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Data Formats and Example Data
Data formats produced by Gemini facility instruments
Data from Gemini facility instruments are stored as Multi-Extension FITS (MEF) files. The data from a single "OBSERVE" command from the Observing Tool creates one MEF file. Each MEF file consists of one Primary Header Unit (PHU) and one or more extensions that contain pixel data. The extensions in MEF files are indexed from [0], which is the PHU. The extension numbers ([0], [1], etc.) in the figure below are shown to the left on each of the panel.
Additional information about the format of GMOS and NICI data is available.
Data formats produced by visitor instruments at Gemini
Data from the current visitor instruments are stored as simple FITS files. Each single FITS file consists of header information immediately followed by the pixel data, as shown in the figure below.
How to handle MEF files with IRAF
The Gemini IRAF package is written to handle the MEF files produced by the Gemini facility instruments. Most IRAF tasks can handle MEF files if the extension number is specified. However, some IRAF tasks that attempt to derive the output file names from the name of the input image may get confused by the extension number and/or add the extension number to the output file names. In such cases it is recommended to specify the output file names rather than let IRAF choose these based on the name of the input image.
Below are some examples of simple IRAF commands to access, display and manipulate MEF files. All examples assume that the IRAF imtype is set to "fits". This is done with the command
set imtype="fits"
The user may either include this command in the "login.cl" file, or issue it on the IRAF command line. If the command is issued on the command line, it needs to be followed by the command
in order to take effect.
These examples assume that the MEF file example1 has one pixel extension, and that the MEF file example2 has three pixel extensions, as shown in the figure above.
- To list the PHU of the MEF file example1:
- imhead example1[0] long+
- To list the header information of extension [1] of the MEF file example1
- imhead example1[1] long+
- To display extension [1] of the MEF file example1
- display example1[1] 1
- To copy extension [1] of the MEF file example1 to a simple FITS file
- imcopy example1[1] newimage
- To add extension [1] of the MEF file example1 and extension [2] of the MEF file example2 and save the output to a simple FITS file. This requires that the dimensions of the two extensions match.
- imarith example1[1] + example2[2] newimage
- To multiply each of the extensions in the MEF file example2 by extension [1] of the MEF file example1, overwriting the current extensions in the MEF file example2. This requires that the dimensions of the extensions match.
- imarith example2[1] * example1[1] example1[1,overwrite]
imarith example2[2] * example1[1] example2[2,overwrite]
imarith example2[3] * example1[1] example3[3,overwrite]
- imarith example2[1] * example1[1] example1[1,overwrite]

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Peak oil may well have arrived or be arriving soon, but that has not stopped CO2 emissions from increasing and climate change from going on, faster than ever. That may soon make the peak oil problem irrelevant. Here is a personal view of how I came to be a peak oiler who is more worried about climate change than about peak oil. (Image from The Daily Kos.)
In 2003, I attended my first conference on peak oil, in Paris. Everything was new for me: the subject, the people, the ideas. It was there that I could meet for the first time those larger than life figures of ASPO, the association for the study of peak oil. I met Colin Campbell, Jean Laherrere, Kenneth Deffeyes, Ali Morteza Samsam Bakthiari, and many others. It was one of those experiences that mark one for life.
In Paris, I learned a lot about oil depletion, but also about another matter that was emerging: the conflict of depletion studies with climate change studies. That ASPO conference saw the beginning of a contrast that was to flare up much more intensely in the following years. On one side of the debate there were the "climate concerned" people. They were clearly appalled at seeing that their efforts at stopping global warming were threatened by this new idea: that there won't be enough fossil fuels to cause the damage that they feared. On the other side, the "depletion concerned" people clearly scoffed at the idea of climate change: peak oil, they said, would make all the worries in that respect obsolete.
My impression, at that time, was that the position of the climate concerned was untenable. Not that I became a climate change denier; not at all: the physical mechanisms of climate change have been always clear to me and I never questioned the fact that adding CO2 to the atmosphere was going to warm it. But the novelty of the concept of peak oil, the discovery of a new field of study, the implications of a decline of energy availability, all that led me to see depletion as the main challenge ahead.
That belief of mine would last a few years, but no more. The more I studied oil depletion, the more I found myself studying climate: the two subjects are so strictly related to each other that you can't study one and ignore the other. I found that climate science is not just about modern global warming. It is the true scientific revolution of the 21st century. It is nothing less than a radical change of paradigm about everything that takes place on our planet; comparable to the Copernican revolution of centuries ago.
Climate science gives us a complete picture of how the Earth system has gradually evolved and changed, maintaining conditions favorable for organic life despite the gradual increase of the solar irradiation over the past four billion years. It is a delicate balance that depends on many factors, including the burial of large amounts of carbon which previously were part of the biosphere and that, over the ages, have become what we call "fossil fuels". Extracting and burning fossil fuels means tampering with the very mechanisms that keep us alive. Climate science is fascinating, even beautiful, but it is the kind of beauty that can kill.
So, step by step, I went full circle. If, at the beginning, I was more worried about depletion than about climate, now it is the reverse. Not that I stopped worrying about peak oil, I know very well that we are in deep trouble with the availability not just of oil, but of all mineral resources. But the recent events; the melting of the polar ice cap, hurricanes, droughts, wildfires and all the rest clearly show that the climate problem is taking a speed and a size that was totally unexpected just a few years ago.
Climate change is a gigantic problem: it dwarfs peak oil in all respects. We know that humans have lived for thousands of years without using fossil fuels, but they never lived in a world where the atmosphere contained more than 400 parts per million of CO2 - as we are going to have to. We don't even know if it will be possible for humans to survive in such a world.
Right now, peak oil is not solving the problem of climate change - it is worsening it because it is forcing the industry to use progressively dirtier resources, from tar sands to coal. Maybe in the future we'll see a decline in the use of all hydrocarbons and, as a consequence on the emissions of greenhouse gases. But, if we continue along this path, peak oil will be just a blip in the path to catastrophe.


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Schizophrenia Candidate Genes Affect Even Healthy Individuals
This is an article providing information about Biological Bases for Behavior.
It is intended as evidence to weaken the doctrine of punishment for sin as a result of freewill and the concept of an absolute freewill.
ScienceDaily.comIn the largest study of its kind to date, scheduled for publication in the October 1st issue of Biological Psychiatry, researchers sought to examine the impact of a few particular genes, known to be associated with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, on a healthy population.....
In other words, they found that the healthy individuals who possessed the risk variants within the DNTBP1, NRG1, and DAAO genes exhibited small reductions in their cognitive performance and had atypical experiences that might be associated with schizophrenia.....
Dr. Stefanis, explaining the importance of this study, comments that "these findings support the notion that even at the general population level, the genetic liability to psychosis may be expressed as minute and 'undetected to the naked eye' alterations in brain information processing capacity and behavior." Dr. Krystal adds, "Consistent with a growing body of evidence, this study suggests that there may be subtle cognitive impairments that are present when these common risk gene variants are present in the general population." Clearly, these findings will have an important impact on the future genetic work in this area.
I couldn't have said it better.
This casts doubt on the principle of punishment for sin is a better principle than nurturing remediation. Where is god when you need him? Oh yea, everything happens in gods time.
And the check is in the mail.
Sciencedaily.com: Mind and Brain
Scienceblogs.com: Brain and Behavior


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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Applications for wolf hunting and trapping licenses have dropped by almost half this year compared with last year when Minnesota held its first wolf hunt since the animals were removed from the endangered list.
About 23,500 hunters and trappers applied for licenses last year but the number dropped to about 13,000 this year, Dan Stark, large carnivore specialist with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, told the Duluth News Tribune for a report.
Stark said several factors might have contributed.
"There are fewer licenses available this year," he said. "And last year was the first season ever. There was some novelty there. And probably, there's the realization that there's a low success rate for wolf hunters and trappers."
Last year's success rate was 7 percent for those who hunted wolves during the firearms deer season, 4 percent for late-season hunters and 30 percent for trappers, Stark said.
Mark Johnson, executive director of the Minnesota Deer Hunters Association, agreed with Stark's assessment.
"It's not the inaugural year," he said. "It didn't get the hype this year it did last year. And with the lower license and harvest numbers, that drives down the chances for success."
A total of 3,300 licenses were available this year, down from 6,000 last year. The target harvest is 220 wolves, down from 400 last year when 413 were killed.
The DNR lowered this season's target in response to the latest wolf population estimate of 2,211 wolves, down about 25 percent from 2008.
Minnesota's early-season wolf hunt begins Nov. 9 and runs concurrently with the firearms deer season, ending Nov. 17 or 24 depending on the area. The late-season hunting and trapping season is Nov. 30 to Jan. 31. Seasons will close earlier if the targets are reached.
Successful applicants must purchase their licenses by Nov. 1 for the early season and by Nov. 22 for the late season hunt.
Wolf hunting opponents continue to call for the DNR to cancel the season. Howling for Wolves says it has gathered more than 29,000 signatures — including more than 18,000 from Minnesota residents — for its online petition.
Information from: Duluth News Tribune, www.duluthnewstribune.com


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Saturday, 04 January 2014 08:39 AM EST
Pope Francis has made another one of his cold calls to wish a group of nuns in a Spanish convent Happy New Year. Only he got their answering machine instead.
"What are the nuns doing that they can't answer the phone?" Francis asked in the message he left, a recording of which was obtained by Spain's El Mundo newspaper and broadcast on Italian media Saturday.
"This is Pope Francis. I wanted to offer you greetings for the end of the year. Maybe I'll try to call again later. May God bless you," he said.
Francis has made a habit out of calling people out of the blue, often checking in with ordinary folk who have written him about their hardships. He places the calls himself, as evidenced by the message.
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A Critique of Brahmavamso's "The Jhanas"
During the 60th anniversary conference of the WFB in Colombo, I happened to meet and spend part of a day with Venerable Brahmavamso, the British monk who has caused such a stir in Thailand and around the world with his Bhikkhuni ordination. This was the second time we met, and my thoughts remain unchanged; he seems like a nice guy, unassuming and polite, clearly knowledgeable and experienced enough to offer advice and direction.
The problem I've always had with him, as is often the case in such matters, is with his teachings. Now, clearly we have different ideas on how to practice meditation, I have no problem with that. What I have a problem with is what seems clearly to be a distortion of the Buddha's teaching in order to support his own way of teaching.
Immediately upon meeting him this time, one of his disciples handed me a book of his, titled "The Jhanas". I sat down and began to skim through it, not expecting much that I could relate to, but interested nonetheless in learning more about his ideas.
The reason I didn't expect to find much I could relate to going into the small booklet is because I don't agree with this notion that the word "jhāna" implies some special, exclusive entity. To me, it clearly means, simply, "meditation". The Mahāsaccaka Sutta, the very sutta Brahmavamso cites as proof that "the only time in his life that [the Buddha] had experienced any Jhāna was as a young boy," (pg. 6) actually describes even some of the Bodhisatta's tortuous austerities as jhāna:
"tassa mayhaṃ, aggivessana, etadahosi — 'yaṃnūnāhaṃ appāṇakaṃyeva jhānaṃ jhāyeyya'nti. so kho ahaṃ, aggivessana, mukhato ca nāsato ca assāsapassāse uparundhiṃ. tassa mayhaṃ, aggivessana, mukhato ca nāsato ca assāsapassāsesu uparuddhesu kaṇṇasotehi vātānaṃ nikkhamantānaṃ adhimatto saddo hoti."
"Then, Aggivessana, I had this thought — 'what if I were to meditate (jhāyeyya) on the non-breathing meditation (jhānaṃ)?' At that, Aggivessana, I held back the in-and-out breathing of the mouth and nose. Then, Aggivessana, holding back the in-and-out breathing of the mouth and nose, there was a great amount of noise of pressure going out from my ears."
Now, it might seem odd that the Buddha would state that "the only time" he had experienced jhāna before the night of his enlightenment was as a child and then go on to say that holding his breath was a practice of jhāna. Fortunately for us, the words "the only time" are not used by the Buddha, and were added by Brahmavamso himself. The passage in question goes:
"tassa mayhaṃ, aggivessana, etadahosi — 'abhijānāmi kho panāhaṃ pitu sakkassa kammante sītāya jambucchāyāya nisinno vivicceva kāmehi vivicca akusalehi dhammehi savitakkaṃ savicāraṃ vivekajaṃ pītisukhaṃ paṭhamaṃ jhānaṃ upasampajja viharitā. siyā nu kho eso maggo bodhāyā'ti?"
"Then, Aggivessana, I had this thought — 'I can clearly recall how I, sitting in the shade of the rose-apple tree while my Sakyan father was working, secluded from sensuality, secluded from unwholesome dhammas, entered the first jhāna, accompanied by investigation and contemplation, born of seclusion, with rapture and happiness. What if that is the path to enlightenment?'"
There is no mention of it being the only time the Bodhisatta had entered this particular meditative state. Indeed, in the next paragraph, the Buddha seems to be quite familiar with it, stating as he does:
"tassa mayhaṃ, aggivessana, etadahosi — 'na kho taṃ sukaraṃ sukhaṃ adhigantuṃ evaṃ adhimattakasimānaṃ pattakāyena, yaṃnūnāhaṃ oḷārikaṃ āhāraṃ āhāreyyaṃ odanakummāsa'nti."
"Then, Aggivessana, I had this though — 'That refined happiness is not easily reached by a body so extremely emaciated; what if I were to eat the gross food of rice and curries?"
Besides showing that Brahmavamso is incorrect in his statement about the Bodhisatta having had a single prior experience of jhāna, these passages offer clear insight into what sort of definition the Buddha himself gave to the word Jhana. Such was the understanding I went into this booklet with, but it was nonetheless quite disappointing to read such errors as I've pointed out above.
The error mentioned above is important. It shows that one cannot take the word jhāna as referring to an exclusive entity with a specific meaning. It means "meditation", or perhaps "trance" or "absorbtion". This becomes even more important when we look at the context of Brahmavamso's statement about the first jhāna experience. He is using the fact (now proven to be fiction) of the Bodhisatta's only jhāna experience having occurred in his youth as proof that the meditations taught by Alara and Udaka and perfected by the Bodhisatta "could not have been connected with jhāna" (p. 6). As I have shown, however, even holding one's breath can be a sort of jhāna; it is clearly plain-and-simple dogmatism to say that because they weren't Buddhist, Alara and Udaka weren't practicing Jhāna.
It seems, though I am not so bold as to make a statement either way, that the Bodhisatta, in considering his childhood experience of the first jhāna, was simply reflecting on the indulgence in meditative bliss at that time, and how that indulgence was not dangerous. This realization led him to decide that there was no need to avoid happiness by torturing himself.
This, at least, is more in line with the rest of the Buddha's teachings on the rūpa and arūpa jhānas, wherein it is quite clear that the states taught by Alara and Udaka come only after attainment of the rest of the jhānas. And, seriously, does anyone really believe that one could enter into "the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception" without some sort of seclusion from sensuality?
The point of the Buddha's words on not being afraid of the bliss that comes from jhāna, of course, is that he had missed something important. Previously, he had dismissed such meditative states as merely leading to transcendental attainments (i.e. arūpa jhānas). Now, he thought, what if I were to use them for the purpose of developing focused contemplation of reality and enlightenment? When we step back from our preconceived notions of what jhāna might be, I think we can clearly see that, rather than being some exclusively Buddhist attainment, jhāna simply refers to meditative focus or samādhi, and so it is unwarranted to claim that what Alara and Udaka taught "could not have been connected with Jhāna", not to mention going against the whole Theravadin commentatorial tradition and Abhidhamma.
This may seem like nit-picking to those who are not familiar with the disagreement in question here. Again, the disagreement is one thing, and no cause for writing such a post as this; distorting the facts to mislead people into thinking your argument superior, however, is another. You see, one of the arguments I would use against placing too much importance on "The Jhānas" is the fact that they are not particularly Buddhist. Which is simply to say that Hindu meditators have been realizing states like the young Bodhisatta, Alara, and Rāma (Udaka's teacher) for as long as anyone can remember, and are still to this day practicing them, ostensibly without any proper Buddhist attainment of enlightenment following therefrom. An explanation of why and how that is would do much to shed light on this subject.
According to Brahmavamso, the Buddha "rediscovered" jhāna, as the "culminating" point of the the eightfold noble path (p. 7). If this were so, then the Bodhisatta attained the culmination of the eightfold noble path at the age of five, which of course he didn't.
The next section was entitled "Can One be Attached to Jhāna?" This was interesting, as I vaguely recalled a sutta which stated precisely that the danger of jhāna was that one could become attached to it.
Brahmavamso starts by reminding us that we should not be afraid of jhāna. He quotes MN 66 – "it is not to be feared." But if you read on in this sutta, you will come to the following for each of the jhānas, including, incidentally, the ones taught by Alara and Udaka, which, incidentally, come after the other jhānas:
"idampi kho ahaṃ, udāyi, 'anala'nti vadāmi, 'pajahathā'ti vadāmi, 'samatikkamathā'ti vadāmi."
"Even this, Udayi, is not enough, I say. Abandon it, I say. Go beyond it, I say."
Even the jhānas must be abandoned. In that case, how can they be the culmination of the eightfold noble path? There are answers to such questions, but I don't think you will find them in this booklet.
He then warns against any teacher who "in spite of this clear advice from the Buddha Himself, … discourage[s] Jhāna on the grounds that one can become attached to Jhāna and so never become Enlightened" (p. 7). I can't personally imagine anyone arguing that the Buddhist jhānas are a hindrance to Enlightenment, but I can see how attachment to them might be, given the Buddha's "clear advice" that the jhānas should be abandoned. If it weren't possible to cling to them, why would the Buddha encourage us to abandon them? Brahmavamso says:
"Simply put, Jhāna states are stages of letting go. One cannot be attached to letting go. Just as one cannot be imprisoned by freedom" (p. 8).
That passage was the last I read, as it really seemed over the top. Nowhere that I know of does the Buddha say that jhāna states are stages of letting go. As far as I can see, they are a form of suppression (vikkhambhanappahāna, cp PsM 22.214.171.124), useful in focusing one's attention on a specific object that will either allow for deeper absorption and temporary suppression of defilements or for lasting insight and understanding, depending on whether the object of attention is conceptual or ultimately real. This distinction is made quite clear throughout the Buddha's teaching, as in the Sallekha Sutta, where the Buddha says:
"ṭhānaṃ kho panetaṃ, cunda, vijjati yaṃ idhekacco bhikkhu vivicceva kāmehi vivicca akusalehi dhammehi savitakkaṃ savicāraṃ vivekajaṃ pītisukhaṃ paṭhamaṃ jhānaṃ upasampajja vihareyya. tassa evamassa — 'sallekhena viharāmī'ti. na kho panete, cunda, ariyassa vinaye sallekhā vuccanti. diṭṭhadhammasukhavihārā ete ariyassa vinaye vuccanti."
"It may be found to occur, Cunda, that a certain bhikkhu in this religion, secluded from sensuality, secluded from unwholesome dhammas, should enter and settle in the first jhāna, accompanied by investigation and contemplation, born of seclusion, with rapture and happiness. Then, he might think thus — 'I am dwelling in the cutting-off'. But in this discipline of the noble ones, Cunda, that is not called cutting-off. That is called 'dwelling in happiness in the present moment' in this discipline of the noble ones."
And nowhere does Brahmavamso give backing to his statement that jhānas are stages of letting go. This was the main impetus in deciding to critique his book, and so I made plan to research the sutta I remembered as explaining the danger of attaching to jhāna and write a response to this, the first part of Brahmavamso's work.
But I've been busy finding a place to live, so for the next three months, I kept the book with me, waiting for a suitable time. Finally, today I sat down and looked the sutta up in the DPR. I knew it had something to do with the relationship between jhāna and vedanā. A search for "vedana" and "jhāna" in the Majjhima Nikāya brought up the sutta I was thinking of, a famous one, the Mahādukkhakkhandha Sutta (MN 13). It is not as explicit as I remember it, but here's how it goes. First, the Buddha asks "ko ca, bhikkhave, vedanānaṃ assādo?" "And what, o bhikkhus, is the enjoyment that comes from sensations?" Then he replies that it is the four rūpa-jhānas, since they lead to "abyābajjha" or "freedom from affliction", which he says is the highest sensation.
Then he immediately states:
"ko ca, bhikkhave, vedanānaṃ ādīnavo? yaṃ, bhikkhave, vedanā aniccā dukkhā vipariṇāmadhammā — ayaṃ vedanānaṃ ādīnavo.
"kiñca, bhikkhave, vedanānaṃ nissaraṇaṃ? yo, bhikkhave, vedanāsu chandarāgavinayo, chandarāgappahānaṃ — idaṃ vedanānaṃ nissaraṇaṃ.
"And what, o bhikkhus, is the danger of sensations? That sensations are, o bhikkhus, impermanent, suffering and of a nature to change — this is the danger of sensations."
"And what, o bhikkhus, is the escape from feelings? The leaving behind of desire and passion, the abandoning of desire and passion — this is the escape from feelings."
It doesn't really matter to me whether this says, as I think it does, that even the jhānas, associated as they are with sensations, can be a cause for desire and passion; Brahmavamso himself seems to me to be a good example, along with all of those meditating yogis in India, of someone who has let his attachment to jhāna color his perception. Again, I don't mind that he has a different method of practice for realizing enlightenment, I just can't let such things be printed unchallenged.
I didn't read the rest of the book, it looks like it gets into practical details from there on in. He should have just started there, and maybe I would have read it, even though the next chapter is entitled "The Beautiful Breath".
On the last page (p. 65), he quotes the Buddha from Dhp. 372, as his group of teachers are wont to do in support of their views, translating all the words except jhāna, which he not only doesn't translate, but capitalizes as throughout the book:
natthi jhānaṃ apaññassa
There is no Jhāna without wisdom
paññā natthi ajhāyato
There is no wisdom without Jhāna
yamhi jhānañca paññā ca
But for one with both Jhāna and wisdom
sa ve nibbānasantike..
They are in the presence of Nibbāna.
He doesn't translate Nibbāna either, but I think that's to be excused, given the difficulty therein. No such difficulty exists, however, with the word jhāna. Indeed, this stanza shows the problem with his argument; jhāna, like paññā, should be taken as a quality, not an entity, and translated as such. "There is no absorption without wisdom" might be suited to the context, in a literal translation. The problem, of course, is this is a Dhammapada verse and, like all Dhammapada verses, it should not be taken as literal statement of doctrine like the suttas. The Dhammapada is poetry. The last two lines make it quite clear, as far as I can see, that all the Buddha is saying here is that if you meditate without wisdom, it is not true meditation, and if you have wisdom but don't meditate, it is not true wisdom. But if you meditate with wisdom, you are close to freedom (Nibbāna).
And in the words of Forrest Gump, "that's all I have to say about that."


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Not too long ago Peter posted about a meze (a Greek appetizer) of marinated feta with olives that looked really good. Since I was having so many other Greek flavoured dishes this week I though what better time to try it. I went to Greek town and found some nice imported Greek feta and black olives (along with some baklava). This dish was super easy to put together, though, since I roasted my own red pepper it took a bit longer. It tasted great! The flavours all came together really nicely. Even though the feta and the olives were great, I felt that the roasted red pepper stole the show. The sweetness of the roasted red pepper went really well with the balsamic vinegar. The sweet and balsamicy roasted red pepper then went really well with the salty feta and olives. I will definitely be making this again.
Marinated Feta with Olives and Roasted Red Pepper
- 1 pound of feta (cut into bite sized cubes)
- 1/2 cup black olives (pitted)
- 1/2 cup green olives (pitted)
- 1 roasted red pepper (sliced)
- 1 red onion (diced)
- 2 cloves garlic (chopped)
- 4 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- 1 teaspoon thyme
- 1 teaspoon oregano
- pepper to taste
- squeeze of lemon juice
- Mix everything and let marinate in the fridge for up to 5 hours.
Marinated Roasted Red Peppers
Feta Salsa
Zucchini Bread with Roasted Red Peppers and Feta
Roasted Red Pepper, Pistachio and Feta Stuffed Chicken


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Lot 4: Kampf Conslit II 17/085 Slitter Rewinder (2007)
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Note: Under normal use (Bench Press, deadlifts, squats etc.) the Olympic bars with last years. Recently, with the growth in the CrossFit-like industry where workouts involve dropping the bars repetitively, bars with a bolted end (as opposed to a bearing) will eventually un-thread. This happens from constant impact that the bar was not designed to take on. Our website warranty page demonstrates this damage with a side by side of a bolt taken from a bar that has been used in the recommended fashion for at least a year and a comparison bolt that has been taken from a bar with repetitive dropping exercises. Illustrated is the wear on the bolt threads concluding to the end result of bar failure.
Note: The BP-10, BPP-10 and BPX-10 Bumper Plate are NOT designed or intended to be dropped on the bar without any additional weight plates. Product testing and development has shown that by dropping an Olympic Bar (See bar note) while using only 10lb plates can result in damage and compromise the integrity of the 10lb plate. During our product testing however, it was also discovered that using at least a 25lb plate (BP-25, BPP-25, BPX-25) in conjunction with the 10lb plates, the damage does not occur. Furthermore, Valor Fitness warranty does not cover damage to the BP-10, BPP-10 or BPX-10 plates caused by this improper use nor damage to plates caused by resting the bar on the floor using only 10lb plates as similar damage may occur.
Note: Be sure to use caution and care when assembling the unit, do not over tighten screws as it may cause wood to dimple, chip and/or snag on flooring surfaces.
Valor Fitness warranty may require the item to be returned to Valor Fitness at the owners expense for inspection. Images of damage to products may be required to be emailed to use prior to issuing a return authorization. Warranty issued to the original purchaser only- non transferable. Proof of purchase may be required for warranty claims. Valor Fitness retains the right to inspect the item(s) and determine the best method to make our customer whole, either by replacing the item(s) with an exact or similar item(s), partial or full refund or product credit towards future purchases. All warranty claims must be made within the specified time period as noted. Valor Fitness generic warranty states 3 Year Frame, 2 Year Pad, 2 Year Cable, 1 Year Popper Pin is intended where applicable. Some products may not come with a bench, therefore the stated pad warranty would not apply etc.
Warranty terms are specified above and begin from date of purchase to the original purchaser only, non-transferable. Any claim made during this warranty period does not extend the warranty. (In other words, a new warranty period does not start over again once a product has been repaired or replaced. The original warranty period still stands and will expire as stated above.)
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-- France. "The U.S. National Security Agency recorded millions of French phone calls, including those involving individuals with no links to terrorism, Le Monde reported on Monday."
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-- Mexico. The NSA's "Tailored Access Operations" division tapped into then-Mexican President Felipe Calderon's public email account in 2010, Der Spiegel reported over the weekend. The account, according to an NSA report, contained "diplomatic, economic and leadership communications which continue to provide insight into Mexico's political system and internal stability."
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Steward Pickett's roots are in plant ecology. From abandoned agricultural fields in New Jersey to the South African savannah, his work explores vegetation dynamics. Since 1997, his primary field site has been a city. As director of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study, he leads an ambitious, multi-partner effort looking at how urban areas function as ecosystems.
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Jeff Gordon Returns With an Even More Terrifying 'Test Drive' [VIDEO]
Jeff Gordon is at it again.
You may recall Gordon appeared in a viral video last year in which he disguised himself while terrorizing a car salesman on a test drive.
That stunt went viral, but a lot of people questioned whether it was real. So, the NASCAR legend decided he would have the last laugh in a new 'test drive' stunt with Jalopnik writer Travis Okulski, who just so happens to be one of the people who cried foul on the initial video.
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So, I dip into the inbox to find a suitable blogging task, and out comes this from Ben S:
Hey, speaking of QI, I was on the (orig. AmE) radio/(dated BrE) wireless this past week with Stephen Fry (the host of QI) on Fry's English Delight. By the time you read this, it may not be available for listening-again, but here's the link to the episode. The most very frustrating thing about this program(me) is that it is about spelling. My job is to talk about spelling reform in the early days of the USA. So, to introduce me, Fry announces 'That's Lynn, without an E.' Watch forty-something years of trying to get people to spell my name right go straight down the toilet. Thanks, Steven! (But much fun to be on the program(me).)I was watching the clip episode for QI and in it Rob Brydon explains the phrase "missing the wood for the trees" REDACTED FANCIFUL ACCOUNT OF ORIGIN OF THIS PHRASE. [Lesson: check any facts that appear on QI. They may be Quite Interesting, but they're not always true. --ed.] But, as an American, I've always heard "missing the forest for the trees"
Wait, what? You wanted me to talk about the phrase Ben asked about? Oh, all right then. Missing the wood for the trees is the main BrE version of this phrase and missing the forest for the trees is the main AmE version, as shown in this entry from Cambridge Dictionaries Online:
Ben sent me a long message about this because Brydon's tale about the meaning of this phrase treated it as if the wood in it referred to (AmE) lumber/(more BrE) timber--which is also the usual way that an American would understand wood without an s on the end. But that's what was wrong with Brydon's story. The BrE wood here is woods in AmE (AmE kinda-sorta. There's more to say.)
When talking about tree-filled land, BrE has woods as well as wood. Preschools here are filled with children singing If you go down in the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise. (Actually, most people these days sing If you go down to the woods today. Better Half has just declared the original lyric obscene.) But one hears a lot more of wood as part of place-names in BrE than AmE (e.g. Bromwich Wood). And one hears it in as a common noun to refer to foresty places. Here are some examples from the Corpus of Global Web-Based English (GloWBe), which strike me for their general morbidness (I've 'retouched' one of the lines to remove an irrelevant reference to a sexual act in a wood pile):
Now, I had assumed that Americans use the word forest more than the British do, because I often hear this wood where I would have said forest. But that's not the case--checking a few corpora, the British seem to use forest just as much as Americans. (Since one of those searches was case-sensitive, I don't think it's a case of place-names throwing the numbers.) I had this impression because if I were to Americani{s/z}e some of the sentences above by replacing the BrE wood, I'd put in forest. But that's because of the a. If I were allowed to change the whole noun phrase to be natural to my AmE brain, I'd change a wood to the woods. Now, it may seem strange to have the the there, since that's a definite determiner,* and it implies that we know which woods we're talking about. But it's really not that strange to use the when talking about geographical place-types, since we talk about people liking to swim in the sea or go hiking in the mountains, even if we don't know (or if it doesn't matter) which ones they do it in. To be clear: one can say in the woods in BrE. But since one can also say in a wood in BrE, the British don't say in the woods as much as Americans do.
Back to the 'for the trees' proverb: it is older than old, but in John Heywood's Proverbes (1546) it is given as ye cannot see the wood for trees. The forest version goes back at least into the 19th century in the US. I can only presume that it came to be preferred over the wood version because that version is confusing in AmE, where it would pretty much have to be woods. But, as Brydon, in his misunderstanding of the phrase on QI, demonstrated, it's not just ambiguous to Americans--since wood has more than one meaning in both countries. (If you'd like to see the discussion on QI, it seems to be on YouTube in several places. Probably illegally, so I'm not going to link to it, because those links eventually fail. But should you want to search for it, it should be in (BrE) series 10, episode 3 'Journeys'.)
* As long as I'm talking about definite determiners, I can mention that I'm the 'Ask a Linguist' linguist in the current issue of the lovely new-ish language magazine Babel. The topic there is the the (or lack of it) in the phrase in (the) hospital. I've covered that before here, but I cover it better in the magazine--which I really recommend for anyone who's interested in language. Subscription info is here.


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Fannie Mae TBA securities shrug off the March FOMC meeting
Given that another $10 billion in tapering was already priced in, TBAs didn't react to the FOMC meeting. MBS spreads tightened as MBS rallied in the face of a bond market sell-off.
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Trading in Fannie Mae TBAs
When the Federal Reserve talks about buying mortgage-backed securities (or MBS), it's referring to the To-Be-Announced market (usually referred to as the TBA market). The TBA market allows loan originators to take individual loans and turn them into a homogeneous product that can be traded. TBAs settle once a month, and Fannie Mae loans are put into Fannie Mae securities. TBAs are broken out by coupon rate and settlement date. In the chart below, we're looking at the Fannie Mae 4% coupon for April delivery.
The TBA market is the basis for which your loan originator prices a loan
When the originator offers a loan to you (as a borrower), your rate is par, give or take any points you're paying. Your originator will then sell the loan into a TBA. If you're quoted a 4% mortgage rate with no points, the lender will fund your loan and then sell it for the current TBA price. In this case, the TBA closed at 103 30/32, which means your lender will make just about 4% before taking into account the cost of making the loan. The Fed is the biggest buyer of TBA paper. Other buyers include sovereign wealth funds, countries with trade surpluses with the United States, and pension funds. TBAs are a completely "upstairs" market in that they don't trade on an exchange and most trading is done "on the wire," or over the phone.
TBAs shrug off the FOMC meeting
Given that another $10 billion in tapering was already priced in, TBAs didn't react to the FOMC meeting. MBS spreads tightened as MBS rallied in the face of a bond market sell-off.
The main action driving TBAs specifically seems to be out of Washington, between the Fed purchases and the government's policies to drive origination. We heard from a number of the biggest banks recently, and all of them reported drops in origination volume of 30% to 40% in the fourth quarter.
Implications for mortgage REITs
Mortgage REITs and ETFs such as Annaly (NLY), American Capital (AGNC), Capstead Mortgage (CMO), the iShares 20-year bond ETF (TLT), and the Mortgage REIT ETF (MORT) are the biggest beneficiaries of quantitative easing, as quantitative easing helps keep REITs' cost of funds low and they benefit from mark-to-market gains. This means their existing holdings of mortgage-backed securities are worth more as the TBA market rises. The downside is that interest margins compress going forward, because yield moves inversely with price. Also, as MBS rally, prepayments are likely to increase, which negatively affects mortgage REITs.
As a general rule, a lack of volatility is good for mortgage REITs because they hedge some of their interest rates risk. Increasing volatility in interest rates increases the cost of hedging. This is because as interest rates rise, the expected maturity of the bond increases, as there will be fewer prepayments. On the other hand, if interest rates fall, the maturity shortens due to higher prepayment risks. Mechanically, this means they must adjust their hedges and buy more protection when prices are high and sell more protection when prices are low. This "buy-high, sell-low" effect is called "negative convexity," and it explains why Fannie Mae MBS yield so much more than Treasuries.
While Fannie Mae mortgages don't have an explicit government guarantee, they are "government-sponsored" and considered to be guaranteed by the government. That said, Ginnies and Fannies do trade at a spread to each other, with Ginnies trading at a premium because of their explicit government guarantee.


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Care of the Mouth and Teeth
Most pediatric dentists will agree that regular dental care should begin by age 1 year, with a dental check-up at least twice each year after for most children. Some children may need evaluations and care more often. The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) recommends the following:
Birth to age 6 months
Clean the infant's mouth with gauze or use a soft infant toothbrush after feedings and at bedtime.
Consult your child's healthcare provider regarding fluoride supplements, if you live in an area without fluoridated water.
Regulate feeding habits (bottle-feeding and breastfeeding).
Ages 6 to 12 months
During this time, the first tooth should appear. Talk with a pediatric dentist for an exam.
Ask about fluoride varnish that may be applied to the teeth every 3 to 6 months.
Brush teeth after each feeding and at bedtime with a small, soft-bristled brush and a small amount of fluoride toothpaste, about the size of a grain of rice.
As the child begins to walk, stay alert for potential dental and/or facial injuries.
Ages 12 to 24 months
Follow the schedule of dental exams and cleanings, as recommended by your child's pediatric dentist. Generally, dental exams and cleanings are recommended every 6 months for children and adults.
As your child learns to rinse and spit, brushing with a pea-sized portion of fluoridated toothpaste is appropriate, in most cases.
Facts about baby teeth
Proper care of a child's "baby" or primary teeth is very important, as these teeth hold space for the future eruption of permanent teeth.
If a baby tooth decays or is removed too early, the space necessary for the permanent teeth is lost and can only be regained through orthodontic treatment.
Infected baby teeth can cause the permanent teeth to develop improperly resulting in stains, pits, and weaker teeth.
Primary teeth are important in speech development.
Primary teeth aid in chewing food properly, promoting healthy nutrition.
Most children begin losing their baby teeth around the ages of 5 or 6, with usually the front teeth first. They continue to lose baby teeth until the age of 12 or 13 when all of the permanent teeth finally come through, except for the third molars (wisdom teeth). These molars begin to appear around the ages of 17 to 21.
Diet and dental care for children
The AAPD recommends the following to make sure that your child eats correctly to maintain a healthy body and teeth:
Ask your child's pediatric dentist to help you assess your child's diet.
Shop smart. Do not routinely stock your pantry with sugary or starchy snacks.
Buy "fun foods" just for special times.
Limit the number of snacks and choose nutritious snacks.
Provide a balanced diet and save foods with sugar or starch for mealtimes.
Do not put your young child to bed with a bottle of milk, formula, or juice.
If your child chews gum or sips soda, choose those without sugar.


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Project Members
- Paul Heggarty
- Scott Sadowsky
- (formerly: Warren Maguire)
- (formerly: April McMahon)
Language Relatedness and Divergence: Quantitative and Phylogenetic Approaches
This research theme served to support the related theme on Cross-Disciplinary Prehistory. It did so by focusing on the single most basic key to the linguistic record of population (pre)history, namely language relatedness, and developing new quantitative approaches to address both of its main facets:
- To help evaluate whether given language lineages do or do not stem from a common origin…
- And if they do, to measure as finely as possible just how closely they are related, or in other words, how far they have diverged from their common ancestor.
Once we can produce meaningful measures of language difference and divergence, they can then feed into the growing trend for taking the latest techniques for phylogenetic, probabilistic and statistical analysis, drawn originally from the biological sciences, and applying them now to data on language divergence, to help analyse and represent how languages relate to each other. These are extremely powerful tools with undoubted potential for clarifying language (pre)histories, even if applying them to language 'evolution' is by no means problem‑free.
Often most appropriate are analyses of the type not restricted to modelling language relationships only in terms of a 'family tree' with binary branches, but which can instead also visualise networks. These are often a more realistic representation of how language varieties actually relate to each other, and indeed of the underlying processes in the real-world that shaped those relationships in the first place (see Heggarty et al. 2010). These language data, and new quantitative tools for analysing them, can open up valuable new perspectives on the linguistic signals that survive from past relationships between human populations, which can then be compared and combined with those of other disciplines.
Moreover, however sophisticated these 'number‑crunching' tools may be, their results can only ever be as good as the numbers we feed into them in the first place. This research then centred on this critical prior stage, of how best to 'encode' and put numbers on real language data, with all its complexities. Language is an inherently non‑numerical phenomenon, so to be realistic all we can aspire to is a most meaningful approximation to it in figures. A key concern is to ensure that our measures are appropriately weighted against each other, in terms of their respective real linguistic significance. Quite how to assess that is a core question for this research, as it aims to establish basic methodological principles for language quantification, as advanced in Heggarty (2006), Heggarty (2010), and a chapter in preparation for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Diachronic and Historical Linguistics.
This research theme has developed its own new techniques for measuring distances between language varieties. Some of these do look to the traditional data source of lexical semantics, although they are purposely devised to be very different indeed from traditional 'lexicostatistics', with its many known weaknesses (see Heggarty 2010). The novel techniques developed here aim to help assess whether given language families are or are not related to each other in the first place (e.g. Heggarty 2010, Heggarty 2011).
Principally, though, this theme looks to phonetics, where divergence can be measured to an especially fine-grained level: between languages closely related to each other within the same family, and indeed down to the dialect and accent level. For any one family, the raw data collected are recordings of specific sets of common words, cognate (i.e. directly related) across all language varieties within that family. These are first transcribed phonetically, and the sounds within any one word then matched up against those in the corresponding pronunciations in all other languages in that family. This matching is achieved through node forms that encapsulate the basic knowledge of the common ancestral language from which that family derived. As an example, the individual sounds in French étoile, Spanish estrella and Romanian steauă (all meaning star) are matched up against each other through their respective relationships of derivation from the sounds within the original Latin stella(m) from which each of the modern words derives. This matching is highly automated by the phonetic analysis programme used, but always followed by expert linguist revision. From these transcriptions and matchings as input data, a purposely developed programme produces measures of how far these languages have diverged from each other in phonetics, which in turn provides a perspective on how the Romance family developed through (pre)history.
This approach has been explored so far particularly for varieties of English worldwide and through history, and more widely across dialects of Germanic (e.g. Heggarty et al. 2010, Maguire et al. 2010). In ongoing work, analysis is now underway of similar databases already collected for further studies on the Slavic and Romance families, and particularly a further specific project on the Sounds of the Andean Languages.
The recording and transcription databases also feed directly into the related research theme 'Sound Comparisons': New Tools and Resources for Exploring Language Family Diversity on the Web.
Publications within this Research Theme
Heggarty, P. forthcoming
Commentary on: Chen, Sokal & Ruhlen (1995), Worldwide analysis of genetic and linguistic relationships of human populations.
Human Biology (Special issue in honor of Robert R. Sokal).
Heggarty, P. 2011. Enterrando el esqueleto quechumara.
In W. Adelaar, P. Valenzuela, & R. Zariquiey (eds) Estudios en lenguas andinas y amazónicas. En homenaje a Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino, 147–179. Lima: Fondo Editorial de la PUCP.
Heggarty, P. 2010.
Beyond lexicostatistics: how to get more out of 'word list' comparisons. Diachronica 27(2): p.301–324.
Heggarty, P., Maguire, W., & McMahon, A.M.S. 2010.
Splits or waves? Trees or webs? How divergence measures and network analysis can unravel language histories
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (365) Special issue on: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity (eds J. Steele, P. Jordan, & E. Cochrane.): p.3829–3843.
Maguire, W., McMahon, A.M.S., Heggarty, P., & Dediu, D. 2010.
The past, present and future of English dialects: Quantifying convergence, divergence and dynamic equilibrium.
Language Variation and Change 22(1): p.69–104.
Nerbonne, J., Heggarty, P., Van Hout, R., & Robey, D. 2009.
Panel discussion on computing and the humanities
J. Nerbonne, C. Gooskens, S. Kürschner, & R. van Bezooijen (eds).
International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 2: p.19–37.
Heggarty, P., Maguire, W., & McMahon, A. 2008.
Accents of English from Around the World.
McMahon, A.M.S., Heggarty, P., McMahon, R., & Maguire, W. 2007.
The sound patterns of Englishes: representing phonetic similarity.
English Language and Linguistics 11(01): p.113.
Heggarty, P. 2006.
Interdisciplinary indiscipline? Can phylogenetic methods meaningfully be applied to language data — and to dating language?
In P. Forster & C. Renfrew (eds) Phylogenetic Methods and the Prehistory of Languages, 183–194. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
Heggarty, P. 2005a.
Enigmas en el origen de las lenguas andinas: aplicando nuevas técnicas a las incógnitas por resolver.
Revista Andina 40: p.9–57.
Heggarty, P. 2005b.
Response to commentaries on Heggarty (2005). Revista Andina 40: p.70–80.
Heggarty, P., McMahon, A., & McMahon, R. 2005.
From phonetic similarity to dialect classification: a principled approach.
In N. Delbecque, D. Geeraerts, & J. van der Auwera (eds) Perspectives on Variation: Sociolinguistic, Historical, Comparative, 43–91. Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter.
McMahon, A.M.S., Heggarty, P., McMahon, R., & Slaska, N. 2005.
Swadesh sublists and the benefits of borrowing: an Andean case study.
Transactions of the Philological Society 103(2): p.147–170.
Heggarty, P. 2000. Quantifying change over time in phonetics.
In C. Renfrew, A. M. S. McMahon, & R. L. Trask (eds) Time Depth in Historical Linguistics, 531–562. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.


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POPLARVILLE — The reigning MACJC and Region 23 women's and men's soccer champions — namely Pearl River Community College — eye NJCAA district contests this weekend with the winners earning berths in the upcoming national tournament.
PRCC's women, 12-2 overall, will host Brevard (Fla.), ranked No. 1 in the NJCAA Division I women's soccer poll with a 12-1 overall mark, Saturday at 1 p.m. for the District H championship; while PRCC's men, undefeated at 14-0, travel to Tyler JC in Tyler, Tex., for the District P playoffs.
The Wildcats will face Paris (Tex.) at 8 p.m. Friday with the winner of that contest taking on the winner of the host Tyler versus Meridian (Region 23 runner-up) at 3 p.m. Saturday in the district championship game.
The River defeated Meridian for the regional championship last Saturday at Lamar School in Meridian 2-1.
Paris CC is 7-6 overall heading into the district event, while Tyler is 16-2-1.
The NJCAA women's nationals will be held at Brevard CC in Melbourne, Fla., while the men's nationals are set for Darton College in Albany, Ga. Both events are set for Nov. 11-17.
Jack Byrd coaches the Lady Wildcat squad, while Paul Martin, who was named the men's Region 23 'Coach of the Year' for 2012, coaches the Wildcat team.
Since 1999's inaugural season of Pearl River soccer, it's women previously won state titles in 2005 and 2009, as well as a total of six South Division championships; while its men were also state champs in 2003 and boast three division crowns. Neither squad has ever won a regional title or a berth in the NJCAA nationals.