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Flurry of deals occur at deadline following relatively quiet day
The NHL's trade deadline day was quiet until the final hour, when a handful of players, including Sabres captain Jason Pominville, were exchanged.
At about the time Pominville was being sent to Minnesota, the New York Rangers traded 31-year-old forward Marian Gaborik to the Columbus Blue Jackets for center Derick Brassard, defenseman John Moore, forward Derek Dorsett and a sixth-round pick.
Gaborik has nine goals and 10 assists in 35 games this season and has one year left of a contract that carries a cap hit of $7.5 million.
Brassard has seven goals and 11 assists this season and Moore, a first-round choice in 2009, has one point in 17 games.
In a deal announced late, New Jersey acquired 38-year-old forward Steve Sullivan from Phoenix for a seventh-round draft pick. He played for the Devils for parts of two seasons at the start of his NHL career from 1995-97. Sullivan signed with Phoenix as a free agent during the offseason and had some good stretches with the Coyotes, scoring five goals with seven assists in 33 games, though he hadn't registered a point in the last 10 games.
The Coyotes also traded center Matthew Lombardi to the Anaheim Ducks for left wing Brandon McMillan. Lombardi (four goals, eight points in 21 games) returned to Phoenix this season after being traded from Toronto during training camp. He missed 12 games early in the season with an upper-body injury and didn't provide the Coyotes with the scoring punch they had hoped and was a healthy scratch March 25 after failing to register a point in seven straight games.
In another late deal, the Toronto Maple Leafs bolstered their defense by acquiring Ryan O'Byrne, 28, from the Colorado Avalanche for a fourth-round draft pick in 2014. O'Byrne has a goal and three assists in 34 games this season for Colorado, which currently owns the worst mark in the NHL. He goes to a team in the hunt for a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.
Also, the Washington Capitals sent Filip Forsberg, the 11th overall pick in the 2012 draft, to the Nashville Predators for forwards Martin Erat and Michael Latta. Erat has four goals and 17 assists this and has two seasons remaining on a contract with a cap hit of $4.5 million per season. The 31-year-old has 163 goals and 318 assists in 723 NHL games. Latta was a third-round pick in 2009 and has 35 points in 69 games this season for the Milwaukee Admirals.
Forsberg totaled 33 points in 38 games with Leksand of the Swedish League. He is only 18 years old.
Also, San Jose acquired forward Raffi Torres from Phoenix for a third-round draft pick and the Columbus received Blake Comeau from Calgary for a fifth-rounder and sent goalie Steve Mason to Philadelphia for goalie Michael Leighton and a third-round pick in 2015. Torres has played for the New York Islanders, Edmonton Oilers, Columbus Blue Jackets, Buffalo Sabres, Vancouver Canucks and Phoenix Coyotes. He has been traded three times at the deadline.
One player of note who was not moved was Vancouver goalie Roberto Luongo. He was long rumored to be a target of the Toronto Maple Leafs. He will continue to split games with Cory Schneider.
Toronto Star columnist Damien Cox tweeted that Luongo said, "My contract … , that's why I'm still here."
Luongo's contract runs through 2021-22 at a cap hit of $5.33 million per season.
The Tampa Bay Lightning made the first big deal on NHL trade deadline day, acquiring goaltender Ben Bishop from the Ottawa Senators for rookie winger Cory Conacher and a fourth-round pick in the early afternoon. Bishop has filled in well with Ottawa while starter Craig Anderson was recovering from an injury.
Conacher, the former Canisius College star, had nine goals and 15 assists in 35 goals for Tampa Bay. He was the American Hockey League's MVP last year and also named the league's top rookie – a season capped by him helping the Lightning's then minor-league affiliate in Norfolk win the Calder Cup championship.
Bishop has appeared in 13 games with the Senators this season, posting an 8-5 record, a .922 save percentage and a 2.45 goals-against average.
"It's always a little shocking," Conacher told Bruce Garioch of the Ottawa Sun. "A new start in Ottawa. I'm excited to go to Ottawa.
"I'm going to go there and try to help the team win. I'm excited."
Conacher is from Burlington, Ont., and will make his Senators debut Friday night against the Sabres in Buffalo.
The Carolina Hurricanes shipped Jussi Jokinen to Pittsburgh for a conditional pick. Jokinen, 30, scored 30 goals in 2009-10 but slipped to six this year and had been placed on waivers.
The morning produced no activity of note, with the biggest news being that Calgary goaltender Miikka Kiprusoff didn't want to be traded and that he would retire at the end of the season.
There were several minor deals. St. Louis sent defenseman Wade Redden, who has played in 1,017 NHL games, to Boston for a conditional seventh-round draft pick next year that becomes a sixth-rounder if he plays in at least one game during this year's playoffs. He has two goals and three assists in 23 games this season.
In another deal involving the Bruins, Chicago sent Rob Flick to Boston for Maxime Sauve, and then Nashville shipped defenseman Scott Hannan to San Jose for a conditional sixth/seventh-round pick. Sauve has Sabres connections in that he's the nephew of former Buffalo goaltender Bob Sauve and son of ex-Sabres forward J.F. Sauve.
Also, winger Jerred Smithson was sent by Florida to Edmonton for a midround pick.
Two players were picked up on waivers. Winnipeg grabbed Mike Santorelli from Florida Panthers and Philadelphia took Adam Hall from Tampa Bay. Hall had been acquired Tuesday with a seventh-round draft pick for Marc-Andre Bergeron.
There were significant trades leading up to deadline day.
The biggest names to move were high-scoring wingers Jarome Iginla and Jaromir Jagr.
The Pittsburgh Penguins got Iginla from Calgary for two prospects and a first-round pick, and he scored his first goal with his new team against the Buffalo Sabres on Tuesday night. They also picked up Brenden Morrow and a third-round pick from Dallas for defenseman Joe Morrow and a fifth-round pick.
The Boston Bruins picked up Jagr from Dallas for two prospects and a second-round pick.
Dallas also traded center Derek Roy, who was acquired from the Sabres in the offseason for winger Steve Ott, to Vancouver for a second-round pick and a prospect.
The Rangers added size on the wing with a trade for Ryane Clowe, sending a second- and a third-round pick plus a condition fifth-rounder to the San Jose Sharks. Clowe is a power forward but has not scored a goal this year.
The Kings acquired veteran defenseman Robyn Regehr from the Sabres on Monday, two days after Buffalo traded blue-liner Jordan Leopold to St. Louis. The Blues also added defenseman Jay Bouwmeester from Calgary shortly after picking up Leopold. The Flames received two prospects and a first-round pick.


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I...really can't see how shu's void is good in any way. The power to take everything and assume its weight...stuff like cancer? I can't think of anything beneficial that he can take. I'm also curious as to what would have happened if he drew out his void when he still had both arms. And why is it an arm in the first place? It has nothing to do with its ability to take everything, as far as i can tell.
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As for why it's an arm, well, we quite clearly see him using it to pull Voids despite the genome being in his other arm (I think?), so I'm guessing there's a reason for it. As for what would have happened if he'd used his Void while still having both arms, maybe he'd just have gotten a blue outline over his arm like all the other Voids he used this episode. Who knows.
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I would guess that, if he still had his right arm, the Void would configure itself as a glove instead.
|2012-03-02, 07:02
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Damn, this episode flew by when I watched it. I guess getting to know more about Haruka had me deeply interested. After all, we saw some of her past with Shu, her betrayign GHQ and running away and we even got to see more of Segai in action because of it.
Speaking of Segai, he looks silly in that hat he's wearing But I liked this episode because of him. He's always a good character to follow around because we haven't fully found out what his intentions are yet with Gai and Shu and the void power etc. Plus, seeing him be so cold hearted is always an eye opener, especially when he shot that woman after she gave away the Funeral Parlor location. Then to top it all of, he simply walks through the fires and mayhem around him with a smile on his face. I love this this (As in I love him because he's a good villain in this anime) *Sigh* His death was a nice one though, it didn't seem to weak or anything, he did have a good death after all hat action and mayhem he had caused.
Damn, Oogumo was one bad ass character this episode. It was unfortunate that he had to have his death now, we didn't get to see much of him in action before. That makes one less Funeral Parlor member now...their all being hunted down. Once again though, it was interesting to see how Segai handle the situation. He's so sly and sinister, both physically and mentally.
So that explains how Shy got his power back. It's all coming together, and with the anime title, it perfectly explains Shu's void to take on all the weight and burdens of everyone else.
I myself loved this episode.
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Segai may be a crazy bastard, but he was one great villain. His character could have been developed better (his motives, plans) but oh well, character development isn't exactly GC's strongest point. You will be missed, Scarface.
So now Shu has a new arm and a new power which doesn't only draws Voids but lets him shoulder that person's 'burden' as well? (The cancer crystals). That's one death flag going to him. And before I forget, R.I.P. Ogumo, even if you weren't that active during the past episodes.
The preview for episode 20 looks interesting - a flashback to the Oumas' pasts, and most probably we'll get an explanation of the Lost Christmas incident. Looking forward to it!
|2012-03-02, 08:35
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it's rare but I'll give this episode a 10/10
this is the last and epic comeback for Shu....
Bows down to the birth of a king...
so his Void will absorb everything including the virus.... He is truly bear a Guilty Crown... I feel bad for his destiny (at least he always get Inori in his side)
Feel bad for Ayase.... Gai doesn't care about her and Shu is already taken by Inori... why there's no one for Ayase??? just give her to me then!!!
so Haruka is a coward... just like his 'son'.... but I respect Haruka in this episode... so Shu always viewed Haruka not only as a mom but also a sister I guess
now now... who is Shu's real mom??? and where's Mana??? Shu is clearly Ouma Kurosu's son, right??
clearly a death flag for Shu... He will die with Inori... (damn! I hate bad ending)
other death flag for Ayase too.... the only one who will get away maybe only Yahiro, glassed eye classmate, Souta (damn!! just let him die), or Tsugumi
Arisa will die next episode because of her foolishness for escorting Shu... hahaha
where's my Tsugumi X Daryl??? lol
|2012-03-02, 08:57
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Episdoe Beyond Beautiful
This episode just left me speechless so beautiful, hes a true leader like Ghandi, martin luther king, he now is a true king the guilt that comes with it hence guilty CROWN!!!! This episode took me out of depression legit.... wow so beautiful thank you creator!
|2012-03-02, 09:39
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Shu did not ignore everyone he addressed them as a group when he asked for permission to use their Voids one more time. He only addressed Ayase face to face because she was there in front of him laying on the ground as she begged him not to use the Genome again.
BTW 3 Void Genomes and 3 people with ability to use Voids and are the first to be infected by it
3 Genomes created for 3 people coincidence i think not (Mana.Shu,Gai)
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Win win situation here; Scarface got his wish to "experienced" that "light". Shu wen't badass mode. Gai shivering, Undertakers still backs Shu. Gai's next death (again) should be totally awesome or I'll flip out and bang my head into a wall. Gai isn't or wasn't anywhere near "good". Fuck him.
Shu, for the love of god I know the writer/producer of this ain't the best of rest when it comes to story telling but please god let him live!!! Oh and inori too.
I can see an epic 3 way or 2 against 1 battle of the genomes at the end. Advantage goes to Shu since he not only has a BigAssSword, he formerly wore a trench coat and has that uber katana-knife like void and a speed hack to boot. (God knows if ever though highly unlikely that Asuka ever changes her mind and let shu use her uber defense void). Gai? lol.
I'm lovin' every bit of whats happening right now lol.
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I wonder what happened when Keido drew his gun and shot it through. Did Haruka somehow evade it? Because Keido didn't look injured,and his gun's muzzle flash was shown if you look carefully you will see.
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This time around,�the beloved family-friendly comedian is�making an appearance in Holland�during�his �Far from Finished� Tour.
Cosby will make a stop at Holland�s Central Wesleyan Church for two soldout shows during Tulip Time on�Friday at 4:30 and 8 p.m.
This year seemed like the right time to bring in a comedian, after a string of musical acts dominated the festival�s national entertainment acts, Tulip Time Executive Director Gwen Auwerda said, and�Cosby�seemed like�a perfect pick because his comedy covers multiple age groups and five decades.
�He�s an icon in the comedy world," Auwerda said. "The excitement over him crosses generations.�
Before landing on Cosby, Auwerda and her staff talked with Gilda�s LaughFest organizers who brought Cosby in for their 2011 festival in Grand Rapids.
Cosby was wildly popular and his two shows at DeVos Performance Hall sold out, LaughFest President Wendy Wigger said.
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Keri Russell plays a single thirty-something with an unhealthy obsession about all things Jane Austen who forks over her life savings for a trip to England to spend a couple of weeks living out her fantasies at an elaborate Jane Austen theme park, called appropriately enough, Austenland.
If you removed the wit and social satire from "The Truman Show," you'd have "Austenland," an infuriating damnation of feminine fantasies that clumsily sets fiction and reality on a collision course. That it stars "The Americans'" Keri Russell, one of TV's fiercer female leads, only adds to the depressive air of an alleged comedy that belittles the very women it works overtime trying to woo.
As Jane, a single thirty-something with a "ticking clock," Russell appropriately looks like a woman betrayed throughout – and with good reason. Director Jerusha Hess ("Napoleon Dynamite") goes out of her way to make Jane look like a blithering idiot blinded by idyllic fantasies about romance and romantic men. True to her namesake, Jane wants to live her life like a character from a Jane Austen novel, frittering away her prime reproductive years holding out hope against hope that one day she'll finally meet her very own Mr. Darcy.
Her friends think she's borderline mental, given the degree Jane has immersed herself in everything Jane Austen, right up to her life-size cardboard cutout of Colin Firth's Mr. Darcy from the BBC version of "Pride and Prejudice." She even forks over her life savings for a trip to England to spend a couple of weeks living out her fantasies at an elaborate Jane Austen theme park, called appropriately enough, Austenland. It's run by the haughty Mrs. Wattlesbrook (a truly awful Jane Seymour), who has appointed her vast countryside estate into an 18th-century Plimoth Plantation, complete with hunky male actors to provide her mostly wealthy, lonely heart customers with a few cheap, insincere thrills. But, please, "no touching." Yes, Austenland is just a great big tease, just like the movie, which raises themes of female identity and self-worth, but frustratingly refuses to get close enough to make discernible contact. Instead, it lamely attempts to fill in those cavernous gaps with the sort of bawdy jokes (most of them generated by an over-eager Jennifer Coolidge) and silly slapstick that would make Ms. Austen spin like a rotisserie in her grave. Lost in all the crassness is the fact that this is supposed to be Russell's movie. But she's denied it at every turn, often left stuck playing straight woman to a host of unfunny supporting players. So if Russell is looking like she's feeling betrayed, it's because she is. And the rat is Hess, who repeatedly leaves Russell hanging out in the breeze to take the rap for every failed joke or situation.
As with "Napoleon Dynamite" and "Nacho Libre," Hess again boldly displays a flagrant dislike for her characters, forcing them into embarrassing or uncomfortable situations that serve no purpose beyond being mean. She obviously thinks it's funny, but she's the only one. Yet, despite her gleeful attempts at sabotaging her actors, moments of depth and clarity emerge, but grudgingly. Most of them the result of her cast, not the predictable, colorless script she co-wrote with Shannon Hale based on the latter's novel of the same name. Chief among the shining stars are J.J. Field as the irascible, Darcy-like Mr. Nobley and Bret McKenzie (of "Flight of the Concords" fame) as the sweet and charming Austenland stable boy, Martin, whom Jane confides in whenever she's not donning empire-waist gowns to play her Austen-inspired character, Miss Erstwhile.
Whenever Russell shares a dramatic scene with either actor as part of an offbeat love triangle, the movie ignites sparks. But they are quickly extinguished whenever Coolidge, so over the top she's literally spilling out of her corset, or the resident sexpot, Lady Amelia (Georgia King), cheapen the satire with lascivious innuendo. Ditto for Ricky Whittle, who plays a well-endowed porn star who moonlights at Austenland as the Napoleonic war hero Capt. George East.
And therein lies the movie's one and only joke: That everyone at Austenland is an actor, whether they are on staff or a guest. The point, I guess, is that in real life, we're all actors, too, putting on airs to attract a mate. All of us are also guilty of creating a fantasy world for ourselves, whether it's as a character from a Jane Austen novel or millionaire from Austin, Texas. "Austenland" suggests that there's something terribly wrong with that, but with reality often filled with such bitter disappointment, what's wrong with a little escapism? Whatever floats your boat. And I can state emphatically that "Austenland" didn't float mine.
AUSTENLAND (PG-13 for some suggestive content and innuendo.) Cast includes Keri Russell, J.J. Field, Bret McKenzie, Jennifer Coolidge and Georgia King. Co-written and directed by Jerusha Hess. At Kendall Square, Cambridge. Grade: C-


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In just four months since its debut, "Let's Ask America" is gaining attention from new and growing audiences in Scripps markets, and also high praise from the industry's popular news blog site, Buzzerblog. Readers of the blog voted "Let's Ask America" as the top new game show of 2012.
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Happy 20th anniversary, Hubble!
Hubble took the deepest visible light image yet made.
In 2003, an astronomer (and friend with whom I worked on a Hubble project) named Tom Brown pointed Hubble at the outer fringes of the Andromeda Galaxy, a nearby large spiral like our own Milky Way. Using the Advanced Camera for Surveys, he commanded the space telescope to basically sit and stare at one spot for a total of three and a half days. His goal to was to be able to get good data on very faint stars in Andromeda, to characterize the way stars form in the galaxy.
He certainly was able to do that (and found many stars younger than expected; in Andromeda's halo the stars were several billion years younger than in our own halo), but what he also got was the deepest optical image of the Universe ever taken. Stars down to 31st magnitude can be seen in the data — those are stars one ten-billionth as bright as what you can see with your unaided eye!
The image here shows different regions in that deep image. You can see faint background galaxies, stars in both Andromeda and the Milky Way, a densely-packed globular cluster, and much more. If you dare, download a monster-sized version of the whole schmeer to see how powerful a space telescope can be.
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Story Musgrave came to Western Connecticut State University yesterday and I was lucky enough take part in a small Q+A luncheon with him. What an accomplished guy. Space really changed his life. He talked about how there are some things that dogs can simply never understand and that it's very possible tha humans have the same limitations when it comes to understanding our universe.
It's still a great a read Phil. Gotta love the Hubble and everything it's allowed us to see and learn.
Beautiful picture! Isn't it amazing to think that our civilisation is capable of doing something like that? And it's just the beginning.
And it's just the beginning.
On the other hand, there are people who still don't understand. There was a letter to the editor in the local newspaper last week from someone saying that eliminating the "useless except for a few scientists" space program, we would "save" billions of dollars which could be used to create many thousands of jobs (I forget what jobs he was suggesting).
Actually there are two anniversary days for Hubble's 20th anniversary :
It was launched aboard the Space Shuttle 'Discovery' 24th April 1990 as you said -but it was actually deployed from the Shuttle on the 25th of April 1990.
Then again, you could say the HST had a third special "start up" anniversary day – May 20th 1990 when it took its first ever image which was of NCG 3532 in Carina. Sadly, it was then that folks got the bad news of its spherical aberration being found.
In case you're wondering, NCG 3532 – Hubbles first target – is also known as the "Wishing Well" cluster is an open cluster 1,350 ly distant, containing approx. 150 stars of 7th magnitude & fainter. Mimosa (Beta Crucis) & Delcrux (Delta Crucis) in the Southern Cross roughly point to NCG 3532 and it lies between the Southern Cross constellation and larger but fainter "False Cross" asterism with X Carinae the nearest star and Eta Carinae & its famous nebula not too far away along with a bunch of other nearby deep sky objects. (3372, 3293 &I.2581.)
(Sources : Ridpath, Ian & Tirion, Wil, 'Collins Guide to Stars & Planets', Collins, 2007 & Bakich, Michael E. (editor), 'Hubble's Greatest Pictures', Kalmbach, 2008.)
Well, the space programme creates tens of thousands of jobs too, and that's not even the main reason we have space programmes (plural for other countries). In my view it's worth it in so many more ways than that. To increase our knowledge and understanding of this universe, to widen our horizons, to explore and do basic research. Of course, it also benefits us directly, through GPS, Earth observation, weather forecasts, climate research, etc.
I'm almost positive you did this series before. Did you change the 10 items?
Phil — you did it. I have worked on Hubble for the whole 20-year mission, and I was SO SURE there was nothing YOU could tell ME about it that I don't already know. I would have authoritatively denied any suggestion that Hubble ever observed the Sun — nope, simply not possible. I would have been wrong. I know Glenn too, and can't believe I never heard about this. Your legend continues to grow…
Point 6 illustrates what I think is a misconception that most people (not on this blog, obviously) have about telescopes. I think if you ask "the man in the street" what the primary function is of a telescope he'll tell you it's to "zoom in on" or "enlarge" an object, just like a pair of binoculars. People generally don't know that many astronomical objects are big enough that you'd easily be able to see them, or see them in more detail if they gave off more light. I'm thinking of M31 or the nebulas in and around Orion. Those are surprisingly large but simply too dark to see with our poor, daylight-attuned eyes. And that's why you need a telescope.
Maybe an item for a future "10 things you didn't know about telescopes"?
Thinking of HSTs early drama and the huge shock and embarrassing disappointment it first appeared to be – before Hubble was fixed by shuttle astronauts reminds me :
Curiously enough both Apollo and Hubble perhaps the two most successful NASA programs experienced major and severe early problems that had many thinking they were lemons in the beginning only to come back with astonishing success later.
For instance in the book of 'Apollo 13' (also having its anniversary this year btw. but from 1970 & so 40th) Jim Lovell & his co-writer Jeffrey Kluger note :
"The Apollo spacecraft, by even the most charitable estimations, was turning out to be an Edsel. Actually, among the astronauts it was thought of as worse than an Edsel. An Edsel is a clunker, but an essentially harmless clunker. Apollo was downright dangerous. Earlier in the development and testing of the craft, the nozzle of the ship's giant engine – the one that would have to function perfectly to place the moonship in lunar orbit and blast it on its way home again – shattered like a teacup when engineers tried to fire it. During a splashdown test, the heat shield of the craft, had split open causing the command module to sink like a $ 35 million anvil to the bottom of a factory test pool. The environmental control system had already logged 200 individual failures; the spacecraft as a whole had accumulated roughly 20,000. During one checkout run at the manufacturing plant, a disgusted Gus Grissom walked away from the command module after leaving a lemon perched atop it.
-Page 13, Apollo 13 Jim Lovell & Jeffrey Kluger, Coronet Books 1995.
Moreover, that was before the Apollo 1 fire which killed astronauts Gus Grissom, Roger Chafee and Ed White.
It would have been easy to abandon Apollo altogther after that. Just as it would've been easy to write off Hubble after the spherical aberration blunder.
But thank FSM we didn't – imagine what we would have missed out on. Imagine what we may be missing out on now with Obama cancelling Constellation which also seems to be widely critiscised and off to a troubled start just as Apollo & the HST once were.
It was right to persist with Hubble & with the Apollo program.
I think it shows that it would be the right course of action to persist with Constellation too. If we don't build it and try to get it to work we'll never know if it too could overcome its early mishaps and difficulties and really accomplish amazing, beautiful, marvellous things.
Per aspera ad astra – through difficulties to the stars
That's the NASA tradition – not giving up halfway or 70 % of the way through because things are hard. We do these things precisely because they are hard as JFK would say.
Or to end with Gus Grissom's words :
"The conquest of space is worth the risk of life."
– Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Mercury astronaut killed in the 'Apollo 1' fire.
1. Dave H
"it's very possible tha humans have the same limitations when it comes to understanding our universe."
I forget who it was who said "It's not that the universe is so strange and mysterious that is weird. What's really strange is how we are able to understand so much about it."
,,,or words to that effect.
Just as we can never actually PROVE anything true (w/o an infinite number of tests), so too we can never know if we've reached OUR intellectual limits to understanding. For that to occur, we'd have to have some other intellect greater than our own to point out our limitations and even then we might still not "get it", just as some might never get the point of a joke even after it's explained to them.
My dogs "see" the world with senses I don't have. I sometimes wonder if they pity my obtuseness, for their world is full of scents I may never know(at least, directly).
Since we have no such greater intellect to call upon(yet), we'll just have to keep on trucking.
I'm all for THAT. The really cool thing about reality is that we have so many puzzles to work on. I hope they never end(if they did, ennui might be the least of our problems).
GAry 7
Thing You Didn't Know #11: The Hubble has gone rogue, so the X-37B was launched today to hunt Hubble down and "retire" it.
BA I asked you this one once before* & maybe you didn't see it then but I would really love to get your answer to this question Hubble -history-wise :
The BA : "I never used WFPC2 for any published work, but right after launch it was used to look at Supernova 1987A, an object I studied for my PhD. I had made some predictions based on our earlier, fuzzier images, and WFPC2 confirmed several of them."
Please, could you please elaborate on this – which predictions did you make & how were they confirmed? Tell us more please if you can. Ideally summarised & without too much maths. (My personal weak area.)
* On this thread : http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/11/25/mr-hubble-goes-to-washington/
comment # 14 if anyone's wondering.
@ # 13 QuietDesperation : The Hubble Space Observatory is a replicant now? 😉
Roy Batty : "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe: Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion; I've watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time; like tears in rain. Time to die."
Love that movie.
PS. Surprised the BA hasn't posted yet on the awesome new solar images (video? & photos) from the Solar Dynamics Observatory which were on Aussie TV yesterday and in some of our newspapers today.
@12. Gary Ansorge:
Just as we can never actually PROVE anything true (w/o an infinite number of tests),
Mathematics the exception you forgot there? 😉
You just had to work with the right people. I worked at ST ScI 20 years ago and my officemate worked on WFPC and I remember the discussion about the UV flood and if they should do it, and when, etc.
I know all of the things this year, but last year I didn't know that FOS is at the Air & Space Museum. Got to get there one of these days and give it a big hug.
14. Messier Tidy Upper
" Ideally summarised & without too much maths. (My personal weak area.)"
I recall Warner von Braun lamenting that he had the same problem but, since he couldn't do the work he wanted to do w/o math, he applied himself to learning how to USE math(as opposed to intuitively understanding it) and managed to pull a B average in his math classes. Few humans are "real" mathematicians. My favorite physics professor(Dr. Wolfgang Rindler) told me he was working on his PhD in math when he discovered(ok, had to ADMIT) he was not a real mathematician, so he changed his major to physics. When I asked him what he meant by "real", he said "A real mathematician understands math intuitively. He just knew how to USE math." Which is how he taught differential equations. As a mechanical tool. Just learn the five most basic methods of solution(perfect squares, by parts, etc), turn the crank and out come your answers. You don't have to understand how those methods were derived in order to use them.
Which is not to say it's easy. As Edison said, 98% of genius is just a LOT of hard work.
Gary 7
@Pi-needles (#15):
">Just as we can never actually PROVE anything true (w/o an infinite number of tests),
Mathematics the exception you forgot there? ;-)"
Gödel notwithstanding…
I think Hubble has been a suscess. I find in some way Hubble has a lot in comon with Skylab :Both were damaged when they were launched ,everyone said they were a failre,they were repared in space, and were a big sucess afterwards.By the way I'm fan of Blade Runner and I'm wondering if we will have nexus 6 replacuts by 2018 .
From what I understand the plans are to let the Hubble telescope crash into the pacific in five years. Why not make a relatively small investment and tow it to one of the points of stable gravity (legrange) between the earth moon system?
15. Pi-needles and 18. Chris A.
"Mathematics the exception you forgot there? "
Actually I ignored math proofs. I was thinking of theories of the nature of physical reality. THEY can never be proven true w/o an infinite number of tests, which is why the SciMethod is so powerful. Just ONE test can show it's not true(or, at least, only an approximation), which saves a WHOLE lot of time.
In a previous post(long ago and ,,,), one poster pointed out that the Greeks developed the SciMethod a millennia before that crazy Persian(who's name escapes me now) but they never adopted it as the basis of their science. Had they done so, we'd likely all be speaking Greek today(but they DID have great math proofs. Unfortunately, math proofs do not necessarily have any pertinence to this universe).
Bummer! I think I'd have enjoyed worshipping in the temple of Athena(or was it Aphrodite?).
GAry 7
I was thrilled that Hubble got its overhaul and hopefully at least another decade of life. This orbiting observatory is priceless; a national treasure. We'd better have some means of retrieving it soon, because I for one would cry to know it was left in a decaying orbit to be burned up in our atmosphere. As Indiana Jones would say, "It belongs in a museum!"
Since this was one of the last photos to be taken of Hubble by a human-weilded camera, I thought it deserved some extra care: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1369.html
I cleaned up the internal reflections and bumped up the dynamic range, and the result is here: http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/4545/hubblefarewell.jpg
Happy birthday, Hubble!
You say the moon's moving too fast to image accurately — I know that it's possible to slew the telescope to track moving objects; that's how MGS gets those spectacular pictures of Phobos, for example.
So there must be some reason why this can't be done with Hubble. What?
Possible reasons I can think of:
– too much thruster fuel required (does it use thrusters for attitude adjustement?)
– can't make observations while rotating due to vibration from the reaction wheels (does it use reaction wheels for attitude adjustment?)
– too much structural distortion at the slew rates required (Hubble is big, and moving quickly centrifugal force will act on its components… beyond a certain rate this might damage instrument calibration. What's the maximum safe slew rate?)
– too scary ('you want to *spin* the telescope? Are you nuts?')
Do any of these come close?
23. David Given
Our moons orbital velocity is 1.022 km/sec, so if you're focused on something 200 meters across, you've got about a fifth of a second to observe it before it passes by, which is another way of saying, spin baby spin(way too fast for Hubble to rotate. It's designed to hold a stationary position for long periods, not spin like a DeadHead).
Gary 7
Always love reading your stuff, even when it's old material (as long as it's awesome old material like this). Your initial analysis of the 2011 budget proposal was part of why I looked closely at the actual material instead of just getting information second hand, and thus why I'm so excited about where space could be by the time I hope to be working on it.
By the way, how are you enjoying your present? I've been awaiting news on what you ended up doing with it, but was starting to give up hope of any news.
Rob Davidoff
I'm curious as to why they're even talking about retiring it in five or ten years. Surely the science it can support isn't exhausted. I mean, if they can keep using the Hale Telescope (built in 1949) to do science, surely they can find a use for the Hubble.
Even if it would require more refurbishment in ten years, where's the optimism about the future of orbital manned spaceflight, and how cheap and accessible it's going to be?
They're talking about the James Webb Space Telescope replacing it. But when the Hale telescope breaks something, do they decommission it just because the Keck is bigger? And the JWST is going to be so far away, in solar L2, that refurbishment isn't going to be possible for a LONG time, if ever. So unlike the Hubble, JWST is sort of a one-shot.
It just seems to me that the Hubble will still be a pretty unique resource ten or fifteen years from now. And 20 or 30 years from now, when JWST has malfunctioned and is useless, we could still be repairing the Hubble.
@20. RMcbride
Actually, the five years you mention (four years now) is what they think it's going to last, as a conservative estimate. If it continues past 2014, then they will. But, if there are failures, it's better to have a planned decommissioning into the ocean instead of a Skylab near-disaster or worse. It also could be moved into a "graveyard" orbit like other satellites.
On a sadder note, someone just called in to a program about Hubble on PRI and asked if Heaven looked like what Hubble photographs showed. She was concerned about the use of "false color" to emphasize celestial features. She was serious.
@26. DaveS
You should consider that a manned servicing mission to Hubble costs the same or even more than simply building a new Hubble from scratch and launching it in an unmanned vehicle. Like the ISS, the manned Hubble servicing missions were done more to demonstrate the capability to do complex repairs in orbit than for efficiency or cost reasons. The latest servicing mission cost in excess of $1 billion. In comparison, the Spitzer Space Telescope (the most recent of the great NASA observatories) cost about $700 million. JWST is projected to cost $2.4 billion until launch, but that's of course a 6.5m mirror, compared to Hubble's 2.4m. There will likely be something even bigger after JWST (plans are underway). The current climate is just to go 100% robotic and disposable, and that makes financial sense. I completely agree that the continued existence of a Hubble-sized space telescope could yield a lot of good science, but it is apparently hard to argue to Congress to 'do more of the same'.
@ 29 pontoppi Very well said! In all the glorification of Hubble, it's easy to forget that not only is Hubble the most successful scientific instrument ever built, it's also by far the most expensive, more so than even the LHC. Total costs over it's lifetime have to be in the $10-20 billion range, far more than all the other great observatories combined.
The Hubble definitely belongs in a museum, it's a piece of history and possibly the most important scientific instrument ever built.
I for one remember the sheer astonishment of realising that such a tiny patch of sky contained so many galaxies, when the Hubble Deep Field was unveiled in the mid 90's. Not to mention the rest of the glorious images taken from Earth's orbit.
….NerdBusters—"We'd better have some means of retrieving it soon, because I for one would cry to know it was left in a decaying orbit to be burned up in our atmosphere. As Indiana Jones would say, "It belongs in a museum!….."
The Hubble actually has a ring like device fitted to it's bulkhead so it can be retrieved from space with "soft capture". I hope they go for this method when the time comes !
Here's my own personal acclaim to the Hubble Space Telescope, with hopefully years of jaw dropping images and science to come http://astronomycentral.co.uk/the-hubble-telescope-two-decades-of-discovery
Let's not forget that, besides all the great science, Hubble has been a public relations success story. The general public knows the name, considers it to be a success and a 'good thing' generally.
That translates into willingness to fund that program and others like it.
It also helps, in an odd way, that the program nearly failed and then recovered. It leads the public to believe that NASA nearly failed and then recovered. That's a positive story to tell and fits nicely into a narrative of flawed people and institutions with redemption available if you work hard, have good people, and expend sufficient resources.
What are the possibilities of bringing the HST back to earth with some sort of robotic retrieval system? Reentry would be rough on a telescope and so would landing but if the HST is to be ditched maybe someone out there might give it a try.
The shuttle is the only vehicle that I know of that's capable of returning the HST. Well I'm assuming that it can land with the weight of something like the hubble in cargo.
Thanks for putting up those cost numbers for unmanned launches of new hubbles vs manned repair&upgrade missions. I've always thought given the amount of parts replaced on the HST and the cost of the shuttle manned missions sending up new hubbles once in a while made sense. Maybe without the shuttle an unservicable hubble could have had a 3 m mirror. The HST had to fit into the shuttle bay after all.
Plans to bring Hubble back to Earth via the shuttle were already scrapped by the time it was launched 20 years ago.
Hubble is in low-Earth orbit and therefore is in just enough atmosphere to cause drag. Every servicing mission has lifted it up to a higher orbit. Without some way of lifting it up to a higher orbit, it will eventually get too low and then will fall to Earth. I don't know off-hand how long that will be, but I'm guessing under 10 years.
>The Hubble definitely belongs in a museum, it's a piece of history and possibly the most >important scientific instrument ever built.
I don't think that you can really justify that statement. The HST has produced some very pretty images – the deep field is awesome – but it has only filled in detail. It has not produced any scientific paradigm changes.
I would argue that 1.5″ telescope in the hands of Galileo was a far more important instrument. Or the Michaelson-Morley interferometer. Or Hertz' spark-gap receiver. Ot Jansky's radio telescope. Those really did lead to paradigm changes.
If Hubble has been orbiting Earth for 20 years, how much less time has it spent orbiting, from its perspective? I'm talking Relativity here, but have no idea how to do the math. Obviously Hubble is orbiting faster than an observer on Earth, so it should have spent "less time" up there, in its frame of reference.
>>The Hubble definitely belongs in a museum, it's a piece of history and possibly the most >>important scientific instrument ever built.
>I don't think that you can really justify that statement. The HST has produced some very >pretty images – the deep field is awesome – but it has only filled in detail. It has not >produced any scientific paradigm changes.
But not just pretty images Dave, there is very real science behind them…
The Hubble helped astronomers come up with an age for the universe, the suggestion of dark energy for a reason why the universe in accelerating in it's expansion, evidence that supermassive black holes inhabit the centre of galaxies, images of solar systems in formation, and that proto-planetary disks around young stars is common, that star formation was at a high rate in the early universe, the first detection of the atmosphere of an extra solar planet, that gamma ray bursts eminate from extremely distant galaxies…
It must be one of the most important scientific intrument ever built, at the very least. It's up there with the best of them !!
"One of the most important scientific instruments ever built". Certainly in the top 100. And, as an astronomy ( albeit of the radio persuasion) I am very impressed by the science that has come out of it. But has it added any more to our knowledge of the universe than the Hale telescope did in the '50s?
Indeed the work done by Hubble and Humanson, discovering external galaxies and evidence for the Big Bang, at Mt Wilson is far more significant than anything observed by the HST. That did lead to a real change in the way we thought of the Universe.
But it is a lovely bit of kit
(Silly on.) Hubble should be easy to retrieve for a museum as it is only a hoax that it is in space. Look at the photograph. No stars. Obviously a bad paintshop job. (Silly off.)
Great read. I'm one of those new readers you were talking about in the beginning of the article, haha.
Just saw you spoke at Caltech recently, you should've posted about it beforehand! I would've +1ed your audience.
Anyways, great blog. Gotta love space.
#10: I have an inexpensive 4.5 inch Celestron Newtonian telescope that I have used for hours to look at the sky. It's amazing how much I can see just looking at M42 in Orion's "sword," and the objects around it. Hubble pictures are cool, but there's nothing like looking at an astronomical object that you've found yourself.
Dude, you used 'serendipitously' in a journal article abstract! WIN…
Phil: I, too, worked on Hubble in the early days. I believe I got all of your 10 things, but to be fair, I would not have known about the FOS being on the ground except that I read it in YOUR blog previously!
It's not true that you have to show a need to get an archive account at STScI. Anyone can register. And in fact, to retrieve non-proprietary data you don't need an account at all. Just give "anonymous" as your username and your email for the password (so we know where to send the completion message). As you say, the format is probably not appropriate for the casual Photoshop crowd, but it's available. As for the load, a few gigabytes isn't going to hurt us much. We're currently handling about 100-200 GB/day.
But if it's cool pictures you want without the reduction hassle, the Hubble Legacy Archive has plenty (http://hla.stsci.edu/). Try searching on "M51" and then click the "Images" tab. 😉
A fascinating read, but as a European astronomer I feel the need to point out that Herschel's 3.5 m primary mirror makes a mockery of Hubble's puny 2.4 m effort. And we get almost 2% of Hubble's resolution! Whoop whoop, etc.
In October of 1997, Hubble was pointed at the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that orbits the Milky Way.
That's most likely NOT the case, Phil; the SMC and LMC are just passing by for the first time and are almost certainly not bound to the Milky Way. See here:
—JL Galache
Minor Planet Center
"So really, the only — and best — way to see the Apollo artifacts is to go back to the Moon."
Well that's the best way of course, but, as you have in fact posted (I'm only commenting here for the sake of those who are new to your blog), the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has, since 2011, taken pictures of many, if not all, of the Apollo artifacts even including the tracks made by the astronauts' footprints.
Happy Birthday Hubble!
When will you fly over my town on a cloudless night?
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I think it's Dawgnoxious that describes G-Day as like watching an Ant Farm. Everyone has a job, but it's not totally clear what you're watching. Was that a bad play or a good play? Someone caught a pass....so someone else got burned. Someone threw an INT, but someone also made a great ball hawking steal.
G-Day went about like I expected. I might live to see another 50 G-Days, and there will be few that give less insight into what kind of team we have. Not that G-Day is ever really a leading indicator of anything. There just weren't enough healthy bodies to give us a sense for what the team will be like in 2009.
That's why I all but ignored Spring Practice this year. All of that said, here are my thoughts:
- The QBs - I was pleasantly surprised by Logan Gray's performance. His arm looked stronger than Cox's, and he made good decisions with the ball. Cox looked unimpressive, but some of that is a reflection of his tool set. The idea put forth by many in the Dawg Nation that he throws a "more catchable ball than Stafford" is ridiculous to me. Just because you can't throw a bullet doesn't mean you shouldn't. That said, he'll look better when surrounded by all his complimentary players (ie: Moore, Sturdivant, Vance, C. Davis, Marlon, etc.).
I've seen glowing praise for Aaron Murray's performance on message boards. I'm high Murray, but the kid completed three passes on Saturday. Anointing him as The Chosen One seems a bit much at this point. Note to Aaron Murray...do not stand next to Mettenberg on the sidelines. Zach's sheer enormity reflects poorly on you side by side. You should pay Carlton Thomas to always stand next to you.
- The Drops - The 10 or so dropped passes don't concern me because most of the guys dropping balls will rarely be targets once the season rolls around. Aron White misjudged a few, but he's got time to work it out.
- Defensive Ends - One of my biggest worries entering next season is DE. Martinez's system requires a strong pass rush generated by the front four. With the youth at cornerback, it will be difficult to create pressure with extreme LB or CB blitzes that put DBs on an island. So, the dominating performance by Justin Houston was especially encouraging. If he can make big time plays from the Rush End, our entire scheme will look better in '09.
- Running Backs - I've been concerned all off season with the running back situation, and Saturday did predictably little to settle my nerves. Carlton Thomas looked promising; although, his stats were inflated on the last drive by virtue of Bobo having a more star studded line-up on the field than Martinez. It'll be interesting to see how the competition in the Fall impacts the play of Caleb King. It'll quickly become painfully obvious to all 5 backs how few snaps there will be to go around. That should raise the level of play. There is talent there. It just needs to materialize on the field.
- Brandon Boykin - Boykin got a lot of hype during Spring practice, and he lived up to the billing. I was particularly interested in lining him up on offense. Intriguing.
- Overall Defense - They looked good. What else can you say? They didn't allow a TD until the game was decided. If they had allowed a 24-21 type game, I'd be much more nervous.
- Mark Fox - I was happy to see the Athletic Department fully leverage G-Day to create exposure for Coach Fox. The promotional opportunity was handled flawlessly.


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By Clara Parkes
Scarves and shawls play many roles. They can warm, they can drape from the shoulders, or they can adorn like jewelry—and sometimes, though not always, they can do all three. With this in mind, I chose Mercedes Tarasovich-Clark's Lena to swatch for this issue. Made from relatively open, lace-inspired stitches, Lena can be worn as a large draping loop over the shoulders, or it can be wrapped once, twice, or even three times around your neck. Depending on how you wrap it and the yarn you use, you'll get dramatically different results.
The wrap as designed is made from a yarn that achieves all three goals: Kitchen Sink Dyeworks Seacell Merino Fine. It's a smooth blend of 70% superwash Merino and 30% Seacell, which is a regenerated cellulose fiber that contains seaweed extracts. While the dominant Merino gives reasonable bounce and elasticity to the yarn, there's no mistaking the shimmer and drape provided by the smooth, luminous Seacell fiber. This yarn has been hand-dyed by Mercedes in bright, cheerful colors. Combine those colors with the mesh-like fabric and you have a project with a distinctly tropical, beachfront esprit.
I sought three yarns that would produce results almost unrecognizable from the original pattern pictures while still fulfilling at least one of the warming, draping, or adorning roles. I started with a sportweight 100% alpaca yarn from Frog Tree. While many alpaca yarns now use the shorter, bouncier, finer "baby" grade of alpaca, this is a traditional old-fashioned smooth, long-stapled alpaca twisted into two plies that almost resemble a string of pearls.
The fabric was dense and puffy, warm, and extremely soft with a somewhat slippery hand. I didn't swatch the optional picot edging. Even in this somewhat dense two-ply state, the alpaca still enjoys being allowed to drape. I'd try wrapping the scarf twice for drape, or three times for a very dense and fuzzy cowl. Speaking of fuzz, the yarn shed quite a bit as I was knitting, although the shedding subsided after I finished and washed the swatch. I still wonder if the yarn might be happier in a tighter, more cohesive fabric than this one.
From here I took a sharp turn away from fuzzy insulation and straight into the land of bold color adornment with Noro Silk Garden Sock. I wanted to see how the slowly shifting variegated colors of Noro would work in such an open stitch pattern of YOs, SSKs, and K2togs. The middle of Lena is knit using two strands of yarn held together, so I simply knit from the other end of the skein to keep the colors within the same family.
The effect was bold and somewhat heavy, with a hint of rustic. The yarn's lack of visible ply structure makes these stitches somewhat one-dimensional, but that effect is offset by the flecks of silk randomly peppered throughout the yarn. The yarn's fiber composition—40% wool, 25% silk, 25% nylon, and 10% mohair—gives the fabric a relatively dry, cottony hand. A hint of roughness may cause next-to-skin irritation for some, although you could always wear this over a coat or sweater, wrapping it only twice around your neck so that more of the fabric is allowed to show and drape. I suspect the optional picot edging may be a little too frou-frou for this particular yarn, but I encourage you to try it if tempted.
Finally, I decided to pursue a delightfully decadent idea. What if we stripped away almost all the weight, bulk, and substance in our yarn and opted for an ethereal cloud through which a smooth stream of shimmery silk flowed? I'm talking, of course, about Rowan Kidsilk Haze, a brushed yarn composed of 70% super kid mohair (a much finer grade than in the Noro yarn) and 30% silk.
Of all the swatches, this was my personal favorite—it perfectly fulfilled the project's goals of warming, draping, and adorning. I can see how extraordinary a Kidsilk Haze version would be if you wrapped the scarf as many times around your neck as it would comfortably go. The multiple layers would give the fabric an upright cowl-like structure while producing a deep cloud of puffy, luminous fiber. And the picot edging? Absolutely. Why not string a few beads in there while you're at it?


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MANCHESTER - Nashua South High won the second annual NHIAA unified basketball Saturday at the Southern New Hampshire University fieldhouse with a 39-27 win over Spaulding of Rochester.
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Good decision making is one of the most powerful skills your children need to learn to as they progress through childhood and transition into adulthood. But I promise you, it is not a skill that will develop readily on its own, particularly in the digital world in which they are growing up. You should teach your children why popular culture and technology can cause them to make poor decisions and guide them in learning how to make good decisions.
Making bad decisions. Whenever I speak to a group of young people, I ask how many of them have ever made a bad decision. With complete unanimity and considerable enthusiasm, they all raise their hands. When I then ask whether they will ever make a poor decision in the future, the response is equally fervent. I also ask children why they make less-than-stellar decisions. Their responses include:
- I didn't stop to think;
- It seemed like fun at the time;
- I was bored;
- Peer pressure;
- I didn't consider the consequences;
- To get back at my parents.
Yet when I ask them if the faulty decision was worth it, most usually say, "Not really." What this means is that there was glitch in their decision making "program," somewhere between input, processing and output, that caused the bad decision. Because children lack experience and perspective, and, as I noted above in my previous post, their prefrontal cortex isn't fully developed, they tend to make decisions that are egocentric, rash and short-sighted. This absence of forethought can cause children to not consider all available information, engage in an incomplete cost-benefit analysis and ignore long-term consequences.
Let me make a bold statement: Children should make poor decisions. Making ill-advised decisions and experiencing the consequences helps your children learn how to make better decisions. A problem arises, however, if their poor decision making continues. Because decision making is a skill, children can become very good at making ill-advised decisions; the more children do anything, good or bad, the better they get at it. The more skillful they become at making regrettable decisions, the more bad decisions they are likely to make in the future. Of course, the long-term personal, social, and professional implications of children growing up to be poor decision makers are profound, negative, and, I think, obvious, especially in our wired world where decisions can remain in cyberspace forever.
Learning to make good decisions. The process of making good decisions begins with educating your children about it. The first step, given that children are notorious for acting without thinking, is to teach them to stop before they leap. With a few seconds of hesitation, your children can prevent a lot of flawed decisions from being made. Help your children by "catching them in the act," meaning when you see them about to jump without thinking, stop them and guide them through the decision making process. Also, because you can't always be looking over their shoulder, use times when they do leap without thinking (and things don't turn out that well) to ask them how they could have made a different decision in hindsight.
The next step is to teach your children to think before they act. There are several important questions they should ask themselves. First, "Why do I want to do this?" You want your children to understand what motivates their decisions. One problem is that children are often faced with conflicting motivations. They may know that a decision is bad, but they may, for example, feel peer pressure to do it anyway. Except for the most mature children, if decisions come down to doing what is right or what is popular, the majority of children will almost always choose the latter. Because of the ubiquity of popular culture and the omnipresence of technology, forces that push them down the road of a poor decision have never been stronger.
Second, "What are my options?" Children often have several possible choices when put in any given situation. For example, when faced with the possibility of stealing candy from a store with friends, children could a) take the candy, b) not take the candy but ignore the fact that their friends are stealing, or c) try to convince their friends that stealing is wrong. If you've raised your children with healthy values, they know what the right decision is. At the same time, they still have to weigh what is right with how it will impact their relationship with their friends.
Third, "What are the consequences of my actions?" (or in their language, "How much trouble will I get into?") Your children need to judge the risks and rewards of their decisions. The problem is that children often underestimate the costs and overestimate the benefits of their decisions (it's actually a cognitive bias to which adults also fall prey). How your children answer this question will depend on the expectations and consequences you establish for them. If you instill the wrath of God in your children, they're going to weigh them more heavily in their decisions.
Fourth, a question that children can have a difficult time considering is, "How will my decision affect others?" Because of their natural egocentricity when they're young, children may not even think about who else their decision may be influencing. Teaching your children to ask this question can help them to step away from their egocentrism and increase their awareness of others. It can also help them to take others into consideration and make decisions that are beneficial to both themselves and others.
Finally, perhaps the most important question children need to ask themselves is: "Is this decision in my best interests in the long run?" Discussions with your children about what is in their long-term best interests is a valuable means of sensitizing them to the conflicts that often arise between short-term gains and long-term benefits. Understanding what is in their best interests in the long run and having these concerns outweigh competing immediate interests is the culmination of the decision-making process.
Coach good decision making. You can help your children learn good decision making by coaching them through decisions. Help your children answer the key questions I offered above and take thoughtful steps to the decision. After the decision, help them judge how good the decision was and, if the decision turned out to be a poor one, what they can learn from it in the future.
You can also present your children with hypothetical situations, such as a moral dilemma about lying to a friend, that they're likely to face and engage them in a conversation about how they would make a decision. Of course, children won't always make such deliberate decisions, particularly when they're young, but if you coach them and give them experience with good decision making, they'll use it more as they gain maturity.
Raise good decision makers. Ceding decision making to your children is an incremental process based on their age, maturity, and, decision-making history. It would be downright dangerous to give children complete latitude in their decision making. You can, however, begin to teach decision making with very young children. For example, you shouldn't take your children into a convenience store and tell them they can have anything they want; they would be overwhelmed by the choices. You can give them a choice among jawbreakers, licorice, and bubble gum (or, better yet, sesame sticks, fruit wraps, and yogurt peanuts) and they would then decide which treat they want.
As your children get older, you can expand the number of choices you give them. Then, you can increase the importance of the decisions they can make, for example, what activities they choose to participate in or when they decide to go to bed. With each decision, they should recognize and take responsibility for the consequences of those decisions. Also, you should retain veto power when needed, but use it judiciously.


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February 20, 2014
Undercover Exposé: Animals Locked in Cramped Cages, Piglets Fed to their Mothers at Kentucky Pig Factory
Pigs Confined in Iron Maiden-like Gestation Crates
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Sows confined in cramped cages known as gestation crates were fed ground up intestines from piglets who had recently succumbed to a highly contagious diarrheal disease, an undercover exposé of Iron Maiden Hog Farm in Owensboro, Kentucky revealed. This investigation, conducted during early 2014 by The Humane Society of the United States, found that more than 900 piglets died from the diarrheal disease in a two-day period. The animals' intestines were ground up and fed back to their mothers and other sows, a practice prohibited by state law. This practice appears to be fairly widespread within the industrial sector of the pig industry.
Ironically sharing a name with the medieval torture device, Iron Maiden Hog Farm's practices are harsh and inhumane, resulting in a wide range of health problems for pigs. The HSUS is calling on the Kentucky Livestock Care Standards Commission, created to "establish, maintain, or revise standards governing the care and well-being" of farm animals, to end gestation crate confinement of pigs and to examine the practice of feeding diseased piglets to surviving pigs on the factory farm. The HSUS is also calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture to examine the practice of feeding dead piglets to mother pigs.
The investigation at Iron Maiden Hog Farm documented:
- Animals locked in cages so small, they couldn't even turn around for essentially their entire lives.
- Intestines of piglets who died from severe diarrhea—a highly contagious disease plaguing pig facilities nationwide—were routinely fed back to their mothers and other breeding females.
- Piglets left to die—often suffering for days. Over a 2-3 day period more than 900 piglets died of the highly contagious diarrheal disease;
- Sick and injured sows left without care, including one sow who suffered from an extreme uterine prolapse for nearly two days before finally dying;
- Lame sows – whose hind legs became too weak from strict confinement to support their weight—"hobbled" to keep their legs from splaying. Their legs are bound together so they could stand in their crates. Some sows had tight hobbles on for so long that the rope had cut into their flesh or had grown over the rope hobble.
"The entire atmosphere at this facility is awful for animals, many of whom are perpetually immobilized and suffering from body sores, diarrhea attacks and prolapsed uteruses," said Paul Shapiro, vice president of farm animal protection at The HSUS.
"Routine practices at many hog factories—immobilizing sows for their entire lives, feeding dead pigs to live pigs, denying medical treatment to injured or ailing animals—just don't sit well with American consumers," added Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The HSUS. "This industry is long overdue for a major course correction, and we hope this investigation triggers an examination at what's happening behind closed doors on factory farms."
- Studies of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus in Europe have consistently found higher risk of infection in large industrial factory farming operations, compared to smaller farms that raise their pigs outdoors. The diarrheal disease is coursing through U.S. pigs, especially at factory farms, while smaller family farms with higher animal welfare standards typically don't engage in these practices. Since the outbreak started in the U.S. in April 2013, several million pigs have died from the virus.
- The factory farming practices that led to the emergence and global spread of this virus are the same risky practices that can lead to the emergence of diseases that kill people. Swine flu, which killed thousands of people, is an example of this.
- More than 60 major food companies—McDonald's, Costco, Target and dozens more—have mandated that their pork providers eliminate the crates from within their supply chains. As well, major pork producers including Smithfield, Tyson and Cargill are moving away from gestation crates. Meanwhile, many traditional farmers have avoided gestation crates for generations. These policies signal a reversal in a three-decade-old trend in the pork industry that leaves most breeding pigs confined day and night in gestation crates.
- Kentucky state law prohibits the feeding of dead pigs to pigs. The federal Swine Health Protection Act is intended to prevent the feeding of unsanitary substances to pigs, and The HSUS is urging USDA ban the practice.
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