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Musician and producer Sam Spiegel lives in a wooden A-frame house in the Hollywood Hills. It's a beautiful place, but its best feature is an apropos (if possibly apocryphal) history of weird musical collaboration.
"The guy who sold it to me says he has a picture of Jimi Hendrix in a dashiki jamming in here with David Crosby," he said. "Allegedly, though. He's never shown it to me."
If it's true, the story fits him. Spiegel is a contemporary kind of artist — a musician, record producer and general-idea-guy whose work exists almost only in tandem with someone else's. He's a musical polymath who coaxed a nebula of superstars (David Byrne, Kanye West, Tom Waits) into cameos with his bands N.A.S.A. and Maximum Hedrum. The latter just wrapped up a tour opening for Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
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As producer and DJ Squeak E. Clean, he's worked alongside West, Crystal Castles, Kesha and Maroon 5; he's also a commercial-friendly mixed composer (Google, Puma, Smirnoff) and alt-opera composer and the kind of guy whom you meet at a Hollywood house party and are sort of confused about what exactly he does for a living but you want to work with him on something, anything, nonetheless.
The vibe in Spiegel's house is half Alpine, half ashram, with a haphazard couch made of cushions on the floor and floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the hills. There's a drum set and full recording rig in the living room, where the 33-year-old (and brother of director Spike Jonze) does much of his musical work.
Plonking down on a pile of pillows, he's quick to recount the origins of his latest project, the synth-rock combo Maximum Hedrum, which he formed with Sepultura singer Derrick Green and the '80s action-movie soundtrack savant Harold Faltermeyer. You'd know the latter from his themes to "Top Gun" and "Beverly Hills Cop," whose synth plucks are synonymous with big-budget, Reagan-era shootouts.
"He's such a genius," Spiegel said. "We met while we were working on the Kevin Smith movie 'Cop Out' together, and he was so funny, he's got so many stories from the '80s of cocaine and private jets and Giorgio Moroder."
It takes a certain sinister mind to think to pair that aesthetic with Green, the lead singer of the legendary Brazilian thrash-metal band Sepultura (here moonlighting as a '70s funk crooner). But to judge by their capacity-packed January residency at the Silver Lake club Los Globos, it clicked. That's how Spiegel's musical mind works — finding the odd grooves of other artists and ideas, and making them fit in strange and zeitgeisty ways of his own.
That method came to its most involved fruition in 2011 when he worked closely with Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer Karen O on her long-simmering opera project "Stop the Virgens," which he co-music-directed with that band's guitarist, Nick Zinner. Speigel had worked with the band before, producing its second album "Show Your Bones" in 2006. But "Virgens" was a genre-exploding mix of opera, video art, noise-rock volatility and high-fashion downtown extravagance from Karen O's longtime designer Christian Joy. It played at Sydney's famed Opera House and was a high point in Spiegel's career in making sense of many sharp aesthetic edges.
"Sam is great because he's up for anything and at the same time he takes being up for anything very seriously," said Karen O via email. "Sam's fun factor breaks down walls, which is probably why he can work with so many different kinds of artists, the scientist in him fuses it altogether into a winning formula."
He's perhaps best known for his ongoing N.A.S.A. endeavor with the Brazilian DJ Zegon, an omnivorous beast of a crate-digging band that took Spiegel across continents to field-record with an absurd swath of legends and underground artists; Ol' Dirty Bastard and David Byrne will probably never meet on an album again, as they did on N.A.S.A's 2009 LP "The Spirit of Apollo."
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"People are generally more open to collaborating than you think," he said. "Tom Waits doesn't usually get asked to be on a hip-hop record."
Lest one think that Speigel has arrived at some kind of hipster samsara of only playing in bands with his heroes, he's also tapped an enviable vein of commercial work. In 2010 he commandeered New York's Standard Hotel for a Target-sponsored installation in which each room was a mini-exhibition of avant-garde lighting, freaky beat music and fast fashion (he's also worked on a host of video game scores, film and commercial soundtracks).
To Speigel, it's all on one continuum, where he takes a slate of artistic requirements — either a company's or a collaborator's — and makes some kind of interesting sense out if it all.
"The role of a musician has changed," he said. "It's a lot harder to be a professional musician today and people are more accepting of commercial applications; it just doesn't have a stigma for me. I mean, Target gave me a whole building with lights and dancers and just said, 'We want a spectacle, go.' I felt like they were the Medicis."
As L.A. archetypes go, Spiegel is a fine one to aspire to — a life as a genial guy with a bottomless well of musical ideas he can apply across many platforms. But is there any idea that's truly his, and his alone? Can an artist whose chief talent is making other artists' styles and visions fit together make something all his own?
Turns out, yes. But appropriately, it's a whole other kind of group effort.
"I've got a film in mind," he said. "I can't talk about it, but I have the story. I love film and I've always wanted to make one."


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Half of this year is now gone, which means it's time once again to look at sales of plug-in electric cars–both for June and for the first six months of 2012.
Coming off a streak of low sales months, 535 Nissan Leafs were sold in June, less than one-third the 1,708 Leafs delivered in June 2011.
This means that 3,148 Leafs have been sold in the first half of 2012, fewer than for the same six-month period in 2011, by which time 3,875 Leafs had been delivered.
The continuing low numbers for 2012 make it seem challenging indeed for Nissan to meet its stated goal of selling 20,000 Leafs in the U.S. this year.
Last month, however, a Nissan executive modified the claim to say that would be 20,000 Leafs by the end of the 2012 fiscal year–which extends through March 2013.
Continuing recently stronger sales compared to last year, 1,760 Chevrolet Volt range-extended electriccars were delivered last month.
That brings the Volt sales total through June to 8.817, making it likely that Chevy will more than double its 2011 sales total of 7,671 (which was shy of the 10,000 ebullient GM executives had predicted before the car launched).
The June totals are up compared to May's sales of plug-in cars, which included 510 Leafs and 1,680 Volts.
The 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid sold 695 units in June, bringing its 2012 total to 4,333 and cementing its position as second most-popular plug-in car on sale this year.
Mitsubishi sold an additional 33 'i' electric minicars in June, and Ford has finally gotten the Focus Electric bandwagon rolling, saying it sold 89 of them in June.
Ford also noted that in 2012 to date, it has built 763 electric Focuses–many of which are likely in the pipeline to dealers now.
June saw the first retail sales of the much-anticipated 2012 Tesla Model S, but Tesla refuses to say how many cars it delivered in June, or any other month.
Struggling luxury electric-car maker Fisker also declines to provide sales numbers, as does Coda.


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Ten years ago a New Jersey research team surveyed several weight reducing diets. They measured the vitamin and mineral content of each and compared these against the U.S. Recommended Daily Allowances. None of the diets passed. Those that suggested a balanced menu were close, however, restricted calories brought them below the RDA. Any diet that recommends 1200 calories or less per day is hard pressed to provide adequate nutrients.
Diet plans that emphasized one or two foods or food groups were the most skewed. In fact, some were also very high in fat, cholesterol and/or sodium. Eliminating or drastically restricting a particular nutrient, as in a low carbohydrate diet, creates nutritional jeopardy (1).
A couple of years ago the well known Framingham Heart Study showed us another dieting hazard. Aside from possible nutrient deficiencies, losing and regaining body weight over and over again can be hard on your health. Investigators found that both men and women died sooner (usually from heart problems) and suffered from coronary heart disease more often than their non-dieting cohorts (2).
We also know that habitual dieting merely sets you up for weight gain in the future. While you're eating less to lose unwanted fat, your body thinks it's in the middle of a famine. Survival mechanisms switch on. Your metabolic rate declines and your system hangs onto every calorie for dear life -- great for surviving, terrible for losing weight. Next time you try to diet, you may find that you need to eat even less in order to get the same results. Again, your body tries to save you. It's a no win situation and nutritionally dangerous.
Karklin and associates discovered that the hypometabolic state caused by dieting profoundly affected sleep. Not only did dieters take longer to fall asleep, but once there they didn't sleep as deeply. This poor sleep didn't allow subjects' bodies to properly recover from daily wear and tear (3). This situation coupled with insufficient nutriture sets up the body for illness.
When most people embark on a restrictive diet they feel the effects of poor nutrition: hunger, weakness and fatigue. This cluster of symptoms is your body's survival siren sounding, calling you to eat and rescue yourself. Typically, dieters will resist this urge as long as possible (called will power). When they do cave in, it's often with high fat, high sugar feel-good-food; those very foods that pile on unwanted pounds.
Starting Out
The bottom line to losing extra body fat is eating less calories than you use up each day. Before discussing how that can be done successfully, I want to remind you of how our culture and society shape our bodies. Throughout history and around the world the ideal body size changes according to fashion and food supply. When food is plentiful, as in this country right now, thin is in because it's more difficult to attain. Other times and places where food is scarce, plump is desirable. So before you decide you need to lose weight, consider these questions. Are your goals realistic? Are you healthy and fit, but not model thin? Are you striving for the impossible?


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Innovation demands adaptation. Using expert advice from the Siemens PLM Software engineers as well as adapted LMS Testing Solutions, 3M in India, Bangalore opened their own R&D center. The purpose was to study the acoustic characteristics of the materials they produce and thus create a better offer for the market. And ever since they've been working with our products, they were able to extend their services from customized assessment and advice complete systems.
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ABOUT A BOY is a pure comic pleasure. This mature look at immaturity is witty, smart and heartwarming without being sentimental. In a world where laughs are precious, yet film comedy is undervalued, ABOUT A BOY is a tonic for what ails us. Hugh Grant proves once again that his charm is boundless.
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ABOUT SCHMIDT puts a new face on film satire, embodied in a towering performance by Jack Nicholson. The movie presents America's heartland with a richness of detail that brings a unique light to this funny, sad and always captivating tale.
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ADAPTATION. is a film that makes the word "original" seem ordinary. Both entertaining and intelligent, the film mercilessly destroys an audience's expectations and demands that it keep up...keep laughing...or be cut out of the final draft.
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ANTWONE FISHER provides a clarion call for all films that strive to bring unspoken topics into the national conversation. For a modern world drowning in cynicism, this is an honest and sincere film that helps us understand that sometimes we have to go home again before we can go forward. Derek Luke's performance in the title role heralds the arrival of a fresh, new talent.
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CHICAGO gives contemporary audiences the "old razzle dazzle" with an explosion of talent and energy that dares them not to applaud after each musical number. The film pioneers new ground in this uniquely American art form and reminds us once again of the brilliance of Bob Fosse.
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FRIDA is a movie about art that is a work of art in itself. The film's unique visual language takes us into an artist's head and reminds us that art is best enjoyed when it moves, breathes and is painted on a giant canvas, as only the movies can provide.
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GANGS OF NEW YORK is a love story that resists the usual tradition of movie romances. When a white prison correction officer and a black single mother are drawn together by a series of tragic events, the result is an unsentimental, complex mixture of sex, race and family that provides no easy answers.
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THE HOURS provides further proof that film is the language of the 21st Century. A strong adaptation of a difficult literary project, THE HOURS blossoms on-screen in a brilliant, ever-unfolding exploration of madness. Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore create an acting ensemble across time...and for the ages.
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THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS is an epic screen experience that will inspire awe in generations of movie lovers for years to come. Though presented on a massive scale, the film's attention to detail and its emotional depth are the heart of its extraordinary achievement. Whether marching in the shadow of 10,000 warriors or showing two people talking, Peter Jackson's personal vision for the trilogy fully realizes J. R. R. Tolkien's boundless literary imagination.
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THE QUIET AMERICAN gives us an inside look at America's early involvement in Vietnam at a time when audiences are evaluating how the world perceives the United States' role in global politics. The film brilliantly captures 1950s Saigon as well as the subtleties of Graham Greene's novel. Michael Caine continues to prove that he is the most consistently reliable actor in American film.
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is proof that television can take the most difficult and disturbing of subject matters and bring them to a national audience with style and grace. Ryan Gosling's performance stands out among the year's most extraordinary acting achievements.
In a television world populated with crime dramas, BOOMTOWN explodes with originality. By presenting multiple points-of-view in a non-linear narrative style, BOOMTOWN dares to be gray in a colorful medium that often presents its heroes and villains in black and white. Every week its considerable action unfolds with a sense of moral ambiguity that enriches the storytelling.
is a small film with a giant impact. This intimate story knocks on your door, makes itself comfortable in your living room and offers you its life-affirming tale at no cost. William H. Macy's performance is a work of love, on par with the landmark achievements of Dustin Hoffman in RAINMAN and Cliff Robertson in CHARLY.
This modern classic consistently makes big comedy out of small things, and its laughs are often enriched with insights into family togetherness that many dramas struggle to characterize.
utilizes the medium to present epic subject matter on a very intimate scale. This unexplored chapter in the Churchill saga is masterfully brought to life by the performances of Albert Finney and Vanessa Redgrave.
GILMORE GIRLS fulfills television's promise to elevate its audience through entertainment. The program creates a beautifully self-contained universe, where the traditional rules of television seem not to apply. The unique mother/daughter relationship drives the drama with heart, virtue and laughter.
THE SIMPSONS Even as it enters its 14th season, THE SIMPSONS continues to bring television audiences social and cultural satire in the finest of America's comedic tradition. Irreverent and literate, timeless and timely, this show may be the most comically dense series in the history of television, and one where adults and children alike can enjoy a laugh.
breaks new ground every week...literally. This show drags the uncomfortable topic of mortality into the living room and watches television's most unusual family struggle with matters of life and death in equally unusual ways.
embraces America in a big family hug...and doesn't let go. The show has shattered the expectation of what television can be and reminds us this year that compelling drama — like the death of a marriage — is as powerful and painful as murder. James Gandolfini and Edie Falco consistently transcend the art of acting — particularly in the final episode of the season.
Week after week, THE WEST WING projects a heroism that America yearns for in its political system. Heightened by its extraordinary use of language, THE WEST WING puts American civic life in a dramatic context, placing the White House in the national conversation and often bringing pertinent global issues to the watercooler on mornings after a broadcast.
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Recently I discovered that she had badly injured her back and I was sad to hear the news. I can only imagine how horrible it must be to be confined to your home for so long to heal from something like that. I hope that she makes a full recovery from this and that she is finding some happiness in her current situation. I thought I'd create this portrait for her and record my painting process as well for those interested because not only does she have a beautiful face to paint but I thought perhaps if she saw this that it would cheer her up and perhaps she'd like it.
I always enjoy when she features Pinecone in her videos! He was fun to paint because he's so adorable and I haven't painted many animals before, but I do plan to in the future.
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Dekalb Market Returns with New Vendors and a Farm
This weekend, the Dekalb Market reopened its doors for the new season. Many of our favorite vendors from last year like Robicelli's, Cuzin's Duzin and Joe the Art of Coffee were back. But this season they're joined by a few new vendors as well as Dekalb Farm, an agricultural and educational space. Besides eating and shopping at Dekalb Market, they plan to have weekly dance parties, monthly movie nights and private supper clubs.
The market will be open daily, with new vendors every week. Check out the slideshow above for scenes from opening day.
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Several weeks have passed since President Obama delivered his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in Oslo; and, despite my strong admiration for him and my respect for his convictions, some of what he said still deeply troubles me. As Commander-in-Chief, his hopeful invocation of traditional just war theory and his outspoken commitment to "follow the rules of the road" are no doubt heartfelt, but inescapably hollow. His admission that "in today's wars, many more civilians are killed than soldiers" renders just war theory sadly irrelevant; and, when the road is to war, the rules—kept or broken—matter less than the destination. Following the rules still means going to war, and there is the dark dilemma. He asks that we—a nation reinforcing our resolve to fight on—acknowledge "the hard truth that we will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes (and that) There will be times when nations… will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified." In these few words we see how short the logic, if not the road, to war can be. The truth is, however, that to admit we live in a violent world that is not likely to lay down its arms anytime soon is not the same as to concede that war is here and now, for us, necessary. But still more problematic is the leap from necessity to moral justification. The clear assumption here is that a war of necessity is by definition morally justified. But what if war can never be morally justified? What if there is no such thing as a just war? What could that possibly mean at this turn, when we concede in the same breath that this war appears necessary?
These doubts and qualms may sound inspired by earlier Peace Prize honorees such as Gandhi, Tutu, and King to whom President Obama gave a respectful nod after launching his apology for war; but in this case they are inspired by warriors not pacifists. It is today's combat veterans who are bringing the greatest clarity to the moral cost of any war. It is they who have lived and suffered the inescapable contradiction between the necessity of violence and its inherent immorality. The nation that sends them to war sees them as heroes, deserving our enduring gratitude and esteem; but all too often they return from war unable to accept that gratitude and respect, finding themselves inwardly darkened and eaten away with guilt and shame. This reality is something we all need to understand, and this understanding will never come unless we listen to our veterans and learn from them, rather than from our political representatives and leaders, about the "rules of the road" and whether they matter for much in the end.
The truth is that many, if not most, combat veterans, who have followed all the rules, are haunted more by what they have done than by what they have endured. Those who work with veterans to help heal their inner, invisible wounds know that the deepest and most intractable PTS (Post-traumatic Stress) has its roots in what veterans perceive as the evil they have done and been a part of. They all too often see themselves as criminals. But how can it be criminal, we may ask, to serve your country in a just cause and a necessary conflict? Here we may find some simple but useful light in a well-worn concept—necessary evil. If war is at times a necessary evil, does that make it any less evil? I suggest we let our veterans make that call. "In theological terms," writes William Mahedy, himself a Vietnam vet and a vet counselor ever since, "war is sin. This has nothing to do with whether a particular war is justified or whether isolated incidents in a soldier's war were right or wrong. The point is that war as a human enterprise is a matter of sin." War, in other words, is hell not because it is a place of physical torment but because it is place of distilled evil. Albert Camus, no theologian, reached the same conclusion after World War II. He saw the justification of murder as our most profound and consequential failing. He disallowed any distinction between killing and murder and argued that killing, even in self-defense, is never innocent, never without violation. "It should break your heart to kill," writes veteran and poet Brian Turner. And it does. Taking a life breaks the heart and darkens the soul. Virtually every ancient and traditional society from India to Greece to Native America, however warlike, knew this. Our veterans know this. It is time for us as a nation to acknowledge it and to learn the rules of another road, the road to healing.
Commanders-in-chief of nations routinely and rightly acknowledge the grave responsibility and burden of sending others into harm's way, but never have I heard mention of the full extent of that potential harm. Life, limbs, and wits—physical and psychological well-being—are all openly at risk; but soul injury and death never come to mind or speech, except afterwards, and then mostly in closed circles. One notable exception was when former Senator Bob Kerrey, a Vietnam combat veteran, revealed that "I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you, and I don't think it is. I think killing for your country can be a lot worse. Because that's the memory that haunts." It is for us to ponder these words, to listen to our veterans, to stop using the convenient rhetoric of just wars, and to heal the wounded and the haunted.


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Carbon monoxide poisoning from forklifts - Bad for workers, bad for business
Washington State workers are poisoned by carbon monoxide (CO) every year, particularly during fall and winter. A review of workers' compensation claims showed that poisonings are predominantly caused by forklifts and occur most often in the following industries:
- Wholesale Trade.
- Agriculture.
- Manufacturing.
- Transportation.
Carbon monoxide poisoning is bad for workers and bad for business. It is cost effective to prevent these injuries because they can be severe or even fatal, can involve large numbers of workers in a single incident, and may result in production shut-downs. SHARP has identified practical strategies for employers to reduce their risk of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Routine, in-house forklift emissions testing is a good way to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning and makes good business sense. Reducing carbon monoxide emissions in a fleet of 10 propane-powered forklifts may save up to $7,500 in fuel costs per year on a single shift.
For additional information on how to conduct in-house forklift emissions testing, call the SHARP program at 1-888-667-4277.
New information about carbon monoxide
Worker information
To train your workers on the hazards of carbon monoxide from forklifts, SHARP developed educational materials in English and Spanish:
- Warning Poster (334 KB PDF) (updated February 2009). This poster is best printed in color using paper size 11 x 17 but will also look good in black & white and paper size 8.5 x 11.
- Educational Pamphlet (296 KB PDF) (updated February 2009).
Employer information
For employers, SHARP developed the strategy guide: How to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning from forklifts: Successful strategies for electric and fuel-driven forklift fleets (1,341 KB PDF / 4 min) (updated October 2009). The guide includes information on:
- The economic impact of carbon monoxide poisonings (workers' compensation data).
- Information on electric forklifts.
- How to save fuel costs and control carbon monoxide from fuel-driven forklifts.
- Carbon monoxide monitoring.
- Employee training checklist.
L&I has additional information on sources of carbon monoxide in the workplace.
Risk for carbon monoxide poisoning
Carbon monoxide is produced by the incomplete combustion of carbon-containing fuels. All combustion engines produce exhaust emissions that can contain harmful levels of carbon monoxide.
In Washington State, the most common source of carbon monoxide poisoning is fuel-driven forklifts. The risk of carbon monoxide poisoning is extremely high when fuel-driven forklifts are used inside enclosed spaces such as:
- Cold rooms.
- Controlled atmosphere rooms.
- Refrigerated warehouses.
- Other non-ventilated spaces.
Even when used indoors with mechanical ventilation, fuel-driven forklifts can still pose a risk because poisoning can occur at very low carbon monoxide concentrations.
Other common sources of carbon monoxide poisoning
- Vehicles such as automobiles, trucks and buses.
- Portable saws that burn fuel (i.e. concrete saws, chainsaws).
- Generators.
- Heaters and furnaces.
- Power washers.
- Insulation blowers.
- Man lifts.
- Compressors.
- Ovens.
- Floor buffers.
Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning
Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas that you cannot smell, see or taste. The early symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning are flu-like and nonspecific such as:
- Headache.
- Nausea.
- Dizziness.
- Visual disturbances.
- Rapid breathing.
Severe carbon monoxide poisoning can result in unconsciousness and death.


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Coleman Carr was a second granduncle on my Dad's side. He was the 6th child of my third great-grandparents James F Carr of South Carolina and Martha Watts of Alabama. Yesterday, I was researching Coleman and following him through the United States Federal Census enumerations for the years 1860 (he was born in April, 1855) through 1920.
Coleman's life looked to be that of the average Southern farmer of the time: farming, marriage, babies (lots of babies!), more farming until finally, eventually disappearing from the census rolls. With a little luck, he might show up on Find-A-Grave or maybe a USGenWeb cemetery list somewhere. More likely, he's just gone…
But something interesting and quite unexpected seems to have happened to Coleman Carr of Alabama…
Here are Coleman's appearances in the Census:
1860 James F Carr family, Wilcox County, Alabama
Coleman, age 4, born in Alabama
1870 James F Carr family, Monroe County, Alabama
Coleman, age 14, born in Alabama
1880 James F Carr family, Monroe County, Alabama
Coleman C, age 24, born in Alabama
father born in South Carolina, mother born in South Carolina
1900 Coleman Carr family, Clarke County, Alabama (he is now married with family)
Coleman, age 45, born in Alabama, married 15 yrs
father born in Alabama, mother born in Alabama
wife L E, age 38, born in Alabama, married 15 yrs
dau Mattie, age 15
son Cleveland, age 12
dau Florence, age 11
son James C, age 9
dau Lela L, age 7
dau Bessie E, age 5
Everything looks pretty ordinary and expected, right? Look at the 1910 census…
1910 Abner M Carr family, Clarke County, Alabama
Abner M, age 49, born in Alabama, 1st marriage, married 23 yrs
father born in Alabama, mother born in Virginia
Lucinda, age 46, born in Alabama, 1st marriage, married 23 yrs
Cleveland S
James C
Bessie E
Ok, obviously the same mother and children, but who is Abner M Carr? Let's check 1920…
1920 Abner M Carr family, Mobile County, Alabama
Abner M, age 63, born in Alabama
father born in South Carolina, mother born in Alabama
Lucinda, age 56, born Alabama
James C
(also a couple of sons-in-law)
Again, obviously the same mother and kids… and Abner.
Very interestingly, husband's age appropriate to birth date of 1855, husband's and wife's ages are again 7 yrs apart and husband's father again born in South Carolina (remember James F Carr was born in South Carolina) and mother again born in Alabama. Everything about the actual 1920 census (with Abner) is appropriate to the expected 1920 census (with Coleman).
So were Coleman C Carr and Abner M Carr one and the same man? If so, why did he change his name?
Abner M Carr died in 1930 in Mobile County, Alabama.
Lucinda Carr died in 1939 in Moblie County, Alabama.
I am unable to find either in the 1930 census for further comparison.
I am unable to find Abner M Carr anywhere prior to the 1910 census.
What do you think???


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DELHI, INDIA - Growth in Asia and the Pacific has been more robust than expected after the global crisis, and must be sustained for the region to reduce poverty and increase prosperity, Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Takehiko Nakao said in his first address to the ADB Board of Governors.
"Asia is making the transition to growth led by domestic and regional demand," he said. "But Asia cannot be complacent. To achieve sustainable growth, I believe Asia must become more innovative, more inclusive, and more integrated."
The new ADB President emphasized the need for an enabling environment in which the private sector can grow, innovate, and create jobs. Critical elements include conducive regulatory systems, support for start-ups, broad-based financial systems, and infrastructure development. Governments must also invest more in their people, providing vocational and tertiary education, and accessible, cost-effective health services.
"All of these must be underpinned by good governance. The rule of law and its just implementation, accountability, and protection of property rights are essential in building a better a climate for investment and innovation," Mr. Nakao said.
With more than 800 million people in the Asia-Pacific still living in absolute poverty, the region has to address rising inequality, Mr. Nakao noted. For the region's growth to be sustainable, it also needs to be inclusive, requiring the region to address issues like income inequality, access to good education and health services, gender equity, and provision of social safety nets.
"Inclusive growth is ultimately an issue of empowerment," Mr. Nakao said. "Empowerment is not just a means of development, but should also be a primary objective of development."
More can be done toward creating a truly integrated Asia, the President noted, pointing to the success of the Greater Mekong subregion, Central Asia, and South Asia in connecting transport and energy networks, and the potential for improved ICT connectivity to integrate isolated Pacific island economies into the Asia and Pacific region.
"The re-engagement of Myanmar presents a great opportunity for deepening integration, with the promise of substantial gains for Asia and the world as a whole," he said.
The President noted that Asia's growth in the world economy brings with it a new responsibility - the responsibility to contribute to solving global issues like climate change and the post-2015 Millennium Development Goals agenda.
In considering ADB's role in the region, Mr. Nakao highlighted the need for finance, leverage, and knowledge to better meet the region's needs. He committed ADB to step up efforts to leverage bilateral official sources of finance, private sector finance, and public-private partnerships, and to combine finances more closely together with development knowledge.
The President also announced the initiation of a mid-term review of Strategy 2020 "based on the progress of its implementation, and also on developments in Asia since its adoption in 2008." He said ADB will also consider a long-term strategic vision for the Asian Development Fund in line with the region's changing needs.
While the general capital increase in 2009 and successful ADF replenishments have strengthened ADB's financial resources, the President noted that ADB must "continue examining how we can secure the resource base needed in order to continue to pursue our objectives well."
Mr. Nakao closed his address by saying that "Perhaps what matters most is ADB's performance and the results it achieves ... I will place the highest priority on outcomes to ensure we respond to the region's needs as efficiently and effectively as possible."
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Correct. One will have doubt about nirvana lingering until they glimpse it through the woods (stream entry). My question is do you think Nirvana is true, false, or "it's complicated"?nowheat wrote:Is this question about *belief* or *faith*? You ask about belief, but your personal answer is *faith*.Buckwheat wrote:I have a question for the secular Buddhists in the room. Do you believe that it is possible to attain Nirvana, the deathless state devoid of suffering, unshakable and pure in conduct?
The reason I ask is its something I always wrestle with yet it never comes up in faith or supernatural debates. Nirvana is a remarkable and transcendent state in which suffering shall never return. Sounds almost magical to me even if I do have some faith that the Buddha really attained such a state.
Or do you believe that we just get a little more pure and happy and then a little more pure and happy and then we die? There would be nothing immoral with that but I'm not sure it would qualify as Buddhism.
And the reason I ask this is when doubt creeps up real strong for me it becomes tempting to dump the whole of Buddhism because without nirvana you don't have Buddhism.
The buddha taught conviction/faith built on a trust in his teachings built on previous successes with subduing suffering. It is not a blind faith but it is still conviction. True unwaverin conviction only comes with stream entry (personal glimpse of nirvana). Do secular Buddhists see a role for conviction that nibbana is the final cessation of suffering?
Without that I really don't think you are talking about Buddhism. There is nothing more central than nirvana and this is what moves Buddhism from "philosophy" to "religion". IMO


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If the National Retail Federation (NRF) has its way, selling goods online will soon become far less anonymous and significantly more onerous for any online auction or discount website. The NRF has announced its support and testified in favor of three bills: H.R. 6713, known as the E-fencing Enforcement Act; H.R. 6491, aka Organized Retail Crime Act of 2008; and S.3434, the "Combating Organized Retail Crime Act of 2008." As the titles suggest, all of these bills are (supposedly) aimed at fighting organized crime rings, but don't worry—the burdens the NRF would impose upon you are for your own good. No, really—they actually say so.
According to the NRF's Vice President for Loss Prevention, Joseph LaRocca, the Internet is creating a new, dangerous type of retail thief. "Thieves often tell the same disturbing story: they begin legitimately selling product on eBay and then become hooked by its addictive qualities, the anonymity it provides and the ease with which they gain exposure to millions of customers," LaRocca said. "When they run out of legitimate merchandise, they begin to steal intermittently, many times for the first time in their life, so they can continue selling online. The thefts then begin to spiral out of control and before they know it they quit their jobs, are recruiting accomplices and are crossing states lines to steal, all so they can support and perpetuate their online selling habit."
Selling on eBay: it's worse than a heroin addiction.
Ostensibly, the purpose of these bills is to attack the growing prevalence of Organized Retail Crime (ORC), and no one involved in the discussion claims it isn't a problem. The theft rings referred to in all three bills are far more sophisticated and determined than your average shoplifter, and when they steal, they steal in bulk. The largest networks operate over multiple state lines in territories that span hundreds of miles. The goal of these enterprises is ultimately to redistribute the goods, whether that means selling off the back of a truck or running a major warehouse. Said warehouse's customers, in fact, may be perfectly legitimate businesses themselves, with no idea that the Huggies they're buying to stock on the shelf actually came out of a Wal-Mart two weeks earlier.
Not only are these businesses profitable, they're also considerably safer than drug running or dealing in other illegal substances, and if caught, the punishment under current federal statutes is much lighter. The estimated monetary losses to retailers are serious business, even for the mega corporations; one bill cites the losses due to these operations at $30 billion.
Retailers have a compelling interest in reducing the incidents of such theft, and the NRF has backed the aforementioned bills as one means of cracking down on ORCs, or so the organization claims. Details on each of the bills are presented below:
- H.R. 6713: This bill states that online stores and resellers must "disclose contact information for any high-volume seller (defined as a seller grossing $12,000 or more per year, hereafter referred to as an HVS) to any inquirer with
standing under this section to seek that information." Online companies are also required to retain contact information on
HVSs for three years after the information is received.
Upon the request of an appropriate party (retailer), the online marketplace must attempt to determine, without undue expense, whether the goods or items in question were lawfully acquired. If the items in question were illegally purchased, or if there's good reason to suspect they are, the provider is required to remove the auctions and ban the seller. Failure to comply with the statute is specifically stated as reason enough to seek relief.
- H.R. 6491: 6491 covers much of the same ground as 6713, but expands on the burdens placed on the online reseller.
According to 6491, online marketplaces are required to "expeditiously investigate" all credible evidence that might indicate
the presence of illegally obtained products. The company is required to maintain a record of all such investigations for at
least three years. HVSs, meanwhile, can kiss any pretense of anonymity good-bye; the online marketplace is required to
maintain a database of information on all such persons. Said database must consist of (but is not limited to) the name,
telephone number, e-mail address, legitimate physical address, any user identification, and company name.
Want more? Good. If you're an HVS, the website you do business on is required to maintain a three-year log of all of your transactions, and, your name, telephone number, and legitimate address must be posted in conjunction with any product you intend to sell. High-volume sellers are also required to provide this information "upon request of any business that has a reasonable suspicion that goods or services at the site were acquired through organized retail crime, its name, telephone number, and legitimate physical address." The rest of the bill concerns itself with statute changes and clarifications intended to punish organized retail crime more harshly than is currently permitted under law.
- S.3434: Finally, we have S. 3434, which pulls no punches. According to it, any online marketplace presented with
evidence that a person is using the site to fence stolen goods is required to file a suspicious activity report with the
Attorney General of the United States, notify the retailer or business in question that the report has been filed, and begin
reviewing the records of the seller for evidence of other illegal activities. Note, please, that the seller is not notified
at any point in this proceeding. This is not an accident of omission, as the bill makes clear. "No operator of a
physical retail marketplace or online retail marketplace... may notify any individual or entity that is the subject of a
suspicious activity report... of the fact that the operator filed such a report... or of any information contained in the
report or account review.
Furthermore, S. 3434 allows a retailer who suspects goods are being fenced illegally online to presume the guilt of the seller in question. The retailer (online or off, in this case), may request that the user "present documentary evidence that the operator (reseller) reasonably determines to be clear and convincing showing that the transient vendor or user has not used the retail marketplace to sell or distribute items that were stolen."
The central problem here is that the NRF would place the massive job of policing entirely upon the shoulders of the online resellers. In the past, companies have cited corporate policies that promote trust between employee and employer, but all three of these proposals ask online companies to gather and maintain extensive databases on their most loyal users, simply because those users might be involved in something illegal. The bills in question make no allowances for product type—whether you're selling hand-painted ornaments or Gillette razor blades, if you sell over $12,000 a year of anything, you're on the watch list.
Even more troubling is the fact that passing these proposals would give retailers the right to order an investigation of an individual based on nothing more than a suspicion. None of the bills we've discussed today offer retailers or customers any right to challenge the allegations; S.3434 explicitly forbids notifying a seller that they are, or have ever been, the target of an investigation.
Combine this with the retail industry's refusal to work with online giant eBay (as reported by Network World) because it would have required them to release information, and the proposals don't seem nearly so clear-cut. No one disagrees that organized theft is a problem, but blaming the issue on online merchants and eBay Power Sellers, and requiring that companies take aggressive actions to police and track customers in ways that the retailers themselves avoid, due to cost and negative publicity, is duplicitous in the extreme.


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A mini-theme I've been exploring is touched on in the first chapter of Beer and Philosophy--authenticity of locally-brewed beer. My views are more colloquial and lacking the form of a discipline, but it turns out--more or less in line when we bring in the philosophers. I'll let Dale Jacquette take it from here.
The mere presence of a local beer doesn't necessarily make it authentic.
He also offers observations that will earn him no credibility among the alenocenti:
Well, never mind; your philosophy is good, Dale. Leave the beer to us.
The mere presence of a local beer doesn't necessarily make it authentic.
[T]he above-mentioned beers [Sakara Gold and Efes] are currently produced under the direction of a Dutch or German rather than Egyptian or Turkish Braumeister. These beers are made and sold in Egypt and Turkey; fair enough, but in a certain sense they might as well be made in Hanover or Eindhoven.This seems totally sound. Put another way, in America we actually say that Indian food (for example) is authentic if the chef is Indian and cooks in a traditional Indian style. We deduct points for authenticity if the cook is Texan or the food made in a way that caters to American tastes. So having established how authenticity travels, we turn to the question of how it emerges. Jacquette--who as we will see in a moment isn't the greatest judge of beer--offers a pretty satisfying framework:
The only way for there to be an authentic Egyptian or Turkish beer is for an Egyptian or Turkish brewer to produce a kind of beer that specifically satisfies native Egyptian or Turkish tastes.... There can only be an authentic Egyptian or Turkish beer, cross-culturally influenced by German tradition, as historically it must be, if Egyptian or Turkish brewers make beer that appeals to a distinctive trend in taste preferences among Egyptian and Turkish beer drinkers.and
Whatever we consider to be authentic assumes a level of perfection in an indigenous context that is expressive of aesthetic values as distinctive, original, or characteristic rather than imitative, derivative, or contrived.By these standards--with which I agree--pockets of authenticity have clearly developed in the US--in New England, the Midwest, and the West Coast. (Colorado, though an avid brewing state, seems to fail the standard--the beer isn't brewed by Germans, but it hews to their standard and evinces no indigenous Colorado-ness.) But Jacquette doesn't agree: "We can only hope that our children and grandchildren will someday inherit a better world of American beers that they will surely deserve."
He also offers observations that will earn him no credibility among the alenocenti:
- "I may not like Belgian kriek beers--indeed, I personally loathe them--"
- "I must admit in my own case that while I am prepared to judge [the UK's real beer movement] as authentic, I do not find it particularly pleasurable when compared with the best Dutch and German product."
- "For all its virtues, I nevertheless personally find UK real beer generally too bitter, usually excessively hopped ... and, above all, in the rightly motivated real beer commitment to serving beer at room temperature, flat and without the benefit of artificial cooling."
Well, never mind; your philosophy is good, Dale. Leave the beer to us.


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This month, Suzanne Pfeffer assumes the presidency of ASBMB. This article gives a little insight into her background and research interests. (Titled "ASBMB Presidential Primer: Suzanne Pfeffer" in print version.)
As someone who spent most of her career in the San Francisco Bay Area, Suzanne Pfeffer definitely has developed some of that Northern California vibe. When you first meet her, adjectives like content, easy-going and laid-back quickly spring to mind.
Speak with her for a little longer, though, and you realize that Pfeffer, a professor in the department of biochemistry at Stanford University School of Medicine, also carries herself with a quiet confidence, as well as strong determination, two qualities that will no doubt serve her well when she takes over as the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology's 82nd president this month.
Pfeffer, who studies the molecular basis of membrane trafficking and Golgi function, brings several other valuable attributes to the table. She has executive experience, having served as president of the American Society for Cell Biology in 2003. She also is familiar with the ASBMB process, having previously worked on both the ASBMB council and the Journal of Biological Chemistry editorial board; and, she is currently organizing the 2010 ASBMB small meeting on the biochemistry of membrane traffic.
Perhaps her most critical trait, however, is an unwavering belief in her new constituency. "We're a society to be reckoned with," she states firmly, "and should not have to take a back seat to anyone."
Given such a direct statement, it may be fitting that one of Pfeffer's primary goals as ASBMB president will be to try to improve science communication. That includes ensuring that ASBMB continues its excellent work in the public affairs arena, where it can reach the ears of the policy makers, while also expanding efforts in educating the public about the importance and value of basic research.
"When I travel on a train or plane I like to strike up a conversation with the person next to me, describe my work, and explain that their tax dollars paid for it," she says. "It's the kind of conversation all researchers should be doing when they can— the public doesn't realize that they are supporting biomedical research. When they learn about it, they agree on its importance. We should all be thanking the public for their support."
Pfeffer acknowledges that many scientists may be apprehensive, or uncertain, about how to be effective communicators, and already has hit the ground running in that regard. She's begun developing templates to help guide ASBMB members in discussing their work in specific circumstances. These templates will be available in ASBMB Today and on the society's website. Pfeffer also hopes to encourage more usage of new media, such as Wikipedia and YouTube, to get ASBMB's message across.
It's the kind of conversation Pfeffer had as a freshman at the University of California, Berkeley. Entering college, she didn't know much about the molecular sciences, but she knew she wanted to know what made the human body work— or in the case of diseases, what made it not work.
"But then at college, someone explained to me that what I was interested in was biochemistry, and that set up my path for my future career," she says.
At the same time, Pfeffer believes that established researchers need to open more lines of internal communication, namely with the graduate students and postdoctoral fellows that represent our next wave of scientific leaders.
"Most of our members are probably in academia, and therefore are involved in the business of training graduate students," she says. "But are we training them the right way?"
Science has changed dramatically over the past couple of decades, since Pfeffer first started conducting independent research. "Back then, researcher specialties were straightforward," she says. "It used be 'I worked on protein X, or pathway Y,' for example. But, with all the information available today, and the rapid rate at which new data becomes available, we can't do that anymore."
"We may have identified more than 10,000 proteins," Pfeffer continues. "But we don't have 10,000 labs to study these proteins in detail. Now, we need to identify the most important questions and work with whatever proteins, pathways or techniques are required to answer it."
Suzanne Pfeffer received her Bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1978, during which time she did undergraduate research on bacterial RNA polymerase with Michael Chamberlin and published her first scientific article, in the JBC (1). She then moved on to the University of California, San Francisco, for her graduate studies, where she was encouraged to try something new scientifically, and so began working with Regis Kelly on the biochemistry of clathrin-coated vesicles – beginning her lifelong research love of membrane trafficking. After graduating in 1982, she did a postdoc at Stanford University with James Rothman on protein sorting and transport in the Golgi, subsequently joining the Stanford faculty in 1986.
Currently, she continues to work on the molecular basis of membrane trafficking, with an emphasis on the Rab GTPases, which are key coordinators of vesicle traffic between organelles.
When she's not hard at work in lab, Pfeffer enjoys tennis and scuba diving— the latter giving her an opportunity to meet her favorite animal, Metasepia pfefferi, also known as Pfeffer's Flamboyant Cuttlefish.
So, Pfeffer believes it's important that professors adjust their mentoring to train students not just on facts or methodologies, but also how to ask the right questions and to identify and solve problems.
They also need to expose students to the full range of career options available. "The statistics show that many students, even in the very top programs, are not necessarily going to continue in academia," Pfeffer says. "And, from my own experiences at Stanford, I know that students are clamoring for more information about their future. So it's vital that our society look at how to better prepare students and postdocs to enter the greater society as a whole."
Pfeffer will explore the possibility of hosting some regional meetings specifically for students and postdocs to provide career-building assistance, and give the students a chance meet other students with similar, and different, interests. And, importantly, it might be a way to increase membership amongst the younger scientists, which is another major goal for Pfeffer.
"I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I like to see change happen," Pfeffer explains in discussing all her energy and ideas even as she is just settling in to her new post. If these first few days are any indication, ASBMB does indeed have a new president to be reckoned with.
1. Pfeffer, S. R., Stahl, S. J., and Chamberlin, M. J. (1977) Binding of Escherichia coli RNA Polymerase to T7 DNA. Displacement of Holoenzyme from Promoter Complexes by Heparin. J. Biol. Chem. 252, 5403 – 5407.
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These last few days writing and blogging about clothes and fashion haven't been my first priority, though, luckily my family and friends are safe and unharmed, we've all been shocked and hit by the tragedy in Oslo.
At some point we've all have to get started again, I find it hard from my side and I haven't even been directly hit nor seen the scene live so I can't imagine how tough it must be for those who are and have, we all think of you!
Images taken this weekend, I wore leather dress Zara, angora jumper and bag Acne, shoes Prada, sunnies Celine, bracelet Bjørg and watch Tagheuer.


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Now that I got the Win10 moved to, and booting from, the SSD in my Dell M7510, I want to setup Windows 7 as a dual boot.
Using BIBM, I created a 50GB partition on the SSD and a Boot item with only that partition. Then, I had the Win7 DVD in an external USB DVD drive and I booted. When I get to the BIBM boot menu, I selected the (as yet uninstalled) Win7 partition, and it said there nothing to boot on that partition (correct) and says something about press a key to load manager. I press a key and it says it needs a driver and then I get stuck there.
I'm not sure but I think that it might be looking for a driver for the USB drive?
So can anyone tell me how I should be doing this installation?


text: I am trying to finish many (too many) UFO's. I have a bad habit of becoming intrigued with a new pattern or a quilt shown on the board and I have to try it. Then I don't finish them. This one I call Bull's Eye On Point. I saw this quilt a few years ago at a friends home. I just had to try it. It is time consuming but I like how it is turning out. Please give me your honest opinion. I can take it. Really!


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I don't read the physical paper as much as I used to. However, yesterday I picked one up off of a booth after someone else read it (after all, I am entitled to free papers, just as everything else, yes?) and what grabbed me wasn't anything local. It was the cartoon they ran.
I was like "Cool! They're running Kelly's stuff from the Onion!"
But then I noticed the lack of a crying Statue of Liberty, and also that is was drawn by Jerry Holbert, who actually thinks this way.
Remember! If you're insulted when Romney insults you, that means you're a victim-victimy-victimpants! So vote for him! Also people on disability are weak whiners who should be mocked.
Ah, first Akin, then Romney…this is exquisite. Exquisite. This must be how Romney feels when he fires large swaths of people.


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Student discovers floating tsunami dock on video one year later.
Oregon State University graduate student Cheryl Horton was meticulously scanning year-old video of a bird colony off Yaquina Head near Newport, Ore., last month when she noticed a strange object drifting by in the background.
Closer examination confirmed that the grainy, distant floating object captured on her research camera was the dock that washed ashore at Agate Beach in early June of 2012, some 15 months after a devastating earthquake and tsunami ripped it loose from its mooring in Misawa, Japan. In the weeks after it landed on the Oregon beach, the cement dock became a tourist attraction and drew attention from news media worldwide.
Her discovery came one year almost to the day that the dock landed on Agate Beach, bringing mystique – and potentially invasive species – to Oregon from Japan. It is the only known video of the dock during its trans-Pacific Ocean journey.
"We've been behind analyzing our footage and had gone through video of common murre colonies at Cape Meares in the north and Coquille Point in the south," said Horton, a master's candidate in fisheries and wildlife at OSU. "But we got so busy that we didn't get around to looking at the central coast data until this June. Then it was, 'whoa – what is that?'"
"That" was the dock, which measured seven feet tall, was some 19 feet wide by 66 feet long, and weighed an estimated 188 tons. On camera, floating in the water, it looks much smaller – almost like a log. It takes about three minutes for the concrete dock to drift past the camera, slowly riding the current from north to south.
The discovery is more of a curiosity than anything, though OSU researchers have examined the video for clues that may tell them a bit more about the direction and speed the dock may have traveled – at least in the days before it beached.
Horton is sharing the video with others and is again focusing on her research on common murres, a species that increasingly is being preyed upon by bald eagles along the Oregon coast, as well as by "secondary" predators including gulls and pelicans.
"It was kind of fun to discover the dock video and share it with others," she said. "Everyone has been pretty excited about it."
A portion of the dock is on display at OSU's Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, where Horton and major professor Rob Suryan are based. Horton also is mentored by Katie Dugger, another fisheries and wildlife faculty member on the OSU campus.
Horton is the second fisheries and wildlife student in recent years to make an accidental scientific discovery via camera. In 2008, graduate student Katie Moriarty captured an image of a rare wolverine on camera in the Tahoe National Forest. It was the first sighting of a wolverine in California in nearly 75 years.
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CROWLEY, La. — Lab work with DNA is doing more than helping to solve crimes. It also is being used to determine if new experimental rice varieties being developed by LSU AgCenter researchers will meet farmers' needs.
Using the DNA fingerprinting, otherwise known as genetic markers, can save considerable time in developing new rice varieties, according to Herry Utomo, assistant professor at the Rice Research Station near Crowley, La.
In a project funded by the Louisiana Rice Research Board, Utomo is trying to develop a simple and economical "genetic marker detection system" to aid in plant breeding. Such a system is critical for more successful and widespread application of newer technology that can enhance speed and efficiency in rice breeding programs, he said.
"A non-automated marker detection protocol, which is fast, reliable, and cost-effective, is being developed here at the station that will require minimal, standard molecular laboratory equipment," Utomo said.
Genetic research has come a long way in the past decade, according to Utomo, who said getting genetic marker data 10 years ago would have taken more than a week. Now it can be done in a day.
To extract DNA from rice plants, small bits of plant tissue are placed in formulated solution in plastic vials containing small metal beads. The tray of vials is placed in a machine that rapidly shakes the beads, pulverizing the tissue so that DNA can be removed.
"That way we can process 96 samples in one minute," the LSU AgCenter scientist said. "We have spent the past six months to figure out a way to extract the DNA easily, fast and economical. We have reached that point, but we need to do a little bit more to perfect the method."
Before developing this method, sample preparation and DNA extraction caused a bottleneck in the process, taking up to 60 percent of the time required to generate marker data, Utomo said.
The extracted DNA undergoes a process called electrophoresis that enables Utomo to see if the genes of interest are found among the pool of genes in the 12 chromosomes of a rice plant. Electrophoresis is a technique that separates nucleic acids according to size by subjecting them to an electric current in a gel.
That way, instead of waiting to select rice lines based on the expression of a particular trait in the field, Utomo can directly select lines in the laboratory by looking at the results of electrophoresis.
"Selection done this way is more straightforward and can eliminate environmental effects that sometimes mask the presence of certain genes," he said. "Also, selection can be done at a very early stage of plant growth."
That saves considerable time in developing a new variety of rice by eliminating candidates that are genetically unsuitable for a breeder's plans.
Utomo is applying markers in his selection for a number of simple traits, such as plant height, aroma, amylose content, grain elongation and blast resistance. He also has initiated genetic marker work for complex traits such as yield potential.
"It may take several years to be able to come up with markers for these complex traits," he said.
Another complex trait, resistance or susceptibility to sheath blight, is determined by more than one gene, Utomo explained, but the correct combination of genes has yet to be found.
The LSU AgCenter is working with researchers in several other rice-growing states to obtain a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant to fund mapping the sheath blight genetic composition, Utomo said.
"It's going to be quite a challenge. The trait is highly affected by environmental effects," he said. "Thousands of different markers need to be evaluated. At the end, we should be able to come up with a few that can be used to assist us in the breeding process."
A number of rice scientists from several different disciplines are cooperating in development of marker assisted breeding technology. In addition to Utomo, several rice breeders, a geneticist and two rice pathologists are working to perfect the system.
Don Groth, an LSU AgCenter plant pathologist at the Rice Research Station, eagerly awaits the sheath blight mapping project. It will mean learning early in a plant's life if it has sheath blight resistance.
"Right now we have to almost wait until the end of the growing season," he said.
Currently, it takes eight to 10 years to develop and release a new variety of sheath blight-resistant rice, but with DNA marker-assisted breeding, that cycle can be reduced by two to three years, Groth said.
"It's going to have an efficiency effect," Groth said. "Once we have it, that's when the savings comes around. Ultimately, it's going to greatly benefit the farmer."
Utomo also is using the technology to assist with an LSU AgCenter project to restore coastal vegetation to maintain the state's coastal marshlands. Identifying variations of some of the plants, such as smooth cordgrass, can become difficult, but DNA fingerprinting is being used to accomplish that.
"Molecular technology will be a part of regular field work in genetic improvement of many crops including rice," Utomo said.
Bruce Schultz writes for the LSU AgCenter. e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Information Technology Services (ITS) provides telephone services and equipment to Northeastern faculty and staff for various uses. These services are:
Office Telephones and Voicemail
Automated Call Distribution (ACD)
Residence hall rooms are equipped with phone jacks, and students must contact Verizon directly at 1-800-Verizon (837-4966) for landline service. Students will need to provide their own telephones.


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Another day, another perfect storm.
We had our usual weekly outage yesterday (for database backups/maintenance/etc.) during which we take care of other hardware/project issues. Such as yesterday - we finally got our remote-controlled power strip configured and hoped to put on one of our crashy servers (ptolemy) on it.
This meant bringing ptolemy down, which pretty much kills *everything* including all the web sites/BOINC servers. We did so, only to find during the course of installationg the config on the power strip get reset somehow, so we had to fall back. All told, this meant an hour of delay/downtime, and we were once again at square one.
After that Dave and Jeff were coordinating getting some new scheduler fixes online, which required some database updates. So we didn't start the backup until after noon, which in turn meant the projects wouldn't be ready to come back on line until after well 5pm. Jeff manned that from home, but it turns out some poorly behaved yum upgrade of httpd on anakin in the meantime secretly broke the httpd config which was impossible to diagnose/fix at the time. So we were down for the night until we could figure it out in the morning.
I guess one silver lining being down all night meant Jeff and I had an opportunity to retry installing the power strip on ptolemy with minimal interruption (as we were already in the middle of a major interruption!). This time: success - as far as we can tell after one test, if ptolemy now crashes the power strip will detect this within 30 minutes and power cycle it. Hopefully this will vastly reduce our downtime when this happens again (usually on the weekends).
As I type this Jeff is still getting most of the BOINC back-end pieces working one by one, but at least we're doling out work for the moment as fast as we can.
I know most of you who read these updates know this already, but it bears repeating: nobody working directly on SETI@home (all 5 of us) works full time, and we all have enough other things going on that make it impossible for us to be "on call" in case of outage/emergencies. In my case, I currently have four regular separate sources of income with jobs/gigs in four completely different industries (covering all the bases in case one or more dry up). As for last night, when the httpd problems arose, I was working elsewhere, and when I checked in again around 10:30pm everyone else was asleep and I didn't want to start up the scheduler processes without others' input as they were still effectively on the operating table. We're pretty much given up any hope for 24/7 uptime, but BOINC takes care of that as long as you sign up for other projects.
On a more positive note: the "spike merge" is coming along, albeit slowly. May take one more whole week to complete. And we're still doing R&D regarding server shuffling to improve our science database throughput (and therefore speed up our candidate searching).
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Thanks very much Matt. Believe it or not, a lot of us sympathize with you, and don't expect 24/7 uptime. Of course, we don't usually post about it.
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Thanks for the update, it is greatly appreciated. For all of us, I wish to thank you and the rest of the team for the amount of effort you take to keep the project up and running. Regardless of the bellyaching that comes from some of us, you are doing ONE HELL OF A JOB.... KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!
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Thanks Matt, but would you please do somethig with quota thing for anonymous platforms (i.e. reset). I don't have fermi card, I don't trash work, I've received last MB unit 5 days ago and I'm still getting the same...
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As always Matt, thanks for the update and for all the efforts from all the Staff,
Edit: Seti Beta's project name is also geting reset from 'SETI@home Beta Test' to 'SETI@home' when Boinc attemts to update at Seti Beta,
then tells you're attached to Seti twice.
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Thanks for the hard work Matt, and others.
Found bug. Check out your SETI Project Preferences page. I'm getting:
Notice: Constant MAX_CPU_DESC already defined in /disks/ptolemy/c/home/boincadm/projects/sah/html/seti_boinc_html/project_specific_prefs.inc on line 104
Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$background in /disks/ptolemy/c/home/boincadm/projects/sah/html/seti_boinc_html/project_specific_prefs.inc on line 416
Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$user_logo in /disks/ptolemy/c/home/boincadm/projects/sah/html/seti_boinc_html/project_specific_prefs.inc on line 421
Edit: I assume Jeff is working on this minor thing, so I won't worry about it. Just letting you know.
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Don't stress about the people who expect 99.9% up-time. Most of us realize (and appreciate) that, considering your meager resources, you guys conjure miracles on a near-daily basis.
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To paraphrase a great philosopher I greatly wish I could emulate:
"SETI abides."
Well done to everyone working the recovery.
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I add my thanks to the rest. Do appreciate all that you and your staff do.
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I'm glad you guys don't work full time, you deserve a break as much as possible. So, I wouldn't expect you to work a minute over 80 hours a week! :-) Of course you know I'm joking though I'm sure it feels like you work that much some days.
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You folks that run SETI do the very difficult with precious little and occasionally the impossible with nothing. I'm sure I speak for the majority of us when I say we are thankful for all that you do. Thanks too for keeping us abreast of the technical difficulties despite the fact that some of it's lost on a lot of us (me included), but still it's nice to be included.
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Hi Matt,
Thanks for the update it's appreciated. Seti has never ever said it was a 24/7 project, that has simply been assumed by people who get cross when it isn't. I think you are quite right to point that out. The whole purpose of DC and Boinc is that you are SUPPOSED to sign up for multiple projects, because of computers being what they are.
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Hi Matt,
Couldn't have put it better myself.
Although myself, i don't attach to other projects right now, but i don't exactly complain where there is no work either. :P
Back on topic;
Thanks Matt, you're all doing a great job. I was curious though, is it possible to get a few confirmations on whether the issues we're experiencing with quotas and invalid app_info error messages are related to some sort of updates that need a bit of tweaking? I think it would be good information as people might feel at peace with themselves after knowing why it's happening. :P
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Umm, somewhere in the process, SETI beta lost it's individuality! Anytime the BOINC client contacts S@H Beta, it immediately switches to calling itself SETI (not Beta) and then you have the problem of two projects with one name. I lost at least a beta AP WU and probably a couple of MB Beta wu's to this... (and this from the only computer that has reported to Beta since yesterday...)
Have tried detach/attaching to Beta, but it keeps doing this, so I'm staying off Beta for now.
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So far It looks like Seti@Home is just making Ghosts for the Anonymous Platform, I've supposedly got 300 WU's, Problem is I've never seen them downloaded and no one official has even acknowledged what is going on, The Quota system is a failure, bring back the old system. Cause this one sucks as It seems to only work with the stock app and I refuse to use that "thing".
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... has anyone noticed that the validators are off-line? - NTM that the assimilators seem to be stuck? The assimilator queue is at 887,533 - the same as it was roughly 24 hours ago!
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... has anyone noticed that the validators are off-line? - NTM that the assimilators seem to be stuck? The assimilator queue is at 887,533 - the same as it was roughly 24 hours ago!
Yes, there are several threads running over in Number Crunching that address this issue.
Given the number of regular posters who have commented, and who also have Matt and Eric's private email addresses, I would be real surprised if they don't know about it.
With no notes here or on the Home Page, we can only speculate what the problem is, what has already been tried, or is in the works for Monday to solve the problem.
And as we all know, speculation based on no real information leads only to panic, anger, and frustration.
So I'm not gonna speculate. They will be in on Monday, and I have enough work to get through Tuesday.
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And the reason we have to speculate, rather than know, is because of the utter lack of concern for the users and professionalism by the staff.
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The "staff" do not exist to serve and please you, jravin. We all made a conscious choice to participate in this experiement and we are certainly free to come and go as we like.
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People should consider the scope that this project encompasses and the very limited resources at hand before sending harsh comments. Yes I am defending the staff of this project! The sheer number of hosts and active users is incredible - I couldn't imagine supporting almost 2 million users with 5.
Thankfully BOINC can adapt and will recover in time but users with narrow perspectives should consider the bigger picture and what they really do offer to the scientific community by throwing barbs of contempt.
This is my opinion only - but I do believe that others would support this as well.
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Vucurevich Foundation Donation Funds Scholarships for BHSU Academic Summer Camps
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The John T. Vucurevich Foundation recently approved $2,500 in grants to fund scholarships for Black Hills State University summer academic camps.
The scholarships will be offered for the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) camps which include: the Science Scholars Summer Institute, the Engineering Technology Camp – 3D Drafting: Designing a Home, and Taking Care of Business Accounting Style.
Named after successful banker and philanthropist John T. Vucurevich, the foundation awards grants to charitable organizations committed to helping the poor, distressed, under privileged, the advancement of the arts, education & science, and promotion of social welfare within South Dakota with preference given to the West River area and in particular the Black Hills Region.
The scholarships, which will cover the entire cost of the camp, will be given on a needs basis. There are a limited number of scholarships available.
The BHSU science camp is schedule for June 3-28 and is open to high school students who have completed 10th grade. The science camp will give students an opportunity to explore science in the BHSU research laboratories. They will participate in research projects along with undergraduate and graduate students under the mentorship of faculty in the area of their interest. Students will also learn the underlying rationale for their project, develop cutting-edge scientific techniques on state of the art equipment, and present and discuss results at weekly seminars.
The engineering technology camp is scheduled for June 7 and is open to high school students who have completed 10th grade. Student will learn how to create 3D house models. During the process, students will learn about space organization and energy efficient building materials as well as how the design of floor plans ties into the exterior environment.
The accounting camp is scheduled for June 10 and is open to students who have completed 10th grade. During the one-day camp, students will explore accounting as the foundation and the language of business. Activities will include: an interactive accounting game; an accounting scavenger hunt; and exploring accounting careers with faculty and alumni.
BHSU also has summer academic camps focusing on art, history, and creativity and critical thinking.
For more information on the scholarships or to sign up for any of the academic summer camps go to www.BHSU.edu/summercamps or contact Hasina Ahmad at 605.642.6427 or email@example.com
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After posting about Docoa browser a couple people suggested I try AppKiDo which looked like a decent alternative. After testing it out for a while I thought I'd post some thoughts about it. Upon launching it, AppKiDo takes a minute and begins parsing your documentation files, unfortunately this happens EVERY time you launch it. Upon completing this the documentation browser is launched. Right away unfortunately I saw something that I wish was different, I'm sorry but the brushed metal interface should really be changed to a unified interface. I installed UNO to see how AppKiDo would look with a unified UI (yeah I know I could have probably edited the NIB file, but I was lazy here) and it definitely looks better. AppKiDo has somewhat of an odd interface, on the left is a drawer and on the right is where you can see all the documentation and it's various attributes. The Quicklist (drawer) has some usefull attributes like allowing you to only view things like view subclasses, classes with delegates, window classes, etc. Additionally you can search for classes, methods, etc in this drawer as well. The window itself has 3 components: (1) A Browser (optional – can be hidden) This allows you to browse up and down the various classes as well as protocols, functions,etc for specific frameworks like AppKit, Foundation, Core Data, etc. (2) Detail view – This shows you the list of functions, procols, etc of any object you have selected. It has one big advantage over Docoa Browser and Xcodes Documentation browser in that it can show you all methods for a particular class, not only the ones specifically for that class but ones that it has inherited which makes AppKiDo very powerful in this instance. (3) The Documentation Viewer itself shows you the documentation for whatever you are looking at. Overall AppKiDo is very powerful and definitely a good documentation browser. Yet at the same time I find myself wanting to rearrange the interface, AppKiDo doesn't feel natural. I may not know what the right interface is, but at the same time I know when something is wrong. Some things like the fact that I can browse classes just for specific frameworks on the quicklist drawer, but can't do the same in the browser feels incredibly akward. Don't get me wrong I feel AppKiDo is a very powerful application, I just feel like it's user interface is holding it back and when it's interface gets a overhaul it could very well be the perfect documentation browser. AppKiDo can be downloaded from here: http://homepage.mac.com/aglee/downloads/appkido.html UPDATE: One commenter informed me I indeed overlooked the preferences where the brushed metal UI can indeed to be turned off, still brushed metal really shouldn't be the default
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You are quite true about the metal interface... but it can simply turned off in the preferences. After the relaunch of the AppKiDo you will have unified UI :)
For the loading time or dokumentation parsing at loading the app. That's ok for me, as I start the app once and the keep it in hidden in the Dock till I need it.
I like Docoa more, but it didn't compile on my MacBook (while it did on my G5) and I did found the time yet to remove the glitch. So, till then, I can use Docoa only on my PowerMac
It is open source and if you care enough making those UI changes wouldn't be that difficult. Adding NSCoding support to archive the parsed documentation shouldn't be that difficult either. I've actually considered working on both before but never got around to doing it.