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WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- President Obama, in what could be his last State of the Union address, told lawmakers and citizens Tuesday his vision for an America "built to last."
Obama, speaking before a joint session of Congress, spoke of what he wants to do to help jump-start the economy, improve the job numbers and create a sense of fairness for all Americans, as well as his goals for energy and the environment, foreign policy and the military.
Receiving warm applause and a lengthy standing ovation was Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., who was wounded in the head a year ago during a shooting spree at a meet-and-greet outside a Tucson grocery store that left six people dead and 13 injured. After announcing she was resigning, effective Wednesday, to focus on her rehabilitation, Giffords returned to Washington to attend her last State of the Union address.
As he entered to give his address, Obama stopped in front of Giffords and gave her a hug. Her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, was a guest of first lady Michelle Obama.
Five of the nine Supreme Court justices attended the address.
"The state of our union is getting stronger," Obama said. "And we've come too far to turn back now. As long as I'm president, I will work with anyone in this chamber to build on this momentum. But I intend to fight obstruction with action, and I will oppose any effort to return to the very same policies that brought on this economic crisis in the first place."
He asked his listeners to think about the "America within our reach: A country that leads the world in educating its people. An America that attracts a new generation of high-tech manufacturing and high-paying jobs. A future where we're in control of our own energy, and our security and prosperity aren't so tied to unstable parts of the world. An economy built to last, where hard work pays off, and responsibility is rewarded."
The country can accomplish this, he said, "because we've done it before."
Obama noted he, lawmakers and other dignitaries gathered that the U.S. military "has made the United States safer and more respected around the world. For the first time in nine years, there are no Americans fighting in Iraq."
He received a standing ovation when he said, "For the first time in two decades, Osama bin Laden is not a threat to this country."
The achievements achieved by the U.S. military is a testament to its "the courage, selflessness, and teamwork. … At a time when too many of our institutions have let us down, they exceed all expectations. They're not consumed with personal ambition. They don't obsess over their differences. They focus on the mission at hand. They work together."
He spoke of his grandparents as examples of those who could share "the basic American promise that if you worked hard, you could do well enough to raise a family, own a home, send your kids to college, and put a little away for retirement."
"The defining issue of our time is how to keep that promise alive. No challenge is more urgent. No debate is more important," Obama said, to a round of applause. "We can either settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well, while a growing number of Americans barely get by. Or we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules."
He said the United States won't return to an economy sapped by "outsourcing, bad debt and phony financial profits."
He said a U.S. economy that's "built to last" will be built on manufacturing, energy, a skilled workforce and "a renewal of American values."


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For beautifully effortless, understated clothing combined with strong silhouettes and a bountiful colour palette, look no further. For Spring/ Summer 19, the focus lies very much on prettifying details – a ruffled hem, an embroidered colour, bold graphic checks which never stray into the territory of twee. Read more
Monochromatic ditsy print florals are a prevalent theme but so too is a colour story steeped in a vibrant red or dusky salmon pinks. Utility style jumpsuits in emerald provide a pleasing antidote to blush ballet skirts and the wispiest of summer dresses.
Check out the latest from Caramel's distinctive aesthetic of strong silhouettes and effortless understated clothes for girls which balance the classic and contemporary. As ever, Caramel thrives on combining an off-beat colour palette with attention to detail and the label's preference for bold, geometric style patterns.
An abundance of home grown craftsmanship, bold print and a sophisticated, individual use of layered colours and textures make up the essence of Caramel. It was originally conceived to challenge traditional, limited perceptions of childrenswear.
Today the brand has evolved to include a womenswear and homewares collection. There are 10 stores in 6 countries and Caramel is also sold in more than 100 independent retailers. Recent openings include Ukraine and Kuwait.
Says Eva Karayiannis, "From the outset, I wanted to find a modern, distinctive style, which could be individual—yet at the same time luxurious and understated. That, it seems to me, is the essence of caramel. Why shouldn't children's clothes be beautiful and tough-wearing at the same time? Why shouldn't they be luxurious, but also with a refined simplicity?
"It seemed to me children either had to wear mass-produced clothes, or expensive glitzy items which were often impractical or anachronistic or both—none of which is what childhood is really about."
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Its low-pitched roof with deeply overhanging eaves, and a front facade that emphasizes horizontal lines mark this as a prairie home plan. But the interior is clearly contemporary. It even has four bathrooms. Standing at the kitchen sink you are next to the nook and can look out across the long raised eating bar into a great room with a fireplace.


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This Mother's Day, Princeton University Press is trading in the perfumed soap and jewelry for a different type of celebration for moms. We've gathered a group of experts on a range of interesting subjects and compiled a group of mom-related shorts. Zumba class instructor or Pinterest lover – we have a special story for your mom. We hope that this series will provide you with some interesting conversation topics to get family members thinking (and chuckling) during that Mother's Day brunch.
We're thankful for our moms, who shuttled us to soccer and ballet practice and made sure that we stuck to our bedtime (even when we wanted to stay up reading). Moms are always a phone call away when college homesickness sets in or after a bad day. For the mothers who keep us afloat, we're diving deep to explore the world of under-the-sea families. It turns out that clownfish love their moms just as much as we do!
Marine Mothers
Stephen R. Palumbi & Anthony R. Palumbi
Co-authors of THE EXTREME LIFE OF THE SEA
Mothers are always precious, nowhere more so than in the sea. Marine creatures don't do much parenting, usually preferring to dump their eggs in the water and promptly forget about them. But where they do appear, mothers work diligently to support their young. They are anchors of their communities, often assuming matriarchal leadership roles. Clownfish cluster into intimate family units rooted physically to their anemone homes and emotionally to their mothers—an ever-shifting role that challenges our own conceptions of family.
A gaggle of small, immature males coexists peacefully under the watchful eyes of a single mature male and an even larger mature female. Mom rules the roost, but the family's got a plan should something ever happen to her. No, not the plan from "Finding Nemo," where the grieving father raises his young alone. Actual clownfish react to death with the detachment of Westerosi nobles, simply shuffling along the line of succession.
The mature male begins a rapid hormonal change—within a week he's producing eggs, acting in every sense as the new matriarch. The biggest and halest juvenile male matures to fill the father role, while his brothers patiently wait for their turns at reproduction. There must always be a mother. Without her, they're lost.
Without mothers, the whole ocean is lost. Not just in the literal sense; mothers turn out to be especially crucial for maintaining healthy ecosystems. Unlike humans, many marine mothers see their fertility only increasing with age. The oldest mothers don't just produce the most offspring, they produce the best offspring: the biggest, the healthiest, the most likely to reach adulthood. As a consequence, fisheries become massively easier to manage when mothers—particularly older, highly successful mothers—are protected.
We celebrate Mother's Day not just for the wonderful women in our own lives, but also for the animals who'll provide us a healthy future.
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Reading 1: The Corps of Discovery
On May 14, 1804, the "Corps of Discovery" departed from Camp River DuBois and put in along the banks of the Missouri River. With an oared riverboat known as a keelboat, two smaller rowboats known as pirogues, and 55 men--including a number of soldiers, translators, a slave, and a dog named Seaman--Capt. Meriwether Lewis and 2nd Lt. William Clark set out on the journey that would consume their lives for the following two and a half years.
President Thomas Jefferson outlined their primary mission: "…to explore the Missouri river, and such principal streams of it, as, by its course and communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean, whether the Columbia, Oregon, Colorado or any other river, may offer the most direct and practicable water communication across this continent for the purposes of commerce…." Jefferson envisioned the nation's eventual expansion to the Pacific and wanted to strengthen the American claim to the northwest "Oregon Country." More territory would solve the problem of land competition and the West held the key to unlocking the mystery of the Northwest Passage. This mythic water route to the Pacific would open up the natural resources of the West and provide access to Asian commerce. With such an opportunity for discovery, Lewis and Clark embarked on the journey and began fulfilling additional objectives: documenting geography, flora, fauna, and unique cultures; establishing friendly contacts along the way; and returning with knowledge of the previously unknown.
During their travels, the corps encountered numerous problems and hardships. The first major hurdle was mobility. At times struggling against the current of the Missouri River, the men used sails, poles, and oars, occasionally resorting to tow ropes when all else failed. Later on, it would be necessary to abandon travel by water and physically carry the boats. This process, called portaging, proved to be very time consuming and draining, at times limiting travel to only four or five miles a day. Another major issue was discipline. Holding court-martials and dispensing lashes as punishments when necessary, the leaders of the corps knew that they had to establish order early on, to assure themselves of cohesion and unity through the rough times and cold winter months that lay ahead.
Establishing sound American Indian relationships was the most difficult matter to undertake. Throughout the expedition, members of the corps encountered at least 55 different native cultural groups. The first real test came with the corps' confrontation with the Teton Sioux on September 25, 1804. Attempting to sail through a portion of the Missouri River in present-day South Dakota controlled by the Teton people, members of the expedition found themselves in a standoff with swords, arrows, guns, and cannons threatening to settle the matter. Defusing the situation with an exchange of threats and tobacco, Lewis and Clark were on their way September 28.
Soon after their stand off, the corps encountered the Mandan and Hidatsa nations in what is now North Dakota. Seeking shelter from the winter of 1804-05, the Americans constructed a fort in Mandan territory, which consisted of two rows of huts, a sentry post, and a set of storerooms. Shortly after establishing camp, the men recruited an interpreter, a Frenchman named Toussaint Charbonneau who lived with the Hidatsa Indians for many years. With him came his wife Sacagawea and their newborn son. Sacagawea, a Shoshone woman captured by Hidatsa warriors, would be indispensable as an interpreter and an effective intermediary between the white Americans and the Indian peoples. Her presence would also assure the Indians encountered that the expedition was peaceful.
With the onset of spring in 1805, the Corps of Discovery, now numbering 33, again set out on their voyage West, losing one man to illness on August 20, 1804 and sending some men back to St. Louis after the first leg of the journey. With them, Lewis and Clark entrusted numerous items--zoological, botanical, and ethnographic specimens as well as maps, letters, artifacts, and reports--sent back in order to update the President on their progress.
The Corps of Discovery now traveled into regions, which had been explored and inhabited only by American Indians. The following months were highlighted by encounters with grizzly bears, a near tragic boat accident on the river, and a difficult navigational decision at the fork of the Marias and Missouri Rivers in present-day Montana. Unsure as to which way they needed to go to continue along the Missouri River, Lewis sent canoes out to explore each fork and small parties to determine the lay of the land. At nightfall, upon the canoes' return, the crew disagreed with the Captains on how to continue. The Captains prevailed, however, and continued up the left fork which was the Missouri River, leading onward to Great Falls. At Great Falls, also found in present-day Montana, the crew would face the most difficult challenge to date. The expedition would be forced to carry by hand, or in makeshift wagons, all equipment and supplies, including canoes, around the falls. Traveling overland approximately 18 miles, the group took approximately one month to bypass the falls and rapids.
Another navigational quandary at the confluence of Missouri River's Three Forks in Montana had the corps opting for the westward oriented Jefferson River over the Madison and Gallatin Rivers. As the party forged on, crossing the two-mile stretch of Lemhi Pass and into Lemhi Valley, they finally reached the land of the Shoshone Indians. Along the border of present day Idaho and Montana, in mid-August 1805, Lewis and Clark held council with the tribal leaders, one of which happened to be a relative of Sacagawea. In light of this reunion, the corps established Camp Fortunate on August 17, 1805. And over the next few days, Lewis and Clark learned and received much from these native people, specifically horses and a guide for the arduous Lolo Trail through the Bitterroot Mountains. In addition, the Americans gained valuable information about Shoshone culture and the land to the West.
Continuing into September and August of the same year, Lewis and Clark's crew encountered two more indigenous groups that proved to be hospitable. The Salish, called the "Flatheads" by the corps, assisted the explorers with more horses and directions. The Nez Perce fed and housed them, nursing them back to health after their harrowing experience through the Bitterroot Mountains. They also helped the corps build canoes so they could proceed by water and kept their horses for them until they could return the following year. The explorers reached the Columbia River on October 16th. A month and nine days later on November 25, 1805, traveling through southern Oregon Country, the crew came upon a view of Point Adams and Cape Disappointment, just beyond was the Pacific Ocean. The Corps of Discovery succeeded in their goal of reaching the Pacific while dispelling the myth of the Northwest Passage along the way.
Establishing Ft. Clatsop, near present-day Astoria, Oregon, the crew passed the winter in the coastal forests that bordered the Pacific. Over the next few months, the corps made preparations for the journey home, made careful observations of the area, and developed strong relations with the native Clatsop people. As illness became an increasing problem and it became harder to find food, once spring arrived, it was time for their return journey home.
Departing in late March 1806, the crew set off eastward for the first time in almost two years. Upon their return to Nez Perce country in the spring of 1806, the explorers settled into camp to wait until the snow melted in the mountains so that they could pass over the Continental Divide and return to the east. During this period they freely interacted with the Nez Perce, learning many of their customs and playing many types of games with them. The horses of the explorers were returned to them, well looked-after by the Nez Perce during the winter. The Nez Perce also provided guides for their overmountain trek.
The group decided to split on the return trip to explore new territory, so when they reached what they called Travelers Rest in Montana, Lewis went north and Clark went south. While on the Marias River, the party with Lewis fought a party of Blackfeet Indians, and was forced to kill two of them. This was the only violent incident of the entire journey. Having investigated the regions of the Upper Marias and Yellowstone River, the two halves of the crew reunited along the Missouri River in what is now the state of North Dakota on August 12th . After leaving Charbonneau, Sacagawea, and their son at the Mandan Villages, the corps set out on the last leg of their journey. On September 23, 1806, 29 members of the expedition arrived in St. Louis to much deserved applause and recognition.
Having successfully collected information, mapped previously unknown regions, and observed/forged relationships with a variety of indigenous inhabitants, Lewis and Clark had shed considerable light on some of the mysteries of the West. In addition, the Corps of Discovery had determined the course of the upper Missouri and its tributaries and had brought back vast amounts of zoological and botanical knowledge. The successful expedition also allowed for the formation of a more profitable fur trading industry for the U.S. Because of their work, the first phase of expansion was complete as the U.S. strengthened its claims to Oregon Country.
Questions for Reading 1
1. What were the reasons behind Jefferson's decision to explore the West?
2. How long were the members of the Corps of Discovery away from their homes? How would you describe the nature of the expedition?
3. Both Lewis and Clark, as well as many of the other men on the expedition were members of the army and had prior military experience. How might this experience have helped them during their journey?
4. Who were Charbonneau and Sacagawea? Why were they recruited to join the mission?
5. Considering the goals of the expedition, do you think the corps was successful? From whose point of view? Explain your answer.
Reading 1 was compiled from The Lewis and Clark Journey of Discovery website, Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior and Robert G. Ferris, ed., Lewis and Clark: Historic Places Associated with Their Transcontinental Exploration (1804-06) (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1975).


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MINNEAPOLIS — A man fired from his job at a Minneapolis sign-making business pulled out a handgun and began shooting up its offices, fatally wounding the owner and four others before turning the gun on himself, police said Friday.
Andrew Engeldinger, 36, injured at least three others in the attack Thursday at Accent Signage Systems.
Police Chief Tim Dolan said the attack lasted no more than 10 or 15 minutes, and said Engeldinger may have chosen to spare some former co-workers.
"It's clear he did walk by some people, very clear," Dolan said.
Police gave no details about why Engeldinger was fired. The company has declined to give any information since the attack.
Investigators who searched Engeldinger's house Thursday night in south Minneapolis found another gun and packaging for 10,000 rounds of ammunition in the house. In the shooting, Engeldinger used a 9mm
Glock semi-automatic pistol he had owned for about a year, Dolan said.
"He's obviously been practicing in how to use that gun," Dolan said.
Among those killed were Accent Signage System owner Reuven Rahamim, 61, and Keith Basinski, a UPS driver who had made deliveries and pickups at the business for years.
"He just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time," Dolan said of Basinski.
The other victims weren't immediately identified. Police Sgt. Stephen McCarty said the fifth victim died at
Hennepin County Medical Center sometime Friday. Two other people remained at the hospital, one in serious condition and one critical.
"It was a hellish time," Dolan said of the attack.
Police received multiple 911 calls from inside the business. When they arrived, Dolan said, they heard no shots.
He described Accent, a business that includes both offices and manufacturing, as a large building with many rooms branching off to the sides. It took tactical units a long time to thoroughly search the building, and they found two people hiding "a very long time" after the attack began, Dolan said.
There was no security at the building, he said.
Engeldinger's uncle, Joe Engeldinger of New Germany, Minn., called his nephew a "good kid" who seemed normal and well-adjusted until about two years ago when he broke off contact with his entire family.
"When I would see his family, I would ask them about Andy and nobody could ever tell me anything," Joe Engeldinger said. He couldn't specifically remember the last time he saw his nephew, but said it may have been at a family birthday party about three years ago.
They were once much closer. Joe Engeldinger, a professional handyman, said Andrew lived with him for a time in the early 1990s shortly after graduating high school, and worked for him helping to renovate old houses.
"He was a good worker. I never didn't trust him with anything," Joe Engeldinger said.
Charles and Carolyn Engeldinger raised Andrew and his two siblings in Richfield, a suburb directly south of Minneapolis, according to Joe Engeldinger. He said his nephew graduated from high school but didn't attend college, and was excited early in the last decade when he bought his first house — the modest bungalow in south Minneapolis that police raided late Thursday night, hours after the shooting.
Thomas Pitheon, a neighbor who lived across a rear alley and just down from Engeldinger's house, said he sometimes exchanged greetings with the man he knew as Andrew but that he rarely made much of an impression otherwise.
"We just said hi, how you doing, that sort of thing," Pitheon said Friday. "He seemed like an average guy."
Pitheon said he "put two and two together" Thursday night after hearing about the shooting on the radio, then arriving home after dark to find "about a dozen" SWAT teams swarming around Engeldinger's house.
Joe Engeldinger said Andrew's immediate family were having a "horrible time" since learning what happened. He said they were as befuddled as anyone about why he withdrew from loved ones.
The phone line apparently belonging to Engeldinger's parents was not in working order Friday. His siblings, who also appear to live in the Twin Cities, did not answer phone calls or respond to messages through social media channels.
"I can only assume there was some kind of mental break there," Joe Engeldinger said. "He wasn't a monster. He wasn't. He was a real good kid, a real good person. He had a real good heart. I don't know what made all this transpire. Hopefully the truth will come out, and won't get twisted into some demented thing."


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New Zines For January 2013, Part 2
Posted by Matthew Moyer on January 31, 2013
As a mea culpa for such a long zine drought, here is another small bundle of zines to get you through the last hours of January. Rest assured, we've got a big stack primed and ready to go in February!
Darlene rock-n-roll fanzine. Vol. 5
Hip mama. Vol. 44 : the humor issue
Hip mama. Vol. 45 : the creativity issue
Maximum rock n roll. Vol. 322
Maximum rock n roll. Vol. 324
Maximum rock n roll. Vol. 327
Meltdown. Vol. 3
OVO. Vol. 7
Slingshot. Vol. 99
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Slug and lettuce. Vol. 64
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The New Jersey State Police on Tuesday released a series of 911 calls from frazzled motorists who had witnessed the deadly crash that left comedian Tracy Morgan in critical condition over the weekend.
Morgan was in a limousine returning from a performance in Delaware when the vehicle was struck from behind by a tractor-trailer, police have said. The accident caused Morgan's car to spin out and flip over, sparking a chain-reaction crash that killed 63-year-old James McNair, a comedian better known by his stage name, Jimmy Mack, and left Morgan and two others critically injured.
"There's a terrible accident, the car flipped, it's on its side," said one woman after calling 911.
Morgan, Jeffrey Millea and Ardley Fuqua Jr. remained in critical condition Tuesday at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, hospital spokesman Peter Haigney told The Times. None of them were expected to be released today, and Haigney declined to comment further.
In the four 911 calls, witnesses also reported that a Wal-Mart truck was involved in the crash.
Kevin Roper, 35, of Jonesboro, Ga., who was driving the Wal-Mart tractor trailer that struck Morgan's limousine, has been charged with death-by-auto and assault by auto in connection with the wreck.
He was released from custody in lieu of $50,000 on Saturday. A criminal complaint has suggested Roper was awake for more than 24 hours before the crash, and the state police previously said he had failed to notice slower traffic ahead of him.
Representatives for Morgan have said the "30 Rock" actor will remain hospitalized for several weeks.
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The National Archives annual release of Cabinet records occurs on 1 January each year.
Few Commonwealth records cover such a broad sweep of Australian history or touch the lives of so many Australians as those of the federal Cabinet. For example you can find Cabinet decisions about:
- the first Anzac Day public holiday in 1916
- Western Australia's movement to secede from the Commonwealth
- confirmation or commutation of death sentences
- expeditions to Antarctica
- the arrest and deportation of Bolsheviks
- the end of conscription in 1972
- the resettlement of refugees from Vietnam
- construction of the new and permanent Parliament House in Canberra.
Access to Cabinet records
Cabinet records and Cabinet notebooks are accessible through the National Archives.
Under changes to the public access provisions of the Archives Act 1983 approved by Parliament in May 2010, the open access period for most Australian Government records (including Cabinet records) will commence after 20 years instead of 30 years. The change will be phased in over the next 10 years with the closed period reducing by two years on 1 January each year until 2020. In 2019 Cabinet records up to and including 1997 are in the open access period.
The open access period for Cabinet notebooks has also changed. Cabinet notebooks, which had previously been available after 50 years, will now be released after 30 years. This change will also be phased in over 10 years with the closed period reducing by three years on 1 January each year. In 2019 Cabinet notebooks up to and including 1986 are in the open access period.
Explore Cabinet further
- About Cabinet records – includes information about submissions, memoranda, decisions and Cabinet Office files.
- Topics covered in Cabinet records.
- Cabinet notebooks – notes recorded during Cabinet meetings.
- By year – explore digitised Cabinet records 1965 to 1997 and Cabinet notebooks 1950 to 1954.
- Out of the Cabinet – by Ian Warden.
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The Research Autism information service is now part of the National Autistic Society. We're very pleased that we can continue to deliver trusted and evidence-based information, initially at least, primarily through this website.
Find out more about the Information Service.
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After 12 years working to identify and increase understanding about the best interventions for autistic people and their families, Research Autism's directors took the difficult decision to wind down its operation as an active research funding charity from the start of 2017.
Although no longer funding new research, Research Autism will oversee its existing projects until their conclusion in 2018.
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Removing the cataract and inserting an intraocular lens usually takes the surgeon ten to fifteen minutes. The entire process, from arriving at the hospital or surgical center to going home, takes about half a day. Less than 1% of surgeries require an overnight hospital stay.
On the day of your surgery, or a few days ahead of time, you may need to see your primary care doctor for a few tests. Because you will be given some form of anesthesia, your doctor will probably ask you not to eat or drink anything after midnight the day before your surgery. If you take medicines or have diabetes, ask your doctor whether different guidelines apply.
On the day of your surgery, you will be given some eye drops to widen (dilate) your pupils. You may also be given a mild sedative to help you relax. A healthcare worker will take you into the operating room where an anesthesiologist or nurse anesthetist will give you a local or an intravenous anesthetic. He or she will monitor your condition.
You will not feel the surgery because the topical anesthetic numbs your eye during the operation. You may see some lights or vague shapes, but that is all.
Your surgeon will use a special microscope, which magnifies and illuminates the area of the procedure as he or she removes your cataract.
You may not remember much about the operation after it is over. You may feel a little drowsy afterward, but as the sedative wears off, you will be encouraged to walk around a bit. Your doctor will monitor your condition for a while, explain how to care for your eye at home and schedule a follow-up appointment.
Once you're fully recovered, you will be allowed to go home. It is a good idea to have a friend or relative drive you. You may feel tired after surgery, so try to relax the rest of the day.
At home, you should not experience much discomfort. Some people describe the feeling as having an eyelash or a cinder in their eye—slightly uncomfortable but not painful. You will apply eye drops or ointment as your doctor prescribes, and you will learn to rely on your untreated eye during this time.


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Meet Greg Smith: Mastermind Behind 2 Award-Winning Social Programs
On an everyday basis, Greg has demonstrated exemplary blogging skills, but his contributions to award-winning projects that innovatively used social media to connect with fans are not to be overlooked.
A 12-year veteran at Cisco, Greg Smith is a Marketing Manager for Cisco's Service Provider (SP) Routing & Switching platform. He mainly focuses on the SP Carrier Grade IPv6 solutions (CGv6) and worldwide marketing of Cisco's Edge solution portfolio, which includes products such as the ASR family of routers.
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Being his team's lead for global communication efforts, this SME is involved with much of the blog-writing and editing on the SP360 Blog (check out Greg's Cisco blogger profile). Many of these blog posts have been featured as Cisco's top 5 blog posts (based on number of number of hits) due to Greg's attractive writing style which easily captures readers' attention. Particularly notable is his gift for writing intriguing headlines and connecting technological topics to life analogies as is exemplified with his blog article relating Internet gaming to 100 GB technology and this one showcasing his video on how the network is relevant to NOOAs mission to protect the environment.
As successful as Greg has been with his blogging practice, the highlight of his social achievements have been comprised of his contributions to two exceptional projects—Cisco myPlanNet Game and the ASR 9000 "Robot Arm" demo—for which he acted as the concept designer and promoter. What's more, both projects were selected as winners of the B2B Marketing Awards in two subsequent years!
The Fun, Educational, and Relevant myPlanNet Simulation Game
The whole idea behind Cisco myPlanNet was to allow users to walk in the shoes of a Service Provider CEO while they took a trip down the network evolution memory lane. Fans could try their hand at managing and growing their own business while it evolved through various technological advancements from 1980 to 2010 (here's a promotional video).
This game truly showcased a unique way of reaching and engaging with a new audience (which was mostly comprised of students in the 18-24 age group demographic). Furthermore, the project generated social watering holes to maintain active dialogs with fans around various technical subject matters and to cross-link back to Cisco blogs when appropriate. Today, the myPlanNet community has grown to over 92,000 fans.
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Similarly up to par in terms of innovativeness, Greg and his team created a viral video campaign affectionately called the "Robot Arm Demo" to promote the Cisco ASR 9000 Edge Router. Fans were challenged to use a robot arm to pull out the route switch processor card and then surprisingly enough (unlike the competition), note how this did not interrupt its continuous streaming video.
Individuals were given a real-life experience of using non-stop video through this simple but appealing video demo. The video campaign resulted in a preference for Cisco and ultimately influenced purchase activity of over $80M in sales. Wouldn't you agree that this was quite an ingenious method of leveraging social media to drive financial results?
"Meet Our SMEs" is a new blog series designed to acquaint you with some of our behind-the-scenes Cisco SMEs (subject matter experts) who have gone above and beyond to integrate social media into their day job. In addition to introducing you to their background and areas of expertise, we have highlighted some of their social media achievements and best practices. We hope you find these SMEs' stories interesting and possibly even applicable to enhancing your own social media practice.
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There's nothing like a winter road trip to break up bleak days. My son loves the Hobbit, so we decided it was time to head to the Hobbiton film set in Matamata. To make a weekend of it, we added a night in the spa town of Te Aroha, and threw in our padded shorts so we could cycle part of the Hauraki Rail Trail.
The first most important thing for a comfy road-trip, is the right vehicle. We loved the stylish Commodore Sport Wagon from Europcar, booked through VroomVroomVroom. There was so much room in the back for all our bits and pieces. The leather interior was luxurious, and I loved the reversing camera and blind spot indicators. Safety first!
Te Aroha is a comfortable 50 minute drive from the city of Hamilton, or a longer one hour thirty drive from the Auckland Airport. It's a historic spa town made famous in Victorian times. Since the 1880s people have visited to soak in the healing, natural mineral 'soda' waters. The town has developed around the spa complex, featuring a central domain and park with beautifully preserved weather-board buildings. The town is dominated by the land mark of Mt Te Aroha. This brooding mountain was in full view when we arrived on the Saturday afternoon, but lost in cloud by Sunday. Adventurous types can take a walk to the summit. It's a four hour return trip, with views to Mt Ruapehu and Mt Taranaki on a fine day.
We stayed at Aroha Mountain Lodge, a gorgeous villa on the lower slopes of the mountain, at the entrance to the spa complex. They have beautifully appointed en-suite bedrooms in the lodge, with shared lounge and kitchen facilities. Hosts Greg and Linda also offer the Chocolate Box, a very cute self-catering cottage with three bedrooms.
Time slots at the mineral spa need to be booked in advance. We started our evening at the Te Aroha Leisure Pools, a chlorinated 20 metre family pool; then wrapped up in towels and did the chilly dash 200 metres down a lane to the Te Aroha Spa. We had a half hour session in a private room with its own toilet, shower, and of course, the cedar hot tub. The fresh-piped soda water needed to be diluted with some from the cold tap to maintain a comfortable temperature.
Ah bliss! The Victorians had it right. A good soak is one of life's simple pleasures. After a session in the Te Aroha pools, the high silica minerals leave a rejuvenating film on your skin. To get the maximum benefit, you shouldn't shower straight away, but let the minerals stay on your skin.
Te Aroha is part of the Hauraki Rail Trail, one of the tracks on New Zealand's Cycle Trail network. The trail joins the towns of Thames, Waihi, Paeroa and Te Aroha in a ride that can take up to three days. A great idea is to ride the 21 km Paeroa to Te Aroha section, and finish with a hot soak. We made a short ride of it, just a 30 minute out and back from the town. The trail is flat and takes in some classic Waikato farming countryside.
By the time we finished, the cafes in town were full of lycra-clad cyclists guzzling flat whites, so we headed off to our next stop in Matamata. It's an agricultural service town just 30 minutes' drive from Te Aroha. Its main claim to fame is as the gateway to the Hobbiton movie set, however it does have a couple of exceptional cafes; with Eat. Urban Foodstuffs, which serves innovative café food, and offers takeaway deli items. There's also the long-standing funky Workmans café, which does great breakfasts and brunches.
We were there for Hobbiton though, so we got ourselves over to the thatched roof Matamata i-site building and booked in. Even on a drizzly winter's afternoon, places on the tour were filling up. You can catch a shuttle to the attraction, or drive yourself which takes around twenty minutes' drive time. It is necessary to book on a tour, it is no good trying to drive by, as no part of the set is visible from the road.
The tour is conducted on a bus, and our guide was a very pleasant and knowledgeable local young man. His stories gave great insight into the care and attention Peter Jackson had put into the movies. My favourite story involved the oak tree that stands on the hill above Bilbo's home, Bag End. In order to find the perfect oak tree, Peter Jackson had scoured the countryside in his helicopter. Once he located one that was up to the job, he persuaded the farmer who owned it to let him remove it. This was achieved by dividing the tree into four sections, and helicoptering it back to the set. The tree didn't survive the move, and had no leaves. The next step was to import silk leaves for the tree from Taiwan, which were then individually attached.
The tour finished at the atmospheric Green Dragon Pub, with complimentary tea, coffee or ginger beer. From there, it was time to take a completely expected journey from the green of the Waikato, back home.
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Is there a similar procedure for porting to a high-end Android phone? For example, can you buy a $3 GoPhone from Best Buy, buy an unlocked or AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II off eBay, move the SIM card into the Galaxy, and expect it to work? Other than ensuring the GoPhone plan has a data bundle feature, what other configuration is required?


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Here's one for the Villazonistas:
After a busy spring season that has included a European recital tour and a directorial debut at the Opera de Lyon, the Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón returns to the opera stage tonight to sing the title role in Massenet's Werther at the Royal Opera House (rehearsal pics are being posted on our Facebook page).
More on Werther:
Antonio Pappano conducts this first revival of the 2004 production of the opera by Benoit Jacquot, which also stars mezzo-soprano Sophie Koch as the love-stricken Charlotte and soprano Eri Nakamura as Charlotte's younger sister, Sophie.
Watch our trailer where Rolando Villazón and Antonio Pappano discuss the opera and the character of Werther.
An excerpt from their discussion:
Antonio Pappano: At the time Goethe wrote Werther, people were killing themselves in sympathy with the main character in the novel; Massenet was trying to get some of that fascination with death in the opera. It's there in the very dark quality, dark yet full of the most ravishing music. He's a very charismatic character, despite his neuroses. His music is so poetic, so psychological.
Rolando Villazón: Massenet was very careful to match the music with the inner world of his characters. The most important thing is that every character feels ruled by forces they don't understand. Werther cannot fight the feelings going on inside him. It's a sort of madness; he cannot fight the love he feels. He must forgot but cannot. But why, why is he so in love with Charlotte? Why? This is a question we all experience in our everyday lives.
Werther is a troubled soul, in search of answers, but he does not find those answers. He's ruled by forces he doesn't understand. He's moved by this inner, very intense, world and forced to act upon it.
Werther at the Royal Opera House, 5-21 May 2011 [ticket information] [synopsis]


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Florida's Best Banned License Plates
Recently the California Department of Motor Vehicles released a list of 100 vanity plates they rejected as part of their efforts to keep California classy. Not to be outdone, Florida's DMV has released its own list of banned plates—and it's way more scatological and private-partcentric than California's.
Highlights from the Sunshine State's rejects pile, with explanations and potential alternate meanings:
- BDASVET (either "Bad Ass Vet" or an homage to a desolate Russian fishing village )
- IPASGAS (either "I Pass Gas" or an homage to a desolate Spanish fishing village)
- BIG TURD (term of endearment for family patriarchs in some communities)
- HALE NO (Revolutionary War history hater)
- HOOKER (someone who just takes pride in their job)
- FOR PLAY (should be "four play," actually)
- DRGNASS (dragon ass)
- I-FARTED (Mac user)
- COW-PADY (pronounced "cow-PUH-dee")
- BUTUGLY (pronounced "BUH-tuh-glee")
- PQRN STAR (sexy fan of fake chicken patties)
- BUELSHT (enemy of Liv Tyler's mom, Bebe Buell)
- ILUVSEX (promotes some sort of medication, too advertisey)
The legacy of these and other banned plates lives on in this Sun-Sentinel photo gallery. You won't find HOT COP or BIG NSTY in there, because those plates were approved.
Maybe by the time you reach retirement age and move into your double-wide on the outskirts of Tampa, the DMV will have relaxed its rules somewhat, and you can claim HOOKER or BIG TURD as your own.


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Web milestones and messages on Red Planet
• Feb. 20, 2004 | 5 a.m. ET
Mars' latest hits: NASA says its Web sites have recorded at least one hit for every man, woman and child on Earth since the Spirit rover landed Jan. 3. The hit count passed the 6.5 billion mark this week, compared with 6.3 billion for world population, the space agency reported Thursday.
The current Mars missions rank as the biggest space event on the Internet, surpassing NASA's traffic for Mars Pathfinder and even the aftermath of the Columbia tragedy.
"To the best of our knowledge this is the biggest government event in the history of the Internet," Assistant Administrator Glenn Mahone said in a news release. "We've passed the peak traffic for the IRS Web site during tax season and for NOAA's site during Hurricane Isabel last fall. Since the rovers' missions will last 90 days each, it's possible this will wind up being the biggest single event in Internet history."
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Of course, hits are an old-fashioned way of measuring traffic. As most Web geeks know, a hit is recorded for every data file retrieved from a computer server — and calling up just one Web page usually involves multiple hits. NASA says there are about 50 million unique visitors behind all those hits, and some of those 50 million may represent multiple computers being used by one person (like me, for instance).
Nevertheless, 50 million visitors are nothing to sneeze at, particularly since NASA says subscribers to America Online are counted as just one visitor. It's also significant to note that about 50,000 people were watching NASA's streaming video on the night of Jan. 3, in addition to those who tuned in via MSNBC and other outlets.
For a business perspective on all those hits, check out Jeff Foust's observations on the Space Politics blog.
Here's some of the week's e-mail feedback about Mars and Martian anthems:
Mark Carey, Toronto: "I thought you might like to feature Mars Rover Blog in one of your entries. It's a blog written by the rovers themselves, in the first person. The blog is light-hearted, the rovers don't get into technical details (though some readers delve into such topics in the forum, as they debate interesting objects in the rover photos, etc.) The blog also includes rover photos (with RSS feed) and integrated discussions."
Wade Whitlock, Aberdeen, Md.: "Anthems are all well and good, but meaningless. Unless you have someone standing on the ground and self-supporting, this music is of the same level of significance as a hymn to Isis. The Mars Society needs to work on being there before they sing about it (unless it is 'Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's Off to Mars We Go!'). Let's not put the cart before the horse! I doubt there were too many people singing 'America the Beautiful' in 1491."
Kimberly Newell, Albany: "Why are the Mars rovers designed to 'walk' so slowly? 100 feet a day is way too slow. The only thing I can think of is that is has something to do with the amount of power available given the size and weight of each rover, or the rover 'stops and smell the roses' way too much. But if that's not the case, why not go fast on the terrain that you know does not contain large rocks and then keep it slow on the rough terrain? I would have thought the rovers would be 'smart enough' to run when it knows there are no obstacles and slow down when the terrain gets a little rougher."
If the rovers' top speed is 2 inches per second, as frequently stated, they could conceivably cover 100 feet in 10 minutes — so I have a feeling Spirit's deliberate pace has more to do with making sure the terrain is safe and the science is thorough. That's especially important when you're driving a vehicle that cost $410 million.
• Feb. 20, 2004 | 5 a.m. ET
Weekend field trips on the World Wide Web:
• 'Nova' on PBS: 'Spies That Fly'
• Philadelphia Inquirer: 'Squinting at the Present'
• Flashbacks from The Atlantic: 'A Space in Time'
• Topeka Capital-Journal: @ added to Morse code
• Feb. 19, 2004 | 11:45 p.m. ET
Deconstructing evolution: For some, the origin of species was simply an act of the divine or a case of intelligent design, and no further explanation is necessary. But scientists can't resist trying to figure out the big questions surrounding the molecular mechanisms for evolution: Why is it that organic molecules are built the way they are? How could creatures reprogram themselves for differentiation and natural selection?
It so happens that two studies addressing those questions appear in Friday's issue of the journal Science: The first one has to do with homochirality. We're not talking about "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" here, but the fact that all amino acids in living organisms swing to the left rather than the right.
There have been plenty of theories about why this is — published in Nature and other journals — and this week in Science, Sandra Pizzarello of Arizona State University and Arthur Weber of the SETI Institute take their own scientific stab at the mystery. Based on their studies of meteorites arriving on Earth, they argue that falling space rocks may have contained enough left-handed amino acids to nudge the planet's primordial chemistry down a crucial fork in the road. Arizona State University provides more information in a news release.
The second study is on how organisms can change their molecular chemistry to react to stresses in their environment. Researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of Texas played God with a strain of E. coli bacteria that had been bred without the ability to make disulfide bonds. Such chemical bonds are necessary in order for the bacteria's flagella — that is, their molecular motors — to work.
The scientists fiddled with the mutant bacteria's DNA, and found that making only two amino-acid alterations allowed the mutants to produce disulfide bonds through another method. Further study traced the precise chemistry involved in the bacteria's feat.
You might consider this a case of catching evolution in the act, but unraveling the puzzle of disulfide bond creation isn't merely an metaphysical exercise, University of Michigan biologist James Bardwell said. "Figuring out new ways to make it happen could be important to numerous disease states, like Alzheimer's and cystic fibrosis, that result from defective protein folding," he said.
If you're not a Science subscriber, refer to the news release on EurekAlert for further details on the experiment. And if the idea of molecular motors tickles your fancy, check out our interactive graphic on the subject. Be forewarned, however, that this is an old interactive that hasn't yet been tuned up, so some of the links may no longer work.
• Feb. 19, 2004 | 11:45 p.m. ET
Virtual reading room on the scientific Web:
• USA Today: Israel looks into the fake-antiquities trade
• Wired: Satellites to track tiny dolphins
• Forbes: Five robots that will change your life
• The Economist: The origins of language
• Feb. 18, 2004 | 11 p.m. ET
The Martian anthem: What music do you play to wake up a Martian? Every morning brings a new song for the rovers on the Red Planet, selected by the mission team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and usually keyed to the theme of the day. For example, today's wakeup music for the Opportunity rover was the Bob Marley reggae anthem "Trenchtown Rock," played as a tribute to the six-wheeled explorer's trenching skills.
To tell the truth, the music is more of a boost for JPL's scientists and engineers than it is for the mechanical rovers. But the selection for last Saturday lifted the spirits of Mars enthusiasts around the world — and perhaps beyond. On that day, Opportunity was awakened to the strains of "The Pioneers of Mars," the unofficial planetary anthem for the fourth rock from the sun.
It's a bittersweet song for co-author Karen Linsley, who wrote the song with partner Lloyd Landa and entered it in the Mars Society's "music for Mars" competition in 2000. The song won the contest's Rouget de Lisle Award, but Landa died of a heart attack just 10 days before the song made its public debut at that year's Mars Society convention.
Linsley performed the song with tears in her eyes, and received a standing ovation. She remembered Landa in her remarks to the crowd: "Get to Mars. And when the notes of this song are heard on Martian soil, he will live again."
There were no human ears on Mars to hear the notes on Saturday — but I think the transmission nevertheless reawakened Landa's legacy. Listen to an excerpt from "The Pioneers of Mars," and hear the entire song on the Prometheus Music Web site.
This week, the Mars Society announced that it would conduct its second Rouget de Lisle competition, "for songs celebrating the cause of the human exploration and settlement of space." The deadline for sending in your entries is April 30, and 10 finalist songs will be submitted for consideration by Prometheus Music as well as NASA. Attendees of this summer's Mars Society conference will select the top anthem.
For details, consult the Mars Society Web site. For additional inspiration, listen to a musical tribute to Columbia's astronauts, and check out Craig Woodson's thoughts on music for Mars.
• Feb. 18, 2004 | 11 p.m. ET
The serious and strange sides of science:
• Space.com: New plans for keeping astronauts safe
• National Review: Can private enterprise save Hubble?
• Nature: Caustic comments get girls a date
• Archaeology: Pets of the pharaohs
• Feb. 17, 2004 | 10 p.m. ET
The facts about fusion: If you could invest in commodity futures for lunar helium-3, you would have reaped a windfall last month in the wake of President Bush's call for America to return to the moon.
Helium-3 (as opposed to the garden-variety helium-4 that fills all those balloons) is one of the rarest substances on Earth, produced primarily as the result of processing tritium for nuclear weapons. But it's known to exist naturally within lunar soil, and theoretically, it's one of the cleanest fuels around for nuclear fusion.
So when the space initiative was announced, visions of lunar riches danced in the heads of many space enthusiasts: Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt, a high-profile helium-3 booster, says a helium-3 mining operation could be set up in 10 to 15 years, and the European Space Agency says the stuff could be "more valuable than gold, diamonds or even enriched uranium!"
What are we waiting for, then? And why do we need NASA? With that kind of payoff, private industries should be lining up to blast off and harvest those helium riches.
Fusion researchers say there's a big catch: No one yet knows how to build any kind of workable fusion reactor, and building one that could use helium-3 would be significantly harder.
Dale Meade of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory said it could take 35 to 50 years to develop a commercial reactor that uses the easiest fusion fuels — deuterium and tritium.
"To do it with deuterium/helium-3, I would say it's a factor of 25 [harder] in terms of the temperature and the confinement time," he said in Seattle last week during the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Other researchers may quibble over exactly how much harder it would be, but they agree that helium-3 is no slam-dunk.
"The plasma physics challenge is an order of magnitude greater than with deuterium/tritium," said University of Wisconsin fusion researcher Stewart Prager. "It's definitely a second-generation reactor."
Even Gerald Kulcinski, director of the University of Wisconsin's Fusion Technology Institute and the biggest proponent of helium-3 research, agrees on that last point. However, he contends that fusion power may not be economically viable unless the research gets to that second generation. He said a deuterium/tritium reaction throws off so much radioactivity that it would quickly degrade the structure surrounding any reactor. In contrast, the deuterium/helium-3 reaction throws off far fewer neutrons and produces far less radioactivity.
"Helium-3 fuels reduce the radioactivity and the damage by a factor of 30 to 50," he said.
"If we could show it could work, I think we would go very quickly from first-generation fusion to the second and the third," Kulcinski said.
Even first-generation fusion wouldn't be too shabby, other researchers say, and they would take issue with the idea that deuterium and tritium won't be good enough for the nation's future energy needs.
"It's relatively safe, it's clean and roughly inexhaustible," Prager said.
The bottom line has to do with money and politics, for the fusion effort just as much as for the space effort. The countries that are wrangling over the future of international fusion research still haven't decided whether their ITER experimental facility should be located in France or Japan, although a compromise may be worked out this month. If a deal isn't reached soon, the United States might just decide to go it alone — or let fusion research languish in limbo.
Meade estimates that it would take about $20 billion to produce a breakthrough in fusion power.
"If you threw money at it like it was in the nation's interest, you could do it in 15 or 20 years," he said. "But at the moment, at $250 million a year, we'll never get there."
• Feb. 17, 2004 | 10 p.m. ET
Your daily dose of gee-whiz on the Web:
• Defense Tech: DARPA aims for foodless fighters
• Science News: How bird brains retrieve treasures
• Discovery.com: NASA eyes plane for Mars survey
• The Onion: Human cloning ... what do you think?
• Feb. 16, 2004 | 10:30 p.m. ET
Quantum fiction: Thanks to research from the frontiers of science, you can find quantum entanglements even in the plots of romance novels and comic books.
Scientists described how the weird world of quantum physics is reflected in pop culture during the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting in Seattle. For example, physicist/author Catherine Asaro's science-fiction novel "The Quantum Rose" spins a romantic plot that is actually an allegory for quantum scattering theory, complete with technical notes in the back of the book.
As she described the book this weekend, Asaro made quantum physics terminology sound positively sexy.
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Catherine Asaro describes "The Quantum Rose" as an allegory for quantum scattering theory.
Asaro is also one of the world's few romance writers who has had a paper published in the American Journal of Physics. The paper, "Complex Speeds and Special Relativity," laid the theoretical groundwork for the faster-than-light travel method employed in her debut novel, "Primary Inversion." But don't expect the book to read like a physics textbook.
"It's essentially 'Romeo and Juliet' in outer space, but it has a much better ending than 'Romeo and Juliet," she said.
Meanwhile, University of Minnesota physicist James Kakalios keeps track of the scientific frontier as reflected in comic books, and notes that even the Justice League of America had to struggle to keep up with the latest in quantum mechanics. For example, in an issue published six years ago, an evil genius used entangled photons to screw up the universe's probability curves and cause superheroes to disappear. It took The Atom's knowledge of subatomic physics to figure out the cause of the crisis.
"They had to untangle the quantum states and bring the photons together to save the earth," Kakalios said.
Kakalios said that "comics actually get their science right more times than you imagine" — that is, assuming that you grant each superhero a "one-time miracle exemption." That's why he's not afraid of using superhero science to get his students calculating how much force Superman needs to leap a building in a single bound, or what would really happen if Spider-Man could spin a web to catch a falling girlfriend.
"What I'm really doing is sneakily getting students to eat their spinach by hiding it in a superhero ice-cream sundae," he said.
Students often whine that what they're learning in science class has no application in the real world, Kakalios said — but strangely enough, his comic-book physics students have never lodged those kinds of complaints.
"Apparently they have plans after graduation that involve wearing spandex," he joked.
To learn more about real-life super-science, check out Science's look at Spider-Mammals and Wired's "Super Power" issue. And if you want to separate science fiction from science fact — or just have a good laugh — you can always turn to Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics or the Cartoon Laws of Physics.
• Feb. 16, 2004 | 10:30 p.m. ET
More from the AAAS annual meeting:
• New Scientist: Half of all languages face extinction
• BBC: Hunt for ancient human molecules
• Seattle P-I: Action to save oceans backed
• Nature: Doctors need to get wired
• EurekAlert: AAAS Newsroom
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Floyd Mayweather has dropped a big hint that he and Manny Pacquiao will never be stepping into the ring for the super-bout that the world wants to see.
Speculation over a fight between the pair has been on-going for some time now, and the pound-for-pound king quashed any hopes fans may have had at a promotion in San Antonio for his upcoming fight with Saul Alvarez.
A fan called out for Mayweather to fight Pacquiao instead of Alvarez, in which 'Money' responded by stating he has had his chance.
"Pacquiao's a has-been, his career is over," Mayweather Jr told reporters. "[Juan] Manuel Marquez is a legend. I commend him."
Mayweather, who is unbeaten in 44 professional bouts, is looking to end 22-year-old Mexican Alvarez's winning streak in September.
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Last night, instead of reading the continuing saga of Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants (O hilarity! Thou dost ensue!) to our little son, C , at bedtime, we took out the iPad and watched, on NASA's app, the robot rover Curiosity's successful landing on Mars.
"What I would have given to have had this as a kid!" my science-mad husband said. He's right; it's incredible that we have this device that can show our son the world – and beyond – at bedtime. (But don't get any fancy ideas, C: there will be no eight o'clock rounds of Toca Boca Monster Kitchen. This was a special occasion.)
In awe, we watched what really happened, yonder: something approximating a vehicle from one of C's Lego sets gingerly landed on the surface of the red planet. Then, surrounded by quilts and teddy bears, as night fell outside, we saw images transmitted from another world.
For all of us, it was a wonder. But what I enjoyed most, even more than the landing itself, was the elation on the faces of the engineers at NASA, on desk's edge in powder-blue shirts. This moment was something probably all of them had dreamed of as children, looking out bedroom windows at the moon from under the covers. And then they turned their hopes into study, hard work, and determination, and now we all benefit (and their mothers must be so proud!).
This morning, the boys still had visions of Mars in their heads. C was on the floor building a robot out of wooden blocks that could keep taking pictures of Mars while Curiosity was turned off. As it must be from time to time. And their dad was sighing into his coffee. "I still want to go into space. I guess that will never happen now."
"Have a little hope," I said.
Maybe their dad isn't an astronaut. But he started as a young boy who loved science, all of it, and now, it's his job every day. And probably my greatest hope for my two sons, aside from their general health and happiness, is that someday, they will uncover something to aspire to, to work toward, that brings them such joy. That means something to them. All I can do now is show them the possibilities, on the screen or out in the world, encourage their curiosity, and wait for that light to go on, maybe as they lie in bed at night. It could be anything. And there's probably an app for it. Sweet dreams, boys.
I'm happy to be participating in Melanie Crutchfield's Blog Relay for Hope, inspired by the Olympics! Thank you to the excellent writer, Mom in the Muddle for inviting me to join in. Both of these blogs are great and worth checking out.
I've been complaining, er, blogging about the Olympics here for the past week, so as someone like Melanie who hates exercising, it feels good to participate in some way! And who knows, maybe all this Olympics-watching I've been doing will inspire the boys to athletic greatness some day. I've already chosen events for them that suit their personalities. For C, the Modern Pentathlon. A combination of pistol shooting, swimming, horse jumping, running, and fencing sounds like superhero training. And also very tiring. And for little T? Shot put. We already know he can throw food, and Matchbox cars.
I know we are getting close to the anchor leg of this blog relay, and there's not much time left, so (no pressure) I'd like to pass the baton over to my husband over at drcraigcanapari.com to see if he's got anything to say about hope. (He does! Read it here!) I know in his line of work he comes across it every day. I would also like to reach out to another blog I enjoy reading, scienceofmom.com. If you would like to join, be sure to link back here and to Melanie Crutchfield. USA!
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Following weeks of hesitation, Monti declared his availability on Sunday to lead a reform-minded centrist alliance to seek a second term to complete the economic reform programme begun when he took office just over a year ago.
The former European Commissioner, appointed at the head of a technocrat government to save Italy from financial crisis, has now thrown off his mantle of neutrality and entered a race that will be dominated by his tough reform agenda.
Even if he confirms his entry into the campaign, Monti appears unlikely at this stage to return to office but his involvement could strengthen a centrist alliance and help shape the agenda of the next government.
The centre-left Democratic Party (PD), which has pledged to maintain Monti's broad reform course while giving more help to workers and pensioners and emphasising growth more, is favoured to win but may have to strike a coalition deal with the centre.
In an open letter to Italians posted online and accompanied by a 25-page policy programme, Monti said he hoped that the agenda would lead to an "open reflection" that would help shape the debate ahead of the election on Feb. 24-25.
He urged a mix of budget rigour and structural reform as well as measures to crack down on corruption and get more women and young people to work.
However the tone of the campaign has inevitably moved away from calm debate and into the murky and sometimes treacherous territory of Italian party politics, where Monti is a novice.
At a news conference on Sunday, he attacked left-wing trade unions for resisting reform but reserved special criticism for his scandal-plagued predecessor Silvio Berlusconi, whom he picked on repeatedly for his "bewildering" changes of position.
Speaking to one of his own television channels, the 76 year-old media billionaire responded by saying it would be "immoral" for Monti to fight the election after governing as an unelected premier with the support of the main parties.
One of Berlusconi's chief lieutenants, Fabrizio Cicchitto, parliamentary floor leader of his People of Freedom (PDL) party, indicated that Monti's international standing and the respect he enjoys among Italy's European partners would count for little.
"He's taken aim at the PDL, which obviously has no choice but to respond in kind," he said.
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"We're not forcing Monti but obviously if it happens, the value it adds to our project will be enormous," Pierferdinando Casini, head of the centrist UDC party, which is close to the Catholic church, told the daily La Repubblica.
A small number of centrists from both the two main parties, including former Foreign Minister Franco Frattini announced they were leaving their parties and would support Monti, whose reform agenda is strongly backed by Italy's business establishment.
However the centrist group lags both the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) and the PDL as well as the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement in opinion polls and without Monti, it has little chance of making any significant gains.
Even with the respected economics professor at its head, a centrist alliance including the UDC and other smaller parties including a new group created by Ferrari chairman Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, appears likely to struggle to pass 15 per cent.
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I must say this was one of the most tiring vacations we've had, and what's worse is that I also managed to hurt my hip somehow am now limping a bit, feeling a hundred-years-old. Oh, and this morning we found the garbage on the floor of the entry porch full of worms crawling all over, giving life to the garbage bags.
So tired and disgusted, I did nothing today. I'm really good at that, btw. And if anyone has a problem, I actually give out courses on doing nothing for $50 an hour, and that's the group rate!
So what did I find on my trip?
- I found that while we speak the same language, we don't necessarily mean the same thing and that teenagers working in malls will always correct me when I ask about washrooms (I really do know it's bathrooms in the US, yet keep forgetting).
- Similarly, when I order a sandwich, or any meal for that matter, I generally expect it to be of certain size, which is almost always double in the US.
- I also noticed that smaller town folk are much nicer and more patient than big-city people, and that this is true in both Canada and the US.
- I found that border crossing wait times are always much much much longer when crossing into the US than back into Canada despite fewer questions asked.
- I found that miles are f*^%ing long.
- Hotels are cheaper in the US.
- US cable news network are really scary making Canadian news sound warm and fuzzy.
- Businesses actually honour coupons in the US and don't start explaining why they can't accept this coupon or that.
- For ordering tea, the default in the US is for iced tea, in Canada it's for tea - hot.
- Pop in Canada = soda in the US = a soft-drink.
- Americans display their Stars and Stripes flags all over (cars, houses, businesses), maybe more so because it was near 4th of July. Canadians, on the other hand, hardly ever display their Maple Leaf and this year even for Canada Day most flags were of other countries because of the world cup.
- Our independence days are only four days apart.
So for all these similarities and for all these differences, a belated Happy Canada Day and Happy July 4th to us all.
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