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| Friday, November 2, 2012, 10:05 a.m.
WASHINGTON — CIA security officers went to the aid of State Department staff less than 25 minutes after they got the first call for help during the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, U.S. intelligence officials said Thursday, as they laid out a detailed timeline of the CIA's immediate response to the attack from its annex less than a mile from the diplomatic mission.
The attack on the 11th anniversary of 9/11 by what is now suspected to be a group of al-Qaida-linked militants killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
The timeline was offered just days before the presidential election in a clear effort to refute recent news reports that said the CIA told its personnel to "stand down" rather than go to the consulate to help repel the attackers. Fox News reported that when CIA officers at the annex called higher-ups to tell them the consulate was under fire, they were twice told to "stand down." The CIA publicly denied the report.
The intelligence officials told reporters Thursday that when the CIA annex received a call about the assault, about half a dozen members of a CIA security team tried to get heavy weapons and other assistance from the Libyans. But when the Libyans failed to respond, the security team, which routinely carries small arms, went ahead with the rescue attempt. The officials said that at no point was the team told to wait.
Instead, they said the often outmanned and outgunned team members made all the key decisions on the ground, with no second-guessing from senior officials monitoring the situation from afar.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to provide intelligence information publicly.
The consulate attack has become a political issue in Washington, with Republicans questioning the security at the consulate, the intelligence on militant groups in North Africa and the Obama administration's response in the days after the attack. Republicans also have questioned whether enough military and other support was requested and received. And presidential candidate Mitt Romney has used the attack as a sign of what he says is President Barack Obama's weak leadership overseas.
In the first days after the attack, various administration officials linked the Benghazi incident to the simultaneous protests around the Muslim world over an American-made film that ridiculed the Prophet Muhammad. Only later did they publicly attribute it to militants, possibly linked to al-Qaida, and acknowledged it was distinct from the film protests. The changing explanations have led to suspicions that the administration didn't want to acknowledge a terror attack on U.S. personnel so close to the Nov. 6 election, a charge Obama has strongly denied.
On Thursday, intelligence officials said they had early information that the attackers had ties to al-Qaida-linked groups, but did not make it public immediately because it was based on classified intelligence. And they said the early public comments about the attack and its genesis were cautious and limited, as they routinely are in such incidents.
They added that while intelligence officials indicated early on that extremists were involved in the assault, only later were officials able to confirm that the attack was not generated by a protest over the film.
The Associated Press has reported that the CIA station chief in Tripoli and a State Department official sent word to Washington during the attack citing eyewitnesses as saying it was not a film protest, but the planned work of armed militants.
The officials' description Thursday of the attack provided details about a second CIA security team in Tripoli that quickly chartered a plane and flew to Benghazi, but got stuck at the airport. By then, however, the first team had gotten the State Department staff out of the consulate and back to the CIA base at the nearby annex.
As the events were unfolding, the Pentagon began to move special operations forces from Europe to Sigonella Naval Air Station in Sicily. U.S. aircraft routinely fly in and out of Sigonella and there are also fighter jets based in Aviano, Italy. But while the U.S. military was at a heightened state of alert because of 9/11, there were no American forces poised and ready to move immediately into Benghazi when the attack began.
The Pentagon would not send forces or aircraft into Libya — a sovereign nation — without a request from the State Department and the knowledge or consent of the host country. And Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has said the information coming in was too jumbled to risk U.S. troops.
According to the detailed timeline senior officials laid out Thursday, the first call to the CIA base came in at about 9:40 p.m., and less than 25 minutes later about the team headed to the consulate. En route they tried to get additional assistance, including some heavier weapons, but were unable to get much aid from the Libyan militias.
The team finally got to the consulate, which was engulfed in heavy diesel smoke and flames, and they went in to get the consulate staff out. By 11:30 p.m. all of the U.S. personnel — except Stevens — left and drove back to the annex, with some taking fire from militants along the way.
By that time, one of the Defense Department's unarmed Predator drones had arrived to provide overhead surveillance.
At the CIA base, militants continued the attack, firing guns and rocket-propelled grenades. The Americans returned fire, and after about 90 minutes — or around 1 a.m. — it subsided.
Around that time, the second CIA team — which numbered about six and included two military members — arrived at the airport, where they tried to figure out where Stevens was and get transportation and added security to find him.
Intelligence officials said that, after several hours, the team was finally able to get Libyan vehicles and armed escorts, but by then had learned that the ambassador was probably dead and the security situation at the hospital was troublesome. The State Department has said that a department computer expert, Sean Smith, also was killed.
The second CIA team headed to the annex, and arrived after 5 a.m., just before the base came under attack again.
According to officials, militants fired mortar rounds at the building, killing two of the security officers who were returning fire. The mortar attack lasted just 11 minutes.
And less than an hour later, a heavily armed Libyan military unit arrived and was able to take the U.S. personnel to the airport.
U.S. officials have said there were two unarmed drones in the area at various points of the night. One was overhead in Libya and moved to the area quickly and another was called in at a later point to provide surveillance.
Meanwhile, two Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee wrote Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, seeking an explanation of documents recently found in the Benghazi complex. The documents, disclosed in the publication Foreign Policy, included drafts of two letters worrying that the compound was under troubling surveillance and complaining that the Libyan government failed to fulfill requests for additional security.
Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and national security subcommittee chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, pressed for answers on whether the documents indicated the possible involvement of Libyan government personnel in the assault.
"These documents paint a disturbing picture indicating that elements of the Libyan government might have been complicit in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the compound and the murder of four Americans," the letter said. "It also reiterates the fact that the U.S. government may have had evidence indicating that the attack was not a spontaneous event but rather a preplanned terrorist attack that included prior surveillance of the compound as a target."
The Foreign Policy article said some of the documents are clearly marked as State Department correspondence. Others are unsigned printouts of messages to local and national Libyan authorities. The article said two unsigned draft letters are both dated Sept. 11 and express strong fears about the security situation at the compound.
"Finally, early this morning at 0643, September 11, 2012, one of our diligent guards made a troubling report," said one of the documents quoted in the story and addressed to Mohamed Obeidi, the head of the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs office in Benghazi. "Near our main gate, a member of the police force was seen in the upper level of a building across from our compound. It is reported that this person was photographing the inside of the U.S. special mission and furthermore that this person was part of the police unit sent to protect the mission. The police car stationed where this event occurred was number 322."
Associated Press writer Larry Margasak contributed to this report.


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I find myself at a loss for words these days.
I am going through an incredible life-changing event and I am having a very difficult time writing about it.
It's crazy.
I've blogged about my sister, brother, Bitchy, Sassy, Golden Boy and all the trials and tribulations of raising said children; the good, the bad and the ugly.
I've blogged about stalking, fighting, teen driving, teen dating, teen screaming, teaching, hurting, laughing and heartache.
I've written about everything in my life; everything but this. This event has me speechless. And that's hard to do.
I don't feel comfortable (surprisingly) writing about anything that might hurt any of the parties involved; ANY of the parties. (Holy crap, have I finally learned how to use a semi-colon?)
I don't know why.
Is there a right way to do this? No.
Is there a guide about how to end a marriage? No.
Do we all do things the same way? No.
I only know that no matter who chooses to finally right something that has been wrong for so long, those long tentacles of pain reach out and wrap themselves around many, many people.
I am trying to find a way to put words to all that is happening, but do it in a way that will be true to who I am.
I thank you from the bottom of my heart for continuing to visit me, for your emails, your cards and your support. It has lifted me in ways I CAN'T TELL YOU and is helping me each and every day. And the funnies? Keep 'em coming. I'm feeling the magic as we speak.
I can't wait to find my voice again, to laugh out loud while writing, and to feel good about myself.
Now, I am going to settle into my new home, check the mousetraps, put a log on the fire and bury myself in a good book. Have a lovely new year, everyone.


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Review on the consistency of Risk Weighted Assets
This page presents the EBA's work on the consistency of Risk Weighted Assets (RWAs) in the EU banking sector. The objective is to identify any material differences in RWA outcomes, to understand the sources of such differences and, if need be, to formulate the necessary policy solutions to enhance convergence between banks and to improve disclosure.
Following the EBA's stress test and recapitalisation exercise, questions were raised as to why there are significant differences in the denominator of the capital ratios (the capital requirements) and material differences in banks' regulatory parameters (probability of default – PD – and loss given default – LGD). While differences in risk parameters and capital requirements between banks are not a sign of inconsistency per se, a substantial divergence may signal that the methodologies used for estimating risk parameters require, in some cases, further analysis.
The overall results of the review on RWAs will inform the work the EBA is conducting in parallel on the validation of internal models, which will also contribute to harmonising supervisory and banks' practices and to enhancing consistency.
A deeper understanding of what drives differences in RWAs will allow the EBA to explore a number of options to address specific concerns. These include using existing CEBS/EBA Guidelines, where appropriate, to enhance convergence in the computation of RWAs, and to improve Pillar 3 disclosures, as well as the validation and ongoing monitoring of internal models.


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Band Kid Has the Best Reaction Ever to Breaking Cymbal
Playing the crash cymbals for the 'Star Spangled Banner' in your school band is kind of a big deal. It's definitely the most dramatic part of the song, and it only gets more dramatic when one of the cymbals breaks. What does one do when such a nightmare occurs? Take a cue from this kid who handled the situation like a bawse.
We defy you to find a better example of someone making the most out of a potentially embarrassing situation. This is easily the best recovery in middle school band history. We give it a couple days before Ellen has this kid jamming with DJ Tony.


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American swimmer Nathan Adrian's name hasn't been on everyone's mind, the way that Michael Phelps' or Ryan Lochte's has. But he did something that even Lochte couldn't do this week: beat Yannick Agnel in a head-to-head race.
Adrian's time of 47.52 seconds in the men's 100-meter freestyle gave him his first individual gold medal, as he also beat James Magnussen of Australia, who came in second, and Brent Hayden of Canada.
Agnel, the 6'8 Frenchman who is on his way to becoming a dominant force at the London Games, was fourth, at 47.84. He remains one of the top medal-winning swimmers at this Olympics, with two golds and a silver.
A native of Bremerton, Wash., Adrian was on the U.S. men's 4x100m relay team that fell just short and lost the gold to the French this week, with Agnel anchoring his team.
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Recognizing The Right Of Plants To Evolve
If proposals calling for rights for animals are on the table, why not rights for other living things? Plants, for instance.
The Future Of Nonhuman Rights, Part 2
In 2013, the Pennsylvania-based Nonhuman Rights Project, led by attorney Steven Wise, plans to file a series of lawsuits in hopes that one high court in one American state will finally recognize that a nonhuman plaintiff can be a legal "person" in the eyes of the law.
If Wise and his group are successful, they will break new ground by securing humanlike rights for nonhumans. The result could open all kinds of possibilities for the rights of other nonhuman entities.
Advocates for plant rights and robot rights are already planning for the future. If they eventually succeed, it could bring sweeping changes to the way we live. This three-part series on the Future of Nonhuman Rights explores the people and ideas that may bring radical change to legal systems — and societies — around the world.
After all, plants can sometimes exhibit humanlike behavior. And we're not just talking about the butterwort-flytrap hybrid in The Little Shop of Horrors. Some plants respond well to music. Some "smell" other plants. Still others seem to shrink away when touched.
Plants display remedial types of memory and possess "anoetic consciousness" — the ability of an organism to sense and to react to stimulation — writes Daniel Chamovitz in his 2012 book, What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses.
And, according to recent reports from a research team led by Australian biologist Monica Gagliano, some plants (such as chili peppers) may be able to "hear" other plants (such as sweet fennel). "We know that plants recognize what is growing next to them," Gagliano says in the University of Western Australia's University News. "There is chemical communication between them. Plants can warn other plants of a predator by releasing a chemical, and the warned plants can release chemicals to make themselves unpalatable to the predator."
She says, "I think we might realize that plants are more sensitive than we think."
Sensitive enough to deserve rights? Some people think so.
A Dense Forest
Writing in The New York Times recently, Michael Marder, author of the forthcoming Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life, calls for "plant liberation." Plant stress, Marder points out, does not reach the same intensity, nor does it express itself in the same ways, as animal suffering. This fact, he adds, should be reflected in our practical ethics.
But, he continues, "the commendable desire to ameliorate the condition of animals, currently treated as though they were meat-generating machines, does not justify strategic argumentation in favor of the indiscriminate consumption of plants. The same logic ultimately submits to total instrumentalization the bodies of plants, animals and humans by setting them over and against an abstract and rational mind."
Therefore, he concludes, "the struggles for the emancipation of all instrumentalized living beings should be fought on a common front."
In other words, what is good for the goose is good for the gooseberry.
In a debate between Marder and Gary Francione — a professor at Rutgers University's law school — on the Columbia University Press website, Francione offers an opposing view to plant liberation and rights. "If plants are not sentient — if they have no subjective awareness — then they have no interests," Francione says. "That is, they cannot desire, or want, or prefer anything."
Therefore, Francione says, "I do believe that we have an obligation not to eat more plants than we need to live, but that is because I think that overeating is a form of violence to our own bodies. I also believe that we have an obligation to all sentient inhabitants of the planet not to use more non-sentient resources than we need. In both cases, we have obligations that concern plants but these obligations are not owed directly to plants."
In sum, he says: "I reject completely the notion that we can have direct moral obligations to plants. I reject completely that plants have any interests whatsoever."
Of Subjects And Lives
Longtime animal rights advocate Tom Regan, professor emeritus of philosophy at North Carolina State University and author of The Case for Animal Rights, is skeptical about affording plants the same legal respect as animals.
"Being the subject of a life is a sufficient condition for having basic moral rights," says Regan, who defines "subjects of a life" as those "in the world, aware of the world, aware of what happens to them."
Branching Out: Digging Into Plant Rights
Here are some links to websites that examine the nature of nature:
Prince Charles on Talking to Plants
Do Plants Think? An interview with Daniel Chamovitz in Scientific American
Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature
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And, he continues, "what happens to them makes a difference to the quality and duration of their life."
By Regan's compass, many, many nonhuman animals are subjects of a life and therefore have basic moral rights, including the rights to life, liberty and bodily integrity.
Plants, however, "are forms of life without a subject. That is to say, while they live in the world, they are not aware of the world, nor are they aware of what happens to them," Regan says.
Before recognizing the rights of any forms of life without a subject — such as plants — Regan says, "we need to be given a sound argument."
And, he says, "at least up to this point in my life, I have not encountered one."
The Right To Evolve
The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund argues that greenery does have interests — and rights. The Pennsylvania-based nonprofit works with communities around the world to "craft and adopt new laws that change the status of natural communities and ecosystems from being regarded as property under the law to being recognized as rights-bearing entities."
Establishing a legal system in which natural communities and ecosystems have an inalienable right to exist and flourish, says Mari Margil of CELDF, "places the highest societal value on those natural systems and communities."
Under such a rights-based system of law, Margil says, "a river may be recognized as having the right to flow, fish and other species in a river may be recognized as having the right to exist and evolve, and the flora and fauna that depend on a river may be recognized as having the right to thrive. This legal framework seeks to protect the natural ecological balance of that habitat."
In the past few years there has been a flurry of international interest in a plant rights movement. The New York Times reported in 2008 that Ecuador became the first country to provide constitutional rights to plants, granting nature "the right to the maintenance and regeneration of its vital cycles, structure, functions and evolutionary processes." That same year, a Swiss ethics panel advocated protecting plants' "reproductive ability."
Speaking recently in Hawaii, the Dalai Lama said that every living thing, including a tree or a plant, has the right to survive.
It Isn't Easy Being Green
From one angle, the contemporary plant rights movement is an extension of our ever-increasing awareness of the complexity of plant life. Writing in his popular 1990 novel Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton drew a compelling portrait of nature.
"In the earth's history," Crichton observed, "plants had evolved as competitively as animals, and in some ways more fiercely ... People who imagined that life on earth consisted of animals moving against a green background seriously misunderstood what they were seeing. That green background was busily alive. Plants grew, moved, twisted, and turned, fighting for the sun; and they interacted continuously with animals — discouraging some with bark and thorns; poisoning others; and feeding still others to advance their own reproduction, to spread their pollen and seeds. It was a complex, dynamic process ..."
In Crichton's latest novel, Micro — co-authored with Richard Preston and published after Crichton's death — the nature of nature continues to be explored.
"Plants are very good at doing just about everything an animal can do, sometimes a lot better than an animal can do them," says Preston in an interview.
Plant rights, however, is a stickier thicket. And if sovereignty for soybeans is not imminent, our awareness of our relationship to plants — and how we treat them — is moving to the front burner. "When it comes to beautiful, rare or keystone plants in an ecosystem," Preston says, "they don't have rights as individual organisms, but I think the ecosystem as a whole has an inherent right to exist."
And, he adds, "I don't think humans have an inherent right to destroy any ecosystem."


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THAT FONT. I MEAN..WHAT. It's called Curlz. With a z. It's almost as bad as Comic Sans and is infamous for its many appearances in numerous MS Word documents and 8 year old birthday party invitations. I used it for my 8 year old birthday party invitation. I could pull up GREETINGS WORKSHOP and show you.
Also, I am certain this is not something that the people over at The Fash Pack pasted onto the photo, because, being the hard-hitting journalist I am that will not rest until the truth is revealed, I googled the name of the editorial (Googled, you guys. I don't mess around.) and every scan I've seen has this terrible writing in that terrible Polly Pocket shade (ok, I actually love Polly Pocket, but there is a time and a place.)
And I know Vogue Paris loves being controversial but this is not even supposed to be bad, I don't think. It's not like they did the whole model-giving-the-finger-to-a-sign-protesting-fur thing. They just think it's ~bitchin, I suppose. Or edgy or sexy or whatever else they always aim for.
I don't know you guys. I just. don't. know.
And because I am basically Jim Henson in 13 year old girl form without the puppets but DEFINITELY WITH THE SAME OPTIMISM (sarcasm, though the following is 100% genuine,) I will say that Sasha looks ACE. As always. She should've decided on the font. She should've BEEN the font. It would just be a Bye Bye Birdie lyric made out of little Sashas, like that book we have somewhere from the 90's about The Human Body where the title is a bunch of kids in primary colored tshirts and jeans and converse and they all make up the title.
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Saturday, September 13, 2008
One Really IS the Loneliest Number
Saturday, September 13, 2008
My guess is the decorator ran out of cupcakes towards the bottom (oh yes, this is another cupcake-cake monstrosity), which resulted in this wonky number 7 with tiny feet attached.
Apparently the decorator also ran out of 'y's; check out the inscription. "Happ 1st Birthday"? Y not?
Marissa H., I hear two can be as bad as one, but I'd have to see that 2 to believe it.
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- JRM said...
To quote my 3 year old daughter "Don't call that cake bad. It's a good cake and it has a number 1."
This is the same child who likes sparkly light up shoes and paints everything red with glitter, so take her comment for what it's worth. - September 13, 2008 at 10:09 AM
- Unknown said...
No Y! Poor Jace; I do hope his birthday was happ despite this cake.
- September 13, 2008 at 10:21 AM
I hate cupcake cakes, especially from a bakery. It's just sad. This one even more so.
Can you imagine having paid for this?! I'd cry whenever I looked back at those pictures. - September 13, 2008 at 10:30 AM
- icanhasyarn said...
That actually looks like a gallows to me!
- September 13, 2008 at 10:37 AM
I did a cupcake cake in a number 1 shape for my daughter's first birthday many years ago and it looked better than this! Maybe I should get call myself a professional and get paid for it?
nah. I'm way too lazy. - September 13, 2008 at 10:38 AM
Yes, a lonely number, and doubtless the reason behind the choice of color... Well, let's hope the celebration was happ anyway.
- September 13, 2008 at 10:38 AM
He that is just the wa the do it at her baker, be happ!
- September 13, 2008 at 11:02 AM
That's just sad. I hate cupcake cakes, too.
- September 13, 2008 at 11:14 AM
- Sarah said...
Good think the 1 year old Jace, cant read yet. And I'm sure at that age he didnt really care what it looked like. As long as he got to eat it with his hands.
- September 13, 2008 at 11:29 AM
- Sara said...
I wonder if that '1' was trying to double as an upside-down 'J' for little Jace.
Well, probably not, but it could do that just about as well. ;) - September 13, 2008 at 11:43 AM
- sues2u2 said...
ummm, maybe the decorator grew up speaking another language w/o a "y" in it? Hmmm, my son's Blues Clues cake 10 years ago was that color however so is Blue!
- September 13, 2008 at 11:56 AM
I knew this was the perfect place to come and get a nice laugh to start my birthday out on the right foot. In addition to the laugh (and I do agree with Icanhasyarn that this one looks like a gallows, which is a particularly horrific motif for a birthday cake), I also have the comfort of knowing my birthday cake - since I will be making it myself - will look ever so much more festive and happ.
- September 13, 2008 at 12:14 PM
- Hyla said...
I thought it was made with a "J" cake pan. :/
http://earthyfinds.blogspot.com - September 13, 2008 at 12:45 PM
- Jill in MA said...
Your comments are hilarious! What a great blog you have here!
- September 13, 2008 at 1:11 PM
- sheree said...
oh wow. I really hope jace still had a happ birthday. Poor kid.
- September 13, 2008 at 1:25 PM
- LdybugSammi said...
OMG this is the funniest blog ever!
- September 13, 2008 at 1:33 PM
I have a legitimate question:
Why do so many people hate cupcake cakes?
I am dead serious on this one. I think they can be fun but are often poorly executed. Can a cupcake cake hater shed some light for me?
Thanks! - September 13, 2008 at 1:58 PM
- Lyz said...
I would totally turn this cake upside down and call it a "J" for Jace.
Thank goodness he's one and not three - they start to care about their cakes then. - September 13, 2008 at 2:29 PM
- Meichelle said...
Hahahahahaha!!! So funn ... (without the Y of course)
- September 13, 2008 at 2:40 PM
- SolaMommy said...
Poor Jace :(
- September 13, 2008 at 3:02 PM
one..one ugly cake. bwah ha ha ha ha!
the color scheme reminds me of those terrible powder blue 80's baseball uniforms.
yuck. - September 13, 2008 at 3:03 PM
- Miranda said...
Why all the hate for cupcake cakes? I mean, I wouldn't have one for a wedding cake or anything, but I think they can be kind of fun when they're done well. My only issue with them is that there tends to be more than the usual amount of frosting, which ... YMMV, but for me, more than a quarter inch frosting thickness is entirely too much.
- September 13, 2008 at 3:06 PM
- mr ryce said...
lol this is some funny stuff
- September 13, 2008 at 3:08 PM
yes, i agree it looks like a gallows!! maybe they were going to play hangman as a game at the birthday party?
i don't get the little blob of 4 cupcakes off to the side, with the candle and the lettering all squished together. there was plenty of space on the cake itself and those extra cupcakes could have been used to balance out the bottom of the cake.
decimal point? - September 13, 2008 at 3:14 PM
Maybe this is one of those visual illusions like you see on a football pitch. Perhaps the angle from which you look at it, maybe someone could see 1? ...Like from way, way, way across the room?
- September 13, 2008 at 3:29 PM
With icing that blue, think of all of the Smurf poo after!!
- September 13, 2008 at 4:09 PM
I like cupcake cakes, because while cupcakes are fabulous, sometimes you just want a tableau you can't put on a cupcake, and this allows for a regular cake experience without the hassle and dishwashing of regular cake.
This cake, though? Not so much. - September 13, 2008 at 4:18 PM
- Artfulife said...
This is funny, I actually thought it was for a "7" year olds birthday before I read on. I love your blog. Every time I read it, I cry, because I am laughing soooo hard.
- September 13, 2008 at 4:28 PM
Ummm... if you turned it upside down, it would be an L, not a J.
- September 13, 2008 at 4:36 PM
- Helen Ann said...
I agree with the folks who are questioning the cupcake hating. LOL. The first time I saw one I thought it was a pretty clever idea...And a heck of a lot easier to deal with in a classroom setting than a regular cake that you have to try and cut evenly.
That said, I do hope that Jace felt completely happy on his b-day and not just happ. :) - September 13, 2008 at 4:57 PM
- Unknown said...
I'm curious....I know that you say these cakes have to be professional and have to be paid for, but what forms of proof are people giving you? I cannot believe you think this cake was done by a professional. It's not the first time either. I'm curious....why does it have to be professional anyway? A funny/ugly/demented cake is still going to be fun to look at. Just my honest opinion.
- September 13, 2008 at 5:00 PM
You would think that they would look at it before they started icing it.
- September 13, 2008 at 5:01 PM
Ok - for the record, yes this is a fugly cake (poor kid!)...
I'm going to defend "cupcake cakes". My son had his 9th b-day party in a bowling alley, and we got a cupcake cake with a darth vader theme (the kids LOOOOOVES star wars).... it was tastefully done, and half of the cupcakes were white, half were chocolate - so everyone got what they wanted. AND, I didn't have to mess around with cutting cake and crap like that.
I mean - you have to be appropriate, right? A darth vader cupcake cake is GREAT for a 9 yo's party.... maybe not so for other occasions, though! - September 13, 2008 at 5:12 PM
Maybe Jace is 1 month old and that would explain the .1 (decimal)?? Medical charts document a child's age as (ex) 3.3 for 3yrs/3mos. Next month he'll get a .2....
Love this site. Love the happ comments too! - September 13, 2008 at 5:24 PM
- Sara said...
That is quite a fugly cake!
- September 13, 2008 at 5:37 PM
EEWW! as a cupcake cake hater, there is too much frosting. It does not help in school unless you send a box of wipes and an extra 20 minutes for clean up in with your kid. Just send the regular cupcake with sprinkles folks, it works a lot better.
- September 13, 2008 at 5:46 PM
I dunno, guys. I'm all for being hard on the professional decorator who should know better, but a mom at home just trying to do something special for her kid?Yeah leaving off the Y was pretty obvious, but not everyone has the mad cake decorating skillz you pros (should) have.
- September 13, 2008 at 6:47 PM
- Rachael M. said...
the official verdict from my household:
me: Look
Husband: What is that?
me: It's a one. For a first birthday.
Husband: Is that a cake?
me: yep. See? Happ first birthday.
Husband: I thought it was a pillow. - September 13, 2008 at 6:52 PM
- JP said...
It's sad to know a child celebrates like this his first birthday
- September 13, 2008 at 7:35 PM
- Kopperhead said...
Oh my. This looks kinda painful. Not to mention that it is BLUE.
- September 13, 2008 at 8:52 PM
I've never had a cupcake "cake," but I agree they look totally unappetizing. I'm sure that most of the dis-appeal is the enormous amount of frosting that seems to be required to mortar them together.
I also dislike most of the very fancy ones made with what looks like sheets of soft plastic--ick. While they might be admirable for the detail and design (the well executed ones, that is), simply NONE of them look good to eat, to me; I keep thinking, "Well, nice sculpture, now where's the cake?" But then, I never was one of those kids who noshed on Play-Doh either, which that stuff also resembles... and I can't help but wonder does the poor cake smell like it too? Double Ewww! - September 13, 2008 at 8:55 PM
I had a cupcake cake for my son's 13th b'day. It was a '1' and a '3' side by side, in his high school colors. At that age, they're past the character cakes and yet you want to do something cool (but not woman-undressing-cool...as in Tracy's cake). He and his friends thought it was neat but it didn't look like a solid mass of frosting either.
- September 13, 2008 at 10:31 PM
- Pattern Patisserie said...
This blog is just too good to miss and your rapier wit has had me in stitches. May I please put a link on my blog to yours....this hearty humour needs to be shared far and wide. Thanks, Patricia
- September 13, 2008 at 10:42 PM
Wow. The sad thing about this is, it would have been so easy to make it look reasonable; just take 2 or three cupcakes off that strange blob at the top, use them to widen the feet and maybe add one to the "decimal point" so there's room for ALL the letters, and there you go. Instead, they made a weird hunchbacked seven with feet. Or maybe a gallows.
- September 14, 2008 at 12:48 AM
I love cakes.
FDL4ALL.com - September 14, 2008 at 1:14 AM
By the way, the child's name is Jacey, not Jace....
- September 14, 2008 at 2:59 AM
- Brea Marie said...
Most grocery stores offer FREE first birthday cakes. But, if that would have been the free cake, I would have left the store without it! How sad. I bet they loved letting Jace shove his face with fistfulls of THAT cake.
- September 14, 2008 at 3:35 AM
- Missy said...
Hilarious, as always! I just always feel bad for the recipients of the cakes you feature. Surely a 1 year old won't know the difference...but surely there were some disappointed parents. Still...very funny. :-)
- September 14, 2008 at 9:03 AM
my 5 year old daughter came over while I was looking at the cake and she said... "it's a number 7 cake" I didn't have the heart to tell her it was supposed to be a number 1.
- September 14, 2008 at 11:28 AM
I really liked your Three Dog Night reference. It made me feel so old and giggly.
Diana - September 14, 2008 at 4:14 PM
Awww. This one isn't so bad.
- September 14, 2008 at 11:49 PM
- Missy said...
Playing hangman at the Birtday par-tay? How flippin funny is that?
Gawd, I love this blog! - September 15, 2008 at 9:43 AM
- Dea said...
Eek! That is SO a 7 - if the person making this had done the top of the 1 properly, the bottom would have had enough room/cupcakes to be pulled off properly....
- September 15, 2008 at 10:41 AM
- clueuin said...
Maybe he was trying to make an Italian number one with the dash across. Yes? Uh, no.
Well I like cupcakes just not with blue frosting. Ugg!
But hey, it's for a baby that just turn one. Happy Birthday boo, boo!
(Clueuin waves)
Clueuin - September 15, 2008 at 12:16 PM
- marissa said...
Little Jace had a wonderful first birthday despite his fugly cake! I have always made my older sons cakes (I do a much better job I might add haha) and did not have time to make my youngest sons cake like I had planned and ordered this last minute... never again!! Thank goodness all Jace cared about was making a mess with this "mess" of a cake! =)
- September 17, 2008 at 2:29 PM
- Jenn K said...
My 4 year old autistic son just said, "wow, what a grea 7!"
- September 21, 2008 at 7:14 PM
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Our 2-year-olds can use it. It's a brilliant entertainment device. But what sort of business potential does the iPad offer? Several companies have shown interest in mobile payment systems from startups like Square to mega-corporations like Visa. But what is the iPad's user experience in a real-world, business environment?
By now, one thing we know is that the iPad is not simply a larger iPhone, nor is it a smaller computer. Developers have been quick to port their apps from the iPhone to the iPad to ensure they don't miss out on this trend, but there are big differences in the underlying specs and form factor of the iPad that make this a fundamentally different user experience.
Lucky for us, Bolt | Peters likes researching UX, and we thought this topic deserved a little investigation. So we conducted an observation of 14 customers over three months at our neighborhood coffee shop, Sightglass, that just happened to be an early user of Square on both the iPhone and the iPad. We observed and recorded those customers' mobile payment interactions with the Square app, and interviewed select customers. Our first study was in December 2009 (with the iPhone) with a follow-up in April 2010 (with the iPad).
Two important business considerations came from our studies: (1) speed kills (in a good way), and (2) shared is the new private. If you're thinking that nothing statistically valid can come from observing such a small sample of interactions, the Internet is chock full of data supporting that behavior repeats over a very small sample, and that we can safely extract patterns to much larger audiences, as long as we're not talking about opinions. We were definitely not observing people's opinions about the iPad or iPhone; we are strictly interested in how they accomplish the simple task of paying for coffee.
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In our observations of mobile payment transactions at Sightglass, the time it took to complete a purchase using Square on the iPad was more than twice as fast as using Square on the iPhone. In one direct comparison, it took 20.5 seconds to complete a purchase with the iPad, but 44.1 seconds on an iPhone 3G.
As slaves to our digital devices, we find that the physical world is constantly competing for our attention. Seconds matter here. This hasn't been an issue with computing until very recently; usability scientists in the 90's claimed 8 to 15 seconds was the maximum time someone would wait for an interaction using a desktop computer (see Shackel's Acceptability Paradigm). But with any kind of portable device, seconds mean the difference between a seamless user experience and pocketing the device to pay with cash or talk to a stranger.
A 100% increase in speed is a huge deal. It means the merchant was effortlessly ringing up customers one after another with fewer clicks and less down time on the iPad. There was more time to prepare other customers' drinks and less time spent hunched over a handheld device waiting for the transaction to complete. Keep in mind that for Sightglass, a boutique coffee kiosk, the iPhone as a point-of-sale system was still superior to accepting cash only; they had no other cash register.
We all have heard by now that the iPad's 1GHz processor is light years ahead of the current iPhone, although this has changed now that Apple has gotten back all its "stolen" 4G iPhones and released them to the public. And while it seems obvious, this speed in the iPad makes for more than just a casually better user experiences and positive outcomes for business prospects. It's the first time that seconds are a fundamental part of user experience in almost a decade of personal computing.
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The form factor and physical affordances of the iPad also change the nature of the game. The iPad is not pocket sized, it has a large screen (1024 x 768 at 132ppi), and it naturally lays flat on the table as opposed to resting upright or being tucked away in your hand. All of these factors place the iPad squarely in the realm of a shareable computing device.
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Students of all ages and teachers from New Jersey and beyond will be engaged in a summer of learning on the Princeton campus, taking part in outreach programs on subjects ranging from computer science and plasma physics to American history and journalism.
Princeton students, faculty and staff will lead various programs designed to help elementary, secondary and college students build their academic skills and to provide cutting-edge lessons that teachers can take back to their own classrooms.
The outreach programs are part of a busy summer on campus. Princeton's Department of Athletics sponsors dozens of sports camps; the University runs a summer day camp; and the Office of Conference and Event Services works with numerous outside organizations that use campus facilities for educational programs and other activities.
The following list offers a look at some of the University's educational outreach programs taking place this summer. Deadlines for registering for this year's programs have passed, but anyone interested in participating in future programs should consult the links and contacts listed below; some programs are restricted to participants from particular schools, organizations or geographic areas. Reporters interested in covering any programs should contact University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua in the Office of Communications at email@example.com or 609-258-5733.
Undergraduate Summer Research in Molecular Biophysics, June 10-Aug. 11
Contact: Corinna Burghardt, 609-258-4883, email@example.com
Now in its third year, this program offers cross-disciplinary research experience in leading laboratories to science students attending colleges with limited biology research opportunities. The program is open only to non-Princeton students. Each student serves as a research assistant in the laboratory of a Princeton faculty member who serves as a mentor and research adviser. The program directors, in consultation with training faculty, match student interests to available projects. Regular meetings with the faculty mentor and members of the laboratory team provide guidance for experimental design, methods and progress. By the end of the program, students must prepare a formal written report on their research and present an oral summary. Students also are integrated with other summer students in their respective departments to share educational and social activities.
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Princeton-CEFRC Summer School on Combustion, June 25-29
Contact: Lilian Tsang, 609-258-5041, email@example.com; Chung Law, 609-258-5271, firstname.lastname@example.com
Nearly 200 graduate students and researchers representing 17 countries will come from 60 academic institutions, as well as national and international laboratories and corporations, to attend a week of lectures designed to provide the next generation of combustion researchers with a comprehensive knowledge in the technical areas of combustion theory, experimentation, computation and applications.
The program, now in its third year, is organized by the Combustion Energy Frontier Research Center at Princeton with primary sponsorship by the U.S. Department of Energy. Additional funding is provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Army Research Office, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and ExxonMobil.
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Summer Explorations in Writing and Science, July 30–Aug. 10
Contact: Marjorie Young, 609-258-6136, firstname.lastname@example.com
A collaboration with the Princeton Center for Complex Materials, this program will provide area middle school students with a chance to improve their writing skills and to learn about sustainability with hands-on science activities. Morning sessions at Bowen Hall will focus on science and sustainability. Afternoon sessions at Community House, at 58 Prospect Ave., will be devoted to writing.
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Center for Computational Intractability
Summer Program in Theoretical Computer Science, June 25-Aug. 10
Contact: Moses Charikar, 609-258-7477, email@example.com
Nearly 30 high school students, mostly from New Jersey high schools, and six undergraduate students from other institutions will participate in this program aimed at introducing students to advanced topics in theoretical computer science. The program is sponsored by the NSF through Princeton's Center for Computational Intractability.
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Contact: Karen Jackson-Weaver, 609-258-3257, firstname.lastname@example.com; Elaine Willey, 609-258-3033, firstname.lastname@example.com
This program is designed for rising college seniors with a serious interest in pursuing a Ph.D., with plans to pursue a career in teaching and research. It is intended to prepare students to be competitive applicants to research-based doctoral programs. Students may work in any of Princeton's academic departments or programs. Undergraduates who are historically underrepresented, who are from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds or who are from liberal arts colleges are especially encouraged to apply. Students conduct independent research, attend a Graduate Record Examination preparation course and an intensive research methods seminar, and complete workshops on applying to competitive graduate school programs. In addition, students receive training on preparing academic oral presentations and complete a final paper, which serves as a writing sample for the graduate school application process.
Each PSURE student receives a stipend and travel allowance, and has an opportunity to present their research at the Leadership Alliance National Symposium from July 27-29 in Hartford, Conn.
James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
James Madison Seminar: American History in Constitutional Context, July 2-Aug. 2
Contact: Bradford Wilson, 609-258-6333, firstname.lastname@example.com
The James Madison Program is hosting four eight-day seminars for middle and high school teachers of American history. The teachers, who come from New Jersey public schools, participate in the seminar each summer for three years, covering a range of topics on American constitutional history. This year's topic is "The Secession Crisis, 1845-1876: The American Civil War and Its Aftermath." The seminars are led by scholars from around the country, including Princeton faculty. They are co-sponsored by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the National Association of Scholars, and are part of a nationwide effort funded by the federal Teaching American History Grant Program.
Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education
Contact: Stephanie Landers, 609-258-3979, firstname.lastname@example.com
International Research Exchange Program (REACH), June-July
The Keller Center has arranged for four undergraduate students from Hong Kong and five graduate students from Germany to work in Princeton research laboratories this summer. As part of the exchange program, Princeton students will conduct research abroad, with six students at German universities and four students at the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute.
The program, developed by Princeton's Keller Center in partnership with Princeton's International Internship Program, aims to expose engineering students to international approaches to technology, research and leadership, while giving them hands-on research experience in their field of study. It is a partnership between Princeton, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute, and ConRuhr, a consortium of three universities in Germany's Ruhr region.
eLab, June-August
The Keller Center's eLab is a launch pad for student startups, a creative co-working space open — by application only — to some of Princeton's student entrepreneurs. Students will spend 10 weeks learning from innovators and investors to fine-tune their nascent startup ideas to develop them into viable and scalable ventures. At the end of the summer program, the students will participate in Demo Day, when they will share their plans with investors, inventors, experts and others from the entrepreneurial community.
NSF/RTG Summer Program Study Analysis and Geometry, July 23-Aug.10
Contact: Jill LeClair, 609-258-4443, email@example.com
The three-week intensive program for up to 25 advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students — with admission priority given to undergraduates — will consist of two related courses in analysis and geometry. Each course will include nine lectures spanning one-and-a-half weeks. Daily lectures will be complemented by review and problem sessions.
Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment (MIRTHE)
Summer Research Opportunities, June-August
Contact: Roxanne Zellin, 609-258-7922, email@example.com
MIRTHE, the Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment Center, will host 57 undergraduate students at Princeton and its five partner institutions for nine weeks of research and education. The students will participate in original, hands-on research projects and attend short courses and lectures that explore the challenges of hardware, software and systems engineering of trace chemical sensors. The center's research could yield important new technology related to health, homeland security and especially the environment. Students also visit nearby government and industrial labs. The undergraduate students hail from 37 colleges and universities across the nation, including Princeton.
In addition to the college students, 10 high school students and three high school teachers will work in MIRTHE labs at Princeton and other universities.
The other participating MIRTHE institutions are Rice University, City College of New York, the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, Texas A&M University and Johns Hopkins University. The students at the sites in Maryland, Texas and New York will meet with the entire MIRTHE community in the final week for the annual MIRTHE Summer Workshop, which will be held this year from Aug. 5-10 on the campus of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County.
Summer Undergraduate Research Program, June 11-Aug. 10
Contact: Alison Gammie, 609-258-6380, email@example.com
Each summer, the Department of Molecular Biology, the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Genentech Foundation provide intensive laboratory research experiences to a select group of undergraduates chosen from a nationwide pool. Each student joins a world-class research group headed by a Princeton faculty member and carries out an original research project. Participants are immersed in a culture of close collaboration with other undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty, and thereby experience first-hand what it is like to be a scientist. More than 70 percent of former participants have since pursued degrees in Ph.D., M.D. or combined M.D./Ph.D. programs.
Outreach Program Summer Workshop for Secondary School Science Teachers
Molecular Biology Hands-On: Cool Genes, Colorful Proteins, July 8-20
Contact: Ann Sliski, 609-258-2075, email@example.com
The 2012 Department of Molecular Biology Outreach Program Summer Workshop for secondary school science teachers will consist of a two-week summer workshop for 18 teachers, where every day features a mix of laboratory projects and discussions with colleagues and Princeton faculty. The goal is to help prepare teachers to bring cutting-edge biotechnology into their classrooms.
The workshop will feature an experiment using a rainbow of fluorescent proteins from Roger Tsien's BioBridge program at the University of California-San Diego. Tsien was a co-winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
In the program, teachers also will: isolate their own DNA and perform DNA fingerprinting analyses; test snack foods for evidence of genetic modification; use bioinformatics to analyze their mitochondrial DNA; participate in lunchtime research seminars and discussions led by Princeton faculty; and develop curricula for their classrooms. The program is funded by a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Office of the Dean for Research
Laboratory Learning Program, June-August
Contact: Karla Ewalt, 609-258-9410, email@example.com
The Laboratory Learning program is a supervised educational program that allows a limited number of high school students, with the support of their schools, to conduct research in Princeton laboratories. These educational research opportunities are normally limited to students who have not yet graduated from high school. This selective program is designed to offer students an opportunity to participate actively in state-of-the-art research projects, under the mentorship and supervision of a Princeton faculty member. Students selected for the program will be integrated into the daily research experience of the laboratory, participating in meetings, seminars, research discussions and other appropriate educational activities. Students interested in science competitions should discuss their interest with potential faculty mentors; the Laboratory Learning program may or may not lead to a competitive research project.
Research opportunities for high school students normally take place over a summer, though the faculty mentor will define exact terms. Stipends may be offered to participating students when funding is available to support educational outreach for high school students on the particular research project.
Pace Center for Civic Engagement
Princeton University Summer Journalism Program, Aug. 3-13
Contact: Shirley Wu, 609-258-6651, firstname.lastname@example.com
Princeton alumni will lead journalism workshops for 23 students who are entering their senior years of high school and come from low-income backgrounds. The students — selected from an applicant pool of approximately 225 — will practice reporting and writing articles, including covering a professional sports event, and produce a 12-page newspaper and a television documentary. They will visit The New York Times, Newsweek and CNN offices and receive advice from guest speakers from a number of major media outlets. They also will receive guidance on applying to college during the summer program and throughout the academic year. This is the 11th summer the program is being offered.
Gran Sasso-Princeton Physics Summer School, July 27-Aug. 12
Contact: Helen Ju, 609-258-5822, firstname.lastname@example.com
This program stems from the scientific collaboration between the Department of Physics at Princeton and the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in Italy, where Princeton scientists conduct research on neutrinos and dark matter. Now in its ninth year, the program is open to students enrolled in the fourth and fifth year of high schools located in the Abruzzo region of Italy. Its sponsors include Princeton, LNGS and local Abruzzo regional organizations.
Twenty Italian students have been selected on a competitive basis. The activities in Princeton will range from physics and astrophysics courses to English language instruction. Prior to arriving in Princeton for a two-week physics program, the Gran Sasso students will be visiting and attending lectures for four days at the LNGS where scientists studied solar neutrinos and dark matter experiments.
Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM)
Princeton Center for Complex Materials
Contact: Dan Steinberg, 609-258-5598, firstname.lastname@example.com
Research Experience for Undergraduates, June 11-Aug. 10
About 18 college students from around the country will conduct research in the labs of Princeton faculty members, working on cutting-edge problems related to energy production, the environment, human health and other societal issues. Their work will be funded primarily by the NSF through major projects, including the Princeton Center for Complex Materials and NSF's Partnership for Research and Education in Materials.
Partners in Science, June-August
In collaboration with the Jersey City-based Liberty Science Center, faculty members and graduate students in the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials will serve as mentors to high school students working as researchers in their labs. The program will culminate in a symposium during which the students will present their work.
PCCM/ACS-SEED Research Experience for High School Students, June-August
Two students, both of whom previously participated in the Princeton University Materials Academy science and engineering summer program, will work with Rodney Priestley, an assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at Princeton, on cutting-edge materials science and chemistry-related polymer research projects. The program is funded by the NSF through the Princeton Center for Complex Materials and the American Chemical Society SEED project. Previous students from this program have been accepted at universities to major in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. The students in this program start in the Princeton University Materials Academy and advance through research experience in SEED.
Research Experience for Teachers, June-August
Two teachers from New Jersey and Pennsylvania will work in the labs of Princeton researchers to gain insight into current research. They will study new materials for alternative energy and ways to enhance materials science and engineering education in K-12 schools. In the next academic year, they will share their experiences, incorporating these concepts into their curricula.
Princeton University Materials Academy, July 12-27
Sixteen high school students from Trenton, N.J., will be on campus to interact with Princeton faculty and students and learn about materials science, nanoscience, clean energy research and sustainable homes. Among other projects, the students will work on ceramic water filters that could improve the quality of life and environmental conditions in parts of Africa.
Princeton University Materials Academy for Middle School, July 30-Aug. 10
Twelve middle school students will participate in a program that focuses on materials science. The program is dedicated to narrowing the academic achievement gap across racial and ethnic groups, and is supported by the NSF through the Princeton Center for Complex Materials and the University's Community House service organization.
Summer Program for High School Students, July 16-20
About 20 students from Middlesex High School in New Jersey will spend mornings on campus, visiting labs, hearing talks and participating in hands-on projects. Their work on materials science will serve as an introduction to a yearlong materials science and engineering course taught at their school. The program is organized by the Princeton Center for Complex Materials.
Summer School for Condensed Matter Physics, July 23-26
About 75 students, mostly graduate students, from around the world will come to Princeton to attend lectures and workshops in physics and materials science led by prominent researchers from Princeton, Johns Hopkins University, Pennsylvania State University and other institutions. The broad themes of this year's summer school are criticality and quantum computation. The program is organized by Princeton graduate students and sponsored by the Princeton Center for Complex Materials and the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science.
Teacher Minicamp, Aug. 9-10
High school and middle school teachers will learn science, technology, engineering and math curriculum modules that were developed at Northwestern University. They also will hear lectures from faculty at the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, as well as tours labs and facilities.
Princeton Neuroscience Institute
Biophysics and Computation in Neurons and Networks, June 17-July 14
Contact: David Tank, 609-258-7371, firstname.lastname@example.com; Michael Berry, 609-258-1268, email@example.com
This new course will introduce graduate and postdoctoral students from other institutions with quantitative training in the physical sciences, mathematics, engineering or computer science to the concepts and research methodologies of modern neuroscience. The course will provide all students, whether primarily interested in theory or primarily interested in experimental analysis, with a first-hand understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the experimental methods and data underlying key concepts in cellular and systems neuroscience. Lectures and laboratory exercises will show students how to think rigorously about a central set of core issues in modern neuroscience. The capstone will be one-week, student-designed research projects integrating concepts and methodologies encountered during the initial formal lectures and laboratory exercises.
Princeton Plasma Physics Lab (PPPL)
Contact: Patti Wieser, 609-243-2757, email@example.com
Research Experience for Undergraduates, June 11-Aug. 17
A total of 42 undergraduate students from across the country will spend 10 weeks working with PPPL scientists, participating in current research projects.
High School Research Internship, June 26-Aug. 17
This seven-week program provides a mentored research experience on independent laboratory work in plasma physics for 10 high school students from New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Plasma Camp, July 23-27
Fifteen science teachers from local middle schools, as well as high schools across the nation, will work in PPPL's Plasma Science Education Laboratory to study plasma physics and fusion energy and create new curricula based upon the workshop.
Princeton Summer Theater
Young Artists' Workshops, half-days on Fridays, July 6-Aug. 10
Contact: Julia Bumke, 609-258-7062, firstname.lastname@example.com
The summer stock company of young professionals and students from Princeton and other colleges offers weekly young artists' workshops for children ages 7-12 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Friday afternoons. This summer's workshops are on movement and dance; improvisation; masks and characters; playwriting; lights, set, and sound; and scene and story.
Princeton University Art Museum
Summer Internship Program, June 11-Aug. 17
Contact: Johanna Seasonwein, 609-258-7136, firstname.lastname@example.com
The Art Museum offers a nine-week summer internship program for undergraduate and graduate students from any accredited four-year accredited university or college program. Interns have the opportunity to work in one of the following departments: curatorial, education, development, information technology, marketing, office of the registrar, publications, or retail operations. Not all departments take interns each summer, and interns are placed on the basis of their experience, academic training and departmental need. In addition to their departmental responsibilities, interns participate in a two-day orientation program during their first week and weekly lunch discussions with Museum staff. Field trips and networking opportunities with interns at other arts-related organizations are also arranged.
Program in Teacher Preparation
Princeton University Preparatory Program (PUPP), June 23-Aug. 10
Contact: Jason Klugman, 609-258-3337, firstname.lastname@example.com
This intensive, three-year college preparation program supports a select group of academically gifted high school students from low-income families who attend partner schools in Mercer County, N.J. The goal of PUPP is to prepare students to be viable candidates for admission to and success at selective colleges and universities. Students take courses in art, writing, literature, math, physics, biology, social science and college-preparation skills, while also attending a leadership retreat at the Princeton-Blairstown Center, going on college tours and taking cultural excursions.
QUEST and CONNECT-ED Summer Institute, July 9-20
Contact: Anne Catena, 609-258-2537, firstname.lastname@example.com
QUEST and CONNECT-ED will offer a two-week summer institute in science and mathematics for teachers of grades K-12. The institute is designed to enhance teachers' content knowledge and skills for inquiry-based teaching through hands-on experiments and discussion. This summer's professional development will include a field-based research project with Earthwatch, as well as campus-based seminars in astronomy and weather and climate.
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Contact: Melissa Lyles, 609-258-4809, email@example.com
Junior Summer Institute, June 18-Aug. 3
Thirty-three students, representing 30 colleges and universities throughout the United States and abroad, will participate in the Wilson School's 2012 Junior Summer Institute. Students come from 22 states and four countries — Bahrain, Mexico, Tanzania and Vietnam — and represent 26 undergraduate majors.
The program helps prepare students for graduate study and careers in public policy and international affairs by providing participants with the tools of critical thinking, speaking, writing, quantitative reasoning, and the skills and experiences necessary to create, analyze, implement, evaluate and affect policy in a multicultural, multiethnic society.
Coursework includes seven weeks of policy-related classroom instruction, including a policy workshop on either a domestic or international policy issue. As part of the program's culmination, students will present a comprehensive final report on a current policy issue that will encompass the skills and knowledge they have gained. The institute is one of four held at U.S. universities through the Public Policy and International Affairs Fellowship Program, a national consortium of top graduate public policy and international affairs schools, that prepare college students for advanced degrees and careers serving the public good.
Santa Fe Indian School Leadership Institute's Summer Policy Academy, June 18-22
This program provides high school Native Americans the opportunity to explore the current challenges and issues facing Native Americans and to examine how federal policies have an impact on tribal communities. Each year students are nominated to participate in the program by teachers, community leaders, professionals and tribal leaders. This year's participants come from the Pueblo, Navajo, Jicarilla Apache and Mescalero Apache nations of New Mexico.
Through roundtable discussions, case studies and presentations by Native American leaders and noted scholars, students will examine: Native American policymaking on the federal level and the current political climate; Native American education and the role of language and culture in education; indigenous research and policy implications; protection of natural resources and water rights; sacred sites protection policies; and economic development. The week will culminate in Washington, D.C., where students will present their findings and policy recommendations to the National Congress of American Indians, the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, the National Historic Trust and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a Princeton alumna.


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A world premiere production of Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev's "Music for Athletes," recently restored by Princeton music scholar Simon Morrison, will be staged at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 17, in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall.
The composition -- lost amid Soviet-era political tumult but uncovered by Morrison during research for his book on Prokofiev -- will be performed by acclaimed Russian pianist Ilya Itin as part of a program titled "Prokofiev Old and New: From Beloved to Unknown."
A dance ensemble of Princeton students and recent graduates will accompany Itin's performance of "Music for Athletes." Choreographer Jennie Scholick, a member of the class of 2009 who is featured in the ensemble, has reimagined the original homage to Russian superiority to create a modern, whimsical focus on Princeton.
Morrison, a professor of music, came across "Music for Athletes" in Moscow in 2006 at the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art while researching his recently published book on Prokofiev, titled "The People's Artist." The concert will open with a lecture on the significance of this finding and its historical context delivered by Adrienne Sirken, a pianist and creative partner with the event's sponsor, the Golandsky Institute, a training center for pianists and other musicians.
"Prokofiev's 'Music for Athletes' is cheerful, sardonic music composed for a scary political cause: a Stalinist (totalitarian) display of the physical prowess of Soviet youth," Morrison said. "Prokofiev composed it in 1939 as a favor to the eminent Russian theater director Vsevolod Meyerhold, the intended choreographer. Meyerhold was arrested while the performance was being prepared in Leningrad (he was in political trouble at the time of the commission). What survives of the aborted project is a messy handwritten manuscript in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art and some performance instructions."
Morrison readied the music for performance with the assistance of graduate student Laura Hedden and with permission of the Prokofiev estate in Paris. While the score will be performed on piano, Prokofiev also provided some instructions for its orchestration, a project Morrison plans to pursue in the future.
The score, he said, "comprises a fanfare, some waltz-like numbers and some 'action' music for mock hand-to-hand combat, tumbling, banner waving and choreographic patterns in unison and counterpoint. ... It's all good fun, despite the context of its creation. Jennie Scholick has done a fabulous job fashioning choreography for it."
Working from a score originally intended for an athletic/gymnastic demonstration with 30,000 Soviet athletes, Scholick put a Princeton twist on the piece. In addition to replacing the Soviet banner with a Princeton banner, "our costumes will be black tops with an orange star, as opposed to a red star, and where greetings would have been shouted out to Stalin and the tovarishchi (comrades) in attendance, we will greet Old Nassau," she said.
The performance of "Music for Athletes" marks the third time Morrison has spearheaded a world premiere production of a lost Prokofiev work at Princeton. A vast collaboration of scholars, students and artists mounted a 2007 production of "Boris Godunov," inspired by Meyerhold's unrealized version of Alexander Pushkin's classic historical play. That performance featured a score by Prokofiev that was commissioned by Meyerhold but had never been performed live. A recreation of Prokofiev's great lost ballet, "Le Pas d'Acier" ("The Steel Step"), was mounted at the University in 2005.
In addition to "Music for Athletes," the concert will include Itin's performance of Prokofiev's original piano version of his most beloved work, "Peter and the Wolf," narrated by Pulitzer prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, chair of the University's Lewis Center for the Arts. Itin will conclude the concert with Prokofiev's Seventh Piano Sonata.
The concert is part of the Golandsky Institute's annual Summer Symposium and International Piano Festival held at the University. Tickets are $35 for one adult, $30 for two or more adults and $15 for children under 18. They are available through the institute's website.


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In the United States, it's easy to escape from God. Escape is a text message or a Facebook post away. But when I travel overseas, nothing clouds my relationship with God. Between him and me is only blue sky.
I feel God as stories unfold. I am a journalist, and I understand the tools I need to get a good story, but often the stories I find aren't just good — they're great. When people tell me their stories in a way that is dignified and true, I know that finding them had nothing to do with me.
I felt God a few weeks ago in Rwanda. Videographer Lisa Berglund and I visited a refugee camp that has sprung up on a hillside for families who fled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We'd learned that children were dying of malnutrition in the camp, and World Vision was going to begin nutritional support.
You can't just walk into a refugee camp and begin asking questions. Protocols must be observed. So Lisa and I went to the nearby hospital to talk with doctors and nurses. They said we could visit the ward with malnourished children. Mothers and children sat quietly in a big green room on small twin beds. Some of the children had IVs. They all looked forlorn.
One mother sitting in the corner, cradling her baby was beautiful and regal. I made eye contact with her.
Solange was at the hospital with her baby, Esther, who was just 18 months old. The family had fled the Congo to avoid fighting. They left behind a house and a banana plantation. Their children had been in school. Now they were living in a tiny tent with nothing — not even a mattress.
Solange had been to the hospital just weeks ago with her daughter Rebecca, who was sick with a problem the doctors couldn't diagnose. The 3-year-old had died in that very room where Solange now sat.
As we were preparing to leave, Solange asked me to pray for her.
I knelt by Solange and prayed that she and her family would get food, blankets, and a mattress. That peace would come to Congo so they could go home. I prayed for Rebecca, thanking God for her too-short life. And, of course, for baby Esther, that she would recover.
A few weeks after we returned to the United States, I received an email from a World Vision colleague in Rwanda:
It is with great sorrow that I announce the death of Esther, Solange Uwase's daughter, the child in the story you recently did while you were here in Rwanda … Let us pray God strengthens Solange during this difficult moment.
In my office, I cried. How could this happen? How could Solange lose not one but two daughters?
And what about my prayer? As far as I know, none of my prayers at Solange's bedside have been answered. The conflict continues in the Congo. I'm certain that Solange still has no mattress to sleep on, and the children don't have the food and clothing they need.
And baby Esther is dead.
When I am faced with questions I cannot answer, I turn to people who can.
My friend Mark wrote: "This can be a tough job, and when things like this happen, it often makes you question why you do it at all. But in moments of darkness, there is always light. There are people you have met who have been forever positively changed. Families who were struggling have received help."
Mark is right. In the moments of darkness, there is always light. Perhaps Solange's story will touch the hearts of people who care and can make a difference for the families in that camp.
Esther's face is etched along the corridors of my mind, and Solange's pain is imprinted on my heart. Those images and feelings keep me doing what I do: finding the stories God wants told. It's how I know who God is. That alone is a reason to keep writing.
And praying — even when my prayers aren't answered in the way I desire.
Update: World Vision and UNHCR are currently working on a partnership to help alleviate malnutrition at the refugee camp.


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