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[Editor's note: The following is a transcript of the presentation by Dr. Sidney Fox on May 15 at the Harbinger symposium, "Religion & Science: The Best of Enemies - the Worse of Friends," with an introduction of Dr. Fox by Dr. Sheldon Gottlieb, one the project's directors.]
by Sheldon Gottlieb
From the dawn of recorded history we know that human beings have been asking questions about who they are, where did they come from, what purpose, if any, do they have on this planet, and what happens to them, if anything other than decay and recycling, after they die. Over the past few weeks we have explored aspects of these questions from the religious, scientific, and philosophic points of view.
Tonight we are going to explore one of the more fascinating aspects of the subject of where do we come from, from the point of view of how life on this planet originated--how life came into being from non-life; how inanimate organic molecules self-organized into animate cells. One thing that will make tonight so exciting is a video tape that you will see, one that has not yet been shown to the rest of the scientific world, one that is being prepared for presentation before a scientific audience, in which you will see the phenomenon of living cells forming before your eyes.
A few months back, Pope John Paul II, came out with what many people consider -- at least for the Vatican -- an historic statement concerning the Roman Catholic Church's view on accepting evolution as a scientific theory.
Before the Papacy makes such a historic statement, it tends to study the issues very carefully. The Pope did not want to have the church make the same mistake with evolution that it had made with Galileo and Giordano Bruno.
There is no doubt in my mind that one of the great influences on the Pope was the work of the man we are going to be privileged to hear tonight, Dr. Sidney Fox.
Dr. Sidney Fox is a native of Los Angeles, who received his B.A. degree from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. The chairman of his Ph.D. dissertation was the famous evolutionary biologist and geneticist, Thomas Hunt Morgan, who personally taught young Sid aspects of evolution.
Dr. Fox has a long and very distinguished career involving several universities. From 1943 to1956 he was at Iowa State University, where he rose through the academic ranks to become full professor in 1947. From 1949 to 1955 he was the head of the Chemistry Section of the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station. From 1955 to 1961 he was director and professor of the Oceanographic Institute of Florida State University.
At the behest of the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) Dr. Fox served as director of the Institute of Bioscience at Florida State University from 1961 to 1964. And from 1964 to 1989 he was professor and director of the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Evolution at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.
Dr. Fox's first formal retirement was in 1977. Following his second retirement in 1989, Sid departed Miami to become Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Plant Biology at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. In 1993, the University of South Alabama was fortunate to attract Sid, where he is now Distinguished Research Scientist in the Department of Marine Sciences.
Sid has published numerous papers and books in the field of amino acid sequencing and evolutionary biology. In fact, way back in the ancient days of 1945, Sid was a pioneer of amino acid sequence determination. Sid was also the first to synthesize a protein by heating amino acids under conditions found here on planet earth. Also, he was the first to show that these new thermal proteins, when placed in water, would self-organize into a living cell. More recently, he has demonstrated that this first protocell is also a protonerve cell.
As a result of this historic work, people like Linus Pauling and Albert Szent Gyorgyi, both Nobel Laureates, gave credit to Sid for pioneering the field of molecular evolution. As a result of his monumental discovery of thermal proteins and their self-organization into protocells and that these protocells exhibit virtually all of the properties associated with life, Sid was invited to lecture widely throughout the world. Even Pope John Paul II and his advisors, on at least three separate occasions, invited Sid to the Vatican to explain his work on the synthesis of cellular life in a test tube.
Dr. Fox has served on numerous national and international scientific boards and has been the recipient of numerous honors.
It is with great pleasure and honor that I present to you one of the truly great biologists of this century, my friend and colleague, Dr. Sidney Fox.
Sidney W. Fox, Ph.D.
On reading the open letter of October 1996 of Pope John Paul II to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (The Scientist May 12, 1997), I am struck by his concern about "the subject of the origin of life and its evolution." This shifts the emphasis from evolution only to papal mention of origin of life, and its interdigitation with subsequent evolution.
My own contact with this question was to present for the first time a scientific theory of origins to the Pope and the papal scientists as derived from repeatable experiments. These occurred in 1984, 1985, and 1990, when I was a guest of three groups in Rome, the trips being supported by Academia Lincei, IBM, and the National Foundation for Cancer Research.
Why was Pope John Paul II interested in what I might say? I can think of three main answers. The first is that, like anyone else, he is curious about where he came from, or to put the question in its most ancient time frame, what did he come from? Secondly, the Pope recognizes that, with forward extrapolation, synthesis of primitive life in the lab is a natural equivalent of Genesis in the Bible; as Pope he must therefore prepare for new arguments. The third explanation is one I received in Rome from many scientists of several faiths who surround and advise Pope John Paul II. This answer, related to the second one, is that Pope John Paul II wants not to repeat the mistake of the predecessor church who had excommunicated Galileo.
My round-trip to Rome from Miami was paid three times, each time to answer a major question. I shook hands with the Pope on the first occasion in 1984. After his stroll in the audience, he retired to the chairman's table at which sat several of the organizing scientists. While I had special discussions with the scientists after my presentations, the Pope, as I was informed, held his own subsequent discussions with them. This indirect process was thorough enough that, as I believe, Pope John Paul II and his associated scientists have a far better grasp and more up-to-date awareness of natural genesis than the funded scientists whom I know on this side of the Atlantic. There are signs also that the most up-to-date awareness in the subject can be found near Rome, in Padova, and Trieste especially. For me, these enjoyable sessions relating research generously supported by NASA and others in 1960 to 1992 came twenty years after an earlier unpleasant and dramatic introduction to the science-religion interface. In that 1963 encounter, I was on an American Chemical Society lecture tour, speaking on how our group had recently learned to make a kind of protein under terrestrial conditions that existed before there were cells on Earth to make protein. In Colorado, on my tour, I encountered a well-known professor of chemistry. I had respect for this man through having read his papers on analysis of proteins. I found in Colorado that he did not have respect for me and my claim to having made protein-like molecules under conditions of the Earth. In the middle of my lecture he rose in the audience and announced emotionally, "Only God can make a protein!" He had to be led from the audience by a companion so the meeting could continue. He evidently belonged to the 40 percent of scientists who cling to some form of theistic religion.
In the first of my three lectures for the papal group, we considered self-organization of matter into living beings. This process had been predicted by the French Catholic scientist, Louis Pasteur, in an 1864 debate in the Sorbonne on what was then called spontaneous generation, Pasteur asked: "Can matter organize itself? In other words are there beings that can come into the world without parents, without ancestors? That is the question to be resolved."
Figure 1. Cells from thermal protein. These figures are seen in a 1975 book on Genetics by Winchester, fifth edition, 1000X. Laboratory protocells on left. Staphylococcus aureus on right.
Similar pictures have appeared in hundreds of textbooks in U.S. and abroad.
Figure 2. Original cellular genesis in retracement taped by Mr. Randall Grubbs. A large chunk of thermal protein (1000x) is contacted by warm 1.0% sodium chloride solution. On cooling, protocells stream forth in less than two minutes.
The right kind of matter to organize itself is known now as thermal protein, protein made from amino acids on Earth by heat. This was first suggested from the work of Alfonso Herrera of Mexico City in his laboratory of Plasmogeny, where he showed in 1924 to 1942 how to make amino acids and sulfobes, a kind of cell, under terrestrial conditions. This synthesis has much more geological plausibility than that of the amino acids of Harold Urey and Stanley Miller, which are produced in assumed atmospheres in closed flasks, and which are much better known due to publicity. The thermal amino acids also fit into a single thermal continuity. The second step toward a cell after amino acids is the formation of protein. This is where we came in, in a context of protein, not thinking at that time of this as a stage of life's origin. As a young professor of protein chemistry, I wanted to know if it were possible that amino acids such as had been produced by Herrera, and later by Miller, could yield proteins on the primitive Earth even before there were living cells to make protein. So we tried heating amino acids, even though heat was known to decompose amino acids.
Figure 3. Heated amino acid mixture, sans glutamic and aspartic acid, on left. Heated mixture containing glutamic and aspartic acid, on the right.
We learned that we could avoid the decomposition if we included in the mixture to be heated a sufficient proportion of one or both of two amino acids: aspartic acid and/or glutamic acid. The results of indiscriminate heating is seen as a dark tarry mass in Figure 3. When only a small proportion of these two amino acids in included we get an amber-colored product. For years we thought the amber component contaminated the kinf of white product that professional polymer chemists obtain, such as in styrofoam. In 1979, Dr. Klaus Dose and associates of Mainz, Germany, showed that the amber color was due to flavin, formed by heating amino acids together. We then remembered that flavins are significant in energy metabolism of all cells; indeed riboflavin is standard in the human diet and even in supplements in the drugstore. The experiments indicate that flavin was there from the beginning.
The main product of heating the amino acids is protein, so listed under protein, subheading thermal, by Chemical Abstracts since 1972. The nomenclature came into existence a year after a special report on existence of characteristics common to protein and to thermal proteins was published in Chemical and Engineering News.
The expectation of protein chemists, which we shared, is that thermal protein, then called proteinoid, would be randomly disordered. What the experiments and analyses showed is almost the opposite.
Figure 4. Nonrandom peptides from heated glutamic acid, glycine, and tyrosine on top, from glutamic acid, alanine, and tyrosine below, and analyzed on HPLC. Each is highly reproducible.
In Figure 4 we see analyses of products of heating three amino acids together. In the top the three amino acids are glutamic acid, glycine, and tyrosine. These were separated on what is known as an HPLC apparatus. If the products were random, we should observe a low-lying horizontal line. The nearly vertical lines are individual thermal peptides, or thermal proteins. They represent individual peptides. This nonrandom result is highly reproducible. If we replace the amino acid glycine-G by another one, alanine-A, we get a similar product that is perceptibly different. However, each of these analytical pictures is highly reproducible.
The third lecture in Rome (1990) concerned restating that the arrangement of amino acids in thermal polymers is and was orderly. After the papers emphasizing that amino acides can order themselves with high precision when heated, the Polish chairman expressed interest in seeing that DNA and RNA were unnecessary. More recently than 1990, the leading investigators in the RNA-first and DNA-first hypotheses acknowledged the uselessness of their approaches. Francis Crick, famous for the DNA double helix for example, stated in 1994, "The point about DNA is that it goes back not to the origin of life." By 1993, a number of RNA-first investigators, for example James Ferris, had made similar statements for RNA not being primary.
In each case the amino acids determine their own arrangements. No outside agent such as RNA or DNA makes any difference during a heating process, as the late Cyril Ponnamperuma showed in 1990. The possibilities with DNA and RNA were the scheduled subject of my second paper for the papal scientists on the visit to Rome in 1985. The papal scientists had arranged this as a debate with a collegial friend from California, who at that time postulated nucleic acids as arising first. He gave his talk in the morning, and left at noon to visit someone elsewhere in Italy. As a result, the scheduled debate did not follow my lecture in the afternoon. There was no debate then, as there is none now.
When brought into contact with water, all tested thermal polymers of amino acids, without exception, have been found to organize themselves into cells, as described in the 1984 meeting.
Figure 5. Growth of laboratory protocells from warm solution of 1% sodium chloride at 60 Celius. Growth of cells can be followed at 1000X to numerous units of size programmed by the individual polymer. Entire sequence requires 90 seconds.
Figure 5 illustrates both natural genesis and GROWTH.
Figure 6 is from Lehninger's 1975 textbook of Biochemistry. One sees one of four known modes of REPRODUCTION of the protocell, that of budding as in yeast.
Figure 7. X1000 upper right hand. Proteinoid microspheres from which the interior has been leached. Duble layers left behind are durable. Lower left, beginning of diffusion. Upper left, sliced Bacillus cereus.
In Figure 7 are several sliced microspheres. They have infrastructure resembling that of natural cells. In the right hand micrograph are protocells in water. The interior material has leached through the double-layered boundary, which is itself very durable. In the lower left is shown how the beginning of diffusion outward occurs. For comparison in the upper left is a sliced modern bacterium, Bacillus cereus.
The list of the properties of these protocells as presented to the Pope in the first meeting are in Table 1. At the bottom of the list you will notice excitability. We had just begun to study the kind of RESPONSIVENESS to stimuli that is followed by implanting microelectrodes into microspheres as if they were nerve cells. By displaying growth, metabolism, reproduction, and response to stimuli, the microspheres meet definitions of life in some textbooks and in Webster's Dictionary.
Table 1. Salient Properties of Proteinoid Microspheres
Figure 8 compares an action potential of the crayfish receptor neuron to an action potention in one of our microspheres. In trains of electrical spiking action potentials are beginning to have a bedside flavor for a cardiology ward. Dr. Yoshio Ishima of the Tokyo Medical School studied those displaying regular rhythm and said he could not distinguish some from the recording of a heart. Hundreds of types of microspheres made from thermal protein all exhibit electrical activity. The principal ways in which the laboratory protocell meets the definition of life in the dictionary are in displaying growth, metabolism, reproduction and responsiveness in cells made by synthesis. By the process of cellular engineering, we can do a more meaningful job of arriving at a definition of life than by describing behavior of modern cells. This is a theme in a recent book titled Defining Life edited by Professor Martino Rizzotti of Padova, Italy, 1996.
In Figure 9 is a comparison of microfossils and laboratory microspheres, from T. Berra's Evolution and the Myth of Creationism (Standford University Press, 1990)
One relationship of this work to religion lies in its providing a natural description of Genesis. The Bible has supplied, for most people, answers to questions that everyone asks. I think it was beautifully written for its time. More than half of all scientists now prefer to explain genesis by evolution rather than by revelation. Some of the scientific uncertainities in the transmutation of species are overcome by retracing the primary conversion of inanimate to animate as I have done here and to the Pope and to members of the pontifical academies. The results are in hundreds of textbooks, and I am informed that thousands of high-school students have repeated the main experiments, in the vein of a most fundamental requirement of science: repeatability. Our beautiful Bible is not up-to-date. It does not mention microscopes or cells. Accordingly, it could not in its time honor evolutionary theory, which is now a natural sequence from molecules to cells to plants and animals, all in a synthetic direction.
At this point we leave the experiments to focus on interpretations, which are more variable. Here we can cite Einstein (Clark, 1971) and in his wake Linus Pauling and others. Although others have called him an agnostic or an atheist, Einstein regarded himself in his later years as a disciple of Cosmic Religion. He did not attend church or synagogue, but he made frequent reference to a deterministic God, by which he clearly meant nature. There is no doubt that he regarded nature with reverence. Determinism is common to Einstein's view of science and to divine determinism. However, Einstein's emphasis on determinism was opposed by most of the developers of the quantum theory, a theory that he initiated. As I see it, our experimental results support Einstein that everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end. Einstein believed in a God who was, however, Spinoza's God. But Spinoza's God was natural, not supernatural.
A Catholic leader of Einstein's time, Bishop Fulton Sheen, represented the opposing point of view. In the early 1930s, Sheen said of an article written by Einstein that it was the sheerest kind of "stupidity and nonsense. There is only one fault with his (Einstein's) cosmical religion; he put an extra letter in the word -- the letters 's'" To Einstein, what was cosmic was to Sheen comical. Einstein focused on as fact what we find as a common principle in both science and religion: determinism. Einstein did not regard determinism as divine determinism, but due only to natural forces. In 1929 he said: "Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insects as well as the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune intoned in the distance by an invisible piper." In this statement, Einstein appears not only as a scientist but as a philosopher and a poet.
Einstein also said: "I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the oderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings."
The words the famous philosopher, Benedict Spinoza, used to define God (Ethics, 1677) were: "By God I understand a being absolutely infinite, that is,. a substance consisting of infinite attributes, each of which expresses eternal and infinite essence."
In the 1600's, Spinoza could not involve chemistry as we know it to specify "substance," because chemistry was yet in its alchemy days; amino acids were unknown. I would like to be able to ask Spinoza if he would accept an updating of his definition in which God is a family of substance (as has been described) consisting of infinite attributes." Or would he rather refer to a single type of substance, thermal protein, from which infinite attributes seem to flow? Certainly, we can see that what is new since Spinoza's time is the cell as the sine qua non of all life, and the use of experimental synthetic retracement to answer biological questions. And we propose to replace Spinoza's undesignated "substance" by a family of substances of defined constitution in a modern way, the amino acids, or perhaps by thermal protein, which is itself already an article of biomedical research and industry. In this offshoot, thermal proteins are a subject of more than one hundred patents (Bahn and Fox, 1996) since 1990.
While our experiments agree with Einstein's interpretations in the main, he was a hard determinist, whereas the experiments lead me to a kind of soft determinism. This thinking results from the belief that if Einstein had known of thermal protein, he would have anticipated that thermal protein would be a single substance.
If we honor thermal protein as the original progenitor, we must recognize that it is not a single substance but rather a family of closely related substances. This permits the act of selection. Some would cite this fact as a basis for free will. Another interpretation, however, is that the whole range of thermal proteins in one batch is determined. Since the substance thermal protein is several substances, "free will" and determinism may both be rooted in thermal protein.
The base in the whole picture is still molecular determinism, which is a kind of molecular religion that extends into Einstein's cosmic religion. The same May 12 issue of The Scientist in which the Pope's open letter is reprinted contains a response of Dr. David S. Thaler which includes the statement that "the next Galileo may be a microbiologist." In his letter the Pope states that "theories considering the mind as emerging from the forces of living matter...are incompatible with the truth about man." The fact that the cells made from thermal protein behave as neurons indicates that this problem exists now.
Finding thermal proteins was the product not of the usual hypothesis. It was a testing of terrestrial conditions and substances. The experimenter did not ask the experiments to check on hypothetical products; rather the experiments talked to the obsever.
The development from thermal protein as mother substance is a rediscovered advance. It calls to mind the rediscovered science of genetics. Gregor Mendel published the results that are the basis of genetics in 18645. In 1970 and 1880's this advance was covered up by others. The rediscovery did not occur util 1900, after Mendel's death.
In the case of protobiogenesis, the initiial discovery reached a plane of completion by 1971. The finding into the background lasted from the middle 70s until the middle 90s. In this subject the answer of the 1960's to 1970's was subjugated to a presumed field that placed RNA-first and DNA-first center stage and inadvertently covered up the earlier thermal proteins-first.
To initiate the discussion, Dr. Gottlieb asked the audience "Based on what you heard tonight, how many of you now think that a living organism, a protocell, has been synthesized artificially in a test tube from inanimate material?" Approximately half the audience raised their hands.
The remainder of the audience divided their responses between the next two questions: "How many of you do not think that a living organism, protocell, was synthesized artifically in a test tube?" and "How many of you are uncertain as to whether a living organism, protocell, was synthesized artificially in a test tube?"
The discussion ensued from there and covered a variety of subjects including determinism and free will.
The Harbinger symposium, "Religion & Science," was funded by a grant from the Alabama Humanities Foundation, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Spillman Announces Mobile 4.3 for Windows Vista
SALT LAKE CITY – Dec. 18, 2007 – Spillman Technologies, a leading provider of public safety software nationwide, announced that its new Mobile 4.3 solution is Certified for" Windows Vista.
The Mobile solution that enables public safety agencies to communicate with field personnel had to pass 28 tests of compatibility. These tests focused on the application's security, installer, and interaction with the features and functionality of Windows Vista.
Our customers come to us for high quality software that offers reliability and delivers the best customer experience through the most up to date features," said Chris Hellewell, Spillman's senior vice president of development. By working with Microsoft, we are confident that our Mobile 4.3 solution will provide users of Windows Vista with enhanced reliability, security and compatibility."
Microsoft is pleased that Spillman has earned the Certified for Windows Vista software logo for their Mobile 4.3 application," said Brad Goldberg, General Manager for Windows Vista Product Management at Microsoft Corp. By certifying their applications, Spillman is letting their customers know that their product has met explicit standards of reliability and quality, and has been tested and proven to deliver a superior experience with a PC running Windows Vista."
Spillman released its Mobile 4.3 software module during third quarter of 2007. The application develops the core system for completing and submitting state-mandated electronic forms, such as accident and citation forms. Other enhancements provide field officers with more visible alerts and enable personnel to attach document files to e-mail messages.
Spillman Technologies provides a full range of software solutions for public safety agencies, including Computer-Aided Dispatch, Records Management, Mobile Communications, Corrections Management, Fire/EMS Management, Resource Management, and Data Sharing. The software is installed at more than 700 agencies nationwide.


text: › Child Development Center Home About Us Philosophy Staff Eligibility Requirements Contact Us Links News and Events Upcoming Events Tuition Where We Are Calendar Plan a Visit ›Apply Now ›Give to Furman › Main Content Column 1Welcome to the Furman University Child Development Center The mission of the Furman Child Development Center is to provide project based, hands-on early childhood education to the families of Furman University and the surrounding community in a safe and nurturing environment with highly qualified and passionate staff who model responsibility, respect, and empathy for others, realize that children learn in different ways and at different rates, and inspire a lifelong love of learning. The CDC is a school for children from age 3 through kindergarten. What do CDC parents say about the program? "The CDC has given our children the strongest possible foundation for their future schooling!" Jason Cassidy "I could not imagine a better environment for my child to acquire a sense of autonomy, respect for others and self esteem as well as a deep and abiding love of learning." Judy Grisel "It is the best investment and the best gift we could ever give our children." Kim Keefer "The CDC is a place of loving and nurturing teachers, creative play and development, but it is foremost a place for learning." Sandra Roberson "After going to the Furman CDC, [my child] woke up on a Saturday morning and said, 'Daddy, I want to go to school'." Edward Young


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Coaches will always stress the importance of key hitting and a strong bullpen and the UC Santa Barbara baseball team used both to take the first game of a three-game set with Rhode Island on Thursday.
In a game that was moved up due to impending weather forecast for this weekend, the Gauchos (8-9 overall) drove in six runs with two outs and prevailed, 10-7. For Rhode Island (6-9), it was the Rams' sixth game in 10 days on their west coast swing.
Freshman Greg Mahle had three RBI – all with two outs – and seniors Lance Roenicke, Joey Wallace and Bryce Tafelski all drove in two runs to back Austin Pettibone.
The freshman right-hander wasn't his normally sharp self as he allowed seven runs (six earned) and 11 hits in six innings, but his offense picked him up.
As did reliever Zak Edgington.
The senior southpaw had one of his best outings of the 2012 season as he went the final three innings, allowing just one hit and striking out two, to earn his first career save. The Belmont, Calif. native threw 23 of his 31 pitches for strikes.
The Gauchos trailed early when Pat Quinn's fly ball popped out of Lance Roenicke's glove as the left fielder crashed into the fence, scoring a run and putting Quinn on third. However, Pettibone got the next hitter to fly out to end the first.
Roenicke, though, got the Gauchos back even when his sacrifice fly scored Brett Vertigan and Mahle's two-out single scored Brandon Trinkwon, who reached on an error.
After URI scored twice in the third and once in the fourth, the Gauchos erupted in their half of the fourth inning.
Joe Winterburn was hit by a pitch with one out before Joe Woodward and Vertigan followed with singles. Roenicke drove in his second run when he was hit by a pitch. Trinkwon's sac fly scored Woodward and Wallace's two-out single brought in two more.
But UCSB wasn't done yet.
After Mahle walked and he and Wallace moved up 90 feet on a wild pitch, Bryce Tafelski hit a full-count single up the middle to score both and give the Gauchos an 8-4 lead.
Edgington entered with the score 8-6 in the seventh and held Rhode Island to just one hit the rest of the way. UCSB added two insurance runs on Mahle's two-run base hit in the eighth.
The Gauchos and Rams will finish their series with a doubleheader on Friday starting at 11:00 a.m. Tickets are available by calling 893-UCSB or clicking here.
Both games of the doubleheader will be broadcast live online – click here to listen!


text: Some parents try to teach their infant children a foreign language, but d'Armond Speers took his son's linguistic education to a whole new level. Speers claims that he spoke to his son only in Klingon for the first three years of the boy's life. Not only did his son start parroting the alien language; Speers' interest in Klingon has also landed him a job. When a dictionary and translation software company called Ultralingua sought to create applications based on a Klingon dictionary, they turned to Speers, who is a software consultant and expert in computational linguistics. [Minnesota Daily via City Pages via Reddit]


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Day's best: Gabby Douglas' response to hair critics
We already knew we liked American gymnast Gabby Douglas.
But her public response to people criticizing her hairstyle during the London 2012 Olympics competition made us like her even more.
According to the Associated Press, the first black all-around gold medalist said:
"I don't know where this is coming from. What's wrong with my hair?" said Douglas, the first U.S. gymnast to win gold in team and all-around competition. "I'm like, 'I just made history and people are focused on my hair?' It can be bald or short, it doesn't matter about (my) hair."
Douglas' hair became a topic of conversation on social media after her athletic performance. People tweeted about Gabby's hair, calling it unkept. According to The Washington Post, one critic tweeted: "Why hasn't anyone tried to fix Gabby Douglas' hair?" Another said: "gabby douglas gotta do something with this hair! these clips and this brown gel residue aint it?"
This CNN commentary by Tiya Mills takes on the complex issue of black women and their hair. She said the Douglas incident shows the preoccupation with hair in the black community has gone too far. Mills concludes by touting the gymnast's performance and adding:
"We should all aspire to lift our heads so high."


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Based on the popular children's show Sesame Street®, One World, One Sky: Big Bird's Adventure provides an exciting introduction to astronomy and other sciences.
The cross-cultural planetarium show begins when Elmo and his friend, Hu Hu Zhu, a Muppet from the Chinese co-production of Sesame Street, go on an exciting adventure to discover the Sun, Moon, and stars. At the end of the show, Big Bird, Elmo, and Hu Hu Zhu pick a friendship star to celebrate the idea that even though they live in two different countries, they still share the same sky.
A perfect 20-minute show for youngsters ages 4–6 and an experience to treasure for all who are young at heart.
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Merritt Island woman's mispronunciation costs her 'Wheel of Fortune' puzzle
Renee Durette leaves off 'g' in 'Seven Swans a-Swimming'
MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. -- A Merritt Island woman's misfortune on the television show "Wheel of Fortune" is blowing up on the internet after a mispronunciation cost her thousands of dollars.
Renee Durette was trying to solve a puzzle based on a lyric from the "The Twelve Days of Christmas."
She answered: "Seven swans a-swimmin'"
Initially, it appeared that she had answered correctly, but not pronouncing the G on the end of the word "swimming" cost her the puzzle.
"Yeah, we can't accept that," said host Pat Sajak.
The next contestant, Amy, correctly pronounced the lyric and solved the puzzle, though she appeared confused about why Durette's answer didn't count.
Sajak clarified that Durette "kind of did it in the vernacular and left off the G."
Durette said the show was taped three months ago, and she had to remain silent on what happened until she had a viewing party Wednesday.
"I'm from Florida. The G is silent," she told NBC's "Today Show."
The mispronunciation cost her $3,850 and a chance at the bonus round.
She did end up winning $8,000 and said she's truly not bitter.
"It was definitely disappointing, but at the same time, I was on 'Wheel of Fortune,' and I was having the time of my life," she told WESH 2 News on Monday.
Durette said she hasn't heard from Wheel of Fortune since the show.
She said she grew up watching the show and had been trying to get on as a contestant for 10 years.


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Heidi Klum Spins a Basketball with the Harlem Globetrotters!
Heidi Klum spins a basketball atop her finger while celebrating the Harlem Globetrotters show at the Staples Center on Sunday (February 16) in Los Angeles.
The 40-year-old model was joined at the event by players Scooter, Stretch, and Big Easy, along with Globetrotters CEO Kurt Schneider.
"Fun times with the Harlem Globetrotters" Heidi tweeted that evening.
That same day, Heidi was spotted out with her kids Lou, 4, Henry, 8, and Johan, 7, grabbing coffee before hitting the gym in Beverly Hills.
The day before, Heidi and Lou watched her kids play a soccer game in Brentwood.
FYI: Heidi is wearing the Elizabeth and James Leather James Blazer.
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The Office of Career Counseling and Placement at Morehouse has one basic goal—to assist the student in securing the career position that is most suitable for him whether this means further study or immediate employment after graduation. The Office provides a centralized service for students from the Division of Business and Economics. Since career planning is a complex and important individual responsibility, career counseling must be started early.


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Brandi, you are monopolizing all the space on this website. You need to set up your own personal blog to post your articles and then reference a link to it in your profile.
Atheist/Nexus is not your personal forum, it belongs to all of us. Not only are you being extremely rude, you are treating others unfairly by causing their posts to quickly vanish from the Forum and Blog boards with your excessive and rapid "drive-by" style of cut and paste. Many of your postings are in multiple parts, which take up precious space and banish all other posts from view.
I previously called your attention to this same behavior back in April. Unfortunately, it seems you have decided that you don't care and that you don't wish to allow equal room and equal time for others here.
I know I'm not the only person annoyed by your actions, as other members here have expressed the same sentiment and have publicly mentioned this to you as well.
I urge all members here to contact our administrator, Richard Haynes, if this type of overbearing behavior continues.
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I'm one of those who'd stopped reading Brandi's many posts but said nothing. I thank you all.
In a post on the previous page I saw Brandi's behavior described as attention seeking, and...
I have for years (in the time I have) been digging up what I can about sociopathic behavior, and long ago saw the statistic that it afflicts two or three men for every woman. I wondered why.
I remember from the 1970s feminist era that some feminists said masculinity is a birth defect. I joshed with one that it's not also a mental illness.
The disproportion doesn't bother me; I've done a lot of hard ball politics. Sociopaths can sell anything to gullible people, and much of the work of politics requires selling.
A few days ago I saw an explanation for the two or three male sociopaths for every female. It's in an article I have yet to check out for credibility. It said that women who get scores on the sociopathic checklist that qualify a man as a sociopath tend to be histrionic and show attention-seeking behavior.
Heck, I tell people I grew up in a culture that said "If you're talking, it's because you have too little work to do." I add that I joined Toastmasters and haven't stopped talking since, so maybe I'm seeking attention too.
Is there any truth to it? Well, for every ten minutes I spend buying clothes, ....
As a casual visitor, I admit I haven't seen too many of her lengthy, cut-and-paste posts. The few I've seen however were not only annoying but distracted from the group discussion quite negatively. She also once replied one of my comments in a uncomfortable manner, as though she was hitting on me.
Flying Atheist, thank you for taking a stand against such irresponsible behavior by posting this. I wish her the best going forward, and I hope she finds whatever help she needs.
It was great to log on and not have to wade through a whole lot of nonsense to get to the worthwhile posts. Thank you all for addressing the situation!
Thanks to all of you who backed me up and who have commented favorably regarding the creation of this post. Obviously our administrator, Richard Haynes, had the final say in how this matter was going to be solved, and it appears that most of us are happy with his decision. I know I am. Thanks, Richard.
I agree with everyone here. I think what it was with her, Carl, was a passing of time as her and her husband stayed at her cousin's house and the husband was looking for work. Eventually they would have their own place again. Her mind boggling multi-posts gave her a sense of purpose. The thing I could never figure out was why her and the cousin traded user names??
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. telecommunications regulator on Thursday reasserted his commitment to helping smaller national wireless carriers get access to valuable lower-frequency airwaves in the upcoming spectrum auction.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler, in a letter to Representative John Barrow, reaffirmed his plans to restrict how much spectrum the biggest U.S. carriers, Verizon Communications Inc and AT&T Inc, could buy in the auction scheduled for mid-2015.
"The Incentive Auction offers the opportunity, possibly the last for years to come, to make low-band spectrum available to any mobile wireless provider, in any market, that is willing and able to compete at auction," Wheeler wrote to Barrow.
"At the same time, a priority of the auction should be to assure that companies that already possess low-band spectrum do not exploit the auction to keep competitors from accessing the spectrum necessary to provide competition," he also wrote.
Wheeler's letter comes a day after AT&T, the No. 2 wireless provider, threatened to sit out the auction altogether over the regulator's proposed restrictions.
Wheeler's plan would reserve part of the spectrum, up to 30 megahertz, in each market for bidding only by carriers that control less than one-third of low-frequency airwaves there.
The reserve would kick in only after the auction reaches a particular trigger, which will be established in coming months, according to people briefed on the proposal. The plan is expected to be formally circulated at the FCC later this month and voted on at the May 15 public meeting.
The rules would benefit the No. 3 and No. 4 nation-wide carriers Sprint Corp and T-Mobile USA as they would largely restrict Verizon and AT&T, which Wheeler said control some two-thirds of those frequencies across the country.
In the letter, Wheeler argued that the smaller national carriers need a boost in getting low-band spectrum to provide more and better rural coverage, and to correct what he called "the historical accident of previous spectrum assignments."
Critics have argued that Sprint and T-Mobile both had a chance to acquire more low-band spectrum in the past but for various reasons chose not to so. They also say that restricting the biggest providers amounts to regulators picking winners and losers.
AT&T, in a filing disclosed on Wednesday, expressed concerns that having 30 MHz of spectrum out of bounds for some carriers may mean that in some markets, only one restricted bidder - presumably either AT&T or Verizon - would have an opportunity to buy a block of airwaves large enough to deploy LTE technology.
"Such restrictions would put AT&T in an untenable position, forcing AT&T to reevaluate its potential participation in the auction," Joan Marsh, AT&T's vice president of federal regulator, said in the filing.
Though AT&T's threat of auction boycott on Wednesday was seen by some observers as a bluff, lack of the carrier's participation could put a squeeze on how much cash the FCC raises in the sale of airwaves.
Congress has required the FCC to raise enough money to pay back TV stations for giving up the airwaves that will be sold in the auction and fund a new $7 billion public safety network.
"Companies are free to advocate the views that are in their best interest, but the public interest is not measured against the business model of one or two companies; it is measured against the ability of the market to deliver the benefits of competition to Americans in urban, suburban and rural America alike," an FCC official said on Thursday.
Wheeler's letter was in response to one on Monday from Barrow, a Democrat from Georgia, and 77 other lawmakers in the House that encouraged the FCC as it prepares for the auction.
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Accounting Research BULLETINS No. 8 Issued by the Committee on Accounting Procedure, American Institute of Accountants, 270 Madison Avenue, New York 16, N. Y. copyright 1941 by American Institute of Accountants Combined Statement of Income and Earned Surplus IN RESEARCH BULLETIN No. 1 the committee called attention to the "increased recognition of the significance of the income statement" and the resulting "tendency to regard the balance-sheet as the con-necting link between successive income statements and as the vehicle for the distribution of charges and credits between them." This led to a suggestion that the committee should give consideration to the general form of the income statement, with particular reference to the question of the influence of form upon effective presentation in the light of the enlarged conception of the functions of the statement. The term "income statement" will be used throughout this mem-orandum though the committee recognizes that in some cases the term "profit and loss" is used instead of "income," and "account" instead of "statement." These differences in usage are under consider-ation by the committee on terminology. The committee has noted, from examination of the published state-ments of a selection of 500 corporations, a considerable tendency toward the practice of closely combining the annual income statement with the statement of earned surplus. For the year 1939 the income statement was presented as a single integrated statement, running from sales to earned-surplus balance, in 19 per cent of the cases ex-amined. In another 32 per cent the income statement and surplus statement were shown as two related exhibits on a single page of the published report. In 32 per cent of the examples the income state-ment and surplus statement were shown as separate exhibits but with their close relationship emphasized by presentation on facing pages of the report. In only 17 per cent of the cases were the earned-surplus analyses shown otherwise than as incorporated with or adjacent to the current operating data. Appendix A shows a tabulation of these data for 1939 and 1938. There are decided advantages in such combined statements, but also some disadvantages. The committee therefore feels that a useful purpose will be served if it expresses approval of the practice where it is found feasible, without recommending its general adoption; at the 6 3 February 1941


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Dream Halloween is right around the corner. This is a fantastic event where Mattel teams created one-of-a-kind collector items to auction off for Children Affected by Aids. This year, among the spectacular toys are two items we showed off first at San Diego Comic Con, the one-of-a-kind Darth Mater and the second and last publically available "Spirit of Grayskull" figures. Both are fantastic collector items with all proceeds from the auction going to a very noble cause.
If you are interested in attending the event or would like more information about bidding from home please go to www.CAAF4kids.org.
Darth Mater:
It's Halloween in Radiator Springs and Mater from Disney/Pixar's CARS has decided to make his own Darth Vader costume! Using found objects from the local junkyard, he has transformed himself into the not-so-terrifying villain Darth Mater!
Created exclusively for CAAF's 2008 Dream Halloween auction, Darth Mater is a one-of-a-kind 1:9.5 scale model created by the design team at Mattel in close cooperation with John Lasseter and George Lucas. Armed with a light-up red lightsaber that pivots from his right front wheel both clockwise and counterclockwise, Darth Mater makes lightsaber and Darth Vader breathing sounds, plays the classic Star Wars "Imperial March" theme, and utters dialogue recorded by Larry the Cable Guy especially for the occasion with funny quotes such as "Luke, I'm your manufacturer!"
Darth Mater comes on a custom-built 21.75" wide by 18.75" deep by 4.75" high base decorated like the floor of the Death Star with flashing LED lights synchronized with the sounds. The base includes two clear acrylic plaques, one with the Lucasfilm logo signed by Mr. Lucas and the other with the Disney/Pixar logo signed by Mr. Lasseter. Finally, the model is protected by a 21.75" wide by 18.75" deep by 14.25" high clear acrylic case.
Spirit of Grayskull:
King Grayskull is the first new Masters of the Universe Classic figure from Mattel featuring the first ever highly detailed fully articulated versions of classic Masters of the Universe characters from the world of He-Man and She-Ra. King Grayskull is the ancestor of the heroic warrior He-Man and defended the ancient land of Eternia from the evil forces of King Hssss and Hordak!
To help celebrate the return of Masters of the Universe toys to collector's shelves, Mattel has created a special variant of their San Diego Comic Con exclusive King Grayskull action figure as a "Spirt" which will forever live in the walls of his castle. Only two editions of this all-clear version of King Grayskull will be made for the public. One was raffled off at SDCC 2008, the second will be auctioned for charity at the Dream Halloween event.
King Grayskull comes complete in a diorama pop out package which folds out to create a mini Castle Grayskull playset featuring flashing energy and the sound of King Grayskull declaring "I have Power!" when the jaw bridge is opened. He includes his shield, battle axe and Power Sword.Read more... Read More


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Alumni Magazine "keep in touch"
Issue 67, Summer Semester 2019
Setting Course for the Race Track
Whenever Vanessa Mientus, 39, watches a Formula 1 race on TV, she is not enthralled by the battle between the Mercedes and the Ferrari, nor the duel between Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel, nor the spinning tires and risky overtaking maneuvers. She looks beyond all the usual cause for excitement and instead focuses on the safety fences, the arrangement of the stands, and the markings on the track and wonders whether the color complies with the regulations, while contemplating how the various access points to the track are set to salvage the cars and predicting how the mood among the spectators may develop.
And what about how the race will turn out? "I do not care," says Mientus, who completed her degree in architecture at RWTH in 2007. She watches the race from a unique perspective, as Head of Track Operations at Autódromo Hermanos Rodriguez, the Formula 1 circuit in Mexico, and Site Manager of the planned México Speedway Drive Resort – a 3.8-kilometer private track just outside Mexico City, a kind of luxury circuit. In this issue of "keep in touch", Vanessa Mientus describes her current job and the exciting career path she took via New York to Mexico.
Further Topics:
- RWTH – how it learns, researches, and creates. The University is celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2020. RWTH has significantly developed from its founding as the Königliche Rheinisch-Westphälische Polytechnische Schule to its current status as the Integrated Interdisciplinary University of Science and Technology. Today the University has over 45,000 students and enjoys an excellent reputation far beyond Germany and Europe. There is consequently much to celebrate in the special anniversary year.
- From the aesthetic appeal of the cog wheel – Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Madrid I re-edited for the 500th anniversary of his death. When Leonardo da Vinci died on May 2, 1519 at Clos Lucé Castle on the Loire, he bequeathed a total of 15 paintings and several thousand pages of notes and drawings on anatomy, architecture, water, light, and shadow, mechanical engineering, and much more. Codex Madrid I, his major work on mechanics, has been fully evaluated by historians of RWTH and published in four volumes on time for the Leonardo da Vinci anniversary year.
- António Guterres, Charlemagne Prize 2019 – Interview with students at RWTH Aachen University: António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres, winner of the Charlemagne Prize 2019 and Secretary-General of the United Nations, spoke with RWTH students during his lecture at the C.A.R.L. Lecture Hall complex. Guterres, who received his engineering diploma from the technical university Technico Lisboa in 1971, spoke in front of roughly 1,000 guests, outlining the challenges facing today's generations. These include, for example, conflicts that are now much more interlinked than, for example, during the Cold War. Further, he highlighted the fact that human rights are being violated on a large scale and the increasing difficulty of protecting people around the world. He also spoke of illiberal democracies and the EU's lack of presence in international communities, not least with regard to the topics of climate change and artificial intelligence.
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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and flirt over Twitter. Wait, people can actually READ what you write on Twitter, and SEE pictures you post? Really? I've been doing it wrong the whole time. LET'S GO!
NBA FINALS, GAME 5 – 9:02PM (ABC) Things are starting to get real now. After the Dallas Mavericks tied the series at two games apiece Tuesday night (thanks to a listless performance from LeBron James), the Mavs and Heat now square off in pivotal game 5. And if the Mavericks manage to somehow come back and win this series against a team that is, in my mind, clearly better, well then we're going to have a while new year of LeBron bashing on our hands. I can't wait! ANTICIPATION: HIGH!
JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE: GAME NIGHT – 8:00PM (ABC) Before the big game, check out Jimmy Kimmel's live pregame show, which happens before the actual pregame game, which starts at 8:30PM (tune in and you'll see Mike Wilbon with his nose literally up in the air). Tonight, Kimmel welcomes notable loose cannon Ron Artest. I hope there's nothing flammable on stage. ANTICIPATION: ARTESTY!
LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN – 11:30PM (CBS) It's a listless night in primetime, so watch the game and then flip around the late night dial. Tonight, Letterman has Neil Patrick Harris (always enthusiastic) and a live performance from Rush drummer Neil Pearl. Just Neil Peart. No Geddy Lee or anything. If I don't get a 50-minute drum solo on kit the size of Wembley, I'll be disappointed. ANTICIPATION: PEARTY HIGH!
THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO – 11:30PM (NBC) How much money does Jim Carrey really need? Shouldn't he be making more movies like "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" instead of his umpteenth big stupid family comedy? I thought a guy who talked out of his butt would be much smarter than that. ANTICIPATION: CARREY!
IT ONLY HURTS WHEN I LAUGH – 10:00PM (TLC) A break dancer gets injured. FACT: Break dancing has a higher injury rate than pro football. ANTICIPATION: MAMAS DON'T LET YER BABIES GROW UP TO DO THE BOOGALOO!


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iluvk9 wrote:8) Seth always has "that face" on. I love his coat...it actually looks like one of your horse blankets in minature size.
pitbullmamaliz wrote:I love that jacket, too! And I giggled when I saw Seth's 9 month pic - apparently he came out of the womb with super long legs and tail!
madremissy wrote:Great pictures. He wasn't too sure about the horse.
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