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The Secret Beyond Matter
|Kackar TV, 25 November 2008
ADNAN OKTAR: Indeed, our Prophet (saas) has set out in some detail how this economic crisis will take place in the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as). He said it in the hadith. Look, let me tell you one of them. "Stagnation in the markets and bazaars is one of the portents of Doomsday. I said, what does stagnation in the markets mean? These things, complaints of low earnings is a portent of the coming of the Mahdi (as), that and great storms…" This is one of the major portents of the End Times and will last a long time, according to the hadith and the indications in the Qur'an. There was a famine in the time of the Prophet Yusuf (as), as you know. That is referred to in Surah Yusuf and there are allusions to the Prophet Yusuf (as) attaching importance to agriculture. For example, the surah refers to oxen and wheat, the importance of the ox in livestock raising and of wheat in agriculture, storing wheat and using it economically, avoiding waste in other words, and a timing with a seven. AND THIS CRISIS ALSO BEGAN WITH A SEVEN, IT BEGAN IN 2007 AND WILL CONTINUE UNTIL 2014.
|Kon TV, 25 January 2009
REPORTER: What do you say about the global, financial crisis centered in America and that is plaguing the whole world? Are there political plans and ruses behind it, Mr. Oktar? ADNAN OKTAR: No, this is an economic crisis described by our Prophet (saas) as occurring in the End Times. This is widely indicated in the Qur'an. Almighty Allah says, "Wherever We have sent a messenger we have produced economic crises and high costs of living so that people there will beg for help." Would America want to be in that position? The wealthy in America are currently in desperate straits. They do not oppress and humiliate themselves that much. Banks, workplaces and factories are folding one after the other. And there is total panic in America, Russia and China. And they cannot stop it. They are falling like dominoes, one after the other. This is not something that can be stopped. It is one of the events before the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as) in the End Times. It is one of the portents of the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as). It is an event that will engulf the capitalist system, it will swallow the whole system in the way the Prophet Musa's (as) staff swallowed the snake. And nobody will be able to withstand it. IT BEGAN IN 2007 AND WILL LAST FOR 7 YEARS. It will lead to global famine. That is why it is indicated in the Qur'an. The Prophet Yusuf (as) says, "Store wheat, because there will be famine." "And after famine there will be abundance" he says. REPORTER: Do you foresee a particular timing regarding this? ADNAN OKTAR: IT STARTED IN 2007. THIS CRISIS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL 2014. I say that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will be physically visible in 2014.
Milliyet, 25 April 2009
National revenues will not reach pre-crisis levels in 2014
|Cay TV, 31 January 2009
ADNAN OKTAR: It will swallow them all. This is a devastation that will last for 7 years. Allah will destroy them all within 7 years. Watch the papers and the television. You will hear reports every day, reports about somewhere collapsing, and this will not stop for 7 years.
PRESENTER: Countries have even gone bankrupt.
ADNAN OKTAR: IT BEGAN IN 2007. IT WILL SWALLOW THEM, SWALLOW THE WHOLE SYSTEM, UNTIL 2014. And they will be very poor and helpless, and will bend the knee and beg to be saved. And famine will emerge as a result. So they will have nothing, no goods or possessions, to boast about or show off with, to be proud and arrogant over, and none of their own glory. Like Kharun, Allah will bring down their whole system. The story of Kharun in the Qur'an is happening now in the End Times. In other words, all of Kharun's treasure is now sinking. Kharun's treasure was very famous, as you know, and the Qur'an describes it as very great. It says his power, his economic power was very great. And these people's economic power was very great. But they have now entered that period of famine referred to in Surah Yusuf.
|Kon TV, 1 February 2009
Adnan Oktar: That means there is something wise and important, if it has reached their ears in waves in this way. And they are now saying this. As I remember, a columnist on daily Aksam also says it will last between 7 and 10 years, and his statement came weeks after mine. That means they have understood correctly. That means that such an opinion has formed in America and in Turkey, and shows how correct those words were.
Presenter: This is just the right time to ask. Why 7?
Adnan Oktar: This is described comprehensively in Surah Yusuf. Seven years of famine, 7 years of plenty. THE CRISIS BEGAN IN 2007 AND WILL CONTINUE UNTIL 2014. In 2014 we will feel the presence of Hazrat Mahdi (as). Nobody will be able to say he has not felt him or understood. They will understand very clearly. There will be a 7-year period of awakening and coming to life from 2014 to 2021.
|Kral Karadeniz TV, 6 March 2009
ADNAN OKTAR: But note that all these marvels will keep on happening. For example, I said that it would not rain, and the rains have not come. They immediately came up with a pretext, blaming it on global warming. So why are all the dams full? The dams are full to bursting. Last year there was a drought. But now they are full up and there is plenty of rain. The same as in the hadith. So where does global warming come in? This is a feature of the End Times. A feature of the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as). We are told this will happen in the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as). It has happened at just the right time. And the date when the crisis started is just right, 2007, and it will last for 7 years. It will continue until 2014. The date when it started is crystal clear. Look, I am telling you it will destroy the capitalist system. Every day another large company collapses, every day, literally, a state goes under; states are going under.
|Kral Kradeniz TV, 3 April 2009
ADNAN OKTAR: Even if America had all the boron mines in the world that would still not be enough to save it. Let me state it openly, America's position is catastrophic. Europe's position is catastrophic. China and Russia will all collapse. There is absolutely no way out, and they have collapsed even as of now. THEY HAVE COLLAPSED RIGHT FROM THE OUTSET. THIS WILL KEEP ON INCREASING UNTIL NEXT YEAR, BUT I EXPECT AN EASING IN 2013, AND INSHA'ALLAH IT WILL STOP AFTER 2013, IN 2014, BY ALLAH'S LEAVE. You will see it happen just like I have said. But there will be huge wealth in around 2021. Really extreme wealth. People will have so much they will have nothing to spend money on. But this will be with the abundance from Hazrat Mahdi (as) and the Prophet Jesus (as), insha'Allah. Tell our brothers to put this CD away. The period from 2013-2021 will pass very quickly, in the blink of an eye. Tell them to hide the CDs of this interview in their homes. They will see it all happens exactly as I have said. Exactly. We are in a metaphysical age.
Cumhuriyet, 20 May 2009
|Cay TV, 11 March 2009
ADNAN OKTAR: But the economic crisis is of course a portent of the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as) in the End Times. This will happen in the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as). In the Qur'an, Almighty Allah says, "Whenever We sent an messenger (a warner, a Mahdi) We have also produced an economic crisis so that they should beg (return to Allah, surrender to Allah.)" Allah says He has produced high costs of living. He says He has given rise to famine. This is the greatest and most important of events, this event in the End Times. It is a global phenomenon. It will grow and grow. It is growing apace now. Let me say it will be even more severe this year. It will grow much worse. It began in 2007, as you know. The crisis will start to slow down around 2013 in all likelihood, and will come to a total end in 2014. We will feel the presence of Hazrat Mahdi (as) in 2014, of his system. But we will see our Azeri brothers here around 2021, and our Kazakh brothers, our brothers from Turkestan, our Syrian and Iraqi brothers, and we will go to them, and the Turkish-Islamic Union will have been established. And there will be an amazing wealth, and amazing abundance, and peace and plenty, insha'Allah.
|Ekin TV, 16 February 2009
ADNAN OKTAR: The characteristic of the Golden Age is that it is like a birth pain. The spread of corruption, terrible bloodshed, the invasion of Iraq, the invasion of Afghanistan, the occupation of Iraq by many foreign countries, bloodshed in Palestine and incidents in Jerusalem, our Prophet (saas) has described all these in detail. He says that Allah will be openly denied. Before the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as), he says. There have been posters openly denying the existence of Allah on the sides of busses in England, so that has happened, too. I wrote about that 20 years ago in my book, describing that as a portent of the End Times, and it has happened to the letter. Out prophet (saas) says in the hadith that there will be an economic crisis, prior to Hazrat Mahdi (as), and that has come about. Hazrat Mahdi (as) will appear after all kinds of corruption, of strife and fire. Allah will make Hazrat Mahdi (as) His instrument in putting those fires out. That is his distinguishing feature, because if there is no fire, no strife, no slaughter and injustice, then Hazrat Mahdi (as) will not appear. This is the reason for Hazrat Mahdi's (as) existence, the reason for his appearance. It is the reason for the coming of the Prophet Jesus (as). That is why such things are happening, in order to make people think, to draw them closer to Allah, and there is wisdom behind them all. For example, there was a war in Bosnia, but everyone became very devout. Everyone became devout as a result. There was a war in Iraq, and all those who used to puff on their hookahs, take drugs, go to the Communist Party and harbor Stalinist ideas have now all become Muslims. Syria is also full of devout believers now. Palestine used to be somewhere that communists were trained in. But now it is overflowing with religious believers. That means that troubles and suffering draw people closer to Allah and are instrumental in their turning to faith. These are all features of the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as). All these famine, scarcity and poverty will come to an end in the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as), and injustices will come to an end. An age of peace and security will come. But THIS ECONOMIC CRISIS BEGAN IN 2007 AND THE QUR'AN, THE HADITH AND THE TORAH INDICATE THAT IT WILL LAST UNTIL 2014. IT WILL LAST FOR 7 YEARS. It will be like the flood of Nuh, meaning that it will grow and expand all the time. The only salvation from that flood is with the faith of the Turkish-Islamic world, gratitude and economy.
The Huffingtonpost, 20 Mayıs 2009
|Kanal 35, 18 January 2009
ADNAN OKTAR: Now this crisis is a metaphysical one; all the economists, scientists, industrialists, capital investors in the world and everyone are desperately trying to put a stop to it, but they cannot and will not be able to. It will bring the entire system down. You will see that all the major companies in the world collapse, one by one. And this will go on for 7 years, which is not little time, 7 years. There will be famine in many countries. The Qur'an indicates as much. It suggests that wheat should be stocked and importance attached to livestock raising. As you know, the Prophet Yusuf (as) was in charge of the economy in his day. He said that famine would begin, and that it would last for 7 years. He therefore recommended that wheat be stored away, and stocks of wheat were made ready. And verses also point to the importance of raising livestock. Things happened just as the Prophet Yusuf (as) said they would. And there was a huge famine that lasted for 7 years. The same thing is happening again now.
REPORTER: There was a major collapse on the London Stock Exchange in 1987. We are again looking at numbers connected to the figure 7.
ADNAN OKTAR: The crisis began in 2007. The law of Allah is that it will last until 2014. And the crisis will persist until the whole global system has collapsed. And it will force people to see the might of Allah.
|Kanal 35, 1 February 2009
PRESENTER: When will this union be completely established?
ADNAN OKTAR: It will take a bit of time, in my view. I think it will take until 2014. That is what the course of events and history suggests. But my main scale of measurement is the hadith. That is what appears from the measures in the hadith. IN OTHER WORDS, THE ECONOMIC CRISIS WILL HAVE CALMED DOWN AND COME TO A STOP IN 2014. A strengthening and development will begin in political and economic terms, and the Turkish-Islamic Union will then become a reality, insha'Allah.


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The word for this hour, this pope, and this moment in religious history is most certainly this: humility.
Pope Francis, emerging through brilliant scarlet curtains, with the bejeweled crosiers (staffs) of bishops all around, did a few remarkable things. First, he took the name of Francis, the unordained street preacher from Assisi who would often join the poor as they begged outside the gates of St. Peter's basilica. This name carries a legacy of reconciliation (St. Francis was famous for his outreach to the Muslim world), and of self-sacrifice. It is not a gilded name, and does not rest on a gilded man.
Next, the new pope, perhaps awed by the moment, the crowd, and the responsibility before him, made a request of the crowd: join me in a period of silence, and in that silence, pray for me. It was as if he saying, I don't have all of the answers, but God does. And you, the people, have some of them, too.
And finally, through Cardinal Tauran, Pope Francis democratized his blessing of forgiveness, which Catholics call an "indulgence," a remission from sins that God has already forgiven. Not satisfied with extending this blessing to just the crowd gathered before him, Pope Francis's indulgence was offered to those watching on television, listening on the radio, and joining "through other means of communication." (Presumably that means Twitter, great for all the Catholics following along on their timelines.)
This humble announcement was foreshadowed by the way Francis has lived his life. This is a pope who defended the rights of infants born out of wedlock to receive a proper baptism, against those who would deny them this basic religious right. A man who, when his flock began raising money to join him in Rome to celebrate his selection as Cardinal, urged them to stay home in Argentina and distribute the money to the poor. His official residence in Buenos Aires has remained empty for years, because the former Cardinal Bergoglio chose to live in a simple apartment, with an elderly fellow bishop, instead.
We do not yet know what these facts portend for Pope Francis or for the Catholic Church, and certainly difficult moments and deep disagreements lie ahead. But we do know that a spirit of humility is critical in times like these, when the Catholic Church and indeed the entire world is faced with questions that no single person has the answer to.
The book of Romans, Chapter 8, verse 19, says that "all of creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed." And we do wait, with great expectation, for the work of the Bishop of Rome, Pope Francis.

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Cute Halloween treats at Michelle Paige
Love the play on words! Great teacher gift idea.
Ghost treats at Simply Designing
How sweet are these ghosties?!
Ruffled felt garland at Sweet Little Smoothie
{Loving this!}
Felt acorns at The Mommy Diaries
Felt and Fall are just meant to go together.
Halloween road sign at Burton Avenue
{made from pallets!!}
Halloween mantle at A Diamond in the Stuff
{I always love her mantels!}
Vintage frame and sticks at Tattered and Inked
{I love that she tied a sentiment to the sticks. Gives it a whole different feel.}
Cutest Yoda ever at It's Overflowing
{Aren't you just loving those ears?!}
Adorable costumes at Between U & Me
{I'm hoping to convince the ladybug and little guy to be this duo next year. So stinkin' cute!}
Awesome last minute costume idea at Cup of Delight. {Red light/ Green light}
The hubs and I still haven't decided what to be for a costume party next weekend. We may be using this idea the night before.
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'64 Nova
Jerry Coleman's 406ci '64 Nova Bruiser
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This is a classic car crafting kind of story. Jerry Coleman was looking for a hot street car project. He ran across a college kid who had trashed a little '64 Nova to the point that it was almost undriveable and picked it up cheap. Since he lives in California where the smog laws are tough, this pre-smog car was the perfect place to start. Of course, it didn't take long before the project "just got out of hand," Jerry says.
It had to have fat back tires because Jerry planned on some serious horsepower, so initial efforts went into stretching the rear outer sheetmetal and then punching in some monster wheeltubs. He didn't farm this out to some chassis shop though. In fact, Jerry's very proud of the fact that he did all the work on this red rider, including the rear tubs, the narrowed 9-inch, and even the tubular front chassis clip that employs a Mustang II front suspension, rack-and-pinion steering, and more than a little fabrication work. "Right after I finished building this frontend, Heidt's came out with its Nova kit." Combined with 15x15 Cragars on the rear with 31x18.5-15 Mickey Thompson treads along with a pair of skinny BFG's up front, it didn't take Jerry long to have the stance he wanted. Then it was time for some power.
With his new front subframe, there was certainly room for a Rat motor, but Jerry opted for a Speed-O-Motive 406ci small-block instead to keep the weight down in the front. The healthy Mouse is filled with a stock crank and 5.7-inch rods, and was line-bored and torque-plate honed to fit a set of Keith Black hypereutectic pistons that work alongside a Herbert flat-tappet solid cam spun by an Erson geardrive. Jerry also added a set of Dart Iron Eagle 200cc heads with 2.08/1.60 Manley valves actuated by a set of Crane roller rockers. Topped with a Weiand Team G intake and a 750-cfm Holley carb, it's fired with an MSD-6 box and a Mallory distributor. Finishing off the powerplant is a set of Hooker Super Comp headers and a pair of Flowmaster mufflers. Behind the engine is a TH350 trans spinning a 3,200-rpm converter and a 9-inch with 4.56 gears.
The interior sports a LeCarra steering wheel, Auto Meter Utra-Lite tach, speedo, and gauges surrounded with gray tweed that Jerry installed along with help from his buddy Dave Powell. Those are Honda front seats that the guys re-covered, along with Crow 3-inch belts that keep Jerry in place when he stabs the throttle. There's also a Pioneer CD and a 100-watt amp just to keep the cruising interesting.
This is hardly a pampered garage queen, since Jerry's not timid behind the wheel. He drives it to all the shows, and at a recent sweltering summer event in nearby Fontana, his hand-fabbed fan shroud came in handy when many hot rods around him were losing their cool. Perhaps that's the best part of building your own car--when you pull past the "professionally built" hot rods that have fallen by the wayside while yours keeps running. There's a satisfaction quotient there that makes all the effort worthwhile.
Car Craft: What do you like best about the Nova?
Jerry Coleman: I like the way it looks, the stance that it has, and the attention that it gets.
CC: What was the most difficult part of building the car?
JC: Designing the Mustang II frontend and getting the bumpsteer to work out so it would align properly.
CC: You painted the car in your garage. How did that work?
JC: It was a mess. It was difficult to keep the dust down so we could paint the car. Just after we had finished and while it was drying, someone accidentally turned the clothes dryer on that was also in the garage and all the lint ended up in the paint. My buddy Dave Powell helped me sand and paint the entire car both times.
The Details
Car: '64 Chevy Nova Owner: Jerry Coleman, Yucaipa, California Engine: 406ci small-block (0.030-over 400 ci) Heads: Dart Iron Eagle 200cc, mild porting, 2.08/1.60-inch Manley valves Induction: Weiand Team G, 750-cfm Holley carb Camshaft: Herbert solid flat-tappet, 300/310 degrees advertised duration with 0.500-inch lift, Crane 1.5:1 roller rockers Transmission: TH350, Converter Shop 3,200-stall converter Rearend: Owner-narrowed 9-inch, Currie 31-spline axles, 4.56 gears, Detroit Locker Front suspension: Mustang II, owner-built front subframe, rack-and-pinion steering Rear suspension: Owner-built subframe, tubs, four-point rollbar, Mopar B-body leaf springs Brakes: Mustang II front discs, 10-inch with Ford 11-inch discs in rear Wheels and tires: 15x4 Cragars with BFGoodrich 165/R15s, front; 15x15 Cragars with 31x18.5-15 M/Ts, rear Interior: Owner-built tweed interior, custom flamed door panels, aluminum CD cover, Crow 3-inch seatbelts, Auto Meter Ultra-Lite tach, speedo, oil pressure, temp, and volt gauges Body mods: Owner-built billet grille, custom parking light extensions, fiberglass hoodscoop, wheelwell opening stretched 1 inches, custom aluminum 12-gallon fuel tank, shaved emblem Paint: Acrylic Urethane by owner and Dave Powell Cost to Build: $10,000


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UPDATED! Here it is, the very first teaser trailer for Wally Pfister's Transcendence, starring Johnny Depp as the father of artificial intelligence, but looking so much like hell in this quick glimpse. What happened, Johnny?
Now with ANOTHER teaser trailer!
Here's the official rundown:
Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions. His highly controversial experiments have made him famous, but they have also made him the prime target of anti-technology extremists who will do whatever it takes to stop him.
However, in their attempt to destroy Will, they inadvertently become the catalyst for him to succeed—to be a participant in his own transcendence. For his wife Evelyn (Rebecca Hall) and best friend Max Waters (Paul Bettany), both fellow researchers, the question is not if they can…but if they should.
Their worst fears are realized as Will's thirst for knowledge evolves into a seemingly omnipresent quest for power, to what end is unknown. The only thing that is becoming terrifyingly clear is there may be no way to stop him.
We're getting excited, but happily he don't have too long to wait — Transcendence will be released on April 18th, 2014.


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France's far-right National Front said Sunday it plans to sue Madonna over a video at the US pop star's concert in France showing party leader Marine Le Pen with a swastika on her forehead.
"We cannot accept such an odious comparison," National Front vice-president Florian Philippot said, adding that the legal action would be filed this week.
The video, which served as a backdrop for Madonna's performance of the song "Nobody Knows Me", flashed a picture of Le Pen's forehead superimposed with a swastika, followed by an image resembling Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
There was an audible gasp from the audience at the Stade de France on Saturday when the image of Le Pen appeared briefly on a giant screen in a video clip which also showed Madonna's face merging with a number of public figures including Pope Benedict XVI and toppled Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.
"Projecting such an image of Marine Le Pen with a swastika implies that she is a Nazi," National Front lawyer Wallerand de Saint-Just told AFP, adding that the civil complaint for insult would be lodged with a court this week.
Tour promoter LiveNation declined to comment on the National Front action against the queen of pop, who has been no stranger to controversy during her long career.
"This is just another provocation in Madonna's world tour so that people will talk about her," Philippot charged, claiming that the stadium was "far from full" for Madonna's gig and that the tour was a "fiasco".
"Marine Le Pen will defend not only her own honour but her supporters and the millions of National Front voters."
Le Pen, a French presidential candidate, had already warned the US superstar in June that she was mulling legal action after the video was shown at Tel Aviv gig in May when Madonna, 53, kicked off her world tour.
"(When) old singers want to get people to talk about them, it's understandable that they do such extreme things," the 43-year-old Le Pen said at the time.
SOS Racisme however said it supported Madonna, paying tribute to her "resolutely anti-racist" stance. "She made clear last night that the fight against discrimination is a fundamental battle."
About 70,000 people were at the Stade de France to watch the "Material Girl" perform on Saturday night, the latest concert in her "MDNA" tour which covers about 30 countries in the Middle East, Europe and the Americas and will wrap up in Australia in 2013.
Madonna will next appear in France in Nice on August 21th.
In 1987, Madonna caused a stir when she threw her panties into the crowd at a concert where then president Jacques Chirac was in attendance.
On her latest world tour, she made headlines when she flashed a nipple at a gig in Turkey's largest city of Istanbul last month.
Le Pen, the daughter of National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, won 18 percent in the first round of the presidential election in April.
But she lost her bid to win a seat in legislative elections last month although the party -- which wants to ditch the euro and battles against what Le Pen calls the "Islamisation" of France -- returned to parliament for the first time since 1998.
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Fledgling Kestrels
Swainson's Hawk hunting frogs
May 11, 2013
Red-tailed Hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Red-tail Hawk Portrait
Rough-legged Hawk
Bald Eagle,
Campbell River, British Columbia
Pygmy Falcon with Lizard
The smallest falcon in the world, this Pygmy Falcon was photographed in Samburu park, Kenya.
It has just taken a lizard for a meal.
Tawny Eagle
Augur Buzzard
Eastern Pale Chanting Goshawk


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So what is complexity?
The definition of complexity is… complex.
Most people associate complexity with complication. We view something as complex when we do not understand it, it appears difficult to manage, or it simply has too many moving parts. The challenge with defining complexity is similar to defining happiness. It doesn't have a neat and tidy definition that can easily fit in a sentence. Like happiness, we can only define complexity as a set of characteristics.
Neil Johnson, an author and professor, postulates that complexity is "the single most important scientific development since general relativity." Complexity Theory has evolved over the last few decades and has given way to Complexity Science, which some call the science of all sciences as it promises to answer the riddles of the universe that Cartesian physics and relativity have not been able to do.
Let's identify the characteristics of complexity.
Complexity relates to a system—a system is a collection of many interacting objects or "agents." These agents can range from atomic particles to humans and, in an organization, they include processes and procedures. For example, a project team is a system of interacting members. As a system, a project team has a mission, meets objectives, plans strategies, develops methods, tackles risks, creates schedules, finds resources, and identifies deliverables. In complexity, a distinction is made on agents that link together by private information forming a network. A system, then, can have agents and networks. A network in a project team could be the leadership team.
The second property of complexity states that the system is affected by memory and feedback. This means that something from the past affects the present. It also means that something that what occurs in one place influences what takes place somewhere else. Feedback is particularly relevant to complexity. The system responds to and acts on feedback within the system and received from the outside world. A project team, for example, can change course when it receives feedback that a risk has been discovered.
Under the third property of complexity, agents can adapt their strategies according to their own history. This means that agents in the system can change themselves based on their own perceptions. In a project team, any member can improve their performance based on their own understanding of how they are doing.
The fourth property of complexity is that the system is open. An open system responds to its environment. Complexity Theory posits that all systems are open with the possibility that the total universe is the only closed system. Continuing with the project team example, there are numerous external influences that determines the project's course. Funding would be an important external variable for a project team.
Aside from being open, a complex system appears to be alive, which is the fifth property of complexity. In this context, aliveness means that the system evolves in a non-trivial or complicated manner. It is instead driven by the ecology of the agents and their interaction. A project team has a life of its own and, oftentimes, its own subculture too.
The sixth property of complexity is emergence. This characteristic means that aside from being alive, the system produces new order that was not there before. Emergence relates to new system conditions that cannot be planned or manufactured. These conditions solely rely on the evolution of the system. A project team can develop new knowledge, team capabilities, and leaders.
The seventh property of complexity specifies that the emergent process is self-organized. This tells us that there is no command and control mechanism that drives emergence. This process naturally occurs as agents interact, adapt, and respond to the outside environment. Even though a project team has an organization with command and control elements, emergent order happens through the self-association of the team members and what they do regardless of their roles, assignments, direction, or coaching.
The final, eighth property of complexity is the mix of ordered and disordered behavior. A complex system shifts from order to disorder much like traffic jams or the stock market. A project team has its ups and downs, successes, and failures.
Putting it all together, we can say that complexity refers to an open system that appears to be alive in which its members respond to memory and feedback and adapt based on their own history. This open system can yield emergent order founded on self-organized processes. A complex system will, over time, exhibit ordered and disordered behaviors.
There is so much more that can be said about complexity and its applications. One of the promising areas of application is that of leadership. In the Harvard Busines Review article "A Leader's Framework for Decision Making," David Snowden and Mary Boone introduce four contexts for leader engagement.
According to these authors, leaders should recognize the context of their activity and utilize an effective approach for each. The four contexts defined by Snowden and Boone are: simple, complicated, complex and chaotic. The article delivers an understandable and applicable level of complexity theory and makes the point that "one-size-fits-all" leadership approaches are ineffective.
In a future post, I will bring a summary of the work of Snowden and Boone. For now, look at your daily life and identify the complex systems that exist around you and that you are a part of. Very importantly, pay attention to what is emerging from each of these systems. As you do this, you will be joining the growing number of individuals who are seeing complexity as a creative and evolutionary force in our organizations, communities, nations, and the world.
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MITCHELL, ALBERT WILLIAM, bookkeeper and photographer; b. 12 June 1868 in Charlottetown, son of Nathaniel Albert Mitchell, a bookkeeper, and Hannah Feavyour; m. 22 Jan. 1896 Annie Stentiford in Charlottetown, and they had one son; d. there 11 April 1906.
Albert William Mitchell spent his working life in the employ of a Charlottetown dry-goods firm, Prowse Brothers, where he served first as bookkeeper and then as a director and company treasurer and secretary. He was also remembered as a non-drinker, amateur pianist, ardent Methodist, and prominent member of the Oddfellows and Foresters social and mutual-insurance organizations.
Mitchell is known today as an amateur photographer who, beginning in the 1890s, used the gelatin dry-plate process in covering a wide range of subject-matter. Most of his photographs are portraits, taken either in the studio or outdoors using a canvas backdrop and a rug to give the appearance of having been shot in a studio. Images of Charlottetown make up another large segment of his output. In his cityscapes buildings dominate the image; when people are present they are usually shown as being small in relation to their surroundings. Although he does not seem to have travelled far from his native city, perhaps because of lingering illness, his work includes country scenes of people camping, boating, and cycling, as well as some 20 pictures taken on the reserve at Rocky Point, near Charlottetown, which provide rare glimpses of Micmac life. If he took any pictures off the Island, none have survived.
Mitchell's images usually exhibit an eye for composition as well as the clarity characteristic of one whose concern is to produce documents rather than create works of art. Although he no doubt knew other local amateurs, his hobby was not particularly social nor does it appear to have been appreciated in his time. In the Charlottetown Daily Examiner's relatively long notices of his marriage and early death no mention is made of his photography. That he is remembered today as a photographer is the result of a gift of some 225 negatives made to Prince Edward Island by Mitchell's grandson, a resident of Ottawa, in 1972. A number of the negatives' paper jackets bear the photographer's notes about the images and the dates they were taken.
Sickly in disposition, Mitchell died in his home at age 37 from a combination of Bright's disease and tuberculosis.
Several of Albert William Mitchell's photographs were published at the turn of the century in the Prince Edward Island Magazine (Charlottetown). A self-portrait and about a dozen of Mitchell's other photographs appear in Jim Hornby, "A. W. Mitchell, photographer," Island Magazine (Charlottetown), no.12 (fall–winter 1982): 11–17; other views were used to illustrate I. L. Rogers, Charlottetown: the life in its buildings (Charlottetown, 1983). A much larger selection, some 35 pictures, was shown on the Island in 1983 as part of an exhibition of regional historical photographs that toured the Atlantic provinces. His entire output of about 225 glass-plate negatives was donated in 1972 to the Prince Edward Island Heritage Foundation (now the Prince Edward Island Museum and Heritage Foundation) by Ivan Kendrick Mitchell, a grandson.
NA, RG 31, C1, Charlottetown, 1881: 82; 1891: 128 (copies at P.E.I. Museum). P.E.I. Museum, Geneal. Div., File information concerning A. W. Mitchell and family. Daily Examiner (Charlottetown), 23, 25 Jan. 1896; 12, 14 April 1906. Daily Patriot (Charlottetown), 12, 14 April 1906.
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(this question possibly related to Linux: simulating/masking user ownership upon mount of 'external' partitions? - Stack Overflow)
I typically use Ubuntu (currently 11.04) as my desktop OS; let's say there, I'm the user
myself with uid=1000, part of the group
myself with gid=1000; so basically the home directory permissions look like this:
> stat ~
File: `/home/myself'
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 1000/ myself) Gid: ( 1000/ myself)
Now, on the same machine I sometimes need to boot OpenSuse (currently 11.2) through a LiveUSB (Live-CD). All of that works fine for me, except that the default user in a Live-CD environment is
linux with uid=999, part of the group
users with gid=100; so there the home directory permissions look like this:
> stat ~
File: `/home/linux'
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 999/ linux) Gid: ( 100/ myself)
So, basically, when I mount my Ubuntu drives (which are owned by 1000:1000) under the live OpenSUSE (whose default user is 999:100), I fail to access them as usual, i.e.:
linux@linux:~> touch /media/extdrive/xxx
touch: cannot touch `/media/extdrive/xxx': Permission denied
So, I thought I should try to change the default uid/gud for
linux:users on the OpenSUSE machine, so I tried this:
> sudo /usr/sbin/usermod -u 1000 linux
usermod: Account `linux' is currently in use.
> id linux
uid=999(linux) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),33(video)
# so if that fails.... change directly from /etc/passwd?
> sudo nano /etc/passwd
> id linux
uid=1000(linux) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),33(video)
... and just having the uid changed, makes me access the Ubuntu drives fine - however, now I cannot access the OpenSUSE stuff previously owned by
> sudo nano /etc/fstab
sudo: unknown uid: 999
... so, it turns out, bad idea to change /etc/passwd directly :) The solution here seems to have been to drop to root shell first, do the
usermod command, reboot - and now I have on from the OpenSUSE environment:
linux@linux:~> stat ~
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 1000/ linux) Gid: ( 100/ users)
This makes me - for the most part - have access to the Ubuntu filesystems/drives as usual; while also having usual access to whatever is owned by the default user in OpenSUSE.
However, to be on the safe side, I'd also like to change the group ID. What would be the recommended way of doing this ( and what would the recommended way be to change the uid, if I didn't do it right in the discussion above )?
Many thanks in advance for any answers,


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Cold Climates and Ocean Carbon Sequestration
Scientists use coral fossils to track the efficiency of the biological carbon pump in the past 40,000 years
Press release of the California Institute of Technology - Caltech / supplements by MPI for Chemistry
We know a lot about how carbon dioxide (CO2) levels can drive climate change, but how about the way that climate change can cause fluctuations in CO2 levels' New research from an international team of scientists including researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz reveals one of the mechanisms by which a colder climate was accompanied by depleted atmospheric CO2 during past ice ages.
The overall goal of the work is to better understand how and why the earth goes through periodic climate change, which could shed light on how man-made factors could affect the global climate.
Earth's average temperature has naturally fluctuated by about 4 to 5 degrees Celsius over the course of the past million years as the planet has cycled in and out of glacial periods. During that time, the earth's atmospheric CO2 levels have fluctuated between roughly 180 and 280 parts per million (ppm) every 100,000 years or so. (In recent years, man-made carbon emissions have boosted that concentration up to over 400 ppm.)
About 10 years ago, researchers noticed a close correspondence between the fluctuations in CO2 levels and in temperature over the last million years. When the earth is at its coldest, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is also at its lowest. During the most recent ice age, which ended about 11,000 years ago, global temperatures were 5 degrees Celsius lower than they are today, and atmospheric CO2 concentrations were at 180 ppm.
Using a library of more than 10,000 deep-sea corals collected by Caltech's Jess Adkins, an international team of scientists – among them Alfredo Martínez-García, Anja Studer and Gerald H. Haug from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz – has shown that periods of colder climates are associated with higher phytoplankton efficiency and a reduction in nutrients in the surface of the Southern Ocean (the ocean surrounding the Antarctic), which is related to an increase in carbon sequestration in the deep ocean. A paper about their research appears the week of March 13 in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"It is critical to understand why atmospheric CO2 concentration was lower during the ice ages. This will help us understand how the ocean will respond to ongoing anthropogenic CO2 emissions," says Xingchen (Tony) Wang, lead author of the study. Wang was a graduate student at Princeton while conducting the research in the lab of Daniel Sigman, Dusenbury Professor of Geological and Geophysical Sciences. He was then a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, and is now a Simons Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow on the Origins of Life at Caltech.
There is 60 times more carbon in the ocean than in the atmosphere-partly because the ocean is so big. The mass of the world's oceans is roughly 270 times greater than that of the atmosphere. As such, the ocean is the greatest regulator of carbon in the atmosphere, acting as both a sink and a source for atmospheric CO2.
Biological processes are the main driver of CO2 absorption from the atmosphere to the ocean. Just like photosynthesizing trees and plants on land, plankton at the surface of the sea turn CO2 into sugars that are eventually consumed by other creatures. As the sea creatures who consume those sugars die, they sink to the deep ocean, where the carbon is locked away from the atmosphere for a long time. This process is called the "biological pump."
A healthy population of phytoplankton helps lock away carbon from the atmosphere. In order to thrive, phytoplankton need nutrients-notably, nitrogen, phosphorus, and iron. In most parts of the modern ocean, phytoplankton deplete all of the available nutrients in the surface ocean, and the biological pump operates at maximum efficiency.
However, in the modern Southern Ocean, there is a limited amount of iron, which means that there are not enough phytoplankton to fully consume the nitrogen and phosphorus in the surface waters. When there is less living biomass, there is also less that can die and sink to the bottom'which results in a decrease in carbon sequestration. The biological pump is not currently operating as efficiently as it theoretically could.
To track the efficiency of the biological pump over the span of the past 40,000 years, Adkins and his colleagues collected more than 10,000 fossils of the coral Desmophyllum dianthus.
Why coral? Two reasons: first, as it grows, coral accretes a skeleton around itself, precipitating calcium carbonate (CaCO3) and other trace elements (including nitrogen) out of the water around it. That process creates a rocky record of the chemistry of the ocean. Second, coral can be precisely dated using a combination of radiocarbon and uranium dating.
Adkins and his colleagues collected coral from the relatively narrow (500-mile) gap known as the Drake Passage between South America and Antarctica (among other places). Because the Southern Ocean flows around Antarctica, all of its waters funnel through that gap making the samples Adkins collected a robust record of the water throughout the Southern Ocean.
Wang analyzed the ratios of two isotopes of nitrogen atoms in these corals - nitrogen-14 (14N, the most common variety of the atom, with seven protons and seven neutrons in its nucleus) and nitrogen-15 (15N, which has an extra neutron). When phytoplankton consume nitrogen, they prefer 14N to 15N. As a result, there is a correlation between the ratio of nitrogen isotopes in sinking organic matter (which the corals then eat as it falls to the seafloor) and how much nitrogen is being consumed in the surface ocean' and, by extension, the efficiency of the biological pump.
A higher amount of 15N in the fossils indicates that the biological pump was operating more efficiently at that time. An analogy would be monitoring what a person eats in their home. If they are eating more of their less-liked foods, then one could assume that the amount of food in their pantry is running low.
Indeed, Wang found that higher amounts of 15N were present in fossils corresponding to the last ice age, indicating that the biological pump was operating more efficiently during that time. "This data provides a comprehensive picture of the role of Southern Ocean nutrient dynamics in controlling carbon sequestration during ice ages", says Alfredo Martinez-Garcia, groupleader at the MPI for Chemistry.


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Rob Portman voted Yea (Passage) on this Legislation.
Read statements Rob Portman made in this general time period.
Title: Academic Achievement for All Act
Vote to pass a bill that would implement a five-year pilot program allowing up to ten states to receive K-12 federal education funds in the form of block grants, in exchange for strict accountability and assessment systems.
Title: Academic Achievement for All Act


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Did you hear about Eric Church canceling his concert in Texas Saturday night so that he could support UNC? Now that's a fan. While you may disagree with what he did depending on where your loyalties lie, it does ask the question, what is the ultimate basketball game?
UNC will face Duke for the first time ever in the final four this weekend and most of us couldn't be happier. It feels like the ultimate match-up.
While I couldn't get tickets to the game despite my alumni status, there is another basketball game tonight in Nashville that is quite the hot ticket as well: the Harlem Globetrotters
This iconic team has been dazzling audiences for decades and I can't wait to watch them in person tonight. if you're not in Nashville, don't worry, they will be coming to a city near you soon!
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Exclusive footage obtained by the Guardian shows Ian Tomlinson, who died during G20 protests in London, was attacked from behind by baton–wielding police officer
- guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 7 April 2009 17.53 BST
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Dramatic footage obtained by the Guardian shows that the man who died at last week's G20 protests in London was attacked from behind and thrown to the ground by a baton–wielding police officer in riot gear.
Moments after the assault on Ian Tomlinson was captured on video, he suffered a heart attack and died.
The Guardian is preparing to hand a dossier of evidence to the police complaints watchdog.
It sheds new light on the events surrounding the death of the 47-year-old newspaper seller, who had been on his way home from work when he was confronted by lines of riot police near the Bank of England.
The submission to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) includes a collection of testimonies from witnesses, along with the video footage, shot at around 7.20pm, which shows Tomlinson at Royal Exchange Passage.
The film reveals that as he walks, with his hands in his pockets, he does not speak to the police or offer any resistance.
A phalanx of officers, some with dogs and some in riot gear, are close behind him and try to urge him forward.
A Metropolitan police officer appears to strike him with a baton, hitting him from behind on his upper thigh.
Moments later, the same policeman rushes forward and, using both hands, pushes Tomlinson in the back and sends him flying to the ground, where he remonstrates with police who stand back, leaving bystanders to help him to his feet.
The man who shot the footage, a fund manager from New York who was in London on business, said: "The primary reason for me coming forward is that it was clear the family were not getting any answers."
The Guardian's dossier also includes a sequence of photographs, taken by three different people, showing the aftermath of the attack, as well as witness statements from people in the area at the time.
A number of witnesses provided time and date-stamped photographs that substantiate their accounts.
Some said they saw police officers attack Tomlinson.
Witnesses said that, prior to the moment captured on video, he had already been hit with batons and thrown to the floor by police who blocked his route home.
One witness, Anna Branthwaite, a photographer, described how, in the minutes before the video was shot, she saw Tomlinson walking towards Cornhill Street.
"A riot police officer had already grabbed him and was pushing him," she said.
"It wasn't just pushing him – he'd rushed him. He went to the floor and he did actually roll. That was quite noticeable.
"It was the force of the impact. He bounced on the floor. It was a very forceful knocking down from behind. The officer hit him twice with a baton when he was lying on the floor.
"So it wasn't just that the officer had pushed him – it became an assault.
"And then the officer picked him up from the back, continued to walk or charge with him, and threw him.
"He was running and stumbling. He didn't turn and confront the officer or anything like that."
The witness accounts contradict the official version of events given by police.
In an official statement on the night of Tomlinson's death, the Metropolitan police made no reference to any contact with officers and simply described attempts by police medics and an ambulance crew to save his life after he collapsed – efforts they said were marred by protesters throwing missiles as first aid was administered .
The force said officers had created a cordon around Tomlinson to give him CPR.
"The officers took the decision to move him as during this time a number of missiles - believed to be bottles - were being thrown at them," it said.
Yesterday, the IPCC began managing an investigation by City of London police into the circumstances of Tomlinson's death after the Guardian published photographs of him on the ground and witness statements indicated he had been assaulted by police officers.
The IPCC commissioner for London, Deborah Glass, said: "Initially, we had accounts from independent witnesses who were on Cornhill, who told us that there had been no contact between the police and Mr Tomlinson when he collapsed."
"However, other witnesses who saw him in the Royal Exchange area have since told us that Mr Tomlinson did have contact with police officers.
"This would have been a few minutes before he collapsed. It is important that we are able to establish as far as possible whether that contact had anything to do with his death."
The IPCC added that Tomlinson was captured on CCTV walking onto Royal Exchange Passage.
"This is the aspect of the incident that the IPCC is now investigating," it said.
It was here the video was shot. A post mortem carried out by a Home Office pathologist last Friday revealed Tomlinson died of a heart attack.
Prior to seeing the dossier of evidence, Tomlinson's family said in a statement: "There were so many people around where Ian died, and so many people with cameras, that somebody must have seen what happened in the Royal Exchange passageway.
"We need to know what happened there and whether it had anything to do with Ian's death.
"We know that some people who were at the protest may not feel comfortable talking to the police.
"People are putting pictures on the internet, writing on blogs and talking to journalists. But we really need them to talk to the people who are investigating what happened."
Full investigation in tomorrow's Guardian


text: Unbridled enthusiasm over the BYOD mega trend had threatened to overrun IT departments and perhaps put many out of work -- that is, until this year. Over the last 12 months, CIOs have had to swallow their pride and embrace BYOD, mobile device management vendors convincingly pushed their compliance messaging out, business managers got serious about security, lawyers started doing their jobs, and BYOD users, well, they continued to swell their ranks and types of devices. \n\n"A big shift in attitude for BYOD in 2013," says Aberdeen Group's Andrew Borg. To understand what happened with BYOD this year, we need a starting point: An Aberdeen Group survey in January found that three out of four respondents had a BYOD program in place. Yet two-thirds of those with a BYOD program had an "anything goes" philosophy, not enforcing compliance or security policies. BYOD was also a way for business users to revolt against IT, which traditionally threw up roadblocks to new technology, especially consumer tech.CIOs Get Their Heads in the GameSo this was BYOD at the beginning of the year, barreling ahead with reckless abandon with IT falling quickly out of the loop.This year was critical for IT to change its ways and get back in the game, and it did. Many CIOs began aggressively changing the IT department's culture into one that embraces consumer tech and new-fangled mobile apps. Generally speaking, IT became more responsive and positive to business user requests. For instance, National Geographic's IT department opened the floodgates and let employees use whatever apps they wanted. It wasn't easy. CIOs wanting to bring about an open-door policy needed to transform technology to handle BYOD."At the end of that road is one where IT has an infrastructure that is much more resilient and more tolerant of devices that are not well configured," says Forrester Research's David Johnson. "We're seeing companies look at things like zero trust models in which every device is assumed compromised, [where] there is no concept of a trust network anymore. This is what we're seeing in some of the leading edge, extreme cases." [ Related: CIOs Must Learn the Politics of No ]CIOs can thank mobile device management vendors for pushing their messages of compliance to business users and, as a result, helping bring IT into the discussion as a BYOD enabler. The vendors' message that the cost of compliance is a fraction of the cost of non-compliance was bolstered by the chilling effect of the Snowden affair. More than a few business managers realized the consequences of poor BYOD security and the dollars at stake, and so they began reaching out to IT for help. "The education cycle by the vendors and analysts began to sink in," Borg says. "Line of business managers don't want this liability on their hands."BYOD Doomsday DelayedNot everyone, though, jumped on board. A lot of companies are still struggling with BYOD policy and security, Johnson says. Part of the problem is that there wasn't a high-profile BYOD breach in 2013. CIOs warning of a doomsday that didn't happen. Despite all the hand-wringing, BYOD data risk was a non-starter this year and thus perceived by some as another sneaky attempt by IT to regain control in the name of security.On the bright side, BYOD policies are in the process of getting a legal makeover and becoming more balanced. In the first half of 2013, companies were pressuring employees to sign draconian BYOD user policies heavily weighted toward a company's right to monitor, access, review and disclose company or other data on BYOD mobile phones and tablets, and gave short shrift to an employee's expectation of privacy.But the second half of 2013 saw the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), a group tasked with the investigation and prosecution of unfair labor practice cases, taking aim at BYOD policies that violate Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act. In other words, those policies "chill an employee's ability to communicate with others about wages, hours and working conditions or to engage in otherwise protected activity," according to the NLRB.The General Counsel's focus on confidentiality policies is causing companies to re-think their BYOD policies "out of fear of prosecution," Heather Egan Sussman, a lawyer at McDermott Will & Emery, told CIO.com in November.[ Related: The Consumerization of IT and BYOD Guide ]Tablets and Laptops Enter the BYOD PictureBYOD developments in the latter half of this year weren't confined to maturing policies. A Forrester survey of 35,000 IT decision-makers, business-decision makers, business technology end users and channel partners conducted in the latter part of this year uncovered a number of interesting developments. For starters, BYOD had always been mostly a smartphone play, but the Forrester survey showed BYOD tablets and laptops gaining traction. Apple iPads still rule BYOD tablets in the enterprise, although Android tablets are quickly closing the gap, perhaps even catching up to Apple next year. Surprisingly, Microsoft Windows 8-based tablets, which were practically non-existent in the enterprise this year, may be in store for a leap in 2014."We started to see more PCs and tablets falling under the BYOD policy," Johnson says. Perhaps even more interesting are the things that didn't happen this year. Concerns over hidden costs, hard-to-measure worker productivity gains, and employee privacy didn't derail the BYOD movement. The simple convenience of having a single mobile device that blends business and personal lives far outweighs privacy issues for the majority of people. It also doesn't matter what companies think about BYOD's shaky return on investment; employees are in the driver's seat now, and they want BYOD. \n\nReading work email on the golf course and checking Facebook in the cubicle, says Borg, "has become an expectation, a requirement of the modern era." This year went a long way toward making BYOD the new normal.Tom Kaneshige covers Apple, BYOD and Consumerization of IT for CIO.com. Follow Tom on Twitter @kaneshige. Follow everything from CIO.com on Twitter @CIOonline, Facebook, Google + and LinkedIn. Email Tom at email@example.com


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East Palo Alto students enrolled in Palo Alto schools through the Tinsley Voluntary Transfer Program show "very small positive effects" in math and English compared with students who applied -- but were not admitted -- to the program.
In science and history, Tinsley students showed "large positive effects" and "significant differences" from students not in the program.
Those were among many conclusions presented by Kendra Bischoff, who researched the Tinsley program in a dissertation for her PhD in sociology from Stanford University, awarded in 2011.
Bischoff presented informal results from her Tinsley research at a Jan. 10 special meeting of the Palo Alto Board of Education.
The research compared standardized test data of elementary and middle school Tinsley students with test data of students who applied -- but were not accepted -- to the program.
But Bischoff stressed that measuring the value of Tinsley strictly by test scores is "misguided."
At least as important are the social outcomes of the program, which she sought to clarify through more than 100 interviews with Tinsley students and their parents.
"Mounting evidence from a wide variety of sources suggests that schools can have large effects on social outcomes, which are likely equally important for long-term success as standardized tests," Bischoff said.
She concluded that the transfer experience has "social benefits that become especially apparent later in high school."
Most Tinsley parents and students are grateful for the opportunity to attend well-regarded schools, and would choose to participate again if they had to do it over, she found.
The 25-year-old voluntary transfer program -- created to settle a racial discrimination lawsuit by parents in East Palo Alto's Ravenswood City School District -- allows "students of color" from Ravenswood to enter certain nearby school districts between kindergarten and second grade. Ravenswood is a K-8 district serving children from East Palo Alto and eastern Menlo Park.
Palo Alto gets the lion's share of Tinsley students -- 60 incoming children each year, now totaling about 560 K-12. That represents about 4.5 percent of the district's enrollment. Other school districts participating, though in smaller numbers, are Menlo Park, Las Lomitas, Portola Valley, Woodside, San Carlos and Belmont.
Palo Alto is the only K-12 participant in Tinsley, and the most sought-after destination of Tinsley applicants.
ischoff's test score data, which included Tinsley students in all the participating school districts, did not break out the Palo Alto subset.
Students in the transfer program "are doing better on standardized tests than students not in the program, but maybe not as much as you would guess," she said.
Regarding a common perception that Tinsley students are overrepresented in special education, Bischoff found that students in the program are "about 10 percent more likely" to be in special education than students who had applied, but were not accepted, to the program and stayed in Ravenswood.
"That could be happening for a lot of reasons, and I don't have a clear understanding of exactly why," Bischoff told Palo Alto school board members.
"I think it's a way of getting kids extra help, but on the other side it's also a label to some extent, and can put kids on different trajectories in terms of classes they're taking."
Regarding English language learners, it appears that students in the Tinsley program become more proficient in English than those who applied to the program but stayed in the Ravenswood district, she said.
In her interviews, Bischoff found "the overarching theme that came through for most students is that to some degree being in the program is 'work.'
"They're negotiating two very different social environments on a daily basis, and to a large degree they are non-overlapping. There's often not a lot of interaction (with non-Tinsley classmates) outside of school. People don't use the same grocery stores, the same churches," she said.
"Students talked about the way friendships form, and that it can be difficult to maintain friendships," she said.
"In elementary school, students don't notice the differences too much and students didn't feel excluded in elementary school.
"Students talked a lot about changes in middle school, how their friendship groups changed and their better friends became other Tinsley students.
"It's good to have friends that they can see on the weekends. But the flip side, theoretically, is the reason we have these programs is to have more interaction and we're not seeing as much friendships across those boundaries as would be ideal," Bischoff said.
Many students cited transportation issues as reasons they have difficulty participating in extracurricular activities, she said.
In her interviews with Tinsley students who had reached high school, Bischoff found "a lot of pride" about their participation in the program.
"They talked a lot about what they saw as their experience versus that of the friends in their neighborhoods.
"They had a sense that they went to a really hard school and felt proud they were able to make it in those schools.
"What's important is that they felt confident about it. They talked about how they felt comfortable talking to anybody, of any social class. They felt they could operate in a broader social world even if that process is sometimes hard," Bischoff said.
For the most part, the Tinsley student she interviewed "felt well-treated by teachers, though certainly there were aberrations from that as well," Bischoff said.
"Kids talked about how everybody's just sort of nice. People don't fight with each other. That's not to say they felt everyone was super-friendly, but it wasn't like people had problems with each other. They felt generally it was a nice place to be, a calm environment," she said.
Kids that leave the Tinsley program do so for a variety of reasons -- including the fact that their families move to Palo Alto and they thus become regular students here, Bischoff said.
Others move out of the area. Under the rules of the program, students are not permitted to join -- or return to -- the Tinsley program beyond second grade.
Bischoff said she was assisted in her research by the San Mateo County Office of Education, which administers the Tinsley program, as well as by participating school districts, including Ravenswood.
She did not offer a written document or specific numerical results of her research, saying she is in the process of fine-tuning the work for publication.


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Sadly, bureaucracy is a time-honored tradition in the United States government, but perhaps no greater bureaucratic juggernaut exists today than the Veteran's Administration (VA) run by the Obama Administration.
The abject failure of the VA under the leadership of the three-ring circus we know as the Obama Administration is a case in point that increasing funding does little to inject competence or efficiency.
Recent documents from an Internal Veterans Affairs Department reveal some veterans actually die before receiving the care they need and others are forced to wait up to eight months to see a doctor, well beyond the VA's standard of 14 days.
A House Veterans Oversight and Investigations committee appointed to look into the problem found evidence the VA is falsifying numbers and closing out veterans' appointment requests in response to the backlog. According to the Military Times, the committee chairman, Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO), cites reasons for the closeouts include: "the request was years old, too much time had elapsed, or the veteran had died."
A March 14, 2013 witness testimony by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) Health Care Director, Debra Draper stated no one actually knows how long veterans are waiting for care because "the reported dates are unreliable" -- a large number of VA appointment schedulers don't know how to do their job, the whole system is obsolete, and dates are massaged to "show clinic wait times within VHA's performance goals."
I digress to note that similar complaints are also documented within Britain's National Healthcare System where workers manipulate numbers to meet quotas to keep their jobs. If the VA can't provide benefits to our nation's veterans, how does the Obama administration plan to deliver healthcare for 30-plus million Americans?
Liberals would have us believe that a bloated federal government has the ability to play a meaningful role in nurturing people's lives, but if they can't get this one right, they just need to just fuhgeddaboutit. Case closed. Done.
Additionally, internal VA documents secured by the Center for Investigative Reporting found wait times for first-time disability compensation claims and other benefit claims are much longer than the VA cares to admit, with claims taking anywhere from 316 to 642 days.
In the first year of President Obama's presidency, 11,000 veterans were on a claim waiting list for more than a year. Five years later, despite promises for improvement, and massive dollars "invested," the situation has deteriorated.
Those on a one-year waiting list for claims rose by more than 2000 percent, to 245,000 in 2012. Currently, the average wait time for 900,000 veterans who have been willing to sacrifice life and limb for our freedom is 273 days. With that kind of malfeasance taking place under my watch, I think I'd do a little less golfing if I were president.
If you think this has something to do with "the mess Obama inherited," then think again. The Center for Investigative Reporting found, "the average wait time for veterans filing disability claims fell by more than a third under President George W. Bush, even as more than 320,000 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans filed disability claims." It's actually about priorities, wouldn't you say?
Jon Stewart effectively nailed it using humor March 27 on The Daily Show when he said, "McDonalds handles ten times that many customers in an hour, and may I remind you, they are run by a clown." Sadly, though, the ineptitude of this administration is no laughing matter.


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AUMOND (Aumon), JOSEPH-IGNACE, lumber merchant; b. 21 March 1810 in L'Assomption, L.C., son of Ignace Aumon and Euphrosine Robichaud; m. Jane Cumming, 21 April 1833, by whom he had five sons and three daughters; d. 9 Nov. 1879, in Ottawa, Ont.
Joseph-Ignace Aumond went to Montreal as a clerk in the store of J. D. Bernard after having attended local schools. He then moved to the site of Bytown (Ottawa) as a storekeeper in a store opened by Bernard. A few years later he set up a general store of his own in Bytown.
Aumond entered the Ottawa valley timber trade about 1830. Within a few years he was a major figure in this trade, and in 1844 sent about 40 rafts annually to Quebec, representing nearly 2,000,000 feet of timber. He employed as many as 1,000 men and did business of more than £100,000 a year. The areas he exploited, mainly on his own account but also in conjunction with John Egan*, were along the upper Ottawa River and its tributaries. He held licences for cutting timber along the Madawaska, Petawawa, and Gatineau rivers, and in 1849 he acquired timber limits as distant from Bytown as Lake Timiskaming.
Although Aumond's business was damaged in the late 1840s by the removal of imperial preference, he remained one of the most important producers in the Ottawa valley and constructed in these years one of the largest steam sawmills in Canada. Yet by the mid-1850s he was in severe financial difficulties, and claimed to have lost £40,000 and to have been "all but ruined." However, he continued in the lumber trade, on a much smaller scale, until his death and saw his son Charles established in it at Ottawa.
Aumond played a prominent part in advancing the interests of the Ottawa valley lumber trade and its focal point of Bytown. He was a member of the Ottawa Valley Lumber Association when it was formed in 1836, and two years later he was promoting the construction of an iron suspension bridge across the Ottawa. In 1846, Aumond and Egan purchased two steamers at £10,000 from John Molson* of Montreal, one to ply Lake Deschênes, east of the Chats falls, and the other Lac des Chats, west of the falls, on the Ottawa River. The two routes were linked by a horse-drawn railway constructed by Aumond, Egan, and Ruggles Wright.
Aumond was the first president of the Bytown and Montreal Telegraph Company in 1849, and was director (Egan was president) of the Bytown and Aylmer Union Turnpike Company which completed the road between the two towns in 1850. He participated in the formation of the Bytown and Prescott Railway (later the St Lawrence and Ottawa) in 1851 and was on the first board of directors. He was also a trustee of the Consumers Gas Company formed in 1854, and a member of the first board of directors of the City Passenger Horse Railway in 1866.
As one of the principal industrialists in the community, Aumond participated actively in Ottawa's civic life. He was one of the organizers of the first regular fire company in Bytown in 1838, was on the first board of school trustees in 1842, and was appointed to the original Board of Health in 1847. He was also prominent in the Mechanics' Institute and the Board of Trade, as well as the Ottawa Association of Lumber Manufacturers. In 1874 he was persuaded to run along with J. M. Currier* in Ottawa City, a two member riding, as a Conservative supporting Sir John A. Macdonald*, but he was defeated. He had been appointed major in the 4th Battalion of Carleton militia in 1847, but was dismissed in 1850 after his name appeared, without his knowledge, on the Annexation Manifesto. He was reinstated as a major in 1856, and promoted lieutenant-colonel later that year and colonel in 1869.
The "reverses of fortune" which Aumond suffered in his long career only made it representative of the careers of many other early lumbermen in the Ottawa valley. His standing in the trade made him one of the "lumber kings," and his activities in the development of Ottawa entitle him to be called one of the area's most important founders.
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Asteroid Stalks Earth in Weird Horseshoe-Shaped Orbit
A newfound asteroid has been discovered to be trailing Earth on an oddball course: an orbit that looks a lot like a horseshoe.
The space rock, called asteroid 2010 SO16, has been following Earth as our planet orbits the sun for at least 250,000 years and is up to 1,312 feet (400 meters) wide, scientists said. It was initially spotted by NASA's WISE infrared space observatory. [Photos of asteroid 2010 SO16 and its orbit]
"Its average distance from the sun is identical to that of the Earth, but what really impressed me at the time was how Earth-like its orbit was," said Apostolos Christou, an astronomer at the Armagh Observatory in the United Kingdom, who led the study that pinned down the asteroid's orbit.
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Christou and study co-author David Asher found that asteroid 2010 SO16 takes about 175 years to travel from one end of its orbit to another before doubling back. In diagrams, the asteroid's orbit resembles a giant letter "C" with the Earth ticked between the endpoints. [Photos: Asteroids in Deep Space]
Currently, the asteroid is at a point in its orbit that brings it near the horseshoe's tip that trails the Earth. But despite its apparent attachment to Earth's orbit, the asteroid poses no risk of smacking our planet.
"This asteroid is terraphobic," Christou said. "It keeps well away from the Earth. So well, in fact, that it has likely been in this orbit for several hundred thousand years, never coming closer to our planet than 50 times the distance to the moon."
The average distance between the Earth and the moon is about 238,000 miles (382,900 kilometers).
The researchers used WISE observatory's data as a starting point to determine the asteroid's orbital path, and used computer simulations to sift through every possible orbit it could have. All of the simulations predicted the odd horseshoe-shaped path.
The research is detailed in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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Asteroid 2010 SO16 is not the only space rock known to circle the sun in a horseshoe pattern that brings it near Earth. At least three other asteroids are known to have similar orbits, though not as stable as that of 2010 SO16, researchers said. Those other asteroids will linger in Earth's neighborhood for a few thousand years before moving on, they added. [5 Reasons to Care About Asteroids]
One such space rock is the asteroid Cruithne, a 3-mile-wide (5 km) object that takes about 770 years to complete its horseshoe orbit. Cruithne was discovered by astronomers in 1986, but it wasn't until 1997 that scientists pinned down its weird orbit, which should keep the asteroid in a holding pattern near Earth for at least 5,000 years.
Christou and Asher said their next step is to identify where asteroid 2010 SO16 came from. And their choices are many.
Asteroid origins
The space rock could have been ejected from the solar system's main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, or may be a wayward member of a group of asteroids that may lurk at stable gravitational spots ahead of and behind the Earth, the researchers said. It could also be a chunk of Earth's moon kicked up during an ancient impact, a leftover remnant from the formation of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago, they added.
Christou and Asher are conducting follow-up observations with the Las Cumbres Observatory's Faulkes Telescope to learn more about its characteristics.
"It is not that difficult to spot with a medium-sized professional telescope," Asher explained. "It will remain as an evening object in Earth's skies for many years to come."
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Duke team turns scar tissue into heart muscle without using stem cells
Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have shown the ability to turn scar tissue that forms after a heart attack into heart muscle cells using a new process that eliminates the need for stem cell transplant.
The study, published online April 26 in the journal Circulation Research, used molecules called microRNAs to trigger the cardiac tissue conversion in a lab dish and, for the first time, in a living mouse, demonstrating the potential of a simpler process for tissue regeneration.
If additional studies confirm the approach in human cells, it could lead to a new way for treating many of the 23 million people worldwide who suffer heart failure, which is often caused by scar tissue that develops after a heart attack. The approach could also have benefit beyond heart disease.
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"This is a significant finding with many therapeutic implications," said Victor J. Dzau, M.D., a senior author on the study who is James B. Duke professor of medicine and chancellor of health affairs at Duke University. "If you can do this in the heart, you can do it in the brain, the kidneys and other tissues. This is a whole new way of regenerating tissue."
To initiate the regeneration, Dzau's team at Duke used microRNAs, which are molecules that serve as master regulators controlling the activity of multiple genes. Tailored in a specific combination, the microRNAs were delivered into scar tissue cells called fibroblasts, which develop after a heart attack and impair the organ's ability to pump blood.
Once deployed, the microRNAs reprogrammed fibroblasts to become cells resembling the cardiomyocytes that make up heart muscle. The Duke team not only proved this concept in the laboratory, but also demonstrated that the cell conversion could occur inside the body of a mouse – a major requirement for regenerative medicine to become a potential therapy.
"This is one of the exciting things about our study," said Maria Mirotsou, PhD, assistant professor of cardiology at Duke and a senior author of the study. "We were able to achieve this tissue conversion in the heart with these microRNAs, which may be more practical for direct delivery into cells and allow for possible development of therapies without using genetic methods or transplantation of stem cells."
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