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I was smack in the middle of my morning ritual, groggily sipping coffee while nursing my CNN addiction, when a news crawl recently stopped me mid-cup: "Half-Baked: New York City mom fights bake sale ban."
It turns out the folks who run one of our country's largest public school systems have decided that bake sales are the reason our kids are obese. They say the regular sale of brownies, cupcakes and cookies is making our kids fat, and effective immediately, bake sales are banned.
We live in a culture where we love to kid ourselves. We pay lip service to improving the health of our kids, yet many enjoy less recess and PE time than ever. And have you been through your child's lunch line lately? Let's just say the options make the stuff Edith served Archie look like five-star cuisine. At my son's school, they serve hot dogs, chicken nuggets and pizza—that's three days' worth of meals that far from provide the protein and vitamins he needs to focus, learn and grow.
In our home life, we're not crazy health nuts by any means. We love sweets. We eat our share of burgers and pasta. But I balance it all with healthful choices. Fruits and veggies are a daily staple. Treats are treated as treats. I'm not perfect, but I'm neither blind nor deaf, either. I hear and see what is going on around us. I pack my son Javier's lunch every day, which is something this single working mom wishes she didn't have to do. But it minimizes my worry that when he runs toward the bake sale table at school (I'm sure there are track marks to prove this), there's nothing healthy in his body to go along with it.
Still, of all the reasons that our kids are fat—and they are, in fact getting there, with 1 in 6 now considered obese and in danger of developing diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure before reaching adulthood—I find it hard to believe that the occasional bake sale is at the root of all evil.
What's it going to take for us to take the health of our kids—and ourselves—seriously? Why are we worrying about bake sales when the "aha moment" should be about how we're cutting short our lives—literally? We're not talking higher taxes or gas prices, but the actual length of time we'll have on this planet to watch our kids graduate, learn to drive a car, and grow into happy adults who, hopefully, give us oodles of grandbabies to spoil, perhaps with the occasional brownie.
This fall, public schools will be required to increase the nutrition standards of all meals they serve. This means offering fruits and veggies daily (revolutionary), more whole grains, plus fat-free and low-fat milk only. For better or worse, the government is now involved, and I have to admit, this brings me great comfort because so far, we've done little to move the needle, let alone ourselves. We sign up our kids for tennis, soccer and ballet, but many of us haven't run anything but errands in months. Those TV shows we watch for hours a day? The irony is a slew of them focus on weight loss. Why are we so much more comfy watching other people eat right and exercise than doing it ourselves?
I think all of this sound way worse than the occasional bake sale. But hey, maybe that's just me.


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SANAA (Reuters) - At least six militants and two soldiers were killed in Yemen on Tuesday in fighting near a damaged oil pipeline east of the capital Sanaa, a defense ministry official and residents said.
Separately, gunmen and bombers targeted three senior military officers and the transport minister in a series of attacks in the capital Sanaa.
In one incident, two gunmen riding a motorbike shot dead Brigadier Fadel Mohammed Ali, an adviser to the minister of defense, outside the ministry's offices in Sanaa, a police source said. Further details were not immediately available.
Gunmen fired at the home of Transport Minister Waed Batheeb, wounding two of his guards, a transport ministry official said. A colonel was seriously wounded in an attack by gunmen and another officer survived a thwarted bomb attack on his car.
The fighting in turbulent Maarib province broke out when government troops backed by air strikes tried to secure the pipeline and repair damage inflicted last month by local militants, the official said.
He added that the army controlled the area surrounding the pipeline after Tuesday's clashes.
Yemen's oil and gas pipelines have repeatedly been sabotaged by Islamist fighters or tribesmen since an uprising erupted last year, causing fuel shortages and slashing export earnings for the impoverished country.
Yemen's stability is a leading security goal for the United States and Gulf Arab allies because of its strategic position next to top oil exporter Saudi Arabia and shipping lanes, and because it is home to one of the most active wings of al Qaeda.
Under an agreement reached earlier this month between tribal chiefs and the government, tribes in Maarib were meant to stop militants from attacking the pipeline in return for a halt to air strikes in the area.
A local official said troops were deployed on Tuesday after tribesmen failed to secure the pipeline or to hand over fighters involved in the killings of 17 army officers and soldiers in an ambush earlier in December. They were killed while inspecting the pipeline.
The affiliation of the militants in Maarib is unclear. Local sources said some had links to al Qaeda, while others were involved in kidnapping foreigners to pressure the government to release jailed kinsmen.
Yemen-based Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has mounted operations in Saudi Arabia and attempted attacks against the United States, which has stepped up strikes by drones.
In the capital, the ministry of defense said one man was arrested on Tuesday for planting a bomb in the car of an officer at the Central Security Forces. The attempt to blow up the car was foiled, the ministry said. Colonel Sameer al-Gharbani, an officer in the Republican Guard, was critically wounded in an attack by unidentified gunmen, a source at the Guard said.
The string of attacks happened less than a week after President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi overhauled the armed forces as part of a Gulf-brokered power-transfer plan that helped ease former President Ali Abdullah Saleh from power in February.
(Reporting by Mohammed Ghobari; Writing by Mahmoud Habboush and William Maclean; Editing by Peter Graff)

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What others say about Arlene Mulder
"In a community full of dedicated volunteers, Arlene was the top volunteer, dedicating every waking hour to the community she loves and the service of others."
Tom Hayes, Arlington Heights mayor-elect
"Her administration was instrumental in the revitalization of downtown Arlington Heights, which now boasts a thriving arts and cultural scene. Mayor Mulder has represented her community with distinction."
Rep. Jan Schakowsky
"She is an honorable woman who was forward thinking enough to realize the economic impact of business for the community. She is a woman of her word."
Richard Duchossois, chairman, Arlington International Racecourse
"Arlington Heights is known as the City of Good Neighbors -- and if you ask people there who best embodies that spirit, there's a pretty good chance they'll answer: Mayor Arlene Mulder. She practices an inclusive brand of leadership to bring people together and get results."
Sen. Dick Durbin
"Your life's commitment to public service has helped to make our state stronger and has served as an inspiration to your successors. Most importantly, in all that you have done your work ethic has exemplified the dedication to service the citizens of this state deserve and expect."
Gov. Pat Quinn in a letter to Arlene Mulder
"She's never forgotten about the park district and she's made a concerted effort to make sure the relationship between the district and the village was strong."
Maryfran Leno, Arlington Heights Park District board president
"She has raised the visibility of the village substantially at the regional and national level ... She has been the best advertisement for Arlington Heights."
State Rep. David Harris, Arlington Heights
"She has set a remarkable and unique standard for supporting and serving the community. I have, of course, been impressed by her service. But what opens the door for her, so to speak, is a ready, welcoming smile that's a part of most anything she does."
Robert Paddock, executive vice president, Paddock Publications
"She's really been a force in terms of building relationships between governments -- and she's been a real pal."
Schaumburg Village President Al Larson
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Earlier this week, it was confirmed that Ben Affleck dropped out of Focus, a comedy about an aging con artist and a young sexy apprentice, played by Kristen Stewart. Click here for a refresher. The writing team (they also wrote Crazy, Stupid, Love) originally hoped that Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling -- given how well they worked in that movie -- would take the leads. So we need some romantic chemistry to happen here...
Focus is scheduled to start shooting in April and Warner Bros is now looking for Affleck's replacement. Their initial selections of Gosling and Affleck make sense seeing as both actors have strong relationships with the studio and they get preferred treatment on any projects of their interest. As does Tom Hardy. And Leonardo DiCaprio. They're Warners men too.
That was my train of thought, especially after seeing the new trailer for Gatsby -- click here if you missed it. For years Leo has avoided any films about love, having already starred in what many consider to be the ultimate love story. He was uncomfortable with his pin-up status, sort of. Professionally Leo was, smartly, averse to being typecast and publicly swooned over. Privately though, please, you don't think he used it well to his advantage, especially at fashion shows? Come on now.
It's been long enough. As Dean wrote in his Eulogy to Leo's Sexiness, collectively his film choices over the last decade, while prestigious and all, aren't exactly... FUN. What's missing from Leo's career is FUN.
And Focus sounds like it could be fun. He's the right age for it, being a contemporary of Affleck's, and he could certainly play a con artist, probably better than Ben, and of course there's the prospect of what his involvement would mean for Gossip. Oh, that would be SO Good for Gossip.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kristen Stewart?
It's almost unfair.
Someone at Warners needs to be reading this and sending him the script.


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As of Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, at least 2,045 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.
The AP count is two less than the Defense Department's tally, last updated Tuesday at 10 a.m. EST.
At least 1,706 military service members have died in Afghanistan as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
Outside of Afghanistan, the department reports at least 118 more members of the U.S. military died in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Of those, 11 were the result of hostile action.
The AP count of total OEF casualties outside of Afghanistan is five more than the department's tally.
The Defense Department also counts three military civilian deaths.
Since the start of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, 18,215 U.S. service members have been wounded in hostile action, according to the Defense Department.
The latest identifications reported by the military:
—Sgt. Mark H. Schoonhoven, 38, of Plainwell, Mich., died Jan. 20 at Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas from wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device on Dec. 15, 2012 in Kabul, Afghanistan; assigned to the 32nd Transportation Company, 43rd Sustainment Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.


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Frank Wilczek, eminent physicist and recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize, presented "Putting It All Together," a free, public lecture on Thursday, April 26, 2007.
Professor Wilczek won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics (along with coworkers David Gross and David Politzer) for his discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of strong interaction, which allows physicists to calculate the cross sections of various events in particle physics.
Professor Wilczek has earned an extensive number of honors and awards for his research, including the 2003 Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society; the 2003 Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Commemorative Medal from Charles University, Prague; and the 2005 King Faisal International Prize for Science. He has contributed to advancements in research in such areas as pure particle physics, the behavior of matter at ultra-high temperature or density (applicable to understanding stellar behavior), black holes, the invention of axions, quantum chromodynamics, and the field uses of quantum physics.
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"Putting It All Together"
April 26, 2007
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Today is Thursday, Sept. 13, the 257th day of 2012. There are 109 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Sept. 13, 1997, funeral services were held in Calcutta, India, for Nobel peace laureate Mother Teresa.
On this date:
In 1759, during the final French and Indian War, the British defeated the French on the Plains of Abraham overlooking Quebec City.
In 1788, the Congress of the Confederation authorized the first national election, and declared New York City the temporary national capital.
In 1803, Commodore John Barry, considered by many the father of the American Navy, died in Philadelphia.
In 1912, a state funeral was held in Japan for Emperor Meiji.
In 1948, Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate; she became the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.
In 1959, Elvis Presley first met his future wife, 14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu, while stationed in West Germany with the U.S. Army. (They married in 1967, but divorced in 1973.)
In 1962, Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett rejected the U.S. Supreme Court's order for the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, a black student, declaring in a televised address, "We will not drink from the cup of genocide."
In 1970, the first New York City Marathon was held; winner Gary Muhrcke finished the 26.2-mile run, which took place entirely inside Central Park, in 2:31:38.
In 1971, a four-day inmates' rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in western New York ended as police and guards stormed the prison; the ordeal and final assault claimed the lives of 32 inmates and 11 employees.
In 1989, Fay Vincent was elected commissioner of Major League Baseball, succeeding the late A. Bartlett Giamatti (juh-MAH'-tee).
In 1993, at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
In 1996, rapper Tupac Shakur died at a Las Vegas hospital six days after he was wounded in a drive-by shooting; he was 25.
Ten years ago: President George W. Bush said it was "highly doubtful" that Saddam Hussein would comply with demands that he disarm and avoid a confrontation with the world community. And Bush mocked Democrats and other lawmakers who wanted U.N. action before a congressional vote on confronting Saddam.
Five years ago: President George W. Bush, addressing the nation, rejected calls to end the war in Iraq, but said he wanted gradual U.S. troop withdrawals from the country. Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha, the most prominent figure in a U.S.-backed revolt of Sunni sheiks against al-Qaida in Iraq, was killed by a bomb planted near his home in Anbar province. The NFL fined New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick $500,000 and the team $250,000 for spying on the New York Jets during a game.
One year ago: Teams of insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons struck at the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings in the heart of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul. In New York City, Republican political novice Bob Turner scored an upset victory over Democratic state Assemblyman David Weprin in a special election to fill the House seat vacated by Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner. Leila Lopes of Angola was crowned Miss Universe at the pageant in Sao Paulo.
Today's Birthdays: Actress Barbara Bain is 81. Actress Eileen Fulton ("As the World Turns") is 79. TV producer Fred Silverman is 75. Former White House spokesman Larry Speakes is 73. Actor Richard Kiel is 73. Rock singer David Clayton-Thomas (Blood, Sweat & Tears) is 71. Actress Jacqueline Bisset is 68. Singer Peter Cetera is 68. Actress Christine Estabrook is 62. Actress Jean Smart is 61. Singer Randy Jones (The Village People) is 60. Record producer Don Was is 60. Actor Isiah Whitlock Jr. is 58. Actress-comedian Geri Jewell is 56. Country singer Bobbie Cryner is 51. Rock singer-musician Dave Mustaine (Megadeth) is 51. Radio-TV personality Tavis Smiley is 48. Rock musician Zak Starkey is 47. Actor Louis Mandylor is 46. Olympic gold medal runner Michael Johnson is 45. Rock musician Steve Perkins is 45. Actor Roger Howarth is 44. Actress Louise Lombard is 42. Tennis player Goran Ivanisevic (ee-van-EE'-seh-vihch) is 41. Country singer Aaron Benward (Blue County) is 39. Country musician Joe Don Rooney (Rascal Flatts) is 37. Actor Scott Vickaryous is 37. Singer Fiona Apple is 35. Contemporary Christian musician Hector Cervantes (Casting Crowns) is 32. MLB pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka is 32. Actor Ben Savage is 32. Rock singer Niall Horan (One Direction) is 19. Actor Mitch Holleman ("Reba") is 17.
Thought for Today: "Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance — these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible." — Isaiah Berlin, Russian-born British philosopher (1909-1997).
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Bringing a wealth of experience and proven success, Cheryl Silva handles the reins of the MIT field hockey program. As she begins her 20th Fall under the Cambridge sun, Silva has developed a legacy of success in the field hockey program.
She is the winningest coach in MIT field hockey history, posting a 172-152-1 record at the Institute. The Engineers have recorded 11 winning seasons under coach Silva's tutelage, including six-straight seasons with double-digit victories in the 90's. In 2009, MIT recorded one of the most successful seasons in program history, winning an Institute record 18 games, capturing its first New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Championship and advancing to the NCAA Division III Tournament for the first time. At the conclusion of the season, Silva was named the NEWMAC Coach of the Year and the New England East Regional Coach of the Year by the National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA). She also maintains an active role in field hockey on the regional and national levels.
Silva received her bachelor's degree from the University of Bridgeport (Conn.) in Physical Education in 1981. She captained the field hockey and softball teams while at Bridgeport and was named to the New England All-College Field Hockey Team.
Following graduation, Silva worked at Staples High School and the Princeton Day School as a physical education instructor and field hockey coach. A year as an assistant lacrosse coach at Mount Holyoke College was followed by two years at Wellesley College where she was the assistant to the Athletic Director, Sports Information Director, and assistant field hockey and lacrosse coach.


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University of Vermont
Vermont Quarterly
Listening to the stars
- 10-26-2011
- By Joshua Brown
It is almost night on the island of Puerto Rico. Astronomer Joanna Rankin raises her head toward the sky. A few of the brightest stars shine through blue cracks in a ragged dome of gray clouds. To her back, a jungle throbs with the insistent call of frogs. In front of her, a giant bowl made of perforated metal dips steeply and rises on the other side of the valley, a thousand feet away. It looks like a colossal contact lens dropped from outer space.
This is the reflecting dish of the Arecibo Observatory: the largest radio telescope in the world, located in Puerto Rico due to ideal natural conditions, a sinkhole in the limestone hills over which to suspend the dish. Rankin has been coming here to study stars since she was a graduate student in the 1960s. Now she brings her own students here to, as she says, "get their hands on the wheel." Tonight, she stands next to one of the three concrete towers that surround the dish, chatting amiably in the fading pink light with her partner, Mary Fillmore, and three undergraduates from the UVM physics department: Isabel Kloumann '10, Mateus Teixeira '11, and Stephanie Young '11.
Above them, 450 feet over the center of the reflecting dish, floats an impossible-looking metal lattice triangle. Suspended by cables from the three towers, it looks like some child's fantasy airship made from an erector set—except it weighs nine-hundred tons. From the underbelly of this contraption dangles a huge antenna and a flattened silver ball sixty feet across, the telescope's Gregorian dome.
"I've never lost sight of my privilege in using this instrument," Rankin says, again turning her head skyward, "to come here and have a kind of one-way conversation with nature that almost no one else can."
What Rankin listens for in this conversation are the sounds of pulsars—one of nature's strangest objects. And what she hears from these unlikely stars may help to prove one of Albert Einstein's most outlandish theories: the existence of waves in the fabric of space itself. But even if the sky were perfectly clear tonight, the pulsars Rankin has come here to study would not be visible. Instead, she relies on the staggering sensitivity of this telescope to gather infinitesimal drops of radio-wave energy from them, which she then teases apart looking for sidereal meaning, the language of stars.
At first, astronomers thought pulsars might be aliens. In 1967, an enterprising graduate student at Cambridge University named Jocelyn Bell was baffled by the extreme regularity of highly focused radio wave bursts she accidentally discovered coming in from one point in the Milky Way. On then off—every 1.3 seconds. Nothing like this had ever been observed in the heavens; nothing like it had even been imagined. She dubbed the source LGM-1, for "little green men." Had she made contact? The extraterrestrial messages turned out to be radio bursts from a pulsar.
No bright glowing ball of gas like our home-star, pulsars are the burned-out core of a moderately large star that has consumed all its fuel. With no more outward pressure from the burning hydrogen, the star suddenly collapses on itself and then rebounds, blowing off its outer layer in a spectacularly violent explosion. Compressed by the explosion and gravity, what remains is a sphere so dense that its atoms degenerate into naked neutrons and exotic particles smashed on top of each other in unearthly layers that contain about a billion tons per square centimeter.
"Pulsars are about the size of a small city, like Burlington—maybe ten miles across," Rankin says, "with mass comparable to or somewhat greater than the sun." Compared to a black hole, a pulsar is a kind of scrawny cousin not quite massive enough to fall into complete light-sucking density. Still, a sugar cube of this star-stuff would weigh more than all the people on Earth.
And, like a twirling figure skater who suddenly pulls her arms in and starts spinning much faster, this tremendous compression of mass during the formation of a pulsar sets it spinning so fast it challenges our Earth-bound conception of speed. A "regular" pulsar will spin several times per second, but another family of pulsars gathers additional speed by pulling in gas from another star nearby. These so-called millisecond pulsars can spin as fast as seven hundred times a second, nearly one-quarter the speed of light.
"Pulsar" is a contraction for "pulsating star"—but they're actually more like a lighthouse. As a pulsar spins—or more accurately because a pulsar spins, like the universe's most powerful electrical generator—it shoots out two cones of radio emissions from several hundred miles above its bogglingly powerful magnetic poles. Then this dual beam sweeps across the cosmos for hundreds or thousands of years, until it happens to shine on Earth, and a few of its photons chance to fall on a reflector in a limestone sinkhole in a Puerto Rican forest—where this radio energy appears as a methodical flash in a telescope tuned to the right frequencies.
Two days later, Rankin and one of her students, Isabel Kloumann, are in the Arecibo Observatory's control room, tuning in pulsars. They've been allotted about three hours to run the telescope. The place looks like a cross between the bridge from Star Trek and the nurse's station in an intensive care unit. Behind a curving bank of double-stacked computer screens—filled with pulsing graphs and long rows of numbers—a two-story window looks out on the telescope. From speakers on the wall, a soft repetitive beeping fills the air, sounding a bit like Arecibo's nighttime frogs. It's the noise of motors and gears on the telescope's platform, moving overhead to follow a star.
Rankin and Kloumann have almost finished a forty-minute run of having the telescope track a faint pulsar named, without even a whiff of poetry, B2044+15. "So, we should make a move to a new star," Rankin says, and then looks through the top of her glasses with a smile. "Do you want to drive?"
"I'd love to, yes," says Kloumann and Rankin pushes back her chair so that her student can get to the keyboard.
Rankin points to one of the flat-screen monitors glowing blue in the strange half-light. "If you go over to the left-most panel you can bring up pointing control," Rankin instructs. "And let's go to pulsar 2110+27," she says.
Kloumann begins to enter instructions into the computer and soon the massive telescope outside starts moving to her commands, the Gregorian dome ponderously sliding along its curving track as the whole circular base rotates. Soon radio waves from B2110+27 will begin bouncing off the reflecting dish up to helium-cooled receivers in the Gregorian dome. Then, as improbably as picking out a mosquito's heartbeat in a roaring stadium, the star's pulses begin thump, thump, thumping across the screen.
In these pulses is the raw material for months of future analysis by Rankin and her students. And much of what has been learned about pulsars in the last four decades has been from radio data gathered, just like what Rankin and Kloumann are doing, here at the Arecibo Observatory, a facility of the National Science Foundation.
"But there is much that remains mysterious," Rankin says. "We have a very good cartoon," she says, "we know that pulsars tap their rotational energy—somehow—and turn it into radio waves."
"But we don't exactly understand the emissions processes," she says, "is it more like a laser or clouds of particles?"
To even get to the cartoon stage of understanding, astrophysicists like Rankin have tried to decipher the language of emissions that different kinds of pulsars produce. And her students do the same.
"The flash is not just a flash," Kloumann says, "it has structure to it."
When you shine a flashlight on the wall, some parts are bright, some are dim. Ditto for pulsar emissions. The radio beam surges and shifts like a rotating carousel of lights. "The devil is in those details of the pulse's variations and geometry," says Rankin.
Or consider pulsar B1944+17 that Kloumann has been studying on her own for several years. She will be presenting a scientific paper on this star here at the observatory in a few days—in a conference dubbed the "Fab Five Fest," to honor five astronomers, including Rankin, who have been the leading pulsar scientists at Arecibo over the years. Kloumann will tell them how B1944+17 sometimes just turns off. And no one is exactly sure why.
"All of us in Joanna's group, we're looking at these really unusual stars that don't fit the perfect model," Kloumann says. "They test the bounds of the theory—which is what you always should do in science: push the limits of the theory."
"To detect gravitational waves is in some sense the missing link of Einstein's theory of general relativity."
—Astronomer Joanna Rankin
Night has fallen again and Joanna Rankin, Mary Fillmore, and Isabel Kloumann are sitting on the porch of one of the small plywood huts that dot the steep hillside about the telescope, mixing drinks with pineapple juice. Again the darkness is laced with the sound of frogs, a hint of salt air from the nearby ocean, and thin bands of stars through the thick vegetation.
Over the years, with funding from the National Science Foundation, Rankin has brought many crews of students to Arecibo. "They're my pulsar mafia," she says with a deadpan look and then laughs, "watch out for astronomers." Some of the students do go on in astronomy. Isaac Backus '11 came back for a summer internship at the observatory and then onto another post at a telescope in India. He's about to begin a doctorate in physics at the University of Washington. Megan Force '09 G'11 came to Arecibo with Rankin and is now enrolled in a doctoral program in astrophysics at Dartmouth. And this is Kloumann's second trip to the telescope. She has leveraged her training in astronomy and applied mathematics into a slot as a doctoral student at Cornell.
Rankin, and several of Kloumann's other professors, describe her as one of the finest students they've taught. Winner of a Goldwater Scholarship and other awards, she's first author on a publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and is a co-author on a forthcoming article in the journal PLoS One.
In her turn, Kloumann raves about Rankin. "Joanna is a pulsar goddess," Kloumann and the other physics students say several times during the Arecibo visit. "She's a fantastic mentor who is there when you need her and leaves you alone when you don't."
Tonight, Rankin and Kloumann are tutoring a somewhat more plodding student of physics. They're explaining to me, for a second time, how a better theory of pulsars may, in turn, help confirm one of Albert Einstein's most intriguing predictions: the existence of gravitational waves.
In 1916, Einstein put forth his general theory of relativity and that was the end of Western science's two-hundred-year trip on Isaac Newton's leaking boat. In the first great scientific revolution of the twentieth century,
Einstein demonstrated that space and time flow together—that they are, really, as physicists now say, "spacetime." Equally strange, Einstein demonstrated that this spacetime, "like a vast sheet of rubber," says Kloumann, can be bent by matter and energy.
And it's this bending, these dimples and depressions in this substanceless sheet, that are responsible for gravity. In Isaac Newton's universe, the moon and Earth simply attract each other. In Albert Einstein's universe, the moon falls into the depression the Earth has made in the fabric of spacetime. And the flow of time, too, slows down as spacetime is warped near massive objects, like Earth, or, far more so, stars.
From this general theory, Einstein conjectured that when two massive objects, say two black holes, "go spinning around each other like a whirling dumbbell," says Kloumann, they should make waves in the fabric of spacetime. "A bit like ripples from a pebble tossed into a pond," she says.
These waves, physicists now are confident, travel through the universe, passing through Earth, you, this magazine—at the speed of light.
"To detect gravitational waves is in some sense the missing link of Einstein's theory of general relativity," says Rankin. Problem is, gravitational waves are small. "Exceedingly tiny, tiny, tiny," says Kloumann. So small that a passing gravitational wave would stretch this magazine by only a fraction of the width of an atom. Which is why, though they were indirectly confirmed in 1993, they have never been directly observed.
Here's where pulsars may help. To understand how, consider another freakish aspect of these stars: they are the universe's best clocks. In 1967, Jocelyn Bell discovered that her little green men didn't flash every 1.3 seconds, they flashed exactly every 1.337 seconds. No, every 1.33728 seconds…and when she and her professor were done calculating they realized that the finest human-made clocks of the day were not accurate enough to time this strange signal.
Because of their extreme density and enormous speed, pulsars turn out to be a nearly perfect flywheel—and this stability makes the arrival of each pulse so regular that some pulsars rival or exceed the precision of human-made atomic clocks. Scientists can now show that, about five hundred light-years away, the pulsar J0437-4715 spins on its axis every 5.7574451831072007 milliseconds—give or take a pinch.
And that accuracy—and more—will be necessary to surf the trough of a gravitational wave. Which is what a consortium of U.S. and international astrophysicists, including Rankin, aims to do. The group, NANOGrav, is assembling a selection of highly precise pulsars in many parts of the sky and is timing the arrival of their pulses for years.
These dozens of pulsars, working as far-off clocks, will allow the team to sift out when a gravitational wave has passed by. They'll be looking for a distinctive pattern in the arrival time of emissions from pulsars in opposite sides of the sky. And this requires developing enough precision to distinguish the wave's faint but unmistakable signature from many other disturbances to the incoming radio waves.
"Pulsars are highly precise, but they're not perfectly precise," Kloumann says. Sometimes pulsars appear to have starquakes. These kinds of glitches and the variations within single pulses that Rankin studies are one form of noise that need to be accounted for in the NANOGrav models—so the team can pick out the puny voice of gravity from the roaring din of the cosmos.
If gravitational waves can be detected, then the location and strength of their sources can be calculated. And that, Rankin thinks, could be as revolutionary as Galileo's invention of the optical telescope. "Being able to detect gravitational waves opens up a whole new equivalent spectrum," she says. "We'll be able to study gravitational radiation as well as electromagnetic radiation."
Some astronomers anticipate the invention of gravity telescopes that will be able to look at spinning black holes, cracks in the universe called cosmic strings, and deeper into space than the most-distant quasars now visible. Some speculate about revealing new galaxies of invisible stars made from exotic dark matter. Perhaps some member of Joanna Rankin's pulsar mafia will, like Jocelyn Bell in 1967, make the next unexpected discovery. "Who knows what we'll find out there," says Kloumann. "It's like never having seen light before."


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Bears players to hold fundraiser for slain fan's family
One week after a Lake Villa Township man was killed in a Jacksonville, Fla., bar while in town to watch the Bears play, some current and former players are hosting a fundraiser for his family.
Chicago Bears tight end Kellen Davis has initiated the Saturday night fundraiser for the family of William Christopher Pettry. Former Bears players Jason McKie and Tommie Harris are among those confirmed for the event.
John Barleycorn's Wrigleyville location, 3524 N. Clark St. in Chicago, will be the venue. The fundraiser will start at 5 p.m. and run until 9 p.m., said Barleycorn event coordinator Cassie Martin.
Veronica Pettry said her brother's family is grateful and overwhelmed by acts of kindness toward them since his death. She said the family will be at the fundraiser and they plan to enjoy meeting the Bears and celebrate Pettry's life.
"I know right now my brother is looking down from heaven saying, 'What is all the fuss about?'" said Veronica Pettry, 44, a former Chicago police sergeant.
Chris Pettry, 42, a married father of three children ages 5, 13 and 15, was fatally stabbed in a Jacksonville pub Oct. 7. The Jacksonville sheriff's office has charged Matthew Hinson with the murder. Authorities say Hinson slashed Pettry's throat with a pocket knife inside Fionn MacCool's Irish Pub and Restaurant about 12:30 a.m.
Hinson, 27, of Jacksonville, became "jealous" and "enraged" after seeing his wife talking to Pettry and sliced his throat while the two men sat on a bench inside the bar, authorities said.
Nick Viverito, 42, of Chicago said he and longtime friend Pettry had traveled to Jacksonville to watch last Sunday's Bears-Jaguars game. Viverito said he, Pettry and an older couple were at an outdoor table when Hinson's wife and a female friend asked to sit in two unoccupied chairs while waiting for Hinson. Viverito said there was only group conversation and they weren't hitting on the women.
Martin said there will be a $20 suggested donation for the fundraiser. Part of the evening will include a 50/50 raffle and a live auction of items contributed by linebacker Lance Briggs and wide receiver Devin Hester of the Bears, and Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald.
Kellen Davis said he wanted to show support for the Pettry family by setting up a youcaring.com donation page and pursuing Saturday's John Barleycorn event. Wayne Jett, of Crystal Lake-based Sideline Marketing Inc., got the ball rolling after he was contacted by Davis, who is his client.
"My heart goes out to the Pettry family that lost their loved one over a senseless act," Davis said.
Veronica Pettry said after the family grieved all week, they will be helped by the fundraiser with the Bears.
"The fact Kellen Davis, out of the goodness of his own heart, felt compelled to help our family is so amazing," she said.
Bears spokesman Scott Hagel said the organization's thoughts and prayers are with the Pettry family.
"We'll reach out directly to the family privately," Hagel said.
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Great article! My favorite point was #2. I did not realize I touched my face so much. Thanks for the tips
10 Body Language Mistakes That Sabotage Most Interviews
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Question — how much of what you "say" is actually interpreted through body language and tone of voice? Well, if we are to believe Albert Mehrabian, almost all of it.
Professor Albert Mehrabian has stated that only 7% of a message is conveyed verbally, through words. The other 93% is split between tone of voice (38%) and body language (55%). In fact, it's widely known as the 7-38-55 rule.
Now, you may take or leave that kind of statistic, as it clearly cannot be true in all cases. And furthermore, it cannot include the written word. If it did, authors would not sell books, and we would never sign contracts!
But even so, it's true that tone of voice and body language can betray our real feelings. And in a job interview, it's important to take control of your body language as much as possible. After all, even though you may say all the right things, your body can be telling the interviewer a completely different story.
Here then are 10 body language mistakes to avoid. Keep them in mind before your next interview, and keep them under control when you're in the hot seat. (See also: 16 Ways to Improve Your Body Language)
1. Don't Make a Feeble First Impression
It's been said that employers can spot the right candidate within 30 seconds, and that's all about body language. Be confident, but not arrogant. Walk in with a smile, without fiddling with anything you're wearing, and give a firm handshake. Firm, by the way, means just that; enough pressure to say you mean business, but not the Vulcan death grip that so many men (and some women) try and impose. Also, a floppy "dead fish" handshake is just as bad, if not worse. And if you're sweating from nerves (or something else), wipe your hands before entering the room. That sweaty palm will not do you any favors.
2. Stop Touching Your Face!
Did you see the movie Contagion by Steven Soderbergh? A doctor played by Kate Winslet states that the average person touches their face between 2,000 and 3,000 times every day! You've probably touched it a few times while reading this article. Now, while you can't stop yourself from doing this all the time, you must stop during the interview. We're all guilty of touching our nose, our lips, and our forehead, but these all imply that we're either nervous or dishonest. Perhaps we associate nose touching and dishonesty with Pinocchio. Also, you're then going to shake hands again at the end of the interview. Any germophobics (think Donald Trump or Howie Mandell) will not be pleased that you've had your hands on your mouth and nose for the last half hour.
3. Don't Do the Leg Wobble
Look around you today and see how often you spot the leg wobble. It comes in many forms. Some people will be seated at a table and will jiggle one leg up and down beneath it. Some will cross their legs and jiggle one foot. And some will have both legs going at once. It can be due to nervous energy, restless leg syndrome, or just bad habit. But whether you do it a little or a lot, do not do it in an interview. The message you're sending is loud and clear — I'm anxious, and I can't wait to get out of here. And a potential employer does not want to know that you can't wait to be out of his or her presence.
4. It's a Cliché Because It's True: Don't Cross Your Arms
You've heard it before, and you'll hear it again — and there's a good reason. When you cross your arms, you are saying that you are closed off, closed minded, defensive, or just plain bored. It doesn't matter if you find it the most comfortable way to hold your arms; this is an interview, and it's not a good idea to practice the most widely known negative piece of body language in front of a potential employer.
5. Don't Sit Up Too Straight, but Don't Slouch Either
Have you ever been sat opposite someone who sat up so straight that you just couldn't relax around them? It's a strange feeling. They're not really doing anything wrong; in fact, they're displaying good posture, but at the same time it just seems like they're being stiff and prudish. You don't want to seem this way in front of the interviewer, and you also don't want to make them feel uncomfortable around you, either. After all, who wants to work with someone who makes them feel awkward? So relax. Sit up straight, but not so straight it looks like you're craning your neck to the ceiling. And of course, don't be so relaxed that you slouch. This looks messy, disrespectful, and lazy.
6. Props Are for Magicians and Comedians
You may very well have your hands full when you enter the room. This can be unavoidable, especially when going from one interview to another. If you can, go to the interview with everything you need in one suitcase or bag. When you're called to the interview, rise gracefully and pick it up from the side of your chair, then sit it down beside you when you sit for the interview. If you're playing a balancing act with pens, organizers, your cell phone, resumes, and other paraphernalia, you look ill-at-ease, clumsy, and unprepared. And if you start dropping things, you make it even worse.
7. Eye Contact Is Good; Staring Is Not
It can be difficult to remember every point in a list, and some people will jot down memory aids and take them literally. One such point is "maintain eye contact." Before you know it, you're staring down the interviewer with a gaze that could put a statue to shame. As with all things in life, do this in moderation. You don't want to have your eyes wandering the room looking for an exit, but you also don't want to fix a laser-like stare into the interviewer's soul. Janine Driver, a body language expert with the nickname "the lyin' tamer," suggests that 60% eye contact is ideal, looking at the upper triangle of the other person's face (this goes from the left to right eyebrow, crossing the bridge of the nose). If there's more than one person in the room, make eye contact with each person. And don't stare at the mouth or forehead. In fact, don't stare, period. Remember to blink, please!
8. Watch Those Hands
If you're following rule number four and rule number two, you may be wondering what on earth to do with your hands. This can be especially true if you're someone who uses his or her hands a lot when talking, to express enthusiasm or to convey a point. Well, that's fine. After all, if it helps you elaborate upon what you're saying, and it's also a part of who you actually are, then don't mess with a good thing. But be careful. Mark Bowden, author of the book Winning Body Language, suggests keeping your hands and arms in the "truth plane." Ideally, this is an area that fans out 180 degrees from your navel, stopping below the collarbone. Keeping gestures within this place keeps your hands away from your face, as noted earlier, and shows that you are calm, centered, and controlled. So, by all means use your hands, but don't go mad.
9. Don't Be a Nodding Dog
People often believe that nodding in agreement at everything the interviewer says will stand them in good stead. That's not actually the case. While it's all well and good to nod in agreement when you do genuinely agree with something, you need to avoid the "nodding dog syndrome." Nodding in agreement with everything, regardless of the message, makes you look somewhat sycophantic, perhaps even spineless. Even worse, if you're not paying attention and then get asked a question related to the issue you were nodding about, you could look like a real idiot. "Why on earth were you agreeing with something that you had no idea about?" Keep the nodding under control. Of course, on the other end of the spectrum, shaking your head should be kept to a bare minimum. No one wants to be sat opposite someone so disagreeable, and it's also a sign of trying to dominate others.
10. Don't Keep Your Distance or Get in Their Faces
In most interviews, you'll be sat on one side of a desk with the interviewer sat on the other. This is standard practice, but with body language you can change this dynamic with both good and bad outcomes. For a start, if you purposefully shift your chair away from the desk, perhaps crossing your legs, then you're putting more distance between you and your potential employer. This is a suggestion of distrust or nervousness. Similarly, if you bring the chair up too close to the desk and start leaning over, you are being intimidating and also showing that you have something to hide. So stay at a comfortable distance from the desk, showing enough of your upper body to indicate that you have nothing to hide. If there's no desk, follow the same rules. Don't get so close that your breath is in their face, but don't back off so far that you're clearly trying to avoid them.
Of course, as with all lists, remember not to be so focused on this advice that you forget the main reason you're in the room. Practice before the interview; don't jot this down on the palm of your hand and become a body language robot. Be relaxed, be natural, and for the most part, be yourself.
Gosh, now it will be hard not to be overly self conscious.
Question regarding handshakes. What if you miss; you know you end up holding the finger tips of the other person or some awkward variation thereof. Acknowledge and redo or just be more careful with the ending handshake?
I would suggest going for an instant re-do with a smile. It can be a nice ice-breaker by converting an awkward moment that could potentially sabotage the meeting into a a moment that shows you're down to earth and comfortable enough to get it in the open, laugh about it, and move past it. It can make everyone in the room more comfortable than if the handshake had been correct initially by breaking down a little of the formality.
Agreed with guest.
Some sales pros actually engineer foibles and mistakes, to provide an opportunity to make fun of themselves - it's a great way of building trust and rapport.
I admit it-I sometimes look for opportunities to "screw up" in these ways, because I'm so good at handling them, they make me look good.
I agree with the guest above. Adding a sense of humaness, and the ability to show confidence in a ritualized event like the handshake makes you memorable - not for a bad handshake, but for the ability to make everyone feel at ease. A simple "Whoa, we missed on that one. Let's try that again" will make a great lasting impression.
This is nothing but archaic corporate cookie-cutter crap. If an interviewer is more concerned with the position of your elbows or is keeping a tally of every minor tic you have, they need to be replaced with someone who is actually listening to what you're saying and is able to discern whether you have the skills they are looking for in a candidate. An interview should be a dialogue, not an exam.
While what you say *should* be the case, the sad truth is, that *isn't* how it is - partly because of how people are hired and placed, and partly because of human nature which will never go away.
Interviewers get a "sense" for you...and you *will* be chosen based (at least partially) on this fact. I've been on hiring teams enough to have candidates chosen at the end on the subtlety of how they came across.
These are all just pointers to the subtle social cues that we all interpret a thousand times a day - isn't it better to *consciously* utilize this aspect of our humanity, rather than be a victim of it?
Unfortunately it is crap, but the vast majority of speakers and public officials havew mastered this technique, just watch the presidents speaches, addresses or whatever, He is more in tune with how he is representing himself than he is with anything else when it comes to the media and public....bamboozled comes to mind.
Point number 9 is clearly questionable.
In Far East Asian countries, nodding is pretty much a culture staple.
Nodding, followed by "Mmm",(or "Hai" in Japanese) usually conveys the message that says "I hear you, yes".
Some people take body language too seriously and needs to examine not only all the variables at hand, but also the background of such variables.
I love the list. I really did, but number 9 really gave me the impression that a lot of the studies are solely conducted in the western world.
This would mean the list is moot for someone such as myself.
As a last admonition, you might want to research more into the culture behind body languages as well. One book I've read that contained such information is "The Definitive Book of Body Language", by someone whose name I forgot. Forgive me!
how much of this ( the arm crossing above all) becomes self fulfilling? I cross my arms because it is comfortable, but now i will feel uncomfortable doing so because I don't want to show negativity, even though I am not feeling any.
Warning -- being overly self-conscious about your body language will also make you look uncomfortable and take your mind off the discussion.
How about this: try to RELAX and focus your attention on the interview questions.
3 years of recruiting as a consultant to international and tough companies in the third world plus 16 years recruiting for a big international Swiss company:
1. If you have to play a role to get a job, cr*p company, cr*p attitude.
2. If the company wants your skills and its a serious business company, they want the right person for the job and don't want bs interviews. They know all the tricks people apply to look good in an interview. Serious recruiters and companies want someone that can do the job very well. You are not there to show how skilled you are to handle an interview. There is a job, an important cog in the company wheel that needs to run smoothly asap.
3. If you 'act' your way into a job you will be unhappy = stressed = less productive etc.
You got to the interview your CV has dissected and you have been checked out on the internet and more places than you will know about.
Listen to, clarify questions and answer honestly.
Ask questions that you really need to clarify, even if its something like ' the company showed a loss last year, why?'
If anything you hear is a key point for you in a job, clarify, say thanks, give a card for contact for another job and say goodbye. The professional companies appreciate this and you will be called if something else comes up.
Sure , read the tips, then go be yourself. You are what you are and professional company recruiters will fill know you pretty well before they appoint.
Apologies for some of the sentence structures, I multitask a lot and make comments on blogs as a filler so:
Correction and addendum
When you go to an interview your CV has been dissected and you have been checked out on the internet and many more places than you would know.
If anything you hear is NOT a key factor for your career plan or it was not stated in the advert, clarify, and if its non negotiable, walk out. Leave a calling card or strong message that the company interest you and normally the recruiter will file you under the 'potential' label as companies also gather a database of CV's to avoid costs and recruit fast.
i am I - its a concept I teach that the i (small ID) can turn into the real, big I (big ID)
So my handle came out wrong
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> i am I - its a concept I teach that the i (small ID) can turn
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More consultant baloney. I'm pretty sure that if someone dropped that in an interview for a position other than consultanting or academia, you'd be laughed out the door.
Move along folks, nothing to see here.
I am i; Regarding your reply to your own post:
"I multitask a lot and make comments on blogs as a filler so:"
Umm . . . No. You don't "multitask". No one does and you just proved the point.
If what you produce during "multitasking" is garbage, then of what value was multitasking? If you have to redo your flawed product then you didn't accomplish anything. And if you've made a poor first impression, then your "multitasking" worked against you in spite of the credential claims made at the beginning (ie. worked for big international company, et al)
People never MULTITASK well. Humans only can focus on one task at a time. Attempts to do otherwise are achieved not by conducting multiple tasks simultaneously, but rather by doing one thing and interrupting it to do another. Therefore the product will always reflect this interrupted nature and lack of focus.
So, if I were trying to impress possible employers I'd never claim to multitask, rather, I would claim to manage my time and prioritize well.
I completely agree with he points you have made. If an applicant 'act' their way into a job; it will not be a good fit.
Just so you're aware RLS is not something you can always control, and the more you think about keeping your legs, toes, or feet still, the worse it gets. Implying that someone with RLS should just not do it in an interview is a bit insensitive. RLS also does not typically manifest itself as constantly jiggling legs.
A big help is to ask someone that knows you WELL and to see if you have any weird tendencies that you should probably change. If you can ask your spouse what you always seem to do when you're nervous, then you can use that to change what you do at your next interview.
This is a great idea. I was in Future Business Leaders of America and when preparing for scholarship interviews or DLC interviews, we would schedule "mock" interviews with qualified teachers or administrators for them to give us honest opinions and feedback on what to keep and what to change. We found it very successful, we even got members to Nationals with this method.
Really? as a hearing impaired professional telling me to not stare or watch mouths is idiocy. Actually, if more people did look at other people's faces while they spoke there would be much less communication misunderstood.
Good point, but you sound offended. There are plenty of exceptions to each tip. These are just generally good guidelines. When an interviewer is seeing many candidates, first impressions are critical. I am sure they will understand when you are hearing impaired and you are staring at them. Also, if you don't have any arms you can disregard at least #1, #2, #4, and #8.
I have always disagreed with the crossing your arms part. I am often cold and crossing my arms is about warming myself up.
I would strongly suggest how you phrase eye contact and suggest do use eye contact. I have gone to interviews where people don't use eye contact! I'm deaf, seriously, eye-contact is all I know. But in order for me to get a feel for the place and understand what to expect from my employees in the future, I look around too. But don't suggest 60 percent without a reason. Especially for people like me who walk in deaf and rely on lip reading in the hearing world without an interpreter.
I'm not trying get get offensive, but think about what you're saying here.
thanks for the advice! gonna take my interview in a few days, and nervous since it is my first job interview. ill use this advice, for the interview. Hope it goes well!


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OK so now we received official word on the future of the show. For anyone who hasn't read the thread in the TPB News forum yet, that was not the Series finale but they are taking a break this summer. There will be a special aired next year and hopefully more episodes made in the future. Check this thread for confirmation...http://www.trailerparkboys.org/forums/index.php?topic=7961.0I was on a road trip last week and wasn't able to post my comments on the ep. I watched it again and figure I might as well post my highlights, some of which have been mentioned by others as well. I did really like this episode.Julian after Conky kisses him: "Would you put that fuckin puppet away Please!"I like how they admitted the plan to smuggle dope by model train was dumb as many of us thought. Conky was great at that, to Julian "You fucking idiot".Ricky yelling "Jacob!" to cut off Jacob while he was in his extra long Baaam that didn't seem would ever end, as the train brought back the cigs from "Skiddy Row".Conky's line about how is Julian going to dance around this little situation ... "Dirtily"Ricky impression of Drunk LaheyRicky calling Conky "Stick-Bitch".Conky's last words were "He's the man they call..." Awesome!The idea of them escaping in "that floaty thing" as Jacob called it, and the filming of it was great.The Cinematography in this ep was awesome! For those of you that don't yet appreciate the genius of Clattenburg go back and watch. He did an awesome job with the equipment he had before but I thought he really turned it up a notch in this ep. A taste of things to come I hope.Seriously this man is an amazing director, don't place any restrictions on him, let him run loose! I was also impressed by the look of the movie, especially the ending montage that ran whilst Bobcaygeon by the Tragically Hip played, nothing but pure movie magic!Also I will say it was interesting to note that a lot of us speculated after ep 9 that Conky called the US authorities on Bach and not the boys. It looks like he did turn on the boys.Also I thought it was interesting that Julian and some of the others, besides Ricky, finally get shot. Perhaps they are owning up to the fact that you can't have all those bullets flying around without people getting hit.
Look, you people obviously don't understand what others on this board are pissed off about when they say they want the episodes to be like the old ones, but not use the same jokes. I understand what they mean and can calmly explain this to you:The series started after the original black and white film was released. For those of you who have seen the original film (I'm guessing most of you) You should realize that it was EXTREMELY dark in comparrison to the televison series. In the first seasons there was a lot of black comedy, that was very off beat, sometimes it was even capable of making you cringe (Think Lucy trying to get with Julian, possibly even implying Trinity is his? It WAS done, subtly, in early shows) The boys were a little more hardcore back then too, maybe even not such good guys as they are now.There are few things that have REALLY botered me about Trailer Park Boys up until this season because the jokes were always so good, and they boys were so awesome. One thing that DID bother me was the sudden dissapearance without explanation of Treena Lahey (Chuck Cunningham syndrom!) When we got into the episodes with Conky and Steve French, anyone could see that the show was getting a little gimicky, but Who cared? It was HILARIOUS! Ricky walking around with that rag on his nose and the truck stuck to his hand made my entire YEAR I swear!My problem this year is that as I've said before, they've jumped the shark; they've become something entirely different than they originally started as, and I think this is what is bothering other people who are crying that they liked teh old episodes more. Go back and watch your old episodes and compare the characters. Character development is a wonderful thing, but some characters have been diminished by it. Look specifically at Bubbles: He used to be quiet and subdued, now he freaks out almost as much as Ricky! Bubbles as the Straight man was one of the things that gave TPB its greatness because you just didn't expect poor ol' Bubbles to have all that insight! And also, why has Bubbles voice gotten so high over the years? Mike Smith has always done a wonderful job, but he's been overplaying the character in the past 2 seasons. (though I love Bubbles songs and Kittyland) Cory and Trevor's Characters were changed too much, but it worked (to a point). Originally they weren't such lackeys. In the episode "I'm not Gay, I love Lucy" You see C&T actually mocking RICKY! (They imply that he's gay.) Later on they became these completely downtrodden guys with no self esteem who wouldn't stick up to the boys at all. It worked for those seasons when they worked for Ricky and Julian (Cory and Trevor taking the place of the girls at Julian's Rub n' Tug! I thought I'd never stop laughing. When they broke their arms and they both had those casts that kept ther arms in position: funniest thing EVER!) but it was taken too far last season when they suddenly became equivalent to dogs? It was just taken a smidge too far to the point where it wasn't very funny. (Becasue it wouldn't happen to real people)Lucy has become WAY too much of a ho-bag. Sure she's a trailer park girl, but at least she used to have good intentions. Lucy would tell Ricky to straighten up because they had a child. Now her character has no integrity, she doesn't keep Trinity in mind, she just sleeps around on Ricky for no reason. And most of all, I can't take how Ricky was pushed aside this season as a sidekick. In old episodes, yes, Julian was the "Brains" of the outfiit in that he tried his best to keep them out of trouble, but Ricky was "the man with the plan". Ricky in all his ignorance is this mastermind in all things illegal. And that he does those things and doesn't even really realize that what he's doing is wrong, and that he's almost always able to talk himself out of being arrested for all the stupid small shit that the boys do is another thing that makes TPB so amazing. Ricky is this true anti-hero, he's a victim of circumstance who's got a heart of gold when it comes to his friends and family. You want Ricky to win in the end, you want him to succeed even though he's doing seriously illegal stuff. For Ricky to be pushed aside and turned into a moron this season was a slight to the character. Ricky deserved better.As for the jokes, its okay to keep whats tried and true, but things can be overdone. people love to hear the catch phrases of a character, Every time Ricky has ever said "Knock Knock" I've nearly burst blood vessels from laughing so hard ("And by the way your fish sticks suck!" if that didn't kill you you have NO sense of humour.) and the Patrick Swayze/Reveen thing is hilarious, but Patrick Swayze was WAY overdone this year. I know some of you found that "Baaaam" thing hilarious, but to me that was about as dated as if they had said "Whazaaap" instead. I nearly cringed when they did that.In closing, people aren't complaining about changes so much as they are comlaining about the show taking a complete turn into pure comedy (With a lot of gimmicks, physical comedy and too much reliance on old jokes) instead of having the dark undertones and subtle comedy that it used to have.
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Our friends at the Claremont Institute take their bearings from the political thought of the American founding as understood preeminently by Abraham Lincoln. On their home page (linked above), they have posted links to some of the great essays exploring Lincoln's life and works that are available in their archives.
The Winter issue of the Claremont Review of Books celebrates the bicentennial anniversary of Lincoln's birth (tomorrow) with a collection of essays, reviews, and illustrations featuring Lincoln. The Winter issue is now available to subscribers in its entirety online, and it costs only $19.95 to subscribe for a year (subscribe here). This week we proudly present three reviews from the issue discussing aspects of Lincoln's life and legacy.
At least until the presidency of George W. Bush, Abraham Lincoln was called a dictator more often than any other president. But, argues Professor Mackubin Thomas Owens of the Naval War College in his review of four books bearing on Lincoln's wartime leadership, a dictator wouldn't have shown Lincoln's respect for the limits of politics and the law. A true dictator, for example, wouldn't have submitted to a risky election in the middle of a civil war.
Lincoln was clearly motivated by something other than the dictator's desire for power. During the Civil War, he sought to save the Constitution and the Union, but only because they were the means of preserving that most precious of goods, republican liberty. It is with this end in mind, and with an understanding of the nature of prudence, that we can properly understand Lincoln's actions as commander-in-chief.
For all the thousands of biographies that have been written of him, little has been said of Lincoln's role as war leader. Owens takes up the subject himself, showing that over the course of the war, Lincoln's military strategy intertwined with his political strategy. At the root of both was a deep knowledge of how to choose the right action in changing circumstances.
Though Lincoln's efficacy as a military commander has been questioned, historians are beginning to form a better opinion of his wartime deeds. And justly so, argues Owens:
In general, Lincoln performed effectively as a military leader. He understood what had to be done and insisted on it. Though the Union may have possessed a material edge over the Confederacy, a strategy was needed to translate this advantage into victory. This Lincoln supplied and saw through to the end.
Owens observes that in the sea of Lincoln books, there are by his count only four that examine his performance as war president — this, Owens quotes James McPherson, for "the only president in American history whose entire administration was bounded by war." It should be noted that Professor Owens's own monograph on Lincoln's wartime leadership has just been published by the Foreign Policy Research Institute and is accessible online here.
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