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GEELONG 3.5 6.9 9.14 15.16 (106)HAWTHORN 3.2 5.9 8.12 12.15 (87)GOALS Geelong: Hawkins 5, Johnson 3, Enright 2, Murdoch 2, Guthrie, McIntosh, Varcoe. Hawthorn: Gunston 3, Breust 3, McEvoy, Rioli, Hale, Smith, Hallahan, Duryea. BEST Geelong: Hawkins, Taylor, Johnson, Bartel, McIntosh, Selwood, Duncan. Hawthorn: Birchall, Mitchell, Hill, Gunston, Hodge, Smith. UMPIRES Ryan, Meredith, Chamberlain. CROWD 80,222 at MCG.
The dance goes on, exquisitely as ever. The stakes were, as always, high. On the line was top spot, an unbeaten record, and beyond that, a sense of an extra premium between these clubs anyway, made manifest in what is colloquially and euphemistically called a bit of niggle, all played for the delectation of by far the biggest crowd of the season.
Square-shouldered, square-jawed Tom Hawkins settled this one with an unarguable three-goal, last-quarter wrench. By the end of the match, courtesy of a wardrobe malfunction, he was wearing guernsey No. 34, and somehow that was appropriate; by then, he must have looked like two players to Hawthorn, and especially poor Kyle Cheney, who was not so much mismatched as stood over.
It was the breaking point that – characteristically in these clashes – seemingly would never come until suddenly, it did. But victory to the Cats is the home-and-away status quo in this rivalry. Hawthorn saves its scarce triumphs for deep in September. In the end, they resolved nothing this day except the four points, the least bounty on offer. They never do; that's the beauty of this competition within a competition.
Informing and driving this match was the certainty that each has a lust for the fixture and occasion, and an intimate knowledge of the other's game. They should; they've probably spent as much time these last seven or eight years studying each other's game as their own. One play in the third quarter typified all. The perennial Stevie Johnson materialised from nowhere to intercept a handball and shovel the ball back to the super-perennial Corey Enright. This lifetime half-back would kick two goals this day, but now jabbed a kick out on the full. Johnson again intercepted the inbound Hawthorn kick, played on, made to shimmy around the generalissimo Luke Hodge in their umpteenth confrontation on a football ground, but had his kick smothered and the Hawks escaped, this time.
It was not an incidental passage of play. One aspect of this titanic clash was both a feature and an insight. Hawks and Cats move the ball on not just by kicks and handballs, but by taps, pushes, paddles, flicks and other intelligent deflections to teammates on their wavelengths. It means at very least that some players are betrayed by statistics. More to the point, it made this day for a less cluttered and congested contest than most this season. Some teams play for stoppages; Hawthorn and Geelong play for premierships.
First and last, it was Hawthorn's precise kicking game against Geelong's run and gun, also the Cats' height advantage.
The Hawks' first three goals were obtained from passes that might have been measured off by a theodolite. But Hawkins' towering mark and goal was so ominous it rumbled, and the noise was like distant, but nearing thunder for the rest of the match.
Duly, Geelong silted up the space into which Hawthorn's forwards were leading, and the Hawks clogged up the space into which the Cats were running – Hawthorn full-forward Jack Gunston was regularly seen on the last line of defence – and the contrast between teams became less distinct. It was heart versus heart, will versus will, and in these they were also peers and equals.
Intuition rather than data said Geelong looked the likelier team, but it never could expand its lead much beyond two goals, and in the back of all minds was the way the Hawks were beaten by Essendon and somehow were not. Two more finely threaded passes, from Sam Mitchell to David Hale, Hale to Gunston at the start of the last quarter suddenly edged the Hawks in front.
Then an old football verity asserted itself. The fast men's legs jellied and slowed, but the big men did not grow shorter.
Cheney should be paid double time for the jobs he has undertaken this season in the continuing absence of key defenders Brian Lake and Ryan Schoenmakers: Jonathan Brown, Jake Carlisle and Matthew Pavlich to start with, and now Hawkins. Twice, Hawkins outbustled Cheney for marks and goals, then clamped another pack mark for a third. Jordan Murdoch, Johnson and Enright provided the embellishments, and magically, like a Johnson lookaway handpass, the margin was decisive.
The football world can cherish the certainty that like Easter and its chocolates, Geelong v Hawthorn will come again. August 23: book it now.
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Uranium-235 has a half-life of 703.8 million years. It was discovered in 1935 by Arthur Jeffrey Dempster. Its (fission) nuclear cross section for slow thermal neutrons is about 584.994 barns. For fast neutrons it is on the order of 1 barn.[1] Most but not all neutron absorptions result in fission; a minority result in neutron capture forming uranium-236.
The fission of one atom of U-235 generates 202.5 MeV = 3.24 × 10−11 J, which translates to 19.54 TJ/mol, or 83.14 TJ/kg.[2] When 235
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Heavy water reactors, and some graphite moderated reactors can use unenriched uranium, but light water reactors must use low enriched uranium because of light water's neutron absorption. Uranium enrichment removes some of the uranium-238 and increases the proportion of uranium-235. Highly enriched uranium, which contains an even greater proportion of U-235, is sometimes used in nuclear weapon design.
If at least one neutron from U-235 fission strikes another nucleus and causes it to fission, then the chain reaction will continue. If the reaction will sustain itself, it is said to be critical, and the mass of U-235 required to produce the critical condition is said to be a critical mass. A critical chain reaction can be achieved at low concentrations of U-235 if the neutrons from fission are moderated to lower their speed, since the probability for fission with slow neutrons is greater. A fission chain reaction produces intermediate mass fragments which are highly radioactive and produce further energy by their radioactive decay. Some of them produce neutrons, called delayed neutrons, which contribute to the fission chain reaction. In nuclear reactors, the reaction is slowed down by the addition of control rods which are made of elements such as boron, cadmium, and hafnium which can absorb a large number of neutrons. In nuclear bombs, the reaction is uncontrolled and the large amount of energy released creates a nuclear explosion.
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The Little Boy gun type atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 was made of highly enriched uranium (HEU) with a large tamper. The nominal spherical critical mass for an untampered 235U nuclear weapon is 56 kilograms (123 lb),[3] a sphere 17.32 cm (6.8") in diameter. The required material must be 85% or more of 235U and is known as weapons grade uranium, though for a crude, inefficient weapon 20% is sufficient (called weapon(s)-usable). Even lower enrichment can be used, but then the required critical mass rapidly increases. Use of a large tamper, implosion geometries, trigger tubes, polonium triggers, tritium enhancement, and neutron reflectors can enable a more compact, economical weapon using one-fourth or less of the nominal critical mass, though this would likely only be possible in a country that already had extensive experience in engineering nuclear weapons. Most modern nuclear weapon designs use plutonium as the fissile component of the primary stage,[4][5] however HEU is often used in the secondary stage.
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- A piece of U-235 (uranium-235, a rare form of uranium) the size of a grain of rice can produce energy equal to that contained in three tons of coal or fourteen barrels of oil. (Contemporary's Science)[full citation needed]
- ↑ "Some Physics of Uranium", UIC.com.au at the Wayback Machine (archived July 17, 2007)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Nuclear fission and fusion, and neutron interactions, National Physical Laboratory.
- ↑ FAS Nuclear Weapons Design FAQ, accessed 2010-9-2. There are numerous other references on the net, and with modern computers, this is fairly easy to calculate, so secrecy cannot aid security.
- ↑ FAS contributors, ed. Nuclear Weapon Design. Federation of American Scientists. http://www.fas.org/nuke/intro/nuke/design.htm.
- ↑ Miner. 1968. pp. 541. [full citation needed]
External linksEdit
- Table of Nuclides.
- DOE Fundamentals handbook: Nuclear Physics and Reactor theory Vol. 1, Vol. 2.
- Uranium | Radiation Protection Program | US EPA
- NLM Hazardous Substances Databank - Uranium, Radioactive
- "The Miracle of U-235", Popular Mechanics, January 1941—one of the earliest articles on U-235 for the general public
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The aroma of one of South Korea's most popular delicacies is regularly compared to rotting garbage and filthy bathrooms.
And that's by fans.
The unusual dish is typically made by taking dozens of fresh skate, a cartilage-rich fish that looks like a stingray, stacking them up in a walk-in refrigerator and waiting. Up to a month in some cases.
"You know when it's done by the smell," said Kang Han-joo, co-owner of a seafood store in the bustling fish market of Mokpo, a port city on the southwestern tip of the Korean Peninsula, a region that's considered the food's spiritual home.
As Kang spoke, he sliced small, stinking, glistening dark-pink fish steaks with a large knife and laid them in plastic foam boxes for shipment to customers around South Korea.
The smell of the fish, called hongeo in Korean and usually eaten uncooked, is unmistakable, unavoidable and a deal-breaker for many.
A profound, pungent stink of ammonia radiates from the animal after it's been ripening for weeks.
First-timers often squeeze their eyes shut as they chew. Tears stream down the cheeks. The throat constricts with the effort of swallowing.
Kang notes, in a dramatic understatement: "When it's fermented a long time, the smell becomes deeper."
Americans are still getting used to gentler fermented Asian foods – spicy Korean kimchi and Japanese miso, for example – yet many South Koreans claim a love, an addiction even, for this extreme form of fermentation.
Restaurants specialising in the fish can be found throughout the country. One online hongeo appreciation society boasts more than 1300 members.
"Some people start to crave it as soon as they smell the ammonia," said Shin Jin-woo, a seafood store worker in Mokpo.
"There's no need to advertise how intense the smell is. Everyone already knows."
Shin's store has two fermentation refrigerators.
Walk into one and a blast of ammonia burns the eyes, the nose and sinuses, the tongue, throat and lungs.
Skate are fermented up to 15 days in the first refrigerator, where the temperature is 2.5 degrees Celsius, and up to another 15 days in the second at 1 C.
Shops in Mokpo custom-ferment the fish and ship the results to restaurants and hongeo fans around South Korea.
The vast majority of the more than 11,000 tons of hongeo consumed in the country comes not from South Korean-caught fish but from cheaper frozen imports.
Shop owners thaw and clean the imported fish, which can cost up to five times less than the local version, and place the hongeo in refrigerators to ferment.
Hongeo's history is murky, but it emerged in the days before refrigeration, when food that could keep for a long time without rotting was prized.
Someone – maybe a fisherman on a long voyage or a clever, hungry or desperate farmer – discovered that skate didn't spoil as easily as other fish and a dish was born.
Shop owners say the traditional method of making hongeo is to put the fish on a bed of hay in a clay pot, pile more hay on top and leave it.
Learning to love, or at least tolerate, what many consider the smelliest fish in Asia takes perseverance.
Fans commonly say that if you try it four times, you'll be hooked. Non-fans may be mystified by how anyone could meet that threshold.
"It's a freaking punch in the face," said Joe McPherson, the founder of ZenKimchi, a Korean food blog, and an eventual devotee of the fish.
"Like everyone else, I gagged the first time."
Natives of the southwest say hongeo should be eaten plain. They sometimes complain that the copious garnishes provided at restaurants disguise the taste and smell.
Most first-timers, however, tend to embrace all the extras they can, creating a hongeo "sandwich" with garnishes that can include red pepper paste, salty mini shrimp, raw garlic, chili salt, slices of fatty boiled pork and some extraordinarily strong kimchi.
Even with "some of the most powerful flavours in the world to put up against it … it does not cover up the flavour at all," McPherson said.
The extremely chewy texture – spongy flesh and hard cartilage – also makes for tough swallowing. And the smell of ammonia is so powerful it lingers for hours on clothes, skin and hair.
The second time, if there is one, is usually a little better.
One trick is to inhale through the mouth and exhale through the nose while eating.
This helps fight the smell some and also intensifies a surprising tingling and cooling – almost minty – sensation in the mouth, throat and face.
There are various theories explaining the food's popularity.
Some Koreans describe their craving as similar to the desire for a cigarette: You want it despite its obvious negatives.
McPherson says the fish is also valued for its interesting texture and the sensation it produces in the mouth – two things that can be as important to Koreans as flavour.
There's also something convivial about hongeo restaurants, where large amounts of strong Korean booze are as ubiquitous as the fish.
Still, while some Korean restaurants in the United States serve hongeo, it's unlikely to catch on except "in hardcore foodie circles," McPherson said.
"I can see maybe college fraternities hazing their freshmen with this, but it's very much a 'dare' food. Like live octopus."


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FAILURE: A LOVE STORY Receives West Coast Premiere at MTC Tonight
To close its 47th Season, Marin Theatre Company will produce the West Coast premiere of Failure: A Love Story by the "hugely talented Chicago writer" (Chicago Tribune) Philip Dawkins. Directed by MTC's artistic director Jasson Minadakis, this "enchanted and enchanting" play about love and loss will feature five actors playing multiple characters, using puppets and playing live music both original (by MTC's frequent collaborator Chris Houston, a Berkeley-based composer and musician) and from the era of the play - 1920s Chicago.
This "wholly wonderful show that is profound, yet at the very same time whimsical beyond all imagining" (Chicago Sun-Times) will feature a cast of talented local actors - all previously seen at MTC before - including Marin natives Patrick Kelly Jones, Liz Sklar and Kathryn Zdan, as well as Brian Herndon and Megan Pearl Smith.
The production will run for 29 performances from today, June 5 through June 29. Opening night is Tuesday, June 10.
Based in Mill Valley, MTC is a 47-year old professional nonprofit theater that is a destination for exhilarating performances, inspired new American plays and powerful theatrical experiences.
"Failure: A Love Story is one of those gems that we would never have found," said Minadakis, "if it wasn't for this organization's role in new play development both here in the Bay Area and around the country. Our Director of New Play Development Margot Melcon found this play when she was doing reading for the Horton Foote Prize. She brought it straight into my office and said 'you have to read this. This is a fantastic piece of work.' This is one of those plays that the minute we read it, we just had to figure out how we could possibly do it. And it's been a long time coming... two years. With the help of our frequent collaborator composer Chris Houston and many of the actors on stage, we workshopped this version of the play. This will be the first time Failure will be done in this way - the first time it's being done with only five actors, and the first time so with many instruments and musical numbers - so not only are we really excited, but the playwright Philip Dawkins is too!"
With the very opening lines, we know the basic plot of this anything-but-predictable, "wildly charming" (Chicago Reader) and "fantastically macabre" (Huffington Post) new play set in 1920s Chicago: "Nelly was the first of the Fail Girls to die, followed soon after by her sisters, Jenny June and Gerty Fail, in that order. Causes of death were Blunt Object, Disappearance and Consumption, also in that order." But before each young woman meets her untimely end, she finds love and happiness in this "lovely, bittersweet play" (Philadelphia Inquirer), in which "Dawkins approaches death with a quiet strength and gentle humor" (Chicago Now). MTC's production will emphasize the musicality of Dawkins' play - highlighting the American Songbook standards mentioned in the script's stage directions, as well as adding original tunes to underscore the playwright's playfully poetic words.
Developed at the Lark Play Development Center in New York, Failure premiered in November 2012 at Chicago's Victory Gardens and has also been produced at Azuka Theatre in Philadelphia, Illinois Shakespeare Festival and Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston. Best known for his Joseph Jefferson Award-nominated play The Homosexuals, which premiered at Chicago's About Face Theatre in 2011 and receives its Bay Area premiere this month at New Conservatory Theatre Company in San Francisco, Dawkins receives his joint Bay Area debut in May and June at NCTC and MTC. Chicago Sun-Times has called his work "smart, funny, poignant, sharply observed [and] up-to-date." He is a Victory Gardens Ensemble Playwright, an artistic associate of About Face Theatre and a founding member of Chicago Opera Vanguard.
MTC's artistic director Jasson Minadakis directs the West Coast premiere of Failure: A Love Story. Winner of the 2010 San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for best director (Equivocation) and a nominee in the same category in 2011 (The Glass Menagerie), he most recently directed the "bold, original and groundbreaking" (North Bay Bohemian) world premiere of Lasso of Truth in February. Earlier this month, The Whipping Man, which Minadakis directed for MTC and Virginia Stage Company in 2013, won the 2013 SFBATCC Awards for best production and ensemble. The show was also highlighted as one of the best in the Bay Area of 2013 by San Francisco Chronicle, Marin IJ and BroadwayWorld.com - San Francisco.
Failure: A Love Story features the returns of five talented local actors, including three Marin County natives - Oakland native/San Francisco resident Brian Herndon, who was last seen on stage at MTC in The Good German in 2007; Larkspur native and Redwood High School graduate Patrick Kelly Jones, who was last seen at MTC in public readings of Bill Cain's play-in-development 33, as well as It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play; Marin native and Branson School graduate Liz Sklar, who last appeared at MTC in the world premiere Lasso of Truth in February; Megan Pearl Smith of the folk duo Misner & Smith, last seen at MTC in 2010's Woody Guthrie's American Song (for which an official cast recording will be released this summer); and Mill Valley native and Tamalpais High School graduate Kathryn Zdan, last seen at MTC in the world premiere of Bellwether.
Filled with Roald Dahl-like mirth, mischief and melancholy, Failure: A Love Story is recommended for ages 6 and up.
Performance Days: Tue, Thu, Fri & Sat 8:00 pm; Wed 7:30 pm; Sun 7:00 pm. Matinees: Every Sun 2:00 pm | Sat 6/14 & 6/28, 2:00 pm | Thu 6/19, 1:00 pm. Check marintheatre.org or call the box office at (415) 388-5208 for exact performance dates and times. Marin Theatre Company is located at 397 Miller Avenue, Mill Valley, CA 94941. Tickets: $37-$58, details below (discounts available for Seniors and those Under 30).
Philip Dawkins (playwright) makes his MTC debut with the West Coast premiere of Failure: A Love Story. His work includes the recent Joseph Jefferson Award nominated world premiere of Miss Marx: or the Involuntary Effect of Living at Strawdog Theatre in Chicago, as well as recent critically-acclaimed plays The Homosexuals and Failure, which also received "Jeff Award" nominations for New Work after their world premieres with About Face Theatre in 2011 and Victory Gardens Theater in 2012. Dawkins is making his Bay Area debut this May with the local premiere of The Homosexuals at New Conservatory Theatre Center in San Francisco. His plays for young folks are published through Playscripts, Inc. A graduate of Loyola University, Chicago, he is an Artistic Associate of About Face Theatre, an Ensemble Playwright at Victory Gardens and a founding member of Chicago Opera Vanguard. Dawkins teaches playwriting at Northwestern University, his alma mater Loyola University Chicago and through the Victory Gardens ACCESS Program for writers with disabilities. He also teaches Kung Fu to little Chicago kids through Rising Phoenix Kung Fu.
Jasson Minadakis (director) is in his eighth season as artistic director of MTC, where he has directed the world premiere of Lasso of Truth, The Whipping Man (San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle Award for best production), Waiting for Godot, Othello, the Moor of Venice, The Glass Menagerie, Edward Albee's Tiny Alice, the world premiere of Seagull, Happy Now?, Equivocation (SFBATCC Award for best director), the world premiere of Sunlight, Lydia, The Seafarer, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, A Streetcar Named Desire, said Saïd, Love Song and The Subject Tonight is Love. As artistic director of Actor's Express Theatre Company, he directed The Pillowman, Bug, Carson Kreitzer's The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Echoes of Another Man, Killer Joe, Burn This, The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?, Blue/Orange and Bel Canto. As producing artistic director of Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival, he directed Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, Chagrin Falls (2002 Cincinnati Entertainment Award for Best Production), The Beard of Avon, Arcadia, Nocturne, Fuddy Meers, Lovers & Executioners, Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol, Betrayal, The Weir, Waiting for Godot, The Misanthrope, A Chance of Lightning, The Three Musketeers, Dracula, The Color Wheel and 19 productions of Shakespeare. Regional credits include The Whipping Man at Virginia Stage Company, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Hamlet at Georgia Shakespeare, Copenhagen at Playhouse on the Square (2003 Ostrander Theatre Award for Best Dramatic Production) and Bedroom Farce at Wayside Theatre.
Brian Herndon (Mortimer Mortimer) has appeared at MTC in The Good German and As Thousands Cheer. His recent work includes Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness with Shotgun Players and The Taming of the Shrew with Livermore Shakes. Herndon originated the role of Philip Elton in Jane Austin's Emma at TheatreWorks and has reprised it in all the play's regional productions, including Arizona Theatre Company, the Old Globe and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. He spent five seasons with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival as an actor and two with Marin Shakespeare Company as a fight choreographer. Herndon attended the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre and received his MFA from the Alabama Shakespeare Festival.
Patrick Kelly Jones (John) has appeared at MTC in It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, the world premiere of Bellwether, two School Tour productions - TALL Tales and Animal vs. Animal: an Aesop's Fables Mashup - and public readings of Bill Cain's play-in-development 33. His Bay Area appearances include The Coast of Utopia Trilogy at Shotgun Players, Buried Child at Magic Theater, Abigail's Party at SF Playhouse, The Death of the Novel at San Jose Rep, The Pitmen Painters at TheatreWorks, Metamorphosis at Aurora Theatre Company and Exit, Pursued by a Bear with Crowded Fire Theater. Nationally, his credits include Cymbeline and Misalliance at New York Classical Theatre; Step One: Plays with Instructions at the 52nd Street Project in New York City; You Can't Take It with You at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts; The Lieutenant of Inishmore and In the Belly of the Beast at Florida Studio Theatre; Vincent in Brixton at Cleveland Play House; and Arms and the Man at Great Lakes Theater. Jones holds an MFA in acting from Case Western Reserve University.
Liz Sklar (Jenny June) has appeared at MTC in the world premieres of Lasso of Truth, Bellwether and Seagull, as well as Othello, the Moor of Venice and public readings of Bill Cain's play-in-development 33, and was an MTC teacher in residence at Martin Luther King Junior Academy in Marin City. She recently participated in A.C.T.'s staged reading of The Desk Set. Other Bay Area credits include Becky Shaw at SF Playhouse, Care of Trees at Shotgun Players, A Christmas Carol at A.C.T., King John at Marin Shakespeare Company and The Tempest at Cal Shakes. Sklar also performed in Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream at Mortal Folly Theatre in New York City and co-starred with Stacy Keach in the film Imbued. She holds a BA in theater arts from Brown University, an MFA in acting from A.C.T. and has trained with the SITI Company in New York.
Megan Pearl Smith (Gertrude Fail) has appeared at MTC in Woody Guthrie's American Song, which she has also performed over a hundred times around the country, including locally at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley and Foothill Theatre Company in Nevada City. Bay Area credits include San Jose Repertory Theatre, Cal Shakes, TheatreWorks, SF Playhouse, CenterREP and Playground. Regional credits include Capital Stage, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival and Willamette Repertory Theatre. Smith performs original music with the folk and Americana duo Misner & Smith. The pair recently released their fourth full-length album Seven Hour Storm and, in 2007, their song "Madeline (Paradise Cracked)" won the West Coast Songwriters Association's Song of the Year. Smith will be featured on the forthcoming official cast recording of Woody Guthrie's American Song, which features the entire cast of MTC's 2010 production.
Kathryn Zdan (Nelly) has appeared at MTC in the world premiere of Bellwether. As an actor, creator, singer, mover, teacher and director, she has worked extensively around the Bay Area with TheatreWorks, Shotgun Players, Crowded Fire, CenterREP, Magic Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Cal Shakes, Livermore Shakes, Central Works and Berkeley Playhouse, among others. A Mill Valley native, Zdan received a BFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MFA in ensemble based physical theatre from the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre. After graduate school, she performed and toured Europe with the internationally acclaimed, Amsterdam-based street theater and performance art group Warner & Consorten. Zdan is a guest artist at the Tam High drama department, of which she is an alumna. kathrynzdan.com
ABOUT MTC: Founded in 1966, Marin Theatre Company is the Bay Area's premier mid-sized theater and the leading professional theater in the North Bay. We produce a six-show season of provocative plays by passionate playwrights from the 20th century and today in our 231-seat main stage theater, as well as a five-show Theater Series for Young Audiences in partnership with the Bay Area Children's Theatre in our 99-seat studio theater. We are committed to the development and production of new plays by American playwrights, with a comprehensive New Play Program that includes productions of world premieres, two nationally recognized annual playwriting awards, readings and workshops by the nation's best emerging playwrights and membership in the National New Play Network. Our numerous education programs serve more than 6,000 students from over 40 Bay Area schools each year. MTC is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.


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Drought, heat trigger pre-wildfire season jitters
High in Colorado's Rocky Mountains and beneath a foot of snow, a wildfire is still burning.
Sparked by an errant October campfire, the 32-acre Fern Lake Fire in Rocky Mountain National Park has been smoldering in a remote area of the park, fee
ding off downed timber and weather that made 2012 the nation's hottest year on record.
The unusual winter fire and the conditions that created it have experts across the country bracing for what could be yet another smoke-filled summer. While experts say it is too early to predict how bad 2013 might be, the ongoing drought and rising temperatures are concerns.
"We know we're going to have a fire season. It's just a question of how long and how bad," says Jeremy Sullens, a wildfire analyst for the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) in Boise, Idaho.
Last year was the warmest on record for the USA, acccording to the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., surpassing the previous record set in 1998. Th
e average temperature for 2012 was 55.3 degrees, one full degree above 1998.
Driven in part by last summer's sweltering temperatures, wildfires burned 9.2 million acres nationally in 2012, an area roughly the size of the states of Massachusetts and Connecticut combined, according to the NIFC. Only twice have more than 9 million acres burned in a single year, in 2006 and 2007, since good records began to be kept in 1960.
The wildfire season's length and intensity is driven largely by how much snow and rain falls each winter and spring. Heavy, wet snows tend to delay the season by keeping the ground, grasses and trees wet. Even the weight of snow plays a factor in some fires: Tall grasses that haven't been squashed down like normal carry fires faster and hotter, Sullens says.
The fire agency says there's continued drought across much of the western and central United States, "with severe to exceptional drought conditions spreading from southern California through the Rockies and into the Plains and the mid- and upper-Mississippi Valley. Parts of Georgia and Alabama also had extreme to exceptional drought conditions."
And according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, ongoing drought is expected to persist until at least May in a swath of the country from Southern California and Nevada across Utah, Colorado and Wyoming to Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska.
Put another way: It hasn't snowed or rained much and forecasters say it doesn't look likely to get any better.
Experts such as Katharine Hayhoe, director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University, say wildfires will likely get worse in the West as climate change l
ers rainfall, raises average temperatures and contributes to insect infestations that's killing millions of trees, leaving forests full of dry timber ready to ignite.ow
What's interesting, Hayhoe says, is that the number of wildfires breaking out each year has remained relatively constant even as temperatures rose and precipitation declined. What's changed? How quickly they grow.
"We're not seeing more frequent fires. We're seeing bigger fires," she says. "As it's getting hotter and drier, it making harder to control those fires."
To help combat those faster-growing wildfires, the U.S. Forest Service last summer announced plans to lease four new large firefighting helicopters and seven very large firefighting airplanes. In its published strategy for fighting wildfires, the Forest Service said the wildfire season now averages 78 days longer tha
n it did in the mid-1980s.
While winter is gripping most of the country, firefighters are readying their equipment, looking to weather forecasts to help determine how many airplanes, helicopters and people they will need to battle blazes when they break out.
"We spend the winter months assessing our resources and preparing for the summer," says NIFC spokeswoman Robyn Broyles.
Back in Colorado, the Fern Lake Fire continues to smolder beneath a blanket of snow, burning in 800 years worth of accumulated debris in a remote area. Many visitors have a hard time understanding that a wildfire can still be burning in the middle of winter beneath a blanket of snow, says park spokeswoman Kyle Patterson.
She says the fire will likely burn through the winter, unless heavy, wet snows arrive. But three weeks into January, the snows have been light and dry, she says. "It's like spitting on a campfire."
Hughes also reports for The (Fort Collins) Coloradoan. Contributing: Doyle Rice.


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New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has sent MP Brendan Horan home from Parliament to sort out allegations about money going missing from the bank accounts of his late mother.
Forensic accountants have been called in to investigate Mr Horan's mother's estate after allegations from the MP's brother that large sums of money had gone missing from bank accounts.
Party leader Winston Peters had told Mr Horan to go away and present him with evidence that he didn't do what he's been accused of doing.
"This is a number one priority. We want to sort it out and we want to sort it out now...his number one priority is to sort this matter out."
Mr Peters said he had repeatedly asked for evidence from Mr Horan's brother Mana Ormsby, the executor of the will and a lawyer, but had not received the information.
"I need the facts in a very serious allegation, and we do take it seriously.''
He would not say if he had confidence in Mr Horan.
Mr Peters said he had asked for evidence two months ago, after Mr Horan's brother had phoned him but he had received no evidence to date.
"I did leave that conversation on the basis that he would get me the information and pronto,'' said Mr Peters.
"This is a priority matter and it's urgent.''
Mr Horan was on leave until Mr Peters had viewed bank statements and other evidence.
He confirmed he had been given strict instructions by Mr Peters, but he would not say what those instructions were.
"That's between Winston and I, and I have no comment to make,'' he said.
When asked when he would be back to continue his duties in Parliament, Mr Horan replied: "if the media would leave my family alone it would be as expeditiously as possible.''
He would not say why there had been more than two months' delay in providing information to Mr Peters.
"I'm not the person holding things up here,'' he said.
"It's a personal family matter. It should never be in the media spotlight.''
Mr Ormsby said the bank statements showed a large number of withdrawals from TABs and from ATM machines near Mr Horan's office in Mount Maunganui, Auckland and Hamilton.
They also showed numerous payments at takeaway food outlets and video shops.
Mr Ormsby has said his initial investigation suggests about $85,000 was missing from his mother's account.
Mr Horan has said firmly he will not step down from NZ First because of the matter. He called in lawyers after an article was published revealing the allegations.
Mr Horan's mother, Olwen Horan, 87, of Mount Maunganui, died in early August about three months after signing a codicil to her will, after becoming concerned that money was missing from her accounts.
Earlier today, Mr Horan said he would not step down from New Zealand First in the wake of the allegations.
The former TVNZ weatherman and surf lifesaver has dismissed claims he had anything to do with the missing money as "fantasy".
The New Zealand First MP has also brought in lawyers after an article was published revealing the allegations.
When asked if he considered stepping down from his party while the matter was being dealt with legally, Mr Horan replied "no, of course not".
"I can't comment anymore because it's in the hands of the lawyers now," Mr Horan said.
"I'm sure you can imagine what it's like."
Mr Horan said he did not know how long it would take before the matter was resolved.
"These things, I guess they take time."


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State disability paycheck deductions now cover a portion of the salaries of workers who take leave to care for an ailing parent, spouse or child for up to six weeks.
"This bill would add siblings, grandparents, grandchildren and parents-in-law," says Sharon Terman with the Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center, which co-sponsored the bill. "We think it's a win-win for workers, families and employers."
Terman says it would reduce financial hardship and improve employee morale, which would also help business
But small business owner and Democratic Assemblymember Jim Frazier say the bill could affect his bottom line.
"There is an impact. It will impact my ability to make money because that employee is gone," says Frazier.
The bill now heads to the Assembly Appropriations committee.


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The first proof of the preacher himself committing the sin is my inability to do a Blog in recent weeks – shame on me for procrastinating!
Now back to preaching…
Procrastinating on getting to revenue equals sudden death.
Recently an entrepreneur passionately indicated that they have potential customers that are willing to buy their product NOW, but they are holding back until they raise more capital! because they are concerned about the growth and how they can control it; they have seen this before as they claimed.
Upon further investigation, it became clear that the product works, there are no technical reasons for delay, and that the customer is actually willing to pay a portion of the fees in advance; which can support staffing and internal expenses. This conversation has bothered me to the point of motivating me to write a post (thank god for the motivation!). So, I would like to remind some of my entrepreneur friends of the following key facts of entrepreneurship:
1. Avoiding a potential mistake, may be as bad as making a new mistake
2. A business is built on revenues not raised capital
3. The more of the company you keep the better off you are!
4. Before you control growth you should experience it
5. Risk is a part of life.
6. Fear of failure is as BAD as if not worst than fear of success
7. There is a thing called "competition" , while you ponder they are executing!
Monday, June 2, 2008
Entrepreneurial "procrastination" – easy to be a victim
The first proof of the preacher himself committing the sin is my inability to do a Blog in recent weeks – shame on me for procrastinating!
Posted by Sid Mohasseb at 7:27 PM
19 comments:
- Anonymous said...
It is a unique entrepreneur who would rather raise cash against equity or debt than by way of profits and revenue.
Many a first time entrepreneur thinks they have such a big idea that once they have completed what they have planned, clients will be waiting to get a piece of it.
One of the my favorite story lines for folks has always been Dell.
How they sell was not only well known but was taught in MBA schools as a case study and still for 10 years HP could not get it and could not replicate it. The key is EXECUTION. Vision is one element, passion is another, but at the end of the day EXECUTION is key.
Today my favorite corollary to the DELL theory is, DELL is trying to do what HP is doing today and HP has been doing this for over 20 years, that is selling via Retail Outlets. Why is HP succeeding today when it was loosing yesterday.
The answer again is EXECUTION.
I agree with you Sid, if folks will not jump on opportunities and take the new client opportunities I would think maybe that are not that passionate about EXECUTION of that idea and really more excited about creating an organization.
Rajat Khurana
- June 3, 2008 at 9:42 AM
- Cam said...
Good point, Rajat.
Execution is always key.
In my little business (which I really just call a "muse" to steal a term from Tim Ferriss) my philosophy is this:
Once you determine your target (by asking yourself "Is there an opportunity, and can I win?")...
Bring something to market as fast as possible - being completely up-front and honest with your market that they are getting something very early on in the product development cycle.
Then have your CUSTOMERS dictate the product direction, while also fueling growth through viral marketing.
There is no better sounding board than a customer, if you are willing to listen to their feedback.
Get beyond your ego and into your customer's hearts.
- June 24, 2008 at 4:44 PM
- Anonymous said...
Love this post, Sid, but I want more. Why aren't you blogging? =)
- July 8, 2008 at 5:50 PM
- Mark Bregman said...
Hi Sid,
Sometimes a completely different kind of leader is needed. I coined the term "Disruptive Leader" after Clayton Christenson's concept of disruptive innovation or disruptive technology. Here's a link to my article: "Disruptive Leaders for Disruptive Companies"
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- Lary Stucker said...
Too true Sid. I have worked with two kinds of companies. Companies that build their products on the back of their customers and companies that build their products on the back of the investors. Guess which ones have been more successful?
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But why? Why did so many liberal/progressive scholars and media denizens arrogantly assume that ObamaCare would be ratified by the Supreme Court in a "slam dunk"? Why were they so stunned to hear potent counter-arguments emerging from the justices? One commentator offers this:
What can explain liberals' widespread failure to anticipate the Court's wariness of the mandate? Research conducted by University of Virginia psychologist Jonathan Haidt suggests one possible answer: Liberals just aren't as good as conservatives and libertarians at understanding how their opponents think. Haidt helped conduct research that asked respondents to fill out questionnaires about political narratives [emphasis added]—first responding based on their own beliefs, but then responding as if trying to mimic the beliefs of their political opponents. "The results," he writes in the May issue of Reason, "were clear and consistent." Moderates and conservatives were the most able to think like their liberal political opponents. "Liberals," he reports, "were the least accurate, especially those who describe themselves as 'very liberal.'"
The article is well worth reading in its entirety, because it shows how liberals view everything through the filter of politics--and now assume, based on their political Narrative, that the Supreme Court's opposition to the individual mandate is nothing more than "partisan politics." In fact, though, that charge is nothing more than psychological projection. Commenting on this reaction by the left, some have opined that liberals just don't seem wedded to simple logic. That is true, but it doesn't go far enough in explaining the liberal mindset.
As subjectivists, liberals do not believe in the objective reality that is the basis of logic. To subjectivists, logic (like everything else) is merely an arbitrary social convention. That same subjectivism is the root of their multiculturalism (no culture or society is better than any other), of their moral relativism (there's no objective basis for ethics, so "do your own thing"), and, in this instance, of their doctrine of "the living Constitution" (a document that is as elastic and flexible as their own whims).
But if everything is mere subjective opinion, and opinions clash, then logical persuasion is without merit as a means of resolving disputes -- and the only thing left that can decide disputes is force. Hence, the liberals' view that everything in society consists of "conflicts of interest" and "power relationships"; hence, their quest for unlimited power to dominate, rule, and control others; and hence, their efforts to transform everything that we are, have, or do into a political issue: into a matter to be decided by wielding coercive political power over others.
But why should they, the liberals, be the ones wielding that power?
That's where their "Narrative" comes in. The liberal Narrative is rooted not in the logical, but the psychological. In their morality play, they have cast themselves as "progressives" -- as the smartest, most educated, most culturally sophisticated, most sensitive, most enlightened people on the planet, in contrast with the vast, crude masses of rubes, idiots, bigots, and know-nothings (i.e., the rest of us). The liberals' motive in holding and advancing this Narrative is the indispensable role that it plays in inflating their egos and self-regard. In their self-flattering psychodrama, they cast themselves as the Ruling Class, the social elite that -- by virtue of intellectual, moral, and esthetic superiority -- is entitled to lord it over their inferiors (i.e., the rest of society).
If you want a clear glimpse of the self-congratulatory "progressive" worldview, try to dig up a copy of the old H.G. Wells film "Things to Come." Wells was a socialist, and in his dystopian, sci-fi fantasy, he imagined a benevolent technocratic elite taking over a world that had descended into tribes of savages. Now, there's a lot I like about the film on a metaphysical level: Its no-limits view of human potential reminded me of "Star Trek" ("to boldly go where no man has gone before"). But its view of society is unadulterated "progressive" arrogance: A small, educated in-group of sophisticated geniuses takes total political power, becoming a new Ruling Class to civilize the savage masses...for their own good.
That's the essence of the liberal/progressive Narrative. And philosophical subjectivism allows them to use any means they wish to achieve that total power over the rest of us "savages."
If you now take all of this and apply it to the ObamaCare debate before the Supreme Court, you'll understand at once what was going on, and why the left is so shocked and indignant over the skeptical questioning by the justices. Their legal subjectivism was being challenged, at root. The justices were asking them what "limiting principle" existed upon the power they wish to assume over private economic relationships, and they couldn't answer because they don't have one, or believe that one should exist. Their arguments were transparent sophistry, attempts to provide legalistic excuses to grant them UNlimited power over the lives of the savages. That they should be required to justify this quest clashed with their entire Narrative, and the subjectivism that rationalizes it.
And so how do they respond? Only as they can, through their Narrative filter: Since to them, everything is a "political power relationship," they could only besmirch the alleged political motives of the skeptical justices as being "partisan" and "pro-Republican." This, to the liberal, is a necessary substitute for an argument based on the merits -- on facts and logic -- because the latter don't count in their subjective universe, except as tools of political manipulation.
There are broader, pessimistic conclusions to be drawn here, for example, about the possibility of persuading people wedded to the progressive/subjective Narrative, or about how we ought to engage and fight them. I've argued in my previous essay here on "The Narratives That Guide Our Lives" that the best approach is to advance a compelling counter-narrative. But what that is, and how it might be advanced, are topics for future development and discussion.


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Like asphalt? Stay in town
Regarding the debate between telecom magnate Thomas H. Sullivan and Blenheim Road residents [Cover story, "Highway man– Whose road is it anyway?" August 12, 2004], it should go without saying that it's immoral and undemocratic for one person with immense wealth to ride roughshod over his neighbors.
But there's another aspect of this situation that should be brought to light to increase understanding between people– some of us cherish the countryside and don't want it "civilized."
I happened to hear the Blenheim Road discussion between the editor of the Hook and the WINA radio morning crew on the day that the Hook came out on the stands. Two of the three on-air radio "personalities" seemed incredulous (and a bit insolent) that anyone could possibly object to a person paving the road for everyone at his own expense. Their comments illustrate an attitude toward our natural world that's much too prevalent in our society: pave it over!
Yes, many people are happy to live in a manmade world of concrete and asphalt, far removed from the wonders of nature. But there are other folks like me who value the peacefulness and beauty of the countryside– what little is left of it.
And that's the point: The countryside is fast disappearing. There is absolutely no need for people who do not enjoy rural areas to move to the country and then try to "civilize" it. People like Sullivan who want paved roads, faster traffic, and not so many trees, wildflowers, and wildlife should move close to town where their preferences can be satisfied without destroying yet more of our natural environment.
As a related aside– because the Blenheim Road issue revolves around the concept of nature lovers versus city people– the WINA discussion included the inability of wealthy novelist John Grisham to get permission for lights at his ball field south of Charlottesville.
Luckily for those who enjoy seeing the night sky instead of light pollution from a game field's lights, Charlottesville has an active community of optical astronomers who also want to see the night sky. Otherwise, the "country folk" might have been simply ridiculed for opposing bright lights at night in a rural area, as if the ability to observe the night sky is totally unimportant.
It's not necessary for wealthy individuals to live in rural areas if that environment does not suit them. There are already too few of these areas for the rest of us who truly appreciate them.
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Rangers sign free agent RHP Jason Frasor to one-year contract
Catcher Eli Whiteside designated for assignment
The Texas Rangers announced today that the club has signed free agent right-handed pitcher Jason Frasor (pronounced FRAIS-or) to a one-year contract for the 2013 season. Financial terms were not disclosed. To make room on the 40-man roster for Frasor, the club has designated catcher Eli Whiteside for assignment.
Frasor, 35, has spent the bulk of his nine-year major league career in the Toronto organization, including a 1-1 mark with a 4.12 ERA (20 ER/43.2 IP) in 50 relief appearances with the Blue Jays in 2012. He averaged a career-high 10.9 strikeouts-per-9-innings last year, compiling 53 K's. He is the Blue Jays all-time franchise leader in appearances (505) and has made at least 50 relief outings in 8 of his 9 big league campaigns. Frasor has a career .239 opponents average, including a .229 (247-1078) mark against right-handed batters.
Since being selected by the Tigers in the 33rd round of the 1999 June draft, Frasor has been traded four times. The Chicago native was traded by the Blue Jays to the White Sox on July 27, 2011, and finished that campaign with Chicago-AL, his only major league action in another uniform. Frasor has gone 26-31 with a 3.77 ERA over 525 career appearances in the majors with Toronto (2004-11, 2012) and Chicago-AL (2011).
Whiteside, 33, was acquired on a waiver claim from Toronto on December 12, making Texas the third different club to claim Whiteside this offseason. The Rangers have 10 days to trade, release, or outright Whiteside to the minor leagues.
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As you can see, Nightwing — or an unnamed, extremely Nightwing-ish character who is definitely identified in the credits as John Blake— is not the only Bat-character to make an appearance in The Dark Knight Legacy: there's the Penguin, Scarface, Stephanie Brown, and the bad guy is none other than lethal vigilante the Red Hood (although one would presume that's not Jason Todd under that mask). The people behind the film are only asking for $30,000, and they're over $8,000 now, so with a little luck (and $22,000) we'll get a full movie.
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RICHMOND, Va. – In English, the Nigerian name Uzoamaka translates to something along the lines of, the good road, or the road is beautiful. It's fitting, since Uzoamaka Ibeh's road to this time and place has been an undeniably a good one.
But Ibeh's path has also been distinct, and to her, the road looks a lot different than to most, both literally and figuratively. Not only has the VCU redshirt sophomore and Colonia, N.J. native defied the odds, the way she views the world has taught her to be dismissive of those odds.
She sees the world differently not only because she chooses to, but because she has to. Ibeh is legally blind in her left eye.
If the idea of someone playing a fast-paced Division I sport like volleyball, in which uncommon hand-eye coordination is essential, shocks you, it's okay, Ibeh gets that reaction a lot. But it's her matter-of-fact approach to her disability that's probably most notable.
"Sports, with my vision, it never stopped me," says Ibeh, who will turn 21 on Nov. 11. "I just kept it to myself, honestly."
When Ibeh was seven years old, she says a teacher recommended she see an optometrist. During the exam, the doctor asked her to cover her right eye and read a chart of letters on the wall. Not only could Ibeh not read the chart, she couldn't see the wall or anything else. The optometrist tried to correct the problem by placing different sets of prescription lenses in front of Ibeh's left eye. It didn't matter. Ibeh saw nothing.
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Nebraska irrigates more acres of farmland than any other state in the nation. Kansas is also near the top.
And that Irrigation infrastructure came in handy this summer. A University of Nebraska Lincoln studyfound the drought could shrink corn yields by 40 percent this year in dryland fields in Iowa. But yields for irrigated corn in Nebraska may end up only 8 percent lower than expected.
"We've been hearing reports over 200 (bushels/acre). Probably a lot of guys are hoping for 185-200. That'd be very good," said Gib Kelly, who traveled from the north -central Nebraska town of Page to look at the newest irrigation equipment at the annual Husker Harvest Days farm show in Grand Island, Neb.
But irrigation has its limits. There were times over the hot summer months when Mark Scott's groundwater wells couldn't keep up.
"Sometimes you had to let your wells rest for a couple days and let the water come back into it," said Scott, who farms near Belgrade, Neb. "Depending on what our underground water aquifer does, you know, I'm kind of worried about if we'll have enough water for next year."
Mike Clements, manager of the Lower Republican Natural Resources District, worries about the same thing. The Lower Republican NRD regulates groundwater irrigation for a portion of south central Nebraska. Clements said farmers in his area saved up water allowances over last couple of wet years, then poured it on this summer.
"When the numbers come in I think they are going to be astronomical," he said.
And the impact is unmistakable from Clements' office window, where he can look out and see the Harlan County Reservoir. At least he usually can.
"At the beginning of the irrigation season this reservoir was over a foot into the flood pool. I mean it was full. Plum full," Clements said. "Now it has dropped about 10 feet. You know, 10 feet out of the top of this lake is a huge, huge volume of water."
If the Harlan County reservoir stays at its current low-levelit could trigger restrictions on irrigation in southern Nebraska to ensure enough water flows down the Republican River to farmers in Kansas.
Linda Fox is already under restrictions. Fox farms corn and soybeans along with some wheat and cotton near Pratt in south-central Kansas, which faced drought conditions last year as well.
"Everybody over-pumped (their water)," Fox said. "Everybody tried to finish their crops that they had in their ground. The state is monitoring us and yes, we are having to cut back this year."
Lane Letourneau, who manages water appropriations for the Kansas Division of Water Resources, said temporary restrictions are possible for farmers like Fox. But many people are avoiding penalties by signing up for new multi-year irrigation accounts, which allow farmers to pump extra water in 2012, as long as they conserve water later. Letourneau said the goal is to balance losses from sources like theOgallala Aquifer.
"We are seeing huge declines (in the aquifer)," Letourneau said. "Like right south of Garden City, we saw 10 feet of decline on average just in one year. We've seen 28 feet over the last three years. So there are some areas that are very concerning to us."
Normal rain and a snowy winter in the Rockies could quickly refill diminished rivers and reservoirs in Nebraska and Kansas. But underground aquifers are slower to respond. When the drought ends it could take months for water to filter back down through layers of dry dirt and sand. Jason Lambrecht, who is following the drought's impact water levels in Nebraskafor the U.S. Geological Survey, described it like a stack of sponges.
"Pour a glass of water on a stack of sponges, how long will it take for that water to reach the bottom sponge, if it reaches there at all," he said.
Lambrecht said history shows droughts are usually more than a one-year disaster. Irrigation kept many farmers in Nebraska and Kansas from feeling the worst of it in 2012, but to keep their edge in dry years ahead some farmers may need to give their water sources some time off.


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Seneca Township voters repealed an ordinance governing wind energy facilities by only five votes, 135-130.
Township board members will now have to decide if they wish to rewrite the ordinance or have no ordinance in place.
The board approved a wind energy ordinance in March, but shortly after it was passed, township resident Lori Glisson began circulating petitions calling for a referendum on the law. She wants to see an ordinance that would site wind turbines further from residences.
Glisson said she knew the vote would be close. She intends to follow the board's actions to make sure a new ordinance would provide better protection for township residents.
Only 31 percent of the township's registered voters cast a vote on the issue.
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Democrat Jim Berryman will try to unseat state representative Nancy Jenkins in November after he defeated Harvey Schmidt 2,260-1,989 in the primary election.
Jim Driskill of Addison easily defeated incumbent county commissioner Rob Hall of Hudson, 521-287. Driskill will run unopposed in November. Hall served as a commissioner for the third district, which includes Morenci, for 14 years.
Kurt Haskell defeated Ruben Marquez by a 2-to-1 margin and will face incumbent U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg in November.
Morenci school district voters renewed the non-homestead tax levy 338-118. County-wide, voters strongly approved a 0.25 mill increase for senior citizen services and a renewal of the levy supporting the Lenawee Medical Care Facility.


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West Michigan residents already know that Lake Michigan beaches can hold their own against any beach — but now an international travel publisher is making sure everyone knows it.
BBC-owned Lonely Planet has named Grand Rapids and the West Michigan lakeshore, known as the Gold Coast, to the No. 1 spot on its ranking of the "Top 10 U.S. travel destinations for 2014."
In addition to highlighting the region's 300 miles of pristine beaches and fun beach towns, Lonely Planet also points to Grand Rapids' Beer City, U.S.A. title and the city's extensive art offerings as reasons to take a vacation in West Michigan.
"In addition to the impressive blooms and Rodin sculptures in the Frederik Meijer Gardens and the excellent Grand Rapids Art Museum housed in a cool LEED Gold-certified building, Grand Rapids is home to the world's largest art competition, ArtPrize, in which more than 1,700 creatives display their masterpieces," according to Lonely Planet.
The ranking also gives a shout out to Grand Rapids-based Founders Brewing Co. as its top-pick alehouse and Saugatuck's Oval Beach for its smooth sands.
"Grand Rapids continues to evolve as a city that is being recognized as a destination that caters to a wide range of visitor interests," said Doug Small, president and CEO of Experience Grand Rapids.
Small noted that the recognition West Michigan received from Lonely Planet is typically reserved for much larger cities.
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As Emacs is open source, we don't need to speculate. We can just read the code. I'm lazy though, so I prefer to speculate 😉 If you were making a text editor, what would you use for your buffer type?
Array of Chars
The obvious, naive choice is an array of chars. But that means that, while append may be fast (until you need to resize your array at least), insertion is very slow. To insert a character in the middle of an array of chars, you need to move all of the characters following the insertion point up by one character. If we assume that insertions are evenly distributed, inserting a character will take, on average, time proportional to N/2.
Queue up Inserts
We can be a bit smarter than that. With normal text editor usage, for any given insert, we will probably insert a bunch of characters in the same place. We could append those characters into a preallocated array, and after a certain amount of time or number of characters, insert those characters into the array of chars. This brings the amortized speed cost down to N/M/2 where M is the average number of characters inserted in one go.
A Tree of Characters
So much for arrays. How about a tree? Assuming the tree, is balanced, insertion will take log2 N. The downside is that traversal is a lot slower (still order N, but a decent constant factor slower). And we are also likely to lose cache locality.
Side note: I often surprised that the main 'scripting' languages don't provide much more than the equivalent of perl scalars, arrays and hashes. Sure, Python has tuples and Ruby has symbols (okay, I do miss symbols in Perl), but where are the built-in trees? Even Lisp has them. I had a quick look for trees in the CPAN and found Tree::Binary and Tree::RedBlack. I couldn't find at a quick glance whether Tree::Binary self-balances or not. Hmmm…
A Rope
The final simple option is a rope (PDF). This is a binary tree where the leaves, instead of being characters, are arrays of characters. This improves cache locality (depending on the average size of the array), and traversal speed, although it isn't as fast as a simple array of characters.
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Washington on Tuesday reacted coolly to a complaint from China about new US legislation expressing support for Taiwan's bid to gain observer status at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), sources said.
Sources at the US Department of State and the US House of Representatives assured the Taipei Times that the complaint would have no impact on the US' stance.
US President Barack Obama signed the legislation into law last week and instructed US Secretary of State John Kerry to push for Taiwan's ICAO bid.
The legislation "seriously violated" the "one China" policy, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Hua Chunying (華春瑩) said in Beijing.
Hua said Beijing urged Washington to stop interfering in China's internal affairs.
The complaint came as an overview of US-Taiwan policy issues was released by Congressional Research Service specialists Shirley Kan and Wayne Morrison.
The report is aimed at keeping US Congress members of up to date on vital issues. It said that Beijing continues to block Taiwan's participation in international meetings and organizations.
For decades, Taipei has "harbored fears" about whether Beijing's cooperation with Washington has occurred at the expense of Taiwan's interests, the overview said.
"US policy seeks a cooperative relationship with a rising PRC [People's Republic of China], which opposes US arms sales and other official dealings with Taiwan as interference in its internal affairs..." it said.
The report also warned that as President Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) second term progresses, Beijing could increase pressure on Taiwan to conduct political and military cross-strait negotiations.
Beijing's patience may be tested by Taiwanese's sustained sense of identity, it added.
"Despite the pronouncements of a 'one China' by leaders in Taipei and Beijing, and closer cross-strait ties, Taiwan's people retain a strong Taiwan-centric identity after over a century of mostly separation from mainland China," the report said.
The overview emphasized that Taiwanese have pursued prosperity, security and a democratic way of life and self-governance.
Moderate Taiwanese voters have generally supported close economic ties to the PRC, but political separation, it added.
According to the overview, in August last year only 0.9 percent of Taiwanese surveyed wanted cross-strait unification to be realized soon as possible, while 84 percent wanted to maintain the "status quo" and 7 percent called for immediate independence. The remaining 8 percent voiced no opinion.
"President Ma has to deal with a political propensity in his own party [the Chinese Nationalist Pary (KMT)] to move even closer to the PRC," the overview said.
It said that two months before Ma's second inaugural address, China's Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) called for a new phase of mutual political trust, economic benefits for both sides and shaping Taiwan's cultural understanding of the "one China national identity."
A month before Ma's address, then-TAO director Wang Yi (王毅) visited Washington and met with US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, where he indicated Beijing's expectations to hold political talks with Taipei.
Beijing could soon start pressuring Taipei to start "preparing for, if not pressing for" political and military talks, the study said.
It added that the US has "concerns" that Taiwan under Ma has not given sufficient priority to national defense because it cut the defense budget in 2009, 2010 and 2011 until an increase last year.


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We will probably need a budget otherwise I'd suggest something like a Canon 5D Mk III ($2500 w/o lens).IMO mirrorless should also be an option. I just picked up a Sony a6000 and like it better than my Canon DSLR.
We bought a Sony Alpha series camera ahead of our first daughter's birth in 2009 to replace a well-worn Olympus OM-10 that I'd nabbed from my dad.We loved it, picked up various extra lenses and even an extra body but found that as our knowledge and technique improved, the camera itself showed up its limitations. We've now (in the last month) gone for a Canon 6D - which I think is the cheapest full-frame body that Canon does - we managed to pick it up for about UK£750 secondhand, body only.Everything (lenses, flash, accessories) is more expensive but the step up in quality is astounding. If I could go back in time, I'd buy a full-size sensor camera right from day one. But if you're just dipping your toes in the water, those Sonys are great value, flexible - and easy to use too. Although one issue we hit was that very, very few places hire out lenses for them so you might struggle to check out new glass. If you're willing to go secondhand, I bet you could get an A200 and a couple of lenses and be well within budget.btw I'm not sure if the taping analogy holds here. When I had only film cameras, a 36-exposure roll could last me a month or more. Nowadays, I'll easily hit 200 snaps a day - at least half of which are duff/testing settings/indistinguishable from the shots either side but the number of great shots we get has gone up dramatically since the days of film.
Thanks, I will look into those.I just don't want to go too crazy on it.She says she "would do it more if she had digital".Not sure if the statement means the same as one of us saying "i'd tape more if I had better gear"; )
What film camera/lenses does she have? She might be able to use her lenses on a DSLR body.
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Americans can hardly complain that Pakistan is on the verge of a deal with jihadists. The US has already done a similar deal with Iraqi Sunni terrorists. In both cases, a prime goal is simply to isolate Al Qaeda.
In Iraq, the US military's payoffs of radical Sunni leaders since 2005 have largely achieved that aim. The former terrorists now openly oppose Al Qaeda, which appears to be on the run in Sunni areas.
In Pakistan, the stakes are even higher, with a new government trying to strike a pact with the local Taliban. Osama bin Laden probably operates somewhere along the 350-mile border, working in cahoots with Taliban terrorists from both Afghanistan and Pakistan. If Al Qaeda is planning another 9/11-style attack, that area is the launching pad.
Negotiating with one type of terrorist in order to isolate more-lethal terrorists has become a necessary but distasteful part of the post-Sept. 11 world. While President Bush has had to back into such a hold-your-nose tactic in Iraq, one issue in the Democratic primaries is whether the US should often negotiate with its enemies, such as Iran. Barack Obama says he would, and events unfolding in Pakistan serve as a current test case of that let's-talk approach.
For Pakistan, this isn't the first time it has cut deals with Islamic terrorists in the largely autonomous tribal areas. President Pervez Musharraf made three agreements with such groups from 2004 to 2006 – and all failed. But the former general, who came to power in a 1999 coup, was seen after 9/11 as doing US bidding in attacking radicals. He lost much of his power in a February parliamentary election and has since been forced to reinstall full democracy to the two civilian political parties that won.
Those parties campaigned on both an anti-US and antiterrorist theme, and now want to prevent suicide bombers from striking within Pakistan again. In fact, their talks are with Baitullah Mehsud, leader of the jihadist group Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, which was accused of setting up the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in December.
The deal in the works reportedly includes a truce, a prisoner exchange, and a withdrawal of Pakistani troops from tribal areas. But will it also require this Taliban group to cut ties with Al Qaeda and help prevent attacks in Afghanistan along the border? That's not clear.
The new government hopes to use a truce to regain authority in the border area with massive development and to win over radical groups. But it also risks giving time and freedom for hard-core jihadists to build up their strength, as previous truces did. If the deal doesn't clearly isolate Al Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban, the government is merely pleading for temporary peace out of weakness and for its own survival.
This is the tricky part of entering talks with terrorists or terrorist-backing nations such as Iran: A country needs to be clear going in exactly what it is willing to give up.
Is Pakistan now giving up its commitment to the world to rid its country of Al Qaeda simply in order to keep domestic peace? If so, that's shortsighted, as any sort of jihadism in Pakistan will eventually strike at the country's democracy.
Going "soft" with militants in hopes of reconciliation requires hard tactics. The US still has only a tenuous peace with Iraq's Sunni radicals. Pakistan's could be the same if it gives away too much.


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