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J.J. Cale coming to Victoria
While not yet confirmed on the Alix Goolden Hall website, it appears that J.J. Cale will perform at that venue on April 11, according to Jazz News ("JJ CALE CONFIRMS FIRST SOLO TOUR IN FIVE YEARS IN SUPPORT OF "SUPREMELY CHILL, UTTERLY AGELESS" (ROLLING STONE) NEW ALBUM ROLL ON (ROUNDER RECORDS)"):
JJ Cale has confirmed his first tour in five years, returning to the road with a few weeks of solo shows in intimate west coast venues. The tour is in support of his sublime Rounder Records
debut Roll On, with a portion of the proceeds from each show to be donated to animal shelters and rescue efforts in each city. The album, out February 24, is getting rave reviews, and the title track featuring Eric Clapton on guitar was the #1 Most Added song at AAA radio in its first week.
"The songs are top-shelf… his bubbling guitar – as much a jam band archetype as Jerry Garcia's – glints across the shadows." –Rolling Stone
"Roll On [is] a showcase for Mr. Cale's laidback shuffle." –The Wall Street Journal
"Roll On finds Cale back in vintage form. You can practically feel the tour bus hitting the open road in the title track." –The Boston Globe
3/27 – McCabe's, Santa Monica, CA
3/28 – McCabe's, Santa Monica, CA
3/29 – Belly Up, Solona Beach, CA
3/30 – Coach House, San Juan Capistrano, CA
4/1 – Mystic Theatre, Petaluma, CA
4/2 – Bimbo's, San Francisco, CA
4/3 – Rio Theatre, Santa Cruz, CA
4/5 – WOW Hall, Eugene, OR
4/6 – Aladdin Theatre, Portland, OR
4/7 – Triple Door, Seattle, WA
4/8 – Triple Door, Seattle, WA
4/10 – Capilano University, Vancouver, BC
4/11 – Alix Goolden Hall, Victoria, BC
We'll keep an eye out for when tickets go on sale… Stay tuned!
Jennifer Kostuik at VISA tomorrow night
Jennifer Kostuik, Thursday February 26 @ 7:30 pm
Jennifer is director/owner of the Jennifer Kostuik Gallery in Vancouver. The Jennifer Kostuik Gallery exhibits painting and photographic-based work.
Vancouver Island School of Art
2549 Quadra Street
Victoria, BC V8T 4E1
Phone: 250.380.3500
Email: email@example.com
From the VISA website:
Jennifer Kosituk has a Bachelor of Art History from Queens University and has worked for the Art Gallery of Ontario and various commercial galleries in Toronto. Jennifer has represented 20 artists from across Canada, USA and Europe.
Jennifer is owner and director of the Jennifer Kostiuk Gallery which was established 1997 in Vancouver, Canada. The gallery represents established and emerging contemporary artists from across Canada and USA. It brings together artists that explore similar themes and aesthetics creating a relevant cross section of topical interests and concerns. The gallery artists' works address the various ways in which the contemporary mindset has altered nature and our relationship to it. Notably are organic references to nature's influence, impact or unconscious message its presence plays on the individual artist or collector, or society as a whole. Together the works inform each other and provide a complex context for the reading of their individual perspectives. The Jennifer Kosituk Gallery has recently moved to a great new and spacious location in Yaletown in Vancouver.
Check the Jennifer Kositiuk Gallery website
Gail Harris and the Lowriders
Next weekend at Hermann's:
At 8 pm on Friday, March 6th, Gail Harris & The Low Riders
will again bring their "serio comic cow funk groovin poet
posse" to Hermann's Jazz Club.
Featuring Victoria performance artist Gail Harris's (Film:
Men: A Passion Playground, 1986, Atom Egoyan) original
tunes, vocals and guitar licks, Hon Chow's drum sculpting,
"Alley Zed" on percussion and funky vocals, and Sooke's Gord
Phillips on bass, guitar and back up vocals, this band of
rabble rousers serve up a mix of invigorating, serio comic
original tunes and stratosphere-altering poetry/music
electro acoustic symph-operas that transport the audience to
the coffee houses of the psychedelic 60's!
Joining The Low Riders will be special guests "Caroline &
Adam Awesome Band, Great Job!" featuring amazing vocalist
Caroline Spence (Crimson Star) and jazz wizard Adam
Basterfield (Crimson Star, PIGS Pink Floyd Tribute Band) in
their Victoria debut as a duo.
So as Edna Boyle would say, "Come on Down"! As Hermann's is
a restaurant offering a fine selection of fare, children are
most welcome too! Hope to see you there!
$8 in advance (Lyle's / Alloy Music) $10 at the door.
INFO: 250-891-0835 or 250-642-2809.
"Haircuts by Children"
The Belfry Theatre presents…
Event: Haircuts by Children
"Would you trust a ten-year old to give you a haircut?"
What: Performance
Host: The Belfry Theatre
Start Time: Saturday, March 14 at 10:00am
End Time: Sunday, March 15 at 2:00pm
Where: Fish Hair Salon (go to map)
Local arts organization protest funding cuts
Just received this emailed newsletter via Victoria Film Festival:
Arts Organizations Warn Against Provincial Budget Cuts
Victoria – Arts organizations are calling on the provincial government to reverse its decision to dramatically reduce support to the BC Arts Council. Despite repeated recommendations from industry leaders and the Standing Committee on Finance, the government announced severe cuts in funding to the Council in the 2009 budget.
Finance Minister Colin Hansen referenced the importance of the Arts in his budget speech when he announced an immediate one-time investment of $15-million dollars, the details of which are still not entirely clear.
While it appears that this one time investment may maintain the 2009/10 BC Arts Council budget at the current level, the budget projections for the following years reduce funding for the Arts to less than 50% of the current level.
"The concern in the arts sector is palpable", notes David Shefsiek, President of ProArt Alliance of Greater Victoria. "The long range projections suggest that despite a strong service plan from the Ministry, the Government still does not fully recognize the role the sector plays in the cultural and economic vitality of our region. The funding levels simply do not match the plan. With this lack of investment, the stability of our Arts infrastructure will be threatened in communities large and small, and the province's creative potential will not be realized."
Funding the Arts is an investment. The Arts have proven to be a growth industry in British Columbia, growing at a faster pace than provincial GDP, contributing $5.2-billion to the provincial economy, and accounting for 117,000 jobs, according to Statistics Canada. Arts organizations have proven themselves to be experts at leveraging provincial support into funding from other levels of government, private and corporate sources, and admission fees. Funding to the Arts has proven to be a wise return on investment for the province over the years, producing tax revenue far greater than government investment; even if that $5.2-billion industry returns a conservative 7% in tax revenue, the province is receiving hundreds of millions of dollars for a small, but vital, outlay – amounting to one-twentieth of a cent for every dollar in the provincial budget. A reduction in funding will ultimately contract Provincial tax revenues in far larger amounts than any immediate saving.
BC has the highest concentration of artists in the country. Many of those artists live close to the poverty line: the average income for an artist in Canada is $22,700 – less than two-thirds the Canadian average. A reduction in funding – especially in a recessionary period when other sources of revenue are in flux – will mean fewer performances, fewer concerts, fewer showings – and increased unemployment. "We hope that the government's concern for families extends to the families of BC artists as well" comments Mary Desprez, General Manager of the Belfry Theatre.
And these artists do not live exclusively in the large urban centres. Funding from the BC Arts Council supports artistic initiatives throughout the province, in centres large and small, and – as a recent study from the University of Northern BC proved – the Arts are just as important to people in rural areas as they are in the big cities. In fact, stable funding is more vital in smaller areas that lack access to other sources found in large centres.
In this current economic climate, where other sources of income – from foundations, corporate and private giving – are eroding, this is not the time for the provincial government to be cutting back as well. Arts organizations call on the government to live up to Minister Hansen's own words in his budget speech: "The arts help to shape our vision of who we are. They bring to life the concept of culture, and — just as important — bring us together, entertain us, intrigue us, and challenge us intellectually."
ProArt will continue to lead the discussion as the debate on this decision continues, and will encourage the public to take this opportunity to speak out in favour of a reversal of this decision.
For more information, contact:
Scott Walker
Coordinator, ProArt
The Professional Arts Alliance of Greater Victoria represents:
The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria ♦ The Belfry Theatre ♦ Dance Victoria ♦ Intrepid Theatre ♦ Kaleidoscope Theatre ♦ Open Space ♦ Pacific Opera Victoria ♦ Story Theatre ♦ Theatre SKAM ♦ The Victoria Conservatory of Music ♦ The Victoria Film Festival ♦ The Victoria Jazz Society ♦ The Victoria Symphony
Some Facts About the Arts
Arts and culture make up an important sector in Canada's economy, creating $84 billion dollars a year in direct and indirect output – 7.4% of this country's GDP. – Valuing Culture: Measuring and Understanding Canada's Creative Economy [The Conference Board of Canada, 2008]
British Columbia residents' spending on culture is four times the amount spent by all levels of government. – Hill Strategies 2005
On a per capita basis, British Columbia's expenditure on culture ranks second-last among the provinces and territories. – Statistics Canada, Government Expenditures on Culture 2005-06
British Columbia has the highest concentration of artists of any province. – Hill Strategies 2007
The Arts have proven to have a positive impact on individual and community health, marginalized groups, youth at risk, and the elderly. – Arts and Culture in Medicine and Health [Cooley & Associates, Victoria, 2003]
Youth with high involvement in the Arts had significantly higher marks, lower drop out rates and lower reported boredom rates than those with low involvement in the arts. – Involvement in the Arts and Human Development: General Involvement and Intensive Involvement In Music and Theatre Arts [James S. Catterall et al, UCLA, 1999]
The tourism industry will need to attract 84,000 workers to meet the government's goal of doubling tourism by 2015. Attracting workers will have a significant impact on provincial GDP . Culturally rich communities attract creative people; a highly creative workforce attracts business . – A Case For Investing in Arts, Culture and Heritage Infrastructure [Vis-à-vis Management Resources Inc., 2007] & The Rise of the Creative Class [Richard Florida, New York, 2002]
UVic Dept of Computer Science Colloquium on Mon March 2 at 10 am
Topic: Succinct Data Structures: an Approach to Controlling Space Requirements
Presented By: Professor J. I. Munro, Professor and Canada Research Chair
From: D.R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Date: Monday, March 02, 2009
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Location: Engineering and Computer Science Building (ECS), Room # 660
LandMarks Public Art – dot CA
Three municipalities in the Capital Regional District (Victoria, Saanich, Esquimalt) have created a new online resource called Landmarks: Public Art in the Capital Region, which Grania Litwin reviews in today's Times-Colonist: Street art gets online home.
From the site:
The artworks contained in this website are the result of the public art programs of municipal councils in the capital region of greater Victoria that have adopted public art policies. It is the first time that all the municipally-owned works of public art are (virtually) accessible in one place. Public art in Oak Bay will be added in the near future. (source)
According to Litwin's review, Oak Bay only has one piece to add, so it shouldn't take long to augment the site…
Litwin quotes James Lam, the CRD Arts Development Office's Arts Manager, who points out that Victoria has 50 of the 80 works inventoried so far. Why the head-start? Victoria has a long-established arts policy and has many public buildings. But it also has a number of new developments, and many developers of these buildings contributed art as part of a public amenity package.
While launching the LandMarks website is not an event, strictly speaking, it's entirely possible to use the site to construct walking tours of the public art in our municipalities, which is apparently also a long-term goal of this venture.
– Yule Heibel
Music Corner Ensemble presents…!
Music Corner's mission is to "combines orchestral musical instruments and storytelling to create a concert experience for young children that is fun, engaging and interactive," and Victoria area families can see them in action on February 14 when they present Mozart's The Magic Flute (for kids!) at Fernwood's Orange Hall, 10am:
A special kids adaptation of Mozart's famous opera; a concert to share with your family on Valentines Day. Two friends set out on an exciting quest to the Temple of Wisdom where they brave fire and water to rescue a princess. Children participate every step of the way through movement, song, riddles and games.
Shows are at the Orange Hall in Fernwood (1620 Fernwood) with plenty of parking outside. This venue is bright, inviting and takes away the 'scare factor' of dark theatres and far away stages. Audiences will be up close and part of the action. Just the way we like it!
Tickets for these concerts are $6 for kids (babes in arms are free), $9 for adults. Family of four $25 (any combination of adults and kids).
Visit the Music Corner calendar page for complete info on tickets and location.
Google map for Orange Hall, 1620 Fernwood Rd.:
– Yule Heibel
Seedy Saturday Victoria
Victoria's 16th Annual Seedy Saturday takes place at the Victoria Conference Centre (720 Douglas St.) on February 21, from 10am to 4pm. Admission is $7 for adults, kids free.
Keynote presenters are: Frank Morton, early seed developer of salad greens, seed activist, and owner of Wild Garden Seeds in Oregon; and Thomas Hobbs, prestigious Vancouver florist and provocative plantsman.
There'll be lots of local talent on hand as well – for example, be sure to look for Dayle Elizabeth Cosway and Tina Fraser-Baynes, who recently opened Terralicious Gardening and Cooking School at the Haliburton Organic Community Farm just off the Patricia Bay ("Pat Bay" for locals) Highway.
See the Seedy Saturday website (scroll down to Victoria) for more information.
– Yule Heibel
New show at the Slide Room Art Gallery
The Slide Room Gallery, located at VISA (Vancouver Island School of Art), opened a new show last night, Representations of Desire: Photographs by Sabrina Ovesen and Christine Clark. Check out more details here. The gallery is located at 2549 Quadra St. Phone 250-380-3500 for information.
– Yule Heibel

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It's happened to all of us. When we play any Hitman game, in our heads, there's a perfect frame-by-frame progression of how the hit should work out – the disguises, the smoothly-hidden bodies, the piano-wire wrapped soft necks, the casual walk-away without looking back at the confused guards, the explosion in the distance. But it's not how it plays out, is it?
After five minutes of crouching behind a bin waiting for a target to shuffle past, we get bored. We start experimenting. We start making mistakes – mistakes that a cool and casual (and sociopathic) hitman shouldn't be making. We try to eliminate a target in hand-to-hand combat, get the timing wrong, and leave a corrupt politician – or whoever the target happens to be – wondering why we're waving a knife around in front of him. Bodyguards rush in, bullets start flying, and bystanders start doing the old run and cower.
Shit, in other words, hits the fan. But there's always a solution.
Hidden in Agent 47's jacket pockets are a pair of nickle-plated get out of jail free cards. There is almost no problem that can't be solved by judicious use of Silverballers, and although that problem hasn't been solved stealthily or smoothly, it stays fucking solved.
>When you select the Silverballers, you draw two shining silver pistols – two overlong metaphors held steadily in leather-gloved hands. The .45 ammo (which is about as powerful a bullet as you can sensibly fit in a handgun and still shoot it one-handed without breaking your wrist) ragdolls enemies across the world in a way that no other weapon, short of a point-blank shotgun blast, can do. Targets arc back across the full length of rooms and off balconies and over cliffs as round after round of ammunition thuds into their chests at an absurdly high rate.
You can silence the Silverballers, but I feel that this constitutes cheating.
There's no other weapon like them in any of the games, as they tend to fall into the "chillingly improvised" or the "professionally militaristic" ends of the spectrum, never veering towards "badass" where the Silverballers have very definitely set up their gleaming metal throne.
To steal a phrase from the internet, the Silverballers are cruise control for awesome. They are a weapon that you can point at a problem and turn it into a solution, as well as a sort of fine red mist. They are otherworldly items even within the game, a nod from the developers that hey, sometimes things go wrong. Sometimes life is hard. Sometimes you get caught. Sometimes, rather than the frustration of a stealth mission failed, you want the satisfaction of systemically stalking through a level and knocking great big exit wounds in anything that looks like it might disagree with you.
With the Silverballers, once you draw 'em, you're not stuck in the level with the guards. They're stuck in the level with you.
1 thought on "In praise of: Agent 47's Silverballers"
that was fucking awesome i cannot count the number of times i got those babies out and left noone standing in that level by the time i left. thanks for the memories


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Somebody is going to have to break the news to Darth Vader. His Death Star's planet destroying potential is going to be way behind schedule. Research scheduled to be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Physical Review Letters shows that lasers are already close to reaching their maximum intensity and that the next generation of lasers currently being developed might be able to reach that limit.
In 1997, an experiment at SLAC sent 47-billion eV electrons from its 2 mile long accelerator and collided them with a one trillion watt green laser to create a monstrous electromagnetic field. When the electrons and the photons from the laser impacted, they created higher energy gamma-ray photons, these gamma-ray photons then collided with photons in the laser beam again and shattered the vacuum as matter was spontaneously created from light within the experiment.
Creating light from matter is rather ordinary in terms of physics
, as can be seen in nuclear explosions. But the SLAC experiment was the first to produce the opposite, and while the effect had been expected for some 50 years, the equipment hadn't existed to test it experimentally. It is known amongst physicists as creating "spark in a vacuum." When the electromagnetic field has enough energy, light becomes matter as a positron-electron pair is produced.
The SLAC experiment was just a singular event, but as lasers reach higher intensities the electric fields produced will increase as well and the team says that when they reach a critical intensity a cascade effect will occur as a result. The electron-positron pair is accelerated by the laser field itself at such high energies that they emit photons capable of spawning new pairs and continuing the process. In fact, their estimations indicate that even a single such pair can completely destroy the laser field as the energy created from the pairs can equal that of the laser.
From the paper (available in preprint on the arXiv):
"At high laser intensities interaction of the created electron and positron with the laser field can lead to production of multiple new particles and thus to formation of an avalanche-like electromagnetic cascade."
Physicists have suspected this cascade effect could limit the intensity of lasers, but these new calculations show that the effect will likely be seen in lasers already being built like the European laser projects ELI (Extreme Light Infrastructure) and XFEL (X-ray Laser Project).
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Lasers reaching their limit
Somebody is going to have to break the news to Darth Vader. His Death Star's planet destroying potential is going to be way behind schedule. Research scheduled to be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Physical Review Letters shows that lasers are already close to reaching their maximum intensity and that the next generation of lasers currently being developed might be able to reach that limit.
Posted by Flash Modin at 8/11/2010 09:34:00 AM
Labels: ELI, lasers, SLAC E144 experiment, XFEL
46 comments:
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 2:19 PM
"Creating light from matter is rather ordinary in terms of physics, as can be seen in nuclear explosions." Yes, and also in a candleReplyDelete
Actually, all potential chemical energy is stored as mass, so yes, a candle does lose a very, very small amount of mass as it burns. It's only in nuclear reactions that we see direct conversion of significant amounts of matter to energy (or vice-versa, especially in supernovae).ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 3:39 PM
This matter is only being created when two lasers collide and the energy from both is combined, correct? If you were to have the lasers collide at some angle other than straight on wouldn't the matter be fired out?ReplyDelete
Looking at the way the Death Star fired, I would guess they are using this effect to make some kind of coherent meson beam.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 4:04 PM
I never thought I'd see a resonance cascade, let alone create one.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 4:20 PM
What mater is created? Hydrogen perhaps?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 4:24 PM
A candle is not a nuclear reactor. No mass is lost in a burning candle. The energy released from a burning candle is produced by oxidizing the hydrocarbons in the wax. The photons (heat and light) are a result of the lost energy in the chemical bonds, not lost mass. You don't end up with different atoms after a candle burns, just different arrangements of the same atoms. All the 'lost' mass can be accounted for by collecting the gases that are released.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 4:29 PM
Unless I'm wrong and my HS physics teacher was just being silly. ;-)ReplyDelete
Yes, thanks for the comments. Anytime you convert matter into light you lose some mass. We made a correction to the post.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 4:45 PM
The energy in the chemical bonds amounts to mass. Very little of it, but still mass.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 5:00 PM
Does this mean we are one step closer to building star trek replicators?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 5:18 PM
When a candle burns it is a standard hydrocarbon flame. The "energy" given off is not produced by the loss of mass. The energy given off is "in" the chemical bonds (potential energy) of the hydrocarbon, it was put there by the process that created the hydrocarbon from the component hydrogen and carbon, most likely photosynthesis. The hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon just move around. The energy came from the sun.ReplyDelete
In nuclear fission, atoms are broken and the forces holding them together are released. The energy is coming from the destruction of matter.
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 5:27 PM
RE: "Not exactly. When a candle burns, the same amount of matter exists after as there was before, it just changes from one form to another. In a nuclear explosion, some matter is actually annihilated and converted into energy"ReplyDelete
for practical purposes, sure ... but the Burning Candle's photons which are also particles with mass came from where? Atoms... in the candle or air or both... The system had better lose the photons' worth of mass after the candle goes out or you have a serious accounting problem.
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 5:45 PM
I thought photon was a boson which means that essentially, they don't interact with each other... I've never taken particle physics, but how can a photon collide with another photon? I mean I can understand how the "intensity" can be combined with multiple photons being in phase with each other hence increasing the local electric field, but collision? This may not be the best term to be used....
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 5:50 PM
Is this a case of non-liner effects taking over, showing that so called 'point' particles are really EM Soliton waves? You get the EM field high enough and the system goes non-linear.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 5:52 PM
"The system had better lose the photons' worth of mass after the candle goes out or you have a serious accounting problem. "ReplyDelete
photons are massless.
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 5:57 PM
Acctually, mass and energy is just two metrics of the same thing - the very concept of converting one into the other is meaningless. Yes, even light has mass (but no rest mass, since it never rests) and making "matter" out of light (or vice versa) is just another form of energy conversion, albeit one that converts bosons to fermions ( or vice versa). I hope that was clear!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 6:05 PM
So in the future lasers will have limited range, and essentially become a particle beam with more or less the same amount of energy in it as the laser originally had?ReplyDelete
Correct me if I'm wrong, but while being hit by that powerful a laser would be bad news, so would being hit by a particle beam consisting of nothing but positrons and electrons at relativistic speeds, pairs which I'm guessing will annihilate one another upon impact releasing their energy again.
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 6:29 PM
For nuclear fission you can also say that you have the same number of protons and neutrons afterwards. But you can measure a loss of mass. The nuclei are stronger bound together. There is less energy stored in the resulting atoms; it is also said that the binding energy of the resulting atoms is higher. The energy difference is emitted during fission. The mass is always equivalent to the stored energy (E = m c²), this is why the mass is reducing.ReplyDelete
Same happens for the burning candle. The products of the chemical rection have a higher binding energy, resulting in a lower mass. This is not relevant in practice though, since the mass difference is extremely small.
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 7:10 PM
Just a wild thought. Think of exceeding the critical intensity as analogous to the inverted population of excited electrons that is required for a normal laser to lase. I'm wondering if the cascade of electron-positron pairs could be produced so that they were all in phase with each other. Perhaps then we'd have a MASEP (Matter Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Particles)?ReplyDelete
Sincerely Marc
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 9:02 PM
energy is matter, matter is energy.ReplyDelete
the total quantity of energy / matter
is the same before and after, the only
confusion comes from innacuracy of
detection and measurement of the before
and after states... failure to detect
the truth is not a failure OF the truth.
now, the real mind blower, the real real
_REAL_ interesting stuff is biology....
does it not blow your mind that the passage
of energy through almost every system yet
found increases the disorder of that system.
the entropy of that system, and yet what is
life? but a physical system? and how does it
react to the passage of energy through it.
OF ENERGY THROUGH IT. the biological system
avoids many direct consequences of entropy
and in a temporally localized way, entirely defeats it. (the entropy caused by the passage of energy through the biological system is
'vented' into the outside world by the
biological system.)
ever wonder what urine and feces were?
entropy in biological form, and it only
gets better.... as uring and feces SERVE
forget physics... too boring, too simple...
Then again, without physics we would hardly have the amazing tools needed to study most of the other sciences. Or chemistry. And some chemical compounds were discovered through biology.ReplyDelete
Really, scientists should stop bickering. It's ALL interesting, but each one of us can only focus on so much- hence, specialization.
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 10:24 PM
These are the best comments ever. You are all awesome nerds.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 11:24 PM
I'm interested in the implications for astrophysics. Are there stellar processes that generate these kinds of energy densities, and would they require significant coherence? In principle, it would seem like this could impact observations of distant cosmological objects, if the magnitude was significant. What effects would be important in this energy regime?ReplyDelete
Internet win... rare, but does happen. I learned from the comments, and no 4chan or anything else screwing it up. Kudos.ReplyDelete
SO this is how we get a light saber to work!! Incredible!!!ReplyDelete
- JealousAugust 12, 2010 at 1:07 AM
Geeks! (compensating for mental inadequacy)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 12, 2010 at 3:27 AM
Re. "forget physics... too boring, too simple...": http://xkcd.com/435/ I think that's all to say :PReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 12, 2010 at 4:04 AM
Um, if candle burning counts as mass->light, then light->mass is also very commonplace, taking place in most photochemical reactions and even in plant growth.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 12, 2010 at 4:09 AM
http://xkcd.com/435 was exactly what came to my mind, when I started reading the post about biology :DReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 12, 2010 at 8:27 AM
Here is one example of how photon-photon scattering might work: If the energy of a pair of photons is high enough there is a chance of each creating an electron/positron pair which can then further interact with each other before annihilating and creating new high energy photons. Total momentum is conserved during this process but these new photons can individually have different momenta.ReplyDelete
If you step back and squint, view the electron/positron creation as an intermediate process, what it looks like from the outside is that two photons just came in and scattered off of one another.
The electromagnetic field alone doesn't interact with itself in the absence of charged matter. But if charged particles are present it self interaction becomes possible by way of the charges.
As a word of warning I am a little rusty and haven't spent much time thinking about this so if something looks flawed it may, in fact, be.
- AnonymousAugust 12, 2010 at 11:50 AM
Dear Biology NerdReplyDelete
Perhaps you don't get physics and thats why you find it boring. For example you believe life systems are above the laws of thermodynamics. Order, or the opposite of entropy, requires energy (food) to be increased. By takeing energy from some where you are creating entropy. The entropy of the universe always increases. By looking at biology in isolation you ignore the framework in which life resides.
- AnonymousAugust 12, 2010 at 12:21 PM
Matter from light in itself is a well-known phenomenon, namely in electron-positron pair production from an Xray photon (energy > 1MeV) in the electric field of a nucleus, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_rayReplyDelete
(Blackett 1933, Nobel Prize 1948)
- AnonymousAugust 12, 2010 at 6:58 PM
> Anonymous said...ReplyDelete
> These are the best comments ever. You are all awesome nerds.
That was the best comment of these awesome comments.
- AnonymousAugust 13, 2010 at 4:03 AM
How come it takes 13 years before this is news..? What happened in the last 13 years with this research?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 14, 2010 at 10:48 PM
I wonder if the materials that have been used to create the laser itself would be a factor in this limitation, or perhaps the vacuum is not pulling all of the atmosphere out as it should. The photons have to be pulled from somewhere..ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 17, 2010 at 10:35 PM
The lead paragraph claims that this places some kind of limit on the destructive potential of the Empire's Death Star, but I don't see it. The only limitation mentioned was on intensity. That would be energy per unit area. But there does not appear to be a limit on the size, as in beam width or diameter. So if a 1 meter wide laser beam can't reduce a planet to rubble, one can still seek to make a 10 meter wide beam, or 100 meters, or... So, does this research pose any limit on destructive capabilities of a laser weapon? It clearly limits the intensity at the focus, but that intensity still packs a wallop, and you are free to make the focus as large as you please.ReplyDelete
Darth Vader will be glad about that, looking forward to installing it in a starship and using it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2010 at 11:45 AM
Another monstrous twisting energy to propel the aerospace vehicles comprable with Bossonova monstous twisters of Tornado to tap out energy in wind mill blades.ReplyDelete
An intersting cross polarisation at the middle neutral domain an upward force generated may be used in space vehicles.
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2010 at 11:47 AM
Magnetic tornado that grows strongerReplyDelete
Using the Swiss Spallation Neutron Source (SINQ), Prof. Bianchi and his team cooled a single-crystal sample of CeCoIn5 down to 50mK above absolute zero and applied a magnetic field nearly high enough to entirely suppress superconductivity. They found that the core of the vortices feature electronic spins that are partly aligned with the magnetic field.
This is the first experimental evidence that a theory that describes the properties of superconducting vortices and, for which Abrikosov and Ginzburg received the Nobel Prize in 2003, which does not generally apply in magnetically-induced superconductors.
"When subjected to intense magnetic fields, these materials produce a completely new type of magnetic tornado that grows stronger with increasing fields rather than weakening," said Prof. Bianchi. "The beauty of this compound is how we can experiment without breaking it."
Superconductors hold great promise for technological applications that will change how modern civilization can store and transmit energy - arguably some of the most pressing challenges today. Other notable applications include superconducting digital filters for high-speed communications, more efficient and reliable generators and motors, and superconducting device applications in medical magnetic resonance imaging machines.
The first superconductor was discovered nearly a hundred years ago, and in most materials this curious state with no resistance was shown to arise from the interaction of the electrons with the crystal; however, in this new material, superconductivity is thought to arise from magnetic interactions between electrons.
The electron has a charge, but like a tiny magnet, it also has a magnetic moment called spin. In a singlet superconductor, the electron pairs are formed by electrons of opposite spin, which cancels the pair's magnetic moment. But when the material is placed in a strong magnetic field, the spins are forced to orient themselves along the field, as the field acts on each spin individually. Usually, this breaks the pairs and destroys superconductivity. The magnetic fields inside a magnetically ordered material tends to act in the same manner and thus that superconductivity and magnetism tend to avoid each other, although they are not always mutually exclusive.
This discovery is extraordinary, since magnetic order exists exclusively when this sample is in the superconducting state. In this unique case, magnetism and superconductivity do not compete with each other. Instead, superconductivity generates magnetic order.
Hmmmmm, can't say I like the sound of that "cascade" effect. Eh, but scientists probably know what they're doing. Surely there will be no unforeseen consequences.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 28, 2012 at 12:15 PM
About the candle, mass is lost. It HAS to be, because of mass-energy conservation. If it didn't, you just created energy out of nothing, which isn't allowed.ReplyDelete
However, the amount lost is very very tiny, just looking at E=mc2 will tell you that much.
And the guy who talked about biology doesn't actually seem to know what entropy is.
- AnonymousOctober 7, 2012 at 10:05 AM
Of course the most illiterate comment here is from a biologist :PReplyDelete
I was going to make a half-life joke but I think that's already been done. Nothing left to do but snark at our opposing force.
- AnonymousNovember 22, 2012 at 3:10 PM
God says he's concerned about this. Can she have lasers on her tentacles?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 22, 2013 at 10:04 AM
is this the institude of technology?ReplyDelete


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My philosophy as a professional caregiver, practitioner, and guide, is simple: healing and justice work are one and the same. At least, that's how it should be. I try my hardest to embody this approach, and I'm always growing in this aim. I am proud of the healing work I do and I consider it one of the innumerable forms of social activism that are necessary in our world.
If my care work is not provided with a foundation of anti-racist, anti-ableist, anti-audist, aware, accessible, justice-centric practices, then I don't think it would be very caring at all. I aim for practices in my work that pay attention not only to the individual struggles of my clients, but also the structural systems in which oppression occurs--the personal is the political, after all--and it doesn't get much more personal than our bodies, comfort in our bodies, and our lives and deaths. For me, this means actively increasing my capacity to be in solidarity with my clients and colleagues. I use mindfulness, body-awareness, and therapy as tools to open myself up; to mitigate my own fears and defenses and conditioning and to take in truths and others' experiences. In accompaniment with deepening my spiritual capacity, I'm committed to doing the fierce intellectual and emotional work of self-education, using research, workshops, reading, community & activist events, and listening to friends, clients, and teachers of different backgrounds and perspectives. By simultaneously employing self-awareness of my own identities and reactivity and learned historical and political knowledge, I hope to be able to hold the safest space I can for clients.
Doing justice-centric doula, guide, and massage therapist work also means being overtly political about the work I do. My activism is usually "micro" level, because of the small, one-on-one nature of my work, but I also fight for the structural changes we need to make this work possible and accessible. I must fight against the specific systems, legalities, and social forces within the healthcare, bodywork, funeral, and deathcare worlds that both actively harm and/or neglect certain communities.
I'm particularly interested in fostering a business model in which my services can be as accessible as possible for folks who are interested--financially, physically, culturally, and otherwise.
There are practitioners in both deathcare (caregiving, and home funerals) and bodywork who have been paving the path for justice-minded practitioners for decades and even centuries. To these leaders, those I've met and those I haven't--thank you. We will continue it.
Furthermore, with gratitude and humility, I thank my clients, each and every one--because my understanding of that vast intersection of social justice and healing work has grown and changed and blossomed in my listening to each individual. I can't wait to continue learning more.
I'm always interested in joining in conversation with folks who are interested in justice-healing work. Maybe we can learn from each other. Please contact me if you'd like to explore this together!


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The cycle trail begins at Neapoli, located in the region of Karion, which was once the residence of Pope Alexander E (the monastery of Aghios Antonis-Fraro), headquarters of the Bishops Petras and Heronnisis and the capital of the Prefecture of Lassithi from 1868-1904.
Before you reach Voulismeni, beneath a bridge on the national highway, the asphalt road takes you to Latsida. In the center of the village you go downhill to the right, and at the end of the village, turn left where you meet with the entrance to a remarkable gorge, which ends at the village of Milatos.
Following along the road, you come to the village of Agori and go through the next village of Kounali. Then follow the downhill incline to the left towards the Cave of Milatos, with a view of the Cretan Sea along your way. The Cave of Milatos is one of the most significant places of modern Greek history (1823), being a place where the local civilian population were sacrificed. After visiting the cave, you make your way downhill to arrive shortly at the olive groves of Milatos and its tourist beach.
The Minoan settlement to the west, the geometric remains to the east and the roads of the village with its traditional buildings are all indications of an earlier human habitation and the cultural heritage of the current inhabitants. Going uphill towards the southwest, you will shortly see the densely cultivated valley of the older village of Sissi enveloped in a sea of green olive groves. The new village of Sissi, framed by the blue of the sea, is stretched out in front and below you. Leaving the beach behind, travel uphill to the south to arrive at the old national highway, turning left at the Gorge of Selinari and the monastery of Aghios Georgios.
The jagged rocks tower above your head, from which pairs of eagles often soar. After visiting the tranquility of the monastery, follow the winding old road that runs to the left of the new national highway and takes you to the hilltop village of Vrachasi. At the top of the village stands the hill of Anavlohos that commands the surrounding area, as once did all of the Minoan hilltop holy places.
One should not miss the opportunity to try out the local Cretan cuisine and "mesedes" under the shade of the planetree in the little square at the center of the village. A stroll around the tiny uphill roadways of the village and a visit to the old church are also worth the effort. One kilometre east of Vrachasi one can enjoy the beautiful panorama of the valley of Mirambelo.
Continuing downhill, you return to Latsida, Voulismeni and Neapoli from where you started. If you happen to be here on the afternoon of the second Sunday in May, come to the Panagia of Vigliotisa, above Voulismeni to celebrate the festival of the Mother of Christ.


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I have a confession. I am something of an old fashioned preacher. I'm not very good at the modern therapeutic motivational talk. If I can't start with the Scriptures then I have no idea where to start! That means, I am by default an expository preacher. Now, outside certain circles that doesn't win you an audience and, to be fair, I've heard some terrible expository sermons in which the preacher did little more than read the passage back to the congregation line by line as if we couldn't read it for ourselves! Having said that, I've also heard too many sermons where after 30 minutes the preacher remembers they haven't read the Bible, reads out a passage that has no relation to the rest of the talk and then carries on without another reference to the passage. They might deliver a great talk, but in my book at least, you can't call that a sermon!
I say that because I'm an expository preacher out of theological conviction! I believe that Jesus Christ as attested to by Holy Scripture is the Word of God and therefore people don't want to hear my thoughts they want to hear what God is saying to them through the Scriptures. But what does that look like in practice?
One thing I find interesting is this: modern expository preaching is quite different from traditional expository preaching. Today, what is considered a good expository sermon will be shaped by the structure, flow, and argument of the passage. The emphases of the sermon will be the emphases of the passage and the application of the sermon will be the application of the passage. This modern approach was made popular in the UK and the US by two great British preachers. John Stott at All Souls Langham Place and Dick Lucas at St Helen's Bishopsgate were both incredible preachers who defined a movement and continue to exert a huge influence today. Tim Keller, for example often acknowledges the influence of Lucas on his own preaching.
But this approach is something of a departure from the older evangelical tradition of preaching from a text; a single verse. Read any sermon by some of the great preachers of the past such as George Whitefield, Charles Spurgeon and Martyn Lloyd Jones and you find they tend to preach verses rather than passages of Scripture. Now, obviously this has both pros and cons.
Preaching from a passage ensures your own thoughts and ideas, your hobby horses and hidden agendas are all held in check. It is often said that preachers all have one talk in them. Modern expository preaching extends the range just a little bit! I do wonder though whether the modern expository sermon asks too much of both the preacher and their congregation. Pulling together the flow of a complex passage into a compelling whole is extremely difficult and I have heard enough awkward, unwieldy wooden sermons to know not everyone can do what Stott and Lucas did, or what Keller does. There can be such a determination to faithfully expound the text that the congregation hear a flat, dry exposition of the passage rather than a sermon, with so many points that no one remembers any of them even if all of them are alliterated! This sort of preaching can be overly dependent on the delivery and personality of the preacher.
In contrast, preaching from a verse simplifies matter significantly both for the preacher and the congregation. I realise there is a risk the preacher hangs all their theology onto every verse, but that is not what Spurgeon did. He still did the hard exegetical graft but he boiled his sermon down until it was sweetly concentrated in one simple point from one verse that everyone could take home. If you're a preacher who finds it difficult to wrestle a whole passage of Scripture to the ground, try preaching from a text or verse for a change. See how it effects your preparation.
Don't get me wrong though. I'm not saying stop preaching passages and start preaching verses. For me, the issue is not whether we preach from a passage or from a verse. I enjoy preaching through passages and preaching on verses. I enjoy listening to both types of expository preaching too. I suspect a mixed economy is the way forward. We do both at St Paul's. The real issue is how many points we make in the sermon. I am increasingly convinced that the three point sermon has had it's day. It is just too much to ask of the congregation. A good sermon should have only one point that is driven home throughout the sermon, whether the preacher is preaching a verse or a passage.


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Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced
Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced will be conducted by the seven zonal IITs with guidance from the Joint Admission Board (JAB). Only the top 1.5 lakh rank holders in JEE Main are eligible to appear for JEE Advanced.
Note : According to the official website of JEE Advanced top 2 lakh rank holders in JEE Main will be eligible to take the exam.
Candidates seeking admissions in bachelor's programmes, integrated master's programmes as well as dual degree programmes at the 16 IITs and Indian School of Mines (ISM) need to clear JEE Advanced.
Eligible candidates need to appear for two entrance examinations. These examinations are referred to as Paper-1 and Paper-2. While, Paper-1 for this entrance exam will be conducted from 9 am to 12 pm, Paper-2 will be held on the same day from 2 pm to 5 pm.
Paper-1 and Paper-2 of this entrance exam will comprise of three separate sections wherein questions will be asked from subjects such as Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. Candidates will be awarded negative marking on incorrectly answering some questions in the exam.
JEE Advanced exam pattern is such that:
- • Question paper will be divided into different sections
- • Each section will have questions from different subjects
- • Objective type (multiple choice) questions.
- • Numerical answer type questions designed to test comprehension, reasoning and analytical ability of candidates.
Question paper will be in either English or Hindi as per the option selected by candidates at the time of registering for the exam.
It can be a little overwhelming to go through the complete syllabus for this engineering entrance exam and so to understand which topics to study and which to avoid, go through exam analysis for JEE Advanced by experts.
Candidates appearing for the exam need to keep in mind that the answer sheet for this engineering entrance exam is in the form of an Optical Response Sheet (ORS) which is a machine-readable ORS. Other things which candidates need to keep in mind about JEE Advanced ORS is that:
It is two-page long, each page of the ORS answer sheet will have the same lay-out.
The ORS's first page is machine readable. But, the ORS is designed such that it leaves impressions of the candidate's responses on the second page.
Do not separate or disturb the alignment of the two pages of the ORS under any circumstance.
Mark all the answers on the first page of the ORS.
Use black ball point pen for darkening the bubbles.
Encircle the correct answer such that the impression is prominently made on the second page of the ORS.
Candidates must strictly adhere to the instructions as well as rules and regulations mentioned on the question paper regarding the darkening of bubbles. Also, the second page of the ORS will be given to candidates at the end of JEE Advanced Paper-1 and Paper-2 by the invigilator.
Examination Centers
|Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Surat, Vadodara
|Mumbai, Nagpur, Navi Mumbai, Pune
|Ajmer, Jaipur, Jodhpur
|Delhi (East), Delhi (West), Delhi (North), Delhi (South), Delhi (Central)
|Faridabad, Gurgaon
|Jammu & Kashmir
|Madhya Pradesh
|Sikar, Udaipur
|Uttar Pradesh
|Aligarh, Mathura
|Arunachal Pradesh
|Guwahati, Jorhat, Silchar
|Gaya, Katihar, Muzaffarpur, Patna
|West Bengal
|Madhya Pradesh
|Bhopal, Gwalior, Jabalpur
|Uttar Pradesh
|Agra, Allahabad, Gorakhpur, Jhansi, Kanpur, Lucknow
|Andaman and Nicobar Islands
|Port Blair
|Andhra Pradesh
|Bhilai, Bilaspur, Raipur
|Bokaro, Dhanbad, Jamshedpur, Ranchi
|Bhubaneswar, Rourkela
|West Bengal
|Durgapur, Kharagpur, Kolkata (North), Kolkata (Salt Lake), Kolkata (South), Malda
|Andhra Pradesh
|Hyderabad, Nellore, Vijayawada, Warangal
|Bangalore, Mangalore
|Kochi, Kozhikode, Thiruvananthapuram
|Tamil Nadu
|Chennai, Madurai
|Ambala, Kurukshetra, Panipat, Rohtak
|Kochi, Kozhikode, Thiruvananthapuram
|Himachal Pradesh
|Palampur, Shimla
|Amritsar, Bathinda, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Patiala
|Dehradun, Haridwar, Roorkee
|Uttar Pradesh
|Bareilly, Gautam Budh, Nagar(Noida), Ghaziabad, Meerut, Moradabad, Varanasi
According to the official website of JEE Advanced, the exam will be conducted in 16 more cities across the country. Take a look at the same below.
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Syllubus for Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced
The syllabus for JEE Advanced for Paper-1 and Paper-2 is as follows:
JEE Advanced Chemistry Syllabus
Physical chemistry
General topics : Concept of atoms and molecules; Dalton's atomic theory; Mole concept; Chemical formulae; Balanced chemical equations; Calculations (based on mole concept) involving common oxidation-reduction, neutralisation, and displacement reactions; Concentration in terms of mole fraction, molarity, molality and normality.
Gaseous and liquid states : Absolute scale of temperature, ideal gas equation; Deviation from ideality, van der Waals equation; Kinetic theory of gases, average, root mean square and most probable velocities and their relation with temperature; Law of partial pressures; Vapour pressure; Diffusion of gases.
Atomic structure and chemical bonding : Bohr model, spectrum of hydrogen atom, quantum numbers; Wave-particle duality, de Broglie hypothesis; Uncertainty principle; Qualitative quantum mechanical picture of hydrogen atom, shapes of s, p and d orbitals; Electronic configurations of elements (up to atomic number 36); Aufbau principle; Pauli's exclusion principle and Hund's rule; Orbital overlap and covalent bond; Hybridisation involving s, p and d orbitals only; Orbital energy diagrams for homonuclear diatomic species; Hydrogen bond; Polarity in molecules, dipole moment (qualitative aspects only); VSEPR model and shapes of molecules (linear, angular, triangular, square planar, pyramidal, square pyramidal, trigonal bipyramidal, tetrahedral and octahedral).
Energetics : First law of thermodynamics; Internal energy, work and heat, pressure-volume work; Enthalpy, Hess's law; Heat of reaction, fusion and vapourization; Second law of thermodynamics; Entropy; Free energy; Criterion of spontaneity.
Chemical equilibrium : Law of mass action; Equilibrium constant, Le Chatelier's principle (effect of concentration, temperature and pressure); Significance of ?G and ?G0 in chemical equilibrium; Solubility product, common ion effect, pH and buffer solutions; Acids and bases (Bronsted and Lewis concepts); Hydrolysis of salts.
Electrochemistry : Electrochemical cells and cell reactions; Standard electrode potentials; Nernst equation and its relation to ?G; Electrochemical series, emf of galvanic cells; Faraday's laws of electrolysis; Electrolytic conductance, specific, equivalent and molar conductivity, Kohlrausch's law; Concentration cells.
Chemical kinetics : Rates of chemical reactions; Order of reactions; Rate constant; First order reactions; Temperature dependence of rate constant (Arrhenius equation)
Solid state : Classification of solids, crystalline state, seven crystal systems (cell parameters a, b, c, ?, ?, ?), close packed structure of solids (cubic), packing in fcc, bcc and hcp lattices; Nearest neighbours, ionic radii, simple ionic compounds, point defects.
Solutions : Raoult's law; Molecular weight determination from lowering of vapour pressure, elevation of boiling point and depression of freezing point
Surface chemistry : Rates of chemical reactions; Order of reactions; Rate constant; First order reactions; Temperature dependence of rate constant (Arrhenius equation)
Nuclear chemistry : Radioactivity: isotopes and isobars; Properties of ?, ? and ? rays; Kinetics of radioactive decay (decay series excluded), carbon dating; Stability of nuclei with respect to proton-neutron ratio; Brief discussion on fission and fusion reactions.
Inorganic chemistry
Isolation/preparation and properties of the following non-metals : Boron, silicon, nitrogen, phosphorus, oxygen, sulphur and halogens; Properties of allotropes of carbon (only diamond and graphite), phosphorus and sulphur.
Preparation and properties of the following compounds : Oxides, peroxides, hydroxides, carbonates, bicarbonates, chlorides and sulphates of sodium, potassium, magnesium and calcium; Boron: diborane, boric acid and borax; Aluminium: alumina, aluminium chloride and alums; Carbon: oxides and oxyacid (carbonic acid); Silicon: silicones, silicates and silicon carbide; Nitrogen: oxides, oxyacids and ammonia; Phosphorus: oxides, oxyacids (phosphorus acid, phosphoric acid) and phosphine; Oxygen: ozone and hydrogen peroxide; Sulphur: hydrogen sulphide, oxides, sulphurous acid, sulphuric acid and sodium thiosulphate; Halogens: hydrohalic acids, oxides and oxyacids of chlorine, bleaching powder; Xenon fluorides.
Transition elements (3d series) : Definition, general characteristics, oxidation states and their stabilities, colour (excluding the details of electronic transitions) and calculation of spin-only magnetic moment; Coordination compounds: nomenclature of mononuclear coordination compounds, cis-trans and ionisation isomerisms, hybridization and geometries of mononuclear coordination compounds (linear, tetrahedral, square planar and octahedral).
Preparation and properties of the following compounds : Oxides and chlorides of tin and lead; Oxides, chlorides and sulphates of Fe2+, Cu2+ and Zn2+; Potassium permanganate, potassium dichromate, silver oxide, silver nitrate, silver thiosulphate.
Ores and minerals : Commonly occurring ores and minerals of iron, copper, tin, lead, magnesium, aluminium, zinc and silver
Extractive metallurgy : Chemical principles and reactions only (industrial details excluded); Carbon reduction method (iron and tin); Self reduction method (copper and lead); Electrolytic reduction method (magnesium and aluminium); Cyanide process (silver and gold).
Principles of qualitative analysis : Groups I to V (only Ag+, Hg2+, Cu2+, Pb2+, Bi3+, Fe3+, Cr3+, Al3+, Ca2+, Ba2+, Zn2+, Mn2+ and Mg2+); Nitrate, halides (excluding fluoride), sulphate and sulphide.
Organic Chemistry
Concepts : Hybridisation of carbon; ? and ?-bonds; Shapes of simple organic molecules; Structural and geometrical isomerism; Optical isomerism of compounds containing up to two asymmetric centres, (R,S and E,Z nomenclature excluded); IUPAC nomenclature of simple organic compounds (only hydrocarbons, mono-functional and bi-functional compounds); Conformations of ethane and butane (Newman projections); Resonance and hyperconjugation; Keto-enoltautomerism; Determination of empirical and molecular formulae of simple compounds (only combustion method); Hydrogen bonds: definition and their effects on physical properties of alcohols and carboxylic acids; Inductive and resonance effects on acidity and basicity of organic acids and bases; Polarity and inductive effects in alkyl halides; Reactive intermediates produced during homolytic and heterolytic bond cleavage; Formation, structure and stability of carbocations, carbanions and free radicals.
Preparation, properties and reactions of alkanes : Homologous series, physical properties of alkanes (melting points, boiling points and density); Combustion and halogenation of alkanes; Preparation of alkanes by Wurtz reaction and decarboxylation reactions.
Preparation, properties and reactions of alkenes and alkynes : Physical properties of alkenes and alkynes (boiling points, density and dipole moments); Acidity of alkynes; Acid catalysed hydration of alkenes and alkynes (excluding the stereochemistry of addition and elimination); Reactions of alkenes with KMnO4 and ozone; Reduction of alkenes and alkynes; Preparation of alkenes and alkynes by elimination reactions; Electrophilic addition reactions of alkenes with X2, HX, HOX and H2O (X=halogen); Addition reactions of alkynes; Metal acetylides.
Reactions of benzene : Structure and aromaticity; Electrophilic substitution reactions: halogenation, nitration, sulphonation, Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation; Effect of o-, m- and p-directing groups in monosubstituted benzenes.
Phenols : Acidity, electrophilic substitution reactions (halogenation, nitration and sulphonation); Reimer-Tieman reaction, Kolbe reaction.
Characteristic reactions of the following (including those mentioned above) : Alkyl halides: rearrangement reactions of alkyl carbocation, Grignard reactions, nucleophilic substitution reactions; Alcohols: esterification, dehydration and oxidation, reaction with sodium, phosphorus halides, ZnCl2/concentrated HCl, conversion of alcohols into aldehydes and ketones; Ethers: Preparation by Williamson's Synthesis; Aldehydes and Ketones: oxidation, reduction, oxime and hydrazone formation; aldol condensation, Perkin reaction; Cannizzaro reaction; haloform reaction and nucleophilic addition reactions (Grignard addition); Carboxylic acids: formation of esters, acid chlorides and amides, ester hydrolysis; Amines: basicity of substituted anilines and aliphatic amines, preparation from nitro compounds, reaction with nitrous acid, azo coupling reaction of diazonium salts of aromatic amines, Sandmeyer and related reactions of diazonium salts; carbylamine reaction; Haloarenes: nucleophilic aromatic substitution in haloarenes and substituted haloarenes (excluding Benzyne mechanism and Cine substitution).
Carbohydrates : Classification; mono- and di-saccharides (glucose and sucrose); Oxidation, reduction, glycoside formation and hydrolysis of sucrose.
Amino acids and peptides : General structure (only primary structure for peptides) and physical properties.
Properties and uses of some important polymers : Natural rubber, cellulose, nylon, teflon and PVC.
Practical organic chemistry : Detection of elements (N, S, halogens); Detection and identification of the following functional groups: hydroxyl (alcoholic and phenolic), carbonyl (aldehyde and ketone), carboxyl, amino and nitro; Chemical methods of separation of mono-functional organic compounds from binary mixtures.
JEE Advanced Mathematics Syllabus
Physical chemistry
Algebra :
• Algebra of complex numbers, addition, multiplication, conjugation, polar representation, properties of modulus and principal argument, triangle inequality, cube roots of unity, geometric interpretations.
• Quadratic equations with real coefficients, relations between roots and coefficients, formation of quadratic equations with given roots, symmetric functions of roots.
• Arithmetic, geometric and harmonic progressions, arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means, sums of finite arithmetic and geometric progressions, infinite geometric series, sums of squares and cubes of the first n natural numbers.
• Logarithms and their properties.
• Permutations and combinations, binomial theorem for a positive integral index, properties of binomial coefficients.
• Matrices as a rectangular array of real numbers, equality of matrices, addition, multiplication by a scalar and product of matrices, transpose of a matrix, determinant of a square matrix of order up to three, inverse of a square matrix of order up to three, properties of these matrix operations, diagonal, symmetric and skew-symmetric matrices and their properties, solutions of simultaneous linear equations in two or three variables.
• Addition and multiplication rules of probability, conditional probability, Bayes Theorem, independence of events, computation of probability of events using permutations and combinations.
Trigonometry :
• Trigonometric functions, their periodicity and graphs, addition and subtraction formulae, formulae involving multiple and sub-multiple angles, general solution of trigonometric equations.
• Relations between sides and angles of a triangle, sine rule, cosine rule, half-angle formula and the area of a triangle, inverse trigonometric functions (principal value only).
Analytical geometry :
• Two dimensions: Cartesian coordinates, distance between two points, section formulae, shift of origin.
• Equation of a straight line in various forms, angle between two lines, distance of a point from a line; Lines through the point of intersection of two given lines, equation of the bisector of the angle between two lines, concurrency of lines; Centroid, orthocentre, incentre and circumcentre of a triangle.
• Equation of a circle in various forms, equations of tangent, normal and chord.
• Parametric equations of a circle, intersection of a circle with a straight line or a circle, equation of a circle through the points of intersection of two circles and those of a circle and a straight line.
• Equations of a parabola, ellipse and hyperbola in standard form, their foci, directrices and eccentricity, parametric equations, equations of tangent and normal.
• Locus problems.
• Three dimensions: Direction cosines and direction ratios, equation of a straight line in space, equation of a plane, distance of a point from a plane.
Differential calculus :
• Real valued functions of a real variable, into, onto and one-to-one functions, sum, difference, product and quotient of two functions, composite functions, absolute value, polynomial, rational, trigonometric, exponential and logarithmic functions.
• Limit and continuity of a function, limit and continuity of the sum, difference, product and quotient of two functions, L'Hospital rule of evaluation of limits of functions.
• Even and odd functions, inverse of a function, continuity of composite functions, intermediate value property of continuous functions.
• Derivative of a function, derivative of the sum, difference, product and quotient of two functions, chain rule, derivatives of polynomial, rational, trigonometric, inverse trigonometric, exponential and logarithmic functions.
• Derivatives of implicit functions, derivatives up to order two, geometrical interpretation of the derivative, tangents and normals, increasing and decreasing functions, maximum and minimum values of a function, Rolle's theorem and Lagrange's mean value theorem.
Integral calculus :
• Integration as the inverse process of differentiation, indefinite integrals of standard functions, definite integrals and their properties, fundamental theorem of integral calculus.
• Integration by parts, integration by the methods of substitution and partial fractions, application of definite integrals to the determination of areas involving simple curves.
• Formation of ordinary differential equations, solution of homogeneous differential equations, separation of variables method, linear first order differential equations.
Vectors :
• Addition of vectors, scalar multiplication, dot and cross products, scalar triple products and their geometrical interpretations.
JEE Advanced Physics Syllabus
General :
Units and dimensions, dimensional analysis; least count, significant figures; Methods of measurement and error analysis for physical quantities pertaining to the following experiments: Experiments based on using Vernier calipers and screw gauge (micrometer), Determination of g using simple pendulum, Young's modulus by Searle's method, Specific heat of a liquid using calorimeter, focal length of a concave mirror and a convex lens using u-v method, Speed of sound using resonance column, Verification of Ohm's law using voltmeter and ammeter, and specific resistance of the material of a wire using meter bridge and post office box.
Mechanics :
• Kinematics in one and two dimensions (Cartesian coordinates only), projectiles; Uniform Circular motion; Relative velocity.
• Newton's laws of motion; Inertial and uniformly accelerated frames of reference; Static and dynamic friction; Kinetic and potential energy; Work and power; Conservation of linear momentum and mechanical energy.
• Systems of particles; Centre of mass and its motion; Impulse; Elastic and inelastic collisions.
• Law of gravitation; Gravitational potential and field; Acceleration due to gravity; Motion of planets and satellites in circular orbits; Escape velocity.
• Rigid body, moment of inertia, parallel and perpendicular axes theorems, moment of inertia of uniform bodies with simple geometrical shapes; Angular momentum; Torque; Conservation of angular momentum; Dynamics of rigid bodies with fixed axis of rotation; Rolling without slipping of rings, cylinders and spheres; Equilibrium of rigid bodies; Collision of point masses with rigid bodies.
• Linear and angular simple harmonic motions.
• Hooke's law, Young's modulus.
• Pressure in a fluid; Pascal's law; Buoyancy; Surface energy and surface tension, capillary rise; Viscosity (Poiseuille's equation excluded), Stoke's law; Terminal velocity, Streamline flow, equation of continuity, Bernoulli's theorem and its applications.
• Wave motion (plane waves only), longitudinal and transverse waves, superposition of waves; Progressive and stationary waves; Vibration of strings and air columns; Resonance; Beats; Speed of sound in gases; Doppler effect (in sound).
Thermal physics :
Thermal expansion of solids, liquids and gases; Calorimetry, latent heat; Heat conduction in one dimension; Elementary concepts of convection and radiation; Newton's law of cooling; Ideal gas laws; Specific heats (Cv and Cp for monoatomic and diatomic gases); Isothermal and adiabatic processes, bulk modulus of gases; Equivalence of heat and work; First law of thermodynamics and its applications (only for ideal gases); Blackbody radiation: absorptive and emissive powers; Kirchhoff's law; Wien's displacement law, Stefan's law.
Electricity and Magnetism :
• Coulomb's law; Electric field and potential; Electrical potential energy of a system of point charges and of electrical dipoles in a uniform electrostatic field; Electric field lines; Flux of electric field; Gauss's law and its application in simple cases, such as, to find field due to infinitely long straight wire, uniformly charged infinite plane sheet and uniformly charged thin spherical shell.
• Capacitance; Parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectrics; Capacitors in series and parallel; Energy stored in a capacitor.
• Electric current; Ohm's law; Series and parallel arrangements of resistances and cells; Kirchhoff's laws and simple applications; Heating effect of current.
• Biot–Savart's law and Ampere's law; Magnetic field near a current-carrying straight wire, along the axis of a circular coil and inside a long straight solenoid; Force on a moving charge and on a current-carrying wire in a uniform magnetic field.
• Magnetic moment of a current loop; Effect of a uniform magnetic field on a current loop; Moving coil galvanometer, voltmeter, ammeter and their conversions.
• Electromagnetic induction: Faraday's law, Lenz's law; Self and mutual inductance; RC, LR and LC circuits with d.c. and a.c. sources
Optics :
• Rectilinear propagation of light; Reflection and refraction at plane and spherical surfaces; Total internal reflection; Deviation and dispersion of light by a prism; Thin lenses; Combinations of mirrors and thin lenses; Magnification.
• Wave nature of light: Huygen's principle, interference limited to Young's double-slit experiment.
Modern physics :
• Atomic nucleus; ?, ? and ? radiations; Law of radioactive decay; Decay constant; Half-life and mean life; Binding energy and its calculation; Fission and fusion processes; Energy calculation in these processes.
• Photoelectric effect; Bohr's theory of hydrogen-like atoms; Characteristic and continuous X-rays, Moseley's law; de Broglie wavelength of matter waves.
Joint Entrance Examination ( JEE) Advanced Notification
|JEE (Main) 2017 [Offline exam]
|Results of JEE (Main) 2017
|Registration for JEE (Advanced) 2017
|FRI, 28-04-2017, 10:00 IST to TUE, 02-05-2017, 17:00 IST
|Registration with Late Fee
|WED, 03-05-2017 to THU, 04-05-2017, 17:00 IST
|Admit card available for downloading
|WED, 10-05-2017, 10:00 IST to SUN, 21-05-2017, 09:00 IST
|JEE (Advanced) 2017 Paper - 1 Paper - 2
|(a) Online display of ORS and scanned responses (b) Request from candidates for review of scanned responses
|WED, 31-05-2017 10:00 IST to SAT, 03-06-2017, 17:00 IST
|Online display of answer keys
|Feedback and comments on answer keys from the candidates
|SUN, 04-06-2017, 10:00 IST to TUE, 06-06-2017, 17:00 IST
|Declaration of JEE (Advanced) results
|Online registration for Architecture Aptitude Test (AAT)
|SUN, 11-06-2017, 10:00 IST to MON, 12-06-2017, 17:00 IST
|Architecture Aptitude Test
|Declaration of AAT results
|Seat Allotment (Tentative)
|MON, 19-06-2017 to TUE, 18-07-2017
* IST - Indian Standard Time.
Eligibility for Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced
JEE Advanced exam eligibility entails that candidates clear Paper-1 of JEE Main which will most likely be conducted in the month of April
Candidates who wish to take this exam need to fulfill certain criteria as fixed by JAB. Thus, the eligibility criteria for JEE Advanced is as follows:
I – Performance in JEE Main
Candidates who fall among the top 1,50,000 rankers in JEE Main across all categories are eligible to appear for JEE Advanced. Out of this number, the percentage of candidates eligible for admissions under different categories is as follows:
General category candidates (from the common merit list) – 50.5%
OBC-NCL candidates – 27%
SC candidates – 15%
ST candidates – 7.5%
Pwd candidates – Horizontal reservation of 3% in all the above categories
|Number of Top Candidates
GEN – PwD
OBC (NCL) – PwD
SC – PwD
ST – PwD
II – Age limit
Age limit for JEE Advanced for General or OBC-NCL category candidates states that they are eligible to apply for the entrance exam if they are 25 years of age or less.. However, age limit for SC, ST or PwD category candidates states that such aspirants should be 30 years of age or less.
III – Number of attempts
The exam eligibility for JEE Advanced states that candidates can appear for this engineering entrance exam a maximum of two times in his/her lifetime. Here, candidates also need to ensure that they appear for this entrance exam in consecutive years. To explain this further, if a candidate wants to appear for JEE Advanced in then this attempt should either be his/her first attempt and if not so, then this should be his/her second consecutive attempt.
IV – Appearance in Class XII (or equivalent) examination
Candidates can appear for this engineering entrance exam if they have appeared for their Class XII or equivalent exam. Here, candidates also need to ensure that this should be their first attempt in all the subjects they have opted in Class XII or equivalent.
The exam eligibility for JEE Advanced also lists that candidates who have appeared for their Class XII or equivalent examination and thereafter want to re-appear for the same examination next yearvfor any reason – whether it is for improvement of score/marks or if they have failed in one or more subjects, then in such a scenario, candidates will need to re-appear in all the subjects (of their Class XII or equivalent examination)
V – Earlier admission at IITs/ISM
JEE Advanced eligibility criteria mentions that a candidate can only appear for the exam if he/she has not taken admission earlier at any of the 16 IITs and ISM, this critreion also holds true even if the candidate took admission and did not continue with their admission in the programme on offer at any of the 16 IITs and ISM.
Candidate will also be disqualified from appearing for the exam if it is brought to notice that they in the past had paid the admission fee for any course at IITs or ISM through JEE Advanced. Another eligibility criteria for JEE Advanced on the basis of which a candidate's application can be rejected is if their admission was cancelled by the board/institute earlier. However, candidates are eligible to appear for it if they have been granted admission in any of the preparatory courses on offer (at any of the IITs).
As per the JEE Advanced information brochure, "Candidates who are not citizens of India at the time of registering for JEE (Advanced) (by birth or naturalised) are treated as foreign nationals". It is further shared that, "Seats allotted to foreign nationals are supernumerary. However, not all Institutes may have supernumerary seats. The availability of supernumerary seats will be announced at the time of seat allocation".
Candidates who are Indian nationals will be offered admissions based on seats reserved for the category under which they fall. This reservation of seats is done in accordance with the rules as mentioned by the Government of India.
|Other Backward Classes belonging to the Non-Creamy Layer (OBC-NCL)
|Candidates belonging to the Non-Creamy Layer of backward classes which are mentioned in the central list of OBCs are eligible to apply for JEE Advanced under this quota.
Note: Candidates who belong to the creamy layer of OBC are not eligible for this reservation and such candidates will be treated as belonging to the general (GEN) category.
Check OBC central list here.
|27% of seats in every course
|Scheduled Caste (SC)
|Candidates belonging to those castes which are mentioned in the central list of corresponding states published by the Government of India are only eligible for reservations.
Check SC central list here.
|15% of seats in every course
|Scheduled Tribe (ST)
|Candidates belonging to those tribes which are mentioned in the central list of corresponding states published by the Government of India are only eligible for reservations.
Check ST central list here.
|7.5% of seats in every course
|Persons with Disability (PwD)
|Reservation would be given to candidates who have at least 40% impairment irrespective of the type of disability which can be visual, locomotor or dyslexic. Also, Leprosy-cured candidates who are otherwise fit to pursue the course will also be included in this type of reservation.
|3% of seats in every category
As per the information brochure, "Unfilled seats in the OBC-NCL category can be allotted to GEN category candidates whereas seats remaining vacant under the SC and ST categories shall not be allotted to candidates belonging to other categories. The reservation for PwD candidates is horizontal and hence, unfilled seats will be allotted to candidates belonging to the respective categories, i.e, unfilled SC-PwD seats will be allotted to candidates belonging to the Sc category and so on".
Foreign nationals will not be given an option to apply for admissions under the OBC-NCL, SC, ST or PwD reservation category.
Candidates need to note here that, once they select a category at the time of JEE Advanced registration, then they will not be given an option to make any changes in their category selection field in the registration form.
Joint Entrance Examination ( JEE) Advanced Application
JEE Advanced notification states that candidates need to apply for this engineering entrance exam online through the official website of JEE Advanced .Candidates can only apply for the entrance exam if they fulfill JEE Advanced eligibility criteria.
Candidates can register for JEE Advanced even if they did not opt to give the examination while registering for JEE Main.
JEE Advanced application cannot be withdrawn after the registration process has been completed by the candidate.
JEE Advanced registration requires candidates to submit a list of certificates and documents which are mentioned below:
A recent colour photograph of the candidates taken in the last six months showing their full frontal face view such that the head is centered in the frame. The candidate's head should cover 70%-80% of the photograph and should be such that it allows unambiguous identification of the candidate. Birth certificate or Class X certificate if it mentions the date of birth. Class XII or equivalent examination certificate, this is mandatory for candidates who appeared for the examination Scanned copy of candidate's full signature. Scanned copy of left-hand thumb impression. If the candidate's name is not same to that mentioned in his/her Class X certificate then the candidate needs to include gazette notification showing the change of name.
OBC-NCL category
Candidates applying for the exam under the OBC-NCL category need to enclose a copy of their OBC-NCL certificate (FORM EC2) issued to them with the JEE Advanced registration form.
SC Category
Candidates applying for the exam under the SC category need to enclose a copy of their Caste certificate (FORM EC1) issued to them with the registration form of JEE Advanced.
ST Category
Candidates applying for the exam under the ST category need to enclose a copy of their Tribe certificate (FORM EC1) issued to them with the registration form.
PwD category
Candidates applying for the exam under this quota need to enclose a copy of their Disability certificate (FORM EC3) issued by a district medical board /competent authority to them on or after June 1, 2014 with the registration form.
Defense Services Category
Candidates applying for the exam admissions under this category need to enclose a copy of the certificate (FORM EC4) issued to them by a competent authority in the Directorate of Resettlement and Rehabilitation, New Delhi under the Ministry of Defence or the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.
Once the registration process for JEE Advanced is complete, candidates can download their JEE Advanced admit card from official online registration portal of this engineering entrance examination
The admit card for JEE Advance will include the candidate's details such as their:
- Name
- Roll number
- Photograph
- Signature
- Date of birth
- Correspondence address
- Category
- Language of entrance exam question paper they have selected in the registration form
At the time of JEE Advanced registration, candidates also need to select from a list of exam centres and the address of the examination centre finally allotted to the candidate will also be displayed in their admit card.
The exam conducting board notifies the candidates to carefully examine all the information printed on their admit card and in case of any discrepancy in the same, candidates are advised to contact the Chairman, JEE (Advanced) of the respective zonal IIT where they reside.
Eligible candidates need to produce a copy of their downloaded admit card at the time of examination. This original JEE Advanced admit card must be retained by the candidates till all the admission formalities of the exam are not completed.
The admission notification states that candidates will be shortlisted for admissions in bachelor's, integrated master's and dual degree programmes on offer at the 16 IITs and ISM on the basis of their performance in the entrance examination. It is further shared that, "The decisions of the JAB 2015 will be final in all matters related to JEE (Advanced) and admission to IITs and ISM".
IIT Council this year has introduced a few changes in JEE Advanced admission criteria. The primary change here includes that in order to be eligible for admissions at the IITs and ISM, candidates need to fulfill any one of the below mentioned two criteria:
The candidate should fall within the category-wise top 20 percentile of successful candidates in his/her respective Class XII (or equivalent) board examination.
The candidate should have secured 75% (for GEN or OBC-NCL) or 70% (SC, ST or PwD) of aggregate marks in the Class XII (or equivalent) board examination.


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If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.
Life's too short.
I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring.
It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.
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People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.
The kind of actors I admire move through different characters and genres.
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I don't like it when people ask actors to work for free - on the fringe - as if it's some kind of virtue. That annoys me - actors should be paid well.
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For many, an education from Lane appears to have depreciated.
For the first time in nearly five decades, Lane may be at risk of losing its ability to offer financial aid to its students in the future if the number of former students in default continues to rise, according to the college's financial aid office.
This is surprising, to say the least, considering the financial agreements between Lane, its students and their federal lenders have been allowed to operate largely without incident — until this recent hiccup.
Even more surprising is Lane was statistically responsible for approximately 13 percent of Oregon's federal loan defaults in 2011, the last year it was calculated.
According to Lane Director of Financial Aid Helen Faith, an average of 77 percent of Lane students accepted federal aid during those three years — several million dollars each year that flows through the college and the community.
It's hard to say at this time what the absence of students' federal dollars could mean for the community if Lane were to lose its ability to offer financial aid.
Lane plays an integral role in many aspects of the region's economy. It trains diesel mechanics, nurses, dental hygienists, pilots and paramedics, among other careers
During a campaign interview with The Torch, former student and current Lane Board of Education member Matthew Keating proclaimed Lane as the premiere job training center in Lane County, with 85 percent of its graduates remaining in the county as they pursue their professional careers.
"I can't underscore enough the importance of supporting a system that is essentially the economic engine that drives Lane County," Keating said to the editorial board in February.
Some of Lane's economic roots are less obvious. The college's aviation program brings flights in and out of the region and is a big reason why the Eugene Airport operates at current levels.
Steve Boulton, director of Lane's Aviation Maintenance and Flight Technology program, said the relationship is reciprocal
"This program plays an integral part in the Lane County economy," Boulton said. "If we weren't here, the first thing that would happen is the FAA would shut down a tower, and that would be a huge step back for the airport."
The sudden downsizing of Eugene's only airport would depress the local economy.
In 2008, the region lost one of its largest employers when Hynix closed its Eugene plant, pouring approximately 1,100 employees back into the economy. While the Hynix closure was a crisis, it would be microchip-sized compared to what could happen if Lane's economic influence is reduced.
Clearly, the college that helps keep our economy humming can't afford to lose its ability to disburse financial aid.
When it comes down to it, everything in this world besides this newspaper is literally outside your hands. If you're going to worry, worry about what you can control.
You can't file for bankruptcy and ditch your student loan debt.
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Jimmy Hayward ("Horton Hears a Who!") will make his live-action debut with Warner Bros. western based comic adaptation "Jonah Hex" says The Hollywood Reporter.
The character of Hex, known for having the right side of his face disfigured and wearing a Confederate army uniform, was a rough-and-tumble gunslinger and part-time bounty hunter whose adventures always ended in blood.
Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor ("Crank") were previously on board as directors but bowed out over creative differences in November. Production is slated to begin in March or April.
Josh Brolin had been attached to star in the film.


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Every estate is unique, so Guardian Estate Sales takes a case by case approach to handling the needs of every client. We offer a variety of services, from full estate sales and downsizing to personal property management and assessment. We can fully prepare your home for sale, or we can simply help you organize and liquidate specific assets. It all starts with a free on site consultation.
What kinds of items do you sell?
We sell all kinds of personal property: furniture, antiques, collections of every kind, art, sterling silver and gold, all household items, garage and yard items, jewelry, clothing, cars, trucks, tractors, and recreational vehicles and firearms. You name it, we can sell it—you might be amazed at the types of household items that have value—don't throw anything away and leave the sorting to us! We all sell real property, too!
Can you sell my house, too?
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Do you keep track of everything that you sell?
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How do you attract buyers to the sale?
We utilize the Idaho Statesman, Craigslist, Estatesales.org, Estatesales.net, Facebook, as well as various local publications and email. We also have large, eye-catching signs to attract local consumers.
Are you licensed, bonded, and insured?
What do you do to ensure the safety and security of the home and its contents?
We maintain a large amount of employees to monitor and assist customers. Locked cases are also provided for high-value items. We also utilize a theft-deterring surveillance system when necessary.
Can you help if I just want help selling certain items?
How do you determine what my stuff is worth?
We are highly trained and experienced in determining the fair market value of your items. However, we come across an item we are unfamiliar with, we will be diligent in researching the item and we will utilize a third-party consultant in a related field to help us determine the most accurate value. We strive to ensure every single item is priced correctly, but also in such manner that maximizes its potential worth.
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How many days do you have the estate sale?
Most estate sales are on a Saturday and Sunday from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm.
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We accept cash, checks, credit cards, and Paypal.
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