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December 29, 2012
71 comments:
- Phil 3:14 said...
Can I assume somewhere in this NYT video is a story on Maurice Sendak?
- Quaestor said...
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- Chip Ahoy said...
Yo no comprendo.
- Mitchell the Bat said...
At this point in his career, I seriously doubt that Maurice Sendak cares very much about the country's financial problems.
- Ann Althouse said...
@Chip The link went bad for some reason. Try it now.
- chickelit said...
The link goes to the reportage of a young woman whose affected speech pattern and ticks remind me of Kathleen Hanna
"Yawn. Superfucking Yawn" - 12/29/12, 9:14 AM
- Phil 3:14 said...
Hmm, my initial comment never showed up.
But I'm glad the link was fixed.
Professor, your have a grave perspective this morning. - 12/29/12, 9:18 AM
- Shouting Thomas said...
The egotism of the proud atheist at the beginning is profoundly stupid. Not so bad after that.
I don't evangelize for my Catholicism. It's in bad taste. Atheists are the worst evangelists that I meet. They're a pain in the ass.
- Ann Althouse said...
"The link goes to the reportage of a young woman whose affected speech pattern and ticks..."
Well, that was the bad link. Try it now. It's an animation and it's about Maurice Sendak. It's really good. And no ticks.
I'd tell you a tick story, but I'm sworn to secrecy. - 12/29/12, 9:22 AM
- Ann Althouse said...
" don't evangelize for my Catholicism. It's in bad taste. Atheists are the worst evangelists that I meet. They're a pain in the ass."
You obviously didn't bother watching the video, so you have no idea what bullshit you're spouting. - 12/29/12, 9:23 AM
- gerry said...
Heaven makes life's end easier - if you truly believed and followed God's law as taught by Jesus.
Hell makes life's end very frightening, also because Jesus taught about that.
Only God can judge. - 12/29/12, 9:24 AM
- Shouting Thomas said...
I did watch the video.
The first 30 seconds or so are full of self-congratulation on how "difficult" it is to be an atheist, and his self-congratulation on his superior intellect.
The rest is much better. - 12/29/12, 9:24 AM
- Shouting Thomas said...
Hell makes life's end very frightening, also because Jesus taught about that.
I think that it is death that is very frightening.
People want to continue to live and to be remembered. The loss of everything that defines a person is, I think, what we fear. - 12/29/12, 9:29 AM
- Jeffrey said...
Ann, it seems like aging and death are on your mind on this winter day. Sometimes all this typing (mine included, of course) is just another form of whistling past the graveyard.
For all of us, after our death, we live on briefly in the memories of those close to us and then they die and our last ties to this earth are gone, too. This really hit home for me about ten years ago when I did some family history research and found out about the deaths of my grandfather's two sisters (only in their early twenties) within a three-year period around the turn of the century in Chicago. I found the actual Census page on which their names and ages were written. Those inked names were all I could find of the sisters that my grandfather grew up with in Chicago. No one had ever talked about them to me. It was then I realized that my own life was, in fact, as ephemeral as my grandfather's sisters. No one would remember me, either.
In the larger perspective, no one will even remember the Great Instapundit or Madame Althouse.
- Shouting Thomas said...
In the larger perspective, no one will even remember the Great Instapundit or Madame Althouse.
I doubt this.
The way in which we are remembered, I think, is much different than you are envisioning.
That is much too lengthy and difficult a subject to address here, so I won't. - 12/29/12, 9:33 AM
- Shouting Thomas said...
I will say that, looking at life from the perspective of the programmer, nothing is ever forgotten.
Data is never forgotten or lost. It's somewhere out there in the form of energy or matter. The question is always how to find that data or recover it.
I have no doubt that the same is true of human existence. - 12/29/12, 9:37 AM
- Jeffrey said...
Shouting Thomas,
Huh? Okay, let's give Ann a Wikipedia Notable mention:
Ann Althouse, 66, American blogger, skiing accident.
I see Ann's blogging as her personal struggle with Death and the Dreaded Anonymity. But, believe me, in time no one will remember her or any of the commenters here. If you think otherwise, you're delusional.
- deborah said...
My Methodist 90 year-old aunt could go with relative equanimity, I think, if not for her 3 year-old grand-daughter. Smart as a whip, she charms everyone, and my aunt is enthralled with her, and I think, dreads parting with her.
- Jake Diamond said...
No doubt Shouting Dumbass will be remembered as a loudmouthed dumbass.
- deborah said...
Make that great-granddaugher.
- chickelit said...
I'd tell you a tick story, but I'm sworn to secrecy.
Heh. No need to spill secrets. Message received. - 12/29/12, 9:54 AM
- TerriW said...
People want to continue to live and to be remembered. The loss of everything that defines a person is, I think, what we fear.
Well, that's the point of the Iliad, no? Achilles had his choice: to continue to live, or to be remembered. He chose to be remembered.
(Of course, the punch line comes in the Odyssey when Odysseus finds him in the underworld and he's all "Holy shit, man, I was *wrong*!" - 12/29/12, 9:59 AM
- Chip Ahoy said...
Wow. I couldn't believe how crushing boring he's become. Touching insights, what took so fucking long?
Contrarily, I have one of his books and it's among my favorites, ATTAAP, I do recommend Mommy?, a collaboration with other people makes it nice. A good gift too.
But this interview was like listening to the kids on access tv talking about how they came out. Hitchens and the other atheist contemplating death, and other writers contemplating those writers, and talking about appreciating life and earth more because of their absence of faith, so say they, and all the other non faithers looking for and finding affirmation in their own faithlessness. Misery does love company. So do drunks, mostly like the company of drunks. I'm imagining, I just made that up.
Die already.
This fish I have keeps acting dead and freaks me out the way it parks itself downwardly at an angle like that. And they do this weird thing too, it's how they feed their babies at first actually, they slough their skin and that's eaten by other fish. So this fish acts dead and allows the other little fish to come in and do that. Sure is an attention grabber.
The thing is, there are already too many people who went through what Sendak is talking about, people much younger than Sendak and already dead having experienced insights much more profound than he expresses there, deep as those are for him, that late as an old man. I'm trying not to hold that vapidity against him. I expect more from old people. - 12/29/12, 10:10 AM
- Shouting Thomas said...
If you think otherwise, you're delusional.
Orpheus and Eurydice have never been forgotten, have they? Nor, I suspect, will they ever be.
No doubt Shouting Dumbass will be remembered as a loudmouthed dumbass.
Thanks for your bit in preserving my memory, Jake. Yes, we will be remembered as much for our enemies as for our friends. - 12/29/12, 10:10 AM
- Quaestor said...
I recently re-read The Hobbit to remind myself why I didn't like Peter Jackson's butchery of that classic piece of children's fiction.
Sendak's pathetic prose further reminds me of the insipid wasteland that children's literature has become since the demise of Tolkien and his generation, Rowling not withstanding. Sendak bears much of the blame for the sad state of literacy in this country - 12/29/12, 10:17 AM
- Tyrone Slothrop said...
I was a proud atheist for many years. "Science" and "Reason" bade me be one. But the more things happened to me, the more I began to feel an external hand in my life. I don't pretend to know what will happen to me after I die, but even if I entirely cease to be, God was with me while I lived.
- Richard Dolan said...
The chat they both said they liked so much was a one-sided soliloquy. None the worse for that, though. Perhaps he liked that kind of chat so much because he got to do all the chatting.
And, if live your life' is his substitute for the older injunction to 'know thyself', it seems to be missing an essential first step. - 12/29/12, 10:30 AM
- Paco Wové said...
I ran across the idea somewhere recently that the "New Atheism" (the loud, evangelical atheists like Dennett, Dawkins, Harris et al.) arose in response to 9/11. As it was inconceivable! to these good ecumenical leftists that there might be something wrong in Islam that lead to 9/11, they decided rather there must be something wrong with religion, period. This had the happy side-effect of allowing them to then spend all their efforts bashing stupid Western Christians, rather than having to pick on poor downtrodden oppressed third-worlders.
- Big Mike said...
It doesn't particularly test my atheism. The universe makes no sense to me mathematically if you posit a God who cares for each member of h. sapiens individually.
- Deb said...
I did wonder how it felt to be my aunt, who outlived all but one of her siblings. All but one were younger than she was. She even outlived her son by two months. To grow older (she was 96) and one by one lose those closest to you. Does that make you ready, even anxious, to leave?
- Bob said...
Thank you for posting that, Ann. It was quite touching. Since I'm currently struggling with faith/nonfaith in my life, it was germane.
You have a really sensitive and discerning eye for finding this stuff. It's how I first noticed Crackskull Bob. - 12/29/12, 10:48 AM
- SomeoneHasToSayIt said...
Quaestor said...
I recently re-read The Hobbit to remind myself why I didn't like Peter Jackson's butchery of that classic piece of children's fiction.
You can choose to look at it that way, if you want.
Here is another way:
The book, "The Hobbit", can never be destroyed.
The movie, "The Hobbit", has an advantage Tolkien himself did not have when he wrote it. Namely, knowledge of the tale of The Lord of The Rings.
I don't think it takes all that much artistic license for Jackson to imagine what Tolkien might have put in the Hobbit, as hints of things to come, if he had been aware that he was about to write TLOTR and all his other non-novelized stuff.
So Jackson has done a really nice thing, especially for all those folks who will first become aware of his 6 movies, after the sixth has been released. THOSE folks will be the first to be able to see TH + TLOTR movies in the 'proper' order - as one long, now connected, tale. Neat, I say.
And with apologies to Bogart, "We'll always have "The Hobbit" - to read and play, unspoiled, in the theater of our minds.
So try looking at it THAT way, and you'll find you get two great works of art to enjoy.
Oh, and, Happy New Year everyone. - 12/29/12, 10:50 AM
- traditionalguy said...
A nice man indeed. He misses his dead friends now. He says he is in love with the world and the beauty around him.
What's ironic is that God also loves the world and the beauty He made in it including souls like Sendack and doesn't want to lose them after the death of their body but wants to live with them in Eternity.
This voice reminded me of a Great Uncle we saw every year when he visited his brother ( my grandfather) in Atlanta and once we stayed at Uncle Frank's 300 year old retirement home in Dennis on Cape Cod.
Uncle Frank would study the newspapers everyday, especially one from Bethlehem, Pa where he had been an Episcopal Bishop for 28 years.
We asked him why, and he said he studies the obituaries as all of his old friends were dying. He was a nice man like Sendack, and he lived to age 92. - 12/29/12, 11:00 AM
- chickelit said...
I listened to the Sendak interview and found his sentiments beautiful and inspiring.
His voice however, reminded me of Larry Flynt's: link
I hope I don't sound like that when I'm old. - 12/29/12, 11:31 AM
- Jake Diamond said...
Yes, we will be remembered as much for our enemies as for our friends.
Shouting Dumbass - You aren't my enemy. I don't despise you, I pity you. Anyway, considering the hateful things you say about women and ethnic minorities, you don't really need any more enemies.
If it makes you feel better, though, you can add me to the list of people who find you incredibly dull. - 12/29/12, 12:37 PM
- Aridog said...
Ann said...
You obviously didn't bother watching the video.
Uh, here at least, that'd be because the link in a link for "Sendak" doesn't work...although most of the others do...such as Dave Brubeck for example.
And now I've burned through my "free" allotment from the NYT for December.
So I no longer care... :-)) - 12/29/12, 12:45 PM
- William said...
You're only old once, and you've got to make the best of it....I'm old and feel quite content and comfortable. I can't see any upside to death, but its close presence does make each passing moment feel more significant and poignant as they pass by in their insignificance.....I don't have much hope in an afterlife, but, for me, it's been sufficiently miraculous that in all this vast, cold expanse of the universe, I got to live for a little while as a sentient, sapient creature. What are the odds of that happening?
- gerry said...
This had the happy side-effect of allowing them to then spend all their efforts bashing stupid Western Christians, rather than having to pick on poor downtrodden oppressed third-worlders.
Also, insulting Christians is safe and may snag federal arts subsidies. Ridiculing or insulting Muslims also ridicules and insults the Islamists among them, and it just doesn't ring the register enough. - 12/29/12, 1:10 PM
- EDH said...
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- Libertarian Engineer said...
I ask the question of atheists:
"Why not aspire to be Stalin?"
When you can answer that, get back to me. "Because that is wrong!" is circular logic leading you nowhere as the definition of wrong in the absolute sense is absent in the absence of absolutes.
There is no detriment to evil in the absence of a just God; the God of Moses and David who provided to us salvation through Christ. - 12/29/12, 1:22 PM
- EDH said...
Black muddy river, roll on forever,
I don't care how deep or wide, if you've got another side,
Roll muddy river, roll muddy river, black muddy river, roll.
Black Muddy River
When the last rose of summer pricks my finger,
And the hot sun chills me to the bone,
When I can't hear the song for the singer,
And I can't tell my pillow from a stone,
I will walk alone by the black muddy river,
And sing me a song of my own,
I will walk alone by the black muddy river,
And sing me a song of my own.
When the last bolt of sunshine hits the mountain,
And the stars start to splatter in the sky,
When the moon splits the southwest horizon,
With the scream of an eagle on the fly,
I will walk alone by the black muddy river,
And listen to the ripples as they moan,
I will walk alone by the black muddy river,
And sing me a song of my own.
Black muddy river, roll on forever,
I don't care how deep or wide, if you've got another side,
Roll muddy river, roll muddy river, black muddy river, roll.
When it seems like the night will last forever,
And there's nothing left to do but count the years,
When the strings of my heart start to sever,
And stones fall from my eyes instead of tears,
I will walk alone, by the black muddy river,
And dream me a dream of my own,
I will walk alone, by the black muddy river,
And sing me a song of my own, sing me a song of my own. - 12/29/12, 1:24 PM
- EDH said...
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- Fernandinande said...
Older = gladder that I'm an atheist: no capricious invisible monsters to worry about.
- SteveR said...
I don't understand the passion of the atheist. At least as a believer you get some benefit in hope, however small. Sure I know of all the bad things religions have done. So what? That's not me. When you die and end up nothing, you won't be able to say I told you so, nor will I be able to say I was wrong. On the other hand...
- Fernandinande said...
Libertarian Engineer said...: "Why not aspire to be Stalin?"
Cuz I'm not all crazy 'n' murderous.
Here's a question back: why worship, or even acknowledge, a god that's too feeble and/or uncaring to stop people like Stalin? - 12/29/12, 2:26 PM
- SomeoneHasToSayIt said...
Libertarian Engineer said...
I ask the question of atheists:
"Why not aspire to be Stalin?"
When you can answer that, get back to me.
That's actually a very easy one: the so-called "Golden Rule", which requires no deity behind it. It appeals to both logic and emotion.
With the acknowledged exception of the rare masochistic individual, "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is quite sufficient to dissuade one from Stalinist temptations, as well as a host of many lesser ones. - 12/29/12, 2:54 PM
- Robert Cook said...
"Here's a question back: why worship, or even acknowledge, a god that's too feeble and/or uncaring to stop people like Stalin?"
In other words, why would a God allow such abominations to occur to his creations?
I'm an atheist, but this is fairly easy: God is not uncaring; God merely has a different perspective. From the perspective of God--that is, the perspective of omniscience and omnipresence, the perspective of eternity--our oh-so-brief lives on earth, merely preparatory to an afterlife in eternity, (as a caterpillar is but the larval, preparatory stage to its later life as a butterfly), is, in context, completely insignificant.
Events and tragedies that loom so large in our perspective shrink and flatten into imperceptibility from this most macro of all macro views. - 12/29/12, 3:31 PM
- Alex said...
If the goal is notoriety then Adam Lanza will be an immortal compared to Ann Althouse.
- Robert Cook said...
Of course, God can perceive the imperceptible, but to him they are trifles.
- n.n said...
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- n.n said...
Robert Cook:
You take extraordinary liberty to assert a knowledge of God's will. Are you simply playing the Devil's advocate? - 12/29/12, 4:00 PM
- n.n said...
It is in our best interest that we acknowledge what we know, don't know, and are incapable of knowing. That we distinguish between science (i.e. faith constrained to a limited frame of reference) and philosophy (or religion). We should judge each faith, including atheism, by the principles it engenders.
If you want to hedge your bet, then choose a truly neutral position, which neither accepts nor rejects God, but follows his order, a moral order, which is a superset of the natural order. - 12/29/12, 4:02 PM
- amqu said...
I question his atheism. He says he is sure there's no afterlife, but he is certain he will see his brother again. I don't think he is as firm a nonbeliever as he states.
- Robert Cook said...
"Robert Cook:
"You take extraordinary liberty to assert a knowledge of God's will. Are you simply playing the Devil's advocate?"
I prefaced my statement with the stipulation that I am an atheist. I don't posit that there is a God, with a will to be known.
I am merely extrapolating from the human experience of seeing children wail piteously at what, to adult eyes, are the exceedingly minor and common tragedies of childhood--dropping an ice cream cone on the ground after having just been given it, for example. From the perspective of a being who is everywhere, all the time, forever, and who allegedly promises that we will join him in this eternal existence, why would the infinitesimal bumps and scrapes of human life warrant intervention? Just as the child will forget his lost ice cream cone swiftly enough, so will even the most awful tragedies we experience in this life be perceived (or remembered) as nothing at all from our eternal berths in the higher plane.
So, yes, you could say I'm playing "devil's" advocate, as it were. - 12/29/12, 4:12 PM
- n.n said...
Robert Cook:
I would imagine that omnipotence and omniscience has its advantages.
As for describing individual lives as infinitesimal, insignificant minutiae, consider this perspective. Viruses and other antigens are composed of the same basic components as humans, perhaps ultimately an assembly of cohesive energy. However, in their specific design, when integrated with the human body, they typically act as corruptive and corrosive elements. At a human macro level, this analogy relates individuals to society. At a divine universal level, this analogy relates packets of cohesive energy to an uncountable, infinite whole. - 12/29/12, 4:36 PM
- Robert Cook said...
And...? - 12/29/12, 4:39 PM
- Dante said...
The only thing worse than dying is living forever. At some point, you will have done it all, seen it all, and the only thing left is the boredom.
- wyo sis said...
If you lived forever and didn't get better and learn more all the time it would get boring. But, what if you kept getting better and smarter and learned to do more all the time?
- Harold said...
Free will. Pre-destination. I know atheists and believers who believe either.
If you believe in free will, then God allows Stalin because God allows free will. And God allows people to oppose Stalin for the same reason.
If you believe in pre-destination- then Stalin and his evil happens, and it all doesn't matter anyway, because nothing you can do affects anything anayway, and Sandy Hook, Columbine, etc- there's nothing to be done, they're are going to happen or not, as they happen, becasue they are pre-destined, and it is foolish to pretend that we or I or you can make any difference....
I'm on the free will side. - 12/29/12, 8:04 PM
- Libertarian Engineer said...
Two people have failed to answer the question:
"Why not aspire to be Stalin?"
"Because I don't want to." or "Because I don't like it."
are not answers.
Where is the incentive to not be an evil dictator?
You might answer that for yourself, but you cannot for others without acknowledging God. And it is still simply personal preference. It cannot be done. You may take that as an intellectual challenge.
In an atheistic world, Stalin was an evil dictator for most of his life - and appears to have gotten away with it with little consequence. So again where is the incentive for him to have lived otherwise? He was probably pretty content with his tremendous personal power, and if asked late in life, would probably not have changed very much of what he did. Did he get away with mass slaughter and starvation of the Ukrainians, et. al.?
My answer: Christ is on His throne and Stalin is accountable to Him, the perfect judge. It is not my position to say for certain, but I have an idea of the result...
And the reason that bad things happen is that there is evil in the world and God did not make us into robots. And you have no idea of the things that God might have prevented that might be even worse that you could imagine. We don't know.
If you want to experience heaven, accept Christ and wait a while. ;-) - 12/29/12, 8:23 PM
- Dante said...
But, what if you kept getting better and smarter and learned to do more all the time?
I think people have a finite capacity for knowledge and ideas, so eventually you would run out. Maybe not in the first trillion years, but maybe after a quadrillion.
Meanwhile, evolution will continue on, and you will be like an ape among men.
What might you do? Try to sleep longer and longer times, but each time you woke up, you would realize, "I'm still alive."
Was it Ann Rice that did the Vampire books? I read a few of them, and the Vampires were all incredibly bored. All they had to do was walk out into the sunlight, and it's all done. But the fear of death is just too much for them. - 12/29/12, 10:27 PM
- SomeoneHasToSayIt said...
Libertarian Engineer said...
Two people have failed to answer the question:
I gave you a sufficient answer and explanation. An understanding of the answer is up to you. Can't help you there. - 12/29/12, 10:30 PM
- Revenant said...
Personally, the older I get, the less interested I am in hearing people talk about their favorite god(s).
This is a "test" of my atheism in the sense that the omnipresence of autotuning is a test of my patience with modern pop music. :) - 12/30/12, 12:59 AM
- Revenant said...
"Why not aspire to be Stalin?"
"Because I don't want to." or "Because I don't like it." are not answers.
The correct answer is "what is wrong with *you*, that you think being Stalin would be at all desirable". :)
After all, nobody needs a reason to NOT emulate another person. There are a hundred billion human lifetimes you never gave a thought to emulate; the same is true for all of us.
It is the decision TO emulate one of that hundred billion that needs a reason. So what's the reason you find Stalin so worthy of emulation -- such that you need an external voice telling you "no, no, don't emulate him, that's bad"? - 12/30/12, 1:10 AM
- Alex said...
Because some people have a desire to be mass murderers.
- wyo sis said...
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- wyo sis said...
I don't think people have a finite capacity. Or, to be clearer, I think the soul (the essence of a person) has an infinite capacity to learn and grow. I think there will always be more. The very idea of infinity means growth and knowledge will never end. I don't believe there is an end to life, only an end to parts of life. We won't be left behind in evolution, because we'll always be learning.
- creeley23 said...
I don't think it takes all that much artistic license for Jackson to imagine what Tolkien might have put in the Hobbit, as hints of things to come, if he had been aware that he was about to write TLOTR and all his other non-novelized stuff.
SomeoneHasToSayIt : However, it takes no special insight whatsoever, if one knows the books and cares about them, to watch Jackson's Lord of the Rings and realize how little concern Jackson had for the integrity of Tolkien's work, and suspect that approach continues into Jackson's Hobbit.
That is, if one cares for reality. Otherwise, you know, "it's all good." Don't Bogart that joint and Happy New Year to you, too. - 12/30/12, 1:32 AM
- creeley23 said...
In one of Sendak's final interviews:
SENDAK: Bush was president, I thought, "Be brave. Tie a bomb to your shirt. Insist on going to the White House. And I wanna have a big hug with the vice president, definitely. And his wife, and the president, and his wife, and anybody else that can fit into the love hug."
GROTH: A group hug.
SENDAK: And then we'll blow ourselves up, and I'd be a hero. [Groth laughs.] To hell with the kiddie books. He killed Bush. He killed the vice president. Oh my God.
I've known a lot of creeps who can speak movingly about life and death and everything. Much of what they say is even true, as far as I make these matters out. - 12/30/12, 1:59 AM
- jr565 said...
You know, that would make a really good children's book.
(maurice the Suicide Bomber). It's really too bad Maurice isn't around to write it. - 12/30/12, 12:01 PM
- Human Ape said...
Tyrone Slothrop said..."I don't pretend to know what will happen to me after I die, but even if I entirely cease to be, God was with me while I lived."
Are you sure it was a god fairy? Maybe it was the Easter Bunny. Don't you think it's about time to throw out your childish god fantasy. It's called growing up. - 12/30/12, 11:08 PM


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The Electric are from St. Louis and sound well-read on groups like Judas Priest, the Stooges and New York Dolls. This album, which took over a year to make, is an album that has gotten praise from the city's critics, with one going so far as to compare it to the Rolling Stones circa Beggars Banquet or Let It Bleed. Lofty comparisons indeed! However, the group has a drummer and singer called Jeff Rocket, so how can they possibly fail? Sarcasm aside, the Electric begin this disc with "Let's Go (Explode)", a manic punk sound that is straight out of the early seventies New York punk underground scene, although the vocals veer from Iggy Pop to more of an artful David Bowie circa The Thin White Duke incarnation. Bassist Lorne Day and guitarist Matty Coonfield deliver the goods early on this track. And fortunately they seem to be energized from this momentum, leading into the feel-good head-bobbing "Out Behind the Roadhouse", which teems with meaty guitars and a garage-rock style similar to the Mooney Suzuki.
This groove the Electric is cashing in on is one that can easily be seen as a fraud if it is delivered as such. But even during the slower and pop-oriented, hand-clapping "Poor Loretta", the Electric are, well, electric. Everything is toned down somewhat, especially the guitars, and the bridge is a vocal offered up through a police bullhorn it appears. Fortunately they get back to the boogie rock during "Make Love & War", which comes extremely close to capturing the mood on the last album from Sweden's The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Behind the Music. It's a quick run-through that doesn't do much except please the listener for a couple of minutes. Here keyboards, courtesy of Coonfield, are added while vocalist Jason Wallace Triefenbach has a healthy sweat going for the 100-second tune.
Too often, though, the songs resemble Elvis (Presley, not Costello) doing a punk rock tune. The only thing you're missing out on is the "Thank you, thank you very much." This is exemplified on "Sloe Gin" which could be performed by the Hives or Jet just as easily. But the deep vocal timbre makes the Electric come off as a parody of themselves for this track. It's unfortunate because it is a good rocking tune. "All The Other Girls" fares far better and might make the Stones references ring true. The slow Southern stroll through this country-rock song with a dark seedy tension underneath makes it all the more alluring. It builds nicely before going back to square one as Medusa gets mentioned. "But when you lay with me your shoulders and your eyes are above me," the lyric goes. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club or Iceland's Singapore Sling could easily make this song part of their set, as it's easily the highlight thus far. Triefenbach lends some crisp harmonicas solos at the end for maximum effect.
When the Electric opt for tighter two-minute rock tunes, they are perhaps right up there with the big label bands with the bigger promotional push behind them. Yet on "Rock Scars", it sounds like a great studio recording and not that much of a live one. The notes and singing is too perfect and there needs to be a hell of a lot more piano heard than there is buried in the track. "I just came here looking for your kiss," the band sings before the tune runs into a self-made wall. One quickly forgets the wall when they hit their stride again on "The Oracle at 17th & Olive". Despite taking a while to loosen up and go with the flow, the Electric show hints at what might make people turn heads or give another listen to the album—innate riffs that hit you in the stomach and other parts to get you moving or gyrating. "Jupiter" opens with notes that could be mistaken for a Syd Barrett or early Pink Floyd psychedelic trip and the lyrics about being loved like an octopus could be construed as written during such a trip. It's another great effort!
By the time you hit the comedic Thorogood boogie rock on "Silicone Sis", the Electric have made their case quite clearly. They are hopefully not going away anywhere soon!
Tibet House's 30th Anniversary Benefit Concert Celebrated Philip Glass' 80th
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"Philip Glass, the artistic director of the Tibet House benefits, celebrated his 80th birthday at this year's annual benefit with performances from Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Brittany Howard, Sufjan Stevens and more.
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The full program, including meal events, special events, keynote speakers, special lectures, and information on the updated Focus on Societies Day is now online at http://fgs.org/2010conference/index.php. Registrations were already coming in online before the official release announcement was made!
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The European Union, which has very strict rules about the physical geographic containment of personal and business data within the boundaries of its 27 member countries, is now pushing hard to work with the United States and Japan to prevent data protection regulations from hindering the growth of cloud computing across the region.
The European Commission, which serves as the law enforcement body of the European Union, on Sept. 27 released a 32-page report entitled "Unleashing the Potential of Cloud Computing in Europe" which lays out its ideas about how the EU can build a "structured collaboration" regarding cloud-service regulation in partnership with the international community.
The reason for all of this political interest in emerging cloud systems? The EC, having completed a major research project on the topic, believes that financial benefits from cloud systems aiding local, regional and international commerce could reach triple figures in the billions by the year 2020. This isn't to mention creating an estimated 2.5 million new jobs doing all this work.
This all looks mighty promising, considering the huge macro-economic hole out of which EMEA -- especially members such as Greece, Italy and Spain -- is trying to dig.
Barriers to adoption that include contrasting national legal issues, language problems, portability of contracts and a lack of interoperability standards for cloud computing are currently causing headaches for many enterprises. With its report, the EC is aiming to obtain the attention of all 27 EU nations and get them on the same page in order to promote the refreshment of old data centers into cloud-ready facilities that will help Europe make more money from international customers.
In addition to calling for sharing, charting and analyzing security measures and participating in joint IT development, the EC asked for straightforward legal contracts and clear development standards to help businesses be more effective at cloud deployments. All of these issues, the EC said, cause enterprise to shy away from adopting cloud solutions.
In the report, EC Commissioner Neelie Kroes wrote: "Cloud computing is a game-changer for our economy. Without EU action, we will stay stuck in national fortresses and miss out on billions in economic gains. We must achieve critical mass and a single set of rules across Europe. We must tackle the perceived risks of cloud computing head-on."
The EC report also said cloud providers and their customers need clear-cut rules in cloud-service service-level agreements, including the ability to move stored data and active software between different cloud providers as contracts end as well as how to resolve legal disputes.
"Europe needs to think big," wrote EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding. "The cloud strategy will enhance trust in innovative computing solutions and boost a competitive digital single market where Europeans feel safe. That means a swift adoption of the new data protection framework, which the EC proposed earlier this year, and the development of safe and fair contract terms and conditions."
Kroes is quite familiar with the IT community, as it is with her. The hard-nosed German administrator served as the commission's Competition Commissioner from 2005 to 2010 and was a key player in the EC's decision to sanction Oracle's $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun on Jan. 27, 2010, so Oracle could continue to do business in Europe. That did not happen without a protracted antitrust battle, however, and Oracle ended up spending a lot of money on lawyers to win its case.
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Blue Demons Down Indiana For 15th Straight Win
March 8, 2014 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- With a 14-match winning streak on the line, the No. 41 DePaul women's tennis team rose to the occasion on Saturday afternoon, beating No. 34 Indiana, 5-2. The Blue Demons are now 16-1 overall and 5-1 against ranked opponents. They have not dropped a match since late-January. Indiana, meanwhile, fell to 10-4. The loss snapped a three-match winning streak for the Hoosiers. "It was a great effort today by the team," said head coach Mark Ardizzone. "Indiana is a great team and we were able to come through. I'm just so proud of how we competed the whole day." DePaul won the doubles point to start they day, taking 2-of-3 and grabbing a 1-0 edge in the match. Zaina Sufi and Rebeca Mitrea beat Alecia Kauss and Shannon Murdy, 8-3, in the No. 3 match. Then, with the doubles matches even at one (Indiana took the No. 2 match), Patricia Fargas and Ana Vladutu improved to 10-1 in dual play thanks to an 8-6 win over Carolyn Chupa and Katie Klyczek in the No. 1 match. The win propelled the Blue Demons to the early match advantage. In singles play, senior Kelsey Lawson won at No. 4 to push the DePaul lead to two. Lawson defeated Kauss, 6-3, 6-2, for her 10th consecutive victory and 14th of the spring. But the Hoosiers were able to crawl back into the match just moments later, as Klyczek and Sophie Garre won at No. 1 and No. 3 singles, respectively, to level the contest, 2-2.
Needing two more singles wins to secure the victory, Sufi picked up a critical win in the No. 5 slot, outlasting Murdy in three sets (1-6, 6-2, 7-6). Sufi's triumph at No. 5 moved her dual record to 15-1 and overall record to 25-6. More importantly, she pushed the Blue Demons within one of a crucial road victory over the ranked Hoosiers. With two matches remaining, it was Mitrea who clinched the match for the Blue Demons at No. 6 singles, winning a hard-fought battle over Paula Gutierrez, 6-4, 7-6. Vladutu won the final match of the day (No. 2 singles), beating Chupa in three sets, 6-4, 5-7, 6-3. The Blue Demons will have nearly three weeks off before their next match. They will be well-rested for their March 27 date with Point Loma Nazarene in San Diego, Calif. DePaul's remarkable 15-match winning streak will be on the line. "This has been an amazing streak," Ardizzone said. "But what isreally great is that we still want to get better. The girls will have a few weeks off to get straight 'As' in class and then we'll get back to work." Results Doubles Order of Finish: Doubles (3,2,1) Singles (4,1,3,5,6,2) |
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Lot 404: NEW HAMPSHIRE CHEST-ON-CHEST.
Annual Labor Day Auction
by Garth's Auctioneers & Appraisers
September 4, 2010
Delaware, OH, USA
Live Auction
Attributed to the Dunlap school, southern New Hampshire, late 18th century, maple and white pine. Top section with flat molded cornice, has four thumbmolded drawers set into bottom section of three drawers. The lower having a façade of three drawers, the center with carved fan. The separate base with S-scrolled skirt, carved fans and bandy cabriole legs is characteristic of the Dunlap style. Brasses are old, if not original. 70 1/2"h. Lower section 38"w. 19 1/2"d.
See Sotheby's October 4, 2007, lot 120.
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Refinished, brasses are period possibly not original. Damage to one lip (piece is present but detached).
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After posting a 39-29 victory over Maine East, St. Viator girls basketball coach Paul Bjerkness praised his team's defensive effort on Friday night.
"It was another incredible effort," he said.
For about 28 minutes.
That's because the Lions hardly had to play defense for the final four minutes.
St. Viator held the ball against Maine East nearly the entire time due to the Blue Demons refusal to exit their zone defense despite trailing 37-27.
No, Maine East coach Karol Hanusiak wasn't purposely conceding the game to the four-time tourney defending champs in their own Cahill Gymnasium.
She just wanted to see her team gain the final four of the 29th annual Snowflake Tournament in Arlington Heights.
Let's explain.
Maine East, Northside Prep and Elmwood Park all finished with 1-2 records in four-team pool play of the eight-team event.
Hanusiak knew the tiebreaker was fewest points given up and prior to the game she was informed her team had to hold St. Viator to 40 points to earn that distinction by 1 point over Northside Prep.
"Of course, we would have liked to get there (final four) by winning," Hanusiak said. "But it is what it is. We'll take it.
"At halftime (trailing 26-17), I told our girls our No. 1 goal was to win the game. Our No. 2 goal was that if we weren't going to win, we had to hold them to 40 points."
So after senior Morgan Hess made a steal with 3:40 left in the final period, the Lions were greeted in the frontcourt by Maine East's zone defense.
Sophomore guard Erin Fabbri just stood out top dribbling the ball for nearly two minutes before Bjerkness called a timeout near the one-minute mark and put in his reserves.
They managed to sneak in for a shot and Maine East came up with the rebound. Sophomore Jazlene Gonzales scored a layup with 21.4 seconds left.
Viator came back down the floor and with three seconds left Samy Stanley hit a short jumper to make it 39-29.
"I had no idea what was going on (with Maine East staying in its zone)," said Morgan Hess.
Maine East (2-10, 1-2) will play Glenbrook North (3-0 in the tourney) at 6 p.m. on Monday while the Lions (9-4, 2-1) face Guerin Prep (2-1 in the tourney) at 7:30 p.m.
Guard Katie Gavin led St. Viator with 8 points, followed by forward Lauren Rooney (7), Mallory Hess (6) and Morgan Hess (6).
"Coach told us to move the ball around the perimeter so we could get some post action," Morgan Hess added. "We wanted to draw their defense out high."
"We just worked together and didn't give up when they made runs at us," added Rooney, who pulled down 11 rebounds. "It was a very physical game and they are very scrappy so we had to keep our heads in the game. We just wanted to get some momentum for our games Monday and Tuesday."
Bjerkness praised the inside work of Rooney and forward Mary Cleary.
"And I thought Morgan Hess did a fantastic job," he said. "Mallory Hess made some real nice decisions on offense.
"The kids just did a great job collectively. On any given night, you don't know who is going to step up with these girls. And we get some big contributions from the bench."
Kristen Georgopoulos led Maine East with 7 points while Laura Lherisson added 6.
"It would have been great to win," Lherisson said. "But at the end of the day, getting in the top four is what we wanted."
Hanusiak would have liked to have seen more offensive production from her team.
"We had no offense," she said. "And St. Viator played good defense.
"Until we learn to get our emotions in check, we won't go very far. We didn't have a terrible basketball game, but it wasn't a good one."
Guerin Prep 39, Leyden 24: Junior guards Crystal Nguyen (9 points) and Victoria Galizia (8) were top scorers for Leyden (0-13, 0-3) in the Snowflake at St. Viator.
The Eagles led 13-10 after a quarter and trailed 23-20 at the break.
"We are finally putting things together in the first half," said Eagles coach Michele Szatko. "We have been more competitive and staying in the game. But when teams put pressure on us in the second half, we are not making good decisions with the ball."
Nguyen had 9 of the Eagles points in the first quarter with 3 3-pointers.
"Crystal stepped up and has been doing a great job on the offensive end," Szatko said. "Jeanine Hannoun is doing a nice job on the defensive end. She's getting rebounds, taking charges and giving us a nice spark.
"It's just a matter of putting together four quarters. That's the key for us. We have been competitive our last five games."
Niles West 52, Barrington 42: Notre Dame recruit Jewell Loyd struck for a game-high 42 points for the Wolves in the Suburban Holiday Showcase.
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The Fillies (5-8), who were led by senior Nicole Collin's 13 points, led by 5 points in the third quarter.
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Keys To Colts Winning AFC Championship Over PatriotsAfter knocking out the Denver Broncos, 24-13, last weekend, the Indianapolis Colts need to focus on key areas to defeat the New England Patriots on Sunday in Foxborough.
Patriots Opponent Profile: Luck Gets Another Shot At BradyAndrew Luck will need to break a winless streak against Tom Brady to earn his first Super Bowl appearance.
Colts Haven't Forgotten Last Meeting With BengalsThe Indianapolis Colts haven't forgotten their last meeting with the Cincinnati Bengals in week seven of the 2014 regular season, and look to capitalize on Bengals letdown.
5 Players In The NFL Who Will Have A Bounce Back Season OffensivelyHere is a list of five players who will have a bounce back season.
Colts, Not Bengals Better Bet For Patriots In PlayoffsThis AFC Divisional Playoff Game features legendary New England quarterback Tom Brady against Indy's Andrew Luck, who seems to be a legend in the making.
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After the US Attorney General announced on November 13, 2009, that five Guantánamo detainees would be prosecuted in civilian court in the USA, the five men remain in military custody in Guantánamo, amid signs that the administration may do a U-turn and instead use military commissions.
On 13 November 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that five detainees held at the US Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay in Cuba would be transferred for prosecution in federal court in New York on charges relating to the attacks of 11 September 2001 (see http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR51/116/2009/en). The five detainees – Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid bin Attash, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, 'Ali 'Abd al-'Aziz and Mustafa al Hawsawi – had been held incommunicado for up to four years in secret US custody before being transferred to Guantánamo in 2006. They were charged in 2008 by the Bush administration for trial by military commission.
Since the Attorney General's announcement, the question of the place of trial and use of civilian courts for these and other detainees has been the subject of fierce political controversy in the USA; proposed legislation in Congress seeks to prohibit civilian trials and require exclusive use of military commissions for these and other detainees (see overleaf). On 5 March, the US newspaper, the Washington Post reported that, according to administration officials, President Obama's advisers were to recommend that the trial of the five men be conducted by military commissions. Following the report, the White House spokesperson said that "no decision" had been made, and the administration has since been reported as saying that a final decision on where to try the five would not be made "for weeks".
Amnesty International considers that the military commissions, even under revised procedures introduced in 2009, do not meet international fair trial standards. International law requires that trials be conducted in independent courts; military commissions are not independent. Trial of civilians by military tribunals is inconsistent with international standards, especially when civilian courts are readily available. Applying inferior trial protections on the basis of nationality – US nationals cannot be tried by the military commissions – would violate the right to equality before the law. Any execution after such unfair trials would violate the right to life under international law. The latter also provides that anyone charged with a criminal offence has the right to be tried without undue delay. These five men have now been in US custody for up to seven and a half years. Any Guantánamo detainee the USA intends to prosecute must be promptly charged and brought to fair trial in an independent and impartial tribunal applying fair trial standards. Any detainee the USA does not intend to prosecute should be immediately released.
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Military commission proceedings were suspended in January 2009 as part of President Obama's order to his administration to review and resolve the Guantánamo detentions and close the detention facility within a year. Not only has that deadline been missed, and no new deadline set, military commission trials have been retained and are pending against a number of detainees. The Guantánamo detainee task force established under President Obama's 22 January 2009 executive order is reported to have recommended that about 35 of the detainees be prosecuted by the USA, either in federal courts or military commissions, while a further 48 should be held without charge or trial. The administration has proposed purchasing Thompson Correctional Center in Illinois, including for the indefinite detention in military custody of such detainees, but the plan will require congressional support for funding and possible legislation. Meanwhile releases of other Guantánamo detainees have been few and slow coming, including because of the USA's refusal to allow into the US mainland released detainees who cannot be returned to their home countries for fear of the human rights violations they would face there. See USA: Still failing human rights in the name of global 'war', January 2010, http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR51/006/2010/en, and USA: Daily injustice, immeasurable damage, 5 March 2010, http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR51/020/2010/en.
Over the past year, US detentions in the context of counter-terrorism – particularly the question of what to do with the Guantánamo detainees – have taken on a renewed domestic political dimension that has served to override the USA's international human rights obligations. The political temperature surrounding these issues has risen even further since an alleged attempt to detonate explosives on a commercial flight inbound to Detroit on 25 December 2009 and the administration's decision to provide the suspect, a foreign national, with a lawyer and charge him for trial in federal court. In January 2010, for example, the Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee called on the administration to transfer the suspect to military custody as an "unprivileged enemy combatant", for interrogation and military commission trial. Over the year, Congress has blocked progress on the detainee cases in a variety of ways, and further legislation is pending. On 2 February 2010, for example, a number of US Senators introduced proposals aimed at cutting off funding for the trials of the five detainees whose prosecution in federal court Attorney General Holder announced in November 2009. The bill was described by its sponsors as "the first step towards protecting the security of the American people from inappropriate trials in domestic criminal courts". On 4 March 2010, Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman introduced another bill – the Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010 – into the Senate. Senator McCain, emphasizing his claim that the USA was engaged in a "war" against terrorists, said that the bill would authorize detention without charge "for the duration of hostilities" of anyone labeled as an "unprivileged enemy belligerent". It would prohibit any such individual from being provided a lawyer after arrest – "we should not be providing suspected terrorists" with defense lawyers, Senator McCain said. If it eventually was decided to hold a criminal trial in such a case, he added, his bill would require exclusive use of military commissions.
The USA's military commissions are not by any measure tribunals of demonstrably legitimate necessity, but creations of political choice. Amnesty International has opposed use of these tribunals ever since President George W. Bush signed an executive order in November 2001 establishing military commissions for the trial of alien "enemy combatants" in what he called the "war on terror". That system was overturned by the US Supreme Court in 2006, but was replaced with a slightly revised system established under the Military Commissions Act of 2006. President Obama signed revised commission procedures into law in October 2009. Amnesty International remains convinced that justice will neither be done nor be seen to be done in such trials. See Trials in error: Third go at misconceived military commission experiment, July 2009, http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR51/083/2009/en.


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April 12th, 2011
-Judge Nelson finally ordered the NFLPA* and NFL representatives back to mediation. This is a huge step because I don't believe the two sides would have made this move anytime soon without a third party getting involved. The thing to remember is that she can order the two sides to work on an agreement but she can not order them to agree. A lot has to be done on both sides but this is a good start to ensuring a sixteen game season.
-Da'Quan Bowers knee is getting a lot of attention and rightfully so. Some team doctors think that Bowers will be lucky to play out his rookie contract. Other teams have taken him off their boards all together. The knee will be a concern and it will cause him to slide but I still don't see Bowers making it out of the top 15.
-The Bears and Bucs will play a regular season game in London in what will be considered a Buccaneers home game. The full schedule should be released the week of the draft. Now all they have to do is figure out that labor thing.
-A report surfaced today stating the Jets have no interest in Randy Moss. Despite this, I still think Moss to the Jets makes a lot of sense. The Jets like big name veterans and have some key free agents at wide receiver. This also keeps Moss from going back to New England. I have a feeling Moss has at least one big season left in the tank. What better place to show it than New York?
-The Panthers seem to be leaning towards quarterback with the number one overall pick. They very well could go with another position but word around the league is, if it is quarterback, it is Cam Newton. Gabbert gained some momentum in the last few weeks but I don't think Carolina ever really considered Gabbert over Newton as an option.
-The best football entertainment you will get between now and the draft is Jon Gruden's Quarterback Camp. Check it out April 21st at 7 p.m. on ESPN.
-Go away Jenn Sterger.


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China smog shrouds Beijing and northern area
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Beijing and a large area of northern China are shrouded in thick smog, as the country's extended holiday has come to an end.
It will take three more days for the sky above Beijing to clear, the Beijing News newspaper reported.
The smog has lead to flight cancellations and motorway closures, drastically reducing visibility in some areas, as this video shows.


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Diode laser delivery systems designed for relatively larger numerical apertures, fiber diameters
Laser Mechanisms has introduced a line of diode laser beam delivery systems with output wavelengths from about 800 to 980 nm. The units are designed for the relatively larger numerical apertures and fiber diameters of direct-diode systems. Units with SMA-905, QBH, LLK-B (Q5), and other fiber receivers are available.
After the collimator, the company can add any of its beam delivery components, such as turning mirrors with through-the-lens CCTV viewing and monocular/binocular viewing. For fine work, a through-the-lens illumination system also is offered.
Closer to the workpiece are the manufacturer's cartridge-style lens and coverslide holders for alignment and inspection of the optics and quick coverslide changes. Gas nozzles and air-knife systems are available for laser processes from cutting and welding to heat treating and cladding.


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The second meeting in the PG&E series at the Critical Facilities Roundtable was about power distribution at data centers and was held at Cupertino Electric in San Jose.
The first speaker was Spas Lazarov of GE Energy Service, who spoke about points of power loss in data centers.
Spas Lazarov
The power use ratio in a data center varies from one data source to another, but Spas showed the ratio in the following picture.
Power use ratio in a data center
In his graph, I think the cooling ratio is a little too small, but it is within a reasonable range. The two items that consume the most power are IT and cooling. The power required for power distribution is 10–20%, small enough not to be very noticeable. There has been a lot of discussion about conserving power for IT (refreshing hardware and virtualization) and cooling (hot and cold aisle, containment, and air economizer). Although some work has been done, efforts to curb power consumption for power distribution have been minimum. Once power enters a data center, it changes its voltage and form a few times before it hits IT equipment. The following is a picture that shows the normal course of power distribution in a data center.
In a normal data center, UPSs are placed to prepare for power loss or poor quality power.
There are several UPS configurations, but Spas talked about double conversion mode and high efficiency mode. In the double conversion model, power, which entered the data center from the grid, always goes through the UPS. This is to ensure that IT equipment always receives good quality power in terms of frequency and voltage. Power from the power grid is AC. When that AC enters a UPS, AC is transformed via a rectifier to DC power for the battery inside the UPS. Then DC power is taken out of the battery and converted to AC power via an inverter. Two conversions introduce power losses, with an additional loss at the battery. If instead the UPS is operated under the high efficiency model, which bypasses the UPS in a normal situation and taps the UPS battery only in the case of an emergency, power loss is minimized, as shown in the next picture. In the figure, PUE increases because more power is fed to IT equipment rather than wasted in power distribution.
Spas pointed out that power quality in the US and most developed countries is good enough not to worry about. He gave us the example of a 50,000 square foot data center with a 5 MW load and a power price of $0.01 per kilowatt hour saving $3M annually by means of the high efficiency model. He also said that if all UPSs were operated under this model, $3B could be saved globally.
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This is great, but what if the supply power is cut off from the grid? Can your servers survive the power interruption? Spas showed a diagram, below, with some details about the way power components are put together inside a server.
Normally, a server contains a capacitor. As in the power grid, which has capacitor banks at strategic locations like substations and distribution networks, this capacitor inside the server maintains power for the server in case of power loss from outside. As shown in the picture above, a typical capacitor can maintain power for 20 ms in case of power loss. When you check your server's specification, that information should be described on it.
Spas also showed us that operating UPSs in the high efficiency model does fit within the ITI (CBEMA) Curve set by the Information Technology Industry Council. ITI is the high tech sector's advocacy organization in Washington, D.C., and in foreign capitals around the world. It deals with such issues as corporate tax reform, trade, telecommunications, cybersecurity, energy efficiency, workforce and STEM initiatives, regulatory compliance, accessibility, and environmental sustainability.
The ITI (CBEMA) Curve and application note describe an AC input voltage envelope that typically can be tolerated (no interruption in function) by most information technology equipment.
As I dive into smart grid and power engineering, I revisit the issues in electrical and mechanical functions in data centers. Although I came from the IT sector, I think I am beginning to understand the facilities perspective a little bit better.


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FLAG-tag, or FLAG octapeptide, is a polypeptide protein tag that can be added to a protein using recombinant DNA technology. It can be used for affinity chromatography, then used to separate recombinant, overexpressed protein from wild-type protein expressed by the host organism. It can also be used in the isolation of protein complexes with multiple subunits.
A FLAG-tag can be used in many different assays that require recognition by an antibody. If there is no antibody against the studied protein, adding a FLAG-tag to this protein allows one to follow the protein with an antibody against the FLAG sequence. Examples are cellular localization studies by immunofluorescence or detection by SDS PAGE protein electrophoresis.
The peptide sequence of the FLAG-tag from the N-terminus to the C-terminus is: DYKDDDDK (1012 Da). It can be used in conjunction with other affinity tags, for example a polyhistidine tag (His-tag), HA-tag or Myc-tag. It can be fused to the C-terminus or the N-terminus of a protein. Some commercially available antibodies (e.g., M1/4E11) recognize the epitope only when it is present at the N-terminus. However, other available antibodies (e.g., M2) are position-insensitive.
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TGF beta 2 (Transforming growth factor beta 2), an extracellular glycosylated protein, which belongs to the TGF-beta family. TGF-beta regulates key mechanisms of tumor development, namely immunosuppression, metastasis, angiogenesis, and proliferation. TGF beta 2 suppression is a promising therapeutic approach for malignant tumor therapy. The signaling pathway of TGF beta 2/Smad plays an important role in the pathological process in posterior capsule opacification (PCO) after cataract surgery. Silencing Smad2 and Smad3 efficiently blocked the effect of TGF beta 2 on cell proliferation, migration, and extracellular matrix production. TGF beta 2 activation of MEKK3/ERK1/2/5 signaling modulates Has2 expression and hyaluronan (HA) production leading to the induction of epithelial to mesenchymal transformation (EMT) events. In addition, the upregulation of the TGF beta 2 level is a common pathological feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) brains and suggests that it may be closely linked to the development of neuronal death related to AD.


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late 14c., "hard, unbreakable," from adamant (n.). Figurative sense of "unshakeable" first recorded 1670s. Related: Adamantly; adamance.
mid-14c., from Old French adamant and directly from Latin adamantem (nominative adamas) "adamant, hardest iron, steel," also figuratively, of character, from Greek adamas (genitive adamantos) "unbreakable, inflexible" metaphoric of anything unalterable, also the name of a hypothetical hardest material, perhaps literally "invincible," from a- "not" + daman "to conquer, to tame" (see tame (adj.)), or else a word of foreign origin altered to conform to Greek.
Applied in antiquity to white sapphire, magnet (perhaps via confusion with Latin adamare "to love passionately"), steel, emery stone, and especially diamond (see diamond). The word was in Old English as aðamans "a very hard stone."
(Heb. shamir), Ezek. 3:9. The Greek word adamas means diamond. This stone is not referred to, but corundum or some kind of hard steel. It is an emblem of firmness in resisting adversaries of the truth (Zech. 7:12), and of hard-heartedness against the truth (Jer. 17:1).


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"I Don't Work For You, I Work For the American People"
The last time I checked, singer Sheryl Crow and environmental activist Laurie David were Americans, just like me. But according to Karl Rove, he does not have to answer to them because he "works for the American people." Rove was approached on Saturday night by the stars and asked to discuss the president's environmental policy (or lack thereof).
Citizenship issues aside, Deputy White House Press Secretary Dana Perino scolded Crow and David for not showing respect to George W. Bush.
(Here is where I take a break so I can recover from Perino's statement. Why on Earth would anyone who has been paying attention for the last six years want to show respect for Bush? And, as Think Progress says, "...the last time we checked, Karl Rove is not the president.")
But I digress. Perino's next zinger was even better: "The president's record on climate change is very strong."
Right. It is so strong that he has all but demolished the Environmental Protection Agency, encouraged falsification of scientific reports on global warming, removed reports that indicate the seriousness of global warming and the harm being done by pollutors, backed out of the Kyoto agreement, and lied about reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
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Less concern about industrial production but manufacturing almost certain to contribute negatively to growth in Q4
Nida Ali, economic advisor to the EY ITEM Club, comments on today's Industrial production and manufacturing figures:
- Less concern about the sharp monthly drop in industrial production, entirely due to one-off effects
- But manufacturing will almost certainly contribute negatively to growth in Q4 and prospects for the sector in the near-term are bleak
"We wouldn't look too much into the sharp monthly drop in industrial production in September, which was almost entirely because of a fall in extraction output, due to a number of oil rigs being shut for maintenance. As such it is just a one-off effect that will probably unwind in October.
"And the downward revision to quarterly industrial production growth from the 1.1% reported in the GDP preliminary release to 0.9% in today's figures shouldn't be enough to cause a revision to the GDP data on its own.
"But today's figures reveal that the level of manufacturing output ended Q3 someway below the quarterly average, meaning that Q4 already looks like being an uphill battle. Even if output is flat for the next three months, it will be down on the quarter as a whole, and the PMI surveys suggest that output is more than likely to fall, so manufacturing will almost certainly contribute negatively to growth in Q4. Once again we're faced with relying on the services sector to keep growth out of negative territory.
The Eurozone crisis continues to cast a shadow on the prospects for UK manufacturers, and the near-term outlook for the sector is weak. But assuming that the Eurozone remains intact and drags itself out of recession, we are more optimistic about prospects for UK manufacturers further out."


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Special Needs Students Dance the Day Away at Special Prom
They're getting ready the same way as everyone else, just with a little help.
"It's really fun because you get to make them feel so pretty," said Chelsea Rodriguez, a senior taking cosmetology classes at Abilene High School.
She's just one of many students helping out with the special prom for special needs students, hosted by Abilene High School on Friday afternoon.
"This is a big day, as you can tell, she gets really emotional," said Yolanda Lopez.
It's a moment Lopez never thought she would see for her daughter Amanda.
"Because you know, they always tend to leave special needs kids out."
But not this time around...
"We're gonna get her hair done, makeup, we went and got jewelry, dress, everything," Lopez said. "She wanted everything, just like a normal kid."
For the boys -- well, the boutonnieres and tuxes are here, but the pre-prom primping process is a little different...
Mostly, it includes them dancing to Gangnam Style.
And all of it, months of preparation and practice proms once a month, lead up to this very special day -- prom.
The food was prepared by the culinary students, the music DJed by the technology kids, and the hair, makeup and nails courtesy of the cosmetology gurus at Abilene High.
"It's a very special day for them. They may be special, but we have to treat them just like every other kid," said Wilson Medina, the father of two special needs daughters who he says have been looking forward to prom day for months.
"They've been talking about this nonstop for a long time now."
"We tried to make sure they had every experience that every other teenager has on prom day -- they had the dresses, the nails, the hair, people doting over them," said Jill McClellan, the brains behind the event.
And it's easy to see exactly what everyone's favorite part is -- dancing.
Because when the music gets going, these kids aren't waiting a second to dance away their big day..
Organizers say the special needs students are welcome to the regular prom, but many don't go for fear of feeling out of place.
Students from Albany, Clyde, Wylie and Cooper also attended.
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Lots being announced at the European Film Market in Berlin this week in case you haven't noticed from all my EFM-related posts…
Today, indie film distributor Revolver announced its upcoming 2012 slate of films, and I was surprised to see this one: a comedy feature starring Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa, titled High School.
This is the first I'm hearing of this, so naturally I did some digging to find out that it's a stoner comedy, inspired by Cheech & Chong, with Snoop saying that he and Wiz are essentially modern-day versions of that dynamic duo; the film's supposed soundtrack, titled Mac & Devin Go to High School, was released about a month ago – Mac and Devin are the names of the characters that Snoop and Wiz play in the film.
Mac & Devin Go To High School was the original titled of the film by the way, but apparently it's just High School now.
So what can we expect from this sure-fire masterpiece of cinema?
"They smoked joints, they were funny, they were cool and they would get into real situations… So we're the modern-day image of them. We're bringing it back," said Snoop in reference to Cheech & Chong, indicating what High School's content might look, feel and sound like.
I don't know what Revolver's plans are for the film, but, based on the below trailer, I seriously doubt that a theatrical release is the film's future; this thing is headed to DVD/VOD land:


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A recognised spokesman for Osama Bin Laden's militant al-Qaeda network has made the clearest indication yet that it was responsible for the 11 September attacks on America.
He was speaking in an undated recording aired on Wednesday by a Saudi-owned TV network. The tape also showed what appeared to be al-Qaeda fighters killed in Afghanistan. The spokesman, who is among Washington's most wanted men, accused the US of "publicly fighting Islam".
"God ordered us to terrorise the infidels, and we terrorised the infidels," he added. The same broadcast - by the Middle East Broadcasting Corporation - showed old statements made by Bin Laden himself welcoming the suicide attacks, which killed about 3,000 people. Two of Bin Laden's aides, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Mohammed Atef, also appeared in the video. Atef, who was believed to have been killed in a US air strike on Kabul in November, is seen to say: "Liberating Palestine starts here." Another tape was broadcast by the Qatari satellite channel al-Jazeera on Monday, in which al-Zawahiri described the attacks as a "great victory". Al-Jazeera has promised to air the tape in full on Thursday. |
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The Life of a Cadet
Seize the Day
Activity | Monday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
Physical Training (Football field / SDC) |
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Leadership Lab |
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Classroom Instruction |
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In addition to the weekly schedule above, the Cadet Battalion conducts one Field Training Exercise (FTX) per semester. The FTX is conducted from Friday–Sunday. Training conducted during the FTX includes land navigation, leadership challenge lanes, and rifle and pistol marksmanship.
During the Fall semester, the Cadet Battalion has a volunteer team that trains—and then competes—against 10 other universities in the annual Ranger Challenge competition held at Fort McCoy, Wisc. Some of the events include, but are not limited to, shooting, physical fitness evaluation, first aid, rope bridge, foot march, and marksmanship.
During the summer after students' second year, cadets have the opportunity to attend airborne school (which trains cadets to parachute), air assault training (rappelling and rigging external loads on helicopters), cadet field training at West Point, the cultural understanding and language program (which includes international travel to one of over 30 participating nations), helicopter flight training, and mountain warfare school in Vermont or Alaska.


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The newest trailer for Mockingjay—Part 2 hit the internet yesterday, to remind you that EVERYTHING IS AWFUL. (Spoilers to come, but honestly, the trailer pretty much does the job for us.) In one of the most aggressive instances of foreshadowing in trailer history, the emotional manipulation/marketing...More →
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