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New "Sauron" Dinosaur Found, Big as T. Rex
Forty-foot predator stalked North Africa about 95 million years ago.
Named after the demonic Eye of Sauron from the Lord of the Rings films, a new species of flesh-ripping dinosaur terrorized North Africa some 95 million years ago, a new study says.
The species—Sauroniops pachytholus, or "eye of Sauron" in Greek—was identified from a single fossil unearthed in southeastern Morocco in 2007.
That fossil included only part the upper skull—including the eye socket, study leader Andrea Cau, of the Museo Geologico Giovanni Capellini in Bologna, Italy, said by email.
"The idea of a predator that is physically known only as its fierce eye reminded me of Sauron, in particular as depicted in Peter Jackson's movies," Cau explained. (See a picture of an alien planet that resembles the Eye of Sauron.)
A Match for T. Rex
As a carcharodontosaur—a type of huge theropod, or two-legged meat-eater—Sauroniops likely had "a long and deep skull bearing dozens of bladelike teeth," he said. (See pictures of bizarre dinosaurs in National Geographic magazine.)
Comparisons of the skull fossil with those of related species suggest the creature measured up to 40 feet (12 meters) in length.
"The skull bone of Sauroniops is very broad and particularly thick: This suggests an animal as big as Tyrannosaurus [rex]," Cau said. But without more fossils, "a more precise estimation of its size is currently impossible," the paleontologist added. (See "Meat-Eating Dinosaur Was Bigger Than T. Rex.")
The fossil also revealed that the dinosaur had a distinctive bump on its forehead, which sets Sauroniops apart from other carcharodontosaurs, according to the study, published recently in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.
This lumpy growth may have been used for head-butting clashes during male mating displays, the team speculates.
Sauron Dinosaur Was a Giant Among Giants
As the fourth carcharodontosaur known from Africa, Sauroniops shared its Moroccan stomping ground with the equally ferocious Carcharodontosaurus saharicus. (Related: "Massive New Meat-Eating Dino Had 'Steak Knife' Teeth.")
Though these top predators may have given each other the evil eye, it's quite possible they targeted different prey and weren't direct competitors, Cau said.
"Sauroniops lived along the banks of a large delta, under a hot and warm climate, very rich of fishes and crocodiles," he added. "The abundance of food may explain the abundance of predatory dinosaurs."


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A Visit to the Home of the Man Who Saved Notre Dame
A great—and free!—way to spend a delightful and informative hour or two while in the City of Light is to visit the one-time home of one of the most famous of all Parisians: artist, poet and author Victor Hugo. Hugo lived in a 17th century mansion overlooking the gorgeous Place des Vosges in the Marais for 16 years, from 1832 to 1848. In fact, it was at his second-floor apartment in this very house that Hugo penned one of his most famous works, the novel Les Miserables. But perhaps his most significant work is the novel Notre-Dame de Paris (known in English as The Hunchback of Notre Dame), a book that is credited with saving Notre Dame Cathedral from possible demolition. Continue Reading →

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|Mark Regnerus' bad study continues to cause chaos.
Karl D. Stephan, a professor of electrical engineering (you read that right) has published a piece in the Crisis magazine lambasting the critics of Regenrus' study and claiming that Regnerus is being personally attacked because he supposedly dared to publish a politically incorrect study.
And to do so, he even invokes images of Nazi Germany and its persecution of Jewish people:
In the 1930s, many prominent scientists and engineers in Germany lost their reputations, their jobs, and some eventually their lives because of a non-scientific reason: they happened to be Jews, or outspoken Christians, or simply opposed to some political aim of the government. Everyone now agrees that this was a grievous violation of human rights, an early warning sign of the greater wrongs the German government would do in World War II. While that situation differs from the one Regnerus finds himself in by degree, does it differ in kind from what Jewish scientists suffered in Germany in the 1930s?
Regnerus has reached scientific conclusions that oppose the prevailing political winds. Though his punishment has come from activists rather than official government sources, it is no less politically motivated and no less unjust. Smith thinks the integrity of the social-science research process is threatened by the "public smearing and vigilante media attacks" mounted against Regnerus. If such attacks are successful, we have taken a long step away from scientific integrity and a long step toward the encouragement of a political atmosphere that is totalitarian in its effects.
It probably would have been better had Stefan had just addressed the reasons why folks are questioning Regnerus' work. He briefly talks about it in this mind-boggling paragraph in which he pretty much says he isn't going to address the study's errors:
Regnerus's study, which he himself admits is not perfect, found otherwise. There were significant negative consequences of being raised by parents who were gay, according to the study. I am not going to address the controversial question of defining "gay" or how extensive the negative consequences were or how accurate and scientific the study was.
Stefan then attempts to make it seem that he is merely criticizing the process in which the peer-review of the study was attacked:
A journalist and self-described "minorities anti-defamation professional" whose pseudonym is Scott Rose wrote a letter to the University of Texas administration alleging that Regnerus's paper falsified data. This is the most serious professional charge that anyone can level against a scientist, comparable to a malpractice charge against a doctor.
The first wrongdoing (as I pointed out in a letter published in the Austin American-Statesman) was for UT Austin to act on such complaints from a person who was not in a competent professional position to make such assessments. Scott Rose is not a sociologist. Rose has since published the full "evidence" he plans to present to UT Austin, and it consists of two kinds of arguments. One kind comprises disputes over methods and definitions that Regnerus used. If Rose had been selected as a reviewer of Regnerus's paper, these arguments might have played a role at that point. But Rose, not being a qualified sociologist, has no professional standing to make them, and they must be assessed on their merits by other professional sociologists.
Scott Rose is a free-lance writer who has been calling out Regnerus' study from day one. He is probably the one most singularly responsible for a lot of the negative attention it has been receiving.
However, in calling his name, Stefan makes an error. He makes it seem that Rose is the only person responsible for Regnerus' study being criticized. This is not true.
In June, over 200 professors and therapists sent a letter to James Wright, editor of "Social Science Research," the journal where Regnerus's study was published, questioning the study and the process in which it was reviewed.
And it's not as if Stefan isn't aware of the letter. He even acknowledges it in an offhand way:
I have not even mentioned the press coverage with derogatory headlines, the letter signed by over a hundred sociologists objecting to Regnerus's conclusions, and the politically motivated letter-mobbing of the journal's editor, James Wright, which pressured him to request the review audit.
Furthermore, Stefan omits the other experts (pointed out by Equality Matters) who has condemned Regnerus' study.
The grand irony of Stefan's sad defense of Regnerus' work is that he cites another defense of the study from sociologist Christian Smith. In his piece, Smith didn't even address the study's errors. Instead, just like Stefan, he attempted to make Regnerus a victim.
But at least he didn't have the poor taste to imply that Regnerus' critics were just like Nazis persecuting Jews.
What's that saying about if you have to invoke Nazis to describe your opponents, that's a sure sign that you have lost the argument?


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SAN FRANCISCO — Not ready for a new iPhone? Don't worry. Many software features are coming to older iPhones as well.
Apple has said that its iOS 6 software will sport more than 200 new features, though some won't be available on all devices. The new features include an updated mapping service and better integration with Facebook.
On Wednesday, Apple showed off the virtual assistant Siri giving driving directions. Siri will also let you post Facebook status updates you speak out to her.
There's also an enhancement to email, so you can deem certain people "VIPs" and locate emails from them more easily.
As announced in June, iOS 6 will be a free upgrade for iPhones released since 2009 — the 3GS, 4 and 4S models. It will also be available on last year's and this year's iPad models and newer iPod Touch devices. The update for older devices will be available starting next Wednesday.
The software will ship with the iPhone 5 out on Sept. 21 in the U.S., Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and the U.K. Advance orders will begin this Friday. It will be available in 22 more countries on Sept. 28.
Here are some highlights of iOS 6:
Maps: Apple's mobile devices will have a mapping program, built in-house.
In the past, Apple has given prominent billing to Google Inc.'s mapping app. But the two companies have increasingly become rivals as people buy more devices running Google's Android operating system. Google also has been keeping some features, including turn-by-turn directions spoken aloud, exclusive to Android.
Apple's new Maps application will have a voice navigation feature. It will have real-time traffic data and offer alternative routes as traffic conditions change.
It will also include "flyover" three-dimensional images taken by helicopters hired by the company to fly over major cities. Google has been dispatching its own planes to produce similar 3-D images.
Apple's map program will be integrated with its Siri virtual assistant so that you can ask for directions and pose other questions.
Facebook: The new software promises better integration with Facebook. The upgrade will enable you to log into Facebook just once, and then you will be able to post to the social network from a variety of apps. You can also post about websites directly from Apple's Safari browser.
Siri will be there to post status updates you dictate to her. Siri will show you what she's going to post so you can correct typos before you approve it.
Facebook will be integrated with Apple's online app store so that you can declare that you "like" specific apps there, as well as songs and movies in iTunes.
Events in Facebook's calendar and birthdays of Facebook friends will also appear on your phone's calendar.
Siri: IOS 6 will have enhancements to Siri, which interprets voice commands and talks back to the user. It is also coming to the iPad for the first time.
Siri, introduced last October with the iPhone 4S, is supposed to get better at fielding questions about movies, restaurants and other things.
Apple is partnering with Yelp Inc. so Siri can include ratings and prices of restaurants when you ask her about places to eat. The company is also partnering with OpenTable Inc. to make reservations.
Siri will now be available in more languages and more countries.
Apple also says it's working with car manufacturers to let you use a button on the steering wheel to talk to Siri, allowing you to keep your hands on the road. Apple says General Motors Co., BMW AG and Daimler AG's Mercedes are among the automakers that have promised to offer Siri integration in the next 12 months.
Calls: Don't want to be disturbed?
Apple's new software will give you more options for preventing messages and text notifications from disturbing you at night, for instance.
You can control how and when you get back to people. If you can't call someone back right away, you can set a reminder to call that person back later or have a text message sent directly to the caller.
There's a "call when you leave" feature that reminds you to call back when you are leaving a building or office. The phone can detect when you are leaving.
Passbook: Apple's new Passbook feature will be a central place to keep your boarding passes, tickets and gift cards.
When you get to a Starbucks, for instance, the device will bring up your gift card if you have one and if you have the location feature turned on. Likewise, when you get to a movie theater or baseball stadium, the ticket will pop up. Passbook will also alert you to gate changes and flight delays once you have a boarding pass stored.
Passbook could be the foundation for a new digital commerce hub for Apple, though the iPhone 5 doesn't have a "near-field communication" chip that enables payment information to be transferred by tapping a device on a terminal at a checkout stand. A few Android phones use this technology to process payments with a feature known as Google Wallet.
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Thursday, April 3, 2008
Eliminating the Penny and More
A Winnipeg MP, Pat Martin, is expected to introduce a bill to eliminate the Canadian penny. See this Wikipedia entry for US efforts to eliminate the penny.
Despite my fondness for old coins, I don't like getting pennies in my change. Pennies are worth too little now to consider them to be money. We give a penny and take a penny, but it doesn't really amount to anything.
Handling pennies is like worrying about a decimal place in your weight. "I weighed 175 pounds yesterday, but today I weigh 175.1 pounds! Let me just take these pennies out of my pocket. There we go. I'm back down to 175 again."
The truth is that pennies should have been eliminated decades ago. We've waited so long that we really should eliminate the nickel and dime as well. We could get along just fine if cash transactions were rounded to the nearest quarter.
Just because eliminating pennies makes sense doesn't mean that it will necessarily happen any time soon, though. I'd like to see Martin's legislation pass, but I'm not going to hold my breath. If it does succeed, I'd like to see Martin get started on eliminating nickels and dimes as well.
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I've always thought it might be neat if they'd scrap pennies, nickels, and quarters, and introduce a 20¢ coin. Then they could just drop a decimal place.ReplyDelete
Patrick: Interesting idea. Another way to handle this would be to eliminate the penny, nickel, and quarter, and make more 50-cent pieces.ReplyDelete
I always suspected that credit cards companies lobby against eliminating the penny to make handling cash as cumbersome as possible. The next thing they will come up with is a new penny design with tiny spikes ...ReplyDelete
focal: That's a good one. I hadn't thought of the credit card angle. The only argument I'd ever heard against eliminating pennies is that it would somehow cause inflation. I guess the idea is that companies would take advantage of the turmoil to jack up prices. This never made much sense to me.ReplyDelete


text: The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is an autonomous organization set up in 1961 by the Government of India to assist and advise the Central and State Governments on policies and programmes for qualitative improvement in school education. The major objectives of NCERT and its constituent units are to: undertake, promote and coordinate research in areas related to school education; prepare and publish model textbooks, supplementary material, newsletters, journals and develops educational kits, multimedia digital materials, etc. organise pre-service and in-service training of teachers; develop and disseminate innovative educational techniques and practices;collaborate and network with state educational departments, universities, NGOs and other educational institutions; act as a clearing house for ideas and information in matters related to school education; and act as a nodal agency for achieving the goals of Universalisation of Elementary Education. In addition to research, development, training, extension, publication and dissemination activities, NCERT is an implementation agency for bilateral cultural exchange programmes with other countries in the field of school education. The NCERT also interacts and works in collaboration with the international organizations, visiting foreign delegations and offers various training facilities to educational personnel from developing countries. The major constituent units of NCERT which are located in different regions of the country are:


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The torrents of data produced by social networks, sensors, supply chains and every imaginable device are creating new jobs. Gartner estimated this week that big data will create 1.9 million new jobs in the U.S. through 2015.
Michael Rappa saw this emerging trend and in 2007 became the founding director of the Institute for Advanced Analytics at North Carolina State University, which created a Master of Science in Analytics program, the first first academic program devoted to data analytics. Rappa continues as the Insitute's director. Universities around the U.S. are now establishing similar advanced degree programs.
In an interview this week, Rappa, who previously taught at MIT, explains what constitutes a big data job and the types of training people will need to get them.
What constitute a big data job? I'm not sure anyone can give a precise answer at this point. It would be misleading to describe big data positions simply in terms of a set of tools or programming languages.
It's not uncommon for employers to come to the Institute looking for big data talent without a written job description. But they know they need our graduates.
Those that do come with a job description in hand, describe a disparate array of positions up and down and across the organization. The common thread is the need for data savvy professionals who can draw meaningful insights from the flood of data pouring into the organization. The emerging role of "data scientist" aims to define such a person, but convergence on a single definition (especially from the point of educating one) may be premature.
Gartner predicts that the need to control 'big data' will create 1.9 million direct IT jobs in the U.S. through 2015, but there is only enough talent available to fill one third of them. What's your view of this forecast and assessment? Gartner is no doubt careful in formulating their estimate. It's a three-year horizon, so the groundwork on where we'll be in 2015 is being planned today.
It's not hard to get to a large number, in terms of jobs. It's the [prediction of a] shortfall in filling those jobs that will surprise people. Is the educational community failing us [as Gartner Research Director Peter Sondergaard suggests]? I tend to agree. We need to do more to align educational offerings with the rapidly evolving needs of the marketplace.
While we've shown we can deliver big data talent with our MSA degree -- we doubled enrollment this year to 80 -- we should be doing more and faster. If there were 10 institutes like mine each turning out 200 graduates a year -- still it would only represent about 1% of the number of students enrolled in MBA programs nationwide.
What advice would you give to undergraduates in science, technology, engineering and math programs to prepare themselves for a job in big data? Do they need an advanced degree? Undergraduate students do need to continue on to an advanced degree. The good news is you don't need a PhD. We've had great success at the masters level addressing the immediate need in the workplace.
My advice to undergraduates is to line-up your coursework with the necessary prerequisites in math, statistics and computer science, to prepare for graduate education. This means going beyond a year of calculus and into linear and matrix algebra. Don't stop with the mandatory course in probability and statistics, which is common with many majors. Take additional courses in areas like multivariate regression and statistical programming.
How can people already in the workforce put themselves in a position to pursue these jobs? Our model is to pull people out of the workforce for 10 months and immerse them in a rigorous and intensive training program. We turn learning into a full-contact sport and there's nothing like physical proximity to maximize learning. It works, and we've been equally successful with students in their twenties as with those in their fifties.
But not everyone can leave the workforce for 10 months. Some can pick-up the necessary skills on the job, in the right work environment where learning is encouraged. Professional certifications -- offered by vendors and professional societies -- can help workers demonstrate their knowledge and advance their career. Online learning may also prove helpful in allowing people to remain in the workplace and upgrade their knowledge. One can even participate in free online learning opportunities.
What skills or training would you consider core to any big data job? In my mind, big data isn't a new specialty or suite of tools we have to train people into, as much as it's a new organizational reality that everyone will need to adjust to occupationally.
How we train marketing people will change. How we train IT people will change. How we train supply chain people will change. And so on. Even how we train executives will change. Everyone across the board needs more formal training in statistical analysis, and it should start early in the education process. It would be valuable to develop interdisciplinary curricula around the emerging concept of "data science" as a way of blending elements of math and statistics and computer science.
Looking across the organization, some occupational roles will require additional computer and statistical programming skills, other roles will require new data management and data cleaning skills, and yet other roles will require skills in data visualization and interpretation.
Advanced degree programs are being created rapidly. What type of skills can someone gain from your program? What's unique about our Master of Science in Analytics is that we started from scratch to build a fully integrated learning experience from end-to-end, and we positioned employers as our customer.
Our goal was to directly address the employer need, in terms of the kind of talent they sought to hire. Technical skills are only one part of the package. Employers want people who understand the methods and applications of analytics, but also who are focused on the business problem (not the data alone), able to work in multi-functional teams, and who can effectively communicate insights to executives.
Our homegrown algorithm for creating an analytics professional -- both in terms of the content and structure of the program -- balances technical and tool skills with teamwork and communication skills. It's been a potent formula for us that yields phenomenal results in terms of student outcomes in just ten months.
What's the demand right now for graduates for your program? From my vantage point in analytics education, the "great recession" never happened.
Since founding the Institute in 2007, year after year demand for our graduates intensified. Students who graduated last May had an average of 16 initial job interviews, and over 80-percent had 2 or more job offers. Forty employers came to the Institute attempting to hire from a pool of 38 students. Three-quarters made an offer of employment, and half succeed in landing one or more graduates. However, the top six employers hired two-thirds of the class. That's why we've moved to double our enrollment this year. For the fifth consecutive year, over 90% of our students were employed by graduation. Average salaries continue to increase year after year.
Hardly a day goes by when I don't get a call or a message from an employer looking to hire a MSA graduate. Some of it has to do with our track record for producing analytics professionals that can hit the ground running, but there's no doubting that demand for talent is increasing with each year. Data is perhaps our most valuable renewable resource driving economic growth today.
Patrick Thibodeau covers SaaS and enterprise applications, outsourcing, government IT policies, data centers and IT workforce issues for Computerworld. Follow Patrick on Twitter at @DCgov, or subscribe to Patrick's RSS feed . His e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com.
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When it comes to home storage and organization, there's one room that typically tends to fall into chaos more often than others: the kitchen. Most homeowners are painfully aware of the common problems found in the kitchen organized, whether it's an overflowing utensil drawer or a pantry that looks like a grenade has gone off inside of it. At Closet and Storage Concepts, we specialize in providing solutions for these storage needs, so we've put together a list of some of the most effective techniques and strategies for keeping your kitchen in tip top shape. Read on to find out what you can do to get your kitchen organized and under control.
Install Some Corner Drawers
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Install a Rolling Cabinet
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At Closet and Storage Concepts, we're full of ideas on getting the most out of your space. If you're looking to expand your storage capabilities, or need some advice on getting your home better organized, contact us today!


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Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE (born 10 January 1945) is a British singer-songwriter, born and raised in North London, England, and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English ancestry. With his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with The Jeff Beck Group and then Faces. He launched his solo career in 1969 with his debut album An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down (US: The Rod Stewart Album). His work with The Jeff Beck Group and Faces proved to be influential on the formation of the punk rock and heavy metal genres. With his career in its fifth decade, Stewart has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best selling artists of all time. In the UK, he has garnered six consecutive number one albums, and his tally of 62 hit singles include 31 that reached the top 10, six of which gained the number one position. He has had 16 top ten singles in the U.S, with four of these reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked him the 17th most successful artist on the "The Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists". He was voted at #33 in Q Magazine's list of the top 100 Greatest Singers of all time, and #59 on Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Singers of all time. As a solo artist, Stewart was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, and will be inducted a second time, as a member of Faces, in April 2012.


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Is the ultimate honor for women in Hollywood the ultimate castration for men?
For those who have to trail their leading ladies on red carpets and watch from their seats as those ladies make teary-eyed acceptance speeches, an Oscar win is, indeed, very often the latter. Just look at history. In 1938, after Jane Wyman won an Oscar for her performance in Johnny Belinda, she and Ronald Reagan divorced, causing the would-be president to quip, "Maybe I should name 'Johnny Belinda' as co-respondent.'"
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Which is why it's not a total shocker that just days after Sandra Bullock won her first Academy Award, and professed to Barbara Walters how much she loved her husband, biker bad boy Jesse James ("I never knew what it was like for someone to have my back"), reports surfaced that James has, rather, been going behind Bullock's back with a tattoo model who refers to him as the Vanilla Gorilla and wears patent leather pumps to bed. Though not officially confirmed, something unsettling seems afoot: On Wednesday, Bullock bowed out of the upcoming U.K. premiere of The Blind Side, which caused Warner Bros. to cancel the event.
If the "Vanilla Gorilla" story proves to be true, James wouldn't be the first plus one to act up when the limelight shines a little too brightly on his spouse—particularly when that success involves a little golden man. Just months after Reese Witherspoon won a Best Actress Oscar for Walk the Line, she and hubby Ryan Phillippe broke up after Phillippe was caught fooling around on the set of Stop-Loss with the then-unknown Abbie Cornish. (At the Golden Globes that year, where Witherspoon also won, when a reporter quipped to Phillippe, "Congratulations, you're the big winner," I watched as he replied coldly, "My wife is the winner." And two years after Halle Berry took home gold for Monster's Ball, she and R&B singer Eric Benét filed for divorce following allegations that Benét was unfaithful.
Then there was Hilary Swank, who split with the less-blessed Chad Lowe after her second Oscar win (for Million Dollar Baby). Ditto for Helen Hunt and Hank Azaria; and sweethearts (but not married) Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt. The latest Oscar curse casualties, it was announced this week, are Kate Winslet and director Sam Mendes, who have separated a year after she received her first Academy Award for The Reader, and he went home empty-handed for Revolutionary Road.
The dynamic of a woman's success—in the form of a bigger paycheck or other accolade—straining a marriage to the point of divorce is not limited to Hollywood, but the situation is more acute in a culture where success isn't always a tangible commodity, and is also, thanks to the media, extremely public.
"In Hollywood, so much of life is if you're up or down, or if you're powerful or not—to not feel united on the home front can be devastating, if there are all these jealousies or feelings of insecurity," said Hilary Black, the author of The Secret Currency of Love: The Unabashed Truth About Women, Money, and Relationships.
"And I think there's a true cultural expectation implanted in people's minds, unconsciously or consciously, where men feel obligated to be more successful. That can put a lot of pressure on a marriage. People talk of this gender-equity game that's the result of a post-feminism culture, but I think that a lot of these people grew up watching the man be more successful."
"Money equals sex equals masculinity," said New York divorce lawyer Raoul Felder, who says, more or less, that the Cave Man culture still prevails. "Many men find it demeaning and emasculating when they're outdone by their spouse. It doesn't play well at the bowling alley to be second to the wife."
The situation is worse, he said, for stars, because "celebrities have very fragile egos." Compounding the problem is that "they live for whatever shows up in the news—that's their reality."
This certainly seemed to be the case on the red carpet at the Academy Awards this month, when Matthew Broderick was glumly trailing his wife Sarah Jessica Parker as the Sex and the City star was fawned over by the paparazzi and fashion police. The questions thrown Broderick's way inevitably had to do with his fabulous wife.
"Matthew Broderick was looking miserable the whole time," said Beverly Hills psychiatrist and author Carole Lieberman, about Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker's recent red-carpet appearance.
"He was looking miserable the whole time," said Beverly Hills psychiatrist and author Carole Lieberman. "She didn't win anything, but she has a big movie coming out, and she was just walking the red carpet where she was the main attraction. That may well doom that marriage."
Needless to say, one can't imagine less-famous spouses like Kate Capshaw (Mrs. Steven Spielberg), Rita Wilson (Mrs. Tom Hanks) or Jada Pinkett Smith (first lady to Will) displaying such poutiness.
According to Lieberman, the typical reaction for a man who feels professionally threatened, and thus insecure in a relationship, is to cheat. When a woman edges ahead, "the man's unconscious fear is that now that their partner is so much more successful, she is going to leave him. So what they do is cheat, that's typical, because they're angry. They're already angry for the rejection that they're anticipating."
Infidelity is "a way of taking control and not letting the woman leave them; to not have it be her decision."
"It's primordial," Lieberman continued, "and with celebrities, the idea of being broken up with is so much more devastating and humiliating because it's so public… So they need to show the world that 'I cheated.''
Hence the tawdry details about James' alleged months-long, sexaholic affair that began while Bullock was filming The Blind Side.
Ironically, this blight of embittered male egos resulting in marital discord—which feels as quaint as the 1954 film about this very subject, A Star Is Born—comes at a time when not only are more women marrying men with lower education and income levels than their own, but more of those marriages are working.
According to a Pew Research Center survey focused on American men and women between the ages of 30 and 44, in 2007, 22 percent of husbands were married to wives whose income levels exceeded their own, compared to 4 percent of husbands in 1970. And nearly a third of marriages, it's the wife who is more educated.
Marcia Reynolds, author of the upcoming Wander Woman: How High-Achieving Women Find Contentment and Direction, buys into the theory that more men are happy to be the co-pilot and emotional ballast as opposed to the alpha breadwinner in a marriage.
Indeed, Reynolds recently wrote an essay remarking on how Bullock and James epitomized this kind of relationship where the husband "stands by the side of his partner, not in front of her or behind her."
When told about James' possible bad behavior, Reynolds was disheartened, but said, "I guess maybe there could be a breaking point in that men will accept women for who they are to an extent. I hate for that to be true, but I'm sure you can look at it that way. It's too bad."
She then recalled how, in the Barbara Walters interview, when Walters joked about James being "Mr. Bullock," Bullock quickly interjected. "Oh, he'll never be Mr. Bullock."
No. Most likely, he won't be.
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Nicole LaPorte is the senior West Coast correspondent for The Daily Beast. A former film reporter for Variety, she has also written for The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Observer, and W.


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NEW YORK, Jan. 26 (UPI) — Shares of U.S. technology innovator Apple dropped Friday, pushing the value of the firm from first to second place behind Exxon Mobil, stock data shows.
For a brief stint Apple was the king of the hill. After eclipsing Exxon Mobil in 2011, the company's fortunes continued to rise, with share values peaking at $705.07 in September. At that point Apple was far and away the world's most valuable company.
But investors have concerns that Apple cannot keep creating break-through products forever, The Washington Post reported Saturday.
The company's revenues are still setting records, but the appeal behind Apple stock also relies on its reputation as a trend setter.
Apple shares on Friday closed at $440, which put the value of the company at $414 billion. Exxon Mobil on Friday was worth $417 billion.
What is that expression: Your greatest strength is also your greatest weakness? Although Apple has produced a series of wildly popular break-though products in recent years — the iPod, iPhone and the iPad — companies with more diversified product lines and lower price entry points are also doing well.
Samsung's most recent corporate report, released last week, showed profits up 76 percent from the same quarter a year earlier. Among its offerings are cheaper smartphones that are doing well in emerging markets.
On Wednesday, Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said the company would stay focused on trend-setting.
"We only want to make the best products. We're focused on making products that enrich lives," he said.
Copyright 2013 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).


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"I think I can," the governor choo-chooed. "I think I can."
"And over the mountain the little engine went. We're going to get over that mountain. I have no doubt about it."
Though Brown was referring to high-speed rail, in a sense Brown was referring to both himself and California. In 2010, he won election to reclaim California's governorship -- 36 years after he first was elected to the job. And in November, he persuaded state voters to raise income and sales taxes to balance the state budget.
Before Brown, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger tried to coax voters to do likewise but failed. Brown's Proposition 30 passed with an amazing 55 percent of the vote. Brown thought he could, and he did.
Now California has gone over the mountain. In 2010, California was very blue. Democrats held every statewide office, as well as a majority of seats in the Assembly and Senate.
In 2013, the Golden State is even bluer. For most of this session, Democrats are expected to hold a supermajority in both houses. Republicans won't be able to stop tax increases by withholding the votes needed to reach the two-thirds threshold.
For the first time in years, the Democrats who gave California close to a decade of shortfalls and red ink won't be able to blame Sacramento's dysfunction on the GOP. So what are they doing? They're talking like Republicans.
"Fiscal discipline is not the enemy of our good intentions," quoth Brown, "but the basis for realizing them." He lauded "the wisdom of Joseph," who saved up for hard times. He urged lawmakers not to write too many laws "constantly expanding the coercive power of government."
"It appears we have a Republican governor," quipped dubious state Sen. Jim Nielsen, R-Gerber.
As long as I've known Brown, he has prided himself for sporting a conservative streak. Brown thought as much when he was mayor of Oakland and California's attorney general.
Now that the Democrats have a supermajority, Brown is going to feel what it is to be righteously right. Party progressives will be clamoring for new programs and creative tax hikes that threaten to destabilize state coffers.
"No spending splurges," state Sen. Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, assured me. California needs "job growth."
It's hard to imagine such discipline lasting. By nature, Democrats spend too much. Without the check of the GOP, there will be only Brown to slow that runaway train.
Forget "I think I can." For the next two years, Brown will be muttering to himself, as if to Democratic leaders, "No, you don't." In his dreams, Brown will be seeing Gray Davis -- the governor voters recalled in 2003, in part because of a party-driven tripling of the vehicle license fee.
During Brown's first stint as governor, columnist Mike Royko dubbed him "Governor Moonbeam." The second time around, Brown could become known as "Governor No."


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By OSKAR GARCIA and JUSTIN PRITCHARD
Associated Press
HONOLULU (AP) — A 15-year-old stowaway who survived a flight over the Pacific in a jet's wheel well spent seven hours undetected in what is supposed to be a highly secure area of San Jose International Airport before the flight departed, according to an official briefed on the investigation.
The law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Tuesday that video surveillance shows the boy on the airfield a little after 1 a.m. Sunday, walking on the tarmac and near airplanes in fenced and guarded areas. The official was not authorized to speak publicly about the case and spoke on condition of anonymity.
While it's not clear how the teen spent all that time, FBI spokesman Tom Simon in Honolulu said the teen was sleeping in the plane before the 8 a.m. PDT takeoff. He "literally just slept on the plane overnight," Simon said.
High altitude and low temperatures knocked him out during the 5 1/2-hour flight; he didn't regain consciousness until an hour after the plane landed in Hawaii, Simon said. Medical experts have said the boy may have survived the subzero temperatures and thin air of the plane's 38,000-foot cruising altitude because his body went into a hibernation-like state.
When the landing gear of a Boeing 767 retracts, there is little room to maneuver in the wheel well. The boy would have had to curl up in the fetal position or crouch down the entire time. And there is no way to get into the main cabin or luggage compartment without removing large pieces of the aircraft's interior, said Jon Day, general manager of Southern California Aviation, a maintenance yard in Victorville, Calif., that handles commercial jets.
The boy was resting Tuesday at a Honolulu hospital. Hawaii's Department of Human Services said child welfare officials were arranging his safe return to Northern California.
Meanwhile, investigators were struggling to find out how the San Jose airport's post-9/11 security could have been so easily breached.
Besides video surveillance, the airport has German shepherds and Segway-riding police officers and is surrounded by fences, although many sections do not have barbed wire and could easily be scaled.
The incident "raises serious concerns affecting passenger safety," said U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., who is asking the Government Accountability Office to assess airport perimeter safety nationwide.
The Transportation Security Administration said it has spent $80 billion on aviation security since its inception, shortly after the 9/11 attacks. That includes baggage and passenger screening, but not perimeter security, which is the responsibility of local authorities.
San Jose airport officials declined to answer questions about their security budget.
Swalwell said San Jose airport officials told him Tuesday they were still reviewing video from before dawn Sunday because there are multiple feeds from many cameras at the 1,050-acre airport.
Simon, at the FBI, said video they've found so far shows the teen right after he scaled the fence and going toward the plane.
The boy has not been charged with a crime, but much about him — including his identity and his motivation — remained a public mystery. Media were camped outside a Santa Clara, Calif., home where his family purportedly lives, but no one came out Tuesday. Authorities haven't released the boy's name, but Jennifer Dericco, a spokeswoman for the Santa Clara Unified School District, said that he attends school in the district.
The FAA says about one-quarter of the 105 stowaways who have sneaked aboard flights worldwide since 1947 have survived. Some wheel-well stowaways survived deadly cold and a lack of oxygen because their breathing, heart rate and brain activity slow down.
Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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As cornerback Ike Taylor's role changed during his 11th season with the Steelers, third-year cornerback Cortez Allen contemplated how his responsibilities might someday likewise be altered.
The Steelers got away from specifically assigning Taylor to the opposition's best receiver as the 2013 season progressed, and as that was happening Allen looked forward to someday assuming that role if called upon.
"Of course," he confirmed. "I've always liked to challenge myself. I've always wanted that challenge just to see how I match up. And it's always fun to go against talent like that.
"Ike's done it before me. Hopefully, one day I'll be in that position to be the level of player that he is. It's a day-by-day process. I'm just trying to learn as much as I can from him and the guys around me.
"Wherever I am in the defense, wherever they see fit, what's best for the team, then that's where I'll be. I've never been a guy who said, 'I want to play on this side or that side.' We're both capable of playing either side. And we're both capable of playing anybody we face.
"It's always us. It's never them."
Allen learned and experienced a great deal in 2013. And he addressed where he's been and where he's potentially headed.
Playing cornerback at the NFL level, whether it's boundary corner, field corner, shut-down corner or sub-package corner, is another world from The Citadel. It's all about technique, all the time.
"Where people get into trouble is you beat yourself a lot. Whether it's your eyes, technique; a lot of times when people fall short on plays, it's something that can be corrected, something that can be fixed. As long as we stay consistent and focused, I think we'll be all right."
During the 2013 season, Allen started eight games and played in 14 around an ankle injury that sidelined him in September and relegated him to reserve status for a stretch thereafter.
He accepted whatever was thrown at him as part of "life's changes," and because of "my history at The Citadel, things like that."
"That's part of the game, part of life. Being able to keep your mind-set on what you need to get done and then if you attack those things, you'll be all right. But you're going to go through ups and downs, and it's expected."
The personal highlight for Allen was a 40-yard interception return for a touchdown on Dec. 22 at Green Bay.
Lowlights included Allen sitting at his locker on multiple occasions after games and accepting responsibility for poor tackling, most notably against Minnesota in London and vs. Miami at Heinz Field.
"I'm still trying to get better, trying to be as consistent as possible, trying to correct little things. There's always room for improvement, but I think I'm making good strides in the right direction.
"I feel like I'll never be satisfied as far as where I want to be. As long as I can keep tackling, keep playing close, keep running, I'll be all right."
Allen characterized his second interception of 2013 and the fourth of his career as "great, historic," given its Lambeau Field backdrop.
"Two of the most historic teams in our game and my first pick-six at that field, it's pretty special. It was a great experience."
But there was no "Lambeau Leap" or any other punctuation after Allen had found the end zone.
"It happened so fast I didn't think about doing anything. Plus, I'm not much of a celebration guy."
Allen outlined his offseason agenda just before the regular season ended.
"Evaluate myself and begin the process of attacking what I need to improve. Talk to Coach (Mike) Tomlin and Coach Lake (defensive backs coach Carnell) and see what I can improve in the offseason and go from there.
"There's so much room for me to grow."


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After learning her boss has scheduled a mandatory team-building excursion, financial planner Nona Rogers panics. What does she know about camping? Nada. Zilch. Heck, she doesn't even like picnics. And the thought of sleeping amid bugs and wild animals knots her stomach.
No way can she risk looking like an idiot in front of her colleagues. Taking proactive measures, she acquires the services of a guide to give her a crash-course in camping. Seven days living off the land. How hard could it be? Nona swallows those words when she meets the sexy titan tasked with leading her into the wild. Getting mauled by a bear quickly becomes the least of her worries.
Mason Tinsdale's first love has always been oil rigging. But a horrible accident has him doubting the job—more importantly, himself. Seven days in the Indigo Falls wilderness is just what he needs to sort out his thoughts. Then he meets Nona Rogers. He's convinced the gorgeous woman is going to be far more trouble than she's worth. And he's right. However, there's something about the feisty vixen that makes her irresistible.
Two guarded hearts. Seven days alone. An attraction that can't be denied.
Joy Avery is a North Carolina native with a passion for penning contemporary romances. When she's not writing, she enjoys reading, cake decorating, pretending to expertly play the piano, driving her husband insane, and playing with her sixteen-pound peek-a-poo and hundred-pound Rottweiler.
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Romance is Joy's genre of choice, because she enjoys the experience of characters overcoming the barriers that have held them back from finding true love. Plus, she loves happily ever afters.
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Board: Dayton didn't fully report Minn. plane use
ST. PAUL, MN (AP) — Gov. Mark Dayton won't be fined by Minnesota regulators for failing to account in timely fashion for his use of the state plane on political trips.
In forgoing a fine, the Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board ruled Tuesday that the reporting violation was inadvertent and has since been corrected. Dayton's campaign has provided updated payment information about trips he took last year that involved political campaigning.
A Republican-affiliated group, the Minnesota Jobs Coalition, made the complaint that led to the board's probe. Dayton reported the costs of some political travel later than it was required and didn't include two trips that had a political component until recently.
On swings that combine official business and politics, Dayton's campaign must reimburse the state for the proportion of trips involving campaign activity.


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The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.5 x86_64 [ISPConfig 2] - Page 3
4 Adjust /etc/hosts
Next we edit /etc/hosts. Make it look like this:
vi /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.100 server1.example.com server1 ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
5 Configure Additional IP Addresses
(This section is totally optional. It just shows how to add additional IP addresses to your network interface eth0 if you need more than one IP address. If you're fine with one IP address, you can skip this section.)
Let's assume our network interface is eth0. Then there is a file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 which contains the settings for eth0. We can use this as a sample for our new virtual network interface eth0:0:
cp /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0
Now we want to use the IP address 192.168.0.101 on the virtual interface eth0:0. Therefore we open the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0 and modify it as follows (we can leave out the HWADDR line as it is the same physical network card):
vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0
# Intel Corporation 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) DEVICE=eth0:0 BOOTPROTO=static BROADCAST=192.168.0.255 IPADDR=192.168.0.101 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.0.0 ONBOOT=yes
Afterwards we have to restart the network:
/etc/init.d/network restart
You might also want to adjust /etc/hosts after you have added new IP addresses, although this is not necessary.
Now run
You should now see your new IP address in the output:
[root@server1 ~]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:FD:78:BE
inet addr:192.168.0.100 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fefd:78be/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:469 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:534 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:43223 (42.2 KiB) TX bytes:100665 (98.3 KiB)
Base address:0x1070 Memory:e8820000-e8840000
eth0:0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:FD:78:BE
inet addr:192.168.0.101 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Base address:0x1070 Memory:e8820000-e8840000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:560 (560.0 b) TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)
[root@server1 ~]#
6 Disable The Firewall And SELinux
(You can skip this chapter if you have already disabled the firewall and SELinux at the end of the basic system installation (in the Setup Agent).)
I want to install ISPConfig at the end of this tutorial which comes with its own firewall. That's why I disable the default CentOS firewall now. Of course, you are free to leave it on and configure it to your needs (but then you shouldn't use any other firewall later on as it will most probably interfere with the CentOS firewall).
SELinux is a security extension of CentOS that should provide extended security. In my opinion you don't need it to configure a secure system, and it usually causes more problems than advantages (think of it after you have done a week of trouble-shooting because some service wasn't working as expected, and then you find out that everything was ok, only SELinux was causing the problem). Therefore I disable it, too (this is a must if you want to install ISPConfig later on).
Set both Security Level and SELinux to Disabled and hit OK:
Afterwards we must reboot the system:
7 Install Some Software
First we import the GPG keys for software packages:
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY*
Then we update our existing packages on the system:
yum update
Now we install some software packages that are needed later on:
yum install fetchmail wget bzip2 unzip zip nmap openssl lynx fileutils ncftp gcc gcc-c++


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August 21, 2009
Google Sitelinks for Wikipedia
The sitelinks for Wikipedia results are special because Google doesn't send you to a different page, but to a section of the article. This is especially useful for long articles that include a lot of information.
It's the first time when Google indexes URLs that include anchors and sends you directly to a section from a page. The feature has already been available at Yahoo Search and Live Search.
{ Spotted by Milivella. }
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Actually it's not only for Wikipedia. These sitelinks might appear for every page that uses labels (a name="sth"). Example: http://i28.tinypic.com/2lbc1g9.jpgReplyDelete
They use anchor texts from first 3-4 links with #.
Good for users.ReplyDelete
Very helpful info on google sitelinks. Thanks for the share.ReplyDelete
Good to see the changes.ReplyDelete
I think it is already present for a long time nowReplyDelete
not only wikipedia but all wesites
These links are present for a long time now. But, very good observation. How do you think we can use them for an advantage for ranking on websites?ReplyDelete
So nice to see updation.Keep going like this. ALL THE BEST.ReplyDelete
This is a great development and one that is very much welcomed.ReplyDelete
I think it is already present for a long time nowReplyDelete
not only wikipedia but all wesites
Good to see the changes.
How to get these Sitelinks?ReplyDelete
Yes how do we get these sitelinks?ReplyDelete


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NHPRC News - February 2013
NHPRC News
February 2013
In This Issue:
Inside the Commission
Three new appointees have been named to the Commission. George Miles, curator of the Western Americana Collection at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, joins us as the representative of the Organization of American Historians. Peter Gottlieb, former state archivist in Wisconsin and past president of the Society of American Archivists, and will now represent the SAA. Nicole Saylor will represent the Librarian of Congress on the Commission. Ms. Saylor is the newly appointed Head of the American Folklife Center Archive at the Library. Before joining the Library, Saylor served as head of Digital Research and Publishing at the University of Iowa Libraries.
Grants Awarded to 46 Projects
Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero has approved 46 proposals totaling $2,605,494 in Federal awards for projects in 35 states and the District of Columbia. This grants program is carried out through the National Archives National Historical Publications and Records Commission. A complete list of the approved grants is at http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/awards/awards-11-12.html.
Grants totaling $1.2 million went to nine publishing projects from the U.S. Colonial and Early National period, including the papers of Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Dolley Madison, and John Jay. Also funded were projects to record the documentary history of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and the documentary history of the first Federal Congress.
Grants totaling $750,000 went to the State and National Archives Partnership (SNAP) to enable 30 state historical records advisory boards to fund archival education and strengthen the nation's archival network. Fourteen of those states received funds for "regrant" projects, which will help them fund small and local archives and historical records repositories.
Digitizing historical records grants, totaling $420,000, went to four projects: the University of Florida will digitize and make available more than 36,000 pages of diaries and manuscripts from the end of the Colonial period to the beginnings of the modern state; Princeton University will digitize more than 400,000 pages of six Cold War-related manuscript collections; Harvard University will digitize 189,074 pages, covering four generations of the Blackwell Family from 1784 to 1981, that document their involvement with abolition, temperance, women's suffrage, and education reform; and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation in Springfield, Illinois, will digitize the records of Richard Yates, Sr., governor of Illinois,1861-1865.
Three Electronic Records grants, totaling $235,000, went to: the Council of State Archivists for a two-year project to strengthen the capacity of states and territories to manage and preserve electronic records; an electronic records start-up project at the Guggenheim Museum in New York; and a planning grant for the Missouri Office of the Secretary of State to establish an electronic records archives.
Annotation Available
Annotation, the annual report of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, has been published and a PDF is available online at http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/publications/annual-reports/2012-nhprc-annual-report.pdf. The report covers FY 2012 and includes stories on a dozen projects supported by the Commission. A limited number of printed volumes are available, for free, upon request. Please email Keith Donohue at email@example.com.
Grant Deadlines
The following Grant opportunities are currently available:
Digitizing Historical Records
For projects to digitize nationally significant historical record collections and make the digital versions freely available online.
Final Deadline: June 11, 2013
Electronic Records Projects
For projects to increase the capacity of archivists and archival repositories to create electronic records archives that preserve records of enduring historical value.
Final Deadline: June 11, 2013
Institute for Historical Editing
For a project to improve the training and education for people preparing to be or working as historical editors.
Final Deadline: March 7, 2013
Publishing Historical Records
For projects to publish historical records of national significance.
Two annual competitions:
Colonial and Early National Period - Final Deadline: June 11, 2013
New Republic through the Modern Era - Final Deadline: October 3, 2013
State and National Archival Partnership Grants
For projects to strengthen archives and historical records programs in each of the states and build a national archival network.
Final Deadline: September 5, 2013
Stanton-Anthony Publishes Final Volume
The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony has published its sixth and final volume, An Awful Hush, 1895 to 1906 completing an extraordinary series, edited by Ann D. Gordon and published by Rutgers University Press. The NHPRC has been a supporter since the project's beginning.
In 1982, Gordon joined the Stanton and Anthony papers project which was then at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and helped the project produce a microfilm volume in 1991 of 14,000 relevant historical documents cataloged and described, composed equally of published texts and of manuscripts. After moving the project to Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Gordon and her staff identified and cataloged more texts. Led by Gordon as editor, the project produced six volumes of The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, to "record the first half century of women's campaign for political rights in the US and provide the primary reference point for examining women's political history in the nineteenth century."
The sixth volume takes up the last years of Stanton and Anthony, who fought for women's rights for over 50 years. Shortly before Stanton's death in 1902, Anthony wrote of their struggle:
We little dreamed when we began this contest, optimistic with the hope and buoyancy of youth, that half a century later we would be compelled to leave the finish of the battle to another generation of women. But our hearts are filled with joy to know that they enter upon this task equipped with a college education, with business experience, with the fully admitted right to speak in public--all of which were denied to women fifty years ago. They have practically but one point to gain--the suffrage; we had all. These strong, courageous, capable young women will take our place and complete our work. There is an army of them, where we were but a handful; ancient prejudice has become so softened, public sentiment so liberalized, and women have so thoroughly demonstrated their ability, as to leave not a shadow of doubt that they will carry our cause to victory.
And we, dear old friend, shall move on the next sphere of existence--higher and larger, we cannot fail to believe, and one where women will not be placed in an inferior position, but will be welcomed on a plane of perfect and spiritual equality.
Digital Stewardship
The current demand for cultural heritage professionals who can successfully manage digital resources and provide online services in museums, libraries, and archives is strong and will increase significantly in the future. GSLIS (the Graduate School of Library and Information Science) at Simmons College received funding from NHPRC to build a Digital Curriculum Laboratory in 2010. This lab is a key component in offering a new Cultural Heritage Informatics curriculum. Partnering with GSLIS in this grant were archival and library programs at New York University, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Mid-Sweden University, and University College, London.
Simmons College GSLIS aims, through intensive education and training, to build a society of successful digital stewards who will be effective leaders in libraries and archives. The Digital Stewardship Certificate program equips students to meet the issues of the day and encourages them to face the challenges of the future. The Digital Stewardship Certificate is a fully online program of five graduate-level courses (15 credits) that imparts the concepts and skills needed to create and manage a sustainable digital repository, library, or archive. It covers the management of digital objects over the long term through active, ongoing oversight of the total environment (content, technologies, and user expectations). The courses for this certificate are delivered online in a high-touch, highly experiential pedagogy, using the Digital Curriculum Laboratory as a key tool.
The DSC can be completed in either three or five semesters. The first course, Digital Stewardship, will be taught in the Fall of 2013, with a May 1, 2013 application deadline. For more details about the program, or to apply, please see http://www.simmons.edu/dsc.
St. George Tucker Publishes Complete Edition
With support from the NHPRC, the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the College of William and Mary have completed a three-volume edition of St. George Tucker's Law Reports and Selected Papers, 1782-1825 published in January through the University of North Carolina Press. This new edition brings to light the work of one of the key figures in America's judiciary history.
Born in 1752 in Bermuda, St. George Tucker went to Virginia when he was 19 to study law. By the time Tucker completed his legal studies with George Wythe at the College of William and Mary, the American Revolution was breaking out in the colonies. Tucker joined the militia and was Governor Thomas Nelson's liaison with the French army during the Battle of Yorktown. He began his law practice in 1781; in 1788 he became a professor of law at William and Mary and judge of the Virginia General Court. He continued to teach at the college until 1804. He served as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia and as a judge of the U.S. District Court.
Tucker is probably most noted for his five-volume edition of Blackstone's Commentaries (1803) in which he added appendixes explaining how the law in the United States had changed since the Commentaries 1794 edition. Tucker's Blackstone became the most popular reference work for students and practitioners of United States law until the mid-19th century.
The most important of his papers are three-bound volumes of manuscript reports of cases tried in the General Court, District Court, and Court of Appeals in Virginia from 1786 to 1811. Three other volumes contain his notes of cases in the U.S. District Court and the U.S. Circuit Court. In addition to these volumes, Tucker's papers include notes of arguments, opinions, dockets, pleadings, and other loose documents relating to individual cases. Tucker's papers are valuable not only for legal history, but also because they reflect early American political and social history. Tucker, who wrote a pamphlet urging the abolition of slavery, reported on cases in which slaves asked to court to acknowledge their status as freemen. The records of the General Court were destroyed during the Civil War; Tucker's papers provide the only record of many early Virginia cases. Although Tucker's heirs donated his papers to William and Mary in 1938, for many years, despite their importance, they received little attention.
The project was headed by editor Charles Hobson, who also directed the John Marshall Papers, which was completed in a 12-volume edition several years ago. At a reception, Hobson said, "In the broadest terms, Tucker's law career as a professor, commentator, and judge was all of a piece. If the grand theme of his Blackstone's Commentaries was the adaptation of English common law to the circumstance of early republican America, then Tucker's law reports provide ample documentation of the practical working out of that process."
Environmental Design Archives
The Environmental Design Archives (EDA) at the University of California at Berkeley is undertaking a project to process and make available two collections of records created by leading environmental architects Ernest Kump and Warren Callister.
Callister and Kump influenced design locally, nationally, and internationally through their reimagining of public schools, community colleges, retirement communities, and multi-faceted cluster housing. Their projects and philosophies were published frequently in the professional, scholarly, and popular presses. Although these two collections are unprocessed and extremely difficult to use, researchers have already begun to use them to study areas such as the impact of the built environment on education and the cultural and historical impact of single- and multi-residential housing on individuals and communities, as well as more general areas of study such as architectural design, urban studies, the cultural landscape, and historic preservation.
Warren Callister (1917-2008) studied architecture, sculpture, and sociology at the University of Texas. By the mid-1960s, his firm was designing residences for a range of community developments. In many of these projects, Callister shifted away from Modernism toward designs that were inspired by local climate and lifestyle. At projects such as Heritage Village in Southbury, Connecticut (1965-72), Callister's vision all but defined a new look for the contemporary production of architecture in the northeast. He was a romantic visionary who believed that architecture could make life in the modern age more pleasant, wholesome, and relaxing. In addition to the innovative housing tracts that he designed for developers, Callister also designed custom houses, as well as churches, schools, shopping centers, airports, and other public buildings.
Ernest Kump (1911-1999) was a partner with the firm of Franklin & Kump when their radically modern Fresno City Hall (1941) was selected by the Museum of Modern Art in New York as one of the most significant American structures built between 1932 and 1944. His Naval Ordnance Building at Hunters Point, California, was one of the world's first totally transparent multi-story buildings. The firm's United Airlines Airport Terminal in the San Joaquin Valley, designed in the International Style, received highest honors in the annual awards competition sponsored by Progressive Architecture in 1948. As an internationally recognized expert in school architecture, Kump was most closely associated with his award-winning 1962 design for Foothill College in Los Altos, California. He also designed educational institutions in the Virgin Islands, Massachusetts, Illinois, New York, Australia, and Beirut. He was also an early proponent of envirotecture, the notion that, by relying on advanced technology, housing for families and whole communities could co-exist in harmony with the natural environment.
The Environmental Design Archives, which opened in 1955, seeks to raise awareness of the significant architectural and landscape heritage of northern California and beyond through collecting, preserving, and providing access to the primary records of the built and landscaped environment. EDA's holdings of 200 collections and 300,000 visual images were recently relocated to a new research collections center with proper environmental controls and seismic safety construction. Approximately 80 percent of the holdings are fully processed and available to the public. Those collections that have not been processed are open for research when the specific documents requested by researchers can be located and their preservation is assured. In addition to students and faculty, the collections are utilized by local, national, and international researchers, including architects, builders, and home owners; historic preservationists; landscape architects; historians; artists and writers; and institutions seeking materials for exhibitions. The archives staff responds to nearly 700 reference inquiries via telephone, email, and mail per year, and serves an average of 500 visiting scholars and students per year.
NHPRC News is published every other month. If you have news you wish to share or would like to receive an e-mail alert when the next issue is available, please contact Keith Donohue, Director for Communications, at email@example.com.


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I was interviewed by Norman Oder of Library Journal for What Would Google Do? Snippets:
Libraries already act like Google in many ways. Or I should say instead, Google acts like libraries. It is the mission of both to organize the world's information, to make it openly accessible, to find and present the most authoritative (by many definitions) sources, to instill an ethic of information use in the public, to act as a platform for communities of information, to encourage creation. . . .
How can libraries collect the wisdom of the crowd that is their communities (e.g., creating collaborative town wikis and maps made by the community)? Librarians and their expert patrons could curate the web and create topic pages that would rise in Google search as valuable resources for the world (if your library is in Florida, it could maintain the best collections of sources for information on manatees or sunburns). What I'd really like to do is brainstorm this question with your readers on my blog: How could they be Googlier?
I think librarians will have a key role in what I believe will be a distributed future of education… in a limitless web of teachers and students no longer bound by a classroom or campus or by geography. Librarians, like Google and like learners, are thinking past their libraries.
On Google Book Search and the settlement with publishers and authors (still controversial with some librarians):
There's no reason publishers couldn't have created their own consortium to do everything Google will do: scan books, make them searchable, manage purchases and payments, and even sell ads on book content. Similarly, libraries could have scanned works in the public domain on their own. That Google puts on conditions–some of which are not Google's but are apparently rights holders'– should not be shocking. Just as ad-supported media conceded much of the ad market to Google, so did publishers and libraries allow Google to step into a void they left.
I think that Google Book Search and the settlement around it are good for books and authors because the service will enable many more readers to discover many more books. Authors and publishers might end up with another revenue stream. And books can live on past the remainder table. Rather than fighting the tide and Google, publishers should have tried to see how to offer and capture these benefits themselves. Now they're wise to work with Google.


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BRISTOL, Conn. -- National runner-up Kentucky will face Texas and Florida will play Kansas in the second annual SEC-Big 12 Challenge.
All 10 Big 12 teams and 10 of the 14 Southeastern Conference teams will play in the event from Dec. 3-6.
Auburn and Texas Tech, who have not met since Dec. 19, 1963, will open the series on Dec. 3 at Lubbock, Texas.
On Dec. 4, Arkansas is at Iowa State, Baylor is at Vanderbilt, LSU is at West Virginia and TCU is at Mississippi.
Florida at Kansas, Missouri at Oklahoma and Texas at Kentucky will be played Dec. 5.
The challenge wraps up Dec. 6 with Kansas State at Tennessee and Oklahoma State at South Carolina.


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The BA-RMD is as aesthetically pleasing as the CTR, however, the door panel is detachable from the frame. The door is ideal for confined spaces where access is limited or where a pivoting door cannot be used due to an obstruction.
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Some Personal Favorites
Some of the personal favourites from my collection. Hope you like them too :-) These are available for purchase as Fine Art Prints in various sizes. If you like any of them, please do let me know. Drop in a mail to email@example.com OR email@example.com. In the email, you can mention either the title of the image OR a link to the image that you like. Will share further details with you.Read More


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If you're expecting widespread availability of gaming desktops with AMD's Zen chips by year-end, don't hold your breath.
It's been a long wait for Zen since it was first announced in mid-2015. It's shaping up to be the best CPU from the company in more than a decade, and the AMD faithful are hungry to get their hands on a desktop with the chip.
High-end desktops with Zen will be available, but in "limited volume towards the end of the fourth quarter," said Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, during an earnings call Thursday. The number of available Zen-based desktops will depend on how testing of the chips goes and how ready PC makers are to ship the machines, Su noted.
Volume shipments of desktops with Zen will begin in the first quarter next year, Su said.
It will be a gold rush for Zen gaming desktops during the year-end holiday shopping season. Those desktops could become available right at the end of the year, and be priced at a premium.
Before the earnings call, it wasn't clear when Zen-based desktops would land in the fourth quarter, but volume shipments were expected. AMD at Computex in June said it would start shipping Zen processors for testing to a few partners, with a larger volume of chips shipping in the third quarter.
AMD claims major advancements with Zen, among them a 40 percent improvement in instructions-per-clock (IPC), a metric for CPU performance. The desktop Zen chips will be benchmarked to see if those claims hold water.
AMD has big plans for the enthusiast segment as it will best represent how far the company has come with its CPU and GPU technologies. If Zen fails, it will be disastrous for AMD considering the amount of resources put into its development.
The chip maker wants to combine Zen chips and GPUs based on the Polaris graphics architecture to provide the ultimate gaming experience. Competition in high-end desktops will come from Intel's Extreme Edition chips and Nvidia Pascal GPUs like the GeForce GTX 1080. Both are extremely popular, and it will be challenging to convince customers to move to an all-AMD desktop.
But the Zen chip looks promising, and AMD hopes to get back on par with Intel on CPU technology. Laptops with Zen chips and integrated graphics will launch next year, Su said. Server chips based on Zen will ship in the first quarter.


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New research analyzes biochemistry of world's largest fish
Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are the world's largest fish species. Credit: Georgia Aquarium
New research from Georgia Aquarium and Georgia Institute of Technology provides evidence that a suite of techniques called "metabolomics" can be used to determine the health status of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus), the world's largest fish species. The study, led by Dr. Alistair Dove, Director of Research & Conservation at Georgia Aquarium and an adjunct professor at Georgia Tech, found that the major difference between healthy and unhealthy sharks was the concentration of homarine in their in serum—indicating that homarine is a useful biomarker of health status for the species.
The paper, "Biomarkers of whale shark health: a metabolomic approach", which is published in the journal PLOS ONE, is especially significant to the veterinary science community because the study documents the results of a rare opportunity to collect and analyze blood from whale sharks. The paper also comprises the only work yet carried out on biochemistry of the world's largest fish.
"This research and its resulting findings are vitally important to ensuring Georgia Aquarium's and the scientific community's care, knowledge, and understanding of not only whale sharks, but similar species of sharks and rays," said Dr. Greg Bossart, Senior Vice President of Animal Health, Research & Conservation and Chief Veterinary Officer at Georgia Aquarium. "The publishing of this clinical research provides a greater opportunity for scientists and Zoological professionals to understand the Animals in our care and can be used to help wild populations, which puts us ahead of the curve in the integrated understanding of animal biology."
Whale shark (Rhincodon typus). Credit: Georgia Aquarium
Previous research and observations showed that traditional veterinary blood chemistry tests were not as useful with whale sharks; most likely because such tests are designed for mammals and comparatively less is known about shark and ray blood. Dr. Dove and six colleagues from Georgia Tech set out to significantly increase knowledge of whale shark biochemistry by examining the metabolite composition of all six whale sharks which have been cared for at Georgia Aquarium. By using metabolomics, the researchers were able to determine which chemical compounds were present in the shark blood, without knowing ahead of time what they are.
"It is vitally important for us to continue to learn how to best support the whale sharks in our care," said Dove, who, along with the GA Tech team, spent three years developing the research. "We began the study by asking ourselves, 'What should we be looking for in whale shark serum?' and 'What compounds in serum might best indicate the health status of whale sharks?'"
Not only did the study determine that metabolic profiles of unhealthy whale sharks were markedly different than those of healthy sharks in general and particularly the different levels of homarine, but the research team also identified more than 25 other compounds that differed in concentration based on the health of the individual.
Findings detailed in "Biomarkers of whale shark health: a metabolomic approach" will help scientists and veterinarians to better understand the biology of whale sharks in their natural setting, and by homology, the biology of other shark and ray species that may be similar. Further, data compiled in the research will provide a reference library about whale shark biochemistry that can be consulted in future studies and importantly, adds new knowledge that will be useful to those who care for sharks and rays on a daily basis.
"This sort of advanced research is only made possible through collaboration between aquarium scientists and experts at our partner universities," said Dr. Dove.
The research team included, from Georgia Tech: Dr. Johannes Leisen, research scientist; Dr. Manshi Zhou, post-doctoral candidate; Dr. Jonathan Byrne, post-doctoral candidate; Krista Lim-Hing, student; Dr. Leslie Gelbaum, Dr. Mark Viant, Dr. Julia Kubanek, and Dr. Facundo Fernandez; and from Georgia Aquarium: Harry D. Webb, research technician. Additional support also came from Georgia Tech's National Science Foundation (NSF) undergraduate research program in mathematical biology.
The Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, Georgia, is the world's largest with more than 10 million gallons of water and the largest collection of aquatic animals. The mission of Georgia Aquarium is to be an entertaining, educational and scientific institution featuring exhibits and programs of the highest standards; offering engaging and exciting guest experiences promoting the conservation of aquatic biodiversity throughout the world. Georgia Aquarium is an accredited member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums and the Alliance of Marine Mammal Parks and Aquariums.
Contact: Stephanie Johnson
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Georgia Institute of Technology