, characters, and backgrounds in vector.
The game was a short project, it only took about a week to produce – Flash makes rapid prototyping and fast game design easy. When launched, it gathered about a million plays in the first few weeks. Overall, it was a game that embodied the kind of work I do – over-the-top, joyous, simple games.
What products or applications do you use?
I use Flash Professional CS6 right now. I've always done all my programming through the IDE ever since I started in Flash 5. Most of the artwork is also produced in Flash. I've always loved the Flash IDE because it's so fast and easy to use. Having a cohesive programming/artwork environment is all I need to make great content.
Where's the industry going?
I think "social gaming" is going to find its way more and more into traditional gaming, hopefully in ways that will enhance these games to be better experiences for everyone. A lot of hardcore gamers sneer at the idea of seeing social in their games, but when social is done to make the game a better experience everyone wins. Mobile games will continue to be big. Indie titles like Minecraft are making it huge, and Flash games are still as exciting and innovative as ever.
For more about John and his work, check out his website. If you know (or are!) a developer who'd be interested in participating in our spotlight, please be sure to let us know in the comments section below, @AdobeFlash or on Facebook. Also, if you've developed an Adobe Gaming project, share it with us in our Flash Rocks gallery.


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A version of this column appeared in The Fordham Ram on March 20.
My roommates tend to leave the television on. Most days, I come back from class and find Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith of ESPN2's "First Take" shouting into my empty living room, at which point I can feel my brain begin to melt, and I lunge for the remote control to turn off the idiotic blather.
In case you're fortunate enough to never have seen "First Take," allow me to summarize the premise: Bayless and Smith yell at each other for an hour. Every morning. The topics are generally idiotic: "Should LeBron stop his pregame dunk routine?" "What do you think about the Miami Heat's 'Harlem Shake' video?" All that is pretty harmless, but "First Take" has also found itself in trouble, like when Rob Parker (who is black), sitting in for Smith, called into question Robert Griffin III's "blackness," asking whether Griffin was "a brother or a 'cornball brother.'" Parker was suspended for a month because of those comments, and was eventually let go. Parker later said that the show's producers knew what he was going to say before he went on air.
Two weeks ago, Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman appeared on the new half-hour afternoon session of "First Take" (yes, the show is popular enough for ESPN to add another edition later in the day). Bayless repeatedly tried to bait Sherman into trash talking Jets corner Darrelle Revis, which Sherman has done on Twitter throughout the offseason. Sherman was having none of it, and instead turned his sights on Bayless, saying, among other things, "I'm better at life than you." Most people said Sherman "won" (because when it comes to yelling on TV, there must always be a winner and a loser).
The segment gained a lot of attention — mostly negative (but, let's face it, ESPN only cares about the first half of that sentence). Later that night, Bill Simmons, wildly popular columnist, and founder/editor-in-chief of ESPN offshoot Grantland.com, weighed in on Twitter:
Simmons has over two million Twitter followers and was recently named the most powerful person in sports media by Sports Illustrated's Richard Deitsch, so when he criticized "First Take," it made a pretty big splash. The three tweets Simmons sent on the topic were re-tweeted an average of 1,126 times.
Simmons is ESPN's biggest star. His popularity as a columnist led ESPN to build an entire website around him and also earned him a spot on ESPN's "NBA Shootaround" pregame show. He's powerful enough to effect change at ESPN, so when he was critical of "First Take," a lot of people were hopeful that it would cause ESPN to seriously consider whether the show was worth all the trouble it causes.
Instead, ESPN decided to suspend Simmons from Twitter for three days, which is sort of stupid when you think about it. You can't post 140 character messages on the Internet for a couple days. That will teach you!
Still, the incident shows just how protective of "First Take" the network is. It's a show that averages only about 300,000 viewers, yet receives the most criticism of any show in the ESPN lineup, and ESPN executives spend a disproportionate amount of time defending it — 'Change the channel' is their basic response to critics.
Simmons' comments weren't anything radical; a lot of people don't like "First Take." They don't like that Bayless has made a career out of being nothing but a contrarian. They don't like that its strategy for attracting viewers seems to be to make them angry enough to say, "I can't wait to see what they say next." They don't like how the show often introduces a racial component to stories that have very little to do with race.
Forget for a minute that the show depends on a certain amount of animosity between Bayless (who is white) and Smith (who is black). The Griffin situation, that got Parker in trouble, is a perfect example of manufacturing racial tensions; so is the 16-minute video on the show's YouTube page titled, "Tim Tebow and Race Discussion on ESPN First Take." So it should come as no surprise that after the Sherman segment, The Big Lead's Jason McIntyre said an "ESPN insider" told him that First Take's producers "love to have black athletes embarrass Skip. They relish that."
The problem I have with "First Take" is that it doesn't have to be as bad as it is. Debate style shows ("Pardon The Interruption" and "Around The Horn") have been the staple of ESPN's late-afternoon lineup for over 10 years. Ideally, "First Take's" morning edition would provide a more discussion-centric complement to the highlight-oriented "SportsCenter."
Bayless and Smith (or maybe just the combination of the two) are what make the show insufferable. Bayless is just a terrible person — the real-life version of an Internet troll. Smith is actually tolerable when he appears on other ESPN programs to discuss the NBA, but being paired with Bayless brings out the worst in him. On Tuesday, Smith and Bayless were absent, replaced by Mike Hill and Ryen Russillo. To be honest, from what I saw, the show that day wasn't all that bad.


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I've read some of the descriptions of other people's combat algorithms but haven't had the time to look at any code... I never distinguished between different enemies in my combat code, even though it would sometimes make a difference to combat outcome (especially in the frantic multiplayer maps with a lot of multi-player combat early in the game). Did anyone else try their hand at that? What were your results like?
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