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What good is half a wing?
The question, "What good is half a wing?" is often used by creationists who severely misunderstand evolutionary theory. The question implies that fossil birds should be discovered with literal "half-wings" — i.e., a wing missing half of itself. This is a misunderstanding of how wings likely evolved.
According to the modern theory, evolution is not oriented toward a final goal but merely involves small changes that aid in the survival of individuals to the age of reproduction. In particular, evolution in the ancestor of modern birds was not working toward full-blown modern wings as we know them today. The arms of, say, small dinosaurs might have developed small proto-feathers in order to help them stay in the air longer when they jumped to avoid predators or to pursue prey. This wasn't yet a wing, but it ostensibly had some small benefit to the animal. Over millennia the feathers may have grown longer, the arms leaner and the muscles stronger. Today their descendants, modern birds, do have wings as we know them.
The "half a wing" argument is related to the idea that evolution is like a tornado moving through a junkyard and assembling a fully-functional 747.
What good is half an eye?[edit]
A closely related question is, "What good is half an eye?" We all know people who are nearsighted or farsighted, and who get along quite well. Even without glasses, it is better to be nearsighted than to have cataracts, which in turn is better than being blind.
"Half an eye", or 50% of vision, is 50% better than being blind (well, probably much more than 50% better if you consider an animal trying to survive in the wild among sighted predators).
Another way to look at it is to ask what constitutes 100% of an eye, the answer to which can shed light on what 50% of an eye is, and therefore what good it is.
When compared to those of other animals, the human eye cannot be said to be a "full eye" in many respects:
- Human vision is based on sensing only three colors (and sometimes less), not five as in some birds and fish.
- Humans cannot see ultraviolet, as can bees.
- Humans cannot see infrared, as can pit vipers.
- Humans have poor underwater vision, unlike penguins.
- Humans have poor night vision, unlike owls.
- Humans have relatively poor distance vision, unlike birds of prey.
- Humans cannot see magnetic fields, as migratory birds seem to be able to do.
- Humans cannot detect polarized light unlike bees and ants (the ability is most developed in the so-called mantis shrimp).
- Human eyes have a fovea, an area densely packed with light receptors, which we use for distinguishing colors and for resolving fine detail (this is why we can't read a book out of the corner of our eye: there aren't enough receptors to make out the shapes of the letters). But some birds of prey, such has hawks, have two foveas, which allows them to resolve detail in two areas at once.
- Human eyes (along with all vertebrates) have a built-in blind spot where the nerves and blood vessels that carry visual signals and blood from the retina to the brain exit the eye, crowding out light receptors. The brain must fill in the missing information using essentially educated guesswork. Squid and octopus eyes are not wired this way and therefore do not have a blind spot.
- Humans cannot point their eyes in two different directions and focus on two different objects (and judge the distance to each object independently), as can chameleons.
- Human retinas aren't securely attached to the eye and easily detach possibly causing blindness.
The sequence of steps necessary to develop a sophisticated eye is well known and each step has been extensively documented in nature, from a simple patch of light-sensitive cells, to a depression for the light-sensitive cells (to sense the direction of the incoming light), to a "pin hole" eye (to focus an image), to a lensed eye (to protect the eye contents and allow more light in): each step conveys additional benefits to an organism. So "half an eye" can be useful. (For more detail, see Wikipedia:Evolution of the eye.)
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"AZR", April 6, 1924
Commission Plans Purchase of 14,000 Acres To Create Pleasure Resort For Phoenix
Phoenix will have a public mountain park if the plans launched by the city planning commission and approved by the city commission Friday afternoon are carried out. More than 14,000 acres of land, consisting of the Salt River Mountain range south of the city is to be acquired by purchase from the United States government and converted into a pleasure resort for the people of Phoenix, according to announcement yesterday by members of the city planning commission who have been co-operating in this movement.
The announcement follows several months of negotiation on the part of the city planning commission and prompt action on the part of the city commission as soon as the proposition was called to its attention. The city commission passed a resolution Friday afternoon requesting the United States government to withdraw the land from entry, and pledging itself to purchase 14,000 acres of land in the Salt River mountains at $1.25 per acre for the purpose of converting it into a public park.
A telegram was received at the local land office yesterday from the Secretary of the Interior Work in which the local officials were instructed to withdraw the lands involved from entry until such time as Congress may be able to take action on the question. Senators Ashurst and Cameron and Congressman Hayden have all pledged their support to such a measure, according to J. C. Dobbins, chairman of the city planning commission, and there is little doubt but that the lands will be withdrawn.
Scenic Route
Prompt action on the part of the city commission, according to Mr. Dobbins eliminated a lot of delay and will make the park a reality in a comparatively short time.
The mountains contain many canyons, trails of historic interest, hieroglyphic rocks and the topography is such that a scenic drive can be built from one end of the range to the other. Persons who are familiar with this stretch of country declare that this drive will be one of the most beautiful in Arizona.
Just at the southern end of Central avenue in the mountains is a high valley which is admirably adapted to the construction of a 36-hole golf course which may be developed into one of the finest in the country, according to Mr. Dobbins, who says that he and other members of the commission who have been working on the plans have thoroughly familiarized themselves with the topography of the region and know its possibilities.
There is a fine spring of water in this valley which when developed will furnish an ample supply of water for the development of the golf course. Other development plans are being worked out by the committee in charge consisting of W. G. Hartranft, H. L. Aller, Harry Asbury, Mrs. Louie Gage Dennett and Warren McArthur, who are working with the mountain park committee, consisting of J. C. Dobbins, Mrs. John Hampton and H. B. Wilkinson.
The committees have already had maps prepared showing the route of the proposed ridge road, which would extend for almost the full length of the range. Trails leading into the ridge road will be developed, bringing the highest points within easy access to the city of Phoenix.
Stables are also to be built in order that persons may be able to motor out from the city and secure mounts for the exploration of the more mountainous districts which are inaccessible by automobile. Members of the committee say an abundance of fresh water may be developed.
The entire cost of the project will be approximately $18,000, according to members of the city planning commission, who have made the estimate. In placing their proposition before the city commission the members declared that the entire cost of the project may be absorbed within two years at an increased levy of two cents per $100 valuation.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
City Commission Approves Plan For Municipal Park In Salt River Mountains
Posted by South Mountain Richard at 12:44 PM
2 comments:
- Steve - AZ said...
OK Richard, where's that spring of water?? Is it Pima Canyon, or at the Ghost Ranch down on the far southwest side? Or is it at the SMEEC (not really joking - weren't some of the Indian farming sites located somewhere east of today's Holbert Trailhead?). See the 1934 master plan map for the "Maricopa Spring Trail."
- June 2, 2009 at 3:48 PM
- JFK said...
this is great information! I have been longing for some history on my local stomping and riding ground. Any history on the helipad?
- December 1, 2009 at 4:27 PM
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The Earliest Documented Interview With Chuck Palahniuk
This feature comes courtesy of our Palahniuk academic expert Jeff Sartain. What makes it so unique and such fodder for our beloved Features sectopm, is that it's one of the oldest documented interviews with Chuck Palahniuk. I don't even think it's online anywhere (but here). It was conducted in the Spring of 1996, two seasons before the movie version of Fight Club would even hit theaters. Months before I would ever approach Chuck at a reading for Invisible Monsters about the idea for this website. But not only this, but this interview, and the things Chuck says in it just woke me up again to how inspirational he can be for people. I swear, after reading this piece, I feel like moving to Europe and just getting lost for a few years. Check it out and you'll see what I mean. Good stuff. Thanks Jeff, and thanks to Cult Member Undertow for the awesome transcription.
The Paradigm of Compromise
An Interview with Chuck Palahniuk
Printed in Columbia Journal of Literature and Art
Issue 26 - Spring 1996
Boswell: Voices of Contemporary Thinkers
"Chuck Palahniuk: Why Isn't He Budging?"
Palahniuk's Fight Club, winner of the 1997 Oregon Book Award for fiction, has been described as "A horrible, gruesome, gross, wonderful, strange, outrageous, fun, subversive, imaginative book." It chronicles a struggle for relief from the destitute monolithic life that has been created by America, Inc. This tightly told allegory is molded by precise prose that creates an original energy and vision. Fight Club's hero descends literally and figuratively into shadow, into the muck of violence, his old life disintegrating to a point beyond return. Chuck Palahniuk offers a fresh voice on the disempowerment, violence and spiritual destitution brought about by America's fetish for perfection bought with material accomplishment.
Boswell: When the narrator of Fight Club says, "Deliver me from being perfect and complete…May I never be content" what were some of your thoughts behind his comment?
Palahniuk: Once you're perfect and complete it's like those retired people who have a perfect lawn, a perfect house. Their life becomes about maintaining this static perfection. Things just sort of stop and they're no longer growing…because to make new things you have to break old things up to a certain degree. And once you get perfect, once you convince yourself things are perfect, then you stop growing and you stop evolving. It's sort of the death of things.
So many of us when we turn 18 think, 'Get married. Get a job. Get a house - house of kids.' And we're so anxious to be settled down so quickly and get all the accoutrements - you know, dining room, living room, living room set - of a finished perfect life that we shut our lives down, clap them down really tight and really small really early on. And no one takes the time to look and see what's out there and build something better.
Boswell: One of your characters says, "We don't have a great war in our generation or a great depression. But we do. We have a war of the spirit. A great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression."
Palahniuk: You know this is one of those things that seems to be easier to describe by describing the symptoms. People spend more time escaping than they do fulfilling.
Maria Muldower was interviewed by National Public Radio a couple of weeks ago and said that cooking and gardening once were in our culture [that] entertainment has now become.
Instead of the husband phoning the wife and saying, 'What should I bring home for dinner?' he phones the wife and says, 'What video should I bring?' The dinner-thing is too often already taken care of by pre-prepared foods.
We have an enormous need right now for entertainment in our culture. And I think most of that springs from escaping what lives we're all forced to lead. It seems to be - Do the job without really knowing why. And just keep doing it without really knowing why. People aren't very fulfilled by their lives anymore.
Boswell: Do you think it was different in the past?
Palahniuk: Yeah. I think in the past, people had a larger purpose. They identified with a larger purpose, whether it was their church or their nation…or their survival.
We've sort of grown beyond our survival and many people don't really identify with a larger cause.
Survival is handled, so what is there now?
Taking a Punch
Boswell: The passage I just quoted continued, "We have a class of young strong men and women and they want to give their lives to something." Do you think people need to sacrifice and give themselves to something?
Palahniuk: Right, to identify with a larger purpose, to say 'It's not enough that I just live, my life has to be about this. The purpose of my life is this.'
People want that because we're growing old with longer and longer life spans, and then come to the end of our lives, look back and say, 'OK, basically, I paid the bills.' But they have not had one big thing they ever contributed to. It's just incredibly bleak. It's so purposeless, so useless.
Boswell: In Fight Club people fight one another to get in touch with what it means to feel alive, or as you say, to feel powerful.
Palahniuk: In a lot of the media, you are taught that you are shot once, there's no blood, you fall down dead. You get hit, you're knocked out. And that's not the case.
It is so difficult to knock someone unconscious, or to kill someone. People would be appalled at how much effort or mess it takes to do either.
And so we are afraid of pain or assault because we associate it with instant closure.
Boswell: How much of that is the result of television?
Palahniuk: I think it is a large result of television because television has sort of cleaned up and neated up violence. Movies do that a lot too.
The idea that you can take a punch and it's just a punch is not in TV or movies. You're not dead; you're not crippled.
You are capable of enduring so much more than you think you are capable of, that you never dreamed you were capable of. These things we perceive as gigantic risks really are not!
Boswell: And right next to violence is death. We also need to come into contact with death to be in touch with life.
Palahniuk: Right. Now in our culture we've pushed death about as far away as it can be. And sentimentalized and distorted and hidden it. We've become a culture that denies death so vehemently that we have no power against it.
Nobody's died in my family in decades, so the idea of someone dying leaves us all completely powerless because nobody even remembers what it's like to have someone in their family die.
Boswell: If violence is one way of finding your true limits and of moving toward this edge between life and death, do you think violence is necessary or is it just one way to approach it?
Palahniuk: It's funny that during this whole Fight Club thing, nobody has ever asked me about the support groups in the book. I worked as a volunteer in a hospice, an AIDS hospice. And I would come out of there feeling so good, it was like a night in Fight Club.
No matter how crappy my life was, no matter how bad I felt my problems were, I would come out of that hospice feeling like the king of the world. Yes, my car's broken down. Yes, I haven't paid my bills. Yes, I hate my job, but I'm doing so good. You know, I felt so good after working a shift as a volunteer.
I would say that's another way of feeling a real presence of life and getting some perspective. If people were doing WPA work, where they were somewhere on a large effort away from their home, in a whole different paradigm, I think that would be a really incredible thing for them.
I think that is why I think organizations like the Peace Corps are good for people.
Boswell: Yes, living abroad usually makes you feel more alive and aware because everything is always so new and different and perplexing. You don't know what's going on half the time.
Palahniuk: Yeah, exactly! Being not sure of your place in the world, being off balance, relying on your own skills for getting by. To be with not knowing.
It seems to be a big thing right now: our inability to be with the unknown.
Boswell: Like death.
Palahniuk: Yes. We are afraid of death because we have no familiarity with it. We are afraid of many things because we have just never gone out and met them.
The characters in Fight Club had to be extreme and not compromise. I think in our day-to-day lives we have to get out of the paradigm of compromise in which most of us find ourselves. Whether it's involving an awareness of death or whether it's pushing ourselves to achieve new appreciation of our capabilities. We need to know we are capable of so much more than we ever dreamed of.
Interview Transcribed by Undertow


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text: SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT, +0.27% weighed heavily on the Dow Jones Industrial Index DJIA, +1.20%, pulling the index into negative territory after a Bloomberg report showed an executive bemoaning the state of February sales. Wal-Mart shares fell 2.8% to $68.78, and the Dow industrials fell 0.3%. "In case you haven't seen a sales report these days, February [month-to-date] sales are a total disaster," said Jerry Murray, a Wal-Mart vice president, in an email to executives obtained by Bloomberg. Murray also called this February the worst start to a month in his seven years with the company. In response to the Bloomberg story, Randy Hargrove, a spokesperson for Wal-Mart, told MarketWatch in an email that "as with any organization, we often see internal communications that are not entirely accurate, that lack the proper context and represent individual opinions." Hargrove also said that Wal-Mart will release its fourth-quarter earnings on Feb. 21 before the market opens.


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The right to bear arms controversy will soon become a reality to all Americans.
The right to bear arms controversy will soon become a reality to all Americans. Free men do not ask permission to bear arms. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.
Gun control is not about guns; it's about control. You only have the rights you are willing to fight for, so know guns, know peace, and know safety; otherwise, there will be no guns, no peace, and no safety. You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.
The U.S. Constitution stipulates that all rights are reserved. The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others. What part of "shall not be infringed" do they not understand? Guns have only two enemies — rust and politicians.
When you remove the people's right to bear arms, they cannot defend themselves from senseless crimes.
The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control. I think owning a gun doesn't make you a killer; it makes you a smart American. People who commit crimes have no consequences. Statistics prove that when stricter rules and capital punishment were implemented, the crime rate was down.
"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not," said Thomas Jefferson.
"Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither," said Ben Franklin. This is America.
We like it the way it is and more so the way it was, so stop trying to change it to look like Russia or China or some other socialist country.
If you were born here and don't like it, you are free to move to any socialist country that will have you.
It is time to really clean house, starting with the White House, the seat of our biggest problems. I love this country. It's the government I'm afraid of because big government never works. God bless America.
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International Conference
hosted by Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung in cooperation with Yale University and Stanford University
To improve our understanding on how the individual components of this "System Earth" relate to each other, we need to focus on the interactions among its components and identify their reciprocal effects on the relevant spatial and temporal scales. Any ecological community is shaped by abiotic and biotic factors as well as by the phylogenetic history of the lineages, and the geological and climatic history. At the same time without an understanding of how geodynamic processes influence climate and landscape evolution, or global biodiversity, or how climate change affects past and present ecosystems, species and ecological communities, we will fall short in understanding present-day and future biodiversity.
This conference aims at presenting an integrative, systemic approach to natural history research, which is scientifically but also societally relevant. Today, humans have an unprecedented impact on the earth system with consequences not only for biodiversity and ecosystems, but for humanity's well-being. Projections about future biodiversity and ecosystem services need to include data on the various components and interrelationships and on how environmental change has impacted biodiversity, ecosystems and human societies in the past.
The focus of this conference is outlined by the following questions:
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Thursday afternoon was a whirlwind for Tyler Polak, who was selected by the New England Revolution with the 22nd overall pick in the 2012 MLS SuperDraft. Within minutes of hearing his name called over the Kansas City Convention Center sound system, the 19-year-old was introduced to a throng of Revolution employees and thrust in front of bright lights and cameras for his first interviews as a professional soccer player.
The next few days are unlikely to provide much of a respite as Polak has this weekend to figure out the logistics of his move to Foxborough, where he'll start preseason camp with the Revs on Monday.
"Monday comes quick and I'm excited to start," said Polak. "It's all pretty crazy; happening pretty fast. Not a whole lot of time to adjust, but I'm definitely ready. It should be a lot of fun. I'm ready to make the next step to the next level."
Polak excelled at the previous level, twice earning NSCAA All-Midwest honors – in both his freshman and sophomore seasons – while starting 44 games at left back for Creighton University. In 2011, Polak was a critical part of the record-setting Bluejays backline which conceded just five goals all season en route to an appearance in the NCAA College Cup.
With left back a position the Revs had identified as an area of need this offseason, it was an easy decision for New England to scoop up Polak – a projected first-round pick in many circles – early in the second round.
"For Tyler, without putting too much expectation on him, he fills a need," said Revolution General Manager Michael Burns. "Whether he's starting or provides cover, we definitely feel like that's going to help us and we're excited about how today went."
Polak was attractive to the Revs for a number of reasons, most notably his versatility as a two-way outside back and his status – like New England's first-round pick, Kelyn Rowe – as a member of Generation adidas. The designation means both Polak and Rowe are automatically added to the Revolution's roster and will not count against the club's salary budget until they graduate from the program.
"Tyler had a great season at Creighton," said head coach Jay Heaps. "He knows how to get forward, he knows how to defend and he's good on the ball. We want players to keep the ball. We want good soccer players. We don't want just one-dimensional players."
"If we try to look at it somewhat objectively – and obviously I look at it more from a Revolution standpoint – but to have nine Generation adidas players signed and for us to get two of them in the top 22, we feel like it was a decent day," added Burns.
While the starting left back job is up for grabs this preseason after both Darrius Barnes (center back) and Chris Tierney (left midfielder) played out of position to fill the spot in 2011, Polak understands it's a job he'll have to win with steady performances in the coming weeks, not one which will simply be handed to him on opening day.
"I'm going to work as hard as I can and if coach thinks I'm ready for the position, then I'm definitely going to step up and take it," Polak said. "But I guess it's up to the coach and my playing in preseason."


text: Just wondering if anyone here raises and/or breeds pigeons. I have done it now for four years. I had 40 pairs at my max, but now only have 2 pairs. Wouldn't mind seeing some pics of your pigeons lofts for ideas for improvement. Please respond to this post if you do. Thanks!


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August 8, 1963 - February 22, 2013
Walton and Livingston Manor, NY
Randy Lee Sundstrom of Walton and Livingston Manor passed away on Friday, February 22, 2013. He was 49.
He was the son of the late Charles and Florence Vargo Sundstrom, born on August 8, 1963 in Liberty, NY.
Randy proudly served our country in the United States Army from 1981-1983. He was a pumpkin farmer who was one of the founding members and past president of the New York State Giant Pumpkin Growers Association. In 2008 he placed 10th in the United States for having one of the largest pumpkin weighing in at 1,459 pounds. He was formerly a repairman for small engines and owned and operated Sundstrom Sales and Service. Randy loved to be outdoors.
He is survived by his daughter, Melinda (Mindy) Sundstrom Lackey and her companion, Philip Bellows of Livingston Manor, NY and his sister, Caroline Sundstrom of PA.
Visitation will be on Saturday, March 2nd at Herbert C. Bryant Funeral Home, 29 Pearls Street, Livingston Manor, NY 12758 from 12 to 2 p.m. A funeral service will be on Saturday, March 2nd at 2 p.m. at the funeral home; Pastor Paul Sherri will officiate. Interment will follow at Sullivan County Veterans Cemetery with full military honors.
Donations in Randy's name can be made to the New York State Giant Pumpkin Growers Association. Please contact the president Andy Wolf at andycom .
Arrangements were under the direction of Colonial-Bryant Funeral Homes and Cremation Services, for further information please call 845-439-4333 or visit www.colonialbryantfuneralhome.com.


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StarCraft II Released Today
When you hear that a game has been in development for a very long time, it often spells doom, or at the very least mediocrity, for the title. Just look at games like Duke Nukem Forever, which was a disaster for several studios, and after 13 years of perpetual development it's still not out, or Too Human, which was announced during 3 separate console generations before it was finally released on the Xbox 360 to a resounding indifference. Way over at the other end of the spectrum, though, sits StarCraft II, the exception that proves the rule. Unlike most other developers, Blizzard is such a hugely profitable company that it can actually afford to keep a game in an extended development cycle, and today's release is the culmination of at least 7 years' work. I've known this for a while now, but I'm still a bit stunned they did that (mostly) on purpose. Here's to hoping it'll be as awesome as they clearly want it to be, and check below for extra tidbits about the game.
Collector's Edition unboxing!
Some pretty nice StarCraft II toys.
Overview of Battle.net and the single-player campaign.
Known issues, and a good "what if it won't start" article.
A daisy chain of StarCraft races/
StarCraft II, the airplane.
Here's some advice on keeping your shiny new Battle.net account from getting hacked.
The game also ships with a very in-depth editor, which is a development environment in its own right. It can be pushed so far as to create games like Tetris, cart racers, or even bullet-hell shooters. Obsoive.
And, of course, you can already torrent the game at your convenience.


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The Laboratory for Evolutionary Neuroscience is dedicated to research on brain evolution in primates and other mammals. We investigate phylogenetic diversity in neural structure, including its behavioral correlates and genetic substrates.
A primary goal of the laboratory's research is to characterize variation in neocortical architecture among mammals. We use quantitative neuroanatomical methods to explore species differences in inhibitory interneuron distributions, neuronal morphology, glial cell proportions, innervation by neuromodulatory fibers, and synaptic organization. These studies allow us to reconstruct the evolutionary history of brain structure across mammals and to identify possible neural specializations underlying behavioral adaptations.
Within the scope of the laboratory's research, we examine human brain organization in comparison to other primates. Our aim is to elucidate the biological basis of uniquely modern human cognitive abilities, such as "theory of mind" and language. In addition, we are exploring the link between genotypic changes and the evolution of distinctive brain anatomy in the human lineage.
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The longtime critic of the Bush family levels his guns at today's most notorious political consultant.
Just in time for the 2012 election, along comes Vanity Fair contributing editor Unger (The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America Today, 2007, etc.) to remind liberals that Karl Rove did not depart the scene with his patron, the reviled W. The "Evil Genius" has been very busy attending to his long-term project of capturing all three branches of government for the Republican Party. From prestigious perches at Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and Newsweek, Rove has been preparing the public battle space for the coming election. Behind the scenes, contemptuous of the amateurish tea party and circumventing the ossified GOP apparatus, he's strung together his own SuperPAC network. He has taken full advantage of the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, and he's seeded the Romney campaign with any number of close associates and acolytes. If Romney prevails with the help of Rove's hidden hand, Unger insists, the consequences for the nation promise to be "monumental," none of them good. To support his ominous prediction, he marches through Rove's career scandals, none of which bear the hard-nosed operative's fingerprints—he's too smart for that—but they all reek of the master manipulator's sulphurous odor. Unger discusses Rove's role in the outing of Valerie Plame, his effort to manipulate Ohio's 2004 election results and his use of the criminal justice system to target political opponents, along with his part in the Swift Boat ads that drowned John Kerry and his orchestration of the takedown that ended Dan Rather's career. For the conscienceless Rove, issues—tort reform, voter fraud—matter only insofar as they advance the Republican cause. But, then, power has always been his objective, a 30-year effort "to game the American electoral system by whatever means necessary."
An unrelenting critique of the bogeyman of liberals who refuses to go away.


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Best-selling author George Pelecanos takes listeners into the mean streets of Washington D.C. in his latest thought-provoking work of crime fiction. Lorenzo Brown has just been released from prison. Once the member of a brutal gang, he has vowed to change his life for the better. But his new job brings him face-to-face with the members of his old crew on a daily basis-and now it looks like he may be caught in the midst of a brewing turf war. "[Pelecanos] is one of today's most stellar writers of hard-boiled crime fiction." -The New York Times


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Me: "OMG! My boyfriend published another paper!!"My virus boyfriend Patrick Forterre is still fighting the good fight for viruses:
Bossman: "Ugh. Do you have any idea how old he is?"
Me: "Our love, it is forbidden."
Redefining Viruses: Lessons from MimivirusWhy the hell arent the most abundant creatures on the planet included in the tree of life??
Viruses arent just wads of selfish genes. They are an organism. They contribute massively to the evolution of 'life' on this planet.
We arent slack-jawed TARD Creationists pointing at a Panda Bear slurring "Dat der is a BEAR kiiiind." We use genetics to establish phylogenetic trees, ergo, who is related to whom. Why do we point to viruses and drool "It aint ALIVE! It caint go in deh tree!"
It doesnt make any sense. Like having a ribosome imparts an organism with a 'soul' that allows it to be considered 'alive' and included in Earths evolutionary tree of life.
But that is the stickler for including viruses in the tree. Usually its the ribosomal sequence thats used to compare amoebas to oak trees. And viruses dont have them. Viruses really dont have anything in common with cells (so much for the "But viruses r just de-evolved CELLS!!" hypothesis) so how can we attach them to the Tree?
Forterre suggests that we just use the protein that all viruses have in common, capsid, to create a mirror tree. Like a reflection in a graveyard pond, a Tree of Undead Viruses.
Its a start. But I do not like. I dont see the viral world evolving like a mirror Tree of Life with viruses evolving with their hosts in an alternate dimension. I see The Tree of Life and the Tree of Undead Viruses hopelessly intertwined-- in the same dimension-- we can detect where we got protein A and protein B from viruses and where bactereophages stole protein C and protein D from their hosts or one another. I dont think Forterre would suggest that the trees are isolated, as it appeared in a diagram in this paper, but that is going to be the outcome if you compare Ribosomal Encoding Organisms to Capsid Encoding Organisms.
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2 Pathology of Prostate Cancer 5
Murali Varma and Ashish Chandra
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4 Prostate Cancer Diagnosis 11
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6 Screening for Prostate Cancer 18
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8 Open Radical Prostatectomy 25
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10 Robotic Radical Prostatectomy 33
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11 Prostate Brachytherapy 37
Peter Acher and Rick Popert
Louise Dickinson Hashim U. Ahmed and Mark Emberton
13 Cryotherapy for Prostate Cancer 44
Alastair Henderson and John Davies
14 Advances in External Beam Radiotherapy 48
David Landau Nadia Walsh and Asad Qureshi
15 Recent Advances in Hormonal Therapy 51
Heather Payne Reena Davda and Mark R. Feneley
16 Management of Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer 54
Roger S. Kirby Prokar Dasgupta and John M. Fitzpatrick
17 Immunology of Prostate Cancer 57
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18 New Approaches to Prostate Cancer 63
Megan S. Schober Roger S. Kirby and Prokar Dasgupta
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Comic-Con 2014: 'Ant-Man' Loses Patrick Wilson and More From Cast
Just when it seemed that Marvel's 'Ant-Man' was getting back on track after all that Edgar Wright-exiting and replacement director-searching, it appears that the Peyton Reed production has been hit with another major setback. Deadline reports that Patrick Wilson, Matt Gerald, and Kevin Weisman have all dropped out of the film, scheduled to go into production later this year. With Marvel set to hit Hall H tomorrow for one of their always-impressive Comic-Con presentations, it sure sounds like the 'Ant-Man' table will be unexpectedly undermanned.
As for why the trio have departed, Deadline reports that it's not as bad as it may seem (the outlet also notes that "there is speculation that the trio's exit is for the same reason that Wright departed and was replaced by Peyton Reed. Marvel insiders adamantly dispute that," so take that for what you will). Both Gerald and Weisman's characters (Gerald was cast as a villain and was expected to reprise his role from the Marvel One-Shot short 'All Hail the King') have reportedly been written out of the film's latest script, which continues to go through new screenwriters on a seemingly weekly basis.
Wilson, however, has left the project due to "a scheduling conflict," one that cropped up when the film got delayed after all that director's chair upheaval. The actor was set for a sizable, but still undisclosed, role in the film.
Sounds like this is a good time for Marvel to do a little deflection and announce something big and splashy to counteract a possibly slim 'Ant-Man' panel...
Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, and Evangeline Lilly are still set to star in the film, which will hit theaters on July 17, 2015.


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ANAHEIM — Those back-to-back extra-inning games following the All-Star break could have taken a toll on the Los Angeles Angels, but manager Mike Scioscia was pleased with how his team came out of those grueling tests.
The Angels won a 16-inning affair against the Mariners 3-2 on Friday and lost 3-2 in 12 innings on Saturday. So much for the All-Star break and easing the bullpen back into things.
Things could've been worse.
"That happens from time to time," Scioscia said. "I think you're always trying to win in nine innings with the mindset of what happens in the 14th inning. It's in the back of your head, but you're trying to win in nine innings.
"We had 28 innings in two days. What Huston Street did was great. (Jered) Weaver went (six-plus innings), and Garrett (Richards) went eight. We came out of it as well as you can expect."
Trout shines
It's been quite a week for Mike Trout, who was named MVP of the All-Star Game, then had a couple of days off before playing in Friday and Saturday's games.
Not only it is a physical grind but surely a mental one as well being hailed as the face of basaeball once Derek Jeter retires.
"Mike caught his breath," Scioscia said. "He's fine. He's pretty good. He turns 23 in a couple of weeks."
Aybar out
Shortstop Erick Aybar, who played in the All-Star game as a defensive replacement but didn't get a plate appearance, is nursing a groin injury that caused him to leave Friday's game. He wasn't in Sunday's lineup, the second consecutive game he missed.
Aybar has played in 93 of the Angels' 97 games this season.
Break for other All-Star
Seattle Mariners outfielder Robinson Cano asked for and was granted the day off Sunday to rest his sore hamstring, Mariners manager Lloyd McClendon told reporters. Cano played in the All-Star Game and played both extra-inning games Friday and Saturday.
Running man
Leadoff batter Kyle Calhoun scored two more runs Sunday, giving him 39 runs scored since May 29. Calhoun singled in the first inning and scored on Josh Hamilton's double and hit a solo home run in the third inning.
Next up
The Angels begin a three-game series against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday followed by a four-game home series against Detroit. Matt Shoemaker, Hector Santiago and Jered Weaver are scheduled for the next three starts for the Angels.


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New York turned out to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the historic Apollo Theater on Monday night. Prince, Mariah Carey, Steve Harvey, Bill Cosby, Fantasia Barrino, and Chanj all took turns on the stage; Jamie Foxx introduced Quincy Jones, who was inducted into the Apollo Legends Hall of Fame; and the crowd included Michael Bloomberg and Diana Taylor, New York First Lady Michelle Patterson, Patti LaBelle, Dick Parsons, Al Sharpton, Gayle King, Sherri Shepard, Phylicia Rashad, Clarissa and Edgar Bronfman Jr., Ruby Dee, Ron Perelman and daughter Samantha Perelman, Sade Baderinwa, Devyn Simone, Kevin Liles, Jonelle Procope, Susan Magrino, Robin Roberts, Doug E. Fresh, Bryant and Hilary Gumbel, Bethenny Frankel, Denise Rich, and designer (and secret soul music fan) Roberto Cavalli. [PMc, Wireimage, VF]
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COUNTY OF GRANDE PRAIRIE No. 1 - Excerpts taken from the
"Story of Rural Municipal Government in Alberta 1909 to 1983"
by the Association of the Municipal Districts and Counties
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While the Peace River country, part of which was to become the first county in Alberta,
is still new frontier, it has a long history in the development of western Canada.
It was Peter Pond who in 1778 first pushed northwest in search of new trapping territory,
penetrating where no other white man had ventured. Pond's map of the rugged hinterland as
he knew it, published in 1785. was a guide for the North-West Company, formed two years later
and in which he had a partnership. The map proved of intense concern to the rival Hudson's
Bay Company, its roughly indicated lakes and waterways studied with urgent purpose and in
1791 the British government directed a Hudson's Bay Company surveyor into the North-West
Company's territory to verify water courses for future exploration. Alexander McKenzie's
second trip the following year yielded for his North-West Company valuable knowledge of
Peace River as a trade route and by 1798 the North-West Company had erected a trading post
near the present site of Fort St. John, fifth in the north country to be established by that
company. It wasn't until 1803 that the Hudson's Bay Company built Mansfield House near today's
Fort Vermilion in opposition to their rivals, first of its posts to be erected in the Peace
River country. Fort Dunvegan, started in 1805 by the NorthWest Company under direction of
senior partner A. N. McLeod, preceded by a year news that the Hudson's Bay Company had set
up a post near Fort St. John. By 1821 when the two fur companies amalgamated, the vast,
silent hinterland knew only trapper and trader.
Nearly four decades later the British government commissioned Captain John Palliser of the
British Army to "explore that portion of North America which lies between the northern
watershed and the frontier of the United States and between the Red River and the Rocky
Mountains and endeavor to find a practical route through them." In his reports, the phrase
"fertile belt" caught public interest, kindled a new kind of political concept and in 1867
led to a 2,300,000 square mile land deal when rights of the Hudson's Bay Company were bought
out by Canada and this vast territory was transferred to the Dominion of Canada for the sum
of 300,000 pounds sterling.
By the turn of the century the first, thin trickle of land-hungry frontiersmen was seeping
over the Athabasca Trail across Ia grande prairie that lay between the Big Smoky River and
the British Columbia boundary. Some, frustrated in their search for Klondyke gold, were lured
by the virgin open parkland waiting only for a plow to tame it; cattlemen were attracted by
its lakes and shoulder-high wild grasses. Beaver Indians and traders, sighting smoke from
railway and land surveyors camps, knew that the era of the trap and pack trail was ending
and the era of the homestead and hamlet was to begin.
An Edmonton promotional organization calling itself The Argonaut Company Ltd. was incorporated
late in 1909 with Alphaeus Patterson, president and W. A. Rae, secretary-treasurer. Designed
primarily to establish a town site on the Canadian Northern Railway survey at Bear Creek which
they called Grande Prairie City after the rolling parkland, the company was largely responsible
for opening the flood gates for the great surge of pioneers that subsequently washed over the
south Peace River country.
To accomplish their objective, the company took advantage of a land survey made that spring.
According to the February 21, 1909 issue of the Edmonton Journal, "W. G. McFarlane, dominion
land surveyor, leaves Edmonton bound for the grande prairie country with a survey party of 31
men, 24 horses, 20 tons of supplies and four tons of iron posts. He expects the 500 mile trip
will take a month. A parcel of 56 miles long and 18 miles wide is to be surveyed this year.
The property lies north of the junction of the Wapiti and Smoky Rivers and covers the district
of which the Hudson's Bay Company post at Saskatchewan Lake (Lake Saskatoon) is the centre."
McFarlane and his brother James, the next year, left Ontario, arriving in the Peace River
country March 17, 1910. Their outfit of l2sleighloads this time hauled some 30 tons of farming
machinery and supplies. Heading west from Grouard. The outfit made Sturgeon Lake and in the
teeth of a strong Chinook, started down the Simonette River, its ice already awash with inches
of water. On reaching the Smoky, water was up to the freight racks and the river ice uncertain,
but the western shore was made without mishap. James selected land in the Lake Saskatoon area
and eventually built on Cut Bank Lake. Walter, who surveyed the embryo town site of 80 acres for
The Argonaut Co. settled near Buffalo Lakes and in 1913 was an unsuccessful candidate for election
on the Liberal ticket, as member of the Alberta Legislature, withdrawing early in the bitter
campaign. The brothers, introducing purebred stock, encouraged the country's steady improvement
of horses and cattle through their own prize-winning animals.
With the rush of settlers, the Peace River Land District with headquarters at Grouard,
was subdivided and the Grande Prairie Land District was formed. The government land office
with A. S. McLean in charge, set up in a log building near the townsite, opened its doors
to a crowd of 50 waiting homesteaders the morning of July 15, 1911. Within a few months,
the Edson Trail would be completed through to the town site, its ruts and bogholes, its
hills and fordings alive with the creak of wagon wheels, the slow tread of ox teams, the
voices of families bound for free land and elbow room.
The first rural municipality to be formed in the area was the Rural Municipality of Bear
Lake No.740, its initial meeting held in Abbott's Hall, Lake Saskatoon, December 11, 1912.
Yellowing pages and fading ink set out that these councillors were present: James McFarlane,
W. C. Dillon, J. H. Adair, and A. Craig. "Councillor Adair moved that J. McFarlane be
Chairman" and "that Councillor Dillon be Vice-Reeve." The minutes were signed by McFarlane
as reeve and F. Lukey as secretary-treasurer.
Nearly four weeks later, the first session of the Rural Municipality of Grande Prairie No.
709 "was held at the residence of Mr. Brims at 2 p.m. January 6th, 1913. Councillors present:
J. H. Harris, A. W. Carveth, Leo Schroeder, John Oatway, and J. W. Shortreed. The vote for
Reeve was then taken and resulted as follows: Harris 2 votes, Carveth 3 votes. Mr. Carveth
was declared elected. Moved that Mr. Harris be Deputy Reeve. The application of Mr. D. H.
Axon for the office of secretary-treasurer was read and on motion was accepted."
Carveth and his eldest son, Rupert, had set out June 1, 1911 from Ontario for the Peace River
Country, transferring their carload of effects at Edson's end-of-steel to wagons for the nearly
300 mile trek over the newly slashed-out Edson Trail, arriving on Ia grande prairie three weeks
later. By July 15, among those settlers waiting since 2 a.m. for doors of the new land office
to open, Rupert was second and his father third in the lineup of 50 to file, their land selected
in the Five Mile Creek district east of the townsite. A little over five months later, their
tent replaced by a large log house and a completed barn, Carveth Sr. returned to Ontario for
the rest of his family and another carload of settlers effects. This time he was accompanied
back to the Grande Prairie also by his sister Dr. Annie Carveth Higbee and her husband, Dr.
Higbee to contribute indefatigable dedication and medical skill to south Peace history. Mr.
Carveth was to contribute a lifetime of public service to the area as well as respected for
his good farming practice.
The Rural Municipality of Grande Prairie extended west from the Smoky River through range 5
and from the Wapiti River on the south, north to township 73; the Rural Municipality of Bear
Lake included Ranges 6, 7 and 8 and from the Wapiti River in township 70 north through township 73.
While first action to be taken by both municipalities was to set up herd laws, wagon roads
and railroads were of immediate concern to the isolated area. At a special meeting of the
R. M. of Grande Prairie held March 16, 1913 and first since its organizational session,
councilors agreed to press for a government wagon road extending from the Smoky River west
to the eastern boundary of the R. M. of Bear Lake. At that meeting also, it was decided
that "the 5 councilors act as 5 road commissioners and that each commissioner look after
the roadwork in his part as he sees fit. Moved that $5.00 be levied on each quarter section
for the construction of roads and bridges."
At their next meeting held April 7, 1913 the council passed a motion that "the time used by
this municipality shall be known as Dunvegan Time. Moved that $2.50 per man per day or $5.00
per man and team per day be the schedule for roadwork done by ratepayers in this municipality.
Moved that each road overseer shall be empowered to let out road scrapers to residents of this
municipality at the rate of 25c per day which receipts shall be turned over to the treasurer."
The second meeting of Rural Municipality of Bear Lake convened April 5th,1913, appointing F.
Lukey secretary-treasurer, assessor, and tax collector at $700.00 per annum. "A notice was
read from Pringle and Guthrie, solicitors, Edmonton, that an application would be made to the
Parliament of Canada at its present session for an Act to incorporate the Athabasca and
Grande Prairie Railway Co. with power to construct and operate a line of railway from some
point at or near the junction of the Solomon River with the Athabasca River in the Province
of Alberta in a north-westerly direction to a point at or near the junction of the Smoky River
with the Muskeg River, thence by the most feasible route in a northerly direction to Dunvegan,
Alberta, passing through Grande Prairie at a point on the westerly side of Bear Lake. Councilor
Dillon moved that a letter be sent to Pringle and Guthrie expressing approval of this
application and that if built would be greatly in the interest of Grand Prairie."
When the Rural Municipality of Bear Lake reconvened April 29, 1913 it was to meet with a
delegation from Lake Saskatoon "to discuss feasibility of cutting a road south from Lake
Saskatoon to the Smoky River, the distance being in the neighborhood of 90 miles, a sleigh
road having already been built from the Smoky River to Hinton on the G.T.P. Railway.
Moved that the land for purposes of assessment be valued at $750 per quarter section and the
assessment be 1% on the $1; that $2.50 be paid in cash per quarter and the balance in work
or cash and all lots situated within the Municipality be assessed at $2 per lot. Moved that
the rate of pay to officials be as follows: Reeve $4 per day and lO cents per mile for
attending meetings; $4 per day for inspecting roads and other required work. Councilors $3
per day and lO cents per mile for attending meetings; $3 per day for inspecting roads and
other required work. Road overseer and weed inspector $3 per day for any day when actually
employed carrying out respective duties. Men for day labor $2.50 per day, man and team with
necessary implements as required by overseers not including scrapers $5 per day. Moved that
a day's work constitute from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. with one hour for dinner and that telegraph
time be used.
Moved that A. W. Cameron be appointed auditor, the salary being $25.00. By 1937 in an effort
to derive additional taxes necessary to carry on its 85 rural schools, School District No.14
was enlarged, leading to the eventual amalgamation of the two rural municipalities seven
years later. Reported the weekly Herald-Tribune December 16, 1943 "Bear Lake and Grande
Prairie Municipalities have received notice from the Provincial Government that the two
municipalities will be merged and will be operated as one big unit. The proposed boundary
lines are from the Big Smoky on the east to the B.C. boundary on the west. The north boundary
line will be the north line of township 74. The new plan will take in the Teepee Creek,
LaGlace, Buffalo Lakes, and Valhalla areas. The new policy is supposed to go into effect
January 1, 1944.
At the final session of Rural Municipality of Bear Lake Reeve William McLevin was in the
chair and council included E. J. Holtom, Barney Throness, Jean Lozeron, and Benny Foster.
The year ended for the Rural Municipality of Grande Prairie with Reeve E. J. Grant, T. A.
Warden, Ira McLaughlin, Tom Corlett, William Garrett, and H. Gouchey comprising its council.
By March 2, 1944 issue of the press, organization of the enlarged unit was completed with
an election. At its initial session, James Smith was named Reeve. Council also agreed that:
"D. W. Patterson be secretary-treasurer and assessor at a yearly salary of $6,840 and that
Catherine Humphrey be appointed assistant secretary, the salary to include all salaries
necessary for the work; any extra cost of assessing to be paid for in addition", and that
"the name of the district be the Municipal District of Grande Prairie No.780."
In another six years ratepayers were to see the controversial County Act become law by
July 1, 1950 and the M. D. of Grande Prairie cease to exist by 1951. More than a year
before, the M. D. of Grande Prairie had approached the Department of Municipal Affairs
suggesting that a form of county system be tried. According to the July 13, 1950 issue
of the Herald-Tribune, residents of the area gathered in Grande Prairie's Legion Hall to
hear the Hon. C. E. Gerhart, Minister of Municipal Affairs, explain that area. The county
now includes a major pulp and sawmill, and a number of gas plants. In 1980 the county
conducted its own census and the population had grown to 11,269. In 1980, the council
celebrated its 30th year of operation as a county.


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2016 Dodge Dakota is one truck that will come up with a new design that will attract the attention of many people. New Dodge Dakota will enliven the competition in the segment of car pick-up or truck. Dodge is one of the companies that created the car that has good performance. Soon, Dodge will launch latest series named 2016 Dodge Dakota which is rumored to replace the previous edition. Dodge will launch the latest generation of Dodge Dakota to maintain an increasingly tight market position. We will discuss about the specifics of the 2016 Dodge Dakota.
2016 Dodge Dakota Concept Design
2016 Dodge Dakota have undergone revisions to look out for. 2016 Dodge Dakota exterior design will look more modern and masculine. Dodge Dakota changes will occur in the future as the revised grille design and bumpers front and rear. New Dodge Dakota will use the new lighting system using LED lights that will make the car more modern. As for the interior design of the 2016 Dodge Dakota will use a combination of simple and elegant design. So far there has been no comprehensive information about the latest Dodge Dakota interior design. But the expected New Dodge Dakota will offer features and advanced equipment that will increase the value of leisure and entertainment that will provide a driving experience that is better than the previous model.
2016 Dodge Dakota Engine
2016 Dodge Dakota is the kind of car pick-up which will offer machines with great specs. According to rumors circulating, the latest edition of the Dodge Dakota, V6 engine will use the inline-four predicted could generate power to power 210 horsepower. All new Dodge Dakota has a fuel economy rating of about 30mpg.
2016 Dodge Dakota Release Date and Price
2016 Dodge Dakota is one pick-up cars that offer design changes and have a good performance. According to rumors circulating, the release date of 2016 Dodge Dakota will be launched this year. As for pricing information 2016 Dodge Dakota is expected to sell for about $ 60,000.


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Professor Arie Galles
Narrative Biography
Galles' drawings and Reflected Light Paintings, have been exhibited nationally, including solo shows at the O.K. Harris Gallery, NYC, and the Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago. Group shows include the Steinbaum-Krauss Gallery, NYC, NJ State Museum, Trenton. NJ, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jacksonville, MI, Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. His works are in public and private collections in the US and abroad.
Arie has just completed his monumental suite of large charcoal drawings, "Fourteen Stations/Hey Yud Dalet," based on World War II aerial photographs of 14 concentration camps from Luftwaffe and Allied sources. The suite was subsequently exhibited at a number of Museums and Galleries. The next show will be mounted at the Founders Gallery at Soka University of America from February 16 through April 28, 2006.
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It is often claimed that the Sun is causing global climate change.
The Sun is the source of the heat on the Earth, but it has not suddenly become more active recently.
The Sun is the source of the heat on the Earth, but it has not suddenly become more active recently.
When the Sun's energy arrives at the Earth, it travels through the air.
Some is reflected back to space, but some hits the Earth and warms it.
The warm Earth gives off infrared radiation with various wavelengths.
Some of those waves can pass back out of the air to space, but some are absorbed by certain gases in the air.
If there are more of those gases, less heat escapes into space, so the Earth warms.
In the graph below, from the Stanford Solar Center, carbon dioxide data comes from the Law Dome ice core in Antarctica, and from the observatory on Mauna Loa in Hawaii.
The Earth has warmed, even though there has been no corresponding rise in any kind of solar activity.
There is no doubt why the Earth is warming.
A new study says that even if the Sun's activity did drop off for a while, it wouldn't have much impact on rising global temperatures.
It could mean a higher chance of some chilly winters in Europe and the US, but the researchers say:
"....any change in global mean temperature due to a future prolonged solar minimum would do little to substantially offset or delay the warming due to projected increases in long-lived greenhouse gases."
There is now too much carbon dioxide in the air for there to be a repeat of the 'Little Ice Age'.
In fact, it is very likely that human activity has finally broken the cycle of glacial and interglacial stages.


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PRADO is a PHP framework expressly inspired by Tapestry. As you might expect, all I've had a chance to do is glance over the documentation, but it looks very nice, and their site is very professional and slick.
I suspect the relationship between PRADO and Tapestry is the same as between Tapestry and WebObjects ... the precursor "proves" the space is viable, but I doubt the implementation is all that similar, given the different languages involved.
Still, best of luck ... but don't expect any framework, on any platform, to keep up with Tapestry 5!


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The 29th Annual Easter Egg Hunt is postponed for Saturday, March 23rd due to rain and will be held next Saturday, March 30th starting at 11:00 a.m. Our special guest, the Easter Bunny, will visit with the children before and after the event for pictures. Colorful eggs containing prize slips for prizes donated by area businesses are found amongst the candy hidden by the Easter Bunny. Other activities are free temporary Easter face tattoos.
All egg hunters are to meet at the courtyard in front of the courthouse. Children must be between ages 1 and 12. They should arrive at the park before 11:00 a.m. since the hunt begins promptly at that time. The hunt areas are divided into different age groups. Ages 1 – 4 are allowed one adult to accompany them. Ages 5 – 8 and 9-12 are hunting Easter Eggs without adult assistance.
An event this size requires community volunteers preferably age 18 and over to insure the event runs smoothly. Please contact us at the park at (870)523-2143 if you can participate as a volunteer on the day of the event.


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Nissan stopped making the 350Z back in 2009, but this one still looks good, thanks to a chrome finish. It's not nearly as outrageous as the 'Winning' car from the Gumball 3000 or a half-chromed Bugatti Veyron, but it's not too shabby, either.
It was spotted in Urumqi, in northern China near Mongolia, and posted on Car News China, which shared it with us.


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Learn beginner finger picking techniques and the song, House of the Rising Sun!
- Learn how the fingers are named and abbreviated.
- Learn the proper fingerstyle hand position.
- Practice using the classical fingerstyle technique
Fingerstyle is the technique of plucking the strings with your fingers instead of a pick.
Picking Hand Finger Names
|Strings Plucked
|4, 5, 6
|e or c
|not used
Hand Position
When playing fingerstyle, position your hand so the fingers are perpendicular to the strings so you can strike the stings easily. To do this, the thumb should be in-front of the fingers (closer to the headstock). This hand positioning is very important for several fingerstyle techniques.
Exercise 1 – Fingerstyle Arpeggio
In this example, the chord is played as an arpeggio. This means that the chord is played one note at a time instead of at the same time. This exercise will help you play some basic finger picking patterns. Focus on using the fingerings given above the staff.
When picking, try not to pull the strings away from the fretboard so they pop. Though, this is sometimes used for a percussive effect, it is not usually a desired sound.
Exercise 2 – Chordal Finger Picking
In this exercise, we will play multiple strings at the same time.
Exercise 3 – Brushing
This exercise focuses on the technique of brushing your fingers across multiple strings. To execute this with your index finger, use the face of your fingernail (the part that people use nail polish on) and brush it against the strings by straightening your finger. Your finger should fully extend and point towards the floor when you complete the brushing motion.
In the exercise below, you will execute a brush stroke on beat 2 of the first four measures by brushing strings 3, 2, and 1 (in that order).
Song Exercise – House of the Rising Sun
This song uses arpeggio patterns throughout the song. Enjoy this folksy classic.
Travis Picking
Named after Merle Travis, this is one of the most famous fingerstyle techniques. When using the technique, the thumb alternates between bass strings (strings 4, 5, or 6) while playing steady quarter notes. While this is happening a melody is played using the higher strings (1, 2, and 3).
Exercise 1 – Steady Bass
The first step to Travis Picking is playing a steady bass line. Practice this example until you have it precise.
Exercise 2 – Adding a Melody Note
This example adds a melody note on beat 1. Specifically, this adds a note to be played with the middle finger.
Exercise 3 – Adding More melody Notes
To complete the example, we'll add the rest of the melody notes.
Applying Travis Picking
Travis picking is not limited to the pattern I showed you. You should be able to recognize it in fingerstyle songs. If you're writing music, consider using it. Most of all, just have fun with it.
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Now that you know fingerstyle basics, seek out songs that you can practice. Blackbird by the Beatles, Dust in the Wind by Kansas, Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton are all great songs to play. You can also find a lot of classical arrangements. I will be posting a couple of my own arrangements soon, so check back often!
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40 HASKINS & SELLS May
Book Review
Szepesi, Eugene. Cost Control and Accounting
for Textile Mills. (New York,
Bragdon, Lord & Nagle Co., 1922. 434 p.)
The reviewer of books on accounting and
related subjects is so accustomed to books
which deal with generalities that it is
something of a relief to find a new book
which gets down, so to speak, to brass
tacks. The book under review of necessity
deals with certain principles and develops
certain background before proceeding
to the application of principles; but
it stands out in the current literature on
the subject in that the discussion of principles
is steadfastly tied up with textile
operations. The treatment of the subject
indicates that the writer is a man of practical
experience in the textile field and
writes from knowledge born of experience
While the book has particular value for
those who are interested in textile accounting,
it may be read and consulted by those
whose interest in cost accounting is general.
The detail of the discussion makes it
attractive to the seeker of specific information,
and the treatment accorded by the
author may well serve as an example for
other writers to follow.
Chapters 1 to 8 are more or less general,
treating of the elements of cost. Chapters
9 to 18 are more specific, the outstanding
ones being those which discuss the control
accounts of a modern cost control organization
and the records and routine of registry
in progress of production. The last chapter,
discussing cost without red tape, is
particularly illuminating, and contains a
number of correction tables which facilitate
calculations to show variations from standards.
If the price of the book, ten dollars, is
thought to be somewhat excessive, a careful
perusal of the content will doubtless
serve to dispel such idea. The illustrations
and tabulations are numerous; the book,
as a whole, very satisfactory, both from
the point of view of content and treatment
of the subject.


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Anton's on the Lake
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The leaves have reached peak at our Waterfront bed and breakfast Country Inn and Marina in the historic Hudson River Valley. Our Inn is nestled on the shores of Greenwood Lake and surrounded by five State Parks. All within 20 minutes of our inn. We are only 45 miles from New York City and four miles from the Skylands region of New Jersey.
Relax in one of our waterfront king rooms. Surround yourself with candles and relax in a two person whirlpool tub.
Hike theAppalachian Trail or one of our many state park trails surrounding our inn. Experience the scenic Hudson Valley from a sunrise balloon ride.
Like to shop? The sales at Woodbury Common Premium Outlets are incredible. Guests receive a coupon book for more bargains.. For a unique gift visit quaint villages of Warwick or the craft village of Sugarloaf.
Queen Room with four poster bed
Let our feather beds lull you to sleep and awaken to a breakfast basket delivered to your room in a basket.
Visit the wineries and take home some local wines. Enjoy quiet walks on country lanes or explore the nearby State parks and historic houses. Have a romantic dinner in one of the many nearby waterfront restaurants.
Don't forget to check out our what's on page or the local attractions page. So much to do.
For History Buffs, the Historic Hudson Valley is a must. Take a Hudson River Cruise or visit the many mansions along the Hudson River. Take a tour of West Point. Go to George Washington's headquarters or President Roosevelt's home and library.
Check out all the fall programs at The NJ Weiss Ecological Society and the State parks. talks.. Lots to do.
Business travelers, start your day off right with our Continental breakfast delivered to your room. After a busy day, relax lakeside, or use your laptop by the lake... Yes, we have Free wi fi.
Restaurants are within walking distance and we are the closest hotel to IBM. Ask about our Corporate rates
Contact us:
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Winter view from our deck
Greenwood Lake in the fall
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Discover five state parks all within 20 minutes drive of our inn: Sterling Forest, Harriman, Bear Mountain, Wawayanda, Ringwood Manor, Skylands Botanical Gardens and Statepark.
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On the weekends, a special 50%off week-end rate with Enterprise Rent a Car will make your visit to the Hudson Valley one to remember.
Explore our back country roads this fall and discover the great wines and restaurants the Historic Hudson Valley has to offer.
Come wine tasting on theShawangunk wine trail We are located at the southern end of the trail. Four wineries are within a twenty minute drive of our inn.
All our waterfront rooms have wine glasses and a corkscrew.
Spend a day at Spa at Crystal Springs. Relax in their indoor and outdoor heated pools, whirlpools, sauna and steam rooms. Try a work out class in their full service gym. Crystal Springs Spa Package.
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So you wanna talk about redefining rock LPs of the 1980's? Ya just gotta include THE BLASTING CONCEPT VOLUME II in there, chief. Anyone who hoped those "difficult" mid-period BLACK FLAG and SACCHARINE TRUST records were just a fluke couldn't deny that, by 1985, SST Records had undergone a complete and total aesthetic overhaul. The HC punk had become heavy, found hippie, turned jazzy, gone fishin' and then . . . well, kids everywhere were shaking their heads in utter disbelief. This just wasn't what they wanted their oh-so precious punk rock to sound like. Ever.
THE BLASTING CONCEPT VOLUME II encapsulated those revelatory changes, and suggested a dozen more. It was a bold, powerful, collective artistic statement that directly challenged unexamined musical prejudices throughout punk & underground scenes at the time. While the first BLASTING compilation merely corralled previously released material on a handy 12″, most of this stuff never turned up anywhere else, making it primary SST documentation. Yes it's got the most boring cover in SST's early annals; but do check out the original, unused Pettibon artwork in the backpages of Joe Carducci's Rock & the Pop Narcotic – a very different graphic representation to ponder when cracking an ear to this aural wonder. Blow by blow, it's
SAINT VITUS: "Look Behind You" – One of my fave early VITUS cuts. Carducci makes mention of a creeping paranoia floating around SST back then, and VITUS pins it here with a singularly leaden, dull blade. Ouch. This version beats the slightly later, Wino-led version what with more inspired vocals by Scott Reagers and superior drumming from Armando.
DC3: "Theme From an Imaginary Western" – Dez the crooner, won't you take the mic? Oh my god, how I love this. It's hard, heavy, and poignant – brings tears to my eyes. And these eyes don't cry easily.
SWA: "Mystery Girl" – Not my fave SWA song, as it's got one of them distended, disjointed riffs that clutter up their early LPs. But Merrill sounds E. Bloomin' hot and raring to go-go-go, like he's about to whip his dick out in front of whatever loser audience ain't gonna be able to handle SWA this week. You might, but me? I don't ever fast-forward past this one.
BLACK FLAG: "I Can See You" – One of the more off-kilter melodies Ginn came up with in FLAG, and when he solos I start feeling a bit woozy. But lyrically it fits the rec perfectly, as if Ginn's responding to the VITUS track above. Who says he didn't grow eyes in the back of his head?
GONE: "Watch the 'Tractor" – One of GONE's defining moments: pure metallic punk/prog mayhem bliss. A buddy of mine always maintained GONE was responsible for the very best in-store performance ever in the greater Washington DC area, which is totally believable if they sounded anything like this.
WÜRM: "Death Ride" – I am one yahoo who actually digs Simon Smallwood's vocals and the BLUE CHEER bronco these guys saddled on their Feast LP. WÜRM were far too early in the scheme of Heavy Revival to be considered anything more than a joke. But like VOX POP, they helped reintroduce OTT metal to punkers in LA, back when you were still making excuses for owning Haysi Fantayzee records.
OVERKILL: "Over the Edge" – OVERKILL put out the best SST LP most of you never bothered with, and this singularly-great MÖTÖRHEAD bomb is an outtake from that crucial rec. Merrill's vocals are buried which makes him sound even more feral, and drummer Kurt Markham positively murders. I can't not bang my head hard when this one comes on.
SACCHARINE TRUST: "Emotions and Anatomy" – A short outtake from their Worldbroken live record, so it's got Mike Watt playing bass. At the time, this kinda deep searching, exploratory sound got me thinking there were absolutely no more limits to just how far out underground rock could be taken. You younger free-rock types oughta all come pay your respects.
PAINTED WILLIE: "The Big Time" – Not a bad bit of REDD KROSS-like sneer from guys who struggled to find their voice after the brilliance of their initial Ragged Army 7″ 45. Most of their records suffer from shitty production, but as I always empathized with punkers who tried rocking it hard and heavy, no doubt I'd have paid to see em do it live if I could.
ANGST: "Just Me" – Depressive folk rock that nicely illustrates the strengths of this Bay-area band. Again I'll maintain that this is entirely in keeping with the vibe (if not the sound) of primo SLEEPERS/NEGATIVE TREND material.
MEAT PUPPETS: "I Just Wanna Make Love to You" – I prefer the PUPS covers of "Child of the Moon" and "No Quarter" but they're all zigzagging stripes off the very same three-legged zebra. I always laugh when Curt maintains she don't love you anymore/ she likes my love better.
MINUTEMEN: "Ain't Talkin' About Love" – Here you probably figured Merrill Ward or Henry Rollins would be the first to come out of the closet with a love for VAN HALEN. Nope: it was Boon who was the real Diamond Dave aficionado all along. I love that, in true MINUTEMEN fashion, they've parred this back to only the 3rd verse and the hey hey heys.
HÜSKER DÜ: "Erase Today" – a great New Day Rising-era outtake. This doesn't actually sound like much else here, but that just illustrates how distinctive these guys' sound actually was. I'm not a huge HD fan, but this is a classic midwestern barnburner anyway you wanna cut it.
OCTOBER FACTION: "I Was Grotesque" – Lifted from the their less-than successful second LP, wherein Dukowski, Ginn, Baiza, Stevenson et al tried to FACTIONalize within the unnatural confines of the studio. They couldn't pull it off and I admit it: I sometimes skip past this one. But I'll always admire their impulse to take the music one step beyond.
TOM TROCCOLI'S DOG: "Todo Para Mi" – A far from ideal cut to end things on, given the quality of all that came before. Me I woulda chose Tom's cover of ANDY & THE RATTLESNAKES "Patience" which ended his own DOG LP from this same year. But really, what better man to bring down these BLASTING curtains than the hippiest, deadheadiest SST roadie of them all? Anybody who couldn't deal would've given up loooong before this track; those who stayed to appreciate it no doubt went on to form all my favorite bands over the next couple decades.
Paging Greg Ginn: re-release this lost treasure! It's one that'll blow minds, forevermore.