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This course will provide you with a basic, intuitive and practical introduction into Probability Theory. You will be able to learn how to apply Probability Theory in different scenarios and you will earn a "toolbox" of methods to deal with uncertainty in your daily life. The course is split in 5 modules. In each module you will first have an easy introduction into the topic, which will serve as a basis to further develop your knowledge about the topic and acquire the "tools" to deal with uncertainty. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to complete 5 exercise sessions to reflect about the content learned in each module and start applying your earned knowledge right away. The topics covered are: "Probability", "Conditional Probability", "Applications", "Random Variables", and "Normal Distribution". You will see how the modules are taught in a lively way, focusing on having an entertaining and useful learning experience! We are looking forward to see you online!
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Home prices rose in July from June by 1.5 percent in its 10-city index and 1.6 percent in the 20 major cities where it tracks changes, the latest S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices report shows.
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"For the third consecutive month, all 20 cities and both composites recorded positive monthly changes. It would have been a fourth had prices not fallen by 0.6% in Detroit back in April."
"All in all, we are more optimistic about housing. Upbeat trends continue," says economist David Blitzer, the chairman of the index committee at S&P Dow Jones Indices.
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Google offers templates, a rich-text editor, 10GB of storage for each Google Apps account and integration with other Google services so you can embed gadgets, calendars, spreadsheets, presentations, photo slideshows and videos. You can invite people to collaborate or just view a site and you can also publish the site so that anyone can view it.
VentureBeat likes the new service. "Creating a new site with Google Sites is very easy. (...) You can start out by creating a front page for your site and from there decide whether to add more standard pages" or use one of the built-in templates: dashboard, blog, file cabinet, list.
Webware notices that Google doesn't offer too many features. "As is typical for Google productivity applications when they first launch, the functionality inside Sites is on the spare side, but the collaboration features are clear, easy to use, and well-chosen. This is a capable workgroup wiki, and even in this early stage its integration with the Docs and Apps suites makes it an excellent collaboration tool."
Here are three examples of Google Sites: a company intranet, a ski club site and a team project.
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The new service is enabled by default for all the new Google Apps accounts, but administrators need to enable it explicitly for the existing accounts.


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New wave of deportations raises concerns for foreigners married to Moroccans.
ISTANBUL, July 1 (Compass Direct News) — Moroccan authorities expelled eight more foreign Christians from the country last weekend, bringing the total of deported Christians since March to 128.
Two foreign women married to Moroccan Christians were included in this third wave of deportations since March, raising concerns that local authorities intend to harass the country's small but growing Protestant community.
"They are all in fear," a source told Compass, "because this happened to people who are married."
One of the women, a Lebanese national married to a Moroccan, was diagnosed with cancer last month and is the mother of a 6-year old girl whom she was forced to leave behind.
A Spanish national, Sara Domene, 31, was also deported on Monday (June 28), according to news sources. Domene was working as a language teacher in the Western Sahara, a territory under Moroccan sovereignty.
Authorities called the foreigners to police stations across Morocco on Friday (June 25) and told them they had 48 hours to leave the country on grounds of "threatening public order."
Other nationals who were forced to leave the country over the weekend came from France, Egypt, Lebanon, Switzerland, Nigeria and Spain.
A source explained that Moroccan authorities are essentially deporting Christians for "proselytism," which is illegal in Morocco, but in order to justify the deportations they have claimed that the foreigners pose a threat to the state.
In April nearly 7,000 Muslim religious leaders backed the deportations by signing a document describing the work of Christians within Morocco as "moral rape" and "religious terrorism." The statement from the religious leaders came amid a nationwide mudslinging campaign geared to vilify Christians in Morocco for "proselytism" — widely perceived as bribing people to change their faith.
There are an estimated 1,000 Moroccan Christian converts in the country. They are not recognized by the government. About 99 percent of Morocco's population of more than 33 million is Muslim.
Congressional Hearings
On June 17, the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission held a U.S. congressional hearing on the ongoing deportations of U.S. citizens and other foreigners from Morocco.
Morocco has expelled about 58 U.S. citizens in the last four months. On Thursday (June 24) authorities informed about 10 U.S. citizens that they had 48 hours to leave the country, but within 24 hours the deportation orders were rescinded.
In a statement after the June 17 hearing, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), who co-chairs the Lantos commission, said he would lobby for the U.S. government to withhold funds it has pledged to Morocco if he did not see improvements in the treatment of Christians there.
"I will continue to stay with this issue until a resolution has been reached," he said. "Should this matter remain unresolved, it is possible that I may offer amendments in the Appropriations committee and on the House floor to restrict U.S. foreign aid from going to Morocco."
In a letter addressed to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on June 17, Ambassador of Morocco to the United States Aziz Mekouar claimed that the deportations "solely and exclusively targeted proselytism activities, which are clearly and categorically forbidden by the laws of Morocco and the precepts of Islam."
The ambassador said the Moroccan Penal Code imposes fines and prison sentences for those who "use means of seduction in the aim of undermining a Muslim's faith or of converting him/her to another religion, either by exploiting his weaknesses or needs, or through the use, to this end, of health or educational establishments, as well as shelters or orphanages."
Moroccan authorities have failed to provide foreign Christians whom they expelled with documented proof or official charges of their alleged proselytism activities. In his letter, the ambassador said the deportations were preferable to the "difficult ordeal" of incarceration and a trial as part of a criminal procedure against the Christians.
Wolf noted that that among those who were deported or denied reentry were businessmen, educators and humanitarian and social workers, "many of whom had resided in Morocco for over a decade in full compliance with the law. Additionally, those deported were forced to leave the country within two hours of being questioned by authorities, leaving everything behind."
Christian foreigners who were able to obtain official deportation documents have appealed their cases in the Moroccan courts. The hearings for those cases started in May and are continuing.


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There's been a strong earthquake, with an estimated magnitude of 7.8, in southeastern Iran near the border with Pakistan, the U.S. Geological Survey reports.
The temblor was centered about 53 miles east southeast of the small city of Khash. According to USGS, it was about 9.4 miles deep.
The BBC says that "tremors have been felt across the Gulf and the Middle East. Tall buildings swayed in the Indian capital Delhi, reports say."
Reuters reports that an Iranian officials says there may have been hundreds of deaths.
Last Tuesday (April 9), a 6.3 magnitude earthquake in western Iran caused an estimated 37 deaths and more than 800 injuries.
We'll watch for more news about this latest quake.
Update at 11:06 a.m. ET. Conflicting Accounts On Deaths:
While earlier there were reports of deaths in Iran, Reuters now says there were 13 deaths in neighboring Pakistan — but perhaps none in Iran. The wire service writes that a local governor in Iran, Hatam Narouyi, says, "Fortunately, the earthquake resulted in no fatalities."
Update at 9:22 a.m. ET. Depth Greater Than First Thought:
USGS now estimates the earthquake's depth was 51 miles, rather than the initial 9.4 miles estimate. A deeper quake could mean less damage above ground.
Update at 8:30 a.m. ET. Area Is Home To 2 Million:
"The worst-hit area, along Iran's southeastern border, is home to nearly 2 million people, who live in three main cities, Zahaedan, the provincial center, and the epicenter of the earthquake between the cities of Saravan and Khash, where roughly 400,000 people live, the semiofficial Tabnak Web site reported." ( The New York Times)
NPR's Peter Kenyon adds that "the Fars news agency reports that many of the houses in the region are made of mud bricks, which can be very vulnerable to quake damage."
Update at 8:05 a.m. ET. Some Deaths:
At least 40 people were killed, Iran's Press TV is reporting.
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Tommy Hunter (0-1, 4.50) vs. A.J. Burnett (if Joe Girardi doesn't come to his senses).
COMMENTS: Just think — if the Texas bullpen hadn't coughed up five runs in Game 1 of the ALCS, the Rangers would be looking at a sweep of the Yankees tonight. Regardless, Tommy Hunter (who?) goes up against a Yankees offense hungrier than Joey Chestnut at a tapas bar. If the Rangers shut the Yankees down again, expect jeers in New York and cheers in Philly. And cheesesteaks. I prefer Jim's.
After Texas started pulling away last night, did you notice the New York "faithful" deserting the stadium last night faster than lemmings off the Titanic? And on national TV? During prime time? Yet that won't besmirch the sterling reputation of Yankees fans. Assholes.
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MANTOLOKING, N.J. (AP) -- Robert Post misses his phone line.
Post, 85, has a pacemaker that needs to be checked once a month by phone. But the copper wiring that once connected his home to the rest of the world is gone, and the phone company refuses to restore it.
In October 2012, Superstorm Sandy pushed the sea over Post's neighborhood in Mantoloking, N.J., leaving hundreds of homes wrecked, and one floating in the bay. The homes on this sandy spit of land along the Jersey Shore are being rebuilt, but Verizon doesn't want to replace washed-away lines and waterlogged underground cables. Phone lines are outdated, the company says.
Mantoloking is one of the first places in the country where the traditional phone line is going dead. For now, Verizon, the country's second-largest landline phone company, is taking the lead by replacing phone lines with wireless alternatives. But competitors including AT&T have made it clear they want to follow. It's the beginning of a technological turning point, representing the receding tide of copper-wire landlines that have been used since commercial service began in 1877.
The number of U.S. phone lines peaked at 186 million in 2000. Since then, more than 100 million copper lines have already been disconnected, according to trade group US Telecom. The lines have been supplanted by cellphones and Internet-based phone service offered by way of cable television and fiber optic wiring. Just 1 in 4 U.S. households will have a copper phone line at the end of this year, according to estimates from industry trade group US Telecom. AT&T would like to turn off its network of copper land lines by the end of the decade.
For most people, the phone line's demise will have little impact. But there are pockets of the country where copper lines are still critical for residents. As a result, state regulators and consumer advocates are increasingly concerned about how the transition will unfold.
"The real question is not: Are we going to keep copper forever? The real question is: How are we going to handle this transition?" says Harold Feld, senior vice president of Public Knowledge, a Washington-based group that advocates for public access to the Internet and other communications technologies.
The elderly and people in rural areas, where cell coverage may be poor or nonexistent, will be most affected by disappearing phone lines, Feld says. "Are we going to handle this transition in a way that recognizes that we have vulnerable populations here?"
Verizon says replacing the lines just doesn't make economic sense. When they were originally laid down, the phone was the only two-way telecommunications service available in the home, and the company could look forward to decades of use out of each line. Now, it would cost Verizon hundreds of dollars per home to rewire a neighborhood, but less than a quarter of customers are likely to sign up for phone service and many of those drop it after a year or two.
"If we fixed the copper, there's a good likelihood people wouldn't even use it," says Tom Maguire, Verizon's senior vice president of operations support.
Verizon also wants to get out of rebuilding phone lines on the western end of New York's Fire Island, another sliver of sand that was flooded by Sandy. The island lacks paved roads. It can only be reached by ferry, and its residents are overwhelmingly seasonal. Some of the copper lines still work, but Verizon is no longer maintaining them, to the frustration of restaurant owner Jon Randazzo.
"Really, what they're doing is abandoning us," says Randazzo, 30.
There's no cable service on Fire Island, making it more dependent on Verizon than Mantoloking, where residents can get phone and Internet service from Comcast by cable. The surviving copper phone lines on Fire Island often double as DSL, or digital subscriber line, Internet connections. As a result, Randazzo's restaurant, The Landing at Ocean Beach, lost Verizon Internet service for a weekend last month, leaving it without a way to process credit cards. The line started working again after four days, but he's afraid it will go out again for good.
"I had to have my waiters write down the credit-card number, the expiration number and the CVV (security) code. It took me over three and a half hours to process all my credit cards on Saturday. That's pretty ridiculous," Randazzo says.
Verizon provided service to about 2,700 lines on western Fire Island before the storm. But even then, 80 percent of calls to and from the island were wireless. Now, few of the lines work, but the cellular service is fine.
New York state regulators have given Verizon provisional permission to consider its wireless Voice Link boxes as stand-ins for regular phone service. Verizon technicians install the 4-inch square boxes with protruding antennas in homes and connect them to the home phone wiring. The home is then linked to Verizon's wireless network. When subscribers lift their phone handsets, they hear a dial tone. But the box doesn't work with remote medical monitoring devices, home alarm systems or faxes. It can't accept collect calls or connect callers with an operator when they dial 0. It also can't be used with dial-up modems, credit-card machines or international calling cards.
Post's house in Mantoloking was built 83 years ago. His wife estimates it has been connected to a phone line for 80 years. Now, to get his pacemaker checked, he heads once a month to a friend's home in Bay Head, the next town over, which still has a copper phone line.
Most of his neighbors in Mantoloking have cable phone service from Comcast Corp. that can do most of the things Voice Link can't. The service, for instance, could relay Post's pacemaker information. But Post just isn't eager to switch to the cable company. He says he doesn't trust them. And he's not alone. Customer perception of cable TV providers has historically been poor, due to service outages and annual price increases, according to surveys for the American Customer Satisfaction Index.
Post's neighbor, Garret Sayia, is fine with cable.
"Everybody here wants the cable for Internet and TV," Sayia says. "The other thing is - who needs wires?" he adds, holding up his cellphone.
Verizon says just 855 of the 3,000 homes it wants to abandon in Mantoloking had traditional phone service before the storm hit.
In other areas, Verizon is replacing copper phone lines with optical fiber, which allows the company to offer cable-like TV services and ultrafast broadband. Water can short out and corrode copper wire, but optical fiber is made of glass and transmits light rather than electricity, so it's far more resistant to flooding. But the cost of wiring a neighborhood with fiber optic lines can run more than $1,000 a home.
"Everybody would love for us to put in fiber, but that's just not practical," Maguire says.
If New York and New Jersey refuse to give permanent permission for the switch from landline to wireless phone service, Verizon could be forced to rebuild the phone network on Fire Island and in Mantoloking. Unlike cable and wireless companies, landline phone companies have regulatory obligations in most states to supply lines at a reasonable cost to anyone who wants one. They also need federal approval to end service.
In late June, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed an emergency petition with state regulators to stop Verizon from replacing copper lines with alternatives in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. He says seasonal residents who find their phone lines don't work at their summer homes are steered by Verizon to its Voice Link wireless product. Only if the customer forcefully refuses will Verizon restore the copper phone line, he says. Verizon says Voice Link is just an option available to customers.
In New Jersey, state regulators are talking to Verizon about Mantoloking but haven't approved the landline-to-wireless switch that Verizon has already started. It could, at least in theory, deny Verizon's application and force it to rewire copper phone lines back into the town.
In Washington, the Federal Communications Commission is looking at an application from the country's largest landline phone company, AT&T Inc. AT&T isn't dealing with storm damage, so it has the leisure of taking a longer view. It wants to explore what a future without phone lines will look like by starting trials in yet-to-be-decided areas.
"We need kind of a process where we can figure out what we don't know," says Bob Quinn, one of AT&T's top lobbyists in Washington. "The trouble is not going to be identifying the issues everybody can see. It's going to be finding the unexpected issues that you have to conquer."
At Public Knowledge, Feld agrees with AT&T's deliberative approach. Among the issues that need to be looked at, he says, is whether consumer protections that apply to landline phone service should apply to whatever replaces it. For instance, if a consumer misses a monthly payment, phone companies are prohibited from cutting landline phone service right away.
"There are all kinds of state and federal rights around your phone bill ... which don't apply to these competitive alternatives," Feld says.
The FCC put together a formal task force on the issue in December, after AT&T put in its request, and has asked the company for more details.
Sean Lev, the FCC's general counsel, said in a blog post that "we should do everything we can to speed the way while protecting consumers, competition, and public safety." But he also points out that most phone companies aren't set to retire their landline equipment immediately. The equipment has been bought and paid for, and there's no real incentive to shut down a working network. He thinks phone companies will continue to use landlines for five to 10 years, suggesting that regulators have some time to figure out how to tackle the issue.
AT&T would like to have all its landline phone equipment turned off by 2020. Verizon's Maguire envisions a gradual phase-out, starting right now.
If a major telecommunications line fails and there are hundreds of people connected to it, Verizon would repair it, he says. But the company wants the option to abandon the failed line and move the remaining households to Voice Link.
"If you're one of the few people on there, and Voice Link seems to fit you, why not?" Maguire asks.


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As the world waits for what's expected to be another ballistic missile test by North Korea sometime in the next few days, NPR's Frank Langfitt reports there's reason to think that tensions on the Korean Peninsula might soon ease.
On Morning Edition, Frank passed along analysis from Daniel Pinkston, who focuses on North Korea for the International Crisis Group, a nonprofit organization "committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict."
Pinkston says that once the U.S. and South Korean militaries conclude their joint exercises later this month, North Korea "will probably claim victory. ... They will say that 'look, the Americans were really going to invade us. They were preparing for it and they ran away scared because of our nuclear deterrent [and] our great commander. ... Now we can celebrate.' "
Pinkston already sees signs that the North, even as it is preparing for a missile test and continues to issue threats against the South and the U.S., is preparing for a shift in approach. He told Frank that in the past week the North Korean media have been focusing more on issues such as economic development.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may be looking for a way out, Pinkston says.
Frank is on assignment in Seoul.
As for other news from the Korean Peninsula:
-- North Korea "appears to be moving several missiles repeatedly on its east coast in an apparent attempt to interfere with intelligence monitoring, sources familiar with the matter said Thursday," South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reports.
-- American Secretary of State John Kerry is due in Seoul on Friday. The stop is part of a trip that will include a visit to Beijing. North Korea's latest round of rhetoric will be atop Kerry's agenda.
Update at 7:45 a.m. ET. Missile In Position?
"North Korea has raised at least one missile into its upright firing position Wednesday, raising concerns that a launch was imminent, a U.S. official told CNN Thursday."
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
The Union Carbide "Hand o' God"
With these hands usually extending down from on high, emerging from a swirling ether, often assisting tiny humans in some industrial process or another, it doesn't take a degree in chemical engineering to appreciate the implication: the might of modern American industry rivaled the power of God.
Thus, as I have collected these ads over the last few years, I have (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) come to think of them as the "The Union Carbide Hand o' God" series.
Sometimes the Hand o' God is benign, gently sheltering a humble strawberry plant so it may better provide us with sustenance...
But sometimes the Hand o' God is vengeful... reminding us that Nuclear Annihilation is an ever present threat.
(Luckily, God's on our side.)
The Hand o' God demonstrates that the Earth's riches are plentiful, and ours for the taking...
... and the mighty Hand o' God miraculously transforms these raw resources...
... into the modern conveniences that satisfy our every whim.
Yes the Hand o' God can move mountains! Which is great... unless you happen to live near the mountain...
But such concerns are beneath the notice of one who can turn liquid into solid and effectively "walk on water".
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There was also a tire company that portrayed giant hands "gripping" the road,with the asphalt rising up like hockey pucks between the fingers. I remember seeing those as a little kid and thinking they were so cool (Hadn't heard the word "surrealism" yet.) But no idea what company they were.
ReplyDeletetreplovski; I know of that campaign... it is a cool image, for sure. Lots of companies employed God-like 'power hands', as I've noticed in preparing this post... I may show a sampling of some others later in the week. :^)
Matt; thanks! And yes, from the distance of half a century and with the benefit of having seen the failure - as well as the successes - of corporate industry - these ads really are mock-worthy.- Charlie Allen6:08 PM
WOW....just wow! Don't know how, but missed that U.C. series when it ran. And, great commentary with it, Leif! Some of the art is average, but the first scan is amazing. Makes my Kaiser fist and hands holding mud quite pedantic. Out here, Jimmy Hansen was best at that....I'll forward a scan.
ReplyDelete I remember that series, as an art student looking back in early 50's magazines at the library for the illos.
On the philosophical side, it seems to me that UC was symbolically showing the dynamic exploration of man, not God. Although, the American Industrial Revolution was mostly built by men of faith in God. As for the good and the bad of it all, I'm reminded of the fact that America.. and its flaws, has been the most generous country on earth, and the most tolerant of mockery and criticism.
I recall being told that many of the big dramatic hand illustrations at that time, were done by illustrators that specialized in hands (?). I could never find a signature, however.
Tom WatsonTom;
I seem to have struck a nerve with you on this one and I'm sorry about that, but I think if you step back and imagine the casual observer's immediate reaction to seeing these ads for the first time, at least some give the immediate impression that God's hand is coming down from Heaven and "moving mountains" -- and I think if you can look at it objectively, you'll probably agree that it's likely the agency that conceived these ads intended to suggest that man had achieved the powers of God by way of the sort of business UC and other industrial corporations were engaged in.
As for America being the most generous and tolerant of mockery and that being a fact (and I say this as someone who has family, friends and business associates all over America and who loves all that is great about America and Americans and is happy to be a neighbour to America)...
Canada is more generous and tolerant - of mockery or otherwise. We're just not as good at tooting our own horn. ;^)Morning Leif,
I confess I've been reading your blog without signing up as a follower.
While looking at your "Hand o' God" images I was struck by how much they owed to the murals painted by Diego Rivera at the Detroit Institute of Arts in the 1930s, before Union Carbide and other corporations took over the imagry. In the DIA murals there are areas at the top of the walls that are painted with a variety of hand holding representations of the mineral wealth of the earth. [Look for an image in Google images files for Diego Rivera.]Its an interesting precursor.
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Norman Rockwell MuseumLeif, perhaps we are reading from 2 different history books.. the Canadian version and the American version. ;-) And, I have no doubt Canadians are all also very generous. I also have friends and relatives (on Joan's side) who were raised in America and living in Canada, and some that were raised in Canada and living in America.. and I hear a lot of different points of view. Regardless, my friend, we can agree to disagree on whether it represents the hand of God or the hand of man. I will compromise and call it UC's "Helping Hand". ;-)
Tom Watson- Kevin Greene4:32 PM
When I was a kid I used to visit my Grandmother in Virginia and she had a ton of old Readers Digests and National Geographics with these ads in them. I was fascinated by them. I would draw them and try to copy the style. That was 30 years ago. Just recently, I was able to remember the company and find some ad pages on Ebay to buy. This post is a real treat and I am estatic to see great jpegs of these pieces. You just made my day. Thanks.
ReplyDelete Leif, I can't recall ever seeing an academic rendered illustration by David Stone Martin. If you have a sample of his literal academic style, I'd love to see it. I always associate his work with a jagged stylized calligraphic line and loose washes, but really didn't follow his work.
Tom WatsonYou know the one I'm referring to, Tom, is the one that's so distinctly different from all these others? Its the watercolour technique that makes me think that piece is by DSM. Take a look through my DSM set and you'll see similar pieces (similar, not the same). DSM also seemed to have been the go-to guy for illustrations of hands. I've come across several, but haven't scanned the all yet.
Lester Rossin often used illustrations of just close ups of hands by DSM for their studio promo ads... and you know how literal ADs can be about that sort of thing:
("So who do we get for this illustration of a big hand?" "Hhmmm... Hey! - I saw an ad from Lester Rossin featuring a big hand! Let's ask them if their hand guy's available!")Leif, after enlarging that UC hand, I agree with you. It is looser, and done in transparent washes in a much more free flowing style like DSM. Good call Leif, I think I need stronger glasses. ;-)
Do you have any ideas why they didn't show the illustrator's signatures on those illos, and other advertising illos? That has always been a question in my mind since art school. Seems like since they were using some of the well known illustrators at the time to illustrate their ads, they would be happy to feature their names. (?)
Tom Watson- Christine White Jorgensen1:27 PM
Dear Leif or whoever has posted this blog which was just referred to me by our son, a videogame concept artist.
As a teenager, I saw my father, Nat White, painting most of the images you have of the Union Carbide paintings; he was a humble but renowned illustrator working for Caulkins & Holden ad company, and savored doing these paintings from beginning to end. He was looking hard for the right hands to illustrate.
Then at "Hamburger Express" in Glen Cove, Long Island, I remember Dad whispering to Mom, "there they are, the hands!" Sure enough, a man sitting down the way had massive hands. He was a longshoreman in Brooklyn, and more than happy to come to Manhattan to have them photographed in a variety of poses.
Many years later, Dad came into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. In his mind and ours, the utter hubris of the Union Carbide ads became a perfect vehicle for scriptural truths appropriate to each illustration. Yet even before his New Birth, he painted these " a hand in things to come" with genuine awe.
Sincerely, Christine White Jorgensen, Florida Thanks, Leif, for highlighting some of my father's ads. I am Jan, his youngest daughter, and I spent my childhood looking at him do 120 of these. I never heard them referred to as 'hand of god', but like my sister, thought of the ad campaign as, 'The Hand in Things to Come.' I am so glad to see my favorite, the hand reaching for the moon. Some of his stuff was just so 'out there.'
I do vividly recall being allowed to watch occasionally in his studio, promising to be absolutely silent while he went from pencil on board to finished painting. I believe he did approximately one a month for 10 years. It usually took him a week to complete one, and I would stick my head in the door from time to time and ask if I could watch. Another one of my bests was the one that takes place in some paleolithic landscape, with an apatasaurus/brontosuarus in the background. That was one of those silent observations. I thought the dinosaur's neck was an elephant's trunk as he was drawing it, but couldn't say anything. We always met for breakfast at 6 or 7 a.m. on the weekends, and being just a kid, I was dinosaur crazy, and was able to finally share my excitement that it wasn't just a mundane elephant, but a BRONTOSAURUS! Dad was a nocturnal creature, sleeping only a couple of hours a night. He usually got up around 3 or 4 in the morning, and went down to his studio to take advantage of the quiet.
I do know that when '2001 a Space Odyssey' came out in 1967, I was all excited. He calmly told me he met Stanley Kubrick at the Plaza one day, and Kubrick wanted him to paint concept art for the movie while he found backers. It was a gamble, but my sister was in college, and he couldn't afford to do it gratis. Kubrick really liked the way Dad 'did stars'.
Dad and I also discussed the Bhopal explosion when it happened. This was years after the Union Carbide stopped the series. Papa was not happy over that. I remember when he painted that one, too, asking him, 'what's that?' and being told, 'a power plant Union Carbide is building somewhere in India.' I don't remember him even mentioning it was nuclear.
Also, most of the time he drew his own hand, and only resorted to models when he needed both hands in a picture. Often he would sketch his left hand in a mirror to get a right hand, and be drawing on the board at the same time with his right hand. At least one time my uncle was the model.
It really is a pleasure to see that some of this work is still being looked at. No one knows where the originals are. He was able to keep some of the original Crane drawings. I guess he was friends with one of the Daltons. I have one hanging on my wall right now. Sometimes he even signed them. But NEVER the Union Carbide paintings.For Christine White Jorgensen, and Leif:
I have acquired two of your father's paintings;
"Chromium makes time stand still", and the other painting is "Promise of a Golden future". They were in my Dad's Attic, likely he picked them up during a move years ago (he was the manager of a moving company). zthe back of one reads "K Davies" on the wood frame..perhaps this was an employer at Union Carbide? Have you any of the others?
They are wonderful!
I am Nat White's youngest daughter, Jan White, and when I saw there was another comment on this forum, I was so excited! My sister, Chris, lost her brave battle with cancer a few months ago, so she won't know the joy I am feeling about your find. I have to confess that I am so happy (and envious) that you have two of them. There were over 100.
You are very lucky to have some of my dad's pictures. I probably saw those being painted. We have tried for years to find them, and I suspect they have either been lost or destroyed, or are in someone's basement, attic, or even den.
I believe KDavies may have been one of his art directors.Thank you for featuring the Union Carbide ad art: It has been an inspiration to me since I was 8 years old! And thank you LIFE and FATE that Nat White's daughters were directed here and able to give us such insights and comfortable remembrances of their father. Knowing the name of the artist for so many of these UC ads is yet another circle completed for me.


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You're so vain
*Edited below. I know; this is becoming a bad habit. But I am, after all, a Bad Mother, and I come as advertised...
In the frenzy of all the recent blogtardage, it was suggested to me that you can know that you've made it as a blogger when someone starts their own blog because of you and devotes part of that blog to talking about you. (And that's my last word on it. The topic of blogtards and their exploits is officially over. And no, no linkage. Ov-aaah.)
Maybe that's making it. Or not.
Maybe it was just your bad luck that week to have attracted the most attention-hungry blogtard. Could happen to anyone.
Better measures of 'making it' in the blogosphere are to have your own entry in Urban Dictionary, to be named the Mom-Blog Round-Up Queen of Everything, to be paid to blog, or to be named an honorary Mommyblogger. (So if anyone is looking for the real High Priestesses of the KoolAid cult, look to these eminent figures. I'm way down the ladder. Waaaay down. Don't even know the secret handshake.)
(Is there a handshake?)
So, despite what you may have heard, you won't find any blog'n'roll superstars here. Sorry. The blogosphere Star Maps are notoriously unreliable. This is home to WonderBaby, Future Ruler of the Known and Unknown Universe, aka Imperial Leader. If you're looking for Amalah, Queen of Everything Including All Media Not Controlled By Dooce, you're in the wrong 'hood. The absence of security guards, paparazzi and screaming fans should have tipped you off.
But before you walk away, angrily stuffing that virtual Star Map back into your virtual fanny pack, lookie here.
We have a t-shirt. WE HAVE A T-SHIRT.
So we're not entirely lacking in glitter and stardust chez Bad Mother. Some of the coolest chicks in the blogosphere thought that we were cool enough to warrant a t-shirt and lo and behold! A t-shirt there is! Immortalized in Cafe Press!
**Just to be clear... this t-shirt - the Her Bad Mother Tee - is the work of Christina and Kristen and all credit is due to them. It can be acquired from Christina's CafePress shop, here. For the inspiration for the tee, see here.
(Christina - there've been requests for tank top version and baby/onesie version...)
Now when people ask you if you've been to Her Bad Mother's blog, you can be all cool and nonchalant and toss your hair (if you have any left after post-partum shedding and grabby baby depilation) and say, oh, yeah, been there, done that, GOT THE T-SHIRT.
(What really tells you that you've made it, in the ways that matter most? The nicest, smartest, funniest bloggers in the blogosphere visit you and read your blog. That's making it.)
(Flings cap in air.)
My husband just walked in and asked what I was doing.
Me: Blogging.
Him: Are you blogging about how great it is to have sex with your husband?
Me: No.
You asked for that, dude. Sorry. But consider yourself lucky: if I were really to blog about our sex life you KNOW that your testicles would shrivel from the embarassment. It would be flattering, of course, and perhaps you would go down in history with the same kind of sexual fame that Kirstie Alley's second husband, the Hardy Boy, no pun intended, attained. But dude? My mother and my sister and your sister and sometimes - gah - your mother and some of your colleagues and most of our friends and have I mentioned your mother? read this blog. So have I explained enough about the testicle-shrivelling embarassment that would attend the sex talk?
(Love you.)
WonderBaby has a new hat:
Hat Girl in Repose
New hat courtesy of the Nana. We love the Nana.
AND STILL MORE! (when will it end oh god when will it END?!?!?)
In honour of Mrs. Fortune and her Brand New Cookie**
All together now...
**WonderBaby's open letter to new blogger babies, originally composed for Boy Wonder, child of Urban_Mommy, should now also be read, with necessary modifications to the address, as an open letter to Jacob Paul. (This is a little bit Elton John of me, I know. But it's good!) WonderBaby welcomes you to her empire, Jacob Paul! Go forward and dominate!


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A new survey of Wisconsin voters shows GOP Gov. Scott Walker maintaining his lead over Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, the Democrat who is trying to oust the governor in a recall election Tuesday.
And the survey had good news for President Obama: during the last half of the month, he improved his standing against GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Wisconsin.
The Marquette Law School poll, conducted late last week, showed Walker the favorite of 52 percent of the 720 registered Wisconsin voters surveyed. Barrett was favored by 45 percent. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 percentage points.
A similar poll taken by the school two weeks ago had Walker leading 50 percent to 44 percent.
The new survey also showed Obama leading Romney among likely voters, 51 percent to 43 percent. Two weeks ago, the poll showed the presidential race tied at 46 percent each. Nearly half of the voters polled expressed an unfavorable opinion of Romney, with 40 percent saying they looked favorably on the former Massachusetts governor. Obama had a 55 percent favorability rating, with 41 percent saying they viewed him unfavorably.
In an online analysis of the new survey data, the Marquette pollsters found:
-State residents who said they think the state has gained jobs over the last year increased to 38 percent, up from 20 percent two weeks ago. Pollsters said that "voters also said Walker would be better at creating jobs than Barrett by a 50 percent to 43 percent margin."
-Just over half of those surveyed said they have a favorable opinion of Walker, with 41 percent expressing similar sentiments about Barrett. Both Walker and Barrett are seen in an unfavorable light by 46 percent of Wisconsin voters.
-Though voters were divided on how they think Walker has performed as governor, more than half of those surveyed said they believe the state is "going in the right direction." Forty-four percent said "things have gotten off on the wrong track." And 54 percent expressed the view that changes in state government over the past year - including a rollback in public union collective bargaining rights - will make the state "better off in the long run."
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Here is plot of sea levels at Rodbyhavn, Denmark using monthly data downloaded from PSMSL downloaded on 13 August 2014.
The line shows the linear trend.
The same plot with date extended to 2100 also showing a sea level rise of 3mm/year starting in 1993. This is what IPCC claim sea level rise jumped to - just after satellites were launched.
Does the 3mm/year rate claimed by IPCC seem credible to you?
Accelerating rates of sea level rise are supposed to be produced by rising global temperatures.
So if the rate of sea level rise is not accelerating - does that mean global temperatures are not rising?
And what does it mean if sea levels fall, as they are in some locations? For example:


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Corneal Abrasions
What is a corneal abrasion?
A corneal abrasion is a scratch or scrape injury to the cornea, which is the clear, dome-shaped surface that covers the front of the eye. This is a very common occurrence in children.
What causes a corneal abrasion?
There are many things that can cause an abrasion to the cornea. The more common causes include the following:
Foreign bodies in the eye (such as dirt, pebbles, insects)
Scratch from a toy or fingernail
Contact lenses that may be improperly fitted or maintained in older children
When these objects have contact with the surface of the eye, a small abrasion can occur.
What are the symptoms of a corneal abrasion?
The following are the most common symptoms of a corneal abrasion. However, each child may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
Pain and redness in the eye
Tearing of that eye
Pain when the child looks at a light
Excessive blinking in the affected eye
A younger child may hold that eye shut
The symptoms of a corneal abrasion any resemble other eye conditions or medical problems. Always consult your child's doctor for a diagnosis.
How is a corneal abrasion diagnosed?
Diagnosis is usually made based on a complete medical history and physical examination of your child's eye. Local anesthetic drops may be placed in the eye in order to examine the child. In addition, your child's doctor may use a fluorescein stain to help confirm the diagnosis. This is done by placing a small amount of a dye in the child's eye. The stain does not hurt the child. A special light is then used to look at the surface of the cornea, and any abrasion or scratch can be seen.
Treatment for corneal abrasion
Specific treatment for a corneal abrasion will be determined by your child's doctor based on:
Your child's age, overall health, and medical history
Extent of the injury
Your child's tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies
Expectations for the course of the injury
Your opinion or preference
Most corneal abrasions heal quickly and do not cause any permanent damage to the eye. Treatment may include:
If a foreign body is seen in the eye, it may be removed with a small cotton applicator, or by washing the eye out with a saline solution.
Antibiotic eye drops or ointment or steroid eye drops may be placed in the eye.
A patch over the eye may be used to help decrease your child's level of discomfort. A patch is usually required for 12 to 24 hours following a corneal abrasion.
Close follow-up with your child's doctor is needed to assure that the abrasion heals completely.
Severe abrasions or cuts into the cornea may be managed by an eye specialist because of the increased risk of damage to the eye.


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FILE – In this Jan. 1, 2013 file photo, House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. leaves a Republican caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington. A Senate bill to carry the government through September denies the Obama administration money for implementing new regulations on Wall Street and expansion of government health care subsidies but provides modest additional funding for domestic priorities like Head Start and health research. Looking to next year, House Republicans prepare a now-familiar budget featuring futile gestures to block "Obamacare" and turn Medicare into a voucherlike program for future retirees. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Senate Democrats and Republicans Monday night released a catchall government funding bill that denies President Barack Obama new money for implementing signature first-term accomplishments like new regulations on Wall Street and his expansion of government health care subsidies but provides modest additional funding for domestic priorities like health research and highway projects.
Monday's measure is the product of bipartisan negotiations and is the legislative vehicle to fund the day-to-day operations of government through Sept. 30 — and prevent a government shutdown when current funding runs out March 27.
It sets a path for government in the wake of across-the-board spending cuts that took effect March 1. In most cases the minor changes in agency budgets amount to housekeeping within a trillion-dollar cap for the day-to-day operations of agencies in the current budget year.
Passage in the Senate this week seems routine and could presage an end to a mostly overlooked battle between House Republicans and Obama and his Senate Democratic allies over the annual spending bills required to fund federal agency operations.
The measure expands upon House GOP legislation that passed last week, adding sometimes symbolic funding and flexibility for scores of programs and challenges House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, who warned Democrats last week not to load the measure up too much.
But each of the additional items was drawn from earlier informal House-Senate agreements, and top Senate Appropriations Committee Republican Richard Shelby of Alabama has signed on.
The bipartisan measure comes as Washington girds for weeks of warfare over the budget for next year and beyond as both House and Senate Budget Committees this week take up blueprints for the upcoming 2014 budget year.
The first salvo in that battle is coming from House Republicans poised to release on Tuesday a now-familiar budget featuring gestures to block "Obamacare," turn Medicare into a voucher-like program for future retirees and sharply curb Medicaid and domestic agency budgets. Such ideas are dead on arrival with Obama and Democrats controlling the Senate, but will — in concert with new taxes on the wealthy enacted in January — allow Republicans to propose a budget that would come to balance within 10 years.
"We think we owe the American people a balanced budget," House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan said on "Fox News Sunday."
Senate Democrats are countering on Wednesday with a budget plan mixing tax increases, cuts to the Pentagon and relatively modest cuts to domestic programs. The measure would not reach balance, but it would undo automatic budget cuts that started taking effect this month and largely leaves alone rapidly growing benefit programs like Medicare.
"We need to make sure that everybody participates in getting us to a budget that deals with our debt and our deficit responsibly," Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., said Monday evening.
The upcoming debate over the long-term budgetary future promises to be stoutly partisan, even as Obama is undertaking outreach to rank-and-file Republicans in hopes of sowing the seeds for a bipartisan "grand bargain" on the budget this year after two failed attempts to strike agreement with House Speaker John Boehner. Obama's budget is already weeks overdue and Press Secretary Jay Carney deflected questions about it Monday, other than to promise that it would "for a period of time" bring deficits below 3 percent of gross domestic product, a measure that many analysts say is sustainable without damaging the economy.
The wrap-up spending bill for the half-completed fiscal year released Monday, however, is another matter entirely. It's a lowest common denominator approach that gives the Pentagon much-sought relief for readiness accounts but adds money sought by Democrats like Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., for domestic programs such as Head Start, health research, transportation and housing.
The Senate measure would award seven Cabinet departments — including Defense, Commerce, justice, Agriculture and Veterans Affairs — with their line-by-line detailed budgets, but would leave the rest of the government running on autopilot at current levels. All domestic agencies except for Veterans Affairs would then be subject to a 5 percent across-the-board cut while the Pentagon would bear an 8 percent cut.
Mikulski needs GOP votes to pass the measure through the Senate, which Democrats control with 55 votes but where 60 votes are required for virtually every piece of substantive legislation. Using their leverage, Republicans have denied a White House request for almost $1 billion to help set up state health-care exchanges to implement Obamacare as well as smaller requests for financial regulators to implement the 2010 Dodd-Frank law overhauling regulation of Wall St. and for the IRS to police tax returns.
It is hoped that the pre-negotiated Senate measure could return to the House — which passed a different catchall spending bill last week — and pass through that chamber unchanged and be sent on to Obama well in time to avert a politically disastrous government shutdown.
House Republicans weighed in strongly and successfully against a proposal by Mikulski to give the Obama administration greater flexibility to transfer funds between accounts to cope with the across-the-board spending cuts, known as sequestration. By law, the across-the-board cuts are supposed to be taken in equal measure from front-line programs like air traffic control, meat inspection and the Border Patrol and lower-priority items such as agriculture research and subsidies for airline travel to rural airports.
Even as many Republicans attack the administration for choices such as ending White House tours or canceling early snow removal from Yellowstone National Park, Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee in particular fear that giving Obama greater flexibility would erode Congress' control over the federal purse, which is enshrined in the Constitution and zealously guarded.
Thirty-eight Senate Republicans voted last month to give Obama significant flexibility to manage the automatic cuts, including Shelby and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.


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Seemingly non-stop July. Long, endless, lazy days and it seems like everything has slowed down. The wheels appear to turn a lot slower than they do during the rest of the year. School's out and there's a more relaxed attitude to the daily routine. My mind, wandering to far away golden beaches and azure blue seas, gets excited at thoughts of a vacation just around the corner.
In stark contrast the local farmers market is alive and bustling with energetic activity in July. Fruit and vegetables in all their bright kaleidoscopic colors, tempt shoppers to overload their baskets. Heavy with tender scenting peas, courgettes, cherries, fennel, artichokes, strawberries, July is bursting with rich, sweet ripeness when it comes to fresh produce. Weaving past the stalls selling bread, cheese, sweets, nuts and so much more, the various aromas intermingling are heady and enticing.
Each vendor cajoles with promises of "the sweetest raspberries" or "the finest aubergines", armed with pocket knives they cut into the produce and offer a sampling, they know it will be hard to disagree with them.
Today I make my way briskly to the stall in the middle of the square, where I saw sweet, fragrant, yellow-fleshed peaches last week. They were sweeter and juicier with a subtle yet sublime taste, a little of apricots and a little of nectarines. We only bought about a pound last week and before we reached the car we had eaten most of them, our fingers sticky from the juice. This week I planned to buy more. There are many ideas, coating themselves in my head like a sugary layer and as I envisage each creation I encounter yet another new idea. It is dizzying.
To be on the safe side I buy two brown bags filled to bursting and another brimming full of aromatic apricots (but those are for another post). I stash the bags carefully in my basket and hurriedly make my way back to the car. It is a hot day and perfect for a refreshing and icy dessert.
Sitting out on the terrace, I watch the bees buzz around my potted lavender, busily collecting the sweet nectar. I smile, savoring a spoonful of my sorbet, thinking how grand the lazy non-stop July days are.
Printable version of recipe here
Prep Time: 1 hourTotal Time: 1 hours 30 minutes (+ freezing time)
- 150 g sugar
- 3 teaspoons edible dried lavender
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 700 g ripe peaches
- In a saucepan bring sugar, lavender, lemon juice with 150g water to a boil, then reduce to a simmer and cook for approx 10 minutes. Allow to cool.
- With a paring knife slit a cross into the round side of each peach. Blanch the peaches in boiling water, then place in ice water to cool. The skin should be easy to peel off, slice into wedges. Place the peach slices in the lavender syrup and allow to infuse for 30 minutes.
- With a hand held immersion blender, finely puree the fruit and syrup. If you prefer, you can strain the syrup through a fine mesh strainer to remove the lavender before pureeing the fruit.
- Pour the fruit puree into an ice cream machine and process the sorbet according to the manufacturer's instructions. Transfer into containers and freeze for a further 2 hours.
Stone fruit are my big weakness and I can literally eat cherries, apricots or peaches by the bucket. Often just pure or with a subtle vanilla flavored quark or custard. However, we absolutely love to indulge in aromatic and flavorful dishes. This sorbet uses fresh, ripe peaches and a subtle hint of lavender giving a big taste of summer.
The plethora of stone fruit available currently makes for fantastic creations, savory salsa, sauces or salads or sweet pies, cakes or ice creams. Let the imagination run wild.
That is what we want you to do this month. It's all about stone fruit this month as my hostess Sukania from Sips and Spoonfuls hosts the latest Monthly Mingle. We chose Stone Fruit to allow you to take full advantage of July's bounty. If you are living in the Southern Hemisphere stone fruit preserves or frozen fruit will work perfectly too.
The deadline is July 31st, so you have plenty of time to prepare your dish. We look forward to seeing you at the roundup.
Wishing you all a fantastic rest of the week and a great weekend. Enjoy your lazy seemingly non-stop July!
You might like these stone fruit ideas from WFLH:
Chocolate Raspberry and Peach Brownies | Apricot Saffron Cake |
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Leaders of the breast-cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure tried in vain Thursday to contain the controversy stemming from its decision to end its grants to Planned Parenthood. But it's becoming clearer that Planned Parenthood has the upper hand in the battle.
While Komen officials argued that it wasn't pressure from anti-abortion groups that led them to end their years-long relationship with Planned Parenthood, outraged supporters of the reproductive health organization were rushing to make up the lost funds.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, for one, pledged up to $250,000 of his personal fortune to the organization, putting it well on its way to making up the $680,000 it had been getting from Komen. That's in addition to more than $400,000 Planned Parenthood says it racked up in the first day after the funding cutoff was made public.
And more than two dozen U.S. senators, led by Democrats Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and Patty Murray of Washington state, wrote a letter to Komen CEO Nancy Brinker on Thursday, urging her to reconsider the group's decision.
During a conference call with reporters Thursday afternoon, Brinker said that wasn't going to happen. But she also said three Planned Parenthood affiliates — in Colorado, California and Texas — would continue to receive Komen grants because "they are providing the only services that exist for low-income women in these areas."
Brinker also said her group's explanation for the funding cutoff has not been properly explained in the media. (Komen officials did not return calls or emails as the story was breaking Wednesday, finally releasing a taped video response late Wednesday night.)
"We know this is an emotional issue," she said. "We don't base our funding decisions on emotion or politics, or whether one side or another will be pleased."
A Komen spokeswoman initially said the cutoff happened because Planned Parenthood was under investigation. But Brinker said that was only part of the reason.
Komen, she said, is phasing out "pass-through" grants like those made to Planned Parenthood, which only provides basic breast cancer screening, not mammograms or treatment.
And she said there was "an amazing consensus of opinion" among her board members about the changes to the funding criteria.
But Brinker and Komen President Liz Thompson didn't directly deny reports that another top Komen official, Mollie Williams, resigned in protest over the decision.
Meanwhile, California's seven Komen affiliates issued a statement officially opposing the decision and stating that "we are working with our national organization to clear the way for Komen affiliates to continue to make local grant decisions based on their community needs."
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Surviving the birth of your kid after becoming a father
On the challenges and rewards of being a father
Jan. 24, 2019 - Willem L. Middelkoop
Last Christmas my wife gave birth to our son, a little boy that would change everything! It's an incredible experience to become a parent, especially if it is your first kid. It introduces a whole new way of living, having to deal with regular feeding, caring and sleepless nights. Read along for my (biometric) findings and some practical tips!
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National Geographic Channel series is follow-up on success of 'Brain Games'
Given that David Rees has written a book on how to sharpen a pencil, he seems the perfect choice to host a new National Geographic Channel series that elevates mundane activities into the subject of deep investigation.
So, for those inclined, Rees' "Going Deep" over the next two months will tell more than you ever thought you could know about digging a hole, tying a shoe, making ice cubes, shaking hands or throwing a paper airplane.
The series debuts Monday (10 p.m. EDT) following a new episode of "Brain Games." It's part of what has become a new programming genre at National Geographic that explains how the world works. Think of it as Geek TV, although the network works very hard to make shows that will appeal to the channel surfer.
"Brain Games" started it all. Host Jason Silva guides viewers through experiments designed to show how the brain perceives things like motion, space or time. The new season gets more abstract; tests measure compassion, anger, addiction and intuition.
A three-hour "Brain Games" special in 2011 did so well the network quickly ordered a series, which became National Geographic's most popular program, said Courteney Monroe, the network's chief executive.
"It remains unique on the television landscape," she said. "That was what kind of ignited it for us. As we watched the performance continue to grow, we said, 'What else can we get in this space?'"
Other shows were launched to appeal to the same taste. In "None of the Above," host Tim Shaw conducts experiments and asks people to predict the outcome. "The Numbers Game" uses statistics, role play and experiments to answer questions like "are you a risk taker?" or "can you be a hero?"
One series soon to come, "Mind Over Masses," was inspired by YouTube clips. It explores ways to make people change behavior, like painting stairs to look like a piano so people use them more than an elevator. The upcoming "You Can't Lick Your Elbow" examines the human body. "Mapology," due next year, uses data analysis to uncover some of the world's unexpected realities.
The network has also given the go-ahead to a miniseries about inventors, "American Genius," produced by the same company that made "The Men Who Built America."
It's enough to make the brain hurt.
Monroe needs to balance the interest in viewers unleashed by "Brain Games" with oversaturating the market, keeping in mind that competing networks will surely develop copycats. "We're always worried about that," she said.
Within the genre, "Going Deep" is a little risky, Monroe said. Rees is a former political cartoonist and a comedian who — honest! — maintains a side business sharpening pencils for money. He and the show have an edgy New York wit.
"He's quirky," Monroe said. "The show is quirky. The sensibility is quirky. I don't know if it's going to work. I love that we're trying it."
As the title suggests, "Going Deep" uses each show's question to take intriguing side trips. An episode on how to strike a match delves into the science of fire, which Rees finds not as haphazard as he thought. He finds a scientist with striking new designs for real airplanes to talk to on his show about paper airplanes, and is shown glacial ice hundreds of thousands of years old in his ice cube program. Producers flew in an expert on knots from Australia for the shoelace episode.
"I think that was our entire travel budget," he said.
Rees believes his show has found the right home in the geeky corner of National Geographic Channel.
"We had three networks saying, 'We're out there looking for a new 'Duck Dynasty,'" he said. "I said, 'This is not your next 'Duck Dynasty.'"
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In the Footsteps of Masters: The Evolution of the Reproductive Print
In the Footsteps of Masters: The Evolution of the Reproductive Print
Now on View Organized by the University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA), the exhibition In the Footsteps of Masters: The Evolution of the Reproductive Print examines the role of printmaking in the development of visual culture. The show is curated by Nathan Popp, a University of Iowa curatorial graduate assistant to UIMA Chief Curator Kathy Edwards.
The exhibition covers a span of 500 years, featuring approximately 80 European and American reproductive prints from the 15th to the 20th century. On view will be original prints by artists Albrecht Dürer, Jusepe De Ribera, Edouard Manet, Jean-Baptiste Corot, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, William Blake, Francisco Goya and Grant Wood, as well as reproductive prints made by engravers after the works of famous masters such as Raphael, Peter Paul Rubens, Annibale Caracci, Rembrandt, Jan Vermeer, Jan Van Eyck, Titian, Michelangelo and others.
During the Renaissance, printmakers created woodcuts, engravings and etchings after notable paintings. With the advantage of being mass-produced and easily distributed, these prints allowed artists to engage with each other and exchange ideas. This propagated individual artists' fame, facilitated art education and initiated technical advancement.
As the status of the printmaker as an independent artist grew, reproductive printmaking allowed for artistic expression. Artists began altering compositions or creating prints after their own works. In the Footsteps of Masters will provide a visual display that demonstrates artistic developments like these in the print medium.
After the 2008 flood left the UIMA without a permanent building, the Figge offered storage and gallery space for UIMA-organized exhibitions like In the Footsteps of Masters.
"This exhibit could not have been possible without the generosity of our friends and donors," Popp said. "The 2008 flood had a drastic impact on the Museum and has slowed our methods but not our mission. I'm sincerely grateful for the Figge's support, and I am continuously inspired by the sense of community that has made my exhibition a reality."
—Elizabeth Timmins
image (top): Johann Sonnenleiter (German, 1825–1907), Boreas Carrying Off Orithyia (after Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish; Antwerp, 1577-1640), from "Meisterwerke of German Art", by Carl Thonet Jutsum, 1883-84, engraving, gift of Ronald and Patricia Kastner 1.2009AH


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This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.14. For information about new features in the 7.4 major release, see Section E.277, « Release 7.4 ».
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Improve handling of getaddrinfo() on AIX (Tom)
This fixes a problem with starting the statistics collector, among other things.
Fix « failed to re-find parent key » errors in VACUUM (Tom)
Fix bugs affecting multi-gigabyte hash indexes (Tom)
Fix error when constructing an ARRAY[] made up of multiple empty elements (Tom)
to_number() and to_char(numeric) are now STABLE, not IMMUTABLE, for new initdb installs (Tom)
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowThe number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose to a seasonally adjusted 367,000, a level consistent with only modest hiring.
Weekly applications increased last week by 4,000 from the previous week's level of 363,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. The previous week was revised higher from an initial reading of 359,000. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, was unchanged at 375,000.
Joshua Shapiro, chief U.S. economist at MFR Inc., said the figures are "consistent with a soft but by no means collapsing labor market."
Unemployment benefit applications are a measure of the pace of layoffs. When they consistently fall below 375,000, it typically indicates that hiring is strong enough to lower the unemployment rate.
Applications have mostly stayed near or above that level since the spring, coinciding with a weak stretch of hiring. The government reports Friday on September hiring and unemployment.
There are only two employment reports left before Election Day, so Friday's figures could have a major impact on the presidential campaign. The report comes just two days after President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney engaged in a debate focused largely on the economy and job growth — the top issues on most voters' minds this year.
The economy has added an average of just 87,400 jobs a month since April, down from an average of 226,000 jobs a month in the January-March quarter.
Economists predict employers added 111,000 jobs last month, only slightly more than the 96,000 jobs added in August. The unemployment rate is expected to tick up to 8.2 percent from 8.1 percent in August. The rate has been above 8 percent for the past three and a half years.
Thursday's report showed that the total number of people receiving unemployment aid fell slightly. About 5.09 million people received unemployment aid in the week ending Sept. 15, the latest figures available. That's 85,000 lower than the previous week.
There have been some hopeful signs that hiring may improve.
Payroll processor ADP said Wednesday that private employers added 162,000 jobs last month, ahead of economists' estimates.
Growth in hiring helped U.S. factories expand in September for the first time since May, according to the Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing survey released Monday.
Job creation at service companies slowed in September, according to a separate survey from the ISM released Wednesday. Still, a surge in consumer demand helped those companies grow at the fastest pace in six months. It that growth continues, hiring will likely pick up.
A key problem is the economy is not growing fast enough to generate much hiring. Growth slowed to a tepid annual rate of 1.3 percent in the April-June quarter. Most economists see growth staying below 2 percent in the second half of the year.


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That old selective God is at work again, doling out random miracles to some while flipping the divine bird at others. Story at CNN about a plane crash in the Congo, which some members of a missionary family survived by crawling through a hole torn through the fuselage by another survivor desperate to escape the wreckage. Naturally, they credit the Invisible Space Fairy for their survival.
Marybeth Mosier, 51, suffered a black eye and bruised ribs, said her husband, who added that he was unhurt.
"We couldn't believe that our family of four could all escape a plane that was crashed and on fire, but by God's mercy, we did," he said.
Mosier said he believes the family made it for a reason.
"I think the Lord has a plan for us, otherwise we wouldn't have survived," he said. "He still has work for us to do."
Regarding the 36 people who died in the crash, Mosier had no opinion. Obviously God had no plan for them nor any work for them to do, so they were no great loss. Probably black too.
Okay. I admit it. That last sentence was a cheap shot. As stupid and offensive as I think it is for people to think they're privileged by their deity of choice over others, obviously, there's no basis to think there's anything racist about these missionaries, since they are, after all, over in Africa doing something they think is a good thing for the locals. Living in America surrounded by the racist ravings of right-wing sleazebags, it's easy to slip into the unfair "these bad apples over here spoil the entire batch" view. One set of absurd beliefs does not imply the person subscribes to another set as well.


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That phrase came to me tonight while I was grilling this recipe that I adapted from Wolfgang Puck's Live, Love, Eat.
Sure you can find boneless, skinless chicken breasts anywhere and they are more healthy and blah, blah, blah, blah.
I see your boneless, skinless chicken breasts and raise you chicken pancetta.
Chicken pancetta is what happens when you grill a chicken breast with skin on, skin side down. The natural fats in and under the skin renders down and crisps the skin....like cooked pancetta. You have a problem with that? Run an extra mile or two.
And yeah, you'll notice I'm not using the Big Green Egg to cook these. We are finishing staining our deck so I had to roll the old Brinkmann Charcoal Grill out into the driveway.
Grilled Chicken Breasts with Garlic and Parsley
adapted from Live, Love, Eat by Wolfgang Puck
12 cloves garlic, peeled
1/4 cup parsley, chopped
4 chicken breasts, boneless SKIN ON
2 Tbsp butter
3 Tbsp lemon juice
3 Tbsp white wine
1 Tbsp parsley, finely chopped
Blanch the garlic cloves in boiling water for 1 minute. Dice the garlic and mix with the 1/4 c parsley, salt and pepper. The book didn't give an amount for the salt and pepper. I used about 1/2 tsp of each and that worked. Divide the mix in half. You'll use one half for a rub and one half for the finishing sauce.
Work about 2 tsp of the mix under the skin of each chicken breast. If you haven't done this before, just work a finger under one edge of the skin and make an opening. Then you can stuff the mix in and push it around under the skin. This is one of the best techniques you can learn for grilling chicken because as the fat renders down, it "self bastes" the meat with the seasonings and skin.
Fire up your grill to medium high heat. I used 1 chimney full of Kingsford briquettes and 2 splits of cherry wood.
While the cooking times are too short and the temps too high for smoking, the wood does still add some color and flavor in my opinion.
Grill skin side down for 6-7 minutes.
Flip and grill skin side up for about 8 minutes....see that chicken pancetta forming?
Or until the internal temp reaches 160 f. For us tonight, that was right at 8 minutes but use your meat thermometer.
Loosely tent the chicken with foil to keep warm and then melt 3 Tbsp of butter in a sauce pan. Add the other half of the garlic, parsley mix and saute over low heat until the garlic just starts to brown. Add the wine and simmer another 2-3 minutes until reduced. Add the lemon juice and simmer for about 1 minute.
Slice the breasts into medallions. Place on a bed of pasta and spoon some of the sauce over it all.
This was a good one. The only two things I would change the next time are
- Double the amount of sauce (pasta needs love too).
- Season the backsides of the breasts.
A few people mentioned not being able to find skin on, boneless breasts. I just get split bone in, skin on breast and de-bone them myself. Here's a video from Rouxbe that shows how:
Guest Post Heads Up
Alexis and I are heading to the Eggtoberfest in just a few days, where a couple of thousand of Big Green Egg owners get together to exchange ideas, lies, and recipes. You can count on a full report. Until then....
- If you are a burglar getting ideas, we have a security system and my two boys will be here. The 21 y/o is a crack shot with his .30-06 and shotgun. Come on over, he needs target practice.
- But more importantly, I have a great guest post coming on Fire Day Friday from Jenn at Jenn's Food Journey. If you haven't seen her grilling blog, you are missing out. I'm honored to have her fill in for me.


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Discover how a bimodal integration strategy can address the major data management challenges facing your organization today.
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Use CData Sync for automated, continuous, customizable ShipStation replication to MongoDB.
Always-on applications rely on automatic failover capabilities and real-time data access. CData Sync integrates live ShipStation data into your MongoDB instance, allowing you to consolidate all of your data into a single location for archiving, reporting, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and more.
Configure MongoDB as a Replication Destination
Using CData Sync, you can replicate ShipStation data to MongoDB. To add a replication destination, navigate to the Connections tab.
- Click Add Connection.
- Select MongoDB as a destination.
- Enter the necessary connection properties. To connect to MongoDB, set the following:
- Server: Set this to the name or address of the server where your MongoDB instance is running. You can specify the port here or in Port.
- Database: Set this to the database you want to read from and write to.
Connecting to CosmosDB with the MongoDB API
To obtain the connection string needed to connect to a Cosmos DB account using the MongoDB API, log in to the Azure Portal, select Azure Cosmos DB, and select your account. In the Settings section, click Connection String and set the following values.
- Server: Set this to the Host value, the FQDN of the server provisioned for your account. You can also specify the port here or in Port.
- Port: Set this to the port.
- Database: Set this to the database you want to read from and write to.
- User: Set this to the database user.
- Password: Set this to the user's password.
- Click Test Connection to ensure that the connection is configured properly.
- Click Save Changes.
Configure the ShipStation Connection
You can configure a connection to ShipStation from the Connections tab. To add a connection to your ShipStation account, navigate to the Connections tab.
- Click Add Connection.
- Select a source (ShipStation).
- Configure the connection properties.
Use the BASIC Authentication standard to connect.
- Login to your ShipStation account
- Click on the settings icon in the upper right corner. A column menu will show up on the left
- Click Account -> API Settings
- On the API Settings page, note the API Key and API Secret.
Authenticating to ShipStation
- APIKey: Set this to the API key from the API settings page.
- APISecret: Set this to the Secret key from the API settings page.
- Click Connect to ensure that the connection is configured properly.
- Click Save Changes.
Configure Replication Queries
CData Sync enables you to control replication with a point-and-click interface and with SQL queries. For each replication you wish to configure, navigate to the Jobs tab and click Add Job. Select the Source and Destination for your replication.
Replicate Entire Tables
To replicate an entire table, click Add Tables in the Tables section, choose the table(s) you wish to replicate, and click Add Selected Tables.
Customize Your Replication
You can use the Columns and Query tabs of a task to customize your replication. The Columns tab allows you to specify which columns to replicate, rename the columns at the destination, and even perform operations on the source data before replicating. The Query tab allows you to add filters, grouping, and sorting to the replication.Schedule Your Replication
In the Schedule section, you can schedule a job to run automatically, configuring the job to run after specified intervals ranging from once every 10 minutes to once every month.
Once you have configured the replication job, click Save Changes. You can configure any number of jobs to manage the replication of your ShipStation data to MongoDB.


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Dodgers start Eric Stults, LHP (0-1, 4.50) vs. Josh Fogg, RHP (7-7, 4.64).
Dodgers: 62-59 (4th place NL West, 6.5 GB, W2)
Rockies: 62-58 (3rd place NL West, 6.0 GB, L1)
From Dodgers.com, the scouting report on the starters:
Dodgers: Stults is expected to be called up from Triple-A for this start, replacing mark Hendrickson. He's made one start for the Dodgers this year, a loss to the Mets,and has allowed three home runs in only 16 innings.Rockies: In his last start, at home against the Cubs, Fogg walked in a first-inning run but settled down and gave up just one more run in six solid innings. Starting July 17, Fogg has lowered his ERA from 5.36 to 4.64. He has won six of his past eight decisions.
From Inside the Dodgers:
Furcal, SS
Pierre, CF
Sweeney, 1B
Kent, 2B
Gonzo, LF
Martin, C
Ethier, RF
Hillenbrand, 3B
Stults, P
No Loney, no Kemp, but Sweeney starting at first and batting third? Here's his chance to get out of the doghouse.


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Since January 1, 2012, my goal is to write a daily sentence or two (or paragraph or two) about gratitude of the day and to include one photo (at least) that I took that day (but will add others from time to time). It has definitely been a challenge most days throughout the past eight years, and welcomed the challenge again this year - 2020 - Covid and all. I hope you will continue the ride with me!
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