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New York State digital preservation projects
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New York State Agency digital government documents
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- Date coverage of project: Primarily 1995 to the present, with selected retrospective coverage
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- Date site was reviewed: June 26, 2009
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Regardless of the relationship you may have with a physical therapist or how far you think the two professions have come in recent years in terms of multidisciplinary appreciation and cooperation, it remains clear that from a legal / scope-of-practice standpoint, there is still work to do.
Let's go first to California, where the California Chiropractic Association has been instrumental in introducing Senate Bill 381 into the state legislature. The bill would add Section 734 to the California Business and Professions Code as follows:
"(a) Notwithstanding any other law, a health care practitioner subject to regulation pursuant to this division shall not be authorized to perform a joint manipulation or joint adjustment except for the following individuals: (1) A chiropractor licensed by the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners. (2) A physician and surgeon licensed by the Medical Board of California. (3) An osteopathic physician and surgeon licensed by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California.
"(b) A health care practitioner who performs a joint manipulation or joint adjustment in violation of this section engages in the unlawful practice of chiropractic, which shall constitute good cause for the revocation or suspension of the health care practitioner's license, or any other disciplinary action deemed appropriate by the health care practitioner's licensing board.
"(c) For purposes of this section, 'joint manipulation" and 'joint adjustment' are synonymous terms that describe a method of skillful and beneficial treatment where a person uses a direct thrust to move the joint of a patient beyond its normal range of motion, but without exceeding the limits of anatomical integrity, as taught in chiropractic schools or colleges."
Commenting on the legislation, CCA President Tracy Cole, DC, said: "In a 1976 opinion, California Attorney General Evelle J. Younger concluded that, 'A physical therapist may not directly manipulate or adjust the spine or any other bony structure.' It has become clear that this opinion is not being followed and is the reason for seeking passage of this bill."
Speaking of attorney generals, the Nevada attorney general recently offered its official opinion on whether a licensed PT could "lawfully perform any manipulation or adjustment of the spine or any other articulation of the human body that involves a thrust from a practitioner." The Chiropractic Physician's Board of Nevada requested the opinion.
In its Feb. 7, 2013 response, the Nevada Office of the Attorney General stated: "A physical therapist may not directly manipulate or adjust the spine or other bone structure. ... Thrust manipulations and/or adjustments are recognized techniques and beyond the scope of activity for a physical therapist."
David Rovetti, DC, president of the Nevada Board, explained to DC the reason for contacting the attorney general:
"In 2008, the Chiropractic Physician's Board of Nevada became aware of a group teaching weekend courses in Grade 5 thrust mobilization to physical therapists in, among other cities around the country, Las Vegas, Nevada. ... Meeting with the Physical Therapy Board in 2008, it became apparent that they had no interest in withdrawing the continuing education hours they committed to give to physical therapists attending this seminar. They believed their laws prohibiting practicing chiropractic and a chiropractic adjustment did not mean a Grade 5 mobilization. In an attempt to clear up this matter, a request to the Nevada Attorney General was made by our Board."
"[Following the attorney general's Feb. 7 Opinion], a letter to the Physical Therapy Board was sent requesting they rescind their continuing education approvals of the 2013 and 2014 weekend courses taught in Las Vegas by the [group]. ... We are currently awaiting the Physical Therapy Board's response."

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Problems in CDL-M1 sample appBernd Koecke Dec 12, 2008 6:37 AM
first, its great to see an M1 release :).
I played a little bit around with the purchasing sample app and encountered a blocked choreography. I think there are two things wich caused this. My environment is:
- JBossAS 4.2.3 standalone and on a two node cluster
- JBossMessaging 1.4.0.SP3
- JBossESB 4.4
- MySQL 5.0
It seems that there is a racing condition in the join of the ParallelAction. Normally I see in the server.log two lines which together decrement the pathCount to "0". But there are sometimes two lines which both count only to "1". The events/messages are consumed and the result is a dead active session in database, the process doesn't goes on and the client gets a delivery exception after the timeout is reached.
After this, no successful calls to the process are possible. The client sets the id to 'id="5"'. And every call generates a new session in database. The creditAgency is called, but when the result is returned the purchaseApp searches for a session with 'id="5"', which is active. The first is the old dead one and this is selected. Then the process checks if the session has the right combination of category/name in it. But the selected dead session has the wrong combination and the process stops with an exception. You have to delete the whole data of the dead session from database and then the client calls are successful again.
The search for a perfect match can cause a kind of table scan, so this might not be a good idea. I remember that the id-string should be a unique identifier. In the sample app it is always the same string. So in production the problem will not arise very often. But it can happen, consider a process which handles customer data, the id is the customerNo. This process fails and later the process is called again for this customer with the same customerNo as id.
It may be that the racing condition is caused by my MySQL-Datasource-Configuration, but I got dead sessions by other failures in my processes, too.
In summary, the blocked process is caused by a dead active session with an non unique id in combination with the select algorithm of sessions.
Did anybody consider similar problems?


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King of the Cosmos
A Profile of Neil deGrasse Tyson
By Carl Zimmer
January/February 2012
On a hay-mown crest, dozens of people are crouching in the dark. The Earth has turned away from the sun, and the sky has flowed down a color chart, from light gray to orange to bluish-black. A sliver of a waxing moon has appeared briefly and then slipped below the western horizon, leaving the sky to blinking airplanes rising from La Guardia fifty miles to the south, to satellites gliding in low orbit, to Jupiter and its herd of moons and to the great river of the Milky Way beyond.
The crowd that sits in this chilly field in North Salem, New York, is surrounded by a ring of telescopes. There's a Dobsonian, a giant barrel-shaped contraption that's so tall you have to climb a stepladder to look through its eyepiece. Small, squat Newtonian cylinders sit on tripods, rigged to computers that give off a weak lamp-glow from their monitors. A few older men are fussing over the telescopes, but everyone else is huddled on the grass.
"Just get snuggly. There's nothing wrong with that. Get snuggly."
The voice is deep and loud—not loud from shouting, but from some strange acoustic property that gives it a conversational boom. It comes from a man who looms in the dark at the edge of the crowd.
"We still have the remnants of what we typically call the Summer Triangle," he says. "And the Summer Triangle is three stars that are about equally bright. So, one is here—"
"Oh my God," the crowd murmurs.
The looming figure is Neil Tyson, the director of the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History. He has just put the crowd into a swoon by switching on a laser and pointing it towards the zenith of the sky. The green beam seems to reach up from the field and touch the star.
"And one is here, and here," he says, sweeping the laser across the sky to mark a stellar triangle. The squatters gasp, swear again, and laugh at themselves. Tyson's laser is creating an optical illusion: he seems to pull the sky down into a dome that floats close overhead, like an astronomical Sistine Chapel.
"Here we have Deneb," he says. "Everyone say Deneb!"
"Good. And down here we have Altair."
"And up here we have Vega."
"One of the telescopes is actually trained on a star that's in the middle of this triangle," Tyson says, moving his laser to a faint dot, called Albireo. "It's right there. It doesn't look very interesting at first, but when you whip out a telescope, what you'll find is that this star is not alone, as a solo star. It has a companion star. Albireo is in fact my favorite star of the night sky. If you look closely, one star is this brilliant, beautiful blue color and the other is gold. And we know from astrophysics what must be true if an object is glowing at one or the other of those colors. Unlike what an artist will tell you, something glowing red-hot is the coolest among all the hots. You get way hotter than red-hot. If you crank the temperature, it becomes white hot. Crank it some more, it then begins to glow blue."
Tyson moves the laser to other regions of the sky, to the feeble North Star, to Cassiopeia, to Sagittarius. As he talks, the people huddling on the ground blast questions at him. Where is Venus? Is that a satellite? Is that a satellite? Is the Chinese calendar based on the lunar cycle? Tyson stops to answer each question. He twirls his laser in a tight circle midway down the handle of the Big Dipper.
"If you look really carefully at it, you should be able to see two stars there," he says. "How good is your vision?"
"Awesome!" a boy says.
"I can see it!" says another.
"Okay, who cannot see two stars inside my little circle here?" Tyson asks.
"Me," says a third.
"Okay, therefore you cannot be drafted into the Roman army," says Tyson. "That was their eye test. So this pair of stars is called Mizar and Alcor. Mizar is the brighter of the two. Alcor is the dimmer of the two. This is a very loosely bound double-star system. If you take out a telescope and point it on Mizar, that's a double star. Then if you take the telescope and point it on the brighter of the two stars that is the bright of these two stars, that's a double star. So what you have here," Tyson says, "is a double-double-double star system. All in mutual, harmonious orbit around their common center of gravity. Such is the lay-out of this cosmic ballet that we call the universe."
For most of the people huddling on the ground, tonight is the first time they've spent such an extended period looking up at the sky. For three hours, Tyson keeps his audience staring so hard at the heavens he cramps their necks. He speaks of galaxies and the delusions of astrology, how to calculate latitude, the fate of the universe. It is not a lecture. He delivers something more akin to a solo concert. Although he is a card-carrying astrophysicist with a long list of scientific papers in publications like Astrophysical Journal, Tyson has turned himself into a rock-star scientist. He plays to sold-out houses. He appears on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, on the New York Times bestseller list, on Twitter (@neiltyson, with 242,400 followers as I write this). He is now shooting a remake of Carl Sagan's classic Cosmos series, which will air on Fox in 2013.
Tyson spreads himself so wide for two reasons. One is that there's so much in the sky to talk about. The other reason is down here on earth. For all the spectacular advances American science has made over the past century—not just in astrophysics but in biology, engineering, and other disciplines—the best days of American science may be behind us. And as American science declines, so does America. So here, in the dark, under the stars, Tyson is going to try to save the future, one neck cramp at a time.
Tyson first saw the Milky Way when he was nine, projected across the ceiling of New York's Hayden Planetarium. He thought it was a hoax. From the roof of the Skyview Apartments in the Bronx, where he grew up, he could only see a few bright stars. When Tyson turned eleven, a friend loaned him a pair of 7x35 binoculars. They weren't powerful enough to reveal the Milky Way in the Bronx sky. But they did let him make out the craters on the moon. That was enough to convince him that the sky was worth looking at.
He began to work his way up through a series of telescopes. For his twelfth birthday, he got a 2.4-inch refractor with three eyepieces and a solar projection screen. Dog walking earned him a five-foot-long Newtonian with an electric clock for tracking stars. Tyson would run an extension cord across the Skyview's two-acre roof into a friend's apartment window. Fairly often, someone would call the police. He charmed the cops with the rings of Saturn.
Tyson took classes at the Hayden Planetarium and then began to travel to darker places to look more closely at the heavens. In 1973, at age fourteen, he went to the Mojave Desert for an astronomy summer camp. Comet Kahoutek had appeared earlier in the year, and Tyson spent much of his time in the Mojave taking pictures of its long-tailed entry into the solar system. After a month he emerged from the desert, an astronomer to the bone.
It was a good time for a plunge into astronomy. Neil Armstrong had landed on the moon four years earlier. In 1973, NASA launched Pioneer 11, and the space probe began its journey to the asteroid belt and then onward to the outer Solar System. At the suggestion of Carl Sagan, NASA had bolted a plaque to Pioneer, showing a naked man and woman, along with a cosmic map of Earth's location, should an alien civilization encounter the probe after it left our neighborhood.
Tyson learned how astronomy could also bring out the crazies. As Kahoutek got closer to Earth, a cult called the Children of God warned it was an omen that the world was about to be destroyed. Psychics declared that the comet disrupted the psychomagnetic equilibrium of the planets and would cause mass violence. Timothy Leary had a happier opinion of Kahoutek, which he preferred to call Starseed. It comes, Leary said, "at the right time to return light to the planet earth."
In the face of this superstition, Tyson wished he could talk to people about the beauty of the universe. At age fifteen, he was invited to talk to a continuing education class. He delivered an hour-long lecture to fifty adults, showing them his pictures of planets, stars and Kahoutek. As he stood before his first audience, he didn't know that he would be doing this sort of thing for the rest of his life. But it certainly felt right. "For me," Tyson later wrote, "talking about the universe was like breathing."
Tyson graduated from Bronx High School of Science in 1976 and went to Harvard. He wrestled, tutored prisoners in math, and studied astrophysics. In his sophomore year, he was talking with a fellow black student, a senior who was about to start a Rhode scholarship. The senior was appalled to hear Tyson talk about astrophysics. "Blacks in America do not have the luxury of your intellectual talents being wasted on astrophysics," he declared.
It was as if Tyson had been stung by a hornet. The stinger buried itself so deep inside him that it took nine years to work its way out. By then, Tyson was finishing his Ph.D. in astrophysics at Columbia. During graduate school, he became the department's go-to person when reporters called to ask about something weird in the sky. He began answering questions readers sent to StarDate magazine. One day, a satellite recorded explosions on the surface of the sun, and a local television station asked Tyson if he would talk about it on camera. After the filming, he went home and watched himself on television. It was the first time he could recall ever seeing a black scientist speaking as an expert on American television. His college shame fell away.
By the time Tyson finished his Ph.D. and took a job at Princeton, he had turned his StarDate columns into his first book, Merlin's Guide to the Universe. And it was that willingness to engage the public that brought him a visit from representatives from the American Museum of Natural History. They wanted to talk to him about the Hayden Planetarium. Pushing sixty, it was in bad need of a renovation.
"They were really just coasting on the glory days of the fifties, sixties, and seventies," Tyson told me. "I said, 'Change out all the exhibits. Oh, and by the way, you should start a research department there.'"
Tyson began to split his time between teaching at Princeton and working as a staff scientist at the Hayden planetarium, helping to plan its redesign. "It went beyond just a facelift," he said. "It was an entire reworking of the architecture, which involved demolition and reconstruction."
Tyson held out until Frederick Rose, a New York developer and philanthropist, put twenty million dollars on the table for a renovated planetarium and a department of astrophysics. "Where do I sign?" Tyson recalled thinking. In 1996, he was appointed the Frederick P. Rose director of the Hayden Planetarium. He could still recall being mesmerized by the Milky Way the first time he stepped foot in this building, as a nine year old. Four decades later, he was in charge.
When the Rose Center finally opened in 2000, it startled a city grown blase about new buildings. Paul Goldberger, the New Yorker architecture critic, wrote that the building "is a temple of serene geometries, perhaps the purest piece of monumental architecture built in the United States since the Washington Monument went up on the Mall."
A decade later, on a bright Sunday morning in 2010, a smattering of kids and their parents gathered to celebrate the Rose Center's 10th anniversary. By 11 am, every chair was occupied. Tyson climbed onto the dais dressed in a dark suit and bright tie covered in Renaissance drawings of the sky. He welcomed the crowd. "Just a show of hands—who has come from far away?" A few hands went up. "How far?" he asked one person. "Oregon?" He pointed to someone else. "Florida? That's also far. Welcome. You should stay here because pretty soon all of Florida is going to be underwater. So this is good up here in the Northeast, as sea levels rise."
He talked about the design of the center, how he and his colleagues had replicas of the planets arrayed around the giant planetarium's signature sphere. Eight of them.
"Pluto is a planet!" a boy in the back shouted. The crowd rumbled.
"Apparently, people are still angry about this," Tyson replied with a smile.
Tyson's decision to kick Pluto out of the league of planets may be the most famous thing he's done so far. Yet he didn't make a big deal of it at the time. In the late 1990s, astronomers were beginning to discover a vast belt of giant hunks of ice at the Solar System's outer edge.
"Pluto and they look more alike than any one of them looks like anything else in the solar system," Tyson explained to the crowd. "That's a good excuse to group them. That's how you make categories. That's all we did."
Tyson's demotion of Pluto only came to the public's attention when Kenneth Chang, a New York Times reporter, noticed there were only eight planets featured at the Rose Center. When Chang asked other astronomers to comment, they called the decision absurd. Letters of protest poured into the museum. But Tyson held firm, and in the years that followed, astronomers discovered other icy bodies at the edge of the solar system that were even bigger than Pluto. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union decided to classify it as a dwarf planet.
"By the way," Tyson said, scanning the crowd. "Who's the kid who said, 'Pluto is a planet?' What's your name?"
The boy answered, "Sebastian."
"Sebastian, a question for you. You know Pluto is small, right?"
"Do you know how small it is?"
"No, you don't know how small it is!" Tyson roared. When he works a crowd, he doesn't maintain a cool composure, like his hero Carl Sagan. He has a touch of Chris Rock. "So how can you say Pluto must be a planet? For example, if the planet Saturn were a car, how big a car would Pluto be sitting next to it? Do you have any idea? If Saturn, the car, were like Saturn the planet, how little would you have to make a car to be the size of Pluto? Do you have any idea? Would it be like a Mini Cooper? Or what's that, the Smart Car? That little stubby car that's got no butt?" Tyson sidled around on stage, as the crowd laughed at the living essence of a car without a butt. "That little thing? You've seen those. Great for parking. You think it's that small, maybe?"
Tyson stood tall again. "I'll tell you how small!" he shouted. "To make Pluto the size of a car relative to Saturn the car, it would have to be the size of a matchbox car sitting on the curb." He squeezed his fingers. "Like that. There are six moons in the solar system bigger than Pluto—including Earth's moon. And practically everybody I know saying 'Pluto must be a planet,' did not know that. Did you also know that Pluto is mostly ice by volume? So that if you slid it into where Earth is right now, heat from the sun would evaporate that ice and it would grow a tail. That's no kind of behavior for a planet, I wouldn't think. There's a word for things with tails. What do we call them?"
The crowd answered, "Comets!"
"Comets, thank you. No, I think Pluto is happier now as the king of the comets, instead of being a pipsqueak planet."
Tyson glared again at Sebastian. "So you agree with me? You admit it?"
Sebastian, arms folded, gave a nod.
"We have a convert, right there," Tyson declared.
To write about scientists, you first have to sit down with them and talk for a long time. It's usually not too hard to arrange this, since you can reliably find them at their office desk, at their observatory, or in their favorite swamp. Tyson is a moving target. At the Rose Center anniversary, I had to trot to keep up with him as he strode through the museum for assorted appointments with astronauts and a cappella singing groups. I interviewed him in cabs and subways. The longest stretch of time I got with Tyson was not in New York at all, in fact, but in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he had been invited to give a talk at a 2300-seat auditorium.
The evening before the talk, I found Tyson in his room at the Ambassador Hotel. He wore a black sleeveless T-shirt on which was written, "What part of—" followed by a hideously long scientific formula, "don't you understand?" He sat in a chair, with a stack of boxes to one side. Out of the boxes he pulled one book after another, setting each one on another chair in order to sign it.
Tyson was in the middle of a frantic week. Two days earlier he had been in Los Angeles, to film a cameo on The Big Bang Theory, the remarkably successful sitcom revolving around the lives of two socially awkward physicists. "At one point," Tyson said, "after one of the takes, a guy comes up to me and said, 'You're suffering from Nova-itis. You're professing your lines instead of just speaking them." (Tyson has been the host of a string of Nova programs on public television.) "I only have three lines but…I don't know if I'm delusionally biased, but I think they were sort of a meaningful three lines."
I later called Bill Prady, the co-creator and executive producer of The Big Bang Theory, to ask about Tyson's visit to the show. Prady is a fan of Tyson's from way back. "I had Mister Wizard and Carl Sagan growing up," Prady said. "There were science celebrities. And I think that's something there should be more of. Someone like Neil comes on television, he's friendly, he's funny, he's a good teacher. More people like him would represent a positive shift in the culture."
For Tyson, a show like The Big Bang Theory is worth a trip across the country. With an audience of thirteen million people a week, it can deliver a large injection of geek culture into pop culture. Carl Sagan took some tentative steps in that direction, appearing as a guest on the Johnny Carson Show. Tyson wants to go further. In 2009 he sat down in the talk-show-host chair, with a radio talk show called StarTalk. When I ask Tyson if it aired on National Public Radio he gave an emphatic no.
"It's the anti-NPR," he says.
Tyson has had Stephen Colbert on StarTalk confess his own geekhood, and he's talked about astrobiology with Joan Rivers. "I said, 'Joan, what happens if the aliens come, what do you do?'" Tyson recalled. "She said, `I don't care as long as they're single and Jewish.'"
He's also embarked on a remake of Cosmos, working with the Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan's widow and co-writer of the original series. Druyan asked Tyson if he would host the show, and then Seth McFarlane, the creator of Family Guy offered to bring them together with executives at Fox. Tyson decided it was a good place for the show. "If this only appeared on a science network, then people who already know science would be the ones who would watch it," he says. If he can reach a huge audience of people who aren't already science fanatics, "it would have the greatest chance of influencing the science literacy of the nation."
After filming The Big Bang Theory in Los Angeles, Tyson got on a red-eye and flew back to New York to give a lecture the next day at a meeting of academic cosmetic chemists. "That was a first for me," Tyson said. "So I just talked a lot about the chemistry of the universe." After the lecture, he packed again and immediately flew to Tulsa.
In his Tulsa hotel room, Tyson was preoccupied with how he could talk the organizers of the lecture into letting him have a question-and-answer session instead. "I love Q and A," he said. "It becomes a communal participation. There's a vicarious flow through the questioner into my exchange with them from everybody else."
Tyson was prepared to give them a regular talk if need be. He would race his audience through the cosmos, pausing along the way to talk about the latest science. Black holes, of course, are a mandatory stop. We like to imagine that black holes could transport us to another part of the universe, but recent research on black holes suggests that's impossible. For many people, that finding was a kind of cosmic disappointment. But Tyson finds a fascinating consolation in the research. "Black holes remember what they've eaten," he said. "As it evaporates trillions of years after it ate you, the inventory of evaporated particles matches exactly the inventory of particles in the mass that it ate. It remembers what you were. And to me that's spooky."
Tyson takes care not to oversell. If someone asks about string theory—the idea that all matter is ultimate made of multidimensional vibrations—he's happy to talk about it, but he will also point out that it's short on evidence. "The more your ideas are untestable, either in principle or in practice, the less useful they are to the advance of science," Tyson said. "It's a seduction, really, and it's controlling the hiring in physics departments. Every department feels like they need a string theorist. Meanwhile, there are other people who are doing actual experimental physics, or have testable hypotheses that are getting aced out of university appointments."
Still, Tyson thought something important might someday come out of string theory. "They're pretty cheap to keep around. Pencil, pad, throw in a laptop—you're done with the string theorist."
After Tyson finished signing the books, he changed into a suit. His vest was embroidered with suns. He headed out for a dinner with fifty of Tulsa's leading citizens, fielding questions for a couple hours. In the morning he got in a car and was driven through the ghostly downtown to the Tulsa Performing Art Center, a fortress of auditoriums, conference rooms, and pavilions. A Tulsa television crew interviewed him for an hour in a hallway, and then his handlers led him into a large room to talk to a hundred high school students and their teachers. The teachers asked most of the questions, mostly about what they could do to motivate their students. Tyson said parents should let their kids pull tablecloths off the table to learn about gravity, even if a few dishes get broken in the process. Afterwards the teachers and the students left the room and merged into the throngs flowing down the hallway, into the Chapman Music Hall. A great prairie of Oklahomans filled the auditorium. It was ten o'clock on a Thursday morning.
Tyson had failed to talk his hosts into a Q & A for the big show, so he went with the lecture. But as soon as came on stage he took off his shoes. "You're comfortable, so I'm getting comfortable," he said. He joked about how he had been introduced as, among other things, People's sexiest astrophysicist in the world. "Consider the category," he said. "Did I beat out Stephen Hawking? It's just not the kind of distinction where you get big-headed about it. That's all I want to say." In the Chapman Music Hall the laughter didn't clatter. It seemed to ripple out gently for miles.
Tyson began to talk about the universe, starting close by on the moon. He padded across the stage as he talked, in circles, up to the edge of the stage, backing away. He explained how a probe had recently crashed into a crater on the moon and kicked up a spray of dust and—intriguingly—ice. It may be possible for moon colonies someday to mine the ice, split the water molecules apart, and use their energy for rocket fuel. "So it's the first step in long=term space travel," he told the audience.
The giant screen behind Tyson filled with astro-porn—gorgeous NASA photos of other parts of the solar system. Mars with its own hints of water, Saturn capped by a vast hexagonal cloud, asteroids that might someday smash into Earth. Tyson reviewed an evolutionary tree of life on Earth, made up mostly of microbes ("Get over it"), and pondered the possibility of life on Mars or some Earth-like planet orbiting another star.
"Wow," Tyson said when he checked his watch. "We are running late on time. I have to go faster. You with me? You ready?" He turned to the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, which has begun to smash protons at such huge energies that it may uncover a mythical particle known as the Higgs boson, predicted by some scientists to endow all matter with mass. Tyson jumped back to the Big Bang and then forwards through the growth of the universe, and then contemplated the possibility that our universe was one of many universes, each budding off of another through a black hole.
"This is way out there," Tyson said. "There is no evidence to support any of this. There are some cogent theoretical evidence and philosophical arguments." But if it were true, it would certainly be in keeping with the history of astronomy, he pointed out. "Every time we thought we were one, in fact we were many. 'Oh, we're the one Earth, the center of the universe.' No, we're one of multiple planets around the star. Okay, the sun is special. No, the sun is one of a hundred billions stars in the galaxy. The galaxy is special. No, it's one of a hundred billion galaxies in the universe. All right, the universe is alone. Maybe not."
Tyson checked his watch again. He was way past his hour now. "I've got to go quickly now. Are you okay here? Are you all right?" he asked. The audience applauded. "All right, here we go." Tyson compared the elemental composition of our bodies to the abundance of elements in the universe: a close match. This union between ourselves and the cosmos could offer some solace for the feeling of insignificance astrophysics could bring. "The universe is in us," he said.
After ninety minutes, Tyson was at last done. The audience gave him a standing ovation, after which he was hustled from the auditorium to a pavilion, where people who had bought a ticket could eat their Portobello mushrooms in the same room as Tyson, and ask him still more questions—whether the laws of physics can change over time (probably not), whether the universe was fine-tuned for our existence (no, the universe is out to kill us). Tyson came to the lunchtime podium, with two hours left before his flight home to New York, to answer questions yet again. But this time he carried a plate and fork to the microphone.
"I'm digging the pumpkin cheesecake pie here," he said. "It doesn't mean I don't love you, but I'm eating this while I'm talking."
One of the few times that I was able to sit down with Tyson in New York was on a day when Barack Obama was visiting the American Museum of Natural History. Rather than deal with the hassle of security, Tyson decamped to Smith and Wollensky, a midtown steak house, to participate in a wine auction. The second floor of the restaurant was filled with tables of bidders. A broad flat-screen television hung behind the auctioneer, full of lot numbers and bids. Tyson had a table to himself in the middle of the room, where he was answering emails on his laptop. A miniature metal bridge served as a paperweight, holding the auction catalog open to the page of the lot he wanted to bid on, a modest collection of mixed bottles.
"I tend to be a bottom-feeder, and I'm proud of that," he said.
We talked over a rib-eye about the future. From time to time, Tyson took a break to wave his auction paddle or shake a waiter's hand. For the past few years, the future of astronomy has been a part-time job for Tyson, as he has served on the Committee on the Decadal Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey 2010. The committee, assembled by the National Academies of Sciences from American astronomy's top ranks, had as its mission to rank a vast number of proposals for future projects. At the top of their list is $1.6-billion Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope, or WFIRST.
The 1.5-meter-wide telescope would be delivered on a rocket 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, where it would be able to peer far across the universe, picking up infrared radiation from distant sources. WFIRST may be able to detect signs of planets orbiting other stars that ground-based telescopes have missed.
It took two years for Tyson and his colleagues to draw up their final list, which they released in August 2009. "A lot of meetings, a lot of discussions, a lot of reports," is how Tyson describes it. "This was an important reality check on people's scientific ambitions."
Astrophysics is entering a precarious phase in the United States. As scientists probe deeper into the universe, they need increasingly sophisticated tools to make more progress. And those tools are becoming hugely expensive.
"Let me give you an example," Tyson said. "The entire Rose Center for Earth and Space cost $230 million. That was years of fundraising and three years of demolition and construction. If the shuttle can't land in Florida because of a thunderstorm and has to land at Vandenberg Air Force base? That's $250 million."
At the moment, WFIRST and the other missions Tyson and his colleagues have endorsed are stuck in line behind the James Webb Space Telescope, which is slated to lift off in 2015. The JWST is going to be delivered into space essentially as a rolled-up ball; once it emerges from its rocket, it will unfurl into a 6.5 meter mirror, over twice as big as Hubble's 2.4 meter mirror. It's a magnificent concept, but it's also turning into a budgetary nightmare. Its cost has leaped from $5 billion to $6.5 billion. Nature called it "the telescope that ate astronomy." Last summer, as Congress tried to find ways to cut its budget, the JWST ended up on a list of projects under consideration for elimination.
Shortly after Congress raised this possibility, Tyson appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher. He pointed out that the war in Afghanistan had already sucked up more money than NASA had in its entire fifty-year existence. "You are removing the only thing that gives people something to dream about tomorrow," he warned.
The audience broke out in applause.
Tyson believes that the scientific community has to do its part to keep costs down, but he worries that politicians may not recognize that there is value to exploring the universe. The first exposure many people have to science is in a planetarium or on a NASA web site. By learning about black holes or dark energy, people become acquainted with science itself. Some of them go on to become scientists, and others become scientifically literate citizens. And that's how to keep a country thriving.
"There's no greater engine of economic growth than innovations in those fields," Tyson said.
A truly galling sign of the times came in 2009, when Russia put together a space mission to the small asteroid Apophis. It has a small but genuine chance of hitting Earth in 2036. Recently Russia invited the United States to be a partner on the mission.
"Excuse me?" Tyson asked, setting down his fork. "Roll that tape back. Aren't we the ones who propose missions and then bring other partners in with us? Aren't we the leaders in this?"
The tale of Apophis speaks of a broader decline for Tyson—in America's science education and its skills in science and engineering. "Katrina didn't destroy New Orleans—the levees did," he said. "What, we can't hold back water? This is the twenty-first century? What is our problem?"
I asked Tyson if he thought something could stop America's slide.
"Space exploration," he said without missing a beat.
When the United States was sending men to the moon, science thrived. "You had to beat people back at the door who wanted to major in science and physics and become science teachers," said Tyson. "You had people making the space program the measure of what is possible."
But Tyson does not simply want to turn back the clock. As he explains in his upcoming book, Space Chronicles, the Cold War that made the Kennedy-era space program possible is long over. Tyson has been pondering a plan to take its place. "You multiply NASA's budget a factor of two or three and you give it a grand vision," he said. "You say, 'We're going back to the moon, we're going to Mars. Oh, by the way, we're going to be on Mars on this date, and right now we are looking at the elementary school children of the nation to see who has the right stuff, because by the time we're ready to go to Mars, they will be the right age to be astronauts.' You attract an entire generation of people into these epic projects. And to solve those problems that have never been solved before, they have to invent things. They have to have new ideas. New branches of mathematics get discovered. This feeds into society, into our culture. It's a difficult sell, but I think it's our only hope."
The star party in North Salem, New York, is winding down. People are milling around the telescopes to see the moons of Jupiter or the Andromeda galaxy. The younger set and their parents have hiked away in the dark to find their cars. Tyson's own son is fading fast and has clamped to his leg like a barnacle.
"Any other questions?" Tyson asks. "Oh, there was a question about dark matter, right?
A boy named Henry speaks up. "Yes. Thank you! Thank you, I've been waiting."
"Okay, what do you know about dark matter?" Tyson asks.
Henry pipes up, musing in a high voice. "Just, like, there's seventy percent or so—maybe even more—of the universe that's missing and we think that's made of dark matter."
"Okay, so why are you asking me what dark matter is?" Tyson asks. The hardness is back in his voice—a joke varnishing a challenge.
"Because, like, that's all I know," Henry admits. "I don't really get what it is."
"Oh, so you think there's more known about dark matter than what you just told me?"
"Yeah. Sure," Henry says. He doesn't sound sure.
"We don't know any more than what you just said," Tyson says.
"Wow, Henry," Henry's mother says. "That's neat." Henry doesn't pay her much mind.
"Okay so I'll give you a detail—wait!" Tyson turns on his laser and calls out to the crowd. "So there's another star I also want to point out."
He shoots his laser into the sky, casting a circle around the Pleiades, the star cluster named for the seven sisters of Greek mythology. He talks about how the stars were born together as a cluster and have started their life orbiting the galaxy, but they will someday drift apart, as sisters so often do.
"Okay," Tyson says, "everything we've ever seen in the universe has gravity—Earth, the moon. And you can tell how much gravity something has by how fast something moves around it. For example, I can use an equation, which was given to us by Isaac Newton. Remember these satellites we talked about? I said they're going 17,500 miles an hour and they're in orbit? Earth has to have a particular amount of gravity if you see that happening. I don't even have to know that Earth is there and I will know what it's orbiting because of the influence of its gravity on the satellite. Okay?"
"All right," Henry says.
"All right. So now let's look around the galaxy. There are 100 billion stars. There are gas clouds, there are black holes, there's..."
"…dwarves," says Henry.
"Dwarf stars, there are planets, there are comets. Add it all up. We've done this. Add it all up and say that should give me this much gravity. But when you look at how fast things are moving, you get six times as much gravity as the stuff that we know about is generating. It was originally called the missing matter problem. Where is the matter that's making this gravity that we see? Because everything we do count up doesn't get us where we need. We now call this the dark matter problem.
"But really we have no idea what's causing it. We so don't know what's causing it that we shouldn't even call it dark matter because that implies we have some understanding that it's matter. We don't know what it is. I could call it Fred. Eighty five percent all the gravity in the universe comes from something about which we know nothing."
"That's a problem," Henry declares.
"That's a problem," Tyson calls back. "It's called the dark matter problem. It's been with us since 1936 and it's one of the longest-standing unsolved problems in astrophysics."
"So that's going be your goal," Henry's mother says. "Grow up and solve that."
"That's a little too big," Henry says.
"Wait, that's only the beginning," Tyson says, waving his finger close to Henry's nose. "What year were you born?"
"In 1999," Henry says.
"In 1998, a year before you were born, it was announced that the expanding universe is not only expanding, it is accelerating in its expansion. Meaning..."
"It's getting faster?" Henry asks.
"Faster and faster and faster," Tyson says. " We expected that the universe's expansion would be slowing down because all the gravity is trying to pull everybody back in. But we found the opposite is true. So we learned that there is a mysterious pressure in the vacuum of space that is pressing the universe to expand against the wishes of gravity. So we call that dark energy. We don't know what's causing it. We can describe it, we can say what it's doing, but we don't know what it is. When you add up the missing gravity or the missing cause of the gravity to this mysterious dark energy, it is ninety six percent of the universe."
"That's a lot," Henry says.
"Everything we know and love—electrons, protons, neutrons, light, black holes, planets, stars, everything we know and understand—occupies four percent of the universe. Dark matter and dark energy is everything else. So we're just dumb—stupid about what's driving this cosmos. And we've got top people working on it. Top people. This problem has been around a long time so a whole lot of top people have failed. We're waiting for another generation of top people to come along and help us out."
When Tyson says "another generation," he might as well be saying, "Henry."
"Yeah!" someone calls out. It's not Henry.
"Okay?" Tyson asks.
The night is now deeply dark. It's good for seeing the Milky Way. It's good for training telescopes on planetary nebulae. It's good for contemplating the ninety-six percent of the world left to figure out. But it's too dark now to see what Henry is thinking.
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Fingerling release to boost Cressbrook Dam's fish stocks
THE Toowoomba region's future fish stocks received a new-year boost this week with the release of 45,000 fingerlings into Cressbrook Dam.
The Toowoomba Fish Stocking Association released 25,000 bass and 20,000 golden perch (yellowbelly) on Wednesday.
The latest injection of fish to the dam follows the restocking of 30,000 bass and 20,000 yellowbelly last summer.
Association president Peter Taylor said the two latest releases helps mark a turnaround in stock numbers which were previously depleted by drought.
"The stocking today will back-up the release last summer following the long drought when stocking was kept to the bare minimum in the years when the water levels were too low to restock," he said.
"Cressbrook has been a very good fishery for local anglers with the dam close to Toowoomba.
"It also attracts plenty of anglers from out of town including Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast.
"Western Downs anglers also help make it an important cog in the tourist industry for our region."
Taylor said fish released this week will begin reaching a legal catch size in about 12 months.
"With the excellent water levels in our dams at present and the healthy food chain these fingerlings should be a reasonable size in 12 to 18 months," he said.
Taylor said Cooby Dam is next in line for restocking.
"We will be restocking Cooby in the next few weeks with Murray cod and golden perch to give it a boost as well," he said.


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Her Turn
"My new marriage is haunted by memories of my old one. Like me, Jeff is a widower; his wife died of cancer, too. I'm afraid that's about all we have in common now.
"I grew up in a small town near Boston. My dad, who worked for the postal service, had been married once before. He had a daughter from his first marriage who quit school at 16, got pregnant, and moved far away. Dad was determined that I wouldn't follow in her footsteps, so he kept me and my older brother, Robbie, on a short leash. And if we ever did anything my parents disapproved of, my mother, a homemaker, was nasty and caustically critical. I was so shy and passive, if someone looked at me sideways, I'd cry.
"I met my first husband in a bowling alley when we were both 18. I knew the moment I saw him that I was going to marry him. Alan was a wonderful, special man, loved by the entire community. He had started his own fuel-oil business in town, and over the years he slowly built it up to be the largest in our area. He was very active in community projects and raised money for all sorts of civic causes.
"We married a year after we met and had two kids — a girl and a boy — right away; I sent the younger one to college this year. Alan worked long hours, but that was fine with me. I loved being a mother and my work on school committees and community boards. Antiques are also my passion. For several years, I ran a small antiques business. Life was full.
"Then we found out Alan had lung cancer. Shortly after we got the diagnosis, my mother had a massive stroke. Suddenly, I was caring for two critically-ill people at once. Then Dad, who'd battled diabetes since childhood, became seriously ill and died from complications of the disease. I've always been the family caretaker — it's a role I like and do well — but I was drained. My mother passed away a month before Alan, who died a year after his diagnosis. When he died, my world shattered. I couldn't walk down the street without someone stopping me to talk about Alan.
"Two years ago, four years after Alan's death, my good friends Maddie and Ed insisted I join them on a trip to England. That's where I met Jeff. Maddie, Ed, and I were having tea at Brown's Hotel in London; Jeff was at the next table with some friends. We started chatting and he told me he was a freelance photographer from Maryland. Somehow it came out in the conversation that he'd lost his wife and he was living alone. They had never had children. Jeff was so easy to talk to; we sat at the table talking for so long that my friends left us alone and the waiter had to ask us to leave so he could set the tables for dinner!
"Jeff asked if he could call me when we got home, and though I was nervous, I said yes. Before I knew it, we were having a long-distance relationship and visiting each other frequently. We always had fun together, and he made me feel good about myself for the first time since Alan died. By the end of the year, he asked me to marry him. I said yes and, after a small ceremony, he moved into my house in Massachusetts. He still owns the home he built in Maryland and likes to visit his relatives down there. My house, actually, was a problem at first: It was built in 1850, and it's filled to the rafters with antiques. Jeff prefers spare, modern furnishings, but he's come around to graciously accepting my things and living without his.
"We've been married for two years now, and while they say opposites attract, I'm not so sure anymore. Jeff grew up in the South; I'm a New Englander. He has a master's degree in fine arts, did a stint in the Navy, has lived all over the world, and loves to go out. I'm much more of a homebody: I like to garden and bake, and I rarely travel. I've always been very child-centered. He and his first wife, Maryanne, led a very social life, filled with film screenings and fancy cocktail parties. Often, I feel that I'm not good enough for Jeff, like he's out of my league, so to speak. He wants to travel abroad all the time, but I'm not comfortable leaving my family and going far away — especially with the world situation the way it is today.
"Besides, I'd rather be home with my kids and grandkids, which is another problem. They visit frequently and are always underfoot and noisy. I know Jeff resents the time I spend with them and the lack of privacy; he hates the 'chaos,' as he puts it. But I love all the commotion.
"Jeff has also become increasingly critical. He'll complain that I'm using the wrong pan to bake the chicken in or say the spices I used for the marinade didn't work. Well, Alan always ate anything I put on his plate and without complaint. Jeff also doesn't like the way I iron his shirts, so he'll instruct me on how to do it better. Once he got so aggravated, he grabbed the iron and said he'd do it himself. When we were packing for a trip to Italy last year, he had a fit about the way I was folding and packing our clothes. I usually keep most of my feelings inside; it's hard for me to express how I feel, so I prefer to let things blow over. But Jeff's nitpicking that day made me go ballistic. 'I'm not an idiot!' I screamed. 'I've packed suitcases for years. It might not be your way, or Maryanne's way, but it's my way!'
"You know, I've struggled so hard to be independent after Alan's death. I got used to being alone and doing as I pleased. Now, Jeff wants to know where I go every time I put on my coat. It seems reasonable to check in with him, but at the same time, it makes me bristle inside.
"I could go on and on with the small-potatoes stuff that fills our days with tension. I thought I knew how to do marriage. Maybe it's me, maybe it's him. But whatever is wrong, it's making me doubt 'us.' I don't think I can ever live up to his memory of Maryanne."
His Turn
"Why on earth would Krista say that? I had a wonderful life with Maryanne and I loved her deeply. But now I'm married to another equally wonderful woman, whom I also dearly love, and Krista refuses to see that. I get the feeling that she's looking to find ways to make this marriage fail. Instead of focusing on the good we have, she picks up on all of our differences.
"I admit this marriage and the move north have been a big adjustment for me. Sometimes we had 15 people in one house with kids running all over the place. Take a step in the kitchen and you hear the crunch of Cheerios underfoot. That's a big change. But I'm not missing my old life; I've grieved enough. I fell in love with Krista — her joie de vivre, her infectious laugh — and I want to spend the rest of my life with her.
"My childhood was very different from hers. I grew up in a home filled with love and never doubted that love for a second. My mother had six siblings and they all lived near each other and were very close. My parents, who worked in a factory, are still married; at 80 they still adore each other. I don't think I ever heard them raise their voices in anger.
"I wasn't sure what I wanted to do after graduate school, so I joined the Navy. That's where I developed my love of photography; I took photos for Navy newspapers. I'm now a freelance photographer for newspapers and magazines and work out of my home. My first wife, Maryanne, and I worked hard, traveled to Asia, South America, and Europe. We went to the ballet and the opera. After her death, I didn't travel much and spent more time in Maryland, where I'd planned to stay the rest of my life. When I met Krista, everything changed.
"Krista brought me happiness when I didn't think I'd ever experience it again. Sure, I miss my modern paintings and sleek furniture. Put Krista in a room for five minutes and she's already redecorating. But we worked that out. My home in Maryland stays as is; our house stays her way.
"I've often been baffled by Krista's anger. I had no idea that she took my comments about the baking pan or the ironing as such piercing rebukes. She's very soft-spoken and I'm right out there, so maybe the way I say things comes across more harshly than I realize. I'm the kind of guy who talks about a problem, resolves it and moves on. If something bothers Krista, she retreats. Sometimes she doesn't speak to me for days and then she blows up.
"Some of our biggest disagreements are over her children. She thinks I don't like her kids and grandkids, which is totally untrue. It's just that getting used to a life that is so different from my old one is traumatic. Krista and I have never had a honeymoon period when we could learn to adjust to being with each other. Wherever we are, we never have privacy. It's hard to romance my wife when children are running up and down the stairs.
"I know it sounds crazy, but we actually never talked about the reality of living together or about how much time we'd spend at home versus traveling. We were so much in love, and excited about finding each other, that nothing else seemed to matter. What do I have to do to convince her that my love is real?"
The Counselor's Turn
"It's one thing to build a new marriage after you have escaped a bad one. It's another story entirely when the first marriage was filled with love and joy. To make a fresh start with a new partner meant that Krista and Jeff had to learn to acknowledge their differences, compromise when they could, and accept the fact that some things they simply couldn't change. But even that didn't have to prevent them from moving ahead with love and commitment.
"Certain questions trouble every person who has lost a beloved spouse: How do you build a strong, new marriage when you can't stop thinking about the old one? Is it possible to be happy with someone new without dishonoring those who are gone? While Krista and Jeff never verbalized these feelings, I sensed that they were subconsciously weighing them, making their efforts to resolve differences and focus on their needs as a couple more difficult. Also, since both had enjoyed long, successful relationships, they thought that they knew how to be married, as Krista put it. Paradoxically, their very success made them less flexible than they realized when it came to dealing with a new partner. Since every marriage is different, when problems came up that were new to them, as they inevitably did, these two were blindsided by them.
"One of the first things I did was point out that many things about their marriage were already working beautifully. They clearly loved each other very much: They held hands, linked arms and laughed. Their sex life was passionate and rewarding. They had even successfully negotiated the seemingly trivial, but often tricky, task of adjusting to living amid each other's furnishings. My main task was to help them take joy in the positives while they worked to understand how their differences were triggering daily arguments.
"Raised to be the good little girl who followed orders, Krista was acutely sensitive to criticism due to her mother's shrill comments. Many 'shoulds' governed her actions and attitudes and she believed her mission in life was to take care of everyone else, even at her own expense. While her marriage to Alan had been fulfilling, I suspect that she hadn't really gotten as much attention from her hardworking husband as she deserved. While she loved her life, she and Alan had not spent all that much time alone. She got used to her independence and resented Jeff for taking it away. Plus, Jeff's push for private time made her feel suffocated; she wasn't used to all that attention focused on her.
"Alan's death forced Krista to concentrate on herself for the first time, and she was beginning to take small but essential steps in regaining her self-confidence. Jeff's comments on packing or cooking pushed old hot buttons from Krista's childhood that resonated like her parents' criticism. She automatically took his suggestions as rebukes. Instead of expressing her irritation at the time, she stuffed her feelings inside and simmered with anger until she exploded.
"Many times, when couples finally get into my office and begin to talk frankly about difficult issues, they frequently make their own connections and come up with their own suggestions for change. As Jeff listened to the details of Krista's controlling, critical parents, he immediately realized why she was reacting so strongly to his words and tone. He's learned that he needs to watch the tone of what he says.
"At the same time, Krista had to learn to not take such quick offense to Jeff's suggestions. If he walked into the room and suggested another way to fold the laundry, for instance, she'd remind herself where her tension was coming from and she was able to stop taking it so personally. By using humor to cut the tension: 'Okay, Mr. Fix-It, I got the message' — she has also learned to forgive him rather than give him the cold shoulder.
"We continued to talk about acknowledging differences and finding ways to work with rather than against them. For example, Krista agreed to travel more, but instead of being away for a month or more at a time, she accompanies Jeff for two weeks, then returns, while he continues on his way, visiting friends or focusing on his photography. That way, they both do what they need to do, and their reunions are passionate. When Jeff had to return to Maryland for an assignment recently, Krista went with him and was surprised how much she enjoyed being away from her home-based obligations. 'Maybe next time, I'll stay even longer,' she said.
"By the end of therapy, Krista began to feel more comfortable discussing issues with Jeff, and they were able to work out practical solutions to their other problems. Jeff has warmed up to the grandkids and is far more tolerant of their visits, which have become less frequent since the couple have more social plans of their own, such as traveling, and going to the theater or dinner more often. And Jeff has grown so comfortable with Krista's antique furnishings that he agreed to let her redecorate the foyer and hallway in his Maryland home. 'Now that's progress!' she said with a laugh. 'Who knows? Maybe tomorrow I'll get a crack at redoing the bathroom!'"
"Can This Marriage Be Saved?" is the most popular, most enduring women's magazine feature in the world. The story told here is true, although names and other details have been changed to conceal identities. "Can This Marriage Be Saved?" is a registered trademark of Meredith Corporation.
Originally published in Ladies' Home Journal magazine, February 2003.


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is there a way to send a msg to a mac os x kinda like "net send blabla hey
UNIX IS user friendly, it\'s just very choosy about who it calls a friend.
net send from Win to Mac OS?
Try installing Samba then learn about the message command option. There's an example of forwarding SMB message to mail system.
Go search "samba net send" (without quotes) for some more info.
Hope this helps.
Peace always,
Always listen to experts. They\'ll tell you what can\'t be done and why. Then go and do it. -- Robert Heinlein
I\'m basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do. -- Linus Torvalds
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net send from Win to Mac OS?
If I read the post correctly Kosmograd is looking for something on Mac OS that has the same functionality as net send on windows..
Since OS X is a un*x... have a look at write(1), wall(1) and talk(1)
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A whimsical quick service dining experience inspired by the 1762 invention of the sandwich by John Montagu, the fourth "Earl of Sandwich."
Earl of Sandwich in Downtown Disney's Marketplace offers a variety of reasonably priced hot and cold sandwiches, salads, ice cream, smoothies, lemonade, boxed lunches, and prepared "Grab & Go" items. Breakfast offerings include several cold items as well as hot breakfast sandwiches. The menu for lunch and dinner is significantly more expansive. Headliners are delicious sandwiches served on freshly baked artisan bread, filled with meat that's roasted daily using historic 'Earl' family recipes. Indoor seating in a whimsical dining room, or a limited amount of outdoor seating is available.
Service: Counter Service
Type of Food: American
Location: Downtown Disney, Marketplace
Disney Dining Plan: Yes, Counter Service Credit & Snack items
Tables in Wonderland: No
Official Disney Breakfast menu
Official Disney Lunch Menu
Official Disney Dinner Menu
Earl of Sandwich Menu
Hot and cold sandwiches, salads, soup, and wraps are featured on the lunch and dinner menu. The Original 1762 featuring freshly roasted beef, cheddar and creamy horseradish sauce is a popular menu item, as are The Full Montagu and the All American. Stuffed with roasted turkey, cranberries, cheddar cheese, lettuce, tomato, and buttermilk ranch dressing, the All American is a hearty choice that gives hungry guests a belly-full of Thanksgiving warmth. Creative combinations of ingredients make up many of the entree items at Earl of Sandwich, you'll want to return again and again to try everything offered.
Disney Food Blog Review: More Earl of Sandwich Brownie Creme Sandwiches Review
Guest Review: New Earl of Sandwich Macaroni and Cheese!
Guest Review: Earl of Sandwich Chicken Pesto Pomodoro Sandwich
Disney Food Blog Review: Vanilla Ice Cream Brownie Sandwich at Downtown Disney's Earl of Sandwich
Important Info:
- The Earl of Sandwich dining room connects to Mickey's Pantry, which offers a variety of Disney-themed kitchen products.
Famous Dishes: The Original 1762, The All American, The Caprese, The Holiday Turkey
Disney Food Blog Posts Mentioning Earl of Sandwich
You Might also Like: Contempo Cafe, Studio Catering Company, Boardwalk Bakery


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Institution-wide commencement information: what you need to know
May 02, 2012
Griswold Stadium
Over the next several weeks, hundreds of visitors will come to campus to celebrate the class of 2012. In order to be helpful stewards for our graduates' visiting friends and families, faculty and staff are encouraged to wear a gold nametag and be familiar with this essential commencement information:
College of Arts and Sciences
When: Sunday, May 6, 10 a.m. (Graduates must be at Fields Dining Hall in Templeton for staging at 9 a.m.)
Where: Griswold Stadium (Pamplin Sports Center, rain alternate
Commencement speaker: Martin Seligman
Student speaker: Paige Glowacky
Reception: Sunday, May 6, 12:30 p.m.- 2 p.m., following the ceremony on Frank Manor grounds or, if inclement weather, in Templeton Campus Center, Fields and Stamm Dining Rooms. Complimentary light refreshments.
School of Law
When: Saturday, May 19, 10:30 a.m. (Graduates must be at Pamplin Sports Center for staging at 9 a.m.)
Where: Griswold Stadium (Pamplin Sports Center, rain alternate)
Commencement speaker: Professor Neal K. Katyal
Presentation of the Leo Levenson Award: Timothy G. Wigington '12
Reception: A short reception will be held after graduation at the law school.
Law School Children's Commencement Ceremony: In honor of the children of the graduating students, the Office of Alumni Relations and the Alumni Board of Directors present a special children's commencement ceremony held immediately following the law school commencement. Family and friends are invited to attend this ceremony. Registration is necessary.
Graduate School of Education and Counseling
When: Sunday, June 3, 10 a.m. (Graduates must be at Fields Dining Hall in Templeton for staging at 9 a.m.)
Where: Pamplin Sports Center
Commencement speaker: Michelle Fine, Ph.D.
Student speaker: Elizabeth Parker, M.A. in marriage, couple, and family therapy
Reception: A short reception will be held immediately after graduation on the Manor House circle (or in Fields Dining Room, in case of inclement weather).
Live webcast
The live webcast will begin 15 minutes before the ceremony start time and conclude with the recessional. Events will be broadcast live via webcast at client.stretchinternet.com/client/lclarkadmin.portal#.
Parking is available in several on-campus lots but is prohibited in the local neighborhood. Campus safety officers and ushers will help direct traffic to open parking areas. Guests should allow extra time for traffic, walking to Pamplin, and finding seating. It is recommended that family and friends plan to arrive at 9 a.m.
Shuttle service
Shuttle service will be available from the on-campus parking lots to Pamplin from 9 a.m. through 1 p.m.
Special needs passenger check-in and drop-off
On the day of commencement, it will be necessary for a driver to drop off the special needs individual at the lower entrance to Pamplin and proceed to park the car. Please allow an additional 30 minutes.
- Look for the signs that read "Special Needs Passenger Check-in/Drop-off" at the lower entrance to Pamplin and proceed to park the car (see location "F" on the campus map). Please allow an additional 30 minutes.
- Enter at the Information/Campus Safety entrance of the college, located at Gate 3. (The gate will be opened for you.)
- Follow drive to the left, to the lower entrance to Pamplin and look for the "Special Needs Passenger Unloading" sign.
- If wheelchairs are requested, they will be available at the drop-off location. A family member will need to accompany the person in the wheelchair up the elevator to the main level and to the reserved special needs seating area.
- After your driver has made the drop-off, he or she will find parking and then walk or shuttle back up to Pamplin (building #3 on the campus map).


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Reg Zell holds a degree in Communication Design from the University of Applied Sciences at Augsburg, Germany, and did post-graduate studies at Kingston University London. - Encouraged by the late Director of the Philippine National Museum, Fr. Gabriel Casal, Reg Zell began publishing in 2000 the results of his research on the Negritos of the Philippines that considered recent scientic findings and reevaluated their material and intangible culture. - His biography of the Irish-born John M. Garvan, eminent Negrito reseracher, has been praised by the Austrian Prof. Dr. Hermann Hochegger, SVD, Moedling, a Negrito specialist. - During a regional museums conference held in September 2012 at the Hubei Provincial Museum in Wuhan, China, Reg Zell addressed delegates from around the world on the general indifference to the history and culture of the Negritos, and his intention to create a virtual museum in 2013 consecrated solely to this indigenous population and which will be known as VMN.


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Students participate in a series of activities to discover how astronomers use computers to create images and understand data. No programming experience is required; students will use pencilcode.net to complete such activities as creating a color,... (View More) exploring filters and color-shifting, and creating individual images of star-forming regions. These activities demonstrate a real world application of science, technology and art. (View Less)
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Alessandra Ambrósio recently told PEOPLE that she'd be finding out the sex of her baby shortly, and true to her word, she did. The model, 30, and fiancé Jamie Mazur will welcome a son in mid-May, she confirms to PEOPLE.
"We really tried to keep it a surprise but we were too anxious!" Ambrósio writes on her Facebook page, sharing a photo of herself on the beach with the announcement in the sand. "Soon, we will have a little boy to rock our world!!"
Courtesy Alessandra Ambrósio
"I have wanted a boy for a long time. I actually thought my first baby was going to be a boy, but then, of course, was very happy to get a girl," the Victoria's Secret stunner tells E! Online. "But now I am getting a boy as well, it's absolutely perfect. It's the best news."
With five weeks to go before delivery, Ambrósio says she and Mazur have yet to pick a name.
"I have five good names for a girl and really none for a boy," she admits. "That's the hardest part! I want something that works well in both Portuguese and English. It can't be too American or my grandmother won't be able to pronounce it!"
Daughter Anja Louise, 3½, has a suggestion for her parents, but Ambrósio confides that they won't be taking her up on it.
"Anja's really excited and has also come up with a name she would like him to be called," the model laughs. "I told her that her name for him can be his nickname."
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Ron English coined the term "POPaganda" to describe his trademark fusion of high and low imagery, mixing superheroes and comic strips with art history iconography in his prolific and ubiquitous paintings, billboards, and sculptures. English has imagined a vast (and still growing) roster of characters, including MC Supersized, his obese fast-food mascot that was featured in the documentary Supersize Me (2004), and Abraham Obama, a mash-up of America's 16th and 44th Presidents. He is best known for combining expert draftsmanship with a cynical, humorous critique of American culture.
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TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — A gunfight between protesters and former rebels aligned with the military in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi left seven people dead on Saturday, a health official said, the latest episode of lawlessness to hit the North African country.
The clashes also left 37 people wounded, according to the doctor in the city's main hospital. A security official said the fighting broke out after protesters stormed a base belonging to Libya Shield, a grouping of pro-government militias tasked to maintain security. The protesters were demanding the militias to give up their weapons and submit to the full authority of Libya's security forces.
Libya is going through a rocky transition after its bloody 2011 civil war. The central government remains weak and has been challenged by powerful militia groups, initially formed of ex-rebels who fought dictator Moammar Gadhafi's forces during the war. Successive governments have relied on them to maintain security, but they have also been blamed for ongoing violence and the government has struggled to enforce its authority over them.
Security remains elusive in the country, still awash with weapons from the war and prone to violent escalations over private and political affairs.
Last week for example a personal feud sparked clashes between tribes of African and Arab origins in southern Libya, leaving five people dead. A security official said warring factions fired light weapons and rocket-propelled grenades at each other.
Benghazi was also the site of an attack last September that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
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Phoenix, AZ
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Located in the heart of central Arizona, Phoenix is a state of the art city with a little bit of something for everyone. With easy to access public transportation, multiple professional sports teams, internationally renowned museums and intimate music venues, there's never a shortage of things to do or see. Once a near ghost town at night, Phoenix now bustles thanks to the relocation of Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, a lively shopping and entertainment district and a local culture that embraces art in all mediums.
Must see in Phoenix
The historic Roosevelt Art District in the heart of Downtown Phoenix is home to a variety of art galleries, locally owned businesses and breathtaking murals. The Musical Instrument Museum is one of the best museums in the U.S. and features over 6,000 different instruments from all over the world. Exhibits are interactive and will engage casual listeners and professional musicians alike. The Desert Botanical Garden gives visitors a unique look at the desert's plant life and thanks to the area's balmy weather, never has a shortage of flowers in bloom.
Where to stay in Phoenix
Families with kids should stay near or in the heart of Downtown Phoenix. The city is home to a variety of kid-friendly activities like the Arizona Science Center and The Children's Museum of Phoenix. The Phoenix Zoo and Desert Botanical Garden is within a 10 to 15 minute drive of downtown too. Millennial travelers and those interested in nightlife should make an effort to stay in or near the Roosevelt Art District. Indie movie houses like Film Bar and live music venues like The Nash and The Crescent Ballroom are in walking distance of all the downtown Phoenix hotels. Cityscape, Chase Field and U.S. Airways Center are also nearby. Phoenix is very affordable, and visitors on even the tightest budget can find plenty to do and see.
Best and worst time to go to Phoenix
The best time to visit Phoenix is in March. The summer heat hasn't set in yet, MLB teams from all over the country are here for spring training and the average temperature is a comfortable 74.5 degrees Fahrenheit. The worst time to visit Phoenix is June through August. The temperatures are unbearable and monsoon season is in full swing.
Where to get lost in Phoenix
Roosevelt Row, just north of Downtown Phoenix is a great place to get lost. Grab a drink at Jobot Coffee or peruse the underground zine collection at Lawn Gnome Publishing. Love taxidermy or stones and minerals? Swing through Curios Nature. If you're hungry, grab a one-of-a-kind hot dog at Short Leash Hot Dogs or sip on a cold beer at Carly's Bistro.
The best deal in Phoenix
The Rio Salado Habitat Restoration Area is free to the public and gives visitors an opportunity to interact with nature just outside the heart of the city. The area is home to paved walking paths, a variety of bird species and unique desert flora. The perfect place to enjoy Arizona's beautiful weather.
Transportation in Phoenix
Visitors that plan on staying Downtown for the duration of their visit can easily access destinations via the Valley Metro light rail or on foot. Travelers that want to visit other parts of the Valley should rent a car. Everything is easily accessible via highway.
Getting in from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport is 10 minutes east of Downtown Phoenix. Taxis and rental car services are both available at the airport, and the light rail runs to and from the FREE PHX Sky Train Station.
Local tip for visitors to Phoenix
All visitors to Phoenix should make an effort to get their hands on a Sonoran-style hot dog. They're a Southwestern delicacy that Phoenix does best. Pick one up at El Sabroso, Chase Field or one of the many vending carts on the west side of town.
Author's bio: Chad Birt has lived in Phoenix for nine years. He's a bike rider, bookworm and freelance writer.