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Faith in Vermont: First World Parenting Problems
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As winter becomes spring in an ooze of mud and slush, it's that time of year again: time to sign up the kids for spring (and summer) activities. And signing up means gathering information, pre-planning, and lining up – three things that exhaust me just thinking about them.
I've written before that I'm grateful to live in a place with limited options for children's activities; lack of choice helps keep the overwhelm at bay. On the other hand, lack of choice also means competition for limited resources. I'm still shaking from my first attempt to register a child for the Middlebury Parks & Recreation gymnastics program. Gymnastics registration is held at the town gym on one evening only, on a first-come, first-served basis. Thinking, "No problem, we live in a small town," I arrived promptly at the registration start time.
According to the 2000 census, there are about 1,400 people under the age of 18 in our town. When I arrived at the town gym, the parents of all of them were already in line ahead of me.
I put my daughter on the waiting list and drove home thinking, I've failed as a parent.
This wasn't the first time I'd hit that particular parenting low. I blame one of my worst mothering moments to date on ballet class. Back when our family lived in California, our oldest daughter, then 3 years old, had the opportunity to participate in a ballet class at a lovely little dance school. This daughter had been asking to take ballet for some time, and was elated to put on her leotard and head off to the first class.
The first class was wonderful: I dropped off my daughter with no fuss, spent 30 carefree minutes with her younger sister, and picked up a happy little ballerina at the end of class.
Then came the second class. One minute after we walked in the door, as I prepared to say goodbye, my daughter pitched a screaming, clinging, flailing tantrum extraordinaire. I tried reasoning. I tried bargaining. I tried force. But, as I also had a 1-year-old in tow and was 9 months pregnant at the time, I lost the battle. Back into the car we went.
On that drive home, I was so furious with my daughter that it scared me. Then I started crying. Both reactions were totally illogical; it was just a ballet class!
But here's what I knew in that moment: I had failed as a parent. My daughter either had some deep-rooted anxiety disorder and would grow up afraid to leave the house, or else she was a quitter who'd never follow through with anything.
What is it about our kids' activities that brings out the worst in parents, that sends us straight to the guilt pit?
Maybe I'm alone in this, but based on conversations with other parents, I think guilt is possibly the most prevalent parental emotion. We're guilty about getting (and keeping) our kids in the right activities; we're guilty about whether we spend enough time with them, provide enough enrichment, send them to the right schools, and let them watch too many "Dora the Explorer" DVDs. We're so quick to judge ourselves parental failures.
A recent conversation with my oldest daughter (she of the Ballet Meltdown) helped to change my perspective. We were discussing friends of ours back in California – dear friends, doing-life-together friends who figured prominently in her first three years of life. And she doesn't remember them. Needless to say, she also has no memory of that first ballet class.
Hmmmm, I thought, maybe I didn't need to invest quite so much in those early years.
Now, don't get me wrong: I know how crucial and formative a child's first years are. But I think that parents (myself included) tend to get so wrapped up in the details that we miss the point. We dwell on what I call "First World Parenting Problems," like gymnastics and ballet and "Dora," and forget that most of us are in a fortunate position: for most of us, the important things are the easy things.
Here's a little quiz to illustrate my point. Answer TRUE or FALSE:
1. My child lives in or is fleeing a war-torn area.
2. Some days I can't (or don't) adequately feed and water my child.
3. I have (voluntarily or not) sold my child to human traffickers.
4. I frequently ingest and/or sell illicit substances in my home.
5. I have never told my child that I love them.
If you answered "FALSE" to four out of the five scenarios, I'd say: Congratulations! You're doing GREAT! (And let's not forget that some pretty amazing people have emerged from parents who could probably answer "TRUE" to all five).
Kind of puts swim team and gymnastics class and summer camp in perspective, doesn't it?
Because activities are not mandatory. They're not like basic safety, or meals, or love. Activities are gravy; their purpose is to provide fun experiences for our kids (and to provide parents with 30-60 minutes of kid-free time). So, this spring, I'm going to stop making activities my First World Parenting Problem. If my kids don't get into gymnastics class, so what? At least I can feed them three meals a day (whether or not they choose to eat those meals).
I'm still lining up early for gymnastics registration, though. See you there!
Faith Gong has worked as an elementary school teacher, a freelance photographer, and a nonprofit manager. Since moving to Addison County in 2011, her work has involved caring for a house in the woods, three young daughters (with another on the way), one adorable puppy — and writing for her blog,The Pickle Patch.


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Remember my whole rant the other day about hybrids and how the price premium just isn't worth it?
Yeah. Nevermind.
Turns out hybrids do have a place… just not in your average everyday family hauler. I stand by my position that a $27,000 hybrid doesn't make sense when compared against a $19,000 four-cylinder alternative.
The place for hybrid technology, it appears, is in high-performance sports cars. As evidence, I submit the Porsche 918 Spyder plug-in hybrid concept that is being shown at the Geneva Motor Show.
To sum up my initial reaction to it: "Oh…man…."
Before getting into the details, keep in mind that Porsche has never produced a concept vehicle that it didn't eventually build. That makes this concept all the more exciting!
Porsche says the 918 Spyder concept is capable of lapping the Nordschleife of Nürburgring in less than seven and a half minutes, faster than even the Porsche Carrera GT. The concept is capable of hitting 62 mph in under 3.2 seconds, topping out at 198 mph.
While the $440,000 GT might fetch 13 miles per gallon, the 918 Spyder should see numbers somewhere around 78 mpg. Seriously. The car is powered by a 500-horsepower V8 with electric motors on the front and rear axles, making the equivalent of 218 more horsepower. Total power output: 718 horsepower.
Porsche is not saying whether the 918 Spyder concept will go into production, but just look three paragraphs up and ask yourself if this is technology Porsche will let fade away. I don't think so.
Plus, just look at the thing. This is the first Porsche concept that I would classify as gorgeous in every way. Part classic Porsche, part Mercedes-Benz Stirling Moss SLR McLaren.
Whatever the price premium on this innovative use of hybrid technology, it's worth it. Taking a supercar to near triple digits in gas mileage is spectacular, and much more impressive than using hybrid technology to gain 10 miles per gallon in a Fusion.
In cars used as everyday drivers, diesel makes more sense to save fuel. In supercars, hybrid technology has a real potential to increase power, torque, and fuel efficiency. Do you agree?
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Disturbed's David Draiman Hoping For Fatherhood in 2012
Disturbed are taking a well-publicized (and much deserved) break from making music and singer David Draiman plans to use his time off wisely by doing things like procreating. Well, he'll be trying to, at least.
During the Dimebash, held on Dec. 14 in Hollywood, Draiman revealed that impregnating his super hot wife, Japanese-American model/professional wrestler Lena Yada, whom he married in September, topped his list of extracurricular activities. Looks like the singer is ready to settle down and start a family. No time like the present.
"You know, to relax, man," the singer said about his plans for 2012, which find Disturbed on the back burner. "I'm trying to work with a couple of different bands, doing some production. I'm really just kind of chilling. I wanna go ahead and impregnate my wife and have a baby. You know, be a normal human being for about five seconds." Those are noble goals for even a rock star to have.
Good luck to Draiman and his wife in their efforts to start a family in the next year.


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Our lives are like a pot of good Caribbean vegetable soup, says Omileye "Omi" Achikeobi-Lewis.
There are red peppers, garlic, onions, carrots, yellow peppers, orange peppers, green peppers, celery, sweet potatoes, white potatoes, stock and just the right amount of nutmeg, soy sauce, seasonings and fresh thyme, mixed with fresh coconut milk and love.
Once the ingredients are simmered and cooked down, the pot has everything that is needed to keep a body healthy and strong.
Gary and Susan McCorkle don't know if their Henry Harris Road home will ever be inside a town. It could happen if Indian Land keeps growing.
But if it doesn't, that's OK with them, seeing as there's a town inside their home.
And this town is something to behold. It just goes to show that the best Christmas lights aren't always outside.
Twenty years ago, the McCorkles started collecting pieces for a Department 56 Snow Village.
They now have close to 60 buildings and hundreds of accessories.
Since his days as a firefighter for the city of Lancaster, local businessman Gonzie Mackey has been in the middle of bicycle sprockets, handle bars and kickstands this time of year.
Mackey and the brothers of Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church repair and recondition used bicycles to give to children as Christmas gifts.
But this year, it's been a little different. Mackey said There aren't enough bicycles to go around.
"Last year, we had bikes lined up as far as you could see," Mackey said.
The season to spend a little leisure time with family, friends and co-workers is now in full swing.
But that also means the time to do so is at a premium. Here are a few tips and recipes to help you spend a little more time enjoying the social components of the holidays and less time preparing for it.
Derrick Stogner is only 14 years old.
But when it comes to Fraser firs, he already knows more than I ever will.
Derrick, a member of Boy Scout Troop 180 and a freshman at Buford High School, knew exactly what Ronny Faile and I were looking for when we stopped by the troop's Christmas tree lot Tuesday evening.
That live tree is now decked and visible from the window of Lakewood Christian Church on Kershaw Camden Highway.
From a technical standpoint, the color of the 2009 Christmas in Lancaster ornament is listed as pantone color No. 548.
What does that mean?
It means this year's collectible tree ornament is "Founders Blue."
Kept a secret for almost six months, See Lancaster unveiled the ornament at a reception Monday night at the Springs Gallery on East Gay Street.
And as it was billed, it is indeed representative of the county's moving from the old to the new.
Christmas cactuses may be in short supply at some stores this year, but they aren't on Jean Boatright's closed-in back porch.
And no matter how hard her husband, Jerry, tries, he just can't get away from them.
Some may think Jean has gone a little overboard in her admiration of the tropical-type plants, but not Jerry. It's just fine with him.
Katie McMahon has been called the "world's most famous unknown singer."
That's not an exaggeration, either.
As the former lead vocalist for "Riverdance," millions have heard her sing or own a video or CD featuring her voice. But very few know her by name.
Locally, that should change after this week.
Cows and other livestock have become more protective of their new offspring while cattlemen say they've seen foot tracks similar to that of a canine. But they don't believe stray dogs are to blame.
They say the answer lies in the coyotes, which are being talked about more and more as local sightings increase.
A number of Lancaster County residents have reported spotting coyotes in the area recently. However, wildlife officials say their presence is nothing new and that people should expect to continue seeing them.
Four Lancaster families will roll out a yuletide carpet Sunday for the Lancaster Garden Club's 23rd annual Christmas Tour of Homes. Here is a brief glimpse at what you can see.
Ballard focuses on comfort
When it comes to opening the doors of his home Sunday, Realtor Casey Ballard said hopes the decorations at Meadow Drive will pass muster.
"The time has really slipped up on us and it's here," Ballard said. "I guess I'm about as ready as I'll ever be."
It's hard for LaDonna Mann to remember what life was like before she learned about the plight of thousands of orphans in the African nation of Kenya.
As curator of the JAARS Museum of the Alphabet in Waxhaw, Mann spends her days informing the public about the varied histories of alphabets and languages. But she experienced another language firsthand several years ago while living with her late husband Bill in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya.
'Nuncrackers' will crack you up
Looking for some seasonal entertainment that will give you a good laugh?
Then head into Fort Mill this week to see "Nuncrackers," produced and directed by Elaine Roberts of Sun City Carolina Lakes.
The musical comedy, which opened Dec. 3, is playing at the Fort Mill Community Playhouse theater, 615 Banks St., Fort Mill.
Remaining show times are 7:30 p.m. Dec. 11, 12, 18 and 19 and 3 p.m. Dec. 13.
In 1942, Winston Churchill said that tea was more important than ammunition in strengthening the moral of British troops.
Tea didn't hurt Uncle Sam's war efforts, either, said Betty Broome.
Broome, who was a youngster during World War II, still recalls how women in Van Wyck would hold afternoon teas to raise money.
When the Rev. Bill Knight looks out across the 35-acre site where the world's largest cotton mill once stood, he doesn't see rusting fences, abandoned railroad tracks, tall grass and small bits of handmade bricks left behind when a texile plant was demolished.
Knight sees a thriving mill where thousands of lint-heads worked around the clock after walking to work or catching a ride there on the Wilson bus line.
Instead of burned-out decaying homes, he recalls a vibrant tight-knit mill village. He said some of its 3,000-plus residents were his role models.
When it comes to saving money, every little bit helps and there is a little good news for consumers this Thanksgiving.
You may have noticed it while standing in the grocery checkout line.
According to a report released by the American Farm Bureau Federation on Nov. 12, the cost of preparing a traditional Thanksgiving dinner – the turkey, stuffing cranberries, pumpkin pie and all the basic trimmings – won't be as high this year.
After losing match play to the orange-clad "Flying Scotts" during the 2008 Big Thursday Golf Tournament, John Catalano and Tim Hallman wanted another shot.
It's the "wait until next year" attitude at its best, but it wasn't to be.
Phillip Scott said his older brother, Evan, is having back problems that knocked them from match-play competition on Nov. 19 that pitted Clemson supporters against the Gamecocks faithful at Lancaster Golf Club.
Ashley Faulkenberry has a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.
"Words can't describe just how thankful I am," she said. "I'm thankful just to be alive."
Seriously injured in a 4-wheeler accident on May 30, this is one holiday that Ashley, 21, never thought she would see.
What was billed as a late night of fun and mud-slinging with friends off Spirit Road in the Rich Hill community quickly became a nightmare.
If you haven't found the perfect Thanksgiving turkey by now, don't fret.
For many people, gardening provides an inner solace that helps maintain balance in an otherwise hectic world. It provides an escape into nature where yards take on the unique personality of the gardener.
It's those personal touches in Jean Wilson's yard at 2239 Sunshine Road that caught the eye of Joyce Morin of the Lancaster Garden Club. The club named Wilson's yard the November Yard of the Month.
Roaming the streets at The Carolina Renaissance Festival has become old hat for 30-year-old Troy Dunbar. But in true renaissance fashion, that hat has changed into a turban.
After portraying a wandering poet at the festival for three years, Dunbar is now Arabian sultan Azeen Al-Mullah ("defender of money") at the 16th- century European-style arts and entertainment festival.
And Dunbar, choral director at Lancaster High School, is easy to spot.
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Want to Regain Sexual Stamina? Food Items to Improve Sexual Health
Got hitched and getting ready for the big day?? Or shall I say the big night..!! No need to feel shy, I am also a man and share the same thoughts as you guys do. The thoughts that occupy the mind of males after engagement are – has my masturbation habit left my tank empty, or what if I don't know and I am suffering from erectile dysfunction? Will I be able to satisfy her?…Read More


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London has the Flash-based, Bluetooth-ordering Inamo restaurant. Germany, the waiter-less kitchen. Japan has ramen vending machines, and soon, New York's midtown will play host to a restaurant with a 240-square-foot screen, displaying tweets and Foursquare check-ins.
Not to mention customers can customize their orders, add them to the 4Food.com social networking site, and if other people order their creations then they'll be paid 25 cents for every order. The money can be saved up and redeemed on future purchases, making it a loyalty scheme with a difference.
As you can garner in the gallery below, the renders make the restaurant look like an Apple store, with the big chrome and glass staircase, large windows and canteen-styling seating. Orders are taken online on iPads, or with actual human beings.
It's opening on July 6th, and will be located on 40th and Madison in Manhattan. The style of the food? Burgers. Big, glorious organic burgers, each with a hole in the middle which the customer can fill with one of 40 different fillings such as hummus, salsa and so on.
Before you ask—yes, there's Wi-Fi. What sort of high-tech restaurant would this be, without Wi-Fi? [4Food.com via Midtown Lunch via NY Eater via Gawker]


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Maritime Alps Trek, France and Italy (9/2011)
The Maritime Alps create borderlands between France and Italy where they jut upward from the Mediterranean to over 11,000 ft. just a short distance from the riviera. Like the central Alps these mountains are abrupt and grand, but they are cloaked in a softer hue of green with a hint of temperate climate. We walked for six days in two national parks, starting in France's Mercantour National Park and finishing in Italy's Alpi Marittime Natural Park, overnighting in full-service huts that are hallmarks of the European Alps. On the French side we visited the Valley of Marvels, a narrow alpine valley and UNESCO World Heritage site containing Bronze Age petroglyphs. The French-Italian border crossing, once guarded by each country's military, was staffed by chamoix. Italy's park protects a tight series of high ridges and narrow valleys that previously were hunting grounds for royalty.Read More
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Most of the time when we think of birds, we think of the things that make them birds, and not the things that make them dinosaurs. But that is because we often have the relationship between dinosaurs and birds reversed in our little primate minds; Much of what is bird-like is not exclusive to birds, but rather, to a larger group of dinosaurs. Birds have taken these particular traits in novel directions, but these traits existed independently of all the birdiness we usually attribute to our feathered, flying, bipedal friends, long ago, before the Great Extinction.
You'll hear people tell you that birds are dinosaurs, and that is supposed to blow you away and make you go all gaga about birds and evolution. People also say that hyraxes are elephants, but they are so distant in their relationship that it is little different than saying that deer are a type of pronghorn antelope. It is much stranger and illustrative of the ways of evolution to point out that whales are a form of "hoofed animal" (unlikely but true). Also, there are reasons why statements like this are scientifically incorrect even if there is 'some truth' to them. The idea that birds are dinosaurs could be thought of as a trivial fact of evolution … birds are really no more dinosaurs than whales are bovids, functionally, even though they actually are, phylogenetially … but that would be missing a greater and very interesting point. It is much more interesting to consider the fact that some (actually, many) dinosaurs were bird-like, and of course, this similarity had to do with their common ancestry.
For example, there seems to have been dinosaurs that used feathers as their body covering. In nature, you've got your leathery skin (like elephants or crocodiles), you've got your fur (like beavers and red deer), you've got your scales (like fish and pangolins) and you've got your feathers (like many theropod dinosaurs …. oh, and birds). We know that feathers on birds facilitate, in fact allow, bird-like flight. There are other uses of feathers but flight is key in birds, and it is easy to imagine that feathers evolved to facilitate flight. If so, then other uses (as insulation, armor, signalizing to con specifics, feathering the nest, etc.) are convenient secondary uses. And, that may be true regarding recent evolution of feathers. Indeed, flightless birds have feathers and they use them only for these other uses, and there are probably features of modern feathers that evolved long after the other dinosaurs disappeared in that great cosmic collision 65 million years ago. However, it would appear that during one fairly long period of time in the past there were a number of species (of dinosaur) that used feathers in a number of ways such as those just mentioned (and possibly other ways), and one subgroup of these dinosaurs would later be birds. Some of those other groups, which have left no progeny, may even have used feathers to facilitate gliding or some sort of flight, but we can not assume that flight was the reason that feathers first evolved. Almost certainly, it is not.
Also, there may have been some dinosaurs that you would never look at and say "what kind of bird is that?" sporting bird-like lungs. Birds have interesting lungs that allow a more or less continuous flow of air across surfaces that exchange gasses between the atmosphere and the blood. Some dinosaurs used this technique as well. There was probably a time when running faster and for a longer period of time was strongly selected for and highly efficient lungs therefore evolved in these dinosaurs. Or may be there was some other reason that efficiency in breathing was extra important. It is very easy to see the super efficient lung of birds as a great adaptation to flight, and it is, by most definitions of "adaptation," but the features that make bird lungs unique in the world today were probably already in place and being used by a bunch of different dinosaur species, a subset of which were in the "bird clade" and the others absolutely, definitively, not. I would guess that there are aspects of the bird respiratory system that have been fine-tuned, perhaps significantly, as flight became increasingly important, but the basic idea of pushing a more or less continuous stream of air across gas-exchanging tissues may have been well in place before anything you'd call a 'bird' emerged, and used by non-bird dinosaurs.
Bipedalism is somewhat rare these days in the animal world. Among mammals, bipedalism is found in several rodents, a number of marsupials, and one primate. Facultative (occasional, used when needed) bipedalism occurs in one group of carnivores. But overall, it's not common if you exclude bird and bats, the two main flying vertebrate groups. But bipedalism is a feature shared by many dinosaurs that did not fly, and counts as another example of a trait we link to birds found broadly in many dinosaurs that were bird relatives before birds ever flew.
It is probably helpful to have a sense of how birds and dinosaurs (or should I say, "other dinosaurs") relate to each other on a phylogenetic tree. In words, modern birds are called Neornithes. Neornithes together with some now extinct close relatives to the modern birds is referred to as Avialae. A larger group that includes Archaeopteryx, is called Aves. Aves together with some dinosaurs form the group Theropoda (the Theropods). The living forms that are most closely related to Theropods are the Crocodilia (crocs and gators), and together, Theropods and Crocodilia (sometimes spelled Crocodylia) are members of the grop Archosauria, which includes all the extinct forms we call dinosaurs as well as pterosaurs (probably). Which means that Archosauria gave rise to flight at least twice. That's actually a somewhat simplified version of what happened, and may obscure the key point, so let me state it a different way.
A four-legged somewhat croc-like ancestor gave rise to:
Birds have feathers, interesting respiratory systems, and are bipedal, and these (and some other bony features) were shared with this larger group that included but was not limited to birds. Meanwhile, birds of today have a number of features that evolved within the bird-only subgroup, such as a beak without teeth. Certain other features are of unknown relations. Did the unique bird brain exist in any of these non-birds, or for that matter, in any other dinosaurs? What about colorful feathers used for various purposes? The nature, distribution, and evolution of bird song is unclear.
One of the most interesting differences between birds and dinosaurs has to do with their eggs. A subset of dinosaurs including birds had changes in their skeleton that allowed for larger egs and/or more eggs to be managed by the female, for instance. Perhaps birds were able to have all their young hatch with greater synchrony and to incubate more quickly or to greater maturity than other dinosaurs. This is a topic we'll come back to.
In the meantime, rest assured that not only are birds really dinosaurs, but that this is much less strange than it sounds when you realize that very many dinosaurs, typically not the ones you see on TV and in movies, were actually very bird-like in some rather unexpected ways.
For more information see the following sources:
Birdish adaptations in dinosaurs: Aerosteon riocoloradensis
Interesting as always thanks Greg 🙂 Are you familiar with Alan Feduccia's theory that birds separated before dinosaurs evolved? I haven't read his work but Colin Tudge mentions it in "Consider the birds" (aka "The secret life of birds"). He thinks the digits that evolved in to the three toed feet in dinosaurs are different digits than in birds, and that the fossils with real feathers are real birds (and not dinosaurs), while the fossils with developing feathers are actually dinosaurs with feather like fur. I hope I'm not butchering this theory too much – this is just what I remember from a book that has a couple of pages on the actual theory. Your thoughts?
Jeremy, my understanding is that Feduccia's ideas differ from those represented here in two main ways: 1) the bird dino split would be farther down the dinosaur tree near the base rather than within theropods, and 2) the bird-like features seen in what are considered to be theropod dinosaurs are actually convergences from that bird lineage on theropods. This would mean that every single bird-like theropod, when comared to the other theropods, would have to sort out cladistically as being from a different clade, because they are only theropod-like because of convergence. This could easiliy end up as a rather confusing story because strange things happen when there is a lot of convergence, and there is a fairly deep time depth here as well, which makes it all very much more difficult. It doesn't seem to work out that way, however. He's probably wrong.
Dinosaurs died and now birds represent the now it is hard to believe but it is also true a meteor. Had kill them plus the cold they are cold blooded they are mammals. So thast why they are cold blouded??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Excellent post, as usual, Greg. This is a subject that fascinates me, to the degree that I've just finished Gary Kaiser's earlier book The Inner Bird (which I highly recommend, in addition to your other mentioned references), and am currently wading through Chiappe and Witmer's Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs. I've also downloaded a copy of Heilmann (whose theory seems to comport better with Feduccia's ideas than with a theropod origin of birds), just for historical context. An awful lot of really cool avian/theropod paleontology has taken place in the last 20 years, and I wonder how Heilmann would've felt had he known about all the new material.
The line between bird and dinosaur has become so blurred recently, it's been hard at times to separate some of the more recent fossils functionally from birds. If we're going to define birds as "things that evolved from dinosaurs and had the ability to fly", then I'd say yes, some dinosaurs were birds and vice versa. If we're going to define them as only those things in clade Aves, nestled at the very top of clade Maniraptora, I'd have to say birds are undeniably dinosaurs. According to one phylogeny, I believe that Alvarezsaurids had been included at the base of clade Aves at one time, and in another they're back at the base of Maniraptora, which further blurs the line of "what is a bird"? You mention the classic "first bird" of Archaepteryx, but functionally, this fossil has the same morphology as much of the small dinosaurs in Maniraptora, complete with a hyperextendable toe found in many of the dinosaurs we consider "raptors". One of the primary factors in calling Archaeopteryx a bird in the past was the preservation of its furcula (aka "wishbone"), but even T. rex had a cartilaginous furcula. Even if you define birds as only those animals in Neornithes, is not Confusciusornis, toothless fully-flighted bird outside that clade? With what we know about fossils, genetics, and phylogeny, the line becomes so blurred that it's difficult to assign such terms like this to animals that evolved having no idea they were being assigned terms. In such, I believe it only appropriate to include "birds" in the most inclusive term we have for the greater clade of extinct animals they belong to – Dinosauria.
While this argument certainly has its place, the one thing I do know is that Pterosaurs were NOT Dinosaurs (flight only evolved once among the Dinosaurs, though the verdict's out on whether some were secondarily flightless). If I had to find an all-inclusive term that includes Pterosauria, I guess I'd call them Archosaurs. lol
i think birds are a desendent of dinosaurs cause i once watched this bird/ dinasours atchelogical discoveries channel on bbc 2 and then he said that birds are really a desndent from dinosaurs because of teridactles which were around the cretacious perioud which was home to other donosaurs e.g teranasaurus rex or triceratops thses are proved possobly you can also find this out on the internet just type in are birds desendent from dinasaurs on wikipedia number one then click the first link to website it shows a load of archelogical proof that birds were desendents from dinasours birds dont eat the same things as dinasours but wait what about kestrels or perigrines they eat meat which dose actuatly proove my point this true information email me for more info at firstname.lastname@example.com then i will answer all of your questions so keep them comming in non stop please thanks and goodbye to my fans topics and illustartions please ask me so dont forget write it down any were you want you will then see
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Thanks, Greg. Very interesting. I remember reading that one of the refutations of the dinosaur-to-bird hypothesis was that dinosaurs shared a diaphragm with other archosaurs, such as crocodilians, and that birds have a very different respiratory system (as you mentioned in your post) that seems unlikely to have developed from the diaphragm-driven lung, as it would be an evolutionary hurdle that could not be overcome by natural selection. Richard Dawkins describes well these limitations (with the eye) in Climbing Mount Improbable. The detractors of the dinosaur-to-bird hypothesis instead favour an earlier branching of birds from a pre-dino ancestor. There is also some debate over the difference in forelimb digits that birds and dinosaurs possessed.
Personally, I am of the opinion that birds are direct descendants of a group of therapod dinosaurs, as the similarities appear to be more compelling towards a direct ancestry, than convergent evolution. I would love to hear your take on the debate.
I had been wondering for a long time, since I went to Canobee Lake Park they had showed us a Cuckooburra-I don't know how to spell-and they claimed it was a Dinosaur.Now I thougt about this for a while and did some research,and i DO believe that birds are dinosaurs.
eample:Archeaopteryx,They have feathers,and they have bird-like feet,but it DID have claws on it's wings and it had teeth.
I believe Birds are Dinosaurs.
Pterosaur are not 'flying dinosaurs'! Jeez.
Whales are NOT necessarily a form of "hoofed animals." I'm familiar with Indohyus, but I would not have the audacity to put them in the same group as whales and dolphins when there's so few fossil remains to go on. Stop saying something's true when it's still just a theory, you're as bad as the theists.
Hi, Greg. Could you comment on my earlier post that refers to some of the supposed refutations of the theory of direct ancestry between Aves and Dinosauria? Many thanks.
Greg, I see you've replied to others. Could you explain why you state that pterosaurs are 'flying dinosaurs'? That's like saying bats are birds, or whales are fish. The internet is a valuable source of information for people of all ages, and it's wrong to misinform people.
Jon, in the previous paragraph, Greg makes a distinction between pterosaurs and dinosaurs, mentioning that they are both members of the Archosaur clade. While saying that pterosaurs were "flying dinosaurs" is inaccurate, it is not of central importance to the article.
Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure whether the Average Joe would interpret it that way but I see where you're coming from. I like your website by the way, very interesting, it was just that one comment that raised my eyebrows.
I should probably adjust the text to make it more clear or even write a whole blog post on the question of phyogeny and cladism vis-a-vis the rest of the (often more interesting) science. Incorrect phylogeny has hampered science quiet a bit in the past (and still does) but the level of correction and resolution has been so great that we risk attendance to phylogeny sometimes wagging the dog.
About that ban on paraphyly, or "cladistic fundamentalism":
1. Accordingly a genus cannot be classified so as to have evolved from another genus, nor a family from another family, etc. This appears to contradict evolution, where truly every genus came from another. *slams palm into forehead*
2. You may lose respect from potential graduate advisors if you mention this, politely/inquisitively. You will not therefore be accepted.
I like what Robin and Honey Badger have to say on this topic:
"Originating from an ancestor is not the same as being that ancestor. Evolution is about one organism evolving from another, not one organism remaining another."
@Ornithophile; yes but this is about cladistics. The question is, if you have an evolutionary tree, can you draw a circle around "dinosaurs" that starts at the common ancestor of all dinosaurs (but nothing else) and includes all their descendants, and if you can, what else is in the circle. Birds and Dinosaurs are a clade. Dinosaurs without birds are not.
i wish dinosaurs were still here!
One simplistic, though not scientific, way of 'proving' birds are dinosaurs: if birds were extinct, would we have classified them as dinosaurs today. The answer is a pretty overwhelming yes.
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David WarnerIt is one of sport's uncommon delights to see an individual rebuild his self-belief, from rock bottom, out in full view. David Warner arrived at the second Test in much the same condition as the Adelaide Oval: half-complete, with an architect's impression of glory in his head, but basically a shambles.
His recent slump in confidence was real, even if the statistics helped hide it. Edgy in Brisbane, he was perhaps lucky to get out quickly. In 1997, Doug Walters said Mark Taylor's problem was he was batting for too long, drawing out his agony as he clawed his way towards form. Warner had at least avoided that.
On a perfect clear morning, Warner walked out, as out-of-form batsmen will, with an air of fake-it-till-you-make-it. The positive body language and the signs of intent were orthodox psychology, but what often happens is that the self-kidding soon runs out, and about 20 minutes into an innings, once the surge of bravado fades, the batsman is back in his rut.
So it went, until Warner got lucky. In his third over, Morne Morkel bowled two fullish balls wide of the off-stump. Warner threw his bat at both, slicing one and middling the other to the cover boundary. Then Dale Steyn repeated the error in his fifth over, and Morkel gave Warner another. Warner's first six boundaries, all between point and mid-off, were not necessarily controlled, and he did not yet look settled, but on the scoreboard he was nearly 30, and sometimes that message from the scoreboard does what all the positive thinking in the world cannot.
The crisis in Australia's innings happened at the other end, prompted by Jacques Kallis taking the ball for the 11th over. In the next 16 minutes Ed Cowan, Rob Quiney and Ricky Ponting were out, and suddenly Warner's personal crisis was forgotten; he had a team crisis to attend to. It helped that soon after Michael Clarke's arrival, Kallis's brilliant spell of swing bowling became just a cameo. His hamstring did for South Africa's day what Adam Reynolds's hamstring had done to the South Sydney Rabbitohs' season.
By now Warner started to believe that if the morning was going to belong to anyone, it might as well be him. He punched defensively at Steyn, and his follow-through was barely complete when the ball was hitting the extra-cover rope. There never seems to be anything wrong with Warner's game technically. His balance, from head to toe, is natural, and he has quicker and stronger wrists than any of those clowns masquerading as boxers. More than most, because of his unusual approach to batting, the key to Warner's game is in his head. Most top-order batsmen follow the precepts of defending the good ball, making the bowler bowl to their scoring zones, and leaving everything else. Early in his innings, Warner likes to get off strike by turning any ball on the stumps to leg for a single. Anything well wide of the off-stump he swings at very hard, trusting that a mis-hit will fly over the field. In between those two zones Warner tends to leave, and when he is batting well he has the clarity of mind to leave the right ones.
A day of grand entertainment hit a high note after lunch, as Warner and Clarke put on a festive 100 runs in 10 overs. This was mostly a matter of the batsmen taking full advantage of some poor bowling. It was slowed by a probing spell by Rory Kleinveldt, who, it must be said, had earlier fully vindicated his captain's lack of confidence in him. A late replacement for the injured Vernon Philander, Kleinveldt had been fourth cab off the rank after Steyn, Morkel and Kallis, and had started with the same trundling short-pitched ordinariness as in Brisbane. But in the middle of the day, Kleinveldt troubled Clarke for several overs and put a brake on the Australians' momentum, leading to Warner's dismissal by Morkel. Kleinveldt had worked hard for his first Test wicket, and it was his bad luck that it fell to the other bowler.
Warner's job, by then, was done. It might seem perverse to judge a century in 93 balls by the ones he did not play at, but the same was the case with his lightning 180 in Perth in January. The success of both innings rested on his avoidance of the balls that could have got him out. When he did get out, it was to that very misjudgment.
By the end of the day, Warner was again feeling like the Test batsman he wants to be. His team had survived another near-disaster, the middle order was again cashing in, and, with their three best bowlers booking MRI scans, it was the visitors looking in need of renovation.
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'Le Roi du Diamant' (Junior Aventures #18, 1952)
Joseph De Wulf was born Ollioules, Var, as the son of a Belgian father and English mother. He studied Fine Arts in Nice, before heading for Paris at age 23. He began an association with Eugène Maréchal, who became his agent.
De Wulf illustrated for publishing houses like Flamme d'Or, Editions Lutecia, Auguste Pinaud and most notably Éditions de l'Arabesque, with whom he had a 15 year collaboration. He briefly contributed to the comic book Junior Aventures by Éditions des Remparts in Lyon in 1952. De Wulf additionally headed his own photo studio until 1968 and spent the final years of his career with the photo department of a regional newspaper. He passed away in Aubenas in 1994.


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ple piercing experience at Body Accents
I have been an avid visitor of BME ever since my friend gave me the URL (when it was still at the other server). Visiting BME frequently provided me outlook of unique body art, and information that is helpful and interesting.
I have always wanted a tattoo (have yet to get one, though... Don't know exactly what I want), but it was only recently that I decided to get both my nipples pierced.
- The Decision
I started talking to a girl at work about piercings and body mod, and she mentioned that she wanted to get her tongue pierced. I told her, after several hours of debate, that if she ever went to have it done, I'd go with her as "moral support," and have both my nipples done... I had mentioned to her that was the piercing that I was considering...
- The Place
I live several minutes south of Indianapolis, but I still am able to read Nuvo Newsweekly, a free publication, that has a lot of advertisements. Among these ads, and it is published EVERY week, was for a body mod studio called Body Accents. I had heard about SkinQuake, but not this place until I started reading Nuvo. The girl I went with gave the place a call, and asked some questions: Appointment? How much? Jewelry? Blahblahblah... After her questions were answered, she told me that she WAS going to do it. We were both off the next day, so we decided to go for it that next day.
- The Next 24 Hours
When I got home from work that day (pumping with adrenaline, mind you), I immediately visited BME. I read every experience and FAQ about nipple piercings I could. You could say that I knew as much about it without having them! I was so excited, because I had been debating whether to do it or not, and here I was, joining the body mod ranks.
The next day we drove to Body Accents (located along North College Avenue in Broad Ripple), and signed-in. I had butterflies in my stomach, and my heart was thumping, but compared to most, I was pretty relaxed. One of the guys that worked behind the front desk took a look at both my nipples and showed me the jewelry I could choose. All of them were 14 gauge, and I selected a turquoise blue (niobium) ring, with a dark olive bead... Very cool.
The girl I went with waited to sign up for the tongue piercing, because I hadn't had anything to eat that day, so one of the guys at the studio told me to get something to eat (it raises your blood sugar level). I obliged, and went across the street to grab a sandwhich.
I came back, and minutes later, I'm in the piercing room.
- The Procedure
The piercer (Ken, I think was his name) told me exactly what he was about to do, and asked me if I had any questions before he started. I said, no, so he began the procedure.
First they clean your nipples with several bacteria-fighting agents, making sure infection is improbable. Next, they mark your nipples with a felt-tip pen to ensure accuracy...
He then laid me down on the table, and told me to focus on deep breathing. He told me exactly what he was about to do, since I had my eyes closed. I am not scared at being poked with needles, but they're not exactly attractive looking.
He then clamped my nipple to make sure that the needle goes through the marks... The clamp is a slight pinch, nothing much. He then made me take three deep breaths, and POKE... My nipple was pierced (My God, that wasn't bad at all, I thought). One more deep breath, and the jewelry was in. I will be honest: With the jewelry in, and the clamp still on, it DOES hurt a little. When he took the clamp off, however, there's nothing to it.
- Present Day
I couldn't be happier. Cleaning the piercing sounded to me like a pain in the neck, but it's easy, and only takes a few minutes out of my day.
I recommend to any guy who wants to pierce their nipples to go for it. They look great, and there are certain ladies out there who just melt upon seeing them.
p.s. The girl who got her tongue pierced said to me that it didn't hurt one bit... My piercing was fairly expensive, but it's worth it.
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Adam writes about his office guest chair.
Microsoft's a big company, and, like all big company has all sorts of silly rules of what you can have in your office. One of them is that for office furniture, you get:
- A desk chair
- One PED (sort of a mobile filing cabinet)
- One curved desk piece (we have modular desk pieces with adjustable heights)
- One short straight desk piece
- One long straight desk piece
- One white board
- One cork board
- One or two hanging book shelves with THREE shelves (not 4)
- One guest chair.
If you're a manager, you can get a round table as well (presumably to have discussions at).
In my case, most of my office stuff is pretty stock - except I got my manager to requisition a round table for his office for me (he already had one). I use it to hold my manipulative puzzles. I also have two PEDs
But I'm most proud of my guest chair. I have two of them. One's the standard Microsoft guest chair. But the other one's special. You see, it comes from the original Microsoft campus at 10700 Northup Way, and is at least 20 years old.
I don't think that it's the original chair I had in my original office way back then - that was lost during one of my moves, but I found the exact match for the chair in a conference room the day after the move and "liberated" it.
But I've had this particular chair since at least 1988 or so. The movers have dutifly moved it with me every time.
Daniel loves it when he comes to my office since it's comfy - it's padded and the standard guest chairs aren't.
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
cleaned-up, handspun-hat wearing former administrator seeks part time waitress job
Anyway, I made it out of handspun yarn, my own 2-ply chunky weight. I have a lot of this chunky that I've been spinning up that would be perfect for Shackleton (or regularly shaped) hats... and I'll be giving a skein of handspun merino or BLF in a color of choice, not limited to the colors shown below, to someone else unemployed or underemployed who comments on this post with a suggestion of a free thing to do to entertain myself.
I'm considering listing some other colors as kits for sale. Any interest? Post a comment or email me (firstname.lastname@example.com) and let me know (you can let me know your favorite colors if you're interested... I, um, have a lot of roving to spin).
14 comments:
- marianne said...
mmm...your handspun looks squishalicious.
something that has captured my imagination (and is free to do) is joining the Toy Society and making a toy to leave somewhere for someone to find.
- February 10, 2009 at 3:21 PM
- leethal said...
oooh LOVE your handspun! i'm self-employed, and since part of what i do is sell stuff i make, and no one is really buying anything right now, i'm always stressed about money and try to spend nothing on entertainment...
what i do for fun mostly involves knitting or other crafting while watching something - and hulu.com is fabulous for free stuff to watch.
i also love taking photos for fun... just going out for a walk with my digital camera (no film processing = free!) and shooting things that you wouldn't normally look at or care about, trying to make them into interesting photographs. like nature, or store windows... fun stuff!
- February 10, 2009 at 3:46 PM
- KGLO said...
Library Library Library! Lots of times they have great movies you can check out, not to mention cookbooks, knitting books, and sometimes they have cultural passes you can check out - like museum tickets, etc.
Or just going to a coffee shop, knitting and people watching is another of my favorite poor-people activities.
OR, if you get a group of really good friends together and bring all kinds of stuff you don't want anymore, put it all in a pile and "go shopping" for new stuff. It's fun :)
good luck with jobjob searching. Or, if it's part-time, is it just job?
- February 10, 2009 at 4:40 PM
- Telmah said...
I love how you typo'd BFL to BLF... blue-laced fester... now that is a funny mental picture. It's like those "Little Cans of Paint" we sell at Lorna's Laces... sometimes we switch them up and say "Little Pains of Can't," which is so succinct and fitting sometimes! So that is my suggestion on free things to do... look for expressions or phrases where you can change words around to make fun new meanings. Definitely free and should keep you busy for ... a while.
- February 10, 2009 at 7:25 PM
- Sarah said...
As someone who is about to be unemployed in three months with $25,000 of college loans looming over my head, I feel your pain.
As much as my own well being tends to dictate my level of happiness, I think there's something to small acts of kindness. Back when I was eighteen, a friend and I were feeling overwhelmed with silly stuff that built up over time. So we left school and decided to take a mental health day with the aim of lightening our loads, so to speak. It was a lovely April day, so the obvious thing to do was to hang out in the park for a bit. We walked around, and when we came to a patch of wild daisies, I posed the idea of picking a bunch and heading to a small city 30 minutes away. We left the park with about 20 flowers, we got to Peekskill, and we just walked around, handing them out to people on the streets, store owners, anyone really. People had the best reactions because it was totally unexpected: they smiled, thanks us genuinely, and we could tell as they walked away that it just brightened things up.
So, if you're still unemployed in two months (or feel like splurging $5 at the super market), this might give you a much needed dose of idealism. Also, for some good reading, try "Words in Air," the collected letters between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. I'm a quarter of the way through and can't put it down.
Best of luck with the unemployment. And thanks for writing- love your blog.
- February 10, 2009 at 11:53 PM
- e said...
Good luck with the hunt! Hat is looking super cute!!
- February 11, 2009 at 6:42 AM
- Lucette said...
Hi Ann, the chance of winning one of your lovely skeins is too tempting to pass up. So here is my suggestion.
Hop on a bus and go to a neighbourhood you don't usually visit. I like the older parts of the city, and Chinatown. Then walk around and explore. Older buildings, stores, big trees, teahouses, parks, different language, different clothing, there is always something different and inspiring. A camera or sketchpad is handy too. I find it inspiring to explore for a few hours.
- February 11, 2009 at 8:06 AM
- Claire said...
Well, knitting obviously. :) Also a lot of museums can take a recommended donation--aka pay as you wish. And I think the Harvard art museums are free. My favorite is the Museum of Natural History here in New York--pay as you wish!
I was laid off a couple of weeks ago as well, and personally, I'm looking forward to working more on my own projects!
- February 11, 2009 at 8:16 AM
- Clumsy Knitter said...
Here is what I have been doing while unemployed: going to the library, knitting in the park, going to museums on their free days, searching out new dinner recipes, biking/walking around my new neighborhood, trading old books for new-to-me books at the used book stores, working out, catching up with old friends through Facebook, catching up on sleep! :)
- February 11, 2009 at 9:28 AM
- A Homely Heroine said...
I'm working part-time at the moment, at a bookstore, and it such fun compared to my previous desk job in pensions finance, so I totally get where you're coming from. Your handspun is gorgeous, especially the black shade. Anyway my suggestions are; fan fiction on the internet ~ virtually every book and tv series/film will have hundreds of fans writing fan fiction, and some of it is pretty good. Its not a very healthy way to spend your time though, I guess. The other thing i do is volunteer with local Brownies, its just a few hours a week and loads of fun, it also gets you out the house and talking to people which can be an issue when you're out of work. Good luck with the waitressing!
- February 11, 2009 at 9:51 AM
- Nicole said...
After you do all the things in the above comments, come home and draw a little comic about it. Or write fictional captions for the photos you took to make your day seem full of intrigue and adventure. If you have a Mac, you can use the comic strip software it came with to do this.
Doing something creative every day helps you forget your penury, plus it'll amuse you to look back on it once you have a job and don't have time for nonsense anymore.
Have fun!
- February 11, 2009 at 2:28 PM
- Tink said...
Sell some to Yarns in the Farms?
- February 11, 2009 at 3:03 PM
- craftivore said...
I've never seen that particular photo of Shackleton before. He really was looking hunky and rocking that hat. Your homespun is beautiful and great for that kooky kool hat. It seems like you've gotten some great suggestions of things to do with your unemployment time. It might be a good time to exercise, something that's hard to do when you've got a jobjob.
- February 13, 2009 at 5:54 AM
- Genia said...
During my years of unemployment (I was mostly home being a mommie) I would spend time in the library reading aloud to the kiddies. It got a me a cool gig reading the newspaper to people who couldn't read at the local assisted living center.
And I would buy a hat kit with your homespun. Especially if the yarn was that totally brilliant bright yellow/orange in the photo!
- February 18, 2009 at 7:20 PM


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National Endowment for the Humanities to Help Bring the Past to Today's Computer Users
Multi-federal agency collaboration will also make computer libraries more secure and usable
Internet users will be able to hear music from Civil War songs, view medieval manuscripts and visit ancient Egypt as part of the next phase of a technology project partially funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), along with the National Science Foundation and four other federal agencies, will support creation of the wide-ranging databases in what is known as the Digital Libraries Initiative-Phase Two (DLI-2), NEH Chairman William R. Ferris said today.
"This initiative will use the latest technology in new ways so that we can preserve and make available the wide range of knowledge which is so crucial to understanding our cultural and historical development," NEH Chairman Ferris said. "The National Endowment for the Humanities is very proud to be a part of this interagency collaboration to bring books, music and voices from the past to today's computer users."
The $10 million humanities component will devise new ways to computerize a wide variety of materials at six university research libraries, and develop new approaches to ensure the preservation of digital documents. The six libraries are at Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, Michigan State University, Tufts University, the University of California-Davis and the University of Kentucky.
When the projects are complete, computer users will be able to:
- listen to the notes and view sheet music of American popular songs from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries;
- search a vast database of oral histories and recorded voices to locate such phrases as John F. Kennedy's "ask not what your country can do for you" or Ronald Reagan's "tear down this wall;"
- view the recovered missing pieces of the Beowulf saga that have hitherto been unreadable;
- visit the tomb of the Erotes and Assos from ancient Egypt or walk around the spectacular statue of King Mycerinus and his wife from 2500 B.C.; and
- explore the rich and intricate folklore of Sephardic Jews from Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
The sixth project will develop ways to ensure the security, reliability and preservation of digital documents as well as address the effective use of digitized resources in the future.
"We are especially concerned that history is literally disappearing before our eyes – many historical documents, including founding fathers' papers, newspapers, photographs and other documents are disintegrating," NEH Chairman Ferris said. "Many of these documents were transferred to digital formats in the belief that would preserve them forever. But now, we're learning that digital formats are very fragile. Currently, there are no agreed-upon processes for preserving digital collections. The Cornell project will address this critical concern by developing a digital preservation strategy that can be applied nationwide."
The new project is the sequel to the first phase of the Digital Libraries Initiative, which was launched by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 1993. DLI-2 is co-sponsored by NSF, NEH, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Defense Research Projects Agency (DARPA), National Library of Medicine, Library of Congress and Federal Bureau of Investigation. The first phase of the initiative supported research in areas of computer science focusing on ways to organize and retrieve large amounts of scientific data.
In this second phase, projects will address problems over the entire life cycle of digital information: its creation, accessibility and preservation. This focus extends the scope of the initiative beyond the first phase's emphasis on organization and retrieval, by focusing on how to sustain digital collections over time. Another round of projects will be announced early next year.
More information about the multi-agency effort may be found at the DLI-2 Web site: http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/index.html .
National Endowment for the Humanities/National Science Foundation Grants awarded under Digital Libraries Initiative – Phase 2 (July 1999)
Davis, University of California-Davis $497,000
PROJECT TITLE: Folk Literature of the Sephardic (Spanish) Jews
DESCRIPTION: Development of technical means for searching an audio archive of one of the world's largest and most important collections of Judeo-Spanish oral tradition, including lyric poetry, proverbs, folktales, riddles, and 1,500 narrative ballads. Over a period of 42 years the project directors gathered this material, much of which has been handed down orally since the time of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, by seeking out and tape-recording informants from Bosnia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Morocco, Israel, Spain, and the United States. The collection is an invaluable resource for the study of Sephardic, Hispanic, and European balladry.
Lexington, University of Kentucky $500,000
PROJECT TITLE: The Digital Athenaeum: New Techniques for Restoring, Searching, and Editing Humanities Collections
DESCRIPTION: Development of a new digital library from aging and damaged portions of the British Library's Cottonian Collection, which includes manuscripts dating back 1200 years. The project will develop state-of-the-art technical approaches and tools for recovering manuscript markings and information that would otherwise be invisible, and novel techniques for digitally restoring, enhancing, and searching manuscripts that have been damaged by fire, water, and aging. The partnership with the British Library provides privileged access to high-quality collections, manuscript and curator expertise, and digitization facilities.
Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University $530,000
PROJECT TITLE: Digital Workflow Management: The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
DESCRIPTION: Enhanced usability of the Eisenhower Library's Levy Collection of Sheet Music, which contains 29,000 pieces of American popular sheet music spanning the years 1780 to 1960. This collection provides a social commentary on American life and a distinctive record of the time. The project will create fully searchable audio and lyric files, and software will be developed that will play the notes of the digitized sheet music over the Internet. The project will result in a tested process and tools that can be applied to other large-scale digitization projects.
Medford, Tufts University $2,758,000
PROJECT TITLE: A Digital Library for the Humanities
DESCRIPTION: Creation of a broad digital library for the humanities, which will contain literary, historical, and archaeological materials on topics ranging from ancient Egypt through 19th-century London. The project, intended for use by high school and college students as well as humanities scholars, will enable users to visualize data in new ways, including the use of multimedia presentation techniques for reconstructing archaeological sites and mapping. Tufts' Perseus project has already created such a digital library for the Greco-Roman world; the new project will significantly expand the concept to cover the history of civilization.
East Lansing, Michigan State University $3,600,000
PROJECT TITLE: Founding a National Gallery of the Spoken Word
DESCRIPTION: Creation of a fully searchable, online database of historically significant voice recordings that span the 20th century, including Thomas Edison's first cylinder recordings, the voices of Babe Ruth and Florence Nightingale, and Studs Terkel's interviews. The project will address unsolved technical problems regarding the digital preservation of sound and delivery via the World Wide Web. It will also develop an acoustical engineering procedure for indexing digitized recorded sound, enabling a user who knows only a short phrase from a speech, for example, to locate the full text in a large recorded-sound database. The project will test the feasibility of creating online repositories of recorded voice materials.
Ithaca, Cornell University $2,267,000
PROJECT TITLE: Project Prism: Information Integrity in Digital Libraries
DESCRIPTION: Design of a model system for ensuring the information integrity of digitized collections, including 1) reliability (ensuring that information is available where and when people want it), 2) security (protecting the privacy rights of information users and the intellectual-property rights of content creators), and 3) preservation (ensuring the longevity of intellectual content for use by future generations). The project will develop a working prototype for addressing these critical areas, using a diverse testbed of real-world collections. One aspect of the preservation research will be the design of a built-in monitoring system to search digital collections, identify materials that are vulnerable to deterioration, and initiate alerts or corrective actions. For more information, see http://www.prism.cornell.edu.


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Welcome to the first day of the best time of your life - we're calling it early! After a few pleasantries in London we'll get the show on the road with Paris in our sights.A few hours in and your jaws are on the floor already. These chalk cliffs that edge the English coastline are known as the White Cliffs of Dover, the first of many natural beauties we'll see on your trip.After we ferry across the English Channel for France we'll arrive in Calais, where we will take in the history of World War I while driving past ancient battlefields in the Valley of the Somme.Kicking off night one, we arrive in none other than the lust-worthy Paris! It's straight down to business with tickets to the observation deck on the Eiffel Tower.
Fragonard Perfumery now there's a place to check out, and stock up on perfume, obviously. Especially given the greatly discounted prices and authenticity of buying in France. Later you can drool over haute couture you can't afford, admire the Notre Dame Cathedral whilst juggling coffee and crêpes, & get artsy at the many museums of the Louvre. Just don't wear yourself out, you will probably want to get involved with dinner and the Nouvelle Eve cabaret show.
Already enjoying the vibes of Europe just 3 days in, we take things up a notch this morning and head to the Swiss Alps.Just when you think France is the most scenic place on Earth, we make a border cross and start traipsing through the lands of Switzerland; comparing the two would be completely inequitable. Let the wonderland of Lucerne truly uncover itself with a cruise over its perfectly glassy lake.
When a cable ride to the summit of a beautiful Swiss mountain starts your day, you know it's going to be a good one. After our morning vistas we shall take to the coach for a bit of country hopping. 3 countries in one day - squeal!!!Although just a tiny dot on the map, Liechtenstein is an economically and geographically incredible place, known for its stunning mountain castles. We'll enjoy lunch in its capital, Vaduz, before continuing our journey to Austria.A city famous the world over for its annual beer festival is a city we need to know about. And luckily enough, the Bavarian culture of the beer fest is a year round attraction. After exploring the Old Town and seeing the Glockenspiel & Marienplatz, throw your feet up in a traditional beer hall, downing roasted pork knuckle & a stein of one of Germany's 5000 brews.
Before we make a mad dash to lands so sweet they made The Sound of Music we'll take a guided cycle around the streets of Munich, drinking in any last bits of fabulousness that our beer hall antics distracted us from yesterday.After crossing through the Bavarian Alps, its time to head to this famous Olympic town and your jaw will drop at the sight of the famous ski jump, and you'll have a chance to soak up the medieval old town atmosphere for the afternoon, don't forget to try a piece of delicious Austrian strudel and some local schnaps!2-nights at an insanely cute Austrian Gasthof (guest house) are coming right up. Tyrol will prove a haven for both adrenalin junkies and those in need of a bit of RNR in order to stay on form for all the globe trotting we've got coming up.
Wake up, peel open your curtains, and take in the magnificence of your view...and your life in general. If you're feeling lively you can jump onto a bike tour through green mountains and waterfalls. If you're feeling really lively you can go tandem paragliding. Not so lively? Stroll around and take in the incredible setting; drink endless hot chocolate, go up a mountain in a gondola, carry on sighing with happiness.
Good morning, roamers. We could let you sleep all day, but there's some whitewater rafting that needs to be tended to, as well as a floating city in Italy that has our names written all over it. Shall we?You'll think you've seen enough beauty for one day after taking in the Bavarian Alps & Brenner Pass en route to Italy. Relax in Venice tonight knowing we have all day tomorrow to admire canals & explore pretty streets. Just another day in the traveller's life.
Wake-up sleeping beauties! Venice is yours for the entirety of this glorious Italian day. We'll be jumping aboard our own private boat and hitting the canals en route to the historical heart of the city. A guided walking tour and a gondola ride are up for grabs, or you can always choose to get lost on your own and see where the maze takes you.
Venice we love you, but we need to see a bit more of this boot to satisfy our hungry wanderlust ways.As if we were going to leg it from Venice to Florence without a sneaky side trip to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Depriving you of the chance to perfect the holding-up-the-tower shot would be down right criminal.For those of you not familiar with the whole Florence deal, we have two words for you: it's heaven. Potter along the River Arno, be totally Tuscan with a drop of Chianti wine, and take in the beauty of the city and its protruding Duomo Cathedral.
Today is a perfect balance of guided wisdom and free time to roam. We'll uncover the beautiful art of traditional leather & explore streets bursting with heritage. Take to the local markets, down some gelato & make yourself known for the evening of optional festivities.
Farewell Florence - today we have the epicenter of Italy on our horizons. Pizza and piazzas … we can't wait.After our drift through the rustic Tuscan hillsides of cypress trees and glowing fields, we'll be back city side in the Italian capital of Rome. The Trevi Fountain, Pantheon & Piazza Navona are just some of the icons we'll be casting our eyes upon before the sun sets.
Rome wasn't built in a day - so get up and get going early to make the most of this ancient city.When in Rome...take an optional guided tour of the Vatican Museums, including the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica. Religious or not, the Vatican's Italian Renaissance church will send shivers down your spine. This is also the day to learn a thing or two about the Colosseum & do a bit of your own exploring.Then hit the streets for your own discoveries. Snap pink azaleas by the Colosseum, throw coins in fountains and sip espresso in a pretty street watching Italian life float by.
The majestic site of Mt. Vesuvius will interlude our trip from Rome to Bari, our ferry port for today's border leap into Greece.Once a totally vibing hang-out of the Romans, Pompeii is now an archaeological site showing remains of what was destroyed by a mountain eruption in the year...wait for it...79AD. The saying "step back in time" is about to take on a whole new meaning.Let your feet walk their last few steps on Italian soil before we hit the seas for an overnight ferry ride en route to Greece.
The best version of island time? Greek island time. And you'll settle straight into it on the dream scene of Corfu. A heritage listed old town, water sports aplenty & the option to hit the seas again on a cruise - this is a what your first day in Greece will look like.
Another day, another chance to get salty & eat a smorgasbord of feta, olives and grapevines stuffed with delectable rice. Our time in Corfu is a great way for everyone to try a bit of Greek dancing - why not give it a go at our Ionian Dinner?
Before we lose all sense of reality and morph into sea-soaked island dwellers, we're making tracks to Athens for a dose of city meets history.The awe of Greece's mainland will begin shortly after our arrival as we catch a glimpse of Corinth Canal. This man-made passageway squeezes boats through it's path, sandwiched by two steep cliffs and sitting over gloriously blue ocean.A collage of ancient wonders and modern magnificence, the allure of Athens is hard to dismiss. Choose to sample more traditional Greek food with an optional dinner and then make the most of the final night with your new friends in this ancient city.
Hugs, tears, and a final batch of reminiscing; it's astounding how close a group can get in just two short weeks, but not before our Local Guide will escort us through the history of the city visiting the Parthenon and the Acropolis, as well as the first modern Olympic Stadium, host of the 1896 Games.
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